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Inner City Youth Development Association receives inaugural TELUS Innovation Award TELUS to give $4.5 million to Edmonton community initiatives in 2012
Edmonton, AB – Today, TELUS presented the Inner City Youth Development Association (ICYDA) with the first TELUS Innovation Award in Edmonton at the annual TELUS Celebration of Giving at the Art Gallery of Alberta. The award includes a $5,000 gift to the Inner City Youth Development Association for its project supporting literacy and life skills education in virtual reality.
The TELUS award recognizes the ICYDA's innovative work to establish a presence in the 3D virtual world of Second Life and create technologically based, engaging, developmental and educational opportunities for Edmonton's high risk youth. This included the development of two sims, or islands, in this virtual world with controlled access for only the youth in the ICDYA programs. The virtual world provides a safe place to take risks and practice living skills. Youth are able to realize the world is theirs to create. Learning becomes fun and engaging and creates hope and possibility.
"In each technological advance in our programming TELUS has been there with their support," said Dr. Joe Cloutier, executive director, ICDYA. "Thank you, TELUS, for helping Edmonton's high risk youth take steps towards becoming productive citizens."
Additionally, Edmonton charities and community partners were lauded at this morning's event as TELUS and the TELUS Edmonton Community Board celebrated its 2012 season of giving. TELUS and its team expect to give more than $4.5 million to local community initiatives in Edmonton this year, including $500,000 in funding for grassroots, youth-focused charities in the Edmonton region through the TELUS Edmonton Community Board.
"Edmonton's spirit of giving is alive and well and living right here in Edmonton. Today, we celebrated that unyielding spirit with our community partners," said Doug Goss, TELUS Edmonton Community Board Chair. "The TELUS philosophy to give where we live, in tandem with the ongoing commitment of the TELUS Edmonton Community Board, will help Edmonton organizations continue their vital work in supporting young people in our city. Together, we continue to make a difference in the lives of Edmontonians."
TELUS focuses its giving on educating and empowering youth to improve their quality of life and to enable them to reach their full potential. Since 2000, TELUS has invested more than $30 million in local community initiatives in Edmonton including $3.8 million to 252 grassroots, youth-oriented programs through the TELUS Edmonton Community Board. TELUS partners with local organizations such as the TELUS World of Science, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Fringe Theatre Adventures, and the Northern Alberta International Children's Festival. The TELUS Edmonton Community Board has also supported organizations such as Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area, Children's Ability Fund, iHuman Youth Society, and The Support Network.
TELUS Edmonton Community Board Chair Doug Goss, of Bryan and Company, Barristers and Solicitors, is joined by the following distinguished board members: youth representative Valantina Amalraj – University of Alberta; Linda Hughes – University of Alberta; psychologist Dr. Dianne Kipnes; Don Lowry – EPCOR; Lynn Mandel – community volunteer; Anne McLellan – Bennett Jones LLP; Reg Milley – Edmonton Airports; Dave Mowat – ATB Financial; Elizabeth O'Neill – Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area; Ralph Young – Melcor Developments; and TELUS team members Kevyn McGregor (vice-chair), Bonnie Frederick, Jim Johannsson, Mark Komlenic, Yolanta Miller, Brenda Murphy and Shaun Richartz.
For more information about the TELUS Edmonton Community Board or to apply for funding, please visit telus.com/community.
About the Inner City Youth Development Association (ICDYA)
The Inner City Youth Development Association (ICDYA) was established to provide Edmonton's high risk youth with tools and opportunities to break the cycle of poverty, desperation, and dependence that dominates their lives, enabling them to become contributing members of our community. The ICDYA provides youth with programs that promote and facilitate positive behaviour, creative expression, and cooperative working skills. In the ICDYA programs, the values of trust, respect, cooperation, and non-violence form the core of all activities. When these values are reinforced with active listening, counseling, referrals when necessary, and a sound academic and arts based education, youth are able to become active and constructive citizens. For more information about the Inner City Youth Development Association, please visit www.innercity.ca.
About the TELUS Community Boards
TELUS Community Boards are an innovative model for funding youth-focused charities that delegates decision-making to local leaders who know their communities best. Eleven TELUS Community Boards are making a positive impact across Canada from coast-to-coast in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Rimouski, Quebec City, Atlantic Canada and the Thompson Okanagan region of B.C. Since their inception in 2005, the Community Boards have contributed more than $30 million to grassroots charitable organizations and supported more than 2,300 community projects. Last year, the boards donated a total of $5.05 million in support of 418 projects in Canadian communities. Contributions made through our local Community Boards are made possible by our customers and our shareholders. The TELUS Community Boards and the meaningful difference they make significantly contributed to TELUS receiving the Association of Fundraising Professionals 2010 Freeman Philanthropic Services Award for the Most Outstanding Corporation globally.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $10.6 billion of annual revenue and 12.8 million customer connections including 7.4 million wireless subscribers, 3.5 million wireline network access lines, 1.3 million Internet subscribers and 595,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video.
In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed more than $260 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.2 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Fourteen TELUS Community Boards lead TELUS' local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.
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CHICAGO – Perhaps the larger question with the New York Knicks, who began the season a disappointing 3-10, is how could that happen given their roster that boasts the second-highest payroll in the NBA.
After all, they have only one player who was accused of murder, although the charges were later bargained down. They have just one player who was suspended by his previous team during the playoffs because he refused to play in a dispute over his playing time. And they have just one player who basically killed a franchise in inciting the worst brawl in the history of American team sports.
How could a team like that not have success?
Now, remember, we here in the United States do not much care for not only New York, but especially New York sports teams.
There's a famous cartoon from the New Yorker magazine — who names a magazine after a city? — that shows a map of the United States with New York and then going west the Pacific Ocean with basically nothing in between but some desert and mountains. This is basically the New Yorker's view of the country.
There's an old joke about New York sports teams:
What's the definition of a dynasty?
It's either when a family in China rules for 1,000 years or when a New York sports team wins three consecutive games.
Yes, they are pretty full of themselves there.
But they shouldn't be with the Knicks, who last won an NBA title in 1973, and only seem to be getting farther and farther away.
New York considers itself the capital of the U.S., though players don't generally seem so enamored. That's how the Knicks ended up with J.R. Smith, the league's top sixth man last season and starter-to-be who served a 24-day jail sentence in 2007 when the car he was driving — and driving after being arrested seven times for speeding — passed a stop sign, which he passed while driving around a car waiting there and going twice the speed limit and was hit by another car and his passenger died. He settled a suit and was allowed to plead down from manslaughter.
There's Kenyon Martin, the starting power forward who was basically banned from his Denver team in the playoffs by future Hall of Fame coach George Karl in 2006 because Martin accosted Karl and refused to play because he didn't like the way Karl was coaching.
Earlier that season, the NBA fined Martin after his "posse" of friends threatened fans in a game in Chicago.
And, of course, Ron Artest, who likes to go by the name of Metta World Peace, though he has the most violence-related suspensions of any active player, and who basically destroyed the Pacers franchise in 2004 by going into the stands to assault fans in one of the worst riots in American sports history.
Instead of chanting, "Fire Woodson," as fans are these days in Madison Square Garden, he should get a raise for trying to manage that menagerie of oddball talent.
Expectations always are high in New York despite the realities, and it didn't help that often-erratic owner James Dolan before the season fired general manager Glen Grunwald and told Woodson he believes the Knicks would compete for a title.
World's wackiest?
He should have specified what league.
The Knicks are not horrible and not as bad as they have started, if certainly dysfunctional.
They did win their division and 54 games last season and their first playoff series in more than a decade. But a lot of that, oddly enough, had to do with Jason Kidd bringing an unselfish sense of play as a leader that permeated the team. But Kidd's legs gave out late and he retired, soon going into coaching the Nets.
The joke in New York now, of course, is his career decisions hurt both teams.
They Knicks lost to a tough Indiana Pacers team in the conference semifinals, and they did add big man shooter Andrea Bargnani in the summer.
Giving up yet another No. 1 draft pick, though. They don't have their pick in 2014 from the Carmelo Anthony trade, and it's looking like the league may have to step in like it did with then-Cleveland owner Ted Stepien 30 years ago to keep the Knicks from destroying their future.
In any case, New York is about what have you done today, and they did get a tough break when center Tyson Chandler, their best defender, broke his leg early in the season. He will be out about six weeks.
The result has been a small, shooting-oriented lineup which makes it tough to win in the NBA.
And then there's Anthony, the high-scoring All Star who supposedly was to be the savior.
He has been growing grumpy about the losing as he scores a lot and doesn't much defend or pass to anyone and hasn't totally quieted speculation he will leave as a free agent after this season. He's not likely to even as the Lakers have been mentioned as a possibility given he's already made one move because he said the organization wasn't doing enough to win.
Moving again may suggest maybe it's not the organization. The odds are Anthony stays.
The Knicks still have Amare Stoudemire on the roster for one more season after this with deteriorating knees so bad he only can play once or twice a week. He said he should play more, but has been unproductive when he has played.
The coach doesn't appear to like guard Iman Shumpert, who seems to be in daily trade rumors as Smith says he should start and point guard Ray Felton said he had a back injury after some poor efforts.
Because the Knicks have so many scorers, they can be dangerous. Though given the history of so many of their players, that can be taken in many ways.
Sam Smith covered the Chicago Bulls for 25 years with the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of the best-selling book "The Jordan Rules."


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マイム 「夢 part III」
Today I attended a mime performance – 'Dream, Part III' - that a friend whose teacher, the renowned Hiroyasu Sasaki, was performing in had invited me to see. It took place in the Edo Tokyo Museum, right next door to the center of sumo in Japan, the Kokugikan Hall in Tokyo's Ryogoku district.
It was the first time I had seen mime probably for decades. The protagonist was an old man (in the drama that is, although Sasaki-san is not a young man in real life either) who was taking a trip through time. There were quite a few other dimensions and states of being he was taking trips through too, however. Sometimes the precise significance of things took second place to the pure spectacle of shadows, facial expressions, interactions, body language, music of the moment, and the feelings the interplay of all the above evoked. Comedy, adventure, horror, awe, love, loss, joy and reverence were all themes that came through loud and clear without any help - or, should I say, interference, from language. It was a very athletic performance in spite of the stillness at its heart.
After the performance four of us went to a sumo-themed restaurant next door for a few drinks and a table laden with delicious snacks. Our review of the performance was enriched by one of our company having studied that most accessible of miming arts, the art of the clown. We ate, drank, were merry, then headed off home to dream wordless dreams like perhaps we've never dreamed before.
The performance was sponsored by the Nihon Mime Kenkyujo (Japan Mime Research Center).
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Years ago Camel was my favourite band. I had many of their albums that I played all the time. But even if I had most of their albums and went to some of their concerts when they were in the Netherland, I knew almost nothing about them.
I hardly knew who were the members of the band, I did not know what kind of music style it was or where their inspiration came from.
The last album I got was Dust and Dreams. I liked it a lot, but at that same time I got interested in classical music. At that time I also got interested in art history and philosophy, so I also wanted to know everything about the composers and the time they lived in. I really listened to all kind of different classical music, but ended up with some favourites I listened to over and over again. Which did not mean I disliked others, it was just that I wanted to hear some al the time.
And then there were a few years I hardly listened to music. Not that I did not like it anymore, it is just that I liked the silence more. That is, until I discovered Youtube and blogging. I found out how easy it was to upload Youtube videos on a weblog and went searching for my most favourite classical music to get a great collection of the music I loved.
But then, while searching there, I rediscoverd Camel. I found many videos of their live concerts and was completely fascinated. So I started a weblog, CamelLive Videos, where I could upload my favourite videos of Camel.
I also went looking for more information about the history, the albums, the members and the concerts. And I got interested in knowing what music style it was, where they came from, how they evolved and in what background. But as there is so much, I decided to focus on 3 concerts and combine that with my also recent fascination for blogging.
So now, on this weblog, I want to start giving words to how I perceive the music. I was never good in analysing and writing about that, so I was very glad to find all kinds of reactions to the music of Camel. The many reactions I read on Youtube and the many reviews I found of the albums and concerts give me so much insight into my own reaction to the music that I want to start blogging about it and try to describe my perception of this most amazing music.
Email: annemieke[at]camellive.com
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- July 21, 2010 at 5:24 am
This truly is the best Camel site out there. Congrats on such a complete anf rewarding site
- October 20, 2013 at 11:35 am
Well I suppose you will be joyed that they're touring again after 10 years!
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Philippe Thys came to the 1914 Tour with one idea in mind: to defend his Tour de France title. And he did. Attacking from the gun, Thys won the opening stage from Paris to Le Havre. His two toughest challengers came in the guise of a young Frenchman named Henri Pélissier and Swiss star Oscar Egg. Thys managed to keep them both in check in the mountains, and despite a strong attack by Pélissier on the final stage, Thys held on for a narrow win.
Like Eugene Christophe one year earlier, Philippe Thys had the misfortune of breaking his fork in the middle of Stage 13. Unlike Christophe, however, Thys was nearby a bike shop. He entered and insisted that the mechanic help him fix the fork, although Thys would clearly receive a penalty. After a mad chase, he somehow managed to finish third on the stage. And despite receiving a one-hour penalty, he miraculously held onto the overall lead by a slight two minutes.
Participation of the first "campionissimo" (Italian champion), Costante Girardengo, in the Automoto team, alongside Petit-Breton and Trousselier. The Italian withdraws in the Pyrénées, following a fall.
Last rider: Leclerc (54th), 99 h 4 min 45 sec. behind.
The stars' failures: Petit-Breton, Lapize, Mottiat, Defraye, Trousselier.
Thys is penalized for having changed a tire during the next-to-last stage.
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Europe mobilizes for war after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria; radium is introduced in the treatment of cancer; the Panama Canal opens.


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In a report sure to further complicate the U.S.-led drive for additional sanctions against Iran, the atomic watchdog agency of the United Nations has given Iran relatively good marks for its recent cooperation in clearing up suspicions over past nuclear work.
"Iran has provided sufficient access to individuals and has responded in a timely manner to questions and provided clarifications and amplifications on issues raised," the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
The report was acquired by a Washington think tank, the Institute for Science and International Security, and released Thursday on its website.
The IAEA said it had been "able to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran." However, the agency warned that its understanding of Iran's current nuclear operations "is diminishing" because of Tehran's earlier decision not to follow a separate IAEA protocol that would permit more extensive inspections. The Vienna-based agency also termed Iran's cooperation "reactive rather than proactive" and said the probe of Tehran's once secret nuclear history would continue. Also worrisome: Media reports suggest that Tehran recently denied IAEA requests to interview at least two Iranians about their nuclear work. That raises concern within the Bush administration that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who has suggested that it is unrealistic to bar Iran from uranium enrichment, is too eager to put a positive spin on Iran's cooperation.
In particular, agency investigators are still waiting for Iranian explanations and documents about uranium contamination at a technical university, the operations of a uranium mine, and alleged studies related to atomic weapons research, including high-explosive testing and the design of a missile re-entry vehicle. Just last week, the IAEA received from Iranian officials a copy of a 15-page document laying out how to reduce uranium hexafluoride gas into uranium metal and cast it into hemispheres--in the fashion of a nuclear bomb. Why Iran had not shared the document earlier received no explicit comment.
The Bush administration and most of its European allies say the report will not prevent them from seeking a third, tougher round of sanctions at the U.N. Security Council.
The British Foreign Office called on Tehran to "come clean" on unresolved issues "without delay." White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said, "We believe that collective cooperation is not good enough .... And unfortunately, this report makes clear that Iran seems uninterested in working with the rest of the world."
But Russia and China, which have resisted more sanctions and cited the new Iranian-IAEA cooperation as a reason to show patience, are likely to seize on the report to buttress their stand.
Skeptics believe that Iran has released documents bit by bit as part of an effort to delay more international penalties--and to split Russia and China from the West, if possible. Iran said the report shows that new sanctions would be illegal and that the accusations against it are "baseless."
The report was unequivocal in verifying that despite Security Council demands to the contrary, Iran is proceeding with uranium enrichment and construction of a heavy-water production plant, which would supply a heavy-water reactor capable of producing plutonium. The IAEA found that Iran had installed nearly 3,000 centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant as of November 3.
A group of six countries is seeking talks with Iran--but only if it first suspends work on making nuclear fuel. Iran refuses. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said earlier this week that without a "positive outcome" from the IAEA report and another one from the European Union, he would advocate harsher sanctions, including hitting Iran's oil, gas, and financial sectors.
China, though, is believed to b delaying the next meeting of diplomats from the six countries--perhaps a sign of the sluggish diplomacy to come.
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Middleweight Ryota Murata, who became Japan's first Olympic boxing champion in 48 years last summer at the London Games, revealed Saturday he is thinking of turning pro.
"It's true that I have been thinking about that world," the 27-year-old told reporters. "But the truth is that I haven't made up my mind 100 percent to turn pro. Nothing is decided."
Japan Amateur Boxing Federation chairman Akira Yamane was informed of the possibility that Murata might turn pro in mid-January after it was reported he was in negotiations with Tokyo's Misako Gym.
The Nara native became the first Japanese to win a silver medal at the world championships in 2011.
Misako has produced such fighters as former world champion Koichi Wajima and Takao Sakurai, the bantamweight champion at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, who also joined the gym after turning pro.


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An executive order that opens the door for charities and religious groups to receive federal funding has drawn mixed reactions from local faith-based social services providers, those who help support them and those who in the future might compete with them for funding.
"I kind of have a conflict in my mind at this point. It seems like it could be a good thing, but there are concerns as well," said Sue Steingass, the director of the Wayne County Department of Job and Family Services, which last year received $7 million in government funds to provide in-house and contracted social services to the county's low-income residents.
Debate on who should qualify for government social services funds kicked off Monday, when President Bush signed two executive orders to create a White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives. With counterpart offices in five Cabinet-level departments, the office will facilitate competition by religious groups and charities for a share of the billions of dollars the government pays out for social services, according to The Associated Press.
Steingass echoed most in saying she sees positives, negatives and a lot of uncertainty in Bush's plan.
"On one hand, whoever can provide the service and provide it well should receive the funding. On the other hand, there are a lot of mandated services we provide with federal Title XX money," she said, explaining Title XX funds are an ever-decreasing social service allocation provided to counties by the federal government.
"It is one they have been cutting every year," she said. "If that money was to be funneled elsewhere, it would be difficult for us to provide those mandated services."
Brenda Linnick, the executive director of United Way of Wayne and Holmes Counties Inc., agreed that she sees the Bush plan as a mixed bag. The local United Way last year raised $1.4 million, and funded several local faith-based agencies. But Linnick cited a host of concerns about the Bush plan, ranging from possible duplication of services to lack of control over how taxpayer money would be spent.
"I am very opposed to government funding to advance any faith, whatever it is," she said. "Also, I would hate to see funding go to organizations that would carry discriminatory practices."
Though United Way is not a government agency, Linnick noted many faith-based organizations already receive government funds. How faith-based agencies can qualify for government money is spelled out in a part of the 1996 federal welfare reform law known as Charitable Choice.
This rule about how government spends its welfare funds ensures faith-based providers that accept public funds to assist the poor do not secularize themselves, according to Stanley W. Carlson-Thies, the director of social policy studies at the Center for Public Justice.
Under Charitable Choice, faith-based organizations that accept government funds are permitted to display religious symbols, convey faith-based concepts and language in providing services and to use religious criteria in hiring and firing staff.
"(Charitable Choice) encourages religious organizations that have feared secularization to consider cooperating with the public welfare effort," according to Carlson-Thies.
Anita Baker, the program administrator at Catholic Charities, estimated half of her agency's 2000 budget of $260,000 came from government funds. She noted Charitable Choice stops short of allowing faith-based agencies to proselytize and said her agency wouldn't do that anyway.
"Wayne County is not really a Catholic community," she said noting of 14 staff members in the local office, only one is Catholic. "We couldn't be Catholic if we wanted to," Baker joked. "It's really more of a non-sectarian thing."
Lydia Stahl, People to People Ministries director, concurred her organization could apply for government funds. But she said her agency, which last year distributed $886,539 worth of goods to local needy through donations from about 80 local churches, has had good reason in the past for not seeking government money.
"Sometimes there are strings attached to the money," Stahl said. "My understanding is that is why we have never tapped into government funds before -- the guidelines," she said, noting that the paperwork associated with getting, and keeping, government funding would probably mean she'd have to expand her paid full-time staff of two, leaving fewer resources to help those in need.
Standing in the kitchen of First Presbyterian Church in Millersburg, watching as congregation members filled 200 plates and take-out boxes for the church's Meals for All program, program chairman Leo Helal agreed there's a lot to be said for the freedom to get and to give help with no questions asked or forms to fill out.
"This is a mission project for our church. Where it will go, we're not sure," Helal said, adding he doesn't believe his church needs the government in its recipe for successfully helping Holmes County's needy.
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But, despite his job as a public servant, or maybe because of it, he believes the faith-based and government agencies should work together. He echoed Steingass in saying county agencies commonly refer clients to faith-based agencies. It's only right everyone should share the government wealth, he said.
"I'm a public administrator, but I'm also a person of faith, so (the Bush plan) is intriguing to me in a couple of ways," Jackson said. "I think government and faith-based groups can affect the efficiency of programs by working together. It doesn't make sense to me to have a sharp division between the two sectors."


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A century ago, a young Cuban immigrant named Arturo Fuente first rolled cigars under that name. In the February issue of Cigar Aficionado, we look back at the phenomenal success of the Fuente brand and the family dynasty that carries on its legacy and commemorates its many triumphs today. Plus, we reveal our annual Top 25 Cigars of 2011, take a look at the next generation of golfers poised to occupy golf's leaderboards and tell you how to avoid sucker bets on NFL's Super Bowl. Also, we speak with cigar smoker and political commentator Sean Hannity, go under the tents to see how Connecticut Shade wrapper is grown and look back at Cuba's limited and regional edition cigars from the past year.
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If the concept album was pioneered by progressive rock bands, Matmos have taken it to another dimension. And having made albums by recording and sampling surgical operations (A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, from 2001), crossing English medieval folk music with American Civil War songs (The Civil War, 2003), and sonically interpreting the work of gay icons from Ludwig Wittgenstein to William S. Burroughs (A Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, 2006), they were afraid that the process they'd used to create their new album, The Marriage of True Minds, was too ambitious even for them.
"There was a risk of, 'Have we written a cheque that we can't cash?' " says band member Drew Daniel. "I wonder if it's possible to do it justice," chimes in Martin Schmidt, his partner in music, and in real life, for the past 20 years.
The pair are hunched on a staircase backstage at Toronto club The Garrison, before a show the other week, and reflecting on the four-year process that generated the album. They conducted 50 Ganzfeld experiments, at home and during residencies in Pennsylvania and Oxford, England, in which friends, students, and others ("a school teacher, a garbage collector, somebody that works at a sandwich shop") were put into sensory deprivation, with their eyes and ears covered, while Daniel tried to psychically transmit the concept of the new Matmos record into their brains. The participants, or "percipients," were asked to describe what they saw or heard.
Everyone who makes weird music makes fun of pop music as if, 'Oh that's so easy; that's such trash.' I don't feel that way at all. To create something that's instantly memorable and compelling … if it were easy, everybody would be doing it
Matmos used the transcripts of these sessions as lyrics, as literal instructions (for instance, when people spoke about seeing triangles — which happened surprisingly often — the song would include the percussion instrument of the same name), and conceptual guides, where ideas and images led to the use of certain sounds and strategies. Despite the album's considerable psychic baggage, the music is surprisingly approachable, with vivacious beats, catchy (if off-kilter) riffs and an infectious sense of fun.
"We want the work itself to feel weirdly digestible," Daniel says. "It's a Trojan Horse attitude."
There's nothing forbidding about Matmos in person — they're a charmingly odd couple, the bearded Daniel in thrift-store chic and the clean-shaven Schmidt dapper in a tweed jacket and tie. They moved from San Francisco to Baltimore in 2008 when Daniel got a job as professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins (his book The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance is published next month by Oxford University Press), although it's Schmidt, the self-described "full-time housewife," who has the professorial mien.
The idea behind the album was Daniel's, and he says he devised a "conceptual core" that he attempted to transmit to his "percipients," although he's never revealed it to anyone — including Schmidt. "I personally never cared whether they were getting it 'right' or not," Schmidt says. "He didn't really give me a lot of choice, not telling me what it was, though it's an incredibly generative idea. … People just come out with the most amazing things, or he's sending the most amazing things."
Despite having approached the project with his tongue in his cheek, Daniel admits to having felt, at times, "a feeling of being linked" to his percipients. In the end, he says, the process "may be a test of whether telepathy is possible, but it might also just be a new way of getting the songwriting process going."
Another big influence on the band's songwriting was the Icelandic star Björk, who hired them to add electronics to her album Vespertine and to perform with her from 2001-2003, including a memorable, firework-strewn show on Toronto's Olympic Island. Onstage, they'd generate beats to accompany her songs by unorthodox means, such as by walking through rock salt and sampling and looping the results. Learning to play her songs taught them about musical structure.
"It was like we started a garage Björk cover band with Björk in it," Daniel says. "So there was someone to go, 'No no no — in the middle of bar 69, the change is here.' Everyone who makes weird music makes fun of pop music as if, 'Oh that's so easy; that's such trash.' I don't feel that way at all. To create something that's instantly memorable and compelling … if it were easy, everybody would be doing it."
Matmos's music has become accessible enough to be used in advertisements, a necessary evil, they feel, at a difficult time for the record industry. "I feel horrible having sold a song to NASCAR," says Schmidt, "but maybe that's just because I'm 48 and I still have this thing left over in my soul — I still associate this kind of music with the counterculture."
It's clear Matmos haven't sold out entirely — their performance at the Garrison, in front of hardy souls braving the winter cold, included a piece where Schmidt blew up an oversized balloon and made music by scratching it, letting air out and whistling across the top, until it burst — "pop" music of the least conventional kind. And yet, many in the crowd were dancing.
Says Daniel, "We never thought we'd be a band where we start to play a song and people clap because they're like, 'Oh, that song.' Our live thing has always been about, how do we model the process of composition? Not so much, 'Oh, the riff!' But it's interesting to realize that when you're done, the work goes out into the bloodstream — you can't control it."
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The Bennett On Bayview is a new mixed-use condominium development by First Avenue Properties and Latch Developments coming soon to 3237 Bayview Avenue in Toronto, Ontario situated just north of Finch Avenue East. This residential development consists of a proposed fourteen storey building designed by RAW Design with 165 proposed dwelling units and retail use at grade level.
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Bruins center Tyler Seguin isn't shy about many things – as we learned from his weird Swiss wrestling photos – so of course he's going to show his Twitter followers the sweet 'stache he's been growing for "Movember." We're not sure if he's even aware that the whole point of growing mustaches in November is to raise prostate cancer awareness.
Seguin is still overseas playing hockey in Switzerland as the NHL lockout continues to cancel games and offer no encouraging signs of improving negotiations between the NHL owners and players. That hasn't stopped Seguin from enjoying himself in Europe.
He still needs to shave the beard part of his facial hair if he wants to truly be representing Movember.
Movember. Attempt. #greasy #puberty101 http://t.co/B3hZ9qA6—
Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) November 27, 2012
He also took to Twitter to show off his new watch from Swiss luxury watch company Breitling. Apparently there are only 2,000 units of his watch in the entire world, which would obviously make it a ridiculously pricey piece of arm-wear. Kid's living the life!
Thanks Swiss Breitling for my sick new watch! Number 9 of only 2000 !! http://t.co/mBTItj8U—
Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) November 28, 2012
And as always, Seguin is not one to shy away from flirting with chicks on Twitter. His latest target is Nikki Hirtle, who based on our extensive research is a hot chick who throws VIP parties packed with other hot chicks. Check out the smooth operator Seguin:
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Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) November 26, 2012
They must, ahem, know each other already…
@tylerseguin92 @DaisysBoston Don't worry Ty, we'll wait for you 😉—
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In addition to a substantial operatic remit for WNO, the Orchestra's stature and reputation as a world-class ensemble in its own right is demonstrated by its distinguished involvement in the St David's Hall International Concert Series in Cardiff each year. On the concert platform, the Orchestra is regularly active at many high profile concert and festival engagements, covering an extremely wide range of repertoire from large symphonic works through to lighter orchestral and popular music concerts, together with a regular portfolio of chamber music engagements. Standout WNO Orchestra relationships in 2015/2016 included performances at the Royal Opera House, the Henley and Fishguard Festivals, the Welsh Proms and at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. WNO has a firm commitment to concerts and residency programmes in Wales and England and the WNO Orchestra has become one of the most versatile orchestral ensembles in the UK.
Beyond the conventional performance arenas, the Orchestra, in line with the Company's commitment to young artistic talent, operates an extensive side-by-side mentoring scheme through rehearsal and performance programmes with students. This activity has been taking place through partnerships with the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the Birmingham Conservatoire and a new relationship with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich.
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text: Votto deal a big risk for Reds By Nick Scala April 5, 2012 Story Share CINCINNATI - There are two primary schools of thought regarding the monumental contract extension agreed upon by Joey Votto and the Cincinnati Reds Wednesday. They are:The Reds are proving to their fans that they mean business, that a small-market team can and will spend what it takes to keep their best players and compete, both financially and between the white lines, with the moneybag behemoths of baseball. Or ...The Reds are out of their Midwestern minds, and they'll come to rue the day they made the commitment that will keep Votto in Cincinnati red through 2023 or, if the club exercises its option, 2024.Which school you attend depends, I suppose, on whether or not your glass is half full or half empty.Thursday was Opening Day at Great American Ballpark, when positive thinking is the rule, and just one day after it was announced that the Reds' slugging All-Star first baseman and once (and, perhaps, future) MVP will receive upward of $200 million between now and 2024.Owing to that optimism and the good feeling provided by a sunny (but a little chilly) Opening Day Reds win, seldom were heard any discouraging words about the team's hopes for 2012 and beyond, and there were only cheers for Votto, who performed admirably in the 4-0 win over the Miami Marlins.But have you thought about where you'll be in 2023? Heck, my crystal ball hasn't peered past Tax Day. We can say with absolute certainty, though, that Votto, in 2023, will turn 40 years old, will be earning $25 million and will not be nearly the player he was in 2010, when he won his National League Most Valuable Player award. It's not often that the Reds throw the dice (and dollars) around like this, much less find themselves breaking new ground in baseball's financial realm. But if history is to be our judge, the Votto deal is risky business at best and a franchise-strapping albatross at worst.There's no question that Votto, now in his prime at 28 years old, is one of the best (if not the best) players in baseball, and that if any of them deserve to be so richly rewarded, it's the quiet left-handed slugger from Canada who, before Johnny Cueto's first pitch was thrown Thursday, shook hands with first-base umpire Ted Barrett and Miami Marlins first-base coach Gary Thurman, wishing them both the best at the start of a new season. Votto's likeable if you're a fan of the game and downright lovable if he happens to be batting in the middle of your team's lineup and playing Gold Glove-worthy first base. Both of those virtues were on display early on Opening Day, when Votto's bloop single in the first inning was the only hit as the Reds scratched out a run, and later when he made a dazzling scoop of a throw short-hopped to him by Reds third baseman Scott Rolen.I'm guessing Votto will still be likeable and humble in 2023, but I can say with great certainty that he won't be worth $25 million, not even considering the inevitable inflation that takes place between now and then. More likely, the Reds in 2023 - and perhaps for several years before that - will wish they had that money to spend elsewhere.Kudos to Cincinnati for the generous statement made in the Votto extension, at least for the hope it provides Reds fans today and in the near future. But haven't we seen these good intentions turn bad before?At the twilight of soon-to-be-Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's career, the Reds wanted to trade the shortstop and get something of value, but Larkin exercised his no-trade option and remained with the club. Then, rather than opt for free agency or retire, Larkin asked for an end-of-career contract from the Reds, who, mostly in the name of good public relations, obliged and signed him for several unproductive years at a price they could not afford.Then there was the Ken Griffey Jr. fiasco, the signing of a superstar coming home, with a contract to match. How'd that turn out, Reds fans? The Reds aren't the only team in such a predicament. The Twins signed still-youthful catcher Joe Mauer, fresh off an American League MVP season, to a huge long-term deal, rather than let him slip away to a big-market team. Since then, his production plummeted, he's been bothered by injuries and his future might be at first base, where he's far less valuable than if he was a hard-hitting catcher.The cautionary tale extends to baseball's haves. Do you realize the Yankees will be paying Alex Rodriguez $30 million in 2017, when he'll be 42 years old? Injuries and a drop in production have already set in there, and will likely only get worse, and even the cash-rich Bronx Bombers will suffer for it.The Angels' 10-year offer that Albert Pujols recently accepted? The jury's still out on that, of course, but I'd be surprised if the most-feared hitter in baseball isn't already at the start of a slow and steady decline which, in 10 years, will look awfully ugly.With Votto's contract in the books, the Reds are essentially saying that the time is right, that Votto will be the cornerstone of a Reds' resurgence, that they'll build a title contender around him now and worry about 2023 in ... well, 2023.Maybe it's a good idea now, but they'll regret it later.Reach Nick Scala at 304-348-7947 or email@example.com. 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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Trend Spin Linkup Week 33 - Emerald Green
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I Just love your top! Have a fab day!ReplyDelete
In love with your glitter heels!!!ReplyDelete
Love the shoes as always. I am hunting for a pair in my size. And may have to buy that top.ReplyDelete
Love this color combo! My green top is very similar and I have the same AT skirt - I will need to copy your outfit...Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
That skirt is SO cute on you!ReplyDelete
Absolutely love your take on the emerald trend, it's amazing to me how you mix different prints and textures-- great style!ReplyDelete
That skirt is fabulous! I love it. And I want those shoes to come live at my house!!ReplyDelete
love this look! emerald is your color :)ReplyDelete
Found your blog via Style Sessions link up... hope you stop by and let me know your thoughts on my outfit :)
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Green is the perfect color to pair with that skirt, so cute!ReplyDelete
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Love that top and those shoes, swoon!ReplyDelete
xo, Nina
Ahh I need to get better at planning ahead! Wish I had an outfit to link up :( You look so cute! I love this combo.ReplyDelete
I'll be back next Tuesday for bold lips!
I love this look and those shoes are to die for?ReplyDelete
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Emerald green is so fabullous! I am almost saddened by the coming of Radiant Orchid to usurp it. But that's the passage of time. Thanks for the link up - awesome!!ReplyDelete
That top is stunning!ReplyDelete
I've been crushing on emerald green especially since Sandra Bullock walked the red carpet in the most beautiful emerald green dress, take a peek here: http://www.lush-fab-glam.com/2014/01/celebrity-style-2014-is-off-to-fabulous.htmlReplyDelete


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No. 8 Marquette Falls 64-60 to North Dakota State in Championship of Blue and Gold Classic
Dec. 2, 2006
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Andre Smith scored 26 points to lead North Dakota State to a 64-60 victory over No. 8 Marquette in the championship of the Blue and Gold Classic on Saturday night.
Smith, who had 18 points in the second half, shot 11-for-18 from the field and had six rebounds, three assists and three steals.
Mike Nelson, the tournament's most valuable player, added 19 points for the Bison (5-2), who shot 51.9 percent (14-27) in the second half.
Jerel McNeal had 16 points and seven steals for the Golden Eagles (8-1), who were upset 71-64 by Winthrop in last year's championship game, snapping their 13-0 run in Blue and Gold Classic play under coach Tom Crean.
"All in all, we got beat by the better team tonight, no doubt," said Crean, whose team never led after a 3-2 advantage. "They beat us fair and square in every facet of the game."
The Bison (5-2), who moved to Division I in 2004-05, won their fourth straight game by making 6-of-8 from the free-throw line in the final 44 seconds.
Dan Fitzgerald made a 3-pointer to cut the North Dakota State lead to 60-57 with 32.6 seconds left, but Marquette couldn't get any closer. Smith made two free throws to increase the lead to five with 30 seconds left.
Marquette missed consecutive 3-pointers before Brett Winkelman made two foul shots for a 64-57 lead with 9 seconds left. The Golden Eagles forced 25 turnovers but shot just 35.8 percent. They also committed 17 turnovers.
"We gave up too many open looks," McNeal said. "In crunch time, we couldn't get the stops when we needed to."
Nelson made a 3-pointer with 13:54 left to put North Dakota State ahead 39-30. Wesley Matthews scored for Marquette with 10:05 left, cutting it to 43-40, but baskets by Lucas Moormann and Winkelman gave the Bison a 47-40 lead with 8:19 to play.


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Good morning Obots!
Today's broadcast news pioneer is Ms. Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
Hunter-Gault was born in Due West, S.C., and made civil rights history as the first African-American woman to enter the University of Georgia, where she received a B.A. in journalism in 1962. She also attended Wayne State University. Her book In My Place, a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia, was published in 1992.
After winning a Russell Sage Fellowship to Washington University, Hunter-Gault edited for Trans-Action Magazine. In 1963 she became a reporter at The New Yorker, where she wrote for the "Talk of the Town" section.She went on to work as an investigative reporter and anchorwoman on the local evening news for WRC-TV from 1967 to 1968. She then joined the New York Times as a metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban African-American community. She won several awards during her ten years there, including the National Urban Coalition Award for Distinguished Urban Reporting and The New York Times ' Publisher's Award. She has also been published in The New York Times Magazine, Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, Essence, and Vogue.
Hunter-Gault was the chief national correspondent for The Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS from 1983 to 1997. She had joined the MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a correspondent. In 1989, she was also the correspondent for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' five-part series, "Learning in America." During her tenure at The NewsHour, she won two Emmys and a Peabody for excellence in broadcast journalism for her work on the series "Apartheid's People." She has also received the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault recently left her post as CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, which she had held since 1999, to pursue independent projects. Before joining CNN, she worked from Johannesburg as the chief correspondent in Africa for NPR from 1997 to 1999.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid came out today against the Ground Zero mosque, while recognizing the First Amendment right to freedom of religion. Which puts him basically in line with President Obama.
"The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else," a spokesman for the Nevada Democrat said in a statement.
"Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country.""That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances," he said. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."Asked Saturday about the issue during his trip to Florida, Obama said: "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right that people have that dates back to our founding."


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An exclusive interview with HEAVEN AND HELL was featured on this past weekend's edition of the "Headbanger's Ball". Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice spoke about their Metal Masters Tour with JUDAS PRIEST, MOTÖRHEAD, and TESTAMENT, the new Dio-era BLACK SABBATH box set "The Rules Of Hell" as well as future plans for HEAVEN AND HELL. Watch the final in a series of snippets from the chat below.Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice signed copies of "Black Sabbath: The Rules Of Hell" on August 2 at Vintage Vinyl in Ford, New Jersey. Check out photos at the Brooklyn Rocks music blog and photo journal. BLACK SABBATH's "The Rules Of Hell" box set sold around 2,650 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "The Rules Of Hell" is a box set featuring all three of BLACK SABBATH's Dio-era studio releases ("Heaven And Hell", "Mob Rules", "Dehumanizer") and its double live collection ("Live Evil"), each recently remastered for the first time. "The Rules Of Hell" comes packaged in a deluxe slipcase with extensive liner notes featuring all new interviews with the band.
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A FORMER RAF flying base is opening its doors to the public for what is believed to be the first time in nearly a century.
Bicester Heritage, the new owners of the former RAF flying base in Buckingham Road, will allow 100 people in on Sunday.
Managing director Dan Geoghegan said it may be the first time since 1916, when the base was first established, that residents have been able to step foot on the site.
People need to register for the Sunday Brunch Scramble, which will allow people a look behind the scenes of the base as well as to get up close to classic cars, motorbikes, gliders and powered aircraft. Brunch will be served in the Scramble Cafe.
Mr Geoghegan said people will be able to see for themselves the last "intact" bomber station of its period.
He said: "This is the first opportunity for the public to take a look at the former RAF Bicester for almost 100 years since its first establishment in 1916.
"It's a chance to see the first phase of regeneration and then watch it gather pace and be restored over the coming years.
"People will see how a national heritage asset can be brought back to life with a modern relevance, creating jobs, community interaction and the creation of the first international centre for historic vehicles maintenance and enjoyment."
During the day the original scramble bell, which would have rang out to call servicemen to their aircraft, will be presented to Mr Geoghegan. It is currently held by 2507 (Bicester) Squadron ATC.
Mr Geoghegan's vision for the site is to create a historic car and aviation business park while maintaining the historic feel of the base.
The main part of the base was built in 1926 and then extended in 1936. Nothing has been added since.
Regeneration of the site has already begun and Bicester Heritage has spent a further "seven figure" sum to restore five buildings to their former glory.
The parkland area surrounding the site has also been improved.
Phase two, to regenerate 10 more workshops, has started.
The renovation work has focussed on bringing the base back to its 1926 look and feel.
Mr Geoghegan said he and his team spent hundreds of hours researching the original colours, materials and designs for the restoration.
He said: "Over 200 hours went into the research of the correct colours. Plastic gutters have been replaced by cast iron and rotten windows have been replaced with identical ones."
In 2013 the site was sold to consortium Bicester Heritage for £3.25m.
There will be another chance to go on-site on August 10, and then again on October 5.
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Dear blog, This is what you call five minutes of insanity--just me and you sharing a moment here without a care in the world.
Got stuff cooking in the over and brewing on the stove and I am going a bit meshugah about it. It is good stuff, wonderful but nerve wracking.
Ten years, ten years and I wonder if what I have seen and done will lead to where I think it might.
Most of the time I don't really concern myself with it because it is so far off it doesn't matter, but right now it feels like I can reach out and lasso the moon.
Right now it feels like I can climb up on the roof and poke the man in the moon in the eye.
Tomorrow will be a new day.


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Asus are hitting the headlines again for all the wrong reasons with news that some models of the Eee Box PC are shipping with a virus on the hard drive. It was only last month that the company was found to be shipping recovery DVDs containing a cracking tool, confidential Microsoft documents and Asus application source code.
This latest incident sees a number of Eee Box models ship with the W32/Usbalex worm, triggered from an executable called recycled.exe. That file sits on the D: drive and runs as soon as you access the D: drive on an infected machine, it then tries to infect the C: drive. The W32.Gammima.AG worm has also been found on some machines.
The following models are thought to be infected:
- Model: EEEBOXB202-B UPC: 610839761807
- Model: EEEBOXB202-W UPC: 610839761814
- Model: EBXB202BLK/VW161D UPC: 610839530526
- Model: EBXB202WHT/VW161D-W UPC: 610839531202
- Model: EBXB202BLK/VK191T UPC: 610839547753
Asus has confirmed the machines have been shipped with a virus on the hard drive and have apologized as part of the press release they issued (translated from Japanese). If you have an infected machine Asus are asking you to phone a toll free number or visit their tech service website for help.
Read more at ZDNet
Matthew's Opinion
After the DVD incident last month I'm sure Asus would have taken swift action to put in place tighter quality assurance checks on the software they ship. If they didn't, then they surely need to react now as this is going to hurt their brand.
One incident of dodgy software is one too many, two incidents so close together can get a company a reputation ofor poor quality and a lack management. Asus have reacted in the right way to this second incident, but now need to tell everyone what they have done to make sure it never happens again.
Does anyone have one of the infected models and if so did you find the malware before it did any damage?


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In their bombastic introductory blurb, the publishers of this book promise much.
The volume will offer a fresh perspective on 19th-century Scotland, they trumpet, which "goes well beyond the conventional analyses of economy and society to which previous histories have confined themselves". It will also contain "detailed new research" which does not rely on "theories or statistics". In his own pitch, the author once again asserts his familiar dogma that "the traditional dominance of socioeconomic material in Scottish historiography is today doing the nation a disservice".
There are two major problems with this kind of irritating boosterism. First, it creates a straw man by falsely labelling recent histories of the period as only concerned with society and economy. From the books of Sydney and Olive Checkland on 19th-century Scotland, published some decades ago, to Ewen Cameron's 2010 history, Impaled Upon A Thistle, modern academic historians have always written broad panoramas of the nation's past which contain discussions of politics, popular culture, ideas, identity and much else. Even works grounded on economic and social issues avoid a focus on these matters alone. To do otherwise would be myopic in the extreme. This author completely distorts the nature of modern Scottish historiography in order to erroneously claim originality for his own approach.
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Second, hardly any of the objectives so boldly outlined in blurb and introduction are fulfilled. Apart from the final section on high culture there is little new in this book. It does not change our understanding of Victorian Scotland one iota. The promised "new research" is minimal. A glance at the pages of footnotes confirms that the volume is overwhelmingly based on secondary sources, many of them written by the very same economic and social historians whom the author apparently holds in such high disdain. Even more remarkably, of the 15 chapters of text, nine are straightforward accounts of the nation's economy or society, the very approach Fry denounces.
The title of the volume will hardly please half the adult population of Scotland today. There is indeed a discussion of women in Victorian society but it is ghettoised in a single chapter with hardly any reference to women elsewhere in the text, with the exception of a few paragraphs on jute workers in Dundee. Like so much of the text, the approach is old-fashioned, with the author oblivious to key trends in modern historiography. The enormous advances in gender and family history mean the role of women can and should be integrated into the general narrative rather than marginalised in its own enclave.
Astonishingly, especially in light of its claims, this study suffers from two staggering lacunae which place a serious question mark against it being regarded as a rounded history of 19th-century Scotland. Two of the central themes of the period, each with a huge impact on the development of the nation, namely Scotland in the British Empire and the Scottish Diaspora, are ignored. The depth and extent of Scottish involvement in the Victorian Empire was such that every nook and cranny of national life was influenced, whether economy, politics, ideas, religion or popular culture. Quite simply the country in this period was moulded by empire; not to treat the subject in detail is incomprehensible in a book which purports to be a serious history. Equally the extraordinary mass movement of the Scots across the globe is a vital aspect of the national story. Between 1815 and 1914, for every two Scottish children who survived past infancy, one would leave their native land for ever. That vast haemorrhage of people requires explanation, not least because such an analysis tells us much about the nature of the society which generated it. Those looking for answers will not find them in this book.
However, this volume fails because it lacks intellectual excitement. The author's preference is for description and narrative with a great deal of factual information in support. Those readers interested in the clash of ideas and opposing interpretations, new and challenging insights, why developments occur in the past and what might be their consequences, the resolution of paradoxes and puzzles - the analysis of history - will have to look elsewhere.


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All of the wedding photos
I have this problem. Well I have a few (obviously) and it is an epic FWP I know, but my latest issue occurred when we got back our HUNDREDS of wedding photos.
Want to have a looksie? Go on, everyone loves a good perv at someone else's big day. Mosey on over here...
(Would you believe that some of my most favourite photos aren't even on that blog post... there are even MORE that I love, hence my issue...)
We went to Wellington last weekend and our photographers showed us a brilliant 14-minute slideshow of their favourite images from our wedding set to the sound of the songs that featured throughout the day.
I set about pointing and exclaiming "Love that one!", "Oh yay, that's cute!", and "LOVE!" to just about every photo, which has now left me with the quandary of what photo(s) to display in frames or on canvas. (We're house-hunting at the moment and I've been known to point at blank walls in open homes and say "Ooo, a wedding photo would look nice there!")
After watching our wedding video, I was interested to know how looking at the photos would leave me feeling. To me, they are so different.
Yes they capture the same things but they are such different arts and serve different purposes.
Where the video serves as a useful reminder as to who said what, the photos, to me, capture something where words aren't needed. They're a moment; a moment frozen in time, and I love that - especially given the speed of the day.
We were overjoyed with how they turned out. Comments from family have ranged from "They didn't miss a second of the day - it's like a documentary!" to "Wow, that was money well spent."
And that's just it. I remember some readers baulking when I said that investing in really good photographers and videographers was right up there on my list of priorities - I stand by that.
Now I've spent the weekend putting together our thankyou cards, which will include a handful of photos in each from the day. Thank goodness for 8c prints!
Meanwhile I'm no closer to deciding what photos I want to go where - except for two photos I'd like blown up and put on canvas and hung in our bedroom in our new house which we're yet to buy. (No, there's not going to be a house-buying blog, thankyouverymuch).
I really don't want these amazing pics to sit in photo albums and collect dust though - and want them to be treated for what they are: art. Any ideas?
How did you or do you plan to display mementos from your wedding day? Have you had photos printed out or displayed in a unique or awesome way? Any tips on how to pick a photographer that suits your wedding style?
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