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High-performance electric vehicle manufacturer Venturi Automobiles is joining forces with actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to enter a racing team in the the new FIA Formula E Championship - the world's first fully-electric race series. Beginning in September 2014, Formula E drivers will compete on city street circuits in a series the FIA hopes will appeal to a new generation of motorsports fans while accelerating the EV market.
Ten two-driver teams will go head-to-head in eight major cities around the world, including Beijing, Los Angeles, London and Buenos Aires, using electric single-seater race cars capable of speeds in excess of 140 miles per hour.
"The future of our planet depends on our ability to embrace fuel-efficient, clean-energy vehicles," DiCaprio said in a prepared statement. "Venturi Grand Prix has shown tremendous foresight in their decision to create an environmentally friendly racing team, and I am happy to be a part of this effort."
The team is centered around Venturi, a global leader in high-performance EVs and the current holder of the world land speed record for an electric vehicle with 307 miles per hour. Venturi founder Gildo Pallanca Pastor, who co-founded the Formula E team with DiCaprio, said the race series gives the EV manufacturer "the fantastic opportunity to further improve our advanced technologies through motorsport, as well as compete all over the world."
Based in Monaco, the new Venturi Grand Prix Formula E team joins international names from around the globe such as Andretti Autosport and Virgin Racing, which is backed by Sir Richard Branson. The team plans to become a constructor in the series' second season by building a Formula E car based on its 3,000 horsepower electric streamliner. In addition to participating in next season's series, Venturi hopes to set a new world record of 435 miles per hour with the forthcoming vehicle by 2015.
While Formula E racing is sure to be a hit with electric vehicle proponents, it remains to be seen how racing enthusiasts will react. At the second annual Accelerating Sustainable Performance Summit last year, TriplePundit contributor Travis Noland reported that tried-and-true racing fans had mixed feelings about EV auto racing. Marshall Pruett of SPEED.com even went as far as to say that, "You race to win, not to be sustainable."
Despite the grievances of some old-school racing fans, most experts seem to agree that auto racing can play at least a supplementary role in accelerating the development of electric vehicles. London Mayor Boris Johnson, whose city will host a leg of the inaugural series, called zero emissions motor racing a "scintillating concept," adding that it has the potential to highlight the "impressive strides" being made in electric vehicle manufacturing.
Scot Elkins of the American Le Mans Series and the International Motor Sports Association may have captured the pro-EV auto racing argument best. Speaking at the Accelerating Sustainable Performance Summit, Elkins said, "Racing itself may not necessarily be sustainable, but utilizing racing as a sort of laboratory for technological development (and as a platform for education and promotion) could move us more quickly toward a more sustainable auto industry."
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Based in Philadelphia, Mary Mazzoni is a freelance journalist who frequently writes about sustainability, corporate social responsibility and clean tech. Mary also contributes to Earth911; her work has appeared on the Huffington Post, Sustainable Brands and The Daily Meal. You can follow her on Twitter @mary_mazzoni.
Mary Mazzoni is the senior editor of TriplePundit and director of TriplePundit's Brand Studio. She is based in Philadelphia and loves to travel, spend time outdoors and experiment with vegetarian recipes in the kitchen. Along with TriplePundit, her recent work can be found in Conscious Company and VICE’s Motherboard.

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CPSC and Husqvarna Announce Recall of Chain Saws
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. of Charlotte, N.C., is recalling about 277,000 chain saws. Heat from the saw's muffler can melt the saw's front hand guard if the removable exhaust deflector is not attached properly. The hand guard is designed to prevent contact with the chain and can manually activate the chain brake during a kickback. A damaged hand guard exposes consumers to a risk of injury from the chain.
Husqvarna has received one report of a death in Canada and one report of a serious hand injury after the base of the saw's hand guard melted.
The recalled chain saws include the Husqvarna models 42, 51, 55, 242, and 254 with serial numbers beginning with 531 and below. The recalled saws also include models 61 and 257 with serial numbers beginning with 324 and below. The chain saws are orange and have the Husqvarna name printed on both sides of the motor. The model number is printed on the left side of the motor and on the serial number plate on the left front of the motor. The hand guard is made of black, gray, or orange plastic.
Authorized Husqvarna dealers nationwide sold the chain saws from 1990 through 1995 for about $400 to $600.
Consumers should immediately stop using the chain saws and return them to the nearest authorized Husqvarna dealer for a free replacement muffler, which has a welded deflector. Husqvarna will also replace any hand guards that show signs of heat damage. For additional information, consumers should call Husqvarna at (800) 438-7297.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of
thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the
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The UFC is heading to Berlin, and slowly but surely the card is starting to fill up with intriguing fights. Yesterday, the UFC announced that undefeated Middleweights, Sean Strickland and Luke Barnatt, will face off on May 31st at UFC Fight Night 41.
UFC News broke the announcement on Twitter:
— UFC News (@UFCNews) March 25, 2014
The UFC also got quotes from the two men who are ready to throw down in May:
Barnatt: ‘May 31st, Berlin, Germany, two undefeated middleweights go to war. When I get the knockout and end this young man’s dream, at least he can take warmth in the fact he has a stamp on his passport and can enjoy the beautiful city of Berlin. I’m ready.’
Strickland: ‘From what I have seen from Luke, I predict this is going to be a long war between two talented fighters. I expect us to both take risks and try to finish the fight. In the end I will come out on top and will remain undefeated.’
Both Barnatt and Strickland are coming off impressive victories in the last few weeks. At UFC Fight Night 37 in London, Barnatt TKO’ed Mats Nilsson to improve his UFC record to 3-0 and his overall record to 8-0. Strickland made his UFC debut a week later at UFC 171, when he took on TUF 17 cast member, Bubba McDaniel. In the end, Strickland got the rear naked choke finish late in the first round.


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Stacey Rogers is hoping for the best for her son Malik Thomas, who is among thousands of students set to pick a college this spring.
But there’s one problem that keeps Rogers up at night. "I’m just worried he’s going to be in debt," she said.
It’s the response she gave Wednesday to Gov. Tom Wolf, who met with students, parents and faculty at Pennsbury High School West to tout his $200 million plan to cut college student loan debt for Pennsylvania residents.
The plan would repurpose state revenues and provide those funds to in-state students who attend certain state universities and stay in Pennsylvania after college.
"The Nellie Bly Scholarship Program is good for our communities, it’s good for our (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education) schools, and it’s good for young Pennsylvanians," Wolf said Wednesday. "It’s also the perfect next step to strengthen our workforce after expanding apprenticeships and hands-on job training for those who don’t want to go to college."
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Wolf said student loan debt is still a major problem in Pennsylvania, which is among the highest in the U.S. at $68 billion, or roughly $37,000 per student.
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MINAMOTO no Koretsune (year of birth unknown - September 5, 905) was shisei kozoku (member of the Imperial Family conferred with a family name) in the early Heian period. He was the eighth son of Emperor Koko but his mother was unknown. He held the rank of Jushiinojo (Junior Fourth Rank, Upper Grade) and the title of Mino no gon no kami (provisional governor of Mino Province). He adopted 源衆望 who was Saga-Genji (Minamoto clan).
In March 870, he was conferred with a family name of Genji Asomi (Minamoto) and demoted from nobility to subject. After that, he became a priest and called himself Kusho. After that, he returned to secular life and was conferred with a family name of Minamoto no Asomi again in December 896. He died on September 5, 905.

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Teenage star of new Sky series on the mafia arrested over brutal gang attack in Naples that saw man stabbed 10 times
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- 21-year-old victim left with potentially fatal stab wounds after attack
- Said to have happened in the metro station at Scampia, Naples
- Actor, 16, plays Danielino in Gomorrah, a prime time Italian TV show
The teenage star of hit mafia TV series Gomorrah has been arrested for his alleged part in a brutal stabbing as vicious as any in the show.
Vincenzo Esposito, was plucked from a criminal family in Naples' most notorious ghetto, Scampia, to play mafioso wannabe Danielino, in the prime TV series on Italian television.
The ultra-violent show, based on Roberto Saviano’s bestselling expose Gomorrah, has broken all viewing records in Italy and is set to hit UK and US screens in the next few months.
In the mindless attack, a group of boys between 15 and 18 set on a young man of 21 after he shouted at them for urinating in the metro station at Scampia.
Vincenzo Esposito, right, who has been arrested for his alleged part in a brutal attack on a man in Naples
According to media reports: ‘Six or seven of them fell on the man with kicks and punches while a 15 year old stabbed him.
‘Another two attacked him from behind: One had a knife and inflicted ten stab wounds, seven of which doctors said were potentially lethal.’
Esposito, 16, grew up living with his grandmother because both his parents and his elder brother were in prison, an authentic background which directors said contributed to his selection.
After winning the part he dropped out of school. But in a tragic echo of the onscreen mayhem, in which his own character ends up murdered by a rival gang boss, the young actor is now in a youth detention centre.
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What are famous singers real names?
18 Pop Stars Who Wouldn’t Be Famous if They Used Their Real Names
- Frank Ocean = Christopher Edwin “Lonny” Breaux. Nice try, Chris.
- Prince = Prince Rogers Nelson.
- Lorde = Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor.
- Lady Gaga = Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
- Rihanna = Robyn Rihanna Fenty.
Do musicians use their real name?
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What musicians have changed their name?
10 Musicians Who’ve Changed Their Names Midway Through Their Careers
- Prince / The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. (Photo: Getty Images)
- Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam.
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- Snoop Dogg / Snoop Lion.
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Who are the top 10 best musicians in the world?
- Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson performs onstage during his HIStory world tour concert at Ericsson Stadium on November 10, 1996, in Auckland, New Zealand.
- The Beatles.
- Freddie Mercury.
- Elvis Presley.
- Whitney Houston.
- Katy Perry.
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What are the names of all the country singers?
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A Year's End
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The City Year team serving at Harold Vincent High School showed teachers how much they appreciated all their hard work and the dedication they give to students every day during Teacher Appreciation Week! Read on to learn more about their teacher appreciation event.


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when i first start the car i have to press the gas pedal to keep it on if not it will turn off.what can i do to fix
Could be the throttle position sensor or mass airflow sensor. I'd have those inspected first.
Most likely culprit would be the throttle position senso, second would be the mass air flow sensor, but you might have a vacuum leak somewhere in your emission hoses. A failing MAF would probably also trip a check engine light.
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Brand New: New Logo for Google done In-house
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Rebranding one of the most visible companies in the world is a delicate process, and not one to be approached haphazardly. Most importantly, there’s no way to please everyone. This is a great in-depth look at the process and results of Google’s new logo and accompanying brand elements.
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This week, Encores! kicks off its 21st season with Little Me, a jazzy musical comedy — emphasis on comedy — which features a hysterical book by Neil Simon specifically crafted around the talents of original star Sid Caesar, who played seven different roles in the show. Christian Borle steps into all of those roles for the Encores! production, but before the curtain goes up at City Center, let’s take a look back at the history of this show.
If you’re the kind of person who likes to impress/bore your friends/enemies at parties/piano bars with Broadway trivia, Little Me is right up your alley. Based on a book by Patrick Dennis — who you might remember as both a character in Mame and the author of, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade, the novel it’s based on – Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen, and Television Belle Poitrine as told to Patrick Dennis. (Does that make Little Me an unofficial sequel to Mame?) The novel, a satire on the self-indulgent celebrity autobiography that has never gone out of style, was built around a series of humorous photographs taken by Cris Alexander. You might remember Alexander as Chip in the original production of On The Town, or for his roles in the original stage and film casts of Auntie Mame. Continue reading


Philips’ growing Hue line of network-connected LED lighting products ranges from light strips to programmable smart bulbs, but up until now they’ve all had one limitation: You needed an app to control them.
That ends with the Hue Tap, a round wall switch designed to control your Hue lights with four physical buttons and – amazingly – no batteries needed. We pocketed our phones and slapped one on the wall to see if the $60 switch beats a screen.
Setup and installation
Since this thing is designed to be added to your existing setup of bulbs, network hub, and accompanying smartphone app, installation is a breeze.
Assuming you’ve got all the other Hue hardware up and running, all you need to do to set up the Tap is fire up the app, tap a button or two to complete the sync, and then assign different functions to each button. From start to finish, the entire process only takes about a minute — maybe two if you count the mounting process. Speaking of which, getting Tap on your wall is also quite simple.
The device comes with two adhesive strips affixed to its rear, so mounting is as easy as peeling off some protective plastic and pressing Tap against the surface of your choosing. This means you can install it practically anywhere — not just next to your existing switches or near a power source.
Features and design
Aesthetically, Tap is nothing to write home about: It’s a white puck with four buttons. But functionally it’s nothing short of brilliant.
First and foremost, and as we mentioned before, the cord- and battery-free design means you can mount the Tap wherever it would be most convenient. And it can fully detach from the wall mount, so you can pop it off, carry it around, and use it more like a remote. Sure, that’s what your phone is for, but it’s still a nice to park it on a coffee table, desk or nightstand when you don’t want to get up or fumble with your phone.
You can install it practically anywhere — not just next to your existing switches or near a power source.
This might not sound particularly groundbreaking, but it’s huge. It helps alleviate one of the most fundamental flaws of smart lighting — the fact that opening your phone, firing up an app, and navigating to the desired function is often far more cumbersome and inconvenient than standing up and flipping on a switch. Tap essentially gives you the best of both worlds: access to advanced functions, as well as fast, convenient activation.
Tap’s coolest feature, however, isn’t its programmable buttons or ability to moonlight as a remote control — it’s the fact that it does all of this without any batteries or external power. The device doesn’t require any outside electricity to run. Instead, Tap is powered by nothing more than kinetic energy. It uses the force you apply with your finger to generate a tiny bit of electricity, and uses that energy to fire off an RF signal that tells the Hue Bridge what to do. No cords, no burning through batteries, no more power lost to always-on vampire devices — it just works when you need it to.
Performance and use
When we first installed this thing, we were worried that it might not be terribly reliable, or maybe even have some lag problems because it’s not constantly connected to the network — but boy were we wrong. When you press the button, the corresponding light scene pops on almost instantaneously. If there’s any lag, it’s so brief that it’s practically imperceptible.
The range of the device isn’t excellent, but it’s pretty good for a gizmo powered by kinetic energy. The signal it puts off won’t travel through thick walls or floors, but as long as you’re within a reasonable distance (Philips claims 50 to 100 feet) from the Hue bridge or any bulb that’s drawing power, you can activate and deactivate your presets for any light in the house.
That’s because all Hue bulbs essentially form a mesh network through the open standards protocol called ZigBee Light Link. Each bulb can send and receive signals, and then relay them to the bridge. Since you’ll almost always want the Tap to control at least one light nearby, and that light is a gateway to every light in your house, the short range should be a nonissue for most owners.
Despite its small size, Tap is a big addition to the Hue family. It breaks some of the Hue app’s most useful functions free from the digital prison of your smartphone, and brings them into a more easily-accessible physical location. In so doing, Tap effectively solves one of the biggest problems in smart lighting — the fact that firing up your phone and navigating to the necessary app is oftentimes more time-consuming and inconvenient than simply standing up and hitting a switch. This, combined with the existing functionality provided by the Hue app, helps to round out the Hue ecosystem, making it more user-friendly and convenient than any other smart lighting setup you can buy. At $60 a pop, it’s a tad bit expensive for a light switch, but in our opinion, if you’ve already got a Hue lighting system in your home, the added convenience is well worth the damage it’ll do to your wallet.
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Gilde Buy Out Partners acquires Veco Precision
Gilde Buy Out Partners announced the acquisition of Veco, which was sold by its parent company SPGPrints. Veco, a leading supplier of high-precision metal components, maintains a track record of innovation and has built a strong development pipeline supporting the future growth of Veco. De Brauw advised Gilde Buy Out Partners on the transaction.
Team: Lennard Keijzer, Willem Bijveld, Fleur Hazewinkel, Roel de Jong and Jan Wytze Haanstra.
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Old school rock at RWM's Oktoberfest
If you think classic Rock 'n Roll music is hard to come by these days, come on over to Resorts World Manila as it celebrates Oktoberfest all Tuesdays of the month at Bar 360.
If you think classic Rock 'n Roll music is hard to come by these days, come on over to Resorts World Manila as it celebrates Oktoberfest all Tuesdays of the month at Bar 360. Round up the gang and enjoy icy cold bottles of beer while listening to the music of Ramon "RJ" Jacinto, the Bloomfields and the Bloom Brothers.
Growing up to old school 50's rock from The Ventures and Elvis Presley, accomplished businessman and musician RJ Jacinto continues to wow crowds with fantastic guitar riffs. Watch him live on October 5 and 19 as he plays some of the greatest rock 'n roll hits.
Twist and shout to the music of the Bloomfields on October 12. A constant presence in bars across Manila, the band's hip, 60's inspired sound has made fans out of baby boomers and today’s generation of music lovers.
Performing on October 26, the Bloom Brothers puts clean fun back to Rock 'n Roll. Singing with vocal harmonies along the lines of The Beach Boys and The Beatles, their music inspires nostalgia among those old enough to remember flower power, free love and Woodstock.
Resorts World Manila's Oktoberfest is a toast to one of music’s most dynamic genres. Classic rock music takes center stage starting at 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays of October at Bar 360.
There's a Php700 consumable charge that entitles guests to three drink stubs. Order San Miguel Beer or San Mig Light and it’s Buy 1-Take 1 from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
The metro's most exciting events are all here at Resorts World Manila. Call 836 6333 for more information.


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Tranmere manager Brian Little has left the club by mutual consent.
Little led Tranmere to the play-offs last season
The 52-year-old, who joined the club in 2003, took Rovers to the FA Cup quarter-final in his first season and the play-offs in 2005.
But Rovers have only managed to win 13 games this season and they secured their League One safety by beating MK Dons last week.
"I've thought about this long and hard and am sure this is right for the club and for me personally," said Little.
"I've really enjoyed the last three seasons here, despite the problems we have has this season.
"I would like to wish everyone at the club every success for next season."
Former Republic of Ireland international Jason McAteer, assisted by John McMahon, will take charge of the club's final game of the season against Doncaster on Saturday.
The decision was reached following discussions between Little and chairman Lorraine Rogers about the club's plans for next season.
"Our discussions have been totally open and amicable," added Rogers. "We both focused on what is right for the club and for Brian.
"Throughout this difficult season Brian, as always, has been calm and unflappable.
"We would like to thank Brian for the success he brought to the club, especially in his first two seasons here."


President Donald Trump raised more than a few eyebrows Thursday morning with a pair of contentious tweets about the recently engaged “Morning Joe” co-hosts at MSNBC.
Of which, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway wanted NO PART.
TMZ captured Conway on video visiting Capitol Hill and asked her to comment on Trump’s tweet that slammed Mika Brzezinski and her alleged facelift. She ducked and dodged with the best D.C. has to offer to avoid answering — she even took part in a “bipartisan hug” and grabbed a passing Democrat to keep her tormentor at bay.
But the look on her face was priceless as she stares at the elevator doors that couldn’t open fast enough — oh, a penny for her thoughts at that precise moment!
“It’s a gorgeous day here,” she finally says out of desperation, offering the remark with a big smile.
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"We are extremely honored by the warm reception we have received in the Twin Cities area," said Scott Livengood, Chairman, President and CEO of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. "The response has been wonderful and we look forward to developing long and happy customer relationships as we open additional stores in the area." Larry Jaro of Glazed Investments, LLC, the Krispy Kreme Area Developer for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Colorado, echoed Livengood's statements, "We are thrilled to bring the Krispy Kreme experience to the Minneapolis area. We have a great team of employees who are excited to be serving Krispy Kreme doughnuts to our loyal customers and we look forward to being an active member of the Twin Cities community."
The Maple Grove store opened on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 and is located at 7851 Elm Creek Boulevard.
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During the past three years, we have seen tornadic weather in Chicago during the months of August and September. Back in September 2006, reports indicated a tornado was seen in the Humboldt Park neighborhood and that it was headed toward Uptown. The warning siren went off--some say for the only time in Chicago history--and we waited out the storm in the basement with neighbors. A tornado really never hit ground in Chicago, but still a scary experience. Ironically, we camped later that night at Blue Mounds State Park in Dane County, Wis.
Last year, a huge thunderstorm hit Chicago on an August afternoon. There was more than 12 inches of water on Lake Shore Drive in sections. Several of the willows that line Lincoln Park were taken out by straight line winds. There was severe tree and structural damage in Lakeview. I rode up on a sidewalk to clear the flooded Wilson Avenue viaduct.
Last night, the tornado siren by the neighborhood gas station sounded for the second time in three years. We scurried to the basement with a radio and Blackberry (love the radar on the Blackberry). There was a tornado warning for central Cook County, and a tornado was seen near Elmhurst. It was projected to sweep through Chicago, and ultimately Montrose Harbor. A sheet of wind blew through somewhere near 8:15, and we lost power for about an hour. At 8:30, the tornado warning expired. Reading reports today, I don't think a tornado ever touched ground. I do know that thousands were still without power today. Another wild August storm in Chicago.


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CORNWALL – The media landscape in Cornwall could be changing as the parent company of Seaway News is selling its Quebec and Ontario newspapers.
Montreal-based Transcontinental Inc. (TC Media) announced its plans Tuesday after selling 27 Atlantic Canada publications last week and their Saskatchewan newspapers in 2016.
The company said it’s part of their “business transformation strategy,” which appears to be steering away from newspapers and toward specialty publications and distribution.
The process is expected to take several months.
TC Media has 93 local and regional publications in both provinces.
Seaway News, an Ontario Community Newspapers Association award winner, and Cornwall Express are the only Ontario publications.
General Manager Rick Shaver referred questions to the company’s corporate communications department.
Katherine Chartrand, senior director of corporate communications for TC Transcontinental, provided the following statement to Cornwall Newswatch:
“TC Transcontinental announced today that it is launching a sale process for its Quebec and Ontario newspapers, including Seaway News. We are convinced that selling these assets to local players is the best course of action in order to contribute to the continued sustainability of local media. While we do not know what the sale process outcome will be, we can confirm that TC Media will continue to publish unsold publications and to create quality content for the communities they serve. It is business as usual at Seaway News, a publication with deep roots in the community and a strong team of talented media experts, including General Manager Rick Shaver.”
The community newspaper was founded in 1985 between Shaver and Dick Aubry.
TC Media said it would continue to print and distribute newspapers with new owners and would remain publisher of any newspaper not sold.
This is the latest development to hit the newspaper industry locally.
Earlier this year, the Postmedia-owned Cornwall Standard-Freeholder saw some employee positions cut through voluntary buyouts as part of Postmedia’s plan to reduce its expenses.
The buyout offer, announced in November 2016, happened as the company reported a net loss of $99.4 million.


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You cannot open a book without learning something.
My friends and family love to tease me about my book lists. I have mounds of lists of books that I have to read. I love recommendations from friends, family, and even strangers. If I am ever sitting alone reading in public, I assure you almost every time someone approaches me and begins a conversation, and it usually ends in a book recommendation. I take recommendations very seriously. To me, a book recommendation comes from a person who has experienced a life change from this book. They care about you enough to recommend it to inspire you as well. Even if I do not get the same amount of passion from a book someone has recommended, it certainly tells me a piece of the person who recommended it.
Reading to me, is an art. It’s an acquired taste. We are each a canvas that our literary choices paint. Whether you prefer the accounts of a politician’s life, an action adventure mystery, or are swept away by the endless classics, you will not only be told a story in a few hours, but also walk away with an understanding of another person’s perspective on life.
WHY READ WHEN YOU CAN WATCH A MOVIE?
I cannot tell you how many countless times I have heard that statement. A movie is full of action and adventure, but a book does many things a movie cannot. No matter how brilliant a director, one cannot capture a thought without dialogue. Much of human life is full of thoughts and thought processes, inspirations, and self examination. A book can account these feelings with words, but a movie can only show the character going through situations, not telling us his thoughts unless he literally speaks to the audience.
Secondly, a book allows our creative juices to flow. We are given basic physical descriptions of a character, sometimes not at all. We can either put ourselves as the character or we can imagine one. This allows us to do what is most important to all human beings, inspire ideas. In a movie, the main character is shown to us, and usually the character is your typical “flawless” actor, not someone who we would imagine.
WHY READ IN GENERAL?
Reading offers us a perspective of the author’s thinking pattern. When you pick up a book, an author has spent minimally a year working on this piece, finding a publisher, acquiring an audience with an editor, and fighting to make sure that his or her voice is not lost in edits or changes. Now this book has reached your hands. A chunk of someone’s life’s dedication has reached you. That’s how passionate they are about their story or message. Will you read it?
Philosopher’s have written books that have become a part of our countries constitution, science fiction writers give us the reasoning of what issues, ideas, or thoughts will be for tomorrow, and historical writers, whether fiction or non fiction, remind us of our past and how far we have come. Essentially, by reading a book, you have inherited lifetime’s worth of ideas, implementations, thoughts, and arguments in a few hours span. You have become that much smarter, you can engage with different people with your new found knowledge; you can form opinions, or seek more information. Life just gets more interesting.
EXPAND FROM OF YOUR REGULAR READING CHOICES
For my readers who already enjoy reading on a regular basis, take a literary risk, and read something out of your usual tastes. Romance readers should try science fiction, both are dreamy and present ideas that tug at your heart strings. Science fiction readers should try reading ancient philosophers, you would be surprised how much of your authors ideas have been borrowed from these inspirational men and women! Those who enjoy reading on the metaphysical life would also enjoy ancient philosophy. When you take a literary risk and read outside of your norm, you will either love something you would never take an interest in before, or you will not like the book and learn something about yourself and take an opinion over a certain issue.
I took a chance on an author I am not too fond of. She is known for her classic literature, and many women love her. I can say with confidence I did not. I really did not like anything about her writing style, her stories, her portrayal of man and woman, and also, how she takes a small part of that time frame and speaks nothing of the majority of the population. However, I have read every book she has written. Why read something I dislike? I learned something about the people of her time. I learned that women, poor or middle class women, read her books as an escape from their hard every day lives. For a few hours, those women were taken away by this author’s story, and therefore had an escape from their much harder lives. I learned about people from the past, and though the book does not apply to me, I would defend her books if they ever went off the market. If she got pulled from bookstores, a piece of a million women’s voices, dreams, and hopes would be too. We can never lose our past.
So take the time to continue reading. Read your friends books, the classics, magazines, non fiction and fiction. Branch out as much as your life can allow time for. Take an author’s life time of knowledge and become just as enriched in a few hours! It sounds like a great exchange to me!


Hydraulic Fracture Experience in an Omani Oil Field
- Anastasia Dobroskok (Petroleum Development Oman) | Sietse De Vries (Petroleum Development Oman) | Ruqaiya Al Zadjali (Petroleum Development Oman)
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- 2018. Society of Petroleum Engineers
- 5.5 Reservoir Simulation, 2.4 Hydraulic Fracturing, 7 Management and Information, 0.2.2 Geomechanics, 2 Well completion, 2.5.2 Fracturing Materials (Fluids, Proppant), 5.1.5 Geologic Modeling, 3 Production and Well Operations, 7.2.1 Risk, Uncertainty and Risk Assessment, 5.5.8 History Matching, 5 Reservoir Desciption & Dynamics, 7.2 Risk Management and Decision-Making, 1.6.6 Directional Drilling, 0.2 Wellbore Design
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The objective of this paper is to review the hydrofracturing experience in one of the Omani oil fields and to provide better understanding of geological and operational controls on the productivity of the fractured wells.
The methodology adopted in the study relied on the geomechanical evaluation for understanding the hydrofracture geometry. In particular a geomechanical model was built and calibrated by history matching the simulated and field data. Further, the implications of the created hydrofracture geometry in productivity have been studied based on the conceptual understanding and actual production histories. Last but not least, the influence of operational parameters on the hydrofracture success has also been studied.
The geomechanical evaluation concluded that it is likely that the hydraulic fracture’s growth is unconfined and downwards. Because of the combination of the unconstrained growth with relatively high reservoir permeability, the created fractures potentially are of limited length and of relatively good conductivity. According to a semi-analytical bi-linear production model, these parameters are nearly optimal for the particular reservoir. Preference for highly conductive and short fracture is due to reazonably high fluid mobility in the reservoir, high viscosity of hydrocarbons, and a relatively close well spacing. Horizontal well technology is an alternative to the hydraulic fracturing in the considered settings. Meanwhile the preference may be given to hydraulic fracturing if the commingling of the targeted unit with the overlying or underlying reservoirs is sought after. On the other hand, in the areas of structural deep, the unconfined downward growth poses a risk of connecting to the water zone. Production histories of the wells indicate that water inflow has a very pronounced negative effect on hydrocarbon production and thus must be avoided. The calibrated geomechanical model helps in choosing operational parameters that allow for proper hydrofracture design in the areas of structural deep. Nevertheless, horizontal wells will be beneficial in the areas where fracture connectivity to the water zone is likely.
Finally, a review of the fracturing operations has been carried out to understand the potential for improving the success rate. Because of the overall limited number of hydrofracturing jobs in the field, the results are far from being definitive. Meanwhile it is possible to hypothesize on the range of optimal operational parameters. In particular, this study recommends using limited volumes of fracturing fluids and coarser proppant mesh. The choice is based on the necessity to avoid communication with the water zone and the requirement of a highly conductive fracture for the efficient drainage. The recommendation is supported by limited trials. A viable alternative is combining deviated drilling technology with hydraulic fracturing. In such combination longitudinal small volume fractures should be targeted. The benefits of production enhancement and potentially achieving better capital efficiency are then achieved through commingling production from several units and increasing wellbore connectivity with the reservoirs.
Meanwhile, it is important to keep in mind that the economic benefits can be realized when applying each of the considered development options, i.e., i) vertical, or ii) deviated commingled fractured wells, or dedicated horizontal non-fractured wells. In the considered field the particular choice is driven by the current economic environment, thorough risk assessment, and operational efficiency.
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Chavez J., Hinai M., Alawi F., Al-Ghaithi A. 2017. Horizontal Wells Hydraulic Fracturing from Tight HPHT to Multilayer Differential Depleted Gas Accumulations in Oman. SPE-188693-MS doi: 10.2118/188693-MS
Moiseenkov, A., Briner, A., Urquhart, M. A., & Harianta, R. (2013, January 28). Six Steps to successfully Design and Execute Hydraulic Fracturing in the Khulud Exploration Area, North Oman. SPE-163963-MS. doi: 10.2118/163963-MS
Rylance, M., Nicolaysen, A., Judd, T. C., Ishteiwy, O. A., Huey, T., & Giffin, W. J. (2011, January 1). Hydraulic Fracturing:Key to Effective Khazzan-Makarem Tight Gas Appraisal. SPE-142783-MS. doi: 10.2118/142783-MS


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Prosecuted for taking daughter on holiday during term
When Jackie Turner took her nine-year-old daughter, Hazel, out of school in term time for a three week backpacking holiday around Europe they were looking forward to a fun packed educational journey. Visiting Roman history museums, the place where the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot, and sites of the Bosnian war.
She was expecting a fine, but what they were not expecting was a court summons to attend magistrates court for failing to ensure Hazel attended 'regularly' at school.
Jackie now faces fines of £2,500 and potentially a three month jail sentence if convicted of the offence.


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In my project card objects are instantiated in front of the camera, so that each new card is a moved a bit to the right and a little bit higher than the previous one.
Everything works in theory and I can see the right results in the scene view (and by naming the objects with number I checked if everything is right). But inside the game, instead of stairs made of card objects I get a pyramid. I tried moving the camera left and right and I’ve noticed that the highest card is always the one with the camera directly above it. Long story short, I want my cards to look like in the scene view.
Also - I tried modifying the float that is used to determine the height of the card inside the scene but it doesn’t matter, the middle card is always on the top.


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Ghost Story | Short Story
Sam’s Saloon is a ‘relaxed’ ghost story. Relaxed in the sense that it isn’t scary, there is no gore or blood and guts, it has no horrific elements at all.
Slightly humorous in tone, and definitely not taking itself seriously, Sam’s Saloon tells the tale of the ghosts who remain in an old western ghost town, and one of their encounters with the living.
It begs question – just who is haunting who?
The main location (Sam’s saloon bar), and some of the characters, are inspired by a certain saloon along the path of the beam. Maybe Roland himself passed through, once upon a time…
(part of the short story collection “Flotsam”)

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Jun 11, 2014
Ligonier hosts annual antiques show
The 27th annual Antiques on the Diamond antique show and sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in downtown Ligonier.
Local History: 'Bar maids' banned in Scranton for nearly 30 years
THE SUNDAY TIMES ARCHIVES Helen Tabarrini handles the cash register while Lisa Roberts serves another "good cheer" at the Silhouette Lounge, Scranton.
Fire crews battling Shade Twp fire, winter's wrath
Fire crews from across northern Somerset County have spent all afternoon battling a fast-burning Shade Township fire - and frigid conditions - but no injuries were reported, responders said.
Local and State News in Brief | Benson likely to join police study
Another community is likely to join the second phase of a regional police study for part of Somerset County's northern tier.
Developer buys $2.1M buildings in downtown Scranton
A company headed by Don Mammano Jr. bought the four-story, 32-apartment complex along Oakford Court between Linden and Mulberry streets and a 10,000-square-foot adjacent building at 317 Linden St., from First Commonwealth Bank of Indiana County.


Costa Rica Has Been Running for Months on Nothing but Renewable Energy
Its total for the year is 150 days and counting.
Think renewable energy isn't practical on a significant scale? Here's some news that should change your mind: Costa Rica recently powered itself using only electricity from renewable sources for 76 days straight, and the Central American country has managed to avoid burning fossil fuels to power its grid for a total of 150 days this year.
According to Mashable, the Costa Rica Electricity Institute (ICE) reports that between June 16 and September 2, carbon-free electricity powered the entirety of the nation of 4.9 million. While Costa Rica, which is about twice the size of Vermont, needs far less electricity to run than a larger country—like the United States—its success in implementing a more eco-friendly energy policy could pave the way for other nations to follow.
In 2015, Costa Ricans utilized about 10,713 gigawatt-hours of electricity—according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean—which paled in comparison to the 4 million gigawatt-hours generated by the United States in the same year. In recent years, the country decided to focus on fully utilizing its abundant sources of hydroelectric energy, including heavy rainfall and numerous rivers and waterways. By harnessing the power of these sources, the country was able to generate 80 percent of their electricity. The remaining electiricty was generated by geothermal plants (12.6 percent in August) and wind turbines (7.1) percent.
These energy sources were also vital to Costa Rica's 299 day fossil fuel-free record last year—one that might be hard to top in 2016. But, according to Carlos Manuel Obregon, the executive president of the country's Electricity Institute, this is just the beginning for the country. ICE is currently working on their Reventazon hydroelectric project, which will be the second largest infrastructure undertaking in Central America behind the Panama Canal. Once finished, the project—which has been under construction for six years and is slated to become operational this month—will generate 305.5 megawatts of energy, enough to power over a half million homes.
The Reventazon project stands to contribute even more to Costa Rica's outstanding efforts to eliminate burning oil, coal, and natural gas as energy sources. Now, if only the rest of the world would follow.


What is a Hydraulic Bolt Tensioner?
A hydraulic Bolt Tensioner is a Power Tool that is used to stretch a bolt or stud in order to allow for the tightening of the nut against the flange or joint on which it is placed. This tool must apply a controlled amount of tensioning force on the fastener to ensure that sufficient tightening of the joint occurs and yet does not exceed the yield strength of the bolt.
Working Principle of a Hydraulic Bolt Tensioner:
A Bolt Tensioner has the following components apart from using a Hydraulic power pack
- A Reaction bridge
- A Load Cell
- A Puller bar
- Couplers and ports for hydraulic hoses
- A Nut Rotator
- A Gear Drive or a Tommy Bar to rotate the Nut
A Hydraulic Bolt tensioner works with a pump (pneumatic or electric) to do the following:
- The Bolt or stud is measured and the appropriate tensioning force and size of the bolt tensioner are derived.
- The Nut rotator is mounted on the Nut and the bridge is mounted on the stud and it is ensured that the reaction is levied on the flange or surrounding uniformly
- The load cell is placed on the bridge and the hoses are connected to the ports.
- The puller bar is rotated on the threaded portion of the stud or bolt and the pressurization begins.
- The fluid fills and pressurizes the load cell, which is a cylinder with a ram.
- The ram exerts pressure on the puller bar, which in return pulls the stud.
- The stud is now stretched and a gap is created between the nut and its resting point.
- This is used to rotate the nut and tighten it.
Hydraulic bolt tensioners are widely used in various industries, including oil and gas, power generation, and aerospace, to provide accurate and consistent tensioning of bolts in critical applications. In this article, we will discuss the design and analysis of hydraulic bolt tensioners
Design of Hydraulic Bolt Tensioners:
The design of a hydraulic bolt tensioner encompasses several key components, including a hydraulic cylinder, a piston, a load cell, a hydraulic pump, and a hydraulic hose.
The hydraulic cylinder is the main component responsible for generating the tensile force required to tension the bolt. The piston is typically located within the cylinder and is used to transmit the force generated by the hydraulic fluid to the bolt as seen earlier.
Factors that guide the design process for this particular tool:
- One critical factor in the design of hydraulic bolt tensioners is ensuring that the system can apply the required tensioning force without exceeding the yield strength of the bolt. This requires careful selection of the hydraulic cylinder’s size and stroke length to ensure that the maximum applied force does not exceed the bolt’s yield strength.
- Other areas such as leakage from seal rings and other annular surfaces that are vulnerable are another important factor. The seal design shall affect the performance of the tool in this regard.
- These factors make sure that safety is ensured for the operator against sudden tool failure or high-pressure leakages, bolt or stud breakage, etc.
- Additionally, the size of the Nut and pitch of the thread of the bolt on which the puller bar is tightened is to be considered along with the internut distance, and height restrictions above the nut to ensure that the geometry of the bolt tensioner can not only fit but also sustain the reaction forces as well.
- These factors lead to customized designs as per applications according to the space available and the tensioning forces required.
Pipe Flange Tensioning Application
Analysis of Hydraulic Bolt Tensioners:
The analysis of hydraulic bolt tensioners involves evaluating the system’s performance and ensuring that it can meet the required specifications. This analysis typically includes evaluating the tensioner’s accuracy, repeatability, and reliability.
The accuracy of a hydraulic bolt tensioner refers to its ability to apply the desired tension to the bolt accurately. This requires careful calibration of the load cell and hydraulic pump to ensure that the system can deliver the desired tension accurately. Measuring the Tensioning carried out in a bolt can be measured using an Ultrasonic Bolt Tension Monitor that uses ultrasound to measure change in length.
The repeatability of a hydraulic bolt tensioner refers to its ability to apply the desired tension consistently. This requires evaluating the tensioner’s ability to maintain the same tension level when used multiple times. The repeatability of the tensioner is typically evaluated by measuring the tension applied to the bolt multiple times and calculating the standard deviation in a large sample of bolts.
The reliability of a hydraulic bolt tensioner refers to its ability to operate consistently over time without failure. This requires careful selection of materials, components, and design features to ensure that the tensioner can withstand the operating conditions and loads. The reliability of the tensioner is typically evaluated by performing various tests, including endurance testing and stress testing.
In conclusion, hydraulic bolt tensioners are critical components in many industries, providing accurate and consistent tensioning of bolts in critical applications. The design and analysis of these tensioners require careful consideration of various factors, including the size and stroke length of the hydraulic cylinder, the accuracy and repeatability of the load cell and hydraulic pump, and the system’s overall reliability. By carefully designing and analyzing hydraulic bolt tensioners, engineers can ensure that they provide reliable and accurate performance in critical applications.


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There is a claim that the autonomous Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville is not ready for a vote on possible independence.
A nun, Sister Lorraine Garasu, who has been running a centre caring for victims of domestic violence in the province for more than 10 years, says more education is needed.
As part of the peace agreement ending the civil war, Bougainvilleans are to vote in a referendum after 2015 on whether to have full independence.
Sister Garasu says it is a road Bougainville can walk but first what the people want is for the provincial government to show what can be achieved through the autonomy status in place since 2005.
"So that is what the people want. And also the problem that I see in Bougainville today is the people have not been educated enough about autonomy, referendum. Also the government in Bougainville, I don't think they are ready fo referendum because they don't have the means - there's no economic means to sustain what they need to do."
Sister Lorraine Garasu from the autonomous Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville


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Artist and former saltwater fishing captain Peter Sheppard takes the leap from part-time artist to career artist. Sheppard brings his American realist oil paintings to Kennebunkport, Maine.
Dina Gardner is a wonderful pastel artist who is quickly becoming a regular here at Maine Art Hill. After joining us in the POP-UP Gallery this past summer, she was back as one of seven featured artists in the 9th Annual Choice Art Show, and now again in the POP-UP on Maine Art Hill. Click to watch a sneak-peek into how a pastel painting is made.


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PRIDE season: defining moments and icons from LGBT history.
To mark Pride season, TIE (Time for Inclusive Education) and CommonSpace held a special event, with a guest panel sharing their defining moments and icons from LGBT history. We discussed what can be learned from them today in the quest to advance LGBT rights.
Listen to what the panellists had to say:
– Bryan Simpson, Unite Hospitality Organiser
– Pam Currie, EIS-FELA President
– Ged Killen, MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
– Mridul Wadhwa, Forth Valley Rape Crisis
Chaired: Rhiannon Davies, CommonSpace Journalist


In Ukraine, work on a multi-purpose drone with a 1,000-km flight range will be completed by the end of the year. According to Speka, by that time it will be available for use in combat.
The new Ukrainian drone is currently undergoing the final step of development.
According to Oleh Boldyriev, a representative of Ukroboronprom, the UAV successfully passed the first tests.
"It took off and it landed… It’s a heavy vehicle — its take-off weight is over 200 kg. It was developed to the specifications General Valerii Zaluzhnyi gave us in early August," Boldyriev said.
He affirmed that the newly developed UAV will be presented to the public and even to the Armed Forces by the end of the year.
As was stated earlier, the new long-range drone developed by Ukroboronprom is a multifunctional UAV capable of operating as an attack drone, carrying out aerial reconnaissance, and adjusting artillery fire.
Context. Ukroboronprom announced a new development in October. Then, the state-owned concern didn’t disclose any details. Presumably, the development was the aforementioned multi-purpose drone.


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Nerlich, B. and Hillyard, S. H. and Wright, N. (2005) 'Stress and stereotypes : children's reactions to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK in 2001.', Children & society., 19 (5). pp. 384-359.
In 2001 foot and mouth disease broke out in the UK and millions of farm animals were slaughtered in order to eradicate it. This affected farmers, town dwellers, adults and children. Based on a small sample of 56 e-mails to a children's BBC (CBBC) message board and using an ethnomethodological approach, this article explores the way in which children in rural and urban areas responded to the effects of this epidemic and how they structured their understandings of one another through the use of rural and urban stereotypes. It shows that the stress felt by some of the children who lived on or near infected farms during the outbreak was exacerbated by the fact that they felt misunderstood by other children living in surroundings not directly affected by foot and mouth disease.
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As I too often fall on the wrong side of serious-silly norms, I’d like to better understand what makes music fun vs. serious. From What Every First-Year College Student Needs to Know About Washington
"does anyone want to signal they are frivolous?"
Yes. All the time. Those who are incontestably high in any social order will put great effort into frivolity as a form of counter-signaling.
Drunken frat-boy jocks, Old Etonians & Harrovians, starlets, the most successful sales guy who also gets the loudest at the corporate party, the real aristocracy, you name it. Comedy is a separate category that's a classical institution requiring its own analysis.
"As I too often fall on the wrong side of serious-silly norms"
Ponder instead that one is perhaps merely resting at the first of Schopenhauer's 3 stages of truth. I sometimes now wonder if all those comic-book/anime/Star Trek loving nerds might also perhaps be counter-signaling against their massively obvious and otherwise intimidating overclock.
frelkins, does anyone want to signal they are frivolous? And why would not having fun credibly signal that you understand more?
I always say that humor is a tool of communication. You might think of it as frivolous, but often it can get people's attention so that you can hold their interest and inform them.
Music's function, like humor, is entertainment. It's primarily fun. But given that happiness (or satisfaction?) is the ultimate goal in life, music is very serious. My career focuses on artistic matters. I grew up thinking that doctors were more important than artists, that artists were unnecessary novelties. But without actually enjoying life, there is no purpose to being alive. Which reminds me of my favorite Catholic church song, "We are many parts... but we are all one body... and the gifts we have... we are given to share..." Is that song fun or serious?
I propose that music becomes "serious" as the musicians themselves seek to professionalize and gain status as artists, not mere entertainers, along with a rise in status-seeking in the audience, an audience that also wants to pose as distinctive, even rebellious, but not frivolous. Take us seriously, both artists and audience signal, we are different! We can understand what is unpopular and difficult - Respect us!
This was true of the middle classes, who once sought recognition through a ritualized classical music, as it was of the jazzhound:
"The young modernists who were heirs of the 1940s were also heirs of the pride that jazzmen had been taking in their expanded [musical] capabilities. . .By the 1950s, however, the concept of jazz as an object-in-itself, a non-functional music in the sense that it was no longer designed for dancing or background listening [while dining], had attracted a sizable new audience. . .The listeners, or most of them, accepted the new music on the players' terms (emphasis added) and went to Birdland as if it were Town Hall.
Older musicians. . .are often made nervous by the seeming passivity and stern concentration of the new serious audience. Anita O'Day, who is temperamentally of the jazz-as-entertainment tradition, speaks for the pre-modernists when she says 'I feel more comfortable when the audience is balling it up a little. . .' Several of the modernists agree with her but expect silence and sustained attention from an audience.
A large part of the contemporary jazz audience, however, is more likely to be serious in its mien than in its comprehension of the music. Much of the audience, as has been true of every jazz generation so far, is more compulsive about seeming 'hip' to the newest innovations than in understanding the content of those innovations. These are youngsters who find in jazz a surface corollary to their own safely transitory 'rebellion' of adolescence. . .
As a result, the jazzman . . .has become even more self-conscious about his work." - Nat Hentoff, The Jazz Life, 1978
And now this tendency has perhaps passed to a certain segment of the indie set, who use "seriousness" and non-dancing to demand respect & question authority - no need to even "raise your hand."
Regarding the fun music in-group: I highly recommend the band The Hold Steady.
They have oodles of indie cred, yet they realize that music is supposed to be fun. And their fans have picked up on this notion. At Hold Steady shows, people sing along and dance and get every bit as rowdy as fans at, say, a Grateful Dead show. You can have all of this fun and still maintain your oh-so-important-serious/ironic indie cred.
They are an important band, I hope.
Robin, it's also true that all math problems have some sort of intellectual component. But some math problems are more interesting---and worthy of analysis---than others.
So, any suggestions for Robin where he might find a music-dance-fun ingroup to his taste?Well, Jaxx, DC's premier German Death Metal nightclub, is conveniently close to George Mason, at the corner of Rolling Road & Old Keene Mill.
Check out Girl Talk. They have some indie rock cred, but their concerts really are just big dance parties. Also some interesting copyright questions to think about when you listen to their music, which is just a mashup of a bunch of party music.
Robin,If you are asking me to direct you to a 'fun-music' ingroup, I would suggest looking at the way different fandoms behave at concerts. People who go to German Death Metal conventions *are* going to rock-out, and are going to think you are a wussy if you sit quietly in a chair intently focused on the meaning of the lyrics. Well, actually, they will probably be too drunk, high, and moving too violently to even notice you sitting quietly in the corner, but still...
You can of course also go to a contra-dance. Fun-loving, gregarious folks line-dancing all around!
So, any suggestions for Robin where he might find a music-dance-fun ingroup to his taste?
Oops. The New Yorker wasn't talking about the decline of orchestral music. So, while I stand by what I wrote, it was off-topic.
Beethoven campaigned against the aristocratic practice of talking during concerts. If people started talking, he would stop playing.
I think it's ironic and self-serving that the New Yorker blames the change in classical music after 1900 on the bourgeoisie. I blame it on the New Yorker.
The New Yorker began publishing in 1920s - just before classical music died.
What killed classical music was postmodernism, which manifested itself in music largely as the idea that there was no such thing as good music, so the best one could do was write new and different music. This resulted in good music being replaced, in the minds of the elite, by the painful compositions of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Ives, etc. Even people who insisted on having some music in their music were bullied into playing Stravinsky as a compromise.
If orchestral music died because of audience practice, or because of recorded music, you would find people buying CDs of 20th-century composers. They do not. 20th-century composers account for a minute fraction, probably less than 1%, of the orchestral music sold. This isn't because of class differences. It's because the music is crap.
I haven't read any issues of The New Yorker from the 1920's; but based on its present output, I would guess that it was one of the catalysts of postmodernism in the arts.
Andy and Lara, but don't people who have fun with music also have in-groups? Are serious music folk really any more tied to their in-group than fun music folk?
Jess, all music has some sort of intellectual component.
Bad advice. People dance at every indie-rock show I've been to in DC.
komponisto, I think Babbitt's is a bad analogy. I would sooner compare the difference between listening to a record and attending a concert to going to the theater vs getting a DVD or going to a museum instead of looking at posters. DVDs, posters and records are good enough, especially since they allow a much wider dissemination of the work, but the experience of a movie theater/concert/museum is quite different if you take the experts' word for it (and my own, for what it's worth).
I can think of three possible reasons for this. First, the product is simply better: bigger screen in sensory deprivation for movies, original art (photography slightly warps the image, color balance is wrong, size is not the same, texture is eliminated), and possibly the experience of seeing the band/orchestra as the music plays. Second, other people: sharing the experience might make it more meaningful. Third, having to pay and to expend energy to go see the work in question makes you more likely to pay attention, thus enhancing your experience.
As I understand the situation in academia, serious music is distinguished from popular music because it must have some sort of intellectual component. It is claimed that serious music is objectively more complicated and amenable to academic analysis. It is by no means restricted to orchestral music.
Popular music, on the other hand, is intended to be very enjoyable. This usually means that the music is relatively simple and intellectually uninteresting, but not always. There is certainly overlap between popular and serious music.
The above remains true even if (a) many people may be interested in serious music merely to impress others and (b) there is less overlap between serious and popular music than in the past.
Composer Milton Babbitt wonders why those seriously interested in music bother with concerts at all:
"I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen." - from Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

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