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HF / News - Olympics Kill Big Chill Festival Organisers of Britain’s pioneering boutique festival the Big Chill announced this week that August’s outdoor event has been cancelled, over concerns about the impact London’s upcoming Olympics will have. “Efforts are being made to look to bring a smaller event indoors this year,” a staffer wrote on the site’s Forum, “with the anticipation of Big Chill being back outdoors in 2013,” she added. Big Chill overall boss Melvin Benn said he’d struggled to save this year’s festival which had been due to take place outside London at Eastnor Castle Deer Park between August 2nd and 5th, slap bang in the middle of the sports event. “I looked long and hard late last year at moving the date so it didn't clash with the Olympics but the mix of the festival fans desire to keep the date and an inability to find an alternative date that works I plumped for maintaining the existing weekend,” he said in a statement. ‘Come to this instead’: he posted on Facebook.

The Art of the Essay No. 1, E. B. White In the issue of The New Yorker dated two weeks after E. B. White died, his stepson, Roger Angell, wrote the following in the magazine’s “Talk of the Town” section: Last August, a couple of sailors paid an unexpected visit to my summer house in Maine: young sailors—a twelve-year-old-girl and an eleven-year-old boy. They were a crew taking part in a statewide small-boat-racing competition at a local yacht club, and because my wife and I had some vacant beds just then we were willingly dragooned as hosts. They were fine company—tanned and shy and burning with tactics but amenable to blueberry muffins and our exuberant fox terrier.

Daily Routine - Reading Comprehension A day in the life of... 1 - Read the text and write the verbs in the correct form. Hi! research archive: Operation Mind Control: Zombie States of America (& pdf file) Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart,New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1978 Please keep fearfully in mind that the astonishing information published in this seminal work of investigative reporting, concerning avenues taken to decision and execution by our secret police to fracture or dissolve human minds, then to operate those minds as a small boy, might operate a Yo-Yo, for purposes of counter-intelligence military “efficiency,” and the destruction of democratic institutions, was drawn directly from federal records and from official laboratory archives of the highest educational purpose—as well as from the reviving memories of those who had already undergone the dehumanizing process. ...

essays The Anti-Heroes in Peter Cowan’s & Patrick White’s Short Fiction Patrick White and Peter Cowan are two contemporary writers who changed the face of the Australian short story from the traditional 1890s styled literature. Many of their short stories reflect a mid-twentieth century society, a changing landscape and certainly different rural and urban identities. Through their prose they subvert the paradigm of the traditional hero (Henry Lawson's bushman) in order to focus more on the inner lives and personalities of their characters. They include the anti-hero or the ‘outsider protagonist’ - those outside of society’s norms.

Moviestorm News This is part of a series suggesting different ways to use Moviestorm in schools or other educational environments. They also make useful exercises for film-makers wanting to develop and practice different film-making techniques. Many more lesson plans and ideas, with free downloadable resources, can be found on the Moviestorm Web site. Assignment: Soundscapes Create a video using a piece of music as a soundscape. This was created in association with an Oxfordshire school Students start with the video and source appropriate music for it. Suggested techniques

Loading Local Files from Disk, Page 1 by kirupa | 6 June 2010 In Flash, you've always had the ability to load content that was stored on a server. For a class of applications, having the ability to load content that lives on disk is quite useful. The pleas were heard and acknowledged, and Adobe recently added support to allow users to load local content into your Flash application. Since seeing is believing, in the following example, click on the Load button and browse to an image file that you want this application to display: Fellows Friday with Candy Chang In her public art pieces, Candy Chang uses low-tech tools such as chalk, Post-it notes, and stickers to help people make their cities more user-friendly. We sat down with Candy to ask her more … Candy asks: If you could ask one question to all of your neighbors, what would you ask?