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Table of contents
24 May 2011
- Requirements
|Prerequisite knowledge
|Required products
|Sample files
Exercise 1.1: Setting up Flash Builder and your project files
Exercise 4.1: Passing data to item renderers for display
Exercise 4.2: Displaying dynamic data in a custom item renderer
Exercise 5.5: Creating and applying skins
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In Day 4 you created a Spark item renderer, which you applied to the repeated data elements in the DataGroup container. You added some visual enhancements to the item renderer but not to the DataGroup container itself.
In this exercise you will change the DataGroup container to a SkinnableDataContainer container so that you can apply a skin to it (see Figure 1). It is the gray rounded rectangle around all of the employee data elements.
You will also create a new hover state display for the items.
Figure 1. Review your task for this exercise.
In this exercise you will learn how to:
In this section you will change the DataGroup container (used in Exercises 4.1 and 4.2) to a SkinnableDataContainer container so that you can apply a skin to it.
- Download the ex5_09_starter.zip file provided in the Exercise files section and extract the ex5_09_starter.fxp to your computer.
- Open Flash Builder.
- Import the ex5_09_starter.fxp file.
- Open ex5_09_starter.mxml.
- Run the application.You should see the application appears as shown in Figure 2. The item renderer used for the data in this application was created in Exercise 4.2: Displaying dynamic data in a custom item renderer.
Figure 2. Run the application.
- Return to the ex5_09_starter.mxml file in Flash Builder.
- Below the
UI componentscomment, locate the
- Change the
DataGroupcontainer into a
<s:SkinnableDataContainer dataProvider="{employeeList}"
- Save the file and run the application.
You should see no change in the application.
In this section, you will create a skin and apply it to the SkinnableDataGroup container.
- Return to the ex5_09_starter.mxml file in Flash Builder.
- Highlight the opening
SkinnableDataContainertag and switch to Design mode.
- In the Properties view for the SkinnableDataContainer, locate the Skin field in the Style segment.
- Click the icon to the right of the Skin field and select Create Skin (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. Click the Create Skin option in the Properties view.
- In the New MXML Skin dialog box, type skins for the Package and type BackgroundSkin for the Name.
Figure 4. Fill out the New MXML Skin dialog box.
- Click Finish.You should see the BackgroundSkin.mxml file open in the Editor view.
- Note that the file is configured with the
SkinnableDataContainerclass as its host component class. It also contains a
statesblock with the required
Statetags and a
DataGroupcontainer.Remember that containers like the
Application, and
Panelcontainer have a skin part named
contentGroup. For the
DataGroupcontainer, the skin part is named
- Below the
statesblock, create a
Rectprimitive block.
<s:State name="normal" />
<s:State name="disabled" />
- To the
Rectprimitive, add the
heightproperty with a value of
100%, the
widthproperty with a value of
120and the
radiusYproperties, both with a value of
<s:Rect height="100%" width="120" radiusX="4" radiusY="4">
- Within the
Rectblock, create a
<s:Rect height="100%" width="120" radiusX="4" radiusY="4">
- Within the
fillblock, create a
SolidColorgraphic and add the
alphaproperty with a value of
.4and the
colorproperty with a value of
<s:Rect height="100%" width="120" radiusX="4" radiusY="4">
<s:SolidColor alpha=".4" color="0x000000"/>
- Save the file.
- Return to the ex5_09_starter.mxml file and switch to Source mode.
- In the
SkinnableDataContainercontainer, note that the
skinClassproperty has been added with a value of
<s:SkinnableDataContainer dataProvider="{employeeList}"
- Save the file and run the application.You should see the skin applied to the SkinnableDataGroup container (see Figure 5). Note that the content is not centered within the skin.
Figure 5. Run the application to sthe skinned SkinnableDataContainer component.
- Return to the BackgroundSkin.mxml file in Flash Builder.
- To the
DataGroupcontainer, add the
horizontalCenterproperty with a value of 0.
<s:DataGroup id="dataGroup"
- From the
DataGroupcontainer, remove the
right, and
- To the
DataGroupcontainer, reassign the
bottomproperty with a value of
- Save the file and run the application.
The data is now centered within the skin (see Figure 6). Note that when you mouse over an employee there is a small rectangle that indicates you are hovering over an item. This occurs because you have set the
top property in the
BorderContainer of the EmployeeItemRenderer class. Next, you will modify the hovered state of the item renderer.
Figure 6. Run the application to see the data centered in the skin.
In this section you will create the hover state for the content in the
DataGroup container.
- Return to Flash Builder and open the EmployeeItemRenderer.mxml file from the components package.
- Locate the
BorderContainerand cut the
topproperty from the opening tag.
- Save the file.
- Open the BackgroundSkin.mxml file and paste the
topproperty into the opening tag from the
- Change the value of the
bottomproperty to
<s:DataGroup id="dataGroup"
top="5" bottom="5"
minWidth="0" minHeight="0"
- Save the file and run the application.
- Mouse over an employee.Note that the rectangle you saw before is now gone.
- Return to the EmployeeItemRenderer.mxml file.
- Locate the
- Below the
Statetag, add another instance of the
Statetag and add the
nameproperty with a value of
<s:State name="normal"/>
<s:State name="hovered"/>
- Locate the
BorderContainerblock. This container draws the background for each item renderer and also displays the employee data.
- Below the
BorderContainerinstance, create a
Rectinstance with a
heightvalue of
100%and a
widthvalue of
100%. This will create a rectangle that will completely overlay the item renderer.
<s:Rect height="100%" width="100%">
- Within the
Rectblock, create a
fillproperty tag block.
- Within the
fillproperty, create a
SolidColorinstance and give it a
colorproperty with a value of
#FFFFFF (white). This adds a highlight color when you hover over the item.
<s:SolidColor color="#FFFFFF"/>
- To the
SolidColorinstance, add the
alphaproperty with a value of
.2. This will make the highlight transparent.
<s:SolidColor color="#FFFFFF"
- To the opening
Recttag, add the
includeInproperty with a value of
hovered. Without the
includeInproperty, the rectangle would display all the time. Now you have made sure that it only displays in the hovered state.
<s:Rect height="100%" width="100%"
- Locate the
SolidColorinstance within the
fillblock. To the
colorproperty add
.hoveredto make sure the color only appears in the hovered state.
<s:SolidColor color.hovered="#FFFFFF"
- Save the file and run the application.
- Mouse over one of the employees.
You should see the employee is highlighted with a transparent white box (see Figure 7).
Figure 7. The employee data is highlighted when you mouse over it.
In this exercise you changed the DataGroup container to a SkinnableDataContainer container so that you can apply a skin to it. In the next exercise you use Flash Builder to create a production build of the Flash application.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license, pertaining to the examples of code included within this work are available at Adobe.


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A new poll from polling firm Abacus Data finds that Justin Trudeau remains the most popular federal political party leader with 37% of Canadians surveyed saying they have a positive impression of the Liberal Party, down slightly from 39% in June. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are viewed positively by 30% and 29% of Canadians respectively.
Political Party Leaders: Overall Impressions
When respondents were asked to rate their personal impressions of the leaders of the main Canadian political parties, Stephen Harper was the only leader who registered a net negative impression score.
After a summer where much news media attention has been on the federal Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau's net impression score slipped by three percentage points from June, dropping down to +10, still slightly better than Tom Mulcair's overall net score.
A large percentage of Canadians still do not have enough information about Tom Mulcair to form an opinion with 17% saying they were unsure of their impression of the NDP, 11-percentage points higher than Justin Trudeau and 13 percentage points higher than Stephen Harper.
Leadership Attributes
Survey respondents were also asked whether a number of attributes accurately described each of the three main party leaders in Canada. Figures in brackets track the change for Trudeau since April 2013 (the last time Abacus asked these questions).
Stephen Harper has an advantage when it comes to being qualified to be Prime Minister with 61% of those aware of the Prime Minister agreeing that he is qualified to be Prime Minister. Another 49% agree that Harper has sound judgement while a majority of respondents who have an opinion agree that he understands the problems facing Canada. In terms of negative descriptions, 57% of respondents agreed that the Prime Minister was out of touch with ordinary people.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, while less well known than the other two leaders, has an advantage among those who have an impression of the NDP leader on measures of having sound judgement (58%), on substance over style (only 38% agree Mulcair is more style than substance) and on being in touch with ordinary people (only 34% believe he is out of touch with ordinary people).
When it comes to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, respondents are most likely to agree he is likely (79%) while at the same time being viewed as most likely to be more style than substance (65%). Since April, the largest drop in for Trudeau's leadership numbers have been on whether he has sound judgment (down 11 points to 51%) and on likeability (down eight points to 79%).
Stephen Harper: Two Worlds in One Country
Looking specifically at Conservative leader Stephen Harper's leadership attributes, it is clear that there are two distinct points of view depending on current and past vote preferences. Among those who voted for the Conservative Party in 2011, very large majorities of respondents agree that the Prime Minister is qualified to be Prime Minister, has sound judgment, understands the problems facing Canada, and has a clear vision for Canada. Agreement, not surprisingly, is even higher among those who currently support the Conservative Party.
Comparing the views of past supporters and non-supporters makes it clear that the Conservative Party will have a difficult time growing support beyond those who voted for the party in the past. While a large plurality of Canadians who do not support the Conservative Party agree that the Prime Minister is qualified and has sound judgement, a large majority believe he is out of touch with ordinary people.
This might explain why the Federal Government is likely to make a push to appeal to consumers in the next session of Parliament and why it is working so hard to appear as those it puts consumers first over the interests of large corporations.
The Bottom Line
Over the summer, there has been little change in Canadians' overall impression of the three main federal party leaders. Justin Trudeau is still viewed positively by the largest number of Canadians while Mulcair remains an unknown quantity to a large portion of the population.
Prime Minister Harper's personal numbers remain weak with only 29% viewing the Conservative leader positively but he is still viewed as most qualified to be Prime Minister and is tied with Justin Trudeau when it comes to having sound judgement. However, among those who voted for the Conservative Party in 2011, the Prime Minister's personal numbers are still quite strong with large majorities believing he is qualified, has sound judgment, and understands the problems facing Canada. Seven in ten former CPC voters also agree that the Prime Minister is likeable, an attribute not usually associated with Stephen Harper.
Over the summer, much of the political debate centred around Justin Trudeau and his admission that he smoked marijuana while an MP. As our previous research found, his admission is likely to have any short-term impacts on reputation or support for the Liberals (our last vote intention poll had the Liberals and Tories basically tied). But since April, there has been some negative movement in one key attribute – having sound judgement. In April, 62% of those who had an opinion about Justin Trudeau agreed that he has sound judgment. In early September, that number had dropped 11-points. Whether this drop was caused by his pot admission or the negative Conservative Party ads released after he won the Liberal leadership is unclear. Nonetheless, in the five months since he has been Liberal leader, perceptions about his judgement have been weakened significant.
For NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, the results of this survey are more of the same. More Canadians have a positive impression of the Leader of the Opposition than those with a negative impression but there are still many respondents who do not have a clear image or impression of Mr. Mulcair. This is both an opportunity and a threat. The opportunity is that the party still has two years before the next election. The threat is that Justin Trudeau is so much more known and at this point more popular and it may be difficult for the NDP to define their leader not because he has no image but because it may be difficult to get attention in an environment dominated by the Prime Minister and the Liberal leader. The good news for Tom Mulcair is that those who do know him view him positively and he compares well against Trudeau and Harper on being in touch with ordinary people and having both substance and sound judgment – two traits often viewed as lacking in Justin Trudeau.
The survey was conducted online with 1,600 respondents in English and French using an internet survey programmed and collected by Abacus Data. A random sample of panelists was invited to participate in the survey from a representative panel of Canadians. The survey was completed from Aug 30 to Sept 4, 2013.
Since the online survey was not a random, probability based sample, a margin of error could not be calculated. The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association prohibits statements about margins of sampling error or population estimates with regard to most online panels.
The margin of error for a probability-based random sample of 1,600 respondents using a probability sample is +/- 2.5%, 19 times out of 20.
The data was weighted according to census data to ensure that the sample matched Canada's population according to age, gender, education level, and region.
These questions were posed as part of the Abacus Data monthly Omnibus survey.


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Hey remember that pain medication you've been using on your kid because you love them and want their fever to go down? Yeah, that's been recalled. This recall business is frustrating. Just this morning, certain lettuces are on the recall list because of E.Coli. We put all kinds of trust in big companies to keep our safety in mind, and it just seems that time and again we get the rug pulled out from underneath us. There always seems to be something being recalled. Remember the baby formula that had melamine in it?
Here's a bit of an article from the Wall Street Journal about the tylenol recall-
FDA officials said the company may have used the contaminated inactive ingredients in manufacturing, but the company's testing of finished products didn't turn up contamination.
"The findings are serious, but we cannot say yet whether further action by the FDA is warranted," Deborah Autor, the FDA's director of compliance, said in a conference call with reporters.
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Click here to read the full article
If you are new to this information, and have children's/infant tylenol, motrin and/or benadryl, then you can enter the NDC number on your bottle at their recall site to see if it's on the recall list.
For now, we are stocked up on the generic brands of children pain/fever medication. But in the back of my head, I'm pessimistically wondering when the generics are going to be recalled. Gosh, if only I would have stayed in college and learned how to make my own ibuprofen, then maybe I wouldn't be so pissed off about this. Because I'd be in the basement with my beakers burning, brewing my own.


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In the world of build scripts, both Gulp and Grunt have become quite popular, and each has its own share of proponents, critics, loyalists as well as fans.
The battle continues. And (not) surprisingly, it linked to previous post too.
In the world of build scripts, both Gulp and Grunt have become quite popular, and each has its own share of proponents, critics, loyalists as well as fans.
The battle continues. And (not) surprisingly, it linked to previous post too.
If you're building a modern JavaScript application or website, there's a good chance you've seen the JavaScript Build Tool Landscape. … Let me cover some of the reasons why I think these tools are bad choices.
Just when starting to use Grunt, now should stop? 😄
Stephan Max shows how to build your own little Grunt plugin and publish it via the npm package manager.
This is a good tutorial. But since won't create one in the near future, just skim it for now.
Microsoft's Etienne Margraff explains how to use developer automation software like Gulp and Grunt to make your development workflow simple.
Gulp sounds promising. But like ever read somewhere (forgot the link), if Grunt is enough for doing the jobs, then won't necessary to learn the same tool.
And here's another quote to strengthen the statement:
If you are using a really standard workflow with common steps like jshint, uglifying, css validating etc., Grunt is a good choice. If you are up to more complicated tasks, gulp will be a good wingman.
Source: How to Grunt and Gulp Your Way to Workflow Automation
Louis Lazaris has discovered a slew of new tools for front-end developers. In this end-of-year post, he lists some of his favorite finds of 2015.
Let's wrap things up. Part 1. Total 6 articles.
I asked front-end developers to fill in a survey about their their knowledge and usage patterns across a number of front-end tools. Check out the results.
Surprisingly, Gulp is used more than Grunt. Time to change, too? Or just stick with Grunt? And this "module bundler" seems like things to catch. Never used/heard before.
When you are new to front-end development and start mastering HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, the obvious next step is to put your hands on tools that most developers use to stay sane in this complex space. You too deserve to have more flexibility and features while writing your CSS sheets by using Less. You too deserve to optimize bandwidth by minifying your JS code. You too deserve to be able to automatically check that your JS code is good using JSHint.
Good introduction. And it has both Grunt and Gulp in one post. Even though it's sponsored, but definitely good read. Favorited.
Chris Coyier grabs Grunt by the snow-white fur of its Santa suit and places it firmly (but gently) in your webdev grotto to dish out its Christmas gifts — and maybe even chuck you under the chin and sit you on its broad and comfy knee. Not at all creepy. No. Nope.
From the article:
Feels pretty comfortable at this point, hey? The only weird bit there is the
spawnthing. And you know what? I don't even really know what that does. From what I understand from the documentation it is the smart default. That's real-world development. Just leave it alone if it's working and if it's not, learn more.
Source: Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard ◆ 24 ways
Nouran Mahmoud introduces Jade, a Node-based template engine to preprocess your HTML, demonstrating how to automate HTML production with Jade using Grunt.
Already use Jade for production. But this give a good base understanding. Also mixins and stuffs give a deeper knowledge. Going to try that in another time.


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Nice cat hat and a great way to use your old sweaters instead of throwing them in the rubbish bin.
I just had an idea. How about mouse gloves? They can definitely go with the cat hat. Too bad I'm only good with paper crafts, otherwise I would have made those mouse gloves by now.
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These buttons are marvellous. My daughter has two old teddy bears which need some sewing up. I suppose I'll fix them and add some buttons like these. That will definitely give them a fresher look.
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Nice way of using apples to paint :D Anyway, this bag looks really good, I'll definitely show it to my girlfriend, she's keen on handmade stuff as well.
I want to ask if you can recommend a specific brand of fabric ink. There's so many brands out there, I just don't know what to choose.
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In the future, bicycle traffic will be coordinated even more closely across political groups. The establishment of the new working group places the importance of bicycles for modern and urban mobility in Germany in the political spotlight. The " Parliamentary Circle on Cycling " is to create the conditions for this.
Parked roads represent a safety risk. Parking offender block bicycle lanes, disabled parking spaces, delivery and fire brigade access roads. The brochure gives a concise six-page summary of all the facts about "stationary traffic" and thus offers a good basis for argumentation in the discourse about a fairer distribution of public space in our cities.
Over the next three years, the use of load wheels will be investigated in Greifswald. The Institute of Geography and Geology at the University of Greifswald will be responsible for the scientific analyses. The city administration accompanies the project, which takes place within the framework of the EU-funded project CoBiUM-Cargo bikes in urban mobility, as a pilot city.


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30 Apr New videos from "Heartbreak Express"
I'm excited to share two videos from the recent Rhymes With Opera presentation of Heartbreak Express in Concert, this opera that I've been writing with my friend John Clum as librettist.
Heartbreak Express is a chamber opera in two acts. The opera follows four Dolly Parton super-fans waiting to meet their idol for the first time. Sisters Darlene and LuAnne entered an essay contest and won the chance to meet Dolly Parton in person. Darlene thinks that this encounter with Dolly will change their lives for the better, but LuAnne is not so sure. Longtime partners Don and Travis have amassed a huge collection of Dolly memorabilia. They poured their life savings into making a new Dolly doll, and came to get Dolly's blessing to manufacture the new dolls. A fifth character – Dolly's assistant – has grown numb to both the star and the unending queue of fans who make the pilgrimage to meet her in person. Act 1 introduces the four fans as they meet in the waiting room before their encounter with Dolly, and Act 2 is an extended quintet where the characters describe their life-changing encounters with the superstar.
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"Really, LuAnne!" and "You Are My Everything" (Act 1)
At the opening to Act 1, we meet sisters Darlene and LuAnne. In their butterfly costumes, LuAnne reveals to Darlene her misgivings about their meeting with Dolly Parton. "You Are My Everything" is a quartet for Darlene, LuAnne, Don and Travis. Darlene sees Don and Travis and calls them "sissies". As Travis confronts her, they both gradually realize their shared love for Dolly and their excitement in meeting her for the first time.
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"The Photographer Made A Quiet Exit" (Act 2)
"The Photographer Made A Quiet Exit" finds LuAnne and Travis after their meeting with Dolly Parton. LuAnne recalls how Dolly consoled her after Darlene inexplicably left the room, and Travis describes how the real Dolly Parton did not live up to his expectations.


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It's taken a while, but SJP Properties has signed up its second major tenant at 11 Times Square. But this time it's a deal for about half of the LEED Gold-certified tower's retail space. The lease is also notable because it's the first sizable one since Proskauer Rose signed up for half of the building's office space (400,000 of 1.1 million square feet) nearly two years ago before construction was complete.
The deal is actually with Global Food International Corporation – a Russia-based worldwide restaurant chain – for 25,000 square feet on the ground floor and mezzanine levels. There are few details about the yet-to-be-named restaurant other than that it will feature an open kitchen and "international cuisine," according to the Wall Street Journal. Although particulars of the current deal aren't clear, SJP's asking rents for the retail space have reached $500 per square foot (for the ground-floor space, at least).
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To your health! Laughter helps strengthen the immune system, lower blood pressure, and reduce stress levels. In addition, humor helps young children handle problems or crisis situations, enhances their social skills, and helps them to create social bonds—so laugh away!
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Integrated Learning
The most powerful learning experiences are those that integrate the senses, learning domains, developmental needs, and interests of the children. Through such a variety, each child will surely be touched in at least one area. Equally important is the fact that development in one learning domain inevitably influences development in other domains.
The Good Wife's Guide!
Check out this article from Good Housekeeping Magazine 1955. Did anyone really live like this? My mother, who sent this to me, said she never would have gotten married in the 1950's if she had known this was how married life was SUPPOSED to be! She doesn't remember her mother's house being anything like this either.
A Last Trip to the Beach!
Great Music From Around the World
Something that can pleasantly surprise families new to Kindermusik, is the wonderful inclusion of favorite folk songs from around the world. This adds a wonderful dimension to your music listening and exposes your child to other cultural sounds.
This fall you will hear:
For Babies
Zoom Buggy – May There Always Be Sunshine (Russia) Zum Gali Gali (Israel), The Keel Row (Northumberland), Suliram (Indonesia), Les raftsmen (Canada), Canoe Song (Native Americanish) and Polovtsian Dance (Poland).
Dream Pillow – Aiken Drum (Scotland), Sur Le Pont D'Avignon (France), Softly, Softly (Germany), Tants, Tants, Yidelekh! (Klezmer), Sarasponda (Netherlands), Latvian Lullaby (Latvia). For Toddlers
Milk & Cookies – Barn Sull (Scandanavia), Duermete, mi nino (Latin America), Fais do-do (France), The Muffin Man (England), Shakin' Shakin' (Apalacia), Savez vous plantez les choux (France), and Shake Hands (African-American).
For Preschoolers
Hello Weather, Let's Play Together – Sally Go 'Round the Sun (North America), Morning Sun Has Risen (Israel), The Mulberry Bush (England), Japanese Rain Song (Japan), Uskudar (Turkey), Weggis Song (Switzerland), Funiculi Funicula (Italy), Lirum Larum (Germany), Siyahamba (Zulu), and Rain or Shine (Texas).
For Families
Here, There, Everywhere – My Kite (England), Sulla Lulla (Norway), Alle Meine Entlein (Germany), Sma Grodorna (Sweden), Shoo Fly (America), Water Come a Me Eye (Jamaica), Whisky Frisky (African-American), San Sereni (Puerto Rico), Zum Gali Gali (Israel) and Cantonese Lullaby (China).
–Thanks Darci!
How Wonderful
We Dance Together
Here is a terrifically inspiring website from the mother of a Downs Syndrome child. Do you believe that diversity= enrichment?
"A conversation with Katie is a reflection on a dialogue we had a few
years ago while I was interviewing Katie for a publication. I asked Katie
what people could do to support her dreams. I recall being entirely
confused when she replied, "You can dance." I thought she was fooling
around and admittedly I didn't pay much attention to what she had to say.
But in the years since, with the help of some other folks, I've come to
understand the power and meaning of her words. One theme in her message is
that we need each other to become fully ourselves. So much of the rhetoric
about inclusive schools and communities is aimed at 'helping' people with
disabilities. But Katie is saying that when we are together, when we learn
together, work together and live in community with others, we all benefit,
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I made this video for Eat Your Heart Out, concerning the upcoming UK election. The Tory lead over Labour fell from 6 points to 2 this week - coincidence?
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Amy Williams
If anything were to make me feel patriotic (or even vaguely interested in the United Kingdom) which for the record I am not, it would be this gorgeous lady sliding down a hill on a tray at the Winter Games and winning a gold medal for it. To quote Max Steele quoting the Spice Girls, "The future is female".
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Fab Frocks by Jordan Hunt
Thought I should catalogue these divine designs by Renaissance person Jordan Hunt. In addition to composing, teaching, playing, performing, choreographing and curating, he also dresses the stars.
We started making ensembles together about four years ago, initially for The Irrepressibles (basically consisting of a lot of old shirts) and have since worked together on a number of sartorial projects. Sometimes he has a quite spontaneous idea to turn a soprano's size 20 ballgown upside down and make of it a cocktail dress, sometimes he hangs a design on a narrative concept and beavers away on it for a week, other times thinks purely in terms of shape and color.
His unique combination of Catholic guilt/masochism, improvised techniques, abstract approach to a constrained budget, and genuine love of clothes always make for a very interesting end product. Often terribly bad for the environment and usually impossible to get off, his wearable artworks are nonetheless striking and always exciting to perform in. And of course we often perform together in these get-ups - he was actually the person concealed in my skirts at the Opera House. That makes him the person under the dress as well as behind it. There's nothing in The Fashion System about that is there Monsieur Barthes?
Gold ruff for Fantasia by Ulli Richter.
Midnight Blue cocktail dress to emcee Voluptuous Panic.
Paper ball gown for our Vissi d'Arte performance at the Royal Opera House
Circus dress for Paloma Faith's ICA gig
My we're cute!
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
I found this picture of my sister.
And I'm just stunned. She married an aristocrat and bakes her own bread, and furthermore she refuses to have her picture taken. How was I to know she had a sideline in postmodern post-pop lo-fi collage deconstructionalist trash art? Trecartin watch out.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Inside the fragment
The Third Generation
Thinking about what Roland Barthes writes about film stills, how they are not just samples, but rather quotations. How movie stills differ from any other kind of imitative stills (e.g. paintings or photographs) because they are always underwritten by a second text (i.e. the movie they're drawn from).
Imagine trying to describe the stills below. How much historical and cultural contextual knowledge would you have to supply to do so accurately? And how much would your own standpoint obfuscate the original significations? How could you possibly express the simple, stark beauty of the still from Through A Glass Darkly, or the horror on the boy's face screaming out from the Salo still? Bogart in bondage as Bacall looks away in trepidation, the architecture of Hepburn's face, Fassbinder's black humoured pastiche work, Cameltoe's utterly disdainful inhalation from amongst the distressingly by-numbers art house art direction of Skin Flick, and blood trickling from the eyes of a pre-teen girl.
All of these attempts to communicate the qualities of the image fail, because words can't describe filmic images. They merely reduce them to a series of well-worn paraphrases and then re-encode them as sentences, never getting near their essence or meaning, never breaking the code. The filmic, says Barthes, is that point where "articulated language is no more than approximative and where another language begins," (or several languages perhaps). The stills below, each one is so composed as to tell its own story (narratively, aesthetically, historically) but also invites you to enter the larger work. So dive in.
The Philadelphia Story
Skin Flick
Through A Glass Darkly
Let The Right One In
The Big Sleep
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Monday, February 8, 2010
I suppose you think that's very funny, don't you Harold?
Lord I love this film. Regular readers will remember a post from 2008 on the many roles of Ruth Gordon, it's probably time to review that isn't it?
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Friday, February 5, 2010
In response to my brother
My brother turned sixteen this week, when his bestfriend texts him too often, he gets irked, understandably. Today the impassioned friend texted my brother several questions and then, receiving no reply, sent him a series of question marks. My brother's response was to say, rather aggressively to his phone, "What? Faggot." and then freeze, on the realization that he was in the presence of (in his framework at least) a bona fide faggot.
It was obvious he wasn't intending to offend me, and yet, I was honestly more mortified by this off-the cuff, tip of the tongue nastiness, than I would have been were it pre-meditated and directed specifically at myself. (That I can deal with, that I am used to.) I was given a privileged look through that momentary crack, into my brother's true vocabulary, the language he uses, the way he communicates, when he is not under supervision (or rather not under pseudo-parental supervision – obviously he is always under supervision; social, legal, cultural). I saw a casualness in the slur, it was the obvious choice, and he did not search for it.
The inappropriate leanings of his friend into his personal space, particularly in this teen drama cliché of technologically aided bombardments of affection, (which marvelously allows the offending party to be both here and there, in the space necessary to motivate the dramatic development, and far enough away to not muddy the directness of the scene unnecessarily) are just too close to the nerve, and in fact imply a reciprocal set of feelings in him, and so have to be rebutted. I was, for once in my verbose life, speechless.I could see on his face that he was sad to have said what he said, not because he thought it an offensive turn of phrase, but rather he was sad to see me sad.
As the only two of eight siblings biologically sexed as male, our relationship is different to any of the other relationships I have with my siblings sexed as female. (Of course, each relationship is different, depending on age, personality and mood but the identification process I think differentiates this relationship more so). He has been in many ways an ersatz-son to me, and the vessel for a lot of my projections, my hopes for his future and in fact my own, intimately connected as they obviously are. He is almost twelve years my junior and not long after his birth I effectively took over parenting him for close to a year, as my Mother underwent a very deep period of depression. The bond you form with a child who wakes you up in the middle of the night, every night, to be fed and who later wakes you at dawn to be fed and changed and loved, is a very distinct one. I still to this day feel towards him something akin to how I feel towards my nieces, a love unsullied by the irritating effects siblings naturally provoke in each other.
In my teens I dreamed of going to college, reading law and returning home the all-conquering hero to elevate him and the rest of my family out of underprivilege and into higher education. As silly, petty and bourgeois as this Promethian myth seems in retrospect, it did however provide me with a lot of solace, justification even, for long nights of catch-up study to compensate for so many days of missed school. Whilst I did go on to study at esteemed establishments, I didn't quite meet these lofty, noble goals. In fact I departed from that path as soon as understood it for what it was; a tedious betterment fable, based on the exact exploitation of everyone it proposed to help.
So, when I hear my brother use that word, I hear a reprimand at once for leaving him still with so little, and simultaneously for inflicting all of my second-hand glamour into that life, for infringing on the persona he's developed for himself in order to move in that world. In short without aiming it at me that "faggot" is aimed at me. The gap widens, it reveals to me the nonchalance with which he turns to such resentful language, and how entirely unproblematic it is for him to do so. He is (or is becoming) the universal, the centre from which all criticisms, judgments and insults are issued, the arena from which expulsion and exile is always a threat. When I myself use the same word, it is as part of a very complex, semi-ironic, knowing investigation of the power structures around me. If I say it, it's as a product of exploration, as a delving into the implications of the word, the much discussed reappropriation, I use it from the bottom of the trash heap, he from significantly closer to the top.
That one word spins out and I can read within it what has previously only been implied in jokes made in bad taste, an equally casual and blunt racism. In a word, that one word represents a whole system of values, and judgements that posits my brother the heir to all that straight, white, male inherited power he imagines to be waiting for him through the threshold of manhood. (He is as yet naive enough to not see his economic background as the disadvantage it truly is.) I don't fault him for wallowing in this glory, surely we're all prone to enjoying the fabulousness of our own situations whether real, imaginary, projected, fantasised, drug induced or aimed for. What pained me so was the direct comparison of myself at his age and my brother at his, how I was already militantly anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic and actively trying to grapple with the injustices I made myself aware of through whatever puny channels I had at my disposal (letter writing campaigns, visible insistence on a political identity). He is, in direct opposition, uninterested in standing up for anything but his own right to a good time (again no bad thing as an element of one's personality, it is only when it becomes the personality that the problem arises). He has nothing to fight for (or so he thinks) and rather than acting from this position of privilege to ease the burden on anybody else, he selfishly celebrates and doesn't share that (relative) freedom. I feel I've failed him.
I suppose in my own vain manner, in my self-construction of myself as wise but exciting older sibling, I expected that all the social histories and Marxist critiques I'd assimilated over time would somehow seep into his consciousness, through an overwhelming osmosis perhaps driven by nothing more than the sheer power of my charisma. That somehow I would exist as a flaming beacon for knowledge, for intellectualism, for adventure and empowerment. But rather, I find that this interest is itself, just another thing that separates us, to him it's a burden, not a freedom, and he still in denial over the fact that options for escape from his bleak situation are severely limited (to be frank to the army or into education). I suddenly understand The Lion in Winter, I (as the eldest child with no extended family) suddenly understand the tyranny of lineage, and what it means to be told in school – "You're going to be trouble, just like your brother."
And this is what Jonny Woo has to say on the subject:
JONNY WOO - FAGGOT (language may offend) from PRICKIMAGE on Vimeo.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
"From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ; it needs no other passport than fun." - Brecht
Most definitely remarkable for the dominance of women across all categries and in virtually all the peroformances, the 2010 grammys were however most notable for two things; collaborations and theatrical quotations.
Apparently live art has taken over pop music, so we get Gaga (surely the movement's figurehead) in her own version of a Robert Lepage production, Beyonce surrounded by clone soldiers, and Pink suspended on silks. Spectacle and a focuse on stagecraft has become of central importance to a star's identity now, since it is one of the few modes of expression that cannot be digitized, compressed and circulated (legally or illegally). The "show" of showbusiness is back in a big way, as a direct response to the so called digital crisis (really more of a digital missed opportunity on behalf of greedy and terrified stone-age corporations) and it is warmly welcomed from my view point, as relief from all the horrible "authenticity" that has been washing around for the past decade, conjured up by stripped down, boysy rock'n'roll and equally by identikit rap. Spectacle is liberating, keeping it real is not, nor are the Kings of Leon.
The numbers were from the start more performance art, than rock show and there were mercifully few (yet still too many) of those classic, aesthetically murderous performances the Grammys are so famous for. Several of the performances at the ceremony took place away from, or moved away from the area demarcated "stage". The most popular breaking of the fourth wall was to have the performer walk down the aisles, in amongst the audience, a device that comes straight out of Brecht and has been used constantly ever since, to say "This is not what you think". (The strange thing about seeing this breaking of boundaries is of course that the vast majority of the audience saw the performances on television or online, ie, from behind a different wall). Then we had another classic of experimental theatre, the mimicking, mockery, celebration and reworking of endless theatrical formats; Opera and Classical music (from Jamie Foxx and T-Pain who burst forth from guises as operatic hero and conductor respectively to perform, Blame it on the Alcohol), Circus (from Pink who sang Glitter in the Air suspended from the ceiling), and Broadway revue (from Lady Gaga with her chorus line of dancers and undeniably cheesy faux Fritz Lang set) to name a few.
This reappropriation, loving and otherwise, of other genres is a well established trademark of contemporary theatre. We're familiar with Pina Bausch's characters dancing jives in the audience and Holly Hughes' ludicrous reworkings of melodramas, but who expected such riotous postmodern uproar to form the centrepiece of the Grammys? The Grammys for goodness sake - an event which usually reaches fever pitch upon the unveiling of Sheryl Crow's new hairdo. You can blame it on Gaga with her "I love art" soundbites if you like, but it's a trend that has been bubbling under for a while, since the non-event that was electroclash's crossover into the mainstream. (You can take it back of course to Prince, Bowie and Madonna, even Betty Davis, all of whom made highly theatrical stage shows, but let's be honest that particular mode of musical expresssion had to a large extent died out over the past 10-15 years).
The recent surge of popularity enjoyed by burlesque and cabaret most definitely influenced this new interest in the theatrical as a source of quotations for pop music, and both trends point to an eagerness felt by both performers and audiences alike to see/present work on a more immediate, interacitve way. The desire is to break away from a corporate, manufactured pop system, away from air brushed, vocal perfection, to connect with and to create something more real.
Oh, oh.
The real is of course staged, it HAS to be. Nobody is seriously interested in a Britney Spears video in which she cleans her teeth, takes a nap an worries about if she looks too fat (or whatever else approximates a typical day for her). No, the "real" has to be staged as something old fashioned, some pre-commercial dream, before MTV corrupted us all. The return of the performer, and the death of the spoilt diva. We want to feel that Mariah Carey is slogging her guts out in these difficult economic times, having to hustle harder than ever to get her record into the charts, we want to go right back to the start of the whole silly fantasy again, in the hope that we'll be washed clean by it, that it'll have a better ending this time around.
Hence the success of so many pop stars mining the blues tradition right now, specifically white soul/blues singers, girls who mimick Billie Holiday, Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald. This is not just the expected theft of black culture (not just) but a marvelous way for us to collectively indulge in a hallucination of the good old days that never were when everyone sang and acted as they really were (and please do ignore the irony of that sentence). And moreover let's not forget the inspiring success of Rage Against The Machine over the X-Factor winners in this year's Christmas chart. Wasn't that a true victory for real music? Actually no, it was a total double bluff, a herd of unthoughtful right-ons! steaming headlong into support for the alternative over the commercial, and proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no difference. The authentic is always far phonier than the artificial.
This replication, the phoney clones, (brought to our attention at the top of the show with Gaga's army of automatons) was best expressed in Beyonce's army of soldiers, the SWAT team who accompanied her onstage. A nod to the video for the song she was performing (If I were a Boy),the performance managed to be both self-referential and also an acknowledgment of source material (Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation for one). The countless replication of a single loaded image or object (in this case police) is of course a live art trope, but furthermore it acts here as an interesting restaging of Beyonce's own life, onstage. If you've ever been in the presence of someone as famous as Beyonce you'll know that the amount of bodyguards, and handlers surrounding her is not terribly overexaggerated in the number of soldiers escorting her at the Grammys.
(I'd like to go further and propose that Beyonce's show was a political one, a call for attention to the US' military ambitions in light of the new political system in Haiti, a call for action on Blackwater and an ironic image expressing her distaste for cultural imperialism - but maybe I'd be going too far). The oscilation between, the real and the fake, the authentic and the artificial, the staged and the natural is another well loved device of live art which has been borrowed (but not acknowledged) by pop.
Lady Gaga and Elton John
There was also an almost constant use of that other postmodern favourite, the smashing together of apparently incongrous texts. Again, Opera and hip hop, rock and rap, and Beyonce's hugely unnecessary (and very much cleaned up) rendition of You Oughtta Know. I'm all about intergenerational artworks, and I love collaborations, but was Stevie Nicks' appearance onstage with Taylor Swift at all necessary? (As far as I'm aware all it did was underscore the deep lack of character in Swift's songwriting and expose her frankly dire voice). Of course Ms Nicks was not the only grandmother to be pulled out of the pop music deep freeze, she was not the only lunatic to be dusted off and brought down from the attic. Slash made a pointless appearance with Drake, Eminem and Lil Wayne, a performance really only noteable for being the one part of the song not entirely blanked out by the silence of censorship. Likewise, Gaga had Elton John, who only a few years ago was tinkling the ivories for Eminem at the same ceremony. The two of them covered in ash, inside the pop culture incinerator was almost witty, though the deeply uninspired rendition of Your Song was as pointless as can be imagined.
Thrilling and spectacular as they were, off-the wall and at times unexpected, to be frank most of the performances (in their keeness to focus on star as performer) came off as contrived, overworked and yet fantastically empty. About nothing, purely stylistics (ironically, probably the hallmark criticism of the post modern theatre so many of the performances were mining) and lacking beauty, which is really what performance tries to achieve. The exceptions I suppose, are Drake/Eminem/Lil Wayne who really gave it something, and Pink, who's performance was so simple but breathtaking. In her nude Bob Mackie bodysuit, she was the essence of the whole body in performance, and she used that body to sprinkle the audience with a fine mist of water as she span above their heads. She presented something literally none of the other performers were capable of and she did it with a beautiful, trained poise, at once investigative and expressive. Hers was the perfect marriage of pop and theatre.
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What Can make Soothing Songs?Par naturalsounds2 dans Accueil le 26 Octobre 2016 à 11:02
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Audio will be the key into a thousand feelings. We associate tunes together with the areas we have been, the occasions we've skilled and the folks in our lives. Songs is all around us. There's no denying the usefulness of audio, so why not use it to impact our own emotions and improve our personalized environment? Calming audio, rest audio, meditation tunes... call it what you will. There is absolutely no issue that it could aid us to form our environment efficiently and might be changed to fit or influence our temper.
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In the present society, anywhere there is certainly radio, tv, cinema or maybe the net, we'll be uncovered to songs. Songs is all around us and it is a commodity so important which is employed by nearly every organization on the planet to market us their products and services. Very usually we've been completely oblivious on the seems drifting from individuals in-store speakers or the affect and drama of the action-movie soundtrack positioned in the auto advert. Audio is a complicated language that will express any emotion or conjure a reaction from any audience. In the exact same time tunes is simple and universally understandable.
We have been used to other folks using audio to impact our emotions and so conclusions. However, we hardly ever use music's positive aspects to help ourselves. Calming music or rest songs (also marketted as meditation audio or yoga audio) can be employed to relieve anxiety, unwind following a difficult working day at operate, market very good slumber or like a concentrate of focus for the duration of yoga or meditation. Like a composer, the idea of songs for leisure has fascinated me. For years, I have investigated the benefits of songs for health and wellbeing. Audio is just part of leisure, but could be the true secret to tranquil and relax brain and physique.
A great habit might be built; discover a really area, set function anxieties to one facet and permit by yourself time for you to unwind - dim the lights, light some candles or incense or no matter what you discover calming. Near your eyes and concentrate within the audio of your respective breath. Soak up exactly the same volume of air and breathe more time breaths but less usually. Relaxing music is a good target for an workout similar to this or any leisure technique. Listen to relaxation songs at a volume amount which is substantial ample to mask any qualifications sounds but not so large regarding be overbearing. In a hectic workplace or residence, headphones are beneficial.
The music shouldn't be way too distracting and will be very carefully composed to become easy to listen to. Audio needs to be upbeat but also interesting and different ample to capture the creativeness and grow to be a suitable emphasis for reduction. Character sounds boost the encounter as this assists you to think about a location of peace, relaxed, tranquility and serenity. It is advisable to use music created especially for peace, even though you may use any audio which you uncover particularly comforting. This system is most useful if it can be practiced for any considerable sum of your time - much more than 50 percent an hour or so. Nevertheless, it may be effective if used for simply a number of minutes at split times.
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The new Brisbane edition of Monopoly will feature some familiar local landmarks, but others haven't even been given the chance to pass "GO."
The board includes 22 local landmarks to replace the traditional London streets which make up the iconic version of the popular game.
South Bank and the Story Bridge have been slotted into the most expensive dark blue squares, while Mt Coot-Tha Lookout and Fortitude Valley have the dubious honour of being allocated the two cheapest squares.
But some major landmarks have missed out entirely, with locales such as Customs House and the Botanic Gardens not making the cut.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said the board reflects a snapshot of what Brisbane has to offer.
"Certainly all the great aspects of Brisbane have been reflected, and that's been the great thing about this Monopoly board game," Cr Quirk said.
In particular, Brisbane's City Hall didn't technically make the cut, although Cr Quirk said it was represented on the board by the Shingle Inn.
"Of course (Shingle Inn is) one of Brisbane's great landmarks, it has so much history, and that's why we brought it into City Hall when we did the renovation," he said.
Some of the other squares on the new board include The Gabba and Suncorp Stadium, standing in for the orange Marlborough and Vine Streets on the classic board, along with the Queen Street Mall standing in for the pink square Whitehall.
The layout of the board was partially decided by a public vote earlier this year.


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TALLADEGA, Ala. (April 17, 2011) -- Considering the bad luck that Regan Smith has endured the past two months you would think a 15th-place result would bring on a few smiles.
Not so.
In fact, it was more of a long face for the Furniture Row Racing driver following Sunday's Aaron's 499 Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.
"Guys, we were much better than 15th, no doubt about it," stated Smith to his crew after taking the checkered flag in the second of four superspeedway races of the season.
Smith later said, "We ran up front for most of the race but got shuffled back near the end and couldn't find the same drafting success we had earlier. These cars are so sensitive -- they can draft well with one car but not with another. I don't know why. But I do know that it was sure disappointing not mixing it up at the end and contending for the victory."
Smith's No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet was indeed one of the premier cars at the 2.66-mile oval.
Smith led five different times during the 188-lap race and it appeared that he would at least better his seventh-place finish he earned in the previous superspeedway event -- the season-opening Daytona 500.
"Our Furniture Row Chevrolet had the power to win this deal," said Smith. "Right now it's hard to take, but in a few days I'll probably look back and say, 'It was a pretty good day overall.' "
With 25 laps remaining in the race Smith radioed his crew chief Pete Rondeau and said, "I am happy with the car."
At that time Smith was easily running in the top five and enjoying drafting success with either Paul Menard or Dave Blaney. But a few laps later on Lap 169, Ryan Newman and Denny Hamlin got tangled in front of Smith, who did a brilliant driving job to avoid an accident. But the incident shuffled Smith back to 18th place and without his drafting partners that he teamed with for the majority of the race.
"It was nobody's fault, we got pushed back," explained Smith. "I hooked up with the 31 (Jeff Burton) and we just couldn't get a head of steam when we needed to. Again, it nobody's fault, just a quirk of superspeedway racing."
The race winner was Jimmie Johnson. Rounding out the top-five in order were: Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick.
The Sprint Cup Series will have the coming Easter weekend off. The next Cup race is Saturday night (April 30) at Richmond International Raceway.


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Action Paintball
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Action Paintball has the best playing fields in NSW. Paintball can be played by anyone over the age of 16. Whatever the occasion - birthdays, bucks, corporate events or just for fun. No skill level required to play.
Butterfly Farm - Indy 800 Kart Track
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Get behind the wheel of a V8 buggy or WRX turbo rally car. Introducing the most extreme V8 race cars on dirt - these machines are the ultimate in off-road racing. The only driving experience in Australia to offer you a fully race prepped V8 buggy for you to drive.
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Indoor trampoline park for tots to teens. The kids will love the 400 square metres of arena surface. Including Australia's longest continuous trampolines. Beginners to experts welcome.
Tobruk Sheep Station
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Tobruk Sheep Station, the most beautiful and most authentic rural experience in the Sydney region. An exciting, fun and interactive farm experience for all ages. Enjoy a hearty country BBQ lunch in the Woolshed Restaurant or BYO. Show runs weekdays and weekends. Bookings essential.
Trees Adventure
Grose River Park, 200 Springwood Road, Yarramundi NSW 2753
02 4776 1226
Located on the Grose River with courses soaring through the beautiful Sydney Blue Gum canopy. Offering 5 levels of difficulty (from beginners low and easy to thrill seekers at 26m), 10 courses, 110 challenges including more than 20 flying foxes. This adventure park is the biggest of its kind in Australia.
Wild Animal Encounters Foundation
Wilberforce, NSW 2756
0404 058 039
The WAE Foundation is a not for profit organisation located in the beautiful Hawkesbury. Our Conservation Centre is the only one of its kind in Australia that is focused on the preservation and conservation of exotic animal species, with a particular focus on cats. Private tours of our Centre can be arranged by appointment only. During this 90 minute guided tour of the centre you will go behind the scenes and learn about the WAE Foundation's conservation efforts.
Windsor Tenpin Bowl
102 Ham Street, Windsor NSW 2756
02 4587 8777
Take the family and friends to enjoy a fantastic tenpin bowling experience - great for rainy days! Family fun days, birthday parties catered for, licenced café and more.
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The research team supervised by professor Wilfried Mokwa researches microsystems for implantation into human tissue. Research projects include retinal implants, pressure sensors in the portal vein or implantable glucose sensors for diabetes patients.
Professor Uwe Schnakenberg researches microsystems for sensing and actuation on small fluid volumes. Current projects include lab-on-chip systems for diagnosis on tumor markers by electrical impedance spectroscopy and surface acoustic wave sensors as well as actuators for mechanobiological investigation on cell functions and differentiation.


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In case you missed it, here's Part One!
After two months of not utilizing my yoga membership to it's full value (I was only attending one class a week, if at any), I began to research other studios and gyms that worked better with my work schedule. Many of the studios I found were even more expensive (at least $150/mo) than what I was paying at Yogaworks. I thought about just ditching a membership altogether and pay per class at a handful of the studios I liked but as drop in rates range from $25-$35 per class, that could add up and cost even more than the cost of a monthly membership. I was beginning to get discouraged… until my boyfriend reminded me about ClassPass.
After reviewing the studios offered and finding that I was interested in more than a handful, I put my Yogaworks membership on a freeze and signed myself up for ClassPass!
Kettlebell Kickboxing (2), Sal Anthony's Movement Salon (2), Sky Ting Yoga, (2), Pure Barre Union Square (1), AKT UES (1), Exhale Central Park South (2), Uptown Pilates (1), The Bar Method SoHo (2), Flex Studios Union Square (1), Drive495 (1), Yogaworks Union Square (1)
After my first month of ClassPass, I managed to fit in 16 classes across 11 studios and gyms! After my first week I was so proud of myself for the streak of classes I had attended — this was more classes than I had gone to in the last few months combined! I was able to get back into Kettlebell Kickboxing and I had the opportunity to try the studios I've always been curious about.
I've always been interested in attending a pilates reformer class but it always intimidated me — I attended Beginner's classes at Sal Anthony's Movement Salon and because of the date/time I choose to go, the classes I've attended end up being a private instruction! These accidental private instruction class were great and my instructor did a great job at introducing the reformer/tower to me. That alone would normally cost $65-$85/hr! Knowing that I was already saving money got me excited to dabble in other exercises I've always been curious about.
I had attempted the barre class Yogaworks offered a few months after I had gotten my Yogaworks membership and although the idea of barre class seemed to be my speed, I found myself hating it after taking that one class. Now that I had access to a handful of the most talked about barre classes I was down to try another class and convince myselfl that I would eventually come to love barre classes. It's difficult to reserve a spot in the barre classes offered through ClassPass (due to the popularity of the studios offered) but I was able to get a spot with Pure Barre in Union Square. Class was just as tough as I remembered it being but I wasn't going to give up barre classes just yet. After Pure Barre, I tried seeing how classes differed at The Bar Method and Physique 57 (both were SoHo locations). I don't quite love barre classes after a month, but I do like it enough to continue to reserve a weekly class!
I'd attend classes again at all the studios I went to this month, except for one. I was initially excited to try AKT in Motion as Anna Keiser is known as a celebrity trainer and just by the fun, energetic demonstrations I'd seen on Live! with Kelly & Michael and Good Morning America. I was still excited about 10 – 20 minutes into the exercise (think Zumba with weights and resistance bands) but then the air conditioner never kicked in. All the excitement I had built up since trying to reserve a class (these classes are hard to get a spot!) was quickly drained from my body and soul. In fact, the studio heats the room which isn't necessary because you're already sweating from all the movement. I couldn't breathe because of how hot the room had gotten! Also, the music was crazy loud in which the instructor had to scream instructions into her mic for everyone to hear. I will say that I'm really impressed with the energy the instructor had as she was doing each movement with the class for the entire hour — she could've probably ran a marathon afterwards with all the energy she exuded. I'm glad that I had tried the studio and can say that it wasn't for me.
I'm feeling good after one month of being active and I can't wait to try more of the studios that ClassPass offers! My main goal for working out is to be more active and increase my strength and if losing weight happens as a result of those goals, then yay! If I can stay motivated to get myself moving more and being more active, I'm in a better place than I was yesterday!
Interested in joining Classpass? Click here for $20 off your first month!


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Industry News
Is Another Mortgage Price War On the Cards?
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There's exciting news for those with larger deposits looking to move or get on the property ladder this month. HSBC has recently announced its all new 1.16% two-year fixed-rate mortgage. Although borrowers will need to have a considerable deposit (35% plus a product fee of £1,499), this is an impressive price slash. But this fresh, low-cost mortgage could be the tip of the iceberg, with many in the industry predicting a price war between providers as they fight to gain market share. Although HSBC's interest rate is the lowest 'fixed' on the market today, there are indications that other lenders are lining up to make their offerings more competitive too – albeit, not in terms of price. Yet. Here's a quick overview of some of the major changes in the market over the past month: – Barclays: The bank's "family springboard" guarantor mortgage's upper limit has been raised to 100%. – Halifax: The maximum age for borrowers has been raised at Halifax. – Nationwide: Here too, maximum ages have been raised, while "small deposit" mortgage interest rates have been reduced. The competition now bubbling under the surface amongst mortgage providers is yet to really kick into action and has not yet driven rates to an all-time low. That low hit in July 2015, when the Post Office offered a 1.05% mortgage rate with a 40% deposit. Perhaps hampered by fears about the potential for market disturbance caused by the upcoming Brexit vote, mortgage lenders have not yet pushed their rates to record-breaking levels. With many providers appearing to be arming themselves for a fresh battle for new business, we may see record-breaking rates and a full-blown mortgage price war in the not too distant future. This time, however, many industry commentators believe the real battlefield will not be mortgage rates, but lending criteria. With both Halifax and Nationwide relaxing criteria over the last month to entice new customers, perhaps it's the T&Cs, not the headline interest rate, which borrowers should really be paying attention to to secure the best deal? Do you think mortgage rates could reach an all-time low this year? Do you have a large enough deposit to take advantage of a price war? Have your say below, or for personalised mortgage advice and expert brokering, contact the JMB team today on 0800 114 3575.


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A more corporate venue to work out of for TAA
by Joe Chang
Hi Everyone,
I have some exciting news! Along with our public-facing venue at MOTAT (where we will continue to run events and user testing) we will now also have a more corporate venue to work out of for The Arcade Auckland. It's currently in Eden Terrace (32 Shaddock Street). We are looking to start there next week Wednesday 11am.
Watch this space for more details!
Let me know if you're interested to come by 🙂
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A little off the normal subject, but we will get around to fees eventually. Would or should you recommend a child or a friend's child going to law school these days?
There has been a change in the legal profession over the past few years. As the housing bubble burst and the economy slowed down, things have happened in law schools great and not so great. Graduates stopped getting jobs that paid wages with little tie to the general economic forces.
New lawyers with little legal value to add to the work done for clients were being paid wages greater than the professors who taught them what they knew. Law firms apparently were buying into the concepts promoted by author Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, where expertise comes in the early immersion into a field. Sometimes considered the 10,000 hour rule, a person has a chance to become extraordinary at a subject after spending more than 10,000 hours working on the skill.
One firm is alleged to demand 3,000 billable hours from its young lawyers. A legal billing expert, John Conlon asserts that a lawyer will normally spend about 3 hours in the office for every two billable hours properly produced. With the firm apparently requiring 4500 hours out of the total annual 8760 hours (8784 during the leap year), 51.3% of the year must be at the office.
I am not an alarmist, and I do not think the legal profession is falling apart. Thirty years ago people were making the same kinds of claims, such as there are too many law students, the law students are spending too much money going to law school, they are taking on too much debt, and there are not enough good jobs to feed all the graduates. I trust the marketplace over the long haul. Yes Congress has recently made the debt nondischargeable, and the amounts are bigger than they were (my educational debt was about 1/2 my first year wages). And for the recent graduates, it is tough out there. Many will leave the field of law, but they leave it with an education that will benefit them in whatever they do.
Good law grads are now moving into positions that mediocre lawyers once took, and that is good for the retail clients who need legal services. When the best and brightest went into wholesale law (working on projects that affected small parts of business operations) the retail practice (dealing with the people who actually live with the result of the legal service) suffered. Now it should get stronger, and that is good for the clients.
What does this have to do with fees? Excess supply of a fungible product drives prices down. Legal services are marginally fungible, in that for some things it does not pay to have the best and brightest. The fees for those fungible services are now more negotiable, and trending flat. The more expertise a lawyer has in the field, approaching the Outlier standard, the more value the lawyer brings to the client, and the fees are holding steady or moving up.
I might recommend to a high school student to keep the law as one option, but for the college junior I may suggest culinary school. It seems to be a good choice for the short run. Law school can wait and many good schools want students with real life experience. Having worked in a restaurant a few times, I know the owners and managers learn how to work and work hard. That is the true skill a potential law student needs to know coming into law school.
A great new article came out in the January 2012 American Bar Association Journal, written by Professor Bill Henderson at Maurer Law, and Rachel Zahorsky of the Journal. It focuses on the economics of the law student loan programs and future of the profession. The Law School Bubble focuses on the issue from a different angle. Good job Bill and Rachel. 12-30-11


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This afternoon, the House Intelligence Committee voted to approve the release of the much-anticipated memo, authored by Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA).
According to the Daily Caller, the memo alleges that top officials in the Department of Justice and the FBI "misled a federal surveillance court in order to obtain a spy warrant against a former Trump campaign adviser."
The release of the so-called "Nunes memo" was approved on a party-line vote (13 – 9), with all Democratic members of the committee voting against its release to the public.
While congressional members are prohibited from publicly discussing its contents, the memo is said to claim that, "…top FBI and DOJ officials relied on the unsubstantiated Steele dossier to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on Carter Page, an energy consultant who served on the Trump campaign."
According to the Daily Caller, one of those top DOJ officials which the memo allegedly exposes is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is reported to have renewed a secret surveillance warrant last April against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Amid concerns of the contents of the memo, Fox News reported that FBI Director Christopher Wray went to capital Hill on Sunday to view the memo himself. Coincidentally, following Director Wray's review of the memo, Disobedient Media reported this morning that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe would be stepping down from the bureau.
Last week, The Hill reported that in response to the release of this memo, Democratic members of the committee, led by ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), have announced that they plan to release their own memo in order to, "…counter the claims of Republicans on the panel that law enforcement officials are biased against the Trump administration."
According to Rep. Schiff (D-CA), Democrats must release their own memo "setting out the relevant facts and exposing the misleading character of the Republicans' document" and to clear the air."
Schiff went on to characterize the Republican memo as simply, "another effort to distract from the Russia probe and undermine the special counsel."
Much to the Democratic member's dismay, the release of the minority memo to the general public was ultimately voted down on a party-line vote. However, as reported by Byron York of the Washington Examiner, the committee voted unanimously to make the minority's counter-memo available to all House members — the same process initially followed with GOP memo.
In a press conference after the vote, Schiff stated that he was worried about the lasting damage that will be done to "our institutions" as a result of the release of this information to the general public.
Schiff stated that he had not seen any abuse by the FBI in surveillance and that this release is simply a distraction from the Russia probe. Schiff further claimed that Republican members of the committee were only concerned about releasing the memo because it would ultimately be favorable to the President.
In closing, Schiff stated that the vote by the committee today did not in any way mean that the investigation into so-called "Trump-Russia collusion" would be coming to an end.
However, today's vote to approve the release of the memo to the public is not the final step. Before the memo can be released to the general public, it must go to the White House, where the President has a period of five days to either approve or disapprove of its release.
But as previously reported The Washington Times, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has already voiced the administration's support for the release of the memo, stating: "We certainly support full transparency…It sounds like there are some members in the House that have some real concern with what's in that memo, and feel very strongly that the American public should be privy to see it."
Disobedient Media will continue to follow this story as it develops.


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One of my favourite Christmas past times is travelling to the Northern Hemisphere and having a beautiful White Christmas! It's important when you're expecting a cold Christmas to pack warm, comfortable clothes. Our Urban Prima top is perfect for a day of wandering the ski resort.
Not sure where to stay? The Altapura is a magnificent 5 star hotel on the South-Eastern border of France. Set back from the lively centre of Val Thorens, it offers a fantastic skiing experience accompanied by exceptional scenery. A must visit for any Urban Prima.
Now that you're all curled up on the couch in front of the fireplace ready to unwrap presents, make sure you're nice and cozy from the inside out with this delicious eggnog recipe from Jamie Oliver.