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World's largest, oldest camellia show returns to Memorial Auditorium – at least once more
Where do you put 3,500 camellias? How about the thousands of people who come to see them?
For decades, that answer has been simple: Memorial Auditorium. This weekend, the venerable Sacramento venue will host the 94th annual Sacramento Camellia Show, the world's oldest and largest event of its kind.
On the National Register of Historic Places, Memorial Auditorium has served as a wonderful and gracious home to the camellia show, Sacramento's celebration of its official flower, say show organizers. But upcoming renovations to the 90-year-old auditorium are expected to uproot the event for at least one year, maybe more.
Of immediate concern, show organizers worry that there will be enough camellias this weekend to fill Memorial's exhibition space.
"Please, everybody, bring camellias!" said co-chairman Julie Vierra. "After that hail on Monday, we'll need every camellia we can get."
Vierra's own West Sacramento garden was hit hard by Monday's freak hailstorm.
"It hailed for 45 minutes," she said. "Unbelievable! (Afterward), I filled two 5-gallon buckets with flowers (that had been destroyed)."
Hosted by the Camellia Society of Sacramento, the show is open to all exhibitors, even if they've never entered a flower show. Entries are accepted from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday. The show opens to the public at 3 p.m.
"We'll help people identify their camellias and fill out their entry cards," said co-chairman Don Lesmeister, who has won more than 1,000 trophies at camellia shows.
Lesmeister loves Memorial as a showcase for camellias.
"We've been off and on at Memorial over our almost century (of shows)," he said. "This is our 94th year and at least 50 have been in Memorial."
The last time the show moved out of Memorial, the camellias relocated into the Sacramento Convention Center, he noted. Back then, the show featured more than 10,000 blooms. That also was when the show was part of the city's Camellia Festival, which ended in 1993, and the convention center's exhibition halls hosted folk dancing and other festival events.
While planning this year's show, society members have been scouting locations for next year. Memorial is expected to shut down this spring for $16 million in renovations.
Most Sacramento venues are either too small, too expensive or already booked, Vierra said. Home to most Sacramento flower shows, Shepard Garden and Arts Center has only 2,000 square feet indoors – a fraction of Memorial's floor space. The Scottish Rite Temple, home of the Sacramento Orchid Show, is comparatively pricey. Several large school auditoriums in the area are rented out for Sunday church services. Another possible venue, the Elks Lodge on Riverside Boulevard, hosts Sunday brunch.
"Every spot, we either couldn't have a Saturday-Sunday show or would have to charge admission (to cover costs)," she said.
The society's show budget is $5,000, which mostly goes towards renting the facility, she added. The 60-member club does fundraising through the sale of plants and commemorative buttons to cover the show's costs.
"We really pride ourselves that it's a free show," Lesmeister said. "This is something we do for the community.
"We were thinking about the old Sleep Train Arena," he continued. "But we don't want to bankrupt the society (on rent). We could maybe do it one or two years, but we really want to make 100 – and we're only on 94. But if we don't figure out something soon, we may be out of luck."
Scheduled for a two-year, $125 million renovation starting in 2019, the convention center has more than enough room for the camellia show, maybe too much. With an exhibit hall that can be divided into five parts, it boasts more than 134,000 square feet of exhibit space. Its ballroom offers another 25,000 square feet. But with remodeling on tap, it may not be available either.
Memorial Auditorium's main floor offers nearly 9,000 square feet. The camellia show uses all of that room plus the 3,700 square feet on stage.
Auditorium manager Sid Heberger has been particularly helpful and accommodating, Lesmeister said.
"She is a champion," he said. "She's a very professional person who stays on top of everything. She's helped us so much."
A longtime camellia exhibitor, Lesmeister also worries about this year's entries. Warm winter weather prompted many camellia bushes to bloom out early -- a month ahead of schedule or more. As show time neared, conditions turned wet and cold.
"This year has been problematic," he said. "Between the rain and freeze, I have the least amount of flowers in my garden than I've had in years. Camellias can take a little rain, but not blustery wind."
Or hail, Vierra added.
"That warm weather really sped things up," she said. "The flowers just popped. Then, we hit that freeze and camellias came to a screeching halt."
Even in bad weather years, the camellia show has turned out beautifully, noted Lesmeister. That's why so many people keep coming back.
"Raising camellias is like being a farmer," he added. "It's always something."
94th annual Sacramento Camellia Show
Where: Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St., Sacramento
When: 3-6 p.m. Saturday, March 3; 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Sunday, March 4
Admission: Free
Details: www.camelliasocietyofsacramento.org
Enter camellias: Anyone can enter a camellia, as long as it's home grown. Bring a cut flower with at least 2 inches of stem; volunteers will help with variety identification if needed. Entries will be accepted 7 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday; first-time flower exhibitors should arrive early.


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The Rock Teases His Villainous Turn As DC's Black Adam
More than three years after his casting was announced, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's villainous turn as Black Adam is finally starting to come together.
MTV News caught up with Johnson at the world premiere of The Fate of the Furious, out this Friday, and we couldn't resist asking him if there was any progress on the Shazam casting front. While Johnson wouldn't reveal if Warner Bros. had found its newest superhero, he did confirm that the long-awaited Shazam movie and his recently announced Black Adam stand-alone film would be two very different movies.
"We've had great discussions with Geoff Johns over at DC. This is a really fun, cool time for DC right now because they're world-building," Johnson told MTV's Josh Horowitz. "We're seeing that with Wonder Woman and Aquaman. We have a few surprises down the line."
"So what we decided to do was to create a scenario where Black Adam has his stand-alone movie, and Captain Marvel, Shazam, has his stand-alone movie," he added. "We're building our world that way, and then we can come together at some point."
Johnson also teased a big surprise for his Black Adam solo film: "It's just fucking awesome." (OK, so maybe that wasn't that much of a surprise.) Still, when it comes to DC and Warner Bros., ideas aren't generally the problem: It's execution.
Speaking of spin-offs and cinematic universes, the multi-hyphenate also revealed that Universal has every intention of developing a spin-off for his popular Fast & Furious character, Luke Hobbs. Watch the interview above for more details!
The Fate of the Furious races into theatres this Friday, April 14.

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It will soon be that time again so just to get your juices flowing nice and early, Slotcar Legends will be organising their first meeting for 2013 in cooperation with Greg and Robyn at the LCR.
Racing will be at the LCR @ Logan Central on Saturday the 12th January, arrive 2.00 pm onwards for a 4.00 pm start.
Classes will be (not necessarily in this order),
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2. European Tin tops
Scaley Touring cars, Ninco NC1s and SCX SRS cars, Peugeot/Volvo etc, with original weak magnets at most. Ballasting allowed
3. Modern NASCAR
4. BMW Sedans
The 'Tintops Trophy' round 1, will be the first of six rounds through the year which will be a trophy event, with each racer dropping their worst round.
There will be a Microwave and fridge on hand and take out can be arranged if necessary.
Look forward to seeing all the regulars and maybe the odd new face
If youy live on Brisbane's Southside (or even the Northside) and would like to join in the slotcar mayhem, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com for more details


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Title: TTYL (Stories About Melissa #4)
Series: Stories About Melissa
Genre: Contemporary YA
Author: Bethany Lopez
Summary: The last few months have been a rough road for Melissa. Her grades have slipped, her parents treat her like a prisoner, and her closest friends are too involved in their own lives to spend time with her. Desperate to escape her depressing funk, she starts spending more time with Layla, who introduces her to a new crowd...the wrong crowd. When Melissa starts to go down a dangerous path, can anyone get through to her before she does something she'll regret?
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Award-Winning Author Bethany Lopez began self-publishing in June 2011. Since then she has published various YA and NA books. She is a lover of romance, family, and friends, and enjoys incorporating those things in what she writes. When she isn't reading or writing, she loves spending time with her husband and children, traveling whenever possible.


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Design my Kitchen, Draw my Kitchen, Reform my Kitchen
"Anyone who has ever prepared a meal for a loved one, whether family or friends may have experienced a pleasurable feeling when gathering in a big meal.
When the colors and flavors mingle with the cook´s certainty that the food will be exquisite, something happens through the cook, through the food, through the meditation path and it comes back later.
I guess you could call it love. People have enjoyed the food before eating. This is perceived by the chef and grows a sense of well-being."
D. Scott y T. Pappas, Three Bowls Cookbook
Kitchen decor
Let's close the eyes and think about the time and place where we meet in our house, with our people.
Let's close the eyes and let's think about some familiar smells... maybe pancakes, maybe chocolate cake...
Let's follow the smell and we will open the magic door of the kitchen.
The kitchen is an essential area in any house.
The kitchen is a place where to remain, to relax and also to have our food.
It is absolutely necessary to determine what kind of activities we will carry out in the kitchen.
Lifestyle and needs should be considered, the kitchen sometimes is visualized as a multifunctional space.
If we refer to the original function of the kitchen we will have to distinguish among three zones.
Food preparation area
It should be an area of easy access to both the washing and cooking area.
Kitchen countertop must have certain characteristics:
Countertop height.
Cooking area
In this area the color range, cook tops, storage furniture and fume hood are essential.
Washing area
Location of one or more sinks, dishwasher, and complementary worktops. From this basic work triangle, we start with the design of different areas that coexist in this functional space, which is now the kitchen:
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Today I'm gonna talk about how you can save data to disk and read it back later. Unity has a utility built-in for this – they're called PlayerPrefs – but for anything more than perhaps options and preferences, you're going to want a more robust system for saving data between scenes within your game or separate game sessions. This is where I jump in and throw a bunch of fancy C# things at you! Note – this system should work on standalone platforms such as Windows, Mac and Linux and mobile platforms, but it won't work on Web Player builds or platforms such as Samsung TV. I'm not sure if it works on console platforms since I don't have the resources to develop for any of them and the internet has been unhelpful in this regard, but oh well. Time to get started!
There is a lot of motivation for wanting to save data to disk; high scores, player progress, and player-customised assets are all types of data we want to make persistent. I'll be showing you how to achieve this in Unity using C#. To do this, we need to package up the data we're going to save into its own class.
We're going to put this portion of code right below the SaveStuff script, which we'll be writing next. For the SavableObject class, we've made a bunch of variables that we want saving to disk. In this example, imagine there's a guy named Bob, and that he wants to remember his own name, how many bananas he's holding, how long he's been dancing (measured in hours – he's an active bloke) and whether he's made of wood. From this, we can only assume the following: he's forgetful, probably a fan of potassium, potentially flexible, and doesn't remember if he's a real boy. But my game doesn't know that! That's why I'm going to save all this crucial information to disk.
THIS is my all-knowing, all-powerful SaveStuff script. Let's gloss over all the important things this script is doing – I'm sure you'll be able to fill in the rest. It may get a tad boring, but bear with me, because saving things is actually really fun. Honest.
First of all, you can see a small snippet of the SavableObject class at the bottom of the file to show you where I'd place it. It has a [Serializable] attribute (line 36) – in order to use this, we need to import the System namespace (line 2). In the Start() method, we make our new SavableObject and specify Bob's name as "John" (turns out he's really forgetful) and his body's wood status to "true". The constructor for SavableObject already specified default values for numberOfBananas and danceTimer, so we won't have to worry about those. Oh, and System.IO is imported for use of FileStream and File, whereas System.Every.Bloody.Word.In.The.English.Language is used for BinaryFormatter. Now let's save Bob's status.
Here's the part where I attempt to make C# exciting! SaveMyStuff() is now going to do a bunch of fabulous things. We make a fun little BinaryFormatter we'll be using shortly and then create a wonderful, happy file called "myThings.dat". One thing to note here – I was dumb when writing this example, so it should actually be "/myThings.dat" to ensure the file goes inside the folder at Application.persistentDataPath. We serialise the data from the SavableObject we made earlier (using rainbows), turning it into a binary string that an ordinary user wouldn't be able to comprehend if they opened the file manually. We then close the file up and wait a second before calling LoadMyStuff() on our loader object (in practice, this second's worth of waiting may be replaced by an arbitrary amount of time, perhaps even including closing the game and reopening it). Closing the file is a very important step, since C# places a 'lock' on the file while it's being accessed, and trying to access it from elsewhere at the same time – while it's locked – would be reeeeally bad. Got all that? Good! I told you C# was fun! Now let's introduce the LoadStuff class and go over its features.
Oh, by the way, Application.persistentDataPath is a 'default' filepath that varies by export platform. Most games that use Unity will probably use this default path plus a bit of extra filename appended to it (as I have here). The filepath also contains the company name and game name, both determined in the PlayerSettings in the Editor (found at Edit/Project Settings/Player).
This script happens to be pretty similar to SaveStuff, but does things backwards. In LoadMyStuff(), which happened to be called by SaveStuff (it doesn't matter what called this method in practice, I just did that for convenience), I first check if the file "myThings.dat" exist. If it does, I create all the necessary things, as with SaveMyStuff(), but this time I'm opening the file instead of creating it. That's why it was necessary to check that the file exists, because trying to open it if it didn't would make things cry/crash/explode. Now that the file's open, I can deserialise its contents, un-binary format it and stick it back into a SavableObject. Then all there is to do is grab the variables out of that object, plonk them all into a horrible example of how not to concatenate strings together, and watch the Console output all our data with no errors whatsoever.
Congratulations, you've just saved to disk and loaded up that data back from disk! It's a very useful feature you'll find yourself using in a variety of places; from remembering player's preferred options to keeping track of game progress, the possible uses of saving to disk are endless.


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In 2001, astronomers Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry set out to discover the color of the universe. They gathered light from galaxies out to several billion light years, and then processed the light to average the color values; then, they converted them to the scale visible to the human eye. Their initial result was a pale blue, but a recalculation resulted in a pale beige; the color of the universe was ultimately dubbed "cosmic latte."
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By Don Vaughan
Facing institutional racism as well as the enemy, African-Americans have fought throughout our nation's history with honor and bravery, often making the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country. Here are just a few of their stories.
54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
It is estimated around 179,000 African-Americans served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, and another 19,000 served in the Navy. Perhaps the best-remembered African-American regiment of that era is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, which comprised 1,007 black soldiers led by a white colonel named Robert Gould Shaw.
The 54th Massachusetts fought well, demonstrating valor and bravery over several battles in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. But there were horrific losses, too. On July 18, 1863, just four months after the regiment was formed, Shaw amassed 600 soldiers for an assault on Fort Wagner, S.C., which guarded the Port of Charleston. Unfortunately, Union intelligence regarding the fort was faulty, and an overwhelming force of 1,700 well-armed Confederate soldiers awaited them. The result was a massacre. More than a third of Shaw's forces were killed, wounded, or captured, and Shaw, who led the charge, was among the first to die. Though the assault was a failure, the 54th managed to inflict heavy damage and the fort was abandoned shortly after.
On Memorial Day 1897, a statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens commemorating the 54th Massachusetts Infantry was unveiled on the Boston Common. The regiment also was the subject of the 1989 movie Glory, starring Matthew Broderick as Robert Gould Shaw.
369th U.S. Infantry Regiment
Sometimes referred to as "Pershing's orphan soldiers," the predominantly black 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment broke the color barrier as the first African-American soldiers to man the front lines at the height of World War I. However, they had to join the French Army to do it.
Gen. John Pershing attached the 360th to the 16th Division of the French 4th Army because he didn't want them fighting alongside white American soldiers. The war-weary French, however, greeted the 369th with open arms. As part of the French 4th, the 369th saw a total 191 days of combat, fighting so bravely their French comrades nicknamed them Harlem's Hellfighters.
Indicative of their valor on the battlefield was an incident involving Pvt. Henry Johnson and Pvt. Needham Roberts, who were manning a listening post in no-man's land on the Western Front when they were attacked by 24 German soldiers on a nighttime snatch-and-grab mission. Both men were shot, Johnson three times. But he quickly rose and fired his three-shot rifle, killing as many enemy soldiers. He used the empty rifle as a club until it shattered, then grabbed his bolo knife and savagely slashed at every German soldier within arm's reach. Unable to capture the feisty redcap from Albany, the remaining German soldiers finally retreated but not before Johnson used his grenades to kill several more. For his bravery, Johnson was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French military. Later, the entire regiment was awarded the same. In June 2015, Johnson posthumously was awarded the Medal of Honor (read more in "Selfless Courage").
"The Hellfighters were pioneers," observes Stephen Harris, author of Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African American 369th Infantry in World War I. "They paved the way for other black regiments and proved they could fight. It's a legacy that continues today."
Read more about the Hellfighters in the February 2014 issue of Military Officer .
320th Barrage Balloon Battalion
On the morning of June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy, France, in an effort to finally bring the ground war to Germany. It was a day of tremendous peril, and in the thick of it was the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only African-American combat unit to take part in the D-Day invasion.
Barrage balloons were huge, unmanned inflatables anchored to the ground with steel cables. Their job was to provide protection from low-flying enemy planes, either by snagging them with cables or forcing the planes to fly at higher altitudes.
The 320th came ashore with the infantry early on the morning of June 6, and its medics immediately started treating the hundreds of casualties that lined the beach. One medic named Waverly Woodson worked almost nonstop for 30 hours despite being wounded himself, finally collapsing from exhaustion.
Once the beachheads were secure, the men of the 320th deployed their barrage balloons along the length of the Normandy coast, providing landing craft effective protection from German attack planes. "[The balloons] confounded skeptics by their part in keeping enemy raiders above effective strafing altitude," reported Stars and Stripes.
Four members of the 320th perished during the Normandy invasion, but the battalion got the job done. In a commendation to the 320th, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote, "Despite the losses sustained, the battalion carried out its mission with courage and determination and proved an important element to the air defense team."
The Tuskegee Airmen
Perhaps the best-known group of African-Americans to serve during World War II is the Tuskegee Airmen, which included pilots, navigators, ground crews, and others and provided fighter support in North Africa, Sicily, and the mainland of Italy.
The 99th Fighter Squadron, which later joined the 332nd Fighter Group, was the first black American flying unit and the first of its kind to see combat. It deployed to North Africa in April 1943 and flew P-40s in defense of Allied shipping in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as missions against various enemy targets in Italy. Its valor earned the 99th two Distinguished Unit Citations before it became part of the 332nd.
In 1944, the Tuskegee Airmen found themselves escorting heavy bombers on raids deep into enemy territory for the 15th Air Force. Their planes — P-47s and, later, P-51 Mustang long-range fighters — had red tails for group identification, which gave the squadron the nickname Red Tails.
A total of 992 black pilots trained in Tuskegee, Ala., between 1941-46, and 355 deployed overseas. The squadron proved adept at flying almost any plane given to them and equally effective at protecting the bombers in their charge, even shooting down a few much faster German jets. Over the course of their service, the Tuskegee Airmen flew 1,578 combat missions (1,267 for the 12th Air Force and 311 for the 15th Air Force) and 179 bomber escort missions. A total of 84 airmen lost their lives in combat or accidents, and 32 were held as prisoners of war.
The Tuskegee Airmen received numerous citations for their service, including at least one Silver Star, 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Bronze Stars, 744 Air Medals, and eight Purple Hearts.
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
As American forces spread rapidly across Europe following the Normandy invasion, the distribution of mail from home began to falter. By early 1945, warehouses in England and France were overflowing with undelivered letters and packages. It was the mission of the all-black, all-female 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion to sort through the mountains of mail and make sure it was properly delivered. One general predicted the task would take at least six months; the unit did it in three.
Led by Maj. Charity Adams Earley, the 6888th comprised 824 African-American enlisted personnel and 31 officers drawn from the Women's Army Corps, the Army Service Forces, and the Army Air Forces. Like most service personnel of color, they faced tremendous hardships while trying to accomplish their mission, including forced segregation from white female soldiers and inferior living conditions.
The women of the 6888th worked eight-hour shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Individual servicemembers were tracked using nearly 7 million information cards that included serial numbers so the sorters could distinguish between soldiers with the same name. They played detective, searching for clues in letters and packages that were improperly or insufficiently addressed. They also had the sad duty of returning mail addressed to servicemembers who had died.
According to Beth Ann Koelsch, curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project at UNC-Greensboro, the greatest legacy of the 6888th was the advancement of women of color within the U.S. military. "They were under an incredible spotlight and had to struggle against a lot of prejudice," she says, "but by all accounts I have read, these women talk with great pride about their service."
Read more about their story in " All-Black Female Battalion Made History."
2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne)
Attached to the 7th Infantry Division, the all-black 2nd Ranger Infantry Company was an elite Army unit that served in Korea between December 1950 and June 1951. Though not quite as well-remembered today as some other all-black military units, the 2nd Ranger Company played a significant role in demonstrating the dedication and courage of black servicemembers in combat and, ultimately, proving the value and importance of desegregation within the armed services.
After several weeks of training, the 2nd and 4th Ranger Companies reached Korea Dec. 29, 1950. The 2nd Rangers were attached to the 7th Infantry Division and experienced combat quickly. They participated in their first firefight Jan. 7, 1951, when 20 North Korean guerillas encountered a Ranger roadblock near the village of Changnim-ni. The unit also spearheaded an attack on the village of Majori-Ri and later aided a company trapped by the enemy, losing eight of their own in the process.
On March 23, the 2nd Ranger Company, attached to the 2nd Battalion, 187th Regimental Combat Team (Airborne), made military history by becoming the first African-Americans to
make a parachute assault in combat — an airborne attack near Munsan-ni known as Operation Tomahawk. They successfully engaged the enemy several times over the next four days, with limited casualties.
The valor of the 2nd Rangers is confirmed by the number of merit citations the unit received: more than 100 Purple Hearts, nine Silver Stars, and 12 Bronze Stars for valor above and beyond the call of duty.


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Frank Lampard will be the latest man to return to a club where he starred as a player if he agrees to replace Maurizio Sarri at Chelsea.
Derby County on Tuesday gave the Blues permission to speak to their former midfielder about the vacancy created by Sarri's departure for Juventus and the 41-year-old is expected to make an emotional return to Stamford Bridge, where he spent 13 years as a player.
Lampard scored 211 goals in his Chelsea career, setting a club record, and if he re-signs will be tasked with reviving the enthusiasm of supporters who struggled to warm to Sarri during a season of mixed fortunes.
Chelsea reached the EFL Cup final and won the Europa League in 2018-19, but fans voiced their dismay after results like the 6-0 hammering at Manchester City in February and a 4-0 reverse at Bournemouth in January.
As Lampard weighs up the possibility of turning his back on Derby, who he led to the Championship play-off final in his first season in charge, we take a look at nine other examples of players returning to manage teams they played for and their varying levels of success.
Derby County can confirm that they have granted permission for Chelsea to speak to Frank Lampard about the vacant managerial position at Stamford Bridge.
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Derby County can confirm that they have granted permission for Chelsea to speak to Frank Lampard about the vacant managerial position at Stamford Bridge.
Pep Guardiola
After leaving Barcelona as a player in 2001, Guardiola returned as 'B' Team manager in 2007 before being promoted to the coach of the senior side a year later. Over four years in charge at Camp Nou he led the Blaugrana to 14 trophies, including three LaLiga titles and two Champions League crowns. Success has continued to come Guardiola's way with Bayern Munich and Manchester City.
Zinedine Zidane
World Cup-winner Zidane was part of Real Madrid's 'Galacticos' in the early 2000s and he finished his playing career at the Santiago Bernabeu. Like Guardiola, he returned to oversee the second team before stepping up to the top job after the departure of Rafael Benitez in January 2016. Zidane went on to win an unprecedented three successive Champions League titles with Madrid before stepping away last May, only to return 10 months later. Time will tell if that was a wise move, however.
Antonio Conte
In 13 seasons as a player for Juventus, Conte won everything there is to win – five league titles, the Coppa Italia, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. He moved into management two years after retiring and worked his way back to Juve after spells with Arezzo, Bari, Atalanta and Siena. Under Conte Juve won three Serie A titles in a row – the start of their current dominance – before he accepted the Italy job.
Roberto Di Matteo
Like Solskjaer, Di Matteo accepted a caretaker role with former club Chelsea in 2012, although he had previously been assistant to Andre Villas-Boas. Di Matteo – who won the FA Cup twice with the Blues as a player – went on to lift two trophies as Chelsea boss, including their first Champions League title with a penalty shoot-out win over Bayern Munich.
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22 - Chelsea have become the 22nd different club to win the European Cup/Champions League. Champions.
Alan Shearer
Record Premier League goalscorer, Newcastle United legend and lethal England striker – Shearer's playing career was full of success. When he retired in 2006 Shearer moved into television as a pundit, but when the Magpies came calling in 2009 he stepped in to try and save them from relegation. Sadly for Shearer he was not successful, his eight-game reign ending in Newcastle slipping out of the top flight after a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa on the final day.
Filippo Inzaghi
Employing former players as managers had previously worked well for AC Milan over the years – Fabio Capello and Carlo Ancelotti proving particularly successful. So, when the Rossoneri turned to Inzaghi in 2014 after Clarence Seedorf's brief tenure, the move was no surprise. However, the former striker – who won eight major trophies at the club in his playing days – flopped, winning 14 of his 40 matches in charge as Milan finished 10th, their worst league finish in 17 years.
Thierry Henry
Henry made his name at Monaco after breaking into the first team in 1994, the forward going on to become a world champion and a Premier League icon with Arsenal. After a period as youth coach with the Gunners, Henry was named as Belgium boss Roberto Martinez's assistant. Permanent roles with Bordeaux and Aston Villa were mooted, but in October Henry chose Monaco. He lasted just three months, losing 11 of his 20 matches in charge across all competitions before being replaced by Leonardo Jardim, the man he had succeeded.
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Juan Jose Lopez
One of the most decorated players in River Plate history, having won seven league titles and playing 466 times in an 11-year spell, Lopez was a popular appointment after making a strong impact in his second period as caretaker manager in 2010. However, he subsequently presided over a poor 2011 Clausura campaign, forcing them into a 'Promocion' play-off against second-tier Belgrano, who won 3-1 on aggregate. That brought about an historical first relegation for River, sparking riots which left many people injured.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Manchester United appointed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on a three-year contract after the former striker made a remarkable impact in an interim role. Solskjaer turned around a poor start to the season under Jose Mourinho and made the Red Devils top four contenders as they went undefeated in his first 11 games in charge but they ended 2018-19 in a slump, winning just two of their last 12 games in all competitions and finishing sixth in the Premier League. Should he continue in a similar vein next season, he will not last long at Old Trafford.


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If you read our Good Friday column, you know there was a lot going on this weekend. However, we were obviously too busy actually seeing it to record and post it. But here's a sampler platter of what the weekend in the world of Dallas music was like. A yummy sampler platter. Skip the carrot sticks. They're a little gummy.
Black Crowes, Friday at the Palladium
It's hard not be enthusiastic when the crowd is already totally sold. Even watching the video you can feel the excitement. While it's no turkey dinner, the Black Crowes can certainly turn on the sparkle. I'm giddy just from watching it.
And now they're doing "Movin' On Down the Line" and I'm still giddy.
One Percent Band, Friday at Firewater
Here's One Percent, doing their best Skynyrd impression and performing the song "The Needle and the Spoon." It's all well and good but my favorite part's the lead singer's T-shirt. It's all Johnny Cash cool and I like that shirt. Sure are a lot of strings onstage, and there are these fancy crowd shot fades showing people having fun. Methinks some video person put some effort forth here.
Underoath Saturday at the Palladium Ballroom
Darn. The video is so short. Doesn't even cover the whole song. Darn.
The Devil Wears Prada, Saturday at the Palladium Ballroom
OK, these guys give head-banging a little something extra. How so, you ask? Well, they're choreographed and synchronized so that the entire band is doing it at the same time. Are they as fun as Meryl Streep playing that other devil of fashion? No, but then few are.
Slow Burners, Saturday at Dan's Silverleaf
Meanwhile, out Denton way, the Slow Burners were having a fine time onstage at Dan's Silverleaf.
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The Wooden Prince
About the WorkComposer: Béla Bartók
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Béla Bartók was born in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary [now Sînnicolau Mare, Romania], on March 25, 1881, and died in New York City on September 26, 1945. He composed the one-act ballet The Wooden Prince (in Hungarian, A fából faragott királyfi or "The Prince Carved from Wood," between 1914 and 1916, to a libretto by Béla Balázs. The ballet was first performed on May 12, 1917, at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest; the conductor was Egisto Tango, to whom Bartók dedicated the score "in deepest gratitude."
This ballet runs about 45 minutes in performance. Bartók scored it for 4 flutes (third and fourth doubling piccolos), 4 oboes (third and fourth doubling English horns), 4 clarinets (third doubling on small clarinet in E flat, fourth doubling on bass clarinet), 4 bassoons (third and fourth doubling on contrabassoons), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bells, xylophone, triangle, castanets, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum, tam-tam), celesta (four hands), 2 harps, and strings.
The Wooden Prince was Bartók's second collaboration with Béla Balázs (1884-1949), a noted Hungarian poet, dramatist, and (later in life) a theoretician of film. In 1911, Bartók wrote his only opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, also to a libretto by Balázs. The opera was still unperformed, having failed to win a prize in the competition for which it was submitted, when Balázs presented Bartók with an idea for a new stage work. The story was published in the Christmas 1912 issue of Nyugat ("Occident"), Hungary's leading literary magazine. Bartók composed the music between 1914 and 1916; its premiere at the Budapest Opera was one of the greatest triumphs of Bartók's life. It led to the long-overdue production of Bluebeard, which shared a double bill with The Wooden Prince in 1918.
The ballet represents a side of Bartók that is often overshadowed by his more angularly dissonant and more fiercely rhythmical scores. The idiom of The Wooden Prince is gentler and more Romantic, inspired by Bartók's lifelong love of nature. Of course, the influence of folk music is never far from the surface. The story itself bears the imprint of Hungarian folktales. Appropriately, the Prince's music uses the pentatonic scale Bartók had discovered in the oldest Hungarian folksongs; this style contrasts with the verbunkos tone characterizing the haughty Princess -- this 19th-century, semi-popular Hungarian repertoire carried negative associations for Bartók in the 1910s. True, the opening of the ballet was modelled after the Prelude to Wagner's Rheingold, and the orchestration is often reminiscent of Debussy. Still, Bartók's originality is evident at every turn, and the final apotheosis of nature is entirely expressive of his personal artistic philosophy.
The story of The Wooden Prince concerns two young people finding each other and their struggle to fulfill their love. They must pass the tests set up by the world and prove that they are worthy of one another. In addition, the Princess must learn to overcome her own weaknesses: vanity, indifference, and the appeal of the superficially brilliant.
Preoccupied only with her beauty, a young Princess lives in her fairytale castle in the middle of the forest (Dance 1). A Prince sets out on a journey from a neighbouring castle. He sees the Princess and falls in love with her. He would like to approach her, but the Fairy, who rules over the forces of nature, puts obstacles in his way. The trees of the forest come alive to block his path (Dance 2). The Prince defeats them, only to face a stream overflowing its banks. Finally, he resorts to a ruse, in order to lure the Princess out of her castle. He carves a wooden puppet, and hangs his mantle and crown over it. He cuts off his own hair and puts it on the puppet's head (Dance 3). The Princess, so far untouched by the Prince's amorous words, is delighted with the puppet. She leaves the castle. The Fairy brings the puppet alive by magic. With stiff legs and angular motions, the puppet begins a grotesque dance with the Princess (Dance 4). The Prince, deeply hurt, is left alone. Nature tries to soothe his pain: the Fairy orders the trees and flowers to pay homage to him. The Princess returns with the Wooden Prince. She wants to dance with him again, but the puppet hardly has any life left in it (Dance 5). The Princess throws the puppet away as she notices the Prince, adorned with all the treasures of Nature. She admits her error, but now it is her turn to be rejected (Dance 6). The forces of Nature become active again, putting the Princess to a test. She wants to join the Prince, but the forest blocks her way (Dance 7). She casts off her crown and mantle, and even parts with her beautiful head of hair to be worthy of the Prince's love. The Prince and Princess are finally united, and become one with Nature.
Béla Balázs (1884-1949) was an eternally restless and passionate Central European intellectual who firmly believed that the power of the spirit could bring about a better world on earth. He was a religious mystic and a Communist revolutionary, a poet and one of the first theoreticians of film, a Jew with a Hungarian father and a German mother who spent half of his life in exile. He died shortly after his long-awaited return to his native Hungary, just as his fellow Communists, with whom he did not see eye to eye, were taking over the country.
He was born Herbert Bauer in the Hungarian city of Szeged, and studied at the University of Budapest where his roommate was none other than the composer Zoltán Kodály. It was through Kodály that he met Béla Bartók, who later set two of Balázs's dramatic works—Duke Bluebeard's Castle and The Wooden Prince—to music.
The literary career of Béla Balázs (as he had legally called himself since 1913) started most auspiciously when some of his essays and short fiction were accepted for publication in Nyugat ("Occident"), a new but already prestigious journal uniting the finest literati in the country. Balázs showed every promise of remaining a respected member of this illustrious group, but his politics drifted more and more to the left and eventually he came to play an important role in the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. After the collapse of this short-lived regime, he had to flee the country.
Emigration set him on a whole new career path. Being bilingual, he quickly established himself as a German writer in Vienna and Berlin, with a new area of specialization: he became a leading expert on film, on which he wrote several books and countless articles. He also developed into a highly successful scriptwriter who helped create dozens of movies over the next two decades. It was primarily in this capacity that he achieved international fame, and it was thanks to a film project that he was first invited to the Soviet Union in 1931. When Hitler came to power two years later, Balázs was stranded in Russia, where he lived through Stalin's purges, the war, evacuation to Kazakhstan, privation and serious illness. Through it all, Balázs remained active as a writer, even though he now had to rely on translators to get his work published. He returned to Hungary immediately after war's end. He continued his literary and cinematographic career at home and received the country's most prestigious state prize in 1949; the same year, he died of a stroke at the age of 64.
On Bartók's 60th birthday in 1941, Balázs, living in Moscow, wrote an open letter to his friend, whom he hadn't seen in many years, and who had emigrated to the United States the year before. The letter remained unpublished, and Bartók never read these words: "We will meet again, back home. I already have opera lyrics for you. Something completely new and completely different from what I wrote for you long ago." Yet the two friends never saw each other again. Bartók died in New York on September 26, 1945, and Balázs wrote in a Hungarian journal he had launched: "I have known only one hero, Béla Bartók. My life is blessed for this…Blessed is my life, because he who has seen a genius has seen God."
Past Performances
National Symphony Orchestra: Iván Fischer, conductor/Beethoven & Bartók


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Thomas More wrote about utopian society in his 1516 work, "Utopia," as did H. G. Wells in his work, "A Modern Utopia," published in 1905. The term "utopia" was first used in the aforementioned work by More.
The earliest literary example of a utopia is in Plato's "The Republic," written around 380 B.C. Utopian writings often serve as a social or political commentary, highlighting the negative aspects of contemporary society by showing where systems could be different. Utopian fiction represents an idealized society, which the author deems possible only if current systems were to be stopped and completely revolutionized. The word "utopia" comes from the combination of the Greek root words "ou" and "topos," which literally translate as "no place."


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Members of the Albany Outreach team yesterday accompanied three Directors on a research trip, funded by Coventry City Council to venues in Birmingham to find out more about how other arts and cultural organisations run, their models for using volunteers and how they use their space. This is part of a wider research project which will inform the development of the Albany's new space for which we are expecting to sign a lease at the end of the month.
Our first stop was mac Birmingham in Edgbaston which has a unique location, on the edge of the large Cannon Hill Park. This comes with its own challenges but also provides opportunities for mac to engage with audiences who perhaps wouldn't come to other arts centres.
The next stop was the Crescent Theatre who have a very small paid team and also run a large amateur company who regularly put on shows both at the Crescent and touring around the Midlands. It was really interesting to hear about how their company volunteer for duty shifts on the bar and front of house as there are many similarities here with the Albany.
We also visited the Birmingham Rep which is very different from the Albany as a major regional producing house with statutory funding but the challenges they face with space are ones many venues can relate to. As we consider our catering offer for the new space it was also interesting to hear about their experience both with external catering companies and running this themselves.
Finally, we made a trip to the Coffin Works which is a museum with spaces that are leased and others available to hire on a more short-term basis. Unlike the other venues on our tour it is not primarily an arts space but they have had some interesting events from food fairs to Asian dance in their courtyard. They also have regular volunteers from a variety of backgrounds who help at events, in the shop and by giving tours.
We are hoping to take the Directors on more trips, to venues old and new and further afield to find out as much as we can about how other venues run, learn from the challenges faced in terms of both initial build and operational management, but most importantly find out what works so when we come to modelling the Albany for the next stage in its development, we have the best information from which to do that.
The Directors would like to thank all the venues for their time which was so generously given.


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For five days, Oscar Pistorius endured a withering cross-examination at his murder trial from a prosecutor who pounced on apparent inconsistencies in his testimony. Yet, legal analysts said on Tuesday, expert witnesses who are to testify for the defense could undermine the prosecution's efforts to prove Pistorius killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on purpose after an argument.
The demeanor of the Olympian, often fumbling for answers and occasionally breaking into sobs, contrasted with that of prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who called Pistorius a liar and unleashed volleys of barbed questions.
Social media buzzed that Pistorius is in deep trouble — a South African talk-show host wryly observed that the double-amputee runner had not "covered himself with glory" when his cross-examination ended on Tuesday — but experts said the trial has a long way to go.
"Until the defense presents the rest of their case, you can't really evaluate the significance of any potential concessions that he may have made," said Kelly Phelps, a senior lecturer in the public law department at the University of Cape Town.
The trial, which began on March 3 and is expected to hear testimony until the middle of next month, reached a key stage last week when Pistorius took the stand to testify about the circumstances of Steenkamp's killing in his home before dawn on Feb. 14 last year. The Paralympic champion, 27, says he shot the 29-year-old model through a closed toilet door after mistaking her for an intruder, but Nel catalogued what he said were conflicts in Pistorius' story that prove he made it up.
The prosecution provided a "very clear narrative for the first time" of what it says happened on the night of Steenkamp's death, Phelps said. The judge, she said, must decide whether Pistorius' inconsistencies were a result of his clumsily trying to polish a story that is true in its fundamentals, or instead revealed an "elaborate cover-up plot" after he murdered his lover.
Phelps said the prosecution accused Pistorius of changing his account mostly on "smaller details," but that he had stuck to the "core parts of his story."
Some commentators have speculated that Pistorius could face a lesser homicide charge that still carries long prison time in the event of a conviction.
Still, during cross-examination, Pistorius gave a sometimes muddled account of the shooting. He said he feared for his life, but also did not intentionally shoot at anyone, prompting Nel to query if his defense was self-defense or "involuntary action."
Inconsistencies in the athlete's testimony include his statement that Steenkamp did not scream when he shot her, but later saying his ears were ringing with the first of four gunshots and he would not have heard screams.
A vital part of the prosecution's case is the testimony of neighbors who said they heard a woman's terrified screams on the night that Steenkamp died; the defense says they actually heard Pistorius screaming in a high-pitched voice.
Pistorius' credibility was further challenged by earlier testimony against him for three unrelated gun charges in which he denied any wrongdoing when questioned by Nel. Possibly in his favor was his lack of anger on the witness stand despite the prosecution's picture of him as overbearing and arrogant.
Nevertheless, Marius du Toit, a former state prosecutor, magistrate and now criminal defense lawyer in South Africa, said Nel exceeded his goals in his cross-examination, even goading Pistorius into faulting his legal team while trying to clarify testimony. For example, chief defense lawyer Barry Roux said Pistorius fired two quick bursts — the gun owner's terminology for such a burst is "double tap" — but Pistorius said he fired four shots in rapid succession.


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Voters Tuesday decided, among other things, whether to repeal Ohio's new collective bargaining law and whether to pass Mississippi's personhood amendment.
A special election primary in Oregon was held to select nominees for former Rep. David Wu's seat. State Sen. Suzanne Bonamici held a wide lead over her challengers and likely Republican contender Rob Cornilles, a sports business consultant, faces marginal primary opposition, Politico reported.
In Ohio, early returns indicated the initiative to repeal a law that curtailed collective bargaining rights that has drawn national interest was comfortably ahead and was likely to be a win for unions and a huge blow to Republican Gov. John Kasich, political observers said.
"It's a referendum in the most purple state in America about whether or not the newly empowered right is committing electoral suicide by overreach," the AFL-CIO's Jeff Hauser said.
Separately, Ohioans voted on an initiative that would invalidate part of the Affordable Care Act healthcare reform law.
Mississippi voted on a so-called personhood amendment that would criminalize abortion and limit in-vitro fertilization and some forms of birth control.
"We're just going to the heart of the matter, which is, 'Is this a person or not?'" asked Les Riley, founder of Personhood Mississippi, who initiated the state's effort. "God says it is, and science has confirmed it."
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, easily won a second term in a culturally conservative state strapped with high unemployment that pundits said should have been ripe for a Republican win. Beshear's campaign positioned him as a fiscally responsible leader while attacking Republican challenger, state Senate President David Williams, as a bristly career politician -- and Beshear beat Williams by 23 points, Politico said.
"We never wanted Williams to get momentum and [we] wanted to define the race before he had a chance to," Beshear campaign manager Bill Hyers said.
Beshear is the second Democrat this year to win a gubernatorial race in a conservative state, following on Earl Ray Tomblin's Oct. 4 victory in West Virginia.
Up for recall in Arizona is state Senate President Russell Pearce, who championed the hard-line immigration bill last year in the Legislature.
Polls indicate a tight race between Pearce and Jerry Lewis, a Republican charter school executive who has tried to paint Pearce as an extremist whose views cramp the state, Politico said.
"We're seen as a very unfriendly business state," Lewis said. "We're seen as something akin to 1964 Alabama. People do not want to move their businesses here."
Pearce has called the immigration law -- portions of which have been stayed while several challenges work their way through the courts -- "good for everybody."
In Virginia, state Republicans hope to pick up a net two state Senate seats to reclaim the majority in that chamber and full control of both chambers and the governorship.
The Republican State Leadership Committee, which has invested $1.8 million in the campaigns, has targeted six seats, but says two in particular as bellwether campaigns for 2012.
"To the extent we are successful in Prince William [County] and Fairfax County, it will mean very good things for Republicans in 2012," RSLC President Chris Jankowski said.


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We're wrapping up Marathon May by inviting our friend who suggested year's theme of time travel romances, Lara! She introduces us to Somewhere in Time, an ethereal movie that seems to have been filmed through an Instagram filter. In this episode Katie calls in from a nursing home, express our disappointment with this film's ending, and pitch a new gender-swapped 80s movie someone should definitely be making.
Meet our guest, Lara!
This week we're joined by the brainchild of the time travel romance theme for Marathon May, Lara! She blogs at lara-mom.com and sometimes reviews films from a parenting perspective. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram!
Show Notes
IMDb: Somewhere in Time (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes: 59%
Rated: PG
Lara: She's way more interesting than Michigan™
Park and Rec: The Shape of Water, The DUFF, Trainwreck (while inebriated), Snatched, MST3K, do not recommend RoboCop 2 and 3
Book: Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
Grand Hotel in Michigan's Somewhere in Time Weekend Event
Arthur (Bill Erwin) and Young Arthur (Sean Hayden) on set:
Young Arthur in the movie with Christopher Reeve vs. Bill Erwin's photo of his young self in 1918, which he brought to his audition:
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Pitch: Bev & Tina's Excellent Adventure
Shows/Movies Mentioned
- Benjamin Button
- The Patriot
- Forever Young
- Demolition Man
- Harry Potter
- Easy A
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Superman
- Get Out
- Office Space
- A Wrinkle in Time
- About Time
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- Doctor Who
- Kate & Leopold
- The Time-Traveler's Wife
- The Lakehouse
- 13 Going on 30
- Big
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Ghostbusters (2016)


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How is the theme supernatural and supernatural portrayed within the story of Macbeth?
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I would like to add to the answer already given. The play opens with the three witches, creating a supernatural atmosphere. The predictions they make tempt Macbeth to committ evil crimes. They introduce the possibility of what Macbeth's future could be if he's willing to be the bad guy. The witches rely on his and Lady Macbeth's ambitions for power to be so great, the two are willing to do whatever is necessary to get what they want. The half-truth prophecies of the witches are successful because they are what Macbeth wants to hear, and they seem to come true right away. The witches don't have the power to set the evil events into motion by themselves, but their power lies in their abilities to get Macbeth to do it. They tempt him, and he gives in. Macbeth is the evil, and the witches provide him with the excuses he needs to carry through with his crimes and achieve his powerful ambitions. So, the witches tempt Macbeth, his ambition for power takes over, and he kills the king. This evil deed creates fear and guilt, and Macbeth feels he has no choice but to kill again.
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This is from the enotes theme on Macbeth and the supernatural, if you follow the link, you'll get the whole section:
Beyond the evil that human ambition can manufacture, Macbeth has a super-natural dimension to it; indeed, the play opens with the three witches stirring the plot forward. Even before his encounter with the three witches, Macbeth finds himself in an unnatural dramatic world on the "foul and fair" day of the battle (I.iii.39). Things are not what they seem. After his first conclave with the witches, Macbeth is unable to determine whether the prophecy of the witches bodes "ill" or "good." He then begins to doubt reality itself as he states that "nothing is / But what it is not" (I.iii.141-142). The prophecy, of course, is true in the first sense but not what Macbeth takes it to be in the second. In like manner, the three predictions made to Macbeth in the first scene of Act IV seem to make him invincible; but the "woods" do march and Macbeth is slain by a man not ("naturally") born of woman.


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Wedding Advice
In this 4 part series we will be talking about some questions you can ask your potential wedding photographers to determine if they are the right fit for you! In an industry saturated with photographers it can be overwhelming trying to find a match for your big day! There are so many vendors to book and each one comes with unique offerings that sometimes its hard to figure out what is best for you!
Just like cars or electronics or even handbags, there are different levels of quality. So how do you know you are getting the Louis Vuitton of photography, or just another pretty Coach outlet purse? Photographers of different levels have great images and it may be hard to know what to look for so we have put together some questions to ask when meeting potential photographers that may help you determine the difference between good, better and best.
Part One - The Experience
Besides being in love with the photographer's work (a must!), it may be difficult to determine the quality of the experience or the product you are about to receive!
Just as important as the images themselves, your photographer must have experience. They need to understand the flow of a wedding day, be able to think on their toes, be comfortable shooting in inclement weather or lighting conditions, be able to help you put together a suitable timeline for portraits, and be flexible when things do not go as planned! I would say it takes anywhere from 30-50 weddings before someone is 100% comfortable with anything you may throw at them.
Some questions to ask:
Have you assisted more experienced photographers before jumping into wedding yourself? This is not necessary but shows they had a willingness to learn a lot before taking on the task of photographing someone's wedding before they were ready.
Have you ever done a wedding like mine? Shooting at your exact venue is not important as most photographers should be able to handle any situation, and may be willing to visit the venue beforehand to get a feel of it. What this question means is have they shot a wedding of your culture or style (traditional, Jewish, East-Indian, etc) in order to know what specific events or traditions to capture.
What would you do if (insert example of some crazy scenario)? See if they can think on their toes!
Do you shoot family portraits and if so, how do you organize them? - A great photographer should help you determine what images are most important, place them in order of importance and help you create a good flow of family portraits so that family members are not standing around for a long time waiting. Images with children should always go first or as early as possible. The photographer should let you know how long you will need scheduled for family, wedding party and Bride and Groom portraits throughout the day. This should not be your concern the day of the wedding, nor should you have to be calling out names or organizing group shots! Love Bee Photography always helps our Brides plan a detailed shot list and timeline about 2-4 weeks before the wedding!
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Fragments from a diary continued/
The nose bleeds increased in frequency, this started to scare me because there were times when I could 'hear' little slingshot 'explosions' inside my head. It was the beginning of my lifelong battle with high blood pressure. Like the experienced painter, I knew that I would have to keep stretching the canvas. I remember, too, when sleep would finally approach to bow before the icon of the weeping prophet, Jeremiah, and to entreat him for his intercessions for he knew better than most that place of the lamentations. I would then cross my body with holy oils from Mother's collection to be 'prepared' for I could not be sure that I would live to see the next day. The thought of suicide had begun to again infiltrate my mind and would gradually become one of my most unforgiving demons. The more I wanted to put an end to my life, the more I wanted to live. It was this that made it all the more unbearable and excruciating. The unregenerate and the regenerate life-forces within me were fighting for control. They would oftentimes spill into each other, like unconscious memory which streams into the present.
This is close as I would come to some intellectual comprehension of the harmony and dichotomy of that heartbreakingly iconic pericope where most in Christendom have drawn their sense of faith and divine providence from, "Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." (Matt. 26:39)
Organizations to a large extent help shape identity which makes individuals definable and recognizable. How much more faith-based institutions with their overwhelming references to community and fidelity. I had lost my identity or at least very large pieces of it. My identification with the Church was 'total commitment'. It was everything for Christ. I felt abandoned and whatever gifts I might have once possessed I now considered wasted. Already in the grip of that horrible feeling of having the life sucked out of you, left with nothing: an empty shell. There is a marvellous title to one of Philip Roth's books that describes this condition perfectly, The Humbling, even the first line: "He had lost his magic".
There were more pieces to the puzzle which would catch me by surprise and often enough shock me, this troubling restlessness within me and my inability to compromise were together friend and enemy. I had this overriding sense of a 'constant homesickness'. It was nostalgia for something I had lost, or perhaps had never even possessed. Maybe, I had somewhere scribbled in a book of notes, it was something like the 'youzi': "the wandering man" of the great Chinese poetic canon of the Six Dynasties gripped by the need for spiritual fulfilment he would go on journeys both real and imaginary. But I knew, somehow I knew though I could never quite explain it to myself or to others, that while I had great appreciation for the drama and lessons of Sisyphus I did not too often, even during the most difficult of days feel myself to be condemned to a senseless cycle of repetitions. I could 'see' or 'sense' sometimes clearly and other times more dimly the light at the end of this long and dark tunnel.
We leave a place never to return, but we spend the rest of our life reflecting over it and going back, often without realizing it. For me this location is 'Redfern', it is both a physical and spiritual place. It is the Greek Orthodox Cathedral and my religious name, Jeremiah. It is the priesthood and where I was tonsured into another existence. We never can wholly abandon these places. They become oracles to be written on the inside of our bones. It is like Joyce who was desperate to leave Dublin but never could, and Faulkner who thought he could escape Lafayette County, or more recently Armen Melikian in Journey to Virginland who cannot forget Armenia despite his exile from the homeland of his forefathers. These writers like many others, spend a great deal of their lives going back. The clever thing is to admit to our 'longing', to embrace it, to take what is good and to transform the rest. The nostalgia, this longing unto sickness to return, is not all bad and is the central refrain in one of our earliest 'blockbusters', the great Homeric epic, The Odyssey.[1]
As you set out for Ithaka
A number of Cavafy's poems re-work the Homeric myths. Ithaka is the most famous and the last of these designated "Homeric poems". The first time I heard this masterpiece read, in its original tongue, was when I was still an undergraduate studying Modern Greek at Sydney University in the early 1980s. It was either Michael Jeffreys or Alfred Vincent who recited it for us. Outside the poetry of the paschal canon it had struck me then as the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I could not have imagined then, young and forward-looking, that there would come a time when hardly a few weeks would pass when I did not 'return' to Constantine Cavafy's luminous Ithaka. "And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean."[2]
"It's both a noun and a verb. It holds both spatial and temporal meanings. It has taken on a negative connotation of immobility and paralysis, and at the same time it is a word, like home, that evokes powerful positive associations. What is this strange split in our psyche, this ambivalence about residence? The word itself embodies the tension between our awareness of perpetual change and our desire to have something solid and unchangeable to hold on to as we move through the world. It is a beautiful word in just this way, balancing yin and yang, reminding us that it is always possible to find movement within stillness, and stillness within movement."[3]
Saint Sabbas Monastery
And so I moved on, to the cold and fiery desert. But not idealizing any place for earth is still earth. "There never was, and never will be a place on earth free from sorrows. The only sorrow-less place possible is the heart, when the Lord is present there." (St Nikon of Optina)
Founded by Saint Sabbas in 483 [478?] CE and overlooking the Kidron valley in the Judean desert, The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified is reckoned the oldest ongoing inhabited monastery in the world.[4] In Arabic it is known as Mar Saba. To see this marvel of building ingenuity with its honeycomb architecture where one cell connects seamlessly to the next and a little chapel takes you through to another larger one; where hidden staircases and underground tunnels lead to secret antechambers and to escape routes; and deep blues and earthen reds and golden browns shimmer resplendently in the sun, is to imagine a mysterious jewel in the desert. On walls you will find the signed graffiti of young boy monks who grew-up to become old and venerated Patriarchs. I came to this legendary place once 'heaven' to hundreds if not thousands of monks (if you are to include the mountainous surrounds) now down to fewer than a dozen, after having resigned from my teaching post when I had not only discovered the name of my 'benefactor' but also found it increasingly difficult to settle into my 'new' layperson persona. This was no simple pilgrimage. I arrived seeking to make atonement in what is considered the harshest monastery in Christendom, to find a way with the help of Abbot Seraphim (who was one of the "three") to make some small amends for taking my hand off "the plough". I also wanted to discover if I could live here, in the desert where there are no games, as one of the monastic community.
And if Katina's high school reunion was held a day earlier or a day later than on that fairy-tale February evening in 1994 where without any warning I asked her to marry me, I would have returned. My cell already decided [I had asked for the 'luxury' of a book rack and for the window to be repaired], there to spend the remainder of my natural life.
I've been through the desert
[1] Here is a very good little discussion on the relevance of Homer's Odyssey which you can share with family and friends: http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-homers-odyssey-82911
[3] Andrew Peterson, The Next Ten Minutes, (Atria Books: New York, 2010), p. 251f.
[4] https://orthodoxwiki.org/Holy_Lavra_of_St._Savas_(Jerusalem)


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Need Something To Do This Weekend? Head to the Public Market
Looking for some fun things to do in Rochester NY this weekend? Look no further than the Public Market Rochester NY has. Not only is the Public Market Rochester one of the best places to find something to do and to buy fresh produce, but it also has a nationally recognized reputation.
In 2010, the Public Market Rochester was voted as America's Favorite Farmers Market. It beat out the prior year's champion, and the 2010 second place rank by 2,400 votes. The contest is held nationally by the American Farmland Trust, and measures the nation's love for markets around the country by holding votes that anyone can contribute to.
As if that were not enough to proof that the Rochester Public Market is one of the best in the country, consider what it has to offer. Tuesday and Thursday mornings, the Public Market
The More Permanent Side of Rochester Events
Choosing events in Rochester NY can sometimes be a daunting prospect. There are festivals and gatherings on nearly every single weekend in the summer—some on the scale of the Fringe Festival, Jazz Fest, and Lilac Festival, but many others are much more brief and contained. But even those events come and go, and can be difficult to keep track of. Luckily, some fun places in Rochester are much more permanent.
- The Strong Museum of Play. Rochester families know and love the Strong for its interactive atmosphere and dedication to "learning through play". Check out toys, boardgames, videogames, and general trends in fun throughout history, even if the weather outside is frightful.
- The Rochester Public Market. For community gatherings, nothing beats the Pub
How Will You Save Money this Week? Three Tips for Great Rochester Discounts
Did you know that people who live in the Northeast section of the U.S., which includes New York, are 66% more likely to use online coupons than anyone else in the country? If you are scouring the internet for Rochester coupons, it's safe to say you're not the only one. For this reason, we have compiled a list of the three best ways to get deals from places in Rochester. Good luck!
1. The Best Online Coupon Deals Site
You've seen a million pop ups for coupon sites, but what urls are the real deal? According to PCMag, one of the top websites available is RetailMeNot.com. There, you can search through over 20,000 stores for discounts. Right now there are 110 listed deals with "Rochester" in their title, and the site also features region nonspecific stores such as Target and Macy's.


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When we told everyone that we were going to buy a boat and sail around the world, everyone looked at us like we were CRAZY. I kept reassuring people that we weren't going to be just bobbing around to the middle of the ocean, that it was all about the destination. Now, that we are here I not so sure, it might be about bobbing around, because that is definitely one of my favorite parts. I love watching the endless sea and letting all the worries of life just disappear into the distance. So, if life is getting you all worked up, try sailing for awhile, it might help.