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Labor Day Weekend 2017 NYC event guide
Where did the summer go? We know it's not officially autumn until September 22 but Labor Day Weekend marks the spiritual end of summer. (After that it's back to school, back to the grind and take those sweaters out of storage.) While holiday weekends are are never the biggest time for shows, there's always something worth checking out in NYC and we've rounded up the live music highlights from Thursday through Labor Day. There's also Philadelphia's Made in America Festival this weekend, which isn't too far away from NYC with Jay-Z, Solange and more. Hopefully you can squeeze in one more trip to the beach (maybe with live music…see below) and backyard BBQ, too. Our picks for Labor Day Weekend shows are below. Have a great and safe (and relaxing) holiday, whatever you end up doing.
Jawbreaker documentary screening and Q&A @ Nitehawk Cinema
Jawbreaker are finally reunited for their first shows in 21 years, having recently played a tiny secret gig in California ahead of September's Riot Fest. Along with the reunion comes the release of the new documentary Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker, which features interviews with Billie Joe Armstrong, Steve Albini, Jessica Hopper, Graham Elliot, Chris Shifflet, Josh Caterer and more. The film made its premiere in San Francisco earlier this month, and it screens in NYC on Thursday, as part of the BrooklynVegan-presented Music Driven signature film series at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg. The film starts at 9:30 PM, and it's followed by a Q&A with Jawbreaker frontman Blake Schwarzenbach. Stick around directly after the Q&A for the afterparty in Nitehawk's downstairs bar Lo Res, where BrooklynVegan editor Andrew Sacher will DJ an hour of punk and emo (from about 11:15 PM to 12:15 AM).
Little Dragon, Xavier Omär @ The Apollo
Sweden's Little Dragon have been spending their summer dazzling fans at festivals around the world in support of their very enjoyable new album, Season High. Having just played Terminal 5, and ahead of weekend appearances at MoMA PS1's Warm Up finale and Philly's Made in America Festival, they play this historic Harlem venue tonight.
The Nude Party, Max Pain & The Groovies, Ghost Funk Orchestra @ Baby's All Right
North Carolina's The Nude Party have been mixing garage, rockabilly and '60s British Invasion sounds into their own debaucherous mix for about four years now. They wrap up their August residency at Baby's tonight.
Helado Negro @ MoMA
The MoMA Nights series wraps up with perhaps its most interesting show: Brooklyn's Helado Negro (aka multi-disciplinary artist Roberto Carlos Lange) whose captivating live shows often incorporate visual art. Free with museum admission.
Omar Souleyman, Karikatura @ Brooklyn Bowl
Syria's Omar Souleyman has a super-fun, danceable, and unforgettable live show, that you just have to see to fully believe. His music combines Syrian Dabke music with more Western electronic sounds, and this year's To Syria With Love (released on Diplo's Mad Decent label) is even more heavy on techno than his previous works. UPDATE: Cancelled due to visa issues. Bummer!
Madball, Maximum Penalty, Free, Rare Form, Mad Diesel @ Brooklyn Bazaar
NYHC greats Madball have been at it since the late '80s and their approach remains the same. (Their latest album is called Hardcore Lives, which should give you an idea of how much these guys stick to their roots.) Their live shows haven't lost one bit of aggression or crowd participation — seeing them at a place like Brooklyn Bazaar (small room, low stage, no barrier) should be perfect. Making this bill even better is direct support from another great NYHC band, Maximum Penalty.
Electric Zoo (FRI, SAT & SUN)
This weekend, Randall's Island hosts major EDM festival Electric Zoo, one of NYC's biggest Labor Day musical events. Among the lineup is DJ Snake (whose Coachella set this year included a surprise Lauryn Hill appearance), Zedd, Sasha & John Digweed, Paul Kalkbrenner, Tchami, Claude VonStroke, The Black Madonna, Dixon, a collaborative set from deadmau5 & Eric Prydz, and more. Be prepared for colorful outfits and light shows, and nonstop dancing.
Twerps (solo), Free Time, Lionlimb @ Baby's All Right
Marty Frawley, frontman for Australia's Twerps, has been hanging in Brooklyn for much of the summer (skipping out on the Australian winter) and is playing a solo show tonight with an ad-hoc backing band. Hopefully he'll play some songs off the band's forthcoming album for Merge. Also on the bill: Aussie ex-pats Free Time.
Guided by Voices @ House of Independents (Asbury Park)
It's hard to believe (or maybe it isn't) that Robert Pollard has put out over 100 records and doesn't seem to be slowing down — we've gotten two GBV records this year already. The current lineup of the band, featuring Doug Gillard and Bobby Bare Jr, is excellent, and Bob can still swing the mic and karate kick like the best of them.
DJ Tunez, Little Dragon, DJ Lag, LSDXOXO, Odwalla1221, Debit @ MoMA PS1 (Warm Up)
It's not summer in NYC without Warm Up, the dance party under the sun that takes place every Saturday in MoMA PS1's courtyard. Warm Up 2017 has been a great season, and that season goes out with a bang today. The main attraction for many is alt-pop lifers Little Dragon, who also play much larger NYC shows at Terminal 5 and The Apollo this week, but it's Warm Up, so there are of course a handful of great DJs to keep everyone dancing too. Might we recommend catching LSDXOXO?
Venom Inc, Goatwhore, Toxic Holocaust, The Convalescence @ Gramercy Theatre
Extreme metal as we know it wouldn't exist without Venom, whose early works like Welcome to Hell and Black Metal paved the path for a handful of metal subgenres. Venom Inc is the version of Venom with Mantas and Abaddon (but not Cronos), and they're promising a "brand new set" for this tour. With quality openers like Goatwhore and Toxic Holocaust, this should be a great night.
Neon Indian, Mira Fahrenheit, Love Tempo @ Good Room
It's been a couple years since Neon Indian released a new album, but main man Alan Palomo Jr maintains a public profile via DJ gigs where he spins his influences and current music too.
Weeping Icon, Giggly Boys, The Seminals, Dethmelt @ Rippers
If you're hoping to get in one more trip to the beach and and want to see some music as well, this show at Rockaways staple Rippers is a good bet, featuring a lineup of dark-hued postpunk. Free, 4 PM.
Robyn Hitchcock, Kevin Barker @ Baby's All Right
Having made superior, eccentric pop since the late '70s, Robyn Hitchcock remains a talent today, and there's just nobody else like him. He's still going strong, too, having released his excellent 21st studio album earlier this year. Few artists spin stories as well as Robyn, making the between-song banter as much of a treat as his many great songs.
Diablo Fest w/ Burn, Show Me the Body, Goretex, Ninjasonik, Ache, Man Without Plan, Black Punk, The Bad Racket @ Brooklyn Bazaar
NYHC staple Danny Diablo throws his Diablo Fest today, and the lineup is great as always. The headliners are reunited NYHC greats Burn, who are about to release their first album in 16 years (on Converge frontman J Bannon's Deathwish label, produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou). Burn's 1990 debut EP helped shape '90s post-hardcore as we know it, and the singles from the new album have all been pretty crushing, so this is very exciting. The lineup also includes punk/rap maniacs Show Me the Body, Non Phixion's Goretex, underground rap duo Ninjasonik, NYHC newcomers Ache, long-running Brooklyn band Man Without Plan, punk-trap rapper Black Punk (aka Black Dave), and an act billed as The Bad Racket (who we can't find an online presence for but perhaps it's worth noting that's the name of a Lordz of Brooklyn song).
Shellshag, Tinkerbelles, Watergate, Kangaroo @ The Safari Room at El Cortez
Brooklyn duo Shellshag have been been exemplifiers of the DIY punk spirit for 20 years and their unique live show remains a thrill. Having the show at El Cortez, a pretty fun place to hang out with great food and frozen cocktails, makes it all the more appetizing.
Sunday also the finale of Twin Peaks: The Return, a series comeback that has turned out to be worth the 25 year wait. We can't even begin to guess what is going to happen though we'd bet Julee Cruise sings at the Roadhouse.
Yvette, Weeping Icon @ Baby's All Right (FREE SHOW)
Welcome fall with open arms at this double bill of dark, noisy post-punk featuring Weeping Icon (who have a great new EP on Kanine) and intense duo Yvette. Free with RSVP.
Charles Bradley @ The Surf Lodge
Charles Bradley's story never ceases to amaze. He started out making soul music in the 1960s, but he didn't record a proper album until 2011's No Time for Dreaming (Daptone Records), which started gaining him some real recognition. He makes the music he wanted to make this whole time — if you didn't know any better, you'd think Charles' records were lost albums from the early Motown era. Last year he released Changes, named for its title track which is a cover of the Black Sabbath song. Charles is no stranger to rock covers (his debut had Neil Young and Nirvana songs), and he always makes them sound like classic soul songs. If you're looking to spend part of your Labor Day Weekend in the Hamptons this year, the chance to see a free Charles Bradley show makes the trip seem that much more appealing.


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Editor's note: Shortly after this story posted, Grampa's Pizzeria owners made a further apology on their Facebook page, where they offered free pizza Thursday evening for mothers and their children. You can read more about that development here.
A breastfeeding mother dining at a new pizzeria in one of Madison's most progressive neighborhoods was asked to leave her table and move to an area free of customers, setting off a backlash against the owners that continues to spread on social media.
Gilbert Altschul, 30, the owner of Grampa's Pizzeria on Williamson Street, confirmed the incident occurred at the restaurant last week. He said the dining tables inside the restaurant are located close together and another patron complained after a woman began breastfeeding her child near their table.
Altschul said his fiance, who also works at the restaurant, approached the woman and offered her the front space of the pizzeria to use instead. He said they tried to explain to the mother that it is their job to "make everyone feel comfortable."
"Apparently in doing so we enraged the entire east side community," Altschul said Wednesday afternoon.
Altschul said the woman didn't take them up on the offer and left shortly afterwards.
"We are a new small business, and we are learning," said Altschul, who opened Grampa's Pizzeria at the former location of Grampa's Gun Shop at 1347 Williamson St. earlier this summer. "At the time, I thought we were handling it appropriately. Apparently in doing that we were shaming the woman."
People aren't taking news of the incident lightly. Several mothers have posted on Facebook that they will not visit the restaurant, while others are lambasting it for not being kid-friendly.
According to 2009 Wisconsin Act 148, or the right to breast-feed law that took effect in March 2010:
"A mother may breast-feed her child in any public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In such a location, no person may prohibit a mother from breast-feeding her child, direct a mother to move to a different location to breast-feed her child, direct a mother to cover her child or breast while breast-feeding, or otherwise restrict a mother from breast-feeding her child as provided in this section."
In other words, the restaurant patron who is uncomfortable should be asked to move, not the mother and child.
One woman referenced this right on a Facebook post:
"Breastfeeding in public is a protected right here in Wisconsin. If other patrons are bothered by a mother using her breasts as nature intended (feeding her baby) they do not have to watch her nurse. They can avert their eyes just as if someone was wearing a revealing top (male or female)."
Altschul's response via Grampa's Pizzeria's Facebook page read:
"Your message has been received through multiple phone calls and now on Facebook. Thank you for bringing this extremely important matter to our attention. We will take necessary action to correct the matter. No(w) please stop hassling us. Cheers."
Alison Dodge, the co-founder of Happy Bambino and a board member of the Breastfeeding Coalition of South Central Wisconsin, said she was meeting with Altschul to discuss the incident Wednesday afternoon.
"My sense is that this is just one of those unfortunate situations where the business owners didn't have all the information they needed," Dodge said Wednesday before her meeting with Grampa's Pizzeria. "They were probably just trying to serve good pizza and didn't know what hit them."
She said she will be giving Altschul a letter on behalf of the Breastfeeding Coalition that begins by saying it was "dismayed to learn" of the recent incident.
The letter includes a copy of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association News that advises restaurant owners to how to "protect the woman and baby's civil rights by offering guidance and information to the complainant."
Dodge remained optimistic that the pizzeria staff could be trained to handle a similar situation differently in the future.
"We wish you success in your new business endeavor and hope that Grampa's Pizzeria can become known as a restaurant that welcomes breastfeeding families," the letter said.
Altschul said he would likely post a statement addressing last week's incident on Facebook following his meeting with Dodge.
"We aren't bad people," he said prior to Wednesday's meeting. "We just want to make everyone happy."


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Tiger Woods relished the way his life had come "full circle" after celebrating his thrilling Masters victory with his children at Augusta National.
Woods famously embraced his late father Earl after winning his first Masters in 1997 and 22 years later he was the proud parent celebrating a fifth Green Jacket with son Charlie and daughter Sam.
"It's unreal for me to experience this," Woods said after a closing 70 gave him a one-shot victory, a 15th major title and his first since 2008.
"I couldn't be more happy and excited, I'm kind of at a loss for words.
"To have my kids there, it's come full circle. My dad was here in '97 and now I'm the dad with two kids there.
"My little boy Charlie, that embrace is just special. Sam lost a State soccer tournament yesterday so I convinced her to come up and watch the Masters and luckily I was able to win.
"They were there last year at the Open Championship when I had the lead on that back nine and I made a few mistakes, cost myself a chance to win The Open title.
"I wasn't going to let that happen to them twice so for them to see what it's like to have their dad win a major championship, I hope that's something they will never forget.
"Prior to my comeback they only knew that golf caused me a lot of pain. If I tried to swing a club I would be on the ground and I struggled for years, and that's basically all they remember."
Woods, who even suggested he might let his children take his green jacket to "show and tell" at school, had roared with delight after tapping in on the 18th green.
Just two years earlier he had needed a nerve blocker in order to attend the pre-tournament Champions Dinner and feared that his career was over.
"I'm a little hoarse I think from yelling," the 43-year-old added. "It's overwhelming because of what has transpired. Last year I was just lucky to be playing again, the previous dinner I was really struggling, I could barely walk.
"I missed a couple of years of this great tournament and to now be the champion… 22 years between wins (his first was in 1997) is a long time."
Woods started the day two shots behind Open champion Francesco Molinari and only took the outright lead for the first time with a birdie on the 15th.
After almost making a hole-in-one on the 16th, the tap-in birdie doubled his lead and Woods added: "I was just trying to plod my way around all day, all of a sudden I had the lead coming up 18 trying to make a (bogey) five.
"When I tapped in I don't know what I did, I just know I screamed, then I was looking for Joey (LaCava, his caddie) somewhere.
"You couldn't have had more drama than we all had out there, and now I know why I'm balding. This stuff is hard.
"It hasn't sunk in at all. It's going to take a little bit of time and I just can't wait to see how it all unfolded from the TV perspective, because I know I was grinding hard trying to chase Francesco today, and then all of a sudden the leaderboard flipped and there were a bunch of guys up there who had a chance to win.
"I hit some of the best shots on that back nine today. You know, I felt like I just flushed it coming home, which was a nice feeling."
Woods later thanked his supporters on Twitter, sharing a photograph of himself with the trophy and wearing the Green Jacket.
"I can't thank my family, friends and fans enough for their support," he tweeted.
"Having my family by my side today is something I will never forget. To not only be able to play again, but to be able to win again, is something I will forever be grateful for.
"This jacket sure is comfortable."


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The following Brethren are Past Senior Provincial Grand Wardens
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October 29, 2018
The threats to your network and your phone are increasing each and every year. According to the independent IT-security institute, AV Test, over 350,000 new malware programs are written every day! Over 125 million new malware applications were written in 2017 alone. While the cybersecurity industry does a great job identifying threats and providing tools …


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A Man's World is a collection of 20 profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Written over a 40-year period for publications including Esquire, Premiere, GQ, Time, Los Angeles, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the stories bring to life the famous (Harrison Ford), the brilliant (Robert Penn Warren), the tortured (Gregg Allman), and the unknown (Chris Leon, a 20-year-old Marine Corps corporal killed in the Iraq war).
Several of the articles are prize winners. "The Talented Mr. Raywood" won the City and Regional Magazine Association Award for best profile in an American city magazine. "Herschel Walker Doesn't Tap Out" won the Chicago Headline Club's Peter Lisagor Award for best magazine sports story. "Hollywood Fixer" won the Los Angeles Press Club Award for best magazine profile. "The Casualty of War" was a finalist for Columbia University's National Magazine Award.
Steve Oney is the author of And the Dead Shall Rise, winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. Oney was educated at the University of Georgia and at Harvard, where he was a Nieman Fellow. He lives in Los Angeles.
John Pruitt retired from his anchor chair at WSB at the end of 2010 after a career spanning 46 years of covering news in Georgia. John continues to work on special projects and political commentaries for WSB, and in 2014, he marked his 50th year in television journalism.
Admission for all lectures is $10 for public, $5 for members, and free to AHC Insiders unless otherwise noted. For more information, please visit atlantahistorycenter.com or call 404.814.4150.


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KALI VAN DER MERWE (b. Johannesburg 1964) re-named herself after the fierce Indian goddess of creation and destruction.
Kali's most recent exhibition 'After Life, an aperture on the mysteries life through the lens of death', was hosted at the historical Kings Map Room of Iziko South African Museum. This re-interpretation of the museum specimen guided by plays of imagination rather than organised by any systematic reason proved to be an extremely popular exhibition amongst adults and children alike. It garnered a number of positive reviews in the media and the exhibition was extended for a further 2 months at the museum for a total of 5 months.
Kali's formal education is grounded in a BAFA majoring in sculpture from Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town. Post formal study, she worked in the mediums of ceramics, printmaking and sculpture, exhibiting at galleries nationally and internationally, taking part in a group show at MOMA, Oxford.
Kali unpicked her formal art education living an experimental lifestyle in the former East Berlin in the early nineties. She began working with sound, filmed images, slides, photographs, light sculptures and serigraphs, collaborating with a number underground collectives of the time, creating installations in various cities including Amsterdam, Berlin and Zurich.
Returning to a democratic South Africa she extended her interest in filmmaking to make documentaries. Based in Cape Town, her work combined social issue filmmaking with creative social development and her collaborative documentaries won multiple local and international best film and jury awards at festivals over her 2 decade film career.
Eight years ago, a series of entheogen awakenings made it no longer possible to live in the noise and bustle of the city. Kali found creative refuge on a farm near the remote village of Baardskeerdersbos, in the Western Cape. In this rural space and silence, she embarked on an intense, three year series of archetypal, mythological, photographic self-portraits using 'light painting' as a transformative technique. During this time, she lost her eyesight and had it dramatically restored via cataract eye surgery. Extending the 'light painting' technique to fynbos, indigenous forests, wildlife and insects in her rural surroundings, Kali excels at making the real unreal.
Kali's exhibitions are environments of microcosmic and macrocosmic, macabre beauty displayed in multiple mediums appealing to all the senses including touch and smell. Kali views herself as a visual advocate on behalf of wild, fragile indigenous flora and fauna, encouraging people to observe, connect, and be immersed in sense of wonder.
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It's not every 29-year-old married dad who embarks on a cross-country road trip filled with partying, sex and loads of hallucinogens. But Ken Kesey wasn't your average 29-year-old when he masterminded this epic journey in 1964, having already authored the acclaimed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His memorable counterculture excursion is the subject of Magic Trip, a mind-bending documentary opening in Atlanta on Sept. 2.
Kesey may have been a renowned author by the time his 30th birthday approached, but his creative spirit had grown restless as he sensed a nation on the edge of cultural transition. The idyllic, homogenized '50s of hula hoops and picket fences still lingered, but it was mixing with more turbulent events such as the assassination of JFK, the Civil Rights movement and the threat of the Cold War. It was against this backdrop that Kesey, inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road, set out from California to attend the 1964 New York World's Fair.
This was no peaceful road trip in the family station wagon, though. For starters, Kesey recruited On the Road icon and nonstop chatterbox Neal Cassady. They were joined by a colorful cast of characters who became known as "The Merry Band of Pranksters," a co-ed crew whose members were to varying degrees interested in philosophizing, playing music, experimenting with drugs and getting naked. Their vehicle of choice? A 1930s school bus pimped out in an assortment of psychedelic colors.
While the trip may have been dripping in excess, Kesey was after more than mere hedonism. He wanted to capture the changing sprit of America, push the boundaries of the mind and spread goodwill to all—and he wanted to share these experience with others. So, he brought along movie cameras and sound gear to capture the trek, but the footage was so rough, so unwieldy, that it was never assembled into a feature-length film. Until now.
In Magic Trip, co-directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) have painstakingly overseen the restoration of Kesey's footage; pored through interviews, transcripts and notes from the participants; and assembled a 100-minute retelling of the journey.
Given the fragmented, unruly nature of the footage, Gibney and Ellwood employ many non-traditional documentary techniques in Magic Trip, blurring the line between fiction and reality in a way that Kesey likely would have approved. The move is framed by a fictional interviewer, voiced by Stanley Tucci, who asks "questions" of the participants, and the answers are often pieced together from third-party archival interviews or voiced by actors reading past transcripts of participants describing the trip.
Magic Trip's visual stylings ratchet up the surrealistic vibe. A segment re-enacting Kesey's first LSD experience while a research subject at UCLA is creatively illustrated, edited and scored to deliver a trippy viewing experience. Elsewhere, the raw footage itself is sufficiently bizarre, such as a clip from a Dupont World Fair song-and-dance number promising, "Better things / for better living / through chemistry."
Gibney and Ellwood provide just enough archival news footage to provide the necessary context, but Magic Trip's focus is on the bus trek itself, which serves as a fascinating slice of history.
But while the directors make a compelling case for Kesey's trip marking the true birth of the '60s, Magic Trip doesn't pass judgment on the counterculture movement itself, leaving the viewer to decide, for example, whether Kesey's declaration that the bus trip was his greatest legacy is a legitimate claim, sheer lunacy or both. Either way, this is one road trip you won't forget.
Grade: B+
"Magic Trip" opens in Atlanta on Sept. 2 at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.
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Resident of Monterey County for more than two decades, living in Salinas with
husband and two sons.
Serving as the current Assistant Auditor-Controller at the County of Monterey and a
licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in California for over 22 years, I have 30
years of experience in the field of Finance. I hold Bachelor's and Master's degrees in
Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting.
With lifelong passion for the profession, proudly served in the Government Accounting,
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In 18 years of service in the Auditor-Controller's Office, played an instrumental role
improving accountability and transparency, producing County's Annual Financial Report,
which has earned the highest award of Excellence in Financial Reporting for the past 12
years, improving County's credit rating. I led the successful implementation updating the
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Reliable Variable Frequency Drives
Class | Industrial Systems
May 15, 2019
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Clackamas Community College / PGE Corporate University Campus
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Wilsonville, OR 97070
Class descriptionYou want to use variable frequency drives (VFDs) because you know they can save considerable amounts of energy. However, you're concerned after hearing reports of production interruptions when they unexpectedly trip off-line or cause breakdowns leading to unplanned outages. Learn how you can take the risk out of VFD applications and provide more reliable operations for your facility.
This class will help you:
- Identify and avoid common problems associated with VFDs
- Recognize critical requirements for electric cables
- Address key factors that dictate the critical cable length
- Compare strategies for successful VFD operation
- Minimize potentially damaging effects of VFDs
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- Pump system operators and engineers
- Maintenance technicians and supervisors'
- Facility and energy managers
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Ron has over 25 years of engineering experience helping customers design, analyze, specify and optimize commercial and industrial energy systems. He is the senior DOE fan systems trainer, and provides industrial energy efficiency training worldwide for the United Nations.


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By Pheinixx Paul, Program Director, Graphic Design and Interactive Media
On Thursday, March 24 the Graphic Design and Interactive Media program at Toronto Film School hosted two special guests from the Directors Guild of Canada; Member Services Manager Ontario David Seymour and Arlene Lott. David and Arlene provided great insight into the role of graphic designers within the film/television industry as well as some clarity around career building.
We typically think of graphic design being limited to the marketing side of entertainment (posters, packaging, logos, advertising) but in reality, graphic design plays an extensive role in video production. Arlene dissected the structure of the Art Department for our students and listed the variety of roles that designers hold and the many ways designers can exist within a production. The number of opportunities is staggering; in motion graphics, designing GUI, branding, way-finding, props, set graphics, surface design, layout + document design, textiles – almost everything that we would design for a real-world company, we would design for a production to create the environment, establish the characters and progress the story.
Arlene shared some examples of the designs she has had to create, making special mention of how much GUI needs to be designed now since we are living in a device-centric era: David added to this with his experience working on the tv series Salvation – where there was so much footage needed of people scrolling on their devices and computers that a second shooting unit was set up to handle it all.
In their entertaining talk, stories about working on set and collaborating with various departments were dished out – the reality of 12 hour days, fast-paced workflow, tight deadlines, and 7 am call times (which really makes our 10 am classes a walk in the park) were balanced with jokes about designing fake id's and printing money. Our students were given an excellent overview of daily life in the graphics department and an understanding of the myriad of projects and pieces that would be asked for, ranging from the branding of a fictional coffeehouse to government file folders bursting with secrets to a futuristic social media app. In addition to the outline of the types of jobs and projects, Arlene shared a list of skills that are commonly required. On top of strong design fundamentals, designers are expected to know software tools like Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects and disciplines such as UI, identity, layout and web.
David outlined who the Guild is and their role within the industry, as well as providing some great advice with regards to breaking in (like the DGC intern program) and answered what is always the biggest question our students have "how do I find work?". The answer is promising in Toronto, where there are world-wide productions ongoing and plenty of work as an independent creative professional.
David and Arlene were generous with their time after our scheduled event, continuing to answer student questions in the hallway. An engaging and enlightening presentation that went a long way to provide insight into how our graduates can begin their design career within film and television.
About Arlene Lott
Raised on the set of the Degrassi Television series as a child actor, Arlene turned her passion for performance into studying Theatre at York University. While completing her BFAH, she transitioned from a focus on acting to one of production and design. Returning to film to work in an Art Department has combined those passions and skills. After over 22 years as a member in the Directors Guild of Canada, Arlene has worked on a wide range of CSA and Emmy-nominated Feature Film and Television projects as a 1st Assistant Art Director, specializing in Graphics.
About David Seymour
David Seymour has been a member of the DGC for 10 years and has worked as a 3rd AD for the past five. In addition to his film work, David has also published two books of poetry, Inter Alia (Brick Books, 2005), and For Display Purposes Only (Coach House Books, 2013). He has taught creative writing seminars and workshops at nationwide literary festivals as well as several academic institutions, including the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. In the past three years, he has also helped develop and teach courses at the DGC for both incoming and current DGC members.


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Fred Astaire
1932; #1 on the Billboard chart
An American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor.
Dancer, actor, US
American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor.
Nebraska. 1899-1987. American dancer and actor
James Cagney got the part
Dick Van Dyke got the part
1952 - inducted in 1999
1935 - inducted in 2000
1936 - inducted in 1998
1937; peaked at #5 on the Billboard chart
1938; #1 on the Billboard chart; nominated for Oscar for "Carefree"
1937; #1 on the Billboard chart; highest ranked version
The Beloved
Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, 1950
Actor, dancer, 1899-1987
1936; #1 on the Billboard chart
1937; nominated for Oscar for "Shall We Dance"
1932 - inducted in 2004
1937 - inducted in 2005
1935 - inducted in 2008
Russian American dancer, choreographer and actor
Director: Mark Sandrich. Also starred Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan & Ketti Gallian. Plot: A budding romance between a ballet master and a tap dancer becomes complicated when rumours surface that they're already married.
This was MGM's highest grossing film of 1948. The shedding feathered gown worn by Judy Garland when she dances with Fred Astaire in one number is an inside joke reference to Ginger Rogers' problematic gown dancing with Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1935). An ostrich feather broke loose from Ginger Rogers' elaborate gown and stubbornly floated in mid air around Astaire's face.
Director: Mark Sandrich. Also starred Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes & Eric Blore. Plot: Mimi Glossop (Rogers)divorce so her Aunt Hortense (Brady) hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity.... Won an Oscar
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I am powerless against the lure of fall candles.
Over the past few weeks I've been stockpiling autumnal scents (which I classify as anything spice or warmth or pie related) like they're going out of style. Which, technically, they are. I mean, there's only a 5-6 month window in which to burn them, and the peak of the season has almost arrived!
Among the chosen:
- Pumpkin Buttercream
- Creamy Pumpkin
- Autumn Leaves
- Apple Cider
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Caramel Apple
- Orchard Pear
- Be Thankful
- Apple Pumpkin
- Farmer's Market
- Caramel Popcorn
- S'mores
- Mountain Berry
- Kitchen Spice
- Cinnamon Roll
- And Buttery Cinnamon Roll…courtesy of Miss Paula Deen herself.
If you see me at Yankee Candle again before November…drag me out. (The kicking and screaming part should go without saying.)


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What is Babesiosis ?
Babesiosis is an intraerythrocytic parasitic infection caused by protozoa of the genus Babesia and transmitted through the bite of the Ixodes tick, the same vector responsible for transmission of Lyme disease.The Ixodid ticks ingest Babesia during feeding from the host, multiply the protozoa in their gut wall, and concentrate it in their salivary glands. Babesiosis is a zoonotic disease maintained by the interaction of tick vectors, transport hosts, and animal reservoirs. The primary vectors of the parasite are ticks of the genus Ixodes. In the United States, babesiosis is usually an asymptomatic infection in healthy individuals. Several groups of patients become symptomatic, and, within these subpopulations, significant morbidity and mortality occur. The disease most severely affects patients who are elderly, immunocompromised, or asplenic. Among those symptomatically infected, the mortality rate is 10% in the United States and 50% in Europe.


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It was Thanksgiving day back in 2002. I was only 23 years old and my life forever changed on that day. I had a placental abruption and Brendan was born at 33 weeks. He lost oxygen during delivery due to incompetent care but was a fighter and turned 17 this year. My journey in life over the past 17 years took many turns I was not expecting but I try to stay strong and have my husband by my side even when I am not.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
PERCS on Tuesday!!
Think of us, wish us luck and pray if you do. I will update afterwards.
4 comments:
- Sheila said...
Good luck! I'm sure it's gonna be great for him! I can't wait for the update!
- April 17, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- jenny said...
Good luck Bren stay stron steph. I am praying for him to have a good surgery and sa speedy recovery
- April 19, 2011 at 6:05 PM
- Amy said...
I am sorry that I missed this one. I have been out of town. I hope the PERCs went great! I cannot wait to see how it helps him!
- April 21, 2011 at 7:19 PM
- April said...
Another one... but I've no doubt he came out fine.
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Question about Jenn-Air JCD2389G Side by Side Refrigerator
Hello Catriver:
I have another issue that I could some help on. By the way, I appreciate your help on the other items in the past.
I have a Jenn-Air side by side refrigerator that does not cool well on the refrigerator side. I have at least tracked down the issue to the evaporator coils on the freezer side. They are not defrosting. I'm dragging out the hair dryer about once a week, and it's time for a real fix.
I've read other comments about similiar issues with the same model. I've tested the continuity on the heater coil and it appears that it does NOT close the loop. I can not get a "zero" reading when plugging the ohm meter into the snap plug for the heater. It reads something like .02 and never zero regardless which wires I attach to. Now if that doesn't confuse me enough, there is a routine clicking noise coming from the refrigerator cabinet at or very near the adaptive defrost control. I'm real confused and could use some direction before I start buying parts.
Thanks in advance for any direction.
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Thanks Catriver, I'll give that a try on Friday and report back.
Hey Catriver,
Is there a trick to removing the control panel cover? It seems to be binding on the styrofoam vent coming from the freezer compartment. Do I need to remove anything from the other isde to get this thing off? I hate to force it, I know it will break easy. Thanks in advance for your help.
Thanks Catriver, I'll report back soon.
Catriver, I replaced the Adaptive Defrost Timer and I think it's working. I'll know in a couple of days. Thanks for your help!!
To all reading this post. Jenn-Air was willing to pay for the Adaptive Defrost Timer, however you were required to hire an authorized repair agent. I opted to repair it myself. If you can not make that repair, call Jenn Air and at least have them pay for the part.
Hi Tom, I think the clicking you are hearing is the board jumping into and out of defrost. You can test it your self by shorting L1 to test on the board. If it goes into defrost and jumps right back out (another click) it's probably the board. Unplug the harness and measure the continuity between 2 and 3 on the disconnect plug. On the Rx 1 scale you should read 20 to 40 ohms. If you have that the heater and T stat are ok. If not then go after the heater and T stat. The heater should ohm out at about 26.5 ohms. When you do the resistance checks on 2 and 3 make sure to unplug it from the board and have the power off. I believe it is a yellow and white/blk wire. Catriver
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Tom, in back there are two square holes that you can put a finger in on each side. Pull down at the rear in these holes and pull the panel straight out as you are pulling down. These can be a real beast. I have broken many in my time. You might try one side at a time until they release. Catriver.
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Tennis Australia Furious At Davis Cup Format Change
"Sad day for men's tennis."
'Radical changes' to the prestigious Davis Cup tournament have infuriated Tennis Australia, with legends of the game criticising the changes.
The changes to the 118-year-old tournament were approved at the International Tennis Federation AGM on Thursday, and needed two thirds of the 140 nations to agree.
Seventy-one per cent voted in favour -- Tennis Australia was not one of them.
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"Tennis Australia is extremely disappointed with the radical changes proposed for the Davis Cup," it said in a statement.
"Reform is vital for the competition but this proposal takes away too much of what makes the Davis Cup unique and special."
The format change was the brainchild of the investment group Kosmos -- founded by Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué. Kosmos will fund the $3.76 billion plan.
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Taking away the Davis Cup from the next generation is a "disgrace" said current Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt.
"Sometimes it's more than a game. More than money. Most of my biggest highs and toughest loses came in 5 set epic Davis Cup matches in front of screaming home or away fans," he said.
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The involvement of a soccer player in changing a tennis competition was slammed by Australian tennis players, who questioned what authority Piqué had.
"A footballer gets the stage at @ITF_Tennis AGM to tell us why @DavisCup needs to change but legends of the game of which there are many who disagree do not," tweeted Australian tennis legend Todd Woodbridge, who won the Davis Cup in 2003.
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Pat Cash also weighed in on the changes, calling it a "sad day for men's tennis."
"#ITF have voted for new format of #DavisCup (its no longer Davis Cup) Fooling themselves if they think top players will play a 18 team comp over 1 week at the end of the year????" he tweeted.
What Are The New Changes?
The current set-up of the tournament sees teams play home and away matches in a year-long tournament that culminates in a final match.
As of 2019, the Davis Cup will be played at the end of the year in a round-robin tournament played over a week.
To qualify, 24 teams will take part in home and away matches in February, of which 18 will go on to the finals.


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Two years ago, when the monthly rent on his two-bedroom apartment rose to $5,000 from $2,800, a 35-year-old real estate agent in Lower Manhattan had a quick fix. Rather than move, or take on some random Craigslist subletter, he listed the smaller bedroom on Airbnb, the vacation-rental website. Eventually he was charging $175 a night for short-term stays. It earned him enough to cover the astronomical rent increase, said the agent, who insisted on anonymity to avoid professional and legal consequences.
The founders of Airbnb heard lots of stories like this in 2009, during the height of the recession, when they traveled from Silicon Valley to New York to meet the early East Coast adopters of their new website. Paul Graham, the founder of the start-up incubator Y Combinator, which was Airbnb's first major backer, wrote in an email that the company was struck by ''how many of their users actually needed to do these rentals to pay their rents.''
But the agent's relationship with Airbnb soon shifted from desperation to opportunism. Realizing the potential to exploit the difference between long- and short-term rental prices, he signed a lease on a second Manhattan apartment this summer. He now uses it solely for Airbnb, generating up to $6,000 a month in profit. Last month, he added a third rental — this one under his wife's account. He plans to add more, he said, possibly even under phony accounts to avoid legal scrutiny.
According to the office of the New York State attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, almost half of Airbnb's $1.45 million in 2010 revenue in the city came from hosts who had at least three listings on the site. There were only 119 of these users, a small minority, claiming a large share of the business. Schneiderman suspects that many hosts are violating a law that forbids apartment residents from renting out their place for less than 30 days if they are not present.
The so-called sharing economy is supposed to offer a new kind of capitalism, one where regular folks, enabled by efficient online platforms, can turn their fallow assets into cash machines. According to its fans, Airbnb, along with the car-sharing company Uber, and others, is leading us into a less wasteful, more virtuous future. In it, anyone with excess time or space — or a car and a driver's license — can easily become an entrepreneur with little to no start-up costs. But the reality is that these markets also tend to attract a class of well-heeled professional operators, who outperform the amateurs — just like the rest of the economy.
Long before Airbnb, there was eBay. The auction site, founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, had plenty of skeptics at first, who saw it as little more than a glorified garage sale. But the key to eBay's early success — and what helped it weather the dot-com crash — was its power sellers, those who made their living selling brand-new printer cartridges, mint-condition Beanie Babies and the like on the platform. The company embraced these users and made sure customers knew who they were.
The success of eBay spawned many imitators. Prosper Marketplace, which started in 2006, was described in the media as an ''eBay of loans.'' The site allowed individuals to borrow money directly from other people online, at an interest rate that was lower than borrowers might pay on credit-card debt but high enough to give lenders a decent return. The venture even had backing from Omidyar, who invested through his philanthropic fund.
But Prosper, like eBay, came to rely on large players. Today, according to the company, two-thirds of the lenders on the site are hedge funds and other large financial institutions. These investors helped the platform issue $177 million in loans last month alone, three and a half times more than in October 2013.
''There's a certain amount of liquidity that these large sellers inject into a marketplace that can be very helpful for the marketplace to grow rapidly,'' Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business who studies the sharing economy, told me. The competition should also help drive down costs, which helps consumers. But these marketplaces, he added, must ''balance the short-term accelerating their growth while also maintaining the quality, and in some sense staying true to what their consumers are looking for'' — which might be freedom from big banks, or the stultifying sterility of budget hotels.
Still, commercial operators seem to appear wherever the opportunity arises. Juliet Schor, a sociology professor at Boston College who is studying the sharing economy for the MacArthur Foundation, said she discovered evidence of ad-hoc temp agencies on TaskRabbit, an online market for farming out errands and chores. For gigs like copy-editing or proofreading, she said, people who rate highly on the site and get a large volume of requests sometimes subcontract their work to others, taking a bit off the top for themselves.
Getting ahead on Airbnb is much more simple: just sign multiple leases in desirable locations. Of course, that requires upfront investment and financial savvy. But once it's up and running, an Airbnb rental network can become seriously lucrative. One operation of 272 listings booked $6.8 million in revenue from 2010 through June of this year, according to the attorney general. The economic forces at play are similar to what the French economist Thomas Piketty discusses in his recent blockbuster book, ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century,'' only in miniature. In a slow-growth economy, Piketty argues, wealth delivers better returns than labor, so those with wealth to invest in things (like, for example, rent-earning apartments) will tend to get wealthier; those without probably won't. Listing a spare room on Airbnb might keep you current on your always-climbing Manhattan rent, but real entrepreneurship (as always) requires real dough.
As Schneiderman has put pressure on Airbnb, large operations have been disappearing from the site. But it still derives about one-third of its revenue in New York from users with three or more listings. And these Airbnb pros have taken up arms. Another New Yorker, a 49-year-old entrepreneur (who also insisted on anonymity), got his start on the site after shareholders pushed him out of the information technology company he had founded, leaving him without a source of income. ''I would have been dead,'' he said.
But after renting out his apartment on Craigslist and through word of mouth, he signed up for Airbnb in early 2011, with a plan to make short-term rentals his full-time job. He signed leases on former factory spaces in Lower Manhattan, renovating them and listing them on Airbnb. At his peak, he said, he managed 12 listings and hired a team of cleaners, greeters and handymen to keep his scatter-site hotel operating. His relationship with Airbnb, however, turned sour when Schneiderman sought data from the company about operators like him.
Now, he is leading a group of users suing Airbnb to prevent it from handing over the information. The group's name embodies that vast gulf between Airbnb's radical promise and its reality: New Yorkers Trying to Make Ends Meet in the Sharing Economy.
And who would want to stop a man with 12 apartments from making ends meet?


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Gingivitis is due to the long-term effects of plaque deposits on your teeth. Plaque is a sticky material made of bacteria, mucus, and food debris that develops on the exposed parts of the teeth. It is a major cause of tooth decay.
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There's a lot more to hemp's history (and future!) than you may know. We'd like to share some of the stories of the courageous pioneers, visionaries, innovators, activists and others that stood up to help make American hemp a reality! Today, we're going to share the story of Alex White Plume, and his determination in the face of adversity.
In 1998, the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance allowing the cultivation of industrial hemp in Pine Ridge. Since then, it hasn't been easy, but their love and dedication is making waves. After a promising start to their hemp farm and the creation of much-needed jobs in their community, in 2000 the DEA violated the Sioux Treaty of 1868 by illegally entering their land and taking away their hemp crops. In one moment, their blossoming economy was crushed. A federal injunction was put on their family, to never grow hemp again.
When the Farm Bill was put into law, it did not include any Native American communities in the conversations or in the ability to participate in the program. Alex White Plume isn't going to throw in the towel, though. He is still hopeful that the future can be brighter than the past, and believes that there is still much to look forward to in the world of hemp. If we've learned anything in life, it's that his kind of persistence is just what we need in order to make hemp available to everyone.
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When you are syncing local Active Directory groups to Microsoft Office365 using Azure AD Connect, you can hide groups from Outlook's Global Address List (GAL) by setting "Hide group from Exchange address lists". This is the same as setting the attribute msExchHideFromAddressLists to True.
This method works, but it requires that the Exchange schema is added to your Active Directory. Without the Exchange schema, the msExchHideFromAddressLists attribute will not be available.
If you migrated all your mail servers out to O365, you probably prefer an Active Directory without the Exchange schema. If that's your situation, you are stuck; you either install the Exchange schema, or accept that synced groups can't be hidden in the GAL.
I recently came across this situation at a customer, but was able to solve this with some "Azure AD Connect trickery":
- This customer named its groups according to best practices, allowing me to filter visibility based on the group name. The client wanted its Global-Groups (GG_*) to be synced to O365, but they should not be visible in address lists.
- The solution was to add an additional transformation-expression to the inbound synchronization rule in Azure AD Connect. This expression sets the msExchHideFromAddressLists attribute, if the name of the group starts with "GG_".


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The Kissing Club
When on a visit to her friend Augusta in the USA, Megan, aged 14, joined 'the Kissing Club'; she 'became a professional virgin and also gave up telling lies', but she found the first part easier than the second. So, in her A-level year, how did she become pregnant without even a boyfriend around? Her parents go into denial about the whole thing, leaving her with little support apart from the rather geeky Corey, and having to do a lot of growing-up before the arrival of the baby.
An awful lot of 'issues' surface in Clarke's novel. Megan's parents are highly ambitious for themselves and their daughter; in particular her mother is obsessive about weight-control, her own and her daughter's. Megan's favourite teacher has his own problems, and for a while a teacher-from-hell thinks he might be the father of Megan's baby. Meanwhile, her Granny Blake who has a serious problem with drink and rackety living has a fall, necessitating a stay with Megan's family. A few other dramas surface along the way too, but the core of the book revolves around mother/daughter relationships: Megan's with her mother, and her mother's with her own mother. Resolution is achieved rather simply; would that all alcoholics could be dried out as relatively quickly as Granny Blake, and tense, over-achieving mothers be unwound by a few drinks and a spot of salsa dancing. Nevertheless, this is a decent attempt to write about an unexpected teen pregnancy, and a few other matters too, in a way that tries to explore different sides of a question in a non-judgemental way.


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The search for the 'original' Arthur has continued in the last fourteen years, and the literature, both online and offline, grows ever larger. With a little ingenuity, the famous list of battles in the Historia Brittonum attributed to Nennius can be made to fit any location one chooses. At one time or another Kent, East Anglia, the Midlands, Scotland and Wales have all been candidates – proof of nothing except that the pull of the legend is as strong as ever.
Most modern theories of Arthur are based on the principle of starting from a later source, whether Nennius or the Welsh genealogies or Geoffrey of Monmouth, and then arguing backwards towards Gildas and Mount Badon. As others have said before me, this is not a sound methodology – though it does make for good fiction!
One notable exception to this arguing backwards is the idea that Arthur has his origins in Lucius Artorius Castus, a Roman soldier of the late 2nd or early 3rd century. Everything known about the life of Artorius Castus comes from two Latin inscriptions found in Podstrana on the Dalmation coast. The inscriptions cannot be dated with any precision as they give no reference to any other historical figures and make no mention of any datable campaigns. Even their translation is not certain since they make extensive use of abbreviations with several possible interpretations, and they have both suffered damage so that crucial parts are either illegible or missing. The much vaunted expedition at the head of British troops to Armorica is based on guesswork. The more likely reading is that Artorius Castus led units who had once served in Britain against the Armenians. Descriptions of his campaigns in northern Britain are fantasy, not history.
The medieval legend of Arthur runs something like this:
Once upon a time there was a great British king or emperor. He defeated the Saxons, Picts and Scots who were in those days harassing Britain, and went on to conquer most of Western Europe. He and his queen, the beautiful Guinevere, ruled this empire from the splendour of his chief city, many towered Camelot, and during his reign there were peace and justice for all. Advised by the magician Merlin, he founded the Round Table, the fellowship of the bravest and boldest knights in all the world. Once the realm was at peace, these knights rode out to seek adventure, and the greatest of these adventures was the Quest of the Holy Grail.
But all ended in tragedy. Arthur's closest friend and champion, Lancelot, fell in love with Queen Guinevere. Too many of the knights did not return from the Grail Quest. The Queen's adultery led to civil war, and Arthur's bastard son and/or nephew Mordred seized both the Queen and the throne. In one last battle Arthur and the few surviving knights of the Round Table defeated Mordred, but Arthur himself was mortally wounded. He was carried away to Avalon to be healed, and he will return to save Britain in the hour of her deadliest danger.
This is the essence of the Matter of Britain, the great cycle of epic stories composed during the Middle Ages, a cycle which reached its finest flowering with Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
The most important single contribution to the evolution of the Matter of Britain was Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, which appeared in about 1138. It was Geoffrey who invented the prophetic magician Merlin by conflating two different characters from Welsh legend. It was Geoffrey who related the story of Arthur's conception at Tintagel; Geoffrey who stated that Mordred was Arthur's nephew; Geoffrey who said that after Camlann the mortally wounded Arthur was carried off to the Isle of Avalon 'that his wounds might be attended to'.
Later writers added or amplified incidents, or created new characters such as Lancelot and Galahad, but one can see the bare bones of the story in Geoffrey's account.
In creating his History Geoffrey drew upon a number of sources – including his own imagination! But one of his sources was Welsh tradition, an often contradictory body of legend. Meanwhile, across the Channel, others were drawing upon Breton tales to create their own version of the Arthurian story.
Much of this material is now lost, although enough has survived to show that there must once have been many variants. For example, Arthur did not always die in a final apocalyptic battle at Camlann. The Romanz des Franceis, by André, dating from the late 1100s, claims that Arthur was pushed into a bog by Capalu, a man in the shape of a monstrous cat, 'and the cat then killed him in war'. This Capalu is presumably a variant on Cath Baluc or Palug's Cat, which some say was slain by Cei.
John Rhys in Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx records a folk tradition current in Gwynedd during the nineteenth century. According to this Arthur and his men chased an enemy from Dinas Emrys in the direction of Snowdon. They were ambushed in a pass between Llyn Llydaw and the summit of Snowdon, and Arthur fell dead under a hail of arrows. The pass is known as Bwlch y Saethau, the Pass of Arrows. He was buried under a cairn where he fell, so that 'for as long as his dust rested there no enemy might march that way'. (Above Llyn Llydaw is a cave where his knights are supposed to lie.)
Wherever possible I have drawn upon those Welsh traditions which did not make their way into the legend as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth and Malory. At times the weight of the medieval version has been too much: I have, for example, kept Medraut as the villain of Camlann, though there is in fact nothing in the pre-Geoffrey sources to suggest Medraut was anything other than a paragon of valour and courtesy. Elsewhere I have returned to the older tales: thus Cei and Bedwyr are the most important of Arthur's Companions in the Welsh stories, and although later heroes displaced them they lingered on in European literature as Sir Kay and Sir Bedivere. Gwalchmei has an almost equally venerable pedigree, and for the other names of Arthur's Companions I have drawn upon the list in the Welsh legend of Culhwch and Olwen.
One major part of the legend I have inverted altogether: Gwenhwyvar the much abducted and unfaithful Queen. Here I have been influenced by the story of Rhiannon in the First Branch of the Mabinogi. This was set down in its present form in about 1060, but – like the Arthurian legend – embodies much older traditions. There is also a particularly obscure Welsh poem which may be a dialogue between Arthur, Gwenhwyvar and Melwas, that might – and I emphasize the might – support the interpretation I have put upon the legend.
The quest into the shadowy realms of the Western Isles is loosely based on the Welsh poem The Spoils of Annwn. This poem is also the origin of the tale told by Teleri at Caer Cadwy, and in both interpretations I have been influenced by the poet Robert Graves' The White Goddess.
Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380, and other religions were outlawed by 400. Gildas (of whom more later) seems to have believed that Christianity was universal in Britain prior to the coming of the Saxons. This is not true, either in Britain or indeed anywhere else in the empire, including Italy itself: despite the ban, pagan practices not only survived but flourished. In Gildas's own day the Church was in decline: its congregations were shrinking, its authority was diminishing, and its wealth was dwindling.
So, was there ever any such person as Arthur?
The simple answer is that we do not know, despite the vast amount of ink that has been expended on the subject.
If he lived at all, he lived during the fifth and sixth centuries. At that time the Roman diocese of Britannia was in the process of dying, and modern Britain composed of the three nations of England, Scotland and Wales was in the process of being born. Two of those nations owe their names and their existence to external invaders: England to the Germanic Anglo-Saxons from the east; Scotland to the Gaelic-speaking Celts from the west. Wales of course derives from the native British who remained unconquered in the mountains.
These two hundred years are the most obscure and infuriating in our history. Obscure because nothing is certain; infuriating because we can catch glimpses of names and personalities, yet no more than glimpses. In effect, this is a prehistoric period for which we have one contemporary written source, and in many ways that source has handicapped rather than eased its study. We do, however, know quite a lot about what later generations imagined had happened (and it is upon their beliefs and legends that I based the Albion trilogy).
During the fifth century the Roman Empire in the West collapsed. Rome herself fell to the Goths in 410, and for the sake of convenience we can assume that Britain ceased to be part of the Empire in that year. There is some evidence that the final break actually came from Britain rather than Rome, and that there was a purge of those loyal to the Empire.
By about 600 most of what was to become lowland England was in Saxon hands. Further north, the Scotti immigrants from Ireland were well established in the western regions of what we now call Scotland.
What we do not know is precisely how this came to pass. Should we, for example, think in terms of a wholesale Saxon migration involving men, women and children? Or should we think in terms of small warrior bands mounting a series of successful coups d'état in existing regional kingdoms? Did the Saxons come as migrant peasant farmers entering an almost empty land, or did they come bearing fire and sword?
How long did the anglicization of Britain take? Was it more or less complete within thirty to forty years, or was it a long slow process spanning several generations? One recent historian argues that the southern lowlands of Britain were under Saxon domination by the mid 440s – in other words, that there was only the briefest period of transition between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England. Another proposes the very opposite. He believes that the Saxon incursions only affected the eastern part of the country, and that the greater part remained "Roman" until the period of Saxon expansion in the late sixth century.
Both opinions are perfectly tenable. We simply do not have enough evidence to be certain. My own feeling would be that the nature and speed of the settlement varied dramatically from place to place.
In Kent, the archaeological evidence from a series of sites suggests the deliberate early settling of Germanic troops by an existing Romano-British authority, and this would of course fit the later legend. In Northumbria, the evidence appears to suggest a small aristocratic Anglian element ruling over a largely British population. The ninth- to twelfth century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle relates the story of how the dynasty of Cerdic landed at Southampton Water in the closing years of the fifth century and fought their way inland over the next few generations, but the archaeological evidence demonstrates that the origins of Wessex lay in peasant communities along the upper Thames valley dating back a generation before Cerdic's time.
Archaeological evidence offers insights into a variety of cultural activities – such as burial practices, the exchange of artefacts and the use of space within a settlement. What it cannot do is tell us very much about the social conditions – the political system, the language, the beliefs. For that we need written sources.
Our only contemporary written source for the fifth and sixth centuries is Gildas, a British Christian who probably wrote De Excidio Britanniae; 'Concerning the Ruin of Britain' during the 540s. It is a sermon, a piece of dialectic intended to arouse his countrymen from the sin and sloth into which they had fallen, with an 'historical introduction' that was meant to establish for his contemporaries that their present afflictions were a consequence of a failure of obedience to God. So by our standards this history is unreliable. Yet it is important, for it forms the basis of every later account, especially that of the Venerable Bede, (early eighth century) through which it gained wide circulation. It has also coloured every modern work.
Gildas describes three phases of the Saxon conquest. (To suit his rhetoric the coming of the Saxons had to be seen in terms of conquest. The vengeance of the Lord upon the backsliding Britons could scarcely be portrayed in terms of peaceful settlement.)
In the first phase, the Britons have been abandoned by the Romans to their fate. The superbus tyrannus (who is almost certainly the same person as the Vortigern of Bede and his successor Nennius) and his counsellors call on the Saxons to help repel the northern Picts. The Saxon mercenaries saw there was nothing to stop them going on the rampage themselves, and duly did so, bringing fire and slaughter to the island. When they had finished looting they went home – presumably to the eastern lands they had been given.
In the second phase, after an unspecified interval, a leader arose among the Britons, Ambrosius Aurelianus, a man of distinguished Roman family and ancestry, to whose standard flocked the surviving Romano-British who recognized his sterling qualities. There followed a period of alternating victory and defeat, culminating in the siege of Mount Badon, 'almost the last and not the least slaughter of the villains'. (Significantly, Gildas does not say who led the British forces at Badon.)
The third phase was Gildas's own lifetime, forty-four years after Mount Badon. Britain now enjoyed freedom from external attack, though it was still rent by internal struggles. Gildas continued his sermon by attacking five contemporary kings: Constantine of Dumnonia, Aurelius Caninus, Vortepor of Dyfed, Cuneglasus and Maelgwn 'the dragon of the island'.
What Gildas said about Mount Badon is open to a number of interpretations. The traditional view, and the one I have used in this book, is that it was an overwhelming victory for the Britons that put an end to Saxon expansion for a generation. But one could equally well read it the other way: it was 'almost the last' slaughter of the Saxons because thereafter the Saxons were the victors in virtually every engagement. The battle was memorable because it was the last British success, not because it was an overwhelming triumph.
Again, historians from Bede to the present have assumed that Badon had a national significance. But it is quite possible that it was a local affair, of no great importance to Britain as a whole. Gildas tells us Badon took place in the year of his birth. So it was an important event to him. Perhaps all through his childhood, particularly if he was actually born somewhere near the battle site, people reminded him that he first saw the light in the year the Britons defeated the Saxons at the siege of Badon Hill.
What is more (and this is pure speculation), if one adopts Bede's reading of the text – and we should remember that Bede was working from a copy of the text much closer to the original in age than any now available to us – Badon took place forty-four years after the arrival of the Saxons. In other words, the battle of Mount Badon acted as a pivot around which Gildas could hang his history, a central point forty-four years after the fatal invitation to the enemy, and forty-four years before the time at which he wrote.
It may be, then, that Gildas singled out Badon because it suited his rhetorical purposes rather than because the battle was overwhelmingly decisive.
As the reader will by now have gathered, I do not believe that it is possible to construct the kind of narrative history for the fifth and sixth centuries that one can expect for the fifteenth or sixteenth. The whole issue of chronology is too complex to discuss here in any depth, but the very fact it can be seriously suggested that Gildas wrote in 480 as opposed to 540 – a sixty-year difference – gives some idea of how uncertain is our present state of knowledge.
However, if narrative history fails us, it is still possible to adopt an alternative approach. We can identify certain trends within society, even if we cannot identify the time-scale over which these trends took place.
We know that the central political organization collapsed. The capital cities declined in importance, and public building and work came to an end. The ruling elite disappeared and their place was taken by men of purely local importance.
The centralized economy also collapsed. Large-scale trade, crafts and specialized industries, estate management and specialized agriculture, all became things of the past. The British fell back on local homesteads, small-scale cultivation and a barter economy. Many towns were abandoned to the lower classes, and old strongholds were refurbished or new ones constructed. The native population declined.
For our purpose, perhaps most important of all, a romanticized past was created: a Golden Age when heroes walked the earth.
The Roman diocese of Britain crumbled into a number of mutually hostile successor states, some Celtic, some Germanic. The rulers of these new states constructed elaborate genealogies linking themselves to their predecessors. Thus the kings of Dyfed, the kings of Powys and various northern dynasties all at one time or another claimed to be descended from Macsen Wledig, the Spaniard Magnus Maximus who was proclaimed emperor of Britain in 383. (In this context, Wledig means something like 'overlord'.)
As part of the same process, the collapse of the old world came to be viewed in terms of a heroic struggle against external raiders and invaders: first the Picts and Scots, then the Saxons. The tale became personalized and filled with a wealth of dramatic detail. So Ambrosius Aurelianus, the Roman 'gentleman' (vir modestus) of Gildas, becomes Emrys Wledig, the forerunner of Merlin, the fatherless boy who reveals to Vortigern the reason for the collapse of his tower on Snowdon. Hengest the leader of the Saxons treacherously slays Vortigern's Council, the three hundred chief nobles of Britain, and holds Vortigern himself to ransom.
By about the ninth century Arthur was firmly accepted as part of this legendary history. Vortimer the son of Vortigern and then Ambrosius had fought against the Saxons with mixed success, but Arthur was the victor in all his battles, the great war leader who defeated the Saxons for a generation.
And as the hero par excellence, the famous victory of Badon belonged to him and him alone.
Early in the ninth century, so the story goes, a certain Nennius decided to write down what he knew of the history of the Britons. Much of his work seems to be a transcription or abbreviation of earlier sources, both British and Saxon, which are now lost to us. The History survives in various manuscripts, some long, some short, the most important of which for our purposes forms part of Harley 3859 in the British Museum. Bound with it – amongst other things – are the Annales Cambriae, or the Welsh Annals, and a series of Welsh genealogies.
The History lists Arthur's twelve battles, a series culminating in Badon. It does not include Camlann, perhaps because it was a list of his victories. It begins:
Then Arthur was fighting against them [the Saxons] in those days with the kings of the Britons but he himself was leader of battles. The first battle was at the mouth of the river which is called Glein. The second and third and fourth and fifth upon another river which is called Dubglas and is in the district Linnuis. The sixth battle upon the river which is called Bassas. The seventh battle was in the Caledonian forest, that is Cat Coit Celidon. The eighth battle was in Fort Guinnion in which Arthur carried the image of St Mary ever virgin on his shoulders and the pagans were turned to flight on that day and great slaughter was upon them through the virtue of our Lord Jesus Christ and St Mary the Virgin his mother. The ninth battle was waged in the City of the Legion. The tenth battle he fought on the shore of the river which is called Tribruit. The eleventh battle took place on the mountain which is called Agned [or Breguoin]. The twelfth battle was on Mount Badon in which nine hundred and sixty men fell in one day from one charge by Arthur and no one overthrew them except himself alone. And in all these battles he stood forth as victor.
This sounds suspiciously like a Welsh battle listing poem. But how old was it? One simply cannot say. It may have been sung in some form in front of Arthur himself, if he existed. It may have been composed only a few years before Nennius compiled his history. Likewise there is no guarantee that all or any of the battles were originally ascribed to Arthur – he may well have displaced a number of other heroes.
All one can say is that some of the names sound old, that none of the places can be identified with any certainty, not even Cat Coit Celidon (somewhere in Scotland?), and that the legend of the great war-leader, who may or may not himself be a king, had already taken firm root by Nennius' time.
Bound with the History are the Welsh Annals. The Annals have two Arthurian entries, one in year 72 of the cycle, the other in year 93. These may be reckoned as about 518 and 539 respectively. The first says:
Battle of Badon in which Arthur carried the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ for three days and three nights on his shoulders and the Britons were the victors.