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By Gail Romano.
How easy it is to become blasé. After a couple of days among the works of some of the world's great art masters I realized I had stopped noticing. Caravaggio, Canaletto, Van der Weyden, Bosch, Rubens, Velázquez, Murillo, Goya, Holbein, Gainsborough, Turner, Delacroix, Manet, Renoir, Rembrandt and Degas… all were in danger of becoming wallpaper, the result of information and sensory overload. Six intensive days of good-quality conference in a large European art museum housed in a neo-renaissance palace in a magical city can do that to me.
Thanks to the support of National Services Te Paerangi, UNESCO New Zealand and Hamilton City Council, in September I was lucky enough to be in Zagreb, Croatia, participating in the ICOM CECA 2011 conference where I presented: Getting out from under the e-word, the way in which language may programme our thinking patterns and in particular how the word 'education' may trigger traditional expectations and assumptions around learning.
The artistic and cultural centre of Zagreb is focused in the "old" town, a dignified setting of many cobbled streets and nineteenth century buildings. While the earliest record of the city dates to 1094, much of the older built heritage was destroyed by an earthquake in 1880.
The conference was held in the impressive Mimara Museum, a large institution with nearly 4000 works and a strong art library.
"CECA is the oldest committee in ICOM so there is a tradition in conferences. But I think that this year there was something really new." Emma Nardi, CECA President.
In her opening address Nardi noted that the conference topic Old Questions, New Answers acknowledged the importance of continually re-assessing the answers and assumptions on which we base our practice. The 2011 conference also represented a number of firsts for CECA: live-streaming of a portion of the conference (a first for ICOM as well), use of social media, attendance by the ICOM President, attendance by members from countries that have not taken part before (125 delegates from 46 countries). The conference also launched the new CECA website which is now linked to social media and includes for the first time digitized versions of all ICOM Education volumes, 1-22. The communication initiatives all arose from another CECA & ICOM first: a survey to profile membership.
It took me 46 hours travel to get to Zagreb for the conference – and it was worth it. What a stimulating mix. With a backdrop of Rembrandt, researchers, university professors and museum professionals delivered papers on theory and practice. One of the sessions that stood out for me was George Hein's keynote paper. I have read some of his writing on museum education so was excited to hear him speak. He chose to focus on the implication of CECA's name: Committee for Education and Cultural Action. Education always has a moral/political underpinning – it is never neutral. Hein believes museums should step into a leadership role in driving democratic social change by providing people with the tools and knowledge to become active members of society. With this aim in mind, he believes the best educational theory for museums is socio-cultural constructivism. Ask questions and teach the public to ask questions but don't answer them. For the summary of a subsequent, related lecture he delivered click here.
George Hein's political/cultural action education continuum for museums
Education not museum's primary purpose. Focus on collection & preservation. Mainly art museums. Example: James Cuno, Whose Muse?
Limited education emphasising popular access & education for a broad audience.
Progressive education for social change emphasizing education for a democracy. Examples? Paulo Freire's literacy programme, the purpose of which was not just to improve literacy but also the social condition of those he taught. Reggio Emilia's approach also has a political foundation.
"Unless I make myself a little uncomfortable I am not doing enough. I urge you to push to that level of slight risk. You never know what it is until you try." George Hein, Lesley University, USA
A second session of significance discussed the use of museum standards for education and learning, and best practice. While a rationale for standards may be reasonably easy to develop it was generally agreed that we can only describe and provide justification for what seems to be an ideal practice, and offer support in reaching for it. We can neither prescribe nor measure. Any standard must be sufficiently flexible to allow for institutional and environmental difference. The good, better, best approach is gaining ground in the wider museum environment. Unanswered questions out of this conversation:
- How can we measure or assess if we don't know or agree what makes meaning for a visitor or non-visitor? Should the guideline be what our community says is meaningful?
- Who decides on quality criteria? Who decides on the criteria for quality criteria?
- Is it useful to move from national perspectives of quality to international ones? Will this help the profession? Is this CECA's role to guide this?
- Is certification a better (more gentle) approach to maintaining/ improving quality of museum education than standards?
Panel participants: Berit Ljung, University of Stockholm, Sweden; Nicole Geshé, Universite Libre de Bruxelles & Royal Art Academy Brussels, Belgium; Stephanié Wintzerith, Evaluation für Kultureinrichtungen, Germany.
More inspiration:
- There is a political aspect to standard development. For example, in the Netherlands at present there is little support for culture and education. "Culture is a left-wing hobby" has become a popular quote along with the sentiment that it should be "pulled off the subsidy transfusion." This means the cultural field must prove the value of its work and identify hard outcomes. Cultural education programmes have not previously been included in school inspection programmes but now criteria are being set to control the level of cultural education in schools. What will come of this? Arja van Veldhuizen, Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht, Netherlands
- Research into the use of audio guides commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication suggests that audio-guides in general are not thought through and are usually introduced on the basis of exhibition objectives rather than on the basis of the museum's communication objectives. This means that exhibition communication methods are often in conflict with each other and the research shows that where there is redundancy users stop reading text labels and prefer the audio. However, users will usually only choose an audio-guide originally if they believe there will be specific, additional and very interesting information presented on given objects. Note this does not apply to guides in different languages. Hana Gottesdiner, Université Paris Ouest, France
- Multiple perspectives critical in dealing with challenging histories to prevent feelings of exclusion and to teach critical assessment and reasoning. Must provide the balance if an exhibition communicates a dominant perspective. Check particularly for a passive, descriptive voice. Pieter De Bruijn, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
- While we must be able to receive children as a group we must develop proficiency in methods that allow each child to individually develop relevant skills (observation, interpretation, analysis, creativity, and extrapolation). Melissa De Vreede, Cultuurnetwerk Nederland, Netherlands
- We need to become proficient at speaking, hearing and translating "100 languages" – any means by which children (& visitors) take in and share their meaning with the world. May include: verbal, graphic, symbolic, logical, imaginative, physical languages. We need to listen and to respond, to use these diverse languages in our communication. Rather than be based on standards, museum education should be based on a philosophy close to what Aristotle called practical wisdom. Practical wisdom comes from experience and allows us to respond to the audience. Elee Kirk, University of Leicester, England
- A museum only needs one policy – an education policy. Nicole Geshé, Universite Libre de Bruxelles & Royal Art Academy Brussels, Belgium quoting, I believe, The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century (2006) edited by C. Lang, J. Reeve, V. Woollard
- What is the intrinsic value of museums separate from their function as education facilities? We can preserve objects in other ways, such as in warehouses. George Hein, Lesley University, USA
- Interpretation is a form of cultural action. Museum interpretation and education are often seen as synonyms – each are "the issuing of multi-layered messages, intended or not, to the public." However, Freeman Tilden in Interpreting our Heritage (1957) spoke of interpretation, not as education or information, but as provocation. It must inspire the visitor to "want to discover things for himself and second to see and understand the things at which he looks." Lessons for museum education from the past? Daniel Papuga, Ringve Museum, Norway
So, a week well spent – there is so much that I haven't been able to mention. Regardless of the country we live in and the focus of our institution, those of us in museum education share many similar issues and pleasures. The many perspectives and experiences that my international colleagues brought made this opportunity rich and exciting. If you have the chance to attend such a gathering in the future, my advice is don't hesitate.
Gail Romano is Education Manager at Waikato Museum. She travelled to Zagreb, Croatia to attend and present at the ICOM CECA 2011 conference with support from National Services Te Paerangi, UNESCO New Zealand and Hamilton City Council.
All images are copyright Gail Romano 2011.


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Celebrating Big Ang: Her Life Through the Years (VIDEO)
We're all celebrating Big Ang today after she tragically lost her battle with throat cancer on February 18.
The Mob Wives favorite, who always made everyone laugh with her outgoing, bubbly personality, accomplished so much in her 55 years of life.
VIDEO: Wetpaint's Favorite Moments With 'Mob Wives' Star Big Ang — Exclusive
Between her success on three reality TV shows — Mob Wives, Big Ang, and Miami Monkey — her book, Bigger Is Better: Real Life Wisdom from the No-Drama Mama, and her strong relationships with friends and family, there's so much to celebrate when it comes to this star.
So, in Big Ang fashion, let's all cheers to this wonderful woman as we take a look back at some big moments throughout her life.

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STEUBENVILLE, OH -- Zach Gould registered his 1000th career point and the Redhawks clinched their second straight AMCC Regular Season Title (3rd all-time) in their 66-51 victory at Franciscan on Wednesday night. La Roche will host the AMCC Tournament the weekend of February 23.
Gould surpassed the milestone with a three-pointer at the thirteen minute mark of the first half. Gould's three-pointer put La Roche ahead, and they never relinquished the lead.
Gould buried a second three-pointer to stretch the Redhawk lead to double figures with 2:08 left in the half. Tyler Frederick followed with a dunk, and despite a Franciscan buzzer beater, La Roche entered halftime with a 38-27 lead.
A Frederick layup and Austin Hannes three ran the La Roche lead to sixteen early in the second half. A Darius Lawrence three-pointer upped the lead to nineteen.
Franciscan limited the Redhawk offense for a majority of the second half. However, Franciscan could never get inside double digits as the Redhawks earned the AMCC Regular Season clinching victory.
La Roche shot 47% and held Franciscan to 39%. They won the rebounding battle 40-31 and limited the Barons to just one three-pointer.
Frederick scored a game-high 19 points. Gould scored 14 points.
Next up: Host Medaille, on senior day, February 9 at 4pm.


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Getting back to the dharma
Keydong Thukche Choling Nunnery. I remember the cracked walls, shattered windows and collapsed ceilings—and the somber mood of the nuns. This had been their home.
Each of our trips to Kathmandu begins with a stop there, by the steps of Swayambhunath. This time, the diminutive, lovely and energetic Ani Tendol-la who runs the nunnery was especially happy to see us. She welcomed us with a hot cup of tea and gave us a full report on the nuns and all the repairs to the nunnery since the earthquake. After tea, we were led to the serene prayer hall and then to the nunnery's rooftop where 126 young nuns were reading or in meditation.
Two years ago, the building had sustained so much damage it wasn't possible to walk up the stairs. Everything is now complete, even the dangerously-cracked sewer drains and much-needed new bathrooms.
AHF has been supporting this important nunnery for thirteen years and it is a partnership we cherish. So when Ani Tendol-la had no one else to turn to after the earthquake, she came to us. Now the nuns can focus on what is most important—their education, and their prayers for the community and all sentient beings.


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Friday, 14 Aug 2015 6:30 PM
Due to weather forecast we have decided we cannot hold this event on a boat as we wished, the forecast predicts heavy rain and thunder in the early evening. Its an open boat so it may not be as fun as we would expect.
We apologize for the inconvenience, we are moving the event back to "De Bekeerde Suster" and will plan another boat outing as soon as possible.
We do understand if you choose to cancel and we also know the bar can only hold so many people.
As usual this meetup is all about the people, come with people you know from the user group, or get to know new people. No presentations, just drinks, social and a lot of fun.


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This little story — also called 'Paradox of the Court' — keeps coming up in different versions all the time and even lawyers find it baffling, which I find quite strange. After having been asked the solution over and over again, when the same problem was sent over to me by a student once again today, I decided to write my response and publish it....
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This little story — also called 'Paradox of the Court' — keeps coming up in different versions all the time and even lawyers find it baffling, which I find quite strange. After having been asked the solution over and over again, when the same problem was sent over to me by a student once again today, I decided to write my response and publish it....
Experience Is A Product Of Reason
The contours of one's understanding are determined and limited only by the boundaries of reason and experience. But I believe that is already too well known to be commented or elaborated upon. However, I often myself wondering as to whether experience is fashioned by reason or reason is honed and sharpened by experience, and I have so far not been able to find a satisfactory...
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Knowledge, Truth And Delusion
Much of what surfaces as the face of the world is nothing more than a general agreement founded upon the preponderance of convenience. This might be just a little bit complex to understand, I agree. To say that the truth is sacrificed at the altar of convenience is also incorrect because it is rarely that the whole truth is knowable. In the absence of complete...
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The invisible hand
Who decides what one will be? In whose hands does one's future lie? These are the questions that sound big and ring loud. Let's try the smallest possible question. Who decides what one thinks? Now, anybody can answer this one. And nearly everyone would come up with a wrong reply, for the most obvious answer is not quite the answer. It is not the thinker...
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Gujarat 2002: The Unforgettable
Let me start off by admitting that no matter how hard I try I just can't forget Gujarat 2002. No, I was not personally affected by the pogrom; not even remotely. And, no, I am not a Muslim behind a Hindu pseudonym, in case you are wondering. I am a normal Indian. An average Indian who believes in simple things, and has simple – almost...
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Law, Morality and Limits of Reason
"Drinking itself is not bad." "Is it good, then?" "No, I am not saying it is good. But just because someone drinks does not mean he or she is bad." "Okay, drinking does not make one bad. Agreed. So, what is bad, who is bad, and what 'makes' one bad?" "The one who is immoral, does wrong and deceive people for his own benefit is...
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The Primacy Of Thought
The thoughts that we think and the deeds that we do are connected in ways that we do not fully comprehend. I often found myself wondering if the act of thinking a thought was actually a deed and if an action in pursuance of an object carried the idea of the object within it, in which case an act was also a thought partially. Can...
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Sanity And Madness
Madness has always been at loggerheads with sanity for a simple reason that sanity was always awarded the highest perch while insanity was condemned to the lowest grounds like it was a dirty secret fit only for the dungeons. Cage it, lock it and forget it, has always been the three-tier policy with respect to madness. I wouldn't say that people did not critically analyze...
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The shapes in the clouds are not of their making. They don't choose to be the way they look. It is a random creation of numerous creators created for no reason, for no purpose. And then we humans – the secondary creators – carve things into those random shapes, and the clouds start looking like ships, buildings, faces, gods. But the cloud remains the cloud...
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Live Ideas?
Anything that has life, grows. Think a worthy thought, and let it be. It would grow into something else. Sometimes into a colourful dazzle of unidentifiable shape. Sometimes into a morbid deformity of sorts. And sometimes into a pretty thing meant to be admired. But then, sometimes it dies down as though it never existed, like every other living thing. They are capable of living...
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@dissolving_mind @virsanghvi Criticism is not the same as accusation. One may be criticized for the ideological position one takes, alive or dead. Accusations are factual allegations regarding one's involvement in a crime or immoral behaviour. One needs to prove them as facts first. 7 months ago
@virsanghvi @dissolving_mind Apart from that, how does doing the same thing make it right only because it has been done in response or retaliation? Also, one can't invoke the past sins of others to defend one's present sins. 7 months ago
जिनसे अपने जूते नहीं खुलते वो दूसरों की परेशानियां दूर करने निकले हैं। "मैं खड़ा हूँ यहाँ पे।" क्यों खड़े हैं कहीं पर भी? बैठ जाइये, थक जाएंगे। होना तो आपसे कुछ है नहीं। थोड़ा आराम ही कर लीजिये। twitter.com/ANINewsUP/stat… 7 months ago
@OmarAbdullah Using violence to make -- rather force -- a political point is the very definition of 'terrorism'. 7 months ago
@rohini_sgh @virsanghvi @DelhiPolice He is not just an individual. He is the duly elected Chief Minister of Delhi with 67/70 majority, no less. And yet. 7 months ago
@shekharkapur @narendramodi Such an epoch-making statement. Wow! Is it magical, too? Can it clean Ganga? Or has it been already cleaned by the magical treatment plant of Modi-words? 7 months ago
@virsanghvi Although I have no respect for this 'work' or his status as a "Canadian of Indian origin", I do respect his right to stay and work in India. That said, he is still an outsider, having voluntarily sworn allegiance to "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada." 7 months ago
@akshaykumar No problem. Please continue. We might even call your contribution 'Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)'. Citizenship is not a 'non-political' issue, especially when you take upon yourself to conduct 'non-political' interviews of 'our' politicians during the time of 'our' elections. 7 months ago
'Love' is blind also to the behavioural, cultural and intellectual poverty of the object of love in addition to its general blindness to all things relevant. 7 months ago
@ArvindKejriwal - Who is asking for full statehood for Delhi, Kejri? The police listens just fine. The rest of the things you claim statehood would help you do can be done to a large extent without full statehood. On this plank you'll get no votes. 8 months ago
What do these BJP people say? To whom does it make sense? twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1… 8 months ago
@kritish2007 @tavleen_singh And how exactly do you know her ordeal in such intimate detail? She was a terror suspect under arrest on charges of having killed her own countrymen. Terror suspects are not questioned softly. What is this 'leftist' rant? And who is a leftist? The one who talks of the poor? 8 months ago
@battakhushboo23 Pragya Thakur is not so much of a political candidate as she is part of the hardline posturing that started with Yogi Adityanath's appointment as UP's CM. It's simply about how far can they push the envelope on the force of 'Modi wave', which might be waning but is not out yet. 8 months ago
@virsanghvi Accused of killing her own countrymen for the politics of hatred, she goes on to belittle the sacrifice of a police officer who laid down his life in defense of his countrymen. And she is contesting to represent the same countrymen in Parliament. Layered cake of insults, that. 8 months ago
Who could disagree? twitter.com/IPS_Associatio… 8 months ago
@ReallySwara If BJP comes back in power, regardless of whether she wins a seat in the Parliament or not, the possibility of her conviction will get dimmer, if any possibility is left by that time, given that the evidence tends to disappear and memories fail as the time passes. 8 months ago
@ReallySwara No, she has been but in all likelihood will be. She has been charged by the court, but the investigation agencies are in no mood to do the legwork needed to obtain a conviction, which is what the 'clean chit' by the NIA and the like means. 8 months ago
@vrsrini @virsanghvi They are not there to understand or discuss, only to counter and abuse, which is why they don't engage in meaningful discussions but in pointless shouting matches on national television. 8 months ago
@virsanghvi You could be Archangel Gabriel far more convincingly than Ramdev can be a saint. 8 months ago
@PritishNandy No, I don't think that's really the right response. What is needed is not "giving it back" but giving it right. Calling someone anything should not lead to violent backlash, no matter who the person is. That's suppressing dissent all the same. 8 months ago
@narendramodi Unless one is voting for you, one is not voting for the nation, right? These kiddies seem unaware that they wouldn't be electing a 'head of the government' but an MP. They don't know the first thing about Parliamentary Democracy. They are not electors, they are cheerleaders. 8 months ago
@ashokepandit "Doosron ke paap ginaane se apne paap kam nahin hote." Salim-Javed made one of his characters say that in one of the films written by them. Filmein dekha keejiye filmein, Pandit ji. 'Deewar' hi dekh leejiye jab tak Vivek Oberoi sahab ki behtareen adaakari parde pe nahin aati. 😂 8 months ago
@ashokepandit Furthermore, why are you engaging in this pointless whataboutery? Counting their sins wouldn't take away from yours. If you are doing what Congress has done, how are you any different anyway, if that was the point? 8 months ago
@ashokepandit Do you even understand the difference between being accused of a murder and being accused of a terror act for political gains? And, worse, when the person has her political visibility solely on account of such alleged gruesome acts and hate speeches. 8 months ago
Someone thinks that there is "no difference" between being intellectually lynched and physically lynched. Really? 😐 twitter.com/ashokepandit/s… 8 months ago
Actually. That's how I now know who are the crazed animals who can do little than follow blindly and defend viciously any kind of insanity aa long it's favoured by their 'Supreme Leader'. twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/… 8 months ago
They would credit Modi for the change of season, too, if the idea was not completely absurd. But one never knows; they just might. 😂 twitter.com/OmarAbdullah/s… 9 months ago
No, I am not a chowkidaar. I am a citizen of India whose interest the chowkidaars are constitutionally bound to protect and serve. 9 months ago
Chowkidar Narendra Modi?! Really now? This gimmick from the Prime Minister of India? Clever comebacks are fine for election rallies. Twitter profile of the Indian Prime Minister is unfit for electoral rhetoric. Maybe Modi couldn't really be anything other than a BJP campaigner. 9 months ago
@Zebaism This is certainly outrageous. 9 months ago
@shekharkapur What's going on Shekhar? Why do you want us to believe anything and anybody without being sure? Asking questions does not make us a 'soft target', it makes us a vibrant democracy that our future generations would be proud of and thankful to us for. 9 months ago
We were a civilisation once. We are a raging mob now. Be proud of it, if that's possible. Interestingly, it is possible, which says a lot about us. Need I say more? twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1… 9 months ago
@IAmSudhirMishra If you must know, they also ask inconvenient questions. And who among the hero-worshipers ever liked hero-questioners, if you will, in any civilization at any point of time in near or distant past? 9 months ago
So, again, how much damage did we inflict on the terror organization after risking the lives of our brave pilots who conducted the airstrikes, and after making Wing Commander Abhinandan go through the ordeal? Or is it an anti-national question these days? 9 months ago
"We do not count human casualties," says the IAF. The Prime Minister tells us to trust the Armed Forces (the fact of airstrike is not under question anyway). So, not trusting the number of casualties initially given until established does not amount to distrusting the forces. 9 months ago
If we all remain patriotic and nationalistic, the 250/300/350 unconfirmed casualties of the airstrike would remain dead even if some, many or none of them died. Faith keeps finding new ways to kill, shall we say? 9 months ago
India must ensure that Pakistan is held to account for the misuse of F-16s. thehindu.com/news/internati… 9 months ago
People crying for war with Pakistan neither understand war, nor Pakistan, nor 'war with Pakistan'. 10 months ago
@OmarAbdullah Better still if there was no bragging at all. 10 months ago
@BDUTT @ImranKhanPTI Couldn't agree more. 10 months ago
Heartening to know that Wing Commander Abhinandan has been treated with due respect by the Pakistani Armed Forces. youtube.com/watch?v=nIHs7p… 10 months ago
Absolutely. He is a soldier doing what he is duty-bound to do. He, as an individual, is nobody's enemy. twitter.com/sardesairajdee… 10 months ago
All military engagements, howsoever small, are serious situations involving human casualties. Stop dancing around. This is not a wedding. 10 months ago
Let's bring the celebratory drumming down a few notches, shall we? We have done what needed to be done. The air strike was more of a retaliatory gesture than a solution. There are no lasting solutions on the battlefield. 10 months ago
@HarishKhuranna @sardesairajdeep I believe, Mr. Sardesai is the kind of man who looks for the truth in face of contradictory claims by two sides opposed to each other. One might call such people the 'seekers of the truth', if you will. 10 months ago
And that you should continue doing, Mr. Sardesai. That's your job. Armed forces will do theirs, I am sure, and you should continue with yours. A crucial part of your job is to verify, which is inherently opposed to the idea of 'trust'. twitter.com/sardesairajdee… 10 months ago
No, that is not entirely true. India has called it a 'non-military' strike. That description has been carefully used to communicate that the strike was not against Pakistan but against JeM within Pakistani territory. We want no war. That has been the message. twitter.com/GulPanag/statu… 10 months ago
@virsanghvi China and Pakistan are not like Jai and Veeru. They are more like Gabbar and Sambha; not exactly though. :-p 10 months ago
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Are you trying to make as much money as possible? Do you want a ton of press attention? Do you just want to have fun and put on a good show? Knowing WHY you're throwing the show in the first place will inform every other step you take.
Just about any event will be successful if you completely devote your entire existence to promoting it. But we can't always do that. We have jobs, other events, other responsibilities, etc. Maybe it's worth considering not organizing any other events for two weeks before and two weeks after this one, to make it special. Maybe it means investing some money on high-quality graphic design or flyers. Maybe you call in favors. What priority does this event take in your life, compared to every other event you might be part of?
Who is the audience most likely to show up, and who is your target audience? Is there an overlap? What are you doing to reach out to those groups? Do you just want to get your friends there, or do you want to access other pockets of the community? This all relates back to the first question too-- if you just want to make money, you're going to have a different promo strategy than if you're trying to organize an awareness-raising event or whatever.
If you're a brand new artist, or you're throwing a fundraiser for a small organization that not many people know about, it's obviously going to be more of a challenge than if you're a known quantity. If you're a DJ and you can promise people a night of fun and debauchery, good for you. But how can the rest of us make whatever kind of event we're promoting attractive? That leads to the next point:
This is probably the single most important point. Your event has to stick out from every other event that's happening, especially if you're not already super famous. It has to be different and exciting. If your flyer says "Rap Show," that's not a good hook. If it says "Rally for Justice," that's not a good hook. A hook can either be super intentional (like Hip Hop Against Homophobia), or it can be a silly gimmick (like a Valentine's Day-themed poetry slam)-- it can even be as simple as a birthday party. Either way, figure out a way to make people care about your event beyond its actual content.
1. Assemble a team. Ideally, this is a diverse group of people with access to different skills, spaces, and communities. The important thing here is to make sure that everyone is on the same page, and that everyone has specific responsibilities. Five people who know what they're doing will always be stronger than one, but five people who don't know what they're doing will drag you down.
2. Start EARLY. For most events, a month is enough time to properly promote. For bigger events like conferences and festivals, you'll need more. One strategy is to have a few months of hints, vague information, save-the-dates and stuff like that, followed by a month of hard-core promotion leading up to your event. When you have a range of dates that work for you, check other local calendars to avoid conflicts. Figure out what time (7pm-9pm vs. 9pm-2am vs. something else) works best for the audience you hope to draw.
3. Brainstorm a list of your top five venues (making sure they're appropriate to the size and vibe for the event). Research locations, accessibility issues, how the door/payout works at each one, etc.
4. Brainstorm a program based on the kind of event you're throwing-- what bands will play? What speakers will there be? What will the night look like? How will things flow? When choosing artists, be intentional. How does each performer relate to your goal and your target audience? Picking a date, a lineup, and a venue all kind of happen at the same time, and you may have to do some back-and-forth to get everything to work, depending on the artists' and venues' availabilities. So have more than one choice in each category.
5. Again, just strive to be as organized as you can be. Everyone (the people helping you organize the show, the venue, and the artists) should be on the same page about what's going on. People need to know when to show up, how soundcheck will work, how long to perform, what their responsibilities are, how much they're getting paid, etc. Write things down. Answer your emails right away.
1. Write a solid press release. If you can't, find someone who can. It should be one page long, and its goal should be to make the journalist's job as easy as possible. Basically, write a short article about your event. Put the basics in the headline ("Twin Cities hip hop artists unite to combat homophobia"). Spell out the expanded basics in the first paragraph ("On this date, at this time, in this venue, this is going to happen"). Break up the paragraphs with some quotes, even if you're quoting yourself. Use your hook as a thesis statement. Keep it as simple as possible, while still hitting your main two or three talking points. Be sure to have a line that says "For more information, contact this person" and fill in some contact information.
2. Work with other artists, activists or friends to compile an up-to-date list of press contacts in your area. Look at newspapers, weeklies, community papers, alt papers, magazines and newsletters. Look at major radio stations, community radio stations and podcasts. Look at all local TV stations. Put together as big a contact list as you can. Maybe someone you know already has a list like this.
3. Send your press release out no less than two weeks before your event. That's the absolute minimum. For a lot of TV programs, magazines and other media, it's going to have to be even more than that. If you can make personal contacts with media people, that's ideal. Send a separate email out for every person you're contacting and personalize it. In the body of the email, you could even have a line about why that particular publication or media outlet might be interested in covering this event. Ideally, that makes it feel less like spam.
4. For radio and TV, make sure you have a media point person (or two) who is a charismatic, engaging speaker, on top of actually knowing about the details and spirit of the event.
1. When it comes to blogs and podcasts, most of the above applies. Compile a separate list of bloggers and online publications who might be interested in what you're promoting and follow the aforementioned steps. Be sure to include a JPG image (possibly of your flyer) or a video with your press release, since most blogs rarely print text-only stories. If possible, build up a rapport with the bloggers beforehand, by commenting on other posts and linking to their sites, over a period of months or years.
2. The key to spreading the word over Twitter and Facebook is to be intentional about it. Don't just HOPE that people will repost and retweet things. Explicitly ask them to. Obviously, you can't do this every week, or for every event—only the BIG ones. Avoid promotion fatigue. But if the event is a big deal, the internet promotion campaign should be as big or bigger. Call in favors. Also, be smart about the time and frequency of your posts-- what, for you, is the most effective pattern?
3. When it comes to Facebook event pages, they're not the most effective promotional tool but they are still necessary. Set one up three or four weeks before the event; invite all of your friends, and explicitly ask individuals to invite their friends too. Get thousands of event page invites out; even if people don't come, they'll know about it.
4. If you have the means, shoot a simple promotional video and post it on YouTube. Link to it from all of your other websites. Just like the press release, make sure it has a defined hook. People will spread it around if it's something funny or interesting and not just the bare-bones information. Do this a month or three weeks ahead of time, so people have time to spread it around.
5. Do not abuse email lists, but do not underestimate their power. I use my email list only once or twice a year. Other artists do it every month or every week. It really depends on who your audience is and what kind of relationship you have with them.
1. A flyer is a piece of art. It is not just about information. The design of the flyer often communicates as much about the event as the content. Again, focus on your hook, and create (or commission) a design that makes it pop. Also, a human face on a flyer makes that flyer much more likely to be picked up and looked at. Have multiple people look it over-- not just for spelling mistakes, but to make sure that all relevant info is included.
2. Putting flyers out at coffee shops and putting posters on bulletin boards probably isn't very effective, but if you have the time and energy, do it anyway. Even if it doesn't convince people to come to the event, it will get your name and/or cause out there a little more in the general consciousness.
3. Look at a calendar and mark down all of the events during the month before YOUR event that are similar or will have similar audiences. Take a small team to each of these events and hand out the flyers there.
4. Word-of-mouth is always the best kind of promotion. If you have five friends, and each of them has five friends, that's a party. Again, don't just hope that this will happen—work to make it happen. For example, if someone you know has a birthday on or near your event, suggest that they celebrate their birthday at your event (put them on the guest list and buy them a drink). If they accept, they'll probably bring in a dozen more people. Be creative.
5. Look for sponsorships, whether from business, organizations, artists or any entity that can help you promote. If they can help spread the word, you can promote them at your show or event, let them in for free, etc. These kinds of tradeoffs are win-win.
1. Event promotion is about two things: getting people to your event and getting people to know about you, your organization or your brand, even if they're not coming. It's short-term and long-term thinking. Always keep this in mind.
2. Night-of, it helps to have a stage manager, someone to make sure people know when they're on and make sure they have what they need. Ideally, this is not the same person who is hosting or performing.
3. A host can be incredibly valuable, IF THEY KNOW HOW TO HOST. Don't just throw someone up there. Hosting is a talent just like singing or rapping. Find a GOOD host who can manage the energy in the room and add to the show rather than detract from it.
4. Always be planning ahead. If you did all this work to get all these people at the same place at the same time, can you do MORE with them? Promote your next show? Register voters? Sign a petition? Action steps!
5. Build synergy. Make sure everyone performing is GETTING something out of it. Maybe it's money. Maybe it's *meaningful* exposure. Maybe it's other kinds of favors. You can ask people to play for free, but you shouldn't ask them to play for nothing.
6. Get everyone on the same page about promotion. NEVER ASSUME that an artist is going to actively promote a show, or that an artist's name ALONE is enough to get their fans to come out. Maybe have a contract. Maybe do a door split.
7. I want to re-emphasize this: if you're organizing an activist event, think big. Think very big. Plan stuff months ahead of time and aim for thousands, not hundreds and certainly not dozens. I think we often convince ourselves that only so many people actually care about our cause, when this isn't necessarily the case. If we do a good job conceptualizing the event and an even better job promoting it, the sky is the limit. We can't afford to just assume that people are lazy and uncaring. It's always our responsibility to convince them to come out.
8. If you're an artist, you can follow all of these steps and still fail, if your music or art isn't any good. One curse of beginning artists is to be really good at promotion before you're really good at art. This will draw a lot of attention to work that you are going to later look at as inferior. So take your time. Get tons of feedback from people before engaging in a significant promo campaign. The City Pages isn't going to do a feature article on your unstructured, lo-fi basement hip hop. Play some shows, let the buzz build organically, and then start pushing hard.
9. For both artists and activists, look beyond the "usual suspects." Work to combine and intertwine different communities. Reach out to people whom no one has reached out to yet. Strive to create events that are representative of your community, because that will affect who comes out to those events.
10. It really is about substance, in the end. You can get people in the door with a good promotional strategy, but you can't get them to come back if your event isn't engaging and awesome.
Any other tips people want to share? Or disagreements? Or addendums? Let's share.


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Game Design: Brian Train
Another COIN entry by designer Brian Train, Tupamaro is a game about the internal war between the Tupamarus and the forces of the Uruguayan State security from 1968 to 1972 fought in Montevideo. The game is an unusual treatment in that because all the action took place inside a single large city, the map is a non-representational 'map of attitudes' of the people of the city of Montevideo, with an abstract troop and time scale. The guerrilla player has many subtle strategies to try while the Government player struggles to train his security forces and keep the people on his side.
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Complexity: 3-4 out of 10
Solitaire Suitability: 5 out of 10
Players: 2
2 to 4 Hours to Play
Ages 12 and Up
Designer's Notes
Tupamaro was one of the first wargames I designed, back in 1994. It was the first and remains the only game on the urban guerrilla movement of that name that was active in Uruguay during the 1960s and 1970s.
In sitting down to design it, I had first to make a few decisions around the game's basic parameters:
• Time
• Space
• Action (Entities x Resources)
Time: this scale I left deliberately vague, so a turn can represent anything from a few days to a few months. It's an old saying that 90% of a war is spent waiting around for the other 10% to happen, but there's no reason to incorporate that ratio into the game.
Space: All of the action took place inside Montevideo, the capital city where more than half the population of the country lived (about 1.5 million people at the time, about the size of Phoenix, Arizona). Both sides were fighting not for domination of a physical space but for the allegiance of certain social groups - whence the concept of a non-representational map of Social Sector Areas (SSAs) for the game, instead of a map of the actual ground where the action took place.
Finally, the dimension of Action in the game. Tupamaro is a turn-based game, and the heart of each turn is the interactive Operations Phase. A decision cycle is run repeatedly during the Phase, until players run out of resources or prefer not to continue. The Tupamaro player is the one with control at the top of every cycle: he decides whether he or the Government player will conduct the next mission.
The game-quantifiable result of the action in the game is usually the gain or loss of Political Support. This is measured by a Political Support Level (PSL). It represents the level of support, commitment or legitimacy the mass of the civilian population is prepared to give one side or the other. During the game, each player maintains a PSL independently of the other. By showing this in a non-zero-sum fashion, we can model simply a highly polarized and committed society (where both sides would have a high PSL) or one overrun by fatigue, confusion or apathy (where both sides would have a low PSL), or something in between.
I like to present players with a large range of choices, the more agonizing the better. The main challenge and interest of this system lies in the changing combinations of missions a player can concoct to form a successful general strategy. So, each player has a different menu of missions available to them, to take advantage of points of stress or outright fracture in the enemy's organization, or society at large. I tried to model this in choice of missions available to players in the game:
• Political support and legitimacy. The Tupamaros can conduct Propaganda missions; the government can also cost itself support in the game by using untrained Recruit troops to react to insurgent missions. The Tupamaros can also do things like engineer prison breaks and kidnap public officials, which make the government look impotent and cost them further support.
• The economy. The Tupamaros also organized frequent riots or strikes to interfere with the operation of the economy. This diverted police resources (in the game, the government must react to a riot/strike or suffer a considerable political penalty) and affects the ability of the government to support the counterinsurgency fight through undisturbed taxation.
• Morale of social groups and organizations. I mentioned how positive attitudes on the part of social sectors on the map are helpful to players. There are three governmental organizations in the game as well: the Army, the Police and the Politicians. In the game, the Tupamaros can conduct political kidnapping and Intimidation missions to affect the morale of these organizations, as they did historically. Lowered morale for the Army or Police makes them less efficient. A crisis occurs each time an organization's Morale falls below a certain point: the government player will always lose resources with some additional "cascade" effects – for example in the case of a Police crisis, they might go on strike, making all police units useless for the rest of the turn. Intimidation is a powerful tactic for the Tupamaro player but it is expensive in terms of resources. And if the Tupamaro player causes too many Crises, he will provoke a declaration of Internal War, which backlash will put him at a significant tactical disadvantage.
For his part, the Government player can Build and Train his forces. Training takes time and resources but upgraded troops are more effective and avoid the penalty for using untrained recruits. The government player can divide his security forces between a passive role of Guarding the streets, and an active role of Cordon and Search missions to capture or eliminate insurgents and possibly rescue kidnapped Public Figures. He can also fight a semi-covert campaign of placing Informers and running Intelligence missions to reveal Tupamaro units and eliminate Infiltrators.
No matter what they might have been ideologically, in terms of method the Tupamaros were terrorists. I wanted this game to make several points about terrorism and counterterrorism, through the player's choice of missions and their varying effects on the game's dynamics.
• Terrorism is a primary tactic of urban guerrillas, but it is only a tactic. Terrorism cannot make a revolution by itself, but used in conjunction with a campaign of strikes, riots, and political activity aimed at a general uprising, it can make a revolution possible.
• The power of terrorism lies not in the material damage it can cause, but in the psychological "cascade" effect it can have. This is especially so in the urban environment, where there are simply more witnesses and each terrorist action can be vastly amplified and often grossly distorted by modern methods of mass communication.
• The "cascade" effect is nonlinear, but not completely unpredictable. In the game, mission outcomes are usually randomized with dice. There is also a Random Events Phase built into the turn sequence that presents temporary opportunities or obstacles to players.
• The security forces need reliable informers, a coordinated network for sharing and disseminating intelligence, and trained troops. Without these, the government is flailing in the dark.
• The tactical initiative normally lies with the insurgents, but this does not always translate into a tactical advantage. Again, the Government player has the choice of how he will react to the insurgent's provocations, and with the intelligence and training amenities listed above his reactions will be that much more effective.
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7:10 to Liverpool Street
But the guilt and the despondency were soon shrouded by a question of great profundity. What does 7 o clock on that Sunday morning resolve to. Does it mean 6 o clock or 8 o clock? And is that after or before changing the clock itself? And above all, what for heaven's sake would British Rail follow. So I went back to the railway counter, confused soul as I was, hoping to seek an answer in the simplest possible layman terms. 'Don't change your watch and you should be fine', the old man at the counter replied. And as though he was this oracle who had just dispensed the route map to the Inca treasure, smiled a wise smile and pressed whatever people at counters press for that metallic sounding voice to announce – 'Counter number 2 please'(which roughly translates to – Nexxt) Thank you, I mumbled, stepping into a web of re-affirmed confusion.
And to every acquaintance I bumped into on Saturday I posed the very same question – 'What time do you think the 7:10 train to Liverpool Street will leave tomorrow?' And all of them nice people, broadly fell into three categories. The evil ones, who smiled that all knowing Buddha smile and replied – 'Why so much confusion. Obviously, 8:10'. The even more evil ones, who digressed greatly from the actual question at hand and spoke eloquent about the subtleties of BST, GMT and why all of Europe should have one timeline (who the fuck cares?). And the most evil of them all, who made no efforts to hide their sinister smirk and on top of that gave no answer.
But just when things were finally clearing up, CG called. I duly explained the problem to him and he very duly told me that I should be at the railway station at 5 o clock!!!! 'Why the fuck for?', I screamed. 'Yes bob', he continued, ranting away at some logic (I think he used Laplace transforms as well if I remember right) to arrive at the fact that I should be there at 5, no less (he even laughed in the middle). The world was not helping me I gathered. 'You're all wrong', I told CG as I hung up. But what worried me most was the fact that however unconvincing he sounded, he had this uncanny ability to eventually end up being right.
The majority is right, I eventually concluded. We are rolling the clock back. So seven tomorrow should be the eight of today. But since I have been genetically handed down a 'why take a chance' attitude, I decided I shall stick by the clock. And the old man's wise words were also – 'Don't change the clock and you should be fine'.
I got up at 6, so as to be ready for my 20 minute walk to the station by half past. Since I always misjudge the distance and mistimed the walk, I was pretty keen to get it right this time. There was enough evidence in the air that the rolling back the clock exercise was like heralding another winter. 10 to seven and I was at the station. Coke bottles, Pizza boxes all remnants of yesterday's night life lay strewn on the station walkway. The station door itself was locked - safe and sound (I had never seen a railway station locked in my life before) and the only three folks who stood around were staring blankly at the ink blue sky as if to say we've got a lot of time to spare. It was after all just ten minutes to six in the new world. And the train was not due until an hour from now. One thing was for sure, the British rail follows the clock rolled back.
And then we were four of us staring into the inky blue nothingness.
Confession: The train was actually at 7 o clock, but I have made it 7:10 since it sounds more title like. Like Bollywood movies which have names like 'Ek Chalis ki last local'
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I thought I could use yesterday's Way to Use it Challenge to create a card for today's sketch. Boy…that was a tough one! Julia challenged us to use purple on our card! Purple? Really? I don't like purple…I wasn't even sure I had any purple Designer paper. I checked my stash and found a few sheets with purple in my Basic Grey Euphoria pack.
I recently received my first order of Bella stamps, but hadn't played with them yet. I picked the darling butterfly to try out first. It's just so adorable. I stamped it with Tuxedo Black Ink on Neenah cardstock, cut it out with Circle Nestabilities and colored it with Copic Markers (YG000, YGoo, YG21, YG23, YG25,RV02, RV04, Rv10, RV17, V15, V17). The image was then first layered on black cardstock, then on Purple Core'dinations cardstock. Stardust stickles was added to the pink dots and Tiny Twinkles on the bows on her antena.
I really like how my butterfly looks, but I am not so sure about the rest of the card. Oh well….I can't love all of my cards, right?
The Core'dinations card base measures 4″ x 12″ and was folded it half. A 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Euphoria Paper was adhered to a 3 11/16″ x 5 11/16″ piece of Black cardstock and sewn together. The two wider strips measure 3/4″ x 4 3/4″, the smaller one 1/2″ x 4 3/4″. The thinner strip has a layer of punched black cardstock underneath (EK Success border punch). I had these layer originally like the sketch, but the black border looked better on the right, so I switched it around.
To finish off the card I added three Kaiser Rhinestones on the top left and a bow out of May Arts Polka dotted organdy ribbon underneath the butterfly.
I will have to try again to come up with a better card for the sketch. Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles
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This card is very different from your usual style – different, but still absolutely gorgeous!
I don't like purple either.
You are too funny! You and purple! LOL Well, your card is adorable…especially in purple! 🙂
I love purple, it is my favorite color!! I love your coloring and shading on all your cards. Looks great!
Very sweet little butterfly, Beate — love her in pink & purple! Love that punch, too (have it, need to use it!). Thanks for the inspiring sketch – hope you have a lovely Halloween!
You and purple… you are so funny! I love this Beate! That butterfly is adorable. Sorry I was late today. 🙂
Oh, I love how you used the purple on your card Beate. I think that butterfly is super cute as well.
Thanks for another wonderful sketch.
Have a great weekend.
Oh what a fun sketch, and such an adorable card, Beate!! Love your spooning around your image!!
I love the card beate and my fav color is purple and red.
Hi Beate,
I agree, purple is a difficult color.
But you did a great job!
I love the way you combined purple with apple green and a snif of pink.
Infact purple and red can be an exciting combo as well.
Have a great day!
this is darling! off to give the sketch a go! I love your purple here, very nice!
The butterfly is so cute!!
LOL, you and your purple phobia 😉 You always make great cards with it though!!
That butterfly is so stinkin' cute!!
This is ADORABLE, Beate. . and you didn't fabulously using a color you don't like! 🙂
That is soo cute, and colored beautifully!! I love the sewing and border too!! You've done well…purple and all!! 😉
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Steve Howe has premiered a highly affecting video for his collaborative track 'Leaving Aurora' with his late son Virgil.
Virgil, who was Steve's youngest son, unexpectedly passed away aged 41 in September and Yes immediately cancelled the remaining dates of their US Yestival Tour.
Virgil and Steve's collaborative album 'Nexus' had just been completed prior to the Yestival Tour and last month Steve released a statement saying he was pressing ahead with releasing the album in the "hope that the music just completed will stand as a fitting tribute to (Virgil's) life and legacy."
Premiered today (14th November), the promotional video for album track 'Leaving Aurora' sees Steve perform the instrumental song on an acoustic guitar while photos and videos of Virgil appear on the screen. The video then ends with the words 'In Loving Memory of Virgil Howe'.
'Nexus' saw Steve play all acoustic, electric & steel guitars while multi-instrumentalist Virgil took care of bass, drums and all keys.
According to InsideOutMusic, the results of the father and son joining musical forces are 'beautiful, diverse compositions varying between neoclassical elements, dreamy jazz, straight forward grooves, and cinematic, spacey themes.'
The album isn't the first time Virgil and Steve created music together. Virgil performed keyboards and backing vocals on a number of his dad's solo albums including 1993's 'The Grand Scheme of Things', 2003's 'Elements', 2005's 'Spectrum' and 2011's 'Time'.
Virgil was also a member of the indie-rock band Little Barrie for the past decade and released three studio albums with them. In January 2015, they wrote and performed the theme tune to Netflix's Breaking Bad spin-off show Better Call Saul.
'Nexus' is released as a special edition CD digipak, Black 180g LP + CD and Digital Download on Friday 17th November 2017. Adding extra poignancy to the release, the vibrant artwork was created by Virgil's five-year-old daughter Zuni.
The track-listing is as follows:
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4. Nick's Star (03:41)
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It is on my list but I haven't purchased one yet. I don't see their decorated version on the website, how much more does it cost?


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Lion King. The number of lives it has helped shape, we can only begin to wonder. It is a story of life given and taken, love gained and lost, and probably some other important themes as well … Like the importance of friendship or how to rise up through an hierarchical system clandestinely designed to keep us down while further empowering the man. Indeed, things of that nature.
Sir Elton saw the marketing circle of life for what it is … and what it will be.
But most importantly, it is a story about marketing. Namely, how with changing times come new challenges, and that we as marketers must accept that the bread-and-butter methods older generations found appealing for so long may not appeal to the technological appetites and information consumption habits of future consumers.
This sentiment is echoed in the opening lyrics of the memorable Elton John smash hit "Circle of Life." The opening lyrics "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba" literally translate to mean, "What was once wise strategy will no longer be wise, so listen to your children for they hold the key to the marketing triumphs of tomorrow, Baba."
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Then, just after midnight on Friday, fantasy became nightmare, and a place of escape became a trap, when a man strode to the front in a multiplex near
"It was just chaos. You started hearing screaming. You looked up and people were falling. It was like a dream," said Jamie Rohrs, 25, who was there with his fiancée, cradling his 4-month-old son, Ethan, in his arms as the movie began. It was the midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises," the latest Batman sequel, at the Century 16 multiplex in Aurora, about 10 miles from downtown Denver.
Mr. Rohrs jumped between the seats for cover, still holding the baby. He stumbled and crawled trying to figure out what to do, clutching his son to his chest as he went. "Do I run out the door? Is he going to shoot the baby? What am I to do?" Mr. Rohrs said, his voice quavering. But he, his fiancée and the baby eventually made it out.
And so once again, with a squeeze of a trigger, just 20 miles from
Luke O'Dell of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a Colorado group on the other side of the debate over gun control, took a nearly opposite view. "Potentially, if there had been a law-abiding citizen who had been able to carry in the theater, it's possible the death toll would have been less."
Some survivors thought at first they were witnessing a promotional stunt. The gunman, wearing what Aurora Police Department officials described as nearly head-to-toe "ballistic gear," including a throat protector and leggings, plus a gas mask and a long black coat, came in through a parking lot exit door near the screen of Theater 9.
"He walked in so casually," said a witness,
Witnesses told the police that Mr. Holmes said something to the effect of "I am the Joker," according to a federal law enforcement official, and that his hair had been dyed or he was wearing a wig. Then, as people began to rise from their seats in confusion or anxiety, he began to shoot. The gunman paused at least once, several witnesses said, perhaps to reload, and continued firing.
Mr. Holmes was detained by the police soon afterward, standing by his white
In the last 60 days Mr. Holmes had purchased four guns at local gun shops, Chief Oates said. And through the Internet, he bought more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition: more than 3,000 rounds for the assault rifle, 3,000 rounds of .40 caliber ammunition for the two Glocks, and 300 rounds for the 12-gauge shotgun. The guns were all bought legally, a federal law enforcement official said.
Mr. Holmes also purchased online multiple magazines for the assault rifle, including one 100-round drum magazine. "With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute," Chief Oates said.
The Federal
After the chaos — the evacuation, the rush of 911 calls beginning at 12:39 a.m., the mass casualties rushed to area hospitals, the images that witnesses described to authorities of dead or dying friends or loved ones left inside — the emerging details got more mysterious and in some ways more horrifying still.
"Our investigation determined his apartment is booby trapped with various incendiary and chemical devices and apparent trip wires," Chief Oates said around midday Friday. "We have an active and difficult scene. It may be resolved in hours or days. We simply don't know how we're going to handle that." Federal law enforcement officials said that the apartment had been so extensively booby-trapped that the devices could not be safely defused and that a robot would be sent to trigger them. Late Friday, the dozens of residents in five apartment buildings in the area remained evacuated.
"It is a very vexing problem how to enter that apartment safely," Chief Oates said. "Personally I've never seen anything like what the pictures show us is in there. I'm a layman when it comes to bomb stuff. I see an awful lot of wires. Trip wires. Jars full of ammunition. Jars full of liquid. Some things that look like mortar rounds. We have a lot of challenges to get in there safely."
In the suspect's neighborhood of low-slung, red-brick apartment buildings and dusty lots, not far from Children's Hospital
"I think this is a lot like Columbine," said Jennifer Evans, who lives near Mr. Holmes's apartment. "This is crazy."
At one point, as shirtless children played in an overgrown front yard and
Whether a violent movie had inspired violence in real life, or was merely the coincidental setting, police authorities in some other cities, including New York, said they were taking no chances and had increased security at theaters showing the movie.
Warner Bros., which is owned by
The shooting inevitably stirred memories of Columbine High School and the murders there in April 1999, when two heavily armed students stalked through the hallways, killing 12 students and a teacher as they went, before shooting themselves.
And the psychological echo and the similar feel of the two massacres was palpable: Theater 9 was a place of seeming safety, if not sanctuary, not unlike Columbine's library, where some of the killings occurred. Both were ordinary settings that became death traps.
Mr. Holmes seemed ordinary too, for the most part, said Billy Kromka, a premed student at the University of Colorado,
"There was no way I thought he could have the capacity to commit an atrocity like this," said Mr. Kromka, who is from Aurora. Mr. Kromka said that Mr. Holmes's "disposition was a little off" and that he could be socially awkward, one of the quieter people in the lab. He spent much of his time immersed in his computer, often participating in role-playing online games.
His criminal history with the Aurora Police Department consisted before Friday of one traffic summons, for speeding, in October.
A spokeswoman for the University of Colorado Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus, Jackie Brinkman, said Mr. Holmes was in the process of dropping out of school because of academic problems. She said the university was unaware of any incidents with campus police or disciplinary problems involving Mr. Holmes while he was enrolled.
Mr. Holmes grew up in a quiet, middle-class community at the eastern edge of
One neighbor, Margie Aguilar, said she knew the Holmes family, who she said had lived in the area for at least 10 years. Her son was a little younger than Mr. Holmes and attended the same high school, Westview, which is just up the street.
"The parents are really, really nice people," Ms. Aguilar said. "This is the last thing you'd expect."
One of the victims, Jessica Ghawi, was a 25-year-old college student and sports broadcaster active on Twitter under the name Jessica Redfield — a tribute to her red hair. She posted early Friday that she was at the movie screening after convincing a friend to go with her.
Her brother, Jordan Ghawi, said in a blog post on Friday that when the gunfire began, Jessica took two rounds. "My sister took one round followed by an additional round which appeared to strike her in the head," he wrote.
Her last tweet said the movie would start in 20 minutes.
Just a little more than a month ago, Ms. Ghawi described how she narrowly escaped a shooting rampage at a Toronto shopping mall on June 2. She had been in the food court. Her receipt showed that she made her purchase at 6:20 p.m. before what she said was an "odd feeling" propelled her to step outside.
The shots in Toronto rang out in the food court striking seven people about 6:23 p.m., she recalled. "It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting," she wrote on her blog.Continue reading the main story


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Hey Rob,
In the article "Bomber Foundation" (Aug. '09), if you had chosen a '76 Chevelle that had a V-8 in it you wouldn't have needed to notch the frame. You didn't say anything about lowering or relocating the engine. Don't the rules for Hobby Stock usually say stock location with no engine setback?
Great magazine,
First off, glad you enjoy the mag. Hobby Stock rules often say stock location for the motor, but Frank's Enduro rules allow you to relocate the motor. His rules state that the front spark plug has to be in centerline with the upper ball joints. Therefore, the motor can be moved back and down. In order to accomplish this, the frame had to be notched to accommodate the fuel pump. Our apologies, we should have noted that in the story.
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For years now I have been thumbing through issues of your magazine, but about six months ago I subscribed. I love what you guys do and I thank you for your help and ideas. However, my family runs a cheaper class in the Midwest that we call Hornets, stock four-cylinder fwd cars. We may not be the most expensive cars on the track but here in the Midwest we far outnumber the other classes. On any given Saturday we will bring in 25-50 cars in our class. We would love to host a Circle Track representative at our track and maybe get a write up about us. You would help us out and show people what we are doing. Hey, maybe you could start a one-page section devoted to fwd in your magazine. I know your sales would sky rocket. I hope to hear back from someone soon.
Charles Martin, No. 7x
Those four-cylinder fwd classes are certainly the backbone of numerous short tracks around the country. And a story on them may not be such a bad idea at all. So how 'bout it readers? Shoot Editor Rob an email at email@example.com and let us know that we should give you four-bangers a shot at being in the #1 Source for Advanced Racing Technology.
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Your information about "How Obama Will Kill Racing" is slightly skewed. The reason is that cars that are older than 25 years will not be eligible for the Cash For Clunkers Program. Also, they have to be in a "driveable" condition. Any car with a model year prior to 1984 can't be used for the program, thus leaving those precious, hard-to-find 1970s chassis in peoples' garages or driveways.
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Right you are! Unfortunately, when I wrote the column, Cash for Clunkers, or C.A.R.S., was still a bill that had not yet been signed into law. Through the tireless work of SEMA and the SEMA Action Network, the bill that got signed into law was different (and more restrictive) than the original version on which I had based my column.
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Do the Toyotas, and so on have a foreign engine or a USA engine? Please advise me.
Thank you,
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That depends on how you look at it. Toyota is, of course, a Japanese company, but the engines developed for NASCAR, USAC, and NHRA are, to our knowledge, completely built in the USA. So, take your pick.
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