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Re: Oldschool gamers
Reply #30 on:
January 20, 2007, 11:52:25 PM »
I'm still waiting for Nintendo to re-release an updated version of Mario All-Stars to include not only the NES and SNES but he N64 Mario game.
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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January 22, 2007, 04:06:15 AM »
My first video game system was an Atari 2600. I think it was a later model, though (1986?). My brother and I were excited as can be, and we each got to pick a game. He got
Pole Position
and I got
. I miss my Atari.
After that I think it went NES, Gameboy, Genesis, SNES, Playstation, N64, Dreamcast (never given a fair chance), and PS2 (during this we constantly traded in and re-purchases SNES, Genesis, PS1, N64). I don't play too many games these days, maybe some Super Nintendo, or I play various ROMs on my PC (God Bless Neo Geo--
Metal Slug
games are brilliant).
Anyone ever get a Virtual Boy?
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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January 22, 2007, 07:14:10 PM »
Anyone remember Vectrex or going back to pre Atari 2600 days, The Channel F (Fairchild) game system?
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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January 22, 2007, 09:54:57 PM »
Damn. I wish I lived back in the old days. Those must have been super awesome. But sadly, I was born in 1991 right after all the cool years happened. But, my first game console was, NES, with those rectangle controllers. And I had mainly Duck Hunt, with the gun, and Mario of course, and the game with the bubble creatures, i forget what it was called. And other things. Then I got Sega Genesis, then PS1, then PS2, now I am trying to get an Atari, since i absolutely love Atari (Centidpede is my favorite, along with Asteroids.), and also a NES since i dont think i still have my old one. I had the first gameboy, the big clunky black one, that i think was my dads but i also played it, then *upgraded* to normal gameboy, then the miraculous gameboy color! omg, color! But thats about it. I really need to get Atari and NES soon though, gotta play with my friends!
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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January 23, 2007, 11:06:10 PM »
Quote from: Shadowfyre on January 22, 2007, 07:14:10 PM
Anyone remember Vectrex or going back to pre Atari 2600 days, The Channel F (Fairchild) game system?
Was the Vectrex the system that was all vector graphics?
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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January 23, 2007, 11:08:50 PM »
I would still have to say that my favorite system of all time is still the SNES.
I was a loyal Sega fanatic until Contra 3: The Alien Wars came out on the SNES.
That was the game that single handedly made me want a SNES.
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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January 31, 2007, 11:33:48 PM »
I'm a huge fan of old school shooters, and this site dedicated to shoot-em-ups is really good.
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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February 01, 2007, 03:05:07 PM »
Quote from: Torgo on January 31, 2007, 11:33:48 PM
I'm a huge fan of old school shooters, and this site dedicated to shoot-em-ups is really good.
We have all the Splinter Cell games for game cube and also James Bond and Call of Duty....Love them...
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February 23, 2007, 05:58:47 PM »
Anyone else remember a game called Ninja Golf that was released for the Atari 7800? Absolutely one of the strangest games ever to be released and one that is screaming for a remake on the PS3!!!!!!!!!
I was telling a co-worker about this game the other day and they said I was making it up. I wasn't near a computer so I couldn't pull up proof that point.
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February 23, 2007, 10:40:40 PM »
Woah, I totally got an Atari system yesterday. The old school system (with the brown panel in front, and the rest black), came with two joystick controllers, and the connecters to the TV and the outlet, and a box of a few hundred game cartridges. (Pretty much all I need now is Pong, since they didnt have it, and some atari paddle controllers). I'm so excited, i got is all for like, 50$. I've got to play with my friends soon, its so fun. Now my next goal is to get NES and games for it.
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February 23, 2007, 11:07:21 PM »
Quote from: T-Rex Television on February 23, 2007, 10:40:40 PM
Now my next goal is to get NES and games for it.
I've got an emulator disc for my Sega Dreamcast that has almost every single NES game on one disc. Pretty cool, and they all play perfectly without any slowdown or sound missing.
I was playing Ninja Gaiden 2 last night as a matter of fact on it.
I've also got a SNES emulator for my Sega Dreamcast that has something like 400 games on one disc.
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December 03, 2012, 06:45:17 PM »
Here's a site with old freeware/shareware PC games:
I had a couple of these games years ago. They were fun.
My first system was an Atari 2600, four switch wood grain model. It was not new; it was my dad's. I went to a birthday party at a skating rink, but I couldn't skate. The rink had an arcade, and my mom showed me how to play Pac-Man. When we got home my dad got out the Atari, and he showed me how to play the home version. I was too young to notice the difference! Later, I got a Game Boy. It had a clear shell, and it came with Tetris. I still have it.
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December 03, 2012, 06:52:33 PM »
I'm as old-school as it gets. I have great memories of the whole family heading on down to Malibu Gran Prix and play pinball, Midway Bowling, the Sprint racing games, Stunt Cycle, Drag Race, Space Invaders, Gypsy Juggler and others.. then came the 80s and Crazy Climber, Dig Dug, Defender, Centipede, Burgertime, Jungle King, etc. The fantastic games of the 70s and 80s often made me forget I was often without a parent in the arcade and could easily get bullied out of my game by some mean kids.
I still make reviews of the older games for YouTube.
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December 14, 2012, 02:16:26 PM »
Quote from: Andrew on January 10, 2007, 12:21:19 PM
I remember waiting around at JC Penny's to play the Atari console. The old one, with "Space Invaders" as the main game. Turned out, mom was not just shopping. She would go and get in line to put another payment on the Atari she put on layway for me. It took her months, but it was sitting out when little Andrew crept into the living room on Christmas day.
I think I got mine on my birthday or Christmas when I was around 14 o5 15..of course I have you guys beat by a decade and then some because I'm 47. And I still play console and PC stuff today, with my console seeing
and my new PC seeing the FPS goodness of the
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One of the reasons those old games were so good, in my mind, is that the people making them concentrated on the mechanics. When you cannot woo players with useless eye candy, you need to make the game challenging to play, but some parts of it easy enough to master so a new player feels they are gaining something.
The games of that time also had no formal ending to them, as most games have today. The idea was to go as long as you could until the game was finally over. And for that sort of play, you had to maintain a serious and balanced discipline between hand-eye coordination and endurance.
Quote from: Andrew on January 10, 2007, 12:21:19 PM
One of the best RPG games was the original "Pool of Radiance" for the Commodore 64. It was turn based and I like it much better than the new D&D type games. You really could build and control an entire party. I couldn't do that playing some of the newer stuff that is real time.
I had P.O.R. for the computer about 10 years back and it had some good graphics and some seriously nasty creatures. If I remember right the game also came out on an NES cartridge.
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Re: Oldschool gamers
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December 15, 2012, 01:08:44 AM »
I remember playing the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64. We then went NES, SNES, Genesis, PS 1, N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS 3 and Wii. I also got a Retron 3 but that is a sad clone console designed to get me back into the NES, SNES and Genesis days.
I remember surprisingly little about the 2600. I think I was 5 when I was playing it. Remember Centipede and Missile Command, I also remember one where you were searching to destroy these alien ships that were attacking before they destroyed your bases or motherships. I remember a sort of bounty hunter element to it.
The 64 we played infrequently, it was more in exercise by my grandfather to learn some programming as he was always curious about electronics. He worked as an electrical engineer with AT&T.
The NES was the first where I really comprehended or remembered much of what I was doing. Lots of Mario, Contra, Mega Man, and lots of odd games here and there. I always love watching reviewers on Youtube talking about XEXYZ or Metal Storm and saying I remember those games.
While, I enjoyed it I also did quite a bit of PC gaming at the time with flight simulators and some early strategy titles. Sword of the Samurai, Centurion Defender of Rome, F 15 Strike Eagle 2 and 3, F 117-A Stealth Fighter and the like. Also, X-Wing. I was also attracted to the Sierra adventure/quest games.
SNES was next and we played alot of games but less obscure games and more mainstream.
Genesis we played lots of odd ones Beast Wrestler, Death Duel, Heavy Nova and that one Hunter something game. Sorry can't remember the title believe it was more an Amiga game that was ported to the Genesis.
PS 1 continued our RPG love from the SNES, N64 was Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye (loved p**sing a friend off cause he never could get used to proximity mines), Dreamcast was lots of odd ones, PS 2 were lots of mainstream, XBOX the original is where I played the most racing games I ever enjoyed mainly my love of the rally games at the time. Gamecube was more nostalgia and continuing earlier series we enjoyed Gauntlet and Tony Hawk and such.
The currents are from our lack of great PC gaming plus our love of Morrowind from XBOX.
A very generic recollections of my memories from the days of yore. Of course, forgot the arcade stage. (Remember spending $20 in quarters to try and beat the Turtles and Xmen. Also, played lots of Golden Axe.)
Ah, the good old days.
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Burl Cain is not used to crying.
But as the Prison Warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka Angola), Cain took in the funeral of George Beverly Shea, who rested in the casket his inmates had made, and he could not stop the tears from flowing.
"I thought it was the most incredible funeral," Cain said. "It was just a great celebration of someone's life."
It was a surreal week for Cain, who had the opportunity to visit Mr. Shea just two days before his passing — exactly a week before he sat in the gorgeous Anderson Auditorium pew, the stone floor beneath his feet.
They spent two hours together — Cain, Bev Shea and his wife Karlene — mostly laughing, telling stories, and of course, drinking coffee, one of Mr. Shea's passions.
None of them knowing it would be their last visit.
"We had a great conversation," said Cain, one of the Mr. Shea's last visitors. "We ate some cookies and just had a good ol' time."
At one point, Cain told Mr. Shea, "I don't think I've met anyone 104 years old."
Bev Shea's quickly responded: "Well, I haven't met anyone 104 either."
He thought for a second and delivered the next line with perfect timing.
"I haven't met anyone 103."
Cain left blessed, not knowing Mr. Shea would soon pass away.
"He was brilliant," Cain said. "He was so witty and had such a great sense of humor. You would have thought he was 20."
Mr. Shea was buried April 22 at the Billy Graham Library in the Angola casket, just like the one Ruth Bell Graham was buried in back in 2007.
Franklin Graham, who had visited Angola, La., during one of his Festival outreaches, had noticed the high-quality caskets the prisoners had made and asked if they would consider making some for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
"We have a coffin shop in the penitentiary," said Cain, who added the shop idea began after one of the inmate's cardboard coffins fell apart during a ceremony. "This is a life-sentence prison. Life means life. But when you die, you've served the sentence, so why shouldn't you have a good casket?"
Cain said six inmates worked on the caskets built for the BGEA, and Angola donated the labor costs. The caskets are made from plywood with a cross on top.
"(The Grahams) have a heart for prison ministry and prisoners," Cain said. "Some of the poorest people made the coffin, but (Franklin Graham) honored them by letting them build the coffins. We were very honored to do it."
So honored that Cain made the trip to Mr. Shea's funeral in Montreat, N.C., to pay tribute to the man who was the soloist for the Billy Graham Crusades for six decades.
"I came to the funeral because we really have a special place in our heart for Bev Shea, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Franklin," Cain said.
One of Cain's favorite memories was the time when a 100-year-old Shea came to the Louisiana State Penitentiary to sing to the Angola inmates.
"He sang some of his favorite songs for about 45 minutes," Cain said. "It was standing room only."
Mr. Shea came to Angola to deliver in person his newest Rodgers organ — one Franklin Graham had gifted to him for his 100th birthday — to the Angola prison. It was given to Mr. Shea with the understanding that after he passed, the organ would be gifted to Angola.
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How Creating Dance Helps Reggie Wilson "Get Rid" of His Obsessions
With a blend of postmodern and black aesthetics, Reggie Wilson's work explores connections between secular and spiritual cultures of the African diaspora in the Americas. Audiences are drawn to his unique synergy of formal rigor, playfulness and depth.
The Milwaukee-raised award-winning choreographer formed Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group in Brooklyn in 1989 after dancing for Ohad Naharin. Most recently, he curated the 2018 Danspace Project's Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance.
He recently spoke to Dance Magazine about his creative process.
Where His Ideas Come From
Reggie Wilson. Photo by Peggy Woosley.
"An idea hits me and I think, Oh, that's cool. I usually don't follow it when it first happens. And then it will recur and recur, over and over again. It gets to the point of obsession. Making a dance will help me process it, think about it on multiple levels, engage with numerous people and cultures and thinkers."
"I don't ever go with making a piece that will sell. Like the figure of Moses—the idea behind Moses(es)—didn't fit the litmus test of a popular point of research, but I was reading Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain, and a dancer's uncle was a Moses scholar. That seems to be the way I operate. The universe or somebody wants me to think about something a little more. Then I have to "get rid of it," which means incorporating it into my everyday existence. Then it stops being disruptive."
What His Research Process Is Like
Wilson loves finding out where his blind spots are. Photo by Jamie Kraus.
"What nurtures the idea is consuming as much information about it as possible. I'll look at Wikipedia, definitions, etymology, a thesaurus. From my first year at NYU, every weekend I'd go stare at the images of Africa in Rizzoli's art books. Or I'd go to a Margaret Mead Film Festival, a dance or music concert. Obsessive. I need to go to this country. Or hang out in this part of the city. Or go to this club. Or this class."
"There's a curiosity for finding out where my blind spots are. "What didn't I know I didn't know?" I get so excited when that shows up."
The Most Surprising Part About Shakers
"Now I'm doing this Shaker stuff in my work. I thought the Shakers were like the Amish or the Puritans. Totally the opposite. You think about rigidity and stricture, the separation of the sexes, but there are a whole bunch of radical ideas—a religious sect channeling innovation in technology and education, always trying to reinvent and discover in their service of spirit."
"Dancing together was important to the Shakers. Their statement "We find no harm in dancing"—in contrast to the way the Puritans thought—repositioned how I regarded them."
His Advice For Young Choreographers
Fist and Heel Performance Group. Photo by Antoine Rempé
"I tell young choreographers to make as much work as possible. Stop being precious. Get your chair dance out. Get your emotional dance out. At the same time, be strategic in what you show and to whom. Everybody doesn't have to see everything. And you can't control what people are going to think."
These days, you don't have to be in the circus to learn how to fly. Aerial dance has grown in popularity in recent years, blending modern dance and circus traditions and enlisting the help of trapeze, silks, hammocks, lyra and cube for shows that push both viewers and performers past their comfort zones.
More dancers are learning aerial than ever before. Besides adding new skills to your resumé, becoming an aerialist opens up a new realm of possibilities.
Alicia Alonso's famed ballet company in Cuba has a new leader: the beloved hometown prima ballerina Viengsay Valdés.
Ballet Nacional of Cuba just named Valdés deputy artistic director, which means she will immediately assume the daily responsibilities of running the company. Alonso, 98, will retain the title of general director, but in practice, Valdés will be the one making all the artistic decisions.
I'm terrified of performing choreography that changes directions. I messed up last year when the stage lights caused me to become disoriented. What can I do to prevent this from happening again? I can perform the combination just fine in the studio with the mirror.
—Scared, San Francisco, CA
From the angles of your feet to the size of your head, it can sometimes seem like there is no part of a dancer's body that is not under scrutiny. It's easy to get obsessed when you are constantly in front of a mirror, trying to fit a mold.
Yet the traditional ideals seem to be exploding every day. "The days of carbon-copy dancers are over," says BalletX dancer Caili Quan. "Only when you're confident in your own body can you start truly working with what you have."
While the striving may never end, there can be unexpected benefits to what you may think of as your "imperfections."
It's the second week of Miami City Ballet School's Choreographic Intensive, and the students stand in a light-drenched studio watching as choreographer Durante Verzola sets a pas de trois. "Don't be afraid to look at the ceiling—look that high," Verzola shows one student as she holds an arabesque. "That gives so much more dimension to your dancing." Other students try the same movement from the sidelines.
When Arantxa Ochoa took over as MCB School's director of faculty and curriculum two years ago, she decided to add a second part to the summer intensive: five weeks focused on technique would be followed by a new two-week choreography session. The technique intensive is not a requirement, but students audition for both at the same time and many attend the two back-to-back.
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On a summer afternoon at The Ailey School's studios, a group of students go through a sequence of Horton exercises, radiating concentration and strength as they tilt to one side, arms outstretched and leg parallel to the ground. Later, in a studio down the hall, a theater dance class rehearses a lively medley of Broadway show tunes. With giant smiles and bouncy energy, students run through steps to "The Nicest Kids in Town" from Hairspray.
"You gotta really scream!" teacher Judine Somerville calls out as they mime their excitement. "This is live theater!" They segue into the audition number from A Chorus Line, "I Hope I Get It," their expressions becoming purposeful and slightly nervous. "Center stage is wherever I am," Somerville tells them when the music stops, making them repeat the words back to her. "Take that wherever you go."
Dance artists, as a rule, are a resilient bunch. But working in a studio in New York City without heat or electricity in the middle of winter? That's not just crazy; it's unhealthy, and too much to ask of anyone.
Unfortunately, Brooklyn Studios for Dance hasn't had heat since mid-November, making it impossible for classes or performances to take place in the community-oriented center.
So what's a studio to do? Throw a massive dance party, of course.
As winter sets in, your muscles may feel tighter than they did in warmer weather. You're not imagining it: Cold weather can cause muscles to lose heat and contract, resulting in a more limited range of motion and muscle soreness or stiffness.
But dancers need their muscles to be supple and fresh, no matter the weather outside. Here's how to maintain your mobility during the colder months so your dancing isn't affected:
A newly launched initiative hopes to change the face of ballet, both onstage and behind the scenes. Called "The Equity Project: Increasing the Presence of Blacks in Ballet," the three-year initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a partnership between Dance Theatre of Harlem, the International Association of Blacks in Dance and Dance/USA.
"We've seen huge amounts of change in the years since 1969, when Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded," says Virginia Johnson, artistic director of DTH. "But change is happening much too slowly, and it will continue to be too slow until we come to a little bit more of an awareness of what the underlying issues are and what needs to be done to address them."
From the outside, it seemed like the worst of New York City Ballet's problems were behind them last winter, when ballet master in chief Peter Martins retired amid accusations of abuse and sexual harassment, and an internal investigation did not substantiate those claims.
But further troubles were revealed in August when a scandal broke that led to dancer Chase Finlay's abrupt resignation and the firing of fellow principals Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro. All three were accused of "inappropriate communications" and violating "norms of conduct."
The artistic director sets the tone for a dance company and leads by example. But regardless of whether Martins, and George Balanchine before him, established a healthy organization, the issues at NYCB bespeak an industry-wide problem, says Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founding artistic director of Urban Bush Women. "From New York City Ballet to emerging artists, we've just done what's been handed down," she observes. "That has not necessarily led to great practices."
If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at Dance Magazine, now's your chance to find out. Dance Magazine is seeking an editorial intern who's equally passionate about dance and journalism.
Through March 1, we are accepting applications for a summer intern to assist our staff onsite in New York City from June to August. The internship includes an hourly stipend and requires a minimum two-day-a-week commitment. (We do not provide assistance securing housing.)
For the past few months, the dance world has been holding its collective breath, waiting for New York City Ballet to announce who will take over the helm as artistic director.
Though former ballet master in chief Peter Martins retired over a year ago after accusations of sexual harassment and abuse (an internal investigation did not corroborate the accusations), the search for a new leader didn't begin until last May.
Nine months later, the new director's name could be released any day now. And we have some theories about who it might be:
Some people take this profession as just a chapter of their life. They feel like dance is a job—a fun job, but a job. Other people live their life through dance. I never considered being a ballerina a profession. It's a lifestyle.
If I don't have a performance, I feel like a tiger trapped in a cage. I have so many emotions, I feel I need to give them to somebody, to exhaust myself—I need to cry or laugh, or else it's suffocating. Other people might scream or throw bottles into the wall. We dancers scream onstage through our movement. For me, it's like sweeping off the dust in my soul.
What's next for the dance world? Our annual list of the dancers, choreographers and companies that are on the verge of skyrocketing has a pretty excellent track record of answering that question.
Here they are: the 25 up-and-coming artists we believe represent the future of our field.
If you follow Sergei Polunin on Instagram, you've probably noticed that lately something has been...off.
Though Polunin has long had a reputation for behaving inappropriately, in the last month his posts have been somewhat unhinged. In one, Polunin, who is Ukrainian, shows off his new tattoo of Vladimir Putin:
Just before retiring in 2015, Sylvie Guillem appeared on "HARDtalk with Zeinab Badawi," the BBC's hard-hitting interview program. Badawi told Guillem,
"Clement Crisp of the Financial Times, 14 years ago, described your dancing as vulgar."
Guillem responded,
"Yeah, well, he said that. But at the same time, when they asked Margot Fonteyn what she thought about lifting the leg like this she said, 'Well, if I could have done it, I would have done it.' "
They were discussing Guillem's signature stroke—her 180-degree leg extension à la seconde. Ballet legs had often flashed about in the higher zones between 135 and 160 degrees before. But it wasn't until the virtuoso French ballerina regularly
extended her leg beside her ear with immaculate poise in the 1980s that leg extensions for ballet dancers in classical roles reached their zenith. Traditionalists like Clement Crisp were not taken with it.
Back in 2011, Yale University's dean of science was thinking about refreshing the program's offerings for non-majors when he happened upon a Pilobolus performance. A light bulb went off: Dance is full of physics.
That realization led to what has become an eight-year collaboration between particle physicist Sarah Demers and former New York City Ballet dancer Emily Coates, both professors at Yale who were brought together to co-teach a course called The Physics of Dance. Their partnership has involved everything from directing a short film to presenting a TedX Talk and performing a piece that Coates created, commissioned by Danspace Project. This month, they're publishing a book about what they've discovered by dialoging across two seemingly disparate disciplines.
Sebastian Abarbanell remembers being asked as an undergrad at Trinity Laban in London to perform wearing only a dance belt. "I said no," he says, "because I felt uncomfortable." Now a performer with Sidra Bell Dance New York, he's performed partially nude several times, without reservation. The difference? "It comes with more experience and maturing as a dancer," he says. "When you see a dancer living in their skin, you don't need to put anything else on them. When I said no in college, I wasn't in my skin yet."
Getting in your skin—and getting comfortable wearing only your skin onstage—requires a particular alchemy of vulnerability, agency, preparation and practice.
Birmingham Royal Ballet announced today that international star Carlos Acosta will be taking over as director in January of 2020. Current BRB director David Bintley will be stepping down this summer, at the end of the company's 2019 season, after a 24-year tenure. "It is a tremendous honor and privilege to have been appointed to lead Birmingham Royal Ballet," Acosta said in a statement.
Since retiring from The Royal Ballet in 2015, Acosta has focused much of his attention on his native Cuba, where he's proven his directorial abilities at the helm of Acosta Danza, the contemporary company that he founded in 2016. In 2017 Acosta also opened his first Dance Academy through his foundation, which provides free training to students. We don't yet know how Acosta will balance his time between his projects in Cuba and his new role at BRB.
My personal life has taken a nosedive since I broke up with my boyfriend. He's in the same show and is now dating one of my colleagues. It's heartbreaking to see them together, and I'm determined never to date a fellow dancer again. But it's challenging to find someone outside, as I practically live in the theater. Do you have any advice?
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The inimitable Carol Channing, best known for her role as the titular Hello, Dolly!, passed away today at 97.
Though she became a three-time Tony winner, Channing was born in Seattle, far from the Great White Way, in 1921. After growing up in San Francisco, she attended the famed Bennington College, studying dance and drama. She later told the university, "What Bennington allows you to do is develop the thing you're going to do anyway, over everybody's dead body." For Channing, that meant decades of fiery, comical performances, bursting with energy.


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Somerset Berkley Regional High School, with eight athletes, is the No. 1 supplier of talent to our list of 2013 Herald News Track and Field All-Scholastics.
Here is a quick look at the best runners, throwers and jumpers from this past spring.
SARAH SKILLIN, Durfee: A four-year standout for the Hilltoppers and school's female co-athlete of the year, Skillin in the spring shone brightest in the long jump where she had a best of 17-0.5, took third place in Division 1 and was 16th All State. She also qualified D1 in the 400 meters (62.49).
ADAM COUITT, Somerset Berkley: His injury-plagued season was still something special as the junior placed first in the 100 meters in Division 3. Especially hampered in his best event, the high jump, Couitt had a season best effort of 6 feet, 6 inches, and was second in Division 3.
CONNOR SLACK, Somerset Berkley: An extraordinarily determined athlete, the Raider senior, through hard work even when results were not quickly seen, made himself a top-notch 400-meter runner. His best time was 50.84 and he took third place in Division 3 with a 52.01.
MORGAN STEELE, Somerset Berkley: Maintaining the school's tradition of terrific throwers, the multi-talented senior threw 34 feet, 0.5 inches and was an Eastern Athletic Conference all-star. She placed sixth at Division 3. Steele also qualified for the D3 meet in the 100 meters.
TEVIN CINTRON Diman: A star in the middle and long distances, the senior was the area's best in the 800 meters. He took ninth place in Division 3 with a 2:00.12. Cintron also had a 4:39.77 mile and a 10:18.3 two miles to his credit.
CASSIDY CABRAL, Somerset Berkley: When it came to once around the track, the Somerset Berkley Regional senior was tough to beat. She was the best in the 400 meters in the Eastern Athletic Conference and had a 60.94 clocking. She qualified for the Division 3 Championships.
MATT BAKER, Durfee: Whether it's cross country or track, the junior keeps emerging as a Herald News all-scholastic. His best event this spring was the mile where he had a best time of 4:36.78. He placed 16th (4:37) at the Division 1 meet.
HALEY MONAGHAN, Somerset Berkley: A track and field jack of all trades, the SB junior excels at several. This spring her specialty was the javelin. She threw an Eastern Athletic Conference-best 109 feet, 7 inches and qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts Division 3 Championships.
FRANKIE RAY, Bishop Stang: When it came to jumping horizontally, Ray was the best in the area. A senior, Ray specialized in the long jump where he had a season best effort of 20 feet, 2 inches.
NICK DeNARDO, Case: Another of Case's high-scoring speedsters, the junior's best event was the 200 meters. He took ninth place at Division 4 (24.13) and had a best clocking of 23.12.
ALY KERN, Case: Speed and lots of it is what the junior brought to each and every meet. Her main event was the 200 meters and she posted a 27.46 and qualified for the Division 4 Championships.
JAY McMAHON, Case: Part of Case's superb junior class of runners, the junior took fourth place in the two miles at Division 4 (9:50.4), qualifying for All State, and he had a best time of 9:40.83. He also had a 4:35.73 mile to his credit.
DEMETRIS BATE-BARROWS Durfee: The talented junior was our area's best when it came to throwing the javelin. Owner of the school's junior class record, Bate-Barrows took an impressive seventh place at the Division 1 meet with a 159-6.
ABBY ADAMS, Bishop Stang: Another of the superb underclassmen among our all-scholastics, Adams was the area's best in the 100-meter hurdles, where she ran a 16.97 and qualified for the Division 3 Championships. The EAC all star also qualified D3 in the long jump.
NATE LEVESQUE, Diman: Much was expected of the Bengal senior, and the big guy delievered. The shot put was his best event, and Levesque took ninth place in the Division 3 meet with a throw of 44 feet, 7.25 inches.
COURTNEY CABRAL, Durfee: Only a sophomore, Cabral was a consistent scorer for the Hilltoppers. Her best event was the 800 meters where she posted a 2:27.29 time. Cabral qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts Division 1 Championships where she placed 13th.
CARNELL JONES, Case: A junior, Jones was a consistent scorer in the 100 meters. He raced to a 14th-place finish at the Eastern Massachusetts Division 4 Championships with an 11.5 clocking.
DANIELLE DEGRAZIA, Bishop Stang: A senior and an Eastern Athletic Conference all-star, DeGrazia often left foes in the dust in the 100 meters. She had a league-best time of 13.1 and she qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts Division 3 Championships.
JAYDEN SILVA Durfee: The Hilltopper senior was a consistent scorer in the shot put. He qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts Division 1 Championships with a heave of 44 feet, 5 inches.
KELSEY MCGINNIS, Somerset Berkley: Long established as one of the region's premier distance runners, the senior this past season excelled in the two-mile run, posting a 11:39.67 and placing seventh in the Eastern Massachusetts Division 3 Championships.
CASSIE GRACA, Somerset Berkley: Talented and versatile – and only a freshman – Graca was tops in the EAC in both the long jump (16-5.5) and the 200 meters (27.2). She qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts Division 3 Championships in both events.
ZACK MELLO, Bishop Stang: The Spartan junior was fast out of the blocks and didn't let up. In the 200 meters, he had a best time of 23.24 and he was sixth in the prelims in Division 4 with a 23.30.
MELISSA GUIRAND, Somerset Berkley: Her stock rose considerably in this, her junior year. Guirand's specialty was the triple jump, and she was difficult to beat. She had a jump of 32-5 and qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts Division 3 Championships.
EMMA FIORE, Case: The freshman didn't exactly ease her way onto the spring track scene. Instead, she excelled in the two-mile run where she clocked a 12:52.5 and took second place at the South Coast Conference Championships.
Honorable mention: Durfee, Nyrel Stroup; Case, Cory Storm; Diman, Lacey Perry.


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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are longtime self-proclaimed "libertarians." Indeed, Parker is actually a registered Libertarian Party member. They are friends of Reason Magazine. And they have used explicit libertarian themes in numerous episodes.
In the early 2000s, a movement was born out of their series, called "South Park Republicans." They are described as center-right Republicans, mostly suburban fans of the show, with moderate libertarian-leanings. There was even a book released by author Brian C. Anderson called "South Park Conservatives."
Death threats for depicting Muhammad
So what's the problem? South Park's creators- always looking for ways to push the limits of free speech and public dialogue (and probably just love to annoy PC sycophants for the fun of it), decided to slaughter the political correctness crowd's most very sacred cow (so to speak)- by depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
After receiving veiled death threats from an Islamic website, the South Park creators chose to censor their depiction of Muhammad when their second episode (of a two part series on Muhammad) aired on Comedy Central. You can watch the full episodes online (legally) here and here (at least you used to be able to before the controversy- right now the episodes have been frozen).
An Islamic Reformation?
Nick Gillespie, Editor of Reason Magazine was reached for comment yesterday by Libertarian Republican blogger Eric Dondero, and Gillespie said the recent death threat against South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker "demonstrates the need for an Islamic reformation is self-evident."
Gillespie also drew parallels to the recent wave of sex scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, saying that the death threats "should shame all serious Muslims the same way the pope's behavior in sexual-abuse scandals shames true Catholics."
For Gillespie's full statement on the matter, I'll let you take a look at Eric's post.
What do "left-leaning" libertarians say?
I just know Eric is dying to hear what we "lefty" libertarians think about this (a term he uses to distinguish libertarians who don't think Islam is the biggest threat to our lives, liberties, or property- which I certainly don't; I think the U.S. federal government is).
All I have to say is this: remember how just one or two Tea Partiers had racist signs and the media then painted us all as racists and showed those signs everywhere, anytime they covered news related to the Tea Party? Remember how annoying and unfair that was?
Not all Muslims, not even a majority of Muslims want to kill Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Your average Muslim, walking around Turkey right now is thinking about his family, his job, and other seemingly mundane things, not: "Oh boy, oh boy, I hope someone kills that vile Trey Parker!"


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Michael Hasenstab, who manages $175 billion in bonds at Franklin Templeton Investments, told the Financial Times investors should exit so-called safe sovereign debt before it's too late.
A rising interest-rate environment would lead to losses for bond-fund investors and holders of long-term debt and without the Fed's bond-buying plan U.S. Treasury yields would be "higher, meaningfully higher," Hasenstab told the FT.
'"The worst has happened and we haven't fallen into a deflation trap. As things either stabilize or get a little bit better, it's hard to imagine deflation coming out of nowhere," he told the paper, adding that "U.S. 10-year yields below 2 per cent just don't seem consistent with the U.S. economy."
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield hit 2.03% on Wednesday, the highest since April 25. Bond prices and yields move inversely.
While Hasenstab won't predict when U.S. rates will increase, he has been stocking up on short-term bonds in emerging markets like South Korea with higher yields of 2.5% to 3%. "They have an interest rate advantage, so if we look out five years, the value of the Korean won relative to the value of the dollar will probably be higher because we're just flooding the world with dollars," he said to the FT.
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An Arizona commission that oversees workplace safety blamed the state's Forestry Division on Wednesday for the June deaths of 19 firefighters, saying state fire officials knowingly put protection of property ahead of safety and should have pulled crews out earlier.
The ruling by the state Industrial Commission came after its investigative agency, the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health, released its findings and recommended citations and financial penalties. The commission levied a $559,000 fine.
The ADOSH report was a stinging rebuke of an earlier investigation commissioned by the Forestry Division, which found that state fire officials communicated poorly but followed proper procedures when 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed in a blaze near the small community of Yarnell northwest of Phoenix.
All but one member of the crew died June 30. The Hotshots were trapped as the flames they were battling changed direction in a fierce thunderstorm. The Arizona State Forestry Division oversaw the fight against the blaze that sparked on state land.
The ADOSH investigation found that state fire officials lacked key personnel to battle the Yarnell Hill Fire at critical times. Marshall Krotenberg, the safety agency's lead investigator, told the commission there should have been officers to ensure firefighters' safety, a planning section chief and a division supervisor, who wasn't replaced after he abandoned his post.
Family members who attended the hearing sobbed softly when the names of the dead were read.
Juliann Ashcraft, whose husband, Andrew Ashcraft, was killed, said the report provides important insight.
"Finally, people that are educated, that are experienced, that have researched it and have a less biased opinion they're just there objectively that they get it," she said.
Krotenberg told commissioners that fire managers should have removed firefighters an hour before the thunderstorm arrived.
"The storm was anticipated, it was forecasted, everybody knew it," he said. "But there was no plan to move people out of the way."
In addition, senior fire managers had already determined that the town itself was indefensible, he said.
The commission's chairman, David Parker, said he believed the fire management team on site did everything in its power to defend the community and provide for the safety of people.
"But it's not the intention of the people that (is) in question, it's that employees remained exposed after they no longer should be exposed," he said.
Carrie Dennett, a spokeswoman for the Forestry Division, said the agency fully cooperated with the investigation and declined comment. The Forestry Division has 15 working days to appeal.
Gov. Jan Brewer's office also declined comment, citing pending litigation. The mother of one of the firefighters has filed a $36 million notice of claim against the state, Yavapai County and the city of Prescott, saying their negligence led to the death of her son.
The safety agency's review occurred simultaneously but separately from a three-month investigation by national experts into the circumstances surrounding the deaths. That report was released in September and found lapses in communication from the crew in the hour before the firefighters died. It also found that proper procedure was followed but did not say whether deaths were avoidable nor did it place blame.
The ADOSH investigation found that the state Forestry Division didn't respond to a request the evening before for two safety officers, key positions in large firefighting efforts.
Krotenberg said the oversight was the result of an unknown mistake. "Apparently, it got dropped," he said. "The ball got dropped."
Firefighting crews were still battling the fire even after the incident command post was evacuated, according to the ADOSH report.
The bulk of the proposed fine is $475,000 $25,000 for each of the 19 deaths. That money will be paid to the firefighters' families. They were employed by the city of Prescott but working under a standing contract with the state Forestry Division for the Yarnell Hill Fire. The ADOSH investigation found that the city of Prescott was in compliance with standards for training and crew rest.
The crew members had been in a relatively safe position on a ridge top. For an unknown reason and without notifying anyone, they moved down the mountainside through an unburned area where they were trapped by a wall of flames when winds shifted the fire in their direction.
They deployed their emergency shelters but perished in the scorching heat.
The surviving crew member, Brendan McDonough, was away from the others and acting as a lookout. He might have suffered the same fate had he not been picked up by another crew leader who happened to be driving by after McDonough radioed in to say he was retreating, Krotenberg said.
"Essentially, it was in the nick of time, and he didn't have to deploy his shelter," Krotenberg said.
The report praised the Granite Mountain Hotshots for remaining "alert, unimaginably calm, thinking clearly and taking decisive action." While the crew followed most of standard firefighting guidelines, the safety agency faulted the men for not scouting or timing alternative escape routes, not having a lookout as they moved toward a ranch property identified as a safety zone, and not notifying their supervisor of their movements.
The fire destroyed more than 100 homes and burned 13 square miles before it was fully contained on July 10.
Dan Parker, whose son Wade Parker was killed, is a firefighter himself in northern Arizona. He said it's time for the state "to change the coach."
"As far as blaming somebody at this point, right now, on a personal level, I think it's futile," Parker said. "But having been a captain on a fire engine, and worked in the fire service as long as I have, I know that if I was involved in an incident where somebody was injured or killed, then my butt would have been on the hot seat and I would have been held accountable."
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Hartsville, SC -- The Coker Women's Tennis Team improved their record to 2-1 after a dominating 9-0 win against Columbia College Sunday. The No. 1 and No. 2 doubles teams quickly clinched two wins with Rachel Lemar (London, England) and Alyssa Blanchard (Columbia, SC) defeating Ospira/Francis 8-1 and the No. 2 doubles team of Ashley Pace (Clinton, SC) and Stephanie Medley (Sumter, SC) defeating Brown/Hall 8-1. The No. 3 doubles team of Cassidy Spencer (Wilkesboro, NC) and Lindsay Crighton (Florence, SC) fought a well won match defeating Stevenson/Yeager 8-6.
The Lady Cobras continued their momentum by taking all six singles matches without dropping a set. Playing No. 2 Blanchard defeated Hall 6-0, 6-0. Spencer and Medley defeated each of their opponents at No. 3 and No. 4 respectively 6-0, 6-1. Pace defeated Brown at No. 5, 6-1, 6-3 while teammate Crighton defeated her opponent at the No. 6 spot 6-0, 6-2. The most competitive match of the day came at No. 1 with Lemar defeating Ospire 6-4, 6-2.
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Though he hasn't been offered the job, the actor has expressed availability and willingness to portray any number of potentially film-ruining roles in the new Star Wars movies.
Source: ThanosCopter Newswire
Rumors hit the net today that Harrison Ford is unofficially officially signed on to reprise the role of Han Solo in the upcoming Star Wars films from Disney, but what about Shia LaBeouf, who famously ruined the Indiana Jones franchise by portraying Ford's son, Mutt Williams, in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? According to our sources, while no one at Disney has considered offering LaBeouf a role, the actor would be perfectly willing to take one if the opportunity came up.
"I could play Han Solo's son. That's the obvious way to go, and probably what most people are clamoring for," LaBeouf told reliable sources in statements leaked on the internets this morning. "But I'm open to other possibilities as well. For instance, I could play a descendant of Jar Jar Binks. I've been practicing my Jar Jar."
"Meesa think, for an old man, you ain't so berry berry bad in a fight!" mimicked LaBeouf, clearly quite proud of himself. "Pretty great, right? I can do an Ewok too. I could play all the Ewoks."
When asked why he's even talking about this when no one has brought up his name in any capacity related to the franchise, LaBeouf was undeterred. "Why wouldn't they want me? Everyone saw what I did with Indiana Jones. With Harry - that's what I call my friend and real life surrogate father figure, Harrison Ford - signing on to reprise his role, I think it's only natural that Disney is gonna want to bring back some of that Crystal Skull magic. Get the band back together, you know?"
LaBeouf's enthusiasm is appreciated, but what about his recent vow to stop making big budget Hollywood movies and only participate in small-time, independent filmmaking?
"Oh, I'm still into that," LaBeouf assured fans worried about the state of his artistic integrity. "For instance, I'm currently working on writing and directing a subtitled French language film, an autobiographical piece, called LaBeouf: A LaLife. I thought about it though, and, it's really not right to deprive the mainstream movie going audiences of my talent, so I'm going to do Star Wars too."
"After they ask me, of course," he added, confidently. "Which they will soon. Hey my phone is ringing! That's probably them."
"It was a wrong number," he said few moments later, slightly downtrodden. "But Disney will call soon."
Immediately after LaBeouf's statements hit the web, ComicBooks.net's Gus Sterlingham published an article speculating on whether or not Joseph Gordon Levitt would play Shia LaBeouf in LaBeouf: A LaLife.
Star Wars Episode 7 will be in theaters in June 2015, leaving the online geek media more than two years to make up more completely unfounded rumors about it in an attempt to score sweet unique hits.
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by covalesky » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:34 pmDon't even joke about it!
by Pink_Orchid » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:38 pm
by Grayson » Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:00 pm
by fieldy snuts » Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:17 pmI think he'd be perfect for a modern Han Solo
by BBally » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:16 pmI'm one of those who doesn't hate Shia LeBeouf, like most actors he has his strong points and weak points, his strongest being in comedy or light dramas, and I thought he was good in Hole and The Greatest Game Ever Played.
by Rockman » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:37 pmI don't mind LeBUff but I don't want him in a Star Wars movie.
BTW Jude that LaLife thing was hilarious
by S.F. Jude Terror » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:44 pm
by HNutz » Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:21 pmHe's gotten to play Indiana Jones's son, hang out with Optimus Prime... who EXACTLY did he sell his soul to so that he could live out every kid's dream?
And when are his 10 years up?
by covalesky » Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:29 pm
And hang out with Constantite
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A protest march organised by Halifax mum set off today (Friday) to send out a message to health chiefs that the public will not accept any downgrading of services, loss of services or back door privatisation of the NHS.
Only Clowns Would Close Our A&Es, is the message from members of the public who are Walking for the NHS from Calderdale Royal Hospital to Pinderfields Hospital, via Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Dewsbury District Hospital on August 22 and 23.
Walk for the NHS will join up with the national Call 999 for the NHS People's March when both groups arrive at Pinderfields hospital at 3.30pm on Saturday 23rd August.
Organiser Katherine Horner said: "I created the walk because like the 999 Call for the NHS ladies, I am concerned about the future of our NHS. I'm worried about the cuts our local hospitals Trust wants to make. Would I be happy sat in an ambulance with one of the kids going all the way from Halifax to Huddersfield if they close Calderdale A&E?
Also on a national level, do I believe we should have a two tier health care system - one for the haves and one for the have nots? I don't. But this is the way things are going, unless we do something about it."
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William Delbert Edwards passed away Thursday, January 31, 2013, at North Kansas City Hospice House.
Memorial Service will be 3:00 p.m., Sunday, February 10, 2013, at Hillside Christian Church. Visitation will be from 2:00-3:00 p.m. prior to the service at the Church.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to North Kansas City Hospice or Hillside Christian Church.
Delbert was born July 20, 1924, in Renick, MO. He served in the Army Air Corps in WWII, and was a retired railroad engineer of over 40 years. Delbert really enjoyed the stock market and was a self-taught trader. He was passionate about jazz and loved music. Delbert also loved golf, and enjoyed to fly after getting his pilot license.
Survivors include his wife, Maurine N. Edwards; his children, Andy and wife Chris Gaines and Becky and husband Del Healy; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; nephews, Randy and wife Lisa Edwards and Tom and wife Dale Edwards; nieces, Carolyn and husband Richard Green and Ginny and husband Steve White.


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Actually, just a mile away in Chaddesden there is a new public house which is called 'The Peregrine', as the photo shows. Last year, there was a competiton in the local paper about what this pub should be called and The Peregrine, named specifically after our birds, came top!
Saturday, 16 June 2007
Off to the pub!
Actually, just a mile away in Chaddesden there is a new public house which is called 'The Peregrine', as the photo shows. Last year, there was a competiton in the local paper about what this pub should be called and The Peregrine, named specifically after our birds, came top!
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I can't believe that you only had a quick look inside, you didn't stop for a drink or two?
Heather, Derby
- 16 June 2007 at 12:31
really sad going to miss seeing these two having followed them from just being eggs, they just seem to have changed into adult birds so quickly from being ringed, i feel really priveledged to have been able to follow their progress any time of day or night and i thankyou, hope they both have a great life and thanks for making all this possible.
- 16 June 2007 at 16:43
Hang on: it was only 10am and we were on the way to the office, so a drink was, sadly, right out of the question.
However, we did leave a bunch of peregrine leaflets with them...and made a mental note to call back at a more sociable hour.....
DWT project member.
- 16 June 2007 at 18:00
going to miss these two girls when they have fledged, thanks for the opportunity to watch their fantastic arrival from start to finish well done to you all.
- 16 June 2007 at 19:28
- Ash said...
I understand that ORANGE is now the ring colour for Derbyshire. Have we had any other recruits of peregrines this year to the Derbyshire flock?
- 17 June 2007 at 08:54
Visited the cathedral fairly early on Saturday, and witnessed both parents keeping watch on the tower in the rain. Shopping finished before noon, we headed out along Sir Frank Whittle Road and saw a male peregrine flying low towards us (another visit to the cricket ground maybe?). So he certainly hadn't gone down the pub for a "swift" half...
- 17 June 2007 at 12:09
Hic, btw Have there been any reports or sightings of the previous chicks. Does anyone know where the 2 parent birds 'reside' when not breeding?
- 17 June 2007 at 12:59
- Project Member (Derby Museum) said...
The colour orange was only allocated to Derbyshire because we requested it. So there won't be any more rung this year, but if other peregrine nests get ringed in future years, they, too, will have orange rings.
No-one has seen any of last year's chicks since mid-April this year. They've probably moved away to find roost sites and, eventually, breeding sites of their own.
Our parents will remain around Derby Cathedral, roosting on the top gargoyles, but perhaps using other nearby tall structures like the Full Street police station radio mast, or perhaps even the new Westfield Shopping Centre.
- 17 June 2007 at 20:10
- Project Member (Derby Cathedral) said...
They have been reported to spend a lot of time on the communications tower of the local Police Station!!
Actually, they do not migrate like Peregrines in other countries and will stay around the Cathedral over the winter, as could the youngsters. One of last years brood was still around when this years eggs were laid - see previous entries on the blog. It is going to be very interesting to see how he copes with 3 females!!!!The Peregrine may become a regular haunt!!
- 17 June 2007 at 20:27
On Tuesday we visited Derby Cathedral and the Peregrine watch point.
We have followed the progress of the Peregrines from being eggs and it was a privilege to see them in the flesh or should we say feathers.
The guys at the watch point were wonderful and made our visit a pleasure thanks guys, especially Andy who made the trip down from Wigan a day to remember.
Good-bye for now maybe we will see you next year.
Joe & Vee
- 21 June 2007 at 07:58


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- My goal is to turn all the difficult issues we all have to deal with into working code (silver).
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In New York City's Times Square there are more screens, streaming more video content, for more companies and advertisers, than anywhere in the world. Video content is the most demanding content for network.
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Jean-Laurent Poitou, global management consulting lead for Accenture Communications, Media & Technology (CMT), explores how the endless network of screens is informing the growth of today's high-volume digital networks.
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Rumors that Michael Phelps, already the most decorated Olympian, is planning to come out of retirement sent the swimming community abuzz Friday night.
Phelps, the Baltimore native who retired with a lifetime 22 medals, 18 of them gold after the 2012 London Games, threw some water on the notion that spread after a blogger and a Florida television station said he was headed back to the pool.
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This monumental jar may have stored a liquid (drinking water, wine or olive oil): spirals, which predominate in the stamped geometric decoration, often signify liquid artistically. A frieze of repeated pairs of figures with long hair runs across the neck. One (at left) throws his head back and raises one arm while the other (at right) faces him with both arms upraised: the gestures of the former suggest dance, perhaps ritual, rather than mourning.
Vessels of coiled clay at this scale occur as early as Minoan Crete where comparable ones have been found in situ in palace store-rooms. Ancient repairs to some pithoi, and contextual finds sometimes five hundred years later than their manufacture, attest to the respect in which they were held. Secondary uses could include being a container for the deceased, a grave-marker, or, if broken, well-heads or chimney pots. Herodotus records that Kypselos, later tyrant of Corinth (and contemporary with this pithos), was hidden in one as a child to escape assassination.
The decoration of the amphora-like handles, with parts cut away window-like ("fenestration") and the elegance of the proportions reflect the growing sophistication of the society that created it. Architectural in scale and conception, it may be remembered that many elements of ancient buildings were made from fired clay.
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This has been the year of kale, with recipes for kale chips and kale salads everywhere.
This has been the year of kale, with recipes for kale chips and kale salads everywhere.
It seems that any food-related get-together, especially potlucks and picnics, featured a kale Caesar. No complaints. These dishes are beautiful departures from the cooked green. But all that kale has made me forget other greens.
Like escarole. In recent weeks I've rediscovered its slightly jagged leaves and mildly bitter flavor.
It works well in salads, especially when balanced with milder, sweeter greens, such as leaf lettuce (although I gladly eat an escarole-only preparation showered with pomegranate seeds and Parmesan shavings).
Just slightly wilted, escarole makes a fine condiment to pasta. Here it gets backup from savory pancetta and sweet sauteed onions. The chopped greens are stirred in at the end so the pasta's heat wilts the leaves without turning them into mush.
Wash the dish down with a crisp white wine or medium-bodied red.
Penne Pasta with Wilted Escarole
Serves four.
1 pound penne pasta
6 ounces pancetta, in 1/4-inch cubes
1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil
2 onions, sliced in half-moons
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 large head leafy escarole, sliced in wide ribbons
1/2 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese
Prep: 10 minutes. Cook: 15 minutes. Heat a large stockpot of well-salted water to a boil. Add the pasta; cook according to package directions until al dente. Meanwhile, heat the pancetta in a large skillet or Dutch oven over medium-high heat; cook until fat is rendered. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons oil, if needed. Add the onions; season with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring, until completely soft, 12 minutes. Add garlic; cook, 1 minute. Sprinkle with the red pepper flakes. Drain the pasta, reserving 1/2 cup of the pasta water. Return pasta to the pot; stir in the onion mixture and the escarole. If the dish seems dry, stir in some of the reserved pasta water. Toss with the Romano cheese. Nutrition information per serving: 600 calories, 16 g fat, 7 g saturated fat, 35 mg cholesterol, 93 g carbohydrates, 31 g protein, 787 mg sodium, 14 g fiber.


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Ashton Kutcher leaves the Staples Center after watching the Lakers play the Spurs on Tuesday (November 13) in Los Angeles.
The 34-year-old actor's team unfortunately lost by just a few points!
Ashton's Jobs co-star Josh Gad recently had some glowing things to say about bringing his character, based on real life Apple founder Steve Jobs, to life.
"Ashton is going to blow a lot of people away," Josh, who plays Apple's Steve Wozniak, told Us Weekly. "His performance was absolutely transformational. If he looked any more like Steve Jobs, I think it would just confuse a lot of people in thinking Steve Jobs never passed away. It's that uncanny."
"I think he has an appreciation for Steve Jobs, the likes of which I've never seen in any actor who's portrayed a real, living person," Josh added.
Jobs is expected to hit theaters next year.
FYI: Ashton is wearing a Constantine Coat by Life/After/Denim.
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From 15 feet away and more this looked like Starbucks, but no, it wasn't. Not even close. I travel with my own coffee, and Senor Muggy, but when needed I've found that Starbucks works. Zeldman told me that once. He said Starbucks was a trusted, known source, of mediocre coffee – consistently mediocre. I was like whatever, but that's totally true in Taiwan. While the Taiwanese do buffets right, corporate coffee is bad just like everywhere else.
In Taipei, they also have a thing for outlets with funny names.
A comment and revised sentence above clarifying that Taipei's corporate-chain coffee was bad, just like anywhere else (v. Starbucks that's mediocre everywhere).
We did have good coffee in a stand during our ride.


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The Rattle Box is a prop for vanishing a coin and having it appear elsewhere. This is a slightly larger model, in a deluxe inlaid wood finish, that will enable you to perform the effect with any borrowed coin, finger ring, or similar item. This box measures about 4.5" long, 3" wide and 1.75" high. The rattle feature allows a spectator to "hear" the coin or ring in the box, after the item has been "stolen away."
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Introducing Eritrea
Asmara © Jacopo
Eritrea has two faces, split by the Great Rift Valley. The western 'half' is fertile land while the east is a desert descending to the coastline. Eritrea sits squarely over the Danakil Depression, where three tectonic plates tug away from one another. And if the possibility of the ground pulling apart underneath you wasn't enough to complicate your movements on this land, getting around in Eritrea once there, is tricky. It has some of the world's most expensive fuel and even if you could afford a taxi or rental vehicle, many of the country's roads are defunct or closed. Instead, the only way to navigate the interior is by rail.
Still, despite the poor infrastructure and notable lack of tourists, Eritrea is not without charm. With the Red Sea serving as its coastline, diving to see coral and majestic sea life is a rewarding experience and Eritrea's most popular tourist activity. The exotic coastal town of Massawa is a good base for exploring the coast. The capital of Asmara boasts some of the most intact colonial (Italian) architecture in Africa, while to the south of Asmara there are pre-Aksumite civilisation sites such as the ruins of Qohaito, the ongoing excavation of which is constantly revealing new mysteries.
Unfortunately the wonder of Eritrea will probably remain buried until conflict with neighbouring Ethiopia is resolved. The current government stringently controls all travel, media, business and other enterprise, earning Eritrea the dubious accolade of being dubbed the 'North Korea of Africa'. Many travel authorities, including the British Foreign Office, currently advise against travel to Eritrea.


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Fez creator Phil Fish took to Reddit today to answer questions posed by fans. One fan asked if Fez is coming to the Nintendo 3DS, and Fish replied by saying he and his team don't have any plans to bring the puzzler to Nintendo's latest handheld. Fish went on to say it would be pointless to bring Fez to the Nintendo 3DS and that it wouldn't work on the autostereoscopic device.
It doesn't need to be about 3D. I would have figured it was about broadening the audience on a currently best selling platform.
I haven't played it, but Fez looks like a freakin amazing game. I find it a shame that it isn't on the 3DS.
I'm hopeful that the game at least shows up on Vita. I'm not playing favorites since I own a 3DS too. I simply think that this sort of game should be enjoyed on a handheld.
Phil Fish clearly hasn't played Cave Story (the eShop release) or VVVVVV (again, the eShop release). If he did, he would see that these games with strictly 2D sprites actually look pretty nice with the 3D effect.
I don't see why it would be any different with Fez. More so considering that, in top of the 2D sprites, Fez has that amazing changes in rotation, where the game actually becomes 3D if so very briefly. Those instances would look incredibly superb with the 3D effect.
So, he's totally wrong on this one, and should get to work with a 3DS version. Finish the Vita one, and then do one for 3DS, he will have many sales guaranteed because the 3DS has now a pretty great install base and a game like Fez would be VERY popular on the eShop.
Didn't Phil Fish say that Fez "should be out on pretty much everything"? Last time I checked, the 3DS is a part of "everything."
I mean, I don't see why putting Fez on 3DS is a bad business move. If you're going to bother putting it on iOS and Vita, just put it on 3DS. It doesn't need the 3D effect to be worth playing, especially if the game design is so good.
Phil needs to get his ideas in line before he opens his mouth. You'd think he'd learn by now.


text: Last night I watched the most wonderful documentary, with my back to the world about the artist agnes martin on the sundance channel. It was truly remarkable and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in art, nature and one artist's life long exploration of the meaning of life. While watching it I also realized how rare it is in our culture to hear from older people and how different their insights are, having been developed over the many years of living a long life! Plus I learned a lot about an artist's work I knew very little about before and during the process of watching the film, came to understand and appreciate more deeply. It was such a total treat.


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For the better part of 1915, the ingenuity of the heady new century was on spectacular display at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. An actual Ford assembly line turned out Model Ts in 10 minutes flat. The brand new transcontinental telephone system connected callers 3,000 miles apart. And, for 4 months of the fair's run, 30 young children attended school in a glass-walled Montessori classroom, providing an intimate view of the new educational model that was quickly catching on among American educators and parents.
The classroom was tucked inside the Palace of Education and Social Economy, 1 of 11 massive exhibit palaces in the sprawling, 635-acre fair. Three of the room's walls had extensive glass windows, inviting visitors to watch the goings-on inside.
The students had an equally good view of the spectators, but they diligently attended to their work, giving rise to admiring reports about their powers of concentration. They ranged in age from 2 ½ to 6, and had been chosen from a pool of several thousand applicants. At Maria Montessori's insistence, only children without prior schooling were eligible for the class.
Dr. Montessori's influence could be seen throughout the model classroom. She recognized the immense publicity value of the well-attended fair, and was anxious for everything to be perfect. Billowing fabric provided a ceiling for the space, giving the room a cozy feel. The blue, gray, and white furnishings were built by designer Louise Brigham, renowned for her "box furniture"—simple, recycled materials crafted into beautiful pieces for the home.
The distinctive Montessori learning materials were in good supply, and on the first day of class Dr. Montessori herself guided a boy working with cylinders. But the job of lead teacher fell to Helen Parkhurst, Dr. Montessori's star pupil and a renowned American educator in her own right. Parkhurst later founded the progressive Dalton School in New York City and developed the acclaimed Dalton Laboratory Plan for secondary education, both inspired by Montessori philosophy and practice.
If being the embodiment of Montessori education to the world's visitors was a daunting assignment, as Parkhurst later admitted, there's no doubt that she aced it. The demonstration classroom was hugely popular with fairgoers, according to historical accounts, with many visitors returning day after day to watch the industrious "miracle children" in their beautiful classroom setting. The school day ran from 9 a.m. – noon, and as lunchtime approached, the crowds grew. Observers filled the rows of seats and beyond, transfixed by the elegant dining table set with linens, china, and candles; the display of impeccable table manners; and the sight of young children serving themselves and cleaning up afterward.
While Parkhurst and her students held sway at the fair, Dr. Montessori gave lectures throughout California and held training courses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. She was also an invited speaker at many of the state, regional, and national conferences that met on the West Coast that year in order to coincide with the PPIE. The most important of these addresses, in terms of winning wider acceptance for the Montessori Method, were the keynotes she gave at the annual conference of the National Education Association (NEA), held in Oakland. At the time, the NEA enjoyed an even higher profile in professional education circles than it does today, and its 1915 conference drew more than 15,000 American educational leaders. Dr. Montessori addressed the general session as well as 3 divisional sessions, all well-attended.
The glass classroom and Dr. Montessori's long California visit were a boon for Montessori education. American newspapers and educational leaders embraced its founder for both her pedagogy and personality. But as history would have it, 1915 was the pinnacle of what would become known as the first wave of Montessori in America. With Dr. Montessori's return to Italy in December, and the coming of World War I, Montessori's role in American education began its long, steep decline.
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Check Out the "Alphabet Burger"- A Burger With One Topping For Every Letter of the Alphabet
I love this hamburger because it's ridiculously indulgent and totally American...and also surprisingly NERDY.
A guy named Nick Chipman from the website DudeFoods.com just put together the "Alphabet Burger." It's a hamburger with 26 toppings, one for every letter of the alphabet. Here's what he went with...
Avocado, bacon, cheese, Doritos, egg, fish sticks, garlic bread, ham, Italian sausage, jalapeno peppers, a Krispy Kreme donut, lettuce, mac and cheese, noodles...
Onion rings, pepperoni, queso dip, ramen, spinach, turkey burger, Usinger's bratwurst, veal parmesan, waffle, xylocarp, yams, and zucchini.
"Xylocarp" is a fancy name for coconut. The other stretch is Usinger's bratwurst for "U" . . . Usinger's is a brand of sausages out of Milwaukee.
From the picture, it doesn't look quite as gross as you might guess. There's no word how it tasted.


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Pump a chump and Supa dick head are tired ass dinosaurs who need to crawl back to their final resting places. You suck as people because you can't control your condescending rhetoric. Based on some of the longer term posters here you two have always been this way.
Learn how to structure an argument in an objective way without attacking and you might be surprised at the tone difference in the responses you receive.
This is your one little spot in the virtual world you perceive as real where you somehow think your opinions matter or others will listen. Apparently the majority of posters here think you both are a joke. You can count me among that crowd now. You guys are a freakin' joke. Seriously.
Don't get mad at me because I am dishing out what you have been serving up for years. That's kinda the point of why I am posting the way I am. To give it back to you. Make it personal, childish, and be an intentional ass hole as I am being. Sound familiar?


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TOLEDO, Ohio — A spokeswoman for a northwest Ohio city says the collapse of brick sewers beneath a road caused the sinkhole that swallowed a moving car.
The 60-year-old driver says she was running errands and headed to her home Wednesday in Toledo when the pavement gave way and her car fell into a hole estimated to be at least 10 feet deep. Pamela Knox tells The Blade newspaper she feared she would die as water from a broken pipe poured into the back seat of her car.
She was briefly trapped but climbed out using a ladder with help from a firefighter. She was shaken and checked at a hospital but wasn't seriously hurt.
Knox, an elementary school principal, says she'll likely avoid the scene of the sinkhole for a while.
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Don lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and has held the position of Senior Counsel at Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc. of Newport Beach, California since 2011. Prior to that, he was a Senior Partner at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin firm of Habush, Habush & Rottier, S.C. where he practiced for thirty years. Both firms are Leaders Forum members. He is licensed to practice law in the states of Colorado, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin, as well in Federal Courts in those and other states, and in the Fifth and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeal. He's been admitted pro hac vice in more than twenty-five other states. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a B.S. with honors in Nuclear Engineering and a J.D. He was a licensed Professional Engineer (Ret.) in Wisconsin for thirty years, and has held a private pilot's license with an instrument rating for most of his career.Don has been a member of AAJ (and ATLA) since 1981, and has attended most o f the Annual and Winter Conventions since then, except when in trial. He's served on many committees over the years, including NCA, Budget (2011-present), Executive (2012-2013, 2014-2015), Exchange which he's co-chaired numerous times (1986- present), and presently also is on the SLGCC, SLC, LGLC, Web & IT, NFC and Press Advisory committees. He's a past chair of the Products Liability Section and continues to sit on its Executive Committee. Don's a frequent speaker on NCA programs, including webinars, at specialty seminars such as JazzFest and Skiing with the Stars, and at conventions. He is a PAC and M-Club member at the Eagle level, and a contributor to the Robert L. Habush Endowment. He's authored articles for Trial Magazine and chapters in various books, including Litigating Tort Cases. He was given a Stephen Sharp Award in 2002 and the Weideman-Wysocki Award in 2009 and again in 2010. He's served as a representative for the SLC a nd the LGLC on the Board of Governors.
Don is a long-time member of the AAJ litigation group Attorneys Information Exchange Group, serving on its Executive Committee since 1987, and as president from 2001 to 2003. He's also a member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, the Texas Trial Lawyer Association, the Washington State Association for Justice, the Wisconsin Association for Justice, the Consumer Attorneys of California, and the American Bar Association. He's a past president of the Western Trial Lawyers Association and still serves on its board and as its education chair. He has served on the Public Justice Foundation board of directors since 2005. He's also a regular member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and of the Association for the Advancement for Automotive Medicine, for which he served on its peer review committee for six years.He's also been listed in Best Lawyers in America continuously since 2001, and recognized by SuperLawyers in Wisconsin in 2006 and Colorado in 2012. He has a Preeminent rating (5.0) from Martindale-Hubbell and an AVVO rating of 10.0. He was first listed in Who's Who in American Law in 1990.
Don concentrates his practice in the areas of products liability and aviation, handling cases around the United States, and occasionally in foreign countries. He presently serves on the plaintiffs' steering committees for the Toyota Sudden Acceleration litigation in the Federal MDL and California JCCP. For his work in this area, he's received awards from the Attorneys Information Exchange Group and the Western Trial Lawyers Association. Don's presently active in the GM Ignition Switch litigation, the Takata Airbag litigation, and the Aluminum Capacitor Anti-trust case. He's been an invited attendee to the Duke Conferences and has testified before the Federal Rules Committee.
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