Christoforos Schuff (born Christopher Michael Schuff on February 6th 1979 in Carmichael, California) is an Orthodox Priest , musician and social activist. He has resided in Europe (in Norway and Greece) since 2000. He is married to a Norwegian and has three children and also owns and runs a small holding at Greipstad in Songdalen, Norway near the city of Kristiansand. He holds a B.A. in Theology and an M.A. in Religion, Society and Ethics in addition to studies in Music, Linguistics, Archaeology, Ecological Agriculture and History.
Media Coverage
He has been in the media in Norway various times since 2006, both in print and on television. One such case involved a matter of Church asylum where a Kosovo-Serb family went into asylum in the Orthodox congregation at Greipstad in the Fall of 2010 following the mass expulsion of Kosovo-Serb asylum seekers from Norway . Being an immigrant himself he has spoken for equal and fair treatment of immigrants in Norwegian society. Among various interviews and broadcasts on regional or national televesion he has been featured in a 30-minute documentary program in the Spring of 2011 broadcast nationally by the NRK. An article published about him in 2006 by the Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land was entitled "Not quite Orthodox" and the NRK called him "colorful in black" , apparently referring to the multi-faceted nature of his life as a father, priest, lumberjack, musician, etc.
Music and Sound
Schuff has written, recorded and performed music since 1996 and his compositions are often characterized by social and real-life issues based frequently in a Christian lifeview. Among his compositions is to be found the anti-war song "God damn the war" of 2011. He often performs together with his wife and together they have 3 self-released albums and have until the present held a general policy of "pay if you can" due to the ideological nature of their music. He has also done miscellaneous voice-over work, including several uncredited parts in the Norwegian family film of 2010, Yohan: The Child Wanderer.
Media Coverage
He has been in the media in Norway various times since 2006, both in print and on television. One such case involved a matter of Church asylum where a Kosovo-Serb family went into asylum in the Orthodox congregation at Greipstad in the Fall of 2010 following the mass expulsion of Kosovo-Serb asylum seekers from Norway . Being an immigrant himself he has spoken for equal and fair treatment of immigrants in Norwegian society. Among various interviews and broadcasts on regional or national televesion he has been featured in a 30-minute documentary program in the Spring of 2011 broadcast nationally by the NRK. An article published about him in 2006 by the Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land was entitled "Not quite Orthodox" and the NRK called him "colorful in black" , apparently referring to the multi-faceted nature of his life as a father, priest, lumberjack, musician, etc.
Music and Sound
Schuff has written, recorded and performed music since 1996 and his compositions are often characterized by social and real-life issues based frequently in a Christian lifeview. Among his compositions is to be found the anti-war song "God damn the war" of 2011. He often performs together with his wife and together they have 3 self-released albums and have until the present held a general policy of "pay if you can" due to the ideological nature of their music. He has also done miscellaneous voice-over work, including several uncredited parts in the Norwegian family film of 2010, Yohan: The Child Wanderer.
The Eternal and Infinite Universe (94) is the title of a painting by the artist Mark J Bridger of Oxford UK.
The oil painting on a wood panel includes a text with a theory of the universe (that it is infinite and eternal) which reasoned that the visible universe should be accelerating apart. It was painted in November 1994 and exhibited in the Jelly Leg'd Chicken Art Gallery, in Reading Berkshire, UK in January 1995 in a group exhibition called "the New Wave". With the artist's statement saying the text represented the ultimate understanding of the universe, the painting was priced at £7 million (not sold).
The theory in the painting - that the visible universe should be accelerating apart - seemed to affirmed by subsequent observations of supernovae type 1(a).
The same artist Mark J Bridger is notable for also in May 1994 adding some ink to a Damien Hirst sculpture "Away from the Flock", in the Serpentine gallery London, and re-titling it "Black Sheep"
The oil painting on a wood panel includes a text with a theory of the universe (that it is infinite and eternal) which reasoned that the visible universe should be accelerating apart. It was painted in November 1994 and exhibited in the Jelly Leg'd Chicken Art Gallery, in Reading Berkshire, UK in January 1995 in a group exhibition called "the New Wave". With the artist's statement saying the text represented the ultimate understanding of the universe, the painting was priced at £7 million (not sold).
The theory in the painting - that the visible universe should be accelerating apart - seemed to affirmed by subsequent observations of supernovae type 1(a).
The same artist Mark J Bridger is notable for also in May 1994 adding some ink to a Damien Hirst sculpture "Away from the Flock", in the Serpentine gallery London, and re-titling it "Black Sheep"
Jack Hazebroek (born 24 April 1956 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is a multiple instrumentalist and songwriter. His main instruments are drums, percussion, vocals, and guitar. Started his professional career as a drummer with the British Sunny Jim Band, signed by Phonogram Records they recorded Thanks to the Music, produced by Piet Souer. They were particularly popular in Germany where they played frequently in Top Ten Club, made famous by The Beatles. With 360 gigs a year they were the most active band in Europe . Jack left the band in 1977 and joined Jenner Band, a Dutch new wave group, who signed to Ivory Tower Records and released a number of records. Jenner Band was a successful touring band, either headlining or on European tours with Japan, Split Enz, Rock Pile, Mickey Jupp, and Golden Earring. Jack later joined Phoney and the Hardcore a popular band with a hit album under their belt. The band was made up of members of the Nina Hagen band and Herman Brood. They released a single on Ariola, "Sorrow", which was a minor hit.
Jack Hazebroek then moved to Toronto where he joined Canadian rock star Brian Plummer. They had big hits with "Money Talks" and "Jacky Boy" (which was banned in the UK) . He recorded Without a Mark, produced by Gene Martynec, which became a successful album for the band. In 1983 he joined a British Canadian ska band called Rude Boy. They were very popular on the concert circuit and were set to sign to a major label but the band split up acrimoniously in 1984 having spent the entire year on the road. During his time in Canada he also worked as an actor for the CBC on films such as charlie grant's war, Mrs. Soffel (with Mel Gibson) and Home Fires (a popular TV series).
Jack then went back to the UK where he was discovered by Bill Wyman in 1987 as a promising singer-songwriter in a national competition "the AIMS project". Bill Wyman, Terry Taylor, and Mick McKenna went around the UK recording a number of budding singer-songwriters in the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. Jack went on to win the talent search (named Mola Mola). This resulted in a single "Get Ahead" (released on Ripple) which was a minor hit in East Anglia, but, due to legal wrangling with the distributing company, was unavailable elsewhere. He then played the Royal Albert Hall with the likes of Phil Collins, Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman, and Chris Rea. Later he appeared on Wogan and a host of other television programs in the UK and Europe. A documentary was made of his rise to fame by the BBC and also the Live concert which franchised all over the world.
Jack worked with Bill Wyman and Terry Taylor (Rhythm Kings) for four years, in which time they recorded numbers for his album with the Rolling Stones Mobile (at Pine wood). Collaborations with singer Angie Brown, Andy Fairweather-Low, Chris Potter, and Nicky Graham did not prove commercial enough to secure a major company releasing it.
Jack Now lives on the Costa Blanca where he is active as a drummer on the local scene.
Discography
Sunny Jim Band:
* Memories
* Thank You for the Music
Jenner Band
* Promises
* Boom Bam There We Go Again
Phony and the Hard Core
* Sorrow (part one and two)
Brian Plummer
* Without a Mark
* Plums
The Graduates
* Icebox
Mola Mola
* Get Ahead
Jack Hazebroek then moved to Toronto where he joined Canadian rock star Brian Plummer. They had big hits with "Money Talks" and "Jacky Boy" (which was banned in the UK) . He recorded Without a Mark, produced by Gene Martynec, which became a successful album for the band. In 1983 he joined a British Canadian ska band called Rude Boy. They were very popular on the concert circuit and were set to sign to a major label but the band split up acrimoniously in 1984 having spent the entire year on the road. During his time in Canada he also worked as an actor for the CBC on films such as charlie grant's war, Mrs. Soffel (with Mel Gibson) and Home Fires (a popular TV series).
Jack then went back to the UK where he was discovered by Bill Wyman in 1987 as a promising singer-songwriter in a national competition "the AIMS project". Bill Wyman, Terry Taylor, and Mick McKenna went around the UK recording a number of budding singer-songwriters in the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. Jack went on to win the talent search (named Mola Mola). This resulted in a single "Get Ahead" (released on Ripple) which was a minor hit in East Anglia, but, due to legal wrangling with the distributing company, was unavailable elsewhere. He then played the Royal Albert Hall with the likes of Phil Collins, Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman, and Chris Rea. Later he appeared on Wogan and a host of other television programs in the UK and Europe. A documentary was made of his rise to fame by the BBC and also the Live concert which franchised all over the world.
Jack worked with Bill Wyman and Terry Taylor (Rhythm Kings) for four years, in which time they recorded numbers for his album with the Rolling Stones Mobile (at Pine wood). Collaborations with singer Angie Brown, Andy Fairweather-Low, Chris Potter, and Nicky Graham did not prove commercial enough to secure a major company releasing it.
Jack Now lives on the Costa Blanca where he is active as a drummer on the local scene.
Discography
Sunny Jim Band:
* Memories
* Thank You for the Music
Jenner Band
* Promises
* Boom Bam There We Go Again
Phony and the Hard Core
* Sorrow (part one and two)
Brian Plummer
* Without a Mark
* Plums
The Graduates
* Icebox
Mola Mola
* Get Ahead
Windows Media Player 12, developed by Microsoft, is the latest release of Windows Media Player. It was first introduced in October 2008 at the 2008 Professional Developers Conference and has been released as part of the Windows 7 operating system.
New features
Windows Media Player 12 adds native support for H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 2 video formats, AAC audio and 3GP, MP4 and MOV container formats.
Microsoft has recognized AVCHD as one of the popular implementations of H.264 encoding scheme, and has file extensions M2TS and .mts pre-registered in the system. Windows Media Player is able to index content of these files, while Windows Explorer is capable of creating thumbnails for each clip.
The user interface has been redesigned such that the Now Playing view plays media in a separate minimalist window with floating playback controls, and also gives access to the current playlist, visualizations, and enhancements. , albeit minus the volume control function, track and album information shown whenever a new song is played and the progress bar.
The taskbar icon also supports jump lists introduced in Windows 7.
Media streaming features
While previous versions streamed media to UPnP compliant devices (Digital Media Server role) and could play media by fetching it from a network share (Digital Media Player role) , Windows Media Player 12 can access media from the shared media libraries on the network or HomeGroup, stream media to DLNA 1.5 compliant devices and allows itself (once the remote control option is turned on) to be remotely controlled by Digital Media Controller devices which stream media (Digital Media Renderer role). The thumbnail preview which replaces this lacks volume control and a progress bar. The ability to start the miniplayer only for certain files based on specific text in their file names was also removed.
* The Advanced Tag Editor (ID3 tag editor), which allowed users to edit metadata for media files file, is removed. The tags can still be edited en-masse by displaying the tag column in the Library, selecting a group of tracks and left-clicking the tag to edit, or by installing a third-party tag editor, for instance the Windows Media Player Plus! add-in. The user can also still edit the tags from Windows Explorer by right-clicking Properties on the file to edit and selecting the Details pane.
* The ability to add and show static lyrics and synchronized lyrics.
* The "Party Mode", "Color Chooser" and "Media Link for E-mail", features present in previous versions of Windows Media Player, have been removed in version 12.
* The context menu entry "Find In Library" which allowed locating the Now Playing song in the Windows Media Player library was removed. The context menu command "Open file location" can be used to locate the song in the Windows 7 Music library.
* The option to adjust the bit rate when burning data CDs has been removed.
* The options to use the overlay mixer, video mixing renderer (VMR-7) or high quality mode (VMR-9) has been removed.
* Enhancements are only accessible from Now Playing view in a floating window. They do not dock to the Now Playing window, and do not get restored when Windows Media Player is restarted. Even when manually restored, their position does not get saved.
* Several player preferences are not saved and restored upon restarting the player. The playlist pane in Now Playing view is not shown automatically unlike previous versions. Enhancements do not get restored when Windows Media Player is restarted. Even when manually restored, the previous position of the Now Playing window and enhancements is not retained.
* The ability to index monitored folders in a background service. This makes it necessary to manually open the GUI on the server to index content for streaming.
* The 'Now Playing' item in the Library Tree (between Playlists and Library while songs are playing) has been removed removing the possibility of easily displaying (and overall editing) additional columns while listening.
* The capacity of directly editing a playing item by removing both the Advanced Tag Editor and the Now Playing library item.
* The BPM column
New features
Windows Media Player 12 adds native support for H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 2 video formats, AAC audio and 3GP, MP4 and MOV container formats.
Microsoft has recognized AVCHD as one of the popular implementations of H.264 encoding scheme, and has file extensions M2TS and .mts pre-registered in the system. Windows Media Player is able to index content of these files, while Windows Explorer is capable of creating thumbnails for each clip.
The user interface has been redesigned such that the Now Playing view plays media in a separate minimalist window with floating playback controls, and also gives access to the current playlist, visualizations, and enhancements. , albeit minus the volume control function, track and album information shown whenever a new song is played and the progress bar.
The taskbar icon also supports jump lists introduced in Windows 7.
Media streaming features
While previous versions streamed media to UPnP compliant devices (Digital Media Server role) and could play media by fetching it from a network share (Digital Media Player role) , Windows Media Player 12 can access media from the shared media libraries on the network or HomeGroup, stream media to DLNA 1.5 compliant devices and allows itself (once the remote control option is turned on) to be remotely controlled by Digital Media Controller devices which stream media (Digital Media Renderer role). The thumbnail preview which replaces this lacks volume control and a progress bar. The ability to start the miniplayer only for certain files based on specific text in their file names was also removed.
* The Advanced Tag Editor (ID3 tag editor), which allowed users to edit metadata for media files file, is removed. The tags can still be edited en-masse by displaying the tag column in the Library, selecting a group of tracks and left-clicking the tag to edit, or by installing a third-party tag editor, for instance the Windows Media Player Plus! add-in. The user can also still edit the tags from Windows Explorer by right-clicking Properties on the file to edit and selecting the Details pane.
* The ability to add and show static lyrics and synchronized lyrics.
* The "Party Mode", "Color Chooser" and "Media Link for E-mail", features present in previous versions of Windows Media Player, have been removed in version 12.
* The context menu entry "Find In Library" which allowed locating the Now Playing song in the Windows Media Player library was removed. The context menu command "Open file location" can be used to locate the song in the Windows 7 Music library.
* The option to adjust the bit rate when burning data CDs has been removed.
* The options to use the overlay mixer, video mixing renderer (VMR-7) or high quality mode (VMR-9) has been removed.
* Enhancements are only accessible from Now Playing view in a floating window. They do not dock to the Now Playing window, and do not get restored when Windows Media Player is restarted. Even when manually restored, their position does not get saved.
* Several player preferences are not saved and restored upon restarting the player. The playlist pane in Now Playing view is not shown automatically unlike previous versions. Enhancements do not get restored when Windows Media Player is restarted. Even when manually restored, the previous position of the Now Playing window and enhancements is not retained.
* The ability to index monitored folders in a background service. This makes it necessary to manually open the GUI on the server to index content for streaming.
* The 'Now Playing' item in the Library Tree (between Playlists and Library while songs are playing) has been removed removing the possibility of easily displaying (and overall editing) additional columns while listening.
* The capacity of directly editing a playing item by removing both the Advanced Tag Editor and the Now Playing library item.
* The BPM column