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LIVE REPORT: Sound City Players
Marc Burrows
, February 21st, 2013 13:50
Dave Grohl's Sound City Players supergroup comes to London for a night of ROCK by MEN and their MAN friends of ROCK. It's a bit meh, says Marc Burrows
If you're going to witness the rebirth of the Nirvana rhythm section there are plenty of scenarios you'd pick before you got to "as a backing band for Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen", and in the unlikely event you did choose that team-up there's a whole slew of singers you'd wish to front it before you got to Foo Fighter's drummer Taylor Hawkins, not just far from the worlds greatest frontman, but far from the best frontman in the building, in fact he's a very long way from the best frontman on the stage, yet that's the line up - Drums: Grohl, Guitar: Smear, Bass: Novoselic, pratting around: Nielsen/Hawkins- that closes tonight's Sound City Players show.
It's frustrating for a number of reasons, and not just because Grohl & Co's US gigs had been closing on a 15 minute version of 'Gold Dust Woman' with Stevie Nicks on vocals, and a sizeable chunk of tonight's audience are hoping for Paul McCartney, who collaborated with the trio recently. It's disappointing because the rest of the show has been so well put together, and because British audiences, especially British audiences made up mostly of 20-something Foo Fighters fans - have never really cared about Cheap Trick. It's disappointing because it sounds messy, feels indulgent, and like Neilson himself, looks a little bit naff, and it's disappointing because it seems to let down the entire concept.
This is the Sound City Players, a touring love letter to the hard rock of Grohl's early teens which like the excellent documentary that has inspired this short run of shows, is pitched as a celebration of sound, collaboration and an entrenched love of making music. A cast of dozens come and go, with the various members of the Foo Fighters essentially the house band, swapping in and out of the line up where necessary. Grohl himself switches between guitar, bass and - eventually - drums and acts as a good natured master of ceremonies, joking goofily as he tends to do.
It starts very well - multi-instrumentalist and sometime Queen Of The Stone age Alain Johannes leading the band through a jammy, groove-heavy set mostly made up of songs from his former band Eleven, with a welcome appearance of QOTSA's 'Hangin' Tree' and a bruising, brooding take on the Desert Session's 'Making A Cross' before switching to bass to make room for Masters of Reality's Chris Goss. It's absolutely true to the intentions of the film - collaboration, chemistry and music for the sake of music. The same can be said for Fear's Lee Ving, performing in London, unbelievably, for the first time, leading the Foos through a run of furious punk culminating in 'I Don't Care About You', his trade mark yapping "ONETWOTHREFOUR" kicking each song into gear and given extra snotty punk cred when you notice Pat Smear, who lest we forget was in the Germs, grinning stage right. It's awsome. And that's where the wheels start to come off.
Next up is Rick Springfield, augmented by the full Foo Fighters back line for the first time tonight, and while their big, slick stadium sound is the perfect support to big, slick, stadium Rick, the audience are getting restless. For a start Springfield has a habit of throwing lines out for the crowd to sing before looking confused when they don't know the words. Only 'Jesse's Girl' manages to penetrate, but you feel it's only Grohl holding his crowd's hand for "one of the greatest songs of all time" that pulls the room through it- it's Grohl that sells the song, getting Springfield to chug the first three notes to build excitement. It's all entertaining enough, but the fundamental issue is that Rick Springfield was never a star in the UK, and while the youngish audience can get on board with Grohl's musical education when it includes QOTSA and Kyuss collaborators playing heavy, doomy riifs and proto grunge or Ving's full throttle punk, the radio friendly arena sheen of Springfield is harder to swallow. It's unfortunate when you consider the Foo's themselves have more than their fare share of shiny radio rock, but they at least had the alt.rock credentials to sell the sugar.
The finale needs to be something special. This is a £60-per-ticket show and sold out in hours, demand and expectations are thus set rather highly, especially when news reports throw around terms like 'Star Studded'. But that finale never comes. Grohl introduces Novoselic to huge cheers, and Cheap Trick's Nielsen to slightly less, as he takes the drum stool himself and brings Hawkins up front. The following set is fun, but compared to the slick, quadruple guitar noise of the previous section, or the locked in groove of the opening act, this feels messy. Smear and Neilsen throw plectrums at each other, Hawkins voice is buried in the mix and never really connects. 'I Want You To Want Me' raises some cheers, and a hard rock take on 'Aint That A Shame' is fun, but not really fun enough. Finally Grohl switches with Hawkins to take lead vocals for the only time tonight on Cheap Tricks 'Surrender'. It's underwhelming. The band leave. The lights go up. There's no encore. People start to boo.
This wasn't an awful show - at nearly three hours and featuring some great collaborations it did serve its purpose to a degree. It's just a shame it's second half was so misjudged, the ending so anticlimactic. But then as these shows are celebrating a recording studio that itself ended its days with a whimper rather than a bang, maybe that's appropriate.
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I'll be the first to admit that I'm a sucker for animals. My downfall has always been letting strays into my house. Once they're inside, I can't bear forcing them out into the cold, cruel world. Over the years, this has been true with dogs… cats…and now bunnies! Two days ago, my son found a baby bunny who'd wandered too far from its nest on my front walk. He, of course, brought it inside!
BUT…this time I was smarter! My granddaughter, Kassidy (who happens to be the daughter of the son responsible for me acquiring the rabbit in the first place), is as big of sucker as I am, so I gave the rabbit to her. She cabbaged right on to it, named it Bugs Bunny, and he now resides in a little cardboard box out at their house.
At this point, I don't know what the chances of Bugs surviving are. From what I've read on the Internet and heard from others…not so good. You're not to handle them a lot, and with two younger brothers and two little cousins around, Bugs is getting a little too much loving at this point. However, he is drinking milk made for kittens from a syringe and has managed to survive the first 48 hours, so we'll see how it goes.
Below is a picture of Kassidy and her two cousins feeding Bugs.

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Health club membership sales is among the most useless of services available today. The potential of personal trainers and aerobic instructors are highly overrated. A couple of thousand dollars and 8 months later for a service that cost only $20. 00 per month, in the beginning, has not put the customer any closer to his or her goals. Of course, there are no refunds or guarantees. There are so many alibis in the fitness industry as to why the person did not get the results they wanted. The person did not follow a low fat diet, the person's metabolism is slow, the person has bad genetics.
Now the fitness industry speaks of something call metabolic damage. This, and other invented health problems coming up out of nowhere, is more alibis as to why a person cannot achieve their fitness goals. The health club industry remains overrated. People think these fitness professionals are fabulous for passing on all this useless information. Health clubs and fitness professionals are overrated because it offers a service that people cannot buy. No one can buy motivation. Anyone motivated to push their physical capacity in a gym, run on the road in front of their house.
They do not allow money, or lack there of, to stand in their way. In the seventies and early eighties, people did not need designer shoes; do not have bad backs from running on pavements, or doing crunches and so on. Teaching kids they cannot run without a hundred dollar pair of Nikes is telling them they cannot be physically fit without money. Oprah Winfrey is a millionaire. She can afford to have her chef accompany her 24 hours a day. She can afford the best personal trainers the fitness industry has to offer.
Oprah had fantastic results. Oprah, as so many others, gives all the credit to her personal trainer and cook. Many people credit Oprah's weight loss to her ability to afford a personal trainer. She gained the weight back. Her financial status stayed the same, or perhaps increased. Anyone can assist someone through an exercise routine. Madonna on the other hand, stays fit. Her weight does not fluctuate. Madonna and the public over evaluate her personal trainers. She is quoted for saying everyone needs a personal trainer.
Madonna's dedication to practice yoga for an hour, Pilates for another hour, workout in the gym for another hour, then do aerobic activity for another hour has nothing do with her personal trainer. Most personal trainers and fitness professionals say that is doing way too much. Aerobic instructors and personal trainers very seldom come from an athletic background. They are mindlessly passing on information they acquired through a course they had to be certified through to get employed. The industry is set up for people to get no results. There is no continuing money coming in when people get what they pay for.
About 90% of the overrating of fitness services is psychological. People were in shape when low fat diets were popular; they were in shape when low fat diets were never heard of. People were physically fit with high carbohydrate diet. The same people who switched to a high protein did not change physically. Millions of people continue to pay for fitness professionals to tell them it is their fault, or their genetics why they are overweight, to slow, to old, and have limited flexibility. These same people really believe these people who have a certificate on the wall are great for telling them about their physical limitations.


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Fulci died making this film and so I'm not 100% sure how true the end result is to his script, but it is indeed a lot of fun to watch.
With a kind of incidental Steampunk style (incidental because, as far as I'm aware, there was no such genre as 'Steampunk' in 1997), The Wax Mask tells a tale set in 1900s Paris. We see a couple brutally (and hilariously) butchered by a man with a clawed metal hand. We also see a young girl, their daughter, cowering under the bed.
Years pass and said young girl is now a costume maker working at a wax museum. The museum has gained some disrepute due to its gory collection of sculptures and, after the death of a young man who was dared to stay the night, the museum becomes more and more creepy.
It's fun, gothic and a little gory. The effects are nice and the props are awesome. The story is a little average as far as wax museum films go, but there's a nice added Frankenstein element which is fun.
I'm not a huge fan of the ending, however, which seemed a little diverted from the rest of the film's styling, and I think I prefer the Italian version with the subtitles to the dubbed English, which can make the acting seem a little odd.
All in all, worth your while, but not a great representation of Argento, Fulci or Stivaletti.
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A meeting is set to take place on Thursday to discuss the plans for a €2 billion link between Britain and Denmark's electrical systems.
The Swineshead Viking Action Group, which is opposed to placing the interconnector alongside the village, is holding the event at Swineshead Village Hall from 6.30pm for a 6.45pm start.
A member of the group told the Standard they felt consultation events had been 'poorly advertised and said: "We're all dead against it being so close.
"Local residents and interested people are invited to come along to discuss the plans and talk about what we're going to do about it."
The spokesman said that, among other concerns, it was felt the money which is to be spent on the project could be used 'internally' on other solutions including solar, wind and hydro energy.
The event is planned to include Boston Borough Council Coun Mike Brookes and planning officer Paul Edwards and members have written to a number of MPs and company representatives.
As reported in The Standard last week (April 13), the Viking Link would see cabling being laid over a distance of 740km from Denmark to a National Grid substation at Bicker Fen.
A converter station would also be needed in the Bicker Fen area to change the 'direct current' electricity into the 'alternating current' that is used on land.
Underground cables would then link the converter station to the existing Bicker Fen electricity substation.
Those behind the link say it will help provide the UK with a secure supply of affordable energy and move it towards greener sources of power.
A six-week consultation over four possible sites for the converter station – and three potential sites near Skegness where the cables could come ashore – launched on April 11.
Consultation has since taken place at Swineshead Village Hall and Bicker Village Hall on Saturday,with another planned at The Ruby Hunt Centre, in Donington, on Friday, from noon to 8pm.
The project is being developed by National Grid Viking Link Ltd and Energinet.dk, the Danish electricity transmission system operator.
Oliver Wood, National Grid Viking Link project director, has previously said: "We want to work with the local community to find the best location for our equipment and to minimize any impact on local communities."
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Black's new responsibilities will see him building the next generation of character-based brands through product innovation in online and mobile entertainment. Black has writer/producer credits on Disney's MMO Pirates of the Caribbean as well as Worldwide Biggies's adaptation of The Princess Bride, and also boasts experience in equity research at UBS. He founded a hedge fund advisory firm in 2004.


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I promised myself a long time ago that I would get rid of my Facebook account. I finally managed it yesterday.
The reason for going in the end was the realisation that I could boost the number of friends quite easily but they would not be people I really know. Old acquaintances. Friends of friends. People you kind of know and add to boost your own numbers.
My real friends who are on Facebook, don't really use it to communicate. The status updates and comment on my own were mostly coming from a handful of people. And a couple of those I don't really know that well.
So I found myself getting upset by a couple of their comments about the election and took it badly. I flounced. I left. I quit.
I don't need to know what these people are up to. If I'm interested, I'll ask.
There's something so irritatingly vain and needy about Facebook that I simply loathe.
Whereas blogging, on the other hand, there's nothing vain about that (cough). Honest.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would get rid of my Facebook account. I finally managed it yesterday.
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Robert Gordon
The Tommy's
Cafe Nine
250 State Street
New Haven, CT, 06511
Doors 7:00 PM / Show 8:00 PM
This event is 21 and over
Featuring Chris Spedding, Anton Fig and Rob Stoner.
From his NYC punk rock days fronting the Tuff Darts in 1976, to his days on RCA Records, neo-rockabilly singer Robert Gordon has always had music on his mind and in his sights.
Robert Gordon, who recorded for the great RCA Victor label, has appeared on many television shows around the world including: the Conan Obrien Show, Late Night With David Letterman, Second City TV, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, The Old Grey Whistle Test" (U.K. television), "Live from the Bottom Line" (Japanese television), "D.O.C." (Italian television), "Top Pop" (Dutch television), "Musikladen" (German TV) and a TV commercial for Budweiser Beer. His music has been used in major motions picture soundtracks like Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" and "The Loveless", which Robert had a co-starring role with Willem Defoe. Robert's hits include the Bruce Springsteen song "Fire" which was written for Elvis Presley and includes Springsteen playing keyboards on the track. Additional hits include "Red Hot", "The Way I Walk", "Rockabilly Boogie", and "Someday, Someway". Robert has recorded and toured with some of the most respected musicians of the last 25 years, musicians like Bruce Springsteen, Anton Fig, Paul Shaffer, Link Wray, Chris Spedding, Danny Gatton, and Eddie Angel.
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Tom Hearn (Big Fat Combo) and Tom Smith (To Many To Mention)
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Mon, February 18
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Tue, February 19
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Although it looks like Bungie is worried about players stopping to play Destiny, the developers are not done with making new content for the future and they are certainly not stopping support through regular updates. Maintenance of the servers and the downtime that comes with it are a major part of continued support, so don't worry about not being able to play the game for some time today.
Bungie has announced that the game's servers will go offline today for a scheduled maintenance period. To be specific, they will stop players from logging in to the game at exactly 8:00 AM Pacific (4:00 PM UTC) today i.e. February 4, 2016 which is a little less than three hours from now.
After that, all the previously logged in players will be removed from all activities at exactly 9:00 AM Pacific (5:00 PM UTC) i.e. one hour later so that the game can be taken offline for maintenance.
However, the downtime is only going to last five hours and you will be able to find Destiny back online at or before 2:00 PM Pacific (10:00 PM UTC).
That is not all, Bungie says that the maintenance may also affect Bungie.net sign-in and Companion app services which are expected to be restricted as well during the aforementioned five hours.
If you are logging in to the game close to the maintenance time you are going to get a prior notice via in-game messaging warning you of the incoming server downtime.
So yes, there is nothing to worry about, there is no DDoS attack or anything, this is just a scheduled maintenance period. Cheers!


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Since the first version of Unix back some three decades ago, the fork() system call has been the normal way to get many things to happen at once. Forking is a very nice (some say "elegant") model of concurrent execution: individual processes have entirely separate address spaces, with little chance of interference from other tasks, at the cost of a lot of overhead for interprocess communication.
Starting some dozen years ago, user-space thread libraries have popped up. Threads can simplify inter-task communication, but can also make it easier for threads to stomp on each other's data and control flow. The Perl developers have taken different stabs at incorporating interfaces to thread libraries, with some relative success.
But even while that was going on, there were also independent efforts by the Perl user community to try to wrestle with concurrent tasks. The earliest of those that I recall was simply using select() to watch for the "first ready" I/O (or a timeout) simultaneously, and then dispatching to the proper handling routine. This was later wrapped into IO::Select. In parallel with that, the Event module was created, using an XS-level interface to handle filehandle readiness and signals in an orderly way.
Somewhere in here, a group of developers loosely coordinated by Rocco Caputo started developing and expanding the POE environment, which has become a powerful means to manage concurrent tasks within a process, or even multiple processes. See http://poe.perl.org for details.
At the lowest level of POE, a "kernel" dispatches events to a session's handler. These events are nearly always generated as a result of other handlers having been run, although "system events" and "signal events" happen as well. So, you define a session (similar to a thread in threading or a process in Unix), set up its handlers mapped to events, and then let the kernel sort out the events.
Starting from this lowest level, many "components" and "wheels" have been written to encapsulate common patterns, such as watching a file grow, watching a directory for incoming items, or managing connections to a TCP port. On top of this you'll also find ready-to-use code for HTTP servers, IRC connections, and HTTP Web page fetches.
POE definitely has some interesting uses, especially for networking code, and it fits well in the "Perl as glue" model. POE also plays nicely with existing Event loops, as well as Tk, Gtk, and Curses programs.
In looking at POE, I decided to tackle a familar task: checking Web links. A naive Web link checker will fetch a page, wait for it to return, note the success, perhaps look at the page for further links to follow, and then move on to the next page until it's done. But that means the program is spending most of its time waiting for I/O (or a DNS lookup). Instead, it could go fetch a different page, but that's where it gets messy.
In the past, I've used LWP::Parallel and LWP::UA and forking and pre-forking to tackle this problem, and each approach has its own advantages and disadvantages. So, I decided to try this with POE as well.
The design is simple. Starting at a top-level URL, fetch that page. If the page is available, and has HTML links, recursively scan those links, until there's no more to do. To keep it fast, concurrently scan as many as ten links at at time, so that the I/O wait or DNS wait time of one fetch overlaps the CPU hard stuff of another. After a couple of hours of reading the docs (and bugging Rocco online), I have Listing One.
Listing One: A POE-based concurrent link checker – Part 1
1 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
2 use strict;
3 $|++;
5 use constant POCO_HTTP => "ua";
6 use POE qw(Component::Client::HTTP);
8 my $TOP = "http://directory.google.comm/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Perl/";
10 POE::Component::Client::HTTP->spawn(Alias => POCO_HTTP, Timeout => 30);
11 POE::Component::My::Master->spawn(UA => POCO_HTTP, TODO => [$TOP]);
12 $poe_kernel->run;
13 exit 0;
16 package POE::Component::My::Master;
17 use POE::Session; # for constants
19 sub spawn {
20 my $class = shift;
21 POE::Session->create
22 (package_states =>
23 [$class => [qw(_start ready done)]],
24 heap => {KIDMAX => 10, KIDS => 0, @_});
25 }
27 sub _start {
28 my $heap = $_[HEAP];
29 for (@{$heap->{TODO}}) {
30 $heap->{DONE}{$_ = make_canonical($_)} = 1;
31 }
32 $_[KERNEL]->yield("ready", "initial");
33 }
35 sub ready {
36 ## warn "ready because $_[ARG0]\n";
37 my $heap = $_[HEAP];
38 my $kernel = $_[KERNEL];
39 return if $heap->{KIDS} >= $heap->{KIDMAX};
40 return unless my $url = shift @{$heap->{TODO}};
41 ## warn "doing: $url\n";
42 $heap->{KIDS}++;
43 POE::Component::My::Checker->spawn
44 (UA => $heap->{UA},
45 URL => $url,
46 POSTBACK => $_[SESSION]->postback("done", $url),
47 );
48 $kernel->yield("ready", "looping");
49 }
51 sub done {
52 my $heap = $_[HEAP];
53 my ($request,$response) = @_[ARG0,ARG1];
55 my ($url) = @$request;
56 my @links = @{$response->[0]};
58 = for (@links) {
59 $_ = make_canonical($_);
60 push @{$heap->{TODO}}, $_
61 unless $heap->{DONE}{$_}++;
62 }
64 $heap->{KIDS}–;
65 $_[KERNEL]->yield("ready", "child done");
66 }
68 sub make_canonical { # not a POE
69 require URI;
70 my $uri = URI->new(shift);
71 $uri->fragment(undef); # toss fragment
72 $uri->canonical->as_string; # return value
73 }
75 } # end / POE::Component::My::Master
78 package POE::Component::My::Checker;
79 use POE::Session;
81 sub spawn {
82 my $class = shift;
83 POE::Session->create
84 (package_states =>
85 [$class => [qw(_start response)]],
86 heap => {@_});
87 }
89 sub _start {
90 require HTTP::Request::Common;
91 my $heap = $_[HEAP];
92 my $url = $heap->{URL};
93 my $request = HTTP::Request::Common::GET($url);
94 $_[KERNEL]->post($heap->{UA}, 'request', 'response', $request);
95 }
97 sub response {
98 my $url = $_[HEAP]{URL};
99 my ($request_packet, $response_packet) = / @_[ARG0, ARG1];
100 my ($request, $request_tag) = @$request_packet;
101 my ($response) = @$response_packet;
103 my @links;
105 if ($response->is_success) {
106 if ($response->base =~ m{^\Q$TOP}) {
107 if ($response->content_type eq "text/html") {
108 require HTML::SimpleLinkExtor;
109 my $e = HTML::SimpleLinkExtor->new ($response->base);
110 $e->parse($response->content);
111 @links = grep m{^http:}, $e->links;
112 ## warn "parsed: $url\n";
113 } else {
114 ## warn "not HTML: $url\n";
115 }
116 } else {
117 warn "valid: $url\n";
118 }
119 } else {
120 warn "BAD (", $response->code, "): $url\n";
121 }
123 $_[HEAP]{POSTBACK}(\@links);
124 }
125 } # end / POE::Component::My::Checker
Lines 1 through 3 start nearly every program I write, turning on warnings, compiler restictions, and disabling the normal block-oriented buffering of STDOUT.
Line 5 defines a constant for the name of the POE session representing the user agent. We need this as a constant to enable the individual checker sessions to post the page fetch requests.
Line 6 pulls in POE, and also brings in POE::Component ::Client::HTTP. The POE module has a non-standard import routine, so the names are not symbols to be imported, as in most other modules.
Line 8 defines the constant for the top-level URL to be checked. This is a very simple checker that looks at the URL given in $TOP, descends through all HTML pages below that page, and verifies (without examining the contents) any URLs that are outside this tree. The URL given here is the Google view of the DMOZ entry for Perl, altered ever-so-slightly so that people won't run this program without first reading this description. I think you'll note that the change is obvious.
Lines 10 and 11 set up the two top-level sessions. First, the user agent session is created, given the session name in POCO_ HTTP, and a timeout of thirty seconds. Then, the master session is spawned, placing two values into the session's "heap." The role of the master session is to manage the task queue and the number of child checker sessions.
Once the two sessions are spawned, we "boot" the POE kernel in line 12. This call to run will not return as long as there are sessions with pending or potential events, as determined by the POE kernel. And once we're done, we exit in line 13. (How appropriate.)
There. All done. Oh wait, how does the master session do its job? That's next, beginning in line 15. I've set up a BEGIN block from lines 15 to 75 to define the class, similar to how a use would bring it in. Line 16 establishes the package name of this module, and line 17 defines the constants needed for a POE session.
Lines 19 to 25 are invoked as a class method, as we did in line 11. The classname gets shifted off in line 20, and the new session is created by calling POE::Session's create method. create has many, many parameters, but we need only two: the "states" that we'd like to register and some initial values for the "heap".
In this case, we'll register _start, ready, and done as our three interesting events, mapping to subroutines of the same name. (Events can be mapped to arbitrary subroutines, or even method calls instead, but we'll keep it simple here.)
The "heap" is a set of local named parameters belonging to each session. By inserting values into the heap as the session is spawned, we've effectively given named arguments directly into the session. As an alternate design, we could arrange to pass items into the _start event instead, but we'd just end up storing those into the heap anyway, so this skips that copying step. Note that UA and TODO come from line 11, but KIDMAX and KIDS are defined here. We'll see how all four of these items are used in a minute.
Lines 27 to 33 define the subroutine for the _start event. The POE kernel always sends this event as the session is being spawned. The parameters for an event handler are given as offsets into the @_ array, defined by a list of names. The value of HEAP gives us the proper item of @_ representing the heap hashref, which we copy into $heap in line 28.
The element TODO of the heap gives an arrayref of URLs that are left to be checked. Initially, it's just the top-level URL from line 8 (via line 11 and line 24). For each item in this list, we'll make it "canonical" by passing it through the make_canonical subroutine (defined later), and then create a hash with that key and a value of 1. The hash is used to ensure that we look at a given URL only once. The hash is kept in the heap hash under a key of DONE.
Once we have a "todo" list, and a "done" hash, it's time to start spawning the children sessions to check the URLs. We'll do that by a request to yield to the ready event. This instructs the kernel that it can now call that subroutine the next time it's looking for something to do. The parameter initial is passed to the subroutine as one of the user parameters, strictly for debugging and tracing. Had this routine not yielded, the kernel would have recognized that there were no further events, and exited immediately.
The ready event triggers the same-named subroutine, defined in lines 35 to 49. Line 36 pulls out the debugging tag (the line is commented out in this version, but you can uncomment it while you're playing to see when and where ready gets called).
The heap and the kernel are pulled out of the subroutine argument list in lines 37 and 38. Lines 39 and 40 decide if we have any chance to launch a new checker session, and if we have anything to do in that case. We can't exceed KIDMAX number of sessions, and we won't have anything to do if the TODO list is empty.
If we make it to line 41, it's time to probe a new URL. Again, the tracing message is commented out. Spawning the new session consists of counting it (line 42), launching the sessions (lines 43 to 47), and then looping back with another event to this same handler. Without the loop, we'd never have multiple checker sessions running.
The checker session is launched like the master session, by calling the class method spawn, passing it initial values for the heap. The UA is simply a copy of the master session's UA heap variable, while the URL is the URL to check. The third heap value is POSTBACK, a postback coderef. When the child session is finished, it will invoke this coderef. This coderef will invoke the done event, passing it two parameters: an array ref consisting of all the parameters given during the creation of the postback (here, the $url value), and a second array ref giving all of the parameters given in the postback's invocation. Yes, it's a method call that returns a coderef, that when invoked, invokes yet a different subroutine. Powerful and useful, but perhaps a bit of work to get your head around. Hopefully, the upcoming example will make it clear.
In fact, let's skip over the description of done until we see how it would have been triggered. So, skipping down to lines 77 to 125, we see the spawn method defined starting in line 81. Again, we're expecting two events, called _start and response, and these are both mapped to their same-named subroutines. The heap is created from the incoming parameters, as defined earlier in lines 44 to 46.
When the _start event is triggered by the kernel, we'll pull in the HTTP::Request::Common module to create the LWP request that fetches the given URL. As this is a require, it reads the module only the first time. The $request object in line 93 is then "posted" to the user agent session in line 94, using its request event (the second element of the method call). When the user agent session is done, it calls the checker session's response method. Finally, we include the LWP request object.
After posting the request to the user agent session, the checker session has no active events, and will remain idle. The user agent will fetch the page, and then post a response event, which triggers the subroutine starting in line 97. The first two "user" arguments to this process are the request object packet, and the response object packet. Peering inside those, we can extract the request and response LWP objects, into $request and $response in lines 100 and 101 respectively.
Line 103 defines the "return value" from this event, which will be 0 or more links to additionally check.
Starting in line 105, we decide what to do with and report about this response. If it's a successful fetch (line 105) and the URL was inside the tree of interest (line 106) and it's an HTML page (line 107), then we need to parse the HTML to pull out any further links worth checking. Again, leveraging off yet another CPAN module, we'll grab HTML::SimpleLinkExtor to do the job. The "base url" for relative links is passed while created the extractor object in line 109. Line 110 looks at the response content for links of interest. Line 111 grabs those links as a list into @links, being careful to grab only HTTP links, and not HTTPS or email or FTP links. Again, a debugging trace line has been commented out in line 112.
If the page wasn't HTML, we note that in line 114. If it was outside the tree of interest, we end up in line 117. These are the links that we wanted only to verify that they could be fetched, and so we note that.
Finally, if we end up in line 120, we've got a bad link, and we report the error. Some of the reported errors are actually "redirects", but if they're always a redirect, maybe we should change our link to point at the redirected page. At that point, I was getting distracted by the main purpose of this example, which is to show how to make POE work, so I'm leaving that as an exercise for the reader.
And now for that postback. The coderef contained in $_[HEAP]{POSTBACK} is called, passing it the arrayref pointing to the 0 or more links to be followed as a result of examining this page. This postback is like a post call, but against the session that created the postback (in this case, the master session), triggering an event in that session (in this case, "done"), and passing it two user parameters.
Let's skip up to done to see how that works. First, we pull out the heap, request list, and response list in lines 52 and 53. The request list is the list created in line 46, which is just the URL. The response list is the list of links to be visited, created down in line 123. These are extracted in lines 55 and 56.
For each of the links that we found for this URL, we'll force them to be "canonical" (given in a moment), and then add them to the todo list (line 60) unless we've already seen them before (line 61).
Because a postback call would happen only when the child was done (or nearly done, with only cleanup to do on the way out), we now have one fewer "active" kid, noted in line 64. And since that might mean that it's time to fire up another URL fetching, we'll again note the ready event in line 65, this time annotating it with "child done" for the reason.
Now, for that make_canonical routine, defined in lines 68 to 73. Given a string representing a URL, we want to clean it up, and remove any "fragment identifier" (the part after the #). We'll do this again with a CPAN module (part of LWP).
And that's all there is to it. It's a toy program, but fully functional, and if you run it as-is (with the one modification noted above), you'll discover exactly how many of the DMOZ entries in the Perl section are still valid.
To be practical, we'd probably want a lot more control over deciding whether a URL is to be followed if it contains HTML, or just probed, or ignored, and probably some summary report at the end. But that's not the point of this demonstration.
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Madonna posts pic of her son Rocco, 13, clutching a liquor bottle
I guess we know where all the coolest seventh grade parties are: Madonna's house.
I guess we know where all the coolest seventh grade parties are: Madonna's house.
The Material Girl posted the above picture on Instagram of her son Rocco, 13, and several friends ringing in the New Year surrounded by liquor bottles. "The party has just begun! Bring it! 2014," she captioned it, apparently forgetting that the party shouldn't begin for Rocco until 2022. That's when he'll be legal to drink in America, at least - the Ciccone-Ritchie-etcetera clan was actually partying in Switzerland, but even there, the drinking age is 16.
I'm just gonna leave this here.
After several hundred perturbed comments on her pic, Madonna posted another photo of young Rocco, this time sans booze. "No one was drinking we were just having fun! Calm down and get a sense of humor! Don't start the year off with judgement!" she wrote.
But Madonna, starting the year off with judgement was my New Year's resolution. You don't want me to flake when I've been doing so well, do you?
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While EU executive arm chief Jean-Claude Juncker finalised the Commission's White Paper on the future of the EU-27, work for Commissioners doesn't stop.
EU's External Affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, has already started her visits to the Western Balkans, starting from Wednesday 1 March to Saturday 4.
Ahead of her departure from Brussels, Mogherini said that for the EU, the Western Balkans, "a region in the heart of Europe", is of really high priority.
"Regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations remain essential in this context," added Mogherini. "I work to see every single one of the Western Balkan partners move forward on the reform path, towards the European Union, to ensure the process is irreversible."
Mogherini's points in the map include Podgorica, Montenegro, where she will meet with President Vujanović, Prime Minister Marković and Speaker of the Parliament Brajović, and she will address the Parliament of Montenegro.
On Thursday 2 March, Mogherini will travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital Sarajevo, where she will meet with the members of the Presidency Ivanić, Čović and Izetbegović, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdić, and she will address students of the University of Sarajevo. Skopje is also going to be on the menu for Thursday, as the High Representative is visiting President Ivanov, political leaders in the Parliament, and Erasmus students.
Friday will find Mogherini in Belgrade, Serbia, where she will meet with President Nikolić, Prime Minister Vučić, Speaker of the National Assembly Gojković, members of civil society and opposition, and she will address the National Assembly of Serbia.
Albania is also on the plan for Friday, where Mogherini is expected to meet with President Nishami, Prime Minister Edi Rama, representatives of Parliamentary parties, and additionally also address the University of Tirana students.
Finally, on Saturday 4 March, Mogherini will travel to Mitrovica Pristina, Kosovo, to meet with President Thaci, Prime Minister Mustafa, and Speaker of the Parliament Veseli and other political leaders.


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AMD demos 11520x2160 Dirt Rally running from a single Radeon R9 Fury X
Our friends over at Legit Reviews were at the AMD event where the Radeon R9 Fury X was officially unveiled, taking in the beauty that is a triple 4K setup with a resolution of 11,520x2160.
The 11,520x2160 was powered by a single AMD Radeon R9 Fury X running Dirt Rally, with Legit Reviews adding that it "was pushing 60FPS" with AMD telling the site that two Radeon R9 290X cards, or a single R9 295X2 gets around 45-50FPS with the same resolution.
If you haven't heard about Fury X, it's powered by AMD's new Fiji architecture and uses High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). There's a 4096-bit memory bus with 4GB of HBM1 on it, with 512GB/sec of available bandwidth. We will have our Fury X sample arriving next week, so prepare for some very interesting tests to take place.


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Beginning in June 2014, Haleakalā National Park will host a series of Native Hawaiian cultural programs and performances in the Kīpahulu and Summit Districts of the park. The park seeks cultural practitioners who will demonstrate Native Hawaiian crafts or arts and engage visitors during their activity. Schools and community groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Through support from our non-profit partner, the Hawai`i Pacific Parks Association, an honorarium of $200 will be offered to each group of practitioners. Hawai`i Pacific Parks Association will also offset the purchase of supplies (up to $200) to be used by visitors during a demonstration.
Cultural programs and performances will occur in the Summit and Kīpahulu Districts of the park between 1pm and 3pm on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, starting on June 14, 2014. The venues are: next to the Kīpahulu Visitor Center, in Kīpahulu; or next to the Headquarters Visitor Center in the Summit District. Please plan on setting up by 12:30pm. Plan on 100-200 visitors taking part in your activity. Please note that practitioners will not be allowed to sell any products or collect tips in the park.
One 10x15 tent, some chairs, and 1-2 small tables will be available for practitioners to use. Any additional set-up equipment will need to be provided by the practitioner.
If you are interested, please fill out this form completely and email or postal mail it to the park by Wednesday April 30, 2014. Only complete applications will be considered. Forms are also available at any Haleakalā National Park visitor center or at www.nps.gov/hale/supportyourpark. (Click on the "2014 Call for Cultural Practitioners" link). Applicants will receive a response by Friday, May 9, 2014.
Please provide the following information and answer the following questions:
Practitioner/artist name:
Type of performance or program (weaving, hula, etc):
Contact Name:
Contact Phone number:
Contact Email:
Contact postal address:
1. How does your cultural performance or program further one or more of the following educational themes of Haleakalā National Park: a. The summit of Haleakalā is sacred in Native Hawaiian culture.
b. The richness of stories about water, `āina, ancestors, birds, and plants, that have been carried through generations, demonstrates the thriving Native Hawaiian culture.
c. Haleakalā National Park contains several ahupua`a, a uniquely Hawaiian concept of land use.
2. How will your cultural performance or program engage visitors?
3. What supplies (up to $200) are needed so visitors can participate in this demonstration? (For example: raffia for weaving, paint for hala painting, stamps for kapa cloth, etc). Please provide the type of supply, quantity, and possible source. (Any leftover supplies may remain in the park for future use by park visitors).
4. What set-up equipment will you need (tent, chairs, tables)?
5. Please indicate any special requirements (accessibility, etc):
6. Please indicate your choice of venue: Summit ____ OR Kīpahulu___
7. Please indicate one first choice and one second choice from the following list of dates.
June 14: June 14 is FULL
June 28: First Choice Second Choice
July 12: First Choice Second Choice
July 26: First Choice Second Choice
August 9: First Choice Second Choice
August 23: First Choice Second Choice
Please email this application to: email@example.com by Wednesday, April 30, 2014.
You can also postal mail this form to: ATTN: Cultural Demos, Chief of Interpretation, Haleakalā NP, PO Box 369, Makawao, HI, 96768. Postal-mailed applications must be postmarked by April 30, 2014. Only complete applications will be considered.
Applicants will receive a response from the park by Friday, May 9, 2014. Mahalo for your interest!


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The Dry Garden: A shear education
One of the first things that I wanted to do in my new garden last year was to cut down the persimmon tree at the center of the large backyard. As early rains stripped the last of the leaves from its limbs and crows pecked at a few fruit, it looked less like a tree and more like an accident scene. Had the person who pruned its tangle of stumped and crossed limbs been a maniac? A gaping crack where the main branches met the trunk looked like it had been smote from heaven.
Only catching sight of its last fall leaves at twilight stopped me. A year later, restoring that wounded tree has become one of my passions. After scant fruit last year, this fall the tree — perhaps 10 feet tall and 12 feet wide — has produced so much fruit that I've called in friends and told …
The Dry Garden: Empathy for the underground
Plant ecologist Paula Schiffman came to praise gophers when she packed a lecture last spring hosted by the Los Angeles chapter of the California Native Plant Society. It was awkward for the Cal State Northridge professor, given that most of the audience filling a cold, no-frills Santa Monica meeting room had come to learn how to kill the animals.
The atmosphere only got colder as Schiffman's live-and-let-live message began to sink in: Gophers were here before us, they are integral to our local ecology, and one of the most common ways that we kill them also can accidentally poison a whole host of other animals.
Click here to keep reading The Dry Garden's "Detente with the gopher" …
Occupy outdoors
If proof were needed why I am not a professional photographer, this post is it. But somehow I had to salute a weekend spent at two delightful events — the Los Angeles Community Garden Council gathering of community organizers from all over the LA Basin and the fall festival at Rancho Santa Ana's Grow Native Nursery at the VA Hospital in Westwood. Both were packed with the best kind of people — gardeners. Both had too many good speakers to count, including LA's leading horticulturist Lili Singer, seed saver David King, mycologist and Victory Gardener nonpareil Florence Nishida, and Tim Dundon, provisioner of craptonite (aka composted stable manure) to the Foothills. Dundon, it should be added, didn't lecture but performed "Born to be Wild" while stamping a hoe. The picture is out of focus because I was dancing while taking it. Jeff Spurrier will be covering …
The Dry Garden: Being John Goodman
The single hardest thing to remember in fall planting season is restraint. After summer dormancy, everything looks so fresh. Salvias are pushing out their autumn blooms. We gardeners are full of pent-up expectation. Everything feels possible! Many things are. Keep that elation. Just resist the urge to crowd young plants during installation, a temptation so strong that almost everyone does it.
The problem may be that we treat young plants like babies, which in some ways …
The Dry Garden: Ask Persephone
Plant a pomegranate and the hole you dig drives straight through time — Persephone deep, founding fathers deep. Pomegranates are in Greek and Persian mythology, the Bible, the Koran, on the seal of the British Royal College of Physicians. Scholarly gardening articles cite pomegranates as having figured in gardens in the colonial Carolinas. Spanish settlers brought them to California. Search the botanical name Punica granatum in technical journals and you find the chemists at L'Oreal are onto them: Pomegranates are named in a new patent for shampoo. Health publications carry studies on the anti-oxidant properties. Martha Stewarts everywhere recommend dried pomegranates for Christmas wreaths.
But gardeners can turn up a lot of trivia without learning one key fact: how to tell when they are ripe. (Hint: the one above isn't). Click here to keep reading about growing pomegranates to crimson readiness in this week's Dry Garden column in the …« go back — keep looking »


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A pic of my humble chariot!
The final installed position in the car, with a little help from Blu Tack! Also note cup surface direction, see the 4 little wings, the smallest surface in between the wings face front towards wind shield.
I took this from another review of the resonator cups inside some body's car. It could work this way too! Try it out.
I put up my car audio system in the article, so that you know, I ain't talking about the plain Jane OEM stuff. It's a serious enthusiast system.


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If you weren't out in Chicago this past weekend for the fourth annual adidas Nations global experience, then you missed out on things like THIS. As one of the premier international grassroots basketball programs, the world's elite 18-and-under players from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S. battled it out all weekend at the Attack Athletics Center to make it to tonight's championship and third place games held at UIC Pavilion. And with Quincy Miller and the Class of 2011 taking on Kyle Anderson and the Class of 2012, we suggest you tune in.
Coverage starts at 6:00 p.m. CST with the Latin America vs. Africa game, and will broadcast live for the first time on CBS College Sports Network. The championship game of USA 2011 vs. USA 2012 will start around 7:45 p.m. CST. For folks in Chicago, tickets are only $10 at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 312.413.5740.
Quincy Miller – F, 6-8, Quality Education Academy (NC), Winston-Salem, NC
LaQuinton Ross – G/F, 6-9, Burlington Christian (NJ), Jackson, MS
LeBryan Nash – F, 6-7, Lincoln (TX), Dallas, TX
Deuce Bello – G, 6-3, Westchester Academy (NC), High Point, NC
Quinn Cook – G, 6-1, Dematha (MD), Bowie, MD
Wayne Blackshear – G/F, 6-5, Morgan Parks (IL), Chicago, IL
Ryan Boatright – G, 5-10, East Aurora (IL), Aurora, IL
Rodney Purvis – G, 6-5, Upper Room Christian Academy, Raleigh, NC
Cody Zeller – F, 6-10, Washington (IN), Washington, IN
Damien Leonard – G/F, 6-5, J.L. Mann (SC), Piedmont, SC
Marshall Plumlee – C, 6-11, Christ School (NC), Winona Lake, IN
Michael Chandler – C, 6-10, Lawrence North (IN), Indianapolis, IN
Cameron Ridley – C, 6-10, George Bush (TX), Richmond, TX
Kyle Anderson – G/F, 6-8, Paterson Catholic (NJ), Fairview, NJ
Kevin Ferrell – G, 5-10, Park Tudor, Indianapolis, IN
Jordan Adams – G, 6-4, Central Gwinnett (GA), Lawrenceville, GA
Shabazz Muhammad – G/F, 6-5, Bishop Gorman (NV), Las Vegas, NV
Winston Shepard – F, 6-8, Findlay Prep (NV), Fresno, TX
Jordan Price – G, 6-5, McCallie School (TN), Conyers, GA
Xavier Johnson – G/F, 6-6, Chaparral (CA), Murrieta, CA
Amile Jefferson – F, 6-7, Friends Central (PA), Philadelphia, PA
Dajuan Coleman – C, 6-9, Jamesville Dewitt (NY), Syracuse, NY
Isaiah Austin – F/C, 7-0, Grace Prep (TX), Burleson, TX
Alex Murphy – F, 6-8, St. Mark's School (MA), Wakefield, RI
Jarnell Stokes – F/C, 6-8, Central High School (TN), Memphis, TN
Wannah Bail – F, 6-8, Trent International (TX), Sugarland, TX
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His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios Visits St. Demetrios Parish in Saco, ME
On Sunday, March 12, 2017 His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the St. Demetrios Parish in Saco, ME. This was the second Sunday in Great Lent, during which the Church celebrates and remembers St. Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki. It was a great joy for His Eminence to tonsure three young men who serve in the altar of the parish. His Eminence congratulated both the parents of the three young men and entire community for nurturing their children in the embrace of the Orthodoxy faith.


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Going into the experience, I thought that we would meet with the parents in our classrooms. With this thought it mind, I ran to Target the other night and bought enough wrapping paper to cover my bulletin boards three times over. Between 7:15 am and 8:45 am on Wednesday, my classroom was transformed from a cell in Attica to a hybrid mix of Martha Stewart (the major bulletin board is tastefully done) and Pope Benedict XVI (a lot of Catholic art up on the board).
Let's just pause for a moment to reflect on what the hybrid of Martha Stewart and the Holy Father would look like.
**Shudder** Prada shoes. **Shudder**
Moving forward.
Well, I was wrong about meeting parents in the classroom. Instead, we met in the Commons - a large room adjoining the lunchroom. Tables were set up along the perimeter and parents could line up to meet with teachers.
The only analogue I have for this experience is that it was like the Antiques Road Show. You know, that PBS show where people dig things out of the attic or bring something they have treasured to an expert to have its worth appraised. Sometimes the trinket is really valuable, should be insured, and treasured into the future. Other times, the expert has to inform the owner that the "precious" bobble is actually junk and, while possessing inestimable sentimental value, would fetch nothing at auction.
Good Lord. I think, actually, the Antiques Road Show is modeled on Parent Teacher Conferences!
Thankfully, I did not have to tell any parents that their sons had no worth but, since they possessed sentimental value, they should be kept all the same. In other words, I didn't have to tell any parents that their future included a long-term resident of their basement. In fact, I found that I was able to be really optimistic with parents: even when students were struggling, we were able to isolate the trouble areas and think of ways/strategies to redress any trouble areas. The great benefit of having this meeting so early in the semester is that there hasn't been enough time, at least in my classes, to dig oneself a hole so deep that he cannot climb out of it.
Now, as hard as it would be to reconcile themselves to the reality, many of my students truly are the sons of their parents. By this I mean that in meeting the parents, I gained a tremendous amount of insight into the reason why the sons are the way they are. The adage that "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" was confirmed over and over again this week.
After 2.5 hours of non-stop talking on Thursday and another 2 hours yesterday, I drove to Cleveland to see my family and some friends. I'm usually happy to get six hours of sleep each night, but last night I managed to slumber for ten hours...further confirmation that 4.5 hours of talking, on top of a week of teaching, is horribly draining.
Next week is "Spirit Week" in preparation for Homecoming, yet another dance I will be chaperoning. I'm already writing my "Deodorant: Never too much, too often" talk to present to the guys before they come to the dance. In light of the last dance, I reckon it'd be a good idea to evangelize the wonders of good hygiene in the hope (vain though it may be) that we avoid a repeat of the olfactory offenses of the last dance.


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This project aims to make available online for the first time archive films and audio recordings on the Swedish Mission (Svenska Missionskyrkan) http://www.missionskyrkan.se/ in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), China. This archive was created by S L James during 2009 with assistance from Dr Enver Tohti and the Swedish Uyghur community as well as Swedish archivists and relatives of the missionaries in Sweden. The Mission was active in Kashgar, Yarkand and Yengi Hissar in East Turkistan from 1892 until 1938. The films date from 1930 to 1934 and audio recordings from 1955 to 1987. Archive Films (Silent):
From Kashmir to Kashgar (1930-34) 15.44
By Otto Torvik [16mm film, Private Collection, Sweden]
A film by Norwiegan missionary Otto Torvik recorded between 1930 and 1934 documenting his journey from Kashmir to Kashgar, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), China.
Swedish Mission in East Turkistan (1930/31) 17.30
By Rikard Nystrom [9.5mm film, National Archives, Sweden]
A film made in 1931 by Swedish missionary Rikard Nystrom documenting the missions journey to East Turkistan (Xinjiang), China to Yarkand.
Ancient Silk Road: 100km Across the Plain (1931) 16.16
By Otto Torvik / Carl Persson [16mm film, Private Collection, Sweden]
A film made in 1931 by Norwegian and Swedish missionaries Otto Torvik and Carl Persson. The film documents their journey from Kashgar to Ghulja in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), China.
John Törnquist's East Turkistan Films (1931-1934) 31.55
By John Törnquist [9.5mm film, National Archives, Sweden]
A series of films made between 1931 and 1934 by Swedish missionary John Tornquist in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), China. The films show Kashgar and in particular Hancheng, the Han Chinese settlement in Kashgar where he worked.
For more information, click HERE
Saturday, 7 September 2013
Swedish Mission Project in East Turkistan (Xinjiang)
Posted by Hans van Roon at 12:13
2 comments:
- G. said...
Fantastic! Thanks for your work in pulling these documents together. I am the great-grandson of Sigfrid Moen, one of the missionaries in Xinjiang, and so this was a real treasure throve!
- 8 April 2014 at 12:28
Fascinating materials. Thanks! I really enjoyed watching them. I met an Uyghur Christian woman from Yerkand whose grandmother was Christian following these missionaries' teachings.
- 25 September 2016 at 13:24
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Friday, 12 April 2013
All children are wise
20 comments:
- Cat Beringer said...
Fantastic quote and wonderful illustration in your journal page. It's so hard, the way that things thoughtless people say can stick with us. And then we have to unlearn what we were told. Cheers to you!
- 12 April 2013 at 22:19
- Corrine at sparkledaysstudio.com said...
Thoughtlessness is rampant...words are powerful and it's amazing how they affect us. Children are wise and we have much to learn from them. Happy PPF
- 12 April 2013 at 23:12
- Gloria in CA said...
Love that quote and your journal page quite awesome. Love the little boy who is all about letting one know that he is wise and not to be reckoned with. Great job!
- 12 April 2013 at 23:25
- sharon said...
Awesome page!
- 12 April 2013 at 23:38
- Karin said...
Great quote and gorgeous journal spread!
- 13 April 2013 at 06:32
- www.dorissdaughter.com said...
Beautiful work, reminds me of this poem:
If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility,
he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule,
he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with shame,
he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance,
he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns confidence.
If a child lives with praise,
he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness,
he learns justice.
If a child lives with security,
he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval,
he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,
He learns to find love in the world
- 13 April 2013 at 09:31
- Tracy said...
So true! As a vicar's wife I see so many people affected by careless words directed at them as children. How necessary it is to build our children up and help them to know how precious and unique they are.
- 13 April 2013 at 12:06
- froebelsternchen Susi said...
that´s just wonderful DAWN!
- 13 April 2013 at 16:05
- Carola Bartz said...
Yes, Dawn, you're absolutely right!!! Wonderful!
- 13 April 2013 at 17:32
- Netty said...
smashing and oh so true post Dawn, loving your fab pages. Happy PPF, Annette x
- 13 April 2013 at 23:40
- Tracey Fletcher King said...
love the quote and agree with it totally and this is a lovely page that reflects the words perfectly ...sorry I am late getting here for PPF but figuring I am just extending the fun... well that is my excuse and I am sticking to it ...xx
- 14 April 2013 at 07:19
- Cath Wilson said...
Love the quote - and the poor little boy and NOONE is stupid... have a lovely Sunday x
- 14 April 2013 at 07:51
- Giggles said...
Oh dear lady we are of the same heart! I revere children and their natural spirit... I believe them to be smart and wise and everything wonderful wrapped into a pretty bow....until words damage them!!
I am sorry for any hurt that words caused you over the years, because I know from this post alone that you are truly an amazing woman, full of love and a great heart!!
I agree with this quote...beautiful thoughtful piece of art!!
Stupid was a swear word in my home when I was growing up!
Hugs Giggles
- 14 April 2013 at 08:11
- Nicole Beadwright Campanella said...
Welcome to PPF. I do like this piece you have created. Children are wise if only people would listen.
- 14 April 2013 at 15:19
- Erika Nittel-Traser said...
Yes, I agree! ♥
Thank you for sharing your wonderful thoughts!
- 15 April 2013 at 08:14
- Gibby Frogett said...
Fantastic artwork and quote - love it. Gill x
- 16 April 2013 at 00:01
- Ilona Heimböckel said...
Wonderful journal page and blog post! Let us be more aware of the words we use, when we meet both children and grown ups...
Happy belated PPF!
- 16 April 2013 at 07:31
- Jeannette said...
FAb Page,sooo Beautiful creation,Love it!!AWESOME!!
GLG Jeannette
- 17 April 2013 at 22:03
- ~*~Patty S said...
Wonderful pages Dawn ... Love everything about them!
Hope you have a lovely weekend
- 20 April 2013 at 05:05
- Juls said...
- 23 April 2013 at 21:05


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Recently I had the need to gather some detailed information about an ongoing service degradation.
I remebered fellow MVP Vasil Michev and his blog post here. I like the fact that we now have an insight how many users are affected.
MVP Frank Carius wrote a more detailed post about the API here.


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By Sr. Teresa Forcades (English translation by Rebel Girl)
Un Manament Nou
For Basil, it was clear that the end of human life is full participation in the divine life. Having been passively created in the image of God, we need to make use of our freedom to reach the likeness of God. The Spirit of God pushes us to live according to God's will. Our response is decisive: either we can stifle the action of the Spirit or we can be open to it.
"Just as when a sunbeam falls on bright and transparent bodies, they themselves become brilliant too, and shed forth a fresh brightness from themselves, so souls wherein the Spirit dwells, illuminated by the Spirit, themselves become spiritual, and send forth their grace to others. Hence comes foreknowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of what is hidden, distribution of charisms, participation in heaven and the dance of the angels, joy without end, abiding in God, being made like to God, and, highest of all, being made God." (9:23)
Due to sin, the step from the image to the likeness cannot be simply continuous. It can't just be the unfolding of potential that leaves intact or reinforces the initial identity but rather, as in the case of seed, we need a real transformation (1 Cor 15:51), we have to "die to be born anew."
The economy of our God and Savior over human beings is to bring them back from exile and rescue them for intimacy with God from the alienation caused by disobedience. (...) Therefore, for the perfection of life, the imitation of Christ is necessary not only in the examples of gentleness, humility, and patience He left us in His lifetime, but also of death itself, says Paul, the imitator of Christ -- "being conformed to His death, in order to attain the resurrection from the dead." (Phil 3:10-11) (15,35).
Basil reflects the belief of the Christians of the ascetic monastic movement at the end of the 4th century in his identification of the "death" that enables us to be "born from above" through baptism:
How, then, can we resemble Him in death? Being buried with Him in baptism. What is this kind of burial? And what is the benefit of imitation? First, you have to interrupt the course of the previous life. This is impossible unless one is born from above, according to the word of the Lord. In fact, the rebirth -- as its name suggests -- is the beginning of a second life. Now, before starting the second life, you have to put an end to the previous one (15:35).
(From Ser persona, hoy: estudio del concepto de 'persona' en la teología trinitaria clásica y de su relación con la noción moderna de libertad by Teresa Forcades i Vila. Published by the Abadía de Montserrat).


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When the Base coat and the ground wash are dry I next dry brush heavily with Artiste Acrylic 'Burnt Sienna'. It's really necessary to dry brush this coat heavily to help the desired end effect ~
The second dry brushing needs to be much lighter handed and its best to do two light coats rather than one thickish one I've found. For this stage I used Artiste Acrylic 'Clay' and you get this rich orange brown look ~
The final stage of dry brushing is the lightest you'll find. I use a dry brushing of Anita's Acrylic 'Cream'. The effect is to wash down the whole colour while highlighting the edges and texture. The effect produces this look on my Rhanzlistan buildings ~
I've painted the few pieces of exposed wood simply Foundry 'Bay Brown Shade' for now. I'll tinker with that tomorrow probably. Adding dark green static grass, dry green and dark green grass tufts and 'weeds' from various coloured clumps allows the ruin to be dressed and lifted ~
Well,it's pretty much finished now and should blend in well with my other buildings in next month's Rhanzlistan game here in GHQ.


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I was lucky enough to get a pair of the above Velobici gloves for my anniversary today. They are very comfortable, breathable and super soft. After having a look at their site I think I might have found a new favourite cycling company and someone giving Rapha a run for their money.
In their own words they love:
Style (to look good is paramount.), riding, summertime, smooth roads, favourable winds.
I couldn't agree more. They also have some nice bike pics of stylish bicycles over on their facebook page.


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Performance Surf and Ski – New Shop Coming Soon
Performance Surf and Ski of Orlando has a long history in the sport of wakeboarding and now there is a new chapter coming. Performance is moving into a larger building this spring, here's a few photos of the huge buildout.
New store schedule to open Late February with the Official Grand Opening the week of Nautique Wake Games. For more information on the store follow them on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/PerformanceSkiandSurf) and on twitter and instagram @perfski


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Two from COE earn national honors from Kappa Delta Pi
A University of North Texas College of Education student and a recent graduate earned national recognition from Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education.
Aston Thompson, (right) of Arlington, earned the 2013-14 Distinguished Chapter Officer Award from Kappa Delta Pi, given to current or immediate past chapter officers for displaying the ideals of the organization. Thompson, who was treasurer of the UNT chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, was one of eight chapter officers nationwide selected for the honor this year. Thompson graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies from UNT in May and will be recognized with a plaque at a convocation Oct. 22-24, 2015, in Orlando.
"Receiving the Kappa Delta Pi International Leadership Award symbolizes confirmation for me — confirmation that I can make a difference in the evolving profession that I love and confirmation that I am on a path that will lead me to other leadership positions in the future," Thompson said. "I worked closely with my KDP counselors, Dr. Jeanne Tunks and Dr. Miriam Ezzani, and it is very rewarding to be able to be honored this way and to know that I would not have become such a great leader without their guidance and support."
Thompson plans to work as a kindergarten teacher at Manara STEM Academy in Arlington.
Julie Williams, (left) a doctoral candidate from Sulphur Springs, earned the Hollis L. Caswell Laureate Scholarship from Kappa Delta Pi. The $3,200 scholarship is given to a doctoral student in curriculum and instruction.
"I am honored to be awarded this scholarship, and greatly appreciate the generosity of the donors and Kappa Delta Pi," Williams said. "I am especially honored to receive a scholarship in memory of Dr. Caswell, whose legacy continues to inspire educators to improve instruction and influence educational policy."
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Here's a baby Sun Conure! The other nails were blended to capture the orange, yellow & green of the parrot. I made a nail sticker this time instead of trying to paint everything upside down and cut him out with cuticle scissors. It's not lost on me that I put the bird on the bird, sorry, it was unintentional. It wasn't fitting on my ring finger and I had already painted my index. I based him off the picture I took below of this 2 month old my husband is holding:
He's sleeping with his mouth open.
Polishes used:
Zoya: Tanzy, Snow White, Raven, Arizona, Pippa
Barielle: Lemondrops, Swizzle Stix, Polished Princess
Color Club – Snowflakes
Wet n Wild – Clear


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{Welder's goggles covered in Pop-Tart wrappers to shield the eyes}
This weekend Kevin and I decided to take a Sunday cruise up the Pacific Coast Highway in order to get a beach side, firsthand look at the Ring of Fire solar eclipse.
The tools: a pair of welders goggles covered in Pop-Tart wrappers (the internets said it was wise), a few roast beef and avocado wraps, hummus and peppers, watermelon, a six pack of Sam Adam's Summer Ale, and some sort of makeshift mechanism to protect the camera phone from the rays fashioned out of the top of a cigarette box and some more Pop-Tart wrappers.
The plan: to head north of Santa Barbara to some state beach, picnic and watch the Ring of Fire solar eclipse.
What really happened: As we reached Santa Barbara, the fog was rolling in thickly. We decided to turn around and head back to just north of Malibu to the southern tip of the Naval Base. We sat on a log and watched the eclipse that took about an hour.
Check this one off of the bucket list! Aside from being able to enjoy the lovely weather, I had my own lovely mash-up of Total Eclipse of the Heart/ Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash edition) stuck in my head all day. I had forgotten just how gorgeous the PCH was on a sunny day, and Malibu for some reason never ceases to amaze me.
{Pacific Coast Highway in the sunshine}
{Point Mugu Beach}
{A silk scarf from Hamburg to hide my Pale Ale (and keep me from getting in trouble with the law)}
{Curious Kevin the engineer}
{Shielding my eyes from the sun's harmful rays - even with the goggles you couldn't look for too long without feeling the consequences}
{We created a pinhole camera (on Kevin's adorable grandpa hands) in order to watch the eclipse (and to photograph it!)}
{Kevin and the Ring of Fire - at this point the sun was almost completely shielded by the moon; the camera wasn't able to process the strength of the rays}


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An Indiana attorney and her ex-husband couldn't convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that a bank violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act with regards to an errant insurance payment and that alleged error led to their divorce and caused $300,000 in damages.
Christine Jackson, an attorney who represents consumers fighting loan servicers according to the opinion, and Stephen Perron, a retired criminal investigator for the IRS, had a mortgage through Chase Bank. They neglected to tell Chase they had switched homeowners' insurers, so Chase paid Allstate's $1,422 premium. When it learned that Homesite was now the insurer, it paid its premium from the escrow account and sent a letter to the couple telling them to send a refund check from Allstate to replenish their escrow.
Instead of depositing the refund check into their account, the couple kept it, leading to a higher monthly mortgage payment. The couple refused to pay this, but did send a partial payment to Chase to make up the shortfall. The mortgage ended up going into default and the couple sent Chase two letters requesting information under RESPA and demanded the bank reimburse their escrow. Chase denied the request, leading Jackson and Perron to sue, claiming the bank's response under RESPA was inadequate and led to the loss of their marriage. They also alleged the bank breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
The district court ruled in favor of Chase. A bankruptcy trustee in the Southern District of Indiana is pursuing the suit in Jackson's stead since she has filed for bankruptcy.
Chase didn't breach any duty by holding their partial payment in suspense, Judge Diane Sykes wrote, noting the mortgage contract says the bank can accept a partial payment without waiving its rights to enforce the term of the loan.
The judges also affirmed the district court with regard to the couple's RESPA claim.
"RESPA requires servicers to correct account errors and give requested information to borrowers. Perron and Jackson were not harmed by an uncorrected account error because there wasn't an error in the first place," Sykes wrote. "Nor were they harmed by an information blackout. They knew Chase had paid the $1,422 from the escrow account to Allstate and why. They also knew why the December 2010 payment was held in suspense. … Simply put, Perron and Jackson weren't harmed by being in the dark because the lights were on the whole time."
Sykes also noted that emotional-distress damages are recoverable under RESPA, but the breakdown of a marriage is far too attenuated from the alleged violation to cross the proximate-cause threshold.
The case is Stephen H. Perron and the United States Bankruptcy Trustee for the Southern District of Indiana on behalf of Christine M. Jackson v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A., 15-2206.


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After Dynasty Warriors 6 was released, chibi figurines of a few select characters were also released in two volumes. For those who live in the U.K they were offered as a pre-order bonus on GAME.co.uk of Dynasty Warriors strikeforce (PSP). Zhang Liao was part of Vol 1. and I got him for free when I pre-ordered the game, Diao Chan is part of Vol.2 and I bought her for about £10 on Ebay.
These chibi figures are very small, so unless there is chibi of your favourite a character then there's not much point in getting one. They are very cute, epically ones of pretty tough looking warriors! They are squeee worthy! The detail put into the figures is actually really good considering their small size! Diao Chan particularly very bright and colourful, so if she is one of your top characters, at such a cheap price then I recommend buying it.
Isn't he cute?! (Sorry about the rather crooked image, just my bad photography skills!) I am most impressed by the detailing on his armour! Being so small I would have guessed he would be simply painted grey, but in fact all the indentations are present. His expression is also very nice, just the mix of him looking so tough and angry on a chibi figure is really appealing!
Overall score: 6/10
The reason I have scored them quite low is basically just because of their size. I would LOVE a large scale figure of a Dynasty Warriors girl, maybe next time though! If you love the games and the characters, since they're so cheap just get one! 😀
p.s I will be getting the Chibi Kunoichi Figure from Samurai Warriors 3.


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(all AIM screennames have been changed to protect the innocent, and the not so innocent)
A couple weeks ago, I received an e-mail in my yahoo account, thanking me for signing up on AOL Instant Messenger with my new screenname, MissShady. I never did such a thing, and was quite amused with the fact that someone typed in my e-mail address as a bogus e-mail address for their sign-up process, or that my e-mail address was the result of a typo. My first logical step was to try logging into AIM with the screenname, MissShady, and click "I forgot my password" to have it e-mail, to my yahoo address, the password reminder. Ta-da! Password #1: curtis
Easy as pie, and this is where the fun begins.
I first amused myself by logging into her account to see what I could find. She had no info in her profile, and only a couple names on her buddy list, none of whom were online.
**Addition/correction: The very first time I wrote to her, it was a simple, "hello" but she was quite frightened by a stranger writing to her. She asked me if she knew me, and when I answered "no" she responded with an insult or two and a "bye bye" and I was blocked for the first time. This was easily remedied later, when I logged in with her account and unblocked myself. Somewhere in what follows, there was an, "I thought I blocked you" exchange, but I can't remember how that went.
A couple days later I saw her log on and I wrote to her. I began with the simple, but direct question, "What e-mail address did you use to sign up for your AIM account?" She refused to answer (as most people would, to a complete stranger). She asked for mine, and I refused too, hoping to get her to admit it first. I asked her if she liked movies about cannibals who sang songs (since my yahoo e-mail address is 'shpadoinkle'. which is a made up word from Trey Parker's, Cannibal: The Musical). This question didn't click with her and she changed the subject (later we will find out that she was playing dumb). She asked "asl?" a few times, but I didn't give that out, yet. She eventually signed off.
Excerpts from the next day:
MissShady: did you miss me?
Me: desperately
MissShady: good
Me: so, there's a song in a certain cannibal musical with a made up word… "It's a –something– day"
Me: how do you spell it?
MissShady: what?
Me: What e-mail address did you use to sign up on AIM?
MissShady: why do you want to know?
Me: because it isn't yours
MissShady: i really don't know how to do any thing special on computers, so whatever it is you're accusing me of i probly didn't do it
MissShady: can we talk about something else?
I noticed that her buddy icon was a flashing picture of a half-naked Tyrese.
Me: you like Tyrese?
MissShady: hell yeah
MissShady: you?
Me: hell no
MissShady: what's your music of choice then?
Me: everything except Tyrese
MissShady: why?
MissShady: jealous?
MissShady: :-)
Me: not if he's got fans like you :-)
MissShady: asl?
MissShady: me, f/16/jacksonville
Me: m/17/spanish
MissShady: so you like troma?
Cannibal: The Musical was released by Troma, which is also known for such hits as The Toxic Avenger, and Sgt. Kabukiman: NYPD
Me: why do you keep asking me that?
MissShady: cuz I never got an answer
MissShady: are you gonna cry?
Me: troma made me cry
Me: my dad killed himself pretending to be Toxie
MissShady: are you serious?
Me: I don't really want to talk about it
MissShady: ok
MissShady: do you go to school?
Me: yes. in fact I have class in 10 minutes. I need to go.
MissShady: o kay bye then
MissShady: try to lighten up a little
Me: try to listen to music other than Tyrese
MissShady: I'll give it some thought
And this concludes Part I. Part II and Part III have already happened, it's just too late to post them all right now. I need to get to sleep. Plenty of excitement to come, including the sex talk, the name calling, the blocking war, and the undercover sneak-attack…


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In the late 1800's a large golden crown was the cause of quite a bit of controversy in Paris.
Russian art dealer Schapschelle Hochmann claimed the crown was discovered near Olbia, in present day Ukraine. At the time, Greek and Scythian art was highly valued, and the inscription indicated it was a gift from a Greek colony called Olbia to a Scythian king 'Saitaphernes'.
Despite being rejected by both The Imperial Court Museum in Vienna and the British Museum, Saitapherne's Tiara finally found a home at France's mainstay of art history and culture, the Louvre.
This would later become a problem for the museum, as Saitaphernes' Tiara was a complete forgery.


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I'm going to be publishing a newsletter shortly and rather than it simply be an extension of what already exists on Blogger I'd like to make it something that would allow those involved in the film blogs on Blogger to communicate not just with one another but with the wider film readership existing out there. I'd like to get as many people interested and contributing to the newsletter as possible in order to create a way for everyone involved to share reviews, articles, ideas, screening information and giveaways. Having programmed film events in Belfast I have a contact list of 1100 email addresses so if you'd like to become attached to the contribution list send me an email and please feel free to add yourself to the subscription list as the most of us involved and the more feedback there is the better it will become.
There's so many wonderful film blogs here and it would be nice to be able to pull ideas and resources that would allow us to create a community forum.
Hope to get you involved.
John Baxter


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The battle known as the 'Chapter of Myton' took place on the 20th of September, 1319.
This battle was one of a series of encounters between the victorious Scots, post Bannockburn, and the defeated, harassed and extremely annoyed English. The Scots had a 'field day' for a number of years, with the only cloud on the horizon being the death of Edward de Brus, the brother of Robert 'the Bruce', who was defeated and slain (killed) in a battle near Dundalk in 1318, whilst attempting to conquer Ireland.
In 1317, a few months before the death of Edward Bruce, Robert I had captured the border town of Berwick-on-Tweed, which had been held by the English since 1298. In fact, although the plan for the capture of the important Border fortress may have been drawn up by Bruce, it was executed by his able Lieutenants, Sir James Douglas and Sir Thomas Randolph, Bruce's nephew and the Earl of Moray. These two, along with Bruce's son-in-law, Walter Stewart, had been running the country whilst the Bruces were away gallivanting in Ireland and had cleared Scotland of the hated English presence almost entirely. The waging of full scale, outright war had ceased with the English defeat at Bannockburn (did I mention that already?) and hostilities at that time were confined to occasional Border forays. The Scots almost always came out on top from such raids, mainly because of the tactics and leadership of 'The Good Sir James', a true borderer.
Pestilence, famine, Douglas and Randolph had desolated the Northern Counties of England and the loss of Berwick was unquestionably disastrous to the English. Not only did it open the door to a Scottish invasion, it severely embarrassed Edward II. Two years later, in 1319, having plucked up the courage, Edward sent an army to besiege Berwick-on-Tweed. The English made every effort to recover Berwick and laid siege to it in such numbers, and with such defences, that for Bruce's men to attack in support of the fortress town would have been a perilous mistake.
Instead, whilst Edward was vainly throwing stones at Berwick, Bruce sent Douglas and Randolph to invade England. At the head of a well-appointed force of around fifteen thousand seasoned troops, those Knights Inhospitable crossed the Solway at the other side of the country and laid waste to the countryside with 'fire and sword', all the way to the gates of York. It is said that in Yorkshire alone, they burned and destroyed between eighty and ninety towns and villages. Part of their plan, in addition to creating a diversion in support of the besieged of Berwick, was said to have been the abduction of Edward's Queen – his wife. At that time, she was residing near York, but unluckily for Douglas, Randolph and perhaps Edward, the intended hostage escaped.
Indignant at the insult thus offered to his City, William de Melton, the Archbishop of York, and his crony, the Bishop of Ely, hastily assembled an army in an attempt to bar the advance of the Scots. His motley crew was comprised of priests, canons, monks, friars, clerks, other ecclesiastics, archers, yeomen, husbandmen, wifelessmen, and artificers, to the number of ten or even twenty thousand men. With these ill-assorted and undisciplined troops, he went in pursuit of the enemy, which unfortunately, he encountered at Myton on the Swale near Borough Bridge, about twelve miles north of York. As might have been expected, the English were ignominiously defeated in a short and decisive battle. The Archbishop's raw levies were no match for the disciplined ranks of the Scots and the slaughter that followed is legendary. Between three and four thousand casualties are said to have fallen in the battle. They either perished on the field or were drowned in attempting to escape pursuit by crossing the river.
As planned, the Scots' success at Myton raised the siege of Berwick and when Edward's army was withdrawn, it was marched southwards in an endeavour to intercept the Scottish invaders. However, Douglas and Randolph were too clever to be caught. They had anticipated Edward's action and had eluded him by taking the high road to Scotland, which they reached unmolested. The engagement was long afterwards remembered by Yorkshire men as the 'White Battle', in allusion to the number of clerks and clergy, said to number three hundred, who fell fighting on the field clad in their full canonicals. Scottish writers, a bit more sardonically, called it the 'Chapter of Myton'.
The village of Myton, known as 'Mitune' in the Domesday Book, lies about three miles east of Borough Bridge and is intersected by the Swale, a little above its confluence with the Ure, by which the village is bounded on the south and south-west. The battle took place in the low lying meadows near the village of Myton on the Swale in Yorkshire and not near the Lancashire parish of Mitton. Near the confluence of the Hodder and the Ribble, that parish dates back to Saxon times when it was known as 'Mythe', which means 'a farmstead at the junction of two rivers'. Mitton is also mentioned in the Domesday Book and there is a church record of 1103, confirming the grant of the parish to the minister, 'Ralph the Red'. Ralph became Lord of the Manor and was known as Ralph de Mitton.
The photograph is by Sam Perkins (check him out on Facebook at Sam Perkins Photography) and was taken near Oban.
Monday, 20 September 2010
The Chapter of Myton
Posted by Ian Colville at 00:40
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Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-Industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Kumar Seeruttun on Monday said initiatives aiming at increasing food security, resilience to climate change and improving livelihood should be encouraged and supported.
Speaking at the opening of the 4th General Assembly on Animal Genetic Resources in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Steering Committee of the Sub Regional Focal Point on Animal Genetic Countries to Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation of African Animal Genetic Resources, Mr Seeruttun said it is important for Mauritius to support Africa's initiative to strengthen and boost livestock development in the region since it is a net food importer relying heavily on exporting countries.
Mr Seeruttun underlined the importance of advocating for a sustainable use of animal genetic resources for the development of livestock production to meet future challenges of achieving food and nutrition security.
He highlighted that this project will ensure that Africa is not left behind in the global thrust to achieve sustainable utilisation and conservation of these very important genetic resources.
He also pointed out that the outbreak of foot and mouth disease last year revealed the vulnerability of the island's livestock sector and has highlighted the weaknesses of its bio-security system.
The Minister underpinned the imperative need of formulating appropriate livestock policies, strategies and legislation to chart the way for the improvement of livestock development. He emphasised that the Mauritian government endeavours to safeguard local animal genetics and various initiatives are currently being spearheaded to this end.
Regarding policies and strategies to boost up the livestock sector, Mr Seeruttun stated that the conservation of local genetic resources has been included in government's strategies as spelt out in the Strategic Plan 2016-2020 wherein emphasis is laid on conservation and utilisation of animal genetic resources.
The 4th General Assembly is being held in Mauritius from 9 to 12 October 2017. Its objectives are to formulate joint interventions for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of animal genetic resources in Southern Africa; discuss and agree on ways to fast-track the implementation of supported initiatives, especially those on trans-boundary breeds and to validate the report on the Regional Regulatory Framework for the Exchange, Use and Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources in Southern Africa.
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