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Sky River Rock Festival
|Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair
|Rock, psychedelic rock, blues
|Labor Day Weekend
|Skykomish River, Sultan, Tenino, Washougal, Washington, United States
|Years active
|13,000 (tickets)
The Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair was a historic rock festival held on a raspberry farm on the Skykomish River outside Sultan, Washington. It was first held between August 31 to September 2, 1968. It was the first multi-day outdoor hippie rock festival at an undeveloped site.[citation needed] The line-up included bands such as the Grateful Dead and Santana.[1] The festival was held the next year on August 30 and September 1, 1969 in Tenino, Washington, and finally on August 28 until September 8, 1970 in Washougal, Washington.[2]
"The Piano Drop": On April 28 1968, approximately 3,000 fans attended a rock concert at a farm in Duvall, Washington where an upright piano was dropped from a helicopter. Performances included Country Joe and the Fish. This event inspired the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair which occurred later that year.[3]
The first Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair', took place on August 28 through September 3, 1968; the town of Sultan, Washington was visited by approximately 4,000-5,000 young people during the festival.[2] Though the event was ticketed, many people showed up without tickets and snuck in. The promoters claimed to have lost $6,000, although proceeds were to be donated to the Mexican American Federation of Washington, the Foundation for American Indian Rights and the Central Area Peace and Improvement Cooperative.[1] The Camlin Hotel hosted performers for the festival.[citation needed]
Bands and musicians scheduled in the lineup were; the Grateful Dead, Santana, Country Joe and the Fish, Richard Pryor, Dino Valente, Freedom Highway, Blues Feedback, Sandy Bull, Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, John Fahey, Byron Pope Ensemble, H.P. Lovecraft, Pink Floyd (On the poster but was in Europe at the time and did not play), Country Weather, Easy Chair, Floating Bridge, Frumious Bandersnatch, New Lost City Ramblers, It's a Beautiful Day, My Indole Ring, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Billy Roberts, Alice Stuart Thomas, Josh White, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Juggernaut, Phoenix, Sons of Champlin, Mystic Knights of the Sea, Gale Garnett's band The Gentle Reign (sans Garnett), The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Marble Farm, The Allman Joys, Black Snake Boogie, Flamin' Groovies, Salvation, Anonymous Artists of America.[citation needed][4]
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The festival was held on August 30 and September 1, 1969, in Tenino, Washington.[2]
Sky River III was held 1970 in Washougal, Washington. One of the longest-duration festivals, lasting 10 days from August 28 until September 8, with daily attendance in excess of 10,000 on some days. Over 40 bands were featured on the event posters.[5]
In 1970 the nucleus of the Air Pirates cartoonist collective met at the Sky River Rock Festival. Bay Area residents Ted Richards and Bobby London met Shary Flenniken and Dan O'Neill at the media booth, where Flenniken was producing a daily Sky River newsletter on a mimeograph machine. Before the festival was over the four of them produced a four-page tabloid comic, Sky River Funnies, mostly drawn by London.[6]
In 1971, the Festival venue changed and was held (for the last time) at a farm by the Satsop River, in Grays Harbor County, Washington, billed as "The Satsop River Fair and Tin Cup Races". However, although they were there, along with the Ikettes, Ike and Tina Turner are not mentioned on other sites, despite a few pages with descriptions of the festival and other musicians.[citation needed] Some of the other acts being: Country Joe & the Fish; Jesse Colin Young (as key member of The Youngbloods); Eric Burdon and War; the Steve Miller Band; Quicksilver Messenger Service; Earth, Wind & Fire and more.[7]
In 1968 Billy Roberts played at the Sky River Rock Festival, and jammed with Big Mama Thornton, James Cotton, and members of the Grateful Dead.[8] His friend Dino Valenti was also on the bill.[2] The event took place on a farm near town. The line-up included Santana, Grateful Dead, The Youngbloods, Country Joe and the Fish, It's a Beautiful Day, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, John Fahey and guitarist Sandy Bull.
Colby Street performed with Sue Draheim (Tenino, Washington in 1968 and 1969), called themselves "Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show". The band consisted of Sue Draheim, Jim Bamford, Mac Benford, and Will Spires.[9][10]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Paul de Barros (2011-08-12). "1968's Sky River Rock Festival revisited Friday". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
- ^ a b c d Sky River poster. SKY RIVER ROCK FESTIVAL AND LIGHTER THAN AIR FAIR - III. The Sky River Story
- ^ Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 110-112, 255.
- ^ "Photographic image of poster". Historylink.org. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair III". Skyriverlives.com. 1970-09-08. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
- ^ Patrick Rosenkranz (2002). Rebel visions: the underground comix revolution, 1963-1975. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1-56097-464-2.
- ^ "ROCK Festival, SATSOP RIVER, flyers (2) handbill RARE! | #171273195". Worthpoint.com. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "Music & nightlife | 1968's Sky River Rock Festival revisited Friday | Seattle Times Newspaper". Web.archive.org. December 11, 2014.
- ^ "North California Groups - Dr. Humbead'S New Tranquility String Band And Medicine Show". deaddisc.com. 1966-10-15. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
- ^ Malone, Bill C. (2011). Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p.153. ISBN 0807835102

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In sleep tho process of digestion, assimilation and repair g-o on, with only ii slifrht subsidence of temperature, pulse and respiration, while muscular sensibility is much deadened; but in hibernation, muscles respond to small electric currents which in the ordinary state would cau.se no effect, yet both recuperation and waste remain in n more or less inactive condition. Respiration ceases—often so completely that the . creature may be imim-rsod i» water or poisonous ;,'!ises fur a lonjr season find revive. Tin- blood, Ix-inf,' thus uno\i- di/L'd, stimulates tho heart to tho faintest action only. Perhaps the increased irritability iilonc enables it to perform; for tho control of tho bruin over the boilv seems siispundtMl and consciousness departs. ' The involuntary muscles, seem to draw their norve Torre from the ^'ang-lia outside- of the brain or tho spinal marrow. If the arteries be tied, 1'ie In-art "f <'t (Ur;i pita ted animal will bi-al live times lony-cr in hiberna,- : lion than in the onlinary state. Tile H-miKTiiture of tiiummals sinks to that n! the surroumliiiH 1 tnoi'.inm. I In thi^ fact and tin- circulation of venous blood through the arteries j they show a tendency to resort to tin; ; condition of the cold-blooded creatures. \Ve ai'O apt to associate liiffli i temperature with locomotion. In fact . a rapid oxidation of the blood seems both an essential and a consequence of work—hence great accompanying- waste. Hibernation, therefore, while. ! amassed abundant testimony ol otner days, but no scientist now believes it : although we do not yet know where cither the Kiironerm or Ani"rii'nn swift spends its winters. Hibernation therefore mny be a possibility to all creatures, since we tind innonfr the mammals the most perfect hearted practicing it. Thorn- is credits'ble testimony that in India men have pone into voluntary suspension of all the functions—been buried for weeks and resuscitated by another \vho understood the process. Since the tendency of modern biology is to prove that all life has come np from the orders below, and they form a germ, and since germs are capable of retaining life in a dormant «tjite for a long time, it might therefore be argued that all creatures by the tendency of reversion to type may be capable of a torpid condition under the proper environment. Man in the future cycles may be able thus to avert ; the Mallhusuin catastrophe by shelving himself in times of scarcity or shelving all tho family, with one or two alone remaining awake to arouse tho others at the proper season. Doubtless the return of the seasons in polar aud temperate regions is a rhythm of these hibernating and awakening circumstances, and "in the spring" the turning of the "young man's fancy" is bnt in keeping with the general law. 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When C'-itiually examined, no two leaves or llowers, though of the same species, appear exactly alike; much less would such complex organisations as human hands be found without difference. General conclusions can therefore be drawn from the shape and size of the hands ah to strength, suppleness, circulation of blood, temperament, and the si/.e of the form to which they belong. Hut even here :i large margin mlist be allowed for departures from general • rules. Huge hands are sometimes the mortification of small a:id otherwise beautiful women, while giants are found with small feet and hands. Sometimes large feet and diminutive hands are possessed by the same persons. \Valkerand Darwin observed that the hands of the children of hi boring men n re larger from birth than those of persons whose ancestors have lived idle lives, or have been engaged in vocations not requiring the use of the hands. Though such children might become renowned for intellectuality or prolieieney in art. the large hand might be transmitted to several generations. What is justly allowed tocliirogiiomy is true of every other part of the body, in its proportionate relation to the sum of human activity. With these rational conclusions the votary of palmistry will not be content. It is mystery he seeks, and a power to read the past, present and future, which nature has denied to man. * * * * * The sole and sufiicient cause of different lines in dill'orent persons is the difference in the shape and size of the hands, elasticity of skin, strength and use of the muscles, and external pres- j sure. There-fore the hands of different ' persons are nut alike, nor tile hands of the same person. Mr. I-'raiieisWalton's remarks, in his work "Finger 1'rints,' 1 are to the point: "The palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are covered with two totally distinct classes of marks. The most conspicuous arc the creases or folds of the skin, which interest the followers of palmistry, but which are no more significant to others than the creases in old clothes; they show the lines of most frequent fixture, and nothing more. ..." For lines to be an indication of anything mental, moral or emotional, it would be necessary for them to bo evolved under the influence of nerves connected with the brain centers, in which the said intellectual and moral qualities inhere; bnc superinduced from tho periphery, they can mean nothing except more or less of different motions and uses.—Itev. J. M. liuckley, D.D., in Century. ANIMALS WHICH HfflKUNATg. "*,..." in no sense a condition of repair, is one of tho strictest economy. It may bo said to be a rythmical recurrence, as natural as sleep, dependent upon natural conditions. I'ets among- hibernators have this tendency ut the approach_^)f winter, thouph the temperature of the room be that of summer, while on the contrary animals that hibernate- north arc- active tho year through further south. ICven the frog has been made U> keep awake all winter by proper surronndiiifrs. It might be thought that cold only was the inducing cause of this sleep, were it not well known that certain ireatvax-s o£ the tropics resort to a torpid state (called icstivatioii) to avoid Lho drought and heat of those regions. They ball themselves in mini, and, baked dry, exhibit all the phenomena of true hibernation. Since the condition in tho higher aniuial.N sei-ni.*- one of n cold-Wooded state, we miffht expect tin- faculty to be more largely <te- :elopcd in simple hearted families, vhich is indeed the CHKO. All cold- blooded creatures fo into this condition easily and early -except li.sh—only few of "which, like the eels, etc., are mown to grow torpid. Hut this^ ex- t-ption is largely because the I'flyets of eiivironincnt t-omo in afjain. They •an kei.-p in a temperature that never 'allsbelow thirty-two decrees. Should th'.-y be frozen stilt' into ice they Ju.sc iOii'scioiisness, but may often bo revived by warmth. Extreme cold, however, is as fatal to hibcrnatiiif,' animals as to any others, so that they usually take jrood care to fret beyond the frost limit as well as to conceal themselves from disturbance. Because of the excitability of the heart, it ia said that soroe.hibernators may be stimulated to death by sudden awaken- Now hibernation ranges in dejrrco from this complete torpor to ot.vusm/i- il drowsy spells which, in the loss o{ consciousness, are only a little below ordinary sleep. Many mammals, like the porcupine, skunks, etc., abstain from food and activity for weeks, but cannot be said to truly hibernate. iveu the birds, that have the most active hearts and highest temperature, fast through lontf blizzards. The Insky grouse of the Rocky mountains ,a thought to spend tho entire winter in the tops of tall trees, Tmrely existing- on scant buds and snow drops. That hibernate, there ha* been seem it is among- the spormophlles or scud-lovers that it generally prevails. They are a pouch-Cheeked family with both tho means and instinct of storing winter supplies—a condition it would seem favorable to activity, while beavers, muskrats, hares, moles, etc.. that depend on growing things, and weasels, minks, skunks, opossums, etc., that depend largely on living- things, have never acquired the habit. The" seed-storing habit, however, implies that in the warmer day:; of winter these creatures awake and take food. Prominent among tlio.se are tho squirrels (spermophilcs) ground squirrels (tamias) gophers (goom.ys) and to a certain extent our common trne squirrels. The 'marmots, including- our wootlohnck or ground hog and the various species of prairie dogs of the west, are very similar to the sper- mophiles in their torpor, but their food is much more succulent, and much less capable of being .stored. This may account for the traditional February appearance of tlie wixttluliuck, for if ho wakes and is hungry he must come abroad to eat. The"only remaining mammals that I can now recall which hibernate are yur bats. They seek caverns and crevices and hang up by the thumbs and toes the winter through. It is said, however, that their diurnal sleep exhibits all the physiological phenomena of true hibernation. It is well known that insects and spiders hibernate. The continuation of tho species of many—like the common house rty-dojxinds upon it. Some of our butterflies hibernate, some emigrate, others live only through the winter in the chrysalis condition. Even some caterpillars lie dormant outside ,,!' a. cocoon. The "woolly bear" or ••i'.-ver worm" of the tiger moth may of!en be si-en crawling about in the ,-u-iv wanti .lays. All our air-breathing i:ioliu:,ks go into torpidity early. Our i-Miiurio-i snail is an interesting example l!v collecting a few in the early fall it may 1m observed how they seal tiu'insclvx-s up for this purpose. I Perhaps the first creature not an in- s,-cttoshow its release from the continuous torpor of winter is tho little cricket frog whose "peep" usually Indicates tho departure of frost ^J^ne earth. JAMKS^ When • p»n gets itohcnm SHOOTING DEER FROM TREES. The OrlKlim 1 Method of tho Kntlv* Hunt- <-r» ol Arkttima". In the apple-growing- regions of Arkansas the natives have a way of deer- shooting entirely original with themselves. Deer love apples, and in the vast orchards they go to feed. Not only do the deer oat the apples, but when the fruit is all gathered they turn their attention to the bark on the young trees and the branches of the older ones. In the fall, when the apples are plentiful, the native watches for deer signs, and when he locates the trees which the deer frequent he goes to work gathering the fruit, always leaving two or,three trees unpicked that bear the favorite npple of the deer. After the fruit gathering is over lie turns his attention to harvesting venison. The deer co;ne to the orchards to feed ill the night, and i when daylight comes hie away in j some secluded hollow and sleep. When j the moon is in the first quarter the na! live takes his gun, and goes out j in the early evening to lay for the deer. Generally two or three hunters scatter out about the apple trees that are left full fruited to lure the deer to destruction. They climb into the bronchi's of trees a short, distance from the ones that still bear the fruit, and remain silent and motionless to await the coming of the fsnine. Shotguns are, the weapons and bnchshot the ammunition used. Usually the hunters do not have long to wait before they can hear the deer approaching. The game comes cautiously, and it is sometimes an hour after the game lias been sighted or heard before he presents himself at tlie apple tree where he feeds. From a station in a tree the writer watched one night for an hour and a half, and during all the time deer were sight, but not close enough to shoot. At hist asplcndid buck came up on the opposite side of the tree and began reaching upaad picking the apples Presently a doe also put in an appearance. 1 sat there admiring the pair, waiting for them to move around a little to give me u. better shot, when "bang!" "bang!" in rapid succession my companion's gun sounded, about oue hundred yards from where I was stationed, startling the beauties that I liacl considered as good as dead, and as they started off I tried to get my g»n in position to shoot as they ran, my foot slipp'.'l. anil down I went in a her.p on the ground. My companion, however who had fired the shots, was more successful- When 1 reached him he had a buck and doe lying- beside the annb, t.r*«. '""1 was lust in the act of W HAT 9O YOU takemetHcln* >kl , Jvnau-.su vou wanttogetwett, or keep \ voil « ot - ll <*««« Remember Hood'f 8ar«aparltta Cure* The Peddler Tells You, possibly, that Pearline is too good for ordinary uses; he says, "of . x? course it's nice enough for /l^\ delicate things, but what I ) 7 have is just as yood for srr:;"> \& bin";, scouring, etc.. ami ;s ' cheaper." Now, w: say this: Pearline is the best to use f-,r everything, and the best is the clva;;- est, in the end. It does its v. <;rk better—more easily, more quickly, more satisfactorily, more safely. Pearl, ine is cheap enough for any use. These " imitations are dear at any price and 'or almostany purpose. 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His record tlie season was twenty-seven deer, nil killed in the same orchard, which covered an area of about one hundred acres.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat, HE DINED WITH THE QUEEN, <- Sill.I tlHM-0 ;is tin: deer ill until nour not that night. 1 M. nit'lit, iiiul the f His record for ! ,r, Hat It JVlnilc- Him HO Mad That Ufi Longed to KinHHli Tlilugi. "Once, and only once in ray life," said a well-known diplomat who now represents England as ambassador to one of the first-class missions, "I was a rampant, red-hot republican, and for twenty-four hours would have srladly seen our monarchical institutions destroyed forever. '1 was attache at the time at one of the small South American places and had been sent home on a special mission with dispatches to present to the queen and foreign minister. I was only a youngster, it being my first year of service, and no words can express m}' sense of my own importance, as well as the importance of the ufl'uir with which 1 was intrusted. "So I WHS quite prepared ou my arrival in London to receive a personal communication from the queen's private secretory commanding my attendance nt Windsor, with the intimation that it was tho roy;il pleasure that I should dine and sleep at the palace. ".Nevertheless the actual reception of the mission with its large envelope and ollieia) seal filled me with boyish deliK-K- Visions of special favor and immediate preferment, as well as of the brilliant society in which I was to be thrown, glimmered through my brain, anil wiring Sir that I would wait ui)0ii her majesty immediately, and having been cautioned by my chief ag-ainsf any delay. J tool; the first practicable train to Windsor. "It rather hurt my dignity on my arrival at the station to be obliged to | ",,,, to my door. 1 :il a iiLtio ueiora ,'ight o'clock. "Having- finally found an attondaafc who seemed to know where to take, me, I was conducted to a large drawing- room, where there wero several jjroups af well dressed men and women, all talking- together and taking not the slightest notice of mo. After a few minutes a sort of flutter of expectation made itbelf observable. "Those who wero sitting rose: a couple of footmen opened a door, stationing- themselves ou either side', and a quiet, rather cross-looking little elderly lady entered tho room, followed by half a dozen ladies and g-entlemen. "Bow the rest happened 1 do not remember; there seemed to be n gener-al movement, and 1 found myself iu tho next room seated at a table between two men who were perfect strangers to me and who talked across to each other, barely recojrni/.iugmy existence. "Fortunately for my patience the dinner was not long-. The queen gave- the signal, every one rose, acd with 3. slight bow on her part and deep obeisance and curtesies on the part of those present, she left the room for her private apartments. And this was my dinner with the queon! "Afterward followed one of the most miserable hours I have ever spent. Utterly neglected and too shy to assert myself, I stood it as long as 1 could, and. finally betook mysi-lf to my room, feeling- the most intense hatred for- both royalty and the aristocracy in general. "At eight o'clock the next morning my breakfast was brought, to mo on a tray, and with it a card from tho master of ceremonies, stating- that I was to have an audience at ten o'clock. "At the hour named I was ushered into the presence—not of the queen, but of her private secretary. Sir -. who received me politely. Died my dispatches and—dismissed me, leaving me to find my way to tin; station as best I. could. "They say that those things are man- for the subalterns, -- ... _"", better now ___ ... take a rickety-looking 83', for 1 verily | }, ut jf there ever was a red-hot socialist believe if I had found a chariot with i ] wils that man on my w: outriders I should not have been astonished, or deeihod it inconsistent with the dig-nity of the occasion. "On my arrival at the castle, however, my pride received another shock by my boinf; sent, by supercilious lackeys to several doors before I effected an entrance. "Finally sorno head steward or butler looked at a list, and then at my card. London.— JC. Y. Tribune. way back to. «,u»i;u HI, u. uni. .vuu ,,.,1." .,.._.-., wcrc usc< j i n the erection ol nodded, and consigned me to an auto- , d f L bridpe , vhich is rc matonin livery, who led mo through e[)f:rincers as ilul i c;itiu)r c<: circuitous passages, up several pairs 01 | ^^ ^ won( , crfal as t] narrow stairs, showed me into a bare little bedroom, put down my. traps, which he actually had had the kindness to carry for me. and with the words, 'Dinner at eight with the queen," left me to my own device*. "It was then only three o'clock, and I had had no luncheon, i sat down on the edge of my be-.:, the most disillu- sionnu person in (Jreat Hrilain. All through that weary afternoon 1 waited in vain for a summons, not daring to absent myself for fear of committing itome solecism in official etiquette. "Toward evening, however, my spirits revived. 'I shall see the queen now mtall events, 1 I thought to myself; and making a careful toilet J left my room (where, by the way, not tho slightest attention had been shown to rae, not water having been A FmnouH ItrhlKB. One of the sights of China is the antique bridge of Snen-Tehen Fow, tw,> thousand five hundred feet long and twi-ntv feet wiiio. It has on each side fifty-two piers, upon which huge stories are laid, some of them twenty lu^o long. Many thousand Ions of stone ,vere used in the erection of this won- R-arded by constructive that which raised the Egyptian pyramids. —Toledo Jllade. _ .:..._ • Two St€M»!K. liullion— Well, old man, bow's business? Dead broke (dejc.:tcilly)— <». terrible. lam worried to death. All my ventures have failed. Bullion— My dear fellow, don't worry so. You miisn't dwell "pon your losses. IX'iidbroke— Ah, that's just the trouble. 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So shoot me: at the end of the day (and the beginning, if it comes to that), in the high-definition show business of politics — as in everything else — looks matter. Appearance, whether we like it or not, has become the coin of the realm, the locus of our conversation: in our image-saturated, relentlessly scrutinizing Visual Age, we trade in it, subliminally or overtly, whether we are talking of Victoria Beckham or Hillary Clinton. "All meaningful discourse seeks to end appearances," the sociologist Jean Baudrillard observes in his landmark 1979 book, "Seduction," but then goes on to note that "it is also an impossible undertaking."
Appearances have always mattered to some degree, for women more than for men, although this distinction is fast eroding. In more sober Victorian times, well before the advent of celebrity-cellulite sightings and Web sites such as Awfulplasticsurgery.com, Charlotte Brontë was patronized for being homely — a veritable mieskeit — by William Thackeray when she finally ventured out of her spinster's existence on the Yorkshire moors and into London society. No matter that she had written the incomparable "Jane Eyre" or that she had dedicated its second edition to Thackeray himself. And well before fashion magazines concocted the notion of power dressing, the extravagant Louis XIV draped himself in fabrics embroidered with gold and silver threads and embellished with diamonds in keeping with the Christian moral tradition that emphasized hierarchical rank through clothing. In that far-off time, before the invasion of the camera's eye, a person wasn't assigned a noble pedigree or social standing because of some inner radiance or aspect of worthiness that he or she exuded — just as there is nothing inherently inspiring about this or that celebrity whose doings are meticulously tracked. You were assessed then as we are largely assessed now, by your projected style, by the way you wear your self.
These days we are constantly checking out the person behind the platform to see how well they live up to the image we have of them, as if we were considering hiring them to play on our team. (And in matters of visceral response, the Female Gaze is every bit as harsh as — if not harsher than — the Male Gaze.) Leadership is a commodity, and the voter has become a buyer. The result is that realpolitik looks increasingly like that old TV show "To Tell the Truth," in which three contestants pretended to be the same person until finally the real one — let's call her Hillary Clinton — was asked to stand up.
The question of consensual reality is a wavering proposition at best, and when it comes to the infinitely fungible context of political reality, you might as well give up and accept the truth of illusion or perchance a masterful sleight of hand. What then does integrity, that quality of unimpeachable conviction we insist we are looking for in those who represent the common interest, look like? How readily can it be faked? And does it matter either way, especially in the political realm where simulation is all, where authenticity often resides in the details rather than the message? Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" response to the starving masses was probably truer to her character than Bill Clinton's calculated "I feel your pain" remark was to his, but that doesn't make us admire her more or him less. Although it may suit us to believe that character can't be packaged, like pantyhose, or readily accessed, like a text message, we respond to people who strut around with their heart glinting on their sleeve, declaring their empathic receptivity to the world's disenfranchised. We are correspondingly suspicious of or even hostile to people who play their sympathies down or appear too reserved. Stoicism doesn't fly the way it once did, when Abraham Lincoln's face suggested a history of inner struggle over matters of state.
The plain fact of the matter is that we can't look into other people's souls; we can't even see into their immediate agendas at a dinner party, whether they are angling for someone else's date or covering up a private anguish. It is easy to accuse those who presume to comment on the wardrobe, hair or cosmetics of women in government as trivializing them and failing to respond to their intellect or rectitude. But it is also a wishful argument, a posture that is in denial, if you will, about the fact that we live in a profoundly surface-oriented, looksist culture that has permeated our way of perceiving those who would be in charge of our lives. Women are implicated every bit as much as men in the pajama-party speculation that fuels the politics of appearance; shortly after Nancy Pelosi appeared on "Face the Nation" last January, Nora Ephron posted a blog entry in which she mused about the speaker's too-short haircut. Much as we like to think we vote on issues like abortion or gay rights, female candidates by necessity bring too much baggage — literal baggage, as in what to pack beyond a change of underwear — along with them when they go out on the hustings. This baggage has to do both with the accouterments of personal style and with what Vance Packard once called the "hidden persuaders" behind personal style.Continue reading the main story
It is precisely because our interior selves are essentially inscrutable (most of us can't unscramble the psychological coding of our spouses much less the machinations and motivations of public figures) that we depend so much on surface clues. The whole superficial shebang — from hairstyles (who can forget Hillary's little-girl headband?) to accessories (remember the fuss about Cherie Blair's pricey Tanner Krolle handbag?) — provides us with the contextual tools to read the Other, the person who is not us, be it the stranger across the room or the stranger angling for political office. Power pearls and multipurpose, dashingly knotted scarves define Nancy Pelosi's crisply efficient approach to getting work done; a Joan of Arc white suit or starched white blouse complemented Ségolène Royal's newly capped teeth, lending her Socialist program a purist glow (but didn't save her from her own plodding rhetoric); and a curve-ball glimpse of cleavage on a contender who normally favors black pantsuits added a touch of coyness to Hillary's slightly humorless demeanor.
When it comes to women who seek power, the pressure to create a recognizably consistent persona (whether authentic or fake-authentic) under the distorting glare of television close-ups and digitalized replays only intensifies. Increasingly these days, pixels tell the all-too-easily fragmented story. The trick is to make those little square-shaped microdots that appear on our various and endlessly proliferating screens cohere into a simulation of verisimilitude, into something approaching a Chuck Close portrait rather than a Seurat-like haze of Pointillist impressionism. The wrong footwear can decompose the whole picture — Ségolène clicketyclacking around the slums of Chile in stilettos or Condoleeza Rice wearing what one commentator called her "butchy boots" — leaving us stuck with unmatching pieces of a puzzle.
We study our female politicians as closely and obsessively as we do in part because they still remain something of an anomaly — we are, quite simply, less used to women standing in the spotlight demanding our close attention — and in part because their costuming is less homogenized than men, offering up an abundance of opportunities for inductive analysis: we study their shade of lipstick, we listen for a note of defensive shrillness in their voice, we infer, we project, we accept or discount official positions for reasons that are neither fully conscious nor even rational. Camille Paglia's snide response to Hillary's performance at an early Democratic debate focused almost exclusively on her manner of communicating by way of a facile and highly speculative reading of the family dynamics that shaped her: "In the second half, she overplayed her hand and began to intrude and domineer. What was surfacing in Hillary was the old family psychodrama of the daughter contemptuously outflanking her befuddled, resentful, mediocre brothers at the dinner table. It wasn't a pleasant sight — and all too reminiscent of the bullying Rosie O'Donnell compulsively hogging the spotlight on 'The View.' "
One way out of this quandary is to pre-empt the conversation by being brazenly upfront about your investment in your appearance, as is the case with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's first lady and Senator, who has her eye on becoming president in the coming October elections. Her gaudy clothing style, featuring crimson leather jackets and clanking jewelry (she has been taken to task for her flashy Rolex), as well as her wild purple-brown tresses, pancake makeup and heavily mascaraed eyes are patently over-the-top, and she makes no bones about it: "Since I was 14, I've painted myself like a door," she has said happily.
Another way of circumventing — or, at least, limiting — this deconstructionist chitchat is by a de-neutered effort of will or an impeccable professional background outside the political arena altogether. If you are Margaret Thatcher, effortlessly radiating a kind of low-heeled, nannylike authority, or the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, resting on your laurels as a scientist, all you need do is pass muster. In these unforgiving times, men don't escape microscopic assessment either (John Kerry and his rumored dalliance with Botox caused almost as much heated discussion as his Vietnam record), but they present a bland and unremarkable canvas compared with women. Wallace Stevens, a poet of the trivially revealing, may have found 13 ways of looking at a blackbird, but how many ways can you look at a tie, whether it is a buoyant Republican red or a Democratic blue stripe?
Or whether someone favors loafers, like John Kennedy did, or your more ordinary brogues? While it may be true that Nixon's persistent five-o'clock shadow, hunched bearing and darting eyes didn't help endear him to either the press or the public, they weren't analyzed by grooming experts the way the press endlessly dissects the puffiness around Hillary's eyes or Ségolène Royal's willowy body that belies her 53 years and four children. "Why should one have to be sad, ugly and boring to go into politics?" the stylish Royal said in response to the turquoise-bikini brouhaha, thereby stereotyping women who go into politics at least as much as any male sexist or female recidivist who believes that women belong in the kitchen, baking cookies.
Which brings us to Hillary and her dithering anti-homemaker remarks, which may have done permanent damage to her image with mid and menopausal America. Then again, what is one to make of a female candidate who one minute disparages the domestic arts and the next minute tap-dances around the very issue of her gender and whether it is a major factor in her campaign. Just when you're feeling mightily confused, she goes on "The Insider" for three minutes' worth of girl talk with the perky Lara Spencer, where she admires Spencer's gold shoes ("Boy, do they look fabulous"), shares her nonexistent beauty and diet secrets (get enough sleep, try not to overdose on chocolate, find a good hair colorist and practice deep breathing), and cites an uncharacteristically fortune-cookie-like saying of her beloved Eleanor Roosevelt as one of her favorite adages: " 'Women are like tea bags,' " quotes this New York Senator, who has spent the last decade and a half honing her adversarial "I am woman, hear me veto bills" persona. " 'You never know how strong they are until they get into hot water.' " (To which bit of homespun wisdom she added her unexpectedly girlish endorsement: "Isn't that great?") (For the record: Senator Clinton turned me down twice for an interview, once for this piece and earlier on for a proposed cover profile for Elle magazine. Her press office told Elle that they were uncomfortable with a writer with my level of "psyschological insight" and wanted another writer assigned to the piece — which, in the event, never happened. I yield to Lara Spencer and her pithy line of inquiry.)
Who is Hillary? Will we ever know? Not, it would appear, if she can help it. She has held the stage for 15 years now and remains impenetrable, like a veiled woman. She is famous for her micromanagement skills (which ended up torpedoing the very health-care changes she was hoping to effect) and for running an airtight campaign, where no one ever says anything off the record and leaks are unheard of. She seems to revel in being both visible and anonymous ("I may be the most famous person you really don't know"), as though this combination might add to her mystique or give her a kind of inverse glamour. But instead of being intrigued, we end up being irritated. "She always seems very negative," says one woman-in-the-street type. "She's very staunch. She doesn't look good in trousers, that's for sure."
So here we are, back to the black hole of Hillary's appearance and why we keep harping on it. As Sarah Easley, a co-owner of Kirna Zabête, puts it: "Nebulous fashion equals nebulous convictions equals nebulous origin/home. That is, where is she 'from'?" She adds, "If she could establish a geographic identity, it might be easier to nail down the rest of it and, most trivially, how she should be expected to dress."
Why hasn't she landed upon a signature style other than her fallback position of mix-and-match jackets or trousers? There is a discernible discomfort with who she wants to present herself as being at any particular moment. One could argue that women everywhere would readily identify with that. Her sartorial floundering, her casting around for an outfit that works for her, should engender sympathy: "It isn't an easy body type to dress at all," says Debi Greenberg, the owner of Louis Boston. "Other women might have an advantage with different body proportions." Except for the fact that even here she is controlling, defying her own unease by putting on generic mumsy earrings, executive-secretary suits and a bright, unconvincing smile. She wears her clothes — whether the old frumpy style or the recent, more streamlined look — like armor, and for all of her newly flattering makeup (courtesy of Vincent Longo), there is a grim determination that comes through, vitiating all the efforts to feminize and humanize her. The net effect of her discomfort is to make her seem glacial rather than vulnerable. We gaze upon her and fall all over ourselves trying to read the person she is. And because she has embargoed her own image, put it off-limits until such moment as she wants to reveal it (if such a moment exists), we babble incessantly about her facade — did she have her eyes done, and if so, was it Botox or a full-on blepharoplasty? Does she look less tired or more tired, less or more hippy, less or more feminine — as though we were all vying to be her personal stylist, to help put her across to the American public.
At the end of the day — and at the beginning — what is clear is that Hillary Clinton doesn't wear herself well. We are all in some sense Eleanor Rigbys, picking up our faces from jars by the door, hoping they will see us through, but she seems to keep trying on different faces as though somewhere in her closet she will come up with the right persona in which to walk out the door. And perhaps it's admirable that Hillary doesn't let the politics of appearance confound her, much less stop her in her tracks. Then again, the one thing that seems real about her — all too real, you might say — is her ambition. How well that will play in Dubuque, Iowa, even with her aubergine eyeliner softened and a hint of coral lip gloss (Longo's Virgin-Lux in Take Off ), we will just have to wait and see.Continue reading the main story


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A saved but caged Sumatran tiger. A tiny seahorse clinging to a discarded Q-tip cotton swab to swim downstream. Anemone fish showing off parasitic isopods that live inside their mouths (banner, above). An Arctic fox carrying a stolen egg. An elephant matriarch caught in repose after she's led her herd to water during a dry spell.
These are the finalists in the 53rd annual running of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, to be presented Tuesday night at La black-tie ceremony at London's Natural History Museum.
The awards feature categories ranging from animal portrait to emerging young photographers, aged 11-14. One of the distinguishing features of this year's competition is that two of the 13 finalists for Wildlife Photograph of the year — the WPOTY equivalent of best-in-show — come from the young age group: Laura Albiac Vilas' blink-and-you'll-miss-it glimpse of a rare Iberian lynx in Spain's Sierra de Andújar Natural Park, and Ashleigh Scully's serendipitous capture of a bear cub hugging its mother in Alaska's Lake Clark National Park.
As in past years, though, it's the environmental awareness images — the photos that trigger an emotional and intellectual debate about habitat destruction, climate change and the sixth mass extinction — that are causing the biggest stir. Veteran National Geographic big-cat specialist Steve Winter's image of an adolescent Sumatran tiger snarling in a cage, shortly after having a badly damaged leg amputated, and California photographer Justin Hofman's image of a seahorse swimming against a sea of muck, are standouts.
Hofman's seahorse, in particular, has gone viral, in part because it's an artistically striking image — brilliant colour rendition and near-perfect compositional balance — and primarily because it tells such a vital story.
"It's a photo I wish didn't exist but now that it does, I want everyone to see it," Hofman posted on his Instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/justinhofman/). "What started as a cute opportunity to photograph a cute little seahorse turned into one of frustration and sadness as the incoming tide brought with it countless pieces of trash and sewage."
Hofman captured the image off the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, where he happened to be diving at the time. As striking to the eye as the image is, it tells a disturbing story about the daily travails of marine life living in seas and oceans choked by human and industrial pollution.
"This seahorse drifts along with the trash day in and day out as it rides the currents that flow along the Indonesian archipelago," Hofman continued on Instagram. "This (image) serves as an allegory for the current and future state of our oceans. What sort of future are we creating? How can your actions shape our planet?"
Indonesia is increasingly in the environmental crosshairs. Winter's injured tiger was captured in Indonesia; last year's winning WPOTY image, captured by Tokyo-born National Geographic wildlife photojournalist Tim Laman, was of an Indonesian orangutan — critically endangered, owing to the wholesale destruction of its forest habitat. In a 2015 Environmental Health Perspectives study, Indonesia ranked second only to China among the world's largest producers of marine pollution on the planet, thanks to more than 3 million metric tons of plastic waste dumped into the ocean every year.
Hofman hopes his photo will shake people's complacency and help galvanize change.
This year's 13 finalists were chosen from a shortlist of 100 images, themselves culled from more than 50,000 entries from 92 countries around the world.
London's Natural History Museum will present a full exhibition of images from Oct. 20 through the spring, in the hopes that, to paraphrase the late jazz great Louis Armstrong, humanity may once again see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day and dark sacred night, so we may collectively once again be able to think to ourselves, what a wonderful world.


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The winners of this year's Golf Tourism Scotland Gold Standard Awards have been announced during a ceremony at the new-look Turnberry Resort.
At the gala event, which was attended by over 140 golf industry professionals, 20 nominees vied for three, golf-specific awards.
One of the most hotly contested categories was the Golf Course of the Year award which this year went to Turnberry's Ailsa Course.
"It's fantastic to be recognised in this way," said Stewart Selbie, general manager at Turnberry Resort. "Having the Open Championship has been pretty special. It's the number one Major in the world [so] we closed the course for an unprecedented eight months before the Open so we could present it in the best possible way."
Other awards went to North Berwick Golf Club, which was named as the leading golf secretariat, and Davy Gilchrist of Kingsbarns Golf Links, who picked up this year's caddie master award.
On the night, GTS chairman Nick Hunter, said the awards had surpassed even his expectations. "It's been a terrific night," he said.
"We've seen the very best exponents of golf tourism in Scotland, all of whom have excelled in very difficult conditions. The Gold Standard Awards are a great way of celebrating what we do best, and I think this awards evening has been the best yet in terms of accrediting the practitioners that make our industry shine."
Since its inception four years ago, the GTS Gold Standard Awards have become a must-attend event for the golf industry in Scotland.
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|Mr. Goemon
|Japanese title
|五右衛門 (Goemon)
|Konami (arcade),
Microsoft (Xbox 360, Windows),
Hamster Corporation (PlayStation 4)
|Release date(s)
|Arcade, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
|Single player, Multiplayer
|Followed by
|Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū
|Legend of the Mystical Ninja
|Mr. Goemon Channel
|YouTube Gaming
|Mr. Goemon Channel
- This is the first game in the Legend of the Mystical Ninja series. For other games in the series see the Legend of the Mystical Ninja category.
Mr. Goemon (五右衛門 lit. Goemon) is a platform arcade game that was released by Konami in 1986 only in Japan; it utilises the same hardware as Green Beret (a Zilog Z80 running at 3.072 MHz with a Texas Instruments SN-76496 running at 1.536 MHz for audio), and was the penultimate title from the company that featured their "original" logo on its title screen. The player must use a 4-way joystick to take control of the resurrected Japanese outlaw, Ishikawa Goemon (1558-1594), with two buttons to make him strike the various enemies with his Kiseru pipe (which he also smokes after picking up the gold chests at each stage's halfway point) and throw collectable objects at them (the stages' bosses, with the exception of the wig-throwing ones on the second stage, can also only get killed by these) - and at the end of each stage, he distributes his gold over a village, causing the lights in its houses to turn on (except for the final one, where he has to collect the Golden Lamp, for a 10000-point bonus).
This is the first game in the Legend of the Mystical Ninja series; it was followed by twenty-two sequels upon various Nintendo consoles, Sony consoles and mobile phones. On June 2, 2010, the game was made available by Microsoft, for download to the Xbox 360 console and Microsoft Windows operating system as a part of their Game Room service (and not just in Japan) - and on December 25, 2014, it was made available for download to the Sony PlayStation 4 by Hamster Corporation, under the name of Arcade Archives: Mr. Goemon in Japan (and later in the US on September 22, 2015, and in both the EU and Australia a month later, on October 27 of that year). Although nine secret trophies, seven bronze and two gold, have been added to the game, they are earned by performing basic actions like opening the online rankings and game settings, resetting the game, setting the new highest score, or reading all of the virtual manual; this version got rated 6/10 by Brash Games on November 25, 2015.
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editLegend of the Mystical Ninja series
Arcade: Mr. Goemon
Nintendo console: Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Douchuu · Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Oogon Kiseru · The Legend of the Mystical Ninja · Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2: Tenka no Zaihoo · Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shoogun Magginesu · Ganbare Goemon 3: Shishijuurokubee no Karakuri Manji Gatame · Ganbare Goemon Kirakira Doochuu: Boku ga Dancer ni Natta Wake · Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon · Goemon's Great Adventure · Goemon Mononoke Sugoroku
Sony console: Ganbare Goemon: Uchuu Kaizoku Akogingu · Ganbare Goemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage · Ganbare Goemon: Oedo Daikaiten · Bouken Jidai Katsugeki Goemon
Game Boy: Ganbare Goemon: Sarawareta Ebisumaru! · Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (Game Boy) · Ganbare Goemon: Tengu-tou no Gyakushuu! · Ganbare Goemon: Mononoke Douchuu Tobidase Nabe-Bugyou! · Ganbare Goemon: Hoshizorashi Dynamites Arawaru!! · Ganbare Goemon: Tookai Doochuu Ooedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki
Mobile Phone: Ganbare Goemon: Tsuukai Game Apli · Mini Kyodai Robo Goemon Compact


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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Paper-Pieced Crafty Secrets Ornaments
Oh man, I wish I could get good photos of how glittery and sparkly this card is. These cool, retro-ornaments are from Crafty Secret's Christmas Joy set. I stamped the ornaments on white cardstock, then stamped it again on patterned paper from Crafty's "Earthy" paper pad, cut them out, and then layered the patterned paper on top.
I created the blue background snowflake paper with a cuttlebug embossing folder, using Stampin Up Soft Sky cardstock. I took a creamy caramel (SU) ink pad and ran it over the top of the snowflakes to distress them and make them pop out a bit.
I edged the entire card with Martha Stewart White Gold glitter...this stuff looks SO much like vintage glass glitter that they used to use on ornaments! (If you click on one of the photos you'll be able to see the glitter better.) I stamped the little swirls from this set on top of my patterned paper, and then blinged them up with clear Mark Richards Crystal Rhinestone stickers. To make the tips of these ornaments shine, I colored them in with a warm grey 2 Copic marker to get a silver tone, and then colored them in again with clear Sakura gelly roll glitter pen.
Have a glittery Tuesday, all!
13 comments:
- Juliann said...
I just love this card!
Love the colors, the ornaments everything!
- December 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Diana said...
How pretty! I just love how you put sparklys on everything; makes it so much fun!
- December 2, 2008 at 9:12 AM
- Tiffany said...
Cool ornaments! You are so creative.
Have a great day!
- December 2, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Very cute, Lisa! Love the sparkles!
- December 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM
- Summerthyme Studio said...
Ohhhh LZ, These are JUST SCrumptious...............right????
See you at CHA!
- December 2, 2008 at 1:56 PM
- Marisa said...
This is really cute Liza. Love the colors and the ornaments stamped on the Earthy paper.
- December 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM
- Jessica said...
Gorgeous card! I agree, the glitter makes it extra special.
- December 2, 2008 at 5:26 PM
- Altered Annie said...
well lisa, you've done it again!
truly a work of art
a feast for the eyes
thanks for the inspiration
when i need it most!
- December 2, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Elaine said...
Oh so pretty! These stamps are just fabulous combined like this!
- December 2, 2008 at 10:02 PM
- Paula said...
very glitzy ornaments, I love how they sparkle and shine.
- December 3, 2008 at 6:06 AM
- Lana said...
THUD!!!!!!!! Help me up please! These are EXTRAORDINARY!!!!!!!!!!!
- December 3, 2008 at 6:18 AM
- Robin said...
Love it!!!! Great Vintage Look!!!!
- December 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM
This is simply stunning, Lisa! Love the colors and that glitter - be still my heart!
- December 3, 2008 at 3:57 PM


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One of my happiest memories of the Tanimbar islands, back in the mid 1990s, is the night I spent in the village of Alusi Krawain, dancing with my hosts to the sound of Tom Waits singing the Screamin' Jay Hawkins classic Whistlin' Past the Graveyard. Back then, the villages in Tanimbar had no electricity, but I had a tiny, battery-operated cassette recorder, and a single cassette of Tom Waits songs. My host, the terrifyingly capable Ibu Lin, asked if I had any music, so I put on Tom's Blue Valentine. Ibu Lin was immediately hooked. 'Let's dance,' she said, getting to her feet.
Entertainments in Alusi Krawain were few, so the spectacle of a dancing foreigner attracted all the neighbours. The visitors crammed themselves into the house of my host, and cheered us on. Ibu Lin turned out to be an exceptional dancer, and I struggled to keep pace.
You can read about all of this is my new book, Stealing with the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia. But if you want to read an extract from the book about precarious sea-voyages, witchcraft ("I've only come to Baton Rouge", Tom sings, "to find myself a witch"), and the unexpected feeling of being at home, then head on over to today's update from the Asian Review of Books.


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Since the release of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice earlier this year, fans have been theorizing over Robin's role in the DC Extended Universe, both past and in the future. In one particular Batman V Superman scene, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) stands before Robin's suit - which is enclosed in a glass display case and covered in Joker-style graffiti, making it clear that his death came at the hands of the Clown Prince of Crime (Jared Leto).
Beyond that though, Robin's backstory is left open to speculation in both the theatrical cut and the "Ultimate Edition" version of Batman V Superman. Like other ambiguities in the film, Robin's demise was left as a mystery for the audience to solve. Now that the next DCEU installment, Suicide Squad has come along, we're still waiting for some clear-cut answers about what happened to Batman's young sidekick in this movie universe.
Suicide Squad writer/director David Ayer has now discussed that very issue with Empire:
"This is sort of my personal thing and maybe less about a larger connection. But Joker killed Robin and Batman basically smashes his teeth out and locks him up in Arkham Asylum. It's in the asylum where Joker would have done the 'damaged' tattoo as a message to Batman saying, 'You've damaged me. I was so beautiful before and now you've destroyed my face.' That's where the grill comes from."
Joker's forehead tattoo and shiny silver grill in Suicide Squad now make more sense as far as serving an actual purpose goes (as opposed to just being a stylistic addition to the iconic villain in Ayer's film). While some fans may've felt that Leto's Joker was just trying to be "too cool" with all of his tattoos and golden accessories in Ayer's DCEU movie, his "damaged" tattoo has a greater significance when you approach it from Ayer's perspective on the matter (be it considered "canon" to the DCEU or not).
Warner Bros. has confirmed the "Robin" in the DCEU is in fact Jason Todd, the second person to take the mantle of Robin, following Dick Grayson. Todd died at the hands of the Joker in the famous comic story "A Death in the Family". The event emotionally destroyed Wayne, who struggled with guilt because he was unable to save Robin. Todd was later brought back to life as the violent anti-hero Red Hood and eventually crossed paths with Batman again. This goes along with the theory that the solo Batman flick (which Affleck is co-writing and directing) will take on the Red Hood story arc.
Will we ever see Jason Todd as Robin in the DCEU? We really have no idea. But one thing is for sure, fans of Jared Leto's Joker and even Leto himself are vying to see more of the twisted Clown Prince in one way or another. It might have also been conducive to the franchise if audiences actually saw a scene of Joker getting his teeth knocked out when he's captured by Batman (instead of Ayer just describing it to us after the fact).
NEXT: Suicide Squad Reviews Are Inspiring Justice League Cast
Suicide Squad is in theaters now. Wonder Woman opens on June 2, 2017; Justice League on November 17, 2017; Aquaman on July 27, 2018; an untitled DC Film on October 5, 2018; Shazam on April 5, 2019; Justice League 2 on June 14, 2019; an untitled DC film on November 1, 2019; Cyborg on April 3, 2020; and Green Lantern Corps on July 24, 2020. The Flash, the Batman solo movie and Man of Steel 2 are currently without release dates.
Source: Empire [via Comic Book]


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Lexus of Richmond's 11th nominee for the Leadership Award Scholarship is Sam Moore of St. Christopher's School. Having been on high honor roll every semester of high school, Sam has a current 4.6 GPA. He is an AP Scholar with Distinction, and Sam scored a 1530 out of 1600 on the SAT Exam. Sam is a member of the English 10; a group selected by St. Chris' English faculty. This group of 10 students are chosen based on their Language PSAT scores, and Sam has been a member for all 3 possible years. During his junior year, Sam received the Dartmouth Book Award from the school faculty, and he was chosen as a National Merit Commended Scholar.
Outside of the classroom, Sam is a member of the Saints Chamber Orchestra. Following a successful audition as a freshman, he is now a four year member; as a senior, Sam is 2nd Chair violin. He is a member of the chess club and a peer advisor to the younger students attending St. Chris' high school. Sam is a four year member of Global Ambassadors and currently the Co-President. The club is dedicated to promoting awareness for the exchange students within the school, and helping them adjust to their new school community.
As a five year player for the Richmond United Academy, Sam is a 4 time captain. He plays as a defensive midfielder and center back. During his time with the team he has been called into 7 US Soccer Training Centers. Sam was one of 24 players nationally selected to train at Ajax in Amsterdam, one of the top youth academies in the world. Sam has been a part of St. Christopher's Futsal team all four years of high school. In 2018 Sam finished the season as the second leading goal scorer for the team. The team was the Valentine Classic Champions in 2017 with 31 goals scored. Sam competed in the US Futsal Nationals while in 8th grade. He was the leading goal scorer with 7 goals in 4 games. Recently, Sam committed to UNC Chapel Hill where he will continue his soccer career.
Since his sophomore year Sam has been participating in Saturday Academy. Through this program at St. Chris he and his peers are able to tutor and mentor local underprivileged children. Over the summers of 2017 and 2018 Sam was a teacher's assistant at the Peter Paul Development Center. For two weeks of summer 2017, Sam participated in Diverbo Pueblo Ingles in Spain. He helped teach English to local Spanish speakers. As a senior Sam is the Vice President of the Building a Better Richmond Public Schools program. The group helps in various schools through the system to clean/maintain and raise funds of improvement.
Sam has won a dinner for two and is now in the running for the $10,000 scholarship. Watch the Fox Richmond – WRLH interview and the Lexus of Richmond Leadership Award interview to learn more about Sam! Remember to check Facebook for more information about each weekly nominee throughout the school year!


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September 8, 2011
No more Brent Lillibridge this year
The White Sox pop up problems and Adam Dunn's rebound
They're a free-swinging team, if you will. And just like with individual hitters, any team that's basically banking on contact skills to thrive is going to be subject to the whims of BABIP. There's really only one way for an offense like Chicago's to work- with a high BABIP- but frequently popping the ball up basically ensures that won't happen.
In the end, what you're left with is an offense that doesn't challenge the defense nearly enough given that it's so dependent on putting the ball in play. How could a baseball team possibly put together a worse combination of skill sets? They put the ball into play more than essentially anyone, but so much of that contact is of the weak variety that their BABIP is lower than everyone's but the Giants. This is like deciding that you're going to swing for the fences on every pitch when your middle-of-the-order hitters are Darwin Barney, Juan Pierre and Ryan Theriot. …
And Fangraphs' Bradley Woodburn looks at what rebound we can expect from Adam Dunn:
Here's the good news: Dunn should hit better.
And the bad: If and when his luck does start swinging around, he needs to change his approach or else he's still going to be a black hole at DH. …
6 strikeouts, 2 walks for Terry Doyle as Birmingham wins Game 1
Birmingham Barons Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Doyle (W, 1-0) 6.2 7 1 1 2 6 0 1.35 Lowe 1.1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.00 Corley 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pitches-strikes: Doyle 113-72, Lowe 15-9, Corley 11-7.
Groundouts-flyouts: Doyle 2-7, Lowe 1-0, Corley 2-0.
Batters faced: Doyle 29, Lowe 4, Corley 4.
The games are played in a daily basis.


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Unfinished Business
SPEAKER: Rev. Phil Grotenhuis
SERIES: The Lord's Prayer
TEXT: Ezekiel 17:22-24; Matthew 13:31-33 & Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 48
DATE: July 30, 2017
Bowing With Our Tongues
SPEAKER: REV. Phil Grotenhuis
SERIES: The Lord's Prayer
TEXT: Revelation 13:1-10 & HC Lord's Day 46
DATE: July 23,2017
Praying With Reverent Affection
Jesus taught his disciples to begin their petitions, "our Father, who art in heaven." It's easy to breeze past these words without appreciating their invaluable promise. Through them, the Lord instructs you to approach God with reverent affection, assured he is both able and willing to provide according to his perfect wisdom and goodness. As well, we'll consider how they promote unity.


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Carl Ikeme, who was diagnosed with acute leukaemia last year, has been named an honorary member of the Super Eagles' squad for the Russia 2018 World Cup, FourFourTwo reports.
The 31-year-old Wolves goalkeeper was informed that he had the disease last summer ahead of the Championship club's promotion-winning campaign, and missed the entire season to receive vital treatment.
But ahead of Nigeria's friendly against England at Wembley on Saturday, coach Gernot Rohr said, "Until the last moment, there is a possibility of bringing in these players. Carl Ikeme will be our 24th player to the World Cup."
Rohr admitted two weeks ago that the absence of 10-cap Ikeme – who was named Nigeria's man of the match in their opening qualifier against Zambia in October 2016 – was his "biggest regret" heading into the tournament.
Nigeria have a history of awarding honorary roles. Former West Brom striker Osaze Odemwingie was named as their 24th man for the 2002 World Cup squad, while Tijani Babangida was brought along in 1998.
The Super Eagles face Croatia, Iceland and Argentina in Group D in Russia this summer.
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NDT Operator Level 2
At Skills Training UK we go further in fully understanding what it is that our employer clients want to achieve from their training.
Their findings will be subject to review and authorisation by suitably qualified and experienced supervisory staff, such as NDT Engineering Technicians, to ensure that the results are accurate and reliable.
The skill set and depth of proficiency retained by the NDT Operator, whilst singularly focused on one NDT method, are nevertheless transferable across all engineering sectors.
This apprenticeship will provide resources to meet future engineering requirements, such as nuclear new build, power generation, transport, oil and gas and defence.
Employer commitment
An employer must be prepared to provide the learner with the opportunity to carry out work and be part of projects which will enable the learner to produce substantial evidence towards their qualification.
In order to ensure the successful progression of the learner, we request that employers participate in joint reviews of the learner's progress at regular intervals throughout the apprenticeship.
This ensures continued and positive progress through the apprenticeship. It will also provide the opportunity to discuss and agree how any issues are to be resolved and how additional stretching and challenging activities can be built in.
The duration of this apprenticeship is typically 18 months and an independent End Point Assessment must be completed at the end in order to pass.
Training and support from Skills Training UK
Skills Training UK will work with the employer to develop a training plan for the apprentice and our trainer-assessor will visit the apprentice within the workplace at least once per month in order to support their learning and development.
They will also be supported between visits by off-site information, advice, guidance, academic progress and technical competence support. We will ensure that all learning needs are being met in order to ensure successful progression against all elements of the apprenticeship.
There are no formal entry requirements, however apprentices without Level 1 English and maths will need to achieve this level and take tests for Level 2 English and maths prior to taking the End Point Assessment. There is also a requirement to have good aided or unaided eyesight to satisfy the mandatory NDT eyesight test and have appropriate physical fitness.
Requirements: Knowledge, skills and behaviours
Below is a summary of the required knowledge, skills and behaviours for a Level 2 NDT Operator:
Knowledge – understanding of:
- In-depth knowledge of one NDT method and an awareness of others
- The knowledge required for the assessment of defects against acceptance/rejection criteria (required by standards)
- Relevant sector specific knowledge e.g. inductions, confidentiality
- Material and product technology
- The consequences of failure and the risks to life
Skills and ability:
- Demonstrate health and safety competencies pertinent to the NDT method e.g. working at heights, in confined spaces or in restricted zones
- NDT in one method, from the list of methods below:
- Ultrasonic Testing
- Radiographic Testing
- Eddy Current Testing
- Infrared Thermography Testing
- Magnetic Particle Testing
- Penetrant Testing
- Visual Testing
- Carry out inspections using one NDT method, for example:
- Revealing defects present on the external surface of the test item/component
- Using minimum levels of interpretation, usually by visual assessment only
- Safe operation of the equipment within its capabilities and limitations
- Work under technical supervision and to report regularly on progress
- Demonstrate a disciplined approach relating to industry standard operations and processes
- Exhibit environmental awareness and undertake safe working practices
- Have good practical ability, including hand/eye coordination, in order to apply NDT
- Communication – communicate effectively with senior
- NDT staff
- Teamwork – to work effectively in a team and to support others
- Delivery – to consistently see things through to timely completion
- Common sense – to consistently apply knowledge and experience with balance
- Influence – have a positive impact without relying on others
- Ethics – to act with maturity, honesty, integrity and responsibility
Independent End Point Assessment
To successfully complete the apprenticeship, the learner needs to pass an End Point Assessment. This is an independent assessment which has several stages:
- A Portfolio of Evidence and Achievements – for example certificates of competence, letters of approval, training attendance certificates, log book of on-the-job training (experience) and employer reports.
- Product Showcase – a presentation of the NDT project to demonstrate that the required knowledge and skills have been achieved
- Observational Interview – the interview panel will include two people who are knowledgeable in engineering and NDT and who are appointed by the independent assessment organisation. The interview will enable the apprentice to demonstrate
Qualifications / NDT Certification
In the NDT Testing Sector, apprentices are required to achieve NDT Level 2 certification in one method accordance with national and international standards


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Hey y'all. Happy Thursday. I hope you're having a good week. Just a quick post for you today.
Do you have people that give you a little needed support and might not even know they do it? My stamping friends do this for me. So when I needed to do swaps last weekend, I pulled out my For the Birds set and made a few that conveyed my thoughts for me. If the layout looks familiar, it's the same as my layout for the NAC challenge for last week, but it was perfect for this card and I was doing them around the same time so it just happened to work that way. Here's today's card-
I used some Sycamore Street DSP for the accent piece and I used some permanent markers to color the pearls to match the Island Indigo c/s. I was so happy with how these turned out. Fairly C&S but still so striking. I did them in 3 colors. Here they are all together-
Well, that's all I have for you today. I hope you like it and I hope it inspires you to try something that's a little different from your norm. I also want to tell you all a big Thanks for your continued support. If you like today's cards or have any questions I hope you'll take a moment to leave me a comment in the space below. I love hearing from you and read all of your comments. They really do make my day! If you'd like to +1 or Pin today's card I've put to buttons on my blog for your convenience. Friends and Followers are always welcome too!
Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to stop by my little corner of the world. You are very appreciated! Till Next Time-
Remember- Life is often more about the storms than the peace they seek to overwhelm. It's not about Waiting for the storms to pass, but Learning to Dance in the rain.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Consulting leader Accenture gained about 5 percent amid favorable market conditions after the $1.7 billion initial public offering set sail Thursday.
What a difference a day makes. Accenture would have been navigating a sea of red if it had debuted on Wednesday, but on Thursday, stocks were mainly cruising upward. See Market Snapshot.
Accenture ACN, -0.28% shares closed at $15.17, a gain of nearly 5 percent over its offering price of $14.50.
The stock opened at $15.10 and traded between a low of $15 and a high of $15.29 on huge volume of 35 million shares. It was the most heavily traded stock on the Big Board.
'Surprisingly strong'
"Everybody thought it would go lower than the $13 to $15, but it was surprisingly strong," said Marshall Cooper, executive editor of Consultant's News in Fitzwilliam, N.H. "It's a great company, very solid. They're larger than KPMG, and they've been more consistent."
Joe W. Forehand, Accenture chairman's and CEO, said in a prepared statement that the IPO would enable the company "to deliver a broader range of capabilities and solutions to address the increasingly sophisticated needs of our clients and to create value and opportunity for all of our stakeholders."
Accenture priced its shares near the top of a $13-to-$15 price range.
The favorable breeze on Wall Street no doubt aided the successful debut of Accenture, despite overall jitters over the plight of firms that specialize in consulting services for information technology.
"It came on the right day of the week," said Vincent Slavin, an IPO trader with Cantor Fitzgerald. "The deal worked because this is somewhat of a better market, but I think this stock will be cheaper in the near future."
One of the heftiest initial public offerings this year, Accenture floated 115 million shares in a bid to raise $1.7 billion with lead underwriters Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Accenture is the former Andersen Consulting. It's the second big consulting firm to come to market this year, following in the footsteps of KPMG KCIN, -6.92%.
KPMG debuted at $18 per share Feb. 7. It's now trading at about $14 per share amid a consulting-industry slowdown that dovetailed with a cool environment for technology infrastructure spending.
Investor appeal
Accenture -- based in Hamilton, Bermuda, even though its executive offices are in Chicago -- does boast many of the attributes that the few, brave IPO investors out there seem to like: It's an established firm with a long track record and hefty profits. It also has two marquee underwriters in Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Accenture, which bills itself as the world's leading provider of management and technology consulting, apparently drummed up enough interest on its IPO road show to merit a price near the top of its range.
But if IPO investors prove as fickle as they have in the recent past, the more aggressive pricing could cause shares prices to drop below the $14.50 level in the open market.
Such has been the fate of Kraft Foods KFT IPO, which debuted at $31 per share on June 13 only to see its stock fall below that level. It's since fought its way back.
Accenture is a 70,000-employee company that rang up $10.8 billion in revenue for the 12 months ending Feb. 28 and has posted a compounded annual growth rate of 17.9 percent over the past 10 years.
Net income fell to $1.2 billion in the nine months ended May 31, but revenue rose 20 percent to $10.1 billion. It said it's facing a loss because of a one-time charge of $960 million as it changes from a partnership to a corporation.
It's the latest in series of big changes at the consultant. After a long legal battle, Accenture split with accounting giant Arthur Andersen, which now calls itself simply Andersen -- and itself operates a consulting unit.


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2018 Beerfest has been cancelled for this year.
The 2017 Civic Beer Fest featured more than 50 beers from 25+ breweries from Oregon and beyond, including: Ashtown Brewing Company, Awesome Ales, Backwoods Brewing Company, Double Mountain Brewery, Elysian Brewery, Freebridge Brewing, Full Sail Brewing Company, Georgetown Brewing, Golden Road Brewing, Jester and Judge, pFriem Family Brewers, Prodigal Son Brewery, Sedition Brewing Company, 10 Barrel, Three Creeks Brewing, Thunder Island Brewing Co., Walking Man Brewing, Widmer Brothers Brewing, and Logdson Farmhouse Ales.
The Dalles Civic's Beer Fest is an annual benefit dedicated to The Dalles Civic Auditorium, since 2010. Run with the help of volunteers, this 21-years-and-older event features breweries from the Pacific Northwest who are committed to providing a taproom experience for attendees. In addition to beer, the Beer Fest highlights area food trucks, local bands, and fun activities provided by Main Street.
If attendees spend ten dollars in the downtown and present their receipt at the front entrance, their admission fee to the event is waived. This promotion was a huge success for the downtown. Partnering with other organizations on these types of endeavors only strengthen the vitality of a community.


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Kazakhstan should decide until the end of the year on the construction of a nuclear power plant in its territory.
This was told to journalists by Sergey Kirienko, director general of Rosatom State Corporation, 7 June in Astana where talks between the presidents of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan were held.
As the result of the negotiations, the Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbaev said that Kazakhstan did not give up the plans of building an NPP in its territory jointly with Russia.


text: Hi, According to Harry's note a few weeks ago, he WILL be available this Wednesday (12 May) for a WBMM/WIMS telecon. And he WILL NOT be available this Thursday (13 May) for a Process telecon. Cheers, - Ira Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Blue Roof Music / High North Inc PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839 phone: +1-906-494-2434 email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com


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Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Hays A&F
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- bonus + benefits
- Posted
- 11 Jan 2019
- Closes
- 18 Jan 2019
- Ref
- 3442482
- Contact
- Nicolette Solomou
- Job Role
- Management Accountant
- Sector
- Media & Entertainment
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-time
- Level of qualification
- Newly qualified
Management Accountant based in central London for an advertising brand
Your new company
A creative production agency based in central London is recruiting a qualified a qualified Management Accountant. You will be working for a business which streamlines and delivers marketing content with an international presence.
Your new role
As a Management Accountant your key responsibilities will include: -
- Monthly Cash Flow forecast
- Budget Analysis
- Monthly management Reporting Packs for UK, France and Spain Subsidiaries.
- Main point of contact for Auditing
- P&L, Balance Sheet, variance analysis and commentary
What you'll need to succeed
-You must be fully qualified ACA / CIMA / ACCA
- Ability to take on monthly management accounts
- Ability to business partner across functional departments
What you'll get in return
This role will offer a newly qualified the ability to develop management accounting and analytical experience in a forward thinking and innovative business. This organisation have a great track record of developing staff and are looking for a newly or recently qualified candidate to join their business in a varied role. The position incorporates reporting and commercial work and would suit someone ambitious.
What you need to do now
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