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RENO, Nev. — Soon after moving into Liberace's gaudy Las Vegas mansion in 1977, Scott Thorson, then a teenage hunk in the foster care system, learned that the jewel-smitten showman could love just as extravagantly as he decorated. Touring the premises before their relationship began, Liberace pointed out some decorative highlights, which included 17 pianos, a casino, a quarry's worth of marble and a canopied bed with an ermine spread. On the ceiling was a reproduction of the Sistine Chapel with Liberace's face painted among the cherubs.
When the pair became a couple, Liberace, who was 40 years older, was just as excessive. He couldn't bear to let Mr. Thorson out of his sight.
"We were at a hotel in Florida and Liberace had the manager give us another suite, with windows that faced the beach," said Mr. Thorson, now 54. "He knew I'd be near the water and he wanted to be able to look at me."
Liberace even wanted Mr. Thorson nearby when he worked. So for years, Mr. Thorson would don a chauffeur's costume covered in rhinestones and drive "Mr. Showmanship" on stage in a bejeweled Rolls-Royce. Mr. Thorson would put the car in park, then open the door for Liberace, who would emerge in a fur coat with a 16-foot train.
If you missed this routine, which ran for years at the Vegas Hilton, you can catch a re-enactment in an upcoming HBO movie, "Behind the Candelabra," which is based on Mr. Thorson's autobiography of the same name and stars Matt Damon as Mr. Thorson and Michael Douglas as Liberace.
One person who may miss the movie's debut, on May 26, is Scott Thorson. He currently is an inmate at the Washoe County jail here, and while the place has its share of amenities — including television — HBO isn't one of them.
Mr. Thorson has been held here since February, when he was charged with burglary and identity theft, after buying about $1,300 worth of computer and cellphone merchandise using a credit card and license that weren't his. He was arrested at the Ponderosa Hotel, where he and a man he had just met rented a room for $33.90 a night.
"We get a lot of the dregs of Reno, a lot of prostitutes, drug dealers," said Eric Pyzel, a clerk at the Ponderosa who works next to a bumper sticker that reads "Welcome to Our Country. Just Do It Legally." "The cops are by pretty often. So when they got here it was kind of like, O.K., what is it this time?"
On a recent Friday morning at the jail, Mr. Thorson was sitting in a small room of white cinder blocks, empty but for a sink and a wall-mounted dispenser of disinfectants. Two officers hovered. Not for the first time in his troubled life, he vowed to clean up.
"This experience has scared me straight," he said, in a slightly nasal tone that sounds vaguely like Liberace. "There comes a time when you've got to take responsibility. You've got to stop lying and face your mistakes."
It's hard to connect this worn and anxious man in a blue prison shirt to the beefcake grinning in photographs in the late 1970s. Time, an on-and-off meth addiction, several stints in prison and what he describes as Stage 3 colon cancer have taken their toll.
Another reason he looks different: the chin implant is gone. Mr. Thorson had it removed in an attempt to reverse one of the creepier episodes in the history of plastic surgery. Early in their relationship, Liberace plucked an oil painting of himself from a room in his Las Vegas mansion and asked a visiting doctor to reshape Mr. Thorson's face to look like Liberace's as a young man.
Liberace wanted a boy toy and a son. With sex and fatherhood disturbingly twined, Mr. Thorson wound up with a new chin, a nose job and enhanced cheekbones.
"I was 17 years old," he said, explaining why he went along with a plan that sounds so lunatic. "Liberace had taken me out of a situation with a father who was very abusive, a mother who was mentally ill. I did everything I possibly could to please this man."
The two went on shopping sprees, traveled first class and spent a lot of quality time with Liberace's Shar-Peis. Mr. Thorson was showered with gifts, including mink coats, an assortment of baubles and a Camaro. They entertained celebrities like Debbie Reynolds and Michael Jackson.
But it all ended abruptly in 1982. That year, Liberace had members of his retinue forcibly eject Mr. Thorson from his penthouse in Los Angeles. It was a breakup caused, in part, by Mr. Thorson's drug habit, which he says he developed trying to slim down, at Liberace's urging, on what was called the "Hollywood diet," a cocktail of doctor-prescribed drugs that included pharmaceutical cocaine.
Mr. Thorson later sued for $113 million in palimony, ultimately losing a highly public battle fought both in court and in the tabloids. He settled in 1986 for $95,000, according to reports at the time.
There was a deathbed reconciliation before Liberace died of a disease caused by AIDS in 1987. And that is where the book version of "Behind the Candelabra" ends. But Mr. Thorson's life went on, and as he explained in a series of interviews, both in person and via a jail-monitored version of Skype, many of the events that followed are as strange as the ones that came before.
The trick is separating the strange from the unbelievable.
"His approach to communicating with people is always to play it in a manner that reflects best on him," said Oliver Mading, the man Mr. Thorson calls his adoptive father as well as his manager. On a recent evening, Mr. Mading was sitting in the living room of his home a few miles from Reno's downtown. Sitting nearby was his stepson, Tony Pelicone, who met Mr. Thorson through a mutual friend a decade ago in Palm Springs, Calif.
At best, these men sounded deeply ambivalent about being enmeshed in Mr. Thorson's life.
"He's not a bad person," said Mr. Pelicone, who has a swirl of brown-blond hair and a cigarette habit. "He's just twisted and kind of cutthroat."
Mr. Mading: "He'd sell his mother — "
"Then he gives you that smile," said Mr. Pelicone, interrupting
The two admit that much of what they know about Mr. Thorson's biography they learned from Mr. Thorson and that, at the very least, he has an aversion to telling his life story as a coherent, easy-to-follow chronology. During interviews at the Washoe County jail, Mr. Thorson was often evasive and moody, deflecting questions about his past to rage against the people who have declined to put up the $15,000 in bail he says he needs to get out of jail.
"All these people are getting rich from my story," he fumed, "and here I sit."
On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty, and asked to enter a rehabilitation program. He could face as little as probation with a suspended prison sentence to 2 to 30 years and combined fines of up to $110,000.
What's indisputable is that Scott Thorson is no longer named Scott Thorson. He is now known as Jess Marlow, a change Mr. Thorson says occurred when he entered the federal witness protection program as the star witness in the 1989 prosecution of an infamous Los Angeles character named Eddie Nash.
Mr. Nash shows up in the book and movie as Mr. Y., described as a drug dealer with ties to organized crime who made headlines for allegedly ordering the so-called Wonderland murders, a grisly quadruple homicide that took place two days after Mr. Nash's home was robbed of money and drugs in 1981. (The crime is named for 8763 Wonderland Avenue, where the killings took place.)
Mr. Nash purportedly learned who had committed the robbery after his underlings beat up the porn star John Holmes, an acquaintance of Mr. Nash's who later admitted to helping the robbers enter Mr. Nash's home.
A fictionalized version of these events turns up in "Boogie Nights," with a Nash-inspired figure played by a Speedo-and robe-wearing Alfred Molina.
Mr. Thorson says that Mr. Nash became a drug source for him in the early '80s, and that he later became a partner in Mr. Nash's club business. At some point, the two fell out and by 1988, Mr. Thorson was reportedly in a Los Angeles jail for an assortment of charges. There, he says, he was offered leniency by the district attorney's office in exchange for testifying that he happened to be at Mr. Nash's home when thugs pummeled John Holmes — which, if true, would make Mr. Thorson a kind of Zelig of the Awful. Eleven members of the jury voted to convict. One held out. Mr. Nash later admitted to bribing that lone juror, and in 2001, he struck a plea bargain in which he was sentenced to 37 months in prison for racketeering. Now, in his early 80s, Mr. Nash is a free man. And he would like to make it clear that he and Mr. Thorson were never partners.
"No, no, he worked for me," Mr. Nash said on the telephone. "When Liberace dumped him, he had nothing. He was on the streets. So I took him in and he worked at the house. He was good for cleaning. Because I lived with eight girls at the time. Beautiful girls. College girls. It was safe to have Mr. Thorson around, because he is gay. I had a gay cook, too."
Mr. Thorson claims that after the trial, marshals in the federal witness protection program moved him to Florida and gave him a new name. "They had to keep me safe because there was a contract placed on my life by Eddie Nash," he said during one interview.
"It started with the marshals taking me to different locations around the country for seven to 10 days, to make sure no one was following," he said. "Texas, Alaska, Seattle."
It's an intriguing narrative plot point — man forced to get a new face is later forced to take on a new identity. But the story sounds highly improbable to Bill Keefer, a former federal marshal in the witness protection program. He has doubts because of where Mr. Thorson eventually landed: at a Christian-based homeless shelter in Tallahassee, Fla., called the Haven of Rest.
"How much protection could the marshals provide a guy at a homeless shelter?" Mr. Keefer asked.
At the Haven of Rest, Mr. Thorson found religion. And instead of striving for invisibility, he shared his life story in front of church congregations. He says that he became a popular evangelizer, even appearing on a Pat Robertson TV show.
"He would share his testimony about his life with Liberace," said Danny Heaberlin, who ran Haven of Rest at the time. "We had pictures of him with Liberace, because the story was so out there, nobody would believe it otherwise."
Mr. Thorson says an East Coast mafia don gave him assurances that he needn't worry about Mr. Nash. True or not, Mr. Thorson was unable to stay on the side of the angels for long. After three years at the Haven of Rest, he says, he started using drugs again, and in 1991, was shot three times in a room at a Howard Johnson's hotel in Jacksonville. Local reports described the crime as a robbery committed by a crack dealer.
"They thought he was going to die," Mr. Heaberlin said, "but he kept living and living."
While he was recovering, a life-changing event occurred: a woman from Maine named Georgianna Morrill came to visit. Mr. Thorson would later claim she had seen him on TV, spreading the gospel, but that is not how Ms. Morrill remembers it.
"I read 'Behind the Candelabra,' and I saw the photo on the back of the book and I heard the Lord tell me to pray for this guy," she said, speaking from her apartment in South Portland, Me. "I thought, I don't even know this man. But I'm a Christian and when God tells you to pray for someone, you do."
She found Mr. Thorson through a Pentecostal friend and soon after the two met, she invited him to live with her in a tiny two-story red house in Falmouth, Me.
Mr. Thorson accepted. He stayed for the next 12 years.
It was the second time that he found refuge in someone else's life, but Falmouth was a long way from Vegas and Ms. Morrill was no Liberace. There were periods of domestic calm, with Mr. Thorson cleaning up around the house and collecting disability checks that he was eligible for after the shooting. But Ms. Morrill wanted to get married, despite all evidence that the match was a terrible idea. The couple had sex once, she recalls.
"That was enough," she said with a giggle.
Mr. Thorson's homosexuality wasn't the only impediment. He drank a lot and when he did he would sometimes "get stupid," in Ms. Morrill's words, prompting her to call the police. Still, she held out hope that one day he would propose. And one day, he did, but with a ring with a pearl on top that she somehow knew he had purchased with a stolen credit card.
"I said to him, 'I'm looking for a diamond ring and one that you paid for yourself,' " she said, laughing. "He got pretty mad that I didn't want it."
She speaks with a note of nostalgia about those strife-ridden years. It's a note you won't hear when you discuss the subject with Mr. Thorson.
"Horrible!" he said of his Maine phase. "It was so boring. I hated the weather. Five feet of snow. It was too quiet. I had to get the hell out of there."
Mr. Thorson moved to Palm Springs, where he would be arrested a handful of times for stealing groceries and drug possession, among many other charges. Early in this era, he met Tony Pelicone.
"I recently learned that he came by our house to meet someone I was dating," Mr. Pelicone said. "Later his house burned and nobody was there to pick him up. So I did, thinking he'd stay for a few days. That turned into 10 years."
Initially, Mr. Pelicone was thrilled to meet Liberace's ex, and he introduced Mr. Thorson to his mother and stepfather, Oliver Mading. Mr. Mading, a businessman with a background in packaged foods, says he negotiated the "Behind the Candelabra" movie deal with the producer Jerry Weintraub, while Mr. Thorson was in prison on drug charges. After his release, Mr. Thorson spent his cut of the movie earnings — just under $100,000 — in about two months, mostly on cars and jewelry.
"We always knew Jess without money," Mr. Mading said. "Not that $100,000 is King Midas' trove, but Jess burned through it like a complete idiot."
Mr. Thorson says he's now penniless because of outlays for cancer treatment. The truth is almost beside the point. An assortment of siblings and half-siblings want nothing to do with him, Mr. Mading says. His only real assets today are the intangibles that Liberace bequeathed him, most notably, a peculiar place in showbiz history as the kid that Liberace once adored and tried to remake in his image.
"There's always been a love-hate relationship," Mr. Thorson said when asked to describe his feelings about Liberace today. "At that time, I was so honored to be in his presence. And I didn't want to go back to my lifestyle in the foster homes, which was pure hell."
Their years together scarred him, he says, and partially explain the troubles that followed. But those years were also the happiest of his life. So though he removed the chin implant, he also had a tribute to Liberace tattooed on his forearm. He rolls up the sleeve of a gray thermal undershirt to reveal an inky cluster of curlicued letters and symbols. In the middle is Liberace's name, surrounded by floating musical notes, plus the years that Liberace lived and a yellow rose.
"His favorite flower," Mr. Thorson said matter-of-factly, rolling his sleeve back down.


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Late on July 3 Dallas Police sent word that two men had shot to death an Oak Cliff convenience store owner ... over two boxes of onions. As Byron Harris noted a day later, Quick Check Grocery's Jin Ha was beloved by folks living near the store at Illinois Avenue and Overton Road; said one customer, "It didn't matter if you was a drunk, a crack head, she treated everybody the same."
Three days later, one of three men suspected in the shooting was arrested: Robert Roberson. Police said they were close to charging two others. But in the weeks since, they remain at large. Which is why Oak Farms Dairy announced today it's upping the reward money leading to the arrest and indictment of the two suspects, adding to Crime Stopper's initial $5,000 another $10,000. And that's why DPD this morning released the video of the shooting, along with the names and photos of the two suspects: 17-year-old Don Williams and 19-year-old Lamarcus Mathis.
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After a defeat form neighbours Locos in the Inverurie Challenge Cup Colony Park were looking to get their pre-season rolling with some more favourable results.
They continued their pre-season build up with a 5 - 2 victory on the 4G pitch at Alford on Tuesday night .
A hat-trick was scored by Stuart Mackay between goals from Calum Reid and an own goal, in a highly contested match.
Manager Richard Davidson had an opportunity to see some new faces perform, and more established players used in different roles.
It was back to Colony Park for the first test at home on Saturday and a 50th minute strike by Fife side Rosyth FC was all that seperated the teams in another entertaining pre-season friendly.
Once again, with seven players still unavailable, Colony fielded a new look side containing several youngsters as trialists, and each one made a real contribution to the team.
Indeed only five of Tuesdays starting line up were in the first eleven and Manager Richard Davidson added his name to the subs list.
A very even first half ended goalless with chances few and far between and on loan Greg Sim marginally the busier keeper.
In the second Colony lost an early goal with a super strike from just inside the box ,and for much of the second half spent most of the game on the back foot.
Greg Sim had a terrific top corner save from Rosyth's veteran centre back Mark McCulloch from an edge of the box free kick and generally kept the score line respectable.
The defence were always under pressure, but coped well, and the home team showed their worth in the last 15 minutes when they took the game to Rosyth, but could not find an equaliser.
Along with the good performance of the youngsters, the bonus for Colony was that Steven Craib played 75 minutes with no ill effects as he steps up his comeback and manager Richard Davidson came through the final fifteen minutes, his first competitive football since his leg break last season .
After the match manager Davidson said: "Today was a really good work out for the boys, I didn't think there was much between the teams first half but they had two or three very experienced ex professionals and it very much showed particularly second half .
"I'm really pleased to see some younger players coming through which augurs well for the future"
On Monday night Highland league side Deveronvale made the visit to Colony Park and there was little to draw between the sides although when Colony took the lead through a headed effort from youngster Mitchell Cheyne it looked promising for the Junior side and they were well worthy of their half time lead.
The second half saw the Vale step up the pace of play and caught the home defence cold with quick double however trial list Reece Brown calmly slotted home for an equaliser.
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With only a few number of Dance Study series completed and four months of the year gone, there can be moments in which I don't feel like taking the camera with me and photographing non-dance related things. However, I know that the only way my photography is gonna improve is if I get outside and photograph, something, anything.
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The Council of State Governments Justice Center lauds the members of the U.S. Senate for their passage today of the Second
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11 Things ALL Movie Lovers Can Relate to on a Personal Level
Most of us love watching movies. But for the movie fanatics, movies are a part of their very existence. They eat, drink, sleep, and talk movies! It is a kind of escape route from their daily mundane life into another world, be it for a short while.
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You know all the movie dialogs
Why so serious? Let's put a smile on that face. Your life is full of drama, so much so, that even your dialogs are inspired by the movies you watch. You know all of them on the tip of your tongue, and never miss a chance to insert one charming dialog into an appropriate situation.
You're the Encyclopedia of movies
Your friends consider you as the encyclopedia of movies. All thanks to IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, which are the most visited and bookmarked sites on your computer. You often find yourself recommending movies to your friends, whether it's action, drama, romcom, or based on animals.
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From Mass to the Mountain takes viewers to eastern Panama, where decades of government corruption and neglect have impoverished the region. But thanks to the tireless efforts of one priest to build infrastructure, protect watersheds, and conserve the rainforest, life is looking up for the locals.
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Hi guys! check out my Kickstarter campaign first Graphic Novel titled SIDEWINDER, help us spread the word!
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Hi ya, I know you like Christian comics so I know you'll love The Word for WORD Bible Comic, (Unabridged, historically accurate graphic novel of the Bible with a high view of scripture. For ages 15+)
To complete the first book I need your help, as I am raising funds on Kickstarter. My passion is to get God's Word in full into the hands of young believer and unbelievers and comic lovers of all ages, in the hope they will come to really know God. Please check it out at the KS page, it's going well but I still need lots of backers so I hope as a CCAS member you'll please pledge to support this project...
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Becker Sentenced to Life for Cutting off Penis/
Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-ChiefLast Modified: 22:24 PM EDT, 27 June 2014
LOS ANGELES, California -- In August 2011, Catherine Kieu Becker, a Vietnam-born woman also known as Que Anh Tran, brutally attacked her husband severing his penis. At that time they resided in Grove Garden, California. Today, nearly three years later, Becker has been convicted and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after seven years.
Now 50, the infamous ex-wife has supplanted Lorena Bobbitt as the new face of women who castrate their husbands. Unlike, Lorena, Catherine Kieu, had not been abused, but instead appears to have been driven to violence by jealousy.
Kieu and her then husband married in December 2009, but in May 2011 he filed for divorce, which was granted in August 2011, according to Orange County court records. Despite the fact that she and her ex-husband had no children, it seemed that Kieu was not ready to relinquish the relationship.
According to other reports, shortly before the incident, the couple argued over a friend staying with them. Apparently, her husband thought little about the incident, or at least he didn't fear for his safety because he and Kieu enjoyed a dinner together.
It was during this meal that according to prosecutors, "Kieu laced her husband's dinner with the sleep medication Ambien, and once he fell asleep, Kieu tied his legs and arms to the four corners of the bed. She waited until he awoke before pulling down his pants and cutting off his penis with a knife."
Once again the similarities between Bobbitt and Kieu are striking, but in the case of Lorena, she drove off in her car and threw her husband's severed penis out the window. She later led the authorities to the general area where she had thrown out 'his member,' whereupon it was located and later surgically reattached.
In Kieu's case, she seemed intent on her husband never being able to perform as a man again, as she threw his severed penis into the garbage disposal, turned it on and mangled it. After this vicious assault, Kieu called 911 to say that her husband was bleeding and required attention. Upon the paramedic's arrival they saw the severity of his injuries and immediately took him to the hospital for emergency surgery.
The victim is a battered man, and if not for his physical castration people may have scoffed at his predicament. But, the abuse perpetrated against him by Kieu cannot be healed with psychotherapy. Her ex-husband, 60, according to the prosecutor's office, described the trauma in an impact statement during Friday's sentencing.
'The convicted (person) viciously deprived me of part of my life and identity," the ex-husband told the court. "Then, as is routine in cases of violence that involve something sexual, the victim must endure, at the hands of the defense, a second attack. This was a cruel and calculated violation of a person's body and mind. I now struggle with what is before me. She has torn off my identity as a man. She has caused doubt in my belief in good. She has betrayed my trust in people." Source: CNN
Kieu's defense team's strategy seemed to rely on the success of the outcome of Bobbitt's acquittal on the grounds of temporary insanity. However, despite their claim that Kieu suffered from mental health issues, including depression, it was a stretch to claim that she was a victim of the battered woman's syndrome or acted in defense of her life.
Her claims do an injustice to the many women in this country and around the world who are abused physically and mentally by their partners until they break and either harm themselves or their victimizer. Fortunately, for women's rights, the jury didn't buy into Kieu's defense and today, she was sentenced to life in accordance with the April 29th jury verdict of one felony count of torture, one felony count of aggravated mayhem, and a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife.
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The alarm rings at 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning. He fumbles down the stairs. Shower, coffee, Bible, prayer, and out the door to work. Today will be a long day. He starts his delivery route at 6:30 a.m., does the first leg of his route and comes back to the warehouse. He changes into a suit, and drives to a funeral home. Phil had cancer, and passed away a few days before. He officiates the funeral, seeking to serve the family and proclaim the gospel.
After the graveside service, he returns to the warehouse for the second leg of his delivery route. He finishes around 4:30 p.m., just in time for a quick dinner with his wife and kids, before leaving the house again to lead prayer meeting at the church, and have a meeting with one of the deacons about the Thanksgiving potluck that weekend. He gets home at 9:00 p.m., debriefs with his wife, and collapses in bed. Tomorrow will be full, too. He is behind on Sunday's sermon.
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The college years are a unique time of life that can create an almost fantasy world with a lot of freedom and responsibilities that tend to be narcissistic. Yet the freedoms that many students experience can also lead to great opportunities for evangelism and fellowship with other Christians. We want to equip our students to be missionaries on their campuses. We want to provide them with the answers to the hard questions that life is throwing at them.
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And most importantly we want to fold them into the life of the congregation in a way that will not make sense to the world. Although college students may only be in Portland for a short period of time, we encourage them to join the church, so we can better fold them into our midst. We encourage college students to come to our regular all-church events & activities like Sunday School at 9:15am. On Monday nights, young adults get together for a Bible Study at the Annex (1315 SE 20th Avenue) from 7:00-8:30pm.


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The live-fire ground tests and aircraft installations were carried out as part of the Department of Homeland Security's ongoing Counter-MANPADS (C- MANPADS) program. The flight program is evaluating the system's compatibility with daily passenger airline operations and maintenance." (Trading Markets)


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2011 Prairie Dog Hunt Take Two — 600 Yard Direct Hit on Video
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|Typical view of a white-tailed prairie dog sitting on a mound in Wyoming.
I played hooky from work so Dallen and I could take a second trip this year for prairie dogs as a birthday present to myself. The wind wasn't nearly as bad as our first trip prairie dog hunting earlier this year. I did rig my tripod up with weight hanging from it to steady it more. With the steadier tripod and less wind I was able to get much better video and I was also now able to take video in full HD 1920x1080 with my FujiFilm HS20exr camera.
With the wind being more under control this trip we spent much of our time shooting at prairie dogs in the longer more challenging ranges of 300 to 600 yards with my 243 WSSM. Dallen used his A-Bolt 223 Rem. on many of the closer shots (170 to 250 yards).
Below are some videos clips from the day. My favorite shot of the day was when I took a prairie dog at right around 600 yards with a bullet going 4240 fps while my spotter (Dallen!) was taking a break/snooze to get a snack from the truck. I wasn't able to get my rangefinder to give a range off this prairie dog mound however I was able to range a prairie dog mound that was closer at 571 yards. By judging the distance behind the mound I could get a range off, I feel confident in guessing the shot at 600 yards give or take a few.
Here are some prairie dogs getting airborne in slow motion mixed with HD video clips that have audio.
Here is a slow motion video clip of a miss on a prairie dog at somewhere around 475 yards. The vapor trail was very noticeable on this shot. You can even see the vapor trail being blown by the wind during the first part of it traveling across this draw.
I use my Fujifilm HS20exr camera with a frame rate set at 80 frames per second for the slow motion video clips and full HD 1920x1080 for the clips that have audio. I also had a Sony VCL-DH1758 teleconverter on the camera to get a 51x (1224mm) optical power zoom which is very useful for the long distances we are shooting at the prairie dogs.
2011 Prairie Dog Hunt - 243 WSSM Shooting 4240 FPS
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|Dallen shooting my Model 1885 in 243 WSSM from the bench while prairie dog hunting.
Here are a few photos and video action from a recent DIY Prairie Dog hunt that Dallen and I went on. Dallen took his A-Bolt Stainless Stalker in 223 Rem. and I took my Winchester Model 1885 in 243 WSSM. After watching the acrobatics the 243 WSSM would give the Prairie Dogs in the viewfinder of the camera Dallen started using my rifle for most of the day. The 55g Ballistic Tip bullets coming out the muzzle of the 28 inch long rifle barrel are crusing at 4240 fps working some pretty cool magic on varmints.
We drove around for a few hours in the morning looking for different areas to hunt. By the time we found some good areas the wind was just roaring. It was very difficult to hit anything past 200 yards. We still made the best of it and focused most of our shooting around the 200 yard distance.
Dallen made the most impressive shot of the day at 300 yards, with a heavy cross wind. It took him a couple of shots for me to spot the shot placement and try to outsmart the wind. Here is a video clip of the shot. He is holding with the second windage mil dot to make this shot. The vapor trail of the bullet is also pretty impressive in this shot.
Here are some compiled video clips of various Prairie Dogs being launched. We almost get three complete rotations in the air with one critter we took at 160 yards as you can see in the clip below.
To capture the video I was using my Fujifilm HS20exr with a frame rate set at 80 frames per second and some at 160 frames per second with a Sony VCL-DH1758 teleconverter to get a 51x optical power zoom. The wind was so bad that the video was horribly shaky. I did the best I could at getting video in the harsh wind. I will work on a steadier tripod system in the future. Because the camera was so shaky HD video was not working really at all. By running the camera in lower resolution and higher frame rates I was able to get some ok footage. I also took all of the video footage into Adobe After Effects to stabilize the video so you don't get completely sea sick watching it.
|My 243 WSSM Winchester Model 1885 in on the bench while prairie dog hunting.
|Dallen and I from where we setup and shot most of the day.
|Dallen with his first Red Fox we found while hunting Prairie Dogs.
For more prairie dog hunting video clips check out my second prairie dog hunting entry. Including a 600 yard direct hit on a prairie dog.
243 WSSM Model 1885 Coyote Double
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- Created on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:48
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Every summer since I was little our family has gone camping for several days in the Cache National Forest of Northern Utah. I have many a great memory of these camping trips. Now that I have my own family we have continued the tradition with our own children and my parents who are now Grandpa and Grandma.
The area that we go camping in always had a lot of coyotes but a couple of years back some pretty extensive reduction of their numbers happened. I believe this came by the hands and helicopters of government employees in which I was happy to see because the deer numbers were getting pretty low at the time. Since then I have seen little sign and usually only when there is a sheep herd within a couple miles. I still always throw in a rifle and caller just in case I happen to find some coyotes but knowing most likely there may not be any in the area.
The first three days of camping this year I was unable to find any coyote tracks or scat within the general area we were camped. On Sunday night about a mile away across the canyon a male coyote surprised me and started doing series after series of challenge yelps, howls and barks for well over an hour straight. It appeared that he was very upset with either another coyote or my wife's little yapper dog that we had with us. Whatever the case, it was Sunday and I have a personal belief that I should not snuff the life out of furry woodland creatures on Sunday. Oh, how I was ever so tempted to sneak past my wife, go across the canyon and silence that song dog... That night I strategized over and over how I was going to out smart him in the morning.
Early the next morning I grabbed my 243 WSSM Winchester Model 1885 single shot rifle, some optics and my homemade DIY electronic predator caller and snuck out of camp before anyone else was up. I slipped into a sagebrush draw that looked across the main canyon directly across from where I had heard the coyote the night before. I figured that at best I could get the coyote to come out of the pines and quaking aspens on the other side of the canyon and look across from some cliffs that formed a gorge like canyon. This would offer a 300 yard shot and if I was lucky I would be able to get him to cross the gorge and offer a closer shot on my side of the canyon, that is, if I could see him in the sagebrush before he winded me.
|My Winchester Model 1885, 243 WSSM, a homemade electronic coyote caller and the two coyotes I just took. I'm wearing the New Mossy Oak Break-Up Infinity camo pattern which is not too bad of a pattern. Treestand and Duck Blind are my two favorite camo patterns right now.
Once in place I set my homemade DIY electronic predator caller to repeat a series of challenge barks in much the same manner the coyote had been doing the night before. I figured this coyote was obviously upset with someone in his turf and a little challenge might be just the trick to tick him off and let down his guard. I started the caller up and it wasn't 30 seconds and to my right on the same side of the canyon that I was on two coyotes were coming in full throttle through the sagebrush. As they crossed through a small draw and where out of sight I repositioned myself and setup on my shooting stix. They both stopped at about 100 yards across the draw I was in and I could only see the one so I dropped the hammer on him and down he went.
The sound of the exploding bullet on the coyote and the electronic caller still playing, I think confused the second coyote and she started running parallel to me at about a 100 yards crossing down into the draw I was in. Just before she made it to the thick sage in the bottom of the draw she stopped to look back up at the challenge barking coming from my caller. I was ready and dropped the hammer on her for a double, with a single shot rifle, in less than two minutes of calling .
At first I figured that the coyotes had to be young uneducated coyotes to come in so fast however they were an adult male and female pair. This makes since because the challenge barks I was making probably would scare off the younger coyotes.
I was using Winchester factory loaded 243 WSSM 55g Ballistic Tip bullets that chronograph at 4240 fps from this rifle. The coyotes where 95 and 97 yards away according to my Bushnell Elite 1500 range finder.


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With the line blurring from the civil to BIM world, Marco's knowledge has gone inside the building envelope as well. Years of experience with this technology makes him the obvious choice to help clients navigate the ever changing landscape of positioning tools. He is a Trimble Certified Trainer and the managing editor of Construction 2020 magazine, Marco writes and talks about the best solutions available for a variety of applications. His insight and advice is key to the success of many ENR 100 firms. Marco also speaks to trade and industry groups regarding technology in construction issues.
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Before everyone had four consoles in their house and a phone that had more games than phone numbers, the only way to play the newest and coolest videogames was to steal $10 from your mom's fanny pack, hop on your bike, and head to the arcade. We honor the quarters that sacrificed their lives in the last decade of the 20th century with this tribute.
Gauntlet itself was always pretty fun - a hack 'n slash fantasy adventure with wizards and warriors and hordes of bad guys - but the big selling point here was the ability to level up and actually save your characters; giving you the feeling of real accomplishment with each token spent. It was like owning the game, except you were leasing it one quarter at a time. Then again, if you wanted to actually accomplish something, you could have been putting those tokens into that skeeball game to work your way to that glow-in-the-dark yo-yo that was going for a mere 150,000 tickets.
I don't think anyone would disagree with football having a lot less rules about late hits, excessive celebration, and pretty much doing whatever you want on the field (well, maybe actual players would). For all of us, NFL Blitz was a dream come true - brutally hitting players a good 10 seconds after the play was over, flinging opponents onto the ground, constant fake punts, pass interference that would send most refs into an epileptic frenzy - it had everything. This was what I think everyone expected the XFL to be, and if it had been, maybe it would still be around today (RIP Memphis Maniax).
Giant heads, Bill Clinton, the horror of the other team being on fire, shooting nothing but 3's, "Kaboom!", "He's on fire!", "Monster jam!" - we all share the same fond memories of National Basketball Association Jam. The only problem was watching actual basketball games afterwards and being disappointed that the ball didn't burst into flames after the non-President players with normal-sized heads made three shots in a row, none of which were dunks where they flew 50 feet into the air.
With some games, it's tough to tell whether you remember them fondly due to pure nostalgia or because they were genuinely good games. With Cruis'n USA, the most poorly-spelled game in history, there is no question: pure nostalgia. The game isn't much more than hitting the gas and trying to not get screwed by the A.I., but that doesn't make it any less fun. You got to race across the entire country, see women in pixelized bikinis, and on some levels birds would actually take a dump on your windshield. Frankly, if there's more to a fun racing game than going fast, seeing landmarks, and birds shitting, I don't want to know about it.
Mortal Kombat 2 was all about "more" - more characters, more fatalities, more finishing moves (babalities, friendships) - but the best part of it was how much more our parents didn't want us to play it because of the ridiculous amounts of pixelated blood. It was like Kill Bill except every character was a hemophiliac on his way to the Red Cross blood drive. Did they think kids would start ripping out each others' spines or do mid-air bicycle kicks? Most kids were too lazy to even ride a bicycle, let alone do some kind of flying kick. Now if there had been a mid-air "ride in mom's minivan kick," there might have been a reason for concern.


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Sheffield Hallam University
With more than 28,000 students and over 3,000 staff, Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is not only a progressive, forward thinking university, it is the sixth largest University in the UK. Currently boasting a £150 million turnover it has an ambitious growth strategy which includes capital investment of over £150m over the next decade. This flagship institution has invested £80 million in new building and refurbishment since 1996 with plans for further development already under way.
The Facilities Directorate provides a range of services which add value to the University. With nearly 600 staff employed across all campuses and residential sites, the Directorate offers expertise in delivering services from portering and cleaning, building surveying, maintenance to luscious banquets. Since its first introduction to FSI a decade ago, at a trade show where the capabilities of Concept™ 300 were spotlighted, the relationship between the two organisations has developed as a true business partnership.
"In 1995 mechanical engineering consultants Mott MacDonald was assigned to conduct a study of five systems and recommend the one
best suited to the university's specifications," recalls Richard Barker, Head of Estates Services at SHU. "FSI's Concept™ SQL product was selected as the preferred software solution.
Since then the Concept™ system has been
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"The move away from our manually based helpdesk for maintenance requests was, in its own right, a major change for us," explains Richard. "That, coupled with our decision to include FM soft services such as portering, transport and catering service requests meant we needed to partner with a company that could talk our language and translate it into practical solutions.
"Past experience of system implementation with other suppliers meant this shift from manual to CAFM was met with an element of scepticism from colleagues. It was therefore essential that in-depth training and a dedicated amount of time for familiarisation of the system was given. We did not want the system to be blamed if we experienced 'snagging' problems when the system went live." Mindful of this, FSI consultants worked closely with the University, from the outset, to ensure a seamless integration of the system.
With a very open relationship, where customer feedback was vital to FSI, adaptations to the Concept™ SQL system were made.
"It is refreshing to work with a company that encourages honest feedback," continues Richard. We requested a number of modifications to be made to allow us to achieve additional functionality for our specific requirements. The main, initial change was to the 'copy call' feature. The adjustment made by FSI enabled a duplicate call to be sent to a number of service providers. For example, a call is made to the porters for a room layout change to be made, another will be made to catering for refreshments, transport to deliver catering etc. This enhancement has paid dividends, providing us with much greater transparency of our system processes with everyone now able to see the 'supply-chain'.
Implementation of the system was a lengthy process, but one that has proved its worth.
Every aspect of the 'changeover' was considered in minute detail with over 18 months devoted to working with the manual based help desk and service providers to collect data and analyse work processes for Concept™ SQL.
A copy of the system was then made and run as a dummy stand alone set-up so all users would be fully conversant with the system prior to it going live. With training and system enhancements completed the system went live without a hitch. The vast majority of services have been successfully integrated through one point of contact offering essential management information which in-turn can be utilised to improve services and productivity.
Now used to manage contracted-out, in-house planned maintenance and general management throughout the university estate, other areas for CAFM have been highlighted and SHU is already exploring the use of mobile technology to enhance their work processes and customer communication and have recently installed the 'workflow lite' module. "The list of benefits we have gained from implementing this new system is vast," reflects Richard. "Not only does it identify areas of high breakdowns and high costs but it gives us an audit trail which allows us, as managers, to have a 360 degree view of what is going on around the estate from our desktop –
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We are Lenny and Melissa Volturo and we are wedding photographers based out of New York City and Miami, Florida. We have one singular goal-document the story of couples from one end of the I-95 to the other and beyond.
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We're both originally from New York City, we met at the Eltingville train station in Staten Island in 1999 and the rest is history (you can read about our story here). That history, and your history, are why we do what we do. Whether engagement photography or wedding photography, our mission is more than just taking a photo - it is delivering the ultimate experience in order to tell your story. We sit down with every single one of our clients to learn their history, their relationship, and what they care about so that we can collaborate, become friends, and truly do our job as storytellers!
We pride ourselves on being New York Wedding Photographers, and we love using our hometown as a backdrop. Being from here, we know all the "spots" when we're shooting engagement photos in Central Park or under the Brooklyn Bridge. So when we sit down with you to hang out and get to know you, we know the perfect place to get that perfect shot.
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We moved to the Miami Area in 2002 and built our business from the ground up when we arrived. Since then, Florida has truly been home to us (well, one of them at least). Another part of why we love this career so much is because it allows us to go back and forth between New York and Florida. Lenny's family primarily lives in Florida, and Melissa's family primarily lives in New York-and considering we're incredibly close to both of them, having the privilege of shooting wedding and engagement photography in both means a lot to us.
We consider Florida home as much as we consider New York home, and know how to utilize it for its setting just as well. From The Addison Boca Raton, all the way down to The Cooper Estate in Homestead-if your story was written in Florida, that's great, because so was ours, and we'll tell that story just as well.
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Alright, we have to admit, one of the best perks of what we do is that we get to travel. Besides hopping back and forth between our families in New York and Florida, we've had the privilege of shooting in Jamaica, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Chicago, St Louis, Key West, Key Largo, Islamorada, and more. It doesn't matter where you're getting married, we'll still do our job the same way-setting is only one part of the story after all-and we love when we get the opportunity to shoot somewhere new!
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Don't worry, your Uncle Tony won't be able to complain about not being in any of the photos. Part of the fun of our job is the candid side, the part where we are everywhere at your wedding, ensuring we're getting all of those sweet, sweet candid moments captured. We're going to give you a heads up now, your wedding day is going to be pretty hectic. The day will be long, you're going to be tired, and your schedule will have no regard for the prior. You may forget about that moment when your Great Aunt Josephine started crying when she saw you in your dress. You may have been in the bathroom when your cousin Anthony started breaking out those dance moves that haven't touched a dance floor since 1995. Don't worry, we've got it covered. Your job is to enjoy your special day, our job is to capture all of it to ensure you can look back on it. We'll ensure that years later when you're sitting down with your little nieces after they're no longer "little", you can show them that moment when they were hanging out with your dress prior to you wearing it.
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Growing up in New York, New Jersey was like our backyard and we've done plenty of traveling and shooting throughout it. Whether it's utilizing the beaches while shooting South Jersey Wedding Photography or the historic areas for Weehawken Engagement Photography-even the coastline and the NYC skyline for Hoboken Engagement Photography. We consider all of the tri-state our home, not just NYC, if you're looking for a New Jersey Wedding Photographer-mission accomplished, you found us.


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A Las Vegas man was killed while riding his scooter on Charleston Boulevard near Apple Drive. Police reports indicated that the victim, a 34-year-old man, was hit by a car whose driver stayed at the scene and was cooperating with the investigation. According to witness statements, the rider of the JMSTAR scooter was riding east when a Honda Civic going in the opposite direction turned left in front of him. The rider of the scooter made an evasive maneuver to avoid striking the Honda, but hit the car on the right side. The driver, a 60-year-old female, is not believed to have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the crash.


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Berlin, Ingolstadt progress on penalties in German Cup
Berlin, Aug 22 (IANS) Hertha Berlin came from behind to beat third-division team Regensburg 5-3 on penalties while Ingolstadt edged second-division side Erzgebirge Aue 8-7 on penalties at the first round of German Cup football tournament.
Hertha Berlin avoided an upset at the first round of the German Cup as Mitchell Weiser's equaliser forced Regensburg into the overtime and penalty shootout on Sunday, reports Xinhua.
The lower league side gave Berlin a hard fight though, as Alexander Nandzik secured a 1-0 lead within six minutes into the second half after hammering home from 18 metres.
Weiser restored parity in the 83rd minute after heading home a cross into the box.
Berlin goalkeeper Rune Jarstein stopped Regensburg's fourth penalty from Marcel Hofrath before Salomon Kalou sealed the deal with the 5-3 from the spot.
"We got away with a black eye today but we played against a strong team," Hertha Berlin sporting director Michael Preetz said on Sunday after the match.
Elsewhere, Ingolstadt also avoided an early exit overpowering Aue on penalties.
The match was 0-0 at half-time.
Nicky Adler missed the seventh penalty for Aue while Tobias Levels converted the eight penalty to put the game beyond doubt for Ingolstadt.


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It's been over a month since I wrote an article, but there's a good reason behind that. After successfully passing the pre-semester (from February to March), I started my first-year college semester at the National University of Cordoba and things have not been going smoothly and a lot of the blame goes to the country constantly going on strikes!
From the beginning, which was April 7th, the semester has had problems. It's no secret that Argentina is known for constantly going on strikes for one reason or another. It seems that whenever the cab drivers go on strike, the bus drivers do too; then all of the professors in the nation want to join in on the strike and claim that it's because they need more money.
There have been about 3 strikes already in the month of April alone. Then came the first holiday, which was related to what they call "the week of the Saints", which leads to Good Friday. The following week, the psychology school within the university had a 3-day seminar that brought therapists from all over the nation and beyond together. This meant that we had no classes for Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Then, the following week, Argentina celebrated Labor Day on May 1st. Since that fell on a Thursday, the university also took Friday off.
There are two 1st year courses that did not have classes until now due to all this chaos. The first was psycho-statistics, and the other was epistemology. As I mentioned in previous posts, each course is divided into two types of classes. The first one is known as the practical class, which requires students to attend and do coursework. The other one is called a theoretical class, which is basically a lecture class. This one does not require students to attend, but it's highly recommended that they do as it provides them with additional material that can help them pass their exams down the line.
Given that I'd miss an entire month's worth of class in these two courses, I decided to go to the lecture. Unfortunately, a problem that is often too common at this university occurred.
There weren't enough seats! Students were either forced to sit on the floor or stand and look on. Some students had to stand in the hallway and strain to listen to the professor, who typically never speaks loud enough, even with the help of a microphone.
After the lecture class was over I went to the practical class and encountered the same issue. We were all crammed into a smaller classroom than the one where the lecture class was held in. Now I know how sardines must feel like (well… if they were alive inside the cans).
Some of the first exams will be held as early as next week, while others will be held by the end of May or sometime in June. Either way, I don't feel motivated anymore. I'm so frustrated by the lack of organization and the crappy excuses that the administrative staff at the university provides for their shortcomings.
There are days that I don't even feel like getting out of bed anymore. I'm just stumbling through the week like a zombie. I know I should motivate myself to study, but I'll admit, I've lost interest.
My psychiatrist, who graduated from the university here in Cordoba, warned me that I wouldn't find the level of structure at the university that I had grown accustomed to back in the States. He also told me that most professors at the university don't really care about teaching. Some don't even have the knowledge needed to teach, according to him, and they could care less whether the students pass or fail. That's the last thing I needed to hear.
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Location-based Services (LBS) Focused on Capturing Consumer Intention
Several location-based services focus on where the user is going to be instead of checking-in to where the user already is. In other words, your potential customers announce their intentions to go somewhere and do something. Knowing a prospective customer's intentions provides a host of location-based marketing opportunities. Here are a few of the LBSs that capture user intention:
Ditto: Ditto's CEO describes it as "future foursquare." Users announce what they want to do and can find others who want to do the same — say drink coffee or watch a particular movie. Ditto is even smart enough to pull in a list of all the local movies that are playing and then leave room for color commentary.
The user can type his intentions and the app provides a link to suggested venues based on keywords in his post. The user can make the announcement public or private and, if it's public, cross-post to Twitter and Facebook.
Here's where this becomes really interesting from a marketing perspective: Ditto's technology is highly semantic, which means that it's particularly easy to tell exactly what someone intends. Unlike Twitter, where data is unstructured, it's easy to figure out the exact wants and needs of a user who has announced his need and location. If your business can service that need, you can act.
The ability to interact with a person who you know wants exactly what you're providing is really exciting! It's then up to you as a marketer to provide the right offer to that person to see if you can get him to spend his time with your business.Jyri announces on Ditto that he wants to have seafood.
CrowdBeacon: Like Ditto, CrowdBeacon allows you to express what you want to do and gives people around you the opportunity to respond and help you find something that suits your preference. You start by choosing a category. The categories include Active Life, Arts & Entertainment, Beauty, Home Services, Local Services, Nightlife, Restaurants, Shopping, Mingle, and Deals.
This application is built on an interesting premise, but the user experience lacks polish. You could monitor CrowdBeacon for opportunities to provide an experience to a person at decision point. It is a good idea currently in need of a facelift.
Forecast: From the makers of Hurricane Party, Forecast is a free mobile app that leverages foursquare's API and lets users share where they are going with their friends. This service has the potential to allow you to reach new customers by knowing who visits your venue along with those of your competitors.
When a customer "forecasts" an intent to visit a competitor, you can provide offers to influence those potential customers. You also benefit from your customers broadcasting their intent to friends-and-family to visit your establishment. Forecast might be a way to have your most loyal customers serve as your social media marketing team.
Loqly: Loqly helps you find relevant information by asking local experts. What differentiates this service from others is the metadata (or links, images, phone numbers, and so on) that Loqly sends along with its answers, making it easy to drill down into whatever it is you're looking for. One of the best things about Loqly is that you, the user, are notified as soon as someone answers your question.


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A celebrated Classical violinist, Niki has enjoyed career that spans the globe. A guest soloist with International and Australian major Symphony Orchestras, Chamber music collaborator and Artistic Director for critically acclaimed performances, festivals and recordings. Niki presented the television series Classical Destinations, stared in the film '4' based on Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Niki has graced the pages of Vogue magazine, appeared on Spicks and Specks, has played for royalty and world leaders.
Niki's most cherished opportunities have been amongst the world's remote and marginalized communities. It was through this involvement that Niki was recognised as 'Young South Australian of the Year.' Niki is a dynamic speaker who's faith is an integral part of her life and expression in music.
"Music is a heavenly language which speaks directly to the soul and it is my great privilege to use my violin to bring hope." Niki
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Niki Vasilakis is regarded as one of the most exciting violinists to have emerged from Australia. She has performed as soloist with orchestras around the world and all the major Australian Symphony Orchestras.
Niki is a passionate performer, involved in many volunteer programs promoting classical music to remote audiences. Numerous television appearances include presenting the popular show Classical Destinations. Niki released her debut album with the Tasmanian Symphony orchestra and features in the film 4 with Violinists Pekka Kuusisto, and Cho-Liang Lim. Niki is patron for Suzuki Australia and The Australian String Teachers Association. Named Young South Australian of the Year 2009, Niki was recently awarded a star in the Adelaide Festival Centre's Walk of Fame.
A passionate chamber musician, Niki has collaborated with Steven Isserlis, Sam Haywood, Nicolas Alstaedt, The Goldner String Quartet, Emma-Jane Murphy, Kathryn Selby, Anna Goldsworthy and Slava Grigoryan. She regularly attends the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, United Kingdom.
As well as being the proud mother of three beautiful children, Niki is Artistic Director and founder of both of the Adelaide Festival Centre Cocktail Concerts and the Barossa Chateau Classics series. A creative passion for collaboration of multiple artforms, Niki co-created and composed the music for the Adelaide Fringe Festival's sell-out show and awarded 'Pick of the Fringe,' Sensorial, with life long friend and artist Claire Foord.
Niki plays her Antonio Guadagnini 1872 Violin.