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Kim Edwardsis the author of the short-story collection The Secrets of a Fire King, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has won both the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award and teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.Edwards, Kim is the author of 'Memory Keeper's Daughter ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780143037149 and ISBN 0143037145.
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Seminole County Florida Public Schools: Give Back Our Recess
Seminole County Public Schools schedule very little recess for our children. For example, only 30 minutes of recess per week are allowed for some 5th graders. Numerous studies and child development experts agree that recess is just as significant for our children's development, as the structured class time. In fact, recess helps to develop our children emotionally, physically, intellectually, and socially.
In addition to allowing children to blow off steam, some children with ADHD and Autism have trouble functioning properly without recess, because the physical activity regulates their bodies and minds.
A recent study indicates that physical inactivity is just as detrimental to our health as smoking cigarettes. So, the question is: would we condone the schools having our children smoke cigarettes? If the answer is no, than we must allow our children to play more.
Seminole County Schools are stealing the opportunity for our children to learn to socialize, get physical activity and independently solve problems.
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Thanks to the excellent photography and teamwork of two of our guests last month, Phil and Jen, we've learned we have a rarely seen Wrasse Blenny in residence. The Wrasse Blenny may not win prizes for fancy coloration, but it earns extra points for being a mimic of the quite common Caribbean Bluehead Wrasse during just about every one of its coloration phases, the exception being the terminal phase of adult Bluehead males. What gives the Wrasse Blenny away? The brilliant red eye. Phil and Jen were diving just off the Villa's dive dock, noses only inches from an isolated coral head in less than 10 feet of water, when they spotted this elusive fish.
Diving the circumference of Dunbar Rock offers up some of the best shallow water shore diving imaginable. You'll find a mix of sand, turtle grass, concrete and natural boulders, coral heads, sea fans, squid, eels and a surprising large number of fish. Those of you who would otherwise disregard the idea of diving in 10′ – 15′ of water should think again when it comes to diving the parameter of our Rock. Experienced divers, adventure seekers and macro photographers all know that this is where you go to discover the weird and the wonderful! It's the kind of place a trained eye can find a 1/4 inch Heart Urchin Pea Crab, a gigantic Barracuda or the colorful Scarlet Striped Cleaner Shrimp. Unlimited tanks for diving this area are include in the dive packages, so be sure to give it a go on your next stay with us both during the day and as a dawn or dish dive.
The universe likes to challenge travelers by making the best places to visit the hardest to get to, but Dunbar Rock is doing its best to ease the way! We've recently concluded discussions with Honduran airline AeroCaribe, and have succeeded in getting them to launch Saturday non-stop flights between Roatan and Guanaja. The flights are scheduled at just the right time for optimum connection with incoming and outgoing international flights. Lanhsa Airline remains a good option as well, not only from Roatan but from San Pedro Sula on mainland Honduras.
We can also arrange for a helicopter charter from Roatan, to fly at your convenience. The helicopter can take up to 4 people with one piece of luggage each at a cost of $1200.00 each way. Contact us when you are ready to think about your inter-island options so we can recommend the best route for you.
The first hyperbaric chamber and clinic opened on Guanaja earlier this year. The clinic was made possible through a grant from DAN and generous contributions from Dunbar Rock owner Kirk Laney and his long time friend and associate Delia Cornett.
Funding of the Clinic is just one of the many ways that the Villa is "giving back" to the community and the people of Guanaja. The Villa on Dunbar Rock is also responsible for having established, with the assistance of a great number of supporters, Guanaja's first Library and Learning Center in Bonacca that has been stocked with over 10,000 books donated by guests from the Villa.
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Please let us know if you have interest in these or any other dates, as availability changes regularly and rooms can open up at any time. It's not too soon to be thinking about 2017 travel either, especially since you can book your stay at the current 10% discounted package rates provided you make your reservation prior to September 2, 2016. Package rates increase by 10% for all reservations made thereafter. Reservations can be made directly with our email@example.com, via your local dive retailer, or with your favorite dive travel professional.
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The waters surrounding the Cuban archipelago are warm with an average annual temperature above 24°C, mild tides and no strong currents. Standing on a large, exuberant and totally virgin coral reef, Cuba is a sunken paradise for those with a passion for diving. With an average horizontal visibility of 30 meters (98 feet), the Cuban waters possess diverse flora and underwater fauna and an absence of aggressive animals.
Professionally-equipped and staffed dive centers in Cuba are located throughout the country. Bilingual dive instructors are certified by prestigious international agencies including the American Canadian Underwater Certification (ACUC), the Confederation Mondiale dÁctivites Subaquatiques (CMAS), Scuba Schools International (SSI) and more. PADI (US-based outfit) does not operate in Cuba, but PADI certification is accepted in Cuba.
The Cuban seas know of no seasons. All year is a good time to dive in search of attractive and indescribably beautiful seascapes, coral gardens, caves, sponge prairies, shipwrecks with a story to tell, walls, narrow channels, tunnels and many other charms that defy the imagination. However, we do not recommend overbooking diving in advance on Cuba's north shore during the winter months since frequent cold fronts often negatively affect nautical departures. Diving on the south shore is usually less affected by winter weather conditions
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I decided to have a go at making my own Side Step card and here's the result. I cut a K&Co card blank to that shape. I also used some of my handmade roses, pink cardstock, punched and inked leaves, punch lace-like border, free sentiment, borders, butterfly embellishment, die-cut letters, ribbon, recycled wrapping from flowers. I also embellished the inside with some handmade papers cut into a frame and a butterfly stamp that came free with a past issue of Simply Homemade.
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The Artistry of Album Covers
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World by Norman Lebrecht
Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig by Steven Heller and Elaine Lustig Cohen
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy
So I went to a party in Bushwick, Brooklyn, some weeks ago, the height of summer's heat wave. Tao Lin was leaning against an air conditioner. I'd just been asked to review this book—his second novel, Richard Yates. I went over, told him I'd been asked, and offered him the opportunity to write the review himself, which I would submit under my own name. Bookforum would then publish the review, and a day or so later Lin would reveal the truth on his blog, etc.
Lin said he'd think about it, then contacted me the next day to decline. Which proves he's cannier than I'd thought.
I told him that I'd have to write the review in his style, then—submit it for publication and later, when the review came out, claim publicly that Lin wrote it for me. I'd have to write directly but without adverbs, without (illuminating or useful) adjectives. I would have to use regular language, few commas, and no semicolons; when I wrote something particularly hackneyed I'd have to put it between quotation marks. This would all be "work."
This is the work of which Lin's career is made—that plus exhaustive blogging, unstoppable PR, and insipid stunts like the one attempted above. Lin's previous books—a novel, a novella, a collection of stories, and two of poems—are beside the point, and that's the point. The most cogent praise I can give him is that he is the writer who has best understood the possibilities of prose and poetry on the Internet, though I'm not sure that is complimentary. By compulsively maintaining his websites and perpetrating schemes such as selling stock in books yet to be written,
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Beginners' Harbour Art Classes (6 weeks) – Just two places remaining!Meet weekly for an art class inspired by Chichester Harbour and using a variety of media. With professional artist and teacher Fran Davies. Basic materials supplied but you might like to bring your own.Fee: £60 for 6 sessions, advance booking is essential.Meet: The Stables, Eames Farm, Thorney Road, Thorney Island, PO10 8DE. Roadside parking.
Sun 12 Mar, 10am - 3pm
Print-making for BeginnersBe inspired by the Harbour view, learn about the techniques for print making and have a go at making your own artworks. All materials supplied but bring an apron, refreshments provided. With artist and teacher, Fran Davies.Fee: £10 per person, advance booking is essential.Meet: Harbour Education Centre and the Quay, Dell Quay, PO20 7EE. Roadside parking.
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Fri 3 Mar, 10am - 12pmHarbour Creekies: Experience a School-type Field TripHave fun with the Creekies' leader and have a go at some of the activities that children do on a school field trip. Don't worry - gymnastics are not part of today's curriculum. Refreshments provided.Fee: £5 per person on the day, (free to Friends ofChichester Harbour). To join click hereMeet: Harbour Education Centre and the Quay, Dell Quay, PO20 7EE. Roadside parking.
Sat 18 Mar, 10am - 2pmHarbour Hares: Venturing out of the AONBFeatures: Meet for a coffee at 10am and then at 10.30 we will travel by minibus to the Ferry Point in Langstone Harbour before walking 41/2 miles back to Sandy Point along the sea front.Fee: £5 per person on the day, (free to Friends ofChichester Harbour). To join click hereMeet: Upstairs at the Lifeboat Station, Bracklesham Road, Hayling Island, PO11 9SJ. Free parking by kind permission of RNLI.
Sun 19 Mar, 10am - 12pmTry Nordic WalkingGet your walking poles out and learn to walk the Nordic Walking way with a qualified instructor.Fee: £5 per person on the day.Meet: Outside the Harbour Office, Itchenor, PO20 7AW. Roadside parking or pay and display car park
Sat 25 Mar, 1pm - 2.30pmBirdwatching Walk from EmsworthA stroll along the shoreline taking time to look for and identify the Harbour birds. Bring binoculars. No dogs please.Fee: £5 per person on the day.Meet: End of Warblington Road, Emsworth, PO10 7HG. Roadside parking.
Solar Heritage
Solar Heritage is a 14 metre, solar powered catamaran licensed for public boat trips. She can carry up to 50 passengers. The boat is open-sided for unimpeded views so warm clothing and wet weather gear is advised. There is a toilet onboard and the boat is fitted with an access lift.
Friends of Chichester Harbour members are offered a special discount of £1 per ticket. To join the Friends, please click here
Trips depart from Itchenor from October to May and from Emsworth from June to September inclusive.
Our March trips are fully booked – please look out for the new programme details coming soon on our NEW website.
Our NEW LOOK activities programme will be launched in time for the May half-term holiday. You will find copies at various points around the Harbour or you can have one sent to you by phoning the Harbour Office on 01243 513275.


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ARD Applied Research and Development Grants Revised: April 1, 2015 The opportunity previously available to colleges through Applied Research and Development Level 1 Grants is now available through Engage Grants. The page limit for ARD proposals has been increased to a maximum of 10 single-sided pages. |
CRD - Collaborative Research and Development Grants Revised: April 1, 2015 Information about DND/NSERC Partnership Grants is now available in the CRD Grants description. Grant levels requiring Advisory Committee on University Industry Grants (ACUIG) review have been modified. |
CREATE – Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program Revised: June 29, 2016 Form 102 – Instructions
CTRMS – Collaborative and Thematic Resources Support in Mathematics and Statistics Program Revised: July 6, 2015 NSERC will not be accepting new applications at this time, as there will be no competition for this program in 2016. |
DG Discovery Grants Program Revised: August 6, 2015 As of the 2016 Discovery Grants Competition, NSERC will no longer be accepting Team Grant applications. Applicants with a research background in a non-university setting may no longer include contributions over the last 10 years in the application. Applicants can now only include contributions over the last six years. This applies to all applicants. |
DND/NSERC Discovery Grant Supplements Created: August 15, 2016 NSERC is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Department of National Defence (DND) through their agency Defence Research and Development Canada. The partnership will provide up to 20 research supplements of $120,000 ($40,000 annually over three years) to support unclassified university-based research dedicated to the development of non-weapon-specific technologies with dual-use applications in defence and security areas. |
DND/NSERC Partnership Grants Revised: April 1, 2015 Information about DND/NSERC Partnership Grants is now available in the CRD Grants description. |
EG - Engage Grants Revised: December 15, 2015 The program description has been updated to outline new eligibility and participation requirements. Please consult the document carefully. The application checklist has also been updated to provide a guide for completing the freeform section of the proposal. The instructions have been updated to clarify what is required in an application and a budget justification. |
I2I – Idea to Innovation Grants Revised: November 6, 2015 NSERC is announcing changes regarding the requirements for intellectual property protection and the involvement of experienced business mentors in I2I Phases I and II. Refer to the grant description and instructions for more information. |
IRCC – Industrial Research Chairs for Colleges Grants Revised: June 7, 2016 There will be no competition for this grant in 2016. IRCC Chairs awarded in 2011 will be invited to submit a renewal application in 2016 for a second five-year term. Renewal instructions have been created. The program description has been updated to reflect the renewal process. |
RTI – Research Tools and Instruments Grants Program - Operations and Maintenance Support For Research Equipment Created: September 9, 2016 NSERC is pleased to introduce a supplementary component to the Research Tools and Instruments program. This pilot initiative will support Canadian research with grants to help cover costs for the operation and maintenance of equipment for one or two years, with contributions of up to $150,000 per year. This one-time funding opportunity is being launched in conjunction with the current Research Tools and Instruments competition. The deadline for applications is October 25, 2016. Applications will be assessed by a multi-disciplinary selection committee. |
SAP-DG – Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants Program Revised: June 14, 2016 As of the 2017 Discovery Grants Competition, NSERC will no longer be accepting Subatomic Physics Discovery Grant - Team applications. |
SPG - Strategic Partnership Grants Revised: December 1, 2016 Minor clarifications have been made to the descriptions of the Environment and Agriculture and Natural Resources and Energy target areas. SPG-N - Strategic Partnership Grants for Networks Revised: December 1, 2016 The following changes have been made for the 2017 SPG-N competition:
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With the wins, the Tigers improve to 43-7 overall and 16-4 in conference play, moving to one game behind Alabama in the SEC Western Division standings. The Bulldogs fell to 30-21 on the season and 4-15 in league action, extending their losing streak to 13 consecutive games.
For the second time this season, LSU began an SEC series with back-to-back shutouts. The Tigers also shut out South Carolina in a doubleheader before holding the Gamecocks scoreless in the third game of the series. It marked the first LSU shutout over Mississippi State since March 3, 2004, and the first back-to-back shutouts since March 11, 2001.
Emily Turner earned the first complete-game win to improve to 19-3 on the season. In her 12th shutout of the year, she allowed just three hits with two walks while striking out eight. She did not allow a single Bulldog to advance to third base in the game, while only three base runners were in scoring position against her.
In the second game, Dani Hofer came out with a win to improve to 14-4 on the year. She also allowed just three hits in her seventh complete-game shutout with two walks and six strikeouts. Again, no Mississippi State player reached third base and only one was allowed to reach scoring position in the game.
"I like the way we look right now," said LSU head coach Yvette Girouard. "Our leaders are starting to step up their play. Emily was lights out again for us. Dani had her change up working well again. It's great to see both of our pitchers perform so well because we really do believe we have that 1-2 combination but it's just been a little lacking. Once Dani is back on track we should be really tough to deal with."
Stephanie Hill led the Tigers at the plate with a 3-for-6 performance, including a double and her first career triples, with an RBI. Camille Harris recorded her team-leading sixth home run of the season in the second game in the bottom of the first inning; while Leslie Klein posted her team-best fifth triple in game one that scored two in the bottom of the first.
"What I really like to see are some bats coming around now," said Girouard. "Stephanie Hill is hitting the ball as hard as you can possibly hit it. Klein does not feel well. She was sick all night long and gutted it out. She got a key hit in the first game. She was playing on pure guts tonight. Vanessa Soto came up with a clutch RBI in the second game after some aggressive base running by Camille Harris."
LSU jumped out early with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first inning of game one. After an infield single by Lauren Castle and a walk to Harris, Klein tripled past a diving Nakita Boyce in left field to score Castle and Harris and give the Tigers the 2-0 lead.
In the fifth, LSU added a third run on a sacrifice fly by Harris. Andrea Smith reached on a double to right center with one out. With Heidi Robin running for her at second, she advanced to third on a wild pitch and then scored on the sacrifice fly.
Two more in the bottom of the sixth completed the game for the Tigers. Soto led off with single through the right side. With Shannon Stein running for her at first, Stein advanced to second on a walk by Klein. On a fielding error by the shortstop, Hill reached to load the bases. Stein then scored on a wild pitch as Klein advanced to third and Hill moved to second. A sacrifice fly by Delahoussaye scored Klein to run the score to 5-0.
In the second game, LSU once again took the early lead in the first inning. With one out, Harris drove a 1-2 pitch over the left center field fence for the 1-0 Tiger advantage.
In the bottom of the third, Soto earned a one-out walk. With two outs, Hill tripled to right field, scoring Soto from first base. It marked the first career triple for Hill, who had previously recorded a double in the game and ranks second on the team in both doubles and home runs.
LSU completed the scoring in the doubleheader in the fifth. With one out, Harris reached on a throwing error by the pitcher and advanced all the way to third on the play. A single up the middle by Soto scored Harris from third. Soto then moved to second on an infield single by Klein. With Dee Dee Henderson running for Soto at second, Henderson advanced to third on a fly ball out by Hill. On a delayed double steal, Klein took second as Henderson stole home to give the Tigers the 4-0 win.
Stephanie Comeaux started and took the loss for Mississippi State in the first game to fall to 14-7 on the season. She allowed two runs on four hits with a walk and a strikeout in four innings. Kelli Miller came on in relief in the sixth and allowed three runs on two hits with two walks in two innings.
In the second game, Regan Blake started and took the loss for the Bulldogs. She allowed four runs, two earned, on five hits with two walks and four strikeouts in five innings. Sara Hickerson came on in relief and retired all three batters she faced.


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The Irish Pub was around the corner from our hotel, and we were hungry on a Saturday afternoon. We entered through the gift shop, and the place was decorated incredibly for Christmas. Looks like it takes a week and a half to set it up. The room is not lit brightly, the tables and walls are dark wood. We were seated quickly, and looked at the placemat menus. Only one or two items over $10. My wife got a scallop basket, I got a corned beef special. Hers was as expected, breaded scallops and steak fries. Both average, seemed frozen. My sandwich was decent. A good deal of quality meat, nice slaw and dressing, and the steak fries. They were quite hot, one redeeming quality. Overall OK, good for a quick inexpensive bite and a beer if you want. Not fine dining by any measure.
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British artist Andy Goldsworthy makes sculptures out of ice, trees, and leaves. He discusses his 'Ephemeral Works.' Mexican-born journalist Jorge Ramos moved to the U.S. in 1983. "I am glad that I came," he says. "The First Amendment has given me all the opportunities that I couldn't have in Mexico." Chef Michael Solomonov shares recipes from his new cookbook is 'Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking.'
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USA -(Ammoland.com)- On December 30, 2016, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) filed new regulations for "assault weapons" as a result of AB 1135 and SB 880 that were signed into law last July.
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The NRA and CRPA's legal team is currently preparing legal challenges to these regulations and will be bringing challenges to the other "Gunmageddon" bills in the near future.
In the meantime, NRA and CRPA's legal team have put together a webinar, free of charge, that will allow you to better understand the impact of the regulations.
Join NRA and CPRA on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 12:00 pm (PT) for a live webinar that will cover the new "assault weapon" regulations and help gun owners better understand what they are and how they will be impacted.
In this webinar we will discuss and explain:
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Thu Mar 28, 2013Socialist socialites: Hollywood mourns Hugo Chavez
Wed Mar 6, 2013FDA requires lower doses for Ambien, other sleep meds
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Spain, Catastro de Ensenada (FamilySearch Historical Records)
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Collection years: | 1749-1756 |
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Title in the Language: | España, Catastro de Ensenada |
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Record Description
These are census records of the Spanish regions of Andalucía, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, and Murcia. The cadastre registers have been well-preserved. The cadastre generally includes information about the land, the income, the ownership, the assets, the head of household, and the heirs.
These records are written in Spanish; see the section "For Help Reading these Records" for access to translation helps.
This cadastre was created when the country was preparing for a profound fiscal reform. The reform was aimed at improving the state of the Castilian treasury, simplifying the system of contributions, and making the system fairer. The idea was to replace income from the provinces by a single tax, which was intended to be universal and proportional to the wealth of the taxpayers. It was thus necessary to investigate the wealth of the subjects. The cadastre became the official register of the quantity, value, and ownership of real estate used in apportioning taxes.
The cadastre was divided into sections called: Memoriales (Memorials), Respuestas Generales (General Answers), Respuestas Particulares (Personal Answers),Libro de lo Real (Book of Real Estate), Libro de lo Personal o de Cabezas de Casa (Book of Personal Information or Heads of Household), Estados o Resúmenes (Quantitative Summaries). This cadastre is in the form of a register and includes the quantity, value, and ownership of real estate used in apportioning taxes. The Cadastre of the Marquis of Ensenada includes a description of the properties and the population—both the secular and ecclesiastical—throughout the 22 provinces of the Old Crown of Castile, which occupied 70% of the territory of modern-day Spain.
This cadastre is known in Spanish as the "Catastro del Marqués de la Ensenada" and was conducted between 1750 and 1754 by Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, I Marquis of Esenada. He had been called by King Philip V of Spain as the Secretary of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (or Minister of Finance) of the Crown of Castile.
Because the cadastre was made for tax purposes, you can learn interesting facts about the towns such as its principal industry, quantity and types of buildings, and how much land was under cultivation by examining the Respuestas generales. The Cadastre of the Marquis of Ensenada was taken by assigned persons; it is a reliable source for research in Spain.
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Record Content
The books of Real Estate and Personal or Heads of Household may include the following information:
- Names of property owners
- Places where properties are located and in some cases the names of neighbors
- A notation on the title page if there is an index of the people included in the cadastre
- Sons and daughters that worked on the property
- Type, measurement, value, and quality of the properties
- Number of workers
- Number of heirs
Memoriales de legos o seglares and Personal de legos o seglares may include the following:
- Names of the head of household as well as the
- Name of spouse
- Name(s) of child/children
- Other people living in the home (could be relatives and servants)
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•Vaucluse (84120) • Population: 17,833 • Altitude: 246 m
Pertuis is an opulent town on the rich plain of the Durance, at the southern edge of the Vaucluse. Called the "Porte du Luberon", it's also known as the capital of the Pays d'Aigues.
- Aix Historic NE
A sizable little town, Pertuis is similar in feeling to Aix-en-Provence, 20 km to the south. There are all the shops and services of a town, and the bustle of being at the crossroads of two busy highways. It's a traditional town, however, with lots of narrow streets, vaulted arches and many fountains, some dating from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Vestiges of the medieval past include a 13th-century tower, now a bell tower, parts of the 14th century defensive wall, remains of a 16th-century chateau, and a clock-tower campanile built in 1605. The tourist bureau is located in a great old chateau.
The église Saint-Nicolas, on the same central square as the tourist office, was built in the 12th century, and was rebuilt or renovated in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
Fountains of Pertuis
The town of Pertuis has a number of lovely old fountains, dating from the 16th to 19th century. This fountain [left] is the Fountain of the Angel (le Fontaine de l'Ange). The oldest fountain in Pertuis, it was rebuilt in 1509 and into it's current form in 1620. It's located on the aptly-named Place de l'Ange.
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History of Pertuis
First record, 981 Pertusum (Roman)
Prehistoric: Neolithique sites and many Iron Age habitations have been found in this region.
Gallo-Roman: Pertusum was an ancient Roman site, and the remains of a villa are at Ste Thérése.
Medieval: Pertuis was ruled jointly by the Count of Forcalquier and the Abbey de Montmajour, and was a priory of the Abbey de Montmajour. In the 12th century, Pertuis was in the fief of the Counts of Provence. In 1460, King René gave Pertuis as a gift to Jeanne de Laval, his second wife. By 1493, Pertuis was attached to France, and received a visit by Charles VIII; since then, the town has had the crown and fleur de lys on its coat of arms. The town suffered plague epidemics in 1488, 1640 and 1720.
Tourist Office
"Le Donjon", Place Mirabeau
Tel : 490 79 15 56; Fax: 04 90 09 59 06
Web: www.pertuis.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Market day: Fri.
June - Grand Corso Fleuri, Flower Parade - floats and music; day and evening
IGN (1/25,000) #3243 OT "Pertuis, Lourmarin"
Pertuis is a large town, located in the rich farming country of the Durance valley, and there's no real hiking adjacent to the center. The GR 9 (Grande Randonnée) runs north-south about 12 km to the east where it passes through Mirabeau and crosses the Durance. To the north, the GR goes by Grambois and passes into the Luberon. To the south, the GR 9 goes by Jouques and on to the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, east of Aix.
There is some closer hiking, about 6-8 km to the southeast, where trails follow forestry roads over the hills of Malacoste (476 m) and St Sépulcre (590 m).
Transportation Pertuis
Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Pertuis
- Bus services run to/from the Marseille airport (50 km) and to/from Aix-en-Provence (28 km). There is a Marseille-Aix-Pertuis bus line. We don't have any more details on bus schedules.
Avignon, Pertuis Bus
- Two Vaucluse bus lines are required to travel between Avignon and Bonnieux, Lourmarin, Cadenet or Pertuis.
(A) Line 15.1: Avignon, Coustellet, Les Baumettes, Goult/Loumieres, Gare de Bonnieux, Bonnieux/Pont Julien, Apt Le Chene, Apt; Line 9.1: Apt, Bonnieux, Lourmarin, Puyvert, Lauris, Cadenet, Villelaure, Pertuis.
(B) Line 7: Avignon, Caumont, Cavaillon; Line 15.2: Cavaillon, Cheval-Blanc, Mérindol, Puget, Lauris, Puyvert, Lourmarin, Cadenet, Villelaure, Pertuis.
Cavaillon - Pertuis; Aix - Apt
- Two Vaucluse bus lines serve the villages of Pertuis, Cadenet, Lauris and Lourmarin.
(A) Line 8 (Cavaillon-Pertuis) serves: Cavaillon, Cheval-Blanc, Mérindol, Puget, Lauris, Puyvert, Lourmarin, Cadenet, Villelaure and Pertuis. There are 4-6 buses a day; about 1h10 between Cavaillon and Pertuis.
(B) Line 9.1 (Aix-Apt) serves: Aix-en-Provence, Pertuis, Villelaure, Cadenet, Lauris, Puyvert, Lourmarin, Bonnieux and Apt. There are 4 buses a day. Distance: 2 hrs Apt-Aix; Pertuis is mid-distance for time.
Department 84, Vaucluse Buses
- See Beyond's Bus Schedules Page 2: Vaucluse Department for downloading Vaucluse bus-lines map [Plan global des lignes] and bus-line schedules [pdf for each line] (link for PDF files).
• Avignon has train or bus connections to Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Nîmes, Saint Remy-de-Provence, Paris.
• Cavaillon has bus connections to Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Saint Remy-de-Provence.
• Pertuis has bus connections to Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.
Nearby Places
- Aix-en-Provence 20 km
- Ansouis 8 km
- Apt 35 km
- Avignon 71 km
- La Bastide-des-Jourdans 16 km
- Cadenet 12 km
- Cavaillon 44 km
- Cucuron 12 km
- Grambois 12 km
- Lauris 20 km
- Lourmarin 16 km
- Manosque 41 km
- Silvacane Abbey 17 km
- La Tour-d'Aigues 5 km
- Vaugines 15 km
Nearby Hotels
- Pertuis hotels
- Aix-en-Provence hotels 20 km
- Ansouis hotels 8 km
- Apt hotels 35 km
- Avignon hotels 71 km
- Cadenet hotels 12 km
- Cavaillon hotels 44 km
- Cucuron hotels 12 km
- Grambois hotels 12 km
- Lauris hotels 20 km
- Lourmarin hotels 16 km
- Manosque hotels 41 km
- Vaugines hotels 15 km


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Christina Battle and Adán De La Garza on video art and the quasi-imperialistic nature of sound
Fade Out is one of the videos featured at Loud!!!
Courtesy of Paul Destieu
Several years ago, when Adán De La Garza and Christina Battle moved to Denver from cities with vibrant media arts communities, they sought out the same thing here. They did not find it. As video artists, they craved an artistic network, a local scene where they could bounce off ideas and find a home for their projects. Colorado has an amazing array of experimental film- and video-makers working outside mainstream traditions, but too often people find themselves isolated. De La Garza and Battle opted to correct that and launched Nothing to See Here, an organization devoted to showcasing a variety of underrepresented media arts: sound, film, video and performance. Tomorrow they'll host the second edition of Loud!!!, with several short films and a performance exploring the political and aesthetic power of sound at the Sidewinder. In advance of that event, Westword spoke with De La Garza and Battle about their plans.
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Westword: Talk about the screening.
Adán De La Garza: It's a series of clips and small artists' videos where sound is the driving force. The content varies, but the selections we made are based on sound as the dominant aspect of the videos.
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Can you break that down?
De La Garza: We're thinking about these things in terms of what it means to be loud and how sound is a quasi-imperialistic art medium. It's a non-optional sort of experience.
Christina Battle: I think often in video works, it's so image-based that because there is a focus on something happening, artists often delegate sound and music to the background, as an afterthought. All of these works bring sound to the foreground, so they are conceptually about sound, and they're also aesthetically and visually about sound as well.
These short videos were made by a number of different artists around the world. When we curate things for Nothing to See Here, we try not to make judgments about whether or not a work is developed for an artistic space or audience. There are a number of works that we found on Youtube that conceptually fit with this idea that we have about sound and its relationship with video. Some of these people might not think that they were making an artwork specifically.
Can you unpack this notion that sound is quasi-imperialistic? Where are you coming from?
De La Garza: When things are visual you can close your eyes and remove yourself from that space; whereas, you can't really eliminate sound. The person who is emitting the sound is in control of the space that they're in. Be it speaking or utilizing an amplification system, sound dominates the space and delegates what happens within that space.
Battle: We're interested in looking at artists who are not taking sound for granted and reminding us that we should be thinking about this not only in artistic works, but on a daily level as well. Not all of the works take on the issue in this politicized sense, but this is how we're coming at these ideas and these issues in sound. We sought out works that are highlighting sound and allowing us to think through this greater idea.
Sound is something that we don't think about. Both of us also teach. One thing that I always say to my students at the beginning of the semester is that if you're looking at something you don't feel comfortable looking at, you can remove yourself from the situation. With visuals, it's so simple. You can just close your eyes. With sound you have to remove yourself from the space entirely.
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Heavy Metal Couch will be one of the films at Loud!!!
Courtesy of Max Bernstein
When you talk about imperialism, are you referring to an international or nationalistic context sound operates in?
Battle: Sound is very much used in weaponization strategies as a tool for war, literally. Conceptually, we are terrified by this notion that we take sound for granted when it does have these destructive and political elements. We're really not mincing words.
It's funny; even as we talk conceptually about where these ideas come from, the program itself is actually really humorous and fun. A lot of artists, in our minds, are embracing this idea of sound and using their work as an opportunity to be loud or to make a personal statement. That's something in society that we don't ever allow ourselves to do. We don't allow ourselves to go out onto the street corner and scream, even though a lot of times it's incredibly therapeutic to do that, and we all want to do that or break things.
Talk about the screening series?
De La Garza: This is the second screening that we've done. It's basically out of necessity for both of us in seeing the sorts of works that we want to see in this city and going about it in the most immediate way we know how, which is building a community based on video screenings. It doesn't happen too often in Denver. In the most immediate sense, that's one of our goals here. It's just the two of us. We're trying to bring some new content to Denver.
Battle: I think one thing that is different about Nothing to See Here is that we're trying to bridge gaps between a number of different communities. Our screenings have both been at the Sidewinder which has a space that predominantly operates as a music venue. Something that tends to happen, for whatever reasons, is that video screenings and film screenings are really separated from a music crowd or a sound-performance crowd and even sometimes from the art community itself. We operate individually and as artists within a lot of different communities. We do this as a way to talk about how our own interests span beyond this specific genre or discipline and how we might be able to generate things that a number of different people would be interested in seeing who have never thought about the links between the history of video art and performance. Loud!!! will start at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Sidewinder, 4485 Logan Street; there is a $5 suggested donation.
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"Reflections on a Lake"
at Grounds for Sculpture Museum, Hamilton, NJ
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5, 2004
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October 9- November 30, 2003 The
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by Chris Shull Review of "The Nature of the
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December 13, 2002 "A Sprinkling of Diamonds"
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New York Times
October 13, 2002 review by Helen Harrison
...Perhaps the most remarkable amalgam of repetition and transformation is Devorah Sperber's "Shag Rug 165,000," a full size recreation in pipe cleaners of Jackson Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm." The synthetic colors, identical textures and uniform size of the 165,000 pieces of wired chenille are obvious. But viewed in a convex mirror mounted in a strategic position, the rug becomes a convincing image (albeit in reverse) of Pollock's painting, like a slide projected backwards. Ms. Sperber has simulated Pollock's spontaneous energy. -Helen Harrison, October 13, 2002. Itinerary: John Michael Kohler
Arts Center
"Devorah Speber: Pixelated" Sculpture
June 2003 Review of "The Nature of the
"February Picks," NY
February 2003 review
by Christopher Chambers
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
March 23- July 7, 2003 Catalogue Essay by Leslie Umberger, Senior Curator Review of "Formed to Function?"
Group Exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel review by James Auer
Review of "Duality/Autonomy
"Grooving to the Oldies: Fascinating Shows Feature Riffs on the Golden Age of Modernism" Westword
January 30, 2003 review by Michael Paglia
Review of "Duality/Autonomy
"High-Tech Impact Comes Through Unplugged" Rocky
Mountain News
January 25, 2003 review by Mary Voelz Chandler
Review of "Duality/Autonomy
"Artists Shine in Shared Show" The
Denver Post
February 10, 2003 review by Kyle MacMillan
Review of "POST-DIGITAL: 800
Solo Exhibition at HEREArt Gallery, Soho, NY, March 3- April 7, 2001 The
New York Times
March 23, 2001 review by Ken Johnson
Review of "Bikinis, Bandanas
and a VW Bus"
Solo Exhibition at Graham Gallery, 1014 Madison Avenue, March 7- April 6, 2002 Review of "POST-DIGITAL: 800
Solo Exhibition at HEREArt Gallery, Soho, NY, March 3- April 7, 2001 Review of "20,000 Spools of Thread"
Solo Exhibition at Diverseworks, Houston, TX, March 1- April 1, 2002 Review of "Building Supplies"
Four-Person Exhibition at Spaces, Cleveland, OH, Feb. 22- April 5, 2002 review
by Ana Honigman
Review of "Lie "ALTERATIONS"
curated by Valerie McKenzie
at James Graham & Sons Gallery, 1014 Madison Ave, NYC June 21- August 31, 2001 New York Magazine Review of "Reflections on a Lake"
at the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 1999
New York Times In
Islip, Experimentation and Installation
review by Helen A. Harrison Review of "ALTERATIONS"
at James Graham & Sons Gallery, 1014 Madison Ave, NYC June 21- August 31, 2001 Time
Out Magazine "Alterations"
Review of "ALTERATIONS"
curated by Valerie McKenzie
at James Graham & Sons Gallery, 1014 Madison Ave, NYC June 21- August 31, 2001 "Alterations" Review of "Virtual Environment 1"/ ELEMENTS
2000" March 1, 2000
review by Joel Silverstein Review of "Reflections on a Lake"
at Grounds for Sculpture Museum July- September 2001 Summer Sculpture Exhibitions
"A Welter of Good Ideas and Mixed Messages" review by Frank Rivera An Astonishing Piece This reviewer is not familiar with Ms. Sperber's work, but if "Reflections" ... is at all representative, it is clear that Ms. Sperber is one of the most promising artists working in NAWA today. Her credits include a solo show at HEREART Gallery in New York this year. That show's title, "Post-Digital 800 lbs. of Pixels," suggests that her images are reducible to elemental discreet blocks of color. The retina combines these picture elements (pixels) with often-astonishing results. The hand-off from Georges Seurat to Chuck Close now goes to Devorah Sperber. Be advised that pointillism -- if this is pointillism -- is still a fertile ground for exploration. As this piece performs its magic, it comes perilously close to entertainment. It is impossible to tell from just one piece whether Ms. Sperber crosses the line. We will conclude by telling you that Ms. Sperber takes 5,760 spools of thread of identical size, and through uncommon wizardry, she creates the gateway to Oz. Don't miss it. Review of "Humanity-- A Living
Installation" Interactive Project
at the Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, NYC 1998 Sculpture Magazine "New York State- Participatory Works: Viewers as
Co-Curators" Review of "Virtual Environment
1" at S.E.C.C.A. , Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
NC. Oct. 20, 2000 -Jan. 15, 2001
News &
November 16, 2000 "SECCA's "minutiae"
more craft than art
by Jacqueline Humphrey
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Location Alberta, Canada 77 million years ago
Mean atmospheric O2 150% of modern level Mean atmospheric CO2 6x pre-industrial level
Mean temperature 4°C above modern level
Era: Mesozoic Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Age: Campanian
A 20-foot-long centrosaurine horned dinosaur of the genus Albertaceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 77 million years ago in what is today Alberta, Canada.
Like the better known Triceratops, Albertaceratops was a ceratopsid, a family of large four-legged plant-eating dinosaurs characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex. While no color pigmentation has been preserved in the fossil remains of ceratopsids, it's not unreasonable to suggest that they may have been very colorful, like many reptiles and birds today.
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"I know you hate me but i'm here to protect your fucking ass"
"Yea. We can protect our self"
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That line reminded me of Nanny McPhee "when you need me but do not want me I shall stay. But when you want me but no longer need me I'm afraid I will have to go" I'm sorry Kobe that movie!!
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Okay there is no possible way that there can be a line that short in McDonald's and they can't get food for at least 5 boys between 2 minutes, that's just life


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Head Down, Eyes Up
An original in the one-thing-one-week tradition. Given infinite time, all the things I'd change about this! But it's Sunday, so it's done. Vocals by M. Alexander; everything else by me.2015-05-31 20:30:00 UTC -
30 days of drawing #18
This is a place I would like to visit.
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30 days of drawing #17
Sometimes the theme for the day's drawing is something like "an actor or actress", and then I'm like "I will show you an actor. Acting. On an object in space. With physics!"
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30 days of drawing #16
Windosill is a cute little puzzle game that I like a lot. You can check it out for free!
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30 days of drawing #15
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30 days of drawing #13
New Parkway's Mononoke Project
Periodically the New Parkway holds a drawing contest for a movie they're showing. This month's was Princess Mononoke. I really like this guy.
30 days of drawing #12
The Famous Flower of Servingmen is a Child's ballad about a woman who passes as a man in society, which interests me for reasons that are perhaps obvious.
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30 days of drawing #11
I've thought about naming my viola Pandemonia, because she could be full of demons, but right now she's mostly full of shaky minuets.
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30 days of drawing #10
Oskar, from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which is a book I feel deeply about.
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30 days of drawing #9
Man, I just did not get a good drawing of this.
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30 days of drawing #8
This is a pet I wish I had. We would play scorching mathpunk.
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30 days of drawing #7
This is a plesiosaur, my 'sign' in the monster zodiac. For those of you who are not acquainted with this zodiac, here's the complete list:
- Jan - milk
- Feb - Gustav Mahler
- Mar - plesiosaur
- Apr - the letter E
- may - things that change really fast
- June - ghost pepper
- July - uncertainty
- Aug - either August's sign has been removed, or it never had one
- Sept - purring
- Oct - ketchup
- Nov - bouffant
- Dec - socks
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30 days of drawing #6
I love George Herriman's landscapes. Also I recently went to Joshua Tree State Park.
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30 days of drawing #5
Big Trouble In Little China is a great movie, for some values of great.
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30 days of drawing #4
I mostly eat dreams.
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30 days of drawing #3
This drawing tells the truth! And also depicts an Adventure Time character.
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30 days of drawing #2
The dragon that lives at the center of the earth!
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30 days of drawing #1
A drawing with my friend jseakle.
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"Progress" is a land of hearts and quarter notes.
In which I employ a metaphor
MNOpera: Anna Bolena
Anne Boleyn. This woman had an intense life, and then Donizetti made an opera about it. Anna Bolena is one of four operas Donizetti wrote about Tudor and Elizabethan England that functioned in part as a critique of the contemporary Italian politics and religion. The MNOpera let me come see their dress rehearsal last Thursday; it was, as always, a consumate performance of skill and artistry. The following drawings are the result.These actors stood still for longer and in better light than most of the others. I love how much fabric they used in this period. I love their gigantic pants and their tiny legs sticking out.
Henry VIII was a jerk.
This is the cutest drawing of a torture device I've ever seen. It looks like a teddy bear with a smiley face strapped to the bottom of it. The device was less approachable in person.
Jane Seymore has doubts.
I just love their puffy gumdrop clothes! How did they do anything? I imagine them swimming through their shirts, and finding lost treasure and strange ecosystems.
Don't take my word for the puffiness of these clothes!See for yourself! This counts as double culture, because it's an Italian opera about an English queen. Triple culture, if you think about the choices that the MNOpera cast and crew have made in presentation. How can you miss that much culture? Obviously you can't. Go see it.
MNOpera: Nabucco
Ok. Let me preface this by saying that I have almost no idea what this opera is about. They invited me to draw, not to read subtitles, and I acted accordingly.
A quick internet search will tell you the basic plot and the historical context of this play. In the interest of decreasing internet redundancy, I won't. MNOpera has set up an interesting rat-trap to reference the presence of the Austrians in Italy at the time Verdi composed this opera, and it's well worth investigating, later maybe, when you're done reading this post. In the meantime, I'm going to tell you what this opera is really about.
Ok you're right, these are not really ghosts. These two are Israelites swathed in the White Robes of Purity, +2 against The Lord's Displeasure and sunstroke. But for as long as they've been inviting me to look at their performances, the MNOpera has had these incredible minimalist sets. In Mary Stuart, the most elaborate set piece was basically a fire escape, a black stairway against a black drop, and it was arresting. I think almost half my drawings that night were of the stairway, with people sitting on it or light streaming through it or snow drifting onto it. More recently their production of Lucia di Lammermore centered around two mountainous corrugated shapes that turned to create different effects of light, shadow, and space. For Nabucco, the sets are lavish flats painted by legit old-school opera painters in Italy. The costumes are flashy and ornate, but that arresting minimalist still sneaks in around the edges.
These guys were priests of Ba'al, which is (thx Wikipedia) an honorific meaning 'lord' given to any number of gods in the Levant and Asia Minor. The Israelites used the term for their deity for a while, but it fell out of favor when the Israelites started trying to demonstrate that their god was the best one. The Old Testament seems to use it as a name for any local deity the Israelites disapproved of, and then it was conflated with a Syrian demon, Ba'al Zebub, Lord of Flies, and that's where we are now.
It's not clear whether these guys were worshipping Hadad or Melqart or Hammon or perhaps even El or Yahweh in a secty sort of way, but they look like something from The Cube or Silent Hill and they are rad.
This is the high priest of Ba'al, and this guy is nuts. Seriously, I'm engrossed in drawing, and then I glance up and this yellow-taloned tarantula is creeping around the stage and I almost drop my stylus. He had one long cane and one short one, and I could have watched him for hours.
Abigaille. She is not a ghost, she is a warrior queen and she owned this opera.
and my heart
So to sum up: MNOpera's Nabucco, ghosts and priests of Ba'al, yellow taloned tarantula, warrior queen. Tickets are cheap; not punk-cheap, but working-stiff-cheap.
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It was actually pretty insightful. Thanks, Comics List.2012-05-05 06:21:00 UTC -
Brain 1, Society 0
2012-02-24 03:08:00 UTCNature called, but I wasn't home
2012-02-21 04:57:00 UTCThere is a disco ball in this one
2011-12-31 05:36:00 UTCMopey Fish
2011-12-16 23:24:00 UTCclass MinnesotaWinter
2011-12-14 23:18:00 UTCSmooth.
2011-11-27 07:24:00 UTCSilent Night at the MNOpera
Every so often, the Minnesota Opera Company invites bloggers and cartoonists to their dress rehearsal, in part so that we can soak up culture and history that we would not otherwise absorb, and in part so that, to paraphrase Lee Blauersouth two marginalized artforms can help eachother out.
The second opera of this season is Silent Night, an adaptation of Joyeüx Noel. It was commissioned by MNOpera, so we were not only the first people to see this production, we were the first people to see any production, ever. That's neat to think about.
For a summary of the story's history and context, I recommend you visit Thomas Boguszewski's excellent article.
My favorite part about the opera was the set. MNOpera consistently does a lot with a little, but this time they had, well, a little more. The set was built in three rings, the inner two of which could rotate independently of eachother. Super spare and elegant, and allowed the French, German and British trenches to rotate into view.
The French troops were quartered in this bombed-out Cathedral. I fell completely in love with it and drew it one thousand times. Barely a shell, it had a creaky fragility that was offset by its clean geometry. It was strong enough to support actors on its upper stories, in the same way that a nautilus shell is strong. Strong enough to support what, i don't know, tiny mollusk actors in a submarine drama perhaps.
Each army was treated with sympathy and humanity, although we're clearly against the German political position. The Kaiser was portrayed as fat, dumb, and out of touch with the situation on the ground, sort of like a phlegmy Heliogabalus. The German lieutenant was fierce and heavy, but ultimately reasonable and considerate.
This guy. He kind of looked like a bear, with his big coat and massive shoulders. He's Jewish, which would be funny if anything about that situation was funny.
While the set was the most appealing thing, the most interesting thing was the language. Each of the armies spoke and sang in their native tongues. I had never attended an opera I could understand before. Always before I've let the singing wash over me, marveling at the strangness and melody and wondering why they are singing 1,000,000 words while the supertitle is a two-word phrase. Now I could tell, at least for the English and some of the French side, when the supertitles failed to capture some funny turn of phrase, and how incredibly alien operatic phrasing is to the cadences of speech. It sounded like dialog from Rex Morgan, M.D., with its emphasis on inconsequential words, and unaccented syllables soaring into the rafters. My favorite musical moment was Anna Sørensen's acapella rendition of "Dona Nobis Pacem" on the battlefield, which had the crispness and clarity of winter air and functioned as a symbol of the beauty and fragility of the Christmas truce.
The interplay between strength and weakness comes up again and again in this opera. The troops are secure in their trenches, but vulnerable to longing for home; they abandon the physical strength of weapons and war for the emotional strength of sharing and companionship. The British soldier Jonathan, driven to distraction by his brother's death, is the only soldier willing to resume the conflict after the truce, and demonstrates the mortal strength of his decision. But he is broken by his loss, suffering hallucinations and unable to function outside of the context of war. Singers Sprink and Sørensen surrender themselves as prisoners of war in a courageous resistance to the German cause. All three lieutenants are criticized by their superiors for showing weakness and sympathy for the enemy, but the story of their truce outlasted the story of their battle by almost one hundred years. Strength and surrender, submission and success.
And how often do bagpipers get to be heroes?
2011-11-22 05:42:00 UTCToday is Nov. 17
It is 20º outside, but inside it is comfortable and i am not wearing socks. On Sunday I will check out a volume of Gertrude Stein's poetry and maybe a book about her life, and then I will make a puppet show. Where are the lines between puppetry and picture show?2011-11-17 20:24:00 UTCDesire
2011-10-10 07:06:00 UTCEdward and her mouse
2011-09-26 07:06:00 UTCI am good at computers
2011-09-25 07:05:00 UTCCalifornia calling
2011-09-18 05:20:00 UTCHey Kate, have you ever made any comics?
2011-09-03 05:21:00 UTCAdventures with David Bowie!
2011-09-01 05:19:00 UTCState fair adventures!
2011-08-31 05:18:00 UTCDepression adventures
2011-08-30 05:18:00 UTCWhy a new haircut?
2011-07-02 05:17:00 UTCNew haircut!
2011-07-01 05:16:00 UTCPassing
2011-06-02 05:16:00 UTCRobots.
2011-06-01 05:14:00 UTCThis is my new blog!
Here is my old blog, which contains daily monsters and saw-a-day and comics and things. http://confoundedcontraption.blogspot.com/2011-05-26 05:03:00 UTC


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Never Stop Bringing Games Like This Stateside, AtlusMike Fahey11/19/13 6:48pm13128EditPromoteGo to permalinkComing in spring of 2014 to the Vita and 3DS, Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars is a game in which the hero must foster relationships with young maidens in order to produce more powerful offspring to fight for him in battle. You make me so happy, Atlus.
In Conception, You Make Babies and Battle ImpurityToshi Nakamura2/09/12 7:15am51EditPromoteGo to permalinkGame developer, Spike, is releasing a new role playing game for the PSP this April where one of the objectives is to save the world by conceiving children.