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"I want to introduce you to Darth Vader's mother," said Jarvis Rockwell, holding up a small plastic toy.
We were in his Main Street studio, standing next to an
11-foot-high stepped pyramid sculpture lined with thousands of action figurines, including personalities real and fictional, from the queen of England and Whoopi Goldberg to Jesus, Shakespeare, Freud, E.T., and Gandolf from "The Lord of the Rings."
Rockwell, 81, son of the famed illustrator Norman Rockwell, is one of dozens of artists working and exhibiting in reclaimed storefronts in this northern Berkshires town that is home to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), the largest center for contemporary visual and performing arts in the country.
In an effort to spur local development and promote local art, the program Downtown Street Art, now in its fifth year, was created by the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' (MCLA) Berkshire Cultural Resource Center.
"The goal is to bring foot traffic to North Adams," said Jonathan Secor, who teaches arts management at MCLA and is director of MCLA Gallery 51.
"Using art as a catalyst, the program turns empty storefronts into pop-up galleries. We've had close to 100,000 visitors in five years, and five new businesses were started," he said.
The college's gallery, purposefully situated off campus, hosts 10 shows a year, featuring work of artists from around the world as well as a once-a-year student exhibition, and student-curated and faculty shows.
One of Secor's favorite projects occurs this month when the gallery is turned over to collage artist Daniel O'Connor who spearheads "100 Hours in the Woodshed," a five-day marathon of collage-making by dozens of artists. During gallery hours visitors are encouraged to interact with artists in the midst of the creative process.
"There's great energy. It's great fun," said Secor. "It's all about collage in its broadest form: mixed media, sound, forms. Amazingly good work comes out of it."
At the end of the 100-hour art-making extravaganza, curators from Mass MoCA choose work for a show that opens the following Tuesday. (Artist Kickoff: Jan. 24, 5-7 p.m. Reception: Jan. 29, 5-7 p.m.)
The North Adams Artists' Co-Operative Gallery (NAACO Gallery) is an independent member-run organization. Co-directors Nestor Valdes and Colleen Williams curate exhibitions and sell the work of 40 artists in the sprawling space on the corner of Main and Marshall streets.
Open since 2009, the gallery features fine crafts and fine art in equal proportion. Two-person member shows usually dominate the front of the gallery. Wend your way through a hallway to another enormous room where the exhibitions change every two months.
"We do what we can to promote regional artists," said Valdes. "Over the years we've developed relationships with clients. We get many return customers. We're growing as a gallery."
Also on Main Street, PRESS is a hybrid teaching and gallery space for letterpress printing sponsored by MCLA. Melanie Mowinski, who teaches design, book arts, and printmaking at the college, helped open the space last year.
"The cool thing about this space is that we're active," said Mowinski. "When we're open, someone is usually printing. Our mission is education."
Visitors can observe artists working on a fully automated circa 1969 Vandercook press, a machine Mowinski calls "the Cadillac of print."
"I want to share the magic of print and letterpress, and create a place that is welcoming," she said.
Around the corner on Eagle Street, artists Thor Wickstrom and Jaye Fox, partners in business and life, opened studio21south, a fine art gallery. Wickstrom describes their work as "realists in the Art Students League [of New York] tradition."
The gallery started in a loft at the nearby Historic Beaver Mill and now hosts exhibits in this storefront, featuring about 10 realist and abstract artists, half from the Berkshires and half from outside the region.
"Mass MoCA is avant garde. We're more traditional. You don't have to choose a camp anymore," said Wickstrom, adding, "If for any reason the doors are locked, we're close by — give a call."
Martha Flood Design, also on Eagle Street, is a combined studio and fabric gallery that serves both individual clients and the interior design trade.
An artist and designer of fabrics, wall coverings, and laminate industries, Flood's Woodlands Design Collection is inspired by natural patterns and textures in the New England landscape, such as autumn leaves, dandelions, Queen Anne's lace, Birch trees, grass, and more.
"I started with five patterns and have been adding more," said Flood.
Flood takes photographs of textures and manipulates them in the computer to "build an image" of patterns that are digitally printed in a factory on canvas made from recycled plastic bottles. In addition to rolls of patterned fabric, Flood sells hand-sewn tote bags, pillows, and other home accessories.
"People come in here and get all happy. It's like therapy in some way," she said.
When ceramicists Gail and Phil Sellers moved from Ohio, they opened River Hill Pottery in the Eclipse Mill, a former textile mill that was redesigned into living and working spaces for artists in 2005.
Specializing in hand-woven clay baskets created for use in the kitchen, the Sellerses — married and working together for 42 years — make close to 2,000 baskets a year.
"We live here, we work here, and we sell here. We're open most days, seven days a week," said Gail Sellers. "We have people come in here from all over the world. It amazes me."
Visitors can tour the studio and see the couple at work: extruding clay coils, weaving strips over foam molds, making glazes, and firing baskets in electric kilns.
"The community here, it percolates, so much is going on all the time," Sellers said.
Jane Hudson, digital and video artist, photographer, and musician, presides over Hudson's, a shop adjacent to Mass MoCA featuring a salon-type display of local artist works as well as antiques, collectibles, jewelry, and more. Look for artist Michael McKay's "OK Used Cars," a series of shaped automobile paintings hand-cut with a jigsaw ("a funny, wonderful sensibility," said Hudson), the "outsider art" paintings of Karl Mullen, and the elegant folded-screen dodecahedron sculptures by Richard Harrington.
Back in Rockwell's studio, I learned the artist acquires many of his action figures "from the 50-cent machine in Price Chopper."
"It's interesting that we do this [manufacture figurines] as a human race. It has to do with the idea of the common man, something my father was interested in," Rockwell said.
The artist also exhibits paintings and works on paper, some old and some new. He pointed to his newest work in progress, a drawing with glued-on colored disks that spanned the entire rear wall.
"Doing this picture here, I'm asking, What happens when you die? Souls move into space and are disembodied. The souls learn and become one with the whole thing. I'm not religious. I'm just interested in what happens."
Most days Rockwell works in the studio in the morning, and again in the afternoon. "I try and be here every day," he said. "If I'm out, go into the gallery next door. They'll let you in."
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Family uses window to escape burning apartment building
Cause of fire under investigation
Kansas City, Kan., fire investigators are looking into the cause of an apartment fire early Friday morning near 16th Street and Everett Avenue.
KMBC's Brenda Washington reported that the fire was reported about 1:45 a.m.
A man who lives in the building with his family said his 10-year-old was watching cartoons while everyone was asleep, and the child saw smoke coming under the front door. The man said the boy woke them up, and they realized they could not escape through the door and used a side window to escape.
The man said his 21-year-old son was treated for cuts while helping his mother get out through the window.
Washington reported that there are 12 units in the building, four of them were occupied.
Everyone made it out safely.
The Red Cross is helping those displaced by the fire.

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April 23, 2013
Gary Jenkins, Chief of Police
Pullman Police Department
(509) 334-0802
PULLMAN – April 27, 2013 is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sponsors this event to encourage safe and proper disposal of unwanted or expired medications. Last year on September 29, 2012 in the four states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, over 24,000 pounds of unwanted/unused prescription drugs were collected. When the results of the five prior Take Back Days are combined, over 2 million pounds of prescription medications have been removed nationally from circulation in two years.
Prescription drug drop off locations will be established throughout the nation in conjunction with this event. The Pullman Police Department has a prescription drug drop box available 24 hours a day, every day in their lobby. By using the prescription drug drop box in the Pullman Police Department lobby, your discarded drugs will be incinerated at a facility approved by the EPA and Washington Department of Ecology. We will accept all prescription medication from individuals only; medical offices and care facilities should follow protocol with their contracted disposal vendors.
When transporting prescription drugs, state law requires that they be in the original prescription containers with the labels attached. It is illegal to possess prescription drugs outside of the original container or to possess prescription drugs that are prescribed to someone else. The prescription labeling can be removed at the police department or the drugs can be placed in plastic zipper bags that are provided by the Police Department. If placed in a bag, the name of the drug should be written on the bag.
Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines, flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, both pose potential safety and health hazards.
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Roku Search is a new one-stop tool that helps you find the content you want to watch across the many streaming services available on the set-top box. This new centralized search is an obvious addition that makes Roku more useful. Bravo.
Instead of going from one service to the next trying to find a particular show or movie, you can now use Roku Search. The tool queries the libraries of Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Crackle, VUDU, and HBO GO to see which service has what you're looking for. According to the Roku blog, the new tool will help you search amongst 130,000 different titles as well as nearly 100,000 directors.
Roku Search will be available automatically as a push update on Roku 2, Roku LT, new Roku HD. If the automatic update is taking too long, you can manually update your Roku software to the latest version that will be available later today. [Roku]


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Honors Given to SeniorNet 'Learning Center of the Year' and 'Online Program of the Year'
SANTA CLARA, Calif. July 9, 2007 – SeniorNet, the nation's leading technology educator of older adults, today announced the recipients of its first annual Chairman's Award, a new program designed to recognize SeniorNet Learning Centers and Online Programs from the past year that have demonstrated exceptional work in bringing technology access and education to older adults, and innovation in the use of technology to further adult education. SeniorNet is proud to honor the Don Weidman SeniorNet Learning Center in Huntington, New York and the www.seniornet.org online community's Book Donation Program as the inaugural recipients of its prestigious Chairman's Award. Created by the organization's Board of Directors, the award honors outstanding achievement by a SeniorNet Learning Center and a SeniorNet Web Program.
SeniorNet students, Learning Center coordinators and site sponsors nominated 22 Learning Centers for consideration over a period of two months. The Board of Directors then made a selection based on the following criteria: innovative teaching/sharing methods, community outreach, Learning Center growth/sustainability planning, and participation in the national organization's activities.
"It was a very difficult decision. All of the nearly 200 SeniorNet Learning Centers are doing exceptional work to help bridge the 'Digital Divide'," said Leslie M.Smith, SeniorNet board chairman. "But as the board and staff evaluated the nominees, the Don Weidman Learning Center excelled in each criteria area and truly exemplifies what it means to be an outstanding SeniorNet Learning Center."
As the 2007 'SeniorNet Learning Center of the Year,' the Don Weidman Learning Center will receive $1,000.00 to advance its technology education and access programs for adults age 50+ living in the greater Huntington, New York community.
The Don Weidman Learning Center, located at the Family Service League (790 Park Ave., Huntington, NY 11743-4516), offers sixteen different computer-related classes year-round and has served more than 4,000 students since it opened in 1999. The Learning Center continues to attract new students and volunteers by offering new classes, conducting open houses, promoting their courses at local libraries, community centers, churches and senior events and submitting articles to the community newspapers. Its website, newsletter, SNUG (SeniorNet User Group) and regular training workshops keep volunteers and students informed and engaged in the Learning Center's activities.
In addition to support from SeniorNet headquarters, the SeniorNet Learning Center has proactively sought and received funding from its site sponsor, the Family Service League, as well as from the KeySpan Foundation, Suffolk County Office for the Aging, State Assemblyman Andres P. Raia, 18th District Legislator Jon Cooper, and the Town of Huntington. These efforts have made it possible for the center to feature the latest computer technology in its classroom.
In addition, students at the Don Weidman Learning Center give back to the community by refurbishing its older computers then donating them to local families and organizations in need. SeniorNet volunteers also take SeniorNet on the road to local assisted living facilities where they assist older adults one-on-one with tasks ranging from email and Internet searches, to photo editing, creating greeting cards and genealogy research.
Moss Rawn, SeniorNet coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of the Don Weidman Learning Center.
The Chairman's Award for SeniorNet Web Program of 2007 is presented to a team of volunteers for their innovative creation and dedicated implementation of the SeniorNet Book Donation Program.
"On behalf of the SeniorNet Board of Directors, I'm thrilled to present the SeniorNet Book Donation Program with a $1,000.00 donation for this life-changing initiative," said Smith. "It's amazing what has been accomplished in just a few short years of marketing and managing the program via the SeniorNet website. Additionally, the board wishes to recognize all of the volunteers and contributing organizations, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, who have donated books, time and resources to the success of the Book Donation Program."
Inspired by the Wally Lamb book, Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of the York Correctional Institution, the program began in 2004 as a way to help new and gently used books make a difference in the lives of the incarcerated women at the York, Connecticut facility. The program has since expanded to provide books to the libraries of the South Carolina Department of Corrections. To date, 5,086 books have been donated to these prison programs.
In response to the 'Hope & Harmony for Humanity Initiative', a collaborative, grant-based initiative of IBM, the Native American Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Department of the Interior and SeniorNet, designed to bring computer technology access and education to low-income and remote Native American reservations across the United States, the SeniorNet Book Donation Program expanded again in 2006 to begin collecting books for the Native American children on these reservations. More than 360 books have been collected for children of the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana and they've now expanded to include the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in Cass Lake, Minnesota.
Smith presented the award to program coordinator, Ginny Anderson of Pauline, SC.
About SeniorNet
Founded in 1986, SeniorNet is an international non-profit organization that has taught hundreds of thousands of adults age 50+ to use computers and the Internet and has enriched the lives of millions through its award-winning website, www.seniornet.org. With a thriving online community and a network of more than 200 locally run Learning Centers in the U.S. and abroad staffed by more than 3,500 volunteers, SeniorNet offers both offline and online destinations to a population that was originally neglected in the information revolution. With sponsorship by major corporations and foundations, private and public donations, and a backbone of individual members and contributors, SeniorNet continues to grow and offer new opportunities to those touched by its mission. SeniorNet headquarters is located in Santa Clara, CA.


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Style(s) of the Week: Rosie Pope for a Pea in The Pod
Today, we got a sneek peak of a stylish new maternity fashion line coming out in June. Rosie Pope, who you probably know from the Bravo show Pregnant In Heels owns Rosie Pope Maternity, a boutique in New York City, and now her designs will be available to women at A Pea in the Pod stores across the country. The line comes out in June and prices start at $85. Rosie told us she really wanted the line to work "from desk to dinner." What do you think of the clothes?


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Just back from two weeks in London and Paris, including a visit to the Gramophone Awards on Friday afternoon. It's been more than a decade since I last attended the Awards. I remember them at the Savoy Hotel (I think), a slightly more glamorous but sedate affair. Now they're at the Dorchester and they roll along with polished professionalism. Classical musicians, disciplined by the rigours of meter and rhythm, know how to give a snappy thank you and get off the stage. No long speeches and only a few moments of unseemly self-promotion. The affair is surprisingly fun, and a good chance to make a wish list of recordings you've missed over the past year (must lay hands on Charles Mackerras's recording of Martinü's Julietta Fragments).
A young string quartet from France, the Quatour Ebène, walked off with the Record of the Year, a surprise given the strong contenders and emotional favorites also in the running. But it was good to see a young group, and a chamber group, get the top prize, and the speech given by violist Mathieu Herzog was charmingly aw shucks. At one point, he pulled out his cell phone camera to take a snap of the audience.
I begrudge none of the winners their awards. But there were some disappointments and surprises. I was rooting for the Boston Early Music Festival's recording of Lully's Pscyhé, really a remarkable accomplishment, to win in the Baroque Vocal category. Festival by festival, the Boston players get stronger and more cohesive, and their track record of opera on disk is something that deserves wider and higher recognition. The festival is run rather provincially, unfortunately, which is one reason I think it hasn't become quite the international draw it could be if it was better organized. But their opera offerings are always worth the effort, and the Lully recording is impressive by any standard. The award went, instead, to Harry Christophers and the Sixteen, for a disk of the Handel Coronation Anthems. They were also nominated in the Choral Category for their disk of late 19th, early 20th century British choral standards (which I thoroughly enjoyed, as readers of this post will remember).
The only downside of the awards was the loud and buxom woman sitting a table away who was hitting the vin rouge and blanc as fast they brought it. She was very handsy with the large, saturnine fellow next to her, and they both talked and sneered and grimaced through all of the performances (including some lovely samples from the winning Contemporary recording, the NMC Soundbook, which I haven't heard and now want very much to find). It was piggish behavior, and something innocent Americans think shouldn't exist in the imaginary land of English politesse. Dodging pools of vomit on the streets of Soho shatters that naïve illusion, but you don't expect supporting evidence from a formal occasion of music types. I wonder who she was?


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The Charge will travel to Fort Wayne after practice Friday to scrimmage the Mad Ants on Saturday night.
The Charge will travel to Fort Wayne after practice Friday to scrimmage the Mad Ants on Saturday night. The 7 p.m. game will be at the Hutzell Athletic Center at the University of Saint Francis.
Head coach Steve Hetzel wants to see what the Charge have been working on in training camp translate to the scrimmage. Simply put, he wants to see the paint protected on defense and crisp ball movement on offense.
"I don't want to see all this hard work go out the window," said Hetzel, "and all of a sudden the paint is wide open defensively and we're looking to isolate offensively."
Players hurting
The Charge will be without wing players Gilbert Brown and Robert Hite on Saturday night. Both players are battling hamstring problems, and Hetzel
doesn't want to take any chances. They will be reevaluated next week.
If the injuries persist, the Charge have the option of keeping two players on the inactive list in addition to their 10-man roster once the regular season starts.
Making first cut
The Charge waived veteran center Longar Longar on Thursday, marking the first official cut of camp. The roster stands at 15 players.
Guard D'Aundray Brown left camp over the weekend with a foot injury. Because the injury occurred before he arrived at camp and Brown never participated in camp, it's as if he never was on the Charge's training camp roster.
The 30-year-old Longar was acquired last week from the Tulsa 66ers in exchange for Canton's third-round draft pick next year.
Canton connections
The Mad Ants have former Charge player Terrance Thomas, who played in Canton during the 2011-12 season, on their training camp roster. They also have former Buffalo forward Titus Robinson, who was one of the Charge's final training camp cuts last year.
Steve Gansey, the brother of Cavaliers' Director of D-League Operations Mike Gansey, is an assistant coach with the Mad Ants.


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Udo Kier has left the building.
That is, Kier's characters -- his spirits, have left the building -- along with a lot of other gifted actors and crew and assistants and curious onlookers, who haunted the Pompidou, and made this filmmaking -- this happening -- this fascinating, concentrated experience what it was. And of course, Guy Maddin has left the building, which still feels like a dream in itself. There were days I watched Guy directing and wondered, to quote one of Roger Ebert's greatest lines (via one of Russ Meyer's greatest movies), "This is my happening and it freaks me out!"
Yes. A Happening. If the Carrie Nations showed up singing "Sweet Talking Candy Man" with hot pink ectoplasm flying out of their mini skirts, I would not have been the least bit surprised. Guy Maddin's SPIRITISMES, his ongoing project of shooting short, psychically divined adaptations of long, lost, aborted and unrealized films has ended -- at the Pompidou in Paris. Guy made seventeen films, one a day, for seventeen days straight in Paris. And that's just the start. The project will live on in newer places, with more films to be made. Many, many more. And so many more with Udo. A man who can play any role, a man who has lived, a man of fine taste, a man who has worked with Paul Morrissey to Fassbinder to Van Sant to Von Trier and so many more... and a man who knows his way around a good Steak Tartar.
But back in Paris -- the beautiful set (created by Guy's superb, artistic production designer, Galen Johnson) has been broken down, the costumes (by the excellent, creative, sublimely patient Elodie Mard) have been boxed up, the live stream voyeur cams have been turned off, the Pompidou onlookers are staring at other exhibits and not at... Charlotte Rampling chastising Udo Kier as a sheriff clad in sexy baby doll nightgown (from William Wellman's Ladies of the Mob); or Mathieu Amalric pretending he purchashed duplicates of his own precious collection of objects, including a boar's head and gifting them to his wife, Amira Casar, only to learn that all of his snowballing misdeeds are occurring in an elevator (from Lottie Lyell's The Blue Mountains Mystery);
or an intense, heartbroken Andre Wilms as a deaf barber slowly approaching his beguiling wife, Charlotte Rampling, with a pair of scissors, afer he discovers a mysterious device that allows him to hear again -- to hear his wife having an affair (from Marshall Neilan's Bits of Life);
or Amira Casar facing the corpse of the man (played by Christophe Paou) who killed her husband, dragged into her home by Jacques Nolot, who murdered the murderer, and then -- Amira -- falling in love with the corpse, making love to the corpse, ripping off her nylons over the corpse and oh my ... Jacques Nolot is not happy about this (from Benjamin Fondane's Tararira).
And then so many of the other terrific actors, from the mesmerizing Slimane Dazi, so touching and soulful in George Schneevoigt's Gardener Boy Sought, and then so sexy and debauched in Erich von Stroheim's Poto-Poto; to Elina Löwensohn, doing the most beautifully crazy Moe Howard impersonation in Jack Cummings' Hello Pop; to an incredibly powerful Victoire du Bois, losing her mind and screaming for all the musuem to hear while tangled in fishnet (in Alfred Hitchcock's The Blind Man, here she is The Blind Woman); to the on-screen, live streaming meeting of Charlotte Rampling and Amira Casar (in Jacques Feyder's Therese Raquin) -- exciting not only for their acting and chemistry, but for something not many women have in common -- they both famously modeled for Helmut Newton.
And everyone so gifted, consummate, bringing their own unique faces and acting to the project -- Miguel Cueva, Mathieu Demy, Victoire du Bois, Jeanne de France, Adèle Haenel, Ariane Labed, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, Christophe Paou, Jean-Baptiste Phou, Jean-François Stévenin, Robinson Stévenin and of course, Geraldine Chaplin and Luce Vigo. And always, always the brilliant Udo.
Watching the daughters of Charlie Chaplin and Jean Vigo hold hands in seance and look into each others eyes (conjuring Jean Vigo's unrealized Lignes de la main) was exceptionally moving. For them as well. It brought tears to Chaplin, Vigo and Maddin's eyes. And Luce was generous enough to provide the set (for that day only, she made sure to return it safely home) with something of her own -- so precious to her, and so powerful to see hanging on the wall -- an actual portrait of a very young Jean Vigo, painted when the brilliant artist was a slumbering child.
But the project continues on -- Guy will march along, making his one hundred short films all over the world -- at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil and at New York's MOMA (you can read more about it in this interview with Guy at The Playlist and on here too), for this ambitious project that I'm excited to have been a collaborator as writer and actress.
And Guy did throw me in the mix. I was a whore tempted by a priest played by the great Dazi (in Erich von Stroheim's Poto-Poto), married Udo Kier only to be killed by Elina Löwensohn's wedding gift -- a swan (in Nino Martoglio's Lost in the Dark), and I inhabited Curly (in some fashion), from the lost Jack Cummings' Three Stooges' short Hello Pop alongside Victoire du Bois and Elina Löwensohn.
That one was particularly, wonderfully insane. Three women thinking they're the Stooges for reasons unknown. It felt like an especially glamorous/horrifying/possibly funny (it was funny to us) look into an unseen corner of The Snake Pit or the side antics of those nymphos from Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor, complete with eye gouges, face slaps and rolling punches.
So with that, I can't wait to see all of the films -- these lost or unrealized films -- re-done by Maddin in often wildly experimentally different directions, by filmmakers as diverse as Jean Vigo, Alfred Hitchcock, Kenji Mizoguchi, Lois Weber, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, Jacques Feyder, Alexandre Dovjenko and more. And more to come.
One thing I happily discovered was the talented on set photographer Cecile Grâce Janvier who has provided all of the pictures in this post, with permission of Maddin.
She took many beautiful, mysterious, wonderfully inventive photos (some on digital, but mostly with a film camera -- film god bless her), and you can look at more of her work here.
As Guy said: "Every day my actors will plunge themselves deep into a trance, and open themselves up to possession by the unhappy spirit of a lost film. And every day my actors will act out the long forgotten choreographies that once lived so luminously on the big screen for thousands, maybe millions of viewers."
They did. And they will continue to do so. To a museum, website, live streaming web cam and a theater near you. Coming soon...
And thank you Luce Vigo, for everything.
To view these pictures larger, just this teaser of all of Cecile Grâce Janvier's photos together, please take a look at Sunset GunShots.


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Hope College has a first team softball All-American.
Senior Kylee Brouwer of Hudsonville, Mich. (Hudsonville HS) was named to the 2008 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III All-America team Thursday prior to the start of the NCAA championships in Salem, Va.
Brouwer is being honored as a NFCA All-American for the second time in
her career. In 2006 she was named to the third team as a catcher.
This year she is being honored as the designated player, a position
she assumed a month into the season after suffering a hand injury and
subsequent infection that affected her ability to throw the softball.
The injury certainly didn't impact her ability to hold and swing the bat as she set a Hope single season batting average mark (.533) with a record 65 hits and on-base percentage (.567).
In the conference tournament she batted 10-for-14 to key Hope's advance to the championship game.
Brouwer set Hope career records for batting average (.457), on-base percentage (.515), games played/started (162/159), most hits (228), most doubles (41), most triples (22), most total bases (331), runs scored (168), and stolen bases (70).
Brouwer was able to balance her four-year softball career with the academic demands of being a nursing major. She is pursuing a professional career as an emergency room nurse in Grand Rapids, Mich. and will be married later this summer to Kyle Zomerlei, also a 2008 Hope graduate.
A 3.76 GPA student, she has been named to the CoSIDA/ESPN Great Lakes Region All-Academic first team and is eligible for Academic All-America recognition. This spring sher received the college kinesiology department's Vanderbush Student-Athlete Award and the nursing department's Senior Sigma Xi Research Award.
Brouwer becomes the fourth Hope softball player to achieve All-America honors more than once joining Deb Vashaw (1992-93), Laurie Byington (1993-94-96), and Carrie Scott (1999-2001).
The list of Hope's softball All-Americans numbers 12 players -- Johanna Pscodna (1992, 2b); Deb Vashaw (1992-93, c); Laurie Byington (1993-94-96, cf); Nicki Mannes (1995, p); Keri Roelofs (1995, p); Amy Moeckel (1996, c); Wendy Moore (1996, if); Carrie Scott (1999-2001, c); Emily Adams (2005, ss); Jessica Regnerus (2005, cf); Candace Graham (2005, of) and Kylee Brouwer (2006-08, c).


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Raihan plays teacher and grades the performance of the teams in the recently concluded T20 World Cup. The grades are not just a reflection of the rankings but also took into account intangibles such as expectations, recent form, preparation, performance and results.
Grading the 2009 T20 World Cup
by Raihan Hannan
Published: 27th June, 2009
As discussions rage on about how to handle Test FTPs in the future, one thing for sure is that T20 is here to stay. With two installments of IPL completed and the world having a better understanding of how to approach T20, the 2nd World cup recently completed in England without the surprise element that the original one had in South Africa two years ago. There was a distinct maturing of the game, with players like Dilshan, Gul, Afridi and Malinga showcasing their talents to offer new dimensions to this latest format.
Below is the team by team synopsis for the World Cup. The teams have been listed in order of their finish in the tournament but the grades are not necessarily a reflection of the ranking. Other factors were taken into account such as expectations, recent form, preparation (including warm ups), of course performance and result.
The champs
PAKISTAN: Deserves the praise that came their way for winning the tournament. Despite two one-sided losses to England and Sri Lanka, they won the matches when it did count and did so in a significant way. With their players not eligible to play for the IPL this year, the country in turmoil and their home cricket in jeopardy, the team pulled together as a unit and seemed to enjoy their time on the field together. The only blemish on the team would be Younis Khan's comments of calling T20 a 'spectacle' (he later tried to justify this as a psychological ploy on his team) after losing the opening match to England and opening the possibility of an early disappointing exit. Having Razzaq back boosted them and also shed light on the cricket potential absent from International cricket the last two years due to the BCCI/ICL battle. Despite their earlier losses, their championship is a symbol of winning with almost everything else going against them. Grade: A+
SRI LANKA: Warriors to the end. Sri Lanka too came into the tournament with domestic concerns and a narrow escape of what could have been a wipeout of their entire team in Pakistan. They remained undefeated until the moment it mattered, similar to New Zealand in 1992. Sri Lanka will be relieved to know that their team is in good hands following a captaincy change from Jayawardane to Sangakarra. Sangakarra played a captain's knock in the final to prevent a drubbing but the 3M combo of Murali, Mendis and Malinga was/is a nightmare for any batting line up. Throw in a 3 wicket first over in the semi final by Mathews and M stands for Magnificent Sri Lankan Bowling line up. They exceeded expectations by making it past the 2nd round and were probably the 2nd best team (next to South Africa) overall in terms of performance throughout the tournament. Grade: A
SOUTH AFRICA: Best team heading into the semi finals by performance in addition to being a pre tournament favorite (tied with India). Lost again when the stakes were high but Pakistan was the better team that day. They are probably a world class spinner away from being the number one threat to win. It says a lot about your team when losing a tight semi final match can be considered a failure. They get a lower grade than fellow semi finalists West Indies despite being undefeated till then simply due to the expectations and performance (both in the T20 and IPL with top forms of AB DeVillers, Kallis, Morkel) leading up to the knockout stage. Grade: B
WEST INDIES: Surprisingly successful tournament along with Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Gayle backed his love for T20 over the other forms with a total annihilation of the Aussies and the lone innings against Sri Lanka in the semis. Obviously, the Stanford T20 tournaments did bring about some good in their cricket. With wins for Australia, India and hosts England, their campaign was noteworthy especially after losing to South Africa in 2007 after posting a 200+ total and unexpectedly losing to Bangladesh. Grade A-
ENGLAND: They were able to exit with some pride after an embarrassing opening loss to the Dutch. They defeated both the finalists from last world cup (India/Pakistan) comprehensively before being taken out by a skilled South Africa and a determined West Indies. They were more concerned about the Ashes anyways despite being the originators of the game as well as the format. Despite their wins, the loss to Netherlands and the fact that they were the home team hurts them with the grade. Grade C+
NEW ZEALAND: Things may have been different with Ryder and Taylor healthy for them. They thrashed Scotland and Ireland and took SA to the limit but couldn't keep up with the big winners PAK and SL at the end. This was an opportunity for McCullum to shake off the cobwebs of a horrible IPL season. The team chemistry seemed lacking and the fight simply wasn't there in the games against PAK and SL where a win in either would have been enough to stay alive. Grade C
INDIA: Disappointing tournament despite having probably the most talented T20 roster. The only wins were the obvious ones against Ireland and Bangladesh and even the Bangladesh match may have gone awry had it not been for a missed stumping of Yuvraj before his blitz. Losses to WI and ENG were unacceptable given the talent level and the defending World champion role. Maybe they were suffering from cricket overkill after a long IPL season but the team did not seem to be in harmony as they during 2007 edition. Grade D
IRELAND: Success by accomplishing what they set out to do. They gunned down Bangladesh for a second successive World cup and showed promising bowling efforts against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Niall O'Brian is a class act and can hold his own against any other wicket-keeping batsmen out there. They showed poise and are easily distancing themselves from the other associates and making a strong case to sit at the table alongside Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Grade B+
NETHERLANDS: Success by winning their first game against England. They were probably too wrapped up with the run rate when playing Pakistan instead of focusing the same way they did with England. Shows promise for growth of Cricket. Grade B+
BANGLADESH: For a team under the microscope of the whole cricketing world and not to mention their fans, they loss to Ireland cannot be excused. The team arrived early and showed promise in the warm-up matches and in spurts vs. India, but failed to succeed in the one task which appeared to be a given. Expectations of a win against a major nation were there following 3 significant World Cup wins in 2007 (IND, SA, and WI in T20). The team seemed more focused on how to handle the 2nd round than paying Ireland the respect they deserved. Combine the results with the comments of the players; this outing was a total failure. In fairness, an F would have been handed to India, England, Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand too had they failed to make it past the first round. Grade F
AUSTRALIA: Disappointing tournament all around starting with Symonds' unceremonious exit. It seems as if Ponting just can't get his arms around this format. Also missing a quality spinner hurt them. A team consisting or retirees and players off radar (Gilchrist, Hayden, Warne, Hodge) probably would have brought success (possibly a championship). Despite a 1st round exit, they score better than India and Bangladesh due to the (a) toughness of their group where both SL and WI made the Semis, (b) lack of preparation and (c) missing key players due to retirements and suspensions. Grade C+
SCOTLAND: They can take the batting performance against New Zealand back home as something to build on which is more than what Bangladesh and Australia can do. With support of ECB and along with Ireland and the Dutch, they can impact the limited overs arena (ODI/T20) in the coming years. It was an average tournament for them where they generated some buzz against New Zealand and didn't embarrass themselves. Grade B-
About the author(s): Raihan Hannan is a Bangladeshi currently residing in Georgia USA as an IT professional but still follows cricket on a regular basis. His love for cricket grew as a child growing up in Australia. He goes by the nick Raynman on our forum.
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Over the past four years, the American electorate has been dealt a series of body blows, each capable of altering the political landscape. The voting system broke down in a presidential election. A booming economy faltered, punctuated by revelations of one of the worst business scandals in U.S. history. And the country endured a […]
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Introduction and Summary President Bush is facing an electorate that is almost as focused on the economy as it was in the fall of 1991, when rising economic concern began to unravel his father's reelection chances. In an open-ended format, nearly half (49%) of Americans volunteer the economy or jobs as the single issues they […]
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In reference to the GT Audio Works - "Needs some more fine tuning before it is ready for prime time ?!" I spent more time in this room than any other. These were the runaway best bargain of the show. The best speakers at 10 times the price !! With modest amplification they held up against some of the big competition... a giant killer !!!
Capital AudiofestDay Two Early Afternoon
It was only after the LP had ended and I was commenting on the excellent reproduction of Brown's double bass, regarding both power and response, that Tone Imports' Jonathan Halpern revealed that the Line Magnetic 2101A integrated amplifier driving the DeVores offered all of 7Wpc from its single-ended 300B output tubes! The rest of the system included a VPI Classic 3 turntable with an Ortofon Cadenza cartridge, a Leben phono preamp, and Auditorium 23 cables.
Swap Meet Audio is the name of a new NY retailer, which aims to maximize on customer service. Their room at CAF featured the Australian Lenehan Audio S2R speakers ($3450/pair), driven by Arion amplification, both brands new to me. The sound in this room was more spacious than I had anticipatedthen I saw the BSG Signal Completion Stage ($3995). I wrote about this analog-domain device in my report from June's Newport Beach Show and I refer you to that report for my thoughts. The first evening of the Show I got an email from BSG's Larry Kay to let me know that review sample had been shipped to me. We shall see how it fares in my own listening room.
Art Dudley had been impressed by the Robert Lighton Audio speakers ($20,000/pair) at April's New York Show, which use reclaimed teak or West Indian Mahogany enclosures and a 1" fabric-dome tweeter and 10" paper-cone woofer. I hadn't heard these high-sensitivity speakers in New York, so I made a point of going in their room at CAF. With the speakers driven by AudioNote electronics, and front end a Thorens TD-124 turntable, Ella Fitzgerald's voice sounded darker than I am used to. Rich and creamy, yes, but too rich and too creamy.
Okay, I knew ahead of time that going into the Mapleshade room, I was going to be presented with things beyond my understanding. But CAF 2011 hadn't prepared me for what I would see and hear at CAF 2012: a pair of Gallo speakers "deconstructed," with cables suspended everywhere and the woofer modules pointing away from the listener. Initially I was sitting to the right of the center seat and I was bothered by what sounded interference from the next room. There was a double bass playing but it didn't have any connection with what I was hearing mostly from the right speaker. Then I took over the center seat and darned if the double bass interference was actually coming from the left channel! This system offered so little correlation between the two channels that it was almost as if you were listening to two different recordings played at the same time.
I know Mapleshade's Pierre Sprey to be a careful listener who pays fanatical attention to detail both in his recordings and in his system set-up. And I have always said that the proof of crazy-looking tweaks is in the listening. But in this case the listening let the tweaks down. I desperately needed something more conventional to listen to, so I headed down the corridor to the first of the two rooms set-up by Pennsylvania dealer The Voice That Is.
There, in a system featuring Tidal Contriva Diacera SE speakers ($58,190/pair) driven by Tidal Impulse solid-state amplifiers ($32,990/pair), a Tidal Preos full-function preamp ($28,990) via Argento Flow and Flowmaster Reference cables, with source an Aurender S-10 music server ($6995) and a dCS Debussy DAC ($11,499), I heard a presentation more in line with what I expect from a high-end audio system: an even balance from the deep lows to the top audio octave, with a stable, well-defined soundstage, a tonal and spatial coloration-free view into the recording. Nina Simone was in the room with me, wrenching the pathos from "Nobody." José Carreras came in to sing Misa Criola. Mel Tormé joined us. This is what I am talking about! No tweaks, no audiophile craziness, just the music, as big and deep and wide as the performers intended it to be.
The Voice That Is's second room pulled off the same trick, this time with Audio Power Laboratories' new 50TNT tube monoblocks ($47,500/pair) driving the smaller Tidal Piano Diacera speakers ($37,690/pair), again with a dCS/Aurender source, but now with a Purity Audio Design "Silver Statement" preamp ($19,995) and Purist Audio 25th Anniversary cables. (Though there was a Bricasti M-1 D/A processor in the room, it wasn't in use during my visit.)
Moving on down the third floor's corridor, I went into the AudioNote UK room, this idiosyncratic brand almost always managing to make music at Shows. CAF was no exception, the corner-mounted AN-E SPE/HE speakers ($9500/pair) working with the room rather than against it. Whereas the double bass in the Mapleshade room had sounded disembodied and phasey, the same instrument in this room sounded physically present.
The AudioNote speakers were being powered by this Meishu Phono Silver Signature integrated amplifier, which uses 300B output tubes and is priced from $8000 to $20,000, depending on options. Source was the AudioNote CD4.1x CD player that caused my measurement eyebrows to raise in the July issue.
Going back into the corridor, I was drawn by the sound of a familiar recording, the Istvan Kertesz performance of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony on Decca/London emanating from the second Command AV room. This featured Joseph Audio Perspective floorstanders ($11,800/pair), the bigger brother to the Pulsar bookshelf that had so impressed Michael Fremer in our June 2012 issue. Driven by Bel Canto Ref500 monoblocks, with the source a Bel Canto e.One DAC3.5 hooked up to a prototype of a new Bel Canto high-resolution USB interface, with XLO Ref 3 cables throughout and with power conditioned by a new Audience AdeptResponse, the sound in this room was all I could wish for. No audiophile tom-foolery, just solid audio engineering in the service of the music.
There were flyers all over the hotel for GT Audio Works' GTA 2 speaker ($2995/pair including two powered subwoofers). "Handcrafted in Stockholm, New Jersey," this speaker combines a ribbon tweeter with a planar-magnetic midrange and two 8" dynamic woofers in a sealed enclosure. Demmed with Bryston CD player and amplification, the sound was promising, but I suspect the design needs some more fine-tuning before it is ready for prime time.
The combination of high-sensitivity Sonist Concerto 4 speakers ($5895/pair) and the 5Wpc Glow Audio Amp One integrated tube amp ($648) has produced good sounds at earlier shows and CAF was no exception, hooked up with Snake River cables and fed from a Cary CD306 player and a deHavilland tubed preamp. The illumination of the amp's volume control changes color according to the signal level, which could be a bit disconcerting, but the sound of a cello and piano CD sounded plenty dynamic.
The Snake River Audio cables come from Idaho and feature a hybrid recipe of 24K gold, pure silver, and oxygen-free, high-density copper. Although my photo doesn't do the speaker cables justice, they are also stunning-looking, shimmering in purple and blue.
John--it's a shame you didn't have the time to talk to us about the Mapleshade CD playing when you stopped by our room. The soundstage position of the bass player that you heard, hard left, was precisely where I placed him when I recorded that CD--and precisely where you heard him.
We look forward to seeing you at our Capital Audiofest room next year. And you're more than welcome to bring along one of your favorite reference CDs to play so you can listen and judge using a recording with thoroughly familiar soundstage and sound quality.
By the way, if you or your readers would like to learn about our new approach to setting up subwoofers for seamless integration and perfect time alignment, please visit http://mapleshadestore.com/upgrades_subwoofer.php in the Free Upgrades section of the Mapleshade website. Hundreds of our customers have tried exactly that approach. Their emails and phone calls to us have been uniformly enthusiastic about the remarkably improved bass articulation and soundstage depth their subwoofers delivered.
DeVore Fidelity's Orangutan/96 speakers
If this is the gorrilla warfare of high audio,
I want this monkey on my back!
Happy Listening! ;^)>
I enjoyed the GT Audio Works speakers - I heard several instrumental jazz and blues and acoustic songs. Came back later to hear more with vocals, and louder electric blues rock, and was very pleased. They're on my short list.
I also sat on the window side of the sofa in that room. My problem was the music was playing fairly quietly at the time and conversation to my left kept me from hearing what the system could do - not saying the folks were real loud but it was distracting. I moved on.
Thanks to all who have visited the GT Audio Works room at Capital Audiofest. I appreciate your wonderful comments on the web. It makes me feel great knowing that all of my hard work to produce a fine-sounding speaker at a fair price has had a positive response.
In regards to Mr. Atkinson's comment, "the sound was promising, but I suspect the design needs some more fine-tuning before it's ready for prime time," I imagine JA was quite busy trying to visit all of the rooms, but, I would have hoped he had introduced himself, as I would have been more than happy to offer a proper demo from a front-and-center listening position. Instead of his couple-of-minutes of anonymous evaluation from the back of a very crowded room, while listening to unfamiliar music provided by a show attendee.
Anyway, it's the difference of opinions that makes the audio industry's products so diverse. There are plenty of choices out there, you just need to find the one that is right for you.
Thank you for your time,
Greg Takesh
GT Audio Works


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Gianpietro Tonetti-Kallisto by Sanicro Taps Group and Shower Head
At Design Interviews
Interview with gianpietro tonetti : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. gianpietro tonetti : The use of a solid surface in a new field .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. gianpietro tonetti : An innovative product, durable, easy to use and install. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. gianpietro tonetti : To expand the range of products with other elements. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. gianpietro tonetti : The project required a week of work with CAD, while the definition of every detail has lasted three months. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. gianpietro tonetti : It was my idea to propose a new material to make objects usually made of brass or plastic. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. gianpietro tonetti : We gave the manufacturing rights to the SANICRO, Villa Carcina (BS), Italy .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. gianpietro tonetti : Knowledge of materials used has inspired us .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. gianpietro tonetti : We had to update the original idea to make it compatible with the various components. This work was done in collaboration with the producer of the raw material. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. gianpietro tonetti : The average user who uole surrounded by beautiful things and functional. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. gianpietro tonetti : The material and formal solutions. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. gianpietro tonetti : Is part of a collection of products whose names are inspired by the stars. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. gianpietro tonetti : CAD 3D .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. gianpietro tonetti : In a single formal element, different functions. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. gianpietro tonetti : I produttori della materia prima: il Cristalplant .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. gianpietro tonetti : Fundamental, only with the CRISTALPLANT was possible to produce a piece so ! .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. gianpietro tonetti : If I have to be honest .... pure pleasure! .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. gianpietro tonetti : Maintain a consistent line with the initial idea, the time of insertion of the taps. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. gianpietro tonetti : I like to compare myself with others and share experiences. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. gianpietro tonetti : I deepened my knowledge of a material that I really like. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. gianpietro tonetti : Yessss! .
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Taking strong exception of recent incidents of police beating protesting contractual teachers in Bihar and a girl in Tarn Taran in Punjab, the Supreme Court today sought explanation from the two states on the conduct of police personnel.
Taking suo motu cognisance of media reports, a bench of justices G S Singhvi and Ranjana Prakash Desai directed the two state governments to respond on Monday on the allegations of police brutality.
The bench asked Attorney General G E Vahanvati and senior advocate Harish Salve to assist the court in dealing with the issue. It posted the matter for further hearing on March 11.
On March 4, a woman was thrashed by Punjab police constables when she had approached them along with her father for lodging a complaint against harassment by a truck driver and his accomplices in Tarn Taran district.
In another incident, Bihar Police had yesterday resorted to a baton charge and fired tear gas shells during a protest by contractual teachers outside the Assembly in Patna demanding regularisation of their jobs and pay parity with regular teachers.


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I am trying to convert a GMT grid data into a format that is readable in ArcGIS. I have already attempted to load the data into GRASS and use GDAL translate to convert into a tif with unwanted results. Mainly the extent is wrong with a cell size of 1,1 while in reality it should cover the entire world.
After installing GMT and utilizing the source code
grd2xyz -Ef input.grd
the resulting ascii grid was converted to a tif format that was read by ArcGIS (ascii to raster). However again the final product does not have a correct extent showing a cellsize of 1,1. Could someone who perhaps is more familiar with GMT check the data above to check if it is viable to use within an ArcMap format?


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By IAN H. BELL,
Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, TRI
Since the end of World War II, there has been an expansion
of international business and international services on a
scale that was never contemplated. During this period,
new political states have come into being in all corners of
the globe. The result has often been a clash between two
opposed ideologies, since the new states have tended to
grow up in former colonial empires and to follow an
ideology not always consistent with the capitalism of
America and Europe. Yet, the international companies
have found it necessary to do business in these new coun-tries,
while the countries themselves have found it helpful
to receive the investment and technological know-how
that international business can provide.
Arising from this situation, a key question faces political
and business leaders today: what should be the relation-ship
between the political state and the ever-increasing
number of international business firms?
It might be interesting to retrace the historical position
of the political state and the international corporation. The
latter is not a recent concept. Many major international
companies had grown to maturity in the 1920's and 1930's.
However, in most cases, they were operating either within
colonial empires or within "Western spheres of influence,"
and there were rarely any obvious clashes between their
interests and those of the governments of the countries
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - TEFL Alexandria Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in TEFL Alexandria Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Egypt View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message DeathaliciousJoined: 02 Nov 2006Posts: 9 Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: TEFL Alexandria Hello, I'm hoping to hear feedback from people who just recently took (i.e. last few years) the TEFL course in Alexandria. I realize there have been some general comment on TEFL International in the past, but I'd like some more personal experiences and up-to-date info. Specifically: what are the dorms like where students are placed? Are all of the students living in one dorm or are they spaced out? What opportunities exist in regards to social interaction? What is the situation with Internet access? Does it make sense to bring a laptop with me? How are they with job placement? Do they tend to find you jobs and, if so, are they real jobs or do they have arrangements to hook you up with bad, poorly paying schools that offer kickbacks to them? Thanks so much. I was accepted into their February program but want to be sure they're a decent choice before sending in the deposit. Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17632Location: USA Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: There was some feedback by someone who just left pointing out that there were some major problems that semester with the departure of staff. I hadn't heard anything about dorms. I believe it is shared flats. Expats in Egypt tend to be a social group, so I don't think that is a problem as long as you make an effort. I would take my laptop, but have low expectations of access (highly likely that it won't be in your flat unless you pay... and wait...) There are plenty of internet cafes. Don't expect job placement. But, you will make contacts and can probably find work... or head to Cairo and have more choices. You will have to do 90% of the effort though. The pay will be minimal in all of them, but with the addition of private students, you can survive on the local economy and travel about Egypt. Don't expect to save anything or do much travel that requires an airline ticket. VS Back to top stoth1972Joined: 16 May 2003Posts: 674Location: Seattle, Washington Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: Definitely take the laptop, and if you have a portable printer, take that too! If you have a telephone in the accommodation provided, you can easily access dial up internet service at the cost of the normal phone call's minute rate. Good for research purposes. I would ask for a list of recommended readings before going so you can purchase some books beforehand. Back to top madhouseminxJoined: 03 Dec 2005Posts: 70Location: I am here. Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: If you read my post "Cultural Extremes in Alex?" You will get most of your questions answered. Skip to the last page if you want. As far as laptops go, they are useless in the "accomodation" since there are no phone lines at all that I recall. If there are, then access should be free albeit slow. I'm glad I brought mine though, because I brought a digital camera and put all of my pictures on my computer and I like to listen to my own music. The school has internet access and I would plug my own computer in there and send pictures...and as was said, there are internet cafes everywhere that are pretty inexpensive. As far as a social life...there is no real expat scene. You're pretty much stuck hanging out with the people from your course or other people associated with the school. There is a place called "Coffee Rosterie" or something like that that has karaoke on Wednesday nights and that is a lot of fun. The Portugese Club has pool tables and a big screen t.v. but there is a cover charge. That's all I discovered while I was there. The accomodation is essentially a hotel with kitchenettes. (see my post for more details) You may have to share with up to 2 other people, or you could get your own room if you are the only male / female. -Mad Back to top stoth1972Joined: 16 May 2003Posts: 674Location: Seattle, Washington Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: Madhouse, I see you ended up in Cairo. Where are you teaching? HOw's it going? Back to top madhouseminxJoined: 03 Dec 2005Posts: 70Location: I am here. Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject: Yes, I'm in Cairo substitute teaching at CAC. I love the school, but unfortunately, the work isn't steady. I was also supposed to coach tennis but a faculty member came forward at the last minute and they get priority. I have 2 ESL students that I really like too, but it's not enough to live on. I'm tired of being harassed on the streets every day and its been hard to make friends here, no single people my age to hang out with... so I think I'm going home for Christmas...permanently. Back to top madhouseminxJoined: 03 Dec 2005Posts: 70Location: I am here. Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject: Oh, I almost forgot, there is also a club in Alex called "Karma" I think, that plays a mix or Arabic and Western music. It's almost just like a European dance club. You will be surprised at how "Western" the girls dress there! Scandalous! But you can bet they did not go in or come out looking that way! Back to top madhouseminxJoined: 03 Dec 2005Posts: 70Location: I am here. Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: Ok, technically, it's page 3 of the "Cultural Extremes in Alex?" post that has my "critique" if you will. Feel free, to ask more questions! -Mad Back to top DeathaliciousJoined: 02 Nov 2006Posts: 9 Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:22 am Post subject: Uh Oh So...after reading MadHouseMinx's dire evaluation of TEFL International, I am very worried. Basically, I chose Egypt because I wanted to go to the Middle East and learn Arabic while I tought English, and Egypt offered better prospects in some ways -- for one thing, a friend of mine is going to be working there at roughly the same time, so I could at least have someone that I knew and got along with very well while I was living there. But it sounds like TEFL International Alexandria is not recommended. What should I do instead? I have no teaching experience, I still want to live in the Middle East long term, ideally teaching English. As I understand it, TEFL International is now the only game in town when it somes to getting some kind of teaching certificate -- believe me if the CELTA in Cairo were still on offer, I'd take it, even if it cost extra. The *only* thing I can find on TEFL in Egypt is TEFL International. Anything else, by any chance? And does anyone else know if TEFL Int. has since cleaned up their act? Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17632Location: USA Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:21 am Post subject: I don't blame you for being worried, as I doubt that there is enough time for this place to have fixed its problems. Could you get a CELTA somewhere else? Egypt will be there when you have finished it... I think it would be worth the investment to get it somewhere. VS Back to top DeathaliciousJoined: 02 Nov 2006Posts: 9 Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:29 am Post subject: Hmmm.. Well, if I were to go for the CELTA, which location in the ME makes the most sense for a transition to Egypt? Egypt might be there forever, but my friend won't, and I'd told her I'd be around while she was there. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that there is no other TEFL/TESOL/CELTA option in Egypt. There's no point getting my CELTA at home; the nearest center is New York, 6 hours away. So I might as well get one abroad. Back to top veiledsentimentsJoined: 20 Feb 2003Posts: 17632Location: USA Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: Sorry I can't help you out with CELTA as I did an MA instead, so I've never paid any attention. (and in Cairo, too ) Like you I am surprised that there is none offered there... VS Back to top madhouseminxJoined: 03 Dec 2005Posts: 70Location: I am here. Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:10 pm Post subject: I hate to sound grim, but you're pretty much screwed. My decision to do TEFL in Alex rather than CELTA in NY or anywhere else was based on the exact same dilemma you are going through now. There isn't much offered in the Middle East as far as CELTA goes, except Dubai may be a good option....but it's not close to Egypt. Do you have any teaching experience at all? If you do, then you can draw on those experiences while you are doing your ESL cert. in Alex. Most places just care that you have the piece of paper that says you are certified...rather than where it came from. If you only plan on teaching in Egypt then it will do....but don't say I didn't warn you. I doubt things have improved. I have already been teaching for 10 years and I'm taking Arabic classes...so I was able to use what little I learned in Alexandria and combined it with my past teaching experiences and my own experiences learning a new language. I privately tutor 2 students right now and the parents are very happy with their progress. Plus there are books out there that teach you how to teach English...you could use those as a supplement. But if you want QUALITY and a recognized name that will allow you to teach anywhere in the world, then you will have to bite the bullet and get your cert. somewhere else. -Madhouseminx Back to top DeathaliciousJoined: 02 Nov 2006Posts: 9 Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: Thanks... Thanks, your advice helped a lot. I have a small amount of teaching experience--nowhere near 10 years!--basically, just tutoring in ESL in the States as well as assisting in the classroom. I think I'll try to volunteer at the local ESL center if possible (it's a good idea anyway) to get more experience there. It sounds like if I choose to do the TEFL program, I should try to find my own accomodation rather than paying $300/month for a apartment share. How easy is it to do this from outside of the country? Or does it make sense to slum it for just that month since it saves me the heartache of trying to find a place? Also, I've found one TEFL course that is actually near my home -- Oxford Seminars. I've searched it in the forums and while it's not really respected it seems that it at least offers some grounding in TEFL and I would end up with some sort of certificate, maybe enough to get a job in Egypt at least. My main focus in Egypt is cultural immersion and learning Arabic, although in the past I have greatly enjoyed teaching others (although this was adults mostly; I'm not sure about teaching children!). If I do decide that I want to teach English as a career, I would definitely find somewhere to take the CELTA, and possibly even go for the Masters in TEFL (I currently have a Masters in International Studies). But it sounds like if I'm just interested in teaching in Egypt for a while, getting a less official certificate isn't that terrible of a choice. That being said, which option makes more sense? Oxford Seminars or TEFL International? Is TEFL International Alexandria so bad that a 60 hour course (4 weekends, basically) makes a better choice?[/i] Back to top madhouseminxJoined: 03 Dec 2005Posts: 70Location: I am here. Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: If you're unfamiliar with the area...I'd just slum it for the month. At least you'll be with the other people in your class...you can study with them and hang out with them. Plus there is a free pick up and drop off to and from school each day. I would not pay 1500.00 to get the TEFL and the pay again for a CELTA. I would look on the internet for schools in Alexandria...see who's hiring, and then find out what their minimal requirements are. At least I'd start there. Maybe your idea of getting the lesser cert. at home first would be worth it. I don't know what they teach you in the Oxford course, so I'm not sure if it will be better or not. Like I said in my other post, I did learn some things....I just don't feel I learned $1500.00 worth of stuff. Maybe 1500.00 isn't as big of an investment to you as it was to me so maybe it will be more worth it to you. How much is the Oxford? I've been living in the ME for 6 months and I don't believe the cultural immersion has really helped me learn any Arabic (but maybe that's just me) it gives me plenty of opportunity to PRACTICE it though. I got the Pimsleur CDs for Egyptian Arabic and tried to learn as much of that as possible first before I got here. I listened to it in my car a lot. You can buy simple books on Amazon that teach you how to read Arabic...but I think you need a classs of some kind to really get that right. Once you're here sign up for an Arabic class or get a private tutor (don't bother with the TEFL Arabic). I don't know this is just my opinion based on my experience.. -Mad Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Egypt All times are GMTGoto page 1, 2, 3 Next Page 1 of 3 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. 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