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I found another example of what I deem to be an over-the-top photo tour led by a celebrity photographer to a developed country in South-East Asia, so I thought I'd share my 'back of the envelope' ruminations about the economics (or lack thereof) of joining such a photo tour. Let me say this at the outset: the photo tour is no workshop...just a tour led by a well-known photographer.
The land cost for the 9 days tour (in essence 8 full days) is advertised at $4600 and the single supplement is quoted as $1000. Assuming that most single travelers don't want to share (I certainly wouldn't) a room with a complete stranger with annoying nocturnal habits, the total for the photo tour is $5600.
Tacking on a round trip airfare from New York of about $1500, and day to day expenses of at least $600 for the duration of the tour, we total $7700.
Now let's do some math: let's imagine that the 10 or 12 participants each return with 50 photographs that are exactly...but exactly what stock agencies, travel companies and others are desperately looking for, each photographer would have to sell every photo for at least $150 to break even. Naturally, there are many numerical variations to this assumption...one photograph may be sold 50 times and so on, or two photographs 25 times. Let's not also lose sight that the returning photographers will have much of their photo inventory either identical or similar to one another...and could well compete with each other.
In the current state of the industry, with the advent of photo-sharing websites populated by photographers willing to sell their work (often excellent) for next to nothing, the probability that any of these photographers will sell that many of photographs is virtually non-existent. Realistically, I'd say that a participant in such a photo tour has a slim chance to sell 2-4 photographs for $200-250 each....better than nothing, but a rather dismal return on the $7700 investment.
People who join such expensive photo tours led by celebrity photographers must do so for a reason or reasons...are these tangible or intangible? Are there real merits in just rubbing shoulders with one? Are there bragging rights attached to it? Is it a resume thing...or just for showing off during cocktails? Is it the "if it's expensive it must be good' mentality? Are there intrinsic values in shooting next to one? What are they? Do these famous photographers have the time and motivation to attend to individual needs, for mentoring? How do people quantify the return on investment from such tours? Are "in-the-field" tips from famous photographer worth 10 times those from a non-celebrity photographer? Do the participants draw comfort from the fact that since the celebrity photographer makes superb photos, they will too?
Email me if you know....but note that I draw a distinction between photo tours and bona fide workshops which have course descriptions, schedules and in which participants learn from instructing photographer(s), and nor do I question reasonably priced photo tours operated by hard-working photographers.


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Did a Confederate sharpshooter seal the fates of some 200 Maine soldiers — and another 800 other Union boys — during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
Dawn on Monday, May 9, 1864 found Col. Clark S. Edwards and his 5th Maine Infantry Regiment camped behind the rapidly lengthening Union earthworks northwest of Spotsylvania, a rural Virginia crossroads hamlet suddenly the center of contention between Union and Confederate armies. The 5th Maine belonged to the Sixth Corps commanded by Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, known by his soldiers as "Uncle John."
A day earlier, savage fighting had occurred at Laurel Hill — located almost due south from the 5th Maine's camp — as Southern troops blocked the Union march on Spotsylvania. Working feverishly overnight, Confederate soldiers had constructed extensive fortifications northeast across Brock Road, then gradually curved those lines southeast across Fredericksburg Road (today's Route 208) to end at Massaponax Church Road.
At the northern apex of the Confederate lines, near the house belonging to Edgar Harrison, a salient jutted north about a mile. Nicknamed the "Mule Shoe" for its shape, the salient gave its Confederate defenders the ability to enfilade Union attacks to the southeast or the southwest.
An approximately half-mile gap (and, in places, a forest) separated the Mule Shoe from the Sixth Corps' earthworks. Sedgwick toured the lines that morning. About 9 a.m., while siting some artillery north of Laurel Hill, Sedgwick ignored warnings about the accuracy of Confederate snipers shooting from perhaps 1,000 yards distant.
"Why are you dodging like this?" Sedgwick asked as his men ducked amidst the flying lead. "They couldn't hit an elephant at that distance!"
The next bullet struck Sedgwick beneath his left eye; he was dead before he hit the ground. Brig. Gen. Horatio Wright, who commanded the 1st Division, took over the Sixth Corps.
Did Sedgwick's death adversely affect what happened 33 hours later? Too many 5th Maine boys, plus their comrades from the 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, would never know.
With Wright's promotion, Brig. Gen. David Russell took over the 1st Division, to which the 5th Maine was attached as part of the 2nd Brigade commanded by Col. Emory Upton. His regiments were the the woefully under strength 5th Maine, the 121st New York Infantry, and the 95th and 96th Pennsylvania infantry regiments; the untested 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment would not join the brigade until later in May.
According to Upton, the 2nd Brigade "moved to the left of the Spotsylvania (sic) road" later on Monday, "took up position and fortified." Except for the scattered "pop-pop-pop" of skirmish-line shooting, the day remained relatively quiet in the Sixth Corps' sector.
Tuesday brought sunshine and warm temperatures — and to the combat veterans in blue and gray, audible evidence that a fight was broiling. "Active skirmishing commenced along different portions of the line early in the morning," and "the rattle of the skirmishers' rifles grew into the reverberating roll of thunder," said Dr. George Stevens of the 77th New York Infantry, which was assigned to the 2nd Division of the Sixth Corps.
Ulysses Simpson Grant wanted the enemy fortifications broken somewhere that Tuesday. Thick pine woods spread between the Sixth Corps and the Mule Shoe; Wright theorized that by sneaking through the forest, Union troops could launch a surprise attack that might achieve Grant's goal.
Wright ran his idea up the chain of command, and senior officers approved a massive assault timed to strike the Mule Shoe's western and northern flanks at 5 p.m. Upton would lead the western attack; Brig. Gen. Gershom Mott of the Second Corps would lead the northern attack.
Upton proposed that rather than attack in long regimental lines, as Robert E. Lee had done on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg, his assigned regiments would charge in column, thus concentrating more firepower on a narrower front. He would utilize 12 infantry regiments drawn from the Sixth Corps.
Preliminary preparations went well along the Union lines opposite Upton's intended target, the fortifications defended by Gen. George P. Doles and his infantry brigade: the 4th Georgia, 12th Georgia, 44th Georgia, and Co. E of the 21st Georgia. Anchoring the brigade's left (southern) flank were four cannons (two 3-inch rifles and two 12-pounder Napoleons) drawn from the Richmond Howitzers and commanded by Capt. Benjamin Smith.
Defending that artillery battery and the lines south of Doles's brigade was a North Carolina infantry brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Junius Daniel. Holding the lines on Doles's right (northern) flank was the Stonewall Brigade, led by Brig. Gen. James Walker.
Throughout the afternoon, pesky and pushy skirmishers from the 65th New York Infantry "drove in" the Confederate skirmishers deployed outside Doles's defenses. An open field ran west from those fortifications approximately 200 yards to the pine forest, beyond which lay the main Federal lines. Although the entrenched Confederates kept watch on the tree line, they did not expect a Union attack.
Inside the pine forest, Capt. Raynald McKenzie (an Army engineer) took Upton along "a wood road [running southeast from the Scott or Shelton Farm that] led from our position directly to the point of attack," Upton said. Concealed by the luxuriant spring foliage, the officers studied the Confederate defenses.
"The intrenchments (sic) were of a formidable character with abatis in front and surmounted by heavy logs underneath which were loop holes for musketry," Upton noted. He also saw "a battery with traverses between the guns," and "there were also traverses at intervals along the entire work.
"About a hundred yards to the rear was another line of works partly completed and occupied by a second line of battle," Upton observed.
He decided to attack in four lines, with three regiments in each line. Aligned from left to right (northeast to southwest),
• The 5th Maine, 96th Pennsylvania, and 121st New York made up the first line;
• The 5th Wisconsin, 6th Maine, and 49th Pennsylvania formed the second line;
• The 119th Pennsylvania, 77th New York, and 43rd New York comprised the second line;
• The 6th Vermont, 5th Vermont, and 2nd Vermont formed the fourth line.
Bringing the regimental commanders into the woods, Upton indicated where each regiment would form for the attack. He placed the right-flank regiment of each line south of the woods road and the other two regiments in each line to its north. Keeping to their respective sides of the road, the 12 regiments would attack from northwest to southeast.
At 5 p.m. the assigned soldiers shed their knapsacks and all unnecessary gear. Maneuvering along the woods road, each regiment moved into position, and soldiers lay down so that sharp Confederate eyes could not spot movement among the pines. Officers spoke in hushed tones; if they spoke at all, the men shared only whispered conversations.
Upton would command 5,000 to 5,500 men; no regiment brought its full authorized strength to bear. Sickness and heavy fighting in The Wilderness had whittled away many men; Clark Edwards counted perhaps 200 soldiers in the 5th Maine's appallingly thin ranks, the 49th Pennsylvania fielded 474 men that evening, and the 6th Maine brought 195 men to the fight.
The attack's success depended on the first line moving fast and puncturing the Confederate defenses. The lead regiments had specific assignments, according to Upton; "the Fifth Maine was to change front to the left [after busting through Doles's line] and open an enfilading fire to the left (north) upon the enemy (primarily the Stonewall Brigade)."
The accompanying 96th Pennsylvania and 121st New York "were instructed as soon as the works were carried to turn to the right (south) and charge the battery," Upton wrote afterwards. "The second line was to halt at the works and open fire to the front if necessary.
"The third line was to lie down behind the second and await orders. The fourth line was to advance to the edge of the woods[,] lie down and await the issue of the charge," he noted.
The colonel commanding the fourth line "was instructed that he might have to form line obliquely to the left and open fire to cover the left flank of the column," Upton recalled.
Officers told their men to load their rifles, only the soldiers in the three lead regiments could affix the percussion caps necessary for firing their weapons. Soldiers in the three trailing lines did not cap their rifles, but every man fixed his bayonet.
Next week: Spotsylvania Part V: Sloppy staff works dooms a successful charge
If you enjoy reading the adventures of Mainers caught up in the Civil War, be sure to like Maine at War on Facebook and get a copy of the new Maine at War Volume 1: Bladensburg to Sharpsburg, available online at Amazon and all major book retailers, including Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble. —————————————————————————————————————–
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Ministering to whom, you might ask? Is this a hoax or a farce? Is there such a group who might be identified as Baby Boomers (BB)?
"In the United States," according to our January 26 speaker, "one can find over 77 million Baby Boomers who were born 1946 to 1964. This is the best studied generation in recent history," he states. "It would be easy for the Adventist church to think it knows BBs from the statistics. But how can we get beyond the percentages to the people? How can we reach and reclaim BBs into loving fellowship?"
Now you should have a better understanding of just who this group is. You should also be aware that many church leaders would consider this group to be most "at risk" in terms of their attachment and loyalty to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is from this group that church leadership must be drawn over the next several decades. It is this group that must provide stable support for the institution of Adventism as older members transfer their mantles to the younger generation.
Paul Richardson, a graduate of Walla Walla College, is owner of a media/publishing business in Portland, Oregon. He has a special knowledge and understanding of Baby Boomers and is a frequent seminar presenter on Baby Boomers topics.
In late January he will be participant in the North American Division Church Ministries Department conference at the San Diego Town and Country Hotel. Hence, this seemed our golden opportunity to "capture" him while he would be in this area.
Paul Richerson publishes a newsletter, ABBA -- Adventist Baby Boomer Awareness, which, in a stimulating and provocative manner, addresses the concerns and interests of the Baby Boomers among us.
San Diego Adventist Forum
PO Box 421320
San Diego, CA 92142
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Henley: straw boaters, the regatta, Boris Johnson and… er, Liam Gallagher.
It has everything quintessential to the English countryside, including its illustrious inhabitants, charming Oxfordshire riparian walks and, that essential British ingredient: a bit of aggro.
Kate Ashbrook: 'council is charging ahead'
There's a row brewing in the Thames-side town between the organisers of its festival, a black-tie bonanza for culture vultures which has the heavy scent of corporate and clubby privilege, and the Open Spaces Society, which represents those who would rather don Gore-tex or Paramo for a stroll along public footpaths and which, coincidentally, has its headquarters in Henley.
To give you a flavour of the festival, last year you would have had to fork out £385 plus VAT – a sure sign that it's aimed at the business account – for the privilege of sitting in the La Scala enclosure to watch Dionne Warwick belt out both her hits while sipping Laurent-Perrier champagne before your Albert Roux dinner. We're not talking Glastonbury.
The problem is that, inconveniently for the festival, the Thames Path national trail passes right through the site, and we can't have the corporate view blocked by the great unwashed rambling public. So each year, the local council, Wokingham Borough, acquiesces to the request for a closure of the right of way. This year, however, the festival organisers have asked to block off the path for an unprecedented 145 hours. Last year, the closure was for only 37½ hours and for the first 16 of its 25 years' existence, the festival needed no closure at all of the path. The event lasts only five days.
Kate Ashbrook, general secretary of the Open Spaces Society (OSS), said: "Every year the council considers a request from the festival and every year it agrees to the closure, and recommends to the Secretary of State for Transport, via the Government Office for the South East (GOSE), to do so too. It appears never to give proper consideration to whether the proposal meets the legal requirements.
"Last year GOSE criticised the council for the way it handled the matter. GOSE asked that this year the council engage with itself, the OSS and Remenham Parish Council as early as possible when planning the 2008 festival, to try to prevent a recurrence of the problems faced last year.
"Wokingham is clearly ignoring that request and charging ahead with considering the application for closure without any discussion or consultation.
"And this year, the festival has cheekily asked for an unprecedented 145 hours closure over nine days. This is nearly four times the number of hours which it requested last year."
Ms Ashbrook said that the OSS had only eight days to consider the matter. "That is an unreasonably tight timetable. What's the rush?
"We have called on the executive member for highways and transport, Councillor Keith Baker, to defer the matter to allow proper consultation, and an opportunity for the OSS and other interested parties to make representations. We have suggested he convenes a meeting, as requested by GOSE, so that we can resolve this issue once and for all.
"The council also needs to be satisfied that there is a safe and convenient alternative route. The alternative provided in previous years is inferior, away from the river between high, wire-mesh fences, an unpleasant corridor with an uneven surface. That is hardly a suitable substitute for the Thames Path national trail, a prestigious and popular route of international acclaim.
"It's time Wokingham Council challenged the festival to demonstrate why it cannot adopt the practice of earlier years and hold its event without closing the path. We are fed up with the council caving in to the festival instead of carrying out its legal duty to defend the public's rights to use and enjoy this important route."
The 2008 Henley Festival is due to take place from 9 to 13 July. We don't know if Liam will be attending.


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Readers share hurricane prep tips they wish they had known about sooner
A tropical storm is slowly nearing the Texas coast, and weather officials are advising the public to check their hurricane preparedness plans and kits.
Heavy rains are expected for parts of Texas and east of Houston in the coming days, according to the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service predicts Houston could see up to two inches of rain this weekend, but warned "we are not out of the woods," just yet. The storm is closely being monitored by weather officials, who also warned the public to take necessary precautions, the Chronicle reported.
WEATHER WATCH: Texas 'not out of the woods': Forecast cone predicts probable hurricane landfall on Louisiana border
"Now is a good time to take a look at your hurricane preparedness plans, and be ready to implement them over the next couple days if a system does indeed form and threaten the upper TX coast," weather officials said. "Whatever evolves in the Gulf over the next couple of days will likely make landfall Saturday in the form of a tropical storm or a hurricane, the weather service said."
Long-time Houston residents have experienced their fair share of storms and with each weather event, learned new tips on how to be best prepared. The Chronicle asked readers to share their hurricane preparedness tips that they had wish they had know about sooner.
Aside from some comical responses, such as stocking up on plenty of beer and wine and making sure to buy a boat, readers offered up several important tips that could help keep you and your family out of the dark during a storm. Click through the photos above for hurricane prep tips you need to know...
Did we miss any? Share your storm-prepping tips in the comments below.
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Following the potential No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft throughout his junior season:
Series: AB: 7 | Hits: 2 | HR: 2 | RBI: 3 | Runs: 4 | BB: 6
Comment: After a lengthy layoff this offseason while recovering from an ankle injury, Rendon continues to get his timing back at the plate. He hit his first two home runs of the season, but the Trojans mostly pitched conservative to the All-America third baseman by walking him six times. Coach Wayne Graham said Rendon's shoulder hasn't been cleared by team doctors to return to the field, so he will remain in the designated hitter's role.
Season average: .393
Current hit streak: 0
Quotable: "You can see his timing is coming. I think he's there now. I think he's going to be tough. It takes a little while, I don't care who you are." – Rice coach Wayne Graham
Rice All-American third baseman Anthony Rendon talks about his first home run of the season and a sore right shoulder that has limited his play in the field early in the season.
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Niger's opposition says it will Monday call back in session the country's dissolved parliament in defiance of
embattled President Mamadou Tandja's emergency powers.
The opposition parties contend that the president flouted the constitution after failing to organize fresh elections 45 days after he dissolved parliament.
Some political observers describe the strategy as
dangerous and one that could potentially deepen the ongoing political
This comes after some opposition leaders were arrested over the weekend while protesting the new constitution which extends President Tandja's term for three years.
Bazoum Mohammed, vice-president of the Party for Socialism and Democracy in Niger (PSDN), told VOA that the government's flouting of the new constitution is illegal and an affront to the tenets of democracy.
"This Monday, we have to call back the former national assembly, our parliament because the constitution allows him (Tandja) to do it (dissolve parliament), but the constitution says that he has at least 45 days or 90 days to organize a new election. And now after 90 days he has not organized election," Mohammed said.
He said Tandja has failed to abide by a provision in the Niger constitution.
"We want to know about the (provision) calling for election two months ago. He took a decree calling for parliamentary election (after dissolving parliament), and he did not organize it. So, since he refused to do that we consider that now we have to call back the former parliament," he said.
Mohammed dismissed accusations that the opposition's move is illegal.
"It can't be illegal because he is the illegality he refused to respect the High Court, the Constitutional Court decision that forbade him to organize his referendum," Mohammed said.
He said the opposition is determined to fight for the rights of Nigeriens.
"It is the price we have to pay for democracy. We don't recognize his emergency powers. He has no right to have such powers. So, now we know that we are in accordance of legality and legality is with us rather than with him (Tandja)," he said.
Mohammed said the opposition has grounds to rise up against what he called President Tandja's subversion of the constitution.
"Because of the decision of the constitutional court that said that his referendum was illegal, it is the first step and the basis of our struggle," he said.
Several leaders of the opposition were arrested over the weekend while protesting the amendment to the constitution which extends President Tandja's five-year term limit for three additional years.
Embattled President Tandja was scheduled to hand over power later in December when his term expires as Niger's constitutionally elected leader. But Tandja contends that Nigeriens wants him to continue beyond his term limits.
Both local and international observers have condemned the term limit extension, describing it as a setback in Niger's fledgling democracy.
Mohammed said there is a need for Nigeriens to fight for democracy.
"When you fight for democracy, you are not to say what will I have, can I survive, these questions there (is) no opportunity to put them. We have to fight and we are ready to pay the price of democracy and freedom for which we are fighting," Mohammed said.
Meanwhile, President Tandja has set October 20 as the date for Nigeriens to elect parliamentarians.


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Planet X, the Sign of the Son of Man and Jesus Return
We are more nearing the end of the world. The sign of the Son of Man will be Planet X seen as a red cross in the sky eventually. I am not saying I think that event is close for the Antichrist hasnt even arrived yet.
Planet X and Jesus, what do they have in common? As you will soon see there is a definite connection. Some think Planet X is a hoax and part of a wacko conspiracy theory. So first let's consider what Dr. Robert Harrington (Chief Astronomer Of US Naval Observatory) has to say about Planet X/Nibiru.
Still think it is all just a hoax? I hope not. So when will Planet X/Nibiru get here and what effect will it have on the Earth? Consider this piece of data.
Here are several excerpts from the 1950 best seller book by Velikovsky entitled; "Worlds in Collision," which details what can be expected during a Planet X arrival.
In the middle of the second millennium before the present era, as I intend to show, the earth underwent one of the greatest catastrophes in its history. A celestial body that only shortly before had become a member of the solar system-a new comet-came very close to earth. Pg 64.
Red Dust and Gravel
One of the first visible signs of this encounter was the reddening of the earth's surface by a fine dust of rusty pigment. In sea,in lake and river this pigment gave a bloody colouring to the water. pg64
Our planet entered deeper into the tail of the comet. The dust was the forerunner of the gravel. pg 67
Rain of Flammable Liquid
The descent of the sticky fluid which came earthward and blazed with heavy smoke is recalled in the oral traditions of the inhabitants of both hemispheres. pg 70
For a span of time after the combustive fluid poured down, it may well have floated upon the surface of the seas, soaked the surface of the ground, and caught fire again and again. pg 71
Darkness and Wind
An exceedingly strong wind endured for seven days. All the time the land was shrouded in darkness. pg74
Worldwide Earthquake
The earth, forced out of its regular motion, reacted to the close approach of the comet: a major shock convulsed the lithosphere, and the area of the earthquake was the entire globe. pg 78
Pole Shift and Hurricane Winds
The swift shifting of the atmosphere under the impact of the gaseous parts of the comet, the drift of air attracted by the body of the comet, and the rush of atmosphere resulting from inertia when the earth stopped rotating or shifted its poles, all contributed to produce hurricanes of enormous velocity and force and of world-wide dimensions. pg 82
The slowing down or stasis of the earth in its rotation would cause a tidal recession of water toward the poles, but the celestial body nearby would disturb this pole-ward recession, drawing the water toward itself. The traditions of many peoples persist that seas were torn apart and their waters heaped high and thrown upon the continents. pg 85
The night the great earthquake shook the globe was, according to rabbinical literature, as bright as the day of the summer solstice. Because of the proximity of the earth, the comet left its own orbit and for a while followed the orbit of earth. The great ball of comet retreated, then again approached the earth, shrouded in a dark column which looked like a pillar of smoke during the day and of fire at night. This stage was accompanied by violent and incessant electrical discharges between the atmosphere of the tail and the terrestrial atmosphere. pg 91
Meteors and Atmospheric Collapse
The head of the comet did not crash into earth, but exchanged major electrical discharges with it. A tremendous spark sprang forth at the moment of the nearest approach of the comet, when the waters were heaped at their highest above the surface of the earth and before they fell down., followed by a rain of debris torn from the very body of the comet. pg 100
The rain of meteorites and fire from the sky, the clouds of dust of exogenous origin that drifted low, and the displacement of the world quarters created the impression that the sky had collapsed. pg 103
Extreme Heat
The interior of the terrestrial globe pushed toward the exterior. The earth, disturbed in its rotation, developed heat. The land became hot. …many peoples describe the melting of the earth's surface and the boiling of the seas. pg 105
Earth Sounds
Earthquakes are often accompanied by a roaring noise that comes from the bowels of the earth. pg110
The approach of two charged globes toward each other could also produce trumpet-like sounds, varying as the distance between them increased or lessened. pg 111
Pole Shift
There is testimony from all parts of the world that the side which is now turned toward the evening once faced the morning. pg 118
The terrestrial globe is a huge magnet. A short circuit between it and another celestial body could result in the north and south magnetic poles of the earth exchanging places. pg127
Volcanic Eruptions/Clouds
Volcanoes vomit water vapor as well as cinders. The heating effect of the contact of the globe with the comet must have caused a great evaporation from the surface of the seas and rivers. Two kinds of clouds-water vapor and dust-were formed. The clouds obscured the sky, and drifting very low, hung as a fog. The veil left by the gaseous trail of the hostile star and the smoke of the volcanoes caused darkness, not complete, but profound. pg 139
Christ Reveals Planet X To Esteemed Mystic Marie Julie Jahenny
Keep in mind Christ and Our Lady also warned of the New Religion/Novus ordo (including the New Mass) through this Saint! She once fasted 5 years without food or water relying solely on the Eucharist. She held the Stigmata the longest (and even more profound than Padre Pio). search her if you havent already...
Chapter ...Preserved Jews
I read..
In the eternal Wisdom, I have my purpose to preserve life for an
immense number of Jews, because on the day of My rejoicing I
want to confound them. The ungodly eye of all those souls will
remain open, because I want them to see My power, I preserve it
them to see, with their own eyes, the RADIENT PLANET I will
have coming out from the remotest parts of exile, under a frightening
storm of fire, and under the signs of my anger, the whole sky will
be crossed with bolts similar to the ones My Father thrusted
upon the World, when I offered Myself for the ransom of My people.
TradCatKnight: Planet X will pass and kick in a comet we call wormwood. The comet and Planet X are two different things that many traditionalists fail to understand.
Now, the sign of the Son of Man
Fr. Malachi Martin on Planet X


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New Progress and Momentum in Support of President Obama's
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Norfolk animal sanctuary celebrates award for promoting horse health
PUBLISHED: 12:29 03 December 2018 | UPDATED: 13:00 03 December 2018
A national animal rescue charity based in north Norfolk has been recognised for their "innovative approach in promoting horse health".
Redwings Horse Sanctuary, based in Aylsham, received the Welfare Award from the British Horse Society for their work providing equine care and welfare advice at Appleby Horse Fair.
The charity has been attending the historic fair in Cumbria, which is attended by thousands of Gypsies and Travellers, for more than a decade.
And in 2015 Redwings launched the Appleby Welfare Awards to celebrate the horses and horsemanship at the fair, with photos of the winners and rosettes shared across social media.
Winners of the Appleby Welfare Awards are chosen by the Redwings vets, and last year, award winners were took part in a video project where they were filmed sharing horse care advice, from the consequences of using inappropriate shoes to avoiding rub wounds.
Redwings chief executive Lynn Cutress said: "Making the effort to break down the barriers between different horse-owning communities is so important because when we celebrate our common ground everyone is inspired to do more for horses.
"We'd like to thank the British Horse Society for this wonderful honour, all our staff who have made this project a success, everyone who has supported us, and our sponsor the Traditional Gypsy Cob Association."
And education and campaigns manager Andie Vilela, who was presented with the award alongside Ms Cutress on Friday, November 23, added: "One of the really powerful aspects of the project has been to give a voice to responsible horse owners in a community not often heard.
"By recognising great examples of equine care, we hope to encourage more meaningful conversations about welfare.
"We know some horse owners are apprehensive about turning to welfare organisations for advice through fear of being judged.
"By embracing a positive approach through our awards, we're starting to see this change.
"Our vets are able to provide more preventative health care advice because fair-goers are not worried about speaking to them."
The sanctuary was established in 1984, and is the largest horse sanctuary in the country, caring for more than 1,500 rescued horses and donkeys at ten UK centres.
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( This takes place after Sisters and Brothers from beyond this ill fated Reality and before Rise of A.I )
Xisenin is assigned to deliver a package to an Irken war base, ZY-237. Upon arriving there, he calls out for Mie, who he was assigned to bring the package to. Confused as Mie is, she eventually comes out, and questions the containments of the package, upon which Xisenin exists she won't know if she doesn't open it up. From the inside, something pushes on the package as if trying to open it up. Hesitantly, Mie opens it, finding Sora, who was surprised as the sudden opening and fell back onto a bunch of packing peanuts. A squeak it heard near Sora, signalling there's probably someone else inside as well.
Sora immediately perks up, asking if she can come out. When given permission, a small boy follows her, seemingly another unit. He doesn't have the best grammar, and speaks in a weird first person. After a bit of a misunderstandng, in which Mie believes the two are real Irkens, Sora gets the chance to explain that she was assigned here, and that Dura had come along as well, and asking if she got a phone call about it before. Mie, suddenly remembering, explains she did, but not realizing the bots would be so "authentic." A few seconds after this, Mie gets a sudden call and picks it up, finding Admiral Shiv is wanting to speak to her about an important matter.
During the call, Dura kept trying to interfere with the call, and Sora had to keep him from misbehaving. This was unfortunately made worse by Xisenin, who gave him a gun, which Sora took away quickly before Dura hurt anybody, and shot Xisenin in the foot out of irritance. Having to deal with this injury, Xisenin wails and angily shouts at Sora. Soon, the others learn that Shiv had called to tell that one of Mie's soldiers had gone missing in action and needed her to come help with finding them. Eventually, Shiv got to the base, to see an argument between Xisenin and Sora about the gun incident. He waited until they quit talking, Sora slowly realizing that she was being scoffed by a superior. Embarassed, she kept quiet and tried to apologize for her actions. He eventually leaves and Mie signals for them to come on board her ship, and Sora quickly forgets any negativity and becomes excited at the prospect of her first mission. Dura, on the other hand, believes it is boring. She drags him aboard, insisting otherwise.
Once everyone is inside and the ship leaves, Mie looks for whatever evidence and files there is on the missing soldier. Sora asks about the person, while Dura asks if they'll get to blow it up. Mie responds, and also irritably denies Dura..


text: I live in GTA, I have the standard Tunein with my model S. It has worked well for a year but stations seem to keep dropping, aka "not supported". Example, Q107 a few months ago and today 680 news. They are still in my favourites but will not come up. CFRA is fine (and works) but something more local is nice - what gives? Thanks. NAI


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Nsight Inc Launches SAP Fiori Practice, Ready-to-deploy Solutions for Enterprise Customers
Monday, June 9, 2014
Nsight, Inc. , the high-growth SAP® consulting company based in Silicon Valley, with offices in Minneapolis, New Jersey, Canada, and India, today announced the launch of its dedicated SAP® FioriTM Center of Excellence to help customers leverage the full capabilities of the recently launched FioriTM and ui5 by SAP®.
"As a leading SAP® partner, we have invested in building some key Accelerators around UI5 based development and SAP® FioriTM Apps customization to enable a rapid deployment of SAP® Applications on Mobile Devices" says Anudeep Bhatia, Managing Director at Nsight.
Nsight experts can develop and customize FioriTM and UI5 based apps that will help in extending an enterprise's critical backend data of key functions to new customer facing devices including smart phones, tablets, and desktops.
"Our team and tools allow clients to work with standard SAP Fiori apps without having to build new niche skills in SAP® FioriTM Basis, SAP® UI5 or SAP® Gateway technologies," continues Bhatia, noting that time-to-value realization is of critical importance for customers.
Nsight also customizes standard SAP® FioriTM apps for clients based on their specific business requirements. This includes configuring relevant back-end integration, enhancing user interfaces, and adapting the SAP® FioriTM apps functionalities to an organization's use cases.
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- Test installation of an SAP® FioriTM App in a client's test environment
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- Customization including brand the application or translating it in different languages
- Pre-launch Stress Testing
- Roadmap to production to enable a global launch of the App
"Nsight will be showcasing its capabilities at upcoming conferences and events to the SAP® user communities in the coming weeks" says Bhatia, highlighting that his firm will also showcase some use cases.
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We are women who stand for the good. To make our men righteous views. We send our plumes of love to purify you with blessings from above. Great Spirits help us when we cry. Help the children who want to have good eyes. We are longing to feel this place, the making of the human face.
Our tears are like diamonds in the sky, leaping and taking a great knew ride. We are traveling to the other side. Women await your return. When you come home, we will be waiting for you. We will be waiting with a meal or two. We will make your home arrival the norm, full of love for our SUNS. You are the gentlemen we did dream. We are longing to feel this cream, the washing over on the shore, when love is the holy roar.
Tell me true and blue, the sound makes a home. We are the sovereign storm. We are taking back which is ours, the land we stand upon our hearts. And when you are lost and lonely to be rich, the heart of the sacred switch (punishment, the law of love, repeating until the treasure is shown), we will be there until you learn. We understand the burn.
Holy and reverent is your light. We are the glorious sun dancers in the knight. We send our blessings to the winds to bring our MEN home again. Warriors true blue we know you. We await for your returning home to this view. We women await your kiss. We know you are missed.
Ghost walking is the true, the spiritual inside of you. Send me kisses in the winds. Women will catch them again, rather than hold onto the sins. We are crying everyone. We are the children of the roaming sun. We are telling the world how to bring in the true, the heart of me and for you.
White Buffalo Calf Woman sings and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star drums for all the women around the world and for their awaiting for our returning warriors of each day. WE love you and gift praise.
Gifted by Alightfromwithin.org Angel Services Around the World
Sioux Task Force and Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
Jews for the ARK of the Covenant, the Rainbow Promise of the Oneness Plan
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Shield of Her Husband
by artist Howard Terpning Published in 1982 Edition size: 10000
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by artist Howard Terpning Published in 1982 Edition size: 10000
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Here a Sioux woman proudly carries her husband's cherished war shield, an honor the Sioux allowed their wives on special occasions, though it was not common in other plains tribes such as the Cheyenne. The shield was perceived as having been given magical powers, and warriors went to great lengths to prevent the loss of its medicine. Some, like the Comanche, kept their shields carefully protected by a leather cover when not in use, even secreting them in some safe place outside of camp to prevent their being contaminated and losing their power.
note: Sioux Woman is POWER gifting magical power to the Man's war shield. White Buffalo Calf Woman
The buckskin dress, from the artist's own collection, is a very old one adorned with blue and red pony beads, a trade item in earlier times, and tiny bells that tinkle as she walks. From her belt is suspended a knife sheath decorated with porcupine quills and an awl case beautified with beadwork. We honor Howard Terpning
Sacred Song Blessings, gift all a good song, because you are perfect in all that does song. Our hearts reach into heaven, and we flood, with a sound, the music of Angels, that gift us pure sound. I want you to know, that you are part of God, the echo, that lingers till light hits the "Dawn". And we are the magic, that children who know, the heart always has pureness, like the blessed snow!


text: This page is a translated version of the page Applications/Multimedia and the translation is 6% complete.Other languages:Deutsch • English • Nederlands • català • dansk • español • français • italiano • polski • português do Brasil • română • čeština • Ελληνικά • русиньскый • русский • українська • 中文(中国大陆) • 中文(台灣) • 日本語 Multimedia, geluid en video KDE brings entertainment to your desktop with a selection of multimedia applications, ranging from simple players to powerful media managers. Listen to music or watch your videos. Rip your music CDs or burn your files onto DVDs. All from the convenience of your desktop. Liven up your experience with KDE. Contents 1 Multimedia, geluid en video 1.1 Audio Players 1.1.1 Amarok 1.1.2 Juk 1.1.3 KsCD 1.2 Videospelers 1.2.1 Bangarang 1.2.2 Dragon Player 1.2.3 KPlayer 1.2.4 KMPlayer 1.2.5 Kaffeine 1.2.6 SMPlayer 1.3 Overige 1.3.1 K3b - Optical Disk Burning 1.3.2 K9Copy - DVD authoring and Backup 1.3.3 Kid3 - Audio File Tag Editor 1.3.4 Kio-audiocd - KIO-slave for audio CD 1.3.5 KMediaFactory - DVD authoring 1.3.6 KMid- MIDI player 1.3.7 KMix - sound mixer 1.3.8 Kdenlive - Video Editor 1.3.9 Kwave - Sound Editor 1.3.10 Phonon - multimedia framework 1.3.11 Audex - CD ripper 1.3.12 Kamoso - Photo/Video Recorder Audio Players Amarok All you need to play your music and manage your music collection and covers. Offers lots of advanced features and extensions through scripts. Juk A somewhat simpler but still powerful music player and manager KsCD Simply a music CD player, with all the controls that you would find on a hardware player. Videospelers Bangarang A media player which integrates KDE technologies like Nepomuk and Phonon to provide a streamlined multimedia experience for your music, movies, TV shows, audio and video feeds and more. Dragon Player A simple video player, which can resume where you stopped watching KPlayer A KDE GUI for MPlayer. It can handle files, DVDs, video CDs, audio CDs, and TV and DVB cards. KMPlayer A video player plugin for your web browser. It can also be used as a standalone player. Kaffeine A player that supports audio and video CD and DVD, digital broadcasting and audio CD encoding SMPlayer A GUI frontend for MPlayer, with optional KDE support. It can handle files, DVDs, video CDs, audio CDs, and TV and DVB cards. See footnote Overige K3b - Optical Disk Burning Burn CDs, DVDs, and ISO images, to all formats of disk. K9Copy - DVD authoring and Backup A DVD backup and DVD authoring program. Kid3 - Audio File Tag Editor An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor. Kio-audiocd - KIO-slave for audio CD Transparent integration of audio CDs with KDE Plasma and KDE applications with data conversion capabilities. KMediaFactory - DVD authoring A template based DVD authoring tool. KMid- MIDI player A MIDI player. KMix - sound mixer Adjust every channel on your sound card. Kdenlive - Video Editor Kdenlive is a non linear video editor for the KDE environment running on Linux. Kwave - Sound Editor Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment. Phonon - multimedia framework Phonon is the multimedia framework in KDE 4. Audex - CD ripper A simple and intuitive CD ripper to work with the codecs you have available. See footnote Kamoso - Photo/Video Recorder Kamoso is a great program to use your webcam to take pictures or make videos. Support for this application can be found from the project's home page Support for this application can obtained by asking questions on the application's Discussion page Retrieved from "https://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Applications/Multimedia/nl&oldid=417602" Category: Toepassingen/nl This page was last edited on 3 March 2019, at 17:00. Content is available under Creative Commons License SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.


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Sunday, August 24, 2014
[Unreal Engine version 4.4 Only] Creating a Pause Menu for UE4 with Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG)
This is a short tutorial on adding a pause menu to your game. The steps here are very similar to Part 2 of my UMG menu tutorial, but enough of the logic is changed that I decided it warranted another tutorial.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
[Unreal Engine version 4.4 ONLY] How to Create a Menu in Unreal Engine 4 using Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG) - Part 2
Note: Since the update to Unreal Engine 4.5 this tutorial is out of date. If you are using Unreal engine 4.4, then this is the correct tutorial for you. Otherwise, please go here to my updated tutorial.
This is the second and final part of my tutorial on how to create a menu in Unreal Engine using UMG. Here we will cover how to hook up blueprint functions to the menu buttons you created in Part 1 to make them work.
[Unreal Engine version 4.4 only] How to Create a Menu in Unreal Engine 4 using Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG) - Part 1
There are several options (both free and paid) that you can use to create menus for your game in UE4. The latest menu tool that Epic has been creating is called Unreal Motion Graphics or UMG. Right now this is an experimental tool and they are still adding features to it , but it's been developed enough to start using in your projects. This is Part 1 of a tutorial on how to use UMG to add a menu to your game.
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Blender to Substance Designer to UE4: My Workflow
I like to think my workflow is unique. I use a free 3D modeling program, an engine that comes with a very affordable subscription plan, and a fairly expensive model texturing program (at least relative to my other tools). No Photoshop and no Autodesk products are involved. This is in part because the FBX exporter in Blender doesn't carry over the textures that you use in the Blender material editor to UE4 , and also partly because Substance Designer is a tremendous time saver.
(UPDATE: It seems that the materials in Blender can, in fact, be exported to UE4 now. I only exported a mesh with basic colors [by accident], so I can't attest to what extent Blender's material editor settings will carry over to UE4)
Here is the workflow I currently use to create meshes, texture them, and import them into UE4.
Creating Custom Collision for Unreal Engine 4 in Blender
Here are the steps to create custom collision in Blender for use in UE4.
Texture Mapping Tools
|Normal and specular maps generated using Substance Designer 4
At some point in game development, you are likely going to need to do some texture mapping for your game materials. I'm not going to use this post to explain what textures and materials are, but if you don't know, check out this Wikipedia article about texture mapping and this page from Epic Games that discusses materials and textures. Here is a list of some popular free and paid software you can use to help you create materials for your game assets.
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text: TV Upfronts Here's What Ad Buyers Really Thought About Upfronts Week Their 9 biggest takeaways as this year's negotiations heat up By Jason Lynch|May 24, 2018 NBCUniversal's two-and-a-half hour event, featuring a Jennifer Lopez performance, kicked off upfronts week.Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversalShare By Jason Lynch|May 24, 2018 Share Another upfronts week packed with big buzzwords and even bigger promises is in the books. Now that the major media companies have had their say about the 2018-19 TV season, it's the buyers' turn. Before they dove into this year's upfront negotiations, several of them reflected (anonymously) on what they really thought about this year's week of presentations and parties: the good, the bad and the Whiskey Cavalier.Too. Damn. Long.Buyers are still recovering from NBCUniversal's longest upfront event yet. "That's a hell of a way to kick off the week, two-and-a-half hours at Radio City," says one. But NBCU wasn't the only company with a bloated presentation. As another notes, "There were plenty that could have been cut significantly." Several buyers fondly recalled that just a few years ago, all presentations were completed in an hour; 90 minutes tops: "They were good and tight, and then everyone feels, 'NBC goes two-and-a-half hours, so we should go two hours.' And that makes it painful."Too much sports, not enough showsOne big cause of the sluggish presentations was the amount of time taken up onstage by overly chatty sports personalities. "I know football is a big part of everyone's schedule and it's important, but we know what football is," says one buyer, who said that Fox's seemingly endless sports pitch was the week's most egregious. "It was them up there ad-libbing for 25 minutes. Just show us the [new] shows. That's what people are there to see." Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Michael Strahan ad-libbed at Fox's event. Broadcasters are playing it too safeSeveral marketers worried that despite all the talk that week about innovative new currencies and ad formats, "on the content side it seems like we're regressing to bringing back the oldies" with revivals and reboots like Murphy Brown, Last Man Standing, Charmed and Magnum P.I. Notes another, "We've all talked about ratings being down and having to shake things up, but I don't think we saw anything new. The networks are playing it safe, and that's not what they should be doing." JAZ pods fall out of tuneJust before Fox's upfront, buyers say, ad sales chief Joe Marchese significantly pared down the company's plans to roll out "JAZ pods"—60-second ad pods that were set to air during Sunday prime time each week—reportedly due to pushback from network affiliates. "We found ourselves at the last minute telling our clients, 'They're not going to say what we were saying in the meeting two weeks ago, when we were explaining all this to you.' That was an odd situation to be in." That last-minute switch, scaling back from all Sundays to just three (and adding FX and National Geographic) "took a lot of steam" out of Marchese's pitch. Says another buyer, "Everybody's disappointed that something that seemed cutting edge has all of a sudden been taken off the table to a large degree."CBS' legal battle with its parent company won't upset the upfront CBS' lawsuit against parent company National Amusements over control of its future, which it filed just two days before the upfront, threatened to overshadow its annual Carnegie Hall event. Buyers say that even if the skirmish results in the exit of chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves (who received a standing ovation during his appearance), it won't affect their upfront buys with the network. "It's a problem for down the road. The slate is pretty set and if they see success, you're not going to tamper with it," says one. "Regardless of who's running the ship, they still want to be successful."NBCU's CFlight metric needs to expandBuyers applauded the idea, but not the timing, of CFlight, NBCUniversal's unified ad metric. "It does make sense, but I don't know that the best way to introduce a new metric is for just one media owner to talk about it, a month before the upfront. We want to see this for everybody," says one marketer, who pointed out that "it took years" to create the C3 and C7 metric, and "there's no way this is just going to happen across the board in a couple months' time." Still, "it's a nice step in the right direction," says another, who adds the networks "need to be able to sell us not a C3 rating and a separate digital schedule and a separate VOD schedule and a separate Hulu schedule. They need to be able to sell us the [whole] thing in totality." Jimmy Kimmel killed Whiskey Cavalier—or did he?Kimmel's hilarious return to ABC's upfront stage was a big hit with buyers, but they were divided over whether he permanently damaged the prospects of midseason drama Whiskey Cavalier, whose title and plot the comedian excoriated onstage. "He completely killed the show, and I'm sure [ABC Entertainment president] Channing Dungey wants to kill him," says one, though others noted that the series "didn't look any better or worse than a lot of the stuff that's been presented in that genre in the past." No matter what buyers think, says another, "the general audience has no idea about [Kimmel's Whiskey Cavalier roast], so once it premieres, if it does well, I think it will be forgotten." Jimmy Kimmel returned for ABC's presentation. In the end, upfronts week didn't change a thingThere wasn't a consensus on which shows and presentations buyers liked best, but one thing they all agreed on: The week's events had no significant impact on their upfront strategies. "It's hard to be too picky as a buyer these days. You want to play with them all, because the margin between success and failure is not particularly high," says a buyer. These days, "you're betting on the network more than you are betting on specific shows," and no one planned any big changes as a result of how the week shook out.This year's upfront market should be similar to, or softer than, last year'sMost media company CEOs have been predicting strong upfronts on their most recent earnings calls, but buyers aren't biting. "I think it will be a bit softer than last year, looking at overall budgets," says one. "I don't see there's any one place where we're going to see a flood of dollars than wasn't there last year." Several anticipate the market will be similar to last year's, while one predicts "a long stare-down" with NBCUniversal and Fox over the rate hikes those companies will be seeking to offset their ad load reductions: "As someone once said to me, I'm not going to rush to pay a high increase." Don't miss Adweek NexTech July 27-July 30th, to explore the future of video convergence, ATV and CTV. Save your virtual seat. Click for more from this issue This story first appeared in the May 28, 2018, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe. Share https://adweek.it/2IWRxw5 copy Jason Lynch @jasonlynchJason Lynch is TV/Media Editor at Adweek, overseeing trends, technology, personalities and programming across broadcast, cable and streaming video. Adweek Adweek


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Brianna & Sarah brought in a photo of their dog, Kellen brought in a picture of his cat, Gianna brought in a picture of her dog & Jonah brought in a picture of his dog & cat to share with us. If you haven't already done so, please send in a photo of your family pet(s) or a photo of your child's favorite stuffed animal. We would like to include these pictures on our family tree so be sure you have an extra copy for yourself.
Our afternoon class continues to display an interest in monsters. We added some details to our monster project and discussed some names. The children came up with some quite interesting names. We will vote on the name we like best.
My "g" Book (Jane Belk Moncure)
Brave Little Monster (Ken Baker)
Go Away Big Green Monster! (Ed Emberley)
Glad Monster, Sad Monster (Ed Emberley)
The Pet Vet (Marcia Leonard)
Bark George (Jules Feiffer)
With a great big thank you to the families who order from Scholastic, we collected enough bonus points to order Magnatiles & a tabletop light table for the classroom. I'm super excited to introduce some new activities with these items. As soon as we collect more bonus points, I will order another light table. Light tables are a phenomenal resource for children to explore with various materials.
Two special birthdays this week:
Happy 2nd Birthday to Matthew!
Happy 19th Birthday to Miss Miranda!
Looking Ahead:
• We are collecting bottle caps of all varieties & colors. Before discarding your juice bottles, Gatorade bottles, etc., please save the caps for us & send them to school with your children. Thank you!
• Scholastic book flyers are being sent home. Please place book orders by 12/4/15 in order to guarantee delivery before the holidays.
• We will be participating in the Scholastic 6th Annual Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive. A letter is being sent home about this program.
• Our next monthly pajama & pizza party for ages 2-7 will be on Friday night, 12/4 from 6:30-9:30. $10 per child. Sibling discount available. Includes pizza, snack, drink & open play. Register on our website at http://www.wercreativekids.com/community-events.html
• Drop & Shop on Black Friday, 11/27/15 from 9:00-3:00. $40 for the day or $10 per hour. 50% off for additional siblings. Register on our website at http://www.wercreativekids.com/community-events.html
Have a great weekend!
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RIP Tony Wilson
There's a great obituary over at the Guardian/Observer written by Paul Morley.
He seemed driven by the feeling that if he wasn't as dark as he was light, as profound as he was trivial, or as aggressive as he was gentle and patient, he couldn't complete his mission – which seemed to be nothing less than the modernisation of Manchester in a way that reflected his Situationist-inspired belief in a kind of urban utopia, the idea of a city as much made up by poetry, pleasure, philosophy and dreams as politics, business and architecture.
I am really looking forward to seeing Corbijn's Control when it gets out to the colonies.
I was shocked & saddened at this news on the weekend. Tony Wilson was an inspiration & music legend. Control is a great film, check out my review on my blog http://www.australianrozie.com/2007/06/18/sydney-film-festival-part-2-control/But Though, the glory of Tony Wilson is best portrayed in 24 Hour Party People.


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Over an hour and a half before puck drop there was no parking room at the Bruce II Sports Centre lot. Around the complex, both sides of the street were packed so tightly that the team bus carrying the Corner Brook Royals had no alternative but to drop its players at the far end of the elementary school parking lot, about a half city block away. From there Royals players and staff dragged their gear through the biting cold while navigating cars, snow and ice to reach the crowded stadium.
Port aux Basques has always been a hockey town, but the extra show of enthusiasm Friday, March 8, boiled down to two factors. The hometown Mariners hosted a pre-game ceremony to retire local legend Juan Strickland's No. 9, and they also played their first game of the West Coast Senior Hockey League (WCSHL) finals since the league's resurrection three years ago.
"Obviously it's quite the honour. When you started playing hockey years ago you didn't see this day coming. You didn't think that someday you were going to be too old to play hockey or the game was going to pass you by. You just wanted to put on the skates and play," said Strickland. "It's nice that they recognize what you put into it and what you contribute to the game. But I wasn't expecting it and now that it's here it's quite the honour."
Last Christmas Strickland was notified the Mariners were planning to retire his sweater. The signed copy will be kept on permanent display near the rink's scoreboard. Strickland's number is the first and only one the team has chosen to retire.
Strickland has a long history with the Mariners, serving as their captain and scoring the game-winning goal that clinched the team's Herder Cup win.
"Watching that goal go in, when Juan scored, that was just amazing," recalls former right winger Barry Fudge.
Shawn Tobin is also a former Mariner winger who was on hand for the celebration.
"Juan is well deserving of this," says Tobin. "He was our captain for five years and people might not know this, but Juan was instrumental in helping get the Mariners started."
After a few words of congratulations from team representatives and local dignitaries, Strickland joined some of his former Mariners teammates on the ice to sign the sweater and thank the fans.
"It's quite the honour."


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I've always left my answer. What mus I do now to start from the very beginning?
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Hi Brandon,
First word I have learnt is xiao xiao (谢谢) - thank you!
So, xiao xiao Brandon for accepting my membership :-)
ni hao,
I look forward to sharing our journeys through the Mandarin language. Here is a recent word to ponder:
pa1san4 = hiking (gerund); to hike (infinitive); hike (noun)
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Writer, producer, brain surgeon—when it comes to comedy on TV, Tracey Wigfield '05 has been doing it all
Tracey Wigfield is wearing a bright pink sweatshirt and driving an electric golf cart through Mexico. The Emmy-winning television writer, who has written for both 30 Rock (from 2009 to 2013) and The Mindy Project (from 2013 to the present), is navigating the Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles, passing a series of adobe facades that have served as backdrops in films such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and ¡Three Amigos!. "There's one part of Mexico where there's a flash flood, so you have to be careful," she says as she maneuvers the cart uphill before making a sharp turn left onto Wisteria Lane ("Colonial Street" on the lot map), where the Desperate Housewives series was shot.
"I never got to work on a lot when I was on 30 Rock because we filmed in a big warehouse," she says, gathering her long brown hair along the nape of her neck with one hand as she steers with the other. "I'm shocked I haven't gotten in a golf cart crash."
She cruises back toward her office, past the set of a zombie apocalypse, taking a detour into a New York City streetscape to show off Mindy Lahiri's apartment.
As a writer and supervising producer of The Mindy Project, the Fox sitcom of three seasons, Wigfield is part of the team responsible for concocting the dialogue and storylines for Dr. Mindy Lahiri, the smart, sassy gynecologist and the show's namesake, played by actress Mindy Kaling. This past season, she's not only been writing scripts but has been performing them as well, playing the role of Dr. Lauren Neustadter, a brain surgeon who's been the love interest of a couple of the show's characters.
Writing and acting in combination takes ambition and dexterity, two qualities Wigfield has demonstrated throughout her life, whether as a child juggling professional acting and homework in grade school, or as a double major in theater and English at Boston College. Since graduating in 2005, she has worked on two television comedies created by their female stars. She watched Tina Fey write and produce 30 Rock and play the lead as Liz Lemon—and, in 2013, she shared an Emmy with Fey for cowriting the series' finale. Kaling, her present boss, started as a writer, too, on The Office, before joining that show's cast as the irrepressible gossip Kelly Kapoor; then Kaling created her own show.
Colleagues say they see a similar trajectory playing out in Wigfield's future, and that it's only a matter of time before she creates, and perhaps stars, in her own sitcom. "She's a great actress," says Kaling, "she's just such a star." And she adds, "Her ability to be funny and potentially to make a fool of herself has been very useful to our show."
Wigfield steers through the New York City streetscape, pulling up alongside the brick front that stands in for Lahiri's apartment building.
"I would have been so excited if I'd told myself as a kid that I would get to work here," she says. "It's like working in an amusement park."
Wigfield, whose official title on the show is co-executive producer, is in some ways a product of television. As she was growing up in Wayne, New Jersey, her family bonded over the popular comedies of the day—Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, Cheers—and watched The Late Show with David Letterman together each night. Wigfield began writing and filming sketches in the style of Saturday Night Live when she was in grade school, tackling Jane Austen parodies and other, more adult subjects; she created a talk show in which the host was transitioning from male to female.
"I was 11! I had TV in my room way too young," she said over dinner one night last fall in Beverly Hills. She'd picked a restaurant described by the Los Angeles Times as "neo-Vietnamese-turned-neo-Nordic," because she was in the midst of eating her way through a list of top restaurants. "I feel like when this list is done I'm going to have to make a major life change," she said.
Wigfield's father, Dave, is an attorney with a sharp wit, and her mother, Kathy, has always been a fan of show business (the name Tracey comes from Tracey Quartermaine, a longtime character on General Hospital). Wigfield's mother encouraged her daughters (Wigfield's sister, Ashley, is younger by three years) to gain confidence through dance performances and gymnastics routines, which is how the family first encountered a talent scout.
Wigfield claims her sister—whose blonde hair, blue eyes, and cherubic looks were commanding even at a young age—attracted the scout's attention. "A manager came to our dance school and saw my beautiful little sister and said, 'We'll represent you,'" Wigfield said. "And my mom was like, 'And her too.' I had the same length arms and legs as I do now, I was a gawky child."
Auditions for commercials and theater productions in New York City followed, and Tracey and Ashley were eventually represented by Shirley Grant, a talent manager who helped launch the careers of the singing Jonas Brothers, Christina Ricci (who played Wednesday Addams in the film The Addams Family), and Keshia Knight Pulliam (Rudy Huxtable in The Cosby Show).
The Wigfield girls found modest success. Tracey acted in several commercials, including one for the Glitterator, a toy that affixed sparkles to plastic jewelry (the ad can still be viewed on YouTube). Acting offered the girls "something that they felt they were meant to do," says their mother. "And it brought the three of us together, it bonded us so close that we were like the Three Musketeers."
Today, Wigfield's Emmy sits on the family mantle in New Jersey. Her mother, says Wigfield, was the inspiration for Rhea Perlman's character in this season of The Mindy Project (Annette Castellano, the mother of Mindy's boyfriend). And since Wigfield and her sister Ashley, who is still acting, now live together in Los Angeles, their mother frequently visits.
"My mom has a crazy amount of confidence, and so do I," says Wigfield. "It's the sense that 'You're going to love to meet me.' That's the greatest gift she's given me."
Still, by the time Wigfield was ready to begin college, she began to feel that she had outgrown her desire to audition. "I remember thinking, I don't want to do that again," she says. "I don't know if it was the rejection of it, but I really wanted to do something that felt creatively satisfying. . . . And I liked to write." So Wigfield decided against pursuing an acting degree at New York University, and instead undertook her dual majors at Boston College.
"Tracey always had an unusual, I would say a unique sensibility," associate professor of theater Scott Cummings recalls. "It was a particularly oblique sense of humor. . . . She would make observations that were amusing and also kind of insightful, sometimes with a little bit of a barbed edge, and oftentimes very self-deprecating."
"When I find someone like that as a student," he continues, "somebody who has their own point of view, own perspective, own voice, I get them to keep talking, or keep writing. And for Tracey it was a little bit of both."
Wigfield performed often on Boston College's Robsham Theater and Bonn Studio stages (though never, as it happened, opposite classmate Bryce Pinkham '05, who would go on to be nominated in 2014 for a Tony Award for best actor in a musical on the basis of his role in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder). "With the utmost purpose and humor," wrote a Heights reviewer, she played the hardened, cheated-on wife Charlotte in A Little Night Music; in a showcase of one-acts that included two Molière comedies, she took the serious route, playing a troubled young woman in a modern drama.
And she worked at her writing. In the spring of 2014, Wigfield told a packed auditorium of Boston College students that the comedy-writing class she took with English lecturer Steve Almond taught her a valuable secret of the craft: "Writing funny" doesn't have to stem from pure amusement. Anger can help.
"It's the things that get in your craw a bit and that you're passionate about that make the best subjects," she said. She echoed that sentiment in the restaurant, as she picked at a plate of what the menu called biodynamic leeks.
"That's kind of the beauty of comedy," she said. "It's a perspective that's adjacent to the normal."
Wigfield is not a standup type comedian, looking to work a room, constantly coveting the crowd's attention. Her humor is wry, full of candor, very self-aware, and always teetering on the slightly bizarre.
"Have you ever done an interview where someone puts their makeup on?" she asked a reporter the following day, as she sat at her desk in The Mindy Project offices, applying mascara to her lashes.
This scene, as it turns out, was not unique. Wigfield routinely brings her entire makeup regimen to the office, says Matt Warburton, the showrunner. "She's famous for doing a certain amount of her personal grooming in the writers' room. It's freed us all up to bring our home rituals in," he said. "It's like a giant bedroom in there."
The writers' room is perhaps the second most famous aspect of the television production experience, particularly in the case of comedy writers, where it's essentially a joke foundry. Each funny idea is infinitely malleable, and writers can spend 12-to-14-hour days sculpting and shaping a comedic narrative until it gleams. Inside the room at The Mindy Project, which is closed to visitors when work is in progress, Wigfield has a reputation for telling stories, and for "always trying to improve the product," says her colleague Jeremy Bronson, a supervising producer on the show. "Tracey is also a big laugher," he adds "and that makes writers' rooms not only more fun, but I think they yield better material when people give it up and laugh. And she is definitely one of those people."
There is something in Wigfield's high level of comfort in the writers' room that points to her experience as a student at the all-girls Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington, New Jersey, an experience she has said "prepared me to be the only girl in the room."
In a commencement address she gave in June 2014, Wigfield described for an Immaculate Heart audience the extent to which women are underrepresented in her field. "Only 30 percent of television writers are women—and when you talk about comedy television, that number drops to 10 percent," she said. She has, on occasion, "spent time in writers' rooms filled with men"—although not at The Mindy Project, where the female to male ratio is four to six, nor in the final days of 30 Rock when the ratio there was five to seven.
Partly, she said, the problem is that "not that many women are attempting to become writers . . . maybe because comedy writing is scary. You have to be bold, and loud, and not care when you confidently say a joke and no one laughs." "Being in a community of all women [at Immaculate Heart]," she said, "I always felt free to speak my mind and make mistakes. I never felt like because I am a girl, I shouldn't be allowed to be gross or weird or loud."
After graduating from Boston College, Wigfield moved back in with her parents and launched an offensive on New York City television, applying for any starting job that she thought might give her an entrée into the industry. Eventually, she secured a coveted gig as a page on the David Letterman show. ("My job was to say 'The ladies room is there,'" she says, gesticulating toward an invisible door. "A sign could say that." She adds, "Or they could just find it.")
It was through the show that she first encountered Rob Burnett, an executive producer, past head writer, and former intern at Letterman (the ladies room was near the control room, it turned out). Burnett took a liking to her, and offered her a job as production assistant (a.k.a. "gofer") on a comedy series he was developing called The Knights of Prosperity (2007). Soon she had the job of the writers' production assistant (writers' gofer). "Rob was my first mentor," Wigfield told Cosmopolitan in October 2014, "and I think he saw something in me. He would give me opportunities to write content for the show's website and pitch little jokes here and there."
The short-lived Knights was filmed in Silvercup Studios, the Long Island City production site where both The Sopranos and 30 Rock were filmed. After the show was cancelled, Burnett passed along Wigfield's resume to friends at 30 Rock. Wigfield was asked to temporarily fill in as the writers' assistant—the person who takes notes in the writers' room, keeping track of potential storylines and jokes—until the person hired for the job arrived from California. She started working during the second season and stayed through the series' end—the seventh.
"30 Rock was so labor intensive and so hard, I was just there taking notes and I think they just forgot to tell me to stop coming in," she jokes now. "Or they forgot to call and tell this guy he didn't have the job."
In truth, the writers had begun to notice her promise. "She's one of the most talented and special writers I've ever been around," says Jack Burditt, a television writer and producer with five Emmys who met Wigfield when she began working alongside him on 30 Rock. "Her brain is weird in a fantastic way."
Wigfield says that despite being paralyzed at the prospect of bombing in front of Tina Fey, she eventually found the confidence to begin piping up with her own joke ideas in the meetings. Before long, she was helping to shape the backstories of the series' sincerely bizarre characters and authoring an NBC web series called Kenneth the Web Page. It starred Jack McBrayer, who played the page on 30 Rock, and the series' short videos provided an opportunity for his hokey farm-boy character to host a late night talk show, offer tips on how to exercise "and still give your job 100 percent," and retell the history of Thanksgiving. In less than two years, Wigfield was asked to submit a spec script and was invited to become a 30 Rock staff writer contributing two full episodes a year (out of a standard 22) in addition to the collaborative work of the writers' room.
"I've written scripts before with staff writers, a lot of time you have to do the heavy lifting," says Burditt, "but everything she'd send in was fully formed. She became one of my favorite writers of all time."
One of her standouts, during season five, was "Queen of Jordan," a spoof on reality series that mocked the Real Housewives franchise. It caught the attention of Mindy Kaling, who tweeted about it while she was still filming The Office. As 30 Rock drew to a close, Wigfield was one of four writers selected to map out the final episode. She and Fey wrote the two-part finale together, and took home the Emmy for it on September 22, 2013.
As 30 Rock was finishing up (the last episode aired January 31, 2013), Kaling invited Jack Burditt to join the staff of The Mindy Project, which had premiered in September 2012 and was still getting off the ground. He said he'd bring Wigfield as well. "We wrapped 30 Rock December 20th and on January 1st we moved to L.A.," he says. "She lived with me and my family for three weeks while she looked for an apartment."
Mindy showrunner Warburton sums up Wigfield's contribution since, saying, "Tracey brings a certain kind of sharp confidence to the character of Mindy in particular that I think is definitely influenced by her own personality."
Wigfield finished her makeup just as she got a signal from an assistant: Mindy was free to chat.
Mindy Kaling's office is lined with Bridget Jones posters and a rack of Spanx. The actress was eating a Pop Tart, and had wrapped herself in a Tartan blanket despite the balmy fall weather. Wigfield, obviously at ease, sat across from her on the couch, her legs curled up beneath her. They bantered about their first Twitter exchange, shortly after the "Queen of Jordan" episode aired in 2011, and how Kaling had been mystified by Wigfield's lack of an Internet presence—the only photo of Wigfield online at that time was a headshot she had posed for six years earlier, at 22.
"I knew that she worked at 30 Rock and was very funny and that she ate at McDonald's fairly regularly," Kaling said (Wigfield follows the chain on Twitter). In two years of working together, Kaling said, she became aware of Wigfield's acting history and pushed her into the role of Lauren this season. "My favorite people to work with on [The Office] were the writer-performers," she said, a reference to executive producers Paul Lieberstein, who played Toby, and B.J. Novak, who played Ryan. "My favorite thing is to take unwilling writers and make them performers."
At that, Wigfield hops up and makes a quick exit, seemingly a tad uncomfortable being at the center of the limelight. But Kaling continues. "Tracey is so talented that she can do whatever she wants," she says. "Obviously, creating her own show will definitely happen if she wants that. But also I can see her writing amazing movies too. I think she enjoys acting, and she's such a funny actress that if she wanted to be the star of her own show, I really think she can do anything."
In the downtime between episodes, Wigfield has been rewriting an animated screenplay for Sony, crafting jokes for Golden Globes hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler '93, and developing potential show ideas of her own. (She says that when she does decide to write a sitcom pilot, it will almost certainly center on a relationship that resembles the one that she shares with her mother.) And in January of this year she spent several days guest hosting on The View, the coffee-klatch daytime talk show that typically features an all-female panel. A good listener on her first day as others clamored for the camera ("They don't really prepare you," she noted later, "and I was worried I'd offend a protected class"), she chose for her initial foray into the conversation an account of shopping with her mother the previous weekend, then offered wry observations on a Twitter spat between actor Charlie Sheen and reality TV personality Kim Kardashian.
"Tracey once wrote a line for my character that went 'I'm going to hell,'" Kaling recalls. "The other character says 'Why are you going to hell?' and my character goes, 'Because I love gossip and I don't care about the environment'. . . . When my character says something that's really dark and a truthful observation but it's also hilarious, especially when it's a single woman in her thirties," she said, "Tracey has written it."
At press time, Fox announced it was not renewing The Mindy Project. Hulu, the online video service, announced on May 15 that they had reached an agreement with Universal TV, the show's producer, to host season four. —Ed.
Janelle Nanos '02 is the editor of BetaBoston, a Boston Globe website reporting on "technology, innovation, and startups." She is also a visiting lecturer at Boston College, teaching "Magazine Journalism."


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When we were away in Cornwall a couple of weeks ago I did a lot of scrapping – it amazed me just how much I could get done with so little equipment! LOL
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