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Here's a bit of good news. Of course, it seems like common sense to assume that federally funded research should be available to the taxpayers, but what do I know?
A slice to entice:
Until now, the placement of NIH-funded research papers into publicly accessible repositories was not mandated, but recommended. However, only about 5% of the authors actually did it, as the process was complex and not always clear. This number is growing, but far too slowly. From now on, authors will have clear guidelines and assistance in making sure that all the research becomes public a year after publication in a scholarly journal.
Not long ago, I read a post wherein the researcher could not get, from the Census Bureau, a consolidated, complete copy of the latest census data. Seems that different organs distribute different parts, and it's not in the procedures manual for the public or the bureaucrats to see complete, compiled data. When I can find the link, I'll update this post.


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This was the first running of the Wye Ultra, and also the first of twelve races in the 2009 Vasque Ultra Running Series. The advertised route followed the River Wye south from Ross-on-Wye before heading east into the forest of dean to the turnaround point where runners would re-trace their footsteps back to the start point to finish.
Unfortunately a key footbridge crossing the river at the southern most point of the course was closed by the authorities at the last minute resulting in a change to the route and race format. The organisers opted for a double out and back route instead comprising four legs of 7.5miles. It was a great shame about the forced change which was clearly out of the hands of the organisers, although the feeling amongst the runners was that something a bit more interesting that the one offered could have been achieved even with the late notice, particularly given the wealth of trails the area possesses.
The revised route left Ross Rowing club heading south for a short section along the river bank before breaking off for 3 miles or so along quiet country lanes. It then traversed a wooded bank before dropping back down to re-join the river following lovely trails through woods and fields to the turnaround point. And back to the start again. Repeat.
Once underway the race provided plenty of excitement too. Midway through the first leg there were problems with route marking - it was missing in places - resulting in the chasing group I was in going astray and adding half a mile or so to the route. Not ideal, particularly in a relatively short race. The resulting gap between the lead 2 or 3 runners and us was a tall order to make up, and was maintained until the last leg when things started to change significantly. All Smalls made a well timed push, moving through the field in the last few miles to win by a minute or two. I also started to find the right gears in the last leg but it was all too late so I had to settle for 5th, around four minutes behind Allen. There were also strong performances from Vasque series regulars Andy Davies and Andy Rankin.
It was always going to be a risky race for me to run. I was running on heavy legs straight after a week of snowboarding and hill training in the alps meaning the sharpness wasn't there. In fact I was completely knackered even before I started so all things considered it wasn't a bad performance!
It was a great shame about the teething problems with the race (I have mentioned a couple) but all in all it was a great day out and good to see all the ultra running regulars performing strongly early in the season. We are in for a great season.........
About Me
- Jez Bragg
- Welcome to my blog which I hope to develop with some interesting material on ultra running both on the trails and road including reports on races and interesting training runs, views on kit and equipment as well as anything else I find of interest. I love running for adventure, opportunity and well being. Enjoy!
Monday, 2 March 2009
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- John Kynaston said...
Good run Jez despite the hassles. Hope you have a great year and I look forward to following your progress especially in the Western 100.
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Current Research Projects
Collective Sensemaking in an Online Support Group for Vulvodynia
Chronic pelvic and vulva pain can be defined as noncyclical pain that lasts for more than six (6) months without any apparent underlying cause. It is a worldwide problem that affects women of all ages impacting physical performance and lowering quality of life. This project is investigating that ways in which women suffering from this type of chronic pain co-construct an understanding of their symptoms online and the strategies they have developed to manage their pain. Data are being collected in qualitative content analyses of online forums and social media data, interviews with women suffering from chronic pelvic and vulva pain and medical professionals who interact with these women, and participatory design activities to identify possibilities for system design.
Indigenous Climate Action
This project seeks to understand how indigenous communities, particularly in North America, are building infrastructural tools and using social media to drive indigenous-led climate action. Current research efforts include an ongoing analysis of tweets from the 2017 UN climate change conference to investigate how indigenous communities, peoples, knowledges, and concerns are discussed and considered.
Past Research Projects
Climate Indicators and Data Provenance
I am also extending my work in the environmental sciences through a collaborative project with Andrea Wiggins at the University of Nebraska Omaha and Melissa Kenney at the Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center. This project examines how researchers from different disciplines and practical contexts use provenance information to understand and assess the credibility and usability of climate-related indicators.
Assessing the State and Future Trajectory of Land Change Science
This on-going project is a collaboration with researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Global Land Programme (GLP) to assess the state-of-the-field and future trajectory of the Land System Science research community. The aim of the project is to inform the Scientific Steering Committee of the GLP about the state of the discipline and emerging research priorities. Data obtained in the study will also be used to frame my dissertation research and inform the design of the GLOBE system. Research questions of interest include (1) What is the current state of research in land change science? and (2) What are the priorities of the land change science community? Data was collected in an online survey of Land Change Scientists, and focus groups were conducted with approximately 50 individuals at the GLP Open Science Meeting (OSM) in Berlin in March 2014. Observations were conducted also at the GLP OSM in Beijing China in October 2017.
GLOBE: Evolving New Global Workflows for Land Change Science
GLOBE was an NSF funded research project that aims to transform Land Change Science research by enabling new scientific workflows that accelerate global collaboration, data integration and synthesis. GLOBE consists of an online collaborative environment that enables land change scientists and researchers to synthesize and integrate local and regional case study data in order to assess the global relevance of their work. GLOBE allows researchers and institutions to rapidly share, compare and synthesize local and regional studies using global datasets of human and environmental variables.
As a research assistant on the project, I am responsible for conducting field research on land change science work practices; designing and contributing to discussions on User Interface and User Experience (UI & UX) design for the GLOBE collaboration engine front end; managing the development and implementation of the GLOBE public facing website, including web content development, information architecture and usability; and conducting user testing and evaluation on the GLOBE interface.
Dissertation Project
In my dissertation, From Local Data to Global Knowledge: Understanding meta-study practice in Land Change Science, I explore how advances in computational methods and tools are enabling changes in scientific practice in the emergent interdiscipline of Land Change Science (LCS). Focusing specifically on their increased use of meta-studies, I adopt ethnographically-informed methods to unpack the people, processes, and technologies involved in meta-study production, and the ways in which meta-study analyses are contextualized for LCS. My findings were iteratively instantiated in software designed specifically for LCS. This research was funded by a NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation Grant.
This work identifies a number of phenomenological tensions that impact the utility of meta-study research and which give rise to a host of operational challenges, such as the integration of quantitative and qualitative case study data. These challenges ultimately drive innovation in practice, as LCS researchers are faced with developing novel workarounds to accomplish synthesis. Included among these are the use of external sources for validation and explanation (e.g., global datasets from the OECD and WorldBank) and map-based visualizations to aid in sensemaking (i.e., geocontextualization). Building on much of what is known about interdisciplinarity and reuse in scientific practice, my research extends the literature by unpacking key differences, providing a window into the future of Science.


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Celebrate Christmas with this Classic Board Book edition of Robert L. May's famous Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Every year at Christmastime, everyone—young and old alike—has one catchy, joy-inspiring song stuck in their heads: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer!" Now fans of the most famous reindeer of all-time will fall in love with the original story, written by Robert L. May in 1939.
Rudolph, a youthful reindeer buck who possesses an unusual luminous red nose, is teased and excluded by his peers because of this trait. One particularly stormy Christmas Eve, Rudolph manages to prove himself after Santa Claus catches sight of his nose and asks him to lead his sleigh for the evening. Rudolph agrees, saving Christmas, and is finally treated the way he deserves by his fellow reindeer!
About the Author
Robert L. May created Rudolph in 1939, when his company, the Montgomery Ward department stores, asked him to write a Christmas story that they could give away to customers. Drawing on the tale of "The Ugly Duckling," Mr. May penned the story of a sweet, homely reindeer shunned because of his glowing red nose. Little did he know his creation was destined to become a Christmas holiday classic. Over the next few years, the company distributed millions of copies of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The book's copyright was transferred to Mr. May in 1947, and under his ownership, Rudolph's popularity soared. Commercial printings and cartoons quickly followed, and then, of course, came the song, which secured Rudolph's place in Christmas history, and in our hearts, forever. Robert L. May died in 1976.
Antonio Javier Caparo is a Cuban-born illustrator and designer. Although much of his early career was spent in graphic design, his passion for animation and comics led him to devote himself to illustration—both traditional and digital. He has been published around the world and has won numerous awards in multiple countries. He lives in Quebec, Canada.


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Don't Go Till We Do
Come 2012 Australia will shut-down analogue broadcasting services. There is yet no effective mechanism to support community television on the digital spectrum. Don't go digital until we do...
5 Smiles was produced by five teams of cross-discipline artists / filmmakers over 48 hours with both Creative Commons (CC) licensed content from the Web and content shot on location in and around the Melbourne CBD. 5 Smiles is an exploration of the themes of tolerance, inclusion, diversity, freedom and access. It contains 110 attributed CC licensed items.
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Highlights from near on four decades of public access video production, training and professional development. OPEN CHANNEL grew from the origins of Melbourne Access Video and contributed towards the establishment of community television broadcasting in Australia. Highlights 1974 - 2007 is a 9 minute snap-shot of stories from indigenous and women's communities, occupational health and safety issues, stories from various union struggles, nuclear disarmament... OPEN CHANNEL was and continues to be open for everyone!
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FRAMED #2 Video Online
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Ina Puken Tula Tuen Lewotana - The Woman Who Changed the World
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Geger Berajah (Spirit to Learn)
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EngageMedia COP15 Climate Coverage Update 7 Dec
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EngageMedia Australia-Pacific editor Barry Saunders' first update from Copenhagen, talking about the arctic melt.
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EngageMedia at the Plone Video Sprint
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Closing the Detention Centres
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G20 Short Report: Police Brutality at Melbourne Museum
Sunday afternoon a group of 50 demonstrators were beaten and trampled by police during a peaceful anti-G20 protest inside the foyer of the Melbourne museum. A woman was severely injured after police used batons and fists to disperse the small group of singing, dancing demonstrators. Several hundred police, including two divisions of riot police, were deployed in the incident.
Audio/Video NGO-in-a-box
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EngageMedia Beta Site Released
Engagemedia is now open for publishing! We're excited to announce this first public beta release of the EngageMedia software. Sign up, get your own profile page and start publishing your video! We'll be doing an official launch of the website and our first workshop for indy video makers at the Earthling Environmental Forum on the 30th of September at TINA in Newcastle, NSW.
EngageMedia Back Up
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Covering the G20
EngageMedia will be assisting video makers covering the G20 counter-actions to get their work online. The G20 is a meeting of finance ministers from the worlds 20 richest nations and also includes the heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. People are protesting against the meeting due to the G20's commitment to neo-liberal economic policies that further enrich wealthy corporations and have a disastrous effect on the environment.
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World Social Forum Video Call
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The Joint Action Committee has directed the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions and National Association of Academic Technologists to resume strike on Monday.
A letter to all the branch chairmen titled, 'Directives to immediately resume the suspended strike,' was signed by Samson Ugwoke, SSANU, Chris Ani, NASU and Sani Suleiman, NAAT.
The union complained that the government failed to explain how the money was shared between ASUU and the non-academic teaching staff unions.
"In the said letter, the Federal Government was given seven days to explain the criteria for the said allocation and do the needful. The deadline has elapsed without any response from the Federal Government of Nigeria.
"In view of the above therefore, you are hereby directed to resume the suspended indefinite strike action as from 12 midnight, Sunday, 3rd December, 2017.
"During this period, the strike shall be total and comprehensive."
When contacted for reaction to the claims by the union that they were cheated in the disbursement of the allocation, the ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said he was on the road and requested our correspondent to call back later.


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Aminah Assilmi
Watching A Rose Open – Petal By Petal
Throughout these times, she continued studying Islam and
At her invitation, they came inside. She now brought up the questions
It would not be long before she would externally submit to what she had
A Sacrifice For Faith & Conviction
Conversion to Islam, or to any other religion for that
But the difficulty that Aminah Assilimi had to go through and the
She lost most of her friends, for she was "no fun
Her mother did not accept her becoming a Muslim and hoped that it was a
Her "mental health expert" sister thought that she lost her mind. She
Her father was a calm and wise man. People would come to him for advice
She was now without friends and without family.
She soon started wearing hijab. The day she put it on, she was denied
She and her husband both loved each other very much. But while she was
After she openly accepted Islam, it went worse. A divorce was now
She loved her children very dearly. It is perhaps the worst nightmare
She decided to retain Islam. Her two dear children – one little boy and
For a mother, is there a sacrifice greater than this – a sacrifice that
"I left the court knowing that life without my
Allah! there is no godBut He – the Living,
The Self-subsisting, Eternal.
No slumber can seize Him
Nor sleep. His are all things
In the heavens and on earth.
Who is there can intercede
In His presence except
As He permitteth? He knoweth
What (appeareth to his creatures
As) Before or After
Or Behind them.
Nor shall they compass
Aught of His knowledge
Except as He willeth.
His throne doth extend
Over the heavens
And the earth, and He feeleth
No fatigue in guarding
And preserving them
For He is the Most High,
the Supreme (in glory).(Quran 2: 255)
Help of Allah Is Always Near!
Or do ye thinkThat ye shall enter
The Garden (of Bliss)
Without such (trials)
As came to those
Who passed away
Before you?
They encountered
Suffering and adversity,
And were so shaken in spirit
That even the Messenger
And those of faith
Who were with him
Cried: "When (will come)
The help of Allah?"Ah! Verily the help of Allah
Is (always) near!
(Quran 2: 214)
Perhaps the air of Colorado was too thin for justice. Or perhaps
Indeed Allah's love and mercy engulfed her so much that, as if, she has
By accepting Islam, she became a changed person, and a much better
The first to become Muslim was her grand mother. She was over 100 years
Next to become Muslim was her father, the one who wanted to kill her
Two years after she (Assilmi) accepted Islam, her mother called and said
She was not aware that her husband (Assilmi's step father) had had the
Her sister who wanted to put her in mental institution accepted Islam as
Her son, upon becoming adult, accepted Islam. When he turned 21, he
Sixteen years after the divorce, her ex-husband also accepted Islam. He
Perhaps the greatest reward for her was yet to come. Assilmi later
Radiating With Allah's Love
The sacrifice that Assilmi made for the sake of Allah (swt)
She lost her job because of wearing hijab, and now she is the President
She has tremendous trust on Allah's love and mercy and she never looses
"Shortly before he died, he told me that Allah was truly Merciful.
This man was in unbelievable anguish and was radiating with Allah's
love. He said: "Allah intends that I should
enter heaven with a clean book." His death experience gave me
something to think about. He taught me of Allah's love and mercy."
All praise is due to Allah, she continues to live in good health. She
Assilmi's is a story of faith and conviction. It is a story of test and
May Almighty Allah continue to shower His love, mercy, and blessings on


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By Jay McBain, Co-Founder, ChannelEyes
It doesn't come as a surprise to Channel Professionals that things are changing faster than ever across the partner ecosystem. A perfect storm of new technologies, transforming business models, rapidly evolving competition, consumerization and economic forces have fundamentally changed the traditional supplier/partner relationship.
Not only are things moving much faster, the relationships have become significantly more complex. 10 years ago, a solid email, phone, advertising and events strategy was all that was needed to communicate effectively to partners and customers. Today we have more than 30 marketing vehicles in play, and the level of noise and clutter is, at times, out of control.


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The Legion of Christ made the wrong kind of headlines when it was revealed that the Catholic organization's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who died in 2008, had fathered children -- which means he broke his vow of celibacy unless immaculate conception was involved. This, combined with accusations that Degollado had sexually abused seminarians, led the Vatican to order the Legion to undergo what's called "an apostolic visitation" -- essentially an investigation of the organization. And according to a new article from the Catholic News Agency, the man charged by Pope Benedict XVI to look into the Legion's operations in the United States and Canada is Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput. According to a September 1 letter signed by Father Scott Reilly and Father Julio Marti, territorial directors of Legion offices in Atlanta and New York, respectively, "Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput of Denver has been appointed as Visitor for the Legion in the United States and Canada. Archbishop Chaput will visit our seminaries and religious houses, see our life up close and interview whomever he wants... His mandate will be to question, probe and assess with depth and objectivity. Legionaries are free to speak and write to him with all their comments and questions. He sets his own timetable and the points he wishes to probe, and he will present his findings and recommendations directly to the Holy See."
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Looks good! The wooden boards are awesome.
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i'm still endevouring to make it as dynamic as possible, it now rolls and moves like a real one (sort of ) and I playing with the release mechanism, so its dynamic also, going for the sack on a piece of rope, i fear I might have bitten off more than I can chew, although I am like every other typical male, who likes cars, and blowing stuff up.
That's a nice model man! I love the wooden planks and the projectile just looks great! How about throwing a cage with a man inside? Aparently that was a popular thing to do…
Thanks echo and flipped .
At the moment I'm having problems getting the cloth looking sack to work, its very twitchy, and the normals are either one way or the other so it won't collide, or it won't grab the ball. Any clues would be handy.
Here is a shot of it wheeling.
Looks pretty good, but the wheels don't rotate quite right. The front left one slides backwards at the start, for instance. And looking around the forum, it seems that getting the rolling to work is problematic for more than just you.
yeah i think it might tilt the frame slightly, i'll have to have a look, i tried a few values.
Could you post a shot of the rig? Maybe just the constraints visible, or explain how it's set up or whatever you want. What kind of constraints are holding the whole thing together and such.
Not just to satisfy my curiosity :), I was thinking someone here could maybe come up with a solution for those wheels once the details are known.
The Rig:
The major parts are all grouped together, so u have each wheel, the frame and the arm all in seperate groups. These are then all made in active rigid bodies. Hinge constaints are then made between the arm and the frame, then each wheel and the frame. The hinges can then be moved into position (of where u want it to pivot). I had a problem with whated out hinge constraints, so i created pins, then moved them into position, changed them to directionalhinge, and rotated them, and then changed those to hinge. You can just create hinge tho. All parts have gravity. I have changed the collision layers for the objects. Basically, if you have a number of objects and they are all on different collision layers, they will never hit each other. This makes it easier on the solver to deal with everything. The frame is on layer 0, arm is on layer 1, and the wheels on layer 2. I have used stand ins for the wheels. A stand in is exactly that, it stands in to the object, but is perfect in tesselation, so the wheels are spheres. To make the arm swing I have used a spring constraint. One end is on the arm, (which has its centre of mass out towards the weights), and the other end is parented to the frame (not constrained to it, eg i didn't select the arm and the frame and make a hinge, as this causes the 2 to jump together). Its parented to the frame so that as the catapult moves, the arm can still return to the centre of the swing, and not try and go back to its original position somewhere in the distance.
Things to check> normals, bit me again today, mass, things act very differently on the mass attribute, collision layers.
I'm having probs with the sack, still its all good fun, i don't think this is gonna be as impressive as Derbys tho (by a long way).
i made my catapult completely dynamic, it releases the stone exactly like one would in the real world, and it plated back in the viewport. The downside was that after much tweaking, I couldn't get the stone to fly more than 50ft. So I have taken that completely dynamic idea away, and have stuck to a rope and a large fireball. Not as complete as Derby's, but hey ho.
mental note large fluid containers take far to long to render, although the effects look nice. 191 640*480 frames took a night to render, way to slow for me. must finish destory and cache all.
I'm not dead. Or have i finished, I have to finish writing a script and then rendering it out (after baking it), here is a render of the catapult, not in its final surroundings mind, but i hope its dynamic enough for u, no keyframes at all.
To do:
Landscape - model the ground, and maybe a tree (only 1 tho, jk)
Rigid body expression - clever bit to make it play in the viewport
Bake simulations - make everything predictable
Render - yes you will have to perfom a crappy lighting job on it all, and not make everyone sick with your camera cuts.
yay the coding is complete, after spending the morning trying debug something. Hopefully u guys will give me some feedback on the animation on the above post, that fireball will smash into the tower on the first or second page. Can get on with that bit now.
Hey Westie atlast we got to see your fireball it looks really good. The particles may be to big and to few, when its sitting still its buring the frame to much (maybe lowering the wind) and it looks too systematic. Ofcourse i can understand that adding more particles could make the rendering time unbearable.
Have fun
many thanks squire, I shall make the changes, I'm sure if i ramp the rate up a few times it won't make too much difference.
Thanks for the feedback.
Good job so far! Could you please explain how you did the ropes?
Looks awesome although, maybe after it rolls forward,and goes back, make the front ropes go taught and have a slight bit of roll the other direction agtain, just to show this is an incredible force.
Make a cylinder and scale it out.
Increase the number of divisions along its length (i think mine are 10)
Select all the points at each division and make a cluster (you'll end up with 10 clusters i think)
next create a poly cube (i scaled my cubes to 0.5 in all axis)
point snap the cube to a cluster, then duplicate the cube and point snap it to the next one and so on, until you have a cube at the position of each cluster.
freeze transform all the cube values
select the cubes and make them active rigid bodies
with the still selected add them to gravity
press play to check that the all fall, then rewind
create a pin constraint between all the cubes, first and second, second and thrid, thrid and fourth etc.
press play and they will all fall to earth connected
you can then pin or spring constrain one of the end cubes to a passive rigid body so it doesn't fall forever.
Thanks for the feedback guys, I will try and get it all sorted. Much appriciated
damn i forgot to mention. once the cubes all fall how you want, point constain the coresponding cluster to its cube this way it will move the cylinder, don't orient constrain it tho as the cubes will spin.
hey Westie
tx for the info on the ropes…
im begining to work my dynamics, and was craking my head on that
cool work M8
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The trabendo is really empty as i make my way in , no more than a 100 people in here , is it because it's saturday night ? Where are Daniel Darc's fans ?
It's a free gig for fuck's sake .
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He's playing with his mate for years Alice Botté on guitar and musicians from french band Asyl.
Nice hour Pop-rock show, as always in french music lyrics are very important , daniel has lived already several lives not for the better but he's ok now. He played a few songs from his recent cd but the concert wouldn't be perfect without Taxi Girl's only hit " Cherchez le garçon ".
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My Week in Film: June 12, 2012: Worldwide Short Film Festival, Snow White and the Huntsman, Exploring YouTube & More!
Image from: Gravity of Center, from the Official Selection Creative Control program at 2012 Worldwide Short Film Festival
Hey Everyone!
I hope everyone survived the crazy hot weekend that was just here in Toronto. I swear, we get the craziest weather. I stayed out of it and continued along some marathons I'm working on although heading to the theatre might have been a smart retreat! Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.
Most recently I headed out the The Worldwide Short Film Festival last week and enjoy oodles of short films. The opening night was packed and had an awesome selection of award-winning short films from around the world and it was quite an impressive selection. I was particularly fond of the inventiveness of Luminaris (dir: Juan Pablo Zaramella), the haunting nostalgia of The Fisherman / El pescador (dir: Samantha Pineda Sierra from Mexico , and of course the ode to monster movies in The Elaborate End of Robert Ebb / La mysterieuse disparition de Robert Ebb (dirs: Fx Goby, Matthieu Landour and Clément Bolla).
I also headed out to the festival on Day 2 to enjoy the Official Selection Programs of The Family Compact and Creative Control. I also really enjoyed Official Selection Creative Control, in particular the fabulous movement piece Gravity of Center (Dir: Thibaut Duverneix) with the RUBBERDance troupe, the heartfelt tragic comedy Lifetripper (dir: Graeme Joyce) starring Rob Benedict and the absolutely extraordinary Withering Love / Les amours perdues (dir: Samanou Sahlstrøm) starring Emmanuelle Béart and Denis Lavant which touched my heart with it's haunting, tragic romance. The Official Selection Family Compact had several films that caught me including the clever short Long Distance Information (dir: Douglas Hart) starring Peter Mullan and Alan Tripney as well as the touching documentary Me Without You / Mig uden dig (dir: Aage Rais-Nordentoft) from Denmark.
Images from: A Shadow of a Doubt / Skyggen af tvivl; Morten Holst and Nikolaj Dencker Schmidt in To All My Friends / Til alle mine venner
Speaking of Denmark, Day 3 held the treat of Film School Spotlight: Super 16 Anarkino program full of Danish film to love, and love it I did! The Film School Spotlight: Super 16 Anarkino program was my favourite of the festival even though I had already seen the film Dennis back in 2008 and it only had 5 films, but they were all gems. I adored the sensitive romance/personal journey film A Shadow of a Doubt / Skyggen af tvivl (dir: Esben Tønnesen) starring Nicolei Faber & Anders Hove that followed the beautiful forming of a new relationship with also showing the doubts and memories of the past. I was also blown away by the film To All My Friends / Til alle mine venner (dir: Behrouz Bigdeli) starring Morten Holst and Nikolaj Dencker Schmidt as two friends against the world, against the odds, and the complexity when that starts to put them against each other. It's not an easy watch with the enormous amount of tension and the obviously limited resource they live in, but the formidable performance will blow you away.
Overall, it was another great year at the festival and I was so happy to be able to get out and see so many films. See all of my Worldwide Short Film Festival Coverage here.
Fairy Tale Femme-tastic: Snow White and the Huntsman
Although I didn't see it last week, my most recent venture to the theatre was to see Snow White and the Huntsman (dir: Rupert Sanders, USA/2012) starring Kristen Stewart (Twilight) as Snow White, Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen and Chris Hemsworth (Thor) as the Hunstman. This film ranks high on the #7 spot of my My Most Anticipated Films of the Year for 2012 as the story looks compelling, it has fabulous women in it (and men...), and the art direction looked divine. And divine it was, the world they created was on that you feel like you could step right into and marvel at it's beauty, as well as the bizarre dangers that also lurked there. I was so happy with Snow White and the Huntsman as it honours the original story yet really aligns and makes accessible the theme of beauty and power, without it feeling superficial or silly. It's a tale of deep hurt as well as the challenge to face the fear and striking odds, but also offers a positive and inspiring perspective. I loved how it's also very much about the women in the film, not only Snow White and Ravenna (The Evil Queen), but other women as well. It makes me curious about the choice in the title, and although I enjoyed the character of The Huntsman and Chris Hemsworth's performance, it wasn't overly played up in the film. I loved that, because the story is really about the women. It's so rare to see and it really worked here. I can't go without saying that the costumes were gorgeous, especially for Ravenna, Coleen Atwood does it again! I loved the film, I highly recommend it to fantasy film fans and especially for people who enjoy female protagonist films. I can't wait to see it again. If you want to hear even more about Snow White and The Huntsman, hear my review with co-host Marina Antunes over at the Before the Dawn Podcast.
Tuning into SciFi TV: American Warships!
I had the pleasure of guest hosting on a recent episode of The Saturday B-Movie Reel to chat about American Warships with host Kevin Bachelder and fellow co-host Gary Mitchel from the RevolutionSF.com. We had a blast chatting about the film which was previously titled American Battleship and came hot off the heels of Battleship. There was so much fun to enjoy, and the discussion continued on and on as director Thunder Levin and wardrobe designed Ashley Crist listened and responded to the podcast! They bring up some good points that I definitely will make note of and I am really impressed that they chimed in. Check out the podcast over here at Tuning into SciFi TV.
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Hello, I was wondering if anybody knows John Bell from York St. area. He used to go to Sammy Houston's Jazz Club. Circa 1964/65/66
... The photo is on page 38 of that thread, good luck ...
C L E V E R CMcG, I must find out how to do that too, I'm only become a bit savvy with how to post links very recently, but practice makes perfect (hopefully)
Hi Lillian,Yes I do remember you from Kelvin School. I probably knew your sister too if I saw her picture. Hope you get this reply. My first time on here so I'm not really sure how to get around the site yet. Nice to hear from you.
Hi Lilian,I lived in 60 Roden Street facing the big chimney. The house was opposite the entry where we came through from Kelvin School. I used to sing a lot in the school and that is maybe how you remember my name. I have been living in Canada since 1973 but often think of the good times we had back then. Time flies - it doesn't seem that long ago does it?? I look forward to seeing your photographs. The John Bell from excise Street is not the one I am looking for. I knew him too though as we were always in the same class at primary school and first year at Kelvin. Do you remember Martha Mercer. She was my chum for a while. If I remember correctly you lived on the Grosvenor Rd. Am I right? By the way I sent this same message from another page so I hope you get this ok. Looking foward to hearing from you. Norma P.S. are you still living in Belfast?
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Newark Town 2 Kinsley Boys 0
Barthez is lovin the whole Notts County saga right now, despite being a confirmed Tricky Tree supporter. He was tipped the wink by an unknown source that a takeover was imminent at Meadow Lane, a few weeks ago, and dipped his bread with Joe Coral. The Pies were 33/1 at the time. He's had £20 each way. You'd do well to get 7/4 this morning.
Sitting by the pool from 9am until 6pm everyday in Majorca for the last few weeks does have its advantages. It's meant I've caught up on some reading. I managed five books in ten days. The one that topped the lot was the autobiography of Specials rude boy, Neville Staple. He churns out anecdote after anecdote. I'd read it inside two days. If Two Tone is your tipple, then I'd recommend you splash out on it, or pay 20p for it, from your local library, like Sticky did.
It's been a full on week. Monday evening I was down the training ground. On Tuesday it was Kimberley Miners' Welfare, watching an excellent game of football, in Sticky's favourite league, the NSL. On Wednesday Sticky junior put on his brand new dancing shoes and waltzed his way through the Asfordby Amateurs under- 13 midfield. On Thursday 'The Skipper' bowled an atrocious over at Kimberley CC, but redeemed himself with a textbook spell of batting, against the quickest bowler I've seen this season.
Yesterday (Friday) was a cracking day for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Notts bowled out Australia for a measly 160. We watched it at work on the desktop scoreboard. The Auctioneer and I have little side bets on how many runs will be scored in a session and how many wickets will fall.
The kids have erected a tent on the back lawn and have slept in it for most of the week. I was going to drive down to the local fancy dress shop and loan a fox outfit, so I could pop my head through flap and scare the living daylights out the pair of them. I didn't have the heart to do it.
It's Saturday morning. It's dawn. I'm restless in bed and can see the sun peering through the bedroom curtains. Mrs P's shoulder injury has cost us all some sleep this week. I start researching the Newark blog.
Both cars are washed and vacuumed out. The garage is tidied up and looks spick and span. I take Mrs P's empties up to the bottle bank. The good lady has gone to the hairdressers.
I rock up in inner city Nottingham at 11am. I've an important meeting with the chairman of one of Nottingham's biggest multi-cultural junior clubs. The guy is charming and shares a vision for the club that I believe in. I'm appalled to hear that they receive less than £2000 in funding each year from the Football Foundation. How can you keep kids off the street with this lack of encouragement?
I promise him that I will get some new balls and equipment for the club. Sticky knows this is where he will find future professional footballers. The last five or six players Notts County have sold for good money have been black, mixed race and more importantly within a two mile radius of the city centre – David McGoldrick, Leon Best, Michael Johnson, Kelvin Wilson and Jermaine Pennant.
I nip down Highfields to watch the closing moments of Notts County Youth versus Doncaster Rovers. 'We've' lost 4-3 with ten men. I don't hang around for the post-mortem. I walk back to the car park with former Nottingham Forest player and twice European Cup final winner, Ian Bowyer. He's now a scout at Portsmouth.
It's back home to pick up 'The Skipper' who's making his seasonal bow. He went to a donkey sanctuary with nana and poppa yesterday in Derbyshire. I asked him whether he'd been on a scouting mission for 'King Billy' at Nottingham Forest, as all and sundry know, from his radio and paper interviews, that he's after a couple of defenders.
We pick up a heavily fatigued White Van Man. Boy does he look drained. He's had a 'shit week.' 'The Skipper' doesn't help matters by asking WVM if he supports Burnley. (WVM is a Man Utd fan) 'The Skipper' announces that mummy is seething that I've invited that 'drunken bum' Trumpy Bolton to her 40th birthday bash.
It takes WVM a full fifteen minutes before he's effing and blinding. 'The Skipper' is chuckling his big head off on the back seat of the 'Rolls Royce.'
We drive down the A46. The village of Scarrington is to our right. It's a place that Ipswich Town manager, Roy Keane, resided at during his spell at Nottingham Forest.
Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire with a population of 25,000. Its main industries have been: clothing, bearings, pumps, agricultural machinery and sugar-refining. Well known folk from the town include: former England rugby union full back Dusty Hare, ex West Bromwich Albion and D***y County left back, Shane Nicholson and former Leyton Orient defender Mark Smalley.
I had noticed that the glass shattering, appalling soul singer, Whitney Houston, was born in Newark, but thankfully, for all concerned, it was Newark in New Jersey and not Newark in Notts.
'The Skipper' is fed up with listening to Lewis Hamilton whizzing around the track in preparation for the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday. He twiddles with the knobs on the car radio and tunes into Radio Trent. It's a station that's normally banned from the car when I'm piloting. He's happy enough though, singing along to Welsh singer Duffy.
WVM begins to wake up and tells us a few anecdotes from his Ladies' Day outing at Southwell racetrack last Sunday.
Newark Town somewhat bizarrely play in the village of Collingham, which lies 4 miles outside the town centre. Why on earth Newark Town Council doesn't provide facilities or land for the Club I do not know.
We pass the picturesque Collingham Cricket Club. Sticky stops the motor and takes a few snaps. Twelve years ago at this same ground, blog legend, Barthez, threw down the stumps on the final ball to put Keyworth Cricket Club into the Sunday cup final.
We are met with the friendly face of Newark Town FC secretary, Jim Todd. He's been involved with the club for over 40 years. The ground has a village green feel about it. We're charged £6 in total for the three of us, which includes two programmes.
We lean on the barrier, as the sun beats down and the game kicks off. Kinsley Boys, from Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, arrive with a big reputation. They gave six of the best to a shell shocked Forest Town last weekend. Sticky can smell a few goals.
Kinsley start well and camp themselves inside the Newark half. The right back has an enormous long throw. He hurls in a few missiles at their forward, who is a Brian Deane lookalike in physique and running style. Two long range efforts are tipped around the post by the Newark 'keeper.
'The Skipper' has seen enough after only fifteen minutes. He's hooked up with a gang of lads. It's jumpers for goalposts and five a-side.
Newark have made five changes from the midweek win against Ollerton Town. A few of the younger players are given a chance. Sam and Tom Wilford are 18 year old twins who patrol the right hand flank for Newark. They are both exciting and direct players. Sam rampages down the right in the 21st minute, he crosses to former Newark Flowserve striker, Calum Fraser, who blasts the ball into the back of the net.
Newark remain on top for the remainder of the half. Kinsley show very little evidence on how they managed to bag six the previous week.
The clubhouse is smart and cosy. WVM shouts them up. We all have Coke (that's the drink and not the recreational Columbian drug). WVM and 'The Skipper' snaffle up a bag of crisps each.
Lincoln are losing at home to Burton Albion. The Pies have scored two in two minutes at Meadow Lane against John Still's Dagenham and Redbridge. King Billy's Tricky Trees are one down at Loftus Road.
On 46 minutes Sticky Palms is chased 60 yards down the touchline by an angry wasp, whose took exception to me not wanting to share my Coke.
In four years of groundhopping I've seen some fantastic names that players have. Newark Town have the best though. Their number 12 is called Liam O'Looney. He looks like Jesus Christ.
The Kinsley Boys 5 jacket is a scary looking geezer. He must run the doors on a Saturday night in Wakefield. He's a dead ringer for former Northern Ireland centre half, Gerry Taggart. His style of play, though, is more Inspector Jim Taggart, than Gerry Taggart.
Calum Fraser wraps up a comfortable win, latching onto a whipped in free kick from Ellison. Fraser had earlier seen a deflected shot crash off the bar.
Kinsley Boys are awful. They've no width or game plan; unless it's a throw-in. They've perfected the art of moaning and groaning. One after another find their way into the referee's notebook for dissent or foul and abusive language. What must be going through the mind of my eleven year old son, who leads his village team with exemplary behaviour?
White Van Man has a smile as wide as the River Trent. He's parked himself up next to the best piece of totty in Collingham. The smirk on his face is firmly wiped away when her boyfriend appears on the scene.
Newark could have won by five or six. As for Kinsley; well six goals last week, but not even six shots on or off target today.
Man of the Match: The Wilford twins.
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For the last time, the PGA Championship will be the year's last major. Next year, it moves up to May, making it second in the major batting order, falling after the Masters.
The 100th PGA Championship, held this week at Bellerive, won't be short on drama. We take a look at the biggest questions for the 100th PGA Championship.
1. Is this the week Tiger Woods breaks his major championship drought?
Bob Harig: No, there seem to be too many things going against him. The deepest field of all the majors. A poor performance at Firestone in which he showed he needs to work out several issues, including accuracy off the tee and putting. A short prep time for Bellerive and having to balance practice versus his physical well-being. And while Woods said it wasn't an issue, he was clearly fighting some standard lower-back tightness.
Michael Collins: This is not the week. Tiger, because of his necessary practice regimen, won't be able to do the work it would take to be prepared. We now also know at least once a week his back won't get loose.
Ian O'Connor: I don't think so. Even though Tiger held the lead at The Open at Carnoustie with eight holes to go, he didn't look sharp at Firestone -- in fact he didn't look nearly as fluid as he appeared at The Open. My articles of faith on Tiger go like this: I do believe he will win a 15th major title. I do think it will happen sooner rather than later, sometime in the next couple of years. I do think Carnoustie was a significant step toward winning. I do think it's possible it will happen this week at the PGA. But I also believe Tiger will have better chances at Augusta National and at The Open, where the speed of the course and quirky links bounces give the old guys better than a puncher's chance.
Kevin Van Valkenburg: No. He's clearly close to putting everything together, but on a course where he'll have to hit driver often (unlike Carnoustie) I just don't see him outplaying ALL the young guns. It's possible he could get in contention if he is within five shots of the lead going into Saturday, but his game just doesn't feel sharp enough to win a major on a course where a handful of guys are going to shoot 66 each day.
2. Which player in the top 10 should be the most concerned heading into this week?
Harig: Jordan Spieth. The final-round, no-birdie effort when he had a chance to win The Open might have been one of those days, but he did little to inspire confidence at Firestone, shooting three rounds in the 70 to finish tied for 60th and 20 shots back. Ranked eighth in the world, Spieth's only top-10 going back to the Masters is the tie for ninth at Carnoustie.
Collins: Francesco Molinari. I don't believe a Danny Willet-like crash will happen, but Molinari still hasn't fully recovered from all the golf he played leading up to his Open Championship win.
O'Connor: Jordan Spieth. I just think his game right now is all over the map. He followed up his very disappointing Sunday at Carnoustie (a 76 in the wake of his Saturday 65) with three rounds north of par at the WGC-Bridgestone. Outside of The Open, Spieth hasn't finished in the top 20 in his past eight tournaments, including three missed cuts. It would be a great story if he completes the career Grand Slam at Bellerive after just turning 25. He's more than capable of getting hot and rendering his slump moot by winning the PGA, but it's gotten hard to picture that happening.
Van Valkenburg: Jordan Spieth technically could complete the career Grand Slam with a win this week, but it sure seems like that would come out of left field. Just when it looked like he was coming out of his putting slump, he was T-60 at WGC Bridgestone. It's weird to say this about a guy who with a little luck could have won two majors this year, but this feels like a lost year for Spieth.
3. The PGA got in the on the "supergroup" act. Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas are playing together. So are this year's major champs -- Francesco Molinari, Patrick Reed and Brooks Koepka. And there's Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm and Justin Rose. Do you like the idea of supergroups? Does it help or hurt the top players?
Harig: The major-winners grouping is standard for the PGA, but the supergroup deal in general is becoming tired. It is done for streaming purposes but puts a burden on spectators who are crammed together watching the top names in consecutive groups. It is far better to spread out some of the name players and give those on the ground some breathing room. It shouldn't matter to the players, but it can be an inconvenience to those trying to watch them.
Collins: I LOVE them, but it's not good for golf. Spreading those players out gives fans watching exposure to other players they could become fans of by seeing them alongside one of the big names. That doesn't happen with supergroups.
O'Connor: I've always been a proponent of the supergroup. As a sports fan you always want to see elite athletes face off, and what better way to size up golf's heavyweights than to shove them into the same ring? In theory, these pairings should help the world's top players -- the greats elevating their games in the presence of worthy rivals. In practice, I'm not sure it helps. And I don't care. I still want to see Tiger and Rory together to compare and contrast their swings, power, etc. and to observe their interaction, or lack thereof, especially after Rory's candid assessment of a 42-year-old Tiger at The Open.
Van Valkenburg: Not a fan. I agree with McIlroy, it's not fair to the top players. Everything is more chaotic when you're playing in a supergroup. The crowd is problematic, so you need more marshals, the shots take longer, the television cameras are more up in your face. It takes you out of your natural rhythms. The Tour needs to find a happy medium instead of trying to put together supergroups in every major. It lessens the excitement when great players finally do get paired together on Saturday or Sunday at a major based on merit.
4. The PGA has yielded some surprising winners in the past? Who could be this year's sleeper who walks away with the Wannamaker Trophy?
Harig: Patrick Cantlay. He seems to hover around the lead nearly every week and has been playing well of late. He tied for sixth at the Bridgestone, tied for 12th at The Open and has three other top-10s this year. He won last fall and seems well-suited for major championship golf.
Collins: Tony Finau is having one of those years where no one should be surprised if his first major is this week in St. Louis.
O'Connor: In Justin Thomas, Jimmy Walker, Jason Day, and Jason Dufner, four of the past five PGA winners were first-time (and only-time) major champs. So why not Finau this week? He's played very well in the majors this year -- top 10s in all three, including a fifth-place showing at the U.S. Open. As one of the tour's long-ballers he certainly has the firepower to get it done. Finau just needs to do better at Bellerive than hitting 53 percent of his fairways (ranked 192nd). Other fairly recent first-timers at the PGA were Y.E. Yang (2009), Martin Kaymer (2010), and Keegan Bradley (2011). Finau has their tools and then some.
Van Valkenburg: Cantlay. He's certainly got the game and he's trending in the right direction after finishing T-6 at WGC Bridgestone and playing the weekend in 8 under par. Cantlay can be maddening to watch with his quirky, deliberate pre-shot routine. But he has a ton of talent, and could definitely break through at a course like Bellerive. Another dark horse? Kyle Stanley. He's an elite ball-striker, and if he has a hot putting week, look out.
5. Who has the most to prove this week in their quest to make the U.S. Ryder Cup team? What about for Europe?
Harig: Webb Simpson for the Americans. He's on the cusp of making the team and would be well-served to do so because relying on a pick is dicey for him. The last time that happened -- in 2014 -- Simpson played just two matches in an American loss, tying Ian Poulter in singles. He's never won a singles match in a Ryder Cup and was shaky as a partner to Bubba Watson at Gleneagles. As nicely as he's played this year, Simpson might be easy to pass over if he does not make the team on points.
For Russell Knox, the PGA is a big week, although the European team still has a few more weeks until the eight-man team is official. Knox, a Scotsman who lives in Jacksonville, was trending toward a spot on the team after winning the Irish Open. But he missed the cut at The Open and tied for 48th at the Bridgestone and has plenty of competition for a spot among the likes of Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter.
Collins: If Tiger Woods wants to play on the Ryder Cup team, then he needs to find a way to play at least three days in a row without any back stiffness. Tiger with a stiff back doesn't help the team as a player. If I'm European team captain Thomas Bjorn right now, there's no way I'm putting Sergio Garcia on the team unless he has a massive turnaround in his play.
O'Connor: Bryson DeChambeau. He's had an awfully tough stretch of late, getting his compass banned before throwing a range fit at The Open and then completely melting down at the Porsche European Open, where he followed up his wet-and-wild misadventure down the stretch by giving winner Richard McEvoy the kind of handshake Bill Belichick used to give Eric Mangini. On the European side, it's difficult to imagine Sergio Garcia being left off the team. But entering Firestone he'd missed seven of his past eight cuts, with his best showing coming at The Players Championship, where he finished 70th. Sergio needs to find something that works fast.
Van Valkenburg: DeChambeau and Xander Schauffle are part of the future of U.S. golf, but there is a good chance one of them is going to be left off the team Jim Furyk takes to Paris because it seems likely Ryder Cup veterans like Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Matt Kuchar are going to be captain's picks. DeChambeau would be such a fun Ryder Cup character, we should all be rooting for him to make the team on points, just for the potential drama. As for Europe, when is Sergio Garcia going to start playing like a great player again? He'll obviously be on the team, considering his track record, but his play this year certainly doesn't justify it.