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Voice acting in today's day and age is not so much about the voice but what you can do with that voice. This is acting! Interpreting a script, what you do with those words, how you take direction and how you interpret that direction into the character that you're playing is very important. Dave McRae introduces aspiring talent to what voice acting is, knowing how it sounds and becoming comfortable with your own voice.
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Your Instructor this week:
Voice Talent Dave McRae
Dave McRae is a Professional Voice Artist based in Toronto Ontario Canada. With more than 15 years of experience and the credentials to show for it, he is one of Canada's leading voice talents. Considered to be the complete voice over experience, Dave's amazing range and bang on delivery is something to be heard. From the dark, creepy or action packed Movie Trailers and Promos, to amazing and wild character and cartoon voices, to the regular or cool guy next door, Dave can do it all.
Dave McRae's voice has been heard in hundreds of Radio and Television Commercials, Network Promos, Movie and Game Trailers, Corporate Presentation and Training videos and more. He is currently heard Nationally as the Narrator of Four Weddings Canada, the commercial and promo voice for Big Brother Canada and The Real Housewives of Vancouver, as well as the Network Promo and Imaging voice for the adventure channel Travel and Escape. Dave is also heard west of the Ontario/Manitoba border as the Network Promo and Imaging voice for the movie channel Encore Avenue.
Alongside his voice over career, Dave is also an Independent filmmaker.
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Dave: Hey, guys. Dave McRae here, professional voice artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I just want to take this opportunity to primarily speak to those who are looking to get into voice overs for the very first time. That's who I'm primarily targeting. Now, that doesn't mean if you have some experience behind you, like, six months, two years, five months that you shouldn't continue to listen. It just means that I want to make it clear that I'm primarily targeting those who are at the stage of I have a passion for this, I've always wanted to do this. Maybe you've been told you have a great voice for this but you're not quite sure where to start. That's who I'm primarily targeting.
So let's start here. The world of voice over is one of the most important parts of the entertainment and corporate industries. Yet, sadly and ironically, it's one of the most misunderstood, unrecognized and unappreciated. And the reason for that is very simple, out of sight out of mind. You are rarely seen and only heard.
But you hear a professional voice artist every single day of your lives. You hear them in radio and television commercials, network promos, movie trailers, radio and television imaging, theme parks, award shows, IVR's, which is interactive voice response, "press one for …", "press two for …", et cetera. Video game trailers, video games, talking toys, corporate presentation and training videos, cartoons and animation. You know, web videos, employee training videos.
I mean, it's just … it is literally everywhere. It is, undoubtedly, one of the most important parts of the entertainment and corporate industries. And that's the irony of it. It's often unrecognized, unappreciated and misunderstood.
So what if you're somebody who has been told that you have a great voice. It sounds like such a cliché but there are people out there that have great voices. And you might be one of them. But it's really important that you understand that in this day and age, in 2012, as I speak to you right now, it's not so much about the voice. Now, that does help. I mean, if you have a great voice, a nice soothing voice, a baritone voice or just a … you know, a really nice voice it certainly can help. But it doesn't make or break whether you're going to be successful in the world of voice over. You have to understand that this is voice acting.
Now, maybe you've been told that before. If you've done some research, and you've spoken to other coaches out there, or taken some workshops or some classes you've probably heard somebody say that, that this really isn't so much so about the voice as it is about what you can do with that voice. It's about acting, it's voice acting. It's how you interpret a script. It's what you can do with those words, it's how well you take direction and how you interpret that direction into the character that you're playing.
That's what it really is about. There's a lot of great voice talent out there that just have regular sounding, everyday voices but are extremely successful because they know how to interpret a script. They're professional, they're on time, they can take direction well. And they're very good at what they do, because they can read those words so beautifully and make them sound so natural as if they're not even reading at all. And that's really what this is about. It is voice acting, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, whether you're somebody who has been told you have a great voice and you should get into voice overs or you're somebody who has not necessarily been told that … you don't necessarily have a bad voice, you just haven't been given that cliché comment and you've just always had a fascination with it, an interest, a passion … whatever one it is there is something that I feel, in my professional opinion, that you need to do first.
And what that something is is you've got to get to know your voice. You've got to learn to like it. You don't have to love it but you got to learn to like it. There are so many people out there looking to get into this industry for the very first time and they've never heard the sound of their own voice. They can hear it when they speak out loud but they've never heard their voice played back to them. And if they have … some people have, of course … nine times out of ten, they don't like what they hear.
And if you're one of those people who have never heard the sound of your own voice played back to you, from an objective point of view, then that's what you need to do first. And if you're somebody who has heard the sound of your own voice played back to, from that objective point of view, that's what you need to do first. You need to get used to the sound of your voice.
So how do you hear yourself from that objective point of view. It's very simple. What you need to do is you need to record yourself, whether that's something like an analog cassette tape recorder, or from your computer, or a digital device of some kind, or maybe you know somebody who has a recording studio and you can go to it, or perhaps you've even set yourself up with your own little recording studio at home.
You need to do this. We're not worried about broadcast quality at this point. So if all you have is an old tape recorder that you can record yourself on, as long as it's clear and it's precise then that will do perfectly fine at this point. Because what you're trying to do is listen to yourself objectively. So try reading magazine articles, the back of DVD cases, newspaper articles or just ramble on about who you are and how your day is going. And the more you do this the more you will allow yourself to get used to hearing the sound of your own voice from that objective point of view.
And, by doing this, you're going to learn its range. You're going to learn to like it, and get comfortable with it and know it when you hear it. It's all about confidence and being comfortable with this being your voice.
And when you are comfortable with your voice you can start finding your niche, and you can start playing with its range, and you can start doing this, and stepping out of your comfort zone and doing all these wonderful things that you can do. But if you don't like the sound of your own voice first, if you don't like the basis of what your voice is, then you're not going to feel comfortable stepping out of your comfort zone to do animation, or to do a monster truck read, or a movie trailer, or a network promo or all these wonderful things that come with the world of voice over.
You need to be confident in your voice. Because when you stand in a recording studio in front of a microphone and you put the headset on you not only hear the client and the studio engineer in your headset, you hear yourself as you're talking into the microphone. And if you're not confident in your voice and you can't stand the sound of your voice, then you're going to lose focus and you're not going to have the confidence that you need and that is required to give a professional confident read.
Because, let's face it, the whole time you're standing in that studio, with you headset on, and you're looking at the script, and you're reading and you can hear your voice in your headset, the whole time all you're going to be concentrating on is, "That's what I sound like?" "I sound terrible," "I hate my voice." And then you're going to mess up on a word, and you're going to screw up on a sentence, and then you're going to feel more agitated, and you're going to feel nervous and you're going to start apologizing. And then you're going [stumbling over words] and it just goes on, and on and on.
So it's really important that you like the sound of your own voice, that you're used to it, that you know it, you're comfortable with it. This is all about being comfortable, ladies and gentlemen, and having the confidence that you need to perform well.
Now, let's talk a bit about workshops for a second. I just want to touch on this for just a moment and then we'll call it a day here, folks. It is vitally important … I mean, everybody says you got to take acting workshops, you got take voice over workshops, you got to, you know, seek out a great coach. That is all true. But please, please, do your research.
Now, don't get me wrong, there are a lot of wonderful workshops out there, taught by some outstanding individuals, who are coaches, who are voice artists themselves. And that's what you want, you want a voice over coach who is also a voice artist, who is also currently doing voice overs, who has a track record, who has a wealth of experience and knowledge. That's what you need, do your research.
But this a business, ladies and gentlemen. And there are a lot of people out there that aren't that great and some workshops that are a little shady. And, you know, yes, we all want to make money, don't get me wrong. But you want somebody who is passionate about the art. You want somebody who is passionate about voice over work, who is willing to teach, and share their knowledge and their expertise, and tell you stories, and ins and outs and little things that you may not have thought of or … you know, that's what you want, you want somebody who lives and breathes voice over work.
You don't want somebody who just woke up one day and thought, well, you know, I know a little bit about it and maybe I'll get into teaching it a little bit, you know, make some good money and, you know, kind of call it a day there and … that's not what you want. You want somebody who lives and breathes it. And they are out there. But there are also people out there who aren't that passionate about it and they're just in it for the money and to make a quick buck.
Ask as many questions as you can. Don't ever think, well, I can't really ask that because, you know … no, ask it, ask it. Send … you know, send the coach ten e-mails if you want. However, having said that, do your best to send all your questions in one e-mail as opposed to one question in ten e-mails. But you know the point I'm trying to make.
Don't feel like you can't ask questions. This is vitally important. And if you're going to be spending two, three, four, five hundred bucks on a workshop and then, eventually, six, seven, eight hundred bucks on a demo, and then maybe a thousand, to fifteen hundred, or two thousand or five thousand, depending on what your budget is, for a home studio, well, you need to feel comfortable. You're spending money here, ladies and gentlemen. You need to feel comfortable. Ask, ask, ask.
And if they are professional, and they are legit and they are the real deal then they will have absolutely, unequivocally no problem with getting back to you and answering the questions thoroughly. You want a coach that understands the business, and that this a business, but you want somebody who also understands the position that you're in. And that's really important, ladies and gentlemen.
So do your research, take those workshops, take those acting classes, seek out a good coach who has a wealth of experience and knowledge behind them in not only teaching voice over but, preferably, in doing voice over as well. So do your research, vitally important.
And get to know your voice, get used to the sound of it. Play it back to you so you can get comfortable with it. If you do that, with taking a great workshop, taught by a great coach and you're also on the side at home getting used to the sound of your own voice, you're well on your way.
My name is Dave McRae, folks. I'll be back again in the near future with some more insights into what I've learned as a professional voice artist. Thanks again. Take care.
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Michele Canon, principal planner for Mount Pleasant, was only able to get through one part of her presentation, regarding the proposed cost of a short-term rental permit, before Commissioner Roy Neal made a motion to deny the ordinance.
"We all know the issues out there and what they can be," Neal said. "I can sit down here and work through every one of these things and tell you, I'm going to vote no on this thing because I don't want it. I think it's overreach; I think it's over-taxation."
Commissioner John McNeill, who seconded Neal's motion, agreed that Planning Commission was not in a place to be making policy.
"The commission is here to make a recommendation. We are not here to craft the ordinance," McNeill said. "And therefore, I think that by denying it … it certainly sends some kind of message — I'm not sure what — to council. But it sends some kind of message that it needs to be rethought or adjusted or whatever."
Some commissioners, including Commissioner Kathy Smith, were initially reluctant to recommend denial.
"I don't think it is appropriate for us to throw the baby out with the bath water, and I feel that … what makes a town vibrant and healthy is diversity," she said. "And not just diversity of people — diversity of housing types, diversity of rental types. And I believe that we can craft an ordinance that allows short-term rentals to happen, but happen properly."
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Pillars of Fateby Anabir - Jam Entry
Being a cathedral builder isn't that easy... evenmore if some devils tries to destroy it.
1. Use Left Click to pick a block then Left Click to place it on the ground
2. Click on Devils to kill them !
3. You're ready to to build a wonderful cathedral !
Core team :
Augustin Grassien (anabir) - Game design & Art
Valentin Birembaut (arfak) - Programming
Benjamin Lefevre (benjaml) - Programming
Theophile Loaec (thomaslean) Sound Design & Music
Special thanks to :
Liptick for some help on game design
Deadslug for his divine voice
Downloads and Links
Hi, nice game and congratulations ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #36. We made the same thing at the previous jam.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description.
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Very fun :D
Loved it. The art is great, the title screen to game transition worked very well, didn't expect it but it was great. The game was very atmospheric. The thing I liked the most was the control. Grabbing pieces and placing them feels snappy and very responsive, it felt good. I like how the game felt very fast pace. However, I found the evil repelling bit was less fun than the building bit because it was very hard to click that thing. The lighted rectangle area confused me a little bit because i thought you can only place blocks in that area but then when the game ends it tells me about max height then i realized you can actually place things outside? (I'm still not 100% sure). If i can actually continue building it up, it would be nice to have a way for the player to extend the time before judgement so I can try to hit a higher score. Overall very fun game, well done!
Surprisingly interesting game :D At first I thought it would be tetris like, but on the second run I understood the rules better. Solid entry with nice music and graphics.
The physics are pure, the visuals virtuous and the audio blessed, but not all is well in the holy land.
Challenge; where is it? Winning is a matter of spamming building parts into the highlighted area. There's no need for precision as bricks are never going to fall off as long as you don't build outside said area.
God doesn't seem to care about design either. A completely box like cathedral is a-ok, windows and roof tiles in a mishmash jumble. It would be more interesting (and challenging) if the aesthetics of the cathedral played a role on the judgement day; negative points awarded for broken tiles, flat rooftops and non-symmetry!
The devils are the closest we get to a jolly good time, but there are way too few of them to even make a dent in the architecture, if you let them slip by that is.
The pilgrims are another odd bunch. Their death is inconsequential so what purpose do they present? I even managed to get a negative "pilgrims spared" count. Not sure how that happened.
And this is what pains me. No amount of quality and polish will save a trivial game. You'll need to re-balance the hell out of this.
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Montreal artist premiers in IstanbulPar : Veronica Redgrave 18 mars, 2013
The show, Haydarpasa Railway Station: Past. Present and Uncertain Future, was a cultural event seeking to raise international awareness about the Haydarpasa Station. The beautiful building, opened in 1906, is on the 2012 Watch List of the World Monument Foundation. Canadian and Turkish artists participated in the show, which collected funds for the preservation of the station. Rioux, a digital artist, created a wonder-world; shapes inspired by Haydarpasa but emanating entirely from his imagination. The amazing grace of his monoliths form 'streets' with a precision not alike that of Haussmann's Parisian avenues. He 'straightened out' the Byzantine meanderings of this ancient Turkish metropolis with his sophisticated geometry. The eye is drawn to a massive block, which then leads one further to the horizon where the hint of a dome suggests Hagia Sophia, Istanbul's famed mosque-now-museum. The allure of his matrix-mode art is that the 'streets' could also be waterways in Venice, Italy; or, indeed, wherever your mind's eye takes you. In that, Rioux's images are a global statement, which, like the event itself, suggest the past, present and an uncertain future.
Hommage to Oscar Niemeyer. In homage to the famous architect's recent passing at age 104, Paul-Émile Rioux created a new series. ''Much of my work is inspired by buildings. I discovered Niemeyer's work when I was about 9 years old, and then realized that buildings could be lines, and not just 'wedding cake layers','' explained Rioux. Based on the renowned architect's landmark buildings such as Brasilia, the artist used his software-brush to design a logical fantasy city. In his Homage, the artist does not ignore nature. He seamlessly juxtaposes textures of water and grass beside the eloquent equations of his manufactured universe; one in which monoliths rise gracefully in mock utopian panoramas with their linear quietude.
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OTTAWA — A lawyer for Joshua Boyle is suggesting a mid-trial appeal on a point of evidence could endanger the timely completion of the former Afghanistan hostage's assault trial.
Eric Granger is telling a judge today that the challenge by Boyle's estranged wife Caitlan Coleman, the alleged victim, is resulting in "fragmented proceedings" that might run afoul of strict limits intended to ensure the constitutional right to be tried within a reasonable time.
Boyle, 35, has pleaded not guilty in Ontario court to offences against Coleman, 33, including assault, sexual assault and unlawful confinement.
The offences are alleged to have occurred in late 2017 after the couple returned to Canada following five years as captives of extremists who seized them during an ill-fated backpacking trip to Asia.
Coleman's lawyer, Ian Carter, is asking a Superior Court to review a recent ruling that allows Boyle to introduce evidence concerning certain consensual sexual activity with his wife.
Granger says the side hearing now playing out is unnecessary because sufficient safeguards are already built into the process.


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So I just discovered Inklings thanks to Gonzo's link on GroupThink and I have to say I like it! This is one of the lovlier parts of Kinja: the surprises you can find as new blogs pop up. However, I wish there was a list to browse or an interactive search function to be able to sift through the 'name brand' blogs as well as the user-generated ones.
Like a manipulatable spiderweb design kind of thing? I don't know I'm just typing out loud but I'd love it if I could find these blogs easier then just through shares and links (as much as I like them!)


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Sham Idrees and Saher (Froggy) Beautiful Engagement Wedding Pictures. Sham is a social media and tv personalities. Due to Sham Idrees funny videos, he is famous in Pakistan. He made his name at social media by making funny and emotional videos. With her career he spend a lot of time to create so much moral and attractive video. In the start he was, not enough popular from his video and these are moral less. He changed the life style to become more popular in Pakistan. Now after spending many year, he his very popular personality and always be liked by the fans. Now he maked the plan and decide for marriage. Now a days, he is going to wedding with Saher. Some of impressive pictures are here. Both are looking amazing at their engagement event.
Sham Idrees and Saher (Froggy) Beautiful Engagement Wedding Pictures
In the engagement ceremony, the Sham and Froggy is looking much attractive and spreading love. They are looking more attractive in lehnga nd 2 piece black suit. The Sham is looking stunning by wear formal dress. These are the so attractive pictures which he share to his fans. Now they got engagement and share pictures to fans. The get more life and the comment after sharing picture. Many fan blessed them for new life. Some random click of their engagement event are here. The collection is totally beautiful. Let's have a look.


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Miss Harvest Moon, Chance César has a crush on The Harvest Moon Pumpkin Carving King, Jasper Donahue and he is going to make Jasper fall in love with him with the help of his bestie, Emily Benson, Today's Lady Online Magazine's Ten Scientifically Proven Ways to Make a Man Fall in Love with You and a love spell (or two) to boot!
Chance is very into following the list, though it was kind of distressing to see what Chance's allegiance to the list was doing to Jasper and the worst part is we don't even get Jasper's POV so yeah, I could feel his distress across Chance's POV. It was painfully obvious that all these tactics made Chance seem like he was running hot and cold and all the mixed signals would mess with anyone's head. Personally, all I wanted was for Chance to be himself.
I didn't like Emily's character. The only thing I would have wanted from her was two things – one, to tell Chance that he needs to be honest in his dealings with Jasper because what is the point of Jasper falling in love with someone who is not even real and two, that he didn't need to figure out if he was a boy or girl or both or neither he could be anything he wanted to be and he didn't need a box, he could just be uniquely Chance and that could be his box if he so desired and since, she did neither, I don't even know why she existed. She doesn't even contribute much to the plot and felt very much like an unnecessary character. I am pretty conflicted about her, I wonder if I should excuse her on the grounds of immaturity or the fact that she is just a teenager with no life experience but somehow, I can't absolve her even with those considerations into place. Simultaneously, I also realise that we actually don't know anything about her which brings me back to my first point, what was her contribution to the story, it felt like she was a character because someone was ticking off a list which said a female best friend was mandatory to a YA novel featuring a gay guy.
Though I couldn't get behind Emily's character I still ended up liking Chance probably because it was easy to see his foibles for what they were and somehow, it's easy to lose perspective when your own feelings are hanging in the balance and I can somewhat excuse him especially as we see him learn the lesson he needed to learn. I really feel for Chance and being in his head it was really easy to like him because I could see where he was coming from. I really wanted to give him a hug every time he gets conflicted about his gender identity. I really connected with him even though I don't know how many times I was shaking my head as he went along with things on the list.
I guess my best character in this book has to be Jasper. He was amazing and I loved him truly, I almost think I love him more than Chance. Getting to know Jasper was the real treat of this book and I literally can't think of one single thing about him that I didn't like (okay, in hindsight, I can think of one).
I had issues with the book and somehow, I really wanted to shake Chance up and tell him to forget the list and just be himself but despite the list and how much I was dreading the complications of the list the whole time it was in effect, I still found this an interesting read once I got into Chance's head space. I feel like the ending changed things for me because during the whole list debacle I was like I am going to rate it like two stars or something but then we got to the end and we see Chance learn from his mistakes, learn that he can be himself, uniquely Chance and that significantly redeemed the book in my mind to some extent. I guess what I want to say, is that this book is not a painful read, it wasn't ever a problem where I had to convince myself to finish the book just because I had to review it, in fact, it was the opposite. I finished it pretty quickly and there was something about this book that had me turning the pages even though I couldn't stop myself from shaking my head at the words.
Cover Art by Natasha Snow. I love the cover, especially the background which has a kind of magical feel to it.
Sales Link Amazon |: Nine Star Press
Book Details:
ebook, 43,300 words
Expected Publication: 2nd edition, August 27, 2018 by Nine Star Press
Edition Language: English


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The Urban Theater
Author: Mark Jenkins
Publisher: Gestalten
Heads in walls, people impaled by traffic signs, legs sticking out of garbage bags, scary hoodied guys with baseball bats and plastic babies. What the hell is goin on, Mark Jenkins that's what!!
Mark has an interesting approach to his art, you have heard the saying, 'all the street is a stage', well he uses this remark to his full advantage by using humans forms as an illusion. Boxes and tape help portray the human form and they tend to get in some unusual and more than disconcerting situations, thanks to this sidewalk installation mistro. In a lot of cases the authorities have been contacted to release, what seems to be unfortunate souls from an uncomfortable predicament - much to the amusement of Mark, who considers their presence to be an addition to the plot of the installation.
In this book you will find the best of this Washington, DC resident's street installations to date. With some satiric yet poignant reactions triggered by the general public to these unfortunate yet amusingly familiar forms in cities near you.
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Jimmy Breslin's Enduring Legacy
The legendary journalist was remembered in Colin Broderick's 'The Writing Irish Of New York'
Colin Broderick's new book, The Writing Irish of New York, tells the tales of a talented pool of New York writers who share Celtic blood. In this anthology, pages are split between titans like Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald and lesser-known writers and journalists who spent their careers in the literary trenches. Legendary journalist Jimmy Breslin is decidedly in the latter camp.
Breslin was born in Queens, NY, and his formative years were spent in an unstable, single parent home. It was during this time that he found his voice, developing an off-the-grid style of reporting that gained him a reputation of championing the stories of ordinary, everyday people. Breslin later went on to use his much coveted column to report on stories of working class Americans.
One of Breslin's most famous pieces was published in the New York Herald Tribune, 55 years ago, on November 26th, 1963, days after the assassination of John F Kennedy. While journalists from all across the world descended upon the capital to report on the loss of America's innocence, Breslin went off the beaten path and befriended a gravedigger at Arlington National Cemetery. He spent his time with Clifton Pollard, a 42-year-old WWII Veteran who was earning a mere $3.01 an hour to prepare the final resting place of his fellow serviceman, the President.
By detailing the simplicity of Pollard's life– the attention and care he took to complete such a harrowing task and the deep honor he felt while doing so–Breslin memorialized JFK in a way no other journalist was able to do at the time. He shied from sensationalizing the tragedy and let the sadness be conveyed through an everyday American, someone the country could truly relate to.
The Writing Irish Of New York by Colin Broderick
It can be hard to put that kind of grief into words, to paint sadness over text, but Breslin did just this. He saw a story where no one else was looking. He saw the necessity in detailing the grief of a nation through the eyes of a man that felt a sense of privilege in serving his Commander-in-Chief one last time. Through Breslin, a gravedigger's tale became one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of journalism ever published, at a time when every other reporter in the world was covering the same beat.
Never far from a story, Breslin was also present when tragedy struck again at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in June of 68'. America lost another great leader, and the journalist was on the ground, living through the emotion and making sure the story was documented. He later found himself surrounded by controversy again, when the notorious murder, The Son Of Sam, wrote him a handwritten letter which was delivered to his desk, taunting Breslin and complimenting him on his reporting of the killer's crimes. Breslin fought his way to the heart of a story yet again on a cold December night in New York City. Up against a tight deadline and covering what was no doubt the story of the year, Breslin managed to speak to the police officers who answered the 911 call on the night John Lennon was murdered. In his column about the tragedy, he humanized the beloved Beatle, focusing less on the loss of legend and more on the tragedy of yet another person killed on the tough streets of New York City.
Breslin's body of work is a biography of the everyday. He reported on some of the most significant crimes of the last century, and never failed to delve into the real issues at the heart of each tragedy. Breslin earns a place in The Writing Irish Of New York not because of his celtic blood, but for the bravery with which wrote.
Book Review: 'The Writing Irish Of New York'
Featuring work by Colum McCann, Billy Collins, Luanne Rice, Malachy McCourt, and many more.
Colin Broderick's imagination was forged by The Troubles in Northern Ireland and his work as a "chippy" (carpenter) after he landed in New York City.
His dream of becoming a writer may have seemed impossible to him at times, but it never left him. Despite his near fatal attraction to booze and countless personal and artistic concussions, he continued to swing his creative hammer and push past the character he once felt he had to play—the hardcore drinker, the Irish scribe. Those early struggles and triumphs have been recently documented in his first feature movie "Emerald City," an autobiographical account of his shift from a struggling construction worker to published author (it has just been released on VOD). After finding sobriety and refining his talent, he has gone on to build an impressive body of published work.
Most recently, Broderick serves his mission by pulling together and editing The Writing Irish of New York, a collection of essays by and about Irish writers who in essence lay out the entire history of Irish literature in America. The book tells the stories of a community bound together by the thick green tug rope that connects Gotham and Ireland. Writers like National Book Award winner Colum McCann, Poet Laureate Billy Collins, The New York Times Best Seller Luanne Rice, and best-selling author Malachy McCourt give intimate accounts of their own early days trying to make a living doing what they love in a city that will either make or break them. Interspersed with these accounts are snippets penned by Broderick himself; miniature, heartbreaking and inspiring portraits of the legendary Irish authors who have paved the way in America: Brendan Behan, Maeve Brennan, J.P. Dunleavy, and Oscar Wilde, among many others. The pages are filled with tales of the late greats, as well as a newer generation's first hand accounts of the sometimes trying, always rewarding life as an Irish writer—it's hard to imagine a library this collection doesn't belong in.
Author Colum McCann, internationally renowned for such novels as Let The Great World Spin, and This Side of Brightness, writes an exclusive account of his early days as a writer in NYC. For the first time ever, he tells of the struggles, the doubt, and ultimately, the hope. It's a vulnerable and heart-felt account of exile. It's Colum McCann as we've never seen him before. This essay alone is worth the price of this book.
Broderick tells of Oscar Wilde, whose works are so iconic and richly steeped in mystery and drama that it can be easy to forget the madness of his life. He disregarded societal taboo, pushing boundaries and advocating for an honest exploration of homosexuality, both in his written work and his life. At every turn, Wilde was met with disapproval, judgement, and ultimately, punishment—but he reveled in it. It fueled his flamboyant character and led him to New York City, where he finally found the celebrity he so desperately craved. There his ego exploded, and his blatant disregard for others' opinions shifted from triumph to tragic, ultimately leading to his downfall.
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Wilde exemplified all things theatrical in his writing, but, in stark contrast, the story told by contemporary New York writer, Kevin Fortuna (though equally powerful) is softer in tone, more humble. A great-grandson of Ireland who reconnects with his maternal bloodline, Fortuna, in his essay, illustrates the simple social magic that is part of normal life in Ireland, the love of language and conversation. Fortuna's story is an unusual one that involves the intersection of business and art, and can be traced back to his first trip to see family in Cobh, County Cork. This time spent in Cobh ignited a passion for the written word, a hunger for truth—and a driving need to avoid a "boring," wasted life. He ends his story by taking you back to that formative first trip to Ireland. The haunting conclusion to his essay captures the dark days of Ireland's past, but also the light that shone through, forged from sheer will and talent.
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Those brighter days illuminated the life of America's prince, John F. Kennedy Jr., who was born into more fame and fortune than most of his fellow Irish writers would know in a lifetime. He married his father's integrity and love of country with the ever-growing, sexy world of pop culture to form
George, a little-known NYC-based magazine that blurred the lines between politics and celebrity. Kennedy and his team asked the tough questions, and though he never shied away from the cloud of controversy surrounding his family, he would never rely on it. George's voice was objectively critical of leaders regardless of party politics, yet Kennedy still managed to lace his criticisms with undertones of his late father's idealism. He lead a blessed life that ended in tragedy, his potential never fully reached.
Dreams touched upon, but never fully realised, is a common Irish refrain, like the fleeting life of Frank O'Hara. O'Hara spent his wild days scribbling poetry on the back of napkins in NYC, and his life story is as crazy as his genius. Born to strict Catholic parents, O'Hara was destined to break from these religious restraints from an early age. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years, where his unconventional mind must have struggled with the relentless routine. His service was rewarded with his education at Harvard, where he published his first body of work and met a fellow poet with whom he fell madly in love. The two moved to New York, and like so many of his Irish brothers and sisters, what followed was a life riddled with addiction, self-loathing, and relentless pursuit of recognition. New York City is where O'Hara penned his best poetry—the uneasy flow of Manhattan seemed to mirror his own chaotic mind.
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Those NYC streets were a hazard and a haven to Dublin-born Maeve Brennan. Like her fellow Irish icons, Brennan's life was a combination of brilliance and insanity, the ratio of which was constantly bouncing back and forth, fighting and complimenting each other at different stages of her fascinating life. A child of revolutionary 1916 Ireland, her father founded The Irish Press and moved the family stateside where she found her voice, and began penning short stories for The New Yorker. Although not feeling confident enough to return to a religiously and socially-repressed Ireland until her later years, Brennan never forgot her roots; many of her short stories were based in her beloved hometown. As the years went on, her perfectly put-together ensembles began to slowly fall apart. Her genius stayed intact while perhaps a little lost at times. Like many talented and tortured artists, she left the Earth relatively unknown in the land of her birth, where her heart remained in the land that seemed to have forgotten her.
Lives bound together in talent and struggle, steeped in whiskey and self-doubt, the authors in The Writing Irish of New York span three centuries, but ultimately their heritage unites them. Far greater than the written words is the unspoken feeling you get when reading this book, the power of heritage spanning generations and oceans. Broderick closes the book with his own short story, his life fitting seamlessly with those of his much-loved idols, securing him a well-earned seat at the table.
It's easy to get caught up in the legend and deep sea of beautifully written words, but what makes Broderick's book worth reading is the way he mythologizes these writers when discussing their work but humanizes them in his portrayal of their character. It's the non-chronological narrating of these stories that captivates you. The vacillation between the biographical snippets of literary giants and the stories of newer writers serves as a gentle reminder of the hard path that came before and the history that unites them all.


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Lake Zurich mayor's retort to residents: Fitness center 'is not a done deal'
The plan to build a Life Time Fitness in Lake Zurich was back before the village board Monday night for a courtesy review, and the board room was once again filled with residents voicing their issues with the proposed development.
And Lake Zurich Mayor Thomas Poynton was having only so much of it.
The village board heard just over two hours of public comment about the new plan before Life Time's representatives gave their presentation and answered board members' questions.
When it was all nearly over, Poynton had blunt words for residents who said they felt the project was going to be approved no matter what they said.
"This is not a done deal. It never was a done deal. Anyone who wants to talk about this being a done deal is absolutely a baldfaced liar," Poynton said. "I'm sorry I have to use that language, but it is absolutely not a done deal by any stretch of the imagination."
Poynton went on to say he felt there was a whole lot of misinformation spread by some residents who spoke during public comment and that he was looking forward to the rest of the village's fact-finding process.
"We'll let this process go through. You're probably going to show up again, which is great. We wish more of you would show up at some of these meetings whether we agree with you or not," Poynton said.
Residents will have at least two more opportunities to voice their thoughts this month. Life Time Fitness is hosting an open house event for residents from 5 to 7 p.m. March 15 at the Holiday Inn Express at 197 S. Rand Road in Lake Zurich. And the planning and zoning commission will once again review Life Time's plan at its meeting at 7 p.m. March 21.
In January, after spending three meetings hearing from the public and Life Time, the planning and zoning commission voted 5-1 against the development.
The five commissioners who voted against recommending the plan said they felt it would hurt residential property values, create dangerous traffic scenarios and be too big for the site.
Life Time re-evaluated its plan and made changes, perhaps the biggest change being moving some programming underground so they could reduce the height of the building to 40 feet from 58 feet.
On Monday, Trustee Jonathan Sprawka said he still has significant concerns about Life Time's new plan, including the traffic plan and the amount of screening provided for nearby residents.
He said if anything is to be done it would require both sides to compromise.
"Does it solve everything that folks who have concerns about the property have? No. But this is a give and take," Sprawka said about the revisions. "There's going to have to be, if this were to move forward, some continued give on Life Time's part and then also some consideration of residents who are impacted."
Life Time first came to the village board to present its plan in August 2017.


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Equivalent forces
"How can we simplify force diagrams?"
When working in physics or engineering, we all have to work with forces. Sometimes, we will have a multitude of forces, all going in different direction. However, how could we simplify all of these different elements of a problem to get the big picture and streamline our solution process? Well, let's think about it. First we should think of our objective, and that is to see what happens when all of these forces are combined. So how about we take the components of each of the separate forces and moments, add them together, and find the equivalent force for all of these values? For example, let's suppose that we had a bar of length 6 meters, with one force of 20 acting on the far left from the top and another one of 20 newtons acting at the far right coming in from the bottom. When we do all of the calculations, the equivalent force in the x direction will be 0 Newtons (Since none of the forces have an x component), The net force in the y direction will be 0 Newtons (since both forces are going in opposite directions, they will subtract each other) and the net moment will be 135 N-m (Since they are both in the same moment direction, 3m*20N+3m*25N=135N-m). With the use of equivalent forces, we can analyze an unlimited amount of problems, ranging from structural engineering to electrodynamics


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Pete Doherty To Reform The Libertines
Ben Hewitt
, August 20th, 2009 07:49
With or without Carl Barat...
Former Libertines singer Pete Doherty has revealed he will reform the band in the future - even if his old best friend Carl Barat chooses not to be involved.
In this week's NME, he said: "It's going to happen, you know. But there's Biggles (Barat) to worry about.
"If Biggles doesn't want to do it or gets cold feet or he thinks I'm still a crackhead, what am I going to do? Maybe I could reform the Libertines without him, like he did without me."
He added: "I wouldn't really want to, but you've got to pay the bills. I'll put an advert in the NME: 'Carlos lookalike required'."
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4 Ways to Stay Encouraged While Building your Brand
Encouragements for your Next Step
Building your portfolio can be a draining task. So, we wanted to offer you a few encouragements for you in whatever stage you are in. If you are just branching out into the marketing world or are finished with your first book, these are for you!
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Prague After Palach
For the last five months the world press has been writing final obituaries for Czechoslovakia. In all fairness we should have died on the 21st of August, 1968. Things would have been easy and clear, specialists on Eastern Europe would have been proven correct, gloomy prophesies would have come true. In a way, there is the same misconception in the West as in Russia. The Russians have been told that there was a bloody counter-revolution which, thanks to them, has been squashed at the expense of who knows how many thousands of their soldiers, while the West believes that the Russians have actually succeeded in squashing something. Mournfully by the West, hopefully by the Russians, Czechoslovakia is seen as a freshly heaped grave.
The facts are unhappily different. The most important civil rights, which were gained during the so-called Prague Spring, were, paradoxically, ratified by the invasion and became a sort of Magna Carta, which the government is obliged to observe. Under pressure it had to introduce a sort of censorship, stressing its temporary aspect, but this was limited to a relatively small number of items. Apart from the restrictions on the press, there is considerable freedom of speech, religion, and individual expression. The conditions for traveling abroad have not changed much from what they were last spring; the police do not represent a dark threat of lawless brutal force; the citizens no longer have the same fears of the State and its institutions they once had.
Why then, if things are so good, did Jan Palach set himself on fire in Venceslas Square, marking our history with a date equal to that of August 21, 1968?—
Considering the fact that our nations are bordering on despair, we have decided to express our protest and awaken the people of this land in the following manner:
Our group is composed of volunteers, who are ready to burn themselves for our cause.
I had the honor of drawing number one and acquired thus the right to write the first letters and present myself as the first torch.
Our demands are:Immediate abolishment of censorship. The prohibition of the newssheet, Zprávy.
Should our demands not be met within five days, i.e., by the 21st of January, and should the people not come forward with adequate support, i.e., an unlimited strike, further torches will go up in flames.
Torch No. 1
On January 16th, at 3 P.M., Jan Palach set himself on fire. Next morning the papers published a six-line police communiqué. A week later fourteen million people were mourning their new hero, who was laid out in state, surrounded by five thousand wreaths.
On January 19th the Czech Students Union issued a declaration not only to the nation, but also to the unidentified members of Jan Palach's group: "We want to assure you that we are fully aware of the presence of your eyes. We know that you are waiting and following our…
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Crisis and Renewal with Aristotle and Machiavelli
I'm just on the train back from the ESHPT conference on 'Crisis and Renewal in the History of Political Thought' in Heidelberg and, as so often happens after an event like this, I'm both completely exhausted but also in good spirits and keen to get back to my research full of new ideas. I also notice that I enjoy those kinds of conferences more as I get older because some of the people there I have known for years and several of them by now have become good friends. What brings us together is our passion for the History of Political Thought as well as our curiosity and love for debate.
In case you are wondering, the ESHPT is the European Society for the History of Political Thought which has been around for roughly ten years now. It was founded at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence by scholars from all over Europe to facilitate communication between people established in the field and the younger ones still trying to find a place in the research community.
'Crisis and Renewal' proved a productive subject in the city where Reinhardt Koselleck once wrote his dissertation, 'Kritik und Krise', in 1954. While 'turning crisis into opportunity' became somewhat of a platitude during the Financial Crisis of 2008, the conference was a reminder that the word 'crisis' is not just used to describe a period of intense difficulty, but also a critical moment when a decision has to be made, and this decision can turn things around.
Andrea Catanzaro from the University of Genova analysed the use of the ancient Greek krísis in Plato's political works (primarily the Laws), where it mainly carries the meaning of choosing, deciding or resolving an issue after due consideration. A crisis can have a positive or a negative outcome. It does not have to be something inherently bad. Thus, George Gallwey from Harvard University showed how economic crisis became the basis for constitutional reform in the early United States, while Erica Benner from Berlin pointed out in her keynote that a certain amount of drama is part and parcel of a functioning democracy.
In fact, Niccolò Machiavelli, who had studied and analysed democratic or popular governments, believed that tumulti were normal and necessary, while it was discordiae that he thought one should worry about because they did harm to a polity. Benner also made the point that citizens – by their lack of action – are often complicit in crisis and that it might sometimes be worthwhile thinking about what the people could do to help the situation.
The papers and discussions dealt primarily with the past, but present-day politics were always hovering somewhere: worries about a decline of democracy in the West, the shenanigans of an unpredictable individual like Donald Trump wreaking havoc on international security, the threats of climate change or even nuclear war.
Part of the reason why past and present talk to each other at political thought conferences is that some things don't change. There will always be conflicts about power, the distribution of resources, the relationship between religion and secular government. While it is important to read political thinkers in their own context and to relate their ideas to their own immediate environment, there is also a part of political thought that is timeless based on general observations on humankind and that can be transferred and applied to other times and other situations.
It was no accident that about half of the papers I listened to referred to Aristotle, many to Machiavelli, a few to Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington, and others to Karl Marx. They are thinkers who have shaped our world and who can still offer important insights on political life. There is no harm in looking to the past to find answers for the present.
Translation Matters
I work at the Foreign Services Desk of a news agency and I moonlight as an intellectual historian of early modern Britain. Both jobs have been fostering my obsession with translation.
Part of my day job consists in translating news stories into German – mainly from English, less frequently from Spanish, and occasionally bits and pieces from French or Italian.
During a seven-month stint of lonely night shifts in the newsroom, I even cobbled together the odd story from Dutch or Swedish sources with the help of Google Translate, various online dictionaries and a bit of common sense.
Admittedly, I'm still feeling a bit queasy about what might have happened if I had got it wrong, but I was lucky (and I wouldn't have touched the stories had they been too complex anyway).
The titles of political office-holders alone are a major challenge because there are so many false friends. The US 'Secretary of State' in German is the 'Außenminister', the equivalent of the UK's 'Foreign Secretary', while the literal translation of the concept's individual components could be rendered as 'Staatssekretär', which however in Germany is used to describe an official in a government department below the rank of 'Minister'. While the heads of German government departments are known as 'Minister', however, in the UK the term 'minister' is often used for someone equivalent to the German 'Staatssekretär', while the chief minister of a department is the 'secretary'. You get me? (more…)


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Dispute with HUD counseling service needs to end
August 16th, 2011
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Every few months you read in the paper about a major mortgage modification clinic coming to town. In Washington, this meant that major meeting space was taken over in a downtown hotel, hundreds of counselors set up shop and the line of concerned borrowers hoping for help stretched out the door and waited patiently for their turn.
The group that operates such mass modifications is called the National Assistance Corporation of America or NACA. It must be doing a good job because it provides about 30 percent of the counseling services available to borrowers with money provided by HUD.
Or it did, until the money stopped.
Modification Day
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I've really put a lot of work into mBlip, and I really hope that people from all walks of life can get something out of it. If you have any suggestions about how the site could be made better, I'm very interested in hearing/reading what you have to say.
So for those of you who are regular mBlippers, I thank you! It's really been a fun site for me to build and grow. Again I just want to give a special thanks to Glenn and George for the jokes. Flush Twice would not be possible if not for the dedicated people who contribute the jokes to this site. You can contribute jokes here or by emailing them to email@example.com.


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The Tory blogosphere is convinced climate change is a scam (its party leader thinks differently). This morning, Conservative Home is leading with the claim that "14% of your electricity bill is due to (ineffective) state policies on climate change." Instead of capping carbon, Matthew Sinclair argues, we should ensure "developed and developing countries are rich, free and democratic enough to deal with whatever nature throws at them."
The editor of LabourList, meanwhile, is warning David Miliband that he even thinks of taking the job of EU foreign minister, he'll be dead to the Labour Party:
After Miliband's failed soundings for the leadership in 2008, and his failure to support his friend James Purnell by stepping down from the cabinet last June, he can ill-afford even the perception of any more jockeying or inaction.
Labour members would never forgive Miliband if he bailed on the party so close to the general election; like Hazel Blears, he would become an instant pariah.
Ah – the joys of tribal politics.


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The Next Family Member of The Bear Family
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Chiz's ALPHABET CITY BOOK IS HERE!!!!
After Months of Frolicking the Series is Finally Complete!!!
I am dancing in the Studio!!!
Thank you the Heroes for taking the Journey with me
SHoUT to WisDoM!!!
"It takes wisdom to have a good
and it takes understanding to make it STRONG."
The Crossing
Crossing the River into the City.
It seems that a daily part of my life.
So beautiful sailing thru rush hour into and out of NYC.
Enjoy the crossing with me.
ShoUT OuT to WiSDoM!!!
Come, lets's sing for joy to the
Let's shout praises to the Rock who
saves us.
Letter of the Day S for Seagull
Chillin in City Island NYC
at my favorite Resturant Seafood City!!!
The Only thought on my mind is fish and great views of the Long Island Sound.
HHHHHmmmm :O)
The only thought on my companions' mind is….
WHERE's MY FOOD!!!!
He has no manners at all!
SHoUT OuT to WisDoM!!!
"A hot furnance tests silver and gold,
but the LORD tests the hearts."
Letter of the Day Y for YellowJacket
The Joys upon Joy of being a New Yorker!
One of which is the JoY…
…of morphing into a sardine in the struggle to get on that last bus or train that will get us to the office on time.
Oh Why oh Why?
Did I get that extra piece of toast or cup of coffee?
Now, I have to pay the price.
I have to get on the YellowJacket Express
Shout Out to WisDoM!!!
Hannah's Paradise
This is a painting from my latest MTA Arts for Transit Proposal.
Hannah's Paradise
ShouT OuT to Wisdom
God, you are supreme above the skies.
Let your glory be over all the earth.


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I finished George MacDonald's The Wise Woman and Other Stories, in which I read only the Other Stories, because I already know The Wise Woman well and don't have the bug to reread it right now. I found "Little Daylight" rather lovely and expressive but also a bit slight for my taste. "Cross Purposes" was fun but pretty silly and not my favorite—on the whole, I don't think MacDonald's humor has aged well, though I did enjoy the comical grotesquerie (and scariness) of the mushroom/umbrella/goose-selling goblin, who intends vague but frightening revenge on the hero for hitting him after he terrified the heroine.
This goblin—Toadstool by name—makes me realize something. People have called my writing "trippy" and I think MacDonald may be one place I get that—his stories are full of startling but somehow natural-seeming transformations of people and things (umbrellas become mushrooms become geese), Faerie that bleeds into the real world, and games with reality—one of my favorite endings of his is a version of that old laughingstock, "and it was all a dream," but it comes off (to me, at least) beautiful, brilliant, and philosophically significant.
Often, I am not overly fond of works classified as magical realism because the ease and obviously metaphorical nature of the fantastic intrusions into reality to me denies them their own emotional weight and beauty. MacDonald (not that his work is classified that way, but the ways I'm describing it do superficially remind me of things people say about magical realism) does not do this. The numinous in his writing is not about unhappy relationships (e.g.); it is about itself and (probably) about God. In addition, it feels "real," which I suspect actually means "as if it mirrors something about how my mind works"—also rarely true of the admittedly small amount of magical realism I've read.
Now I am making my way through Phantastes slowly (I read a bit before I go to bed). I love the edition my friend at work got me. It is illustrated in color, quotes Novalis at the beginning, and is sumptuously laid out with paisley borders on each page. Maybe it's a little much? I don't know much about design. But it makes me very happy.
When I first read Phantastes, the impression it left in my imagination was that of a vague and toothless dream. I am not finding this to be the case at all the second time through, though I don't like it unreservedly by any means. One major gripe is that the viewpoint character is too much a blank—or, rather, he feels as if he's meant to be a blank, but actually comes across as a cross between MacDonald's society's default person (aristocratic young man) and a bland puppet before the fantasy he encounters. I think I prefer MacDonald's sharply defined children and secondary characters to his adult protagonists, and I also find that he's better as a moralist and satirist than he is at describing the effects of the beautiful fantastic on the individual who is neither startlingly good nor startlingly bad (though he's amazing at creating the beautiful fantastic in the first place).
Otherwise, I'm trying to write poetry out of a 120-page document called Random Nonfiction Thoughts. I wrote this in college as something like a journal, though I didn't even try to make daily entries and little of it is narrative. I enjoy rereading it a lot (embarrassingly much, actually), so I decided I might as well make something from my enjoyment. I have maybe ten poems so far—with any luck, I'll have more soon—but I'm also thinking about trying to submit poetry to journals, so I'm mostly focused on revising at the moment. Whee, trying to publish poetry! I've read one is supposed to submit a few poems every month. This seems…ambitious…but I can try!


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"If you invest your will and attention on extra-sensory, non-physical phenomena, you very well may manifest their influence in your life. The problem is that most of us have already made up our minds before we even look."
Looking Inwards has been a process most of us turn to when severe forms of existential dilemmas take over. Accessing the deep recesses of your consciousness is no easy task and no doubt requires a strong intent of mind. But maybe we fail to see this is as a critical aspect of healthy well being and surrender our will to medical sciences blindly.
It is interesting to note that science itself tells us that we are surrounded by a highly energetic field or in more acceptable terms, Bio-Electricity.
In countless studies across the world, the manifestations of new emotions in an individual are shown to cause fluctuations in their respective energetic fields which is measurable and quantifiable within our plane of reality. This begs the question if non-physical phenomenon are also an integral part of our overall health, i.e "Consciousness" and its link to our physical bodies.
Is it possible to heal ourselves by channeling our emotions the right way, so that those internally clogged streams of energy may flow unbridled once again? One lingers heavily on that thought.
Attraction towards certain types of music, food, colour, people are all indicators of our own subconsciousness trying to match its resonant frequency with the environment around us. In essence what separates us from our animal kin is our self awareness which we may observe as a unified consciousness or energy field.
"You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." – Morpheus, to Neo
The merger of Spirituality, consciousness and creation is the illusive goal he wishes to pursue through his work.


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2K Feature Film Workflow Demonstrated on Multibridge Extreme as part of 1 Beyond's Professional Workstation and Storage Solution at Siggraph 2006
Siggraph 2006. Boston, Mass. July 30th-Aug 3rd.
Published Jul 27, 2006
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San Francisco, CA USA - July 27, 2006 -- Blackmagic Design today announced that Multibridge Extreme will be used to demonstrate 2K and real time 10 bit HD on Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, using 1 Beyond's new OctoFlex 8-processor professional workstation, and IntelliRaid FC-XPR™ at Siggraph, in 1 Beyond's booth, #206.
1 Beyond's OctoFlex is capable of handling uncompressed 2K and 4K film, multiple layers of uncompressed real-time effects and high-resolution HD projects using Windows XP. 1 Beyond's IntelliRaid FC-XPR features 16 SATA2 drives with RAID 6 protection and dual 4 Gigabit Fibre which can achieve over 500 MB/s or over 1 GB/s aggregate, in a SAN configuration.
As part of a Special Siggraph Offer from 1 Beyond:
Blackmagic Multibridge Pro / 1 Beyond OctoFlex System for only $11,995
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Additional Events at ProFusion 2011, DV Expo East, and Columbia College Chicago May 26, 2011
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We use both at and in to talk about location. Even though in a general sense we use at and in with the same meaning, there are times when these prepositions are used differently. For today's English lesson let's have a look at using at and in to talk about location.
Here are the example sentences. To get the details of this English lesson, you need to listen to the podcast or the check the transcript for the details:
- Jack is at his office.
- Jack is in his office.
- Jack is at his desk.
- I waited at the bus stop for twenty minutes.
- Grandma is knitting at the window.
- The teacher is at the whiteboard.
- I stopped off at the coffee shop on the way to my office.
- When I went from NYC to Sao Paolo, I stopped at Miami to change planes.
- I bought this shirt on sale at the department store.
- Jack had a coffee at a nice café on Madison Ave.
- Lets study at the library after class.
- I was in the department store yesterday.
- Jack is in a café on Madison Ave.
- We have been in the library for three hours. Let's go home.
If you know anyone who might be interested in this English language point, why not help them out! Just share this lesson with them. Thanks for studying today!


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Sparkling wine at Ridgeview
As an ex-Sommelier and great fan of English wines, I was thrilled to be invited to local vineyard, Ridgeview to find out more about the estate, the vineyards, the wine and it's range. Ridgeview has been making wine since their first vintage released back in 1996. Since then they have won several medals and awards at international competitions and their wines are among those that have surpassed Champagne at blind tastings.
It was no surprise to see they use Champagne blend (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier) therefore they follow the Champenoise method in their production.
Straight after harvesting the grapes, they get pressed and the juice is transferred to steel vats where it will start its first fermentation (like any other wine). From here the juice becomes wine.
The resulting wine gets bottled with a mix of sugar and yeast called Dosage; this mix is responsible for creating CO2 (gas) but the mix has to be very precise or it can make the bottles explode. This is where the bubbles are created.
This stage is what makes the Champenoise method preferred by most sparkling winemakers, as the bubbles created naturally are smaller and much more elegant than adding CO2 directly into the wine.
Still on this stage, sediment will naturally form, that's why the bottles have to be placed upside-down at an angle or completely horizontal so this sediment settles at the bottom. Depending on the wine produced, bottles will be rotated a quarter of a revolution a couple of times a day for a few weeks… each one individually, of course!
The bottoms with the sediment are then frozen and the bottle goes through a guillotine in true French tradition. The resulting wine gets transferred to another bottle and a natural sweetener agent called expedition liqueur is added. This will determine how dry or sweet the wine is.
Ridgeview only produce Brut wine which means the wine is dry (less than 15gr of sugar per litre).
Finally, the bottle gets the cork put in and label on and will then get shipped and distributed ready for you to buy.


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