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The History of Ashes into Glass
Ashes into Glass was founded in 2006 but it's history dates back to 1979. James Watts and Bill Rhodes met at school in Southgate, North London at the age of 12. Little did they know it would be the start of a long friendship and they'd one day start their own business.
The boys did everything together from skating in the local parks to travelling on holidays together. In 1999, Bill married Jane and shortly after, James married Josephine. Today, each couple has three children who are also good friends.
Throughout this time, Bill and James have shared a love of craftsmanship and the pride that comes from making things with their hands.
After leaving school, James started work as the assistant to Ron Wilkinson at "The Glasshouse" in Covent Garden, London. Ron was once the head glassmaker at the world-renowned Whitefriars Glassworks.
Bill was also drawn to the craft. "We fell in love with glassblowing. We built a small glass furnace and took it to local events where we put on glassmaking demonstrations."
As they honed their craft, they were invited to show off their skills at many prestigious venues including The Victoria & Albert Museum and Kew Gardens in London.
In 1996 they founded their own specialist workshop, where they produce their work to this day; Barleylands Glassworks in Billericay, Essex. They quickly gained a solid reputation for finely skilled workmanship and a commitment to quality. Within a few years they were at the very top of their trade, specialising in antique restoration and production. Commissions included the restoration of the antique lights outside Buckingham Palace and along The Mall.
Ashes into Glass was founded in 2006. The concept for the businesss came from a client, who asked if they could incorporate her mother's ashes into glass as a memorial to her life.
James and Bill knew it was indeed possible. When they saw how much the item meant to their client, they knew they'd stumbled into something beautiful and important. Ashes into Glass was born.
Bill explains, "We found our vocation with Ashes into Glass. It combines our love of crafting glass with the opportunity to create something meaningful. Right from the start, clients told us how much comfort their Ashes into Glass Jewellery brought them, and this gave us a great sense of purpose and satisfaction in our work that we still feel today.
The quality of their unique service was recognised and a string of awards soon followed, culminating at the National Business Awards in 2009. In the same year, the Ashes into Glass Facebook Page was started, which today has more than 1,000,000 likes and hundreds of messages of gratitude from satisfied clients.
With over 30 years experience, James and Bill are now considered true masters in the fields of glass and jewellery making. They take great pride in creating the highest quality of work for clients around the world.
Ashes into Glass has grown over the years. Bill and James now have 30 staff, including apprentices and production assistants. They have started the process of passing along the skills of their craft to the next generation.


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Leap Reports Customer Losses, Shares Take Tumble
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Shares of Leap Wireless International Inc., parent of Cricket, the San Diego-based flat-rate wireless carrier, reached a 52-week low of $4.28 and closed at $4.49 after the company released its second quarter results showing a big loss in customers.
For the quarter, Leap reported a net loss to common shareholders of $41.6 million, compared with a net loss of $65.2 million for the like period of 2011.
The company said its total revenue grew 3.5 percent over the same quarter one year ago to $786.8 million.
Leap said its net customer losses in the quarter were 289,270, nearly triple the number of customer losses it sustained in the like quarter of 2011.
Its total customers at June 30 were 5.9 million, up 2.7 percent from the second quarter of 2011.
CEO Doug Hutcheson said the results were softer than anticipated. In the coming weeks, Leap plans to announce significant enhancements to its service plans, and to make improvements in its customer experience, including adding more desirable handsets, he said.
The company also plans to reduce its capital spending by $80 million mainly by managing investments in 3G capacity, and exploring cost-effective alternatives to deliver 4G services, Hutcheson said.
Shares of Leap, traded on Nasdaq under the symbol LEAP, lost $1.03, or more than 18 percent, from the previous day's closing price after results were announced.


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Invited seminar at IRCAM, Paris about the MorpheuS music generation project
I will be in Paris next week to give an invited seminar on the MorpheuS music generation project at l'institut de recherche et coordination accoustique/musique (IRCAM) in Paris. Read the full announcement on Ircam's website
Title: Morphing Music According to a Long-term Tension Profile and Detected Patterns
When: Wednesday 20th April, 2016 at 12h
Where: Ircam, salle Stravinsky
A major problem with much of the automatically generated music is that it lacks a structure and long-term coherence. In this research, we have defined the music generation problem as a combinatorial optimization problem. The advantage of this approach is that it gives us the freedom to impose both hard and soft constraints. In this talk different types of structure, such as repeated, transposed patterns, are constrained. The Cosiatec pattern detection algorithm was used to find maximum translatable patterns. These patterns were then used to constrain the output of a music generation algorithm called MorpheuS. A second form of structure, which is soft constrained, is a tension profile. This type of tension could be relevant to, for instance, automatic generation of game or video music. We have developed a model that captures aspects of tonal tension based on the spiral array (Chew, 2012), a three dimensional model for tonality. Our approach first segments a musical excerpt into equal length subdivisions and maps the notes to clouds of points in the spiral array. Using vector-based methods, four aspects of tonal tension are identified from these clouds (Herremans & Chew, 2016): the cloud diameter measures the dispersion of clusters of notes in tonal space; the cloud momentum measures the movement of pitch sets in the spiral array; tensile strain measures the distance between the local and global tonal context; finally, angular momentum measures the directional change for movements in tonal space. The results of generating polyphonic piano music with constrained patterns and tension profile show larger structures and sound musically interesting.


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Ouch… that one hurt. Big time.
We knew there would be days like that. We just expected them to be against Man City and Liverpool. Not against those teams we deem rivals. Not against teams who were promoted alongside us. Not against Aston bloody Villa.
But, such was their dominance in crucial areas of the pitch, 5-1 was, I'm loathed to say, a fair reflection of those 94 agonising, excruciating minutes.
It's been a while since we've had one of those death by a thousand cuts afternoons at Carrow Road. I'd even forgotten how painful they can be and now we actually have a group who are eminently likeable they become even harder to watch.
No-one shirked, no-one hid up, but the XI at Daniel Farke's disposal were not good enough on the day.
Not because individually they're lacking the wherewithal to operate at this level – I believe they do – but because the permutations available to Farke don't permit him the opportunity to play two, bona fide Premier League-quality centre-backs, or a defensive midfield combo that marries some muscle with a quarter-back.
Farke isn't able to do that. The injury crisis is forcing him to squeeze square pegs into round holes and after a couple of lukewarm performances, following the heroics of Man City, reality is starting to bite.
To put it into context…
The world we inhabit now is brutal, unforgiving and when, for whatever reason, the level dips below 100 per cent, you get found out.
Since Man City, the water has been lapping near the edge. Yesterday it burst its banks.
We mocked when Nigel Worthington played Simon Charlton at centre-back but while Ibrahim Amadou may look more the part than the five-foot-nothing Charlton, he's equally makeshift. He was signed as an Alex Tettey and just because he'd played a few games there in his formative years doesn't make him a Premier League quality centre-back.
That, of course, is no slight on the player himself who has done plenty of good things beyond the aforementioned heroics but to go ticking along at conceding a goal-a-game from individual errors is not going to work. No-one knows that more than the player himself and his head coach.
Even starker is the need for Amadou to be playing in his desired position, where the Mo Leitner/Kenny McLean combination is proving itself too fragile for anyone's liking. Both are fine in possession, as is the whole team, but without the ball they get over-run and run-through too easily. Again, no slight intended on the individuals, but as a combination – one that's forced upon us – it doesn't work.
There was a reason why Farke played either/or at the back end of last season when he was afforded the choice.
Canary Call again honed in on the summer window and how a centre-back should have been a priority but ignored the fact that Ben Godfrey has been playing with an injury and is therefore restricted in his movement. It may be minor, but a 4-5 per cent restriction at the top level makes a massive difference.
Also, Godfrey, while being unable to operate at full throttle, is having to cajole and hand-hold a rookie centre-back alongside him – a massive ask for anyone, let alone one who one season ago was himself a rookie.
And if all of the above sounds like a list of excuses… it kind of is, although I prefer 'mitigating circumstances'.
That doesn't obviously excuse the mistakes that occurred, and which keep occurring, and there really does need to be an awareness that giving the ball away in daft areas and not marking tightly enough will likely end badly in this division. The latitude afforded in the Championship has gone. The room for error is now virtually zero.
And there are players who are currently simply struggling to bridge the gap betwixt Championship and Premier League – Marco Stiepermann being one, Emi Buendia being another. Both hugely influential in last season's title win but both struggling, not unsurprisingly, to have the same impact at the sharp end of the pitch in the early exchanges of this season.
Both are still good players, both have time to come good this season, but right now they cut frustrated figures as we toil as an attacking force, with Teemu Pukki's supply line currently as ineffective as it's been in all his time here.
Alas, the Stiepi 'get him off!' brigade around me in the River End have ammunition for almost the first time, and it irks.
So, where from here?
Well, as Farke said post-match, there are now 13 days to get some of the wounded fit, and that includes Godfrey who, while maybe not going under the knife, will be the subject of some keyhole surgery. To a layman, 13 days doesn't sound enough – but I dare not even contemplate a trip to the Vitality Stadium without him.
And we have to keep believing. The battle to get here was joyful but it was a slog and so hard-earned. To watch it go up in smoke so early on through a combination of things, some of which are beyond our control, would be both a huge shame and a waste.
We're playing in the Premier League because we earned the right, and just because Danny Murphy, Mark Lawrenson and Charlie Nicholas can barely contain their contempt for little old Norwich, that doesn't mean we don't belong. This is when we roll the sleeves and dig in that bit deeper. All of us.
Some more fit bodies and lots of work on defensive shapes on the fields of Colney, and this is still within our grasp. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.


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Idea Hunter Confidential: Adam Brasel
Adam Brasel is an idea-dynamo. He's one of the world's leaders at studying and writing about how multi-media effects marketing issues like consumer perceptions and consumption. He's a colleague of mine at the Carroll School of Management where he is an Associate Professor in our terrific marketing department. Adam just earned tenure at Boston College (that's a big deal for him and us!). He has articles in the Economist and his research is mentioned in other leading newspapers and magazines. I don't know many people better at working with ideas than Adam, and from his interview, I think you'll see why. Thank you Adam.
Boynton: In terms of advancing your goals and objectives in life, where do you search for great ideas (websites, people, conferences, mags, etc.)? And can you describe how frequently you hunt in those places?
Brasel: In my research, I'm trying to build a better picture of what modern media usage really looks like. I'm passionate about the topic, personally curious about changing media perception and consumption patterns, and feel there are huge contributions to be made in the area. I'd say my best ideas tend to come from a combination of online information aggregation with casual conversation.
For websites, I have a selection of technology, media theory, and psychology news and opinion blogs I've aggregated into an RSS reader. I only review the reader twice per day; when I first start working and before dinner. Interesting articles I "star" and save for later, then I re-read them at the beginning or end of the week. I tend to update the list of sites that are part of the RSS reader two or three times a year: often a particular blog or news source starts out at the cutting edge of an area, but slowly works backwards into becoming a follower and repeater of other people's stories and posts.
For people, most of my ideas have come from face to face discussions rather than virtual interactions. I think it's important to have regular meetings (that aren't strictly work-related) with people who inspire you to have good ideas. I don't think you get the spark of a great idea from any single piece of information, but rather a great idea comes from seeing a potential connection between two pieces of information nobody has linked together yet, or suddenly seeing a "hole" in the collective knowledge that all of these information sources have been dancing around without realizing it. Information definitely provides the substrate in which ideas can grow; but conversation gives it the spark of life.
Boynton: When you find great ideas, be they from a conversation or something you scan, what do you do with them? Do you store them? How? Do you put them into play and show them to people? How do you handle interesting ideas once you find them?
Brasel: Most of my basic ideas come in the form of questions."What do people actually see when they fast forward using Tivo?" "How do we really split our attention between the computer and the television when we're using both at the same time?" Once I've had an interesting question get lodged in my mind, and it survives a few conversations with co-authors, colleagues, or friends, I create a two-page "Thoughtsheet" on the topic that has four sections:
- What's the key question or idea this project will look to address? Can I break down this meta-question into 2-5 sub-questions?
- Are there a few key papers that already offer some insight in this area? If so, how does this work move beyond them from a theoretical, managerial, or academic perspective?
- What might the study method and design look like? What would the results need to look like to answer the questions I want answered?
- What do we currently not know about the question/idea/project? What issues and questions do we need to find the answer to before we embark on the project?
The Thoughtsheets also help to avoid "feature-creep" in my research as the ideas expand into full research projects and help to make sure my research projects stay focused on the core interesting questions. We need to make absolutely sure that the study is perfectly targeted and directly addressing the core issues we want to explore. If we screw that up, it will take forever to "course-correct" the research!
Boynton: Can you think of a few big ideas you've found hunting and what they led to? How'd you find those big ideas? How'd you take them and turn them into something important to you?
Brasel: With the Media Perception Lab that I run with Prof. Gips, we tend to look at media from a very visual, perception-based lens. A few years back I began to see stories about "media multitasking," how people were increasingly consuming multiple media at the same time, such as surfing the Internet while watching TV. A few months later, some research reports began to appear showing that media multitasking was growing by double-digit percentages per year, and was rapidly becoming the modal form of media consumption for people under 30. Talking with friends I heard many lay theories as to how we go about media multitasking, from "I watch TV during the show and look at the computer during commercial breaks" to "I focus on the computer and use audio cues to tell me when to look up at the TV." At the same time, I had been reading psychology papers on the primacy of the nonconscious mind, and just how little conscious insight we have into our everyday behavior. So I thought, "hey, has anyone actually explored how people actually split their attention across those two screens, and are people even aware of what they are doing?"
Seems like an obvious enough question, right? But as I talked about it with my co-author, the idea just wouldn't go away and loomed larger and larger in our minds. And as we explored it more, we found out that nobody else had explored this issue from a vision or perception-based lens; everyone was using survey measures and self-reports to explore media multitasking and exploring the implications of media multitasking rather than the act of media multitasking itself. Especially given the growing body of work on nonconscious consumer behavior, we had a sense that these lay theories people were having about what they were doing might not have anything to do at all with what they were really doing. And if we could provide some ground-level insight and exploration into what people were actually doing, it could be useful for consumers, for marketers, and for academics to build future work on.
At that point, we figured out we had a "perfect storm" of an idea. Media multitasking was an area experiencing a groundswell of attention in the popular and scientific press, we were uniquely positioned to use a visual and perception-based "lens" to explore the issue that others had yet to use or we were uniquely positioned to deploy, and that our findings had the opportunity to provide huge insight in a way that a lot of other research paradigms couldn't. So we moved around some projects, and began a multi-study exploration of media multitasking that's yielded one paper so far and a second paper in the works.
But as to how I make the ideas into something important to me, it harkens back to the double-edged sword of researching an area you find personally fascinating. It can be tough to separate out the great ideas, but once you have one, the idea itself and the ability to explore it or answer it should become self-motivating. If you're not motivated by your great ideas to explore them to their conclusion, and don't find the answers to those ideas important and satisfying in their own right, you're exploring the wrong thing.
Boynton: Thanks, Adam! Wow! This is a treasure chest of terrific perspective to idea hunting. Don't fool yourself Idea Hunters. Adam may be a great scholar, but that also means that, like you, he is a knowledge professional that contributes to others with the ideas in his head. He has some great tips for all of us to consider. My quick takeaways—and this is just the tip of the iceberg…
- Adam really knows his gig and it's much more than being a terrific professor (which he is–researcher and teacher!). Getting a handle on one's gig intellectually and emotionally is a huge help to becoming a great idea hunter. (Notice how he knows he has to filter ideas—and strives to do so—the Gig really helps him.)
- RSS feeder: two purposes, stars articles, reviews the results twice a day. This is all new to me but I'm looking into it asap. Sounds like a great idea hunting tool for anyone.
- Adam's "Thoughtsheet" concept is practical and thoughtful; sounds indispensable for him, and I think can be applied to any idea hunter's project or initiative. This is a great idea.
- The importance of "conversations" as idea hunting tools are emphasized by Adam and I agree. In the book, we have a chapter on the importance of great conversations. Adam offers some useful and interesting insights on why and how to create great conversations.
Adam told me he found that thinking through and answering these questions was very useful. Maybe this would be true for you?
What did you learn?


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Interesting words - Judith Viorst
The fading of youthful beauty is experienced as -- and is, in fact -- a loss. A loss of power. A loss of possibilities. Once we could harbor the fantasy that, from across a crowded room, a stranger would rush to our side and make us his own. But this fantasy belongs to Romeo's Juliet, not to Juliet's mother. We must let it go.
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It never ceases to amaze me how certain brewers can produce a beer with such precision. 11.9% ABV on the dot is an impressive feat of brewing skill. Phillips is now 12 years old, well done. I also like the new bottles; they look a lot like the new bottles from Fuller's. Again, I shall be brief. As always my stock of witty comments and banter is limited.
Monkey Drummer 12th Anniversary (Phillips) = 6/10
Taste +3
Aftertaste +1
Alcohol Content +1 11.9%ABV
Value + 0
Appearance +1 always with the eye catching art
Glassware: A pint glass will do, but a tulip would be better.
Food Pairing: This beer is awfully sweet. Might need something salty to balance this out. Maybe something with smoked salmon or capers and tomatoes in a rich alfredo sauce.
Cellar: Nope. Get the hops while they are fresh.


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Made a sign that said "32" for the main highway.
Made a sign that said "32" for the main highway.
First I made a sign for Chiang Mai. No luck after awhile. 2 guys came up and told me I need to get on the main highway. Another lady got involved and they offered to give me food and pay for my train ticket to Chiang Mai. I refused and thanked them. One of the guys drove me on his scooter to the main highway. After 5 minutes of standing there, he came back he took me to the Petrol station down the road.
Picked up by mom and 2 kids.
A friendly guy picked me up and took me all the way to Chiang Mai! Shared a dragon fruit.


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Repenting of our Good Works by Tim Keller
What must we do, then, to be saved? To find God we must repent of the things we have done wrong, but if that is all you do, you may remain just an elder brother. To truly become a Christian we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right. Pharisees only repent of their sins, but Christians repent for the very roots of their righteousness, too. We must learn how to repent of the sin under all our other sins and under all our righteousness – the sin of seeking to be our own Savior and Lord. We must admit that we've put our ultimate hope in both our wrongdoing and right doing we have been seeking to get around God or get control of God in order to get hold of those things.
It is only when you see the desire to be your own Savior and Lord—lying beneath both your sins and your moral goodness—that you are on the verge of becoming a Christian indeed. When you realize that the antidote to being bad is not just being good, you are on the brink. If you follow through, it will change everything—how you relate to God, self, others, the world, your work, you sins, your virtue. It's called the new birth because its so radicalâ€
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Sterling Napa Valley 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon,
$16.95-$22.99, 89 points, poured a deep ruby grading bright red with a broad clear wine ring.
Aromas were a bit closed, but hints of brine, coca, black grape, and sandalwood were okay.
The medium-plus body was early palate smooth, but quickly transitioned to a more wooly texture with good acidity and building grainy tannin.
Flavors of cola, coffee, coca, blackberry, and boysenberry were ripe and delicious.
Finished fair with lingering plum notes, a hint of eucalyptus, mild spice, and a lively 14.8% alcohol.
Quite a good Cabernet for the price.
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Haynesworth And Johnson Win Tam Student Athletes Of The Year
By Josh Love
April 23, 2018
On March 13, Principal J.C. Farr and Athletic Director Christina Amoroso announced the Tam student athletes of the year: seniors Noah Haynesworth and Reilly Johnson. Haynesworth had a three-year varsity basketball career and was a captain his senior year. He also earned all-league honors in his onl...
Tam falls to Redwood
By Adam Tolson
January 24, 2018
Tam fell to Redwood on Tuesday, January 16 in a highly anticipated boys' varsity basketball matchup. he Hawks came out with a 52-46 loss, just their third time all season not reaching 50 points, after winning 60-57 at Marin Catholic and 77-55 over Novato, in their previous matchup Redwood got off t...
Winter is Coming
By Jack Loder
November 9, 2017
The days are getting shorter, the leaves are beginning to fall, and Tam High is humming with anticipation. Winter is coming and it's basketball season folks. This means it's time for another three month hoops binge where I spend a ridiculous amount of time, money, and emotional investment in the...
Sports Opinion: Selective Spirit
By Zoe Wynn and Zoe Wynn
February 1, 2017
Ask a student about Tam school spirit at basketball games and they'll probably describe the atmosphere as electric. Masses of people line up at the door waiting to get their hands stamped so they can run onto the bleachers where they will remain riveted for the next four quarters. The bleachers are fu...
Red Hawk Chalk Talk: Boys' Varsity Basketball
By Jack Loder
December 15, 2016
By Jack Loder The turning of the calendar means one thing: varsity boys' basketball season. For years Tam students have yelled, stomped, and even shed blood for their beloved Red Tailed Hawks, ultimately to be let down at the end of the season. This year, however, there are high hopes. "We're a...
Boys' Track and Field Wins MCAL Finals
By Adam Tolson & Calvin Rosevear
June 3, 2016
The varsity boys' track and field team won the Marin County Athletic League finals on May 14 at Novato High School, coach Kevin Engle's 12th Marin County Athletic League championship in his 22 years as a track and field coach. Tam and Marin Catholic were neck and neck throughout the meet, until seniors O...
Sports Opinion: Thank You, Tam Basketball Fans
By James Finn
February 2, 2016
It's been said in recent years that Tam's student body lacks spirit. I routinely hear my peers complain about having to attend rallies and other school events, and many of my friends who play sports remark frequently that their fellow students rarely show up to watch them play. Last June, The Tam N...
Boys Varsity Basketball Loses to Drake
By Blake Killingsworth, Blake Killingsworth, and Blake Killingsworth
January 13, 2016
Fans packed Gus gym on Friday night to watch the varsity boys' basketball team (1-3 MCAL, 3-12 overall) take on MCAL powerhouse Drake (3-1 MCAL, 10-5 overall). Tam put up an impressive fight for 3 quarters, but Drake pulled away at the end to seal the 66-53 victory. Tam moved the ball well and quickly...


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Yoga science or mysticism Net TV interview with Nuit. Exploring personal development tools towards inner peace, happiness, exercising power of mind, Nuit designed Alchemy of Love Mindfulness Training Books and Courses with 100s of spiritual transformation tools helping the explorer live his / her highest potential. Eastern and Christian Philosophy, applied Psychology, Wellness training
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NO TRASH CANS Archived3201-3249 Ryan Ave Philadelphia, PA - MayfairThere is a 2.5 mile stretch called the "loop" were their aren't any trash cans. I've contacted Boyle and Henon's office months ago and haven't been promised anything yet. We have the trash cans, just need someone in the "Streets Dept" to tell them to collect it.
18th Oregon Philadelphia, PA - Girard EstatesLets make South Philadelphia a cleaner place to live and put a new big belly solar powered trash unit so we don't have dirty streets. With chaos on this corner it will be of great use. Please help
illegal dump Open1238 N. Palethorp Street Philadelphia, PA - FishtownThere is an abandoned house at this location & the back yard has become a dumping ground for all sorts including: bikes, bricks, cartons, & general trash items.
Sidewalk Unsafe Archived305 E Walnut Lane Philadelphia, PA - GermantownNEC Walnut Lane & Morton - brick sidewalk on corner property that has been allowed to become overgrown with grass and weeds and is in general disrepair. Exposed brick is narrow footpath with grass/weeds covering remainder of brick. Uneven brick path is as narrow as approx 18 inches most of the way around the corner. Additionally, property is often strewn with trash on Walnut Lane exposure and overgrown vegetation from property partly blocks sidewalk. Neighborhood is home to many elderly and disabled persons. Children's daycare is just north of property on Walnut Lane.
612 Washington Ave Philadelphia, PA - Queen VillageThe yard behind Saigon Maxim, a restaurant located at 612 Washington Avenue, is abused as an open-air trash pit. The refuse from the restaurant is left to putrify on the ground in half-open garbage bags, carelessly tossed on the ground or into the open bed of a beat up trash truck. The residents of the 600 block of Federal St are most affected as their windows face the yard and the rodents come and go via the gate on Federal St.
3:00AM Trash Pickup Acknowledged1629 Catharine St. Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA - Schuylkill SouthwestA private waste management company empties the dumpsters at this property every night between midnight and 5:00AM. While the process only lasts 5-10 minutes, it is incredibly noisy and disruptive to sleeping neighbors.
Cheesesteak Debris OpenLatona St Philadelphia, PA - Passyunk SquareCheesesteak wrappers, soda cups and cheesefry sleeves are strewn through the entirety of South Philadelphia, emblazoned with logos that make it easy to point a finger at the two biggest culprits. Pat's and Geno's need to provide more waste receptacles and should donate resources to aid in the trash clean-up that's organized by the Passyunk Square Civic Association.
Vacant building Archived756 S 22nd St Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA - Schuylkill SouthwestBroken windows and trash piling up in back yard. Disgusting
Abandoned House Acknowledged1238 N. Palethorp St Philadelphia, PA - FishtownThis house has been abandoned for such a long time. The back yard is infested with rodents and mosquitoes. The yard is also filled with trash that is about 3 feet high. The back wall is leaning & encroaching on other properties.
15th And Market Philadelphia, PA - City Center WestLarge group of people who are trashing an area of downtown. Blocking public access to parts of the city.
18th Oregon Philadelphia, PA - Girard Estatesbig bellies are in south philly on broad and south street but where are they in our neighborhood ? lets get one
Flashmob conditions at Di Silvestro Playground Acknowledged1700 Morris St Philadelphia, PA 19145, USA - Newbold neighborhood
Di Silvestro Playground located at 1500 Morris Street in the Newbold part of Philadelphia has created chaos for the residences who live directly around the playground. Young males ranging from the ages of 10 to 20 have begun to sit on parked vehicles and on the steps of residences after playing basketball. In groups of 6 and more they practice fight each other and lean their bikes on the vehicles nearby. Many of them check to see if the doors of the cars are locked when loitering in front of private homes. Along with the damage left from the bikes, they sit on hoods and in empty pickup truck beds. You can clearly see a string of cars that have sneaker marks and indented hoods from the group of males. They are normally present from the hours of 3pm to 8pm.
Another issue is the fact that they also climb on top of the roof of the community center currently under construction and the equipment containers. Since there is no mediator or authority at a playground filled of teenagers after school it becomes chaotic inside and immediately around the playground.
They often film themselves fighting each other and their activities to glorify the gang like culture. As an example seen in a video on YouTube called "SOUTH PHILLY 15th STREET goonz ( K.WALKER )" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DETfL6ZAqdM
Many immigrants on the westside 1700 block of 15th street have no voice as they accept that a large group of thugs sit in front of their homes without confrontation in fear of retaliation. They become trapped until these young males leave or continue to another step after leaving all their litter behind. I myself have asked them to politely move off my step and have been cursed at when doing so. Calling the police is useless as they just move when they yell 5O. There is no reasoning with these males, they lack tact and respect.
None of these males live immediately around the playground so they have no respect for the area around it. Often they are playing basketball bouncing the ball way past midnight on nice nights in an unlit court as residence try to sleep for work the next day. There used to be a fence which closed the basketball court off afterhours but since the community center is under construction the caretaker of the playground is no longer around. As this is just the beginning of the summer the playground is subjected to FLASHMOB like conditions after school with no presents of authority.
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Audio Accessibility was founded by Svetlana Kouznetsova, or Sveta for short. She is an accessibility strategy consultant helping businesses increase sales and make their web, media, events more user-friendly and accessible. She provides consultation and training to businesses about improving and expanding the quality and impact of their audio, video, and event communication. Sveta works with business owners, media producers, event organizers, corporations, educational institutions. Her TEDx Talk uncovers benefits of captioning access that increase audience and ROI for businesses.
Why consulting services?
Sveta launched consulting services because she has direct experience with deafness and wanted to increase awareness about abilities and needs for communication and information access to people like herself. She was born with normal hearing and became profoundly deaf in both ears at the age of two due to meningitis. In addition to this, Sveta has years of experience and expertise in accessibility, knows many deaf and hard of hearing people from different walks of life, and has been involved with many events and workshops on deafness related topics to be able to advise to businesses and individuals not familiar about accessibility for people with deafness and hearing loss.
She has also met numerous hearing people who tell her how much they benefit from captions when learning foreign languages or when listening to a speaker that is hard to understand. Captioning is an important part of multimodal learning and a key to improving literacy.
How does Sveta communicate with people?
Sveta is bilingual in Russian and English and uses voice/speechreading, writing/typing, and/or sign language to communicate with people depending on the situation and whom she is talking with. Since she became the only deaf member in her family, she has relearned to speak and lipread in Russian and later learned English.
Although Sveta cannot understand everything and everyone by lipreading, it is easier for her to understand certain people if they face her, speak clearly, and don't talk too fast. If she does not understand people by lipreading, she asks them to write down or sign what they say. Sign language makes it much easier and faster for her to communicate with people in person, even if someone has a basic knowledge of sign language – it facilitates lipreading. She is also better at conversing one to one than in groups where people would take turns summarizing to her what's being said (by respeaking or writing or signing).
Sveta is also familiar (though not fluent) with Cued Speech and finds it very beneficial to know how to pronounce words correctly and to be aware of others' speech styles (including foreign accents).
A former hearing aid user, Sveta now hears with a cochlear implant from Advanced Bionics which she loves. Sveta has limited benefits from the implant – due to the long duration of her deafness and almost no auditory memory prior to receiving the implant at the age of 20, she is not able to discriminate speech without lipreading or relying on other visual means.
At public events Sveta uses live captioners and/or sign language interpreters to get full access to aural information.
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English is my second spoken language that I started learning at age 11 as a foreign language requirement in a regular Russian school. I was transferred there to get a better secondary education after spending the first four years at a Russian school for the deaf.
While I could easily understand deaf students and hearing teachers through Russian Sign Language, it was quite a challenge for me to be in a new school where I was the only deaf person and had to rely on lipreading to communicate with hearing students and teachers whom I couldn't always understand. Despite my intelligence, I missed a lot in classes for seven years and had to do more work than my hearing classmates due to no formal communication accessibility such as CART writers and sign language interpreters.
Only with support from my family, teachers, and some classmates, I could get through high school – though not on the equal footing with my hearing peers.
An excellent secondary education and knowledge of English helped me get into an American college. While in college and graduate school, I no longer had to struggle with communication accessibility in order to get higher education and could finally start enjoying it – thanks to the requirements by the American Disability Act to provide equal accessibility for people with disabilities in many areas of their lives (education, employment, entertainment, etc.). While it is not perfect here and I still have to educate many hearing people about my needs and abilities, it's still much better here than in Russia or other countries when it comes to opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing people or anyone with a disability in general.
I am glad that my deafness has not prevented me from doing many things that hearing people do. It has been very difficult, and I have always had to prove myself every time, but it is my deafness that has shaped me who I am today. I am proud of what I have accomplished so far and am very grateful for support from my family and people whom I have met during my life.
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This collection of images from photographer Anna Skladmann's 'Little Adults' series was intended to showcase the lifestyles of privileged children in Russia.
Skladmann describes the project as an exploration of the recently growing society of the 'Nouveau-Riche' in which Russian children have been raised to become the 'elite' and behave like little adults.
There has been a lot of debate over the years surrounding the issue of parents who dress and encourage their children to act as miniature grown-ups. These contrived and unnatural looking images would be perfect fuel to fire up that debate again.
Anna Skladmann Portrays Elite Russian Kids in Provactive Poses
Cecilia Biemann — February 3, 2009 — Art & Design
References: annaskladmann & lifelounge


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Interview with Rita Van Brunt - en anglais seulement
Rita (née Del Pino) Van Brunt was born in 1924 in Port Arthur, ON. During World War II, Rita worked at Canada Car in order to help with the war effort. Her father worked for the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) as a machinist teacher, as well as helping to make airplane parts. He failed to receive promotions in his job, although the people that he taught did receive promotions. Rita believes this was because her father was Italian. Her father was also the first president of the Italian Society in Port Arthur. Rita talks about her father being visited by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) during the World War II, even though he arrived to Canada many years ago, when he was only 11 years old. The RCMP asked her father about his past and about other Italians in the neighbourhood. Rita's parents hid this visit from her at the time that it happened and only told her about it when she became an adult. Rita says that when she found out, she was extremely surprised. Rita did know a shoemaker from the community who was interned, but she felt that her family did not face any real discrimination. She also says that there were a lot of things she hadn't realized about the challenges faced by the Italian community during the war.


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Friends, I'm going to share one of my favorite words with you today. And yes, I learned about it from Moltmann. The word is perichoresis. You pronounce it perry-ko-ray-sis. (When Moltmann says it, he sort of drags out and softens the last two syllables, so it sounds like "perry-ko-reeeeyzzzsssis.")
Perichoresis is a Greek word. It's made by a combination of two words: Chora, a noun which means "space" and the verb form, chorein, which means to make space, and peri which means "around". So perichoresis, roughly translated, means to make space around. More specifically, it refers to the way in which someone or something makes space around itself for others or something else.
One simple way to describe perichoresis theologically is to call it the idea of God's mutual indwelling. God can be both in Godself and also in us, for example. In a more active sense, it is the idea of God moving in and through someone or something. It's like a swirling or, the metaphor Moltmann likes to use, a dance. (That's partly due to some confusion because the Greek word for dance is choreuo, so it's become kind of a play on words.)
So: Perichoresis is used to describe theologically the divine dance of the three Persons of the Trinity. Father, Son and Holy Spirit make room for each other, move in and through one another, dance with one another, in such a way that creates a mutual indwelling while still maintaining space for each individually.
Of all the ways people have tried to explain to me what happens in the Trinity and how it works and what it's for, this is the metaphorical description that has made the most sense. To me, it's the metaphor that most easily and readily describes the energy and heart and intention of the Trinity. For example, water, ice and vapor have been used to explain how God is both three and one at the same time. And if you take that in a broadly ecological sense, and imagine rain falling and rivers freezing over and the heated mist of fog rising up again to the sky, you can get a good sense of the movement of God in this same dynamic way. But mostly when we hear water, ice and vapor, we're more prone to envision them sitting on a table in three separate jars. What are we to know of God from that? But the minute you say "divine dance," there's no way to imagine the life of the Trinity as a static thing. It also keeps us from imagining the Trinity as a wooden, rigid thing, with those annoying straight arrows as if the movement of God is as simple as Point A to Point B and Point C. UGH. (This is why I love this art above- no straight lines, but a swirling, active movement.) Perichoresis also prevents us from falling into the idea of a hierarchy within God, where God the Father is at the top, and Jesus is the middle, and the little Holy Spirit gets totally neglected WHICH YOU KNOW I REALLY DO NOT APPRECIATE. There are a zillion theological problems when we try to make God a hierarchy, not least of which is that it gives humanity an excuse to try to copy that in our own systems and structures…and I don't need to tell you where that has gotten us.
If you read John 14, you can hear Jesus describe a mutual indwelling. I am in the Father and the Father is in me. And then, how cool is this, you see Jesus extend that mutual indwelling to US: the one who believes in me will also do the works I do. And then, a few verses later, the Spirit abides with you, and will be in you. In John 15, this description continues as Jesus says he is the vine, and we are to live in the vine. Mutual indwelling, divine dance, perichoresis…these are ways of describing what it means for God to live within Godself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and also what it means that God makes room around Godself for us to live in God, too. We are not the same, but we are moving together.
Bonus points: perichoresis is also a fantastic way of envisioning the idea of Jesus as fully human and fully divine. In fact, this is how the term was first applied theologically*, and then later was used in reference to the Trinity. But all those questions of how Jesus can be of two natures, one substance, etc. etc…. Here is one way to describe a reality deeper than we can extrapolate in bland theories. Jesus is both fully human and fully divine, mutually indwelling both natures, while neither is subsumed by the other. How can that be? Not arrows. Not separate canisters of substance. Perichoresis.
There's so much to say about perichoresis, but I hope this brief introduction has given you a good place to begin.
*Church history note, if you're interested in this sort of thing: This term has actually been used extensively in theology in various forms, as far back as Origen. John of Damascus is the one who brought the idea into trinitarian thought, and whose work Moltmann used as the grounds of his own thoughts on the trinity.


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elsey Thatcher moved to Lake Tahoe in 2010 from the Bay Area. Growing up taking trips to Tahoe with her family, she soon fell in love with the mountains. It didn't take long for Kelsey to take advantage of all that Lake Tahoe had to offer. In 2011, Kelsey starting spinning, not realizing that it was the start to her journey of finding her passion in the health and fitness industry.
Although new to the health and fitness industry, Kelsey has embraced her passion. She is spin, Barre, TRX certified and is an ACE certified personal trainer. She is also a current student at LTCC working on her degree in Kinesiology.
Kelsey has two young children which reinforces her drive to live a healthy life and inspire others to do the same.
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POLICE from the Drugs and Organised Crime team and the AFP's Special Response Group swooped on a 33-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman yesterday evening and arrested them on drugs charges.
With the assistance of a police surveillance operation, the officers stopped the Forde man in Bruce at about 6.40pm last night to search him and his vehicle, finding a small bag of a crystalline powder they believed to be methylamphetamine.
Police then took the man to Forde and searched his home, where they found drug paraphernalia, including two sets of scales and smoking implements.
At the same time, the Special Response Group remained in Bruce where they searched the home of the 27-year-old woman and found another small amount of a crystalline powder suspected to be methylamphetamine, along with ecstasy tablets, steroids and suspected stolen property.
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The E. coli S30 Extract System for Linear Templates is prepared using minor modifications of the protocol described by Lesley and colleagues and allows successful transcription/translation of linear DNA templates. The investigator need only provide linear DNA containing a prokaryotic E. coli-like promoter (such as lacUV5, tac, λPL (con) and λ-PR). A ribosome binding site is required to direct the synthesis of proteins in vitro. In vitro-generated RNA from DNA templates lacking an E. coli promoter may also be used in this system, but protein yields will be decreased to 1–10% of that produced from linear DNA templates.
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Here's what's up on Monday's Squawk on the Street:
--The CEO of Regeneron. A new eye medicine from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Bayer AG was ruled Friday by the FDA to be a safe and effective way of fighting vision loss from macular degeneration. That's only on Squawk on the Street.
--Also Monday, the CeO of StatOil. That's another Squawk on the Street exclusive. See where the CEO stands on the ups and downs in the oil market right now.
--Then the CEO of Airbus joins us live from the Paris Air Show. We'll also have the Governor of the great state of Washington. Governor Chris Gregorie is going across the Atlantic Ocean to explain why Boeing should build in the Evergreen State.
--We're also talking about the future of nuclear energy in the United States. A key report on the Japanese nuclear disaster is due out. We're talking about stocks like Southern Company , Duke, First Energy, Next Era Energy and Pinnacle West.
We're also debating whether members of Congress should have more restrictions when they trade stock. They have access to all sorts of potential legislation.... but they don't have any extra trading restrictions. And did you know the average member of Congress fares 6% better than the average American in the stock market? That's the focus of the Street Poll as well. Should there be more stock restrictions for Congress? Share your opinion.
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Venison Medallions with Sautéed Apple Slices and Wild Blueberry Sauce
- ½ bunch of thyme
- 1 ½ pounds saddle of venison
- 1 ½ tablespoons clarified butter
- salt and pepper
- 2 red apples
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons onion, minced
- 1 cup red wine
- 1 cup rich beef broth
- ¾ cup frozen Wild Blueberries
- ¼ cup currant jelly
Sauté onions and garlic in drippings adding more butter if needed. Season with salt and pepper and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add wine and beef broth and reduce to 1 cup. Add frozen Wild Blueberries and current jelly. Simmer, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
Pluck thyme leaves from stem. Wash venison, pat dry and cut into 12 equally sized medallions. Fix with skewers. Heat 1 tablespoon of clarified butter in skillet. Sear medallions from all sides 3-4 minutes Season with salt and pepper. Remove medallions from pan, keep them warm.
Wash apples and rub dry. Remove cores with corer and cut into slices. Heat ½ tablespoon clarified butter and sear the apple slices in it, cook about 3 minutes . Serve venison medallions, apple slices and Wild Blueberry sauce. Garnish with thyme leaves. Serves 4
414 calories, 32g carbohydrate, 409g protein, 9g fat, 127mg cholesterol, 0g trans fat, 127 mg cholesterol, 0g trans fat, 592mg sodium, 3g fiber
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Salvation. /accept-invitation/
Is a gift from God to and for everybody.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only son
and whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish.
But have everlasting life John 3:16
If you confess/declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord,"
and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved Romans 10:9
for with the heart, you believe and you are made righteous/justified
With the mouth, you confess and are saved Romans 10:10
Abraham believed and God considered it as righteousness(right standing with God) Genesis 15: 6; Romans 4:3
Believe Jesus died for your sins
He was raised from the dead for your justification
Acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior with your mouth
Why you need to receive salvation
By one man(Adam) sin and condemnation entered the world.
So one man's righteousness leads to justification.
And life for ALL man. Romans 5:18
For ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23
And are justified freely by His (Jesus')grace.
They are justified by redemption.
Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
So everyone is born needing salvation
You and I were born in sin
Prayer to receive salvation/to be born again
Lord Jesus
Come into my heart
I believe you died for me
You rose from the dead for my justification
Cleanse me with your blood
Forgive me for my sins
I accept you as Lord of my life
and as Savior
Thank you, Father God, for giving me your son
In Jesus' name
Romans 10:9-10
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You are now.
- Cleansed.
- God forgave you of your sin
- You are now a child of God. John 1:12
- You have a new start. You're now a new creation in Christ Jesus. 11 Corinthians 5:17
Just like a newborn baby naturally. That's what you are spiritual. Therefore you need spiritual food. Read your Bible, Pray. You are welcome to visit this blog more often, and ask questions. A mom does not give birth to a child and just leave them in the hospital, or take them home and just let the baby be. Mom nourishes the baby and teaches the baby the how-tos of life. That's why after getting born again you have to fellowship with like-minded people. God has the church who is the body of Christ, to take care of each other. you now need to be taught in the ways of God and become a disciple of Christ. 1 Peter 2:2 says, " Like newborn babies, long/crave/desire/ for the pure milk of the word so that by it you will grow in respect to salvation,"


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At SeaGrass Restaurant we are committed to bringing you the freshest sustainable cuisine possible. Our close proximity to some of the best farms in the country as well as the great Atlantic Ocean assure our guests that our food is both local & fresh. With our Chef owners creating American dishes with a twist, there is always something for everyone.
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Please come in before or after the beach, during your vacation, or any day or night all year long. We are serving fresh local seafood, great steaks, & chops from America's heartland and local organic produce. Our chefs are always happy to create sumptuous vegetarian and gluten free dishes.
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The Children's Museum of The Upstate300 College Street (Use side entrance off Academy Street)
Special Guest Speaker: Dan Hilliard, PhD Executive Director of the Zoo Conservation Outreach Group
Dr. Dan Hilliard will speak about the Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) and their Chilean Flamingo Monitoring Program. ZCOG is a nonprofit coalition of zoos, aquariums, and related partners dedicated to promoting wildlife and habitat conservation throughout Latin America. ZCOG develops conservation leadership capacity in Latin American zoological institutions and supports a variety of field projects. The Greenville Zoo is a long-standing ZCOG Board member. Learn more about ZCOG at zcog.org.
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Our catering service offers a generous selection of large and small dishes for events of all kinds – from a standing lunch to a garden party or even a glamorous wedding or company celebration. Our experience and professionalism guarantee a smooth process and satisfied guests.
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Tree house in Hildisrieden
If you want it to be something very special, we suggest the tree house – for meetings and events with views far and wide. The tree house is located in a large oak tree on the Neuhof farm in the municipality of Hildisrieden. Since the tree house is not near any roads, the location is very quiet.
Barbecue at the Beach Bar
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Now this is the kind of cinema redemption I hoped for. After watching Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows, in which the word Fin appears across the young protagonist's face as he wades in the sea, I went looking for matching images from the two Simpsons episodes in which characters make films that end with a big on-screen Fin. Specifically, Barney Gumble's Pukahontas in "A Star is Burns" (season 6, episode 18) and Nelson Muntz's Life Blows Chunks in "Any Given Sundance" (season 19, episode 18). As you might guess from the title, Life Blows Chunks borrows liberally from Truffaut's film. And now, when Nelson wades into the sea at the end, I get it.
By the way, if you want a capsule description of The 400 Blows, you could do worse than to say it chronicles a few weeks in the life of the Nelson Muntz of Montmartre, circa 1959, right down to the chaotic household and alarmingly callous mother. If Gilberte Doinel (Claire Maurier) isn't also smoking her way towards enough Laramie Bucks to redeem for a golf umbrella, it's only because Truffaut's characters (including the 12-year-old hero) already smoke other brands (or roll their own). Young Antoine Doinel gets in trouble at school, which leads to trouble at home, which leads to more trouble at school. He runs away, crashes at a friends' house, and ends up lugging a stolen typewriter around Paris, vainly attempting to pawn it, before finally landing in a juvenile detention facility for "observation".
It's vivid and immediate, alternately sad and funny; I see why audiences and critics alike embraced it. Still, I never feel like I entirely get classic French cinema. Give me Max von Sydow playing chess on the beach with Death, and I know where I am. Give me a spirit medium channeling a samurai's ghost, and I'm right at home. I know what I should be paying attention to. But French films often seem to me to be exercises in just watching things happen. The characters go about their lives, for better or for worse, without much indication — as far as I can tell — what the viewer is supposed to make of it. (I'm sorry I can't explain it any more clearly or eloquently than that.) I remember feeling this way after L'Atalante and Les Enfants du Paradis and Le Souffle au Coeur; it's the reason there are so many French films on my CinemaShame list. I've stayed away from them because I'm afraid I won't appreciate them.
So did I appreciate The 400 Blows? I…think so. Young Jean-Pierre Leaud is wonderful as the protagonist, Antoine Doinel, and Truffaut accurately captures that youthful sense of always being in trouble, of being punished as much for attempted good deeds as for bad, of minor lies suddenly spiraling out of control. And Truffaut's seeming refusal to judge his characters fits well with his vision of a world in which the adults aren't any better — any more honest, or practical, or emotionally consistent — than the children they find themselves responsible for. This alone would set it apart from most coming-of-age tales, which are usually anxious to provide at least one role model. It's not surprising to hear Truffaut say, in an interview that's among the Criterion extras, that the film wasn't released in Spain because Franco's censors wanted so many cuts "it would've been a short."
On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong about Truffaut's style. Maybe it all Means Something. After watching the film through, I turned on the commentary track on the Criterion disc and randomly chose a scene. The image of the characters descending a staircase going downwards to the right, the commenter solemnly informed me, can be recognized by "students of visual literacy" as symbolizing the protagonist's "moral decline". Am I missing that much subtext in every scene? Hey, at least I got that all the Christmas decorations are ironic.
I intended to start my path to redemption with something lighter, something without subtitles, and then to work my way up to the French films on my list. But apparently there's a "long wait" on Netflix for Network, so I jumped ahead to something I figured would be daunting enough to ensure easy availability. (It's the same principle according to which I rearranged my movie queue when some of my discs didn't make it back to Netflix and I wondered if they'd been stolen. I moved all the silent and/or foreign films to the top. Enjoy the early expressionist cinema of Victor Sjostrom and Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears, movie thief!) The 400 Blows was far more accessible than I feared it might be. I'm still a bit intimidated by Serious French Film, but at least I'm getting more references to it.


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Apprenticeships are a powerful tool in narrowing the poverty gap and giving opportunity to those who have traditional not been exposed to them. They can come with some complex rules and tick boxes, read more about what organisations need to consider when it comes to offering an effective apprenticeship programme.
26 April 2017
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With increasing pressure on schools to find more creative ways to increase their income - has your academy considered sports funding?
17 January 2017
As proposals are taken forward into the stage 2 funding consultation, we assess what this means for you and the financial sustainability of your school.
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Fraud and computer misuse are now the most common crimes in this country with a staggering 5.2 million offences committed in the last year alone. What steps can your trust take to prevent fraud?
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Within an academy we understand that the responsibility for managing risks rests with the board of trustees (the board).
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Grease Live Draws 12.2 Million Viewers, Making Fox's First Live Musical a Hit
Beats NBC's The Wiz in audience and ratings
Fox has chills, and they're multiplying. That's because Grease Live, the network's first foray into the live musical genre that NBC has owned since 2013, was a huge success for the network Sunday night.
Grease Live attracted 12.2 million viewers and a 4.3 rating among adults ages 18 to 49, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers. That tops the 11.5 million viewers and 3.4 demo rating for NBC's The Wiz Live in December and comes close to the numbers for NBC's biggest live musical: 2013's The Sound of Music Live, which drew 18.6 million total viewers and a 4.6 rating in the demo.
The show was particularly strong among younger viewers, with a 3.7 rating in adults 18-34 and teens. The teen rating was 23 percent higher than Sound of Music's numbers, Fox noted. (While the network has stopped reporting live-plus-same-day ratings, it makes exceptions for live events like Grease.)
The ratings are also good news for Coca-Cola, which sponsored Grease Live with period-appropriate integrations and also ran three spots during the show.
Grease Live's success is one last win for former Fox chief Kevin Reilly, who green-lit the musical in April 2014, less than two months before he stepped down. "The truth is, Grease was ordered before we came to the network. We were thrilled with it and embraced it," Gary Newman, co-CEO and co-chairman of Fox Television Studios, told Adweek last month.
While there were plenty of questions leading up to last night's musical—How would the rainstorm pelting Los Angeles impact the show, part of which was set on the Warner Bros. backlot? Would Vanessa Hudgens, who played Rizzo, be able to carry on after the tragic death of her father a day earlier?—audiences were most dazzled by the technical wizardry of director Thomas Kail, who also helmed the Broadway sensation Hamilton.
The show had 1.2 million tweets, with the most-tweeted minute occurring at 8:31 p.m. ET, after Boyz II Men sang "Beauty School Dropout." The most TiVo'd moment came at 9:26 p.m. when Sandy (played by Julianne Hough) stands up for Rizzo, who sings "There Are Worse Things I Could Do."
In addition to Kail's euphoric camera work, the show was given an energy boost by the inclusion of a live audience, which have not been a part of NBC's musicals. "It's just one of the ideas we are doing to sort of burst open the genre of a live television musical," said executive producer Marc Platt. The production took over two soundstages and half of the Warner Bros. backlot where the finale's carnival scene took place.
To make the show more palatable for broadcast audiences and advertisers, Grease Live toned down some, but not all, of the show's racier lyrics. "It's going to be a very family friendly show but with the appropriate edge that it needs to have," Platt said last month. Several lines in "Greased Lightnin'" were changed, though the "Did she put up a fight?" lyric in "Summer Nights," which seems to allude to date rape, was unchanged.