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Dances, Folk Music, Tiatr
Performing arts
Goa is a land of highly talented and artistic people with a rich cultural synthesis blending East and West most creatively. In addition to the classical different forms of music and dance have evolved. Music and dance form the very fibre of rural Goa. Each occasion and region has its distinctive forms. The urban areas have adapted to modern and popular music
Women perform a number of the traditional dances like Dekni - a rare blend of traditional and modern music. Fugdi and Dhalo are the most common folk dances of Goa. The Kunbi is a tribal folk dance. Women holding lamps on their heads perform the lamp dance during Shigmo festival. Morulem is another traditional folk dance presented by the backward community during Shigmo. The Zagor is a folk play presented in different villages of Goa by the Gawda community. The Dhangar, performed during Navratri, is a vigorous session of worship and dance. Mando is a love song which represents the mingling of Indian and western tradition.
Goan folk dances bear a tradition
of thousands of years, characterized by innumerable forms performed by and
reflecting lifestyles, cultures and aspirations of different strata, religions
and castes of Goan society. The prominent ones are described here.
Corredinho Dance
A Portuguese folk dance and a beautiful example of Portuguese cultural influence, this elegant dance is highly popular among Goan elite youth. Corredinho Marcha de Fontainhas, a song-cum-dance, is famous for its rhythmic and exquisite footwork where normally six couples take part. The colourful costumes are a feast to the eye.
Dekhni Dance
Dekhni in Konkani language means bewitching beauty. This solo song-cum-dance performed only by woman to the accompaniment of folk drum "Ghumat", displays a rare blend of Indian and Western cultures. The dance enacts the life of a Devdasi (literally meaning servant of God) girl whose job is to perform dance in temples and social ceremonies like weddings. The theme is of a Devdasi girl who comes to a river bank to take a ferry to reach the other side where she has an appointment to dance in a wedding. She requests the adamant boatman for a favour and is even ready to offer him her golden earring for taking her across urgently. The dance set to western rhythms and Indian melody, is livened up by the conversation between the
girl and the boatman in the form of a lilting song, which lingers in the mind for a long time.
Dhalo Dance
One of the most popular Goan dances, Dhalo is performed by women folk on the moonlit night of Pausha month. Compared to Fugdi, it is slow. The songs are in Konkani and Marathi. Normally 12 – 24 women assemble after the dinner at a pre-selected specific spot (Mand) in the courtyard of a house in the village. They arrange themselves in 2 parallel rows of 12, facing each other, and in a tribal fashion form a close knit by linking themselves arm-around, the back arrangement, singing in unison. The songs cover religious and social themes. The dance goes on every night for a week. On the concluding day, women sport all sorts of fancy dresses and caricature man.
Dhangar Dance
Dhangars, a shepherd community believed to have migrated from Kathiawar region of South Gujarat and settled in the hilly north-western fringes of Goa, are very pious and worship the God called BIRA DEVA. During Navaratra (literally meaning 'nine nights') festival, the leader of the house observes abstinence and fast, takes bath at early hours in the morning, milks his share of lone one cup of milk per day and prays and dances before the family deity. On the tenth day, after a feast, all the families take out their family idols to an open space in the village, called 'mand' and perform a vigorous session of dance accompanied by song. The dance begins with a slow beat and simple footwork to the accompaniment of dhol, cymbals and a long flute called 'pawa'. Their traditional songs centre on the love story of the Hindu God Krishna and his beloved Radha. The
Kathiawari-styled white dress and turban in this dance point to their ancestral lineage.
Fugdi Dance
Fugdi or Foogdi is the most popular folk dance form of Goa, performed only by women. Though basically a non-religious, all-weather dance, it is danced on all important social and religious occasions, and even at the end of other dances like Dhalo. The dance starts with invocation to Hindu Gods at a slow pace of footwork in a circular formation, and suddenly it attains a fast pace reaching climax. The theme of the song becomes social aspects and matching action forms are enacted. At the maximum speed, the dancers matches the rhythm by blowing air through the mouth that sounds like FOO. Hence the name Foogdi or Fugdi.
The two sub-forms are Katti Fugdi and Kalshi Fugdi. The former is a performance with coconut shells in hands whereas, the latter form is performed in Satari taluka with water pitchers (Kalshi) after the Shravan religious ritual of newly wedded woman.
Ghode Modni
Ghode Modni ('Ghode' means 'horse' and 'Modni' means 'gyrations and dance-like movements') is literally a dance involving horse-like movements. It is a spectacular warrior-dance commemorating the victory of the Ranes, the Maratha rulers of the Satari taluka in Goa, over the Portuguese. This dance is popular in Bicholim, Pernem and Satari talukas once ruled by the
Marathas. It is performed during the Shigmo festival. The kshatriya dancers wear head gears made of colourful flowers, don in full traditional livery, fix at the waist effigy of a wooden horse beautifully bridled and decorated with spotless white clothes, and
carry ghungurs in the anklets. Holding the bridle in one hand and brandishing and waving a naked sword with the other hand, the dancers move forward and backward to the beat of drums – Dhol, Tasha and Cymbals – to recreate the prancing of war horses.
Goff Dance
It is a folk dance with cords, manifesting joy and happiness of Goan peasants after the harvest. It is performed during the Shigmo Festival in Phalgun month. Each dancer holds a colourful cord hanging at the centre point of the 'mand' - the place of performance – and starts dancing intricately with the others, forming a beautiful, colourful, intricate braid at the end of the first movement. The music starts again and the dancers reverse the pattern of dancing so skillfully that the braid gets unrevelled and at the end of the second movement, all the cords are loose and single once again. There are 4 different braids of Goff. The songs sung are devoted to Lord Krishna. Ghumat, Samael and Surta Shansi or melodic instruments accompany the dance. Goff has an affinity with tribal dance forms of Gujarat.
Kunbi Dance
Kunbis, the earliest settlers of Goa, are a sturdy tribal community mostly settled in Salcete taluka, who though converted to Christianity, still retains the most ancient folk tradition of the land. Their songs and dance belonging to the pre-Portuguese era are uniquely social and not religious. The fast and elegant dance by a group of Kunbi women dancers, wearing traditional yet very simple dresses, lends a colourful touch to this ethnic art form. An example of a Kunbi song:
"The coy bride is filling the pitcher in the ankle-deep water of the rivulet and the fish (called) Thigur is winking at her."
Lamp Dance
This dance derives its name from brass lamps used in the dance during the Shigmo festival. The accompanying instruments include Ghumat, Samael, Cymbal and Harmonium. The performers indulge in a slow dancing movement, balancing brass lamps with burning wicks on the head and the hands. The balancing act controlled by tremendous self-discipline and exquisite footwork matching with the rhythms of the traditional folk songs are eye-catching. This group dance is popular in the southern and central Goa.
Mussal Dance
The Kshatriyas, the warrior class of Chandor (earstwhile Chandrapur, the capital of the Kadamba rulers) perform this dance-cum-song to celebrate the victory of Harihar, the Hindu King of Vijaynagar over the Cholas in the early 14th century. They hold and brandish pestles (mussals) – a favourite war instrument with the Yadavas – during the victory parade and dance as the original one held centuries ago. The march comprises 4 couplets while the main dance uses 22 couplets. Originally the Gaonkars did the performance on the full-moon night of the Falguna. The Kshatriyas, though converted to Christianity,
still retains the cultural heritage and perform it now on the second day of the carnival.
Romat Dance
This thanks-giving ceremonial dance-cum-procession performed during the Shigmo festival is known as Romat in the northern Goa and Mell in the central Goa. It is an extremely crowded, noisy and colourful affair. Teams of dancers drawn from different sections of the village dance and march martially with huge banners, ceremonial umbrellas, festooned sticks and batons towards the temple of the presiding deity or to the house of the landlord. The cacophony emanating from deafening beats of huge Dhols and Tashas and a prolonged, vigourous dancing procession displaying colourful dresses leave the spectators spell-bound.
Goa is a land of music, often admired as 'a nest of singing birds'. This tiny land, cradled between the Sahyadris and the Arabian Sea, speaks with the beat of Ghumat and note of Violin the year round. Goan music stands apart from music of other regions in its peculiar mix of Western and Indian traditions.
Mando is a group song-cum-dance of Goan Catholics. A group of boys and girls, some 20 in number, form a semi-circular pattern in two lines with the girls in the front line and the boys in the back line. The songs cover the entire gamut of emotions in love, accompanied by the beats of Ghumat and romantic strains of violin. Set to the Latin American tune, the song with a local theme starts with a sad and slow note and ends on a faster beat called Dulpods or Durpodha, the rhythmic pattern being akin to Khaiyal songs. In fact Mando represents the mingling of Indian and Western traditions. The girls and the boys sing a
line of the song one after the other or sometimes in chorus. The girls wear a peculiar dress called Tollopo resembling Burmese Saronge.
Suvari-Folk Music
It is a traditional folk music, a tone setter to all Hindu religious and festival performances. The music is orchestral in nature and relies heavily on laya and tal, as spoken words are few. The orchestra consists of ghumat, shamel, cymbals and sometimes sehnai and surt. The popularity of Suvari can be gauged from the fact that a good Suvari band is regarded as a matter of pride and honour of a village.
Other forms of Goan music include Banvad, Cantaram, Dasra Vadan, Gadya Ramayan, Gaun Kani, Gosavi Gayan, Gudulya Geetam, Jat, Lagan Geet, Lavni, Pavada, and devotional music like Bhajan-Dindi, Carol Singing, Kirtan and Ladainha.
Goa is highly rich in folk drama forms that narrate, often with songs and music, the stories of great epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and also project relevant, contemporary issues the society or the community is concerned with.
This earliest form of drama in Goa is supposed to be the precursor of modern Marathi theatre. There are two forms performed by two different communities. One form, the Perani Jagar, is performed exclusively by the Hindu Perani community. The theme tackles philosophical questions like the origin of the universe in the background of mythology. The other form known as Gawda Jagar is enacted by the Christian Gawda community in different villages in Goa in different styles. The theme is derived from the
contemporary village life.
A tiatr is a form of entertainment unique to Goa. Not exactly a drama or a musical drama, it consists of 6 or 7 acts, each of roughly 15 minutes' duration, called podd'dde, which are interspersed by 2 or 3 songs, solo, duo or duet, trio, quarter or group song. The songs are unrelated to the play but based on social, political or religious themes. This mix of songs and plays makes tiatr popular among the masses. The character of tiatr changed after the independence. While family quarrels, heavily laced with Portuguese language and influence, formed the story of tiatr in the pre-liberation era, social, religious and political themes crept in the post-liberation period. Khell Tiatr, a derivative of tiatr, performed in villages during the Carnival, Intruz and Easter in the open ground, differs from tiatr in that its songs are relevant to the main play.
Some of the other popular folk drama forms are Dashavatari, Goulankala, Kala, Lalit, Kalo, Ranmale, and Rathkala.
Kala Academy Festivals
Throughout the year, the Kala Academy conducts a number of festivals in different fields of arts, which draw famous artists from all over India besides providing local artists unique opportunities to share the stage and perform. These include:
Artists Camp - January
Bhajan Competition - August
Christmas Carol Singing - December
Kirtan Mahotsav - September At Quepem
Konkani Drama Festival - November/December
Marathi Drama Festival - November/December
Pop, Beat & Jazz Music Festival - May
State Art Exhibition - December
Surashree Kesarbai Smriti Sangeet Samaroha - November
Tiatr Festival - November


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Crude oil fell to a four-month low in London and was little changed in New York following the International Energy Agency's announcement yesterday of the release of 60 million barrels to the market.
Futures in London tumbled 8 percent in two days on the IEA's plan to respond to the drop in Libyan exports by the coordinated action of members. Oil also dropped as Oracle Corp. led U.S. equities lower and on concern Italian banks will be downgraded by Moody's Investors Service, signaling the Greek debt crisis may spread to other European countries.
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Why would he not sign? Maybe waiting for another offer?
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Maybe he doesn't sign yet because he sees that this is a huge decision for him
and not something to be rushed into on a whim. This isn't some 18-year-old
impetuous kid, after all.
Let's hope he does choose the Cougars. We need a strong D-line and lost a couple of good players to graduation.
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Its a great honor to be offered by BYU, said the 6-foot-2, 280-pound prospect. I
didnt really like BYU growing up I was a Utah guy, but visiting BYU and seeing
them up close really opened my eyes and I could definitely see myself and my
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I just wanted to re-post this quote one more time to ensure Chris B, Naval Vet and Hedgehog read it one more time.
Tenny, we'd love to see you play in blue and white.
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"Programs such as BYU, Utah, Utah State, Washington, and Washington State
came calling until it became apparent that he wouldnt qualify
I assume then, that has changed? The article doesn't mention how he's done now, but it goes to show you BYU will take players who have struggled academically in the past, much to the contrary belief of many of the posters on here.
Good luck in signing this talent, Y.
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BYU has two very good D-linemen coming off missions and another one they signed last week, but they lost some to graduation and missions as well. This young man could see significant PT and help a great deal. Hope he decides on BYU.
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BYU never signs players that have struggled to qualify academically in the past. That part of the article must be erroneous.
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BYU, like most other schools, has somewhat lower academic admission standards for athletes, but BYU does have minimum standards that all athletes must meet to play at BYU.
Star Lutuleilei orginally signed with BYU, but had to go to Snow College because he needed to get his grades up. Some athlete succeed at the JC level and then come to BYU. Some don't and end up playing somewhere that doesn't have as high academic standards.
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A lot of the same schools that recruited me out of high school have started
recruiting me again, he said. I have offers from Utah State, Oregon State and
from Washington along with my BYU offer.
I wonder why Utah isn't giving him an offer? They did when he was in high school. Why wouldn't they now?
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An offer to play at BYU yet no commitment?
Can't blame the young man if waits to see if a better offer comes along.
Must be waiting to see if he gets an offer from Utah.
- 11:20 a.m. Jan. 16, 2012
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Utah won't make an offer because the Utes don't want to be embarrassed when Palepoi turns them down to play for BYU.
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"...Utes don't want to be embarrassed when Palepoi turns them down to play for BYU."
You may be right... lots of top level D1 athletes prefer to test themselves against WAC populated schedules instead of BCS schedules.
Palepoi may be one of those...
- 12:22 p.m. Jan. 16, 2012
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If this kid wants to make football a carrer he shouldn't sign with the Y. The PAC-12 schools will give him a greater chance of getting there.
- 12:44 p.m. Jan. 16, 2012
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Ute fans: Once haters of BCS snobs become the snobs. Ironic, isn't it?
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"You may be right... lots of top level D1 athletes prefer to test themselves against WAC populated schedules instead of BCS schedules."
What a surprise, another typical clueless response from a hill dweller.
With Washington State, Utah, Boise State, Hawaii, Oregon State, Notre Dame and Georgia Tech on the 2012 schedule, I seriously doubt Palepoi is worried about being "tested". We all know what happened the last time Utah faced Boise State and Notre Dame.
The potential for being humiliated by a program that has a habit of losing to conference cellar dwellars and 10-loss teams is probably a bigger worry. Playing a BCS schedule doesn't impress anybody when you lose to mediocre BCS teams.
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Ute fans... BCS haters? I think not...
Utah embraced the BCS as the first and original BCS busters.
Only the rejected and excluded are haters... which explains the Cougar Nation's view of the BCS.
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get real
Utah fans whined incessantly about the BCS denying the Utes any chance of playing for the national championship in 2004 and 2008.
Ironically, Utah has even less chance of getting into a BCS game now, than they did when they were members of the MWC. Instead of getting past BYU and TCU, the Utes must now get past USC, Oregon, and Stanford.
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"I just wanted to re-post this quote one more time to ensure...Naval Vet...read it one more time."
Well, well, well. It seems you have quite the obsession with me, and what I think of you and your bush-league, Indy-WACey school. It's obvious you envy and look up to your big brother on the Hill. Anyway, I thought I'd post something that Mr. Gurney accidently left OUT of the article...
Scout ranks Palepoi with ZERO-stars.
Rivals never even heard of the guy.
Should I re-post that one more time to ensure you read it?
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"Star Lutuleilei [sic] orginally [sic] signed with BYU, but had to go to Snow College because he needed to get his grades up. Some athlete succeed at the JC level and then come to BYU. Some don't and end up playing somewhere that doesn't have as high academic standards."
There was nothing wrong with Star Lotulelei's academics coming out of Jr. College. He qualified, and received another scholarship offer from, the irrelevant Indy-WACers in Provo.
The reason why he signed with Utah after coming out of Snow was because, like Kyle Whittingham, if given a choice, MAY have preferred the cougars initially right out of high school, but in the end, and after a few years of maturity, would ultimately prefer to finish their respective careers at Utah.
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"Utah won't make an offer because the Utes don't want to be embarrassed when Palepoi turns them down to play for BYU."
Or because he's an unheralded, zero-star defensive lineman -- whom I might add, Rivals never even heard of.
But, for now, Utah will have to just make due with 4-star DT Visesio Salt and 3-star DT Vaha Vainuku, both of whom, I might add, were NOT offered by the Y because the cougars did not want to be embarrassed when they inevitably would have turned them down in order to play for Utah.
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Everyone should detest the BCS. It is NOT a true championship system. Here's a
good suggestion....
Take the bowl games and convert them into playoff games. Take the conference winners of all the D1 schools and match them up as seeds in a bowl-based playoff that leads to the Rose Bowl for a TRUE CHAMPIONSHIP of winning teams.
Cool idea, huh? Then all you guys would stop wasting time talking about BCS, BCS, BCS. And we'd talk more about cool new players like Palepoi. Come to the Cougars, brah!
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An excellent game with both sides behaving in a gentlemanly manner to one another as is expected of those connected with our wonderful gentile sport.
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In Harlem's Ravaged Heart, Revival
By AMY WALDMAN
Published: February 18, 2001
Burgers grilling, fruit punch staining baby faces, summer scenting the air. In a courtyard on 129th Street, the tenants are having a barbecue.
The architecture is Mediterranean in feel, a plaza flanked by two buildings freshly painted peach and yellow. To the front, a gate to protect the pristine setting. To the rear, a Technicolor splash of green: a garden with gazebo.
Urania Muniz, a film editor, teaches her 4-year-old to say ''Excuse me'' before interrupting. Tuesday Brooks, a young woman starting a cable television talk show, sits near Terrence Booth, 25, a retail pricing analyst.
A blues trio rocks, and Janice Anderson, a religious retiree opposed to such entertainment, rolls her eyes. The president of the tenants' association reprimands a child roller-skating in the courtyard. The rules forbid it.
The details of the scene are ordinary, the change they signal extraordinary. Not long ago, there were no rules on this block, West 129th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues in Harlem. The courtyard was a vacant lot where drug dealers ran from the police. The adjacent buildings had long been empty, their only fresh paint new graffiti. Ms. Anderson and some of the older folks at the barbecue lived on the block. The rest -- black, white and Hispanic young professionals secure in the information economy -- wouldn't have dreamed of it.
In 1994, The New York Times described 129th Street as ''another America,'' such was its isolation and deprivation. The block, then almost uniformly black, had been bent by poverty, welfare and unemployment, by alienation between men and women, by drug dealing, addiction and violence.
The block's reputation was so fearsome that police dispatchers issued warnings before sending officers. Cabs collected residents only off the block. The walls of tenements blotted out the sky, and the future. Empty lots became the defining image of childhood for a rap producer raised here, who named his record label Vacant Lot.
Change, it seemed, would never come.
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The years have brought unprecedented economic growth; a startling decrease in crime; the ebb of crack; the remaking of welfare; an influx of immigrants; a city drive to redevelop the housing stock under its control; and the rise of neighborhood organizations focused on restoration.
Months on 129th Street, from that summer barbecue to the first day of school to a Christmas celebration, showed the dimension of its changes. Visits at dawn and midnight, conversations in homes and on corners, illuminated their texture and their limitations. Even from July to January, the evolution on 129th Street was remarkable: buildings renovated or sold, jobs lost and found, lives undone or refashioned. It seemed a constantly molting place, reflecting both the churning that is always a staple of poverty, and the ever faster rate of change here.
Change, too, has rippled across Harlem, once the nation's black cultural capital, but more recently a landscape of despair. From 1970 to 1990, central Harlem's population dropped by more than a third. In 1990, its median income was $19,169, compared with $41,415 citywide. Harlem had been severed, in essence, from the island of Manhattan. Now, slowly, it is rejoining it.
The changes have played out differently on different blocks. On some, revitalization has been slowed because a federal program to underwrite home loans fell prey to unscrupulous profiteers. On others, the city has yet to restore derelict housing. And 129th Street itself is a work in progress, with much unchanged for its roughly 1,400 residents.
But the block, which once embodied everything wrong with America's inner cities, today reflects much that can go right. So far, 17 of the block's 35 buildings, from town houses to tenements, have been rehabilitated. The block now has an art gallery, a Mormon church, a racially mixed preschool. A community development office matches residents with jobs. A lush little garden, tended by residents, thrives.
Deliverymen actually deliver food, and cabs deliver passengers. Trees -- notable for their long absence -- are growing. This fall, the street was repaved, smooth as ice, for the first time in years. Housing was even built on one of the last vacant lots, which had been used for the rap company's poster.
The reduction in crime has erased old fears and thus old borders. New life suffuses the block. Artists, actors and taxi drivers. A mortgage consultant and import-export entrepreneurs. Young black professionals looking for cheap rent. Middle-class, middle-aged black homeowners. Police officers. Africans in glorious robes. Hispanics. Whites.
Many of those profiled in The Times's 1994 series have since experienced transformations large and small. A teenage mother now works for a city official. A young man paralyzed in a drive-by shooting in 1993 left the block in search of better housing while his brother became a rap artist. A studious young man finished college and is in the Navy. His sister, now off the block, and his mother, still on it, found their lives altered, like many here, by the imperatives of new welfare laws. Those laws, which require work in exchange for benefits before they are cut off entirely, pushed many residents into the work force. Their landing has been cushioned by an economy as supportive as a trampoline.


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Adriano Bolzoni (14 April 1919 – 2003)[1] was an Italian journalist, writer and film director.
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Born in Cremona, Bolzoni started his career as a journalist, being war correspondent from the front of World War II. Later, he became director of Reporter, a right-wing weekly magazine published between 1959 and 1960 which is best remembered for having Pier Paolo Pasolini as film critic.[2][3] In the 1960s he became editor of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.[2]
Bolzoni entered the cinema industry in 1948, collaborating at the screenplay of the adventure film I contrabbandieri del mare, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero;[4] later he was a prolific screenwriter, arousing some fame with several successful spaghetti westerns and poliziotteschi.[4] He was also an occasional director of films and documentaries and an essayist.[4]
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- ^ Marco Antonio Bazzocchi. Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pearson, 1998. ISBN 8842494607.
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Shirakawa said he hoped his successor would be sworn in at the same time as the bank's new deputy governors, without making a direct reference to friction with Tokyo.
"The two deputy governors' terms will expire on March 19," he told reporters.
"I told the prime minister that I will resign on March 19 so that a (new) governor can start with two deputy governors."
Shirakawa had been expected to leave when his term expires on April 8, after new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe openly said he wanted a more like-minded candidate.
The 58-year-old premier had also threatened to change a law mandating the bank's independence unless it fell into line with his government's demands for aggressive monetary easing measures.
It was not immediately clear if the hawkish premier had accepted Shirakawa's early departure.
Among the candidates seen as possible successors are Haruhiko Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank, and Toshiro Muto, a former deputy governor at the BoJ.
Last month the under-pressure bank said it would adopt a two percent inflation goal demanded by the new government in a bid to beat the deflation that has haunted the world's third-largest economy for years.
It also unveiled an unlimited asset-purchase scheme -- similar to the US Federal Reserve's quantitative easing -- to start next year.
But days later, Shirakawa cast doubt on the inflation target and said pressure on central banks has "risen globally more than ever".
The head of Germany's Bundesbank Jens Weidmann warned last month over what he described as government meddling in monetary policy.
"We are witnessing disturbing abuses... where the new government is interfering massively in the affairs of the central bank, calling forcefully for a more aggressive monetary policy," he said, citing Japan as an example.
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my most special opening night was the one that opened my eyes and mind to a new way of seeing line standing alone as more of a painting. I'm of course referring to the late dark night in my studio, shortly before meeting my friend, Sparky, (Charles M Schulz),
It's as if James Brown was screaming his lyrics "I Got Ants In My Pants and I Need To Dance", soon after day one of my inspirational 20 year relationship with my friend Charles M. Schulz. Although in my mind, instead of "I Need To Dance", I was hearing, "I need to make new art".
Shortly after our introduction, we sat in his studio drawing lines in sets of three identical lines. He was demonstrating that no lines, in each set of three looked the same. That the eye sees and thinks about each line in a new way. This concept of seeing the same thing in a new way became the foundation for the twenty-six years of my visual articulation ultimately influenced by the strategies of process in his linework.
Throughout the 25 years of visual Schulz-like subject matter, the soul of the work has had to grow through always seeing the making of painting in a new way in order to remain alive. Like the 70s funk music that this work was created with and named after, "I got soul and I'm SuperBad"
Moreover, both of the Snoopys in "Performance Art" are the result of the "Third Mind". In Sparky's early drawings of Snoopy standing on his hind legs, he was usually seated in a relaxed position on his legs with flat feet. I modeled the two Snoopys after a good friend's dog named, Mick, who can stand on his toes, in a perfectly upright position, for an extraordinarily long amount of time while performing.
This year the devoted fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers will spend the whole season with the art of Stephen Holland literally in their hands. As Holland has been selected to be the cover artists for both the Dodgers' 2015 Yearbook and Media Guide.
The relationships we see in Everhart's paintings are of course entirely different from those of Sparky (Schulz.) These are the relationships that are from Everhart's own life. And much of that life is spent by Tom and his wife Jennifer in their part-time home of Tahiti, where they often entertain their many friends from near and far. This is just one set of relationship Everhart has offered us in his recent series of work - Starry Starry Light.
For Holland, his own life's story has always been what has guided his artistic approach to his subjects. No matter how big the icon of sports, film, music, politics or even fiction, Holland's subjects have been, he's always seen his portraits as ones of his subject's fundamental character. As it's this, and this alone that Holland knows to be the source of their genuine greatness.


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Dartford 3-0 Kidderminster
- From the section Football
Dartford ended their four-match winless run in style with an emphatic victory over Kidderminster Harriers.
The hosts took the lead on 34 minutes when Jason Prior registered his first goal of the campaign from close range.
Elliot Bradbrook slotted home to double Dartford's lead on 51 minutes before Danny Harris sealed all three points from 12 yards just past the hour.
Harriers struggled to respond but came close to a consolation when Anthony Malbon's free-kick flew wide late on.
The visitors were without both skipper Kyle Storer and centre-half Chey Dunkley, who both withdrew through injury.
Dartford manager Tony Burman tells BBC Radio Kent:
"The guys have come out from the off and they've worked hard, closed Kidderminster down, they deserved the win today.
"You need something to give you a boost. When you score a goal you get a boost, but full credit to Jason Prior. He took his chance well and that gives you the belief.
"It probably could have been more, we had a few chances that could have been put in, but it's nice, it's given us a lift for a few days. You can't beat working hard as a team, I'm really pleased for the players."
Kidderminster Harriers manager Steve Burr told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"We were without two very influential players today but, in saying that, I was expecting more from our lads.
"We had enough chances in the first half to have got ourselves ahead and stayed in the game, but I'm really disappointed with the way we conceded.
"The two goals after half time were killer blows for us. We tried to chase the game and get back into it but we just couldn't do it."
Lineup, Bookings (4) & Substitutions (6)
- 01 Julian Booked
- 05 Clarke
- 19 Fry Booked
- 08 Noble (Stirling - 79' )
- 10 Bradbrook
- 15 Collier
- 20 Burns
- 30 Woodyard
- 07 Hayes (Ibemere - 86' )
- 09 Prior (Birchall - 72' )
- 11 Harris
- 02 Josh Hill
- 04 Stirling
- 06 Cornhill
- 18 Ibemere
- 16 Birchall
- 23 N Vaughan
- 02 L Vaughan Booked
- 03 Demetriou Booked
- 15 Grimes
- 30 Gowling
- 07 Byrne (Jackman - 55' )
- 08 Fowler
- 17 Dance (Lolley - 72' )
- 18 Gittings (Johnson - 55' )
- 09 Gash
- 10 Malbon
- 01 Lewis
- 16 Jackman
- 11 Johnson
- 13 Blissett
- 21 Lolley
Match Stats
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Live Text Commentary
Full Time The referee brings the game to a close.90:00 +2:27
Lee Fowler takes a shot. Alan Julian catches the ball.90:00 +2:06
Marvin Johnson decides to take a short corner.90:00 +0:24
Adam Birchall takes a shot. Blocked by Jamie Grimes.89:42
Free kick awarded for a foul by Lee Fowler on Tyrone Sterling. Alex Woodyard takes the free kick.88:47
Corner from the right by-line taken by Alex Woodyard.87:45
Adam Birchall takes a shot. Blocked by Josh Gowling. Corner from the right by-line taken by Alex Woodyard. Danny Jackman manages to make a clearance.85:46
Uche Ibemere concedes a free kick for a foul on Josh Gowling. Josh Gowling takes the free kick.84:51
Free kick taken by Alan Julian.84:51 Substitution
Substitution (Dartford) makes a substitution, with Uche Ibemere coming on for Ryan Hayes.84:51
The referee blows for offside.83:48
Anthony Malbon takes a shot and went wide right of the target.81:25
Free kick awarded for a foul by Josh Gowling on Adam Birchall. Nathan Collier restarts play with the free kick.80:33 Booking
The referee cautions Matt Fry for time wasting.79:17 Booking
Booking for Alan Julian for unsporting behaviour.78:37 Substitution
Substitution Tyrone Sterling is brought on as a substitute for Lee Noble.78:37
Mickey Demetriou takes a shot and went wide of the left-hand upright.77:12
Foul by Josh Gowling on Danny Harris, free kick awarded. Lee Noble restarts play with the free kick.
Michael Gash is caught offside. Alan Julian takes the free kick.72:58
Corner from the right by-line taken by Ryan Hayes.70:47 Substitution
Substitution (Dartford) makes a substitution, with Adam Birchall coming on for Jason Prior.70:47 Substitution
Substitution Joe Lolley on for James Dance.70:47
Anthony Malbon takes a shot.68:21
Anthony Malbon takes a shot. Blocked by Kenny Clark. Corner taken by James Dance from the left by-line. Clearance made by Kenny Clark.67:10
The assistant referee flags for offside against Danny Harris. Jamie Grimes takes the free kick.66:17
A cross is delivered by Ryan Hayes. Shot by Danny Harris went wide left of the goal.62:36
Unfair challenge on Josh Gowling by Elliot Bradbrook results in a free kick. Strike comes in from Danny Jackman from the free kick. Fine finger tip save by Alan Julian.James Dance decides to take a short corner.60:30
The assist for the goal came from Ryan Hayes.60:30 Goal scored
Goal! - Danny Harris - Dartford 3 - 0 K'minster Danny Harris slots the ball right footed into the goal. Dartford 3-0 Kidderminster.57:34
Corner taken by Danny Jackman. Clearance made by Nathan Collier.54:21 Substitution
Substitution Danny Jackman comes on in place of Jack Byrne.54:21 Substitution
Substitution Marvin Johnson is brought on as a substitute for Callum Gittings.50:53 Goal scored
Goal! - Elliot Bradbrook - Dartford 2 - 0 K'minster Elliot Bradbrook scores a left footed goal. Dartford 2-0 Kidderminster.50:22
Ryan Hayes crosses the ball. Fine finger tip save by Nathan Vaughan.Corner taken by Lee Noble from the left by-line.49:50
A cross is delivered by Lee Burns. Clearance made by Lee Fowler. Corner from the left by-line taken by Lee Noble.48:54
Foul by Michael Gash on Ryan Hayes, free kick awarded. Alan Julian restarts play with the free kick.46:37
Lee Fowler takes a shot.45:01
The second half begins.45:00 +2:06 Half time
Half Time The first half comes to an end.45:00 +1:06
Corner taken by James Dance. Clearance by Lee Noble.45:00 +0:22
Jack Byrne takes a shot. Alan Julian catches the ball.44:44
Lee Burns is flagged offside by the assistant referee. Nathan Vaughan takes the free kick.43:19
Corner taken by Ryan Hayes. Clearance made by Anthony Malbon.42:24
A cross is delivered by Lee Vaughan. Header by Michael Gash goes over the bar.42:04
Short corner worked by James Dance.41:40
The ball is delivered by James Dance. Nathan Collier makes a clearance.38:07
Callum Gittings concedes a free kick for a foul on Lee Burns. Lee Burns restarts play with the free kick.33:58
Assist by Ryan Hayes.33:58 Goal scored
Goal! - Jason Prior - Dartford 1 - 0 K'minster Jason Prior scores with a right foot finish. Dartford 1-0 Kidderminster.32:27
Lee Noble challenges James Dance unfairly and gives away a free kick. Lee Fowler restarts play with the free kick.31:23
James Dance gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Danny Harris. Free kick taken by Matt Fry.29:04 Booking
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Jason Prior by Mickey Demetriou. Booking for Mickey Demetriou for unsporting behaviour. Free kick taken by Alan Julian.26:34
Anthony Malbon takes a shot. Fine finger tip save by Alan Julian.Corner taken by James Dance. Josh Gowling takes a shot. Lee Burns gets a block in.25:58
James Dance decides to take a short corner.25:03
Danny Harris takes a shot.22:58
The assistant referee signals for offside against Anthony Malbon. Free kick taken by Alan Julian.22:04
The official flags Jason Prior offside. Free kick taken by Nathan Vaughan.19:56
Corner taken by James Dance from the right by-line. Callum Gittings takes a shot. Lee Noble gets a block in.19:29
Michael Gash takes a shot. Nathan Collier makes a clearance.18:28
Foul by Callum Gittings on Elliot Bradbrook, free kick awarded. Lee Noble takes the free kick.16:53
Jason Prior takes a shot and went wide right of the goal.16:05
Lee Noble delivers the ball.14:58
Corner taken by James Dance. Alan Julian punches the ball.13:54
Josh Gowling challenges Danny Harris unfairly and gives away a free kick. Lee Noble restarts play with the free kick.12:15 Booking
Foul by Lee Vaughan on Lee Noble, free kick awarded. Booking for Lee Vaughan for unsporting behaviour. Alan Julian restarts play with the free kick.6:23
Lee Vaughan has an effort at goal and missed to the left of the target.4:32
Michael Gash takes a shot. Blocked by Kenny Clark.3:29
Kenny Clark gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Michael Gash. Jack Byrne takes the free kick.2:40
The ball is sent over by Ryan Hayes. Jason Prior takes a shot. Nathan Vaughan safely holds on.1:46
Foul by Lee Noble on Lee Vaughan, free kick awarded. Free kick taken by Lee Vaughan.0:00
The referee gets the game underway.
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The Arizona Cardinals claimed quarterback Brian Hoyer on waivers Monday, according to ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter.
Hoyer, a fourth-year pro from Michigan State, was waived by the Pittsburgh Steelers last week. In his NFL career with New England and Pittsburgh, Hoyer has completed 27-of-43 passes for 286 yards with one touchdown and one interception. He's played in 13 NFL contests (only one in the last two seasons) and has not started a game in the league.
Hoyer started for more than two seasons at Michigan State, throwing for 6,159 yards and 35 touchdowns.
The Cardinals have had their quarterback issues this season with Kevin Kolb missing the last seven games with a rib injury. Veteran John Skelton and rookie sixth-round draft choice Ryan Lindley have struggled mightily in his absence. The duo has combined for two touchdown passes and 14 interceptions in that span.
To make room for Hoyer, center Rich Ohrnberger was placed on injured reserve. Ohrnberger suffered a knee injury in Sunday's loss to Seattle.
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The Morgan Crucible Company plc engages in the design, development and marketing of products made from carbon, ceramic and magnetic materials worldwide. Their products are used in a range of applications from transport and telecommunications to fire protection and medical instruments. The company operates in four divisions that include Carbon, Magnetic, Technical Ceramics, and Insulating Ceramics. CARBON DIVISION Carbon division designs, manufactures and supplies carbon components and systems for industrial rail and traction applications on a global scale. It provides seal faces and bearings for a range of applications, and also produces precision purity specialty graphite products for use in high temperature and corrosive environments. Products and Applications The company's Industrial and Traction business designs, manufactures and supplies components and systems worldwide. The business offers a range of products – carbon brushes, brush holders and commutators used in DC motors, traction current collectors used on trains, trams and underground train systems, linear and rotary current transfer systems and assemblies used in many applications. The Mechanical Carbon business provides seal faces, bearings, rotors, vanes and other components providing the technical solutions required for a variety of applications. It also supplies armour materials. Specialty Graphite produces and supplies precision purity specialty graphite products for use in a variety of high temperature and corrosive environments. MAGNETIC DIVISION Magnetic division develops, manufactures and markets special purpose magnetic materials and the products derived from them. Its materials, parts, components and systems are used in virtually every field of electronics and electrical engineering from watch manufacturing to aerospace. Products and applications Magnetics comprises three divisions: Materials & Parts, Cores & Components, and Permanent Magnets. Materials & Parts: The main products of its Materials & Parts division include crystalline (soft magnetic and semi hard) and amorphous and nanocrystalline materials. Cores & Components: In its Cores & Components division, the company produces toroidal tape wound cores, inductive components and component assemblies. The main applications include GFCIs, Switched Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) in PCs, as well as its own components production. Permanent Magnets: In its Permanent Magnets division, the company produces rare earth permanent magnets, integrated systems and assemblies. The main application of Neodymium Iron Boron rare earth magnets is within electric motors, such as compact elevator drives and servo motors in machine tool drives. Neodymium Iron Boron magnets are also used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems for hospitals. 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Electro Ceramics: Electro Ceramics develops and manufactures piezoelectric ceramic components, ultrasonic transducers and sensor assemblies, actuators, radio frequency and high voltage capacitors and microwave filters. Its actuators, transducers and sensors provide an electro mechanical interface between electronic systems and the real world. Applications include hard disk drives for computers, sonar systems, medical imaging, ultrasonic scalpels and parking sensors for cars. INSULATING CERAMICS DIVISION Insulating Ceramics provides heat management products for high temperature applications in a variety of end-use industries. It also provides crucibles and related products for the non-ferrous and precious metals foundry market. The company operates in approximately 40 countries Insulating Ceramics comprises two business units: Thermal Ceramics and Crucibles. 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Aimee Roundtree, PhD, Associate Professor, Technical Communication Program and Usability Research Lab, Texas State University,
originally presented 8 June 2016
How you write content and design formatting for decision support can help—or hinder— the decision making process of the public and the pros. Learn best practices from health care for creating decision aids that help people navigate moments of uncertainty and complexity when making technical, scientific or medical choices. Consider different conceptual models for decision-making that can enrich your own design decisions.
Pam Noreault, Senior Manager, Information Development, ACI Worldwide,
originally presented 2 December 2015
Where were we before Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? There's no getting around it. Social media impacts more than our personal lives. It impacts content strategy. This webinar will dig into social media and its impact to content strategy as well as ideas for a pilot project and measuring and reporting your results.
Pamela Paterson, Bestselling Author, "Get the Job: Optimize Your Resume for the Online Job Search," www.beatresumesystems.com,
originally presented 1 April 2015
Stuck in a rut in your job? Learn how to get ahead in the workplace. It's not by chance that some people spring over others in their careers. Learn top strategies to guarantee job success as a technical writer from the bestselling author of Get the Job, Pamela Paterson.
Elisa R. Sawyer, Independent Consultant,
originally presented 4 February 2015
Do classes in creative writing improve our skills as communicators in technical fields? The presenter says yes! Even for writing reference material, the use of story craft as taught in creative writing affords us a set of skills that are uniquely valuable. Learn what is taught in master classes on story and how using these skills can improve what we offer to our audiences as technical writers.
Neil Perlin,
originally presented 18 July 2014
New online content techniques like multichannel publishing and responsive design rely heavily on best practices for development. One of the most important of those practices is the use of styles and style sheets, in line with W3C recommendations that style codes be removed from HTML files and put in a style sheet, or CSS, instead. The result will be cleaner, more future-proofed content. If you're new to CSS, it may look impenetrable but there actually is logic to it. Understand that logic and the rest begins to fall into place. If you've decided that it's time to make serious and correct use of styles but aren't sure where to start, this presentation will get you going.
Judy Glick-Smith,
originally presented 30 October 2013
Managers who take a service-oriented approach to leadership proactively coach, encourage, and create targeted opportunities for the people who work for them. When people are able to work in an environment where they are in a flow state, they are happier, more productive, and tend to make better decisions. In this presentation, Judith Glick-Smith uses research-based concepts to explore how managers can facilitate environments where employees do their best work, enabling the organization as a whole to operate with high reliability.
Diedre Longo and Beth Hettich,
originally presented 31 July 2013
Now more than ever, technical communicators must find ways to recession-proof their jobs and careers, use scarce resources strategically, and find new ways to demonstrate critical value-add. At the same time, you must maintain your role as end-user advocates by identifying innovative ways to improve the usability of your products and information. The good news is that the tried and true technique of using scenarios to define an information architecture can solve these problems! This practical session will teach you about scenarios—how to use scenarios to drive high-value content and eliminate low-value effort.
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originally presented 6 June 2013
Technical communication may be on the brink of a cultural shift from one-sided, didactic, expert-driven user documentation to utilizing user-generated content, collaborative communication, and the power of communities. Documentation teams can now utilize Web 2.0 approaches to capture user-generated content using user communities, wikis, blogs, forums, and other social media and to capture user information using social platforms APIs. To execute a successful social documentation strategy, documentation teams need to learn to architect and foster user communities and then to incorporate user-generated content into their workflows.
Maxwell Hoffmann,
originally presented 30 May 2013
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Sharon Burton,
originally presented 2 April 2013
For years, we've wanted to find out about our users—who are they? What are they like? Do they use our instructions? And, in this age of social media, do they talk about our instructions in social media? If so, how, why, and when? In late 2012, the presenter ran an opinion poll to find out what people do with post-sales content like product instructions, and social media. This webinar covers the results of that poll. After the poll is over, you will receive a copy of the full poll results.