North Indian Musical Traditions
Inspiring Hymns Public Domain Jumping Game Pizza Pizza Singing Jump forward 2 feet, starting with and landing on both feet at. Hop twice on one foot. Fine motor. running games that require fast stops or changes in direction. or "Cooking pizza." • Singing simple songs such as "Old MacDonald" and the. How to play Horse Jumping 3D Left/Right =
Gabriel Kastelle, a Connecticut-based violinist, shape note singer, and scholar of Northeast Indian music history. of North America, Native tribes have suffered huge casualties in terms of both our.
Raga, as it is understood in the Indian musical tradition, does not have its exact. popular genre of Hindustani or North Indian classical vocal music nowadays.
All contents on this website and all Presentations, Shows, Songs, Stories, Workshops, Lectures & Keynotes are copyrighted. No material may be reproduced, modified, republished, transmitted or distributed in any way without Shannon Thunderbird's prior approval.
About Rajasthan Rajasthan, located in the north-west of India is famously known as the "Land of Princes".The state along with its capital city of Jaipur leads the other Indian states in respect of.
Consumer Reports Musical Instrument. 424, New York, New York 11237 – Rated 4 based on 1785 Reviews "These guys are terrible. Musical Instrument Store. They suck with customer service. Live Music Vancouver Friday Night Get up to the minute entertainment news, celebrity interviews, celeb videos, photos, movies, TV, music news and pop culture on ABCNews.com. Mar 11, 2019
The Nez Percé (nez-PURSE or nay-per-SAY) tribe's traditional territory includes the interior Pacific Northwest areas of north-central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington.
Jun 26, 2018. As different as African musical traditions may sound from each other, they do tend to share. North Indian Classical Music (Hindustani sangita).
Indian classical music is rich with ideas which will broaden your guitar playing. This lesson requires no prior knowledge, and will cover some core concepts from North India's Hindustani tradition.
This year's Pot of Gold Music Festival happens from Friday. A station is located on Central Avenue just north of Indian School Road and you can ride for free with your Pot of Gold ticket.
Delve into the sounds of Northern India when the library hosts a free upcoming performance of Northern Indian-style classical music on Wednesday. to dominance of the extrovert ideal in Western.
An old Indian traditional style of music has been placed. Bhamra told BBC World Service's Masterpiece programme that to make sure the Indian music was authentic for the time, he turned to the north.
When Homayun Sakhi, Ken Zuckerman and Salar Nader get together on the Slosberg Music Center stage Saturday, they'll share a musical experience rooted in ancient traditions but also. Raga in.
The Evolution of Cherokee Music Instruments Played in Cherokee Music. The music of the Cherokee Indians has been influenced by many other cultures and includes a wide variety of instruments.
India is one of the world's oldest and most diverse cultures. Here is an overview of Indian customs and traditions.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. March 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Talks, tours, performances, and more at the Smithsonian's museums and Zoo.
Tyson Shay grew up with music that was created generations before him. so our youth could have a place to learn how to sing and learn their role in Native American culture," Shay said. In the.
Aug 27, 2012. Themes include orality in Indian culture, the traditional guru-shishya. music refers to the classical or art music tradition of Northern India,
Yale's Institute of Sacred Music, in collaboration with the South Asian Studies Council at Yale, will present a free lecture demonstration of North Indian vocal music by. classical musical.
Sep 9, 2013. North Indian music favors simple repeated compositions that serve as. brought the sound of traditional Indian music to The Beatles and a new.
His interest in "world music" has led him to perform throughout North America, Europe and Japan. He has studied traditional and contemporary Chinese percussion in Beijing, Arabic percussion in Cairo.
The landscape, stories and people of north Texas in 1870 are the. 6-8 p.m., La-ZBoy Center, MCCC. Music, light refreshments and family-friendly fun. Attendees will be able to explore Plains Indian.
American Indian Drums. The most important Native American instrument was and still is the drum, as you can tell by going to any powwow or Indian event.
Abstract. If in discourse about traditional music in North India, the notions of. "folk" and "classical" continue to be widely used, in this essay I posit the exis-.
Sep 4, 2013. In North Indian classical music, Ragas are assigned to a particular time. is handed down, generation to generation, through an oral tradition.
Nov 25, 2015. Indian Classical music has two primary and distinct traditions – Hindustani which derives from the north, and Carnatic which is southern.
India has an incredibly rich music culture and to best serve this market. Saavn and Wynk, as well as the North American likes of Google, Apple and Amazon. This launch is happening in light.
PLEASANT — Three Tibetan students from Wasatch Academy (WA) recently made an interesting presentation at North Sanpete High School (NSHS) which included native clothing, music, history. social.
What followed was a boisterous, colourful, joyful affirmation of Indian culture, specifically the cultural heritage. or producing the sitar-like drone associated with Indian music. North Americans.
. in India. Discover North Indian (Hindustani) classical music with BBC Bitesize GCSE Music. The music is passed on from teacher to student by oral tradition.
Classical Music Jingle Bells World Rhythm Black Cajon Box Drum with Adjustable Snare & Padded Bag. The World Rhythm Cajon Box Drum is a fantastic introduction to percussion and drumming. Inspiring Hymns Public Domain Jumping Game Pizza Pizza Singing Jump forward 2 feet, starting with and landing on both feet at. Hop twice on one foot. Fine motor. running
By looking at comparative data from traditional. musical instruments, symbolic animal remains, etc). Tattoo bundles were one variety of sacred bundles (sometimes glossed as "medicine bundles") used.
. always felt the biggest thing is to promote Indian music, particularly South Indian, which isn't as widely known in the American community as Hindustani,'' the North Indian classical tradition.
Define Urban Folk Music Nov 9, 2018. I'd been a devotee of folk music for decades prior to this project, and had called. and the politics of urban and rural spaces inevitably began to overlap in. attack of this kind is contained in the political definition of pastoral by. Will anyone mourn the end of white America. the urban,
Musical notation, visual record of heard or imagined musical sound, or a set of visual instructions for performance of music.It usually takes written or printed form and is a conscious, comparatively laborious process. Its use is occasioned by one of two motives: as an aid to memory or as communication.By extension of the former, it helps the shaping of a composition to a level of.
Current music performances reflect more modern development. Development over the last 700 years ! INDIAN MUSIC TRADITIONS. NORTH INDIAN. SOUTH.
This book is a study of khyal, the genre of North Indian classical music which has dominated in performances by highly trained vocalists for at least the past 150.
First of all, Indian music has several distinct genres. Let me answer this about Hindustani Classical (a.k.a. North Indian Classical) music. Some features would be. What are the salient features of Traditional Indian Culture? 4,954 Views.
The traditional and classical music of India has developed over many centuries and continues to thrive as a dominant art form. The music of this collection.
Mar 14, 2015. Special Event: The Story of North Indian Classical Music. between ideas and music, this time by analyzing the musical traditions of India.
Hindustani (North Indian) classical music is performed by a small ensemble that. several of the basic Hindustani melodic, rhythmic, and drone instruments.
The geography of Hindustani music : the influence of region and regionalism on the North Indian classical tradition. Thumbnail.
Also shaping New Orleans music was the marching ceremonies of the Mardi Gras Indians, a tradition (originally rooted in the kinship. The original space is now a laundrette. After leaving North.
My favorite aunt even claims that there were relatives who threatened to kill themselves and kill my parents for this "love marriage," transgressing the Indian. of Kerala's culture were on display.
Dec 9, 2016. And finally, the Rajasthan International Folk Festival is an annual music and arts presentation of rich North Indian traditions held in the.
The film titled "RAGA REVELRY – A Journey Through North Indian Classical Music" is a fun introduction to the centuries-old tradition of North Indian classical music, often referred to as.
Sweet Soul Music Medley From "Claustrophobic" to "Thru Your Phone," PJ Morton delivered soul with a classical twist. TOBi brought passion and then some in the new music video for his song, "Sweet Poison." The visual, With harmonies even more crisp live than on their recordings, they blended own signature songs with a medley. the art itself, music builds
Sep 26, 2018. Lecture demonstration: Aastha Goswami on North Indian vocal music. Kirana ( Gharana) classical musical tradition of Hindustani music, she.


29.07.2020 - Investing in Innovation: Key to Recovery?
Alena Kudzko appointed Director of the GLOBSEC Policy Institute. Jakub Wisniewski to become VP for Strategy
GLOBSEC 18 by Issues: Innotech, AI and Beyond
GEOPE - "Geopolitical Europe: Are the EU Member-states Ready for It?"
GEOPE - "Geopolitical Europe: are the EU member-states ready for it?" – is an international project seeking to propose feasible paths for compromises and coalition-building between the EU member-states towards a more coherent EU Common Foreign and Security policy.
The project has three main goals:
To foster dialogue between researchers, experts and public administrations in order to enhance the governance of the EU.
To encourage more interest and understanding among the general public in the EU's decision-making processes.
To develop proposals for a more effective and coherent European Foreign and Security Policy
Why is it important to review the European Foreign and Security Policy?
The ever more competitive international environment, mounting political, economic and health crises within the European Union, coupled with the departure of its second-largest economy, present a challenging baseline for any Brussels Leadership.
In the opening statement to the European Parliament, the President of the "geopolitical" European Commission Ursula von der Leyen stressed that Europe should have a stronger and more united voice in the world – and it needs to act fast. In order to achieve that, there needs to be a strategic vision for the further development of the European Project and its role in the world and, not the least, the political will and commitment of the member-states.
One of the main obstacles to a more coherent EU foreign and security policy is the existing divisions within Europe, which are being driven, among others, by political ideologies, national agendas, regional peculiarities, and differences of threat perception. If the EU aspires to play an active role in world affairs, member states should be more prone to compromise to better harmonize their voices and actions.
How we will do it?
By establishing a multi-stakeholder platform of academics, experts, civil society and media representatives, multi-partisan decision-makers from all regions of the European Union and immediate neighbourhood (Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership associated countries). We will organise workshops with foreign policy experts and a series of expert roundtables with participation of the platform representatives and experts from the EU and non-EU states.
We will publish several policy papers and op-eds related to the topic, including a final report "Geopolitical Europe: are the EU member-states ready for it?" which will be presented to relevant stakeholders.
In total, the GEOPE project consists of 8 activities with 14 directly connected outputs, 3 outcomes and sustainable impact regarding a more coherent foreign and security policy of the EU and the European role in the global affairs.
This GLOBSEC project is supported by Jean Monnet Activities of the EU Programme Erasmus+ and will be implemented between 1 September 2020 – 31 March 2022.
Vladislava Gubalova, Acting Head of Future of Europe Programme
Kinga Brudzinska, Senior Research Fellow, Future of Europe Programme
War in Ukraine: Is the EU Ready and Able to Project Power in the Western Balkans and the Eastern Neighbourhood?
Policy Brief

 The European Union (EU) finds itself in a 'before' and 'after' dynamic with respect to its neighbourhood strategy. Russia's inva...
Vladislava Gubalova
Geopolitical Europe: Are We Ready for It? What and How of EU Foreign Policy in 2022
Citizens are currently debating their priorities regarding Europe's global role within the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) a...
Kinga Brudzińska
GLOBSEC's "Geopolitical Europe: Are the EU Member States Ready for It?" Project at GLOBSEC Bratislava Forum (16-17 June 2021)
As part of GLOBSEC's GEOPE Project at the GLOBSEC Bratislava Forum 2021, high-level participants including policymakers, experts, civil society and medi...
Mind the Opinion: Stronger Together for a Stronger EU - Public Opinion Across 10 Central and Eastern European Countries on Foreign Policy
Explore public opinion across 10 Central and Eastern European countries on foreign policy.
Linda Tóthová
From Contestation to Buy-In: the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy as seen from European Capitals
National Approaches to the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy Though the European Union (EU) is a global actor in areas like trade and climate, the...
Summary and Reflections from "Mapping National and Regional Approaches to a More Coherent European Common Foreign and Security Policy: A Workshop" event, 26.11.2020
On 26 November 2020 we kicked-off our new project GEOPE—Geopolitical Europe: Are the Member States Ready for It? In an online event, we had a valuable d...
Geopolitical Europe: Are we there yet?
The international environment has been changing through global power shifts, with democratic values on the defensive and the liberal economic model endu...
Will Ukraine join the EU? A special case of strategic importance to the EU
Had the EU leaders not taken a strategic decision in 1976 the future of democracy in Greece would be uncertain as well as its geopolitical orientation. ...
Event Summary- 'Geopolitical Europe – What's next?'
The purpose of this close-door meeting with select stakeholders held on 17 March 2022 in Brussels was to discuss the future of European security archite...
Summary of Event - "Geopolitical Consequences of the War"
GLOBSEC's annual Château Béla Central European Strategic Forum was this year dominated by the rupture of the current European security architecture stem...
Summary of event - Russia's Rubicon Crossing: War in Ukraine
Russia's ongoing military assaults on Ukraine follow a familiar pattern of arbitrary aggression against its neighbours: the 2008 invasion of Georgia, th...
Event summary - Ukraine, Eastern neighbourhood in peril: Where is Geopolitical Europe?
Written by : Ruxandra Seniuc

 23 February 2022, 9:30-11:00 CET (Wednesday)

 This event was organised by GLOBSEC in cooperation with ...
Event Summary - "Geopolitical Europe: How to Win the Next Decade? Roundtable on the Prospects of European Strategic Autonomy
In a roundtable discussion in Paris, France prominent political experts, policymakers, diplomats, and journalists discussed at length the prospects of E...
Event Summary - "Geopolitical Europe: Accession of the Western Balkans" Roundtable
In the first week of September 2021 more than 30 participants representing think tanks, NGOs, and institutions from 10 different countries, came togethe...
04.03.2021 - Securing the Neighborhood: Enlargement, Partnership, Investment, and Values
Thursday, 4 March 2021 9:00 – 10:15 (CET) via Zoom
25.02.2021 - Towards European Strategic Autonomy? Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe
Thursday, 25 February 2021 9:00 – 10:15 (CET) via Zoom
17.11.2021 - Geopolitical Europe: How to Win the Next Decade? Roundtable on the Prospects of European Strategic Autonomy
Wednesday, 17 November Paris
07-08.09.2021 - Closed-door Roundtable - Geopolitical Europe: Accession of the Western Balkans
7-8 September 2021

 Durres, Albania

 Upon separate invitation only
26.11.2020 - Mapping National and Regional Approaches to a More Coherent European Common Foreign and Security Policy: A Workshop
26 November 2020 (Tuesday)

 10 – 12 am CET
FB video
European union Geopolitical Europe EU EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Brussels Brussels Leadership European Parliament European Commission EU Programme Erasmus+ GEOPE
25.06.2020 - The European and Transatlantic Agenda: Central European Priorities in the Post COVID-19 Environment
25 June 2020 / 3:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. CEST / 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. EDT
03.12.2020 - Public Opinion Across the Atlantic: What Potential for Renewed Cooperation?
GLOBSEC, Pew Research Center and Körber-Stiftung are pleased to invite you to a virtual briefing on public opinion and the future of trans-Atlantic rela...
Securing the Neighborhood: Enlargement, Partnership, Investment, and Values - Event Summary
The online event, held by GLOBSEC on 4 March 2021, on the current state of play and future prospects related to the EU's neighbourhood policies and stra...
Maeve Skelly
Tatra Summit hosted a cohort of 11 Tatra Summit Young Professionals (TSYPs) who analysed and delivered policy recommendations for the new European Commi...


Suffolk Show: Children go Free and Dogs welcome
Children aged 14 and under will enter free of charge and dog owners can once again bring their four legged family members to the Suffolk Show when the gates of Trinity Park open on May 28 and 29 next year.
That's the word from Bill Baker, the new honorary show director, who earlier today (Tuesday) announced the good news – the first, he hinted, of several introductions to the annual two day event. "Apart from being the county's biggest occasion for agriculture and business, the Suffolk Show is a true family day out. We want to enable as many families as possible to be able to attend and experience all the county has to offer," he said.
"The family is our biggest audience and we need to make the Show not only the best quality day out for them, but also make it financially possible," he said. "Times are tough for everyone. By allowing children to enter free, and incorporating even more participatory events for families to enjoy together, their day will be a fun, value for money experience.
"During the past couple of months my show committee and I have discussed what it is we are offering and what makes a great family experience and the needs of today's family during a day out. We have looked at the options and agreed our new ticketing policy is family friendly.
"Several families wrote following last years' show to say they hadn't attended for a couple of years, but couldn't believe how much they could see and do without having to spend extra money once they had paid the gate price. Last year Anglia TV filmed a family around the show and highlighted the activities they enjoyed with little additional spend. One visitor sent pictures of her three grandchildren sitting in the grandstand transfixed by the grand parade, and said the pleasure and happiness on their faces at seeing and being so close to the animals made the day worthwhile.
"Our plan is to increase these interactive and hands-on areas. I will be making exciting announcements in the New Year about plans for the new "discovery" areas for 2014.
"It is worth remembering that the Suffolk Agricultural Association's primary objective as a charity is to help connect people of all ages with agriculture, food and farming. We do not exist to make profits, and indeed the show does not make a profit. Our aim is to create a stimulating environment that enables visitors to relate to how and where food is grown, equip them to make informed buying and eating decisions, and gain a greater understanding of the countryside and rural activities. This includes showcasing the business side at work and attracting the hundreds of tradestands advising or selling equipment, clothing, food and drink and other products for the home and garden.
"During my eight years as chairman of our School Farm and Country Fair, which is held for 4,000 7-9 year olds every April, I saw at first hand children's hunger to explore and their excitement in discovering life in the countryside and origins of their food. It reminded me, a father of two and stepfather to three, of a child's delight in getting their hands dirty whether it be composting, making bread, milking cows or goats, planting seeds or even sausage making and cooking. By introducing this free entry, all the family can benefit in this kind of learning and creative experience together – something many had a taste of in the Cook with Me Kids cooking with lamb feature introduced for the first time in the Farminanglia marquee last year."
"And of course dogs are "workers" and integral to the countryside as well as part of the family. When we made the decision not to allow dogs three years ago it was for genuine reasons. But we always said we would review the situation, which we have. Together with other senior stewards and members, I have visited other shows, talked to their organisers and watched dogs and owners enjoying a happy day out. As an Association we have taken seriously the emails, telephone calls, comments through the social media from dog owners alongside looking at the layout and how we can accommodate them. Dog owners have expressed their disappointment at being unable to attend because dogs are not welcome. Now they need not stay away.
"The decision to welcome dogs back to the Show will involve improving facilities for them, for example more watering points, pooper bins and perhaps even looking at further areas of shade. In this way hopefully it will be more comfortable for everyone.
"All dogs will have to be kept on a lead at all times. There will be areas where they will not be permitted namely the Adnams Food and Drink Experience, Food Theatre and demonstration areas and the members, vice-presidents, directors, and sponsors enclosures and lawns. Our website will give greater detail nearer to the Show dates.
"I want to ensure the Show is truly family friendly and also a worthwhile enjoyable experience for all our visitors, tradestand holders and exhibitors. It must meet its objective to communicate and educate our visitors on all the countryside and agriculture offers in this county and connect them with food production."
In addition to those aged 14 and under entering free, there is a new price point for tickets for 15-18 year olds who will be charged £5 if purchased in advance (before midnight on May 26) and £10 on the gate.
Adult tickets, which were held at 2012 prices last year, will cost £20 if purchased in advance, an increase of £2, and £25 on the gate. Concessions and seniors will cost £18, again a £2 uplift, and £22 respectively.
"We feel that even at these prices, tickets represent good value for money, especially if bought in advance either online or by telephone. The gate opens at 7.30am on the first day and the day's programme extends well into the early evening with live music at no extra charge," Bill added.


It's the Electoral System, Stupid!
This is the third title that I've come up with for this column in the last two days. The first one was, "A Rift Whose Time Has Come." The second was, "Two Dates in November." But I've decided to put the main point of this particular column right up front.
Why are progressives divided, confused, bitter and/or at each others' throats as we come down to the wire towards election day? It's the electoral system, stupid!
What has become of the coalition of trade unionists, young people, environmentalists, fair trade campaigners and others which stunned the country and the world last November 30th through mass action in the streets of Seattle on the first day of the World Trade Organization's meeting? It's the electoral system, stupid!
And why is it likely, as this column is being written, that the election day results, whatever they are, are going to exacerbate tactical and strategic differences within the overall progressive movement? It's the electoral system, stupid!
Don't get me wrong: I have no illusions that all of us who call ourselves "progressive" really see things in the same way. Those who are attacking Nader as if he were the anti-Christ and speaking of Gore as if he were the reincarnation of Martin Luther King, Jr. may have similar views as the Nader movement on a number of issues, but in the final analysis, when push comes to shove, they're more concerned with not rocking the boat than with doing the right thing on those issues. They genuinely deserve Nader's appellation, "frightened liberals."
But there are many, many more people who will be voting for Gore who share many of Nader's views and who are, without question, long-term allies of those of us, myself included, who will be voting for Nader (and I'd be voting for Nader whichever state I lived in).
Those of us who are crystal clear on the bankruptcy of the two-party system need to be able to distinguish between these two groups. It's a question of reliable and unreliable allies. We need to continue to work with the reliable allies, maintaining cordial or friendly relationships, finding common ground across the board in the coming months and years as we fight against either Gore or Bush on the issues.
We also need to interact with the unreliable allies. Sometimes it will be to criticize them for their timidity and fear, their willingness to sell out principles and basic beliefs under the guise of "realism" and "practical politics." And sometimes we will find ourselves in situations, usually short-term, where we are working together.
If we are ever going to get to the kind of broadly-based and effective pro-justice party, or alliance of parties, that can seriously contend for power, we need to learn how to distinguish between these two types of allies. Noting what they are saying now, and how they say it, about Gore and Nader is one way to make those distinctions. Class, culture, nationality, gender, sexuality, age, income-these are other considerations. Past histories of principled, or not-so-principled activism, are another way.
We need to make these distinctions because we need to internalize some lessons from the experiences of the last several months. One of the most significant lessons is that as long as we are forced to compete electorally under a winner-take-all system, it will be extremely difficult to build up the critical mass of electoral victories necessary to sustain our incipient third party movement.
The U.S. electoral system is a throwback to the past. The vast majority of countries in the world use some form of proportional representation
(PR) in choosing government representatives. Under such systems parties are represented in government roughly proportional to the number of votes they receive. It's common sense: governments that are truly democratic should represent the entire electorate, not the 51%, or whatever it is, which votes for the winner.
We need to come off of this November, 2000 election building up some steam to unfold a Pro-Democracy Movement. At the top of its agenda should be work at local, state and national levels to educate the public on this and related issues, like same day voter registration, easier ballot access, and voting rights for ex-prisoners and immigrants. We need to mount local campaigns to change electoral laws from winner-take-all to PR or Instant Runoff Voting, either legislatively or through an initiative campaign. The summer of 2001 should become Democracy Summer, with hundreds of young people and others participating in a national campaign to reach out widely on this set of issues.
Some may object: this is too technical, not a survival issue, not "sexy" enough. People won't respond.
Similar arguments were made 10 years ago when campaign finance reform, especially public financing of elections, was hardly on anyone's radar screen. I remember being at a meeting on the Gulf Coast in southern Mississippi organized by Randy Kehler, Gwen Patton, Ben Senturia and others in the Working Group on Electoral Democracy. They had invited an impressive cross-section of progressive activists from around the country to a weekend retreat to discuss whether or not this issue had any possibility of resonating with people at the grassroots, and if so, how. Today, public financing reforms have been enacted in four states, there is a major national organization, Public Campaign, working with groups all over the country to expand upon those victories, and John McCain almost won the Republican nomination for President on the strength of this issue.
Proportional representation, including instant runoff voting, is an issue whose time has come. Let's not be stupid anymore. As we work on the survival, justice and other democracy issues, let's also be about the work of changing the electoral system which continues to divide us and make us feel much weaker than we are. There is extensive support for a genuinely progressive political agenda in this country. Whoever we vote for on November 7, let's undertake the work following the election that will allow that support to achieve practical results in the future.


March 27, 2010 / 2:20 PM
Online funerals showing more appeal
BEIJING, March 27 (UPI) -- Chinese officials say people are turning to online memorial services to avoid a waste of social and natural resources.
The discussion is increasing ahead of the Qingming Festival that falls on April 5 this year, when people will offer sacrifices to the ancestors and sweep the tombs of the deceased, the official news agency Xinhua reported.
Usually, cremated remains are not kept for online funerals, Xinhua said; instead, a portrait of the dead and pictures of the farewell party and poetry are put online for relatives and friends to commemorate. The Internet also has a virtual cemetery.
Zhu Yong, deputy director of a research institute under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said the green concept of interment was popular in countries like Australia and New Zealand, where some online gravestones were simply of name card size.
That kind of funeral suits China, he said, because of its "sparse land and huge population," he said, Xinhua reported
The Xinhua report did not say what happened to actual remains after an online funeral.
(0) Leave a comment
upi.com/3444275
Odd News // 10 hours ago
Man misreads lottery ticket, then discovers $150,000 win
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man said he at first misread a winning lottery ticket and thought he had only won $1,000, but it turned out he actually won $150,000.
Deer rescued with head stuck in bird feeder
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A mule deer in Pine, Colo., was rescued by park rangers after getting its head jammed into a 10-pound plastic bird feeder.
Dog missing in stolen car returned after two weeks
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A dog stolen in Denver on New Year's Day inside an unlocked car was returned to its owner after being missing for two weeks.
Cat reunited with owner after going missing during mudslides
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Patches, a calico cat that went missing during the Southern California mudslides in January 2018, has been reunited with her owner.
Odd News // 1 day ago
Tower of London raven presumed dead after multi-week absence
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The Tower of London said one of its ravens is feared dead, bringing it closer to a legend that would indicate the fall of the kingdom.
Florida wildlife officials rescue six trapped manatees
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Six trapped manatees were rescued at Pine island Conversation Area in Florida by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conversation Commission.
Venomous eastern brown snake found in family pool
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A deadly eastern brown snake was discovered swimming inside the overflow channel of a family's pool located in the suburb of Marino in Adelaide, Australia.
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Stefan Thomas, of San Francisco, says he has made peace with forgetting his Bitcoin password that would turn him into a multimillionaire.
Escaped cow allowed to live on animal farm
Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A young cow that was able to escape from a slaughterhouse is being allowed to live on an animal farm located near Salzburg, Austria.
Odd News // 2 days ago
Man wins his second $50,000 lottery prize in just over a year
Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A Maryland man visited state lottery headquarters to collect a $50,000 top prize from the Bonus Match 5 game for the second time in just over a year.
Large Burmese python removed from family's driveway
Florida animal rescuers free bobcat stuck in birdhouse
This week in the National Football League


Saqi
The Westbourne Press
BasketBasket1
1 item in the basket
Portrait Photographs f...
Quantity: 1 × £19.99
Total£19.99
SaqiSaqi Books is an independent publishing house of quality general interest and academic books on North Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 1983 in London, Saqi's links with cutting edge and authoritative voices have led to a rigorous reassessment of Arab cultural heritage. Read more…
TelegramLaunched in 2005, Telegram is committed to publishing the best in new and classic international writing, from debut novelists to established literary heavyweights. Telegram has published literary fiction from thirteen languages, ranging from Korean, Arabic, Mongolian and Farsi to Croatian, Hungarian and Icelandic. Our authors include Maggie Gee, Dubravka Ugresic, Alberto Manguel, Eduardo Mendoza, Julio Cortazar, Ferenc Karinthy and Hassan Daoud. Read more…
The Westbourne PressLaunched in 2012, The Westbourne Press publishes challenging and thought-provoking non-fiction in a wide spectrum of genres: history, current affairs, sexual politics, memoir, popular science, art, photography and humour. Forthcoming titles include Eric Berkowitz's Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, Joumana Haddad's Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions and Joan Smith's The Public Woman.
Subscribe to our newsletter and receive updates from Saqi direct to your inbox. We won't share your details with anyone else; for more details, see our Privacy Policy.
Images from the Endgame
Home>Books>Saqi>Images from the Endgame
View basket "Portrait Photographs from Isfahan" has been added to your basket.
Persia through a Russian Lens 1901–1914
John Tchalenko
9780863567353 August 2006
Paperback 264pp
On 11 August 1913, the Tsar's consul in Persia, Alexander Iyas, photographed the head of the Kurdish Piran tribe in front of a group of fierce-looking warriors from Baiz-Pasha's Mangur tribe. He was thus marking a reconciliation he had successfully negotiated between the two. Fifteen months later, Iyas was beheaded by some of these same men and, by an extraordinary series of coincidences, the negatives of these images were recovered on a Turkish officer killed by the Russians during a World War battle near Tabriz in January 1915.
Alexander Iyas, officer in the Tsar's Lithuanian Regiment, had arrived in Persia in 1901 in the small town of Turbat-i Haydari near the Afghan border. He was armed with several cameras, including the remarkable No4 Panoram Kodak. As Head of the Sanitary Cordon his mission was to ensure that Bubonic Plague would not be carried to Russia by trading caravans coming from British India, but the British were convinced he was simply there to gather intelligence.
In 1912 he was transferred to Soujbulak, a Kurdish town south of Lake Urmiyeh near Persia's western border with Turkey. Throughout his years in Persia he documented the places, people and events he encountered with some remarkable photographs, providing us today with a rare Russian point of view of the Great Game – the rivalry between Britain and Russia for the domination of Central Asia. A unique and hitherto unknown group of images has been uncovered for a region and a time for which no other comprehensive collection exists.
John Tchalenko was working as an earthquake geologist in Iran when he first came across Alexander Iyas. On researching the Foreign Office archives he discovered that Alexander Iyas had been his great-uncle. Eventually he succeeded in locating all of Iyas's known photographs. John Tchalenko is presently Reader in Drawing and Cognition at the University of the Arts London.
'A unique and hitherto unknown group of images of a region, and a time.'
'Alexander Iyas' unique record of early 20th-century imperial politics has been rediscovered.'
I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See
Photographs from the Refugee Crisis
Giles Duley
Asian Britain
A Photographic History
Florian Stadtler, Susheila Nasta
The Yezidis
Eszter Spät
Portrait Photographs from Isfahan
Faces in Transition, 1920–1950
Parisa Damandan
The Kurds
Nationalism and Politics
Edited by Faleh A. Jabar and Hosham Dawod
About Saqi
Permissions / Rights
© 2020 Saqi Books. This site uses cookies; for more information see our Cookie Policy.
Site by Will Brady


UK Franchise Directory
Not sure what you're after? Search 700+ franchises
Best UK Franchises January 2021
Compare new, popular and low-cost UK franchise opportunities
Franchises under £10k
Starting a franchise doesn't have to be costly
A mid-range investment level for the more experienced in franchising
Franchises over £50k
If budget is not an issue, then don't miss these
Find a local franchise
Find the perfect franchise in a location to suit you
Running a franchise
How to buy or sell a franchise, choose the best model, and manage legalities
Marketing & promoting
How to market you franchise locally and tips on the platforms to promote it
Franchise exhibitions
Exhibitions offer the opportunity to gain vital information about your chosen industry
Everything you need to know about running a franchise answered
Covering resale to master franchising and The British Franchise Association
Search over 700+ UK Franchises
The information you need to start running a franchise
Free reports for eye-opening insight
What's happening right now in franchising
Our step-by-step guide to find the perfect franchise
Watch our interviews and expert business advice
The women entering the world of franchising
The latest in franchising sent FREE to your inbox
The information you submit via our enquiry form is shared only with the franchise business(es) that you have selected.
The franchise business will contact you by means of email and/ or telephone only to the email address and phone number you have provided.
By submitting the enquiry form you are consenting to send your personal information to the selected franchise business.
You also agree to receive further newsletter email marketing from What Franchise.
MagiKats Maths and English
What's it like to run your own franchise during a pandemic?
Posted: 05 Nov 2020 | about 8 minutes read
Rachel Stamper, MagiKats Tuition Centre Coventry, highlights the benefits of being part of a franchise network, especially during these challenging times
In August 2019 a new MagiKats Tuition Centre opened in Coventry with Rachel Stamper at the helm. Bearing in mind the tumultuous events that have unfolded since, here's what Rachel says her first year as a franchise business owner and MagiKats principal has been like.
Pre-launch preparation
"Before I opened my centre, MagiKats HQ did a lot of research on my behalf about my area and whether it was suitable for a MagiKats centre. For my part, I had never owned a business before, so I had to get my head around everything that was required, such as the accounts, interviewing, employing and paying staff. These were all new skills for me and to be fair, I'm still learning. However, as a former teacher, the tuition side came much more naturally to me."
"To start with, I focused my marketing efforts on posting flyers locally and I ran some paid Facebook ads. The ads resulted in some successful enquiries, but they tended to be generic enquiries about time and prices rather than specific interest. More recently, I've been focusing on recommendations from parents, particularly during lockdown when there were a lot of children in need of some extra help. I know my current parents and students talked about us which resulted in a number of new enrolments. As a result, I haven't had to do much marketing because it's just growing organically – although I still keep going with Facebook ads to raise more general awareness in my area."
Support from HQ
"Before I launched MagiKats, I consciously made the choice between setting up on my own and buying a franchise business. I am so glad I decided on a MagiKats franchise. The whole team at MagiKats have been brilliant in their support of me. Sarah is always at the end of an email or phone and at the start I was contacting her a lot. She would always respond straight away.
"I've also had amazing support from the other MagiKats franchise owners. We have a workplace network where you can ask any question and there is always someone there to answer. That has been invaluable over the last year. They've given me both support and the confidence that I'm doing things right."
The first six months (up until lockdown)
"I absolutely loved the first six months. Of course, they were hard because it was new, and I was still working part-time as a teacher. But it was so enjoyable. It was a steady start – I think that was because it was the lead up to Christmas, but it made it easy for me to manage and get my head around everything. It also meant that when my numbers increased, I felt ready and able to cope.
"Importantly, the kids loved coming and by January I had lots of new enquiries. By early March and before any hint of lockdown, I had built up my student numbers. I had amazing staff and it was going really well."
The impact of lockdown
"The week of 23 March, I had to inform all my parents that there would be no face-to-face workshops for the foreseeable future.
"However, at this stage, MagiKats HQ stepped in and were brilliant. Within two weeks they had developed an online programme, so in the end, I was only closed for a short period over what would have been the Easter break. I used that time to learn about online delivery.
"This meant that from April to mid-September I was able to consistently deliver weekly maths and English tuition to my students. I made the decision early on not to try and enrol new students at this time but just to concentrate on delivering the best online tuition I could. I communicated regularly and clearly with parents.
"My student numbers did initially drop but that was for a number of reasons, for example, not owning a PC. However, everyone who left at that stage has since re-enrolled. By the end of lockdown, my student numbers had increased by 50 per cent which was mainly as a result of parent recommendations.
"I could not have developed the online content myself and MagiKats continued to work with me as we developed the programme over the summer. Of course, it's not the same as face-to-face, but the children were definitely engaged. They seemed genuinely happy to be doing the work, not least I think because it gave the children time to speak to a teacher, something they were missing during lockdown."
Re-opening the centre
"I reopened my tuition centre in mid-September. I operate in a church building so I had to wait until they were ready to open but that actually gave me time to sort out all the necessary COVID-19 safety measures that were needed. Once again, MagiKats HQ was brilliant, providing me with an example risk assessment, checklists and other essential documents. And once again, Sarah was there whenever I needed her. Re-opening was exciting and daunting but the other franchise owners were also a fantastic source of support.
"Since then, I've had more enquiries – my numbers have doubled during lockdown. Last September I had set myself a target of having enough students enrolled by September 2020 so that I could solely focus on MagiKats. When the pandemic hit, I really thought I would have to abandon that target but as it turns out, and despite the incredibly challenging events of this year, I'm bang on track and was so busy at the start of term that I did not have time to look for any supply jobs!"
Final thoughts on becoming a business franchise owner and tuition centre principal
"In the last year, I have worked harder than ever before but it wouldn't have been so hard had it not been for the pandemic. That said, I still love running my tuition centre despite everything that has happened. I still believe I have made the right decision in leaving teaching and opening the business. Rarely a day has gone by in the last year when I haven't been grateful that I chose MagiKats. In the last year, my business has both survived and grown and I don't think I could have achieved that without the support from MagiKats HQ and the other franchise owners."
This interview was conducted before the latest lockdown (November 2020) was announced. MagiKats is continuing to work with all franchisees to find ways to work through the next few weeks.
Brexit property investment myths BUSTED!
Former pro footballer helps everyday people get back into fitness
US burger brand announces UK arrival
"Reward customers for staying with you through COVID-19"
Insider insight: how to build a national network
Start your own MagiKats Maths and English franchise
Funding Support Available ? Help is available. Check out our franchising funds guide.
Expected Revenue After 2 Years
Send a free enquiry to MagiKats Maths and English for further information!
Keep me up to date with franchising news and promotions
By sharing your email, you're agreeing to our privacy policy, cookie policy and terms & conditions.
Companies to Consider
Seeking Entrepreneurs
Profit After Year Two
Funding Support Available
Relationships with major banks
Territories Available
UK, Overseas
Sourced Partner
£50,000-£150,000
ChipsAway International Ltd
NKD Pizza
£14,000 per week
Multi-unit opportunities available
Subway ®
Stagecoach Performing Arts
Expense Reduction Analysts...
Through major banks
Business Sales Plus
InHabit Property Franchising
Profit of £50,000-plus
XCELERATE GYMS
PGH Beegone
Jackson Fire & Security
Circa £250,000
TaxAssist Accountants
Get expert franchising news delivered straight to your inbox
Franchise news, advice and new opportunities delivered weekly.
Please keep me up to date with regular emails from What Franchise
Added one year ago | 2 min read
Added about 5 hours ago | 2 min read
Added 8 hours ago | 2 min read
View all Business Advice
Find your next business opportunity
Search 100s of UK franchises and become your own boss today.
A mid-range investment for the more experienced
If budget is not an issue, then don't miss these.
Local Franchises
What Franchise Newsletter
Keep up to date with all the industry news
Thank you, your sign up was successful. Please check your emails for a verification link.


Average Salary for Jobs with Oil and Gas Exploration Skills
The average salary for jobs that require the skills of Oil and Gas Exploration is $210,888 based on United States National Average.
Exploration Manager
Alternate Job Titles: Exploration Manager - Oil and Gas
Leads and operates the organization's exploration function for a region to discover significant oil or gas deposits. Evaluates and prioritizes exploration opportunities and their value. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Responsible for overseeing a staff of technical professionals. Requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to top management. Typically manages thr... View job details
Reservoir Engineer I
Alternate Job Titles: Entry Reservoir Engineer
Responsible for identifying oil and gas reserves and developing strategies to maximize recovery. Designs and tests new wells and monitors and predicts performance. Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager. Works on projects/matters of limited complexity in a support role. Work is closely managed. Typically requires 0-2 years of related experience. View job details
Reservoir Engineer II
Alternate Job Titles: Intermediate Reservoir Engineer
Responsible for identifying oil and gas reserves and developing strategies to maximize recovery. Designs and tests new wells and monitors and predicts performance. Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager. Gains exposure to some of the complex tasks within the job function. Occasionally directed in several aspects of the work. Typically requires 2 t... View job details
Reservoir Engineer III
Alternate Job Titles: Senior Reservoir Engineer
Responsible for identifying oil and gas reserves and developing strategies to maximize recovery. Designs and tests new wells and monitors and predicts performance. Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager. Contributes to moderately complex aspects of a project. Work is generally independent and collaborative in nature. Typically requires 4 to 7 year... View job details
Reservoir Engineer IV
Alternate Job Titles: Specialist Reservoir Engineer
Responsible for identifying oil and gas reserves and developing strategies to maximize recovery. Designs and tests new wells and monitors and predicts performance. Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department. A specialist on complex technical and business matters. Work is highly independent. May assume a team lead role for the work group... View job details
About Oil and Gas Exploration
Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth using petroleum geology.


Standards of Care
He has traded the stethoscope for a suit and an office, but Paul Grundy is dedicated to excellence in cancer care across Alberta
Paul Grundy spent a chunk of the mid-1980s working with three refrigerators that stored every sample of Wilms tumour that the Cross Cancer Institute had treated. The pediatric oncologist created the bank for researchers who were trying to figure out the nature of the kidney disease and why it almost exclusively threatened children so young they'd just begun to walk. But with only four or five Edmonton patients per year, it would take Grundy's tumour bank decades to become a reliable source for clinical trials that usually depend on thousands of cases to make breakthrough discoveries. He's patient, but he knew this wouldn't work.
Paul Grundy
Photo by Laughing Dog Photography
That's when he had a breakthrough of his own.
He reckoned that, since the Cross was collecting a few samples a year, so would Calgary's Tom Baker Cancer Centre, and so would every cancer institute in North America. With the help of the National Wilms Tumor Study (which is a slight misnomer, since the body includes experts from both Canada and the U.S.) he convinced researchers in every state and province to combine their Wilms samples and move the bank to a central location, Columbus, Ohio. "It's by far the biggest in the world," he says.
As a result, researchers in Texas can now gain access to the tumour bank as readily as scientists in British
Columbia. They use it for studies and to create clinical trials that steadily improve the standard of care for the disease.
"It's not about administrative efficiencies," says Grundy. "It's about combined power."
These days, Grundy's work environment is looking very different. There's still a refrigerator, but it's a mini one, better suited to storing his lunch than life's work. Across from that, there's a large wooden desk, a bookshelf and an enviable view of Edmonton's river valley.
Grundy sits comfortably in a low leather chair, the bright Alberta sun beaming through the window. He admits he's still getting comfortable in the role of senior vice-president of cancer care; it's the first time someone has held this new Alberta Health Services position.
"My role is to help develop a more provincially-based system," says Grundy, who also serves as senior medical director at Alberta Health Services. "It's like trying to steer the Titanic."
Grundy is guiding the strategic plan of Alberta Health Services' cancer care, which runs from 2013 to 2030.
It aims to guarantee the same standard of care for all Albertans no matter where they live in the province. It's no easy task in a region where half the population lives in a few cities and the rest is scattered across 660,000 square kilometres.
"There are challenges for people who live outside of Edmonton and Calgary. We have patients who have to travel 11 hours for an appointment," says Grundy. "We are expanding our cancer treatment facilities in Grande Prairie, Red Deer and Lethbridge so that 92 per cent of Albertans will be able to get their complete cancer treatment within 100 kilometres of where they live."
The plan is already in action. Alberta Health Services recently brought two high-level oncologists to the Jack Ady Cancer Centre in Lethbridge, while the newly renamed Margery E. Yuill Cancer Centre in Medicine Hat started offering clinical trials – up to six per year – which allows some 30 new patients to try treatments previously unavailable outside of Edmonton and Calgary.
Technology, too, is expanding to the rest of the province. Red Deer's centre will get a state-of-the-art radiation therapy facility this year, and so will Grande Prairie in 2017. Although Alberta Health Services gives the plan almost three decades to fully form, Grundy says "it's never complete."
And he's not one to rush into things.
Grundy is the last person you want to be stuck behind in a Starbucks queue. He likes to think the options through, weigh the choices. And, like the brew, any request from subordinates, colleagues and even family
requires "percolating," he says. "My kids will tell you that if you want to get something done, ask Mom."
His contemplative, patient personality may aggravate people occasionally, but it has made him an effective researcher. Though the qualities may seem contrary to an executive's role, they're quite useful for carving out a thoughtful long-term strategy. And, even though the executive's suit fits him as well as the lab coat did, he's still not sure how he ended up wearing it.
Sometime during his fourth year of medical school, he'd become fascinated with the biology of cancer but also recognized that he enjoyed working with children most. "I took a one-month elective on children's cancer and blood disease and really enjoyed it, and said, 'This is what I want to do.' "
These days, his office refrigerator holds his lunch, not his life's work
He married his high school sweetheart, Lorie Grundy, who followed a similar path to become a pediatric nurse practitioner. He interned at a children's hospital in New Zealand and specialized in pediatric cancer at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1984 before returning to his hometown, Edmonton, and alma mater, the University of Alberta. But soon he found himself practising less and researching more.
Building on his work at the Wilms tumour bank, Grundy chaired the "National Wilms Tumor Study," chaired the Kids With Cancer Society and co-founded Canada's C17 Council, an umbrella organization comprising the 16 Canadian programs that research and treat pediatric hematology, oncology and offer stem cell transplants. "We started this organization with a budget of zero and one or two objectives. Now, 12 years later, it has a budget of $3 million and six staff."
Along the way, he wove together the necessary skills for his new post as surely as cloth for his suit, until he found himself here, on the 15th floor of an office tower in downtown Edmonton.
He's also the impetus behind four new councils at Alberta Health Services – for radiation medicine, supportive care, cancer surgery and systemic therapy. Each sees a group of oncologists, pathologists and specialized nurses determining the most important needs in their fields. That way, he says, only the most imperative motions float up to seniors such as Grundy. "The whole idea is to bring the right people together," he says, "so they have the right forum to identify the biggest needs."
Susan Fawcett, co-chair of the new radiation medicine council and head of the Alberta School of Radiation Therapy at Alberta Health Services, predicts these councils will be a major leap for cancer care in Alberta.
"His personal vision, and the one he's trying to engage people with, is to make Alberta, once again, a powerhouse for solutions on the full cancer-control spectrum," says Dr. Peter Craighead, director of the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. "That's prevention and screening, all the way through end-of-life care, and underpinning it with
Craighead calls his colleague – who's been training people not to call him "doctor" for 30 years – a "modest fellow," and it's certainly true until you ask him if his vision is just food for the monster we call Bureaucracy.
He shakes his head. "What's evolved is a vision of what we can accomplish with one integrated health-care system, and it's not just about administrative efficiencies. It's about combined power, about having a standard across the province." As evidence, he points to how they've shrunk waiting times for lung cancer surgery in Alberta to two or three months.
It's also the thinking behind the Government of Alberta's decision to combine all its regional health boards into what's become Canada's largest merger. Now 100,000 employees (or three per cent of the population) don lanyards with a single Alberta Health Services logo. Grundy says the chance to contribute positively to this "unbelievably big event" was very appealing.
Grundy says he's not sure why he's become the go-to guy for bringing medical professionals together. The best he can come up with is, "I guess I'm geared to try to improve things around me, creating something bigger."
Regardless, he's confident he can do more for cancer treatment from up in the boardroom than down in the lab or at the hospital. "When people ask me, do I miss the clinical work," he says, "I tell them it's been so new, so different and challenging in a good way, that I haven't had time to miss anything."
But if there's one catalyst that explains the turn of fate, it's the one captured in a black and white photograph sitting on his bookshelf. It's a picture of his mentor, Dr. Giulio D'Angio, bespectacled and grey-haired, holding the first of Grundy's four daughters.
"He's the grandfather of the medical specialty of children's cancer care," says Grundy. "He was there before there was a specialty in childhood cancer."
It was D'Angio, who recently retired from the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 90, who first nudged the Albertan toward Wilms cancer and it was under his leadership that Grundy's first research paper on the disease was published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology. Though they've become career-long friends and see each other yearly at industry conferences, D'Angio still remembers the young Grundy's early start. "He was knowledgeable, meticulous, patients loved him and the team took to him immediately," says D'Angio. "I really think the world of him. He's been able to do tremendous good for children."
Geared Up
Diagnostic Dogs


Noise Pro
Michael Lang of Woodstock 50
Woodstock 50 Will Go Ahead Says Organiser Michael Lang
by Paul Cashmere on April 30, 2019
in News,Noise Pro
The Woodstock 50 Festival in upstate New York will go ahead despite the event's financial backers pulling out this week.
In a statement to Noise11.com Woodstock organiser Michael Lang announced, "We are committed to ensuring that the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock is marked with a festival deserving of its iconic name and place in American history and culture. Although our financial partner is withdrawing, we will of course be continuing with the planning of the festival and intend to bring on new partners. We would like to acknowledge the State of New York and Schuyler County for all of their hard work and support. The bottom line is, there is going to be a Woodstock 50th Anniversary Festival, as there must be, and it's going to be a blast."
Reports of a cancellation surfaced today when backed Dentsu Aegis Network's Amplifi Live told Billboard, "we don't believe the production of the festival can be executed as an event worthy of the Woodstock Brand name."
Woodstock 50 is expected to draw over 100,000 fans on the weekend of 16-18 August, 2019, exactly 50 years after the original festival. The new event will be held in Watkins Glen in upstate New York as the original Bethel, New York location could not accommodate the expected crowd.
Follow Noise11 on Twitter for news as it happens
For news as it happens follow Noise11 on Facebook
Noise11.com
Listen to the Noise11 Music News channel now at iHeartRadio
Tagged as: John Fogerty, Michael Lang, music festival, Robert Plant, Santana, The Killers, USA, Woodstock, Woodstock 50
John Fogerty Debuts New Music For 2021 'Weeping In The Promised Land'
Creedence Clearwater Revival legend John Fogerty has a new song 'Weeping In the Promised Land'. The song is about political protest and Black Lives Matter. In 'Weeping in the Promised Land' John Fogerty is articulating the last four years of America with lyrics like "poisoned with lies" and "Out in the street, on your neck with a knee. All the people are crying your last words 'I can't breathe.'
John Fogerty is Amused and Confused That Trump Used Fortunate Son At A Rally
Former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman and songwriter John Fogerty is amusing Trump has used his song 'Fortunate Son' at a rally. The song is about rich people who avoided the draft by abusing their privilege.
John Fogerty and Sons and Daughter Perform Iso 'Blue Moon Nights'
Creedence Clearwater Revival legend John Fogerty is continuing his isolation performances with the family doing 'Blue Moon Nights' this week.
John Fogerty Covers Bill Withers
John Fogerty and his sons and daughter Shane and Tyler (Hearty Har) and Kelsy have recorded a cover of Bill Withers' classic 'Lean On Me' with a special message for the world.
John Fogerty Releases 'Fogerty's Factory' E.P.
Creedence Clearwater Revival legend John Fogerty has released 'Fogerty's Factory', a homage to his CCR classic 'Cosmo's Factory' on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
John Fogerty Sits Around The Campfire And Tells A Few Stories
John Fogerty has ventured outside home with his sons and daughter to tell a few stories around the campfire.
John Fogerty Has Updated The Cosmo's Factory Cover With His Family
John Fogerty has created a new version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Cosmo's Factory' album with his family.
Justin Townes Earle
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
Justin Townes Earle – White Gardenias
Justin Townes Earle – Round The Bend
The Badloves – Green Limousine
Dog Trumpet – Ray Davies and The Kinks
Shorrock & Cadd – A Little Ray Of Sunshine
Join our mailing list for daily updates.
#Noise11 #musicnews Sylvain Sylvain dies at 69 | Regurgitator head to the movies | Chris Cheney set for solo Red Ho… https://t.co/T2GDv1UPC4 about 12 hours ago from Mailchimp ReplyRetweetFavorite
Justin Timberlake To Play For President Biden https://t.co/uPLvK7VNG3 about 12 hours ago from WordPress.com ReplyRetweetFavorite
Ryan Adams FBI Investigation Closed https://t.co/i2xUeRVZiR about 12 hours ago from WordPress.com ReplyRetweetFavorite
Foo Fighters Celebrate Dave Grohl's Birthday https://t.co/x93krXaw1A about 12 hours ago from WordPress.com ReplyRetweetFavorite
Cardi B Spent $1m On A Video https://t.co/VHwY7GLOAF about 12 hours ago from WordPress.com ReplyRetweetFavorite
@noise11tweets
Home | About Us | Advertise with Us | Buy Content | Contact Us | Sitemap | Disclaimer


Toggle section links
Experiments cast light on elusive element
A study of newly made chemical compounds is giving scientists a fresh understanding of an elusive element.
Researchers made compounds of neptunium – which is difficult to work with owing to its high radioactivity – and examined them to learn more about its properties and behaviour.
These challenging experiments, carried out in a specialised lab, were designed to give insight into the fundamental structure and bonding properties of elements in parts of the periodic table that have not been studied in detail.
Their fundamental discoveries may aid research into the management of nuclear waste, by helping scientists understand how chemicals can be used to separate the most radioactive elements.
This could reduce the time taken for stored waste's radiation levels to decay to safe levels from hundreds of thousands to a few hundred years.
It could also help a greater amount of nuclear waste to be recycled.
A global team led by University of Edinburgh chemists made a series of metallo-carbon neptunium compounds and carried out in-depth analyses to determine their molecular and electronic structures.
Studying such compounds in the lab also helps computational researchers to improve their predictions about the more highly radioactive elements present in nuclear waste that are even more difficult to study.
The work, published in Nature Chemistry, was carried out in collaboration with the European Commission's Institute for Transuranium Elements, the University of Manchester, and the University of Tasmania.
It was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the European Commission.
These new results open avenues for improving our understanding of this most elusive area of the periodic table, and how we may be better able to manage these elements safely.
Professor Polly ArnoldSchool of Chemistry
This article was published on May 24, 2016


Throughout her entire career, Carol Burnett has been a pioneer and inspiration, particularly for women in comedy. Her sketch comedy show debuted in 1967 and ran for 11 seasons. She was class and elegance; clever and outrageous; and she did the best Tarzan imitation of them all.
Now 85, she's touring the country, playing to sell-out crowds, and she was recently saluted at the Golden Globes Awards with the inaugural Carol Burnett Award, which will be given annually to honor lifetime achievements in television. It was the latest accolade for the woman who's also been honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Kennedy Center Honor.
All of this for a woman who grew up in poverty and began her career during a time when the powers that be didn't believe a woman could carry a comedy show.
Burnett looks back on her legendary and groundbreaking career with Growing Bolder, and explains why she was not satisfied to fade away. She explains how losing her 38-year-old daughter to cancer encouraged her to appreciate every moment of life, even the unimaginably painful ones.
It's a conversation with a true American icon that you don't want to miss!
Tagged With: Carol Burnett, Growing Bolder Radio
This week's guests include Carol Channing, actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr., filmmaker Aron Gaudet…
Carol Miller
Carol Miller has had a profound effect on the history of rock music, and she…
The Growing Bolder Radio Show: May 9, 2009
This week's guests include sitcom writer Carol Liefer, TV game show host Bob Barker, actor…


San Francisco 49ers, WellStrong Expand Physical Therapy A...
San Francisco 49ers, WellStrong Expand Physical Therapy And Sports Rehab Partnership To San Jose
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The San Francisco 49ers and WellStrong today announced a partnership with West Coast Sports Institute (WCSI) of San Jose to open a second 49ers-branded physical therapy and sports rehabilitation center. Under the direction of 49ers team physician Anthony Saglimbeni, WCSI takes an active approach to injury prevention and treatment for sports-related injuries by aspiring athletes and weekend warriors of all ages and skill levels.
"Dr. Saglimbeni has been providing his expert care to our 49ers players for years now, so we are proud to align our brand with WCSI," said Paraag Marathe, President of 49ers Enterprises and 49ers Executive Vice President of Football Operations. "The success of our initial location in Monterey has shown that there is considerable demand for professional-grade physical therapy across the state, and we are glad to expand our network of physicians and trainers to the South Bay."
WellStrong is an innovator in medical management services including orthopedic, sports physical therapy, wellness, and prevention. The partnership between the 49ers and WellStrong launched in September 2017 with Monterey Spine & Joint.
"The 49ers organization has proven to be a committed community partner with us in Monterey, and we are excited to be expanding into the South Bay," said Scott Leggett, Co-founder of WellStrong. "Access to the professional expertise of their training and medical staff has been an invaluable resource to our partners and a vital asset to achieving our shared objectives of providing high-quality health services with affordable costs."
WCSI features a team of licensed physicians, professional, athlete-quality physical therapy, certified athletic trainers, medical assistants, therapists, and administrative staff dedicated to bringing optimal health care to existing and future patients.
"The combination of the outstanding physicians at WSCI with the talented injury prevention and recovery practices of the 49ers will be a great service to people throughout the South Bay," said Dr. Saglimbeni, Founder of West Coast Sports Institute. "The complete San Francisco 49ers physical therapy experience and state-of-the-art clinic and exercise space at WSCI are unlike anything available in the region."
To learn more about how to access professional-athlete level physical therapy and sports rehabilitation care, visit our newest location in San Jose at 550 S. Winchester Blvd. or find out more at wellstrong.com.
Additional information on the West Coast Sports Institute is available at WestCoastDocs.com.
– 49ers.com –
WellStrong


Mages and trading favors
Servanous replied
What you want is the Connected condition I forget what page in the condition list. Anyone who joins an order or conillium (status dots) has it. That's the plot hook reward for the resources and training an order gives you. Other favors are a barter system. Consider the level of trust between two parties, the danger or expense involved in the request and how long it will take to carry out the request. Smart groups will build trust and favor credit with another group before asking for anything big themselves.
salientmind replied
Originally posted by Errol216 View Post
The thing is that Western society, especially outside of rich-people circles, tend not to realize that they're doing a favor when they are. It's part of our construction of individualism and being self-made people that the idea that someone did us a favor feels a little icky, so we write it off as a nice gesture or unsolicited advice. That's not false, but it makes it hard to recognize that these things are favors being done. In a favor economy, people are more sensitive to this. They recognize that actions intended to benefit the recipient are favors and naturally start looking for ways to pay it back in kind.
Mechanics aren't going to do this for you, because by their nature, CofD systems are fairly big. You don't burn Resources dots on a nice meal, after all; you just have one. The analogue for favors is Status and, well, 5 dots covers a very large range.
Instead, when a player meets with an NPC, ask this: did one of them bring a gift? If it's a gift of information, make sure it's not part of some mission dossier; that's not a favor: that's an order. But is it their favorite wine? A book relevant to their interests? A juicy piece of gossip? A lead on the research the other person's doing? That's a favor. How is it reciprocated? Do they make a gift in return? Do they make a open-ended promise? They might not reciprocate immediately, but they'll think about how to do so. Rate the interaction subjectively. Did the gift impress? Did it make them feel that the other person is a great person? Or, on the flip side, did the gift fall flat badly? Was it insulting, or a demonstration of the gifter's ignorance?
Social Manuevering actually quantifies this decently. A better Impressions rating is a good approximation for someone who you've interacted with quite a bit and have traded favors with substantially. The time between rolls helps establish how much work you have to do to prove yourself to someone who doesn't know you. Of course, Impressions can be keyed off other things, too, which makes it harder to use that as a representation.
You'll get better verisimilitude if you look less towards system-based solutions and more towards lacing all of your actual interactions with NPCs with this stuff. Always, always be asking, "Is he doing me a favor? Am I doing him a favor?" Always, always be weighing the value of the favor and the value of the other person (both of which are highly subjective). Judge and judge often: and remember that in a functional Mage society, those judgements will generally be positive, even when it's blue and orange morality. An arrogant, stand-offish mage is still likely to be judged well if he demonstrates competence and knowledge. Don't worry about paying back a favor too much: the favor itself isn't important: what's important is the consequent impression made. Ask yourself: what does my character offer to Mage society? What makes me valuable to others, that they'd bother doing me a favor? Some groups are going to have a lot of trouble doing this, especially if NPC interaction is primarily referencing the chronicle's plot. It's easier to demonstrate a favor economy if you take breaks from the latest hijinks, get some downtime, and do a couple slice-of-life scenes where the characters are just going about their daily routines and visiting colleagues for no-particular-reason.
Here are two posts I made a few months ago on guanxi, which might be helpful since they're in a similar vein:
The Mysterium and their Contribution to Mage Society - Onyx Path Forums
http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/the-new-world-of-darkness/mage-the-awakening/787518-the-mysterium-and-their-contribution-to-mage-society?p=787824#post787824
So, over in the other thread, we had this comment, which I agree with: I think that's worth exploring in more detail. I had the idea of likening them to the Federal Reserve, but I have absolutely no idea how that'd work. I have another idea of framing them as priests-for-mages, but I need some time to hammer that out before I try posting about it. For reference, here's the 2e Spoiler for the Mysterium: http://theonyxpath.com/endless-wonder-mysterium-mage-the-awakening/ Discuss some ideas to create detail for this kind of thing, and especially things that the Mysterium can do for the larger Pentacle
And just to reiterate because it's something to hammer home: favors are not about favors. Favors are about reputation and community.
I have always understood social capital/currency, but I always struggled with Guanxi. Thank you for connecting the two.
Joker replied
Originally posted by WHW View Post
Give them two looped condition: Owing Favors and Having Favors.
When you have Owing Favors, you can resolve it while meeting NPC to declare that you were owing this NPC some kind of a favor. You need to narrate it shortly and describe how you dealt with it. Resolving Owing Favors gives you Having Favors, which can be resolved in order to narrate that NPC is owing *you* a small favor, and you narrate what is it. Then it becomes Owing Favors again.
This is meant to provide an excuse to talk about improvised small favors during gameplay and let it colour player interactions accordingly.
I really like this. It's simple and elegant.
WHW replied
2ptTakrill replied
Go down the merits list on your player's sheet looking for dots in Allies, Contacts and Status, these dots then become a separate dice pool for that merit (there is always a dice pool of one for their order, concillium, family and friends). Roll the dice for each pool, successes represent being required to perform a favor for that group with more successes representing harder or personally costly favors and if the player decides not to perform the favor, reduce their pool temporarily by one until they make good on it. If the favor comes due for a merit where it makes sense (Order, concillium or someone who knows you can do things they don't understand) then that favor could require magic, especially if there was more than one success rolled. After listing any successes then you the ST come up with appropriate favors, given who it is for and how many successes were rolled, and start the next play session by telling that player that the favor has been called due. Yes you the ST have to come up with the story elements of the favor but the dice introduce a random element of for who and when, while the number of successes give how intensive or intrusive the favor will be. Imagine a three dot favor owed to a sister who needs a baby sitter, the kid could be a real hellion or the timing just really bad, especially if another group rolled a high number of successes.
You can count tens only or do the whole run from eight if you want to raise the chances.
I would recommend playing out these favors, even if it just means at some point the player's character stops to buy milk and drop it to their sister's house. Little favors like this can be used to fill in the white noise behind the main plot, while larger favors can start mini arcs of their own that aren't connected to the main plot. It just makes the game feel like more than the classic "you're in a dungeon, do you go right or left?" and more like a real life.
Last edited by 2ptTakrill; 02-22-2016, 02:04 AM.
Mrmdubois replied
I don't know anything about Exalted.
I could back up what Ephsy said, our group has been pretty successful with simply stating a downtime goal or two, making a relevant skill check and being done with it.
Ephsy replied
Have you tried having your players passing along their down actions, such as the requisition of said favors, between sessions?
Originally posted by Mrmdubois View Post
I'm just going to go with the Angry GM on this, if it's not important enough to deserve spotlight time then stop giving yourself a headache by creating pointless mechanics that the players will never see.
That's probably down to differing on what degree of importance spotlight implies. Would you say Stunts in Exalted are pointless mechanics?
An individual Stunt in Exalted is roughly equal in time and narrative importance to what my goal was for individual 'small' favors in the two bits of rules I wrote up.
Originally posted by Ephsy View Post
This seems like an issue in motivations.
at it's most basic, yes.
Look at it like Exalted's stunts. Theoretically, you can describe your actions the way you do in Exalted in every game out there. Yet, as a look at any thread where people discuss what made them love Exalted, few ever bothered before Stunts came around.
One effect Stunts had for me back then, that they made characters interacting with the world feel fundamentally different than any other game before. That's kind of what my aim is with the mechanics: short and sweet moments that don't disrupt the flow of play, but as a result of repeatedly being used emphasize for the players that in some ways Mage society works fundamentally different from the one we are used to.
Theoretically, players could describe these exchanges of favors on their own without any mechanical incentive. Just like there were people that described their all of their characters' actions before stunts came around.
I just think that isn't enough and my group isn't one of those that can. We have awesome 'big' favors that come up, encluding an entire storyarc that was the result of one, as well as a few sidequests that resulted from others. The thing is, without all those smaller favors the way I experience Mage society working in actual play doesn't feel quite right yet. But unless my ST sees some good feedback on the mechanics I gave or someone else has the right idea that is even better that probably won't change. Mage society to me should feel like Favor trading is pervasive and comes up all the time, not just when you need the kind of favor you can base an entire scene or chronicle on.
Originally posted by Joker View Post
That's doable. But that only works for the kinds of favour that's important enough that they get focus and the group invests time in them without feeling repetitive.
While these are good, they are both too rare and spotlight intensive. By themselves they don't give the feel I am going for.
I want mechanics that help show the small interactions that 'grease wheels' of mage society. The favours that are not so important that your group would get together and scheme, yet that should be happening all the time among Mages.
Errol216 replied
What are your character's aspirations? their obsessions? Do they have any pet projects? hobbies? Examples could include: Mapping all the leylines in a given territory for the local Lorehouse. Providing and maintaining free power to the local Atheneum. Get a better understanding of the local spirit courts, try to create a self-actualizing psychological profile on each court-head. Learn where the local vampires feed, and which victims they prefer.
All of those, come with complications, that lead to plots, and we haven't even gotten to the usual academic squabbles mages are capable of, like undercutting certain funds for each project, on petty excuses, such as jealousy for the possibility to garner accolades; or the kind of favors that you wouldn't catch a councilor discussing openly with his peers, such as a way to make sacrifices (human or otherwise) yield more mana, or things like imbuing or improving an object. Or outright stealing shit from another faction.
Juhn replied
I've just been handling this via heavy use of the Leveraged Condition. I'll have to take a close look at this to see if it does things Leveraged doesn't, but in general I've found that the system as it exists is already built to handle favor-trading.
If you want players to act on the favor system it's probably best to model the possibilities for them. They'll see that group X that doesn't normally have access to resource Y can get them because they're working with or for group Z. Then they'll start scheming how they can make that happen for themselves.
Mage society doesn't act differently than normal society, you pay for the services you want or build up relationships that allow for mutual benefit.
Take a look At services and equipment aquisition rules, then. They are in core rulebook.
Don't really do what I want either.
While a player can theoretically say that equipment they are acquiring with their politics skill is thanks to favours owed... that goes for everyone, not just Mages. It doesn't really help making Mage society feel different from how normal one works, and puts the onus of the work to include this purely on the player without any incentive or reward.


Home Ald Ant Bel1 Bel2 Bel3 Bel4 Bel5 Bel6 Bhu Bot Bul Can1 Can2 CAR Cha Com Con Cze Dis Dom1 Dom2 Dom3 Fin Fra1 Fra2 Fra3 Fra4 Fra5 Fra6 Fun Ger GB1 GB2 GB3 GB4 GB5 GB6 GB7 GB8 GB9 GB10 Gue Gui1 Gui2 Gui3 Gui4 GuiB Guy Hun Ind Isr Jap1 Jap2 Jap3 Jap4 Liec Mal Man1 Man2 Mon1 Mon2 Neth NZ Nic Nig ROC San1 San2 Sao SH Sier Sol1 Sol2 Som SAfr Spa1 Spa2 Swe Swi1 Swi2 TC Uga US1 US2 US3 US4 US5 US6 US7 Addenda
150th Anniversary of the
offset lithography, perf 14
Scott #1164 - perf. 13½ - 36×36 mm
Great Britain - 1990
Isle of Man - 2003
Somali Republic
One of a set of eight stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post in conjuntion with the National Portrait Gallery London, for the 150th Anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery.
In 1930, Agatha Christie was commissioned to write Manx Gold, a mystery story serialized in the Daily Dispatch. It contained cryptic clues to the hiding places on the island of four £100 treasure-hunt prizes, with the idea of enticing vacationers to the Isle of Man — and it worked!
the complete set (Scott 1163-70):
Ewan Christian
Ewan Christian was a distinguished church architect, who belonged to the Christian family of Milntown in the north of the Island, but more importantly for this stamp issue, he was the architect who designed the National Portrait Gallery in London, on a site directly to the north of the National Gallery. Sadly he died before he could see his work completed. During his lengthy career he worked on over a thousand churches and vicarages throughout Britain, including St Thomas' Church, Douglas; Marown Parish Church; Christ Church, Laxey; and on the Chapel of Ease at Cronkboume. His list of personal commissions was the largest recorded of any of the great Victorian architects. He was elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the highest honour that can be bestowed on an architect.
John Gay
In 1930 the crime novelist Dame Agatha Christie was commissioned to write a mystery story which was serialized in the Daily Dispatch. It was entitled Manx Gold and it contained cryptic clues to the hiding places on the Island of four E100 treasure-hunt prizes. The hope was that the story would tempt visitors to the Island to search for the prize.
Harry Furniss
Sir Hall Caine
Sir Hall Caine was one of the most popular Victorian romantic novelists. His titles sold hundreds of thousands of copies and many of his stories were made into films. He lived in considerable style in Greeba Castle in the centre of the Island and was a well-known personality as well as a friend of royalty.
John Condé, after John Russell
Captain William Bligh was stationed in the Isle of Man in the mid-1770s, sailing from Douglas on the vessel Ranger chasing smugglers across the Irish Sea. During this time he met the Heywood and Christian families, members of which were to play such a crucial role in the infamous mutiny on the Bounty in 1789.
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Lady Maria Callcott
Lady Maria Callcott came to the Isle of Man as a young girl but was soon travelling the world exploring many countries collecting seeds which she brought back to Kew Gardens. She was a talented artist and drew sketches of the landscapes she saw on her tours. She also wrote travel journals and children's books, the most famous of which was Little Arthur's England.
Henry Warren
The English painter John Martin was a frequent visitor to the Isle of Man. He specialised in grand biblical landscapes which often caused a sensation when they were exhibited. It is said that he got some of his inspiration from the Manx countryside. Whilst he was on holiday in the Island in 1854 he suffered an attack of paralysis and died. He is buried in Braddan cemetery.
Sir John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman visited the Isle of Man many times and was extremely fond of it. He wrote affectionately of its whitewashed walls and fuchsia hedges, of its glorious scenery and its happy tourists. He particularly liked travelling on the Island's Victorian railways. For many years he was Patron of the Mananan Festival in Port Erin.
Herbert Lambert
Sir Edward Elgar, Bt
Sir Edward Elgar, one of the greatest English composers, visited the Isle of Man in 1914 to adjudicate at the annual Manx Music Festival. He was impressed by Manx singers and urged them to form a Manx National Choir, which he said would be able to take its place amongst the great choirs of the world.


Digital database of the early inscriptions of Egypt
Research Show subpages
Principle investigator: Prof. Dr. Richard Bußmann
Researchers: Dr. Gunnar Sperveslage, Jacob Schneider, M.A.
Funded by: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
The project seeks to establish a fresh foundation for research into the earliest inscriptions of Egypt. The ca. 10,000 inscriptions date to the formative period of the ancient Egyptian state, from the first hieroglyphic words to the beginning of the Old Kingdom (3,000-2,700 BC). They shed light on forms of royal representation and the social profile of emerging administrative elites. The decipherment of the inscriptions is still problematic impinging on their advanced historical and linguistic interpretation. In this project, the inscriptions are tranliterated, translated and incorporated in the online access database Theseaurus Linguae Aegyptiae run by the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. A wealth of meta data added to the inscriptoins is designed to facilitate an interpretation of the inscriptions in their material and archaeological context. At the interface of philology, archaeology and the digital humanities, the project aims to extend systematic research of the ancient Egyptian language from later periods back to the origins of the earliest inscribed objects, to develop new methods for digital recording, and facilitate advanced interpretation of existing and recently discovered inscriptions in Egypt.
Bussmann, Richard 2020. Civilization and Writing: A View from Early Egypt. In: International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) and Centre for Chinese Archaeology of Peking University (eds.), Dialogue of Civilisations: A Comparison between Centres of Different World Civilisations, 181-219. Shanghai: Shanghai Ancient Books Press.
Created: 19. November 2018, changed: 9. November 2020


Austin Revolution Film Festival Friday HORROR Preview
September 14, 2017 September 20, 2017 Eddie Caiazzo 0 Comments Austin, Austin Revolution Film Festival, Film Festival, Film Freeway, Horror, Texas
Red River is excited to announce coverage from the 2017 Austin Revolution Film Festival (ARFF)! Now in its sixth year, ARFF has been home to some exciting horror programming and networking in the past. It is currently ranked number two on FilmFreeway.com's "Top 100 Reviewed Festivals." After five years of dazzling indie film fans and filmmakers, this year's fest is positioned to be the best yet.
Red River contributor, An Ounce of Blood reviewer and native Texan Michael Bird will be on the scene at ARFF. He'll be providing reviews and talking to some of the filmmakers in attendance. You can follow along at the Red River Facebook page, or using #ARFF2017 on your favorite social site.
Here's what's on the schedule for the horror fan on Friday, September 22, 2017.
DoubleTree Austin Oakwood A B Screenings: The blood starts to splatter at 11:00 a.m. on Friday with screenings of Frazier Park Recut and Evil Rising. Later that evening, catch the feature It Knows at 9:30 p.m., followed by the "Late Night Nutters" block at 11:30 p.m., featuring: Art of Obsession, I Love You So Much it's Killing Them and Lurking Man (trailer). As part of "Nutters" block, viewers get a bit of Canadian Whiskey.
DoubleTree Austin University Hall Screenings:
At 11:00 a.m., see a block of flicks written and produced by high school students aptly titled "Varsity Films." The notable horror entry is Room 701. Beginning at 4:00 p.m. is the "Friday Thrillers," with A Family Spirit, Burn the River Down and the world-premiere of Repercussion. "Blood in Bat City" is the Friday finale for the University Hall screenings, featuring Prepare to Die, Curse of the Fur Beast and Brian Childs' Hell of a Night. Those watching the "Bat City" block get a touch of Texas Tequila.
Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In:
Hop in Christine and head to "A Bloody Night Out" at the drive-in. The roster is chock-full of indie horror goodies beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday. Catch an encore screening from last year's ARFF smah-hit Born Again, and the highly-anticipated The Babysitter Murders.
Film Titles with Synopses from ARFF website:
What's For Dinner – A man's quiet night home alone is completely ruined when he has a close encounter with an escaped cannibal psycho with terrible manners and extremely poor communication skills.
Death Metal – A metalhead gets passed down a satanic guitar that riffs to shreds.
Let The Bodies Hit The Floor – Everything spirals out of control as two young woman struggle to keep a dead body out of sight. This film was made as part of the OKC 48hr Film Project.
Born Again – When five bumbling Satanists have their summoning ceremony go horribly right, they're left to deal with the decidedly holy s*** consequences. "Worst. Satanists. Ever."
The Corner – As far as babysitting jobs went, this one was about as routine as it gets. The kids were fed, the teeth were brushed, the bedtime stories were read, and the "Just five more minutes??" requests were hushed. But when Joli finally sat down for some quiet time in front of the television things didn't get dull… they got deadly.
The Babysitter Murders – A dark and stormy night. An innocent babysitter all alone. An escaped psychopath out for blood. You know how this story will play out… Or do you?
The Babysitter Murders (Trailer) from Ryan Spindell on Vimeo.
Justice Served – A Twilight Zone style short film about a man on trial for a crime.
Puppy – After a string of bad dates Brian looks to change his luck by adopting an adorable pup. The pup works better than he could have imagined. But will his dates live long enough for him to reach second base?
Fun – Anna and Ellery discover different interpretations of the word "fun".
Santaland – A confident high school boy and a hesitant varsity athlete park in the woods for a secret hook-up only to discover they are being hunted by a killer who resides in Santaland, the amusement park down the road. Tyler drives Riley to the woods beside to Santaland for a post-game makeout sesh. The only problem? He fails to mention that they're parked next to a crime scene. Riley wants out, but it may be too late – all hell breaks loose when a blood-soaked cheerleader comes crashing through the brush screaming for help. All Tyler wanted was to make sure no one found them, and now if he isn't careful, Santa might make sure he gets his wish. You better watch out. This Christmas, everyone's on the naughty list.
Subculture – In SUBCULTURE, psychiatric session turns in a very twisted direction. A woman, Ivy, leads a man named Julius into a dungeon intent on quenching his every desire. Inside the dungeon, he meets some interesting people who become hell bent on impeding his quest for satisfaction. In the end, Julius finds himself in an existential crisis of his own making.
Alfred J. Hemlock – When Emily's boyfriend abandons her in the night, her only way home is through an alleyway where she is terrorised by the mysterious entity Alfred J Hemlock
Mauvaises Tetes – Mauvaises Têtes (Bad Heads) is a horror film / dark comedy in the spirit of classic MGM and Universal horror from the 1920s/30s. It tells the story of an odd woman, Jenny, who loses her mind in the search for love and decides to create her own lover.
The Bulleteers – When a quirky but deadly outlaw returns to town, it's up to a masked hero to gather a group of misfits to save the townspeople from the wrath of Todd.
Don't miss an exciting Friday filled with horror! Purchase tickets for single events/screenings, a Friday Full Day Pass ($30) or a Combo Badge including both Friday and Saturday ($50). Buy now at http://www.austinrevolution.com/p/buytickets.
← Review: CREEP (2014)
Cult Canoe: New-School Take on an Old-School Formula in "Solo" (2013) →