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Choudenshi Bioman (超電子バイオマン Chōdenshi Baioman, translated into English as Super Electron Bioman) is the eighth Super Sentai series. Produced by Toei Company, it was aired on TV Asahi from February 4, 1984 to January 26, 1985, with a total of 51 episodes. This series was released as VHS tapes in South Korea as Space Commando Bioman (우주특공대 바이오맨 Uju Teug-gongdae Baiomaen).
The average ratings of the series was 10.5%.[1]
- 1 Production
- 2 Plot
- 3 Characters
- 4 Arsenal
- 5 References
- 6 Mecha
- 7 Episodes
- 8 Songs
- 9 Cast
- 10 Stage Shows
- 11 Philippine English Voice Cast
- 12 Toyline
- 13 Notes
- 14 References
- 15 External links
After the success of Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, Toei began work on a series that would ultimately be considered a game-changer in the Super Sentai franchise. The season changed up many elements and aspects that would ultimately differentiate it from it's predecessors and would lead to the season becoming one of the most popular series of the franchise. One of the biggest changes is the influence of Toei's Robot Romance Trilogy, a series of three dramatic giant robot anime directed by Tadao Nagahara that had added much greater drama and interaction and which ended up becoming a major impact on Bioman's evolution. The plot element regarding Doctor Man and his failed relations with his actual son Shuichi Kageyama as well as his attempt to "replace" him with a robot clone known as Prince was influenced from the third of this trilogy, Tōshō Daimos; there was also an interest of using this anime's bird-like Baam, but this was ultimately not adapted, ultimately influencing 1991's Choujin Sentai Jetman and that season's usage of "adapted bird people" by way of Birdonic Waves. Neo Empire Gear was also an experiment in trying to use human-sized minions with giant robots, not monsters becoming giants, leading to the giant fights of the season.
One of the biggest changes alongside Gear's adjustments for Bioman was the introduction of the second female member. One of Bioman's original concepts was a team with five men similar to Sun Vulcan using three; but they soon realized that by having only men, it would be impossible to create real drama. At the same time, they realized that by having two females on a team, they could easily increase the drama and the conversations the two would have. The production team was initially against having more females on a male-oriented franchise, but when it proved to be extremely popular, the concept of two-females on a team became a major factor within the franchise. However this was not without difficulty: when Yuki Yajima, the actress portraying Mika Koizumi/Yellow4, became too much trouble to work with for the team, she was fired and an entire adjustment of the season had to be completed to remove her: she was written out as being killed and the episodes where she hadn't done voice production were changed so a voice actress filled in for Yuka's filmed scenes. Ultimately a new Yellow4 was found by way of Sumiko Tanaka who became Jun Yabuki, Mika's replacement.
The original concept of Bioman involved the team being possibly the descendants of fairy tale heroes such as Momotaro, Kintaro, Ipponbashi and Princess Kaguya; but recent news about "biotechnology" lead to a more sci-fi approach. Likewise, the name "Choudenshi" was chosen as opposed to "XX Sentai" like previous seasons was due to the special helmets developed to advertise the flashing lights installed in them. Likewise, this was the first Sentai season where Bandai produced the toys instead of Popy, leading to the first "DX-Metal" mecha in the Bio Robo toy which proved to be supremely popular. There were also plans for a cyborg hero to come to Earth later, which was ultimately adapted into the antagonist Bio Hunter Silva.
Due to all the adaptations and changes, Bioman became a massive success, becoming one of the biggest series of Super Sentai and one of the biggest in Japanese media. The only slight downside was due to Bandai's sales anticipation: they expected Bioman to sell at 130% of Dynaman; but it only sold 110%; still making it a massive success.
Many centuries ago, the android Peebo and the Bio Robo came to Earth from the fallen Bio Star. The Bio Robo showered five people with the Bio Particles, which would be passed on to later generations. In the present day, Doctor Man and his Shin Teikoku (New Empire) Gear threaten the world. Peebo must find the descendants of the original Bio Particle-showered five to form the Choudenshi (Super Electronic Squadron) Bioman.
|Shirou Gou
|Ryōsuke Sakamoto
|Shingo Takasugi
|Naoto Ōta
|Ryuuta Nanbara
|Akito Ōsuga
|Mika Koizumi ► Jun Yabuki
|Yuki Yajima ► Sumiko Tanaka
|Hikaru Katsuragi
|Michiko Makino
- Bio Peace Union
- Other Allies
- Red1's ancestor (2)
- Green2's ancestor (2)
- Blue3's ancestor (2)
- Yellow4's ancestor (2)
- Pink5's ancestor (2)
- Ken Hayase (13)
- Neo Intellect Brain (14)
- Shuichi Kageyama (25-26, 43-44 & 47-51)
- Setsuko Kageyama (26 & 51)
- Shinichiro Gou/Professor Shibata (43-44 & 47-50)
- Shota Yamamori (35-36)
- Miki (43-44)
- All Super Sentai
Neo Empire Gear
- Doctor Man (1-51)
- Prince (19, 20 & 49)
- Big Three
- Beastnoids
- Mechaclones
- Mechaclone No. 1 (28)
- Twin Dolls (9)
- Mirage Fighter
|Magne Warrior
|Shota Yamamori
- Kabuto Canth (1)
- Devil Canth (2)
- Gorilla Canth (3)
- Beetle Canth (4)
- Mummy Canth (5)
- Rhino Canth (6)
- Sea Anemone Canth (7 & 8)
- Twin Canth (9)
- Chameleon Canth (10)
- Musha Canth (11)
- Hammer Canth (12)
- Shark Canth (13)
- Anchor Canth (14)
- Frog Canth (15)
- Neptune Canth (16)
- Turtle Canth (17)
- Haniwa Canth(18)
- Grotes Canth (19-20)
- Camera Canth (21)
- Scarab Canth (22)
- Pirahna Canth (23)
- Poison Moth Canth (24)
- Ghost Canth (25-26)
- Spider Canth (27)
- Octopus Canth (28)
- Jellyfish Canth (29)
- Mantis Canth (30)
- Crab Canth (Movie)
Neo Mecha-Gigan
- Metal Megas (31)
- Axe Megas (32)
- Skull Megas (33)
- Wrestler Megas (34)
- Magne Megas (35-36)
- Cannon Megas (37)
- Battle Megas (38)
- Sonic Megas (39)
- Crush Megas (40)
- Amazon Megas (41)
- Thunder Megas (42)
- Satan Megas (43-44)
- Baroque Megas (45)
- Rugger Megas (46)
- Lens Megas (47)
- Super Megas (48)
- King Megas (50-51)
Anti-Bio Union
|Bio Hunter
|Silva (37-50)
- Balzion (48-50)
Transformation Devices
Individual Weapons
- Bio Arrow ◆
- Bio Turbo (car) ◆◆◆
- Bio Machine 1 (cycle) ◆
- Bio Machine 2 (cycle) ◆
BioJet System
- Legend: 2-person mecha, ⁂ 3-person mecha, ➲ carrier mecha
- Ep. 1: The Enigmatic Giant Robo Arrives (謎の巨大ロボ出現 Nazo no Kyodai Robo Shutsugen)
- Ep. 2: Gathering! Warriors of Destiny (集合! 宿命の戦士 Shūgō! Shukumei no Senshi)
- Ep. 3: Our Friend, Bio Robo (わが友バイオロボ Waga Tomo Baio Robo)
- Ep. 4: Self Destruct! Mecha-Humans (自爆! メカ人間 Jibaku! Meka Ningen)
- Ep. 5: Kill the Unseen Enemy (見えない敵を斬れ Mienai Teki o Kire)
- Ep. 6: Rise Up! Bio Robo (起て! バイオロボ Tate! Baio Robo)
- Ep. 7: Captured Peebo (つかまったピーボ Tsukamatta Pībo)
- Ep. 8: Fight! Vow to the Planet (戦え! 星に誓って Tatakae! Hoshi ni Sakatte)
- Ep. 9: The Jumprope That Erases People (人を消すなわ跳び Hito o Kesu Nawatobi)
- Ep. 10: Goodbye Yellow (さよならイエロー Sayonara Ierō)
- Ep. 11: Enter, New Warrior Jun (新戦士ジュン登場 Shin Senshi Jun Tōjō)
- Ep. 12: Murderer Green! (殺人者グリーン! Satsujinsha Gurīn!)
- Ep. 13: I'm Jun! (ジュンよ Jun yo)
- Ep. 14: Neo Intellect Brain! (新頭脳ブレイン! Shin Zunō Burein)
- Ep. 15: The Female Warrior's Flaming Oath (女戦士炎の誓い Onna Senshi Honō no Chikai)
- Ep. 16: Run, 21599 Seconds (走れ21599秒 Hashire Ni-Ban-Sen-Gobyaku-Kyū-Jū-Kyū-byō)
- Ep. 17: I Saw Ryūgū Castle (僕は龍宮城を見た Boku wa Tatsumiya-jō o Mita)
- Ep. 18: The ESPer Girl's Prayer (超能力少女の祈り Chōnōryoku Shōjo no Inori)
- Ep. 19: My Father is Doctor Man (父はドクターマン Chichi wa Dokutāman)
- Ep. 20: Prince's Challenge! (プリンスの挑戦! Purinsu no Chōsen!)
- Ep. 21: Protect the Biobase (守れバイオベース Mamore Baiobēsu)
- Ep. 22: A Great Burglar!? Blue! (大泥棒!? ブルー! Dai Dorobō!? Burū!)
- Ep. 23: Gyo! Attack of the Puppets! (ギョ! 人形の襲撃! Gyo! Ningyō no Shūgeki!)
- Ep. 24: The Exploding Flower of Love (爆発する愛の花 Bakuhatsu Suru Ai no Hana)
- Ep. 25: Prince's Ghost? (プリンスの幽霊? Purinsu no Yūrei?)
- Ep. 26: My Father's Dreadful Secret (恐るべき父の秘密 Osorubeki Chichi no Himitsu)
- Ep. 27: The Female Warriors of Spider Hell (クモ地獄の女戦士 Kumo Jigoku no Onna Senshi)
- Ep. 28: The Assassination of Doctor Man (ドクターマン暗殺 Dokutāman Ansatsu)
- Ep. 29: The Day Tokyo Disappeared!? (東京が消える日!? Tōkyō ga Kieru Hi!?)
- Ep. 30: Ultimate Canth's Demon Sword (最強カンスの魔剣 Saikyō Kansu no Ma Ken)
- Ep. 31: New Model!? Megas Arrives (新型!? メガス出現 Shingata!? Megasu Shutsugen)
- Ep. 32: Gear's Great Remodeling Plan (ギアの大改造作戦 Gia no Dai Kaizō Sakusen)
- Ep. 33: Has It Come Forth!? The New Finishing Move (出るか!? 新必殺技 Deru ka!? Shin Hissatsu-waza)
- Ep. 34: Behold!! The Power of Bio (見よ! バイオの力 Mi yo! Baio no Chikara)
- Ep. 35: The Sixth Man (6番目の男 Rokubanme no Otoko)
- Ep. 36: The Transforming Boy (変身ボーイ Henshin Bōi)
- Ep. 37: The Assassin Silva! (殺し屋シルバ! Koroshiya Shiruba!)
- Ep. 38: The Enigmatic Balzion (謎のバルジオン Nazo no Barujion)
- Ep. 39: Mason's Trap! (メイスンのワナ! Meisun no Wana!)
- Ep. 40: Stolen Turbo! (奪われたターボ! Ubawareta Tābo!)
- Ep. 41: The Demonic Lullaby! (悪魔の子守り唄! Akuma no Komoriuta!)
- Ep. 42: Gou! Risk Your Life! (郷! 命を賭けろ! Gō! Inochi o Kakero!)
- Ep. 43: The Sailor-Suited Soldier (セーラー服の戦士 Sērā-fuku no Senshi)
- Ep. 44: The Beautiful Conscience Circuit (美しき良心回路 Utsukishiki Ryōshin Kairo)
- Ep. 45: Human Bomb, Jun! (人間爆弾ジュン! Ningen Bakudan Jun!)
- Ep. 46: Escape! The Town of Traps! (脱出! わなの町! Dasshutsu! Wana no Machi!)
- Ep. 47: Professor Shibata's True Colors!? (柴田博士の正体!? Shibata-hakase no Shōtai!?)
- Ep. 48: It Appears! Balzion (出現! バルジオン Shutsugen! Barujion)
- Ep. 49: Critical Bio Robo (危うしバイオロボ Ayaushi Baio Robo)
- Ep. 50: Assault Neograd (突撃ネオグラード Totsugeki Neogurādo)
- Final Ep.: Goodbye, Peebo (さよならピーボ Sayonara Pībo)
American Pilot
- Opening theme
- "Choudenshi Bioman" (超電子バイオマン)
- Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ Miyauchi Takayuki)
- Ending theme
- "Biomic Soldier" (バイオミック・ソルジャー Baiomikku Sorujā)
- Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ Miyauchi Takayuki)
- Mecha themes
- "Oozora Kakete!" (大空翔けて! Ōzora Kakete!, "Take Off To the Sky!")
- Artists: Koorogi '73 (こおろぎ'73 Kōrogi Nanajūsan) & Japan Echo Singers (ジャパン・エコーシンガーズ Japan Ekōs Shingāzu)
- "Bio Robo No Uta" (バイオロボの歌 Baio Robo no uta, "Song of Bio Robo")
- Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ Miyauchi Takayuki)
- Insert themes
- "Oretachi Bioman" (俺達バイオマン Oretachi Baioman, "We're Bioman")
- Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ Miyauchi Takayuki) & Koorogi '73 (こおろぎ'73 Kōrogi Nanajūsan)
- "Sexual Lady" (セクシャル・レディ Sekusharu redi)
- Artist: Maki Ishiwata (石渡 マキ Ishiwata Maki)
- "Blue Togetherness"
- Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ Miyauchi Takayuki)
- "Colorful Bioman" (カラフル・バイオマン Karafuru Baioman)
- Artists: Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ Miyauchi Takayuki), Koorogi '73 (こおろぎ'73 Kōrogi Nanajūsan), & Japan Echo Singers (ジャパン・エコーシンガーズ Japan Ekōs Shingāzu)
- Character theme
- "Yuuyake No Pegasus" (夕焼けのペガサス Yūyake no Pegasasu, "Sunset Pegasus")
- Artist: Shirou Gou / Ryosuke Sakamoto (阪本 良介 Sakamoto Ryōsuke)
- "Yume Miru Peebo" (夢みるピーボ Yumemiru Pībo, "Dreaming Peebo")
- Artists: Peebo / Yoshiko Ōta (太田 淑子 Ōta Yoshiko) & Columbia Yurikago-Kai (コロムビアゆりかご会)
- Shirou Gou (郷 史朗 Gō Shirō): Ryōsuke Sakamoto (阪本 良介 Sakamoto Ryōsuke)
- Shingo Takasugi (高杉 真吾 Takasugi Shingo): Naoto Ōta (太田 直人 Ōta Naoto)
- Ryuuta Nanbara (南原 竜太 Nanbara Ryūta): Akito Ōsuga (大須賀 昭人 Ōsuga Akito)
- Mika Koizumi (小泉 ミカ Koizumi Mika): Yuki Yajima (矢島 由紀 Yajima Yuki)
- Jun Yabuki (矢吹 ジュン Yabuki Jun): Sumiko Tanaka (田中 澄子 Tanaka Sumiko)
- Hikaru Katsuragi (桂木 ひかる Katsuragi Hikaru): Michiko Makino (牧野 美千子 Makino Michiko)
- Professor Shibata (柴田博士 Shibata-hakase)/Shinichirō Gō: Tadao Nakamaru (中丸 忠雄 Nakamaru Tadao)
- Shūichi Kageyama (蔭山 秀一 Kageyama Shūichi), Prince (プリンス Purinsu): Hidenori Iura (井浦 秀知 Iura Hidenori)
- Doctor Man (ドクターマン Dokutā Man)/Hideo Kageyama: Munemaru Kōda (幸田 宗丸 Kōda Munemaru)
- Mason (メイスン Meisun): Hirohisa Nakata (中田 博久 Nakata Hirohisa)
- Farrah (ファラ Fara): Yōko Asuka (飛鳥 裕子 Asuka Yōko)
- Farrah Cat (ファラキャット Farakyatto): Yukari Oshima (大島ゆかり Ōshima Yukari)
- Monster (モンスター Monsutā): Strong Kongō (ストロング金剛 Sutorongu Kongō)
Voice Actors
- Peebo (ピーボ Pībo): Yoshiko Ōta (太田 淑子 Ōta Yoshiko)
- Mettzler (メッツラー Mettsurā): Hiroshi Izawa (伊沢 弘 Izawa Hiroshi)
- Zyuoh (ジュウオウ Jūō): Masahiro Anzai (安西 正弘 Anzai Masahiro )
- Psygorn (サイゴーン Saigōn): Keisuke Yamashita (山下 啓介 Yamashita Keisuke)
- Aquaiger (アクアイガー Akuaigā): Kanko Nagai (永井 寛孝 Nagai Kankō)
- Messerjū (メッサージュウ Messerjū): Shun Yashiro (八代 駿 Yashiro Shun)
- Bio Hunter Silva (バイオハンター・シルバ Baio Hantā Shiruba): Kazuo Hayashi (林 一夫 Hayashi Kazuo)
- Narrator: Ichirō Murakoshi (村越 伊知郎 Murakoshi Ichirō)
Stage Shows
Philippine English Voice Cast
All characters' Japanese names are renamed as well as the villains except Mason, Farrah, Farrah Cat, Psygorn and Hideo's alter-ego Doctor Man. The ensemble casts are well known for voicing the characters from the renowned classic anime series, Chōdenji Machine Voltes V (超電磁マシーン ボルテス V Chōdenji Mashīn Borutesu Faibu).
- Kenichi/Kenny/Shirō Gō: Noel Mallonga
- Sammy/Shingo Takasugi: Tony Nierras
- Frankie/Ryūta Nanbara: Dodo Crisol
- Casey/Mika Koizumi: Geraldine Oca
- June/Jun Yabuki: Dada Carlos
- Kimberly/Hikaru Katsuragi: Celina Cristobal
- Yatori/Shota Yamamori: Cris Vertido
- Doctor Shibota/Shichiro/Doctor Shibata/Shinichirō Gō: Joonee Gamboa
- Sonny O'Hara/Shūichi Kageyama, Prince: Earl Palma
- Mike O'Hara/Hideo Kageyama/Doctor Man: Chito Vicente
- Mason: P.J. Ramos
- Farrah: Celina Cristobal
- Farrah Cat: Celina Cristobal
- Vargo/Monster: Noel Mallonga
Voice Actors
- Peebo: Celina Cristobal (Ep 1-10, 50 & 51) Dada Carlos (Ep 11-49)
- Plasmanoid/Mettzler: Bob Borjial
- Psygorn: Tony Nierras
- Zeroid/Zyuoh: Chito Vicente
- Aquainoid/Aquaiger: Cris Vertido
- Falconoid/Messer Beast: Dodo Crisol
- Bio Hunter Silver/Bio Hunter Silva: Danny Deopante
- Narrator: Noel Mallonga
- This is the first Super Sentai series to feature a female Yellow Ranger, and the first to feature two females on the team.
- Bioman is the first Super Sentai series to have the show's full title announced at the beginning of the opening sequence. The two previous series, Goggle V and Dynaman, announces only the title of the team but not the full title. This has become a tradition with nearly every Sentai (with the exception of Kakuranger, Go-Busters, and Lupinranger VS Patranger).
- Bioman is also the first Super Sentai series since Denshi Sentai Denziman to feature the original Red-Blue-Green-Yellow-Pink main team formation.
- Bioman is also nearly unique among Super Sentai in that the human-sized monsters aren't grown when defeated. Gear uses five recurring human-sized monsters, the Beastnoids, and launches a unique giant robot when its members are defeated. This is similar to Goggle Five (the monster uses a giant, robotic near-clone of itself) and Dekaranger (monster or footsoldier uses giant robot, either to a finish fight or used as a distraction.)
- Like its 1981 predecessor, Sun Vulcan[Citation needed], Bioman was chosen to be adapted into a Power Rangers series followed by the 1991 series Jetman. The adaptation of a Sentai to a Power Rangers series would later go to its 1992 successor, Zyuranger.
- Had Bioman been adapted, Doctor Man's dubbed name would have been Zadar.[1]
- Bioman is the second to last series to have a primary and secondary ranger of the same designation (Shinkenger is the last) and is the only series wherein the primary and secondary Rangers of the same designation do not appear in the same episode, unlike in Gorenger, Battle Fever J and Sun Vulcan.
- Bioman was also the last time where one Ranger lost/gave up their designation, making the second Ranger the only one with their designation.
- Aside from colors, Bioman is the first Sentai with numerical designations (not counting a special exception). The second would come exactly thirty years later.
- This is one of two Sentai to use the term "Denshi" as the denomination, alongside Denshi Sentai Denziman; however the "Denshi" in this title refers to "electron" as opposed to "electronics" as in the former series.
- In the Philippine Dub, their dub becomes English prior to the other Sentai series where they speak to their native language. Their Japanese names are also renamed as Kenichi/Kenny (Shirou), Sammy (Shingo), Frankie (Ryuuta), Casey (Mika), June (Jun), Kimberly (Hikaru) and Yatori (Shota). The supporting characters are also renamed as Sonny (Shuichi/Prince), Shichiro/Dr. Shibota (Shinichiro/Dr. Shibata), Michael (Ken), and Mickey (Miki) and the villains, Mike O'Hara (Hideo), Vargo (Monster) and the Beastoids with the exception of both Mason and Farrah from the Big Three and Hideo's alias as Doctor Man are maintained.
- This is the the third Sentai series to not bear the name of "Sentai" in the series title, first since JAKQ Dengekitai and Battle Fever J. Though also instead, being the first Sentai series on replacing a word of "Sentai" with a word of "Chou (name)" only, followed by Flashman.
- In France, Bioman first aired on Canal + in 1985, every saturday at 12:30, and later on TF1, on the programme Club Dorothée, from September 2 1987 (where it had a different opening song from the original one, differently from the Canal + Dub). The show had consequently an immense success, that allowed other Sentai shows to be imported in France. Bioman had acquired a status of cult series between the Club Dorothée generation, and is regularly reaired in the satellitar channel Mangas. The French dub had two theme songs: one in the Canal + airing was a cover of the Choudenshi Bioman theme song and the other song in the TF1/Mangas airing was an original theme song sang by Bernard Minet.
- In the French Dub, The Biomen are renamed as Jacky (Shirou), Fred (Shingo), Bob (Ryuta) and Sikou (Hikaru), while Mika, Jun, and Shota retained their original names, their ranger designations were also renamed as Force Rouge (literally: Red Force, Red1), Force Verte (Green2), Force Bleue (Blue3), Force Jaune (Yellow4), Force Rose (Pink5) and Soldat Magnétique (Magne Warrior). The supporting characters retain their original names, while Peebo was renamed as Peebolo. The Beastnoids and the villains, with the exception of Bio Hunter Silva and Hideo Kageyama, were renamed as Docteur Mad (Doctor Man), Jason (Mason), Phara (Farrah), Monstre (Monster), Pharacat (Farrahcat), Motzou (Messer Beast), Saigon (Psygorn), Aqua-tiger (Aquaiger), Madler (Mettzler) and Jouoh (Zyuoh).
- In Greece, some episodes from Bioman were dubbed and released in VHS. The cast from the dubbed version is unknown. Bioman was the only Super Sentai series that was released in Greece. Later they were replaced by Power Rangers.
- In the Philippine Dub, the narrator of the episode series has been voiced by Noel Mallonga who also voices both Shirou and Monster in the same series.
- They are the first Super Sentai to have an attack that has the same name as their Sentai name. (Super Electron)
- The show's theme song is sampled in the song "Spectronizer" by the Super Sentai-themed band Sentai Express.
- This song appears in the popular dance game Just Dance 3.
- The dancers are dressed as Sentai/Power Rangers.
- This song was in the game to celebrate Super Sentai's 35th anniversary, due to the fact that the game was released at the time of the airing of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
- The dancers are dressed as Sentai/Power Rangers.
- This song appears in the popular dance game Just Dance 3.
External links
- Choudenshi Bioman at super-sentai.net
- Choudenshi Bioman at Wikipedia
- Choudenshi Bioman at Japanese Wikipedia
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SOS funded 3 tiger conservation projects in its first phase of activity, all starting in 2011.
Of these, 2 projects were implemented in Bangladesh and Malaysia while a third worked across multiple tiger range states, supporting the pilot phase of SMART Conservation Software (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool). Clicking on the orange text will open up the respective project profiles in another window.
Leveraging the experience of SOS as a grant-making initiative, IUCN and KfW Bank launched the Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP). This €20 million programme funds a portfolio of 12 projects in different tiger range states with some illustrated in the map image, below.
To learn more about the ITHCP please visit the page on IUCN website.

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While a great deal of documentation is being provided by Microsoft, I and Mike Douglas (a fellow Visual Studio ALM MVP) have started writing a book on this very topic titled "Extending Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online". The primary focus of this book will be to provide scenario-based examples on how to utilize the new REST-based APIs and Service Hooks. Based on our everyday experiences with TFS and Visual Studio Online, along with feedback from our readers, we plan to provide a book that will be simply indispensible for anyone wishing to extend TFS or Visual Studio Online using the new API.
Our intention is to release the book in stages, as we complete new chapters. As of this posting, we are officially making the initial version available with planned releases roughly every two weeks – until the initially defined table of contents has been completed. This model will also allow us to address changes and updates to the API as Microsoft moves from preview to release.
To accommodate the phased release, we will be publishing the book as an eBook in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats. The initial cost of the book will be $1.99 and the price of the book will gradually increase as we release new content. Once you purchase the book, you will get all future releases at no additional charge. So, the earlier you buy in, the better the price!
The initial table of contents for the book is as follows (though subject to change):
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I – The Basics
- Chapter 1: Overview of Team Foundation Server
- Chapter 2: A History of Team Foundation Server APIs
- Chapter 3: A REST Primer
- Part II – Using the Team Foundation APIs
- Chapter 4: Our First REST API Call
- Chapter 5: Work Items
- Chapter 6: Team Foundation Version Control
- Chapter 7: Git
- Chapter 8: Build Definitions
- Chapter 9: Builds
- Chapter 10: Workspaces
- Chapter 11: Team Room Management
- Chapter 12: Team Room Activities
- Chapter 13: Reporting and Charts
- Chapter 14: Projects and Teams
- Chapter 15: Service Hooks
- Part III – Other Resources
- Chapter 16: Using Fiddler
- Chapter 17: Using OAuth
- Resources
The chapters listed in bold have been at least partially completed and are included in the initial release of the book.
If you have an interest in extending Team Foundation Server and/or Visual Studio Online, then this is (will be) the book for you. Purchasing the book now locks in all future updates for only $1.99!
You can read more about the book and purchase it here. Please utilize the feedback section on the book site if you have any questions and/or suggestions. We welcome any and all feedback – especially if it helps us to provide a better, and more useful, book for everyone.


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One of the standards of the industry. An affordable box with some pretty cool game used base cards an average of one per box. Look for a 2 card hologram bonus pack and of course the rookie card of Yankee slugger Hideki Matsui!
24 packs per box, 8 cards per pack
MVP Silver 1:2
MVP Gold sequentially numbered to 125
MVP Black sequentially numbered to 50
MVP Silver Parallel sequentially numbered to 75
Interactive Fantasy game cards 1:3
MVP Celebration sequentially numbered to MVP year
Covering the Bases game used base 1:66
Covering the Plate game used bat
Total Bases game used base sequentially numbered to 150
Base to Base dual game used base 1:488
Dual Aces dual game used base 1:488
Triple Bagger triple game used base 1:488
MVP ProSign autographs sequentially numbered to 25
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About JPU
JPU was founded by Brent D. Murphy. Brent was the Founder and President of Advanced Radiotherapy Consulting, Inc., (ARC), Founder of ARETE Medical Physics, and Founder of Ascend Medical Physics. ARC was the premiere trainer in the field of Radiation Oncology. ARETE Medical Physics established a high standard of Medical Physics and Medical Dosimetry Services throughout the U.S.. Ascend Medical Physics is the proven leader in Linac Commissioning in the world. ARC, ARETE, and ASCEND merged to form Global Physics Solutions, Inc (GPS). GPS was the largest Medical Physics Group in the U.S. and was acquired in CY2009 to form Landauer Medical Physics.
ARC trained over 2000 professionals from 1400 Radiation Therapy Centers (of the existing 2700 centers). In nearly all cases, it was evident that the vendor's technologies exceeded the knowledge base of those using the system. This WAS NOT the fault of the individuals but rather a lack of established training for all of these new technologies. Brent recognized during the 7 years of leading ARC that the Medical Physics and Medical Dosimetry fields were being underserved and has spent 2006-2009 preparing the BS and MS level programs.
JPU evolved and has grown to offer additional programs in the radiological sciences. All programs utilize the blended learning environment which maximizes the opportunity for the student. These programs are ideally suited for the compassionate working professional and for new-to-the-field students focused on a career in the radiological sciences.


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Art Streiber photographed comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele for this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine cover story, "Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?," on Wharton professor Adam Grant's theories on altruism. He also directed a video, "The Generosity of Key and Peele Is Not to Be Believed," in which the comedians take workplace generosity to a hilarious extreme, with the simple gesture of bringing someone a cup of coffee leading to a fiercely genial battle to see who could be more giving.
"Directing the comedy duo Key and Peele became a tennis match of great ideas bouncing all over the studio," says Art. "We could have shot that scene for hours."
Arem Duplessis, the design director at The New York Times Magazine, and Art gave Key and Peele a basic structure for the scene "and then let them loose," says Art. "It was improv with parameters: We needed to keep the one-upmanship about the workplace, and each gesture had to be made in the guise of being 'nice,' of being a giver.
"I wanted to make it clear, through their body language and facial expressions, that each of them was slightly peeved at having to accept a gift from the other, and delighted when they one-upped their officemate."
Art and his team had to move quickly from the stills portion of the shoot to the video part, a transition that went swiftly and smoothly with the help of lighting designer Eric Larson and DP Adam Grossman. Eric built "one giant light source" that flipped easily from strobes to hot lights, and Adam locked down Art's 35mm still camera so that when the camera was flipped over to motion, he could add "two 'floating' over-the-shoulder cameras to frame closeups of Key and Peele's reactions to each other," explains Art.
"The shoot was seamless, and Key and Peele were hilarious!"
Arem Duplessis, design director, The New York Times Magazine
Kathy Ryan, director of photography
Joanna Milter, deputy photo editor
Art Streiber, photographer
Elaine Browne, creative producer
Arem Duplessis, producer/The New York Times
Art Streiber, director
Adam Grossman, camera and editing, Good Dog Media
Stanley Gonzales, sound
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Why is it always about "more" 19:59 on Tuesday
When I recently canceled my account with TSheets, the question I got in response was:
What was it that you were looking for that TSheets didn't have?
Maybe it was just an incidental way of paraphrasing the question. Nevertheless, it signals a mindset of more is better. It's a mindset that leads to featuritis.


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In the latest installment of CasterBlog's Journalists on PR series, Caster's Joe Paone interviews Audrey Gray, senior editor with North American Publishing Company's (NAPCO's) Consumer Technology Publishing Group (CTPG).
Based in Philadelphia, Audrey writes business features and produces rich media content for CTPG's roster of consumer electronics-focused publications, including consumer title E-Gear and trade titles Dealerscope, CustomRetailer and PictureBusiness. As such, she's hella busy, and we're extremely grateful she took the time to talk with us.


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For the past few weeks we have been writing about some of the best nightclubs Buenos Aires has to offer (Buenos Aires Nightlife#1 and Buenos Aires Nightlife #2). However, we figure you came down to South America for a taste of the latin culture too, so we kept that in mind for this weeks nightlife suggestions!
La Salsera:
One of Buenos Aires liveliest salsa and merengue clubs. A friendly crowd and upbeat dancing to catchy rhythms ensure a night of fun fun fun! You can also take a beginner salsa lesson on Saturdays at 10.30pm
Open Fridays, Saturdays, and holiday eves (which means today too!) from 12pm onwards.
La Salsera
Yatai 961, Almagro
4866-1829 email@example.com
Another nightclub and dance school that specializes in salsa, bachata and other boisterous options for night time fun! On Fridays and Saturdays, this vivacious dance house hosts its Caribbean nights party which combines a mix of latin rhythms.
Av. Corrientes 3330, Abasto
4865-3103 email@example.com
Maluco Beleza:
This centric venue offers a lively and colorful environment where you can move to brazilian tunes and watch professional brazilian dancers do their thing! Another perk of this place is that is has another dance floor with more conventional nightclub music in case you want to switch for a while. On Fridays at 10.30 pm you can take a lambazouk dance class and then stay to practice the entire night or go for a Brazilian dinner-show on a Wednesday and let the night sweep you off your feet!
Maluco Beleza
Sarmiento 1728
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Tongue Part - Hitch Pin and Lanyard
The 3/8" x 1 1/2" cotterless hitchpin joins the tongue clevis to the bicycle hitch. It is secured to the end of the tongue with a webbing lanyard which is fitted with a grommet to allow the connecting bolt to pass through it.
Techinical Specifications:
The pin is 3/8" in diameter with an effective length of 1 1/2". a small ball in embedded in the pin to prevent it from accidentally comming out of the connecting hole. It is made of steel and plated with zinc. The webbing is 5/8" wide x 8" long. It is fitted with a #0 brass spur grommet and washer on one end and a sewn loop to fit to a split ring that also passes through a hole in the head of the hitch pin.
The pin mates with the 3/8" hole in the tongue clevis and the 3/8" hole in the rod end joint affixed to the hitch.


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Milne sets out Sinn Féin position on gold mining
Speaking after a community meeting on the possibility of gold mining in the Tirgan/Desertmartin area of South Derry, Sinn Féin Mid Ulster MLA Ian Milne said:
"Sinn Féin's position on gold mining and processing is very clear and was set out in motion 68 at the party's Ard Fheis in 2017.
"Sinn Féin is opposed to the use of cyanide in mining due to its environmental and health implications.
"Sinn Féin recognises the environmental damage caused by precious metals mining and the extraction of Ireland's non-renewable natural resources with little or no benefit to local communities.
"Former Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard MP made it clear that in regard to gold mining in Tyrone he was of the view that any planning application should be subject to an independent public inquiry before any final decision was taken.
"That remains our position, and in the event of a public inquiry we will continue to oppose the use of cyanide in the mining process."


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I published my scheme interpreter on gitorious. Now you can follow along. It needed a name, so I called it kbscheme. Not a brilliant name but it'll do.
Here's the project blurb.
This vanity project is yet another implementation of the Scheme programming language.
Project goals:
- I want to learn Scheme.
- I want to write something in C. I've been using higher level languages and my C is rusty.
- I want to write a garbage collector. They've always fascinated me, but I've never written one.
- I have some research ideas about garbage collection that I want to explore.
Project non-goals:
- a production-quality Scheme interpreter
- full implementation of the language
Check it out, Brandon.
Hint to the git-ignorant (as I was very recently). Go to the repositories/mainline page and click on the "More info…" links, Those will show the exact commands needed to copy (clone) the tree onto your local disk.
Actually, I'm still git-ignorant. Gotta work on that…


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Wow, people in the United States are so generous that their voluntary giving amounts to 10.2 percent of gross domestic product. The only other nations that even crack 5 percent of GDP are the Netherlands, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Most of the supposedly compassionate welfare states have dismal levels of charitable giving. Voluntary social expenditure in major European nations such as France, Germany, Italy, and Spain averages less than 2 percent of GDP.There's actually quite a bit more of interest in his article. Definitely worth a read if you find this topic of interest. Oh and by the way, check back here early this evening for Q2.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Q1: Who are the most charitable, Americans or Europeans?
A: It's not close, and it's the Americans. This was the topic of must-read article by OLS hero Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Mitchell points out that many, the left in particular, believe that Europeans and their greater emphasis on social justice and material equality are more compassionate. But when it comes to putting their money where their mouths are, the Europeans are nowhere near as generous, even when adjusting for the greater wealth of Americans. Here's a telling chart:
Posted by Dr. Marc Street at 6:31 AM
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Who ever thinks that fighting for your country is called "Terrorism" you guys just need to use your brain because if someone attacked the US fighting for it won't be called terrorism but when the Palestinians fight for there land its called being a terrorest. Taser Arafat wasn't a terrorest he was just fighting for his land
While his actions were not right, he was able to use guerilla warfare effectively achieve some of the goals of the PLO and give hope to the refugees who were displaced during the 6-day war and rally against the Israelis even after they had destroyed the Palestinians' allies' airforce and disabled their army.
That Arafat yielded the Palestinian cause to an international agenda, troubling the world with the reality that not all malevolence and enmity was drawn from the Arabs. Through his speech to the UN General Assembly Resolution 3236 and 3237 were endorsed, giving right to retain self-determination and allowing an observer seat to Palestine, both of which were milestones in the legitimisation of the PLO. THINK ABOUT IT
I do not agree with many things that Yassar Arafat did as a leader and a politician, but he was a good and charismatic leader for the Palestinian Liberation Party. For that specific party, I cannot imagine a better leader and figurehead. He was a perfect leader for that particular party
No, Yasser Arafat was not a good leader for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, because he didn't really do anything to address his own people's needs. Fighting Israel is not a way to bring wealth to your own group of people. He should have focused on internal human welfare projects, rather than picking on Israel.
Yasser Arafat was not a leader, he was a terrorist with a fancy title. Terrorism against Israel and against Jews worldwide increased when he was in control of the PLO. Not that Arafat ever got blood on his hands, he was a coward. He didn't even have the courage to die in the land he supposedly was defending.
I do not believe Yasser Arafat was a good leader for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. During a meeting between the president of the US and the leader of Israel, Arafat had the opportunity to set up the Palestinian state and he refused because all of his demands weren't being met. I think his actions were a disservice to the people who stood for.
No, Yasser Arafat was not a good leader for the Palestinian people. He was responsible for the deaths of a lot of his own people due to his irresponsible ways and actions when dealing with the Isreali. Yasser Arafat encourage fighting for land that didn't even belong to the Palestinian people.


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CPR/AED January 29 and March Classes Available Open for Registration
CPR/AED for Outdoor Enthusiasts
The CMC Denver Group's Wilderness First Aid School (WFA) is offering one-evening, 2 and 1/2 hour nationally recognized ECSI (Emergency Care and Safety Institute) CPR and AED (automated external defibrillator) classes at the AMC/CMC (sign-up for one class only). The course includes a two-year CPR/AED certification. The tuition is $30. There are limited spaces for this course. This class does not meet the requirements for Wilderness First Aid certification. See /firstpage/wfa-cpraed for more information.


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Electric Puppets works with hospitals and health clinics to create 3D and virtual reality (VR) based testing solutions. Their flagship product, Evrisia, records movement, eye position and pupil size, and can be played back in virtual reality by a clinician. Electric Puppets creates and provides customized environments, characters and props to create an engaging patient experience. The company has a development lab and a content creation studio at the Innovacorp Enterprise Centre, and a VR room that features testing and recording capabilities to the public at the Unified Health Community Triage Centre in Halifax.
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Application Catalog
The Application Catalog feature is currently under active development and is available starting from 5.4.0 alpha releases.
Gravity supports packaging Helm charts as self-contained application images that can be installed in a Gravity cluster or a generic Kubernetes cluster (provided it has an access to a Docker registry).
An application image is a tarball that contains:
- A Helm chart (possibly with chart dependencies).
- Vendored Docker images for the chart's Kubernetes resources.
tele and
gravity binaries have all required Helm functionality
built-in so the
helm binary isn't required to be installed on the
server when building applications, or inside a deployed cluster. The
tiller server (Helm's server component) does need to be deployed to
the cluster.
tele version and
gravity version commands report the embedded Helm
$ tele version
Edition: open-source
Version: 5.4.0
Git Commit: 971d93b06da08c3b277fc033c1c4fdca55a0ec6b
Helm Version: v2.12
Build an Application Image
For this example we will be using a sample Helm chart. This chart spins up a single pod of Alpine Linux:
$ tree alpine
├── Chart.yaml
├── README.md
├── templates
│ ├── alpine-pod.yaml
│ └── _helpers.tpl
└── values.yaml
Before building an application image, we need to make sure that the pod's image reference includes a registry template variable which can be set to an appropriate registry during installation:
image: "{{ .Values.image.registry }}{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}"
We can now use
tele to build an application image from this chart:
$ tele build alpine
The result is a tarball
alpine-0.1.0.tar which includes a packaged Helm
chart and the Alpine image layers.
Publish an Application Image
Publishing applications requires a Gravity Hub and is available only in the Enterprise edition of Gravity.
A built application image can be published to an Gravity Hub. This allows the Gravity Hub to perform the role of a distribution endpoint for application images.
To upload an application image to an Gravity Hub, first log into it:
$ tele login -o hub.example.com
Then push the application image tarball:
$ tele push alpine-0.1.0.tar
To view all currently published applications:
$ tele ls
Type Name:Version Created (UTC)
---- ------------ -------------
App image alpine:0.1.0 01/16/19 23:31
Interacting with Docker Registry and Helm Chart Repository
A Gravity Hub (and any Gravity cluster for that matter) acts as a Docker
registry and a Helm chart repository so it is possible to pull Docker images
and fetch Helm charts for published applications directly from the Gravity Hub.
Note that you have to be logged into the Gravity Hub with
tele login for this
to work.
First let's try to pull a Docker image for the alpine application:
$ docker pull hub.example.com/alpine:3.3
3.3: Pulling from alpine
da1f53af4030: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:014c089bd8b453b6870d2994eb4240ee69555fc5d760ffe515ef3079f5bcdad8
Status: Downloaded newer image for hub.example.com/alpine:3.3
Pushing Docker images directly to the Gravity Hub registry with
docker push
is not supported. Use
tele push to publish application image along with
its charts and layers to the Gravity Hub.
Next make sure that the Gravity Hub was configured as a Helm charts repository:
$ helm repo list
hub.example.com https://hub.example.com:443/charts
To search for a particular chart the standard Helm command can be used:
$ helm search alpine
hub.example.com/alpine 0.1.0 3.3 Deploy a basic Alpine Linux pod
Helm can also be used to retrieve a Helm chart package archive, in the standard Helm format:
$ helm fetch hub.example.com/alpine --version 0.1.0 # will produce alpine-0.1.0.tgz
tele logout to clear login information for the Gravity Hub, including
Docker registry and Helm chart repository credentials.
Search Application Images
For the purpose of discovering applications to install in a deployed cluster, Gravity provides a search command:
$ gravity app search [-r|--remote] [-a|--all] [pattern]
By default the command will show application images that are available in
the local cluster. Provide
-r flag to the command to display
applications from remote application catalog in the search results.
Note that the meaning of the "remote application catalog" differs between the Open-Source and Enterprise versions of Gravity:
- For the Open-Source clusters, it is the Gravitational default
distribution portal (
- For the Enterprise clusters, it is the Gravity Hub a cluster is connected to. See Configuring Trusted Clusters for details on how to connect a cluster to an Gravity Hub.
-a flag makes the command to display both local and remote applications.
Here's an example search result in a cluster that is connected to the Ops
$ gravity app search -r
Name Version Description Created
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hub.example.com/alpine 0.1.0 Deploy a basic Alpine Linux pod Wed Jan 16 23:31 UTC
hub.example.com/nginx 0.1.0 A basic NGINX HTTP server Tue Jan 15 20:58 UTC
The search command also accepts an optional application name pattern:
$ gravity app search -r alpine
Name Version Description Created
---- ------- ----------- -------
hub.example.com/alpine 0.1.0 Deploy a basic Alpine Linux pod Wed Jan 16 23:31 UTC
Install a Release
To deploy an application image from a tarball, transfer it onto a cluster node and execute the install command:
$ gravity app install alpine-0.1.0.tar
The install command can also download the specified application from a remote application catalog. Following up on the search example above, the alpine application can be installed directly from the remote Gravity Hub:
$ gravity app install hub.example.com/alpine:0.1.0
When executed inside a Gravity cluster, it will automatically push the application to the local cluster controller which will keep the images synchronized with the local Docker registries.
When deploying into a generic Kubernetes cluster, the install command needs to know where to push the images and where the chart resources should pull them from:
$ gravity app install alpine-0.1.0.tar \
--registry 10.103.27.132:5000 \
--set image.registry=10.103.27.132:5000/
Gravity manages application lifecycle using the embedded Helm which means that it creates a "release" for each deployed application image. The same application image can be installed into a cluster multiple times, and a new release will be created to track each installation.
To view all currently deployed releases, run:
$ gravity app ls
Release Status Chart Revision Namespace Updated
test-release DEPLOYED alpine-0.1.0 1 default Thu Dec 6 21:13:14 UTC
gravity app set of sub-commands support many of the same flags of
the respective
helm commands such as
and so on. Check
--help for each command to see which are supported.
Upgrade a Release
To upgrade a release, build a new application image (
upload it to a cluster node and execute the upgrade command:
$ gravity app upgrade test-release alpine-0.2.0.tar \
--registry 10.103.27.132:5000 \
--set image.registry=10.103.27.132:5000/
Or, download and install the upgrade application image from the connected Gravity Hub:
$ gravity app upgrade test-release hub.example.com/alpine:0.2.0
Similar to app install, registry flags need to be provided only when installing in a generic Kubernetes cluster. When running in a Gravity cluster, application will be synced with the local cluster registries automatically.
Rollback a Release
Each release has an incrementing version number which is bumped every time a release is upgraded. To rollback a release, first find out the revision number to roll back to:
$ gravity app history test-release
Revision Chart Status Updated Description
2 alpine-0.2.0 DEPLOYED Thu Dec 6 22:53:10 UTC Upgrade complete
1 alpine-0.1.0 SUPERSEDED Thu Dec 6 21:13:14 UTC Install complete
Then rollback to a given revision:
$ gravity app rollback test-release 1
This command will rollback the specified release
test-release to the
revision number
Uninstall a Release
To uninstall a release, execute the following command:
$ gravity app uninstall test-release


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Vitaoils Nutri
INCI Name: Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Macadamia Ternifolia Seed Oil, Chenopodium Quinoa Seed Extract, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Gardenia Tahitensis Flower Extract.
Vitaoils Nutri, a part of the Oils Complex, contains macadamia oil and monoi oil, combined with quinoa extract, to moisturize, repair, protect and strengthen hair. Cosmetic applications include hair protection, hair repairing and anti-hair loss.
Recommended use level: 0.5 - 5%.


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Ocho Kitchen and Bar Celebrates Spring With New Dishes and Cocktails
If you are in the mood for a healthy (yes, healthy) take on Mexican/Tex-Mex inspired fare, Ocho Kitchen and Bar may be the spot for you. Chef Joel Harloff tweaks typical Mexican favorites to create a lively menu filled with fresh flavors that are both heart healthy and many, gluten free, like his Cilantro-Caper Salmon Ceviche and The Benjamin grilled chicken fajitas. Last night Chef Harloff invited a handful of local media folks out to his 8Bar upstairs for a tasting of a few of his new menu offerings, paired with seasonal cocktails. Healthy eating and tasty spirits? I had to attend and taste as his guest.
Jump for more and a look at Ariel Gonzalez's beautiful photos.
A few new offerings included his delicious Ahi Tuna "Chimichurri" Ceviche and Smoked Vital Farms Chicken Sope, paired with refreshing takes on a typical margarita. Their cocktail list is impressive and very fresh, utilizing over 50 hand selected tequilas mixed with seasonal ingredients to create unique flavors. The Hatch Chile Smoke Cocktail combines El Jimador Reposado tequila with lemon juice, agave and hatch chile powder, creating a spicy cocktail with just the right amount of lime to make it sweet without being too tart. The drink of the night had to be their Spicy Watermelon Margarita with watermelon water, Triple Sec, Watermelon liqueur, lime syrup, jalapeno infused El Jimador Blanco tequila and mint. Heat and sweet fused together. I am in love with grapefruit in any drink, so my next trip will require a sampling of their take on a Paloma with Herradura Blanco, grapefruit, lime, mint and grapefruit soda. If you are out and about tonight, stop by. Every Thursday night from 9 p.m. to midnight, Ocho hosts a special late night happy hour with drink specials, guest DJs and complimentary appetizers.


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In continuing good weather nine walkers joined Val for a local walk taking in the delights of the area surrounding Newton which is situated near Porthcawl and was a thriving port in the 12th century close to the Saxon settlement of Nottage.
Parking at the rear of the church near the allotments the group began by following a path through the built up area to join narrow sandy paths amid tall green ferns in Merthyr Mawr Warren which once stretched all along the coast to the Mumbles on Gower and is an important habitat for wildlife and plants. It has a claim to fame in that parts of the epic movie Lawrence of Arabia were filmed there.
The group entered woodland where coppicing, a traditional form of wood management has taken place and as such allows for light to enter which in turn means the ground is usually covered in vegetation and plants, in this case fantastic bluebells in springtime. The wood afforded them some shade from the hot sun before they reached a modern wooden stile in front of the beautiful original moss-covered stone stile.
Crossing a narrow path led them into the empty charming tranquil green pastures of Cwm y Befos which looked as if it had recently been cut for hay but normally is pasture land for sheep and contains several jumps for horses.
A short steep climb at the valley head led the group over stiles onto the newly resurfaced lane between high hedges where it was extremely hot and following it they entered Tythegston, originally Llan Dudwg or Dudwg's Town derived from the village church which was dedicated to St Tudwg (or Tydwg) who was a disciple of the 6th century Welsh Saint Cenydd.
All the properties within the village have smart metal name plates outside with the crest of the estate and there is also a delightful post box set in a stone wall that dates back to the reign of George Regina.
Another delightful stone stile led them into a huge grassy meadow where half way through, they sought out the shade of a beautifully shaped sycamore tree so they could enjoy morning coffee. It certainly seemed to amuse the people passing in vehicles on a nearby road making their way through to Porthcawl.
Continuing on through two fields of wheat where the farmer had left wide footpaths they reached an overgrown area and ploughing through in the field corner they passed through a small copse into fields populated with horses and young cattle overlooking Laleston as they dropped downhill making their way towards another stone stile leading to the very busy A48.
Tramping beside the A48 for a short time they deviated back into the comparative safety of fields where the harvest had already begun as farmers with heavy machinery were working hard in the fields nearby.
They made their way towards Coed Cwintin and passed through Candleston Farm where a Jack Russell came out to bark and challenge everyone before being hauled away by the farmer.
A rough stony track led them downhill through the woods where on the valley floor they passed the tall sand dune known as the big dipper before stopping further on to view the ruins of Candleston Castle, a fortified manor house built in the late 14th century which was surrounded by the forgotten village of Treganlaw (the town of a hundred hands) which probably perished when the site was overtaken by sand storms. The name Candleston was derived from the Norman Cantelupe family who built the house but the estate perished following the sand storms and the land became useless.
Crossing Merthyr Mawr car park a bridge over the almost dried up brook led them back into the sand dunes and following a narrow sandy track through the wood beside the brook they paused further on in a clearing to enjoy lunch in warm sunshine with just the hint of a breeze.
Refreshed they carried on beside the brook and reaching the Ogmore Estuary they followed the bank in a southerly direction towards the coast tramping through a bridle track to reach Traeth yr Afon where they passed some beautiful sea-holly.
On the opposite side of the estuary at Ogmore-by-Sea there was much activity with people enjoying the summer sunshine and as the tide was on its way out leaving clean washed hard sand behind, their journey across Traeth yr Afon past Black Rocks to Newton was made much easier.
Enjoying the breeze and views towards Porthcawl and Trecco Bay they left the beach to follow the road up towards Newton passing St John's well also known as Sandford's well which fills when the tide is out and empties when the tide is high. During the middle Ages the well water was reputed to have healing powers and local people believed that running water taken from the well would remain fresh for a whole year and also that if two people washed in the well at the same time they would both have bad luck unless they made the sign of the cross!
Newton port was the only harbour between Aberthaw and Briton Ferry and villagers took advantage of the ships that were wrecked on nearby Tusker Rock and Black Rocks in the bay so smuggling was rife and the Jolly Sailor played a big part in this.
Built probably as a fortress in the 1180's and founded by the Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem the village church overlooks and dominates the village green. It was rebuilt in the 15th and early 16th centuries and restored in 1860 and as the group made their way through the neat churchyard with its lovely old stone preaching cross it was sad that the church door was firmly locked to visitors.
Almost reaching the end of their journey and having beaten the rain that was forecast to arrive by early afternoon, the group headed to the Jolly Sailor for a cooling pint and enjoyed a warm welcome at this lovely old inn before the journey home when it did start to rain!


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Natural Language Processing with Spark
One of the goals of the Analytics team has been to provide newer, more in-depth ways to analyze the millions of comments that Reputation aggregates from various sources for each customer. One way to do this is through natural language processing (NLP) techniques like part-of-speech(POS) tagging, named entity recognition(NER), and stemming/lemmatization. Combining these NLP techniques with our existing segmentation tools allows us to begin comparing statistics across sets defined by the language content of those comments. For example, we could look at the set of Walgreens comments that mention Rite-Aid and see that these had higher than average ratings in comparison to the total set of Walgreens comments.
These evaluations, however, initially required us to load the set of comments that we wished to analyze into Python, then run each comment through a natural language parser one at a time locally each time we wanted to run an analysis. The overhead required to parse each of these reviews began to impede our ability to rapidly test different types of analyses, so we began to look into alternative methods for achieving this goal. What we were ultimately looking for was a pre-processed database that would allow us to look up a comment by id and receive a set of POS tags, named entities, and lemmas without having to re-parse each comment each time. This natural language pre-processing would need to be done retroactively to the tens of millions of comments already stored in our database, as well as incrementally on any new comments that have been pulled in every few days.
Since much of our analysis framework was already implemented in Python, we began adding this new NLP piece in Python as well. Of the various NLP libraries available to Python at the time of this writing, the one that seemed to work best on the 2-3 sentence reviews in our database was the CoreNLP library from Stanford. Essentially CoreNLP comes with a series of models that have been trained on a large corpus of sample words for different languages (presently English, Arabic, Chinese, French and German). These models are then used to evaluate the likely part-of-speech of new inputs based on patterns learned from the original training data. The library also uses similar processes to determine which words in a given input are references to some named entity (for example an organization, individual name, or location name) and to identify the stem form of each word for easier pattern analysis.
The downside of using CoreNLP, however, is that in order to run, it starts up a new, separate Java process which is then passed one comment at a time for parsing. Starting up this Java process creates 5-10 minutes of overhead for processing a set of comments of any size, and even once this separate process is running it can take a few minutes to fully parse an average length comment (3-5 sentences). Thus to run all the millions of historical comments through CoreNLP in a serial fashion would be computationally infeasible. Instead, we decided to use Apache Spark to bring up a distributed cluster to run these comments through CoreNLP in parallel.
Spark provides a set of libraries in either Python, Scala, R, or Java that handle the hassle of creating a distributed cluster of nodes and efficiently distributing data between them. While it can be used for a wide variety of purposes, we used it to take the set of comments that we needed to evaluate and figure out how to split those comments amongst clusters of varying sizes in order to reduce the time necessary to run all of our historical data through CoreNLP. Using Spark also provided the added bonus of easily integrating with AWS' Elastic Map-Reduce (EMR) service, which has an easy-to-use command line interface for bringing up clusters of EC2 nodes. Amazon has preconfigured settings to automatically pass the relevant information about each EMR cluster through to Spark so that we can easily bring up any number of nodes with the same code. This makes it easy to setup a cron task to automatically parse the last few days worth of reviews on a regular basis.
Additionally, while we originally set out to create a Python application to interact with Spark and CoreNLP, we eventually discovered that we needed the ability to more carefully control which information CoreNLP passed to each Spark process. Since Spark is capable of running multiple threads on each node in order to better parallelize and since each thread runs a separate version of our Spark application, we noticed that each Python application in each thread was instantiating its own CoreNLP Java process. This meant that if we had 4 threads running on the same node, we would also have 4 CoreNLP Java processes running on that node, which would slow that node's performance to a crawl. To get around this, we had to translate our application into Scala instead. Scala allows for the existence of transient variables, which allowed us to write our code in such a way that when multiple threads are running on the same node, they all use the same CoreNLP Java process, but whenever a new node is brought up it brings up a new process. (Thanks to Databrick's Spark/CoreNLP wrapper for this idea!)
Below is some of the code from our Scala-based Spark application. It is designed to do the following:
- Pull in some number of reviews from our Vertica database.
- Distribute those reviews to a cluster of independent nodes.
- Run each review through the CoreNLP process for that node.
- Format CoreNLP's output so that it can uploaded back into Vertica
- Upload the natural language data (POS tags, NER tags, and lemmas) back into the database
Once our Spark application was working on local developer machines, we began testing running it through EMR's distributed clusters instead. Initially we ran into some headaches getting Spark to fully utilize the resources made available to it through EMR. There is a line in the code above that talks about pulling in the number of nodes available through the Spark Config (val num_exec = sc.getConf.get("spark.executor.instances").toInt). This line tells spark how many nodes it has available so that it can partition the data accordingly. Below are two screenshots of the CPU usage per node in AWS from before this change and after it:
Before proper partitioning – Notice that in this case, the node in blue is the only one that appears to be actually doing any parsing. This is because Spark defaults to assuming a single data partition, so it runs all the comments through the master node.
After proper partitioning – By explicitly telling Spark how many nodes to use, we can see that it now runs some comments through all 8 nodes. (Thanks to Cloudera for explaining this and more about how to properly tune Spark jobs!)
Additionally we ran into some trouble getting EMR to communicate with Vertica through the database's security restrictions, which involved playing with our VPN settings. Once these hurdles were dealt with though, we were able to begin testing the scaling power of this CoreNLP/Spark/EMR solution. The following graph shows the number of minutes it took Spark to run as dependent on the number of thousands of comments run per each instance in the EMR cluster. As you can see, the time to run increases linearly as a function of how many comments each node is required to run.
Minute to Run vs. # of thousands of comments per node in cluster – This graph shows the time it takes Spark to run our process as a function of number of comments per each distributed node in the cluster. It shows a linear relationship more or less up until the point where there are more than a million comments per node.
The outlier point at 1000 on the x-axis (= 1 million comments per node) is from when we ran all of our historical comments. Further research is required to figure out why performance seems to have degraded for that point.
Interestingly, we also found that it seems when the number of comments per node increases above a about a million or so, the EMR task would fail without outputting any errors in the logs (this is what happened with the rightmost datapoint on the above graph). This may be due to insufficient resources to run the number of comments assigned to that node(we used Amazon's m3.xlarge instances for each node on each run), but we haven't done enough analysis to confirm this. The short-term solution to this problem was simply to provide more nodes and get the ratio of comments per node back down to around 1 million or so.


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July 30, 1945 – Feb. 1, 2017
"Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies." Proverbs 31:10 On Wednesday, February 1, 2017, a loving and compassionate member of the Jackson community transitioned to be with her heavenly father.
Betty Joyce Collins was surrounded by her family at Baptist Hospital when she peacefully joined the angels. She was born July 30, 1945 to the late Ira Dorsett Sr. and the late Annie Bell Dorsett in Mobile, Alabama. She was the fourth child of four children.
She gave her life to Christ at an early age and became a member of Morning Star Baptist Church under the pastorage of the late Rev. T.T. Johnson. She later became a member of College Hill Baptist Church and remained a dedicated, supportive member. She was a deaconess, a member of Circle #7 and served in numerous positions throughout her tenure at College Hill. She was also "Woman of the Year," a member of NCNW and actively supported the community through various church projects.
She received her early education in George County School System, a bachelor in business education from Alcorn State University and a master of science in education from Jackson State University.
She was an educator. She taught Kindergarten students at Florence High School in the 1970s. She then began working at University of Mississippi Medical Center as an educational specialist. For twenty five years she worked with third year medical students.
Joyce was united in holy matrimony to Lee Marcus Collins November 25, 1967. They became the proud parents of two children, Keith and Sharon.
She was predeceased by her father, Ira Dorsett Sr., her mother, Annie Bell Dorsett; two brothers, Alfred Wells and Rev. Lonnie Dorsett.
Those who are left to remember and cherish her beautiful life are: her husband of forty-nine years, Lee Marcus Collins; one son, Keith (Dimitri) Collins, Sicklerville, N.J.; one daughter, Sharon (Corey) Riley, Haymarket, Va.; brother, Ira (Esther) Dorsett Jr. Greenville, Miss.; brother-in-law, LeVinso (Helen) Collins, Jackson, Miss.; sisters-in-law, Dorothy Dorsett, Jackson, Miss.; DeLaris (James) Carpenter, Miami, Fla.; Rebecca "Becky" Collins, Jackson, Miss.; six grandchildren: Kamryn and Karson Collins, Lawrenceville, Ga.; Kendall and Kierstin Riley, Haymarket, Va.; Journey and Joy Collins, Sicklerville, N.J.; Aunt Willie Wells, Moss Point, Miss.; a special niece, Annetta Joyce Dorsett Snowden and a host of other nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends.
Joyce will forever be remembered by those who dearly loved her and by those whose lives she touched as an unselfish, thoughtful and loving woman.
Homegoing services were held Thursday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. at College Hill M.B. Church and officiated by Rev. Michael T. Williams, pastor.


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Before Rachel Bloom was a Golden Globe winner, she was a YouTube star
LOS ANGELES — Rachel Bloom became the first YouTube star to win a Golden Globe on Sunday for her CW show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
The comedy, which debuted on The CW in October of 2015, follows a Manhattan lawyer named Rebecca Bunch (Bloom) who impulsively moves across the country to where her old camp boyfriend Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III) lives after they have a chance encounter.
In addition to starring on the show, Bloom also serves as executive producer, writer and co-creator.
The 28-year-old actress, whose YouTube channel "Racheldoesstuff" has amassed about 12.4 million views, uploaded her first video — called "F*** Me, Ray Bradbury" — five years ago.
Though Bloom didn't thank YouTube in her acceptance speech, she did acknowledge the platform was the way she was discovered.
"The next person that I want to thank is my co-creator Aline Brosh MckKenna," Bloom said. "Aline saw my YouTube videos, and two and a half years later I am standing on stage with a Golden Globe."
SEE ALSO: You might just fall in love with The CW's 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'
Even Twitter users gave Bloom a shout out for her success, noting the rise of "#TeamInternet" in traditional media.
@Racheldoesstuff YouTube takes over the world! #TeamInternet #GoldenGlobes
— Grape Adler (@GrapeAdler) January 11, 2016
#RachelBloom winning for #CrazyExGirlfriend, YESSS! #TeamInternet #GoldenGlobes
— Raj Rawal (@RajRawal37) January 11, 2016
Major major congrats to Rachel Bloom for #Crazyexgirlfriend From YouTube to #GoldenGlobes! #SHAMELESSINSPIRATION pic.twitter.com/XpzcS1usyq
— Maya (@mayasworld) January 11, 2016
@alexintner been a fan of Rachel Bloom since she was just on YouTube and Robot Chicken. So cool to see her be legit famous now.
— Jacob Rich (@thejacobrich) January 11, 2016
#CrazyExGirlfriend is proof that digital is where it's at. Rachel Bloom got her show going thanks to YouTube #GoldenGlobes #GiveMeMora
— Nic Mora (@NicMoraXO) January 11, 2016
From YouTube to the #GoldenGlobes Congrats to Rachel Bloom!
— Valis Vicenty (@ValisVicenty) January 11, 2016
But as Bloom noted in her speech, it wasn't easy making the jump from online to traditional.
"We almost didn't have a show! We got six rejections in one day and we felt like crap but we knew it was good." CW saved it. #GoldenGlobes
— Saba Hamedy (@saba_h) January 11, 2016
Despite positive reviews, the show has seen low ratings since launching in the fall. It has yet to be renewed, but with Bloom's Golden Globe, the show's chances may increase.
At The CW's Television Critics Association presentation on Sunday, network president Mark Pedowitz stood by the show.
"I wish I had more optimistic statistics, I wish the numbers were better," he reportedly said. "But I have a great faith in the show and the showrunner."


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Needs & Wants Format:
Members provide handouts for as many properties as they wish for distribution to others at the luncheon.
Each registered member (or guest) has from three to four minute "elevator" type speach / presentation of one property they WANT to sell, or a NEED of a client.
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Fire at Lower Mainland summer camp may have been deliberately set: RCMP
Fire crews work to extinguish a blaze at a summer camp in Mission, B.C., on Aug. 6, 2020.
VANCOUVER -- A fire that destroyed part of a summer camp in the Lower Mainland Thursday may have been deliberately set, local Mounties say.
Fire crews were called to the Khalsa Centre summer camp in Mission and have been battling a blaze in its gymnasium since about 2 a.m.
The gym is detached from the rest of the camp, but the fire has completely consumed the building along with nearby trees and power lines.
Nobody was physically hurt, however.
Staff say that because of the COVID-19 pandemic, just 17 people – all staff members – were staying on site overnight, instead of the typical 150.
"After an initial investigation, police believe the fire may have been deliberately set," Mission RCMP said in a news release.
"The Mission RCMP Serious Crime Unit has currently been assigned to the case. At this point the suspects and their motivation behind this act are unknown."
The camp is in a rural area of Mission without cell service, and while crews arrived as quickly as possible, flames were already high. Fire crews have been pumping water out of a nearby pond in order to get the blaze under control.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Mission RCMP at 604-826-7161. Tips can also be left anonymously with Crime Stoppers.
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Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive Software have apparently abandoned development of the espionage game Agent.
The game was announced in 2009 as a PlayStation 3 exclusive during Sony's event at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). But Rockstar has released almost no information about the title in the past nine years, when it has been working on titles such as Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA Online, and Red Dead Online.
A recent filing for Agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website (as noticed by DualShockers) states the trademark is "Dead … Refused/Dismissed or Invalidated."
That's an ignoble way for Agent's cancellation to be acknowledged (we've asked Rockstar for comment). The game was supposed to be set in the 1970s during the Cold War, taking players on a "paranoid journey into the world of counter-intelligence, espionage, and political assassinations."
When Agent was announced, then-CEO Ben Feder of Take-Two said the game would be "genre defining." And Rockstar leader Sam Houser said, "We have always enjoyed making action games, and with Agent we are making what we believe will be the ultimate action game. Agent is a game we have wanted to make for a long time. The team in Edinburgh is doing an amazing job combining intense action, atmosphere, and story in a great period setting to create something that feels quite unique."
Back in 2011, former U.S. Sony PlayStation boss Jack Tretton said Agent was still in development for the PlayStation 3, but he wasn't sure exactly when it would be launched. It seems the huge success of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Rockstar's other efforts have tied up the development team.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Reckless Behavior Update
Good morning, or afternoon, depending on where you live and when you read this. This week is Chapter Eight of Reckless Behavior. I've been waiting forever to post this chapter because... Well, things get hot. Fan-your-face hot. I'm not going to give spoilers, but you can check it out in the link below:
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Actor and writer Larry Vanderveen assumes the role of legendary novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in a powerhouse one-man show exploring the life and times of the man who penned such classic American novels as The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise. From his troubled relationship with devoted wife Zelda to his later romance with Hollywood gossip writer Sheilah Graham and his complex friendship with acclaimed author Ernest Hemingway, this rich and textured exploration of Fitzgerald's eventful life allows literature fans the unique opportunity to look into the mind of the man responsible for some of the greatest literature of the 20th Century. Jason Buchanan
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Should Be Required: High School and College instructors should play this for their students before beginning a Fitzgerald novel or story. (It would've been nice to have more about his short stories.) I've read everything he wrote and nearly everything written about him over the past 30 years, and was astounded that Mr. Vanderveen could compress so much valuable information into 84 minutes…it seemed to go by in a flash yet I had a great feeling of satisfaction when it was over. Mr. Vanderveen knows how to separate the important points from the piddly things that some biographers wallow in, while retaining the essence of the man, his suffering and his creative genius. And I liked the fact that there was no audience-reaction track…Mr. Vanderveen seemed to be speaking directly to ME. sep.
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"After Larry's performance I was told that several people stopped to comment as they were exiting the library, saying that this was one of the best programs we had ever presented. That alone, is a wonderful compliment, and a good indicator about the quality of the performance. But the fact that one patron took the time to call the next day and let staff know just how much they had enjoyed their evening and hoped that there might be a repeat performance one day – well, that is a rare compliment indeed! And a well-deserved one."
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On behalf of the Library, the Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library and the Living History Centre Fund, thank you for your amazing performance as F. Scott Fitzgerald in the community room. You were captivating in bringing F. Scott Fitzgerald alive for those already familiar with his life work, as well as those just becoming acquainted.
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Attended a live performance by Larry Vanderveen at the South Pasadena Public Library. Approximately 160 individuals attended and about half of them were high-school students from South Pasadena H.S. Bottom line–they loved it. A ninety minute monologue can test anyone's patience. That said, Mr. Vanderveen held their and my attention the entire time and gave us an amazing inside look at the complexities of a remarkable 20th Century writer, warts and all. Highly recommended.
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At the Thousand Oaks Library
Library Program Coordinator, Jana Covell wrote:
"Actor Larry Vanderveen wowed the audience today with his portrayal of American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald."and here is an audience members comment:
"This was a fabulous show. Mr. Vanderveen also wrote the show. "Wowed" is right!"
At the Simi Valley Library
Comments from Simi Valley patrons after being treated to Mr. Vanderveen's performance of Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald:
"He was amazing!"
"He was wonderfully entertaining."
"What a great performance."
"Well done!"
"He brought Fitzgerald to life in an insightful and entertaining way."
"This was live theater at its best!"
"You've made me want to read a Fitzgerald biography."
Larry, your portrayal of F. Scott Fitzgerald and a glimpse of the people who inhabited his world was very informative and entertaining. A library is the perfect setting for this performance. Thank you for bringing such an iconic literary figure to life in our community.
Jodi Regan
Volunteer & amp; Marketing Coordinator
Simi Valley Public Library
At the San Bernardino Central Library
Larry Vanderveen's one man show "Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald" was one of the best library shows we have hosted! An audience of 130 on a Saturday afternoon is always amazing, but the fact that the audience was so enthralled that you could have heard a pin drop, makes it even more of a success.
Larry's writing and acting are superb, entertaining, and informative. We already have requests to bring him back next year.
Linda Adams Yeh
Library Program Coordinator
San Bernardino Public Library
At the A.K. Smiley Library in Redlands
"F. Scott Fitzgerald has been one of my favorite authors for many years, but nothing has made him come alive for me until Larry Vanderveen's one man show. Outstanding."
David B. Bragg, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of Redlands
"How wonderful to spend the afternoon with one of my favorite authors. Larry Vanderveen's masterful presentation brought Fitzgerald to life. His moving insights into the ages and stages of Fitzgerald's life were most impressive. His underlying, undying love for Zelda touched my heart. Vanderveen is a superb actor, in a one-man show not to be missed. Thanks you for this exceptional program."
Ellen Schollenberger
"Larry Vanderveen gave a first rate performance as F. Scott Fitzgerald at our library. The character really came to life, giving us a deeper understanding of what shaped this giant of western literature."
Daniel Slota, Principal Librarian
At the City of Camarillo Public Library
Thank you again for your wonderful presentation at the Camarillo Library. It was truly engaging and provided fresh insights into the author's life and times. We had so much positive feedback from the audience who were impressed with your performance as well as the amount of research that you have done about Fitzgerald.
Dayna Canada
Adult Services Librarian
City of Camarillo Public Library
At the The San Pedro Public Library
Meet Larry Vanderveen a.k.a.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When actor/director Larry Vanderveen appeared on stage at the Grand Annex, he looked like a model for the artist J. C. Leyendecker. Vanderveen's biographical portrayal of F. Scott Fitzgerald was amazing. The audience members heard everything from his childhood, his parents, his college life, his wife Zelda, and the many famous friends, colleagues, and professionals he knew from Paris to Hollywood. As Fitzgerald, Vanderveen talked about his writing, his travels, the parties, the boozing and all manner of extravagance that made him an early 20th century iconic figure. To an average person it was like a dream about the Roaring Twenties. The audience was mesmerized by Vanderveen's performance. Though the performance was long, no one left until it was over. When he returned to himself after the performance, he talked about how he gathered the information for his portrayal, and it was then that we realized the scholar he is. His research produced all the details that brought Fitzgerald to life.
Article and photo by Yumi Yamamoto
The Tolucan Times Review
of the performance at the
Whitefire Theatre in Los Angeles
Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald Entertains and Informs.
A loving portrait of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald revealing his human frailties and deep heart, "Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald" presents the wistful, tragic life of the writer through the sharp eyes and portrayal of playwright/performer Larry Vanderveen. Skillfully weaving events throughout Fitzgerald's tumultuous and short life, Vanderveen demonstrates the generous and emotional soul of Fitzgerald through the device of the novelist speaking to a Los Angeles literary club in December 1940. Vanderveen, dressed impeccably in spats and double-breasted suit, elegantly captures the melancholic soul of Fitzgerald, intensely revealing the emotion and ironic humor as the long suffering but now sober writer. He wonderfully portrays Fitzgerald's wounded but resilient spirit.
His writing is also first rate, blending comedy, tragedy, irony and hopefulness to reveal Fitzgerald finding peace and a hard won maturity. He employs the novelists own words and quotes from other intimates to present a well rounded view of Scott and Zelda's roller coaster marriage, daughter Scottie's lonely life, and Fitzgerald's tragic drinking and waste of his life. Vanderveen demonstrates great compassion in his description of a man finally coming to terms with his talent and life, making amends for his wrongs and attempting a graceful comeback. An informative, entertaining and emotional stroll through Fitzgerald's life, Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald superbly reveals the heartaches, frustrations, and successes of one of America's greatest novelists.
Mary Mallory, Tolucan
Amazon Editorial Review
Filmgoers seeing the 2013 cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will greatly appreciate the one man show Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald, starring Larry Vanderveen.


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Question: If you could tell your 13 year old self something what would it be?
personal, philosophy
Asked by zoella bae to Matt on 16 Nov 2014.
Matt Bilton
answered on 16 Nov 2014:
When I was 13 I once tried cutting my own hair. I would tell my 13 year old self to not do that! Some things are best left to the experts. I would recommend learning to play the guitar, or piano – I would thank myself later. And I would say, whenever you are faced with a choice – listen to the advice of your parents…but don't be afraid to make your own mistakes. Making mistakes is as important as getting things right! And if you're really stuck, choose whichever will make the best story. Even if you make a bad choice, you will have a good story :).
zoella bae commented on 23 Nov 2014:
great 🙂 nice answer! thnx
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