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Street Theatre it’s role in contemporary society and singularity as a vehicle of expression – Paul Miskin

Street Theatre it’s role in contemporary society and singularity as a vehicle of expression. Paul Miskin Thursday, 29 August 2002

`Hello and in case I don’t see you good afternoon good evening and goodnight`.

These are the opening words of the hero of the film `The Truman Show`. Later Truman urgently compels his degraded media slut of a `wife’ to observe a repetition of events. According to the norms of this `false` world Truman’s suspicions of conspiracy define him as a paranoid schizophrenic. However, we the audience, know that his suspicions are leading towards his discovery that his entire life has unbeknown to him been planted into a nightmarish world of product placement and Neitzschean repetition, a television show. The questioning of reality leads to his final escape. No one would call him an escapist for wanting `out`. Truman’s search is a metaphor for an ontological quest, a search for a reality beyond the every day patterns he experiences. The world of fixed repetition he is escaping from is a metaphor for something all humans experience, a sedimentation or stratification of social institutions, behaviours and thoughts called the inherited conglomerate.

The inherited conglomerate   is comprised of hard layers of behaviour patterns, assumptions, and norms.[i]  Like Truman we all become aware of the repetitions, strata, and grooves in which our lives are played.

`Hello and in case I don’t see you good afternoon good evening and goodnight`
[i] `Perform or Else` Jon McKenzie gives considerable analysis to this concept Routledge 2001 London and New York.

Archaeological performance

Continuing the geological metaphor of the conglomerate, I use the term `archaeological` for performances that dig through, sample, expose and play with this conglomerate. Truman’s moments of awareness eventually lead to his escape from the program. Once we are aware of stereotypes and norms their grip is loosened.[i]. A large number of brilliant street theatre interventionists for example The Natural Theatre Company, les Hommes en Noir and Pedestrian Project and surreal spectacles like those of Semola and Collectif Organum play with, and expose norms and assumptions. Cacahuete are the classic exponent of the `archaeological` in Street Theatre. Their most well known scenario L’ Enterrement de Maman, disinters a whole range of absurd social truths, most fundamentally the hidden existence of that social pariah `The Grim Reaper`. Secularised human life is depleted of meaning. The secularisation of death leaves us with something even more absurd than life. We must believe in something that is going to happen to us all, yet which we can never experience first hand. The archaeological performance as seen in the photograph of Campeurs Sauvages exposes the stereotypes of fixed versus nomadic lifestyles
[i] Jon McKenzie` in `Perform or Else` argues that performance is to the Twentieth Century what discipline was to the Nineteenth. Having shown that the notion of performance is degraded he needs to coin new words for performances, which, by their playfulness and skill in the games of dislocating context do not participate in the disciplinary paradigm

A culture of ontological complexity and warped reality

It is no coincidence that the recent enormous expansion of Street Theatre comes at the same time as films such as Existenz, The Truman Show, The Matrix, Pleasantville, Groundhog Day, and the development of virtual reality simulations in e space, and reality TV shows like Castaways and Big Brother. It is also no coincidence that in our major cities large groups of girls go out clubbing dressed as police women in miniskirts with handcuffs or as nuns or angels, creating their own Street Theatre.

In the centre of Tokyo advertising MPEGs and mini features played on enormous screens on the sides of buildings are reflected in glass buildings and rain water on the road, immersing the entire urban landscape in mediatised dreams, simulations and reflections.

These phenomena of our time and others, including Street Theatre, enter, challenge, distort, enhance or supplement reality, creating an art/life hybrid.  This is the sense in which I describe them as `ontological`. The term `Realism` is used for discussing life simulation in novels, plays and films. `Hyper- realism` is used to describe simulation in painting. This leaves the words `ontological` and `onto-realism` to describe the unmediated insertion of substitute realities, and other curious relations between simulation and reality.

Historically Theatre was predominantly presented in dedicated buildings and temples. Today it is often injected straight into the urban life experience. What has changed? Why do we need this bizarre fix? Why hire `ontocrats` and `onticians`, programmers and performers of Street Theatre to mess with our reality? What revolution in contemporary urban consciousness demands the ontological fix? What is fuelling the recent enormous expansion of Street Theatre? It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we see a Trumanesque problem with reality indicated here, a `significance deficit`.

In the early Twentieth century Sartre and his colleagues responded to the secularisation of existence with the Existentialist school of Philosophy. Half a century later the question of ontological significance is more acute for lives of increased individualisation of reference, where individuals are even less likely to accept tribal imperatives or rationales.

Augé [i] has recently described a desperation in the demand for significance.  In his ‘supramodernity’ the significant individual experience becomes another commodity or drug to be consumed. Something must ease the contingencies of the individual divorced from the purposes of tribe or species. Something must combat deracination, excessive information, the ‘time of the signs’, and a “state of flattened and irritable inattentiveness”[ii]
[i] 1995Non-places introduction to an anthropology of Modernity

Marc Augé translated John Howe verso London New York 1995

[ii] Hakim B (1996) Millennium Autonomedia and garden of Delight p 49 New York

The ontological questions; What is reality? Is there a point to my life?

The Halibop Cult and associated group suicides illustrated that issues relating to simulation, the distinctions between strands of the real and the significance of existence can become, in the digital post-modern city, life and death issues.

For the artist the questions of the meaning and the significance of existence and human life cannot be dismissed as clichés or marginalized as pedantic or semantic philosophical games.

The Truman metaphor encapsulates key ontological questions of our time and of Street Theatre

The ontological questions

•How much of my reality has been constructed for me without my realising it? Is there a hidden agenda or agendas?

•What exists outside or beyond the `alimentary` processes of the city? (i.e. Truman’s Fiji)

•How can we escape the meaningless rituals of the anthill?

•How much of what appears to be reality is actually for the purpose of making money?

The social crisis

One aspect of the `significance deficit` is the depletion of meaning in social life. Marc Auge has described how this has become a current crisis.[i] This social crisis creates a special need for Street Theatre and Street Events as  a social glue. In a recent festival proposal the expression `ad hoc collectives` is used.

How does Street Theatre impinge on the following?

•A ‘virtual’ social situation in public places and `Non places`, (e.g. airports and motorways) see Auge

•Deferred gratification [ii]

•Information overload.

•Hyper-individualised perspectives.

What is the social effect of artistic tinkering with the ontological status of experience, of hybridising fact and fiction and introducing theatre into the quotidian? How does it affect a social significance deficit?

From the Truman perspective escapism is not escapism. The creation of zones of playful autonomy is not escapism
[i] Not of course that a crisis in the social is new as the social has always been in a state of crisis, perhaps ever since the inception of linear or historical as against cyclical society Even in cyclic societies, which have been static for centuries, a social crisis may be latent.  Debord G (1967) la Société du Spectacle Bucher Castel trans 1994 Zone books New York 1994 page 92

`Existence itself may be considered an abyss possessed of no meaning. I do not read this as a pessimistic statement. If it be true, then I can see in it nothing else but a declaration of autonomy for my imagination and will-& for the most beautiful act they can conceive with which to bestow meaning upon existence’

These words of Hakim Bey introduce his notion of the T.A.Z. a temporary zone of autonomy/freedom, an area of freedom from the imperatives of the conglomerate and freedom to play with, and within its strata, and an invitation to create Street Theatre. Antonin Artaud’s pronouncements in The Theatre and its Double constitute a manual on how to make Street Theatre, and to complete a triad of essential reading for street performers Pascal Larderet’s situationalist comic manifesto, in the Cacahuete press material is an Artaudian comic conversion kit. Larderet converts the Artaudian formulae for comedy. These writers all created important areas of freedom for Street Theatre. The creation of zones of temporary freedom is probably the most important contribution that Street Theatre makes to contemporary society. Often this is a freedom from patterns of which we are, like Truman, completely unaware.

We continue to ask the questions `why do we exist? `, `Why existence? `, `What is the significance of existence? ` In response to Hakim Bey we have to ask `what is an act, which bestows meaning on existence? ` And  `what is a significant experience? ` One feels instinctively that definition can only be provisional, as there are so many possibilities for a `bestowing` act or a `significant` experience. It seems to be a special slice of life an unusual ontological segment, which generates a response to a deficit, a lack, ennui, boredom, dullness and flatness…a tedious question is averted, postponed, satisfied, replaced by different questions [i] the emotional sensibility is modulated by `jouissance` joy, pleasure, happiness, poetry, profundity, enigma or music.  Significance shines from the creation of questions as well as answers. These are some of the ways in which Street Theatre can be `a bestowing act` in the Hakim Bey sense. You have to be there to understand.
[i] Blondel. E. Nietzsche the body and Culture Philosophy as Philological Genealogy trans Sean Hand Stamford University press first pub 1986 Paris (page 82)

Street Theatre, its singularity as a vehicle of creativity

Street Theatre comes in many shapes and forms.

Even though I am hypnotised by the megalomania of large-scale hallucinated transformations of the urban context recently I have come to the conclusion that even in very large shows small- scale elements are often the most important.

It is individual confrontations between audience and performance that matter. The foreground and background of the patterns of Islamic tiles are reversible. The inverse is as important as the positive shape. Similarly a constructed Street Theatre image may seem to be an alien riding a giant ostrich, but is soon seen as a refraction or reflection of the street itself. The audience are often the performers and the artist the participants. Large arena street performances that take place entirely behind barriers lack an important special ingredient of street performance. The relationships between performance and context vary enormously and some of the most interesting street performances are the most contextualised, in the sense that the performance and real life connect and fuse.

The arena performance

Andre Ginzberger the French Street Theatre agent employed the classic distinction between theatre `in` the street and theatre `of` the street, theatre `de` and theatre `de la` rue. The arena spectacle is the classic theatre `in’ the street and less ontological than the intervention. After enjoying a range of arena shows and helped to create one, I have observed the enormous importance of the sky, and the size of the `theatre`. During an open-air arena spectacle one’s mind can soar with a flock of birds, or focus on distant stars, an experience, which fuses with the surreal images of Strange Fruit or with the cosmic battles of Plasticiens Volants. The incredible detail of the half constructed and half natural cityscape and of the sky’s cloudland are seen to be mysterious works of art.. Life becomes aesthetic in the Neitzschean sense and cloaked with a numinous  `significance`, often reserved for art.

The norm of transgression

I have neither the time nor inclination to outline here the history of the economic forces driving the expansion of Street Performance. Also the charge of commodification that is laid at the door of Street Theatre is an important but too complex issue to deal with fully here. One of the important assumptions underpinning this charge is the norm or paradigm of transgression, which the academics, and some programmers, critically impose on Street Theatre practitioners. (Jon McKenzie has described this in detail) Apparently we must transgress. Obey this injunction or else be regarded as lackeys of capitalism. It is of course a variant of the Cretan paradox, if we do we don’t and vice versa.

Many Street Theatre groups have a distinguished record as provocateurs. Perhaps the only record really worth its salt here is a criminal record and one wonders how many programmers and academics extolling the virtues of provocation would be prepared to experience arrest. If the programmer is locked up the question remains, who is going to help get the artist released? But when will these gourmets of transgression themselves spend the afternoon in the police cells?

In Perform or Else Jon McKenzie analyses the paradigms and meta paradigms of the performance theory of Schechner, Turner and the establishment of Performance Studies. This is of great value for Street Theatre because it enables us to see these injunctions (`liminality` `transgression` and so on) as the norms they are. His theoretic `archaeological approach `(in the sense defined above) liberates us from the stratification of academic performance norms. After all what fun is transgression if we are being told to transgress?

All good ideas become dogma. And it is hell watching pleasure and joy become heavy sticks in the hands of academics and lecturers. To watch a student struggling with an essay on `site specific performance` almost proves that the idea of site specific performance is now dead and buried. I believe that `surprise` and `discovery` are important for expression, but if anyone gets heavy with those ideas then its time to dump them. McKenzie was absolutely right to virtually write gibberish when addressing the kind of performances that he really values. His excellent gibberish is particularly difficult to appropriate and stratify.  It is quite hard to imagine that any lecturer at a new College of Street Theatre will ask a student to prepare a `perfumance` (McKenzie’s complimentary name for a performance which dances with the paradigms), but anything is possible, and if you think of it, it will probably happen. Like the other cited authors McKenzie’s great achievement, as a theorist, is the creation of freedom for artists.

The special appeal of Street Theatre for its practitioners is partially that artistic expression is a process of discovery. Every Street Theatre creator I have spoken to describes the strange feeling of seeing a new performance gestate. The performance is always unexpected, and usually exceeds expectations. With large-scale work we have the surprise of seeing what we have made coming to life in action. In different performances we have the amazing surprises of different cities interacting with the performance.

The reflections on Lake Malta in Poznan;

The shadows on the buildings of Kortrijk.

The beach in Santos.

The Skyscrapers in Kaohsiung

The squares of Manchester

The tall buildings of rebuilt Gdansk

Street Theatre provides unparalleled opportunities for the artist. The appeal for me lies in the sheer density of the image and the multidisciplinary freedom to combine sculpture, painting, music, pyrotechnics, dance, theatre, circus, abseiling etc. My previous occupation was playing jazz, and there can be a jazz like quality about the Street Theatre performance structure. Some elements (like riffs) are constructed and prepared but others are improvised and discovered. The more freedom you want the more organisation is required. Anarchy always wins because it is better organised and every performance is fresh for the performer.

This quality of surprise and discovery has me hooked. The whole procedure of mounting an event, the gathering of talented friends, the travel, the site visit where, in megalomanic style, one studies the context to be transformed, the arrangements with the host, the complications of pyrotechnic storage, the shared meals, the thrill of the event and the pleasure of a job well done and being asked to return, all these elements make a very privileged life full of enjoyment.

Conclusion 1

So to conclude. The function of Street Theatre in society primarily relates to the depletion of meaning in secular society, a re-appropriation of ritual theatre from the church, and the creation of zones of freedom from and within the `alimentary` processes of the city. It is time `out` for reflection, contemplation, vertigo, fever, fury, or whatever emotion the performance engenders. It offers a critique of social norms and sometimes also a moral critique, but this is not so common.

It is right that a city should have its birthdays and christenings. People love their cities. In Holland NWSI has been employed for such bizarre tasks as to re-logo a hospital, and to launch a motorway. We are honoured by these opportunities, which can be curiously meaningful events. The Street Theatre performers replace the priests of by gone days, blessing these very practical and valuable entities. Motorways and hospitals are associated with an invocation of something `beyond`, something `out there`. This connects with Artaud when he asks us to `shake off material dullness` and be brought back to “a natural occult equivalent of the dogma we no longer believe`.

Conclusion 2

Street Theatre is a superb vehicle of expression partly because the expectations of the establishment and Performance Studies have not yet come to grips with it. I doubt if they ever will. Its genres are porous. And its forms protean. Multidisciplinarity is the norm. It is unbounded and unbridled, and it seeks to give something to everyone and anyone. The establishment recognises its power but cannot rein it in. It is not a middle class preserve. It is associated with revolutionary activity. It is an alarm call in the middle of the day. It is poetry without words.

Paul Miskin Thursday, 29 August 2002

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Hubbard Dianetics Seminar Answering the Demand for True Help

The Hubbard Dianetics Seminar, offered by the Nashville Church of Scientology each weekend, is answering the demand for true mental counseling.

June 2009 saw the single most momentous advance in Dianetics technology since the day of its original publication on May 9, 1950.

Dianetics became universally accessible.

The Dianetics Seminar was released with new audio-visual components that not only make it easy to understand and apply, but break down to such an ease that all one has to do is watch.

Nashville’s Church of Scientology has offered the seminar each weekend since that time with rave success.

“It’s not so easy any more to find real help,” says Rev. Brian Fesler, pastor of the Nashville Church of Scientology.  “The Internet is flooded with offers that don’t live up to the promise.  People are betrayed by ‘professionals’ who take their insurance money and send them away.  It’s time for someone with real answers and effective results to step up to the plate.  That’s why we’re here.”

Fesler wants to let Middle Tennesseans know the seminar is open to the public.

According to the book What Is Scientology?, the Church of Scientology is “all-denominational” and members are free to attend any church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship of their choice while also taking classes or attending the seminars.

The Hubbard Dianetics Seminar is based on the bestselling self-help book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and takes just a weekend to complete.  It features the video series “How to Use Dianetics,” consisting of 32 films—a total of four and a half hours of visual instruction in the principles and procedures of Dianetics. In the seminar, attendees learn how the mind contains a hidden influence that will cause individuals to feel grief and pain long after the reasons for which they first arose.

“People are getting amazing results at this seminar.  And what’s more, they have skills they can continue to use at home and with friends and family,” says Fesler.

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Ralph Lauren’s Pink Pony Bloggers Unite for Cancer

When I heard about Ralph Lauren’s Pink Pony campaign to fight cancer, I knew right away that I wanted to participate and help spread the word. Ralph Lauren and Polo Ralph Lauren have been dedicated in the fight against breast cancer for over 20 years. Ralph Lauren has designated his polo player icon to the Pink Pony campaign, creating a special version of the pink ribbon. Not only is the campaign focused on breast cancer, but has now expanded to include other cancers. The mission of Pink Pony is unique in that it addresses the needs of the medically undeserved. Over the years, it has really helped bring quality cancer care, access to cancer care, and early detection for those who need it most. Check out the online auction occurring all throughout the month of October on
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Free People October 2010 Catalog Preview

Here is just a sneak peek into my Free People October Catalog shoot! The clothes were wonderful. So many chunky knits as well as lightweight pieces that together, create a dreamy and bohemian vibe. I fell in love with all the October catalog pieces and they can be previewed here!
The second collage is filled with fun, behind the scenes, photos taken during the shoot in Philadelphia. Snapshots of everything from hair and makeup, lunch, to final photo review! The catalog will also be featuring Rumi Neely of Fashion Toast as well as Georgia Larsen from Dora’s Fur! Two amazing ladies with rockin fashion blogs.
Also, check out my video! All my photos in the catalog were shot by my sister Dylana, who you probably know from Nana in Wonderland. Enjoy! The catalog will be out October 5th (online or in your mailbox!)

Joe’s Jeans Holiday 2010

Here are some images of me for Joe’s Jeans Holiday 2010! All photos shot by Jiro Schneider! A lot of light cottons and skin tight denim. All a little riskay…

Just like a Gypsy

(H&M top, Vintage skirt, Cole Haan boots, Il Bisonte bag)
I’m sporting long skirts a lot more often now and have been scouring thrift stores trying to them. I stumbled upon this vintage one over on Fairfax. I like the gypsy/amish feel of it. It’s even got little bells on it so I can hear a tiny jingle every time I walk! And I realized long flowing skirts are so much more comfortable and give me the freedom to move around more than the tight minis that used to grace the runways. Plus, no Britney underwear disasters in sight. It reminds me of the one I saw on a girl in New York riding a bicycle. I wish I could have snapped a photo of her for my blog! Long skirts and bikes are magical. Now, all I need is to jump on a bike and cruise on outta here 🙂

Btw, I stumbled upon a photo of me in the October issue of Lucky magazine featuring my Delvaux bag! Who knew the Belgian designer label is going to be selling in the States?!

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Peanut Butter

About 94 percent of American homes have at least one jar of peanut butter in their pantry. If you’re a fan, allow us to spread the love with a section dedicated to nothing but yummy, protein-packed peanut butter.

How PB Can Help You PR This Fall

Imagine: It’s race day. The temperature is just right, the air is fresh, camaraderie is high and your best run seems like it’s at your fingertips. But if one critical piece of the picture – nutrition – is missing, the race will probably not be your most enjoyable or fastest. Whether you’re running a 5K or a marathon, include nutrient-dense foods before and after the race.

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No one likes to get a parking ticket. But paying for the citation with a donation of peanut butter is an awesome way to give back, especially for those in need. For the second year in a row, The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) conducted their “Peanut Butter Parking Campaign” with the dual purpose of educating students about parking on campus, and creating awareness about local food insecurity and why food banks want peanut butter.

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Peanuts and Coke aren’t the only drink to incorporate America’s favorite nut. Greg Best is a master mixologist who has worked with peanut ingredients for years, and he loves the flavor that peanuts add to a drink. He was one of the founding partners of the renowned Holeman & Finch Public House, and he recently opened one of the hottest bars in Atlanta today, Ticonderoga Club. Best knows a thing or two about operating a successful mixology program. So we sat down with him to find out how he’s popularizing peanuts behind the bar and get the scoop on his favorite peanut cocktail.

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Peanut butter and chocolate are one of nature’s greatest combinations. Have these new products on standby for your next craving—like this afternoon.

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We’re all looking at ingredient labels more closely, and some consumers are concerned when they see oil listed on a peanut butter ingredient label. A label may say partially or fully hydrogenated oil, or palm oil or palm fruit oil.

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To keep our energy levels up, each meal and snack should contain a good proportion of carbohydrates (the more whole grain or fruit/veggie based, the better), protein and good fats. Peanut butter is a natural fit as it provides more protein per ounce than any other nut as well as a great dose of mostly unsaturated fats – the good kind. Not to mention, it is shelf stable so packing it for lunch or a snack makes it more portable than most options.

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Chef Elizabeth Falkner is a tour de force in the culinary world. Not only is she a talented chef, she’s also a fitness fanatic and active with many causes to support women, health awareness and more. We gained some insights about what inspires her, her favorite ways to use peanuts and peanut butter in the kitchen and what she has planned for future.

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SH2 Smith used to show cartoons every Saturday morning at the EM Club for all the children of the base.

Larry Smith, trying to get warm at his flat in Shantallow: 1968

Michael Biggerstaff, with Larry Smith's daughter, Michele Circa: 1968

Does anyone remember The Pattersons visit to the Base in April, 1969?

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The following pictures are from PN Thomas Conrad's tour 1972 - 1974

Capt Ashurst - Polly Conrad - Tom Conrad
PN2 Tom Conrad reenlisting on 3 Jul 73 for 5 years and was assigned PN "C" School
Tom's wife looks on as he says his Oath of Enlistment

Liv Dionne - Dick Dionne - Polly Conrad - Tom Conrad
Bunratty Castle

Olivia Dionne at Giants Causeway

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1972 All Star Game - Program Guide

Polly Conrad - Official Scorer - 1972 All Star Game

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1972 All Star Game

Tom Conrad 1B - Ralph Tucker 2B - Dean Taylor P - Tom Stalker CF - Jack Summers? running to first

Jeff Sanderson - Tom Conrad - Ralph Tucker - Floyd Seim

Softball Champions - 1973
Tom Stalker - Dennis Jawgiel - Keith Nelson - Tom Conrad (hand in air) - Bill Broms - Dale Blackburn - Sage Scharbeth - Gene Peck

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Change of Command Program

Tom's Afghan hound - Khan
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Tom Conrad - Mac McKeithian
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Hockey: Team travels to play key CCHA weekend series

By Sam Gans | Friday, February 22, 2013

No. 11 Notre Dame will face one of the toughest teams and venues in the country when it travels to Kalamazoo, Mich., this weekend for a two-game series with No. 7 Western Michigan at Lawson Arena.

Following a 2-1 victory over Miami (Ohio) at Soldier Field on Sunday, the Irish (19-12-1, 15-8-1-1 CCHA) trail the second-place Broncos (18-8-6, 14-6-4-2) by one point in the conference race with four games remaining, and are three points behind the CCHA-leading RedHawks.

The Irish clinched a top-five CCHA finish last weekend, which guarantees a first-round bye in the CCHA tournament. Notre Dame needs just one win or shootout win in its final four games to secure home-ice advantage in the second round of the conference tournament.

Irish coach Jeff Jackson said he is aware his players check other CCHA scores in the middle of a tight conference race whether he wants them to or not, but it’s critical they remain focused on their own game.

“It doesn’t matter if I mind, I’m sure they’re doing it, and they’re on the internet all the time so I’m sure that they’re looking at everything, no matter what I say,” Jackson said. “I just want them to stay focused on the process here, because the only thing that matters right now is Friday night.”

Less than a week after playing the RedHawks – the nation’s top scoring defense – the Irish will face the No. 3 scoring defense in the country when they head to Kalamazoo. Behind sophomore preseason all-CCHA goaltender Frank Slubowski, Western Michigan enters the contest allowing only 1.94 goals per game. Slubowski has started every game for the Broncos this season and ranks 11th in the nation in goals against average and second in minutes played.

Jackson said winning matters more against a tough defensive opponent than the game’s style. “It’s about great goaltending and teams that play good team defense,” Jackson said. “And that’s why, like Sunday, you have to be willing to win a game 2-1.”

A stifling defense and goalie are not the only problems Notre Dame might face this weekend. The Irish will also deal with of the toughest crowds in the CCHA at the 3,667-seat Lawson Arena.

“They’ve got a great student section – it’s like a little bandbox in there,” Jackson said. “The fans are right on top of you. … If they were my fans, I’d be happy to have them. They’re into the game and it’s a loud building.”

This will be the second series between the Irish and the defending Mason Cup-champion Broncos this season. The teams split a pair of games in the Compton Family Ice Arena in early November.

“The personnel’s the same. I’m sure the tactical end of the game’s probably fairly similar,” Jackson said of this series compared to the series in November. “It just depends on where their mindset is and where ours is, if there’s any differential.”

The Irish and Broncos face off against the Broncos at 7:35 p.m. tonight and 7:05 p.m. Saturday night at Lawson Arena in Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

DVD Review: Terry Fator– Live From Las Vegas

On his new DVD, Live from Vegas, Season 2’s America’s Got Talent winner Terry Fator proves that he is extraordinarily talented and that his show is equally extraordinarily difficult to sit through. The cringing started shortly after hitting the play button because although Fator is clearly one of the best singing-ventriloquist-impressionists around, his very hokey, starchy show is a snoozefest on valium. There is an audience for this kind of cheesy garbage, I know, I wait behind them sometimes at traffic lights screaming, but they are best avoided when possible.

The show does have moments that emerge from the middle-American grey, dullness such as when Terry pulls an audience member on stage and adds a mask and dress using the live person as a doll very effectively, but everything is so scripted any reality is quickly shooed offstage. I’m sure Terry is a nice guy because he said so in the first chapter of his autobiography which was included with the DVD “Who’s The Dummy Now?” (answer: anyone reading the book) in which he tells his story of rags to riches slowly and painfully. Another added bonus is the worst audio commentary ever recorded featuring Terry and his comedy writer who is so far from the microphone that he might be down the block running from the nightmare.

It may play well in Peoria and fill seats at the Mirage, but after watching his act Terry Fator’s fan club is probably just hearing about this great new thing called the internet.

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Hardcore Legends INTEGRITY are Recording A New Full-Length

Integrity-logo-skullRelapse Records is extremely proud to announce the signing of hardcore legends INTEGRITY. Originally formed in 1988, INTEGRITY are known for being one of the most incendiary and influential bands in American hardcore and modern metal history and have released 11 full-length albums and a litany of splits & EPs including a recent split with Power Trip.

INTEGRITY are set to record their new full-length album later this year which will be released by Relapse Records in 2017. Frontman Dwid Hellion commented on the new material and signing:

“It is a great honor to be a part of the Relapse family. I have been a longtime admirer of the label and excited to have our new album released under the Relapse banner. Integrity has always been a creature of destruction and introspection. The ever beginning End. A lesson in lechery and weaponized love. Forever culling forth the demons of deep within to enchant our congregation with serrated scripture. We have been writing the new Integrity album throughout the past year. Whittling away at forbidden deities and forgotten curses until we arrive with chapter and verse.”

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Movie Night: Kung Fury (2015)

KungFury2015-posterEvery Thursday night at 8pm (EST) we offer a stream of a free movie. Campy old sci-fi flicks, obscure documentaries, b-rated horror, and hilarious comedies. Don’t expect much.

Written and directed by David Sandberg, Kung Fury is an over-the-top 80’s action comedy that was crowd-funded through Kickstarter. The campaign was launched in December 2013 and backed by more than 17,000 people who together gave more than $630,000 to create this epic spoof, originally seeking a mere $200,000.

Miami Police Department detective and martial artist Kung Fury time travels from the 1980s to World War II to kill Adolf Hitler, a.k.a. “Kung Führer”, and revenge his friend’s death at the hands of the Nazi leader. An error in the time machine sends him further back to the Viking Age. Not only does the film feature Nazis, there are uber computer nerds, dinosaurs, voluptuous viking babes, Thor, even David Hasselhoff makes an appearance. Chock-full of corny one-liners, clever jokes, and an amazing soundtrack will have you in tears. Not to mention the graphics are very well done considering all the cheesiness in the film such as mimicking a worn VHS tape.

Earlier this year, Sandberg teased that a sequel is on the way…

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Creator-Destructor Records has released a brand new split 7″ from RINGWORM and EARLY GRAVES! The release features one new original from each band, and both bands even chose one cover song each to decimate! RINGWORM covers Motorhead’s “Iron Fist,” while EARLY GRAVES covers Celtic Frost’s “Into the Crypts of Rays.” Trust us when we say that each cover completely destroys, but to hear those tracks you’ll have to preorder the 7″ for yourself!

Cleveland’s legendary kings of metallic hardcore RINGWORM released their most recent full-length and Relapse Records debut in 2014 with Hammer Of The Witch. RINGWORM was spawned in 1991 from the metal scene in Cleveland, Ohio, and released The Promise (1993) on Incision Records, immediately finding their place among hardcore metal heavyweights like Terror and Earth Crisis. Despite early success, the members of RINGWORM decided to pursue personal ventures. Human Furnace concentrated his focus on tattooing and his artwork, while other members joined with hardcore legends Integrity. Nearly a decade later, RINGWORM emerged from the shadows with their critically acclaimed Victory Records debut, Birth Is Pain (2001), followed by Justice Replaced By Revenge (2005). Between extensive touring and personal ventures, RINGWORM managed to release two more searing LPs, The Venomous Grand Design (2007) and Scars (2011), through Victory.

EARLY GRAVES formed in San Francisco, CA in early 2008 and have since released three full lengths, 2008’s We: The Guillotine and 2010’s Goner on Metal Blade Records‘ imprint, Iron Clad Recordings. Their latest came from No Sleep Records in 2012 with Red Horse. The band’s sound has been described as a mixture of old school Swedish death metal and American hardcore punk and have drawn comparisons to Napalm Death, Carcass, Tragedy and Testament among others.

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Published Friday, September 20, 1996
Princeton celebrity tells the Truth

Contributing Reporter

Although she once doubted she would ever write another life history, Princeton University history professor Nell Painter graced Yale yesterday with a visit on a promotional tour for her new biography, "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol."

Painter, who two years ago declined an offer to join Yale's faculty, spoke to a small audience in Sudler Hall. She discussed her newly released book detailing the life of Sojourner Truth, a 19th-century women's rights advocate and anti-slavery crusader.

The former slave, she said, is historical figure shrouded in myth. According to legend, for example, Truth was an adviser to former President Abraham Lincoln. In reality, Truth had only one short meeting with "The Great Emancipator." Painter said she wanted to find the real person behind the stories.

Truth, born into slavery in the state of New York, became a free woman as a result of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. After gaining her freedom, Truth, an illiterate mother of three, became an itinerant Pentecostal minister.

She traveled around the country speaking in support of women's rights and the abolition movement. She also published a small autobiography she dictated to a writer.

Painter said her book is more than a story of Truth's life. It also attempts to show how Truth has become a symbol for her ideas.

"She's an authentic hero," Painter said. "There's a call for strong black women and Sojourner Truth is that woman."

Painter said her book is controversial because she uses 20th-century psychology to interpret a historical figure who lived over a century ago. For example, Painter said she found hints in her research leading her to believe that Truth had been sexually abused by her mistress while a slave, and she tried to understand how those experiences affected Truth's life and actions.

Her audience didn't seem to mind the book's alleged controversy.

"I've heard her before talking about Sojourner Truth, and it's never boring," Joan Mensah GRD '96. "It's the best of revisionist history."

The idea to write a biography of Truth came to Painter after reading a friend's biography of Langston Hughes, she said. Painter had written "The Narrative of Hosea Hudson," sometime earlier, and said the experience exhausted her. But after finishing the Hughes biography she was inspired to write another, though she did not have a subject.

"Suddenly I heard a voice calling 'Me!'" said Painter, explaining how she decided to write about Truth. "I've gained a new respect for spiritual voices."

Working on a biography of Truth has led Painter to her next project, she said. She plans a work on the idea of personal beauty using pictorial representations and "cutting herself free from chronology."

Painter, author of four books including "Sojourner Truth," was brought to Yale by the Yale Program on African and African American Studies. She is beginning a tour to promote her new book that will take her to 13 cities around the United States.

Painter received her Bachelors of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is currently the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton.

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"Black History Month’s Most Important Lesson," Newsday, 25 February 2003

By Nell Irvin Painter

We need Black History Month now more than ever, even though there are always people who want it to go away. Every year some people want to abolish Black History Month. They have lots of reasons that sound rational, at least at first: (1) We should have black history every month, not just once a year. I say: Well, we should. But if we don't have it in at least one month, we risk the loss of black history out of popular culture entirely. Black History Month is one time when people who are not in school focus on the fact that African Americans have a history. (2) History dwells on the past. We should be looking to the future. I say: The future makes little sense without knowledge of the past. We know that people who ignore the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes. (3) Black History Month has become a feel-good opportunity for corporations to underwrite empty statements about dead black people. I say: This is true, but anything that succeeds in American culture becomes a feel-good opportunity for corporations. If we eliminated every instance of corporate piggybacking, not much would remain in our popular culture. (4) Black History Month doesn't do anything to improve the lot of poor black people. I say: Black history month may not directly improve people's lives, but it doesn't hurt them, either. Meanwhile, we need it badly right now

This year, when Democrats as well as Republicans want to take us into a "preemptive" foreign war, Black History Month reminds us of two important points: that accepted wisdom is neither the only or necessarily the best way of seeing things, and that the needs of ordinary, working Americans should come first in our national politics.

Think of the famous names: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, A. Philip Randolph, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Baldwin, to name just a few. Most of the people in Black History Month were in struggle against the truisms of American life. Before the Civil War, most Americans thought slavery was just fine and that abolitionists were crazy agitators. In the first half of the twentieth century, the vast majority of Americans had little problem with segregation, disfranchisement, even lynching. Most black people could not vote and were subject to violence, humiliation, and exclusion. Yet most Americans did not question the way things were. In 1946, before the great civil rights revolution, Life Magazine took a poll on race relations. Most Americans found relations between the races to be properly adjusted. At most points in our history, huge majorities of Americans thought everything just fine as it was. Yet decade after decade, black people and a few non-black allies waged a struggle against racial injustice. In that struggle they created a counter-tradition that questioned what most people took for granted about American life.

Right now we need to heed that counter-tradition of struggle against political truisms. We need a tradition to embolden us to think for ourselves. We are living in a moment when our government is lying to us, trying to scare us into thinking that we're about to be attacked by terrorists so we will be willing to go to war. Our government is lying to us that the racial playing field is level and that race-based remedies have no place. The Bush administration places the financial demands of its war above the needs of working people. Black History Month reminds us that the counter-tradition puts people's needs first.

The accepted wisdom in the United States February 2003 says Iraq threatens American safety and must be invaded. The United States was ready to pay $26 and one-half billion dollars to Turkey in order to wage this war. That is roughly the amount of money the states lack to pay their bills. Think of what $26 and one-half billion dollars would mean to schools, police, fire fighters, parks, and medical care!

Some thirty-five years ago Martin Luther, King, Jr., one of the most popular figures of Black History Month, watched the War on Poverty and the Great Society lose out to the Vietnam War. On 4 April 1967, the Reverend King spoke at the Riverside Church in New York City against what he called the "madness " of the war. King deplored the diversion of funds from domestic needs to warfare. He called the war the "enemy of the poor."

King realized the war damaged the people of United States as well as those of Vietnam. It killed the children of God, Vietnamese and American. He asked how he could urge the angry young men in black ghettoes to turn away from violence when their country used violence to get its way with another people. The war, he said, was making Americas into cynics. "It should be incandescently clear," King said, "that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read 'Vietnam.'" This February let Black History Month remind us of the folly of such a war.

Nell Irvin Painter teaches history at Princeton University. She is the author of Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol and Southern History Across the Color Line.

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Carcassonne Board Game for BlackBerry Smartphones & the Blackberry PlayBook

The award-winning tile-based board game by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede is now available for your mobile phone! Just a few years after its release, Carcassonne became a modern classic and a must-play. Turn by turn, the players create a landscape by placing tiles with roads, cities, fields, and cloisters. The players deploy their followers – knights, monks, thieves, or farmers – to earn points. The player with the most points after the final scoring wins the game. The ever-changing landscape makes each game a new experience. With the official expansion “The River II” and 12 challenges, it never gets old. You can play against clever AI opponents or with up to 4 other players in a local multiplayer match.

– Mobile version of the award-winning tile-based board game “Carcassonne”
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The Nerd Repository is giving away passes for a special advance screening of Warcraft, based on the popular video game series and starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Rob Kazinsky and Daniel Wu. This is your opportunity to see the film before it officially opens in theaters!

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The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home.

So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.

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This is unlikely if you are cautious while moving around the nest, and if you follow our Code of Conduct. Observers often fear that increased predation may result from the observer leaving a track or scent-trail to nests but recent studies have shown that nests visited frequently had a similar rate of success to others left undisturbed between laying and fledging. Birds, unlike many mammals which have a good sense of smell, will continue to care for their young after being disturbed. Also keep in mind that nest checks should not be made in inclement weather, and surrounding vegetation should not be disturbed.


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Endoscopy in freely behaving mice. NeuroPSI / UNIC, Gif sur Yvette, France.

The BRAINSCOPES program funded by the Paris-Saclay university is looking for a talented scientist to work in a collaborative project run by the laboratories of Brice Bathellier and Gilles Fortin, involving microendoscopic one- and two-photon imaging in deep brain areas.
The project aims to study, in mice, the neuronal population dynamics of genetically identified cell types in brainstem nuclei involved in early auditory processing and in the control of respiratory and locomotor behaviours. In this context, the recruited postdoctoral scientist will be responsible for :

- implementing the insertion of chronic endoscopic lenses according to readily published protocols

- imaging neuronal activity of GCAMP6-labelled neurons using either an Inscopix head-mounted microscope (freely moving conditions), or a two-photon microscope (head-fixed) during complex auditory stimulations and various exploratory behaviours and metabolic conditions.

The project will be run within the novel Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI) and the Unit for Neuroscience Information and Complexity (UNIC) located in Gif sur Yvette, 45 min from Paris centre.
The position is available for one year, potentially renewable and is open to candidates with an experimental background (e.g. PhD in Neurophysiology) and motivation to interface with new imaging technologies and cutting edge data analysis techniques. Prior experience with in vivo manipulations of the rodent brain and/or optical imaging is also desirable.

To apply, please contact Brice Bathellier or Julien Bouvier with a CV and contact details of two references.

Related publications :

Deneux T, Kempf A, Daret A, Ponsot E, Bathellier B. Temporal asymmetries in auditory coding and perception reflect multi-layered nonlinearities. Nature Communications, 2016, 7, 12682.

Bouvier J, Caggiano V, Leiras R, Caldeira V, Bellardita C, Balueva K, Fuchs A, Kiehn O. Descending Command Neurons in the Brainstem that Halt Locomotion. Cell 2015, 19 ;163(5):1191-203.

Ruffault PL, D’Autréaux F, Hayes JA, Nomaksteinsky M, Autran S, Fujiyama T, Hoshino M, Hägglund M, Kiehn O, Brunet JF, Fortin G, Goridis C (2015). The retrotrapezoid nucleus neurons expressing Atoh1 and Phox2b are essential for the respiratory response to CO₂. Elife. 2015 Apr 13 ;4.

Talpalar A, Bouvier J, Borgius L, Fortin G, Pierani A, Kiehn O. Dual mode operation of neuronal networks involved in left-right alternation. Nature, 2013, Aug 1 ;500(7460):85-8.

Bathellier B, Ushakova L, and Rumpel S, Spontaneous association of sounds by discrete neuronal activity patterns in the neocortex. Neuron, 2012, 76(2):435-49.

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We looked at 2014's coolest land toys earlier this month; now we leave the shore in our wake and head out to sea. The year in water toys kicked off in a big way at Boot Düsseldorf 2014 in January and it ran strong the year through. In fact, we'd say the past year saw reveals and market launches of some of the coolest water toys in recent history ... everything from transforming boats, to seven-figure personal submarines to underwater jet packs.

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Twenty-fourteen saw plenty of innovation in the hydrofoil market, with a particular emphasis on retractable-hydrofoil vessels built for traveling both on and above the water. Most of those designs stepped well outside the realm of "water toys" into full-blown boat territory, but the Quadrofoil Q2S, which moved into the preorder stage this year, houses its hydrofoils in a compact, PWC-style two-seater. The craft soars at speeds up to 24 mph (40 km/h) while suspended a few feet above the sparkling water. Its 5.5-kW motor and 10-kWh battery pack ensure that it doesn't spew any air or noise pollution, traveling about quietly and cleanly on its way to a 54-nautical mile (100-km) range limit. Sharp, water-rippling handling is delivered by way of the dual-grip steering wheel, which has a touchscreen gauge tucked between the two handholds.

The two-seat Quadrofoil Q2S is available for preorder now at a €22,500 (US$27,500). If that sounds a bit rich, Quadrofoil also offers the €15,000 Q2A, but the lower price comes with decreased power, speed and range.

Aquila electric surfboard

Electric surfboards (and wakeboards and paddleboards) were another highly popular water toy throughout 2014, presenting us with a decision of which model to include here. In the end, it was a fairly easy choice. Not only is the Aquila line of boards the fastest, offering up to 44 mph (71 km/h) of speed, but its estimated prices are pretty affordable compared to the competition – half the price of the much slower Waterwolf MXP-3 and a fraction of the cost of the slower Radinn board. Another aspect of Aquila that we like is its proposed three-board lineup, which aims to make all types of boarders happy with the long, fast Carver, the battery-conserving Manta cruiser, and the short, lively Blade freestyle board.

When we looked at the boards in July, Aquila was in the process of analyzing the market and lining up investors with the intention of a 2015 market launch. Hopefully, it's able to do so, and hopefully it does so near its estimated €2800 (US$3,425) to €3300 ($4,050) price range.

S.C.P Marine Innovation x2 Underwater Jet Pack

Easily the most futuristic, superhuman water toy we saw all year (okay, full confession: we covered this prototype in mid December 2013), the x2 Underwater Jet Pack invites you to dive into the water and power forward with a pair of wearable thrusters. The dual thrusters mount to your arms, and the batteries are worn on a vest, turning you into a sort of subaqueous cyborg. The estimated price that was bandied about last year was £3,500 (US$5,500).

Outside of those basics, details remain a little fuzzy a year later, and it doesn't look like S.C.P. is going to meet its goal of getting to market in 2014. We remain intrigued for the future of underwater travel, but for now, you'll have to stick to underwater scooters like the Seabob or towables like the Subwing.

DeepFlight Dragon personal submarine

Like the jet pack and the flying everyday commuter car, the personal submarine seems destined to forever tease the minds of children and adults without ever becoming a product they see outside of tech publications and Neiman Marcus catalogs. The hover-capable DeepFlight Dragon is one of the latest to join the ranks of ultra-expensive submersibles, a category that includes designs like the U-Boat Worx CQ-2 and AquaVenture SeaBird. DeepFlight takes aim at making the Dragon the lightest, smallest personal submarine available, a design that will help owners quickly get the hang of driving it. The 3,968-lb (1,800 kg), two-seat submarine is capable of diving around 400 feet (120 m) down into the water with help from its electric vertical thrust system.

While the Dragon should make submarine piloting easier for owners, it won't make personal submarining any easier on their wallets. The Dragon will set them back a cool $1.5 million. DeepFlight is taking reservations now.

Schiller X1 water bike

We've seen a number of water bikes over the years, and the new Schiller X1 is the sleekest, most stylish one yet. The aqua bike includes aluminum and stainless steel construction, PVC pontoons and LED lights. Its combination of Gates Carbon belt drive, continuously-variable NuVinci 360 transmission and twin propellers gets the rider pedaling across water at speeds up to 10 mph (16 km/h). The whole package breaks down for easy travel to and from the water.

The X1 isn't in the same stratosphere as a personal submarine, but its $6,495 is fairly steep when compared to the price landlubber's typically pay for bicycles.

Kormaran shape-shifting boat

At 23 feet (7 m) long, the Kormaran is well larger than what we'd usually think of as a "water toy". However, its multifunctional, shape-shifting design makes it as fun as any other piece of water gear we've seen all year. Thanks to two hydraulic outrigger hulls and a set of retractable hydrofoils, the boat is a catamaran, trimaran, monohull and hydrofoil, all in one package. It can transform right on the water, even while it's moving, letting boaters react to changing conditions and moods. Its 493-hp triple jet drive powers speeds up to 44 mph (70 km/h). For those that want a slower, quieter day on the water, it also anchors and transforms into a swimming platform.

Kormaran showed a prototype earlier this year but did not share pricing information.

Hoverboard by ZR

Water jet packs like the Jetlev-Flyer and Flyboard were already some of the most awesome water toys that money could by. Then, the creator of the latter added a whole new dimension to give them even more potential. Inspired by the timelessly famous hoverboard piloted by Marty McFly in Back to the Future II, Franky Zapata designed the water jet-propelled Hoverboard. The board sends its rider surfing through the air at speeds up to 15.5 mph (25 km/h) and heights up to 16.5 ft (5 m). The Hoverboard is powered by a separate PWC, and the PWC driver controls the throttle. With the addition of the optional handheld throttle kit, the Hoverboarder controls his own propulsion.

The pricing information we received when we spoke to Zapata earlier in the year put the base price of the board around $6,000, PWC sold separately. Those that prefer biking over boarding might look into a Jetovator instead.

Sea-Doo Spark

The title of "world's most powerful personal watercraft (PWC)" has a nice ring to it, but pricing in the range of a family sedan and thirsty, ultra-high powered engines are not on everyone's menu. Sea-Doo has taken an entirely different direction with the 2014 Spark. The US$5,000 PWC was designed to bring new faces into the sport with a combination of affordable price point, fuel-efficient engine and lightweight, easy-to-handle design.

The Spark obviously isn't the fastest or most high-tech watercraft on the market, but the first-timer shooting and leaping across the water at 40 mph (64 km/h) on the ultralight, 60-hp aqua pony couldn't care less ... especially after buying the Spark at a price he'd have expected to pay for a thoroughly used PWC. Gizmag's Loz Blain and Noel McKeegan sure didn't seem to be missing the extra horses when they tested the Spark out last month (though the Sea-Doos they were riding did have upgraded engines).

The attractive, brightly colored two-person Spark gets the most out of its small, efficient engine because its composite construction keeps weight to 405 lb (184 kg). Available options include a 50-mph (80 km/h) engine upgrade and an Intelligent Brake and Reverse feature for pinpoint control. The 2015 model starts at the same low $4,999 price as the original 2014 version.

Corran Hydra three-piece paddleboard

Watersport industry veteran and former pro kayaker Corran Addison wanted to stand out in the stand-up paddleboard market, feeling that hundreds of companies were basically just putting out the same exact product with different labels. He created an alternative to the flooded market of massive, heavy solid boards and squishy, unstable inflatables. Addison's Hydra board breaks down into three pieces, making for easy transport and storage. It assembles in about a minute and is designed to offer a stable, solid feel on the water, with the help of the structural inserts and ratchet buckles. You can also adjust the number of segments (extras sold separately) to create larger and smaller boards.

This spot on the list could have gone to the Point 65 Rum Runner, another modular three-piece paddleboard we covered this year, but we give the nod to the Hydra and its $699 price, which includes the paddle. The Rum Runner is well more expensive at $1,000+ (no paddle).

BomBoard modular jet ski

Sea-Doo deserves a lot of credit for turning back time on PWC prices with the Spark, but if the BomBoard ever fights its way to market, it'll drop the bar even lower. Its Wisconsin-based parent company of the same name wants to get the light, lithe vessel into eager hands for just under $3,500 a pop. The key to keeping prices low will be the BomBoard's small, ultralight build. At 150 lb (68 kg), it's less than half the weight of the Spark. That means less material, a smaller engine and a lower price. It also means that BomBoard can ship directly to the consumer via a Web-based store instead of being distributed through dealers. The PWC's four-piece modular design also saves the owner money on the trailer – the vessel can disassemble and ride in the back of a compact car. At the beach, it snaps together in about a minute.

All that great stuff depends on BomBoard actually getting its design to market. As of now, its website still indicates that it's looking for investors to take the design from prototype to production, estimating availability in Northern Hemisphere Fall 2015. If it does make it, expect the affordable PWC to deliver quick acceleration and sharp, nimble handling up to a top speed of 40 mph (64 km/h).

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Pointless to Complain

1) Many are coming to the correct conclusion that there simply is nothing they can do or say that will have ANY effect what so ever on the current CBA negotiations.  There is a definite difference this time around.  Last Bettman lockout the NHL was heavily trying to persuade the public that the players were overpaid, the balance of power among teams was out of whack, and ticket prices were going higher due to uncontrolled salaries, etc

2) We were given the discredited Levitt report, which if it was true would have meant all 30 teams were close to Chapter 11.  Of course that was never the case and clearly while there were several teams in desperate financial straits, it was NO a league wide issue and more importantly the players salaries were NOT the cause.  Then as now its financial/team mismanagement that causes financial distress. Despite that the NHL was very successful in demonizing the players

3)  Fast forward to now and the NHL Bettman isn't even going to try to make believe that the current CBA is about ticket prices.  They are making little effort either to try to persuade the public that the league as a whole's financial health is in the balance.  Instead taking their lead from the NFL, which despite making record profits, wanted to decrease the players % because, well, they could (and did).  Therefore when Bettman was recently pressed why they gave the proposal they did he responded that they wanted to decrease the players share.  Simple as that.

4) I don't care what fan union you may want to form. They are all well and good, but will have ZERO impact on the proceedings.  The ONLY thing the owners will EVER "listen" to is the fans NOT buying tickets/merchandise, etc.  They look to the last lockout when an entire season  was lost only to see fans return in droves to feel invulnerable.  Therefore despite the players bluster that hey are not afraid of another lockout, the owners WILL get what they want in time, and we can belly ache all we want about it while there is no hockey.  Its Pointless to Complain!

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More Than 15,000 People Have Lost Their Jobs in 2009 in Newspaper Industry

At least 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry in 2009, News Cycle's list of layoffs and buyouts now shows, and the list will grow before the year is out. While newspaper executives expect a better year in 2010, marketing pros are predicting further declines in print advertising revenue.

In December alone, 705 buyouts and layoffs have already been announced. That is the most in any single month since July. That means 15,093 people have received their pink slips or have opted into a buyout package in the newspaper industry this year.

In addition, there are fears of another round of layoffs at The Los Angeles Times that could reach as many as 40 people.

Reducing payroll expenses has had its anticipated effect on newspapers as profits are on the rise once again, as The Associated Press reported last week:

Gannett's profit outlook is for earnings of 48 cents to 62 cents per share for the quarter. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters are expecting, on average, a profit of 52 cents per share.

Speaking at the UBS Media and Communications Conference, Chairman, CEO and President Craig A. Dubow said many of the changes the company made during the year were needed because of the economy, but they "also represent necessary permanent changes." These changes have included hundreds of job cuts as the company grappled with an advertising slump made worse by the economic turmoil.

Dave Lougee, president of Gannett's broadcast division, said the year is "ending decidedly different than it began and our underlying trends are now positive."

The remarks from Gannett executives came a day after two other media companies, The New York Times Co. and McClatchy Co., signaled that advertising revenue declines won't be as bad in the current quarter as earlier in the year.

Gannett, based in McLean, Va., had said last week it is reducing the newsroom staff at USA Today by 5 percent. On top of the 26 newsroom jobs at USA Today, 11 jobs will be cut at USA Weekend magazine, a weekly insert in other newspapers. Over the summer Gannett cut 3 percent of its total work force, or 1,400 positions.

So what about next year?

At the UBS convention in New York this month, there was optimism about an upturn in 2010. E.W. Scripps chief executive officer told one session that "in the longer run, we will need to add (newsroom) jobs, add content and raise (circulation) rates," according to Poynter Media Business Analyst Rick Edmonds.

McClatchy chief executive officer Gary Pruitt said that the industry will perform "better than analysts' expectations" in 2010, and have cut costs so deeply that they "stand to benefit from even the slightest uptick," Edmonds reported.

But on the other hand, Geoff Ramsey, chief executive officer of, foresees more of the same for traditional newspaper ad revenues in 2010.

Next year, while broadcast television, radio, newspaper and magazine spending continue to downsize, though more slowly than in 2009, online ad spending will enjoy a nice bump-up: eMarketer currently forecasts 5.5% growth. And the increase won’t all come from search—banner ads will grow 3.3%, and online video will jump by 40%.

A continued downturn in advertising for print content would mean only one thing: more layoffs. You simply do not need the numbers in personnel to produce an electronic verison of your news product as you do for a traditional print product.

Here are my lists of layoffs and buyouts in the newspaper industry so far this year. December's growing list can be seen on the right column.

November -- 293 people.
October -- 375 people.
September -- 347 people.
August -- 425 people.
July -- 2,505 people.
June -- 318 people.
May -- 1,084 people.
April -- 1,350 people.
March -- 3,943 people.
February -- 1,492 people.
January -- 2,256 people.

NOTE: Revised on Dec. 16, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. Eastern to fix a typo.

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It's sad to see job loss, but newspapers have to catch up to the 21st century and adapt to social media or else this temporary incrase in profts due to layoffs will be just that, temporary. Certainly more newspaper giants could learn a lesson or two from the Huffington Post. Certainly social networking and engaging with readers onlnie is a smart move as well. Thanks for sharing this info!

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Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen welcomed delegates to the city.

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Postlethwaite: We misjudged Lear

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The Liverpool production of King Lear opened on 30 October

Actor Pete Postlethwaite has called bad reviews for a new production of King Lear, in which he stars, justified.

Critics called the play, which opened with a clip of Margaret Thatcher and saw the Fool perform Singing In The Rain, "self-indulgent" and "clumsy".

"We were overwhelmed, I think, by the ideas," Postlethwaite, who plays Lear, told Radio 4's Front Row. "I think what suffered was the performances."

He added that several elements had been "jettisoned" since the play opened.

"Things have gone that we found unhelpful, distracting, not true to the story," he said.

'Lacks dignity'

Postlethwaite's Lear is being performed at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where the actor launched his career as part of the seminal Alan Dosser company, which also included the likes of Julie Walters and Jonathan Pryce.

The production is directed by Rupert Goold, who is famed for his imaginative, modern stagings of classic plays.

Let's face it, it wasn't all bad, there was a lot of really good stuff going on, bubbling underneath
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But critics felt he had lost his way in adapting the Shakespeare tragedy.

"Goold's bright ideas often seem self-indulgent and reductive, drawing flashy attention to the director's role of theatrical razzle-dazzler without serving the text," wrote Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph.

"It lacks dignity to a degree and is flawed by numerous misjudgments," noted Christopher Hart in The Times.

"For anyone who knows and loves the play, some scenes are truly painful to behold."

Postlethwaite, who became a household name with roles in hit films like The Usual Suspects and Romeo and Juliet, also came in for criticism.

"He often misses the pulse of the poetry, rarely illuminates its meaning, and almost totally fails to catch the desperate king's heart-rending terror of madness."

'Very happy'

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Many critics also felt confused by the decision start the play with excerpts from Margaret Thatcher's speech on becoming Prime Minister - in which she quoted from St Francis of Assisi: "Where there is discord, may we bring harmony".

Interviewed by Front Row's John Wilson, Postlethwaite agreed that the clip was a mistake.

"In a way, that was symptomatic of things that were misjudged," he said.

"The first thing you want to hear in a Shakespeare play normally, I would have thought, would be Shakespeare. You don't come in with something other than those first lines.

"The production from then on didn't really make any reference to any kind of politics - left, right or indifferent - and Rupert's been bold enough to say, 'Right, that didn't work.'"

Since the changes, he added, there has been, "a very happy bunch of bunnies coming on this stage every night, telling the story in a cracking way which I'm absolutely proud of".

"Let's face it, it wasn't all bad, there was a lot of really good stuff going on, bubbling underneath that just needed releasing."

The sold out production continues in Liverpool until 29 November, before transferring to London's Young Vic theatre in the new year.

Pete Postlethwaite's interview will be broadcast on Radio 4's Front Row at 1915 GMT on Thursday 20 November.

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Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian militant in a raid on a refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

Ibrahim Smeri, 23, was killed by members of a special unit disguised as Arabs, Palestinian sources said.

The circumstances of the shooting are unclear. The army said its troops were returning fire and one soldier's flak jacket was struck by a bullet.

Residents in Balata camp said the Israelis opened fire without warning and then took the body away.

Palestinian sources identified Smeri as a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent group linked to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction.

The group's leader in Balata camp said the shooting violated an informal ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians.

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WTM London 2016 Closes on a High

World Travel Market 2016 at ExCeL Centre, London. Europe area.

Tourism ministers, bloggers and party goers on Wednesday turned the final day of the revamped three-day World Travel Market (WTM) London 2016, the event where the travel and tourism industry conducts its business deals, into a festival of business and fun.

World Travel Market, Senior Director, Simon Press.

World Travel Market, Senior Director, Simon Press.

“Our decision to revamp WTM London as a three-day event was in response to our listening and responding to our core audience of buyers, exhibitors and visitors. We are confident we have, yet again, delivered a best-in-class event which reconfirms our status as the leading global event for the travel industry”, Simon Press, Senior Director, WTM London 2016 said.

This year, the event ran from Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 November, with extended opening hours for all three days.

UNWTO & WTM Minister's Summit. Tourism & Security: promoting safe and seamless travel.

UNWTO & WTM Minister’s Summit. Tourism & Security: promoting safe and seamless travel.

Taleb Rifai, UNWTO Secretary-General.

Taleb Rifai, UNWTO Secretary-General.

The highlight of the last day of the World Travel Market was the UNWTO & WTM Ministers’ Summit, one of the highest-profile sessions of the entire event. Now in its tenth year, more than 100 tourism ministers and their aides from around the world were joined by  board-level representatives from some of the biggest travel companies.

This year’s Summit called on the industry and governments to work together to help destinations cope with the threat of terrorism, which UNWTO Secretary-General Dr Taleb Rifai described as “forces of darkness”.

Mohamed Yehia Rashed Tourism Minister Egypt assured delegates that his country has the technology and security measures in place to protect tourists and urged for standard security measures to be introduced globally. Vinod Zutshi, Secretary of Tourism in the government of India – WTM London’s Official Premier Partner – said countries needed to be more responsible when issuing travel advisories as perception of safety in destinations is a key factor.

Zutshi’s call was echoed by Fritz Joussen, Chief Executive TUI Group, who noted people’s perceptions often compound the problems of terrorism. “The probability of being killed by a terrorist is lower than having car accident on the way to the airport,” he said.

Bloggers speed networking.

Bloggers speed networking.

As the leading global event for the travel industry, WTM London welcomed all levels of participants in the business, from ministers to bloggers. At a dedicated Speed Networking event, 100 bloggers from 15 different countries talked to exhibitors interested in using this increasingly important channel.

WTM London now applied its highly successful Speed Networking concept to new verticals, with a dedicated Wellness session that also took place on its last day.

Networking at WTM's 'The Wellness Centre'.Lisa Wakefield, Programme Leader University of Derby said: “We run International Tourism and Spa Management degrees and courses in hospitality, the culinary arts and event management and I’ve managed to talk to lots of businesses about taking our students on placement.”

While spa speed networking is new, Richard Cope, Senior Trends Consultant Mintel is a WTM London regular. Attendees at his well-attended session were given first access to its 2017 consumer trends analysis, getting advance notice on wearables as a payments device, travel brands sponsoring the restoration of iconic monuments across Europe, chatbots and AI becoming a mainstream customer service channel and the potential time-limited offers and promotions.

Elsewhere Mexico City Tourism Trust Director Magdalena Sanchez noted that Donald Trump’s victory in the US election came on the 27th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came down. “The most important thing is to say Mexico is open for business to the world. As a tourist service we are working to strengthen our markets, this is why we are here”, Sanchez noted.

The Greek Travel Pages (GTP) is an official media partner of WTM London 2016.

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