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|Benjamin Clementine
Benjamin Clementine in 2015
|Benjamin Sainte-Clémentine
7 December 1988
Crystal Palace, London, England
|Home town
|Edmonton, London, England
|Musical career
|Years active
|Associated acts
Benjamin Sainte-Clémentine (/klɛməntaɪn/; born 7 December 1988)[1] is an English artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician.[2]
Born and raised in London, England, Clementine later moved to Paris, France becoming homeless as a teenager. There, his performances helped him to become a cult figure in the music and art scene.[3] Moving back to London, he made his TV debut on the BBC programme Later With Jools Holland in 2013.[4][5] A number of critics described him as becoming one of the great singer-songwriters of his generation and the future sound of London, whilst struggling to place his music in any one genre.[6][7][8]
Considered by The New York Times as one of the 28 geniuses who defined culture in 2016,[9] Clementine's compositions are musically incisive and attuned to the issues of life but also poetic, mixing revolt with love and melancholy, sophisticated lyricism with slang and shouts, and rhyming verse with prose monologues. He moved to popular art music, breaking free from traditional song structure, inventing his own dramatic and innovative musical territory. He is noticeably seen topless and barefoot onstage, dressed entirely in black or dark grey, with a long, wool trench coat.
Clementine debut album At Least for Now won the 2015 Mercury Prize but fared better across mainland Europe. At the end of 2015, Clementine was included in The Guardian's New Year's honours list to celebrate heroes of 2015.[10] Debrett's and the London Evening Standard named him one of the most influential people in Britain.[11][12]
- 1 Early life
- 2 Early recordings
- 3 Studio albums
- 4 Artistry
- 5 Performance and appearances
- 6 Discography
- 7 Television appearances
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Early life[edit]
Clementine was born in Crystal Palace, London,[13] the youngest of five children. He grew up in a middle-class family in Edmonton, London with his strict Roman Catholic grandmother. After she died, he moved in with his parents.[14][15] Having suffered bullying at school, Clementine was mischievous as a child, but his rebellion was rarely conventional.[citation needed] He found himself particularly drawn to the literature of the Bible as well as poetry, especially the works of William Blake, TS Eliot, and Carol Ann Duffy. He would skip school but spend all day at the library, picking these books at random off the shelves. His older brother Joseph was fond of music philosophy, science, and English literature, and would point out different types of books and dictionaries for him to read.[citation needed]
Clementine sought out rarely used and archaic words, attempting to incorporate them into his vocabulary.[16][17] Joseph bought a piano when Clementine was 11, and when he had finished his daily practice Benjamin would play it. Eventually his brother's acquired taste for the piano diminished and he moved on to another instrument giving Clementine more time to continue playing. He had discovered such a strong propensity to music that his father, who always intended for him to study law, had reason to be alarmed. He strictly forbade him to meddle with any musical instrument but Clementine found means to get a little keyboard privately conveyed to a room at the top of the house where he played when his parents went to work. Clementine could not read music, but in a few months he started imitating the work of fin-de-siècle composer Erik Satie and Claude Debussy, learned from listening to Classic FM after "becoming bored" with pop music, and continued to play discreetly for the next five years until his parents' divorce.[2][16][18][19]
I saw a girl in my class who had a toy piano.
I asked if I could play and she said no,
so I waited till she went for lunch and I took it home.
I played, I heard sounds, I just liked it, I didn't understand why.
The next day, obviously, I brought it back,
after a bit of trouble with my parents.
I got into detention but that was one of the best
unforgettable moments of my life.
—Benjamin Clementine
Relocation to Paris[edit]
Clementine left school at 16 after failing most of his GCSEs, passing only English literature, following which he had a dispute with his family and ended up in Camden Town, London, homeless and in psychological and financial difficulties. Although it was not a premeditated plan,[18] he relocated to Paris at age 19, where he spent a number of years busking and playing in bars and hotels in Place de Clichy while sleeping on the streets. Occasionally, he applied for jobs cleaning kitchens but was never successful. He eventually moved to a hostel in Montmartre, where he paid €20 to live in a ten-man bunk-bed room. He preferred to sleep in the lower beds to enable him to hide his belongings underneath.[16][20][21] Clementine eventually bought a half-broken guitar and a cheap keyboard. For the next three years he wrote and composed songs. Inspired by the poets and singers he'd come to admire in France, he decided his songs would be pointless if they didn't say something about his particular experiences.[16] Clementine managed to stay out of trouble as he spent his nights performing and his days composing and writing, becoming a cult figure in the Parisian music scene.[3] After four years of living as a vagabond, he was discovered by an agent whilst walking back home from an evening performance and they arranged a meeting for the next day. The agent introduced him to a friend, Matthieu Gazier, later on becoming Clementine's manager for a period of time. In 2012, whilst playing a gig at the Festival de Cannes they met Lionel Bensemoun, a business mogul in France. Through him, they decided to set up the record label 'Behind' so that Clementine could record his music.[20][22] He eventually came to the attention of the French press, who described him as "la révélation anglaise des Francos" ("the English revelation of the "Francofolies" festival").[2] He was then invited to the Rencontres Trans Musicales of Rennes in France in December 2012 where he performed for the first time on a large stage and played four nights consecutively. Clementine eventually signed a joint music license contract between Capitol, Virgin EMI and Barclay.[19][23]
Before Clementine signed a major deal he closely met and worked with a French tour agent with his independent label in Paris and embarked on a brief European tour playing in high-profile festivals as the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival in Canada; and Eurosonic Festival, of which Rob Van Der Zwaan writing for podium.info described him as one of the highlights.[24][25][26][27][28][29] As a result, the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2013 booked Clementine to play. He failed to attend. According to Clementine, he was kicked off the train en route to Rotterdam for being unable to show a valid ticket. He didn't have enough money due to not getting paid by his then-tour agent. Clementine later stated that he had attempted to travel by foot to Rotterdam, after assuming the city was close by. However, the journey was in fact 45 km, which was considerably longer than he had estimated. He had tried to stop passers by while walking along the motorway, but nobody would stop and help. It took him about 10 hours to complete the journey and he arrived at his destination with bleeding toes. When he set off walking he was wearing slippers, but at some point decided to carry on walking barefoot.[30][31] Despite this, two years later he was offered another spot at the same festival.[32][33][34] In 2014, during the shooting of his music video for "At Least for Now", Clementine fell on a pile of stones in Ireland, badly injuring his elbow, then later cut a toe whilst walking on stones. In March 2015, whilst performing in the middle of a concert in Paris, he cut a finger open and started to bleed, but kept on playing until an audience member threw tissues on the stage. He later cynically remarked: that's what happens when you fall in love; you get hurt.[3]
Early recordings[edit]
Cornerstone EP, Glorious You EP[edit]
Clementine's first EP, Cornerstone, was released in June 2013 with three studio tracks.[13] It was re-issued in October 2013 with three additional acoustic tracks recorded for Deezer, a web-based music streaming service.[22] In the same month, on an episode of the BBC television show Later With Jools Holland that also included performances by Paul McCartney, Earth, Wind and Fire, Gary Clark Jr. and the Arctic Monkeys,[35] he performed the EP's title track.[20][36] The appearance drew strong critical praise, with Paul McCartney encouraging Clementine to continue his musical career.[2] The London Evening Standard's David Smyth, reviewing a gig at the South Bank Centre, said that Clementine's performance reminded him of Nina Simone, particularly as he had covered her hit "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" in a radically different style.[37] Clementine announced further tours, both solo and supporting Cat Power at the Brighton Dome, including an appearance at the O2 Academy in Brixton[38] and at the Rencontres Trans Musicales festival in Rennes, France, where he worked on a special show and performed four nights.[36] Andy Gill on the Independent album review wrote:
This debut EP offers a taste of one of 2014's most promising new talents. With just Benjamin Clementine's impulsive piano figures accompanying his dark, powerful voice, there's a soulful solemnity about these searching songs. But there's also a wealth of imagination at work: "It's a wonderful life, traversed in tears from the heavens," he observes in "I Won't Complain", surveying the emotional turmoil that renders his heart a "melodrama in fact"; while over flurries of piano, his urgent delivery of "Cornerstone" blends the sensitivity of Antony Hegarty with the wracked passion of Nina Simone, admitting loneliness as his "home, home, home", but biting off the word to sound like "hope". A distinctive and impressive new voice.[39]
Studio albums[edit]
At Least for Now[edit]
Clementine initially wanted to record his debut album, At Least for Now, straight after his first EP, Cornerstone, but due to contractual dealings with the music industry and his label it was strategically held back for almost two years. During that time he decided to write his own dictionary, as well as a collection of poetry[40] and classical music pieces. At Least for Now was mainly released across Europe on January 12, 2015.[17] On the 13 February 2015 it reached the iTunes Top 10 in Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg Poland and Greece. In England, it won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize.[41]
At Least for Now largely received critical acclaim. The album holds a 75 out of 100 rating based on 19 critical reviews indicating "generally positive reviews" from Metacritic. Clementine's win of the Mercury Prize came as a complete surprise by many and was perfectly written by Geoffery Himes in the Washington Post by saying that It was impressive enough that Benjamin Clementine won 2015's Mercury Prize, It's even more impressive that "At Least for Now" is unlike anything else in pop music at the moment. The best shorthand description is perhaps "Nina Simone singing the Leonard Cohen songbook," for Clementine's unapologetically literary lyrics are delivered in a strong but idiosyncratic tenor. David Simpson from The Guardian gave the album 3 stars out of 5, describing the debut as "fascinating but flawed", explaining that it "benefits from the bravery and adventurousness Clementine honed while tackling audiences aboard Parisian trains." Regarding Clementine's vocals, Simpson said: "Channelling influences such as Erik Satie and Antony Hegarty, Clementine is reminiscent of Kevin Rowland in that he sounds as if he is singing from the gut, and because he has to. If only he had Rowlands' economy: mannered vocal flourishes complicate the melodies when what's needed is simplicity. The addition of syrupy strings and pedestrian drumming further dilutes the impact of his raw talent. However, when he performs unadorned, melodies dripping from his fingertips, and letting fly from the heart, his voice is difficult to forget."[42] Phil Mongredien, also reviewing for The Guardian, gave the album 4 stars out of 5, writing that "for the most part these piano-led songs sound unique, the lonely despair of Cornerstone and the arresting lyricism of Condolence signalling an exciting new talent."[43]
I Tell a Fly[edit]
Accompanied by a video shot by photographer Craig McDean and filmmaker Masha Vasyukova published earlier than its official release on 30 June 2017, Clementine composed Phantom Of Aleppoville after being affected by the writing of pioneering British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. He wrote extensively about children who have experienced bullying in the home and at school, discovering that while the trauma was naturally not comparable in scale to that suffered by children displaced by war, its effects followed similar patterns. Seeing in Winicott's writing a mirror of his own childhood experiences, Clementine chose the title – the "little city of Aleppo" – to symbolise a place where children encounter such bullying. Says Clementine, "Aleppoville is a place where many are bullied if not all, but no one understands nor see why; Phantom."[44][45] I Tell a Fly finds Clementine exploring new musical territory on the heels of his Mercury Prize-winning debut, At Least for Now (2015). At Least for Now stretched itself across a series of piano ballads with unorthodox structures; I Tell a Fly brings a sense of theatricality and power by using whirling, interwoven instruments throughout the uncompromising release. While At Least for Now looked inward and backward, Clementine's follow-up looks outward and forward-to a changing world, ancient struggles and the individual response.[46] In conversation with David Renshaw, Clementine explains that the origin of I Tell a Fly lies in a disarmingly strange line Clementine found in his American visa: "an alien of extraordinary abilities." He explains, "I was baffled for about ten minutes when I first saw that visa. But then I thought to myself, I am an alien. I'm a wanderer. In most places I've been, I've always been different. And so I began to think about the story of a couple of birds, who are in love: one is afraid to go further, and the other is taking a risk, to see what happens." On I Tell a Fly, Clementine uses his personal history as a prism through which to view the world around him (and attempt to make sense of both), musically exploring unknown territories while maintaining a lifeblood that could not be mistaken for the work of anyone other than him.[47]
—Ann Powers, NPR
Clementine is a spinto tenor.[15] His voice has been described as warm and graceful, with a bright, full timbre, that ranges from approximately the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the D one octave above middle C (D5).[citation needed] Writing for The Quietus, Calum Bradbury-Sparvell described Clementine's voice as having the "expressive but exact enunciation of a stage actor, which allows his lyrics to spill and scatter out of sync with his hands in a way which warrants the endless Nina Simone comparisons." He went on to write: "Yet as an atypical singer-songwriter with a strong sense of grandeur, an impressively broad tenor range and more than a dash of dark humour, he also resembles Rufus Wainwright".[48] Interviewing Clementine for The New York Times, David Byrne said,
It seemed to me that Clementine's autodidacticism was his way of asking how one should be in a world that doesn't make sense — the type of inquisitive probing we get in his soulful songs, which draw on the work of French performers such as Léo Ferré, Édith Piaf and Henri Salvador. His stirring, impassioned tenor sounds like it's from another world, but it's the singer's questioning of the one we live in that sets his music apart.[49]
"The 24 year old marries the intimacy
of Antony Hegarty with the passion
of Aretha Franklin and the intensity
of Edith Piaf, delivering his introspective
lyrics about integrity and vulnerability with
an almost operative soul sensibility that
recalls Nina Simone..
Clementine is a multi instrumentalist and cites a broad range of musical influences: Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Leonard Cohen, Leo Ferré, Nina Simone, Jake Thackray, Jimi Hendrix, Serge Gainsbourg, Aretha Franklin, Lucio Dalla, Giacomo Puccini, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Georges Brassens and Frédéric Chopin. In a 2015 interview he listed Simone, Nick Cave and Tom Waits as his heroes.[50] Clementine had little exposure to music whilst growing up and is self-taught. In his teens he had caught avant-garde French composers like Erik Satie and Claude Debussy. These influences inspired him to create his own material. He accompanies on hypnotic piano vamps[51] with mostly minimal instruments ranging from little voice breaths, a brushing of coat for percussion as in his song "Edmonton", to a vicious string stride confrontation in his song "Adios".[52]
He said:
I am an expressionist; I sing what I say, I say what I feel and i feel what I play by honesty and none other but honesty. Some will get bored of me, but I invite the patient listener to come forth, feel and most importantly engage with me without asking too many questions. Hopefully by the end of listening they shall get answers not questionable, whether pleasing or not.[53]
Clementine states he has mainly been influenced by confessional poets like Sylvia Plath as well as writers such as William Blake, Carol Ann Duffy, James Baldwin, the philosopher John Locke and C. S. Lewis. In an interview with the broadsheet newspaper The Times with Ed Potton, Clementine expressed his feelings of hating the works of William Shakespeare as a child as it was all his teachers always taught him so he preferably went to his local library to read the other William, William Blake.[54] Whilst in Paris, he discovered French poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud including poet-singers such as Leo Ferré, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour with whom he sang and recorded the song 'You've got to learn'.[55][56] It is Paris where Clementine discovered Nina Simone. He delivers his introspective lyrics about integrity and vulnerability and explores both in everyday experience. One of his frustrations after returning to the UK was how little ambition he thinks there is in British song lyrics compared to his experience of French music. Talking to the Guardian journalist Tim Lewis, he said, "it's very important down there (France) because most of the time they [the audience] pay more attention to what the singer says and what they are trying to express."[52]
On his song Winston Churchill's boy, he rewrites and repurposes the words of Winston Churchill, lamenting "never in the field of human affection had so much been given for so few attention". Writing for The Quietus, Calum Bradbury-Sparvell described the song in the context of Clementine's debut album as "a melodramatic beginning which harks back to the alienation he felt from family and friends on the eve of his emigration to the City Of Light," going on to write: "For a Gallic darling, Clementine certainly gazes wistfully across La Manche a lot and one senses that, despite the obvious French influences, there is more of the spurned Londoner in him than the flâneur.[48]
"I am alone in a box of stone
When all is said and done.
As the wind blows to the east from the west,
Unto this bed my tears have its solemn rest.".
Mostly playing on stage entirely in black or dark long trench-like woollen coats with no shirt underneath, in barefoot, Clementine's distinctive androgynous appearance, square-cut, angular padded clothing, manner, and height of 193 cm (6'4) is uniquely known at least as much as he is for his art. In March 2015 Clementine was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed by the Financial Times.[57] Clementine collaborated multiple times with Christopher Bailey. On 17 June 2014 Clementine performed three songs live throughout the Burberry Prorsum Menswear Catwalk show[58][59] - the first musician to perform live throughout a Burberry show. He performed again on the Burberry menswear show in January 2016.[60] In April 2016, his song "I Won't Complain" was chosen for the Mr. Burberry ad, directed by Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen.[61]
Performance and appearances[edit]
Clementine's live performances have received praise.[62]David Byrne interviewing Clementine for The New York Times Magazine accounted on his performances saying that he was introduced to Clementine's music through a friend who insisted he check him out. He was floored, and immediately asked him to perform at a music festival that he curated in London. He took the stage in a long coat, no shirt or shoes on, and played the piano perched on a high stool, almost standing. He said that It was as if Clementine were singing directly to each person in that room, a far cry from rush hour in a station of the Métro.[49] Mollie Goodfellow of The Independent upon reviewing him at the Meltdown festival curated by David Byrne in the Queen Elizabeth Hall August (2015), stated;
Despite repeat comparisons to Nina Simone from critics, it's hard to pin London-born, Paris-dwelling Benjamin Clementine down. His voice certainly has the richness of Simone, but his style of performing and theatrical flair is entirely his own. His song Adios, from album At Least For Now, for example, would not be out of place on Broadway. He carries himself well, walking on stage confidently and barefoot, and carries his music even better – each song sung so strikingly that you can't help but get caught up in the emotion of the thing. I'll admit I found myself affected by his rendition of his popular single Cornerstone, a song reminiscent of the Cinematic Orchestra. Really, he needs no more than himself and a piano, but Clementine's drummer Alexi joins him on stage for several of his songs at the Meltdown Festival set. The drumming complimented the flatness of the piano perfectly. Every word, every key of his set was performed with an incredible certainty and purpose and the moments of silence found between verses were fraught with a heavy tension, like the audience were waiting for a sudden outburst of emotion – which is something the performance was not exactly lacking in the first place.[63]
However, John Lawrence from The Daily Telegraph despite giving Clementine a four star review at his gig at the Barbican also remarked that during the evening, Clementine attempted two covers and it was here that his charismatic singularity dwindled. An over-worked Voodoo Chile and a pretty but unremarkable version of Nick Drake's Riverman confirmed that Clementine is at his best when he is mining the depths of his own strange world. Despite vocal swoops and bursts of grand guignol piano playing, Clementine's own songs always felt intimate and confessional. Using someone else's words was deadening somehow. However, anyone attending last night's concert would have realised that Clementine has talent to burn. He is only 26 and yet, already, he has mastered a key theme that is essential to so many great artists – that of life's essential sadness.[64]
On 17 July 2014, Clementine performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival.[13][65]
An album was scheduled to be released in 2014,[66] but Clementine announced that he will be releasing his second EP called Glorious You, on 25 August 2014.[1]
On Sunday 12 October 2014, Clementine performed and spoke at the Observer Ideas at the Barbican Centre, a festival to share ideas to the public, in a line up that included Edward Snowden, David Simon, creator of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and multi-award-winning musician Tinie Tempah[67]
Benjamin Clementine was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Prize and subsequently won. He dedicated his award to the memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris the previous week.[68]
On 12 February 2016, Benjamin Clementine announced a new tour in Europe and the United States.[69][70][71]
|Peak positions
|At Least for Now
|I Tell a Fly
|EP details
|Peak positions
|Cornerstone EP
|Glorious You EP
|Peak positions
|Album / EP
|Cornerstone EP
|"I Won't Complain"
|At Least for Now
|"Phantom of Aleppoville"
|I Tell a Fly
|"God Save the Jungle"
As featured artist[edit]
|"Hallelujah Money"
(Gorillaz featuring Benjamin Clementine)
Television appearances[edit]
|Television show
|Later... with Jools Holland
|"Cornerstone" & "Nemesis"
|Series 43, Episode 6[82]
|The Late Late Show with James Corden
|"I Wont Complain"
|Season 2 Episode 115 [83]
|The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
|The Tonight Show [84]
|Later... with Jools Holland
|"God Save The Jungle" & "By The Ports Of Europe" (also "Jupiter")
|Series 51, Episode 1[85] (also Series 51 (live), Episode 1[86])
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Whistleblowers in the pharmaceutical industry: tragic hero, black sheep or alter ego ?
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text: Haskell embarks on a world-wide journey to visit a dozen trees and examine how they fit into their own unique ecosystems and the danger they face, from global climate change to the increasing demand for land for homes and agriculture. Just when the future seems bleak, the author examines the life of individual trees planted in cities and other unlikely locations that seem to be thriving despite their hostile habitats. Readers will come away with a renewed appreciation of trees, the magnificent beings we share our planet with and sadly, have come to take for granted


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Yes, this Recruitment is for Graduates, but here is a small twist that Only Science Graduates and Engineering Graduates are eligible to apply for Scientific Assistants in India and if you have this Qualification, then apply for this exam.
If you are the one having applied for SSC CGL 2017 Exam and preparing for the last 3 months, then we suggest you apply for Scientific Assistants Exam too as it is 50similarityty in SSC CGL Syllabus and SSC Scientific Assistant Syllabus.
SSC Scientific Assistants Exam has 2 Paper and Syllabus for Paper 1 is same as we have for SSC CGL Tier 1 Exam and Paper 2 is Subjective nature, where questions are subject specific.
In this post, we will discuss the Detailed Syllabus for SSC Scientific Assistant and Also the Selection process and Scheme of Written test.
Syllabus for SSC Scientific Assistant 2017The Written Exam for SSC Scientific Assistant is scheduled from 20th to 27th November 2017 and still, you have some good amount of time in hand to prepare for the exam.
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1) Selection Process comprises of only Only Computer Based Online Test of 200 Marks having 2 Hours Duration
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For Better understanding, here is the Revised Scheme of SSC Scientific Assistants Exam 2017
Detailed Subject Wise Syllabus for SSC Scientific Assistant Exam 2017
SSC Scientific Assistant Exam comprises of 2 Paper each having weight age of 100 marks and there will be a composite time duration of 2 Hours.
1) Paper 1 : 100 Questions (100 Marks): Paper 1 Comprises of Questions for 4 Subject viz Reasoning, Maths, General Awareness and English.
i) General Intelligence and Reasoning: It is reasoning and questions in this test comprises of both from Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning. If you have appeared for any of the SSC Exams in the past, then you should be aware how the Reasoning questions are asked.
- No of Questions: 25
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Here is the Detailed Syllabus for General Intelligence and Reasoning Section.
1) Analogies, Similarities, Differences.
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3) Analysis, Judgement, Decision Making.
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5) Arithmetical Reasoning, Arithmetic Number Series, Verbal and Figure Classification.
ii) Quantitative Aptitude: In lay man's Language this is Maths and Questions in this section are asked up to 10th Standard. Again there will be 25 Questions in this test carrying 25 Marks.
Here is the Detailed Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude section.
iii) General English: If, you have appeared in any Competitive Exam, then you know that English is an Integral part of Syllabus and same is with the Scientific Assistants Syllabus.
English Section comprises of 25 Questions carrying 25 Marks.
Here is the Topic wise Syllabus for English section.
1) Vocabulary, Comprehension and English Grammar.
2) Spellings.
3) Synonyms and Antonyms.
4) Correct and In Correct Usages etc.
iv) General Awareness: This is General Knowledge and Questions in this Section comprises of Current Affairs, Current GK etc.
Detailed Syllabus of General Awareness Section is.
Syllabus for Paper-2 (Subjective Type)The Second Paper of SSC Scientific Assistant Exam comprises of Subject wise Questions in Objective Format.
Paper 2 (Subjective Paper): In Paper 2 Questions will be asked from various subjects and for that SSC had mentioned a detailed Syllabus. There will be 100 Objective Questions in Paper 2 and Questions in this Paper will be asked from these Subjects.
1) Physics
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Resolves an issue where the computer loses wirelessconnection.
Addresses a security vulnerability
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Resolves an issue where enabling a wireless LAN card may cause ablue screen error
What You Should Know About Sony Driver Updating
There are a variety of common warnings along with other messages that you might get in the driver updating procedure, a number of which I've paraphrased and listed here along with guidance on what you can do:
Windows cannot verify that the driver is compatible: Touch or click Yes to continue installing it if you're sure this driver is the right one. If you think you might have the driver for the wrong model or something like that, in which case you should look for other INF files or maybe an entirely different driver download, choose No.
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It's best to let Windows install device drivers automatically. But if Windows can't find a driver for your SONY VGN-SR140N/S, you can look for a driver on the manufacturer's website of SONY. Driver updates are often available in the support section of such sites.
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5/10. Solid educational doc, explaining the challenges faced by medical aid workers in Kenya, Uganda, & Tanzania. Includes quite practical behavioural observations.
The scene involving the steps and the closing moments involving visual recognition are some of the most powerful I've ever seen. If you can get your hands on this, check it out.
Good documentary showing how our best intentions are often useless if we don't try to understand the culture we want to help. And I liked a lot the courageous Masaï warriors who don't dare to walk up a few stairs to enter the doctor's trailer.


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Directory Assistants Inc v. Albano
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ORDER granting 46 Motion for Judgment and to Enforce Settlement Agreement. Ruling attached. Signed by Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons on 2/8/2011. (Garcia, M.)
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Clue: Like some beachwear
We have 1 answer for the clue Like some beachwear. See the results below.
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After getting halfway through this series a while back I thought it was finally time to complete it and I forgot how I much I loved these documentaries. Its hard to write a review in my standard format for a documentary series but I felt the series still deserved a mention nonetheless.
Starring Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, the documentary follows the two during their planning and undertaking on a motorbike ride from London through to New York travelling east through countries like Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia, Alaska and Canada. Every episode covers a new leg of the journey, generally an episode per country they pass through. As well as being followed by a camera man, Claudio, the two take with them their own personal cameras on their helmets and a handheld recorder. The documentary offers multiple insights into the journey they make through different viewpoints and perspectives from both McGregor and Boorman as well as the crew.
The sense of adventure they all share, in addition to the great friendships creates some amazing moments on screen as they explore different cultures and environments. I wouldn't call myself a lover of motorbikes but even the elements of engineering and challenge that are undertaken as they are battered by the elements are so interesting to watch.
For the most part, the support crew travel some distance behind the two bikers so the two friends can have their own adventure and approach new people without overloading them. It's so heartwarming to see different cultures openness and generosity and in return McGregor and Boorman's response.
All aspects of the journey are covered and the audience is allowed to see the highs and lows of each stage. I love Ewan McGregor anyway but the banter the two friends share and the teamwork they display when overcoming some difficult obstacles makes for excellent viewing and I would urge anyone to watch the series.


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We all know how much children enjoy most holidays. The months of October, November, December and January are ideal months for parents to take advantage of the spirit of the fall and winter holidays and link it to the traditions of the countries where the language their children are learning is spoken. Children will enjoy learning about other traditions as they practice their language skills. Here is a short list of some favorites among children who are learning languages:
In October, children in Spanish classes, like to learn about and talk about "El Dia de los Muertos" (the Day of the Dead), a holiday celebrated in Mexico. They enjoy creating scary masks and participating in a parade of the dead.
On November 11th, Martinstag, German students participate in lantern processions (Martinsumzüge or Laternenumzüge) with lanterns they make in class. They also sing the songs they learned in class as they march around a square at dusk being lead by an actor impersonating the Saint, usually dressed up as a Roman soldier riding on a horse.
On December 5th (the eve of the feast of St Nikolaus), St. Nikolaus (the German Santa) comes to German children's homes and fills their shoes left outside their front doors with traditional German treats. At my children's German school, they celebrate a variation of feast. St. Nikolaus comes during their lesson and fills their shoes left outside their classrooms. Tradition says he was a kind soul who cared for the poor and acted virtuously to all he met. He fills children's shoes with nuts, fruits and other treats. A typical craft on this day is a Nikolaus-Stiefel (Nicholas boot).
The French customarily give Advent calendars and Advent wreaths to the eager children in anticipation of Christmas. Some young children will make wreaths similar to the once featured in the photo.
In January, on the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany, children who study Italian are visited by Befana who fills their socks with candy and presents if they were good or a lump of coal or dark candy if they were less than good.
December is also the month to listen to festive carols and holiday songs in other languages in your car or at home and read holiday stories in the target language. Hearing familiar lyrics and stories in the target language during the holidays boosts children's confidence as they make the connections and are able to infer the meanings of words based on their familiarity with such songs and stories in their first language.
If your child is enrolled in a language class, it is likely that the syllabus includes these celebrations or similar activities. If it is not, it is fairly easy for parents to expose their children to these fun events by contacting cultural centers in your cities and inquiring about the cultural programs designed for children. Parents could also quickly research the traditions and folklore of countries and create the fun at home in a family setting. Remember to keep the fun in the language learning process!!
My next post on Holidays and Language Learning – Part II will be published in the Spring and will cover Valentines' Day, St. Patrick's Day and Easter. Stay tuned!!
À bientôt.


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Literary Locomotion: The Poetry of Movement
Explore poems on the pleasures and pains of bodily effort.
A celebration of what the body can do, this workshop will look closely at physical feats we may take for granted and ask how we can make our everyday movements recognisable but new? A chance to explore poems on the pleasures and pains of exertion, our physical limits and the attraction of risk; we will consider emotional reactions triggered by bodily effort, and what happens when physical odds must be overcome. When Vona Groarkejumps from a pier, we watch her 'toss every bone and sinew to the plunge' and I want to join her. Come and write new poems full of energy, movement and locomotion.
Saturday 21 July. One-day workshop, 10.30am – 4.30pm.
This workshop will be in our new offices at 1 Dock Offices, Surrey Quays Road, Canada Water, SE16 2XU. The venue is 2-minute walk from Canada Water Station. Take the Lower Road exit onto Surrey Quays Road, cross over Deal Porters Way, and the Dock Offices are on the left.
More information about how all our face-to-face courses work can be found on the Face-to-Face courses page.
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Rebecca Goss's second collection Her Birth (Carcanet, 2013), was shortlisted for The 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, The Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 and The Portico Prize for Literature 2015. In 2014 Rebecca was selected for The Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets. Twitter: @gosspoems.
'The Poetry School has helped me create work which has gone on to be published. It has helped me to improve and to gain confidence as both a writer and reader of poetry. And it has made me feel part of a wider community of poets and poetry lovers.'


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Seven NFL head coaches will debut with their respective new teams on Sunday. Some have a chance to be a success right away and some will encounter some tough sledding until (if?) they're able to get things right.
Of the seven newbies, three are first-time head coaches — Todd Bowles with the Jets, Dan Quinn with the Falcons and Jim Tomsula with the 49ers — and two were dealt pretty stacked hands — Rex Ryan in Buffalo and Gary Kubiak in Denver.
Here's how we rank the seven — not in terms of who is the best overall, but in order of our predicted success in 2015:
Dan Quinn, Falcons: He has a chance to do big things quickly for a few reasons, beginning with the fact he has a franchise quarterback in Matt Ryan. Offense has not been the problem for the Falcons, who haven't been to the playoffs since 2012. Defense has been their downfall, and Quinn is a defensive coach. Another plus for Quinn is the NFC South, which was the worst division in the NFL last year.
Rex Ryan, Bills: He has a chance to make the strongest early impact, because he inherited a lot of talent (particularly in defense) and he is an instant energizer. The players will sprint into Lake Erie in January for him if he asks. Ryan does not have a franchise quarterback, taking a flier on Tyrod Taylor (35 pass attempts in four NFL seasons), but he does have some potent skill position players with running back LeSean McCoy and receiver Sammy Watkins.
Gary Kubiak, Broncos: We have him here for one primary reason: Manning. This could very well be Peyton Manning's last ride, depending on how things go for the Broncos in 2015. Then things could go south for Kubiak unless he finds another quarterback.
Jack Del Rio, Raiders: He takes over a team that hasn't been to the playoffs since 2002, but has a promising young quarterback in Derek Carr. Del Rio, as the head coach of the Jaguars, took them to the playoffs twice and had just two losing seasons in nine years. So this is not his first rodeo.
Todd Bowles, Jets: He might be one of the best long-term solutions, but 2015 figures to be a tough challenge for him without a franchise quarterback. (Geno Smith? No thank you. Ryan Fitzpatrick? No thanks)
John Fox, Bears: Within a month, he may be waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat calling out for Peyton Manning. In Chicago, he has the maddeningly inconsistent Jay Cutler behind center. Fox should improve the Bears defense, but …
Jim Tomsula, 49ers: He has not won over a lot of trust in San Francisco taking over for Jim Harbaugh. The mass exodus of players has not helped matters, with the loss of their best running back (Frank Gore) and best pass rusher (Aldon Smith) to name only a couple huge personnel losses.


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Obama Hates Gay People
Screw cooperation. There should not be a religious leader doing a convocation at the inaugural.
It's inappropriate. Someone professing thanks to Jesus means nothing to me. It exclusionary and divisive. Keep your dogmatic beliefs at home. They're not welcome in a political atmosphere. And while we're at it, let's ditch the Bible swearing in part. It reeks of and drips with religion. Perhaps more appropriate would be holding a nice, bound copy of the Constitution of the United States of America. In America We Trust. Now, at least…although I think the shameless pandering by Obama with some of his choices irritates me.
When West Hollywood homos had a woody for Hillary, I argued that Bill was not our friend and she was his advisor. After all, he dropped the ball on gays in the military by backing down on discrimination WHILE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of all the armed forces. Incredible, leaving us with Don't Ask Don't Tell and fired translators and lives ruined. How about DOMA, Defense of Marriage Act? This odious act has and will ruin lives deep into the future. Thanks, Billary.
Then there's the Queen of Soul Ms. Aretha Franklin, Rolling Stone's Best Voice of the Rock Era, who will be wrapped in electroshocked skinned pelts stitched into a cover. Should I bring a spray paint can as well> This queen might get a one-time pass from me.
OBAMA Doesn't like gay people. Because he's black, and blacks are religulous. They in general appropriated a White Jesus from another culture and ran with it, sublimating the pantheon of West African gods as Christian Saints (Voudoun) and out Jesusing the white folks. The big fatal flaw here is that Bible is a tool for literalists, and that's what the AME and other churches have done, love the sinner: hate the sin. In general African Americans do not equate the right of LGBT people to marry with interracial marriage. They don't and you can't make them, no matter how much outreach is planned. It's a fatal flaw of the conceit that those who suffered must fight against bigotry toward others. Look at black leaders: sans Chisholm and Bond, we have a room full of pontificating preachers. Am I painting an entire community with an overly broad brush? Admittedly, yes, but I have the Prop 8 voting record facts to back up this assertion. The solution? I don't know. What I do know is I'll have to decide between throwing donuts at gay hata Warren or shoes at somebody else. Decisions, decisions.


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Summer is approaching and now is a good time to search around for the best beaches to head to in the coming months. It is always better to plan ahead and make reservations because the beach resorts in North Carolina tend to get overly crowded in the peak summer months. By booking early, you are also always guaranteed to get the best deals available for only a fraction of the price you would pay when making a last minute reservation.
The state of North Carolina has some of the most amazing beach resorts. Here are five of the best that the state has to offer.
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Monday was a turning point for me. It's silly silly silly on why, but my little baby is now a little boy and I'm having real difficulty with that.
I remember when I'd take him to daycare and he'd have nothing but bottles every day all day long every 3 hours. Then he moved up and had pureed fruits for breakfast and veggies for lunch and bottles. Then it was fruits and veggies with cereal in it. Then it became cereal or oatmeal at breakfast and a pick up type veggie and fruit for lunch with a snack after his afternoon nap. Now it's like cereal bars and entree meals with sippy cups and a maybe one or two bottles.
Monday as I dropped Hill off at daycare with his Wal-Mart sack of pre packaged, preplanned, non assorted meals for the week I asked the teacher what the other parents bring their kids for breakfast and lunch. She said the same things I do. I expressed my concern in Hill's diet and how Gerber rocks on having these little entree things for them you can just buy, but they don't offer much variety and I feel he's getting burned out on the same ol' same ol' and I don't want him to be a picky eater like his daddy!
She suggested maybe he try the plates from the daycare kitchen. They would send me home with a menu that afternoon and I could go through the things he can and can't have and for $7.50 a week my son can have a variety menu, healthy state mandated organic and fresh fruits and vegetables and no more pre fab Gerber every stinkin' day! I told them to sign me up twice! It includes a healthy breakfast, lunch and snack every day Monday through Friday for seven dollars and fifty cents. Seriously.
So they sent me home with a menu that afternoon and Chip and I went over it and found the only things he couldn't have were milk and peanut butter. Everything else was acceptable. We listed no strawberries, nuts or honey too just because he's not of that age yet.
They gave him the plate lunch that Monday and they said they chopped it all up really well for him and he ate a hamburger patty, english peas, rice and corn...ALL OF IT! Poor buddy, himz a growing boy! He's done really well the rest of the week too, they put little hearts on his daily report card on the foods that he likes so that I will learn what he likes and doesn't like for home too.
I am so excited for my little big man and his food. Yet, that's just it. He's my little big man, not my tiny hiney baby anymore. Why is it that this food thing has me heartbroken that my son is growing up? I'm taking it pretty hard.....it's like he's Mr. Independent now. I can sit down and watch tv and he just entertains himself by pulling up on the furniture, playing with his blocks or books, starting the music on his toys so he can dance, snuggles with Foster. I mean really for Christmas he's asking for a dorm room mini fridge for when he goes off to college next week.
All this emotion because he can eat the plate meals from the kitchen at daycare. Seriously, is this what the rest of my life is going to be like? An emotional roller coaster of how fast my baby is growing up?


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'Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Adam was bored because he was alone; therefore Eve was created. Since that moment, boredom entered into the world and grew in quantity in exact proportion to the growth of population. Adam was bored alone; then Adam and Eve were bored together; then Adam and Eve and Cain and Able were bored en famille. After that, the population of the world increased and the nations were bored en masse. To amuse themselves, they hit upon the notion of building a tower so high that it would reach the sky. This notion is just as boring as the tower was high and is a terrible demonstration of how boredom had gained the upper hand. Then they were dispersed around the world, just as people now travel abroad, but they continued to be bored. And what consequences this boredom had: humankind stood tall and fell far, first through Eve, then from the Babylonian tower.'
Either/Or part 1
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There is a way that the poor showing of Labour just neck and neck with the Tories,
in this lowest voter turnout predicted general election, can be sorted.
There are other parties that would bring the poor out to vote if only they had the coverage:
The Left Unity Party
TUSC – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition – running 100 candidates in general election – 1000 candidates in the 6000 council elections
Socialist party of Great Britain (Socialist GB)
Although Greens will keep 1 MP Brighton central of Ms Caroline Lucas
Brighton Kempton has a Socialist GB candidate
especially in London
but throughout UK even sunny Lichfield in the fields of Staffordshire
with the great
skull and crossbones logo
Vote SNP in Scotland,
as they will be the kingmakers in Westminster parliament
not in a straight Coaliton with Labour, but in supply and confidence so will have better power
Vote Plaid Cymru in Wales
(Living Wage for the Welsh)
Other kingmakers in a supply and confidence support to Labour.
And then you get a huge majority alliance that shuts the Tories and UKIP out of the government and into a lesser opposition.
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2017 On The Move round 3
Anton Taylor, 2027 - Vivek Raj, 1797
French: KIA (C00)
1. e4 e6 2. d3 I have struggled to remain aware of the primary theory in the French as white. As a result I have been playing this sideline in the few games where the French has come up. 2. ... d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. g3 Nc6 5. Bg2 d4 up until this move we have followed common ideas. This release of tension makes white's ability to fight for the e5 square less awkward and creates a nice potential outpost on c4. 6. f4 e5 7. Ngf3 Bd6 8. Nc4 Qc7?? A completely wasted move. Bg4 or Nbe7 seems the more logical options. 9. Nxd6+ Qxd6 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. fxe5 Qe6 There is nothing better than settling for the pawn loss. Qxe5? is met by Bf4! and either black's b or c pawn will come under heavy fire. 12. O-O Ne7 13. c3 Komodo likes b4 better but c3 seems to be just a winning with far less accurate calculation required. 13. ... Nc6 14. Qa4? This move starts a maneuver that wastes three moves. Komodo recommends something like: 14. b4 cxb4 15. cxd4 Nxd4 16. Be3 Qxe5 17. Qd2 a5? 18. Qf2 Nc6? 19. Qxf7+ That is nearly impossible for me to see. The key idea Be3 followed by Qd2 and Qf2 are not easy to spot for me from the initial position (ten half-moves ahead). 14. Bd7 15. Qb5? further errors. Qc2 admitting the error was better. 15. b6 Now any tactical ideas on the black c-pawn are gone. Black has sealed his defects and the position is equal. 16. Qa4 Nxe5 17. Qc2 Bb5 18. c4 Bc6 19. Bf4 O-O 20. Bxe5 Qxe5 21. Rf5 Qe7 22. Raf1 Bd7? This allows the potential for cheap tricks along the long diagonal (h1-a8) to potentially win the exchange. Rae8 probably holds together better. 23. R5f4 Qe5 24. Qf2 f6 25. g4 I felt I could "get away" with this weakening move in this case but it turns out that Komodo sees all kinds of problems in the position after this move. Black is at least a lot better if not winning outright from here. My personal horizon is not long enough to even talk intelligently at this juncture. 25. ... b5? This move was unexpected. Black correctly sees that this is a moment to strike out against white but moves like Rae8 that look quiet but prepare a break are probably best. 26. cxb5 Bxb5 27. Rf5 The bishop has been diverted from his duty in keeping this rook off this square. 27. ... Qe7 28. e5 and suddenly with a wedge Black crumbles. 28. ... Bxd3 29. exf6 Qe3 30. Bd5+ Rf7 31. Qxe3 dxe3 32. fxg7 Bxf5 33. Rxf5 Rd8 34. Bxf7+ Kxg7 35. Bb3 1-0 Bd5 eliminates more counterplay but this bishop retreat is still winning. Black gives up with no hope to recover.


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Industrial engineers determine the most effective ways for an organization to use the basic factors of productionpeople, machines, materials, information, and energyto make a product or provide a service. They are the bridge between management goals and operational performance. They are more concerned with increasing productivity through the management of people, methods of business organization, and technology than are engineers in other specialties, who generally work more with products or processes.
To solve organizational, production, and related problems most efficiently, industrial engineers carefully study the product and its requirements, use mathematical methods such as operations research to meet those requirements, and design manufacturing and information systems. They develop management control systems to aid in financial planning and cost analysis, design production planning and control systems to coordinate activities and control product quality, and design or improve systems for the physical distribution of goods and services. Industrial engineers determine which plant location has the best combination of raw materials availability, transportation, and costs. They also develop wage and salary administration systems and job evaluation programs. Many industrial engineers move into management positions because the work is closely related.
Industrial engineers held about 126,000 jobs in 1998. Over 70 percent of these jobs were in manufacturing industries. Because their skills can be used in almost any type of organization, industrial engineers are more widely distributed among manufacturing industries than other engineers.
Their skills can be readily applied outside manufacturing as well. Some work in engineering and management services, utilities, and business services; others work for government agencies or as independent consultants.
Employment of industrial engineers is expected to grow about
as fast as the average for all occupations through 2008, reflecting industrial growth, more complex business operations, and greater use of automation in factories and offices. Because the main function of an industrial engineer is to make a higher quality product as efficiently as possible, their services should be in demand in the manufacturing sector as firms seek to reduce costs and increase productivity through scientific management. In addition to job growth, openings will result from the need to replace industrial engineers who transfer to other occupations or leave the labor force.
Median annual earnings of industrial engineers were $52,610 in 1998. The middle 50 percent earned between $42,690 and $73,870. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $35,250 and the highest 10 percent earned more than $87,010. Median annual earnings in the manufacturing industries employing the largest numbers of industrial engineers in 1997 were:
According to a 1999 salary survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, bachelors degree candidates in industrial engineering received starting offers averaging about $43,100 a year; masters degree candidates, $49,900.
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Artists from Western Australia and Bali will collaborate in a two-month exhibition themed "Bali: Return Economy" that will showcase the exchange of culture between the two areas. The exhibition will be held at the Fremantle Art Center (FAC) in Western Australia from Jan. 31 through March 27. "Bali: Return Economy" aims at examining the complex exchange of ideas, art and culture between Western Australia and Bali. The exhibition will be curated by FAC curator Ric Spencer and writer and collector of Balinese art, Chris Hill. Desak Dharmayanti will manage the exhibition.
One of the artists taking part in the exhibition, Jango Pramartha, told Bali Daily that the event was a form of appreciation from Australian artists toward those from or working on the island. "Normally we participate in absentia [only the work is delivered]. But here, we're invited and they're very enthusiastically working on this show," said Jango, who is a cartoonist and editor-in-chief of Bogbog cartoon magazine, on Tuesday.
"After all, Bali is like Perth's front yard. We are close in every aspect," he said. Responding to some claims, Jango said the event was neither aimed at easing the current tension between Jakarta and Canberra nor did it have anything to do with it. "This event has been planned for two years," he said. "But if it can [ease tension], then that's an added value." Jango, who once held an exhibition in FAC in 1994, said he would showcase 10 cartoon works during the event. He said a biennial art event in July at the University of Western Australia would follow up this upcoming event.
Rather than being a thematic show, the committee said that "Bali: Return Economy" would bring together a series of projects based on the fluid and intertwined history and relationship between Bali and Western Australia. Australians have a long-standing love affair with Bali, but events such as the Bali bombing have made this relationship a complex and ever-evolving one, the committee said in a press statement made available to Bali Daily.
The exhibition will feature artists that are representative of the transient "back and forth" nature of Western Australia's and Bali's culture exchange; Balinese artists (or artists that live in Bali) who have worked or shown in Perth and Western Australian artists who have spent time and/or exhibited in Bali. The exhibition will included video, photography, music, performance, drawing, painting, political cartoon, sculpture and installation.
Besides Jango, the exhibited artists are Nyoman Erawan, Wayan Upadana, Paul Trinidad, Made Aswino Aji, Ketut Teja Astawa, Lucinda Crimson, John Fawcett, Kerry Pendergrast, Pranoto, Ni Nyoman Sani, Annette Seeman, Seniman Industries (co-founders Rodney Glick and David Sullivan), John Teschendorff, Toni Wilkinson, Mangku Ketut Liyer, Dewa Putu Mokoh, I Wayan Bendi, I Gusti Putu Putra Jaya, Mangku Muriarti, I Nyoman Tresna, I Kadek Narta, I Wayan Sujana Suklu, John Darling and Robert Birch.
"Bali: Return Economy" also presents pieces from some of Western Australia's largest private collections of Balinese art, including works from the collection of Chris and Mary Hill, the Bernadt Family collection, Kamasan paintings from the collection of John Johnson, sculptures from the City of Fremantle Art Collection, and ceramics from the Edith Cowan University collection.
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I'm sure we all remember the moment that we first met our first roommate. I will admit that I am one of those people who worries about everything, even if I know the possibility of that situation happening was slim to nothing.
All I was hoping for when I met my roommate was that she was quite and never really talked or came out her room. When she arrived on the first day with what seemed to be every single women in her family, I could feel the instant disconnect.
I was still very angry with my mother as much as any teenager is for no real reason behind it, besides pint up anger over the years. Needless to say I arrived with three bags and my best friends in hand, and the determination of a bull to make sure my life was going to end up differently.
My new roommate concluded to dump everything in her closet and plug in one lava lamp.. in the dead center of the room. I felt like she was going to be the first druggie I met in college, especially when she also didn't come back after that for almost three days.
As luck may have it, what seemed to be a drugged out roommate became one of my best friends and someone I will always look back on in college and remember her love for sunflowers and farmers markets. Our year filled with crazy ups and downs, was perfect together. From our late afternoon coffee stops, record shopping, or even just reading in the grass together, she was a person that I could always count on.
But now its time to pop the bubble as some say. I did have an amazing roommate my first year, but I also had two other ones, one of which ended up trying to have me evicted, and called the cops on me, and the other barely learned my name, except to tell me to clean after myself more, but hey what can you do.
I learned from her that the best thing for a person to laugh at least once a day, as well as to always be thinking positive thoughts. So she will always be the sunflower roommate to me, that eased me into probably the worst roommates to follow the next year. But you win some, and you lose some.
Much Love C.S. Mann


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More cold weather. Hopefully this will be the last really harsh spell we have before spring begins. I say hopefully as last year in just twenty four hours we had a temperature change of something like 17 degrees, and this was towards the end of April. We just cant predict what is going to happen, but one thing is for sure, I will always be out trying to catch fish. After scraping the frost from the car I made my way down the motorway having decided to head back to a familiar stretch. With the temperature dropping so significantly, I needed to give myself the best chance of a bite or two. But a bite from what? Chub were going to be my target, on many occasions they are a most obliging fish in far from ideal conditions.
I arrived at the river around midday and, as I usually do, walked the bank dropping a few helping of cheese paste in any likely looking spots. Of course, I have a few swims on this stretch now that I rate above others, but it is surprising how many of my PB's or memorabe fish have come from swims that 'usually dont produce.' So its best to fish everywhere that looks right, regardless of past events. As we all know, fish sometimes forget to read the rules.
The first swim I fished was a section I had never fished before. I always knew it was a slightly deeper section from the steadier water there. Not a sign of a boil or shallow gravel bank. I decided to give it an hour here, all the while trickling in a few tiny lumps of cheese paste. After twenty minutes of motionless tip, I reeled in and re-baited my hook with a section of spicy sausage wich got an almost instant reaction, and as the line pulled tight over my fingers, I struck into a lively fish. At first I thought it was a trout, but once the fish held deep in the steady flow I knew it was my target species. The first fish of the day is always played extra carefully and thankfully was netted without circumstance. Weighing in at 3lb 10oz its not a huge chub nationally, but for the river I am fishing, and certainly where I am fishing it, a very good chub. Happy with that fish and the little bit of information I had learnt about the section, I headed for more familiar territory in the hope some fish had located my pre-fed cheese paste offerings.
After a good twenty minute walk I arrived at a swim. The rig needed some adjustment for this swim. I wanted the bait to flutter underneath a overhanging tree, so I lengthened the gap between link and hook. I use a short section of fluorocarbon pulled through two float stops. This allows me to fish without any knots direct to my mainline but also to change the length of the tail to suit conditions or situation. Today a tail of about three foot seemed to be best. After moulding some cheese paste over the size 8 hook and taking an SSG shot off the link, I crept into position, and gently flicked the rig into position. I held the line tight just as it hit bottom thus allowing the shot and hookbait, hopefully, to pull round an end up somewhere under the overhanging tree. Its worth pointing out if you do fish like this and get a bite keep that rod low, even plunging it under the water, so the line doesn't become tangled in the branches. What is a haven for a chub is certainly not for your line!
All of a minute went by before the line tightened and another angry chub was hooked. This fish was a little smaller than the last but still a welcome fish on a cold and blustery day. After returning the fish I trickled in a little bit more bait and had a cup of tea, allowing the swim settle. Another cast was made a ten minutes later an another chub was hooked, in fact another lovely fish at 3lb 9oz.
I tried a few more swims after this one and not one produced a bite. One of them usually a 'banker' swim too. Every swim fished allows you to build up a picture of what mood the fish are in. Today any swim that had a little bit of pace and/or less depth seemed devoid of fish. Slacker or deeper water produced a bite almost instantly. The fish were obviously trying to conserve as much energy as possible and laying up in steady water. Based on this knowledge I made the last swim a tiny but deep back eddy which I had found on my last visit. It didn't produce that day but would it today? It took around five minutes for a bite to develop but eventually I hooked another chub. It fought extremely hard but I successfully netted the fish, even after it had dived for cover in the nearside brambles and vegetation, as they often do. Another 3lb plus fish and a happy, but cold, angler.
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Don't shoot me for the post title; I simply could not resist. But the title was created out of respect — respect for any family that goes into such a business, taking care of families at their lowest. I was looking at a post by Mike Dixon, noting the passing of Elkton native Albert W. Richardson, Sr. Following the link to his obituary, I grew curious of the name of the funeral home, since I am not from the Wilmington area. I found reading their website about their history interesting.
In March of 1975, a longtime dream of Ernest "Sammy" Congo became a reality. Sammy and his wife, Cheris, held an open house for a "first-generation" funeral home located at 201 N. Gray Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware. The facility had been built in the late 1950s by a well-known African American architect from Wilmington, Mr. Calvin Hamilton. Sammy and Cheris made Delaware history in that year by accomplishing what no other first-generation funeral home had ever done; they received 75 calls during their first year in business.
In 1986, the Congos opened their second funeral home located at 2317 N. Market Street. After purchasing this facility, which was originally built in 1932, they had it completely gutted and rehabilitated to become one of the most beautiful funeral homes in the area.
The exercise of using Google Earth showed their Market Street facility to be most beautiful.
The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings database provides a history of the architect Calvin Pazavia Hamilton (1923-2001).
Born in Wilmington, DE, to Harrison R. and Mattie Jenkins Hamilton, Calvin P. Hamilton graduated with honors from the historic Howard High School in Wilmington in 1941. In 1942 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and remained with the war effort through 1946. After his discharge, Hamilton enrolled at Howard University, majoring in architecture, graduating in 1951 and returning to Wilmington after graduation. After his return Hamilton continued to study architecture, but at the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1952 to 1968 Hamilton worked for W. Ellis Preston. In 1962 he took the Delaware registration exam for architects and became the first African American registered architect in Delaware. Later he would add registrations in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Hamilton also gained office experience in the firm of J. Philip Fox in Newark, DE; but in 1968 he opened his own office in Wilmington, where he worked especially with multifamily projects such as Brandywine Village I in Millsboro, DE, and Westown Village in Wilmington.
Hamilton also served as an advisor for the Wilmington Building Code and on the New Castle County Board of Assessment Reviews, the State Bureau of Housing and the Wilmington Board of Appeals and Standards.
I do not know anything more about Hamilton, or of the history of the Congo family, but I found the website information interesting. I would love to know about the Congo family and the origin of the name.
— Linda Duyer


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Being crazy rich is one thing. Pretending to be poor in the fancy town of LaPorte, Texas, is altogether different. After all, a sailor cannot spend what he does not earn. THE CORNERPOST, final installment of THE CANARY trilogy, presents huge challenges to Myra and Marguerite, who need to get it through their husbands' thick skulls that they are done doing without, and a spending plan better be forthcoming.
Building the Galveston seawall after the hurricane of 1900 (THE CANARY), brings new opportunities to old friends. Just when all seems well, tragedy strikes, leaving some to mourn and others to rejoice. THE CORNERPOST is the story of break downs, new beginnings, and choices to be made. Will Myra and Marguerite follow their well-worn path or turn at that corner post?


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Now it is time to get to the latest edition of Night Beat Rewind, our quick hits column for the previous months releases. August had a lot of releases and a lot made the cut, but a lot didn't. Also, surprising for late in the eligibility, we had one perfect album. One more caveat. A few releases this month were unavailable for preview and so I have not included them. So for right now the verdict on Heath McNease: The Weight of Glory; Derek Minor: PSA Vol 3: Who is Derek Minor?; Phil King (Self Titled); and Showbread: Cancer, are incomplete. Once I can get some samples to here I will check them out, and if they pass muster they will be grafted in.
As always, we begin with those releases which
Missed The Mark
- Jason Castro - Starting Line EP 3.75 Emeralds
- The Chariot - One Wing 3.75 Emeralds
- City of Peace Media - i Stand With Israel 3.75 Emeralds
- Covenant Worship - Standing 3.75 Emeralds
- Eleventyseven - Attack of the Mountain Medley 3.75 Emeralds
- Brian and Jenn Johnson - Undone 3.75 Emeralds
- Shelly Johnson - Power of the Cross 3.75 Emeralds
- Eddie Kirkland - Kings & Queens 3.75 Emeralds
- Letter to the Exiles - Make Amends 3.50 Emeralds
- Chris Lizotte - Power in Weakness 3.75 Emeralds
- Stan Whitmire - Seasons of Life 3.75 Emeralds
- Karyn Williams - Only You 3.75 Emeralds
I always feel compelled to point out that these are all good albums. Even Stan Whitmire (nothing against the album, but it was entirely instrumental piano, and got kind of monotonous after a while). From the misses to the home run. There was one release that was
Pure Platinum
- Project 86 - Wait for the Siren 5 Emeralds
Of course most albums are somewhat less than perfect, and that is the case this month as well. As is usually the case, the longest list is for something I call
Semi - Precious Metal
- Abandoned Pools - Sublime Currency 4.75 Emeralds
- An Epic No Less - Echo Of Love 4.75 Emeralds
- Chris August - The Upside Of Down 4.50 Emeralds
- Avalon - Number Ones 4.50 Emeralds
- The Classic Crime - Phoenix 4.75 Emeralds
- Jeff Deyo - Moving Mountains 4.75 Emeralds
- Benjamin Dunn & The Animal Orchestra - Fable 4.75 Emeralds
- Israel & New Breed - Jesus at the Center 4.50 Emeralds
- Jordan Lara - City of Hope 4.50 Emeralds
- Luminate - Welcome to Daylight 4.50 Emeralds
- Toby Mac - Eye On It 4.25 Emeralds
- Mandisa - Get Movin 4.50 Emeralds
- Tamela Mann - Best Days 4.25 Emeralds
- VaShawn Mitchell - Created 4 This 4.75 Emeralds
- The Museum - My Only Rescue 4.50 Emeralds
- Owl City - The Midsummer Station 4.50 Emeralds
- Andrew Peterson - Light for the Lost Boy 4.50 Emeralds
- Mac Powell - Mac Powell 4.50 Emeralds
- Satellites and Sirens - The Covers 4.75 Emeralds
- Sixpence None The Richer - Lost in Transition 4.75 Emeralds
- Tenth Avenue North - The Struggle 4.50 Emeralds
- Tourniquet - Antiseptic Bloodbath 4.75 Emeralds
- The Wrecking - So Much For Love 4.50 Emeralds
You may notice the number of links increasing as time goes on. Due to the amount of eligible releases this month I am going to keep adding the Amazon links as the time goes on. I want to get this one out today. So, until tomorrow, when I start an entirely rebooted Flashback Friday, I am Awaiting Your Reply.