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rabbitcruiser · 10 months

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American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminated with Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863.

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talesfromthecrypts · 2 years

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The McPherson Tape (1989) dir. Dean Alioto

#the mcpherson tape #filmedit #horroredit #tuserleo #usergiles #mygifs #its so funny hardcore ufo people thought this was real for years #anyway... the barn scene from nope

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heartlandians · 5 months

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Heartland - 17x09 - Fear is a Liar

#heartland #stills #season 17 #17x09 #lou fleming #michelle morgan #katie fleming morris #baye mcpherson #dirt bike #katie x lou #barn

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athletic-collection · 4 months

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Jonathan Barnes (10) pats Logan McPherson on the helmet as they get ready to kick a field goal

#football #louisiana tech bulldogs #jonathan barnes #logan mcpherson

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 6 months

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By: Hannah Barnes

Published: Sep 19, 2023

The majority of children in a landmark study on puberty blockers experienced positive or negative changes in their mental health, new analysis suggests.

The original study of 44 children, who all took the controversial drugs for a year or more, found no mental health impact - neither benefits nor harm.

But a re-analysis of that data now suggests 34% saw their mental health deteriorate, while 29% improved.

The authors of the original report have welcomed the new evidence.

The re-analysis, which has been seen by BBC Newsnight, questions some of the conclusions from the 2021 study about the potential mental health impact of puberty blockers on under 16s. It also sheds some light on this much-debated, but little understood, area of children's medicine.

The new study has not been in a peer-reviewed journal yet. The authors say they felt there was an urgency in getting the information into the public domain.

The original study

In 2011, a team from the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) - England's only NHS specialist gender clinic for children - and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) embarked on what became known as the early intervention study.

They enrolled 44 children, aged between 12 and 15, over the following three years. The study looked at the impact taking puberty blockers - medicines used to postpone puberty in children - was having. It resulted in the age at which puberty blockers could be offered on the NHS being lowered.

When the landmark study's results were published in 2021, it revealed blockers brought "no changes in psychological function" to those taking them.

But this differed from earlier findings of Dutch researchers, who pioneered this approach to treating gender dysphoria. They reported a positive impact on young people's mental health and wellbeing.

The early intervention study used scores from both parent and child questionnaires, which assessed children's behavioural and emotional problems. These are widely and reliably used in psychology in many countries and include more than 100 questions on things like school, feelings, and relationships.

The overall finding of "no change" was based on a group average - or mean - of those scores, given at different points in time.

"That's a very standard way of doing things," Professor Chris Evans, a retired psychiatrist and psychotherapist, told Newsnight. "The problem is it doesn't pay attention to how much variation there was across the participants."

For example, a quarter could score extremely high, a quarter could score quite high, a quarter could score quite badly, and a quarter could score extremely badly. Yet the group average would be somewhere in the middle.

Re-analysis of data

Prof Susan McPherson, from the University of Essex, and David Freedman, a retired social scientist, have since re-analysed the data. They instead looked at the individual trajectories of each of the young people in the early intervention study.

They found, after 12 months of puberty blocker injections - 34% of the children had reliably deteriorated, 29% had reliably improved, and 37% showed no change, according to their self-reported answers.

The proportions were a little lower in the parents' scores, but in three quarters of the cases, there was broad agreement between parents and their children.

The impact on each of the children varied.

For a child who "deteriorated", it could mean moving from being psychologically well and not needing treatment for their mental health, to meeting criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis such as depression or anxiety. Whereas a child who "improved" could move from needing mental health treatment to being considered mentally well.

However, what neither the original research paper, nor the re-analysis, can do is tell us why these young people fared so differently.

The study is small - just 44 young people. And because of the way the original study was designed - without a control group - experts can't infer cause and effect or say these changes in wellbeing were caused by being on puberty blockers.

But despite those limitations, the new analysis suggests the need for more research, both into this specific group and on the impact of puberty blockers more generally.

Mr Freedman argues it is vital that young people and their families have the "best information possible" when making decisions on medical treatment.

Gaps in evidence

In June NHS England announced that puberty blockers will only be made available to young people taking part in clinical trials.

Dr Hilary Cass's interim report into children's gender services highlighted "gaps in evidence" around the drugs, and a systematic review carried out by NICE found the quality of the evidence for the use of puberty blockers in this context to be "very low".

Similar reviews have been undertaken in Sweden and Finland, with both reaching the same conclusion. A number of other European countries have begun taking a more cautious, less medical approach to helping young people questioning their gender identity.

Both the Tavistock and Portman Trust and UCLH said they welcomed new contributions to the evidence base around how to support young people with gender incongruence.

A spokesperson from Tavistock and Portman [NHS Foundation] Trust said data from the original study had been published to allow other researchers to conduct "further analyses". It said the analysis plan for the original study was independently produced by experts in medical statistics.

A spokesperson for UCLH said it supported Dr Cass's recommendation that "research should be fully embedded in the development of new services for children and young people expressing gender incongruence".

They added: "We will work closely with the new national [Children and Young People's Gender Dysphoria] research oversight board to support the collection and analysis of robust data in this area."

The board will oversee the design and conduct of the new puberty-blocker research trial, as well as ensure research is embedded at the heart of new children and young people's gender dysphoria services.

The Cass Review Team told the BBC that it has commissioned "an updated systematic review" of academic publications on puberty blockers.

This review, along with this new analysis will be taken into account in its final recommendations, which are expected by the end of the year.

#Hannah Barnes #puberty blockers #Tavistock #gender ideology #queer theory #genderwang #medical experimentation #medical experiments #mental health #mental health issues #gender distress #religion is a mental illness

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diceriadelluntore · 1 year

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Storia Di Musica #263 - Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, 1998

Tra le storie che ho raccolto sul tema dei dischi ispirati a libri, questa è sicuramente la più particolare, anche per il titolo che ispirò un geniale musicista della Louisiana a cimentarsi in una cosa del genere. Siamo a fine anni ‘80, il grunge è pronto ad esplodere e esaurirà la sua potenza in pochi anni con la tragica uscita di scena di Kurt Cobain. A Ruston, una cittadina di 22 mila abitanti, un gruppo di ragazzi fonda una comune artistica con annessa etichetta discografica, la Elephant 6 seguendo tutt’altra linea ideale: sono Robert Schneider, Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss e Jeff Mangum. Condividono l'attenzione per le registrazioni “casalinghe”, soprattutto le registrazioni su cassette, che portarono pochi anni prima alla nascita del lo-fi, la musica colta, la psichedelia degli anni ‘60. Provano a suonare insieme, il punk (come Maggot), il pop (come Cranberry Lifecycle e Synthetic Flying Machine) e decidono di spostarsi a Athens, in Georgia, città famosa nel rock per essere la città natale degli R.E.M. Il gruppo si divide: Hart e Doss continuano come Olivia Tremor Control, Schneider va a Denver, Mangum parte per una sorta di tour spirituale degli Stati Uniti con la chitarra e un registratore a 4 piste. Ripesca alcune canzone scritte verso la fine degli anni ‘80, quando era ancora alle superiori, che aveva intitolato Milk, e le sviluppa nel suo nuovo progetto, Neutral Milk Hotel, nome su cui ha sempre glissato dal dare spiegazioni. Si inizia con Everything Is, singolo del 1993, poi Mangum suona il basso per la band che Schneider fondò a Denver, Apples in Stereo. A questo punto succede una cosa particolare: gli Apples in Stereo volevano firmare con la SpinART Records e incontrarono il loro rappresentante legale, Brian McPherson, a Los Angeles: Mangum quel giorno indossava una maglietta della Shrimper Records, una giovanissima casa discografica che si stava specializzando sul nuovo cantautorato americano. McPherson venne a conoscenza che aveva scritto Everything Is, una canzone che aveva molto apprezzato, e finì per chiedere rappresentanza sia agli Apples In Stereo sia di Neutral Milk Hotel. Alcune copie di Everything Is e un'altra canzone Ruby-Bulbs vengono spedite ai fondatori della Merge Records Laura Ballance e Mac McCaughan, che subito proposero a Mangum un disco. On Avery Island esce nel Marzo del 1996, prodotto a Denver con Schneider che aveva costruito un piccolo studio di registrazione, i Pet Sound Studios. Caratterizzato dal suono grezzo e lo-fi, dai suoi testi immaginifici, criptici e sognanti, il disco viene ben accolto dalle riviste specializzate ma vende pochissimo, qualche migliaio di copie. Il contratto con la Merge prevede un secondo disco, e Mangum inizia a leggere moltissimo per trovare ispirazione. Si imbatte, per caso, ne Il Diario Di Anna Frank, e ne rimane scioccato: piange per tre giorni consecutivi, in preda a incubi su cosa la giovane ragazza avesse passato. Ne viene fuori la volontà di scriverne, e nel marzo del 1998 viene pubblicato In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, un disco che partendo da quella storia parla del disagio delle paure, dell’impossibilità di scappare (argomento che si rivelerà di lì a poco molto personale per lui). Sempre con Schneider a Denver, inizia a scrivere e provare: insieme a lui ci sono Jeremy Barnes alla batteria, Scott Spillane ai fiati e al dirigere una sezione archi e Julian Koster che, per precisa decisione di Mangum, suona strumenti stranissimi. Infatti verranno utilizzati, anche in modo del tutto originale, la sega musicale (una normale sega trapezoidale da falegname in acciaio che si suona con l’archetto del contrabbasso), le cornamuse irlandesi, lo zanzithophone (che è uno strumento digitale della Casio dalla forma a sassofono, che usava la tecnologia del Midi sound). A ciò, Mangum aggiunge una creatività originale, mischiando rock al folk, a mini cavalcate hard rock, a elementi elettronici con l’uso del “white noise processing”, in tutto con un’aria triste si, ma felicemente anarcoide. Si inizia con The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. One e The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three, che sono due canzoni divise in tre parti, senza soluzioni di continuità, che si sviluppano l’una nell’altra a ritmi circolari, un primo gioiellino. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea ci sono questi versi: Anna's ghost all around\Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me\Soft and sweet\How the notes all bend and reach above the trees. Two Headed Boy, che sembra una storia di Freaks, ha due parti, la seconda come chiusura del disco; il disco è composto anche da due stupendi strumentali, il doloroso andare di The Fool, con gli archi arrangiati da Scott Spillane a cui fa contrasto la verve da giga irlandese di (untitled), con la cornamusa in primissimo piano. Holland, 1945 che ascoltandola si capisce bene quante band ha ispirato, sempre ispirata al Diaro di Anna Franck, dice: And here's where your mother sleeps\And here is the room where your brothers were born\Indentions in the sheets\Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore\And it's so sad to see the world agree\That they'd rather see their faces filled with flies\All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes, ed è quasi straniante il contrasto tra il testo e la musica con echi di festa mariachi soprattutto nei fiati e nel ritmo baldanzoso e power pop. Communist Daughter è una delicata ballata, che riflette sulla sessualità umana e sui confini morali che la società ha posto, metaforizzando su fascismo e comunismo, e poi altri due gioielli: Oh Comely, dolorosissima, dal testo misterioso che probabilmente parla di un incesto, per poi arrivare a Ghost, tratta dalla sua fobia che la sua casa fosse abitata da un fantasma, che immagina essere quello di una ragazza, “she was born in a bottle-rocket in 1929\With wings that ringed around a socket right between her spine\All drenched in milk and holy water pouring from the sky\I know that she will live forever, she won't ever die” altro chiaro riferimento a Anna Frank. La copertina dell'album è stata realizzata da Mangum in collaborazione con Chris Bilheimer, già staff designer dei R.E.M. ed è ricavata da un ritaglio di una vecchia cartolina proveniente dall'Europa con l'immagine di alcune persone che fanno il bagno in un resort, il viso principale viene sostituito con quello di un tamburello. Per promuovere il disco, che inizia a vendere pochissimo come il precedente nonostante anche stavolta le critiche siano molto positive, la band va in Tour. Tra concerti strampalati, cover di brani jazz che non vengono mai bene, un caos regnante in ogni esibizione, girano parte gli Stati Uniti e anche l’Europa. Nonostante tutto, la fama del gruppo cresce con il passaparola, e vengono sempre più sottolineate le caratteristiche uniche della musica di Mangum. Il quale però reagisce in maniera del tutto inaspettata: stanco di scialbe interviste e di spiegare i suoi testi (parole sue) si ritira in isolamento. Leggenda vuole che faccia scorta di riso per il baco del millennio Y2K, ma contrariamente alle sue intenzioni il suo intento non fa altro che aumentare ancora di più il piccolo culto per lui e per la band, che si scioglie nel frattempo per l’impossibilità di rintracciare il suo leader. Mentre intanto il disco inizia a vendere, viene recensito nuovamente a distanza di anni e in pratica finisce in tutte le classifiche come uno dei dischi più geniali del decennio. È il seme da cui nasceranno gli Arcade Fire e tutti i loro fratellini, che non hanno mai nascosto ammirazione per l’album, e rimane uno dei culti più privati della storia della musica, come disse un altro fan di Mangum, Kevin Barnes, che entrò dopo poco negli Elephant 6: adoro il modo in cui è diventato un album di culto per antonomasia, ampiamente amato e anche ampiamente sconosciuto, perchè rende facile credere che ci sia qualcosa di speciale tra te e il disco, che sia solo tuo, non importa quante persone lo amino.

#neutral milk hotel #in an aeroplane over the sea #1998 #recensione

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blairstales · 1 year

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Protection From Fairies: Rowan

“Black luggie , lammer bead , Rowan – tree and red thread , Put the witches to their speed.” Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders by William Henderson (1879)

Historically, Rowan is was likely the most relied upon tree in Scotland for protection against fairies and witchcraft. This includes it being carried as a sprig, or used under thatch or above doors.

“If the remains of the worship of particular trees are scanty in the North, there is no lack of evidence as to the virtues and powers believed to inhere in the mountain ash or rowan.. The rowan was protective rather than generative. It did not bring blessing so much as ward off evil. This belief sprang from an age when it was conceived as the abode of a good spirit, hostile to the powers of darkness.” Primitive Beliefs in the North-East of Scotland by Joseph McKenzie McPherson (1929)

This protection was said to protect from fairies, changlings, witches, curses, and the evil eye. Perhaps because of this, it was considered unlucky to cutdown rowan trees and rowan was never to be burned.

“Rowan, or mountain ash. The tree which, above all others, offered the best protection against fairy enchantments and witchcraft. As the Scottish rhyme goes: Rowan, lamer [amber] and red threid, Pits witches to their speed. It will be noticed that all these are reddish, and the red berries of the row an-tree make it specially effective. A staff of rowan, a CROSS made of rowan, a bunch of rowan berries, all these were effective, and it was customary in the Highlands to plant a rowan-tree outside every house.” A Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katharine Briggs (Published in 1976)

Rowan trees can live to around 200 years, so some of the trees planted outside of homes for protection are still outside homes to this day, though the current owners might not know the significance that the trees once held.

"Caorrann, caorrunn, rowan, mountain ash. The rowan was sacred, and used in many forms about the homestead. ‘Failean caorruinn,’ a rowan sucker, or ‘fleasg caorruinn,’ a rowan wand, was placed over the lintels of the barn, byre, stable, sheep-fold, and lamb-cot, as a safeguard against witchcraft and malicious spirits. A twig of rowan was coiled into a circlet and placed beneath the milk boynes to keep the milk from being spirited away. A fire of rowan was sacred, and therefore the festival cakes were cooked with rowan faggots or other sacred wood. A coffin, or a bier, or the spokes on which it was carried, was treated with especial reverence if made of the mountain ash. Thou rowan tree before the door, Thou shalt go under me to the burial place, My face shall be put toward Dundealgan, And a beautiful bier shall be made for me" Carmina Gadelica, Volume 2, by Alexander Carmicheal, [1900]

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(link) 1964. Anne Ross asks about beliefs to do with iron. Allan Walker mentions that Highlanders didn’t believe an oath was binding unless they kissed a dirk. Iron and also rowan trees were supposed to keep away evil spirits. Mr Walker follows his father’s habit of taking a sprig of rowan tied with red wool when he goes fishing.

(link) 1955. There is a great belief in the evil eye. All the old steadings had an elder tree growing beside them [Donald Munro mentions some examples], and all the old houses had a rowan, if it would grow, to prevent the evil eye. The rowan won’t grow in sight of the sea, but in that case a piece of rowan was used under the thatch.

(link) 1964. People put sprigs of rowan above their door to ward off curses. Horseshoes were used in the same way, and could be seen in many byres.

(link) 1976. Rowans and steel to keep the fairies from replacing children with changelings.

(link) 1964. Rowan trees were planted near houses to ward off evil and witches. It was unlucky to cut down rowan trees.

(link) 1972. Old ruined cottages in the north usually have a rowan planted alongside. Juniper and rowan were also put in the byres and stables to keep the evil eye away.

#folklore #scottishfolklore #scottish folklore #scottish #mythology #fae #fairies #fairy #paganism #FairyBasics #animism #PaganScotland #Folkmagic

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almackey · 5 months

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Dorsey Pender’s July 1 Attack on Seminary Ridge Helped Inspire Pickett’s Charge

Alfred Scales’ North Carolinians, one of Pender’s two brigades, passed over this ground and then went by the McPherson Barn as they attacked Seminary Ridge. (Photo by Noel Kline) This article by Scott Hartwig is from the January 2020 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “It is frequently presumed that Pickett’s Charge, on July 3, 1863, was doomed to defeat before a single cannon opened fire or…

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 9 months

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"Asks Court Protection," Border Cities Star. August 3, 1933. Page 10. ---- Evangelist Fields in Fear Of Parkhill Mob Violence ---- Writes Magistrate ---- Former School Janitor In London Attains Notoriety ---- By Staff Reporter LONDON, Ont., August 3. - Protection for Evangelist Albert Fields and his two children from what he alleges to be mob violence in the peaceful little North Middlesex town of Parkhill was requested by the "janitor evangelist" in a letter to County Magistrate C. W. Hawkshaw here yesterday. FORMERLY OF LONDON FIELDS is the former janitor of Talbot street school, London, who has gained nearly as much notoriety for himself in the past few weeks in the northern section of Middlesex as Oxford County's Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton has during the past few years in the international scene. Among other incidents in his career was the theft of his church recently. One night the tent in which he conducted services at Parkhill was spirited away and has not yet been recovered although police have followed numerous clues.

Still more recently - in fact only Tuesday of this week - a charge of disturbing the peace which one of his youthful feminine converts, Miss Rosie Barnes, of Parkhill, had laid against her father, George Barnes, was withdrawn in county police court.

Mr. Fields was to have been a witness in the case on behalf of Miss Barnes. ZEALOUS WORKER Imbued with zeal to work a transformation in conditions in Parkhill, Mr. Fields has on numerous occasions declared that he is going to clean it up. A majority of Parkhill citizens are inclined to disagree with him that conditions in their community are so very terrible. He stated that, to say the least, the members and adherents of the regularly established churches there have not received his mission with any great evidences or cordiality.

As for other, less responsible elements in the town, he is afraid they are attempting to run him out and he has repeatedly announced that he is not going to be run out.

Alleging that mobs of boys have tried to get his son to fight, the evangelist wrote to the magistrate as follows: "I am taking the liberty of dropping these few lines to ask for the protection of the court for my two little children and myself against mob violence." POLICE INFORMED Magistrate Hawkshaw has brought the matter to the attention of the police.

In a statement to The Border Cities Star Mr. Fields declared that since his troubles in Parkhill have become known tempting offers have been received to carry on evangelistic work elsewhere. But he is going to stand by the 40 converts he has made in Parkhill.

"I am going to stay and fight it out." he said emphatically.

Regarding the "mobs" which he alleged are intimidating his children and taunting himself, he said that on one occasion some time ago his 13-year-old son had been chased away from school by the other school children. When he himself went to the school to see about it the children had chanted at him: "Praise God Fields."

He declared that he was proud of the title of "Janitor Evangelist" but the other nickname, "Praise God Fields," he admitted, has become rather irksome because it has been hurled at him as a taunt so many times.

"Every minister has a phrase which he uses frequently," he said in explanation of the origin of the name. "During my services I am in the habit of saying, 'Praise God. The school children took it up and shout it at me."

#london ontario #parkhill #roadside preacher #school janitor #evangelical christianity #janitor preacher #disturbing the peace #roadside evangelist #christianity in canada #small town ontario #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

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mitchbeck · 11 months

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HOCKEY NEWS AND NOTES

By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - There is plenty of hockey news and notes throughout the sport as teams at all levels are preparing for the 2023-24 season despite the continuing saga of the Stanley Cup Championship currently underway that sees the Las Vegas Golden Knights leading the Florida Panthers 3-games-to-1. The New York Rangers rewarded winger Anton Blidh for his strong play in Hartford with a two-year contract extension. Blidh was acquired from the Colorado Avalanche for Gustav Rydahl, who is heading back to Sweden. Blidh will make $775K for playing in the NHL and $350K for his play in the AHL. Cooper Zech was also acquired at the trade deadline by the Wolf Pack. He never played in Hartford but was sent to play for the team's ECHL affiliate, the JacksonvilleIcemen, instead. But rather than report to Hart City at the beginning of the playoffs, Zech instead went home and signed with HC Kosice (Slovakia-SLEL) for next year. EX-PACK AND UCONN PLAYER MOVEMENT A pair of ex-Pack players, Sean Day, is signed again with a one-year extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning / Syracuse Crunch on a two-way deal for $775K-NHK/$200K-AHL and Mike O’Leary signs with the Iowa Wild (AHL). Former UCONN forward Kale Howarth re-signs with the Rockford IceHogs. Ex-Pack and ex-UCONN goalie Adam Huska re-signs with Torpedo Novgorod (Russia-KHL). Allan McPherson with Hannover (German DEL-2). Ex-UCONN forward Carter Turnbull has signed with HC Banska Bystrica (Slovakia-SLEL). He leaves HKM Zvolen (Slovakia). HARTFORD WHALER WEEKEND Whalers Weekend with the Eastern League Hartford Yard Goats (Colorado Rockies) is July 21-22. These are the committed players who will be in attendance as of now; Norm Barnes, Wayne Babych, Bill Bennett, Mark Bousquet (Poodle from Slap Shot), Pat Boutette, Jeff Brubaker, Bob Crawford, Yvon Corriveau, Scott Daniels, Mark Janssens, Marty Howe, Grant Jennings, Chuck Kaiton (Radio PBP), Andre Lacroix, Gerry McDonald, Don Nachbaur, Doug & Gordie Roberts, and Mike Rogers. Several others are possible but have yet to be finalized. Three newcomers exist in Boutette and the Roberts brothers. Rogers, after a year off, returns from Calgary. The rest have been attendees since this started five years ago. FLORIDA EVERBLADES GO BACK-TO-BACK IN ECHL The Floria Everblades won the ECHL Kelly Cup title in a sweep over the Idaho Steelheads. It is their sixth time in the finals and second consecutive championship for Florida. They join five other teams to win back-to-back titles. Two ex-Packs were rostered on the runner-up Idaho. They are Ryan Dmowski (Old Lyme/Frederick Gunn School) and Matt Register. GREG CRONIN AND EX-SOUND TIGERS After three years with the Colorado Eagles (AHL), former Sound Tigers head coach Greg Cronin was hired by the Anaheim Ducks as the team's new head coach. When Cronin was named the Head Coach in Bridgeport, he announced he had been the only surfer in Maine for the Black Bears while an assistant there. Once, he was forced to apologize after excoriating Maine (HE) fans in an expletive-ridden rant for not showing up for a road game during a Maine Blizzard. Ex-Sound Tigers Greg Mauldin re-signs with Stavanger (Norway-NEL), while goalie Eamon MacAdam re-signs with Guilford (England-EIHL). Lane Sim, the son of ex-Bridgeport Sound Tiger Jon Sim, signs with the Sarnia Sting (OHL), who drafted him. DAN RUSANOWSKY Congratulations to the only radio voice of the San Jose Sharks (NHL) since its inception in 1991. Dan Rusanowsky (Milford) received the Foster Hewitt Award and the notice he will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto on November 13th. Rusanowsky was the last voice of the Nighthawks (1987-1991) and becomes the second Nighthawks broadcaster that will be inducted into the HHOF on Yonge Street in Toronto. Fellow Californian Nick Nickson (1977-1981) preceded Rusanowsky calling the Nighthawks team as the radio voice of the Los Angeles Kings and was selected and entered in 2014. Rusanowsky was the voice of college hockey for St. Lawrence University (1979-1987). Nickson was just announced as the sole play-by-play voice for the simulcast on TV and radio of the Kings starting next season. Long-time radio color commentator and former New Haven Nighthawk player Daryl Evans has been reassigned to a yet-to-be-specified on-air role. ODDS AND ENDS Ronan Buckberger, the son of former Beast of New Haven forward Ashley Buckberger, heads from Saskatoon (SMAAAHL) to Nipawin (SJHL). Craig Puffer (New Canaan), departs Nottingham (England-EIHL) and signs with HC Anglet (France-FREL) in the Elite Magnus League. Charles Greszes, formerly of Choate Rosemary School in Wallingford-is traded from Tel Aviv (Israel-IHL) to HC Bat Yam (Israel-IHL). Former Hartford Whaler Jim Culhane, the video coach for Denver University (NCHC), was named video coach for the US 2024 WJC team in December. The 30th AHL player to head to Europe is Anthony Hora, from Division III SUNY-Brockport (SUNYAC). He heads to Évry/Viry Hockey 91 (France- FFHG Division-2). Three more also signed Europe, moving the total to 33. QUEBEC REMPARTS The Quebec Remparts (QMJHL) won the Memorial Cup. They did so in a 5-0 shutout win over the Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL) for their fifth Memorial Cup title in the franchise’s eighth appearance. Undrafted Kassim Gaudet registered a goal and an assist and was a plus-four with five shots on goal. That is a solid performance for a young man with only 11 career QMJHL goals. Théo Rochette had two assists, while undrafted goalie William Rousseau, the grandson of Rangers and Montreal Canadiens great Bobby Rousseau, had 32 saves and won a Memorial Cup 65 years after his grandfather won his under the guidance of a young Scotty Bowman. His late great-uncle Rollie also won a Memorial Cup in the late 1940s. The elder Rousseau is, sadly, in the early stages of battling Alzheimer’s. MORE ON THE ROUSSEAU FAMILY How was the younger Rousseau rewarded? He was traded to the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies for a possible over-age year if he doesn’t land a pro deal for the next season two days later. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

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seatextiles · 2 years

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The Function of the Studio- Daniel Buren & Thomas Repensek

When I first read the article, I was taken aback by Duren & Repensek (1979) commenting that the work on gallery walls giving the impression of a cemetery and being a place for work to go to lose its meaning. Though I partly see where they have gotten this idea from, as seeing a piece of work in a gallery you may not fully understand the artists meaning behind the work, this has not been my experience with museums and art galleries. Even as a child, I loved visiting galleries with my dad, as the art felt alive and was often interactive, helping myself and other viewers to connect with the pieces. Viewers may not fully comprehend the ideas and themes behind the work, but this does not mean that all meaning is lost; the audience can create their own meanings and connections with the work.

Having performance-based workshops and being able to co-create work leads to participants feeling more connected to the work and finding their own paths to follow. Through research it was found that allowing communities to be a part of the work “developed changes within their lives, e.g. one was accepted to study fine art, one went to college, another built bridges with their family and others volunteered locally.” (Barnes & Mcpherson, 2019). If work in a gallery can affect someone’s life in this way, how can it have lost all meaning by being there?

More recently, my mum and I visited the exhibit ‘Conscious’ by Suki Chan in the Bluecoat Gallery, in Liverpool. The exhibit was a multi-platform project, allowing viewers to see the world through the lens of someone with memory loss or dementia (The Bluecoat Gallery, 2022). This was far from a cemetery where the work had come to lose meaning. Upon entering, staff warned how emotional the work is, and it turned out to be very true. The sounds of people sharing their experiences of dementia being played as we viewed the photographs and array of broken teacups and teapots arranged across a dining room table brought a flood of heartbreak to the viewer. My mum was brought to tears by the work in front of her. The dining table and broken dishes has stuck with me as well, along with the words saying that when a loved one gets dementia, you end up mourning twice, for the person they once were and again when you lose them; something that I find family of residents at the care home I work at, as well as myself with my nan, experiencing.

Own photographs taken at 'Concious' exhibit

Talking of how they visited many artists in their studios and again when the work they had seen there was presented within a gallery, it is said “it was when I later visited, one after the other, the exhibitions of these artists that my enthusiasm began to fade, and in some cases, disappeared” (Duren & Repensek, 1979). In a way, I agree. Though I fully enjoy the experience of art galleries, the connection to the work is different than if it were to be found with the progress made to get to the place it is in now. I have found this within the end of year exhibitions at university the past couple of years. Due to COVID, my class had their work exhibited online, where only a sample of work was shown of each student along with some writing of the journey taken to the final pieces. This differs from the previous years, having in person exhibits, where all work throughout the project was provided to the viewers; I had enjoyed looking through the sketchbooks and sampling to see the complete journey of ideas and inspirations which led to the final collections created and this gave more meaning and connection to the work that I saw.

References:

(Buren, D., & Repensek, T. (1979). The Function of the Studio. The MIT Press, 10, 51-58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/778628?origin=JSTOR-pdf)

(The Bluecoat Gallery. (2022). Spring Event Programme 2022. Bluecoat. https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/about/news/spring-event-programme-2022)

(Barnes, P., & Mcpherson, G. (2019). Co-Creating, Co-producing and Connecting: Museum Practice Today. Curator The Museum Journal, 62(2), 257-267. https://doi-org.libaccess.hud.ac.uk/10.1111/cura.12309)

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Gettysburg National Military Park (No. 53)

There are two monuments to the 150th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment on the Gettysburg battlefield. The main monument is west of town on Stone Avenue. A secondary monument is along Hancock Avenue.

The 150th Pennsylvania was commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg by Colonel Langhorn Wister until he took over brigade command on July 1. Lieutenant Colonel Henry S. Huidekoper then took over the regiment until he was wounded. Major Chamberlain having already been wounded, Captain George W. Jones took command of the regiment.

The 150th Pennsylvania brought almost 400 men to Gettysburg in nine companies. The Hancock Avenue monument lists a total of 264 casualties out of the 397 engaged: 53 killed, 134 wounded and 77 missing.

The 150th Pennsylvania’s Company K never served with the regiment in the field. When the regiment first arrived in Washington the company was detailed as a personal bodyguard to President Lincoln, which continued until the regiment was mustered out. Keep a sharp eye while watching Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln and you can briefly see a member of Company K, bucktail in his hat, guarding the President.

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