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This lively section of Paris bordering the Marais starts at the revamped place de la République and finishes at the place de la Bastille. The neighbourhood has traditionally been staunchly working class and even today it seems to have resisted some of the gentrification that has swept through large parts of the rest of Paris and you can still find relatively well-priced apartments here. There are appealing cafés, restaurants and clubs throughout the area and the covered Marché des Enfants Rouges on the rue de Bretagne is a particular draw. The surrounding streets also contain excellent food shops and restaurants as well as art galleries and designer boutiques.


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While practicing email marketing probably the most important and often problems that email marketers have to resolve are the problems tied to email list building and management. The process of building the list is hard enough, and is not just simple gathering thousands of emails and immediately sending messages after that. The thing email marketer should always remember that there is a unique personality behind every email address. The personal approach to each subscriber or client is absolutely necessary for a doing well email marketing business. Email marketer should build such a relationship that would be based on mutual trust and esteem.
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Kihei is a wonderful city on Maui that sits on the sunny south shore of the island. Hawaiians used to refer to the area of Kihei as "Kama?ole" which means "barren." However, barren is the last thing you imagine when you first set foot into this south Maui city. Shopping, restaurants, and beaches all help lend to the fact that Kihei is anything but barren.
What you will find in Kihei is more of an "old-school" look, as many of the buildings from the 1970's remain. The town of Kihei doesn't look old or dirty, in fact, quite the opposite, but those who live in Kihei on Maui's south shore so in fact appreciate a more local lifestyle flavor.
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Ivy MacLeod has the perfect opportunity to test her advanced remote sensing technology: mapping a World War II battle site in the islands of Palau. The project is more than an all-expenses-paid trip to paradise. It's also an opportunity to distance her reputation from her traitorous ex-husband.
But foreign intelligence agencies will kill to possess her invention, and paradise turns deadly when her ex-husband's vicious allies attack. In desperation, she turns to Air Force pilot Jack Keaton. But is he the bigger threat? Jack might be protecting her as he claims...or he could be a foreign agent. Her compass is skewed by his magnetic pull and further thrown off when she learns her own government has betrayed her.
Stranded on a tropical island with a man whose motives remain a mystery, Ivy must decide who is the spy, who is the protector, and who is the ultimate villain. She longs to trust the man who rescued her, but she's risking more than her heart. Choose right, and she saves her country's secrets—and her life. Choose wrong—and she risks nothing short of all-out war.
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Accused of stealing artifacts from a five-hundred-year-old shipwreck, underwater archaeologist Erica Kesling is determined to clear her name. She's concealed her past and taken a job certain to give her access to the buyer of the missing antiquities. She's finally closing in on her goal when she's distracted by a sexy, charismatic intern who makes her want something other than revenge.
But Lee Scott is no intern. He's looking for the lead conspirator in an international artifact smuggling scheme, and Erica is his prime suspect. He'll do whatever it takes to win her trust and get her to reveal her secrets, even seduce her.
As Erica and Lee struggle to conceal their real agendas, the one thing they can't hide is the attraction that burns hot between them. When Erica's quest puts her life in jeopardy, Lee must choose between old loyalties and a woman he never expected to fall for.
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In all her travels and adventures as an archaeologist, Rachel has found many sites and artifacts, but she's only found one true treasure, her husband, David. They met while working together excavating a four thousand year old site about to be destroyed by the expansion of a sewage treatment plant in Seattle. Despite their romantic first meeting, she has no intention of ever setting a story at a sewage treatment plant.
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The following new titles will be released April 23rd, 2019 on Blu-ray Disc:
View the full list below with Amazon links.
A Face in the Crowd (1957) [The Criterion Collection]
Destroyer (2018) [Fox]
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Modern Romance (1981) [Sony]
Noir Archive: Volume 1 [Kit Parker Films]
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|Mike Fletcher
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Picasso(s):Interactions is a new suite of music for large ensemble inspired by Picasso's Las Meninas and Coleman Hawkins' Picasso. The Mike Fletcher Jazz Orchestra will debut it at 1pm on Saturday 27 April at the mac in Birmingham as part of the Surge in Spring festival. For LondonJazz News, Mike answers five questions from an imagined audience member and adds some questions he will be asking his audience:
Imagined Audience Member: What is the connection to Picasso?
Mike Fletcher: At the beginning of my PhD in early 2015 I found myself in Barcelona with some free time so I went to the Museo Picasso, where I discovered his Las Meninas exhibition, which is a collection of 58 paintings that he made based on the much earlier Velazquez painting of the same name. The paintings themselves are, of course, wonderful pieces of art in their own right, but what caught my attention was a short extract from a letter Picasso wrote to his friend Sabartes where the artist explained his process, which I'll paraphrase here. He said something along the lines of "if I were to undertake a faithful copy of Velazquez's Las Meninas, there would come a time when I would perhaps be impelled to make a small change, and as a result of this first change more would follow. Gradually it would cease to be a copy and become my (Picasso's) Las Meninas."
As a jazz musician I found this description to be resonant of the way we improvise on standard compositions. So I decided to see if I could apply Picasso's process to my own music making.
IAM: What about Coleman Hawkins?
MF: Picasso's project involved copying a seminal masterpiece of Spanish painting. In order to 'copy' Picasso's process I would have to find a similar masterpiece from within my own discipline. I had already decided that it should be a solo saxophone project, so it was an easy decision to make. I would copy the first great solo saxophone piece. A beautiful coincidence is that the first major recording made by a solo saxophonist was Coleman Hawkins' 1948 recording Picasso – hence the title Picasso(s).
IAM: Why is this music any different to what you've done before?
MF: The most apparent difference is that it represents the first time I've done a project completely on my own. That said, perhaps the most important difference in terms of the music is that it is all based on a technique I call 'pitch limitation'.
Picasso based his Las Meninas entirely on the structure and content of the Velazquez. This is to say that, although he made many changes to the way he depicted Velazquez' tableau, he didn't add in any extra figures or objects. I felt like this was an important part of the procedure, so I decided to do the same with the Hawkins piece. In other words, I transcribed Hawkins' notes, and throughout the piece, these are the only notes I permit myself to use.
In this sense I would argue that this is quite a novel approach to jazz performance because in almost every other type of jazz, the musician is free to choose the notes he or she likes!
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MF: Yes. The original Picasso(s) was a solo piece (which was the basis of my PhD, and is also available as an album). What I have done with the Interactions stage is to apply the same pitch limitation process to my large ensemble, MFJO. The suite is in three parts, each of which is based on a different way of using Hawkins' notes, but the common thread is that you won't hear any other notes throughout the suite!
IAM: Does improvising in this way make a difference to the musicians' experience?
MF: This was one of the questions I asked myself when I began the project. I can report that it very much does – perhaps more than I had anticipated.
Improvisers frequently talk about the way that they form habits that, over time, lead them to develop certain formulae. As a result many of us try and find ways to stimulate new ideas. The pitch limitation concept was my way of doing this. I have found that, when performing the piece, an idea occurs to me that I can't complete because the notes I need to complete the phrase are not available. Consequently I have to find a way of resolving the phrase that would not have occurred to me had I followed the first idea. I find this a challenging but very rewarding way of improvising.
Now I have employed the same technique for the large ensemble, the rest of the guys in the band are faced with the same challenge!
Five questions for my audience:
Do you think it is important/valuable for an audience member to understand the processes that musicians use in performance?
If so, do you consider it the responsibility of the musician to inform the listener, or the listener to inform his or herself? If not, why not?
Do you think you would have noticed any difference in musical approach without having had it explained?
Do you think this type of verbal interaction could be relevant to other types of jazz performance?
Is it jazz?
Mike will be asking the audience to consider these questions in a pre-concert talk at the mac, and will discuss them with the audience after the performance in a Q&A. He would also welcome any interaction/feedback via his blog, email or via social media.
Mike Fletcher Jazz Orchestra: Picasso(s): Interactions is at the mac, Birmingham at 1pm on Saturday 27 April 2019. The project is supported by Arts Council England.
The band: Mike Fletcher, alto saxophone, composition and direction; John O'Gallagher, George Crowley, saxophones; Sean Gibbs, Aaron Diaz, Sam Wooster, trumpets; Kieran McLeod, Richard Foote, trombones; Andy Johnson, tuba; Tom Ford, guitar; Chris Mapp, bass; Jonathan Silk, drums.
LINKS: Mike Fletcher's website
Mike's blog
Surge in Spring: Mike Fletcher Jazz Orchestra at the mac
The Picasso solo project on Bandcamp
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text: RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky recently sat down in a meeting with Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer and chief operating officer Tim Cook to discuss a range of topics, from Apple's patent battles to the possibility of a budget-priced iPhone. "Apple's primary criterion for launching a lower-end iPhone is an innovative, category-killer experience," Abramsky wrote in a recent note to investors. The execs said that the components sector is currently a "buyers market," which means it has the upper hand when it comes to negotiating for parts. In addition, Abramsky said Apple is interested in settling a number of patent lawsuits against Android phone makers such as Samsung and HTC, in an effort to strike favorable agreements in countries like China that have less firm patent protection. We recently reported exclusively that Apple has plans to launch a $350 contract-free iPhone, which could very well be the iPhone 3GS. Apple is expected to unveil its next-generation iPhone in the coming months for a September or October launch.


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Yang Baosen - 杨宝森
(Minghui.org) A 61-year-old man in Qian'an County, Henan Province wasn't released on medical parole until he was in critical condition. He died one month later.
Mr. Yang Baosen was arrested on December 23, 2008, for refusing to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime. He was interrogated with torture at the local police station, and his toenails came off as a result.
He was sentenced to ten years in prison in late March 2009 in a secret trial by the Qian'an County Court. His family appealed the sentence, but the local higher court upheld the verdict without a hearing.
Mr. Yang was admitted to Gongzhuling Prison on May 6, 2009, and had since been subjected to various forms of torture.
After nine long years of abuse, Mr. Yang developed a lung infection, diabetic ketoacidosis, and atrophy of the cerebellum. He was rushed to the hospital on February 27, 2018, and released on medical parole on March 7. He died on April 7.
Mr. Yang's Final Days
Mr. Yang's family was first informed by the prison on February 27, 2018, that he had lost consciousness and was to be sent to a hospital for treatment.
When Mr. Yang's family arrived at the hospital, he had awakened and had an IV attached. He was emaciated and very weak. He had difficulty eating. He was unable to sit up or walk by himself. He also needed others' help to use the restroom. Three guards supervised him in the hospital.
While the hospital performed brain and lung CT scans, the authorities rushed to take him back to the prison before the scan results came out.
Mr. Yang's family later learned from a doctor that his condition was life-threatening. The CT scans indicated damage on the white matter regions of the brain. His cerebellum had atrophied, and there were holes and fluid in his lungs. In addition, he was diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening complication of diabetes.
Mr. Yang's family visited him in the prison hospital the next day, February 28. He had a fever and was receiving an injection. His face was flushed, and he stammered.
The concerned family members found the head of the prison hospital, Li Chong, and requested that they release him on medical parole. Li refused to release Mr. Yang and said that his condition did not qualify for medical parole.
He also said that because the prison hospital was providing him with medical treatment, they would not be responsible for him if an unfortunate event were to occur.
Mr. Yang continued to deteriorate over the next few days. He was sent to the hospital for another emergency chest CT scan on March 3, 2018. The results were consistent with previous scans–he had a severe lung infection, and there were holes and fluids accumulating in his lungs. He was unable to eat and could only have liquid food injected intravenously.
The authorities initially scheduled him for release on medical parole on March 5, but he wasn't allowed to be picked up to go home until March 7. He was unable to walk and had trouble talking when he was released.


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The youngest starting rotation in baseball is getting one of its senior citizens back tomorrow when 26-year-old Brandon Morrow returns for the Toronto Blue Jays' matchup against the Tampa Bay Rays.
His return from the disabled list could not come at a better time.
The Jays stormed out of the gate, winning five of their first seven games, only to come back down to earth over the past couple weeks, falling to their current 8-10 record.
A young rotation that showed so much promise last season has struggled mightily in the first month of the 2011 season.
Jo-Jo Reyes has struggled to carry the momentum from a strong spring training into the regular season and Ricky Romero has had an up and down campaign thus far. Recently demoted Brett Cecil has an ERA of 6.86 over his first four starts.
To say the Jays are itching for the return of Morrow would be an understatement.
In 2010, Morrow went 10-7 with an ERA of 4.49. While not an All-Star calibre year by any stretch, the enthusiasm surrounding Morrow was due to the incredible strides he made last season.
Eight of Morrow's ten wins came at the Rogers Centre, including his most memorable performance of the season that him absolutely dominated the Rays with a 17-strikeout performance, coming just one out away from a no-hitter.
As is the case with any pitcher returning from an arm injury, questions remain. Will Morrow be able to return to his 2010 form? Will he be able to duplicate his home performances on the road in 2011?
And with the Jays' offensive numbers down thus far, will he be able to win some games without the run support these young pitchers were often afforded last season?
Since coming over from Seattle prior to last season in the trade that sent Brandon League the other way, Morrow has been one of the more consistent starters for the Jays. Despite struggling with his command, he has the stuff to be an ace someday.
It is safe to say that more will be expected of the native of Santa Rosa, CA, based on his performance last year. And the Jays need to win now more than ever as their AL East rivals are finally starting to find their form.
Talk about expectations.
If anyone is prepared for the added pressure, it's Morrow.
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By Lisa Navidi, Davis Library
Small town fiction has always appealed to me, maybe because I grew up in several small towns. I especially enjoy the characters and the way they interact with each other…or not. They say all politics is local. And whoever has lived in a small town knows that for sure. Experience small town life with these recommended reads.
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger—Virgil is lucky. He survived a deadly accident with only a slight brain trauma and gets a second chance at life. What will he do with his new life? But it isn't only Virgil who gets a second chance. Greenstone, his northern Minnesota community that has been slowly dying for 20 years gets another life, at least that's what this quirky band of locals are striving for. Rune, a kite flying visitor from Sweden discovers that he has a son from Greenstone who had vanished in a plane years before. Nadine, the wife of the lost flier and her son the skateboarder have an unspecified relationship with Virgil. There is also Adam Leer, the very strange rich man who lives at the top of the hill. What kind of power does he have over the town? These characters and many many more make up the fraying fabric of Greenstone. Part character study, part magic, Enger has crafted a beautiful novel.
The Operator by Gretchen Berg— The year is 1952 and Vivian, a telephone operator, wife of Edward, mother of Charlotte, sister of Vera and Violet, lives in Wooster, Ohio. Vivian, who has always felt that she "knows people" has a habit of listening in on conversations that she shouldn't. And being a telephone operator is the perfect job for her. Her life is okay, really it is…until she listens in on a conversation that changes her marriage and ultimately her life. Yes this is a book about small town gossip, how it affects people's lives and how, if you learn from it, you can change your life for the better. In the afterword, we learn that this debut novel was based on the author's grandmother, which certainly gives the book an interesting flavor.
And if you like TV series set in a small town, you must watch Schitt'$ Creek currently in its 5th season on Netflix. MCPL owns the first two seasons. The premise is that the very rich Rose family, after being bankrupted by their financial manager, is forced to move to Schitt's Creek a rural community that they once bought as a joke. Former video magnate, Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy), his wife, Moira (Catherine O'Hara) a former soap opera star, and their two very spoiled grown up children son, David (Daniel Levy) and daughter Alexia (Annie Murphy) are all hysterical. Each characters trys to fit into a town they would never have even looked at twice before their fall. But as time goes on, they change, as they must, realizing that there are other lives worth living. Make sure you watch more than the first two episodes. I promise you, you will be drawn to this town and the crazy Rose family as well.
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The president of the Iraqi Artist's Society is on a mission to return a painting by Faeq Hassan—who he calls "Iraq's Picasso"—to the Iraqi state. The 1968 painting, a dramatic depiction of Saladin's famous 12th century conquest of Jerusalem from the Crusaders, was due to be auctioned at Christie's Dubai last month, but was withdrawn after he sent a letter to the auction house. "I am like Sherlock Holmes," says Qasim al-Sabti, the Artist's Society president.
In the letter, sent on 4 March, Al-Sabti alleged that the painting had been stolen from the Iraqi Military Club in Baghdad (run by the Ministry of Defence) in the early 1990s and then "illegally smuggled and sold outside Iraq". He asked the auction house to "help us return it to its rightful owners in Iraq". Two weeks later, Christie's withdrew the painting from its 18 March sale. According to Alexandra Kindermann, a senior communications director at Christie's, "Since then the matter has been investigated by the Dubai authorities, who have been in contact with the consignor of the work and will be ruling over this case."
Al-Sabti is working closely with Maysoon al-Damluji, an Iraqi parliament member and head of the commission for culture and information, who is championing the cause and has enlisted the help of Iraq's foreign minister.
To facilitate the painting's return, proof is required that it was in fact the property of the Iraqi Ministry of Defence. This is no mean feat: most of the Ministry's records were burned and looted in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion.
For al-Sabti, the painting's return is not only a matter of rightful ownership, but also one of Iraqi patrimony. "Faeq was a pioneer of Iraqi art, and was also one of my professors at the Baghdad College of Fine Arts," he relates, "His work needs to be in an Iraqi museum so the next generation of artists can see it."
But Al-Sabti's artistic sleuthing may be more Don Quixote than Sherlock Holmes.
For the past month, al-Sabti has been conducting interviews, gathering documents from the Ministry of Defence and hunting down historical records to piece together the painting's history. A former military officer told him that the painting had been stolen by a police chief from Saddam Hussein's regime, and then sold by his son to an Iraqi gallerist in Jordan. Meanwhile, al-Sabti has been searching for a 1973 issue of al-Rawaq, a periodical formerly published by the Ministry of Culture that featured the painting on its cover.
The painting's origins may be traced back to Iraq's former president. According to Haydar Salem, a former curator at Baghdad's Saddam Centre for the Arts (now the National Museum of Modern Art), it is one of three historical scenes by three Iraqi artists that the president Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam's predecessor, commissioned in the late 1960s. Salem says that the Military Club gave the two other painting to the arts centre in the late 80s, while the one by Faeq Hassan remained at the Military Club until it disappeared in the early 90s.
Al-Sabti, who has run the Hewar Gallery in Baghdad for decades and has weathered invasions, occupations and terror attacks, notes sanguinely that "over 5,000 works of art have been stolen from Iraq", mostly since 2003.
But for al-Sabti and many other Iraqis, the Faeq Hassan work has particular significance. "That painting is a famous one in Iraq and it's part of our national heritage," says al-Sabti. "It needs to be returned to us."


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Syncopation Software has long been known for their Decision Tree-based software tools but did you know that we also develop and support software for building and analyzing Fault Trees? I'd like to introduce DPL Fault Tree, a tool that allows users to intuitively build graphical models of large-scale systems in order to understand and analyze the risks within the system and how they relate to one another. This robust risk assessment can help guide risk mitigating actions. Fault trees are used a variety of high-hazard industries like aerospace, nuclear power, IT. If you're interested in learning more about Fault Tree's and how they are built and analyzed with the DPL Fault Tree Software, I'd recommend watching our latest DPL Tutorial Video Series: A Simple Introduction to Fault Tree Modeling using DPL 9 Fault Tree.
This two-part tutorial video series will show you how to build Fault Trees within the DPL 9 Fault Tree software. I'd further encourage you to request a free trial of DPL Fault tree and download the completed DPL Fault Tree model used in the videos so you can work along with the tutorial videos.
A Simple Introduction to Fault Tree Modeling using DPL 9 Fault Tree: Video #1
In first of this two-part video tutorial series I will briefly describe what a fault tree is, why it's used, and will point out common fault tree features. I will then starting building a simple fault tree representing a home power failure event within the DPL 9 Fault Tree software. There is a link to start the 2nd and final video in the series at the end of this video.


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If you've been reading our Stockport Reports with any regularity, you are by now familiar with the name John Marsden. If you haven't, here's a quick refresher. Stockport Sports FC, the Saxons, are a team in the Northwest Counties Football League (NWCFL) Premier Division. That places them on the 9th level of the English football pyramid, non-league territory. They first came to our attention when it was announced that former Aston Villa superstar Peter Withe would manage the club.
In following the team, though, it's not been Withe who has been of the greatest interest, but rather a 19-year-old striker named John Marsden. He started off the season getting a few mentions in match reports - a goal here or there - but nothing that would draw my attention. Suddenly, however, he became the Saxons' primary threat in front of goal. In the match against Bacup Borough he scored a brace, and in this weekend's 7-0 trouncing of Norton United he scored four.
Four goals. Let that sink in. That's impressive at any level.
It seems strange that so potent a scoring talent would be languishing so low in the world of football. I've been intrigued by Marsden for a while now, and I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to interview him. We discussed playing non-league football, the feeling one has as an in-form striker, his life off the pitch, and anything else I could think of. Marso, as he's known to everyone involved with the team, answered the questions you see below via email.
Since you're originally from the Liverpool area - and played for the Liverpool U14s - what impact did that football culture have on you?
Well being from Liverpool, football is a very very big thing in the fabric of all the people. With music and football being the passion of Liverpool, and being with me being born in the shadow of Liverpool's training ground plus the fact that I can't sing, there was only one way I could go. I played for Liverpool schoolboys at under 14 and under 15 level, we were a successful team winning the league and cups as well as winning the English Trophy. During the English Trophy campaign I hold the record for the most successive hattricks, scoring 4 on the run. I also scored in the final at Goodison Park.
You've played in the Wigan youth system, and were with Celtic for a time. How did you come to be with Stockport this year?
I was with Wigan Athletic from aged 11 to 16. During this time I scored 91 goals. This, along with the form for Liverpool schoolboys caught the eye of Celtic and in particular their head of youth Tommy Burns. So a month after my 16th birthday i signed for the Scottish giants for an undisclossed fee. To do this I left school at Christmas. Unfortunately for me, I broke my foot and was then unable to play for a couple of months. After two seasons - including six months with Hamilton - and with a lack of opportunity, I opted to try my luck elsewhere and moved back to England in January 2011. I went to a few clubs in England including 14 games for Rochdale in which I scored 11 goals. But none seemed to want to take a chance on a 18 year old boy, so i decided to drop into non-league to maintain fitness and keep playing. I was telephoned by the club then known as Woodley Sports [now Stockport] and despite having a few other options I agreed to go there.Then when the opportunity came to go back into full time football - and also the chance to work under the legend that is Peter Withe arose at the club - I was delighted to stay as I believed he could help me enhance my career through his experience in the game.
The Stockport home pitch is a long ways from the grandstands at Wembley, and you're obviously an ambitious player. What drives you while playing non-league football: love of the game, a desire to keep moving, or both?
I am very ambitious both as a player and a person, I want to play at the highest level I possibly can. This is really the only motivation I need because I believe I can play league football, so this drives me to that goal, but even with all the money in the world I would play football because I love the game. I learned to kick a ball before I could walk!!
You've been on an incredible run of form lately, doing - quite literally - the majority of the Saxons' scoring. No matter how much skill there is, a run of goals like this almost always has some luck involved too. What does that feel like as a player? Do you feel unbeatable every time you move down the pitch or does it add to the pressure?
I had no luck at all in the early games this season, every keeper seemed to pull off blinders, but as long as I am getting the chances I always believe I am gonna score. I've always said its not about the amount of goals I score but if we get the three points or not. Obviously I love to score goals like all strikers do but it is a team game and we win and lose together. I do believe in my ability to score and before I go onto the pitch I have a feeling that I will. I dont feel pressured to score but the win does feel better if you have bagged one!
On twitter, you come across as a normal person, just like any of us. You've got none of the attitude that so many very skilled people have, and you seem to lead a pretty normal life off the pitch. How do you balance your football life and your non-football life? Do you find that one suffers at the expense of the other?
At the end of the day I am just a normal person, off the field I am no better than anyone else. As you can imagine, football takes up the large proportion of my life. When I am not playing or training I am watching, but I have a great family around me and I love to spend time with them.
Since we're an Aston Villa blog, I pretty much have to ask you this question: what is it like playing for Peter Withe? He seems as competitive as ever, and to be working hard to bring a winning culture to the young club. Does that come across to the players?
The gaffer has been great to work with. He is, as you say, very competitive and his desire to win rubs off onto the players. He is full of amazing stories and so interesting and at times funny, maybe being a fellow scouser we share a certain humour. He sets a high level of expectation and, as any player does, loves to win. I feel in the short time I have worked with him I have learnt a lot and I hope to continue learning from him as the year progresses.
Finally, what should Stockport fans expect from the rest of the season?
The Stockport fans can expect a young footballing side that love to pass the ball around. We work really hard day in and day out, and this shows on the field. The club is one that has the ambition to go higher and you can see this by the talent of player we have. This is the tightest team I have ever played for, certainly no big time charlies here I dont think the gaffa or Joey [Dunn, assistant manager] would have it and Tommo would bring them down to earth.On a personal note I am going to keep on scoring.
Thanks, of course, to John Marsden for being willing to do the interview, but also to Richard Smales and Chris Culkin of Stockport Sports FC for helping to arrange this. We will likely bring you some more Saxons interviews in the future, so be sure to keep checking in!


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Great post Ryan. This looks great. One minor issue maybe is that the blog index page might be difficult to scan as on the screenshot the chronological order doesn't stand out.
The categorized search results is a huge win.
This week ProcessWire 3.0.120 is on the dev branch. This post takes a look at updates for this version and talks about our work towards the next master version. In addition, we take a look at some more updates and screenshots for the new ProcessWire.com website.
Relative to version 3.0.119 this update focuses primarily on resolving issue reports from GitHub as well as various other small improvements and optimizations.
Last week in a forum post I mentioned that we're now working towards our next master version. I tend to wait too long between master versions and end up with dev versions that are often more stable than the master. That's because the dev versions have months worth of resolved issues and such. So my focus right now is on identifying and fixing any issues that are new to the dev branch (that aren't on the current master). After spending a couple days in the issue reports this week, I feel like we may already be there.
I'm going to be working through issue reports next week and focusing especially on those that might be new to the dev branch. Following that, 3.0.121 will be the first release candidate for the next master. After we get the next master version out, I'm going to go back and resolve any remaining issue reports that aren't necessarily specific to the dev version.
Progress continues on the new ProcessWire.com website. At this point, the main site is nearly fully built out. Just about everything but the homepage is there, though a lot of detail work remains to be done throughout. I've been trying to get the largest parts of the development work in place so that I can get it to the point where it's useful for staging and collaboration.
Let's take a look at a few screenshots of where it's at right now. These are in addition to the previous screenshots posted earlier. Some of your suggestions in that post are already present in these screenshots. By the way, I'm cropping out the footer in most of these screenshots since it takes quite a bit of vertical space and you've already seen it in the previous round.
This first screenshot shows the About page, which is kind of typical of many index pages in the site. Since the site uses drop-down navigation, it's likely many will never see these index pages, so I'm just keeping them relatively simple.
Next is an example of a general content page in the About section. The right sidebar of most pages in this section randomly feature selections from the Showcase. This page is actually about twice as long as what's shown, but I've cropped it half way just to avoid a massive screenshot.
Since we are showing a selection of showcase sites on various pages, clicking any of them leads to a details page for the showcase site that you clicked on. The next screenshot shows an example of that.
Here's an example of a Showcase category page:
Here's the downloads index page. This is shown with the dropdown selected as well.
If you click the ProcessWire link on the page above, you get to the core download page:
Next up is the blog index page. This continues the "everything wired together" theme used throughout the site, though in this case it's also part of the masonry grid layout being used here:
Here's a look at a blog post. This is probably the shortest blog post ever, ideal for a screenshot:
Here's an example of a Blog Category page, something that we don't have on the current site. In this case, the category dropdown is also hovered:
One thing that I gathered from your comments is that you'd like to see a better search engine on the site, that integrates everything. That's what I've spent most of my time working on this week. I now think we've got a great search engine. The following screenshots preview some of the capabilities.
First off, the search engine is a live search, so the results appear as you are typing. Secondly, the results are categorized by section of the site. And as you can see, it searches the modules directory too, unlike the existing site search.
You can click on any category in the search to view more results and get more details about those results:
Some parts of the site also get their own focused search engine. For instance, even though the main site search engine also searches the API, the ProcessWire API section of the site also gets its own API-focused engine as well:
That's all for this week. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend. Check in at the ProcessWire Weekly this weekend for the latest ProcessWire news and updates.
Great post Ryan. This looks great. One minor issue maybe is that the blog index page might be difficult to scan as on the screenshot the chronological order doesn't stand out.
The categorized search results is a huge win.
Totally agree with Noel :) I like the way the new website is going towards but to me, right now, it's very uikit default style. Even thought is very clear it's lacking of unique personality. Same as above, not a criticism per se, but I'd love (IMHO) to look at processwire more as a brand rather than a (magnificent!) CMS.
Love it Ryan. I'd love to have a powerful search like that on the front-end. Is that forthcoming or already possible?
Agree, the all blue pages look like the header is not properly closed. I don't see why those pages should have a different style from the rest either. Otherwise great update, really looking forward to the new page.
Great update! Looks professional, clean, I love it. But I agree with Nicolas on the blog. From a UX perspective it's not that great. Hard to scan and not chronological. But keep up the good work!
Looking great. I'd prefer if all pages had blue header then white content then blue footer as the all-blue pages almost look like a coding error at first glance to me but maybe I'm just being picky? ????
Great work Ryan! Especially love the new search!!! I also like the results view of the search alot, clean and with the smart ability to filter by kind. Thanks for listenibg to our feedback about the Skyscraper ornaments.
What stands out to me is that the screenshots all together (with the exemption of the sites pages) look very uniform – mostly text, headings, lists. Very clean and organised, I like that, but visually there is not much to distinguish.
Now I get that you are focusing on the content and structure of the site - so it might just be to early for feedback on this topic: I think that especially on the marketing focused pages, focusing on presenting ProcessWire for new users, stakeholders and designers & marketing departments, more images and specially crafted pages would make sense. But I would even argue that for more developer oriented pages, some images would be helpful. I'm a visual person and nice images for blogs, even modules would go a long way in making the experience on processwire.com a pleasing and joyful experience.
Now I totally understand that you probably need support from a few UX and UI gurus but I guess, there are a lot of us from the community who would be more than happy to stepp in and offer support. A few examples from pages a stumbled across the last couple of days:
Well crafted homepage with gimmicks (feature-slider): https://ora.pm/home
or https://craftcms.com
Nice visual blog posts: https://ora.pm/blog
Visually appealing modules directory (with a nice touch for developers, the ability to sell your own modules): https://statamic.com/marketplace/addons
Presenting many features visually (nice menu on the left): https://craftcms.com/features/all
Blog, module and tutorials directory: The new Laracast website probably has a good middle-ground with nice graphical touches while still not to heavily reliant on custom visuals: https://laracasts.com/series
One last thought, maybe "features" would be a better title for the "about" page because it's less about an organisation and more about a product.
This is by no means negativ criticism, I really like the current progress of our new beloved CMSs home and would only like to offer some inspiration and my thoughts in hope that it helps boost PW.
This week we take a look at what's new in ProcessWire 3.0.119 and then we finish up by taking a look at a few screenshots from the new ProcessWire development website. More
The RC1 version for our next master release is here. This post covers all the details and information about how you can help. We also look at a a new PageAction module added to ListerPro, and a couple of other new modules currently in development. More
"Yesterday I sent the client a short documentation for their ProcessWire-powered website. Today all features already used with no questions. #cmsdoneright" —Marc Hinse, Web designer/developer


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Read a Garden Story
Check out this fun story called Leonard's Garden Colours by Canadian author and illustrator Irene Luxbacher. We published Irene's story in the June issue of Chirp and thought we would share it with you!
Click on the arrows at the bottom right to view the story full-screen.
Happy reading!
Jackie, Chirp Editor
P.S. Do you have a garden? What do you grow in your garden? Tell us all about it!


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Crowns :
Fractures in the tooth. A crown fits over the tooth like a thimble to cover and support the tooth. Many people refer to this as a cap. Most patients tell us that a crown feels much more secure than the compromised tooth and our newest dental materials look just like natural teeth.
A crown generally takes two visits. The first appointment is about 90 minutes and we reshape the tooth, make a mold of the new shape and make a plastic temporary crown that you will wear while the new crown is designed precisely for you. We make sure that you are very comfortable during this work and allow time for stretching or rest room visits. The second appointment is about 40 minutes. We slide off the temporary crown and cement in your new crown, making any fine tuning adjustments to make sure it feels natural for you.
Comparative study of fracture resistance of porcelain in metal ceramic restorations by using different metal coping designs- an in vitro study. Bulbule N1, Motwani BK2. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25584302# )
A bridge is used to replace a missing tooth. A bridge is a crown on either side of the space with the a crown attached in the middle to fill the gap. A bridge is cemented in place so it does not come in and out. It requires the use of a special floss every day to clean underneath the artificial tooth.