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28 Sep 2018, 18:13 (Ref:3853169) #76
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Given what's been said about GT2 aero-wise(which is said to be aimed at being more GT4-like), I have a feeling that the new 935 won't be eligible.
Would still love to see it race somewhere. This kind of car is what PFV classes exist for.
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SRO says 6 manufacturers are actively interested in the GT2 for 2019...
So Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and who else?
Originally Posted by Bcarr6
Aston Martin, McLaren and maybe Mercedes or Audi
Porsche 935 testing at Monza
https://youtu.be/JAnad-yOlkU
I'd say both Mercedes and Audi, seeing how their GT4s are actually too super for a non-supercar class like GT4.
3 Oct 2018, 21:10 (Ref:3854402) #81
According to Head of Porsche Motorsport Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser, the Porsche 935 would fit, performance-wise, within SRO’s newly announced GT2 platform.
The technology behind of this 935 track day car could serve as the foundation of a future GT2 entry.
Porsche is understood to have already been track testing a GT2 RS-based race car, which was again spotted at Monza earlier this week.
https://sportscar365.com/sro/wallise...uture-gt2-car/
Any basis to that or just a hunch?
Think the S365 article said Ratel has 3 commitments for next season so far and other interested builders.
I would assume Porsche could make a GT2 from the GT2 with the 935 engine tune in the "regular" bodywork. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Ferrari of either the 458 or F12. Lamborghini also sounds like a promising option with either platform but I'd guess a relaxed aero and more engine of the Super Trofeo.
All of these are guesses at who COULD build a car:
I would not be surprised to see an R8 car built especially if there's a push to squeeze them and McLaren out of GT4. Same thing with a McLaren but with the Senna possibly, although that seems like it might be more aero than desired but the rules are oh so clear so far. I think we could see the DB come back to racing if Aston decided to join in as well but I won't hold my breath for anything from them until it appears on track. If GT2 is allowed to run alone or as the fastest cars I could see Bentley making a car as well but they seem to love being the top class on track. MB is another who could be squeezed out of GT4 and want to build another car with their AMG. Could we see Acura also join in with the NSX or Lexus with the LC500? I could also see, IF there's enough cash put forth ahead of time, a top end Vette program IF GT2 becomes something but nothing soon at all. It seems like there could be lots of options and if they can keep it a "affordable" gentleman's class I think you'd see more cars built after the first season
Just as an aside, I'd love a mixed class GT2/GT4 endurance series.
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Those are the brands mentioned in the different notes published about GT2, of course all of that have GT3 and GT4 cars and it should not be difficult to build a GT2 as well and it would be a good opportunity for them.
Well it looks like Porsche is in talks with SRO but with the GT2 RS Clubsport for GT2, 700 hp 3.8TT. Looks like 405,000 Euros and only 200 produced, sadly I think most will go to collectors and never seen track action in anger
According to Ratel, there is 3 cars already signed off by their respective boards, with an additional 3 under serious study.
So Porsche, Lamborghini, Audi right?
Mclaren, Aston considering?
Would be interesting if VAG represented all 3 makes. I also think Mercedes could be a possibility along with the others you mentioned.
Ferrari was supposedly also in the mix but I dont know where that rumour came from
11 Feb 2019, 19:17 (Ref:3883349) #90
Well it seems the only car we've seen will be the only car on track.
Yes, it's S365 so grains of salt are needed but Porsche GT2 RS Clubsport to be only GT2 car in first race.
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theartsdesk in Svalbard: cultural excellence at the top of the world
At 78 degrees north, polar bears outnumber people - but Norway's musical flag flies high
by David NiceFriday, 21 June 2019
Reflection of a cellist playing in Svendsen's Octet at the Svalbard Museum while a stuffed polar bear looks onImages by Aggie Peterson except where otherwise stated
You should not die or be born on Svalbard, 1,985 kilometres above Norway's northernmost coast, and at 18 you work or leave for the mainland. Hunting is over, mining nearly so. Tourism, carefully managed, and Arctic research are the future; the Global Seed Vault is also here, and Syria has been the first country to take from it. Excursions outside the biggest settlement, Longyearbyen, are advisable only with an armed guard; dangerous polar bears outnumber inhabitants and occasionally crash into town. A special Svalbardian variety of reindeer and arctic foxes seem comfortable ambling around within the town; I saw both, though only cellist Adrian Brendel sighted polar bears and beluga whales at the mouth of a glacier further north.
So what do they do in their leisure time here, those studying at the University Centre, engaged in polar research or working in mining or the service industry? Culture is the answer, and with substantial help from the Norwegian government it's not only self made, though clearly the exchanges between Longyearbyen (pictured below on a lively Sunday morning by David Nice) and Barentsburg, the Russian mining show town with its own state-of-the-art Soviet theatre/concert-hall, are vital to both communities. Some of the best musicians in the world come here, and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Festival enhanced four days already rich in nature and people with the liveliest events imaginable. Even for the superb string players of the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra based in Tromsø, already far north of the Arctic circle, Svalbard – or Spitsbergen, "pointed mountains", the name given by the Dutch explorer who put it on the map in 1596, Willem Barentsz – is another world (the Norwegian name with its mythic resonances will be familiar to readers of Philip Pullman). Flat-topped mountains with their furrowed cliffs coming down to the sea are like those in Iceland; glaciers shedding ice into the fjord waters have done so this year so far less rapidly than in trouble spots to the east and west (as I write this, two media images have highlighted respectively the plight of a husky team negotiating ice and melt in Greenland, and a starving polar bear loping around a Siberian town far from home).
It escapes none of us that to reflect on the festival theme of “Changes”, we’ve all flown to get here, but we hope to be respectful visitors and to learn much about Svalbard’s plans for a manageable future, which is not easy; the town itself has one of the fastest rising temperatures in the world. Clearly the coal mines have to go within a few years, along with the 1950s power station that fuels Longyearbyen (whenever it goes wrong, a technician has to come from Germany). The interiors of Longyearbyen are Norway at its design-conscious best. Three-plus days of music-making kick off in Huset, the community centre some way up the valley (also built in the 1950s). Briefly an emergency hospital, the post office and airport terminal building, it now houses a cinema, a top-notch restaurant with 300,000 bottles in its cellar – not sure how often the locals can afford to eat here, though they certainly meet socially in the bar area – and the hall where our musical adventure began. In style, too, first with speech-giving Longyearbyen Mayor Arild Olsen declaring the festival open by sounding a note on a cello (pictured above), and then with a finely-nuanced spring through Grieg’s Holberg Suite.
Henning Kraggerud, one of the most original and unusual of the world’s best violinists, went demonic at the end in Vivaldi’s “Summer” from The Four Seasons, turning the other players into devils too. Beside the pops, there were also rarities for a non-Scandinavian: Kraggerud’s intensely cultured colleague Eldbjørg Hemsing moving between folk and romanticism in Ole Bull’s Et Sæterbesøg (A Mountain Vision), and surprisingly deep melancholy in Swede Kurt Atterberg's Suite No. 3 for two violins - originally violin and viola - and strings. Impressive, too, that the cello quartet entertaining us intermittently at supper in the restaurant afterwards showed the same level of care - perfect intonation, seriousness of intent - in Joe Henderson's Isotope. That was a perpetuum mobile that could have gone on for a lot longr. Hemsing’s two-violin recital alongside full-toned Armenian violinist Oganes Girunyan from the APCO in the Barentsburg venue was our destination the next day (the violinist pictured above on the boat to the Esmark Glacier), but hard the way on rough seas; half the boat’s occupants were violently sick, self included. But worth it for the glacier with its seabirds and solitary ringed seal, and by the time pills and dried biscuits supplied by a Russian good Samaritan from Arkhangelsk had kicked in and I’d slept for three quarters of an hour, I was ready to run around Barentsburg. It’s a spruce showcase of Russian buildings from every era since settlement in 1920 – a Russian company bought it in 1932, including two hotels, a fancy post office, a craftwork centre and two hotels. But sight of the miners returning from a shift reminds the tourist that work is still the keynote in this 500-strong community, even if it’s only a question of maintaining a Russian presence to align with the Norwegian miners in Longyearbyen (pictured below by Julia Seljeseth – a remnant from Soviet days – "Our Goal – Communism" – with coal belng delivered above).
Life must be tough here, with only one litre of alcohol permitted per miner per year (Soviet times were entirely alcohol free). A few miners came along with their children for the afternoon recital; one beribboned girl sat rapt. Hemsing included in her solo selection Øistein Sommerfeldt's Sonata Saxifraga, as tenacious as the plant which flourishes briefly on Svalbard, and Prokofiev would have been astonished to hear two movements from his deep and serious Sonata for Two Violins played this far north. Any festival worth its salt must make meaningful connections with the local community. It was a great idea to bring in Longyearbyen’s amateur choir at the end of the Huset concert for Mozart’s “Ave verum corpus”, the strings lending them support in doubling. And there was a knock-on effect: on the bus to the lavvo – (two) tent – "Midnight Sun" concert in the fast-thawing valley of Adventdalen, I met one of the choristers, who’d brought her partner and two friends living in Longyearbyen (one of them Slovakian; over 80 nationalities have settled here, freely under the terms of Norway’s 1920 Svalbard Treaty). To a packed audience further warmed by optional bowls of reindeer stew, and the occasional counterpoint of a sandpiper outside the tent, the string players gave us an endlessly resourceful selection of Scandinavian folk dances in arrangements adapted from the pioneering work of the Danish String Quartet. A star was born that evening, too: the usually shy and retiring second violin Anders Melhus (pictured above third from left) improvised brilliantly when he found that people were laughing uproariously at his spoken introductions (in English, like all the talk before and between works at the festival). As a result he amazed his fellow players and has a potential second career as a stand-up comedian. His shaggy-dog narration of the story of Ridder Stig was at least as good as the (brilliant) performance.
This was perfection; not quite so the big concert in the vestibule-shed of Gruve 7, Longyearbyen’s only functioning mine on the top of a mountain above Adventdalen. There’s none of the showcase packaging of Barentsburg here: outside is slagheap realness, and around an immediate landscape blighted by mining (pictured below by David Nice). I was beguiled by Kraggerud’s 24 pieces to complement Norwegian novelist-philosopher Jostein Gaarder’s time-fantasy in Equinox when I reviewed it, very enthusiastically, for the BBC Music Magazine. Kraggerud will participate in a chamber version in Oxford later this year, with Simon Callow reading the narration. Hearing only a selection, beguilingly introduced by the violinist-composer, showcased the wonderful, often virtuosic writing for strings but inevitably brought comments that this was film music; listening to the whole, I'd been convinced it was more than that (Kraggerud introducing his music pictured below).
The prospect of hearing Strauss’s lament for the ruination of the Second World War, Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings, wasn’t quite borne out by the reality: with Kragerrud leading, and having so much hard work of his own to attend to, the rather breathless performance suggested that this is a work at the limits of the chamber repertoire which really does need a conductor. Still, the playing was remarkably fine, and I was impressed that Adrian Brendel had slipped in as fifth cello, introducing the Montagnana cello of which he'd just taken possession to yet another unusual far-Northern venue. He was in Svalbard with his trio partners Kraggerud and Imogen Cooper (pictured below after their last concert) to give three programmes in the well-equipped if dry-sounding surroundings of Longyearbyen's Kulturhuset – an ace café with a handsome performance space attached. Those of us on the Barentsburg trip had to miss their Beethoven "Archduke" trio in the first concert; the second found Mozart’s E flat Piano Quartet, beautifully as Cooper floated the transitions, overshadowed by Brahms’s sensational masterpiece of a String Sextet, the earlier of the two, in B flat major (I was still feeling queasy the morning after the boat trip, but it lifted me out of indisposition rather miraculously). Pure well-being suffused the finale of this mini-series, Dvořák's A major Piano Quintet, right from the first ineffable duet of Brendel and Cooper. We were sorry to see Brendel, Kraggerud and most of the orchestra leave immediately after the concert. For the rest of us, there was free time in a now almost warm Longyearbyen – I took the opportunity to walk up the valley to the excellent main gallery, which has a stunning collection of Norwegian artist Kåre Tveter’s increasingly more abstract Svalbard impressions – and a grand finale of nine courses with four string quartet movements in Huset. Culinary music only? Far from it. Time stopped, and so did our consumption, as viola-player Julia Neher – a stalwart of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra as well as of the APCO, she had played a key part in the chamber concerts – introduced Webern’s early Langsamer satz and asked us to reflect upon the “Changes” theme. An Arctic fox ambled past; the sun still shone on the snowy mountains at 11pm; all seemed right with the world, though a double consciousness told us that it also wasn't.
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The O'ren
The origin of the O’ren started from Niem O’ren and Kelly Pearson. Niem himself was a French descendant while Kelly was a Scottish descendant.
Niem and Kelly’s story is covered in [Legends arc] [Venus] [2799].
But to sum the story up, initial Venus colonization fleet made an abysmal start and crush-landed on Venus surface. Only few crews made it and among them, there were Niem O’ren and Kelly Pearson.
Fortunately for the survivors, where they crush-landed was within a large crater where they were somewhat protected from harmful elements within untamed Venus atmosphere. They were able to construct an underground base and that was how Venus colonization began. Niem led the survivors and wedded widowed Kelly whose husband was the chief of the colonization team.
Dominance on Venus
The O’ren dominance on Venus was a natural progression. It was them who settled down the first on the planet and naturally they held political powers from the beginning.
No one doubted or even challenged their dominance and it was only normal for other Venusians to firmly believe that the planet was theirs.
The Bau did once make an attempt to establish a division on Venus which failed badly.
Their dominance met a gradual decline when the Klisis and the Vues migrated to the planet. Their dominance stood firm and intact for hundreds of years after their arrival but it was gradually weakened. By year 9599 when Cecil took Venus over Illy O’ren, the clan’s dominance on the planet was in question.
The clan’s golden era was during President Mirren’s regime which was also when the clan produced their first and the last class S ESP in Marat O’ren who wedded Cecil Klisis. The marriage did not last long as Marat was lost in a top secret experiment.
Rivalry with the Bau
The O’ren for many generations were a big and powerful clan. However, their influence was largely restricted to Venus. Their attempts to expand their sphere of influence was blocked by the Bau.
Even in their golden era, the O’ren wasn’t too determined to expand their sphere of influence. Historians argue that it was due to the fact that their home planet was never threatened. Because they always felt safe and sound at home, they weren’t determined to expand.
Therefore, while there was a rivalry with the Bau, it was rather passive. The Bau was happy as long as the O’ren was stuck on Venus and the O’ren was content that the Bau did not bother entering their home planet.
The downfall and afterwards (9665)
Historians agree in general that their days were always numbered when Cecil chose to make Venus his new home. No one had been able to stand against Cecil and it was only a matter of time before he’d move to strike the O’ren. Furthermore, the O’ren was solely responsible for destroying the Klisis.
However, it must be noted that Cecil did not order or even put the final nail on coffin. It was the O’ren who rose swords against Venus government, the Hammers, and it was the Hammers who finished the O’ren off.
After being thoroughly defeated by Venus government, the O’ren was forced to submit to the Klisis. And Scheer O’ren was appointed to be the new headman for the befallen clan. However, although fallen, the clan thrived afterwards. Scheer’s marriage to one of the members of the Hammers, Dante the mayor of Fallen Crater, tightened the overall relationship.
Between Scheer and Dante, they had seven children. One of their sons, Myelvon, would later become a prominent member of Venus government.
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3D Artist of the Month February 2019: Virginlemon
Friday, February 1st, 2019 by Julian Karsunky
In November 2018, star architect Shigeru Ban unveiled his plans for Kentucky Owl Park, a 420-acre complex in Bardstown, Kentucky, dedicated to the production of the famous American bourbon whiskey. The stunning 3D animation used to showcase the design, however, is the work of the talented team at Virginlemon, an Intereuropean studio specializing in architectural visualization and winner of our 3D Artist of the Month competition in February 2019.
We sat down with Carlotta Cominetti and Tamás Fischer to talk about digital worlds, their guaranteed sober approach to archviz animation and an exceptional collaboration spanning different continents.
Hi Carlotta, hi Tamás, it’s a pleasure to have you! To kick things off, please introduce yourself to our readers!
Hi everybody! We are Carlotta from Morbegno, Italy and Tamás from Budapest, Hungary, we’re both 31 years old. Together with fellow 3D artists Camélia and Stew, we make up Virginlemon, our very own production company for architectural imagery and animation. The two of us share a background and a passion for architecture, but besides our degrees, everything we do today in terms of CGI is more or less self-taught.
When and where did you two meet?
Many years ago, our architectural studies brought us to Paris, France, where we both started our professional careers. We first met each other at French studio ECDM architectes, which was the beginning of our working relationship. We started to click and have been sharing our work AND our personal lives ever since <3.
Can you tell us more about Virginlemon, the studio’s history, its field of work and general philosophy?
We both love architecture and are passionate about spaces, forms and materials. In search of the right way to express this passion of ours, we worked at various architectural studios. Soon after we met each other in 2013, we decided to try something on our own. The point was to create a space where we could link up with other architects and exchange different ideas and points of views, as we wanted our daily jobs to properly meet the unique challenges that come with each new project. Today, we are a team of four, sharing responsibilities, ideas and sleepless nights!
A sight to behold, three pyramids sit at the heart of the Kentucky Owl Park complex.
What does your usual workflow look like when working with a client?
Most of our clients are architects. In approaching a project, the first thing is to understand the message our client wants to communicate. With this initial flow of information, including course plans and 3D models, we try to come up with a design that is both expressive and sophisticated. The first shot we share with the client is almost fully developed. It’s easier and more efficient to have something comprehensive to discuss, so we try to integrate materials, lights, atmosphere and even animation from the very beginning. Taking more time on this first phase allows us to concentrate more on details later and, in turn, make our scenes livelier overall.
Is there a specific design philosophy or school of thought Virginlemon adheres to? What inspires you and your team as 3D artists?
We don’t really have a specific philosophy, but we approach every project looking for a challenge and trying to learn something new: employing a new technique or using a new plugin can make even a seemingly ‘simple’ project much more interesting.
Our biggest inspiration stems from observing our surroundings – at a concert hall, on the street, in nature, and most importantly, while traveling. Surely, it’s a common occupational hazard for a 3D artist to spend minutes looking at the structure of an oak tree and thinking about how to set it up in speedtree...
While I don’t mean to reduce either of you to your gender, it still seems rather rare to find women in certain positions in our line of work. From your personal experience, do you think women have a harder time breaking into the industry? What could be done to increase female representation?
Unfortunately, yes, it's harder for women. Occasionally, people are not comfortable working with a woman. Although this – for lack of a better word – ‘lack of trust’ usually affects them more than me and my team. However, things are definitely changing, especially between younger working teams like us. So, I’d like to think that it’s just a matter of time until everybody views and welcomes differences, whether in gender, nationality or personality, as new opportunities.
The interior of one of the three pyramids, containing the visitation center and distillery equipment.
Let us talk about your work in more detail, namely your animated unveiling of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s design plans for the Kentucky Owl Park complex. Please summarize the overall project!
The Kentucky Owl Park is a 420-acre site dedicated to the production of whiskey along the Kentucky bourbon trail. The complex includes a vintage train station, a convention center and everything else needed for bourbon production - a distillery, rickhouses for ageing, and bottling facilities. The buildings are sited within the natural landscape, an old limestone mining site. The secondary function of the complex is a visitor trail that presents the bourbon making process along this scenic route.
Now, the actual animation is built entirely on recreating the experience of visiting the site: You first arrive at the station and make your way through the visitor center, where you are introduced to the distilling process and can already do your first tasting. You then visit the ‘main attraction’ of the site, the trio of pyramids, where you can see the limestone fountain, the main water source for the bourbon, as well as the distillery area and the third pyramid. After crossing a wooden bridge, you enter the rickhouse and bottling area, where you then can do more tasting. The complex also offers various outdoor activities unrelated to whiskey, such as a biking trail, kayaking on the lake or hiking through the forest.
For both the architectural plans as well as the animation, this seems like a massive undertaking. With a runtime of over three minutes, how long did it take you to complete the animation?
One of the biggest challenges was the short time we had to manage the whole project. From inception to finalizing the 3D scene, we had only two weeks, including choosing camera movements and lighting, client feedback and editing.
Another complicated part was the overall organization, that is how to create 16 different ten second scenarios on such a vast site. We decided at the very beginning not to split our model by scenarios, opting to make everything in the same file instead, from interiors to aerial views. So, to keep everything smooth and fast even in rendering, we had to come up with a solution as optimized, automatized, and as low-poly as possible.
Maybe the trickiest part was the environment model. We had to recreate it from scratch based on a google earth import and a detailed masterplan. We painted every zone over different map channels, both for our layered material, and also for our scatters. Once finished, we only had to ‘walk around’ the site in search of the best view points and lighting consistent with our timeline.
With its real-life counterpart spanning an area of 420 acres, Virginlemon went above and beyond recreating Kentucky Owl Park in 3D.
So, you never got around to visiting the actual site in Bardstown, Kentucky? How did working across different continents and time zones work out?
Due to the tight deadline, we didn’t have time to visit the site, even though we would have loved to spend a day in Bardstown, tasting a good bourbon. Our animation was shown by Shigeru Ban during a public presentation at Bardstown Townhall on November 15th. We followed the event with the whole team via livestream :)
As for working remotely, we are quite used to working with clients from other continents. Scheduling has never been a problem – as long as we wake up before everybody else!
Going back to the production of the animation again, can you describe the development process and your overall involvement in the project in more detail?
With a deadline as short as ours, we can say that this project was an exceptional collaboration. We were quite free in the choice of materials: everything from colorimetry, lights, to camera movements and atmosphere was left to our discretion. As the project booklet was very accurate and the design process 100% finished, we really enjoyed concentrating on detailing, creating our low-poly vegetation library and filling up interiors with life.
Since we didn’t really have a script to follow, showcasing the design by guiding the spectator through the visitor trail was our main intention. As already mentioned, the development process was therefore based on the idea of replicating the entire site as one small world completely set up in 3D, where you could then walk around, ‘take pictures’ and search for nice viewpoints.
With the entirety of Kentucky Owl Park contained in one 3D file, the team explored every nook and cranny in search of viewpoints such as this one.
How did you then go about realizing this concept during production?
We started by making a wireframe rough cut of the base model, just to validate the timeline with our client. The second step consisted of recreating the 420-acre site in 3D, creating our low-poly vegetation library, and making a selection of low-poly trees from our collection. Based on references, we worked on painting, texturing and scattering different surfaces, detailing the archi-3D model of buildings and developing the interior design of each space from scratch. Once everything was set up properly, we shifted our focus to finding the best lights and camera movements for each scenario we imagined.
For each of our 10-second-long scenes, we made a complete low definition test render to see if everything works as intended. This also helped Lucas Archambault, our filming and editing specialist, get a head start in editing. Once the low-quality scenes had been approved by the client, we launched the final renders. It took around three days to set everything up correctly and sent all 16 scenes to RebusFarm. Closing out the process, we worked on compositing and postproduction on the HQ renders.
What software did you use to create this project? Any plugins you found particularly helpful?
We used 3ds Max 2018 with Corona 2.0 as render engine. Besides the built-in scattering tool in Corona and Phoenix FD, Mixamo proved really helpful for auto-rigging and animating our 3D humans.
Digital visitors populating the visitor center, with the three pyramids visible in the background.
There has been a steady increase in the demand for 3D animation in the field of architectural visualization. How does this approach differ compared to still CGI imagery?
We still fondly remember our first animation, made four years ago for a beautiful project, which is now built in Southern France. Since then, we have more and more requests for video animations. We actually prefer them to still CGI imagery projects. An animation well done is the easiest, immediately accessible way to showcase a project. You can tell a story. You can show everything or you can even hide parts. Animations are useful for both sides of the development process.
You mentioned that you used RebusFarm before. Please tell us more about your overall experience. Is there anything you especially like about our service?
Ever since our first animation, we have been using RebusFarm on a weekly basis. Even for still images, in distributed mode, RebusFarm saves time. The plugin works perfectly and quickly since our upgrade to 3DS max 2018. Every plugin we use is supported and the pricing always matches our budget! We’re particularly fond of the direct communication lines and the 24/7 support!
In closing, is there anything else you want to say? Any present or upcoming projects you’d like to mention?
We are currently working on three animations for the next few months. We also have been working on our 2018 demo reel, which is coming soon :) Aside from that, we are planning to do some more personal projects, which we find especially enjoyable. Finally, we’d like to thank RebusFarm for giving us this opportunity. Cheers and good luck to the next 3D Artists of the Month!
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LOVE BEYOND CAUSE 3
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But it had happened. It is a fact and the action can never be reversed. She will forever have it in mind that Ikem hit her, she could never forget it in a million years; and the love between them is forever tainted as a result of tonight’s happenings.
She couldn’t fathom the reason behind his aberrant behavior tonight. He had never raised his hands to her before. Sometimes, when he was angry enough to hit her, he had walked away rather than go ahead with it. Recently though, he had been exhibiting some rather strange behavior, she had been baffled by the subtle change in him.
She fluffed her pillow as fresh tears fell down her face. Her heart was breaking into a million pieces. She couldn’t believe that Ikem, her prince in shining armor, her tall, dark, and handsome lover would raise his hands to her. It still is unbelievable.
She stiffened as she heard the turn of the doorknob. Ikem came in quietly and stood by the door for a few moments observing her. There was a look of chagrin on his face.
“Ugochi…” he whispered reverently.
Ugochi turned to face the wall. She did not want to hear any excuse or see that tortured look on his face. She needed him to suffer a little bit more.
“Ugochi,” he said again, this time a little more firm
Ugochi refused the answer. She wished he’ll just go away and leave her to grief the loss of her trust in peace. It’s not every day her boyfriend slaps her after all.
Ikem was not having that though. He shuffled closer to the bed, walked to the other side so he could see her face, and he sat on the bed beside her. Ugochi stiffened some more. Tension radiated from her body like sun rays.
“I’m so sorry baby,” Ikem began. “I don’t know what came over me. I promise it will never happen again.”
Ugochi stared at his face coldly. “You don’t know what came over you?” she asked angrily. “That is the lamest excuse in the book,” she spat.
“I know, I know,” he raised his palm up in surrender. “I know it sounds cliché but that is the truth.”
“It does not sound cliché, it is cliché.” She refused to look at him, she laid on her back, staring at the ceiling.
“I’m sorry Ugo. What else do you want me to say?””
“I want you to tell me why you think it was necessary to treat me that way tonight. And I don’t want to hear anything like ‘I don’t know what came over me’, because we both know that’s not true.”
Ikem refused to reply. He just kept staring at her. How could he tell her he reacted that way because of the information given to me by a man he does not even trust? He can never tell her what Donald told him. What if he was wrong? He needed to be absolutely sure first.
“But that was happened baby. Maybe I was angry because you stayed out so late, or maybe I was just feeling some residual stress. Either way, I’m sorry I hurt you.”
“I told you I would be out late, didn’t I? I distinctly remember telling you today was Dawn’s birthday, and that we were going for dinner at a plush restaurant on the island. Didn’t I?”
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“Yeah, I think you did. Where were you this evening?”
“At work. Where else?”
“You didn’t go anywhere other than to work?”
“I went for Dawn’s birthday,” she threw up her hands in frustration. “Do I need to keep repeating myself?”
“Are you sure? No little lunch date with anyone?”
Ugochi narrowed her eyes at him speculatively. “No,” she replied. “Why the twenty questions?”
“I just want to be absolutely sure.”
Ugochi paused and looked at his face critically. She could see the confusion, and the faint anger, but there was something else lurking behind his eyes she couldn’t quite make out. There was something there that looks a lot like distrust.
“What is going on, Ikem?” she asked, baffled.
“Nothing. I’m sorry for hurting you, okay?” he caressed her abused cheeks. “Forgive me?” he stared into her eyes.
Ugochi wanted to ask more questions but she refrained. She decided to take the olive branch he was offering. Better keep the tentative peace.
“I forgive you darling. It was so out of character, it is easy to forgive. But please, control yourself better next time we have an argument.”
“I will. I love you.”
“Love you too.”
Few minutes later, they both lay in bed. They were not touching nor speaking with each other. Each was occupied with his own thoughts.
Ikem’s thoughts were whirling around his mind. So, who is lying? He thought. She claimed to be at work all day and Donald claimed he saw her having a drink with another man. Who is lying? I better get to the bottom of this, and fast.
Ugochi stared at the ceiling as the thoughts chased each other in her head. What did he mean by all those questions? Did he know something? Could he have spotted me with Fredrick this evening? Is that the reason for his aggressive and strange behavior? I better get to the bottom of this, and fast.
The next day Ugochi was in the office when Ijay’s call came through. She debated telling her about the happenings of last night for just a moment before making her decision. The matter was weighing so much on her mind, she needed to confide in someone.
“Hey girl,” she said into the receiver. “How are you?”
“I’m fine o. I called you last night to ask if you got home okay but you didn’t pick your call. I called you several times, hope you’re okay?”
“Girl, na plenty matter I meet for house o,” she began, and then launched into what happened.
Ijay sighed deeply when Ugochi finished recanting her story. “You mean, he slapped you? Like, he actually raised his hands to you and hit you?”
“Yes o. Na so I see am.”
“I’m speechless. I mean, that is so unlike Ikemefuna.”
“I thought so too.”
“What reason did he give for doing that?”
“You know, the usual now. Something like he didn’t know what came over him, he was stressed at work, I was out late, etc. I knew all that was just smoke though because he started asking me some strange questions. Ijay, I think he saw me with Frederick yesterday. I think that was why he flew off the handle like that.”
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“Wow, wait a minute. What made you say that? Did he tell you he saw you?”
“No. At least he didn’t say it out, he was just asking me some strange questions like did I go out of the office or something like that. Anyway, I think something is up, something he knows that he’s not telling me about.”
“But….I don’t know how he could conclude it was something shady, at least if he saw you there, he must have seen me too.”
“Yes, that’s true girl! I didn’t even think of that. You were there with us the whole time now.”
“Exactly! I don’t think you have anything to worry about on that front. Our plans will proceed as outlined.”
“Hmmm, I hope so because I really don’t want him to know about this decision I am taking. I need everything to be perfect and in place before I tell him about it.”
“I understand girl. We’ll get it done.”
“Thank you dear. I know I can count on you.”
“You know I’ve got your back dear. Meanwhile, I don’t want you to worry about a thing.”
A thought suddenly popped in Ugochi’s mind. “Wait, Ijay!” she said “Remember, you stood up for like five minutes to use the rest room, so technically, you were not with us the whole time. What if he saw us then? What if it was during that period he saw Frederick and I? Sitting together? Discussing cozily?”
“Oh my goodness, I totally forgot that. Oh, you’re so right. He could have seen you guys then.”
“Oh, this is bad, this is so bad.”
“But wait now Ugochi, we are just assuming that’s what he saw. What if it was something else entirely? What if it had nothing to do with your lunch with Frederick?”
“Oh baby, I don’t think so. I have this gut feeling this is what it’s all about. He saw me, Ijay. He saw me.”
“Okay, calm down. Let’s deal with this in a logical manner. What if you’re right? What if he saw you? What then? You can lie your way around that. Just tell him he’s your colleague, or client or something. He doesn’t have to know what it is all about.”
Ugochi calmed down a bit and thought about it for a minute. “That’s true,” she agreed. “I can always lie about it, and then I’ll pretend to get angry because he doubted me.”
“You go girl. You see? It will all work out.”
Ugochi sighed deeply. “Yes, I believe so. I’ll wait for him to bring it up though. I won’t.”
“Good. I have to get back to work now. Keep me updated?”
They dropped the call and Ugochi laid her head on her office table. This is getting too complicated for me. I just want to do right by myself and by Ikem. At least, what he doesn’t know can’t hurt him, she thought to herself.
Ugochi was very wrong about that. What Ikem doesn’t know can hurt him, and it is in fact hurting him. He managed to hold himself in check until lunch break, while his stomach churned with anger and disappointment. He didn’t want to conclude though, he had to confirm what that bastard Donald saw before he takes any action. He had never tolerated a woman cheating on him aand he is not going to start now. She cheats, she goes.
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Lunchtime came and Ikem bolted out of his tiny office cubicle as if pursued by demons. He paid no mind to his colleague Wale calling him to probably chat about last night’s game, and he stared Bibi, the sexy bombshell who was always making calf eyes at him, down as he quickly exited the building. He had thirty minutes to meet up with Donald and get to the bottom of this matter.
Five minutes later, he was seated across Donald at a small café. It took monumental control to keep from smashing his fist into Donald’s smug face.
“So, what did you see?” Ikem asked when they were both settled.
“Guy, why are we going over this matter again now? I already told you what I saw yesterday. I just felt it was my duty to tell my guy when I think his babe is stepping out on him. What are you taking it out on me?”
“I’m not taking it out on you. I just want to be absolutely sure of what happened.”
“Okay, I’m going to say this just one more time, and then I’m not going to talk about it again. By the way, why didn’t you ask your babe now?”
“She denied it,” he said. He didn’t like the gleam in Donald’s eyes so he explained further. “Okay, she didn’t deny it because I didn’t ask her straight out but she lied to me all the same.”
“Hmmm, interesting. Why didn’t you ask her?”
“I needed to be sure before accusing her of cheating.”
“Okay then. I saw her with this very sleek guy, handsome, you know? And looking very rich and put together. They were seated side by side, he was talking to her about something and she hung on his every word, looking at him adoringly, like lovers, you know? So, I checked them out for a few minutes, and then left. That was when I called you. I didn’t hang around cos I didn’t want her to see me. That’s it.”
Ikem’s fingers were drumming a nervous rhythm on the table. He studied Donald for a few moments. “Did you see them kiss, or anything?”
“No. That’s all I saw.”
“No suspicious touching?”
“No. But come on, Ik, I’m not a kid. I know when a man and a woman got feelings for each other and those two were sending off serious vibes. Come on, man.”
Ikem checked his time. He needed to get back to work. “Okay.” He stood up and offered his hand to Donald for a handshake. “Thanks for having my back guy.”
Donald clasped his hand firmly. “Anytime, anytime.” he said as he pumped enthusiastically.
“I’ll see you around.”
“Sure. Are we still on for the game tomorrow night?”
“I’ll let you know.” Ikem said and walked out.
Donald watched him go with a wicked gleam in his eyes. Your girl is the most faithful in the world, eh? We’ll see how both of you handles this now. We’ll see, he laughed gleefully.
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Information published on 4 September 2018 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 612.
Reminder: CYRAIL Final Conference on 18 September 2018 in Paris
CYRail
ERTMS
Rail System
The CYRail Final Conference will be held at UIC HQ, 16 rue Jean Rey in Paris on 18 September from 9 am to 4.30 pm.
The day-long conference will be an opportunity to learn how to address cybersecurity in the rail system:
What are the threats?
How can risks be assessed?
How are attacks targeting rail systems detected?
How can the consequences be mitigated and what are the countermeasures available?
What resilience mechanisms are available?
The final recommendations from the project will be presented by the consortium members and the audience will include rail infrastructure managers and public transport operators, rail manufacturers (rolling stock and signalling), ICT integration companies, standardisation bodies, policymakers and researchers.
For further information on the CYRail project, please visit the website at http://www.cyrail.eu/.
If you would like to attend the conference, please register at https://events.uic.org/cyrail-final-conference-18-september-2018.
The CYRail project has received funding from the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement no. 730843, addressing the topic of “threat detection and profile protection definition for cybersecurity assessment”.
For further information please contact Marie-Hélène Bonneau, Senior Adviser Security Division: bonneau@uic.org
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Information published on 26 March 2019 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 639.
Iran: Mr Saeid Rasouli appointed new Chairman of the Board and President of RAI
News from UIC members
Mr Saeid Rasouli has been appointed the new Vice-Minister for Roads and Urban Development, Chairman of the Board and President of RAI as of March 2019.
Mr Rasouli has been Member of the Board at the Railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran (RAI) since 22 January 2017. Ha was formerly Vice-President for Planning and Transport Economy at RAI and held various high-level roles at Iran’s President Office and within the Management and Planning Organisation.
UIC Director General Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux is pleased to acknowledge the appointment of Mr Rasouli by congratulating him on his new role at the head of Iranian Railways. He said that Iran has significant railway projects in the pipeline and UIC will be delighted to pursue its cooperation to support Iranian Railways in their development. The UIC office in Tehran will remain for its part very active by working in conjunction with the Middle-East region and fostering links with all its members.
Mr Saeid Rasouli was born in 1968 in Malayer. He graduated from Shahid Chamran
University in Ahvaz in the field of Water Engineering and is a graduate in Structural
Engineering from the same university at PhD level. He has been working at different
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10 Most Visited Attractions of Adelaide
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Apart from being the fifth largest city in Australia, Adelaide is the center of its affluent culture and distinctively refined lifestyle. It proudly showcases an immaculate influence of European lifestyle and culture with a laid back attitude in its backdrop. Today, Adelaide is known for its culinary delights and wine culture. For art lovers, there are museums, galleries, operas, et al. In short, Adelaide as a city offers you intriguing mix of odds. With its world-class festivals, it is the city you must explore once in your lifetime. Here are the top 10 attractions of Adelaide waiting to mesmerize you with their beauty.
Walk at North Terrace:
Mesmerizing Views of north Terrace
You cannot resist a walk in this tree-fringed boulevard showcasing the rich treasures of Australian history and culture. The colossal arcade of Parliament House and Gothic architecture of Mitchell House are equally enchanting. For a heavy dose of art, there are attractions like the Art Gallery of South Australia, the State Library of South Australia, and South Australian Museum. A perfect place to kick off your city tour in Adelaide!
Art Gallery of South Australia:
Explore the arts of South Australia at this art gallery
Situated in the heart of North Terrace precincts, this is an amazing place to explore the rich treasures of Australian fine arts. It is housed in a grand Victorian style edifice. The exhibits within its boundaries include paintings, textiles, ceramics, jewelries, sculpture, etc. Here, you can explore Australian history from colonial period till date along with exclusive avant-garde European and Asian artworks.
Central Market:
Enjoy Culinary Delights at Central Market
Enjoy a gastronomic trip by visiting Central Market of Adelaide. This indoor market was built in 1870. The area is dotted with multi-cuisine or rather, multi-cultural eateries and cafes. Here, you can find everything from farm fresh produce to baked goods and hormone free meats. The cafes and Asian restaurants in Chinatown are also enticing for their regional cuisines.
Adelaide Zoo:
Spot cute Pandas at Adelaide Zoo
Visit this zoo for the giant and very cute Pandas. Apart from these lovely creatures, Adelaide Zoo can delight you with its Orangutans and aviaries. You will also love to visit Envirodome or a visitor center featuring with terrarium and vertical gardens. The usual Australian wildlife enriched with kangaroos, quokkas, wombats, and koalas are other highlights of this zoo having diverse fauna from other parts of the world.
Adelaide Botanical Garden:
The Beautiful Palm House in Adelaide Botanic Garden
This botanical garden was established in 1855 to allure you with its striking botanical bounty. It houses native species of Australia along with a Mediterranean garden and a wetland. It is an educational precinct where you can learn amazing facts about botany and medicinal plants. Attractions of this park include Bicentennial Conservatory, Moretan Bay Fig trees, Palm House, and Mount Lofty Botanic Garden.
Glenelg:
Stunning view of Glenelg
As opposed to the cosmopolitan fervor of Adelaide, this seaside village is a popular retreat packed with lots of touristic opportunities. You can take a tram from Victoria Square to reach this ancient European settlement of South Australia. This exuberant suburb features distinctive nightlife, shopping, and adventurous trails. The place has vast expanses of white sandy beaches as well as swish hotels, sidewalk cafeterias, and kids-friendly amusement park. Not to forget the famous Jetty Road, touted as the shopping district of Adelaide.
Barossa Valley:
The Beautiful Barossa Valley
It is the oldest grape growing region of Australia. You will definitely enjoy the culinary delights in the local eateries of Barossa Valley. It is the best wine region of the country producing its signature Shiraz wine. It takes just one hour drive from CBD Adelaide to reach this region.
Hahndorf:
The Stunning Countryside of Hahndorf
This serene ancient German settlement is beautifully nestled in Adelaide Hills at a distance of 20 minutes drive from city center. It features European style crafts shops, bakeries, and pubs representing the German culture. Its Lutheran churches and half-timbered buildings are mesmerizing and so is the popular wine culture of this village.
Victoria Square:
Explore the heart of the city at Victoria Square
It is the center of Adelaide city and its buzzing lifestyle. The place is decked with beautiful gardens and an imposing statue of Queen Victoria. It’s surrounded by high-rise buildings as well as some old edifices. It has an old Courthouse, Treasury Building, Town Hall, St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, and neoclassic architecture of Supreme House. Towards the east side of King William Street, there is the famous Rundle Mall.
Port Adelaide:
The beautiful area of Port Adelaide
If you want to explore the port life of Adelaide with its array of heritage attractions, visit Port Adelaide. It has many ancient 19th Century buildings, museums, and eateries. You can plan dolphin plotting cruises and also, visit interesting museums of South Australian Aviation Museum, South Australian Maritime Museum, and National Railway Museum.
These are some of the attractions depicting the antiquity and culture of South Australia. For destinations missed out here, share them in the comments section below.
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Is there a way to find out if I need a transit visa for a layover in the UK?
Is there a website or some other way to find out if I need a transit visa for a short stop in the UK on my way somewhere else? Ideally this should give me the answer for all nationalities, and take into account any other visas I may have.
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DJClayworthDJClayworth
Thanks for posting the question. I have checked gov.uk/check-uk-visa , and the officer at London Heathrow airport acted exactly the same way that gov.uk advised. They let us in the country even that we had not UK visa, just because we had visa for US, and our flight was the same day – Roozbeh Zabihollahi Oct 29 '17 at 17:33
I am in a similar conundrum. I am a valid Canada PR holder, and I will be traveling Mumbai-Toronto via London. My Mumbai-London flight is landing at Heathrow, while the London-Toronto flight is taking off from Gatwick, 4 hours later. Would I need the In Transit visa? Your response will be greatly appreciated. – aliensurfer Apr 17 at 10:44
@aliensurfer Please read the answer (and use the website it points to), and if there is something specific in it that you do not understand ask about that using the "Ask Question" button. – DJClayworth Apr 17 at 13:13
Why yes there is.
This UK government site will tell you if you need a visa to transit through the UK. You enter your nationality, destination, and any visas you already hold, and it will tell you if you need a transit visa or not. It also includes instructions for applying for one.
As a summary (but check for exceptions):
You must arrive and depart by air, and your outbound flight must be booked and confirmed.
You don't need a transit visa if you would not need a visa for a tourist visit to the UK.
A transit visa comes in two forms: Direct Airside Transit Visa (DATV) which is limited to 24 hours and you must remain 'airside' (i.e. cannot pass through immigration) and a Visitor in Transit Visa, which is valid for 48 hours and allows you to change airports (and terminals at airports where you can't do that airside).
You must have all the necessary documentation for your final destination, including any visas.
You are exempt from needing a transit visa under certain conditions. These can be found at https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. As of 26 September 2018, the conditions are:
For direct airside transit
You don’t need a visa if you have one of the following:
a visa for Canada, New Zealand, Australia or the USA (this can be used for travel to any country)
a residence permit issued by Australia or New Zealand
a common format residence permit issued by an European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland
a resident permit issued by Canada after 28 June 2002
a uniform format category D visa for entry into a country in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland
an Irish biometric visa (marked ‘BC’ or ‘BC BIVS’ in the ‘Remarks’ section)
a Schengen Approved Destination Scheme (ADS) group tourism visa where the holder is travelling to the Schengen country that issued the visa
a flight ticket from the Schengen area, if you can prove that you entered the Schengen area in the previous 30 days on the basis of a valid Schengen ADS visa
a valid USA I-551 Temporary Immigrant visa issued by the USA (a wet-ink stamp version will not be accepted)
a valid USA permanent residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998
an expired USA I-551 Permanent Residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998, with a valid I-797 letter authorising extension
a valid standalone US Immigration Form 155A/155B issued by the USA (attached to a sealed brown envelope)
All visas and residence permits must be valid.
For transits that require going through passport control
You might be eligible for ‘transit without visa’ if:
Transiting without a visa
you arrive and depart by air [and]
have a confirmed onward flight that leaves on the day you arrive or before midnight on the day after you arrive [and]
have the right documents for your destination (eg a visa for that country)
One of the following must also apply:
you’re travelling to (or on part of a reasonable journey to) Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA and have a valid visa for that country
you’re travelling from (or on part of a reasonable journey from) Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA and have a valid visa for that country
you’re travelling from (or on part of a reasonable journey from) Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA and it’s less than 6 months since you last entered that country with a valid entry visa
you have a residence permit issued by Australia or New Zealand
you have a common format residence permit issued by an European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland
you have a residence permit issued by Canada issued after 28 June 2002
you have a uniform format category D visa for entry to a country in the EEA or Switzerland
you have an Irish biometric visa (marked ‘BC’ or ‘BC BIVS’ in the ‘Remarks’ section) and an onward flight ticket to the Republic of Ireland
you’re travelling from the Republic of Ireland and it’s less than 3 months since you were last given permission, on the basis of holding a valid Irish biometric visa, to land or be in Ireland
you have a valid USA permanent residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998
you have a valid USA I-551 Temporary Immigrant visa issued by the USA (a wet-ink stamp version will not be accepted)
you have an expired USA I-551 Permanent Residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998, with a valid I-797 letter authorising extension
you have a valid standalone US Immigration Form 155A/155B issued by the USA (attached to a sealed brown envelope)
You won’t be able to transit without a visa if a Border Force officer decides you don’t qualify under the immigration rules. You can apply for a transit visa before you travel if you’re unsure whether you qualify for transiting without a visa.
E-visas or e-residence permits are not acceptable for transiting through immigration control without a visa.
Australian paper confirmation slips are not accepted.
If you need more information than is provided by this website you will need to check with your airline or contact the UKVI. The Home Office's Charging Procedures - A Guide for Carriers also provides some guidance on the subtler points of the rules (it's intended for professionals, not passengers, but does explain in great details when a visa is or is not required).
Transiting airside
In London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Manchester, if you fly from outside the UK or Ireland and leave to another country (neither UK nor Ireland), it is possible to transit without entering the UK and going through UK Border Control, you can stay airside. There is no hotel airside, and the transit areas close overnight, so if you have an overnight stopover, you have to go through UK Border Control. There is a detailed guide available on Heathrow airport website.
Visa Seniority
People on any kind of valid UK visa that is senior to a transit visa do not need an additional visa. It means the person can transit on a category "C" (visitor), category "D" (PBS), and so on.
The policy is not available on the net. I wrote to the policy unit using my lawyer hat and got this reply...
They are thinking about including this in the written guidance. Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
phoog
I removed the reference to British embassies or consulates, I don't think they offer advice or respond to visa inquiry at all. You're supposed to determine yourself if you need a visa and lodge an official application. See e.g. gov.uk/government/world/organisations/… “Staff at our High Commission, Consulates and visa application centres cannot help with any visa enquiries.” – Relaxed Jul 23 '14 at 8:39
@GayotFow I don't think they would. There was some meta discussion about answers like this, and the fact that it's community wiki would mitigate any objections. And as the original author I certainly wouldn't object. It was always intended that an answer like this would be updated where necessary. However what I would recommend for now is adding a section "New legislation to come into effect December 1st" and list what the new rules state. Then in a few months we can edit again to refer only to the new rules. – DJClayworth Nov 21 '14 at 15:45
"a Visitor in Transit Visa, which is valid for 48 hours and allows you to change terminals or airports." It is possible as an international arrival to change terminals at LHR without going landside or through immigration. You just get on the bus. So presumably DATV would allow that. – Calchas May 14 '15 at 20:30
I am interested particularly in GC holders. Is a valid USA permanent residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998 means Green Card? – Suncatcher Dec 2 '18 at 13:34
If I ask this in separate question it will be marked as duplicate and I will be redirected to this community question anyway. No? It's only this bullet not clear for me, therefore I decided to ask for clarification in the comment. – Suncatcher Dec 2 '18 at 16:45
Please visit UK gov website: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/527411/UK_Visa_requirements_3_June_2016.pdf
Transit visa requirements are dependent on
your nationality
how long your stay is
are you transferring the airport
Please refer to above link for some information.
AnamikaAnamika
And if you have a visa or residence permit in certain affluent countries. Like I said, you do not need a visa to enter the UK in transit to the US even though you're Indian – Crazydre Mar 30 '17 at 19:10
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[Wigan Evening Post] Church gets top award
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Church gets top award
A church is celebratig after receiving the country’s hghest award for voluntary work in communities across the region.
The World Mission Society Church of God(UK Zion) has been given the prestigious Quee’s Awar for Voluntary Service.
The church’s volunteers, who are recognisable by their bright yellow T-shirts, have carried out work in Wigan and Leigh over the past few years including cleaning up the town centers, tidying Mesnes and Jubilee parks and providing activities for elderly residents at care homes in Norley Hall and Pernberton.
The group have also provided help and relief for flood victims in Greater Manchester, run drives to boost the number of people donating blood and removed graffiti.
The efforts have now paid off by being given the highest honor a comminity group in the UK ca receive, with the leaders being invited to a special garen party at Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Award recipients.
The work has previously been acknolwedged locally with certificates from the Mayor of Wigan and commendations from the council.
Senior church leader Michael King said: “The award is a wonderful encouragenent to all of our volunteers to spread our work even more in the future.”
The church is one of 193 charigies, social enterprises and voluntary groups which will receive the prestigious Queen’s Award this year, a slight increase on the number given out previously.
The award committee chair, former broadcast journallist Sir Martyn Lewis, said,: “I warmly congratulate all of the inspirational voluntary groups which have been rewarded for their community work with a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. The judging panel for this year’s awards were struck by the quality and breadth of all the successful groups. The thousands of volunteers who give up spare time to help others in their community and to help solve problems demonstrate the very best of democracy in action.”
UK Zion will officially receive the award from the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester in a ceremony to be held later this year.
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service was create in 2002 to celebrate Her Majestry’s golden jubilee, with the winners being announced each year on the anniversary oof her coronation.
This year’s winners range from a war memorial community trust providing community activities in Wales to a club which decleops athletics provisio in Scotland.
Wigan Evening Post
[Bury Times] Highest accolade [Wigan Evening Post] Church honored for work
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[Wigan Evening Post] Church honored for work
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Meanwhile part 2
Christos Gage (writer), Juan Babillo (pencils), Marcelo Sosa (inks), Chris Sotomayer (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters), Salvador Larocca and Frank D’Armata (cover art), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor), Nick Lower (editor), Axel Alonso (editor in chief), Joe Quesada (chief creative officer), Dan Buckley (publisher), Alan Fine (executive producer)
Abigail Brand has been infected with a Brood larva. However, due to her half-alien physiology, she is able to withstand the transformation longer than a normal human. Unfortunately, her fellow S.W.O.R.D. agents aren’t so lucky and the X-Men are forced to kill them before they can do any damage. Abigail manages to persuade the X-Men that killing the Brood is a bad idea, so Beast comes up with an idea which means they won’t have to exterminate the Brood race. He and the X-Men get themselves caught by the Brood and impregnated with larva before escaping. Hank hopes to extract the larva back on the Peak and teach the young Brood human traits such as compassion, teamwork and how to coexist. Abigail says there’s no need. She informs him about a young Broodling elsewhere on the ship. Maybe it could do the work for them. The team heads off and finds the young Broodling out of its stasis pod. Unfortunately, their escape is slowed down when the Broodqueen and her soldiers appear. He queen informs Kitty that they are stronger and more fertile than the Brood they are used to. The X-Men begin to transform and Kitty finds herself all alone. She is thrown out of the airlock by Colossus on the Broodqueen’s command but is saved by Lockheed, who has returned to save the day, despite earlier saying that he wouldn’t.
(escape shuttle attached to Pandora’s Box, S.W.O.R.D. research satellite)
Abigail Brand and her fellow S.W.O.R.D. agents have been infected by the Brood. The X-Men are there to help, but first they have to deal with the problem in hand. Ororo wastes no time. She first apologizes for failing them and then zaps each of the agents with lightning, killing them instantly. Shadowcat realizes that Storm has the right idea and tells Lockheed that it’s scorched Earth time. Lockheed unleashes his fiery breath, killing more.
Abigail, however, has other plans. She points her gun at Beast’s temple and Hank informs his friends that she hasn’t fully changed yet. Colossus reminds him that he has a gun pointed at his head, but Abigail informs them that she’s only doing that so they’ll listen. She explains that her half-alien physiology lets her fight off the change, for a little while anyway. It’s not easy, she adds, and she’s not suggesting they turn her back on her, but they have to believe her when she says, “You can’t kill any more of the Brood.”
Piotr replies that they have no choice. They tried to save them but it was too late. It’s not too late for her. Kitty tells her that they’ll lift off and blow Pandora’s Box to atoms. They can get her back to the Peak and find a cure for her. Abigail asks them to listen. She is in touch with the Brood hive-mind and now knows what they know. She explains that their homeworld was destroyed but the whole picture is bigger than that. The Brood, awful as they are, served as natural predators for even worse species. Now, the interstellar ecosystem is out of whack. These other species are now breeding out of control and they’ll present a greater threat than the Brood ever did. She asks Hank to think, not as the Beast, an Avenger or an X-Man but as a scientist. Hank believes that, weirdly, she may be right. They have to save the Brood.
Kitty can’t believe this. This is the Brood they’re talking about. They don’t just kill to survive. They actually enjoy it. They sit and laugh while their kids eat people alive from the inside. Piotr agrees. Seldom has he encountered such irredeemable evil. He says they should let them die out and find alternative means to deal with the other species. Ororo tells Hank that few understand the intricacies of the natural order as she does, yet if they repopulate the Brood, every being they kill will be their responsibility.
Hank thinks not. He might have a solution - one that preserves the interstellar ecosystem without imperiling sentient beings. It will also keep them from committing genocide. But, he adds, it’s highly risky and depends on them all playing their parts precisely. He informs Abigail that, due to her compromised status, she can’t join in. Abigail understands. The chick with the evil baby in her brain doesn’t need to know. She allows them to talk privately.
(minutes later)
Hank has explained his grand plan. Colossus reckons it sounds mad but he has never failed them. He agrees to the idea. Ororo tells him they all do. Lockheed, however, pipes up and Kitty translates for him. She explains that Lockheed says the Brood are evil and, not only should they let them die, they should spit on their graves. He says that if the X-Men insist on doing this then he can’t be a part of it. He also won’t come to save them when they have baby Broodlings eating their livers. He’s leaving and he wants Kitty to go with him. She turns to her pet Dragon and tells him that she can’t. She knows it’s dangerous, but Hank and Abigail Brand are right. They have to try at least. And… she’s not leaving her friends. Lockheed replies that’s all she does before leaving her to join the others. Kitty sighs. “Bye again Dragon.”
Hank tries to say something to her, but she asks him not to mention it. She just asks him to make this something besides the suicide mission it sounds like. Piotr reverts to human form and places a comforting hand on her shoulder, telling her that they’ll get through this. As he speaks, he is knocked unconscious from behind and Kitty turns to see a giant Broodqueen standing there. She screams Piotr’s name and says this wasn’t part of the plan. The Broodqueen calls them stupid. Why return to a place where only death awaits? Perhaps, she adds, that by removing their means to escape, they seek to kill them while salvaging the station. Or perhaps… it doesn’t matter.
Hank looks up and sees the second Broodqueen. He wonders how this has happened. “Necessity,” she replies. They require young, so soldiers develop into Queens. Hank realizes that he’s boxed in and requires backup. He is then stabbed with one of the Broodqueen’s tendrils which injects him with their venom and then the X-Men find that they are surrounded. Abigail then storms in and informs Ororo that the Brood need them as incubators. However, they can’t hurt them too badly so they’ve got the upper hand. She struggles as she speaks, explaining that her head feels like it’s got needles stuck in it.
The Broodqueen grins and tells the ‘wicked child’ she is being punished. She says that like the others, Abigail is disobedient before the host is consumed. Ororo summons the wind, but the Broodqueen grabs her and smashes her into the ground, telling that if this were a real atmosphere then she might defeat them all. She may be Queen material.
With Hank and Ororo now captive and Abigail struggling against her infection, Kitty stands almost defenseless over the unconscious body of Colossus. The Broodqueen tells the others to take the captives to the stasis chamber before they shrug off the venom. When their young control their minds, they will use them to lure other humans with ships. In the meantime, she asks someone to transmit a message to their headquarters to inform them that they have hostages.
One of them asks about Kitty. The Broodqueen grabs her and replies that she will implant her with one of her young. Kitty replies defiantly that she the joke’s on her. Her body is intangible. She can’t be hurt. The Broodqueen says that in that case, she will expel her into space to drift alone for all eternity. She feels she is harmless. “Harmless…” replies Kitty. “Harmless little girl without a gun... Harmless little girl… trained to kill by Wolverine.” She flips around and kicks the Broodqueen in the face before asking Abigail if she’s still one of the good guys. “If I ever was,” she replies, adding that she’ll rouse the others.
Hank tells her that there’s no need. He kicks into life and pulls away from his captor. He informs her that their venom is unpleasant but tolerable. Any stronger and it would threaten their larva. The Broodqueen quickly orders her fellow Brood to retreat. They have already won and there is nothing to be gained in battle. All they need do is prevent their escape. In due time, their children will speak to them and their minds will be theirs.
As they depart, Abigail tells Hank that she’s right. So, why doesn’t he tell her why his master plan calls for allowing themselves to be infected with Brood eggs. “It was that obvious?” replies Hank. She replies that she can tell when he’s throwing a fight. Hank explains that the idea is for them to escape to the Peak and use the machine they sent back in the shuttle to remove the Brood larvae from them. Abigail figured as much. What she doesn’t get is how that changes anything. The Brood young will still end up as evil as the rest. “Hank reckons that won’t necessarily be the case. Once they’re extracted, he believes he can use the technology based on their Cerbera device to cut off their brains from the existing Brood hive-mind. That opens the way for more suitable role models.
He informs her that the Hulk has an ally - a Brood creature who is not like its peers. It understands friendship and honor. That Brood creature they fought was right. They’re doing what all beings faced with extinction do: evolving. They grow stronger, soldiers develop into Queens able to lay eggs, but there other types of evolution as well such as compassion. The ability to cooperate with other beings. To care about them making it possible to coexist.
He continues to say that before he turned on them, their former colleague Bishop told him that in his future there is a benign race of Brood in the universe. If they make this compassionate Brood creature the new template for a Brood hive-mind, they could create that race. Abigail scratches her head but admits that his idea isn’t completely insane. She points out one thing, however. They do not need to find this friend of the Hulk’s because there is a Brood creature with compassion right there on the station.
Having the Brood caterpillar inside her is a two-way street. She knows the things they do and, every now and then, a Brood creature exhibits kindness. They kill it, like the ancient Spartans putting down weak babies. Abigail relates how this Brood was born in one of their labs. Their scientists were curious to study it. When the other Brood escaped, some of them wanted to kill it, but the Broodqueen reasoned that in the face of extinction, all Brood were valuable. So, they left it in its stasis tube, unable to bring themselves to murder it but too disgusted to let it out. In Brood terms, she adds, it’s young, a teenager and a mutant of its species. If they free it and take it back with them, they could teach it caring and teamwork, leather pants and all the other cherished X-Men values. Ororo adds that it could pass those values on to every new Brood creature born.
Piotr points out that this might happen if they can rescue it and get it back to the Peak before the Brood larvae turn them into monsters. Hank doesn’t believe this should be an issue. Experience tells them that it takes the better part of a day for the Brood larva to take control of the host. They should have plenty of time. What will be difficult is fighting past the Brood to get out of there, but, one thing at a time. He asks Abigail if she can lead them to the Broodling.
Abigail leads the team through the station. Ororo sees the young Brood up ahead. Kitty reminds them that, before they do something they regret, this is a Brood creature.
It is compassionate by the standards of a Brood creature. What she means is that it might say thank you before chowing down on your spleen. Colossus asks her not to worry. They are a match for a single youth. They continue their path, and Kitty remarks that even without a solid nose the smell makes her want to hurl. She warns them to get ready. The Brood usually go for the throat.
They discover the stasis capsule broken and the young Brood standing there. It asks if they’ve come to kill it, but Storm assures it that they’ve come to set it free and give it a home. Beast contacts the Peak and requests an extraction ship, providing them with the nearest airlock to their location. His contact replies that the ship will be a drone, unmanned. They can’t lose any more men if his plan goes south. Hank understands and asks them to have medical crews standing by for larva extraction. As soon as she’s finished speaking, they look up to see a horde of Brood creatures in the shadows.
“I see you’ve met our wayward youth,” one says. Hank asks everyone to take it easy. They knew they would try and prevent them from leaving. Kitty says they can kill them, right? Now that they’re all playing surrogate mom? Hank replies that they can do, but only as a last resort. They’re still endangered. Kitty laughs and asks the Broodqueen if she can hear that. They still need an excuse to kill them. “So come on, give us one.” The Broodqueen replies that there is no ‘us.’ There is only her. Surprisingly, Beast, Colossus and Storm begin to change quickly. Even Abigail’s transformation rapidly increases. Kitty looks around, frightened, wondering what’s happening to them.
The Broodqueen explains that they are stronger and more fertile. Their young mature much faster. Hank and the others take on Brood attributes in the same manner that Abigail did and then turn on Kitty. Piotr grabs her by the throat and the Broodqueen asks him to dispose of her out of the airlock. He does as she asks and hurls her into open space. Kitty calls out as she floats away. “I can’t lose you. Not again…” As the Broodqueen asks for the airlock to be closed, a wall of flame engulfs the bay. Lockheed then appears, grabs Kitty and brings her back inside. She is quite pleased to see him. Lockeed tells her that he’s not going to say it, but then changes his mind. “All right, I’m going to say it. I told you so.”
The young hatchling smashes one of the other Brood over the head with the door to its stasis pod and tells the Broodqueen that she left him in the dark and the cold. They let it out. It isn’t one of them. “Very well tainted one,” replies the Broodqueen, “Then you can die with them.”
Broodqueen and Brood warriors
Elloie Kaifi, Korg and No Name (all Warbound)
Brood warriors
Part one of this story appeared in Astonishing X-Men #38.
Lockheed wanting to spit on the Brood’s graves is only a loose translation. It’s probably much worse than that.
Hulk’s Brood friend is “No name,” who first appeared in Incredible Hulk (3rd series) #92.
Agent-X #10
Despite being a team centered around mutants, the X-Men have included several non-mutants including Mimic, Longshot, Warlock and Danger.
Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #40 (Captain America Variant)
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History Museum of the city of Monchegorsk
Museum Showplace
Monchegorsk Street. Tsarevskogo, d. 1
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History Museum of the city of Monchegorsk has opened its doors November 3, 1980. It is located in a unique building for Monchegorsk. This “Finnish” cottage was built in 1937 for Vasily Kondrikova – the first manager of the trust “Kolstroy” known person in the Murmansk region. “House Kondrikova” stands out from the surrounding buildings. In 2006, in the hall “Protected Lapland” built layout kuvausy – marching housing indigenous population of the Kola Peninsula – the Sami, as well as presented the dolls in national costumes of the small people of the North.
More than 2,000 items are on display and in storage at the museum. They will tell you about the nature of the Monchegorsk district and the Lapland Reserve, about how to build a beautiful city ( “Modzhes” – in Sámi means “beautiful”) and how he lives today.
On the basis of the museum designed and conducted educational interactive program “Arctic in the fire”, “Hello, Museum”, “My Monchegorsk”, “We – the reindeer people”, “Tales of Old kuvaksy”. Tours are conducted taking into account the interests and needs of different social and age groups and education, including the use of modern computer and audio-video equipment.
Permanent exhibitions Museum of History of the city:
“Protected Lapland”: presents the flora and fauna Monche-tundra, Lapland Reserve activities of employees, history and culture of Aboriginal Kola Saami.
“City in the beautiful tundra”: describes the geological studies Monche-tundra, the beginning of construction plant “Severonikel” and the city of Monchegorsk.
“Monchegorsk: the war period”: the city and presented monchegortsev part in the Great Patriotic War.
“City on the turn of the century”: About the period of development of the city from 1946 to the present.
There is also a small exhibition hall, where almost every month open new exhibitions of various themes – the history of the city (from the museum), the exhibition of children’s works, decorative art (at the museum for many years running club of arts and crafts “Fantasy”), exhibition works by local artists, etc.
Mode of operation:
Mon.-Fri .: 10.00-18.00
Sat.-Sun .: 11.00-18.00
Address: Monchegorsk Street. Tsarevskogo, d. 1
Phone: (815-36) 7-60-73.
E-mail: migm@bk.ru
Website: www.mig.org.ru
Map of History Museum of the city of Monchegorsk
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Strikes: One Law for All
We would love to see wages drop
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, April 27th, 2013 - 99 comments
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner).
Step right up to the mike…
big bruv 1
“the Bill will reduce the Employment Relations Act to a farce and the result will be wages are driven down and employment agreements broken up, with some of the most significant impact being on workers in the public sector.”
And when that does not happen will we see an apology from the author of this post?
Today is a great day for the country.
[lprent: This looks more like diversion trolling than addressing the topic – moved to OpenMike.
Two week ban. One for diversion trolling. The second for wasting my time moving the comments. ]
Cant remember my last username 1.1
The ironic thing is labour will get into power and leave most of the changes intact (like most of the changes Roger implemented) – they know its good for the economy
Then again labour is acting mighty strangely lately with all this NZ Power craziness!!!
It’s good for owners
Bad for workers
Cant remember my last username 1.1.1.1
That’s a very simple ‘class war’ construct to think about the issue..you can do better than that
Exactly, this anti-labour legislation is a salvo in NZ’s ongoing class war.
Cant remember my last username 1.1.1.1.1.1
Lol you like a walking slogan….
I suspect you’re a wannabee shogun.
You are talking an alien culture. Fuck Off !
Draco T Bastard …
No, he’s a wannabe squire.
Manservant
In relation to ” ‘Cos-I’m-John-Key-can’t-remember-my-last-username”, this is defining. In the archaic meaning of “squire” he was a fellow who was the dependable runner or errand boy of the knight.
Well, no unkindness intended but that’s how the abovenamed strikes me.
And he will be vindicated.
There is no doubt that before that citizen of the Kingdom of Global Banker leaves these now less-lovely shores, he will bestow upon himself The Order Of This That the Other Thing.
The abovenamed will have a true knight to snivel around after !
prism 1.1.2
crmlu
You’re right Labour did blend in NACT type policies. There was a subterranean movement and a lot of aspiring NACTs took over hearts and minds of the Labour faithful in spades. It’s time to forge new approaches which is what is being said each day.
Jenny 1.2
I don’t mind you refusing to print any of my guest post requests. As a Centre Left website you have every right to do so. No website allows posts they disagree with, that’s understandable. And why should you be different? But Lynn, do you really have to bump down my posts on Open mike?
P.S. Saying that. If you did allow more controversial Left of Centre posts. Who knows? You might find you could possibly get more debate and more readership.
ghostrider888 1.2.1
the site is unpredictable at times Jenny; comments I make often end up above comments that came before; don’t panic; I read most of your comments, most of the time anyway.
Jenny 1.2.1.1
You are right, of course. Thanks ghost, for your vote of support.
Jenny 2
“Politics is all about pressure”
Coincidentally since I put up THIS post on open mike yesterday.
The Herald has published reviews of a new book which details all the pressures that David Lange was put under by the New Zealand state, the permanent heads of the Civil Service, military leaders, and foreign government leaders, to ignore his promise to the electorate. And the dismay these people felt, when Lange, under this onslaught of secret behind the scenes pressure, despite some early vacillation, eventually turned his back on them. That these undemocratic parasites on the body politic have now accused Lange of lying to them. Is just sour grapes. Politics is all about pressure and this time the pressure from below, was greater than the pressure from above.
“Lange lied over Anzus rift: author”
P.S. All my best wishes to those attending rallies against asset sales today.
See you there.
If only Lange had had the courage and the wit to stand up to the enemy within: Douglas, Prebble, Bassett, Moore, De Cleene and their fanatical mentors in Treasury.
Rhinocrates 2.1.1
You can add Goff and King, who are still there.
Jenny Kirk 2.1.2
To Morrissey and Rhinocrates et al “If only Lange had had the courage and the wit to stand up to the enemy within: Douglas, Prebble, Bassett, Moore, De Cleene and …….”
He did ! Don’t you remember ? Some time late in 1987 Lange called for a “cup of tea” – meaning he wanted a pause in the ongoing rushed economic reforms to allow for proper consideration of them and their effects.
He was strongly vilified for that, a grouping led by Douglas, Prebble ,De Cleene etc set up the “Backbone Club” which went out publicly – with MSM support – to vilify Lange and his attempts to stop what was going on, when he had realised just how damaging it was. The vilification continued in house in the caucus as well. It was sickening to observe. Disgusting behaviour on the part of the leaders.
Rhinocrates 2.1.2.1
Indeed, sorry for any misunderstanding. Lange was a sincere person under enormous pressure.
Goff and King on the other hand…
Tim 2.1.2.1.1
During an industrial dispute in Kawerau, provoked when Tasman cunningly appointed an unqualified woman to a machine operating position ahead of several qualified men, Lange came out on the side of the bosses. He said he would never stand with a union that was against employment for women, even when this patently was not the issue.
My view of Lange is that Kirk was the last half way decent Labour PM.
Tim 2.1.3
Agreed …. though I don’t judge him QUITE as harshly as the ‘careerists’ that followed and who STILL keep trying to push their barrow (or rather keep doing their best to push SHIT uphill).
At Least Lange had the decency to call for a cup of tea and a lay down – i.e. he recognised the programme was hollow.
Not so others – and unfortunately I now have to include that pathetic munter Robertson amongst that ilk (UNLESS of course he has an epiphany forthwith).
Hey……… btw….. whatever happened to that FanBoi or Fan Club fella?
Haven’t seen it screaching loudly lately in defense of the indefensible. (I guess he/she/it is too busy climbing the ranks and sucking as much rrrrrrrr’s as possible)
I ‘spose he/she/it’s content with that little media 15 secs of fame on Neshnool TV recently -though I doubt it.
Grant……where are you?
Shearer ……… where are you?
Bullyboy – what’s her name – ah yea – Mallard ……..where are you?
Clare! Darling! Where are you?
Maid Marion – where are you?
Oh…… I know – all in your little comfort zones destined to destroy the entire concept of the “Labour Party”.
Carry on what?
Jackal 2.1.3.1.1
Gerald Hensley reinvents history to besmirch the memory of David Lange, and instead of being critical of that cowardly and disgusting behaviour, comments on The Standard concerning this matter are predominantly anti-Labour… Some even claiming Lange wasn’t courageous enough at a time he implemented legislation to ensure New Zealand became nuclear free in spite of huge international and domestic pressures.
You’d have to be seriously gullible to believe what Piggy Muldoon’s former chief adviser has made up to discredit a left wing Prime Minister. In fact you’d likely have to be as deluded as Hensley himself. Let’s instead ask the right wing hack what his advice was on the Springbok tour, the Think Big projects and increasing external debt by 1338% while Muldoon was Prime Minister. Where’s the book accepting that the third National Government was a complete economic, social and political failure for New Zealand?
Giving Hensley’s fabrications the credence they clearly don’t deserve by attacking Labour will only help to promote the idea of removing our Nuclear Free legislation (PDF)… Not that National presently abides by those laws anyway, that’s the end goal for Hensley and the current government. Let’s make something very clear… Like the vast majority of Kiwis, David Lange wanted New Zealand to be nuclear free… Hensley’s lies won’t change that fact one iota.
ghostrider888 2.1.3.1.1.1
love ya work Jackal
Jackal …
Thanks ghostrider888.
ghostrider888 …
don’t always agree with your analysis yet you appear a fairly astute and balanced commentator. *Bow* (wow)
Jenny 2.1.4
No human being could stand up to that sort of pressure alone. Such pressure can be so intense that you can be ambushed into making decisions that can even go against your own better judgement. Despite it all, Lange did eventually call a halt. And probably wondered “Why on earth did I ever support any of that?” A question that I am sure many principled people finding themselves in similar isolated positions have asked themselves.
To his cost. For David Lange on his retirement, there was no plum sinecure as a director on a board of some well off company or bank, the usual reward for politicians of his stature who do what they’re told.
What was missing was a mass movement that would have supplied Lange with the counter pressure to the neo-liberal tidal wave.
Politics is all about pressure and who can bring it to bear.
The unions could have crippled the 4th Labour Government, had they chosen to.
Colin Craig: working tirelessly to help the unemployed! Well done, Craig! What’s next? Secure housing for the homeless?
AsleepWhileWalking 3.1
Novopay debacle solved by restarting computer
Novopay minister Steven Joyce: “We tried everything we could think of. We made sure the plug was in, we ran a virus scan. You know, pretty much everything. And then John walks in this morning munching on his breakfast bagel, and he says ‘Hey, Steve. Have you tried restarting the computer’?”
If in doubt – reboot! – Says it all really. Cure the immediate, though not the cause.
Very symbolic of a NAct agenda, and symbolic of the neo-Lib agenda too.
Keep it up is what I’m DESPERATELY hoping for but they should not be surprised when they disappear up their own arses (as fat and ugly as they may be).
Shades of Monty P/Greed/Sloth explosions in the nature of weapons of mass disgusting
ghostrider888 3.1.1.1
from what I have read of this chap behind The Civilian (beyond a Nicholas Cage article) he appears very capable and creative; now a part of the media furniture for a while, with the hesitant support of his parents.
Here in H.B there is a young woman broadcasting her interesting life and personality to a YouTube audience of hundreds of thousands of people.”Jamies World”. great self-marketing for an aspirant dramatic arts performer or director. could be a few unforeseen consequences.
David H 3.2
At least we can be a little pleased for the guy that runs The Civillian. He does help to make the day go with a smile. And as they say Any advertising is good advertising.
Rosie 3.2.1
Indeed David H.Thank god (no religious inference intended) for Colin Craig being an arse. I hadn’t heard about that hilarious Civilian website until he threw a wee tanty.
David H 3.2.1.1
Same and I am so pleased I found it. Maybe a thank you E-Mail to Colin, for telling us about this website. Just to say thanks you know 😉
The Comedy of Mortification
Kiwi version of The Office struggles along
Back Benches, Prime TV, Wednesday 24 April 2013, 10:30 p.m.
Hosted by WALLACE CHAPMAN and DAMIAN CHRISTIE
Politicians: Gareth Hughes (Green), Aaron Gilmore (National), Chris Hipkins (Labour)
After suffering through TV3’s dire The Vote: Is New Zealand a Racist Country?, my big night of television continued with yet another New Zealand current affairs show fronted by a couple of clowns.
These two, although far less self-assured clowns than Espiner and Garner, are, nonetheless, impressive exponents of the comedy of embarrassment. Christie, in particular, came across very effectively as New Zealand television’s very own David Brent. The fact that this was entirely unintentional only made it all the more effective.
In case you haven’t seen Back Benches—and you probably haven’t—it consists of aforesaid clowns (Wallace Chapman and Damian Christie) talking to a panel of three politicians and then walking around the Back Benches tavern in Wellington asking people what they think about what the politicians have said. The politicians are usually pretty relaxed—it seems that ties are banned—and usually acquit themselves quite well. The members of the public, however, are a little more unpredictable. The following is a quick highlights reel of Wednesday night’s episode….
After the politicians have been interviewed, the first person on the roving mike is John Carnegie from Business New Zealand. Predictably, sadly, he vapours pompously about the Labour-Green electricity pricing policy: “We are sending an incredibly bad signal that New Zealand is no longer a safe place to invest.” The crowd reacts to this rant with skeptical murmuring and scattered laughter. Quite apart from his irrational, hysterical words, many people have no doubt noticed that Carnegie looks uncannily like the fat guy in The Office.
http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/4/4f/BigKeith.jpg/250px-BigKeith.jpg
http://www.businessnz.org.nz/images/upload/JohnCarnegie%20web.jpg
Back to the politicians, for their thoughts. This is where not only the intellectual, but the moral calibre of the politicians is often revealed. Chris Hipkins and Gareth Hughes both speak eloquently, but when Hipkins is speaking, Aaron Gilmore hoots and laughs. Such displays of loutish imbecility are, damningly, all that National is capable of; Gilmore’s antics are no different from the antics in Parliament of other National Party thugs, especially Gerry Brownlee. (Talking about people who look like Big Keith…)
Then it’s time for the most unpredictable part of the show: the vox pops. This consists of Damian Christie walking around the tables with his microphone and asking them what they think. This is a nerve-wracking exercise at the best of times, and it’s not helped by Christie’s patent awkwardness….
DAMIAN CHRISTIE: Have you been to Gallipoli for the dawn service?
WOMAN: Yes.
DAMIAN CHRISTIE: What were you doing over there?
WOMAN: Going to the dawn service.
This is met by gales of laughter, some of it shading into outright derision of Christie. Undeterred, however, Christie ploughs on, like an ANZAC soldier struggling doggedly up a Turkish cliff…
CHRISTIE: You’re getting all choked up over it now, aren’t you!
WOMAN: Not really.
Bravely, Christie continues to circulate around the room, wielding his enormous microphone, looking for vulnerable drinkers. It’s quite noticeable that people are drawing away as he approaches. He’d better watch himself, otherwise he’s going to make people as nervous as Brian Edwards did with his ambush vox pops in Auckland’s Victoria Park during his short-lived Saturday night horror show a decade ago.
Can you find this online?
You CAN get this online, but SkyTV makes you jump through hoops. I recommend you don’t encourage them in their bid to privatize this content….
http://www.isky.co.nz/product/481749.aspx
Indeed – don’t encourage them.
I’ve only managed to watch one Backbenches since is commercial transition – just as I have Media3 (once was Media7).
One of the big problems with the commercialisation of these programmes (or should I now call them ‘shows’) is that the continuity is destroyed often by the NEED to ‘take a break’ at as close to set times as is possible – and regardless of interrupting participants trying to make a point.
You’ll notice it on FUX NEWS often – when the left are getting any sort of advantage in an argument….. “we gotta get a break”, etc.
That’s just ONE of the problems! The platform is insidious: whether intended or not – you’ll find Brown, Chapman, Christie et al become victims of the ‘stardom mentality’ that seems to be a necessity in operating on this commercially driven platform.
In both cases (Prime BB, and MW M3), the defense is – it’s better than no BB or M3. I’m afraid not for me.
Paul 4.1.1.2
Probably more entertaining to read your take on the programme anyway!
muzza 4.2
We are sending an incredibly bad signal that New Zealand is no longer a safe place to invest
It would be followed by an lowering of our credit rating, and a devaluation in currency.
The oil prices being kept artificially high as a deterrant to flirting with currency devaluation, because the inflationary pressure threat would be rammed down everyones throat!
Interest rates would rise, and whats left of the NZ economy will fall out the backdoor. Even with more competitive exports, the current account deficit will keep widening, with a higer cost of borrowing to service the lesser credit rating, leading to higher taxes to service the gowing debt costs!
The NZ Power policy as no chance of getting off the ground,
Because the global banking cartel, has NZ, by the balls!
Jackal 4.2.1
The effect of NZ Power on private shareholders dividends will be 3 to 4.5% (not accounting for revenue increasing, + 18.6% in 2012). You’re saying that because of a potential 3 to 4.5% reduction in value of dividends going to private shareholders the NZ economy will fall out the backdoor? Get off the grass muzza.
If that’s all it reduces shareholder dividends by, NZ Power is only scratching the surface of what it should be doing.
I have to agree with you there CV… After crunching a few numbers it appears NZ Power won’t have much if any affect on power companies profitability or the dividends they payout. However there are savings to be made through better management of current infrastructure, which I think is just as much a problem as the current bidding system that means consumers are paying far too much for electricity that’s relatively cheap to produce.
It appears that Labour and the Greens perhaps knew there would be howls of anger from the right wing regarding NZ Power and so devised a very moderate policy. It certainly isn’t far left “economic vandalism” that some have claimed. Let’s hope that when NZ Power gets up and running (mid to late 2016) they will push the envelope a bit on how much is actually able to be saved for consumers.
muzza 4.2.1.2
Actually Jackal, my intent was aimed at what would likely happen to the housing/retail markets, should interest rates rise from their current. *lows* ??? following a devaluation in our currency, via a ratings mark down!
My commentary was a high level overview of what would happen, as was pointed out, if *a signal that NZ was no longer a safe place to invest*, went out!
Which is what NZ Power will have to contend with, and its creators contend with, before it stands any chance to become airborne!
A ratings downgrade because of a potential 3 to 4.5% decrease in dividend values for private shareholders… Are you out of your mind?
Bill 4.3
A wee bit surprised you didn’t zone in on the comment made by one of those ( I don’t know one from the other) aforementioned clowns Morrissey. Never mind. I’ll do it. Came after a quick fire question to the pollies relating to Boston.
Where were the alleged bombers from? Answer given was Chechnya. Answer queried on the grounds (I guess) that Kyrgyzstan had been mentioned in connection to them and their family. And the clown, not remembering the name ‘Kyrgyzstan’ deemed it an an opportunity to pop out the racially loaded ‘Wogistan’ alternate answer.
And no-one batted an eyelid.
Not surprised you don’t know one clown from another. After all, they’re all make-uo (courtesy of whatever brand of face paint that’s in vogue these days).
I was just thinking though (after witnessing a hipkins on some Beck Benchas ‘show’ – constructed by a Chapman and a Christie – where the credits were at pains to tell us all who ‘dressed them’) – I was going to suggest he should ‘Moisturise!…. Moisturise!…. Moisturise”.
It may well be his greatest contribution to the Labouring Party
A wee bit surprised you didn’t zone in on the comment made by one of those ( I don’t know one from the other) aforementioned clowns Morrissey.
I heard it, but I didn’t write it down in my transcription notebook, so I’d forgotten it by the time I came to type it up. The clown that said it was (surprise, surprise) the National Party lout Aaron Gilmore.
Never mind. I’ll do it. Came after a quick fire question to the pollies relating to Boston.
Thanks, Bill. You’re a trooper—in the good sense.
It’s not that nobody noticed, or cared. The problem is the format of the show. To remonstrate with that halfwitted National Party thug would have been counter to this show’s enforced mood of frivolity. Earlier in the evening, over on TV3, the same determined dumbing down occurred when Prof. Damon Salesa tried to say something serious during the moronic laugh-fest The Vote.
Bill 4.3.2.1
It wasn’t Gilmore came out with that shit Morrissey. It was one of the presenters – the one who tended to do the wandering around eliciting opinion from attendees.
Gilmore answered with “Chechnya”. One of the presenters was a bit unsure of that as an answer and the other clown kind of dismissively (barely conceiled undertones of ‘they’re all the same and who the fuck cares anyway’) suggested “Wogistan”. Racially, ethnically and religiously fucked up as all hell imo.
Really? Thanks for that, Bill.
Aaron Gilmore, sorry. Call off your lawyers now.
Damian Christie: you are so much better than that.
Northshoreguynz 5
Even John Armstrong is taking not-so-much an anti Labour line this morning.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10880014
I’m not sure if this is a good thing.
geoff 5.1
John Armstrong is the Peter Dunne of the NZ Herald. Always trying to position himself in the vaccuous centre because he thinks that will may him look sensible, balanced and fair. In reality he’s just another self-serving journo.
Paul 5.1.1
Everyone should see the the film ‘Shadows of liberty’; it was on at documentary festival and hopefully will come back to cinemas once finished the festival cycle.
Here it trailer http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=_SAUborWbPw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_SAUborWbPw
It does show what has happened to the media and examples can be found in New Zealand of all the same issues mentioned in the film.
Pascal's bookie 5.1.2
“John Armstrong is the Peter Dunne of the NZ Herald.”
It’s a thing. “High Broderism” it’s called, after David Broder who dominated the Washington press corp for lo, many years.
The basic conceit is that some journalists develop a identity of being the caretakers of the discourse. The content of policy, the actual business of politics, becomes a side issue at best; the protection of order, and form, take over. Disputes are seen not as politics functioning as it ought, but as threats to be resolved. ‘Bold policy’ is just a move in a game. They are positioning statements aimed at voter blocks, rather than policies aimed at problems.
What that leads to, though it is never admitted, or even realised I suspect, is that much of the political analysis we see is not analysis of policy, or even of politicians, but of the polis.
The question “How will this policy play in the electorate in terms of votes” is not answered by looking at the effects of a policy, or the reasoning behind it. ie, it cannot be answered by reporting on policy or politicians. It is answered by discussing whose votes might shift, and what it might do in the polls.
The advantage for journalists here is that this is a non partisan endeavor; they aren’t pontificating about whether the policy is good/bad, or whether the politician is honest/mendacious.
The whole area gets a good working over here:
http://pressthink.org/2010/06/clowns-to-the-left-of-me-jokers-to-the-right-on-the-actual-ideology-of-the-american-press/
Ad 5.1.2.1
lovely article there.
interesting; well they are not very good at looking after the polis
having just re-read the Armstrong piece, conclude it is disgusting (and patronising as well).
geoff 5.1.2.4
Nice link, PB. I think Colin Espiner fits that description too. When many had pegged him as a friend of the left he let loose with the article on Green/Labour policy.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/blogs/bull-dust/8568124/Labours-crazy-new-energy-policy
These pretend journalist types are determined to make the news and be the news, not report and analyse it.
QoT 5.1.3
And like Peter Dunne, he’s prone to let the whole facade drop and throw a hissy fit when he thinks he’s not being given the obeisance he’s due.
Morrissey 5.1.3.1
Poor old Armstrong is still licking his wounds after being comprehensively humiliated by the superior Gordon Campbell last year.
karol 5.2
Armstrong’s piece is all about strategy – about The Game. And nothing about what is actually the right thing to do for the majority of Kiwis, and especially for those struggling on low incomes.
It’s a heartless piece. But that’s what “neoliberalism” has done to mainstream political commentary.
The coldness of the writing comes from the coldness in the heart.
small question (and I understand folks are busy)
Why is there no banner/promotion on The Standard for the Day of Action ?
There is just yesterday’s reminder. Seems like a missed opportunity is all.
anyways . . .
You may have voted National, Maori Party, United Future or even Act. That does not deny you your right to voice opposition to their actions as a Government. In fact to succeed in their crimes, they count on your silence and your complicity. Today is your chance to let them know you matter.
If you are not working today, little has greater significance to the future of New Zealand than this simple walk down the street amongst friends.
Tigger 7
The crowning of Maurice Williamson as a ‘gay icon’ (by the media at least) has left me somewhat bemused.
Nothing against Williamson. He voted yes for marriage equality and as a result I applaud him. Even more so, he is a member of a conservative party in a rather blue neighbourhood. I have no doubt the pressure on him from those opposing equality was fierce.
His speech was good. Great? That’s debatable. It was loud. It had a few amusing turns of phrase. But it wasn’t necessarily any better than any of the other pro-speeches. Mojo Mathers, for example, gave one of the most stirring speeches I’ve ever seen. So why isn’t she being lauded as a ‘gay icon’?
Perhaps because she isn’t male, white and heterosexual? She doesn’t possess that holy triumvirate that many in society ascribe as being ‘preferable’ or ‘powerful’ or even ‘acceptable’.
Williamson voted down Civil Unions. He says it’s because they didn’t go far enough. That doesn’t wash with me. By that same logic you would deny a starving person a hamburger because it wasn’t steak. Back then those of us who needed legal protection were happy to get it any way we could. We saw civil unions as a secondary class, but it was a class nonetheless. No Maurice, you don’t get a pass on that. You voted tactically there, not with your conscience. Be honest.
Maurice, you’re not an ‘icon’ to this ethnic gay man. You’re a straight white man who voted progressively. You’re not worthy of the kudos that the media is heaping on you for marriage equality. That belongs to those politicians who worked tirelessly for years, decades, to achieve this. Kevin Hague. Louisa Wall. Those are gay icons. Those are the people who should be invited on Ellen. Not you, Maurice.
Stop the interviews. Don’t go on Ellen. Get on with doing your job. Because feeding this ‘gay icon’ fire is just sad to those who know it’s all puffery. You did a good thing. A very good thing. But there’s nothing worse than someone taking credit that isn’t due.
ianmac 7.1
But won’t Mr Key be livid. He had to boyishly grin as he gave approval for the Ellen visit.
But why wasn’t it him! John Key is the man for centre stage, the limelight, the adulation, the autograph hunters, and international spotlight. To have to step back for a lowly Maurice for heavens sake! Hell will blaze for a man back-benched!
Tigger 7.1.1
My conspiracy theory is that Maurice nixed the trip (I seem to remember him saying he wouldn’t go at first) but that Key pushed him to promote NZ. His talk about the trip now has tourism speak all over it.
But we can assume Key is pissed someone else is getting the limelight…
Lanthanide 7.2
Boyfriend just yesterday was wondering why Louisa Wall didn’t get the invite, since she actually did the work.
Murray Olsen 7.3
Some people I know took it upon themselves to inform Ellen de Generes of Williamson’s history on the issue. He was pretty much promoted by the Herald etc because he’s a Tory – just hijacking kudos for NAct. I didn’t think his speech was anything great and the fact that it was lauded all round the world just goes to show oratory has died.
I can see how Ellen might think Williamson would help get the white male heterosexual conservatives in the US onside for the same sex marriage campaign in the US.
However, she totally ignores the impact within NZ.
I agree, Tigger. Mojo Mathers gave the best speech in the 3rd reading of the Bill, as far as I’m concerned – it was about an inclusive family and wider whanau.
Murray Olsen 7.4.1
By US political standards, Williamson is a card carrying communist. I don’t think he’ll help get their conservatives onside.
From the US point of view, that so many National MPs voted for marriage reform basically identifies them as God-despising family hating bleeding heart liberals who are all going to hell.
lprent 8
A few upgrades running. Site may be a bit slow for an period.
Oops – database just upgraded
Tim 8.1
hence the “database unavailable” shite a while back.
You should be commended lprent as I’m hoping you are from time to time.
The approach is obviously not the ‘suck it and see’ one found elsewhere.
The outages should have only been 10-20 seconds or so each time.
Upgraded and been through a good solid compacting including old versions of posts and comments. I have corrected all issues with orphaned comments (~200 all up). Deleted about 4 that were in a chain in 2010 where the original comment got deleted and the replies all referred to the original comment.
It is suck it and see some of the time. There are some issues that I can’t test on the development system because of loading differences.
LynWiper 9
To all marching today…thank you so very much. I can’t be there due to the on call nature of my work but I am with you in spirit and will be following the protests around the country with much interest. I marched up Queen Street with my 84yr old Dad last year and found it very helpful in so many ways. I trust you all will too. Once again, many thanks from those of us unable to be there in body, we are with you.
ghostrider888 10
see, with these subsistence-labour factories like the one that collapsed in Bangladesh it is only the consumer, and their demand for price, that can make the difference; the consumer. A dilemma indeed.
They can be quite delayed and sensationalist these prime-time news bulletins; In context, the last bird-flu killed approximately 370 people world-wide, from memory. That is not to say that something unforeseen might happen if the current strain becomes transmitted human to human.
According to the agonising of the sheep and beef farmer, if they don’t find solutions “they may as well pack it in” according to one representativee.
So, the use of sarin is a “red-line”, a “game-changer” says Obama, yet the US and Co. are being a bit more cautious before rushing in this time it appears.
and according to a commentator on the Auckland transport bind; “cycling (if possible) really does blow all other forms of transport away”.
AsleepWhileWalking 11
Latest spin from Rugby Union http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/8604494/Rugby-bad-boys-paying-the-penalty
No sympathy here. If psychological stress is a job issue then screen them for it before hiring them in the first place.
ghostrider888 11.1
Doug Sellman is the man to go to concerning the addiction issues NZ faces.
“professional sports are just rife with mental health issues”-Karen Nimmo
“rugby administrators are inconsistent in their enforcement of ‘codes of conduct'”
Rob Nichol, an apologist for big-money sports investment effectively, nonetheless identifies the two big issues professional sports (and those who aspire to participation in the field) face;
-integrity
-mental health of athletes (just consider Susan Devoy; too many shuttles to the head).
Murray Olsen 12
I’d like to thank anyone who is marching today against the theft of our national assets. I am unable to be there, but am with you in spirit.
To the scum who wish to sell us out: Kaore e mau te rongo–ake, ake!
LynWiper 12.1
+100 Ditto, as above
Pete 13
Swaps and detivatives rate fixing investigation hits Bank of America Merrill Lynch
After fining banks billions of dollars over the last year for distorting a key interest rate known as Libor, regulators in the U.S. are now investigating whether a more obscure rate in another huge market is also rigged.
The rate, known as ISDAfix, is a benchmark in the $379 trillion market for interest rate swaps, which corporations and governments use to fine-tune their borrowing costs. U.S. regulators have subpoenaed as many as 15 banks and about a dozen current and former brokers at ICAP (IAP), the company that collects the data submitted by banks to set ISDAfix prices, to determine if they’re colluding to manipulate quotes. ICAP said in a statement on April 9 that it had no knowledge of price manipulations by its brokers, and that it is conducting its own inquiry.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/meet-isdafix-the-libor-scandals-sequel
It should surprise no one that among the players implicated in this scheme to fix the prices of interest-rate swaps are the same megabanks – including Barclays, UBS, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland – that serve on the Libor panel that sets global interest rates.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425
NB: Bank of America bought Merrill Lynch in 2009
Five questions about the CFTC’s Isdafix probe
The ISDA includes foreign exchange derivatives among its suite of products.
I read those links thanks Pete; too blown out to comment.
Zero Hedge does a brief out take from the story for those who want a summary.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-26/illuminati-were-amateurs-matt-taibbi-explains-how-everything-rigged
muzza 13.3
Another .5cent equivilant fine coming their way, and the system will remain unchanged!
Been caught stealing (the energy of the entire planet)
Shoddy standards continue to erode the integrity of TVNZ news
Why would anyone trust this television station?
Television One News, Saturday 27 April 2013
Thousands of people turned out on the streets this afternoon to protest against the Government’s plan to flog off our national assets. But not according to one crusty old newsreader on Television One. I switched on my television just after 6:30 this evening to hear this…
Peter Williams: “HUNDREDS of people turned out in marches all over the country today…”
Given the fact that there were hundreds of protestors in Tauranga alone, it seems certain that there were several thousand marchers over the whole country.
http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/42694-marching-against-asset-sales.html
Yet someone gave that silly old fool Peter Williams a script that said there were only “hundreds” of marchers nationwide. Or maybe Williams adjusted the figure himself; in light of his many nasty, smug little comments over the years, I would not put it past him to do such a thing.
After that came the preview of the sports news. This was equally abject, equally foolish, equally contrary to reality….
Jenny-May Coffin: “The Blues and Hurricanes have both lost to Aussie opposition. Both games were superb spectacles but the Australian teams were WAY TOO STRONG.”
The Auckland Blues lost to Queensland by one point in a closely fought away game, in Brisbane. The Blues scored the only try, a beauty by Jackson Willison. The Reds were extremely fortunate to win.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10880055
In Palmerston North, the Hurricanes lost 16-18 to the Cape Town Stormers. Both sides scored two tries, and the Hurricanes were unlucky not to win.
Yet some genius wrote a script for Jenny-May Coffin to read out that claimed the Australians were “way too strong.” Perhaps it was the same person who claimed there were only “hundreds” of marchers nationwide today.
Are they testing the copy-writers at TVNZ for hallucinogenic drug use? And if not, why not?
Salsy 15
I found it strange watching the news – no mention of the Stewart Island oil leaking fishing vessel country of origin – why it ended up on rocks. Just the name Sureste – and a seemingly relaxed Environment Southland – heavy weather had dispursed most of the oil away.
Is this the same Sur Este – one of the Korean-flagged fishing vessels recently in the news for abusing crew?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/8266324/Fishing-crew-walk-off-ship-in-Timaru
McFlock 15.1
mentioned on three news
Populuxe1 15.2
Here’s an odd thing – an application from the FBI to hack a computer which was denied on the basis that the target computer is outside the territorial limit. I guess it just a Texas judge, so presumably the hacking of Kim Dotcom’s computers must have been issued by someone from the World Court, right?
http://cryptome.org/2013/04/tx-search.pdf
Dotcom’s house was raided by NZ authorities, not by American. (although the Americans instigated and supervised it). This is also why the NZ courts system has jurisdiction over the incident.
Draco T Bastard 17
Too-big-to-fail banks implicated in $500 trillion fraud: biggest price-rigging scandal in history
And here’s what we know so far: The CFTC has sent subpoenas to ICAP and to as many as 15 of those member banks, and plans to interview about a dozen ICAP employees from the company’s office in Jersey City, New Jersey. Moreover, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, or ISDA, which works together with ICAP (for U.S. dollar transactions) and Thomson Reuters to compute the ISDAfix benchmark, has hired the consulting firm Oliver Wyman to review the process by which ISDAfix is calculated. Oliver Wyman is the same company that the British Bankers’ Association hired to review the Libor submission process after that scandal broke last year. The upshot of all of this is that it looks very much like ISDAfix could be Libor all over again.
Yeah, private banks – just so fucken trustworthy.
Remember that these private banks are empowered by the central banks, and that the top execs of both move freely between each others organisations at the highest levels.
A true “inside job”.
geoff 17.2
cheers, draco
Matt Taibbi of The Exile no less
red rattler 17.3
What’s new? The whole 20th century was one of concentration of capital into giant industrial and banking trusts, combines and cartels.
Its called state monopoly capitalism.
Competition is for losers. You only survive by getting bigger. Once you are big enough you can corner any market, land, finance, oil etc and set up a cartel especially if you can buy the govt. Land is a natural monopoly, but in finance you buy the govt and get it to license you to print money, set interest rates, get bailed out blah blah.
Its not new, its not an aberration, its not corruption, its the way the capitalist system works by outgrowing its competitive origins and using state power to bully all and sundry to accept your monopoly as god’s gift.
The system has to run like this because that’s the only way it can continue to accumulate and concentrate private wealth at the top, i.e. by making sure that only those at the top can compete.
So competition is squeezed upward out of markets, out of national jurisdictions and into international trusts that use the power of their state machines to bully their rivals. Its also squeezed downwards into the surplus population to divide and rule the working class. The result is world wars. US vs China is the current world war in the making.
Even at the beginning of the 20th century such was the fusion of industrial capital and banking capital that Lenin coined the term ‘finance capital’ to express this fact.
Today the term ‘finance capital’ is used to mean ‘money’ or ‘banking’ capital, when in reality it is fused with industrial capital.
As I said none of this is new. The constant surprise expressed by these ‘players’ as to the depth of collusion in business and banking is evidence of their ignorance as to how the system really works.
This sort of learned stupidity is part of the process of legitimating capitalism.
Draco T Bastard 17.3.1
Its not new, its not an aberration, its not corruption, its the way the capitalist system works…
It’s not new, it is how the capitalist system works and it is corrupt.
My latest thought on the matter is that the whole neo-liberal paradigm isn’t actually an economic theory (How can it be? It’s not even remotely explaining the reality) but is just a means to legitimate the continued accumulation of the communities wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
red rattler 17.3.1.1
Agree DTB if you use a standard of ‘corruption’ external to capitalism. Capitalism is inherently corrupt compared to pre-capitalist standards of communal sharing of social resources, and compared to post-capitalist concepts of communal existence. It breaks what is a fundamental rule of social reproduction (i.e. survival) which is “from each according to their ability and to each according to their needs”. It’s transgression of this rule is what is driving it to destroy humanity and nature.
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Posted: 9:27am Friday 21 Jun, 2019
$1.50 well sacrificed. Tupu Daniel breaking a habit. Photo: Daniel Hines.
Tupu Daniel has tried and failed before. Eight times he has tried to break free of the insidious grip of nicotine. Each time the fags have won.
Every smoker, every lapsed smoker would know that feeling.
This time, Tupu’s being pragmatic when he suggests he is “refraining from smoking” rather than quitting. But it is coming up a month since he stubbed out his last cigarette. So he is on the brink of becoming another positive statistic.
“Once a smoker, always a smoker, so no rash promises,” says the 55-year-old Arataki Virgin Airline cabin crew. But he’s munching nicotine lozenges like they’re the new wonder food. They ease the withdrawal symptoms. He’s also wearing patches and he’s winning at the moment.
The kids - Jackson and Emily - are proud of him. They didn’t want to lose their dad. They didn’t want Tupu to be one of the 5,000 New Zealanders who die each year from smoking related illness like lung cancer or emphysema.
“Quitting was always in the back of my mind” says the ten-a-day man. “Twenty” corrects wife Heather. “Depending on the situation.” Regardless, Tupu says he had a responsibility to his family to stop.
But he needed help and when he heard the radio ad for the Hapainga Stop Smoking Service, he reached out. He was probably in his car driving to work in Auckland at the time… and probably having a durry.
“And it was free – I am very frugal, cheap is good, free is best.”
Hapainga has an unenviable task because the addictive qualities of nicotine make it as least as difficult as heroin to kick. But as part of the Government’s goal of a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025, it’s making inroads. Although more than 500,000 Kiwis still smoke, the numbers have dropped from 25 per cent in 1996/97 to 13 per cent.
“For the last couple of years, we have consistently had a minimum 75 per cent successful quit smoking rate at four weeks,” says Hapainga team leader, Lizzie Spence. And that ranks the Bay of Plenty service one of the top three services in New Zealand. It suggests Tupu has a very good chance of staying a lapsed smoker.
“When I was on the road as a field officer for the Department of Social Welfare, I would stop and buy pies, sandwiches and fish and chips.”
Then he spotted a commercial traveler sitting in his car at the lights taking a deep drag on a cigarette. “It was 30 years ago. It looked cool and obviously the cigarettes were this man’s companions on the road.” He rues the decision to this day. But he went and bought a pack of Rothmans.
He was in his mid-twenties, had never been tempted even though his parents both smoked, as did many of his friends. Then he capitulated to one of the most dangerous of drugs. “Figure that.”
His job made smoking affordable for the family man. “I fly internationally every fortnight and could buy cigarettes duty free – a Chinese brand Double Happiness, $3.60 for 20. I think, here, a pack of Winfield Select Blue extra mild, a popular brand, is about $26.”
Hapainga enforces that point. It says smoking a pack a day costs about $10,800 per year or approximately $208 a week. This is based on pack of 20 that costs $29.70 - the average cost in January 2019.
Tupu has shown mettle previously. He gave up for ten years. “Dad was very ill, Heather had come back to New Zealand to work while I stayed in Australian for 18 months to complete my long service. Smoking was my vice to help me through a very stressful time and there was no pressure on me not to smoke. The option at the end of the day was gym or cigarette …. mmm, let me think about that?”
Then the stigma, embarrassment and a cessation practitioner waving a carbon monoxide detector weighed on him.
“You feel like a leper smoking – you have to hide your habit.” Even when the family was out in the car Tupu would take time out for a fag. They didn’t like it. And the kids’ friends would say I didn’t know your Dad smoked?”
But along with the lozenges and patches is someone called Candy Blackwell – a cessation practitioner who cares and understands. She has survived the smoking thing and now helps people like Tupu break out from the clouds of toxic smoke.
“I love having a quit smoking coach, that one-on-one contact each week. I am lucky to have that support.” And the detector – there can be no cheating, no deception, no sly fags. A bit like a breathalyser, it’ll verify at four weeks whether a person is smoke-free. Nil to no levels of carbon monoxide is a pass mark – that person is no longer smoking.
But Tupu still has to deal with the ‘triggers’ – the beer, the socialising, being around other smokers, the call of the designated smoking area, relaxing, driving, the need to do something with your hands. All activities dealt with by his old Chinese friends, Double Happiness.
But for now the kids, Jackson and Emily are proud of Dad. And Heather pinches her husband’s cheek . “Good boy,” she says affectionately. Tupi continues to “refrain”.
Next week Alana Ibbetson’s story – a hardcore smoker since 14 or 15. Now, 20 years later, she is confronting her addiction with the help of Hapainga Stop Smoking Service – call 0800 Hapainga or 0800 427246.
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Elemental Challenge Day Twenty-Four: Metroidvania
By the Well-Red Mage on July 24, 2017 • ( 41 Comments )
We’ve less than ten days left in our Elemental Challenge, NPCs! Let’s crank up the difficulty…
Today we’re talking about a hybrid sub-genre. It’s not a Metroid fusion or a Castlevania symphony, but put ’em together and what have you got? The portmanteau Metroidvania, one of the most poorly defined extant classifications in gaming. What makes a Metroidvania? Good question. I suppose if it plays like a classic Metroid game, or a classic Castlevania one (apparently to a lesser extent). We can get more technical than that: Metroidvanias come in the vein of action-adventure games and they usually share a few characteristics such as massive, labyrinthine, interconnected maps, progression through locked areas via securing upgrades for your character, some degree of backtracking, pseudo-non-linear gameplay, exploration/experimentation, and typically platforming. There are all kinds of redundancies and overlaps and clones haunting this sub-genre, but there are certainly some gems to hunt down, as well.
These are just some of our amalgamated Castleroid favorites.
The Black Humor Mage
Super Metroid is one of the games that perfected the Metroidvania formula. It’s dark atmosphere and great gameplay makes for an awesome experience, and makes for one the best SNES game out there.
The Midnight Mystic Mage (Sublime Reviews)
Guacamelee. This beautiful and at times very difficult game was a masterpiece. It is done in the art style of the Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead from the Mexican culture. I get embarrassed about this genre because I have never played the original Metroid or Castlevania games, but every time I play a game in the style of them I always get hooked. (Honorable Mentions – Shadow Complex, Apotheon, Outland)
The Spoony Bard Mage (Nerd Speaker)
This is one of my favorite genres, and it’s pretty hard to choose. Recently I absolutely dug Axiom Verge, Cave Story+ and the Shantae series. My favorite though is Aquaria. This gorgeous game puts you in control of Naija, an aquatic lifeform with amnesia exploring a gorgeous underwater world, trying to piece together what disaster befell it. You collect plenty of powers and abilities, and the music and narration have a ton of polish.
The Hopeful Handheld Mage (Retro Redress)
I was going to say Symphony of the Night, but I’ve only played around 32% of it. I’m woefully unqualified to discuss Metroidvanias having spent most my life playing sports and wrestling games…that’s something I need to work on.
The Dapper Zaffre Mage (Save File 02)
I’m sorry, Order of Ecclesia; you were an old crush and Shanoa is still #2 on my personal list of Top Female Protags in a Metroidvania Game. But nobody can out-shinespark Samus Aran and her second trip to Planet Zebes in Super Metroid for the SNES. Metroid- it’s literally in the name of the genre now.
Super Metroid was probably THE first SNES game I ever beat- at least, one where I wasn’t tagging along as a little, inexperienced 2P leeching victory off of somebody next to me. The very nature of the game blew my mind: You could play as a super cool person in a special suit that fired lasers out of one arm? You got new power-ups that permanently stay with you and made more places explorable? You actually got rewards for going back to old ‘stages’ with those new tricks and seeing what you missed? Everything was amazing to me at the time- setting, characters, and graphics all.
In all retrospect, Super Metroid’s simplicity in those was what made it so appealing to a child. There wasn’t any morality issues- your enemies were very clearly bad aliens with no qualms about killing innocent scientists. There wasn’t any pesky NPCs or allies to get in your way- you were a one-woman army entirely on her own in Zebes. And there weren’t any builds or choices to be made about equipment- you either had that power-up or you didn’t, and if you had two weapon power-ups, you got to combine both of them. (Video game protagonists to this day still don’t get the concept.) Super Metroid focused entirely on what made it great, and that was smooth, progressive gameplay, and fantastic world design to go with it. And that’s just the vanilla game.
Nowadays, for those that also grew up with it and simply know the game like the back of their hand- and believe me (*cough*), there are those (*cough*) that can name every item location and how to find them- the modding community has provided a sizable number of new adventures for Samus. The galaxy isn’t going to save itself, so, have at them!
The Over-Caffeinated Nostalgia Mage (Nostalgia Trigger)
I struggled to come up with any Metroidvanias that weren’t Metroid or Castlevania games. Maybe it’s just that the 2D action I generally like is in the form of platformers, ie. Rayman, Mario, those kind of games. But the Metroidvania is an interesting genre – generally consisting of a large, interconnected world, and although 2D is the more “traditional,” 3D games can be Metroidvanias.
That being said, if I had to pick my favorite Metroidvania, it would have to be Metroid Prime. I honestly don’t believe there’s a more perfect example of Metroid games than Prime itself. They captured the atmosphere of the 2D Metroid games and translated it to 3D seamlessly. One of the best games I’ve played of all time, and definitely the best Metroidvania out there.
The Rage Mage
I guess all the plebeians on this blog forgot the -vania in Metroidvania, so I’ll name the best Castlevania game there is and just pretend it’s “metroidvania” too.
I’m reminded of how much I really want to play Axiom Verge! Since I haven’t had the pleasure, I’m limited to talking about Metroidvania games I’ve played (and I’m personally restricting myself to non-Metroid, non-Castlevania games for this hodge-podge of a category, otherwise it would definitely be Super Metroid for me, too). Song of the Deep and Blaster Master Zero were two Metroidvania titles I played recently but neither of them had that spark of spectacularity befitting first place in an Elemental Challenge. Other games I was surprised to learn had the touch of Metroidvania classification include Arkham Asylum, Demon’s Crest, Strider, and one of my definitive favorites: DuckTales: Remastered. So you know what? I’m going to go with that one, even though it’s clearly not the most exemplary of this hybrid sub-genre.
It was one of the first reviews I wrote for The Well-Red Mage (so if you read it, remember that I was a sapling). This is one of my favorite remasters. Signs of quality are all over it. They even got the original voice actors from the DuckTales cartoon to reprise their roles. You can finally dive into Scrooge’s money bin but best of all, the remaster is as fun to play any original NES game. That’ll do for my Metroidvania choice.
Have fun with this category, Mister Chris Scott.
Sound off in the comments below about your favorite Metroidvanias, or perhaps start a rigorous discussion on the vague evils of gaming genre classification methods, but be sure to do it silently, at least by tomorrow. What will tomorrow’s genre be?! Shhhh!!!
Categories: Opinion
Tagged as: Aquaria, Castlevania 64, DuckTales, Elemental Challenge, Guacamelee, Metroid, Metroid Prime, Metroidvania, Super Metroid
Elemental Challenge Twenty-Five: Stealth
Henry O says:
Super Metroid (Need SNES Classic *Sobs Heartily*) Lord C owns Metroid Prime & 2, need 3, as, seemingly it’s vanished since Wii production stopped!? (why, Nintendo, why!?) :C 😀
moresleepneeded says:
I nominate Metroid Prime 3 on the Wii. I am not sure how many games I have played actually fit the description and whether Metroid Prime 3 is the most fitting example in the series, but I enjoyed it. I liked the story for this game, which seemed more detailed, than the previous games in the trilogy. I also liked the extended cast of characters which made the game feel less alienated than the previous games and added an extra dimension to the story (Samus begins the game with allies that become corrupted by phazon and become hostile). I like the way the game uses different planets, each with a different atmosphere, the industrial Norion, the mountainous Bryyo, Elysia (situated above clouds), the ruined G.F.S. Valhalla, the dark Pirate Homeworld and the weird Phazee. I also like the way each planet has a different backstory (revealed through different ways), which described how Dark Samus’ implement her plan and makes her seem more than just a difficult enemy. I enjoyed how the game used different gameplay, such as the action sequence during the raid on the Pirate Homeworld and the ship actions. I also liked exploring the meteors and the boss fights (although I was slightly confused by what happens afterwards). I did feel the locations felt more connected in the other Metroid Prime games though. Particular highlights for me were the ruined G.F.S. Valhalla (it was interesting to see the damage caused to the structure, but not knowing what caused it) and Elysia (I liked the floor of clouds, the meteor visible among the clouds, the eerie Space Pirate laboratories and the way distant structures can be viewed from the walkways).
What is better about Super Metroid compared to other Metroid games? What are the elements of Metroidvania present in the games you mentioned? Are Castlevania and Metroid very similar?
Even though I totally suck at it, I’d have to say Faxanadu. It fits the bill!
That’s going back! I barely remember it and I need to hit that one up again.
Hungrygoriya did an awesome Let’s Play of it a while ago! I think that’s why it was still buzzing around my head. I always liked the music.
wakalapi says:
I’m going original Kid Icarus, for its dungeons. There’s nothing that my child’s mind enjoyed more than being stuck in a labyrinth and finding a way out.
Is that the original you’re talking about? On the NES? I’ve not played any Kid Icarus games at all.
Yup that is the one and only. I reccomend it. The first dungeon is the second level.
CheapBossAttack says:
I typically loathe backtracking in games, but I’m a big fan of the “metroidvania” tag. The original Metroid is likely my favorite, but Axiom Verge, the Strider reboot, and the usual Metroid/Castlevania games that built the subgenre are all pretty great. Simon’s Quest remains my favorite of the NES Castlevania trilogy, which is the only one that fits the descriptor anyway. Symphony of the Night is easily one of the best games I’ve ever played, too.
If there’s good reason to backtrack, as in metroidvania, then it becomes a part of exploration more than tedious tracing over your steps. Axiom Verge! Is that coming to the Switch or what? I’d love to play it but I’d love even more to play it on the Switch.
It’s supposed to come to Switch, yeah. Tom Happ seemed surprised that Nintendo never sent him a Switch dev kit to port it, but I believe the Multiverse Edition has a physical Switch version. I loved this on Vita, but since I’ve already played through it twice I won’t be double dipping on the Switch. But it’s 100% worth picking up when it does land over there.
Pop Culture Literary says:
I’ll have to go with Ori for this one! My Metroidvanian experience is pretty limited. I don’t THINK I’ve said Ori for any of the other days yet because I have only played two hours of the game and it felt like cheating before! But because my only other Metroidvanian play is probably (I say probably because who knows, maybe a few that I’ve decided are side scrollers belong to this subgenre) Cave Story, which I’ve played significantly less of, I thought it more acceptable for this category to squeak by a little 😅
Ohhhh, I totally spaced on Ori when I left my comment. GREAT choice! Ori is incredible.
I always hear good things about Ori. I saw it grinning at me at a Walmart today and I was this close to picking it up. Deciding factor was it was on PC and this mage doesn’t roll like that. Thanks for sharing!
Red Metal says:
When it comes to Metroidvanias, I’d say my favorites are Metroid Prime 3 and Dark Souls. The original Metroid Prime is probably a better example of the genre though; its sequels are more linear and action-heavy (still amazing, though).
I’m not sure why I didn’t even consider Dark Souls when leaving my comment, but it totally fits the descriptor. Definitely some of the best.
Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of metroidvania games.
This is the Dark Souls of comments.
That’s the Dark Souls of Dark Souls mock references. TOO META!!!!!
It’s the Dark Souls of meta, really.
It never dawned on me that the Prime series remain metroidvanias, but of course that’s obvious. They represent, to my mind, one of the most successful transitions from 2D to 3D in a franchise in gaming history.
Gamegato says:
Yeah, I know I’m a mage, and that I could just add my entry, but hey, I don’t care.
My favorite Metroidvania game is Metroid Fusion. Anyone who has a Gameboy Advance or Wii U should get it!
Did I miss yours in your document?
Nah. I literally just finished playing Metroid Fusion. The quote at the beginning of my review will be:
“But in the end the human soul will ever reach for the truth…” – Samus Aran, Metroid Fusion.
That’s a great game. Sometimes I feel like it has a weird reputation. But I liked it!
retroredress says:
Reblogged this on Retro Redress.
Sublime Reviews says:
Reblogged this on Sublime Reviews and commented:
Day 24 of the Elemental Challenge is Metroidvania! It’s a genre I love but have not yet been able to play the games that originated it. My number 1 in this category is Guacamelee it is such an awesome game and I love the Dia De Los Muertos style of it. Another one I love is Shadow Complex, what games are you fond of in this genre? Come let us know at The well-Red Mage.
I’m something of a Metroidvania addict and connoisseur. I think I made my feelings clear on the amazing Ori and the Blind Forest, but other favourites include early access Steam gem Dead Cells, and other brilliant slices of loveliness such as Teslagrad, SteamWorld Dig, Axiom Verge, Hollow Knight, Owlboy, Cave Story, and many more. A really amazing genre, in my opinion. So creative.
You could probably give me a better definition of metroidvania than the sloppy one I came up with rife with redundancies. A lot of those games are ones I’m itching to play! I really enjoy this genre when it’s done right.
This reminds me I need to play Guacamelee!
Chris Scott says:
Oh today is what is your favorite made up nonsensical genre conglomeration day? Yay! [/sarcasm]
Well since I’m playing along, I’m going to say Rogue Legacy. It is probably more randomized Castlevania than anything else but since there doesn’t seem to be any stringent rules on what can fit in this goofy genre, I’m going to go with it.
My hands are clean! I didn’t make this up! Someone has a gun to my head!
Rogue Legacy is pretty fun! 😀
Guacamelee is a great pick. I’m not normally much of a fan of this genre, but the theme in that sold me completely.
Yeah I think there’s got to be a special reason to play a metroidvania title for me, too. Otherwise, you’re heaed into the realm of hipster clones.
thedeviot says:
Well you really can’t out-Nintendo Nintendo. So the Metroid games (except Other M) aren’t really touchable. But the closest is Thomas Happ’s Axiom Verge. One of the few games I’ve given a top score to. Not only does it completely nail Nintendo’s Super Metroid formula; not only does it have amazing pixel art; not only does it have a great soundtrack; it was done entirely by ONE PERSON. That is an amazing level of commitment not seen since the days of the Atari 2600. If you love 2D exploration adventure games like Metroid, you owe it to yourself to play this one. And its on pretty much everything current. So check it out.
Metroid games easily, objectively top this list so you’ve really got to look elsewhere to find the -vania in metroidvania. Axiom Verge is one I really want to play. I’m just waiting for a sale.
Geddy says:
I have had a great deal of trouble getting into Axiom Verge. I actually just pre-ordered a Vita physical release that’s coming out in October, so I’m going to try to get into it again. Everything about this game, I should like, but I think I just got lost too many times and didn’t play it consistently enough.
I feel like AX is the culmination of years of building up the Metroidvania label, so I think I just need to give it a second shot!
Hope you enjoy it when you get the chance, but I definitely understand how a lack of consistency can make one lose interest in an otherwise respected game. I hope it comes to the Switch.
mattdoylemedia says:
One of mu faovurite genres right now! I’m gonna go with either Dust: An Elysian Tail, Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero or Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse. All three are great fun!
I downloaded a Shantae game a while back on PS4 but I didn’t get into it very far. A few big releases hit around the same time. This genre reminded me that I need to get back to that game.
The two that I played were deceptively large. I haven’t posted the original gameboy releases, so I don’t one if that’s recent tend fire Shantae. Either way though, it was five trying to 100% the items and abilities in each.
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Cardiff app Wriggle smashes crowdfunding target raising £600,000
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By Rhys Gregory On May 9, 2019 Last updated May 9, 2019
Wriggle
The Cardiff food and drink discovery app Wriggle has hit its initial crowdfunding target after just one day of going public, already exceeding an initial target of £600,000.
186 individuals (including Wriggle’s own users and restaurant-owner clients, alongside experienced angel investors) invested in Wriggle, who will use the funds to begin their UK roll-out.
Due to the success of the crowdfunding round, Wriggle will keep the round open for a while longer, to allow more users to participate.
Investors can get involved with a minimum investment of £15, with the total equity on offer of 10.64%.
Some of the top investors include Bristol Private Equity Club (£154,425) and Juno Capital LLP (£111,300). Advantage Business Angels have also invested £60,000.
Speaking about the raise, Wriggle founder Rob Hall says:
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Escort has released an out of control, clever new video for album single "Outta My Head," premiered with Rolling Stone today. A meticulous shot-for-shot remake of Journey "Separate Ways" official video, the resulting product is yet another example of the spectacular humor and creativity which fans have come to expect from NYC's premiere disco outfit. The band earned early notoriety for this when the "All Through The Night" Muppet disco video went viral. The Village Voice (later featuring the band on the cover) declared "Jim Henson is doing the Hustle in his grave."
"The video for "Separate Ways" is so perfect. After we landed on that, we soon found that there is a rich online history of people recreating that exact video," explains band founder/keyboardist Eugene Cho. "For our version, we really wanted to just hold a mirror up to it. We're not trying to exaggerate it or mock it. All the amazing 80s video tropes, the pure intensity of the performances and the bizarre air instrument gag make it so special."
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Re: Great covers
Howdy:
My favorite cover is one Lightnin' taught at PT a couple of years ago. It's William Harris' cover of "Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues". Better than the original IMHO.
Alex, I agree that the William Harris cover of "Kansas City Blues" is stellar. It seems like that song inspired a lot of strong covers.
Mister mando, I very much agree with you as to how great that Document String Bands CD is--it's really sort of a "hit-after-hit" program. Taylor's Kentucky Boys are wonderful, too. It's weird, I've owned the CD for years and sort of re-discovered it a couple of days ago. Making up for lost time in the listening department now.
Stuart, you really lost me in your post. I don't have any idea what you were talking about--care to elaborate?
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It was just a shot at some obscure humor, John. Frankie does such a fine job with these songs--and given the fact that it was recorded in New Jersey (Camden, I believe), down the pike from Frankie's home base, I thought I'd pay him a compliment, albeit a somewhat convoluted one. As I've said before, his authenticity is uncanny. Sorry for the confusion.
I've had the CD for years and it's a real keeper. I also have some of the other string band collections on Document, as well as several that County has released. Both labels released collections titled "Mississippi String Bands" -- Volumes 1 & 2 (on both labels). There's overlap, but I highly recommend them all.
Quote from: Johnm on November 12, 2013, 10:46:39 AM
Including "Goin' up the Country" by Papa Eggshell.
I was listening to John Hurt's "Spider, Spider" from his "Last Sessions" album on Vanguard today and realized it is a cover of Frank Stokes' "Sweet To Mama". The interesting thing is that Frank Stokes played the song out of G position, where it sat really easily, with the melody centered around the root note at the third fret of the first string. John Hurt played it out of C, though, and to get the root note in the melody, with it living at the eighth fret of the first string, required some real gymnastics and wonky stuff in the bass. Because of the Beale Street Sheiks normal set-up and division of labor, the pitch of where Frank Stokes played the song was probably close to the pitch at which John Hurt played it, but boy, is it easier to play out of G than C.
Here is a wonderful cover of Lemon Jefferson's "One Dime Blues", "West Kinney Street Blues", performed by Skoodle Dum Doo and Sheffield. These guys had such great time, and the singer is a groover.
The guitarist played it out of A position in standard tuning, unlike Lemon.
I was standing on West Kinney Street one day
Standing on West Kinney Street one day
One dime was all that I had
One dime (instruments finish verse)
I says, buddy, don't you treat your partner mean
Buddy, don't treat your partner mean
You bein' the meanest buddy that I b'lieve I ever seen
You don't want your buddy to be bad like Jesse James
(Instruments finish verse)
Oh buddy, won't you come Texana with me?
Buddy, won't you come Texana with me?
Oh now, buddy, hang 'round there for with me (Spoken: I came over there!)
Well I'm broke, Lord, and I ain't got a dime (Spoken: I know that gal's gonna break you.)
Lord, Lord, and I ain't got a dime (Spoken: I knowed it!)
I'm broke now, pal, and I ain't got a dime
Every man is born in a hard luck sometimes (Spoken: I told you so, boy!)
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Prof Scratchy
Another great track! Any biographical detail on these two musicians?
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I think there has been some guesswork, Scratchy, but no hard information. It has been suggested that Skoodle Dum Doo was Seth Richards, apparently because he had recorded a song of that title. Neither of the duo sounds anything like him, though. I think they had one day in the studio and four titles only, and they were kind of late, too, post-1940. I don't believe anybody apart from their friends and relatives knows who they were.
....and Bunker Hill, probably.
John Lee Hooker's take on Percy Mayfield's Mermory Pain is a classic case of reverse osmosis, in which a pop blues is rendered as country blues. John Lee called his version Serves You Right to Suffer.
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That's a cool example, Rambler. The John Lee Hooker version is indeed great.
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RE: Skoodle-dum Doo & Sheffield:
The former is Seth Richard, indicated by the composer credits on the 78s - I was sent label photocopies. Sheffield is the harp player and his first name may have been John. He refers to himself by that name on one of the tunes he sings. According to Barbara Kukla's first book on jazz (et al) musicians in Newark, NJ, he was always known by "Sheffield" without a first name. Both 78s are brilliant and Sheffield plays rhythm guitar on one or two. Barbara has had a second book published recently - she is a former reporter for The Newark Evening News, and a good one, too!
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That is totally out of sight! One has to dredge up long unused superlatives for something like that!
So Pete, are we to infer that they lived and played around Newark N.J.?
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Yes. Kukla's book only mentions Sheffield (he was known by jazz performers a.o.only by his surname), but that seems likely that they were there ca. 1943. West Kinney Street and Broome Street are Newark roads, maybe even a cross-roads. One of the many possibles I didn't follow up on in my day... one man can only cover so much ground on his own! Lovely records, and what Bruce Bastin would type as "soddingly rare"!
Hi Peter B.,
Is there anything apart from the fact that the non-Sheffield member of the duo called himself Skoodle Dum Doo to make anyone think he was the Seth Richard who recorded "Skoodle Dum Doo" eleven years prior to the duo's records being made? The reason I ask is that Seth Richards had an altogether different singing voice, guitar style and sense of rhythm than the Skoodle Dum Doo who recorded with Sheffield. I always thought the identification of Skoodle Dum Doo as Seth Richard was guesswork.
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Stealing Beats From Producers Undermines Hip-Hop’s Most Important Players
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On Monday’s Everyday Struggle episode, self-proclaimed “Chief Cultural Director” and semi-retired rapper Joe Budden found a good deal of humor in producers having their beats stolen. While discussing producer MilanMakesBeats’ claims that Playboi Carti stole his beats without compensation and threats to beat up the “pieon,” Budden had a hearty laugh about the producers whom he gave similar treatment in his sixteen-year career.
When DJ Akademiks had a rare morality moment, noting “we can’t co-sign producers gettin’ finessed,” Joe scoffed “oh please,” then raised an argument that producers shouldn’t be upset about getting stiffed because recording artists don’t get paid much from streams. It may be true that rappers aren’t rakin’ it up from music sales, but that doesn’t absolve them of their duty to pay producers whose beats they use. You can’t tell your landlord that your job isn’t paying you a lot and expect them to care.
When show moderator Nadeska asked Budden, the same guy who berated Lil Yachty about being on top of his business, to offer advice to young producers he said, “I’m not teaching that n—- sh*t” because “I might need a free beat.”
Budden then deemed producers wanting a signed contract as “extra” and said, “I don’t have to do none of this [fair negotiating]… I’ll lay a whole song to your two-track and send it right to iTunes.” Really? That’s what flies in “the culture? for Budden”
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Nine-year-old who defies labels helps teach educators about queer youth
(Reuters) – When a third-grade teacher from Texas asked her mostly 8-year-old students what they wanted to be when they grow up, one of them wrote on the white board: “drag queen.”
That response came from Keegan, now 9, a “gender creative” kid, in his mother’s words, illustrating just one of the challenges facing educators as they accommodate the range of gender identities that students might express.
Reuters has agreed not to fully identify the family and school at their request to protect them from potential harassment.
Educators who for centuries have divided students into boys and girls are now figuring out better ways to address students who are nonbinary, gender fluid and gender nonconforming, in addition to transgender kids, whose gender identity differs from the one they were assigned at birth.
By one survey nearly 3 percent of youth in Minnesota fall under these categories, identifying with neither gender, or both, or trans, or just defying a traditional male/female binary option.
Some school districts in the United States are using more gender-neutral language, addressing students by their preferred pronouns, which can be “they,” “them,” “theirs” for an individual, or the invented “zie,” “zir,” “zirs,” which are used as a substitute. Some schools also allow students to easily change their preferred name or gender identity.
The degree of acceptance for such students can literally be a matter of life and death, experts say.
A national survey of 34,000 LGBTQ youth aged 13 to 24 released last week found 39 percent seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months, as did more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth, according to the Trevor Project, a pro-LGBTQ group focused on suicide prevention.
Another study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2018 and based on a cohort study of 129 trans and gender nonconforming youth aged 15 to 21, found that suicide attempts plummet 65 percent and depression symptoms fall 71 percent if they are allowed to use their chosen name at school, home, and work, and with friends.
The issue comes up long before adolescence as gender identity typically manifests itself in children by kindergarten.
“What’s at stake is nothing less than the future lives of these children and own health as a society,” said Eliza Byard, executive director of GLSEN, a national advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students.
“We still live in a world where the most marginalized are not receiving the support and affirmation that they need in order to achieve academically and thrive personally. And we all will benefit when that is true,” Byard said.
STONEWALL LEGACY
Transgender rights have risen to the fore in recent years and as LGBTQ people prepare to mark the 50th anniversary since the Stonewall uprising of June 28, 1969. The protests by patrons of a New York City gay bar, who fought back against police harassment, is considered the birth of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.
Keegan is one student who has benefited from the Stonewall here legacy.
He plays soccer and video games and also likes to dress as a girl, using the name Kween-Kee-Kee when in drag, his parents say. Among his mentors are a pair of real-life adult drag queens. He usually goes by the pronouns “he,” “him” and “his.”
Keegan has found acceptance and support at his school in a conservative, Christian suburb outside of Austin, Texas, his mother said.
“We expected a lot of pushback from the school and we expected some intolerance, but we’ve been very surprised,” said Keegan’s mother.
Keegan’s teacher paid close attention during the lesson on financial literacy, when other students aspired to be doctors and dentists and Keegan wrote “drag queen.”
“One of the students asked, ‘What’s that?’ and Keegan kind of said ‘I don’t know’ and moved past it,” said his teacher.
“But I do see little, like, hints of him trying to make people aware that this is something that he is, something that he does.”
Neither Keegan’s teacher nor his principal said they received any formal training on educating gender nonconforming students and have worked with intuition and observation.
The teacher wants to let Keegan bring up the subject “at his own pace.”
His parents, too, have wanted to “let Keegan be himself” and not impose any norms on him. They said they were surprised on Friday when, five years after he first started wearing dresses and a full year after they began cooperating with a photographer on this project, he said he was gay.
Minneapolis Public Schools in Minnesota offer some of the most extensive guidelines for teachers, students and parents as part of its Out4Good program supporting LGBTQ children, outlining polices developed over 20 years on names and pronouns, gendered activities and facilities, and safety and bullying, said Jason Bucklin, the Out4Good coordinator.
Some 2.7% of Minnesota high school students identify as transgender or gender nonconforming, according to a 2017 University of Minnesota study.
A gender-inclusive curriculum can prevent the kind of bullying that typically begins in grade school and can evolve into homophobia by middle school and sexual harassment or dating violence by high school, Bucklin said.
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“It isn’t just about the transgender students,” Bucklin said. “It is about bringing everybody into the classroom and having the ability to feel successful.”
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Basemental: Thoughts on Fashion and Fascism – Q&A with Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier
by Will Meyer | Jul 2, 2019
Greg Saunier
Deerhoof has been making topsy-turvy, explosive rock music for over 25 years. Founded in the ‘90s, the group is still at it. They have released 15 albums, collaborated with countless musicians, and have inspired many more (myself included). The band will play Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center on July 11 with Carinae, Tundrastomper, Hot Dirt, and Blank Spell, warming Greenfield up for the annual Green River Festival. I spoke with founding member and legendary drummer Greg Saunier from my porch. — WM
Will Meyer: I wanted to ask you about the DIY aspect of your band. How do you guys manage it? How you guys sort of manage the [lowers voice to invoke conspiratorial tone] hostile industry, man?
Greg Saunier: Not having any managers, handlers, and reducing the sort of middle entities down to a minimum actually reduces the hostility because — I think that managers feel comfortable talking to other managers in a very litigious and adversarial way because that’s what’s on their job description. For instance, if it’s a negotiation over a fee, one side always wants more and one side always wants to pay less. Because if either one didn’t do that, they’d be instantly fired. However, we like, wherever possible, to do things our own way. Oftentimes that just comes down to producing our own records. That’s not unusual in this day and age because nobody has a budget. And it’s fun — [reconsidering] I don’t know. I guess not all of it is super fun. John [guitar] does almost all of the driving. And like, you know, Satomi books the rental cars. Ed [guitar] finds us hotels. And a lot of that is just a big pain.
W: Your songs are funny but they’re also sad. And there’s a playfulness in your music that I think is an antidote, but it also cuts the sadness in a good way. Tell us how you mix the playfulness and the sadness and the humor all together at once. I mean “there are too many choices to order breakfast / thank you for coming, get out now,” right?
G: It’s more than even just sadness and humor. It’s also a feeling of numbness, a feeling of anger, a feeling of intellectualism, a feeling of peace, a feeling of, I don’t know, triumph, or heroism. All I’m doing is listing human emotions. There is a thing of — the song you just quoted, which is Exit Only, I made up the guitar part in an effort to sound — I don’t know mood it expresses, but maybe you could say anger. But Satomi made up words, and none of us could anticipate what lyrics she was going to write, but when she did they provided a kind of humorous counterpoint to the anger in the music. It’s a way that we collaborate. I think we argue against ourselves, let’s say. The way that members of the band balance each other is that we fight each other in a way. And if you feel that a song is too limited in its emotional scope than somebody tries to find a way of instilling a complimentary emotion, the opposite emotion to go along with it.
W: This question is from [my bandmate] Brian. He wants to know specifically about an anti-fascist ethos or responsibility in your music, and how does one “spite survive” this shit?
G: It’s a hard one. Being opposed to fascism is something that any musician could do simply with slogans, and that would be nice. But maybe a harder thing to do sometimes — I don’t know if it’s harder — but a thing that is less commonly talked about is when musicians try to discover what are the fascist leaning elements of their own music. I’m not talking just about the lyrical stance. I’m talking about the musical stance. For instance, the idea of total synchronization is one that Deerhoof thinks about a lot. One of the most common features of pop music is a really regular beat. And everyone in the band or the act rigidly conforming to that unchanging beat. I’m not saying that everyone who does that is necessarily a fascist, but I am saying that we derive some amount of fun by constantly making that pulse a problem in our music, we’re always fighting against it, and rhymically fighting against each other. And being flexible at times or not conforming to a rhythm that someone else in the band might be playing, we’re listening to it and we love hearing each other really clearly on stage. But we don’t always consent to lock in with everyone else. And just the idea of like non conformity, it doesn’t have to be rhythm it could be about any aspect of songwriting, you know. We seem to actually take pleasure of finding those ways that we have lost — we’re in danger of losing some sense of joy and becoming tyrannical about, or lazy, about some musical parameter, and then trying to freshen it up by rethinking it or playing with it or being silly with it in a way that doesn’t fall prey to unspoken or unwritten musical laws that everyone is expected to follow. It’s fun to look for those things, and then refuse to follow them.
W: My last question is where do you get your pants and what should young bands wear?
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G: Where do I get pants? [laughs] I get my pants — I get [them] when I have time. We rarely have as much time on tour as any of us would like for thrift shopping because we are always late and we are always pulling into a city just as rush hour is getting started. But [my pants are] from the women’s section of a thrift store. A sad fact about gender-based fashion oppression is that is that men’s pants rarely have any like flowers on them or bright colors. You just have to go to the women’s section, it’s fine.
But what should young bands wear? This one I feel, out of all of the questions you’ve asked today, I think this is the one closest to my heart and the one I think is most important, and if the reader wants to take any one thing away from this interview, it would be this: young bands should wear whatever they want to.
Will Meyer writes the twice-monthly Basemental column. You can contact him at willinabucket@gmail.com.
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Interstellar commerce: why would planets be valuable?
The Background:
I am going to be asking a series of questions that will be relevant to forming some sort of a picture of human space commerce.
Let's say that Earth-based human civilizations have discovered a series of ancient jump-gates that allow them to travel within a large and varied interstellar network.
There are not many clues, apart from the jumpgates, as to who left this system behind. For the moment, I am assuming that there is no bias to the kind of systems included in the network: i.e. its not like systems with earth like planets make up the majority of the planets in the network. So, "system types" have roughly the same probability of occurrence as if one were just taking a cross-section of space and scanning it.
Put another way, the gates simply connect a large number of close-by star systems, rather than a large number of only useful star systems.
While genetically-engineered humans exist in this "universe", no sentient non-human aliens have yet been encountered.
If a space faring civilization can build space stations, why would they ever bother with planets?
For resources, space stations could be built around asteroid belts. Otherwise, space stations may be placed in almost any orbit or other stable configuration.
So, what might planets offer, that stations simply cannot? If terraforming technology exists, assume that it is time consuming (centuries).
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$\begingroup$ They would bother with (Earthlike & terraformable) planets because they are nice places to live. Why do people with sufficient wealth to do so purchase country estates, rather than choosing to live in urban tenements? $\endgroup$ – jamesqf Feb 24 '15 at 4:23
$\begingroup$ Just for the record, someone already used that idea.....whoever wrote stargate. $\endgroup$ – JDSweetBeat Feb 24 '15 at 15:43
$\begingroup$ @Dustin Jackson - it is a fairly common scifi trope. The tabletop game Eclipse Phase also has jump gates. $\endgroup$ – Brad Feb 24 '15 at 20:52
$\begingroup$ @Brad Mass Effect (the game) has Relays - that are jump gates and Freelancer (the game) has jump gates. $\endgroup$ – SovereignSun Oct 15 '17 at 4:17
There's a couple of upsides, plus one obvious large downside.
First, planets are much more robust than space stations. A full ecology has a lot of depth, layers and layers of life and interactions. That depth allows it to absorb disasters and keep ticking - it doesn't negate the bad effects, but it means they are less likely to wipe you out. A disease that eats your corn crop means you go hungry, but you survive on potatoes. On a space station you have a smaller, technology-enabled ecology that's rather shallow, which means it's going to have a lot more points where only 1-2 things can fail and your entire space station becomes unhabitable. If your algae vats get corrupted, you're out of food and air, and you might not have a quick enough solution to keep people alive.
Second, planets are already there. Building a city on a planet has start up costs, sure. But building that same city has the same start up costs, plus you need to build everything the planet gives you for free - air, water, food, gravity, and the space itself. Space stations are also 3-dimensional builds, which requires more material than a 2-dimensional city for things like infrastructure. If this doesn't seem important for a city, think about the cost of creating a cattle ranch in space vs on a planet.
Finally, the counter - a planet is deep inside a gravity well, which negates some of the benefits listed above. Getting in and out of gravity wells can be incredibly difficult unless you have something like a Space Elevator to help you, which increases those expenses greatly.
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$\begingroup$ #2 is dubious, depending on your assumptions going into it. I'd argue a station is generally more likely to be already there because the ship you rode in can be converted to a station by just putting it in park! Maybe the OP's jump gates mean ships can't do the longer term sustainability required to be a viable station, but it also says terraforming is an enormously difficult process, so while the planet might physically be there, and might even be close to Earth like, it isn't likely to be ready to sustain humans long term either. $\endgroup$ – Adam D. Ruppe Feb 24 '15 at 18:55
$\begingroup$ yhep main problem with that question - before build ranch on planet you have to make it habitable. Before relay on those layers of biosphere you have to create this biosphere, and we are very picky in therms what we find as good biosphere, so just stable is not good enough for us. In therms of biological hazards - building robust system in space is easier then on planet, specially when used free planet resources. $\endgroup$ – MolbOrg Sep 5 '16 at 22:42
If humans can build condominiums, then why would anyone live in houses?
We know only two ways to simulate gravity. One uses the mass of a planet. The other uses spin. It has been speculated that humans might find some aspects of spin-based gravity uncomfortable. For example, certain kinds of motion (nodding or shaking one's head) may cause odd sensations in the inner ear.
Natural Geography
Some people may simply prefer natural geography to artificial geography. For example, a mountain climber may prefer a planet because the mountains are taller. Or because the mountains are more variable. Or because there's simply a greater variety of mountains on a planet.
Compared to a planet, space stations are small. If one likes to see new sights, one may well prefer the sheer variety available on a planet. Or perhaps flora is your thing. Or fauna. Maybe you like undersea exploring (how deep are the seas on a space station?).
"My parents lived and died on a planet and so will I." Even if energy and raw materials are cheaper on space stations, some people may still prefer planets. Just because.
Anti-technology
A space station is built with technology and runs on technology. It's hard to envision an Amish lifestyle on a space station.
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$\begingroup$ I often like to imagine that in the 28th century there will be a set of people who insist on living only on 25th century technology, because that was exactly the right amount of technology. Life was so much simpler in the 25th century... $\endgroup$ – BrianH Feb 24 '15 at 3:04
$\begingroup$ "Or because there's simply a greater variety of mountains on a planet." - Or because there's not. You can make artificial or simulated mountains indefinitely taller/harder, but there's only one Everest. $\endgroup$ – Random832 Feb 24 '15 at 18:21
While many of these answers are pretty good, I think there's one very simple reason people would use planets over space stations. It's been said before, but I don't think enough emphasis is placed on it yet.
Planets are Incredibly Big
Seriously; there's 7 billion of us living on a fairly moderate sized little hunk of rock, which consists of 70% uninhabitable ocean, and even of the 30% of land that it has, most is uninhabited.
Doing a quick conversion of the Earth's land area (estimated at 150,000,000 square kilometers) divided by the number of people on earth (estimated at 7 billion) shows us that the average amount of land available to each human currently alive is 21400 square meters. (Which is about 5 acres)
That means if the Earth's land area were fairly divided amongst the people living today, every person would have an area of land big enough to build about 100 houses with gardens on.
This answer to a question about overpopulation says that the Earth could house as many as 2.7 trillion people if we were to convert most of it into cities. You're not going to be able to build enough space stations to ever compare to the kind of ground area a planet supplies.
When you hear "a planet is larger than a space station" it's easy to miss by just how much the planet is bigger.
Although technically, if you have so much energy you run out of other stuff to do with it, you could consider taking apart the Earth entirely and converting it into space stations. If we take a look at the weight of the Earth (5.97219 × 10^24kg) vs the weight of the International Space Station (450.000kg), then the Earth would provide enough building materials to build 1,327,150,000,000,000,000 ISS sized space stations.
That's roughly 1,895,000,000 space stations (almost 2 billion) per person alive today. Of course, we'll not go into the cost in terms of energy or labor for doing so, considering even a single ISS costs upwards of $150 billion dollars.
But yeah. Planets are big. And they're just floating there. I don't see why you would not use them.
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$\begingroup$ Why do you think you can build 100 houses with gardens on 5 acres? Unless your idea of garden is a few potted plants on a windowsill. $\endgroup$ – jamesqf Feb 24 '15 at 18:31
$\begingroup$ Using standards from my own country, I guess. The plot I live on has a house and garden and is only about 140m2 or so, so it'd fit easy. By US standards it would be a bit more cramped, because the US is very sparsely populated. (Or very big; depending on how you look at it) $\endgroup$ – Erik Feb 24 '15 at 21:21
$\begingroup$ maybe because, specially if we are flexible enough to think about taking earth apart, that artificial object with 10m high ceilings and with radius (as sphere) of 107km will have usable (not for all goals but for those which are mention) area just about earth surface area(oceans etc included). Orders of magnitude, but mass of that object is expected to be 0.000026% of earth mass. Not all material will be good for such station, but if 0.5%(carbon abundance) will be usable for it to build, 19530 stations from one planet. If we are in demand of surface, it might be reason why not to use. $\endgroup$ – MolbOrg Sep 7 '16 at 13:33
Valuable to whom exacly?
Sure, to the ruling elite planets are deep holes; and even if it was covered with pure gold it wouldn't be worth the fuel required to fetch it.
All that changes when you consider moving there. A couple of robo-miners, a fabrication box and you can live out your life in luxury. Throw in a genetic variation set and your family can last forever.
And when you have a population of 5 billion: it's still pointless trying to export steel; but information doesn't care about gravitywells. Just imagine the scientific experiments you can perform when you have free gravity and a massive neutrino-filter just below your feet.
Software is also exportable; the latest mobile phone has all the "Angry birds"-clones of a thousand planets at your fingertips.
Bitcoin; and other computation time is also easily exported.
All of this is mostly true for the interstellar empire as well. There just isn't that much to expect from other planets/solar systems than more of the same. Exporting steel from one solar system to another; why bother?
OdalrickOdalrick
$\begingroup$ You lost me at Bitcoin. $\endgroup$ – Mordred Feb 24 '15 at 15:51
$\begingroup$ @Mordred just think of it as a particularly shallow example of computing capacity as a commodity. $\endgroup$ – Random832 Feb 24 '15 at 18:24
$\begingroup$ you should answer more question, good answer. $\endgroup$ – MolbOrg Sep 7 '16 at 12:57
Just to complement the good answers already here, let me bring up defense. Specifically, camouflage.
Suppose a hostile environment in which your enemy might track your gates or your movement through them.
If at the end of the gate there's a space station, the enemy can just shoot away. You may have to place your base astronomically far from the gate to give them a search problem.
On the other hand, if there's a planet with permanent cloud coverage, and your base is over a few dozen miles from the gate, the enemy is now lost, regardless of whether the gate leaves them out of or in the planet (you didn't specify).
Of course they can explore, but likely they were detected when exiting the gate, and your own defenses can do their thing.
Additional precautions may be having false tracks in different directions if the gate is on land, or having supply ships change course below the clouds if the gate is in space.
As a downside, though, a base in a planet is very vulnerable to bombardment from space once the enemy knows where it is. No warheads needed, just throw rocks at exactly right angles.
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$\begingroup$ Depending on the enemy's morality and the inhabited-ness of the planet, they might not even need to know where the base is before they start throwing rocks. The only realistic defense would probably be to build something like Battleplates, if you have the resources to pull off such a project. $\endgroup$ – Mason Wheeler Feb 24 '15 at 15:56
$\begingroup$ @MasonWheeler: true, but destroying a whole planet would require time to accelerate the missile. Longer time if the gate leaves you at the surface. In this time, the defences could act. $\endgroup$ – Emilio M Bumachar Feb 26 '15 at 4:50
Others have covered some very good points. I'd just like to add the following:
Rare Resources - organics
While it is highly probable mineral resources could be extracted from asteroids or other small bodies the complex organics created by life are unlikely to be present in any quantity off of significant planets. While we are slowly mastering genetic engineering there are now many plants that cannot be grown outside of their original habitats and we understand the ecology of Earth from thousands of years of study. A plant, fungus or something entirely new that has a medication like effect on people might not be easily created outside it's home environment on an alien planet.
Obviously trade in something like that depends on very low cost to planetary travel but the neat thing about hypothesizing about things like this is that costs are likely to be high at first but decline over years until they are trivial. Rockets are a resource expensive way into space. Self replicating, self assembling nano built beanstalks could be much less so and given a few thousand years such imaginary technology looks less and less like magic and more and more like something you could do with your phone. Will our understanding of medicine or life on other worlds and how to farm it grow as fast as our travel technology and make it so everything we ever find could be grown everywhere? There is no way to know.
Once your space-faring civilization enters a new star system, they still have to get around on their own, and can use (particularly massive) planets for gravity assists. The other benefit to gravity is that a planet with similar mass as Earth can offer a lot of space to stretch their legs.
We only speculate what resources are available on exoplanets, but they vary greatly in size and probable composition. If a particular resource (water/ice, oxygen, etc.) it's possible that at least one planet in each candidate star systems has what your civilization needs. And LOTS more of it than a comet or asteroid can provide.
If any of the exoplanets have an atmosphere to protect from space debris, or can protect from harmful radiation, then it would be a great place to make a cheaper 'space station'.
Geology / Morphology
Rocky and gassy, all-water, and acid-raining planets would be so cool to explore to understand processes on our own planet, as well as provide evidence of potential life.
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Mining Camps
Tectonic processes concentrate ores. We don't know the mineral distribution of the asteroids, but it is likely that they did not have tectonic processes to concentrate ores (there may be other things which cause concentrations... but...)
Gold may be rare, but it comes in mother-lodes in tectonically active planets. Ditto for rare earths, etc.
Planets may end up as nothing more than mining camps, and the odd-ball or two who likes natural settings.
$\begingroup$ Actually, this is the other way around. Asteroids seem to mostly be made from a few different materials, and there's not enough mass to force them to make the stuff you want hard to access. If you want an iron asteroid, it's likely a mass of 50% iron, for example. On a planet, by far most of the iron has dropped down into the core, a lot harder to access. There's some stuff that's comparatively easy to find (and concentrate) on a planet - like uranium. But gold is a prime example of the opposite - Earth's primordial gold is in the core. The surface stuff is (probably) from asteroids. $\endgroup$ – Luaan Feb 24 '15 at 8:37
$\begingroup$ @Luaan: But the gold & other rare elements are probably dispersed fairly evenly through the mass of asteroids. On Earth (or other geologically active planets), geological processes have concentrated some of the interesting minerals. Even in a fairly rich gold ore body, you need to process 4-5 tons of ore to produce one ounce of gold: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin–type_gold_deposit $\endgroup$ – jamesqf Feb 24 '15 at 18:40
$\begingroup$ @jamesqf Actually, it doesn't seem so :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining In fact, all the gold, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium, and tungsten mined from Earth's crust, and that are essential for economic and technological progress, came originally from the rain of asteroids that hit Earth after the crust cooled. They were concentrated in the asteroid, dispersed by impact and tectonics, and then concentrated again (e.g. by rivers). And they tend to be rather pure. $\endgroup$ – Luaan Feb 25 '15 at 8:35
$\begingroup$ @jasqf Since there's little free oxygen, it's a lot easier to use the materials right away - it seems that a lot of the steel humans originally used came as is from asteroid impacts (iron + nickel, natural stainless steel, without the pesky oxygen and sulphur). Refining is trivial compared to planetary metals. A small 10-meter S-type asteroid contains about 650,000 kg (1,433,000 lb) of metal with 50 kg (110 lb) in the form of rare metals like platinum and gold. M-type asteroids have a much bigger ratio. $\endgroup$ – Luaan Feb 25 '15 at 8:38
$\begingroup$ @Luaan: Where is the evidence that the rare metals were in any way concentrated in the asteroids, rather than being evenly dispersed throughout the volume? That is, any particular chunk of asteroid (say the parent of a iron/nickel meteorite) you'd have lots of iron & nickel, some cobalt, but maybe parts per million/billion concentrations of the rarer elements. Useful if you want steel, much less so if you want gold & sliver, rare earths, fissionables, etc. $\endgroup$ – jamesqf Feb 26 '15 at 6:00
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Forage focus: Would you feed your cattle bread and cake?
Siobhán Walsh
Jan 29, 2018, 6:00am
Everyday, in bakeries and mills, bread, cakes and cereals are left on the shelves. However, Sean Tully Animal Feeds takes this surplus food – adds distillers grains and sugar – and produces two animal feed rations; one for beef and one for dairy.
These rations are generally fed with straw or silage and should be supplemented with minerals as appropriate.
From Garbrattan, Co. Cavan, Sean Tully has been using surplus products from the human food chain for many years on his farm. He started feeding brewers grains to his cattle forty years ago.
Over the years, he began to take in breakfast cereals and cakes. However, these products weren’t working well everywhere.
“Some farmers were using a number of products to make a ration, which took up a lot of space. When they ran out of one product, they would increase another. This led to inconsistency and underperformance.”
Sean began to mix the products to produce a consistent and convenient ration. The resulting moist beef ration is 14% protein and the moist dairy ration is 16% protein – both have a dry matter content of 63%.
“These high energy rations are very palatable and increase digestibility and intake, which will inevitably lead to better performance,” he added.
The beef ration made from surplus food from the human food chain
“Our ration is the same everyday. We’re using byproducts, but we adhere to the same regulations as the mills. We use maize meal as well.”
What goes into the ration?
Raymond, Sean’s son, told AgriLand what surplus food is being used in the rations.
“We mix surplus food and byproducts together. We mix surplus bread, maize distillers grains, pot ale syrup, oat feed, maize meal, breakfast cereal, cake and dextrose.”
Cakes from a local bakery
The same products go into each ration, but in different quantities.
“We have a number of suppliers. We source our products locally where possible. However, in order to satisfy demand a lot of our bread and breakfast cereal comes in from England.
The bread is broken up before it arrives
“We have a specially commissioned and computerised mixer to ensure a consistent mix every time. The feed is made early in the morning; it goes straight onto our own lorries and out to the farmer.”
Raymond explained why the company set up its own lab, adding: “I test all of the rations and the incoming products. Labelling of products is very important to us, and for EU regulations, when we say 14% protein, it is 14% protein.
“Having our own lab ensures that we have same-day results, which is extremely useful in testing incoming products and allowing our product to remain consistent”
These results are checked with an independent lab to ensure that the results are consistently correct.
“Although we’re using byproducts and surplus foods we are required to adhere to the same regulations and standards as the regular feed mills.”
Sean explained that it took many years to learn how to make the rations correctly.
“It took a long time, with the assistance of long standing, loyal customers who took the time to give us honest feedback on the product, to get it to the level that we’re getting it to now.
“Nobody has got it down to the level that we’re getting it to. Companies in the UK are asking us for advice on how to make these rations.
“It’s not a simple process. When I started, I thought I would go out and mix it and it would be easy. The way you mix it; the rotation in the mix; the time; the products; and when you put the products in; all affect the ration.
Many people can bake a cake, but they don’t all taste the same.
Traceability and origin
“We have the same level of traceability as the standard feed mills. We only buy from Universal Feed Assurance Scheme (UFAS) approved suppliers in the UK and Ireland. We are Bord Bia and UFAS accredited.
“All of the lorries – that bring product in or out of our company – are approved. We won’t hire unapproved hauliers.”
When asked about importing bread from England and how Irish rations are so important as part of Ireland’s green food image Seán stated: “There are a lot of cereals being imported into this country. The main reason we have to import these products is because they’re not available here.
“Origin Green is about sustainability. Our feed is using surplus and byproducts. If it doesn’t stay within the food chain (human or animal), it will become a waste material. We’re bringing the products into the animal food chain and making very good use of it,” Raymond added.
Fodder crisis
The rations are mainly sold to large feedlots and dairy farms. Some local farmers also use the rations. This year, Tullys have received enquiries for feed from silage hauliers who are running out of fodder for their customers in the west of Ireland.
A ration made from cake and bread, mixed in a diet feeder with straw
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A tractor-trailer and a state van carrying applicants for prison jobs crashed Friday on a rural highway south of Montgomery, and authorities said all seven people in the van died in the fiery wreck. Prison system spokesman Brian Corbett said the van's driver and six applicants died. The charred, smoldering van was almost unrecognizable. Hours after the crash, responders were cutting into the vehicle to recover the bodies.
"The crash was horrendous enough, but the fire added to the tragedy," said Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright, who went to the scene.
The crash happened Friday morning on an isolated stretch of U.S. 82 as the Department of Corrections driver ferried the job applicants from a state prison near Union Springs to another one in Elmore County, Corbett said.
State trooper spokesman John Reese said the crash appeared to be a head-on collision.
He said the driver of the truck hauling wood products, Andrew David Carter, 31, of Tifton, Ga., was taken to a Montgomery hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.
Victims on the van have been identified as driver Rodney Kelley, 36; Julius Bouier, 26; Lionel Moore, 18; John Foye Jr., 20; Brandon Anglin, 23; Henry Simmons Sr., 45; and Derrick Ivey, 22.
The wreck occurred sometime before 6 a.m. about 20 miles southeast of Montgomery as the van traveled west toward the capital and the truck headed east, Reese said. The highway was blocked off about three miles from the wreck site in both directions.
The fire made it so difficult to determine what happened that it was hard for officials to initially know how many people died.
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Birmingham police officer involved in fatal morning shooting at Foxx Trap strip club
By Joseph D. Bryant
Foxx Trap strip club
The Foxx Trap strip club parking lot Saturday, May 10, 2014. A Birmingham police officer was involved in fatal morning shooting at the business the Birmingham City Council shut down.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- One man is dead and another is in the hospital following an early morning shooting at a Birmingham nightclub that had been ordered shut by the Birmingham City Council.
According to officials, the shooting occurred after an altercation between two security guards at the Foxx Trap strip club around 3 a.m.
Officials said one guard, who was armed, shot the other guard who was unarmed. The injured guard was taken to the hospital.
However, an off-duty police officer, who was also working security at the club, shot and killed the armed guard accused of shooting the unarmed security guard.
Both Brandon Cephus and Jonathan Asuzu were employed as security guards at the club.
The altercation allegedly began when Cephus, who was not working, was confronted by Asuzu for being there while not on duty.
A fight then broke out, and the off-duty police officer attempted to break it up, using pepper spray.
Asuzu then pulled out a gun and shot Cephus several times, officials said. The police officer then shot Asuzu, according to officials. Cephus was not armed, according to reports.
Asuzu was pronounced dead at the scene. Cephus' injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
The Foxx Trap was ordered closed by the City Council on May 6 after a lengthy hearing.
The move to shut down the club was overwhelming with a 8-1 vote following police complaints of violence.
However, club owners were granted a temporary restraining order from a Jefferson County Judge to remain open during a court appeal.
The Alabama Bureau of Investigation will conduct the investigation, as is standard with police-involved shootings.
5/15/14 Story edited to reflect court hearing account of the fight that led to the deadly shooting and to clarify which guard was on duty that night.
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We Can End the Era of Megafires
Jennifer Fielder is a State Senator from Thompson Falls, Montana and currently serves as CEO of the national nonprofit American Lands Council.
Sen. Jennifer Fielder/October 27, 2017
Over 10,000 people each year are hospitalized due to wildfire smoke-related heart and lung problems, as many as 2,500 are dying prematurely. Billions of dollars of private and public property are being destroyed in western wildfires annually. Federal employees and so-called environmentalists are attempting to “teach” us to simply accept this era of “megafires,” an era that they themselves created.
It is no secret that most wildfires could be prevented or slowed by better access for initial attack and preemptive fuel reduction strategies that employ responsible logging, thinning and grazing on federally controlled public lands. As the old adage goes, “log it, graze it, or watch it burn.” Responsible vegetation management combined with preservation of public access routes actually reduce the risk of wildfire. While at the same time improving the health of the forest, enhancing wildlife habitat, providing abundant recreation opportunities and creating beneficial cash flow for our local, state and national economies.
The problem is not due to a lack of knowledge. The problem is that federal land management agencies are saddled with so much nonsensical bureaucracy they simply can not do what needs to be done. Oddly enough, it is the environmental community and federal courts colluding to block beneficial wildfire prevention activities. While science validates the startling reality of their “lock it up and let it burn” mentality, the political left continues to deny the plain and simple truth.
For decades the west has borne the brunt of these counterproductive and misguided federal land management policies. In the last few decades, the federal government has obliterated thousands of miles of access roads on public lands, halted almost all logging and grazing and deliberately allowed billions of dollars of valuable timber and rangeland to go up in smoke.
A very recent study by Georgia Tech revealed that the volume of harmful chemicals released from that smoke is far greater than previously estimated. Another study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment confirmed, “The public health burden of wildland fires—in terms of the number and economic value of deaths and illnesses—is considerable.”
It is time to restore balance and accountability in the way our public lands are managed. President Trump’s efforts to eliminate unnecessary regulations, return power to the states and reform how our public lands and resources are governed are a welcome step in the right direction.
We must not lose sight of the fact that Presidential administrations are subject to change every four years. All the good progress that may be made this term can be reversed just as quickly. That is why it is absolutely critical to secure constitutionally sound solutions that will stand the test of time regardless of who occupies the White House or the Congress.
The surest way to get there is to transfer much of the federally-controlled public land to willing states. This would remove layers of federal bureaucracy and shift control to more accountable, locally-driven land managers. By bringing land management decisions home where they belong, we can get back to the basics of managing public lands with common sense. After all, wise land management in the west isn’t rocket science, it’s a vital way of life for those of us who live here.
Just think about it – who knows the land and cares for it more than the people who live nearest to it? When western forests erupt in a wildfire, it is the people who live nearby who deal with the devastation.
Consider the story of Montana’s wildland firefighting teams who were actually ordered by the federal government to stand down when lightning started a series of small fires last summer. Montana state foresters have been repeatedly barred from putting out wildfires on “federal” land. The reason? Montana’s helicopters, which have an unblemished safety record, travel faster and carry more water than the federal aircraft do, were not on the federal agency’s “list of approved equipment.” Had those puff balls been extinguished by state teams when they were small and controllable, they would not have erupted into the multi-million dollar “federal” disasters that ensued.
That is where the American Lands Council (ALC) comes in. ALC is a nationwide network of elected officials, skilled professionals, and grassroots activists working on constitutionally-sound legislative, judicial and executive remedies to permanently secure accountable, sensible governance of our public lands.
Moving forward through the courts and Congress is just as important as working with the executive branch. Thanks to the Utah legislature, a huge lawsuit is mounting in favor of the fundamental principle that States have a right to be treated equally. When a distant federal bureaucracy controls over half of all lands in the western United States, and less than five percent in eastern states, we have a noticeable disparity.
In fact, the federal government has no constitutional authority to retain control of so much land within any State. However, Congress does have the explicit constitutional power to transfer public lands to States (see U.S. Constitution Article 4 Section 3 Clause 2). In fact, they have done so many times, in many states.
If the issue is pressed forward at the U.S. Supreme Court and the court does indeed agree that Congress cannot retain so much land inside a state forever and ever, the court is not likely to tell Congress how to divest itself of title to the land, only that they must.
ALC is working on a universal federal bill that will allow each State to prioritize which pieces of federal land they seek to acquire first, and to set a schedule so that incremental transfers could occur over time as the State is ready to responsibly take on the management of new areas. The bill we propose would require the States to protect any valid existing rights associated with the transferred lands, such as mineral rights, grazing leases and water rights. The bill would also require states to coordinate with affected counties to ensure management goals for the transferred lands are consistent with the county’s adopted resource management plan. Finally, revenue from timber or other resources would be shared between the state and county where the land is located and with a significant portion set aside for wildfire control.
Transferring federally controlled public lands to willing states will result in better access, better health and better productivity and will benefit the entire nation. It’s a logical, constitutionally sound solution that only needs good people to step forward in support.
That is the mission of ALC. To learn more visit www.AmericanLandsCouncil.org
Issues: Federalism
Tags: environmental stewardship, Federalism, International Relations Task Force, Public Lands
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Pistols In The Pacific
by A1F Daily Staff - Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Photo credit: Michael Ives
He was a fighter pilot. World World II ace. South Dakota governor. First commissioner of the American Football League. Television host. NRA president. Philanthropist. To be sure, this was not your average Joe. Nor was this an ordinary .45-cal. that belonged to him.
The second classic pistol shown in the accompanying pdf represents another World War II hero. A vice admiral of the U.S. Navy, he was a skilled marksman. He was so accurate, in fact, that he set a sporting record that would not be broken until 1980—60 years after his historic feat.
Click here to learn more about these classic pistols and the honorable men who owned them. They are more storied guns from the annals of the NRA National Firearms Museum, located in Fairfax, Va.
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Ditmars, Raymond Lee (22 June 1876–12 May 1942), zoo curator and popular writer on reptiles, was born in Newark, New Jersey, son of John Van Harlingen Ditmars, a furniture dealer and Confederate veteran, and Mary Knaus. When Raymond was six the family moved to New York City. His interest in nature began with visits to Central Park, which had a small menagerie and natural areas teeming with snakes and other creatures, and to the salt marshes on the outskirts of Brooklyn, where his family spent the summer. These experiences captivated his interest, and, although his family intended for him to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his mind was on snakes....
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Anera FAQ
Gaza Emergency Aid Includes Dignity Kits
A mother's first thought when forced to flee her home is for the safety of her children. The last person she thinks about is herself. "We left when everybody else left the city in Khan Younis," says Awatef Abu Daqa. "We escaped with fear and nothing else." Most of the women say they end up with nothing but the clothes they were wearing when they fled.
Once in temporary shelters, many women realize they need personal hygiene items but are too shy or embarrassed to ask. The dignity kits are a welcome response to the personal needs of displaced women. The humanitarian relief kits contain toothbrush, toothpaste, towels, sanitary pads, spray, shampoo, two prayer dresses, underwear and soap.
Huda Abu Daqaa is from Khan Younis. She has three children, aged four, six and nine months. "We ran into the street with the three kids. We only packed a small bag as we rushed out of our home. We walked and walked and finally found one food truck picked us up and took us to a quieter place." Huda says all she took was milk and some diapers."
Anera distributed
1,500 dignity kits
to displaced women all around Gaza.
She also brought her prayer dress but many women did not. So they were delighted to see the dignity kits included the two piece garment. "It is easy to wear and easy to escape with," said Huda. Another woman nearby added that it made it more dignified for her to discreetly breastfeed her baby in the crowded temporary shelters.
At the entrance of one of Anera's local partner organizations in Gaza City, a group of women waited for a ride after they received their dignity kits. Despite their pale, sad faces and signs of exhaustion accumulated during more than six weeks of bombings, they all shared a sense of relief and appreciation for the aid packages that respond to their personal needs.
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Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran, targets supreme leader
Trump says the action follows a series of aggressions by Iran, including last week's downing of a US unmanned drone.
US President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that targets Iran's supreme leader and associates with additional financial sanctions.
Trump said the action follows a series of aggressions by Iran, including last week's downing of an unmanned US surveillance drone.
Tensions between the United States and Iran that have grown since May, when Washington ordered all countries to halt imports of Iranian oil.
The targets of the new sanctions include senior military figures in Iran, blocking their access to any financial assets under US jurisdiction. They also work to deny Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's and his close aides' access to money and support.
Trump said the supreme leader and his associates were ultimately responsible for what the US president called "the hostile conduct of the regime".
"Sanctions imposed through the executive order ... will deny the supreme leader and the supreme leader's office, and those closely affiliated with him and the office, access to key financial resources and support," Trump said.
Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Tehran, said the decision to sanction the supreme leader would likely not have much effect.
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not left Iran in over 30 years since he was president in 1989. The last time he left Iran was on a state visit to China in April 1989," she said.
The Al Jazeera correspondent said the announcement that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would be sanctioned by the end of this week has come as a surprise here in Iran.
"Zarif is a career diplomat who lived in the US. He was at the UN for many years. He is known as the face of the Islamic Republic on the international stage."
Zarif: US 'B-Team' wants war, not diplomacy
Responding to the sanctions announcement, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif tweeted that hawkish politicians close to Trump were thirsty for war rather than diplomacy.
"@realDonaldTrump is 100% right that the US military has no business in the Persian Gulf. Removal of its forces is fully in line with interests of US and the world. But it's now clear that the #B_Team is not concerned with US interests - they despise diplomacy, and thirst for war," he tweeted.
Zarif has in the past said that a so-called "B-team" including Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton - an ardent Iran hawk, and conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could goad Trump into a conflict with Tehran.
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said the latest US sanctions against Iran showed that Washington did not respect international law.
Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said Monday that conditions were not ripe for a dialogue with the new US sanctions.
The US decision to impose more sanctions is another indication that the United States "has no respect for international law and order," Ravanchi told reporters at the UN.
Iran said earlier on Monday US cyberattacks on its military had failed, as Washington sought to rally support in the Middle East and Europe for a hardline stance that has brought it to the verge of conflict with its longtime foe.
Washington has blamed Tehran for attacks on tankers in the Gulf in recent weeks, which Iran denies. On Monday, the US said it was building a coalition with allies to protect Gulf shipping lanes.
A coalition of nations would provide both material and financial contributions to the programme, a senior US State Department official said, without identifying the countries.
"It's about proactive deterrence, because the Iranians just want to go out and do what they want to do and say hey we didn't do it. We know what they've done," the official told reporters, adding that the deterrents would include cameras, binoculars and ships.
The US accuses Iran of encouraging allies in Yemen to attack Saudi targets.
'Destabilising peace'
In a joint statement on Monday, the US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Britain expressed concern over Middle East tensions and the dangers posed by Iranian "destabilising activity" to peace and security in Yemen and the region.
The confrontation between Iran and the US heated up last Thursday when Iran shot down a US military drone, saying it had flown over its airspace.
Washington, which said the drone was in international skies, appeared to come close to attacking Iranian military targets, with Trump saying that he aborted a retaliatory air attack 10 minutes before it was to go ahead.
Trump said he decided the attack could have possibly killed too many people.
US media have reported that Washington launched cyberattacks last week even as Trump called off his air raid. The Washington Post said on Saturday that the cyberstrikes, which had been planned previously, had disabled Iranian rocket launch systems. US officials have declined to comment.
Iran dismissed the cyberattacks as a failure.
"They try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack," Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's minister for information and communications technology, said on Twitter.
"Media asked if the claimed cyberattacks against Iran are true," he said. "Last year we neutralised 33 million attacks with the [national] firewall."
Fears of war
US allies have been calling for steps to defuse the crisis, saying they fear a small mistake by either side could trigger war.
"We are very concerned. We don't think either side wants a war, but we are very concerned that we could get into an accidental war and we are doing everything we can to ratchet things down," British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo jetted to the Middle East to discuss Iran with the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Pompeo met King Salman as well as the king's son, de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The US special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, visited Oman and was headed to Europe to explain US policy to allies. He told European reporters on a phone call before his arrival that Trump was willing to sit down with Iran, but that Iran must do a deal before sanctions could be lifted.
US-Iran relations have deteriorated over the past year since the US abandoned a 2015 agreement between Iran and world powers designed to curb Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions.
US allies in Europe and Asia view Trump's decision to abandon the nuclear deal as a mistake.
France, Britain and Germany have sent an official diplomatic warning to Iran if Tehran reduces its compliance with the accord, two European diplomats said on Monday.
It was not immediately clear what consequences Iran might face for non-compliance.
Washington argues that the agreement known as the JCPOA, negotiated under Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, did not go far enough, and new sanctions are needed to force Iran back to the table to make more concessions.
Both sides have suggested they are willing to hold talks while demanding the other side move first. In the latest comment from Tehran, an adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani repeated a long-standing demand that Washington lift sanctions before any talks.
But the adviser, Hesameddin Ashena, also tweeted a rare suggestion that Iran could be willing to discuss new concessions, if Washington were willing to put new incentives on the table that go beyond those in the deal.
"If they want something beyond the JCPOA, they should offer something beyond the JCPOA; with international guarantees," he said.
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Suspects arrested in Sunday beating, robbery
East Palo Alto incident sends resident to the hospital
Two suspects were arrested for the severe beating and robbery of an East Palo Alto man early Sunday, police said.
Officers arrived at the 2100 block of Addison Avenue in East Palo Alto at about 1:55 a.m. after a fight was reported. A 46-year-old man was severely beaten and bleeding from his face, police said.
The victim told officers the suspects -- later identified as East Palo Alto residents Leonel Contreras, 19 and Mauricio Contreras, 18 -- had fled the area after stealing the victim's wallet, acting captain Jeff Liu said.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for medical treatment and is expected to survive his injuries, Liu said.
A police investigation led officers to a home in the 2100 block of Ralmar Avenue, where officers detained the two suspects, Liu said.
Anyone who may have witnessed or has information regarding the armed robbery is encouraged to contact Detective "Nua" Lualemaga at 650-798-5952 or send an email to epa@tipnow.org or text or anonymously call 650-409-6792.
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Document a Questionnaire
Archivist Elements
Constructs
Created by Gemma Seabrook, last modified by Hayley Mills on Mar 20, 2017
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Use only one branch in each condition if possible; if there is an alternative option add this as a statement.
Always use the true branch if possible to do so.
Questions must remain in the correct order, exactly as they appear in the original questionnaire.
Multiple conditions can be derived from one question.
Conditions can apply to more than one question.
A Condition is a set of logic that enables questions to be asked only in certain cases. If a question is asked which is dependent on the answer to another question, a condition is needed. Conditions are usually a narrowing of who answers a question or are directional. Conditions have a 'True branch', where the condition text leading to the next question is true. They also have a 'False branch', where the response to the condition text leading to the next question is false and so does not lead to the next question. Only one branch in each condition is usually used and if possible this should be the true branch.
In Archivist a condition is made up of the label, condition text, condition logic and it has a positional element. The condition gets named after the question that the condition depends on. This is usually the preceding question. The label should be in the format c_q[questionref], for example c_q18. See Construct a Label for more on how to name conditions.
Most conditions have a straightforward structure which funnels certain respondents towards the next question. For example, if question 1 is 'Do you smoke?' with the answers 'Yes' or 'No', then further questions might only be required for those who answered 'Yes'. This will lead to the next question being situated in the true branch. If the answer is 'No' the respondent skips to the next question.
It is common that the condition is included in the same sentence as the question text, in which case this needs splitting to avoid repetition. In Example 1 below, 'If yes,' becomes the condition text and the 'please could you describe' becomes the question text. Note that the 'p' in 'please' is kept in lower case. There is often a natural break such as a comma to help with the decision on how to split text. But if not, then you must use your own judgement.
More complex condition examples:
Using the else branch
Multiple condition text for one question
Multiple conditions from one question
Constructed conditions
Conditions that do not contain ‘If'
Condition logic
Grids and condition logic
Conditions containing ‘empty’ logic
Using ranges in condition logic
Using NULL in condition logic
Example 1 ALSPAC My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 1994
Questionnaire layout:
Archivist view (alspac_94_msdhb):
In Example 2, the true branch cannot be used because the questions must appear in the correct order. Question A13di must come next but this is not true to the condition ‘Go to A13e below', and so it is added to the false branch. The directional statement ‘Go to A13e below’ is incorporated into the condition text and the true branch is left empty.
Example 2 Questionnaire: ALSPAC My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 1994
There are occasions when there are two options for the condition from one question. In this case, the true branch is used if possible, and the alternative option is added as a statement. In Example 3 below, 'If yes' is the true branch and is entered as the condition. ‘If no, go to A4 on page 4’ is entered as a statement, positioned before the condition. If a directional statement is on its own (with or without a directional arrow) or directs you to the next question, it does not have any meaning and as such it is left out. In Example 4 below, 'Go to Section D' is ignored.
There could be cases where two (or more) conditions are dependent on the same question. They are named after the (first) question they refer to. See Construct a Label on how to name multiple conditions. In Example 5 below, there are two conditions, (If "wet.") and (If "dry."), which are both named after question 8(a). However, the conditions reference both 8(a) and 8(b). Answering question 8(c) will be conditional on answering 'wet' to question 8(a) or 8(b). Answering question 8(d) will be conditional on answering 'Never wet' to question 8(a) and 8(b).
Example 5 Questionnaire: NSHD School Nurse’s Interview with Mother 1952
Archivist view (nshd_52_iwm):
There are some cases when there is not enough text provided in the questionnaire to create a condition and so we must construct it. A simple case of a constructed condition is where an arrow plus a 'go to' statement in the questionnaire directs the respondent to the next question. In Example 6 below, there is no ‘If yes’ condition given in the questionnaire. By adding text that is not originally in the questionnaire, a condition is constructed. The text is created by adding 'If [category] to question [question number] [condition text if included]. So the whole text of the condition becomes; ' If Working part-time to question 7a.
Example 6 Questionnaire: NSHD Postal Questionnaire 1969
Archivist view (nshd_69_pq):
In rare cases, a question can include an answer option in the code list that indicates that the question may not be applicable to some respondents. And therefore it would be skipped. A condition, although implied, is not given in the questionnaire. A separate question is constructed using the answer option which indicates the next questions will not be answered. In Example 7 below, a condition is constructed using text from this answer option 'if we are never apart'. The true branch of the condition is left empty and the main (original) question is placed in the false branch.
Conditions that do not contain ‘If’
Sometimes it may not be obvious that a condition is necessary - the word ‘If’ may not have been used. However, it is still treated as a condition and entered in the standard way. In Example 8 below, the condition 'For those still attending' narrows the number of respondents who answer the next question.
Example 8: NSHD Questionnaire: School Questionnaire 1963
Questionnaire view:
Archivist view (nshd_63_sq):
In addition to the condition's text, the logic of the condition is coded. Although it is not a DDI requirement, the condition logic is added so that it can be systematically extracted for programmatic use. To do this we use a set of standard condition logic. The process requires condition logic to reference a question construct and the response domain which the condition is based. The logic references the question(s) that gives rise to the condition, the comparison being made (==, !=, <, >) and the answer that makes the condition true (or false in some cases). See Table 1. Condition Notation for more details.
The set of condition logic is based on Boolean operators (OR, AND, NOT) used in programming or database searching. These operators, particularly OR and AND, are used to combine pieces of condition logic code. The symbols || and && are used to denote OR and AND, respectively. See Example 5 above. Condition logic is placed within square brackets adjacent to the condition text. In Example 3 above, [qc_A3_a == 1] describes that the respondent should advance to the true branch if they responded with code list value 1 to question qc_A3_a.
The answer giving rise to a condition can be a code list value, numeric answer or a text answer. Most condition logic refers to a code list value from a previous question. The corresponding code value is used without any quotations as seen in Example 3. For numeric answers single quotations are used (see Example 9) and for text answers double quotation marks are used (see example 10). Table 1. Condition Notation provides a summary.
Example 9 below [qc_20 >= ‘1’] describes that the respondent should advance to the true branch if they answered with a number greater than or equal to 1 to question qc_20.
Example 9 Questionnaire: NCDS Educational questionnaire 1969
Archivist view (ncds_69_eq):
Example 10 Questionnaire: NCDS Parental Questionnaire 1974
Archivist view (ncds_74_pq):
A one column grid is the most common kind of grid structure used and is the simplest to reference in the condition logic. Grid coordinates, $X;Y, are used to specify a cell or multiple cells of a grid. See Table 2. Grid Coordinates for more details. In Example 11 below, you can reference the grid as a whole because the question states that the answer is for any of the sub-questions B2a-s.Implicit in the grid logic is that each cell answer is considered to be an ||, so in this example any of the answers could equal 3 rather than an && which would mean all answers must be 3.
Also note that, 'Otherwise go to section C.' is added on to the condition text as there is no suitable position to enter it as a statement.
Example 11 Questionnaire: ALSPAC CHILD'S BEHAVIOUR AND ABILITIES 1999
Archivist view (alspac_99_cba):
A more complicated condition in terms of grid logic is shown in Example 12 below. In this case, only some of the answer responses in the grid are applicable (marked with an *) for the condition to be true. Therefore, the condition logic only references these specific grid cells. See Table 2. Grid Coordinates for more details.
Example 12 Questionnaire: My Son/Daughter’s Health and Behaviour 1994 (ALSPAC)
It is possible to have a condition which does not relate to a question. This is common in the introduction to a questionnaire. In Example 13 below, there is no previous question that the condition can be based on such as: 'Has the child died?'. In this case, there is no condition logic to be entered and the square brackets appear empty in Archivist view.
Example 13 Questionnaire: NSHD School Nurse’s Interview with Mother 1952
There may be a large number of code values in the code list that give rise to true answers to the condition. In this case, using the operator OR (||) would make the condition logic rather lengthy. If code values are mostly sequential, we can use ranges instead to shorten the condition logic statement. In Example 14 below, instead of using OR as follows, [qc_C14 == 1 || qc_C14 == 2 || qc_C14 == 3 ... || qc_C14 == 7 || qc_1 == 8] we can use && and add a range [qc_C14 >= 1 && qc_C14 <= 8].
Example 14: Questionnaire: BCS Friends and the Outside World 1986
Archivist view (bcs_86_fatow):
The term ‘NULL’ is used to represent missing or inapplicable information. A NULL value indicates a lack of a value, which is not the same thing as zero. Likewise, no response is not the same as an answer of "no". If there is no answer response to a question, we use NULL in the condition logic to denote this. When this is the case for a code list does not equal (!=) is used to denote that none of those code values where chosen rather than NULL which is used for text, numeric or date response domains. In Example 15 below, if the respondent does not give a date there will be no answer value to question E15.
Example 15 Questionnaire: NCDS Self Completion 2002
Archivist view (ncds_02_sc_2):
Advanced condition
Conditions range in complexity within questionnaires. Sometimes conditions have complex condition logic, for example, when the logic refers to axes in a question grid, as shown in Example 16 below:
Example 16 Questionnaire: ALSPAC Parent Adult Learning 2004
Archivist view (alspac_04_pal):
Table 1. Condition Notation
!=
Is NOT equal to
To join two comparisons using an AND
To join two comparisons using an OR
‘ (single quote)
Meta value
“ (double quote)
Literal string
Grid coordinates
$X;Y
Used to specify a cell or multiple cells of a grid
qc_example$3;2
Row 1
qc_example$2;*
qc_example$*;1
qc_example
qc_example$2:3;*
qc_example$1,3;*
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Home / Volley / Local Football / RSSR: Busting barriers and building football bridges—Behind the Bridge
RSSR: Busting barriers and building football bridges—Behind the Bridge
Roneil Walcott Wednesday 26 July 2017 Local Football, Volley 15 Comments
Eight years after the RSSR Football Academy was born on 27 March, 1999, Marvin “Mr King” Lewis sang “Borderline.” In a rendition which earned him second place at that year’s Young Kings Calypso competition, Lewis—son of the late “King Austin”—highlighted the walls being erected between neighbouring communities by the rampant crime and violence in the country.
“Say too much borderline, man,” ran the 2007 hit, “and man fraid to walk down in ah next man vicinity.”
Photo: RSSR midfielder Mamade Guerra (left) tries to hold off a FC Santa Rosa opponent during the RBNYL Under-15 final at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on 1 July 2017.
Santa Rosa won 2-0.
(Courtesy Allan V Crane/CA Images/Wired868)
It had particular relevance to the Behind the Bridge communities in Port-of-Spain South and Laventille West which represent RSSR’s major catchment area. A decade later, thanks to RSSR, some things have changed—small, modest changes, say the club’s principals, but changes nonetheless.
Take a dozen guesses and you’d probably still not come close to working out how RSSR, which won the NFA Knockout Trophy last year, got its name.
The John John club, co-founded by Ruthvin “Spanner” Charles and Dexter Harris, was named after four former Trinidad and Tobago internationals. The four selected to be so honoured were at that time the most capped players from in and around the East Port-of-Spain area: Reynold George, Sammy Llewellyn, Selris Figaro and Russell Tesheira.
“First, because we were John John-based, we would have thought about honouring our player, Reynold George, who was bred, grew up and still lives in John John,” Charles told Wired868. “Over the years, we had realised that players from what was called ‘Behind the Bridge’ [were not being duly recognized] so the only option for us was to promote our own.”
It was George, a former national captain with over 80 caps, who suggested that Llewellyn, Figaro and Tesheira should also be recognised because they had also made a name for themselves at the national level. And so the name R-S-S-R was shaped and attached to the fledgling club.
Photo: RSSR midfielder Jordan Hernandez (left) tries to start an attack during the RBNYL Under-15 final against FC Santa Rosa at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on 1 July 2017.
Choosing the motto “Discipline + Dedication = Development,” Charles and Harris opted not to enter RSSR in tournaments in the early years. Both men were adamant that the main goal of the club at that time should be to help its young members develop into well-rounded individuals. Thus, club activities included football, field trips and a homework centre which offered remedial classes.
Harris explained that he and his colleague were not unaware of the negative influence of crime on the community and they “wanted a future for our children, something where we could bring youths together in a positive way.”
“We saw football as the main avenue to achieve what we wanted,” continued the man who has been the club’s head coach right from the outset, “as most of them had the ability to play football and so forth and we decided to start this programme.”
By 2002, the part to be played by football was clear enough for the club’s vision statement to say that it aimed to “transform amateur footballers into both marketable and professional footballers during a three-year period.”
And the RSSR principals finally threw their hats into the competitive ring.
Photo: Former Trinidad and Tobago international standout Selris Figaro (left) has a light moment during US NASL action for Miami Toros in 1973.
At that time, the club and the programme had the Beetham Gardens Recreation Ground as their base and that remained unchanged for years. But upgrading work has recently commenced on the Beetham facilities and the training base has now shifted to the Aranjuez Savannah.
Club Chairman Charles feels that, since its launch, RSSR has moved steadily up in the world; they are no longer just an academy, their senior team now competing in the Northern Football Association’s (NFA) top division. The club has tasted success in various youth tournaments, inclusive of the Barbados Cup Youth International Tournament which their Under-15s won in 2006, and they have also hosted a Russell Latapy One Day Youth Invitational Tournament.
More recently, the RSSR Under-15 team finished second to FC Santa Rosa in the just concluded 2017 edition of the Republic Bank National Youth League (RBNYL) while the senior team beat Alcons in a historic NFA Knockout final at the Queen’s Park Savannah last year.
The club is fortunate to have had a couple of esteemed names in local football actively associated with it as both Figaro and former national midfielder Travis Mulraine have had coaching roles in the past while George, still looking fiddle-fit in his 60s, continues to function up to this day as a coach. And the club’s ‘Player of the Year’ Challenge Trophy bears the name of former Strike Squad midfielder and one-time acting national coach Hutson “Barber” Charles.
Photo: Former Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team technical staff members (from right) Michael “Brow” Maurice, Derek King, Hutson “Barber” Charles and William Wallace exchange ideas before kick off against Nicaragua on 13 October 2015.
(Courtesy Allan V Crane/Wired868)
Additionally, the club has produced Mongolia-based central defender Akil Pompey (son of Charles) and former national youth player Jeremiah Goddard while current Trinidad and Tobago internationals Aikim Andrews and Ataullah Guerra once turned out for the RSSR Academy.
Anxious not to give the wrong impression, Harris explained that the now high-profile professional had only represented the club in one tournament thanks to the intervention of his now deceased brother, Mark Guerra.
The RSSR coach, who is a T&TEC employee, shared with Wired868 the story of how he came to spot the young Andrews.
“We were training a day and, after dropping some smaller ones to their homes in the Beetham Gardens, we saw him behind a gate kicking a ball,” Harris said. “And I said this youth man has a really good bullet. He may have been about four or five at the time. I talked to the manager and we went by his parents and they started sending him out.”
According to Harris, a few years later, San Juan Jabloteh came knocking for Andrews, who, now 21, represents Toronto FC II in the United Soccer League (USL) and has a total of four caps for this country’s senior team.
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago winger Aikim Andrews (right) forces his way past Haiti defender Stephane Lambese during the 2014 Under-20 Caribbean Cup.
Andrews and his teammates are the last T&T national men’s team to win a Caribbean title.
So the positives are there and, with last year’s NFA Cup triumph now on their books, it would be fair to say that things may be beginning to look up for RSSR. However, as several of their members pointed out, rampant crime and gang warfare are still huge disincentives which adversely affect the club’s steady progress.
“Today, we are expecting players who are from Sea Lots to be coming here,” Harris told Wired 868 last Sunday, “which they normally will not do.”
‘Here’ is Plaisance Quarry Rd where, along with “Spanner,” he is soaking in the atmosphere of the third annual John John Day.
“They would have done that when they were small,” Harris adds. “As we say, children don’t really war. But you see when they turn 15 and 16, that’s when the issues start.”
“Over the last five to six years,” Charles chimes in, “we realised that because of the environment we come from the borderlines have become greater. There is now more tension between Beetham and John John and Sea Lots and John John.”
Photo: Former Trinidad and Tobago East POS star forward Noel “Sammy” Llewellyn poses while at US NASL team LA Aztecs in 1979.
Llewellyn scored 35 goals from 45 internationals for T&T but, at the age of 24, was banned by the Jack Warner-led TTFA for demanding financial compensation since his international career affected his livelihood as a dock worker.
Every dozen metres the group walks, the lanky Charles is greeted loudly by his “Spanner” nickname half a dozen times. This community is clearly as proud of him as he is of them, especially of the fact that his club boasts players who hail from the many of the stigmatized districts, John John, Beetham Gardens, Sea Lots, Morvant and San Juan.
“But football is a kinda gateway for us,” Harris notes, “knowing that we could go into any one of these communities at any time and get a free pass because they know when we come in an area we come to look for some youth to play football or it’s something football-related.”
RSSR skipper Anthony George and attacker Hakim Gulston, who have both been with the club since its inception, were full of praise for the work done by Charles and Harris over the years, agreed with their assessments and shared their general satisfaction and optimism. Gulston, scorer of the goal that beat Alcons in the NFA Knockout final, stressed that the adults of tomorrow were the ones who have the ability to change the paradigm.
“For it to change, they have to start with the younger ones and try to unify them,” Gulston said. “The big fellahs now, they can’t change because they already have a certain mindset.”
“You have to get the youths and carry them on Beetham Gardens,” he continued, “carry them on Sea Lots and let them interact with one another. Long time you could have gone anywhere but now you can’t even walk down in the [Central] Market properly.”
Photo: Then Central FC attacking midfielder Ataulla Guerra (second from right) takes on the entire Caledonia AIA defence during a 2015/16 Pro League match.
Neither player could see himself playing with another club, so great is the love they feel for RSSR and John John. And both insist that they want to be around when the club attains its goal of promotion to the Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL).
George’s mood became sombre as he recounted how his schoolmates and coach at Barataria Junior Secondary had laughed when he announced that he played for RSSR. Now, he says, he wants his boyhood club to become a household name like Jabloteh.
And others are stepping up to carry the club forward and bring it closer to achieving its goal. Two of them, Saeed Pompey Charles and Mamade Guerra, are just 14-year-olds but they are expected to turn out for RSSR’s senior team this year.
According to “Spanner,” everyone in the club is hopeful that National Under-15 coach Russell Latapy will take another look at Guerra, who is Ataullah’s nephew, before the start of the CONCACAF Under-15 Championships next month. RSSR is in dire need of much greater exposure on any national stage.
Why? According to George, finance is definitely needed to keep the core of the RSSR squad together.
Photo: RSSR midfielder and RBNYL Under-15 MVP Mamade Guerra (right) poses with Republic Bank manager Anthony Subero at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on 1 July 2017.
“I’d say [the vision] isn’t working as it’s supposed to because of the lack of finance,” he told Wired868. “To have a club in these kinda communities, you need a good sponsor and we don’t have that. So that’s why we are having this problem with players right now.”
The club has received precious little external support over the years. Both Charles and Harris noted that neither the MPs nor the businesses in the area have shown any real interest in the club’s progress, certainly not the kind of interest that translates into dollars and cents. Club members and members of the community, they point out, have made healthy contributions to the club’s finances over the years but much of the funding has had to come out of their pockets.
Still, they are hopeful that their growing on-the-field success will bring external assistance. With Gulston continuing to bang in the goals and with good, young players like Pompey Charles and Guerra coming through the pipeline, corporate sponsors will, it is their hope, see the good work the club has been doing over the years and come on board.
If this happens, the RSSR principals believe that they will be able to begin the renovation work which their dilapidated club house on Picton Road in Laventille so desperately needs.
But if it does not happen tomorrow or next week, RSSR players and staff members will soldier on, determined to triumph over adversity and eventually to succeed despite everyday hardship.
Photo: RSSR coach Marlon Phillips (far left) and his players pose with their silver medals after the RBNYL Under-15 final at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on 1 July 2017.
Looking on (far right) is Republic Bank manager Anthony Subero.
After all, Charles and Harris and company know that borderlines are walls and that, pushed over on its side, a wall becomes a bridge.
And nothing, they say, will stop them from trying to build bridges Behind the Bridge.
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About Roneil Walcott
Roneil Walcott is an avid sports fan and freelance reporter with a BA in Mass Communication from COSTAATT. Roneil is a former Harvard and St Mary's College cricketer who once had lofty aspirations of bringing joy to sport fans with the West Indies team. Now, his mission is to keep them on the edge of their seats with sharp commentary from off the playing field.
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Rhoda Bharath
Wednesday 29 November 2017 at 12:23 pm
John Trinipelvic Patterson
Wednesday 29 November 2017 at 1:08 am
Yes man!
Nicholas Lochan
Thursday 27 July 2017 at 11:50 pm
Well written and happy to see RSSR’s success! Unfortunately I have one negative comment that I hope clubs, esp these grassroots clubs consider; and that’s investment in administration! It need not be much but its a requirement for growth and development. In modern football, sponsor reliance, training and playing football can only go so far.
Sheldon Scipio
Not turn footballers into mediocre administrators
Akil Pompey
Wednesday 26 July 2017 at 6:34 pm
Great Article!!
Dada is the man
Chabeth Haynes
Beautiful story…
Somebody tag Marlene.
Travis Mulraine
Thanks Lasana Liburd. Community teams like RSSR & my present Academy Trendsetter Hawks is more than football it’s about saving lives. Kudos to wired 868 for giving them some publicity
I eh realize you is a Trendsetter Hawks man. I played against them in my young days and much props to Dada… dude need a Chaconia medal for all his hard work and dedication
Tell me about it Brent Bennett, a REAL community leader
He is the definition of a community leader. Not these so called drug dealers that claim to be a community leader.
Brilliant! This is the way forward for kids from high risk environs, well done the guys behind the scenes making it work, very encouraging!
Top story Roneil. And great work Travis and everyone else involved in this project.
Roneil K Walcott
Thanks Sire
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Pothole-related breakdowns surge in 2017
Simon Davis
May 15th 2017 7:51AM
Britain's roads are on a 'knife edge' following a drastic rise in the number of pothole-related breakdowns, says the RAC.
The motoring organisation has revealed that in the first quarter of 2017 it was called out to more than 6,500 breakdowns where sub-standard road surfaces have been a factor – 63 per cent more than the same period last year.
This accounted for 2.7 per cent of all RAC call outs – the highest quarterly figure since the organisation began pothole analysis in 2006.
Damaged shock absorbers, bent wheels and broken suspension caused by the poor roads are just some of the problems the motoring organisation has dealt with.
This increase came as a surprise to the RAC, which was expecting a decline following a £1.2 billion grant from the government to local councils for road maintenance. A Pothole Action fund – worth £250 million – has also been set up to assist councils in fixing four million potholes by 2020/2021.
While there are signs that this increased funding is having some benefit on the condition of UK roads, the RAC claims they are still "well short" of the condition they were in 10 years ago.
David Bizley, the RAC's chief engineer, claims a period of severe weather would be all it took to leave roads in the poor state they were in a few years ago.
He said: "We still have a long way to go to ensure the whole road network – not just our major roads, which are enjoying one of the largest investment programmes in a generation – is really fit for purpose.
"Certainly anyone that has experienced a breakdown as a result of hitting a pothole will know just how frustrating that can be, not to say dangerous and expensive if damage to their vehicle is sustained."
An Asphalt Industry Alliance report also revealed that councils are failing to fix roads to prevent potholes from forming to begin with. It also found that councils would need £12 billion in funding to bring the UK road network up to a reasonable standard.
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Bizley has called on the government to ring-fence spending on local roads, or risk leaving their condition to "the whims of the weather".
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Fremantle 6160
Author: Virginia Rigney
Art & the Spirit
Fremantle Arts Centre 18 October - 30 November 1997
Seen through the lens of this exhibition, Fremantle's spirit of place seems almost entirely defined by its historic built environment and the ships that pass through its port. This could partly be due to the input of the Fremantle Society, who first proposed the exhibition, so that in the accompanying texts and final installation, the weight of emphasis is heavily biased towards picturesque representational depictions of historic landmarks and a maritime version of trainspotting. With only token inclusions of photography, sculpture and decorative arts, and no installations, the exhibition's scope is inevitably limited.
In fact this very large exhibition of over 220 works spread over all four galleries in the Fremantle Arts Centre could have been more critically selected and interpreted to allow a more searching examination of this illusive notion of 'spirit'. More contextual information was needed that told us not just what was 'in' the painting, but why it was rendered in that way, what was its historical context and what that suggests about the artist's feeling towards the place.
It would be difficult to imagine an exhibition on a similar scale being devoted to the city of Perth, located only a few miles up the road. Presumably its quiet suburban streets and long windswept beaches hold less attraction for local artists. As a major sea port, the mouth of an important river, the first Australian landfall for those coming from the old world, and last for for those leaving it, Fremantle is bound up in transitory stories. As a city positioned so remotely in the world it is self-consciously independent and assertive. The force of the elements of wind and fierce light reflected off water saturate the landscape.
Its character is also shaped by boom and bust times - from fledgling beginnings as the port for a colony of free settlers, time as a convict settlement to the gold rush of the1890s that generated an instant canvas city on Monument Hill. The topographical works from the early period seek to confer a claiming presence and the lithograph after Robert Dale, A View of Western Australia on the Left Bank of the Swan River, 1830 - lays out an Arcadian landscape empty of native presence and studded with improbable trees. What an advertisement for the newly founded colony. The Roundhouse, first civil gaol and later place of transitory incarceration for Aborigines on their way to Rottnest Island, is the subect of a number of works in the exhibition. Brian McKay blankly renders bricks and mortar in H.M. Prison 1851 86, (1988) and in contrast, Sandra Hill the only Nyungar artist in the exhibition, recovers the personal human tragedies up in that place, collaging images of her people and family members over the architectural form.
Confident commercial buildings followed the gold rush, building on a dense grid of streets back from the port. Servicing that commerce came the working class communities and it is their presence - their unions, their small cottages and grandiose pubs, their football, that have left a heavy imprint on the culture of the city. However their voices are barely represented in the exhibition. Ivor Hunt's pallid The Wharfie (1950s) is one of the few depictions from a turbulent labour history. Instead in Marcus Bielby's massive Realist painting Happy Hour at the National Hotel (1991), there is a kind of voyeuristic nostalgia depicting the interior of one of the few pubs in the centre of the city that is yet to be transformed into a smart brasserie. Here the unemployed, the disabled, the disenfranchised seek refuge from the pace of change outside.
Nostalgia is in fact a persistent yet unacknowledged theme in this exhibition. It perhaps marks a fear for change and sadness for things past or passing. There is little exultant or angry modernism. Its presence can be sensed early in the century in the prints of Edith Trethowan's Little Old Buildings (1930s), and the paintings of Alan Baker Net Mender and Backwater East Fremantle both from the 1950s, but there is a larger number from more contemporary times. Gina Moore's stoic older bathers braving the early morning chill, might have stepped from a 1930s idyll; Phillip Cook has painted the Royal George Hotel (1987), standing isolated and alone from the streets that once surrounded it just after roadworks have slashed a cutting through East Fremantle and Roger Levers Wake for a pagan death 1997, features local bohemian identities dancing in one last revel for the passing of their culture in the city, forced out by rising rents for inner city warehouses prior the America's Cup.
Postwar immigration from Europe brought new inhabitants to occupy the "quaint workers' cottages", adding Mediterranean details and planting market gardens. One painting in the exhibition graphically hints at their private feelings of displacement and alienation - Alan Baker's Migrant, Fremantle (1970s) of a woman in a black head scarf, alone and slightly fearful in the street. If these communities had their own artists, we do not see them, but one of the few photographs in the exhibition celebrates the migrant experience a generation on.
The extended Mondella family stand beaming in front of their massive "wedding cake" house on Duoro Road. The image celebrates their ability to flourish and thrive in this city but unfortunately this work is tucked away at the top of the stairs far away from Baker's dark painting and the connextion was probably missed by many.
Some of the contemporary works however avoid slipping into the comforting arms of the picturesque: Mary Moore's laconic And now for some local colour (1982) documents a brief phase when the cafés seemed to be filled with orange people; Tony Jones series Off Fremantle (1987-88), at first glance appear to be conventional sunny pictures of sailing boats in the big blue, but becoming much more sinister with the dark hulk of an American nuclear warship lurking behind; Simon Gevers unassuming The Beautification of Target and Tre$ur Way both from 1990 suggest a bleak but real contemporary landscape, far removed from conventional depictions of the heritage culture.
The Spiritual, the Rational and the Material: Spirit and Place Art in Australia 1861 - 1996
Since 1984 there have been five major exhibitions which sought to engage aspects of the spiritual in art and which attracted international comment. Spirit + Place, Art in Australia 1861 - 1996, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on 22nd November 1996 and closed on 5th March 1997, was the most recent of these.
Susan Hiller: Being Rational about the Irrational
Cath Kenneally
Visitors to the Adelaide Festival will be able to see From the Freud Museum and Wild Talents. at the Experimental Art Foundation from 26 February recent works by visiting London-based artist Susan Hiller. Cath Kenneally spoke to her in London about her history and her art.
Where Eagles Hover
Maurice O+Riordan
Any discussion of the sacred and spiritual in Australian art must surely defer to the art of Aboriginal people for theirs is the art and culture which speaks most directly and profoundly about the connection of human spirituality to the Australian landscape.
Grandmother's Mob and the Stories
Lavinia S Ryan
Julie Dowling interviewed by Lavinia S. Ryan
In the past five years, after graduating from Curtin University, Julie Dowling has been painting professionally. Recently Julie took part in the artists' forum, Wijay Na? (which way now) for the Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art.
David Jones' sculptures in the landscape - a spirit of place
Dorothy Erickson
Spirituality in western art is not necessarily ecclesiastical. There are artists who make work which is imbued with a deep spiritual connection to the land. The works may be temporary, ephemeral installations surviving only in the photographic record or they may be of more permanent substances.
Jennifer Spinks
Curated by Romy Wall with David Hansen
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Tasmania
28 November 1997 - 4 January 1998
Vi$copy Rules. OK?
Joanna Mendelssohn
In 1972, when I began work as curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, artists in the collection had no formal written rights to their work. Each time a work was acquired by the gallery, the artist was sent a pink copyright form which they were expected to sign, even though this relinquished all their rights and assigned them to the gallery.
Collaboration by Satellite
Doreen Mellor
Satellite link-ups between continents have upped the telecommunication ante, intensifying the exchange of ideas and impressions by participants. The sense of sight is now added to the teleconferencing capacity for hearing everyone at once, making it easier for participants who have never met to know who is speaking when, and simplifying the task of managing a given session.
Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Art: Some contexts and Issues in Interpretation
Jane Magon
While there is a return to spiritual interests internationally in the Western world (from the counter culture of the late 1960s to the present) the 'spiritual' has been until now, relatively ignored in the interpretation of twentieth century artists work.
Urinating to Windward
Artists asserting a commitment against ignorance have recently called for the resignation of the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria.
There seems to be no particular matter of fact about which Dr Potts stands accused: his ignorance relates somehow to an issue of principle that was flouted (as his critics assert) when he prematurely closed the exhibition in which Andres Serrano's photograph, Piss Christ, provoked some complaint, some minor violence and (as we are told) unspecified threats.
The Measured Room
Helen Fuller
Di Barrett, Mark Kimber, Deborah Paauwe, Toby Richardson Contemporary Art Centre of SA
1 October - 2 November 1997
Tripping the Light: The Big Party Show
Jane Deeth
Curator: Robyn Daw
Artists: Cath Barcan, Christl Berg, Barbie Kjar, Greg Leong
University Gallery, Launceston Tasmania
8- 31 August 1997
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BMW 5 Series review
For more than 40 years the BMW 5 Series has been the go-to executive saloon for millions of business-type mile-crunchers with an enthusiasm for driving.
The car’s blend of talents has always been highly commendable and rarely matched, offering supreme ride comfort, cutting-edge interiors and, whenever it takes your fancy, exciting and entertaining rear-wheel-drive dynamism.
The 520d has moved an additional step closer to the 530d’s exalted standard
For this latest 5 Series – the G30 generation – there is no dramatic leap away from familiarity. A record 2.1 million sales of the previous-generation model, along with feedback from its buyers, signaled to BMW that the best course of action to continue its executive saloon’s sales success was to gently tickle the formula rather than rethink it.
The result of that train of thought has delivered a new 5 Series that is in essence a mini version of the latest 7 Series.
Much of the styling and technology has been borrowed or adapted from the flagship limousine, and both models share the same modular platform.
Improvements over the outgoing 5 Series include reduced weight, revised suspension and a tonne of new tech, such as the latest iDrive system, gesture control and semi-autonomous driving features.
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These upgrades, and being so closely related to the 7 Series, mean the new 5 Series could, in theory at least, represent the closest thing to limousine luxury you can buy in the executive saloon class.
The G30 5 Series is available in saloon and estate form with a choice of three petrol engines – the 520i, 530i and 540i – three diesels – 520d, 525d and 530d and one hybrid - the 530e iPerformance. To complete the line-up is the full-blooded 592bhp M5.
But the stoic 5 Series is facing a new threat. It’s no longer just a case of rivalling the quality within its own class (which has plenty of it to offer); now buyers are showing a trend of ditching traditional segments in favour of more fashionable SUVs and compact saloons.
The 5 Series, then, needs to lay down a case that it’s more enviable and appealing than ever.
Even with all these upgrades, is it compelling enough to remain in the pantheon of modern machines and keep buyers interested? Let’s find out.
BMW 5 Series long-term review
The BMW 5 Series is top of the mid-exec pack, but is there still room for a diesel saloon in everyday family life? We found out over seven months
BMW 5 Series M550i 2017 review
The all-paw M550i is a fast, effortless mile-muncher, but there's a reason why it won't be sold in the UK
BMW 530e iPerformance SE 2017 review
Plug-in hybrid version of BMW's 5 Series is well-placed to take sales away from its higher-end diesel siblings. Strong performance and handling with favourable running costs.
BMW 530d Touring 2017 review
The fifth generation of BMW's 5 Series Touring lives up to its potent, pragmatic legend
BMW 530e iPerformance 2017 review
The compromises of adding a plug-in hybrid drivetrain to the 5 Series make the new 530e iPerformance tough to recommend
BMW 530d M Sport 2017 review
Arguably not the plushest executive car, nor the sportiest, but our UK drive shows a breadth of ability that defines the BMW 530d M Sport a class act
2017 BMW 5 Series 520d SE
The latest BMW 5 Series is arguably the most complete executive car out there, as long as you spec it correctly
2017 BMW 540i review
New 5 Series gets all the latest connectivity and driver assist systems, yet it remains wonderfully engaging and highly responsive to drive
2017 BMW 5 Series 530d xDrive review
All-new BMW 5 Series shows a broader set of abilities than before on our early prototype drive across demanding Welsh roads
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B2B Conversations: Social networks buzzing with #LegalTech
Software, Technology April 27, 2016May 2, 2016 Sarah Dawley
Social media moves fast. You spot a link to an article that interests you but while you’re up making a coffee to enjoy while reading it, your timeline refreshes and it’s gone. That’s why we’re back with another weekly round up of the most shared and buzzworthy B2B content on social media.
Using Nexalogy, we easily sifted through piles of social data to discover these articles, and have collected them here to keep you in the loop. This week, we’re focusing on the world of #LegalTech. We discovered some great articles on productization, startups, the IoT, and content marketing—all from the perspective of both the legal profession and those who seek to use lawyers less.
Technology and Productizing Legal Services
“The Importance of Technology & Productizing Your [Legal] Services” https://t.co/qLMVDZyES3#newlaw#legaltech
— Brian C. Pike (@BrianCPike) April 26, 2016
Although the legal profession seems to be “shock resilient” to technology changes, as Brian Pike explains in this post on LinkedIn, productizing services (that is, literally turning specific services into a product) may give early adaptors a competitive advantage. Brian emphasizes two key points for legal firms to keep in mind as they begin down this path: embracing technology to both access new clients and better service existing ones, and using productization to become more efficient and build trust.
Legal Start-ups
#Legaltech: There’s an Explosion of Legal Startups https://t.co/epu6EJf1Sx via @CorpCounsel
— Estelle Metayer (@Competia) April 26, 2016
This post by Jennifer Williams-Alvarez from Corporate Counsel starts off with a pretty interesting stat: two years ago, as legal blogger Robert Ambrogi reported, there were 412 companies that identified as legal startups on AngelList. Today, there are over one thousand. This post outlines two reasons for the apparently sudden influx of legal startups, and what they mean for the industry in the future.
A Litigator’s Guide to the Internet of Things
Here’s A Litigator’s Guide to the Internet of Things… https://t.co/mRjcarhZY9#legaltech
— Antigone Peyton (@antigonepeyton) April 26, 2016
There’s been a lot written about what the Internet of Things (or IoT, as it’s commonly referred to) means for consumers and businesses, but as anyone in the legal profession knows—big changes in technology can bring big consequences. This article covers anything a litigator will need to know about the IoT as it continues to shape and change our world.
Content Marketing for Lawyers
In spite of regulations, lawyers should be bold with their advertising efforts https://t.co/EZXnCb89dH — ABA Journal (@ABAJournal) April 11, 2016
Who says lawyers can’t have any fun? Victor Li covers some highlights from the Avvo Lawyernomics conference in this post on The ABA Journal, focusing specifically on sessions from marketing experts Scott Stratten and Ann Handley. Their advice: build a brand, be big, be bold. Especially when it comes to creating content for marketing purposes. Yes, you’re operating in a regulated industry, but that doesn’t have to be as big of a roadblock as some make it out to be. Victor does a great job of summarizing some of the best takeaways from the conference that anyone in the legal profession can use to start using content marketing to their advantage.
If you missed last week’s edition, which focused on the financial tech industry and was compiled by Brett Wilkins, head here to check it out. As always, if you have any B2B content we think we should share next week, let us know via @b2bnewsnetwork. We love hearing from you!
Sarah Dawley
Sarah is an Ecosystem Copywriter at Hootsuite, where she writes a variety of materials about social media and its impact on business. Prior to joining Hootsuite, she was the Social Marketing Manager for the Music & Entertainment Channels at Bell Media, where she spent nearly four years building the presence of Much, MTV Canada, M3 and E! Canada into social communities of over 2.8 million fans and followers. Find her on Twitter @sarahdawley
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Wednesday
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March 13, 2014 Culture » Culture Features
Cheryl Strayed's Next Chapter
Sitting down with a woman famous for hiking
By Christie Hinrichs
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Author Cheryl Strayed skyrocketed to literary stardom with her 2012 memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which recounts her 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. It has earned countless awards, will soon be released as a feature film starring Reese Witherspoon, and brings Strayed to Bend this week as part of the Deschutes County Public Library's Author! Author! Literary Series.
Source Weekly: I'm going to ask the really important question first: what is your favorite locally brewed beer?
Strayed: Great question and I am sorry to say I'm going to ruin it for you. I have never liked beer. You may recall that in Wild I wrote about the reporter from the Hobo Times who gave me a Budweiser; it was the first whole beer I'd ever drunk. Well, it might have been the last one too. I love wine. And Oregon wines especially—red, white, rose, sparkling, all sorts. I drink it daily. Does that make up for my failure on the beer front?
SW: In Wild, you often say that you like to experiment, that you say "yes" when others say no. Still true?
CS: We got a puppy in November. My kids had been begging for one all of their lives (ages 8 and 9), but it was only recently that we lived in a house where a dog was possible, so I finally consented. Your readers who've had puppies will know what a gigantic 'yes' it is to take this adorable beast into your home. It's like having another child, really. You can't sleep through the night. Your rugs get ruined. You find urine in unexpected places. On the more obviously adventurous front, my family and I were recently in Mexico and we all went zip-lining. The experience was absolutely terrifying for my husband and me—just sheer, grin-and-bear-it hell. It was a total blast for our children. Do you see a pattern here?
SW: With your writing success, literary events all over the world, a film adaptation on the horizon, a partner and children at home... do you still feel "wild?" How do you reconnect with this feeling in your everyday life?
CS: I do. The irony of the past couple of years is that I've traveled the world talking about hiking during a time when I have the very least time to hike. I've never been so out of shape in my life. I reconnect with the experience of the trail by constantly being engaged with the stories people tell me about what the book meant to them. It's moving and fascinating and I'm grateful for it.
SW: With the film Wild set to release this summer, what are you most looking forward to seeing on screen? What are you most apprehensive about?
CS: I'm most looking forward to the very same things I'm most apprehensive about. The whole idea of it is amazing and terrifying to me. I was very involved in the making of the film and watching them shoot scenes from not just my book, but my life was an experience unlike any other. I think the film is going to be great. Reese Witherspoon is phenomenal, as are all the actors in the movie. Their performances took my breath away. And the director, Jean-Marc Vallée, is an extraordinary filmmaker as well as a dear man. I'm most looking forward to seeing the beauty and the magic I got to experience on my hike—I saw firsthand how the cast and crew captured that on camera and it was stunning. I'm apprehensive about seeing my mom (played by the wonderful Laura Dern) die on screen. And also the horse-killing scene. That was terribly hard to write. I don't imagine it will be easier to watch.
SW: If you could take one trip tomorrow, and it was the last trip you'd ever take, where would you go?
CS: What a profound question: the last trip I would ever take and I would go on it tomorrow? I don't know the answer, but it makes me remember something my mom said to me when she learned at the young age of 45—the age I am now—that she was going to die soon. She told me she didn't want to go anywhere, and she was surprised to know that about herself. All of her life she'd dreamed of visiting exotic places that were beyond her means, but when she found out her days were numbered she didn't yearn to go anywhere. It was okay with her that she hadn't gone. She wanted to be where she was. Isn't that beautiful?
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Let's take a look at three longshots who can take advantage of TPC Deere Run's easy course this weekend for the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois.
The John Deere Classic marks the final week before The Open Championship overseas, but it also provides local Illinois golf fans with an exciting low-scoring affair with golf's next generation of talent. This weekend's John Deere Classic, played at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, 2.5 hours west of Chicago, is a favorite of 2012 champion and JDC board member Zach Johnson, who has recorded top-five finishes in seven of the last 10 Classics. He's one of the favorites to win this week at the par-71 track measuring 7,268 yards. __MORE:__ [Full odds to win 2019 John Deere Classic](https://www.betchicago.com/john-deere-classic-odds-hovland-wolff-niemann) __The course__ Despite the distance, the course doesn't favor long-hitters, but rather solid approach shots and hot putting. The course features 78 bunkers and four water hazards. The Hazards are easily avoidable from the bentgrass fairways and greens. __Recent winners__ 2018 Michael Kim -27 2017 Bryson DeChambeau -18 2016 Ryan Moore -22 2015 Jordan Spieth -20 2014 Brian Harman -22 2013 Jordan Spieth -19 2012 Zach Johnson -20 2011 Steve Stricker -22 2010 Steve Stricker -26 Last year's winner, Michael Kim, is a 300/1 longshot. Kim set the tournament record at 27-under par, winning by eight strokes. He's made just four cuts in 20 tries this year. Bronson Burgoon finished second last year and is 60/1 to win this year. Ryan Moore, the 2016 winner, is 30/1. Bryson DeChambeau won in 2017 but will not be in the field. __Key stats__ [Strokes Gained: Approach](https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.02568.html) [Proximity to hole](https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.331.html) [Birdie or Better %](https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.352.html) [Performance on Bentgrass Greens](https://futureoffantasy.com/bentgrass-specialists-fantasy-golfanac-pgatour) [Strokes Gained: Off the Tee](https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.02567.html) ## Three longshots to consider for John Deere Classic Odds provided by Westgate SuperBook ## Denny McCarthy 60/1 McCarthy enters with a hot putter and is coming off a pair of top-25s in Detriot and the Twin Cities. Per the PGA Tour, McCarthy was No. 1 in Strokes Gained: Putting in the 3M field. McCarthy finished 34th at this event last year after imploding for a 2-over par 73 on the final day. His current form suggests a solid four rounds are looming. ## Vaughn Taylor 60/1 Fifth overall on Tour in Strokes Gained: Putting, ninth in Proximity, fifth in red numbers (49) and T4 in sub-70s (T37), Taylor has plenty of upside on TPC Deere Run's easy course. Taylor has four top-20 finishes at this course and is coming off a fourth-place finish at the Travelers last month. ## Cameron Tringale 80/1 Tringale has been a chalky pick in DFS circles this week after gaining an average of 2.74 strokes tee-to-green over his past five starts with three top-25s in that span. Tringale finished 50th in the event last year, but also has a ninth-place finish to his name in 2011. Among players in the field, Tringale is sixth in Strokes Gained: Approach, ninth in Birdies or Better Gained, and 22nd in Strokes Gained: Par 5s, per [NumberFire](https://www.numberfire.com/golf/news/26739/draftkings-daily-fantasy-golf-helper-john-deere-classic). __MORE:__ [Upcoming PGA Tour schedule](https://www.betchicago.com/golf-odds/schedule)
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Brakspear to partner with Claude Bosi following the acquisition of Fulham's The Malt House pub
By Peter Ruddick
23-Sep-2012 - Last updated on 26-May-2017 at 10:26 GMT
Related tags: Inn, Public house
Brakspear, led by chief executive Tom Davies, has completed the purchase of The Malt House pub in Fulham which will be let to Michelin-starred chef Claude Bosi
Brakspear has made its sixth purchase since returning to the acquisition trail earlier this year by buying The Malt House pub in Fulham from Spirit Pub Company which will now be let to Jolly Fine Restaurants - the company owned by Michelin-starred chef Claude Bosi.
Bosi, who already owns the two Michelin-starred restaurant Hibiscus and the Fox & Grapes gastropub in Wimbledon, will jointly fund a £750k refurb of the property with Brakspear before it opens within several months as a 100-cover food-led pub with six bedrooms.
Tom Davies, Brakspear chief executive, said the large corner site near Fulham Road, which dates back to 1729, had enormous potential.
"By partnering with one of the most talented and well-known restaurateurs in the business, we are confident of turning it into an outstanding food pub with letting bedrooms.”
“Despite the challenges faced by our industry, there are still plenty of diners in London seeking out innovative, quality food. The Malt House is in a prime location to capture these customers."
Portfolio size
Although the purchase is the sixth of the year, Davies told BigHospitality last week he did not expect the Henley-on-Thames-based company to significantly increase its portfolio in the short-term.
"I have got no aspiration to grow it to 500 sites - it is just not what we are about. At the moment we are sitting on 147 pubs and in five years’ time we might be the same number but what I expect is we will have a larger number of better pubs and fewer of our tail-end. I want to grow it organically."
Davies masterminded the purchase of two former Enterprise Inns sites in July - returning the company to estate growth for the first time in six years. "We thought if we can pick up one or two really high-quality pubs and, on the flip-side, dispose of a few at the bottom end of the estate then we are making it better," he said.
Managed future
Although all six sites bought this year commit the business to its tradition of owning pubs that are leased or tenanted, Davies revealed Brakspear was constantly looking at, and weighing up the pros and cons of, moving into managed houses too.
"We constantly look at it if I am honest - we could set-up a good managed business, it would need to be food-orientated. The USP we have is that we don't have managed houses. If you look at a number of our competitors who do they would be running a number of our sites under management so I have got the ability to better offer great sites to multiples or individuals."
In recent years a number of businesses previously committed to tenanted or leased site have also made the move Davies is considering. Currently many Brakspear tenants are multiple operators who run a number of sites as mini businesses for the company - something the chief executive says is strength as it fosters professionalism but could also be a future weakness.
"I can't say we never will and the fashion in the industry is now coming back round to managed."
"Multiple operators are great until something goes wrong and then we are exposed to two or three sites which might run into trouble at the same time so an added advantage of having a managed house arm would be that we could move into those sites and run them while we decide what we are going to do with them," he concluded.
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Banx & Ranx + Ella Eyre - 'Answerphone'
1 November 2018, 14:52 | Updated: 1 November 2018, 14:56
British singer Ella Eyre teamed up with producers Banx & Ranx for the catchy, dance track 'Answerphone'. The 2018 song also features rising British singer and rapper Yxng Bane.
Release date: March 16th 2018
Banx & Ranx + Ella Eyre - 'Answerphone' lyrics:
[Ella Eyre:]
I've been talking to your answerphone, na na
Something tell me you don't want to know, na na
When I call you, you don't answer phone, na na
You don't love me, you should let me know, na na
I'm overthinking 'bout thinking you're thinking I'm leaving
(Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah)
But real talk, I need some honesty
Honestly, you better speak up
Days and nights, I lie beside my phone
When you gonna let me know?
All I hear is "please leave your message after the tone"
Let me know, na na
Said it was nothing but nothing is all that we have now
And now I found out that you got a problem
A problem that you don't wanna talk about
[Ella Eyre & Yxng Bane:]
[Yxng Bane:]
Ringing up my line and that leads me to overthink
See you in the club, smile at me to overdrink
Let me fall for you, you know I'm on the brink
Let me know how deep your love goes
Don't save me, let me say
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Afghan students protest women's rights decree
May 22, 2013, 6:08 AM EDT
REUTERS/Nour Kelze
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash against the legal protections passed in the 12 years since the toppling of the Taliban regime known for its harsh treatment of women.
The protest came days after conservative lawmakers' vehement opposition blocked an attempt to cement the decree's provisions in legislation.
Most of international force that ousted the Taliban is now preparing to withdraw by the end of next year, and activists fear an erosion of the women's rights will follow if hard-liners pressure the elected government.
More than 200 male students protested in front of Kabul University on Wednesday against the decree on Elimination of Violence Against Women, which includes a ban on child marriage and forced marriage, makes domestic violence a crime and says rape victims cannot be prosecuted for adultery. It also outlaws "ba'ad," a traditional practice of exchanging women or girls to settle disputes or debts.
Protester Fazel Hadi, 25, said the decree was "imposed by foreigners" and violates Islamic Shariah law.
Mawladad Jalali, the mullah of the university mosque and one of the organizers of the protest, led chants decrying democracy in general and the women's law specifically.
"Our main demand is that this law should be repealed in the parliament," he said before leading a brief march while police who cordoned off the area looked on.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued the decree on women's rights three years ago as part of a raft of commitments to international donors, but lawmaker and activist Fawzia Kofi wanted to pass it in parliament to prevent any future president from reversing it.
The brief parliamentary debate Saturday was ended by the speaker after fierce opposition from conservative lawmakers who said several provisions — including the ban on child marriage and jail time for domestic abuse — violated Islamic law. The decree remains in force, but the debate appears to have galvanized opposition to it.
The United Nations' mission in Afghanistan this week urged the government to do more to enforce the women's rights decree, saying it is only sporadically applied when women report abuse.
"It is imperative for the development of Afghanistan that women are able to exercise their rights and be free from violence in their homes and workplaces," UN Special Representative Jan Kubis said in a Monday statement.
In another worrisome sign for activists, the international group Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that the number of women and girls jailed for alleged loose morals is the highest since the ouster of the Taliban, even though most of those detained are victims of abuse and have committed no crime under Afghan civil law.
The Taliban imposed their strict interpretation of Islamic law during their five-year reign, ordering beatings for women failing to wear the full-body burqa garment in public, closing girls' schools and banning women from leaving their homes without a male relative. They were toppled in a U.S.-led invasion for sheltering the al-Qaida's terrorist leadership and now wage an insurgency.
Human Rights Watch's Afghanistan researcher Heather Barr said that Afghanistan risks losing international aid if it does not meet commitments to uphold women's freedoms.
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Has Cochrane lost its...
Has Cochrane lost its way?
BMJ 2019; 364 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5302 (Published 03 January 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;364:k5302
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Melanie Newman, freelance journalist, London, UK
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Dissent over growing centralisation culminated in the expulsion of one of Cochrane’s founding members. Melanie Newman reports on the organisation’s internal struggles
The dust is not yet settling on Cochrane after it expelled one of its most high profile scientists and founding fathers. Peter Gøtzsche’s sacking and the resignation of four fellow Cochrane board members in protest has been held out by some as a symptom of a wider malaise at the heart of the international network. Cochrane, they say, has lost its way, its members increasingly disenfranchised from a corporate centre focused on income generation and “message control.”
The Cochrane Collaboration was founded by Iain Chalmers in Oxford in 1993 as a loose knit, international network of 77 researchers1 to help clinicians and others make informed decisions about drugs, surgery, and other interventions. It aimed to do this through “high-quality, relevant, accessible” systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials. Unpaid scientists would produce the reviews, governed by 10 principles, including “fostering good communications, open decision-making, and teamwork” and “minimising bias.” The questioning of orthodoxies and opposition to centralised control was fundamental to Cochrane’s ethos: Chalmers wore a T shirt bearing the words, “Challenge authority.” The international collaboration, he said, should be “committed to opposing any tendency for it to become dominated by any nation, institution, or individual.”
A quarter of a century later and Cochrane seems to be thriving. Membership is at 12 500 people2 and growing. Its income has doubled in the past four years to more than £8m (€9m; $10m). New Cochrane centres are opening in Asia and South America, expanding the collaboration’s global reach. The Cochrane Library boasts 7500 reviews, half of which are accessible without charge (up from 0.05% in 2013 and increasing by 1% a month), with the entire library free to 3.6 billion …
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AITC LOOKING FOR PREMIER LEAGUE PRIMARY STARS PARTICIPANTS
Stuart Butcher
AITC are looking for a Premier League Inspires Sports Mentor.
Richard Morris
Albion in the Community is looking for local schools to take part in a Premier League programme that uses the appeal of football to inspire young people to learn, be active and develop important life skills.
AITC has been successfully delivering the Premier League Primary Stars programme to 16 local primary schools during the current academic year; it plans to increase that number to 24 schools next year.
Schools are provided with around 10 weeks of support and activity that aims to inspire pupils in everything from English and maths, to teamwork and sport. AITC’s sports mentors work with different schools each term, spending a day a week in each school and working with whole classes, small groups and individuals to deliver PE alongside football-themed literacy, PSHE and numeracy lessons.
The charity now wants to hear from local schools interested in signing-up for the next academic year.
Any Sussex-based primary school can express an interest in taking part, with AITC particularly interested in working with those schools and young people most in need.
Jane Fendley, head teacher at St Mark’s CE Primary School in Brighton, has seen first-hand the positive impact the programme has already had on local pupils and was quick to recommend it to other schools. He said, “We have loved being involved in the Premier League Primary Stars project this year.
“The children were always incredibly excited about AITC coming in to work with them each week.
“The curriculum lessons, whether it was PE, literacy or PSHE were all engaging and delivered with great enthusiasm and took into account the children’s differing needs. I would encourage all primary schools in Sussex to get involved. We will definitely be submitting an application to be involved next year.”
Places are in high demand each year and the deadline for expressions of interest is Friday 15th June. AITC will select schools based on need and on their completed applications.
Paul Williams, schools manager at AITC, hopes local schools will get in touch to find out more about the programme.
He added, “The response and feedback from schools involved so far has been incredibly positive and we can see the impact the project is having on pupils’ health and wellbeing as well as their confidence, behaviour and attainment.”
Schools can watch a video produced by the Premier League to show how one local pupil has benefited from the project this year. The film can be viewed online at: www.plprimarystars.com/educatables/brighton-cadogan.
To find out more, and to download an information pack and application form, visit: www.albioninthecommunity.org.uk or email: schools@albioninthecommunity.org.uk.
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Osteoporosis screening and treatment fall short for women with hip fractures
It's important to identify and treat osteoporosis following hip fracture, but a large study found low rates of assessment and treatment in postmenopausal women who had suffered a hip fracture.
Among 8,349 women age 50 years and older who experienced a hip fracture between 2008 and 2013, just 17% had evidence of osteoporosis assessment and/or treatment within 6 months and 23% had evidence of assessment and/or treatment within 12 months of their fractures. Seeing a primary care doctor after fracture was the strongest and most consistent predictor of osteoporosis assessment or treatment.
"Even though osteoporosis is a condition commonly known to impact so many older adults, patients and healthcare providers are not taking the steps necessary to diagnose and treat the condition in one of the highest-risk groups--women who have already experienced hip fractures," said Dr. Catherine Gillespie, lead author of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study. "This work shows that we can do more to minimize the burden of osteoporosis, thereby improving quality of life, among older adults who have experienced a hip fracture."
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The future of UK trade in a 'No Deal' Brexit scenario
An overview on the UK's future trade with other countries in a ‘No Deal’ Brexit scenario.
The House of Commons has rejected the proposed UK-EU ‘deal’ in a series of meaningful votes. Any such deal will need to be formally approved by the EU to be put in place. In the absence of such a deal, arrangements for trading with the EU and the rest of the world will be required.
The UK is unable formally to negotiate trade agreements with other countries prior to exit day. The UK is expected to reach trade deals with third parties (including EU) within 2-10 years post Brexit. The first trade deals to be negotiated largely (including Switzerland, Faroe Islands and Israel) replicate existing EU trade deals. The UK might be able to accede to trade blocs e.g. EFTA, CPTPP in similar timescales.
World Trade Organisation, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
It is likely that the EU and other countries will continue to trade in goods (in the short term) with the UK on the basis of WTO schedules the UK used as an EU member. In the short term it is also possible that current EU trade partners will agree to apply existing FTAs to the UK during a renegotiation phase. Further development of formal trade agreements in accordance with WTO terms is likely to take a longer period.
The WTO operates by consensus and is currently facing structural challenges. US opposition to the WTO and increasing Chinese influence in it are restricting its functioning and development. The UK may wish to see WTO powers increase to provide easier access to more markets worldwide. Currently it appears unlikely that the UK will achieve a consensus for this. The UK will be able to negotiate for its own objectives but its negotiating power will be less than that of the EU trade bloc.
Rights to provide services internationally are very restricted under WTO rules. The UK is likely to remain a member of GATS under which some additional access for services is permitted, however not all WTO members are signatories of GATS.
Trade in goods is permitted under WTO rules subject to fixed tariff rates which must be applied non-discriminatorily to all WTO members. WTO rules provide little consistency in regulation (other than where regulation is imposed to discriminate between suppliers) and do not reduce or dispense with border checks.
The UK is likely to be permitted to accede to the General Procurement Agreement (GPA) which is an international agreement allowing companies based in the GPA signatory countries access to other GPA signatory country government contracts.
The WTO limits unfair state aid and some unfair competition practices subject to difficulty in enforcing such provisions.
Should no deal be reached between the EU and the UK, the EU has stated that it will treat the UK as a third country (i.e. not a member state of the EU or on the terms of any of the trade agreements which it has set up with third countries). In theory this will mean that tariffs/taxes and checks will be introduced until a trade agreement is reached between the two. It may be possible for the EU and UK to put in place temporary arrangements which will preserve a non-tariff border during negotiation of a free trade agreement - however that would require agreement from both parties.
Composite Products and Supply Chains
EU imports may become more expensive due to tariffs, differences in regulatory regimes, currency devaluation and administrative costs. This may affect the manufacture of composite products and impact upon UK supply chains for UK businesses who then export.
UK exporters will also need to ensure country of origin of goods is clear (for taxation reasons) where components of final products derive from the EU.
Other Trade Impacts
UK businesses entering international contracts frequently seek English or Scottish law and UK courts or international arbitration in the UK. While there is no reason in principle for this to change, counterparties may be more reluctant to accept such provisions or may require change of law provisions.
Contracts which are linked to specific delivery or completion dates may be affected by potential border delays and fluctuation provisions may need to be incorporated into contracts as well as protections in relation to border issues.
UK businesses may be able to benefit from a distinct ‘brand’ – separate from other European trading powers. This will require substantial efforts from UK exporters of goods and services and will take time to develop. Initially, Brexit may give rise to additional scepticism about UK suppliers which may take time to overcome.
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July 5, 2019 | Our People
June 25, 2019 | Our Plays
Why writers’ faces matter: “A radical interpretation of what theatre looks like now”
12 Dec 2017 | Our People, Our Plays, The Bigger Picture
Zain Dada, our Community Intern, on why seeing the faces of the writers we programme matters. He looks forward to the Bush Theatre’s 2018 Season.
“Diversity,” a term so egregiously applied that its usage has become a tired refrain in the arts and cultural sector. Once arts institutions, galleries and theatres catch on to terminology, language isn’t hard to co-opt. But which institutions are taking the difficult and self-reflective steps to address these issues systemically? Who is championed and who is not? Which stories are given a platform? If these stories are given a platform, how big is that platform?
“If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.” – Junot Díaz
The announcement of the Bush Theatre’s upcoming 2018 season underlines a commitment to so many of these pressing questions. The plays included encapsulate the cultural milieu of both the local and the global, from Vinay Patel’s An Adventure to Going Through by Estelle Savasta to Misty by Arinzé Kene.
The 2018 season comes with a photograph of each and every writer. Showcasing the faces and names of these men and women has a powerful impact on the psyche of a Black, minority and ethnic writer. These names, these stories and these faces become recognisable. In the process their stories have been platformed, canonised and given a recognition that challenges our ideas of what theatre’s traditionally produce.
The Dominican-American, Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Díaz poignantly articulates the effect a lack of representation can have: “You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
“And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist? And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.”
Alongside co-creating and platforming many of the mirrors Díaz describes, the Bush Theatre is committed to reviving classic plays by BAME writers of the past. The Passing the Baton initiative will shine a light on the playwriting trailblazers of yesteryears and stage their work today, offering them the same treatment we would to a Shakespearean classic.
Associate Director Omar Elerian states that Passing the Baton is about emphasising that “these new plays did not emerge out of a vacuum” and that new generations of playwrights are “standing on the shoulders of giants.” The first playwright to be commissioned is Winsome Pinnock, described by The Guardian as the “Godmother of Black British playwriting”. Her play Leave Taking will take place between 24 May to 30 Jun directed by Madani Younis. Winsome introduces Passing the Baton here.
Beyond the important process of canonising classics, the Bush Theatre’s new season is still focussed on boundary-pushing new writing. An Adventure by Vinay Patel is a sprawling, 3-hour play with 2 intervals set in 3 different continents. Inspired by the story of his immigrant grandparents journey to this country, it’s a story of loss, love and survival against the odds. Javaad Alipoor’s The Believers Are But Brothers, winner of the 2017 Scotsman Fringe First award looks to challenge audiences in a very different way. The play explores the intersections of the internet, extremism and identity crisis’ which define our modern times. A timely production which will draw the audience into the surreal environment of the dark web.
The Believers Are But Brothers. Photo: The Other Richard
Personally, the new season announcement gives me hope that other theatres and art spaces engage in platforming BAME artists in meaningful ways. Paranoid traditionalists who might decry diversity as cultural erasure misperceive the seismic shifts at play. The tangible move toward theatre which is more representative of London and the wider world led by theatres like the Bush Theatre is not about removal. This is about valuing what is historically (and currently) undervalued and a radical interpretation of what theatre looks like now. In his collection of short essays; Known and Strange Things, Nigerian-American author Teju Cole hammers this point home: “There is no world in which I would surrender the intimidating beauty of Yoruba language poetry for, say, Shakespeare’s sonnets, or one in which I’d prefer chamber orchestras playing baroque music to the koras of Mali. I’m happy to own all of it.”
The Bush Theatre’s 2018 is now on sale. Visit the What’s On page.
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Gender mainstreaming: moving...
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Gender mainstreaming: moving from rhetoric to reality
Author: Gabriella Pinto
Since "gender mainstreaming" was first officially adopted as a strategy at the UN International Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the term has become ubiquitous.
Nearly all international development organisations and donors now espouse their commitment to gender equality and to mainstreaming gender in their policies and programmes. However, there is very often a significant gap between organisations’ rhetorical commitment and the day-to-day reality of their programmes and operations.
At the upcoming Bond Conference, we’ll be exploring ways to close that gap and ensure our programmes are genuinely inclusive and transformative. This piece attempts to offer some initial suggestions for strengthening attention to gender at both an organisational and programmatic level and making "gender mainstreaming" a more robust and meaningful process.
What do we really mean by gender mainstreaming?
There are a number of different definitions of gender mainstreaming, but perhaps the most frequently quoted comes from the UN Economic and Social Council, which defines gender mainstreaming as:
“...the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.”
This definition notably emphasises assessments and planning procedures, leading some to prefer UNESCO’s definition, which usefully shifts the emphasis to acknowledge the changes in mindset and power that may be required:
“Mainstreaming is a process rather than a goal that consists in bringing what can be seen as marginal into the core business and main decision-making process of an organisation.”
Conversations around gender mainstreaming also often refer to the importance of "twin track" approaches, seeking to both increase and strengthen targeted, gender transformative programmes to advance girls’ and women’s rights, while also simultaneously seeking to ensure that all other programming is at least gender sensitive and a gendered perspective is adequately considered.
Isn’t the term "gender mainstreaming" problematic?
Yes. There’s a great deal of academic literature around gender mainstreaming from a range of different perspectives. Some feminist practitioners disavow "gender mainstreaming", feeling it has become a weak, technocratic term drained of any real political bite. Others still hold out hope for its potential, or pragmatically advance a gender mainstreaming agenda while recognising its challenges.
For the pragmatists wishing to (re)invest "gender mainstreaming" with energy and ensure it is more than a tick-box exercise, the below offers suggestions of key considerations at an organisational and programmatic level.
What does gender mainstreaming require at an organisational level?
Programmes can’t be divorced from the staff and organisations that design and implement them. Mainstreaming gender in programming first requires attention to the ways of working and organisational culture that either support or inhibit staff from strengthening attention to gender in their work. Key considerations include:
Investing in and supporting dedicated, specialist staff with sufficient time, resources, and expertise to drive change.
Building capacity, going beyond one-off training to institute a process of continuing professional development to foster the attitudes and skills needed for gender sensitive and transformative work.
Working with HR to incorporate gender competencies into recruitment and performance management frameworks; analyse and address the gender balance and pay gap of staff; strengthen policies around parental leave, flexible working, etc.; strengthen policies, reporting mechanisms, and support systems in relation to bullying, harassment, and abuse; etc.
Developing a gender policy, strategy, and action plan that is resourced and regularly reviewed.
Putting in place strong accountability mechanisms, including key performance indicators that are tracked and reviewed at senior levels.
Fostering an enabling organisational environment and culture that supports and encourages open reflection, discussion, and learning on questions of gender and power within the organisation and its work.
These sample strategies demonstrate that gender mainstreaming at an organisational level requires a multi-pronged approach with participation and engagement from across the organisation, including visible commitment from senior leadership.
What does gender mainstreaming require at a programmatic level?
With this foundational organisational infrastructure in place (or at least in progress), it becomes more likely that NGOs will be better equipped to design and deliver meaningfully gender sensitive and transformative work. Thinking across the project cycle, this requires:
Analysis. This seemingly obvious first step is so often missed. We must systematically and routinely invest the time and resources in gender analysis to better understand the gender norms and power relations embedded in every community that inevitably impact every project. This analysis must be meaningfully intersectional, recognising the ways in which gender inequalities may be exacerbated by other axes of identity and marginalisation. Analysis should also recognise, value, and engage the expertise of girls’ and women’s rights organisations.
Design. Even when a gender analysis is conducted, often the report is ignored and the findings not used to inform programme strategies. Rather than simply recycling familiar strategies from past projects, we must appropriately tailor our strategies to respond to girls’ and women’s expressed needs and contexts. Design processes should also include a more intentional approach to risk mitigation – actively taking steps to identify and mitigate particularly gendered risks (including increased risk of violence, exacerbating girls’ and women’s time poverty, among many others).
Implementation. Projects should incorporate not only initial training, but ongoing capacity development of all partners and staff on gender throughout the project lifespan. Training and reflection sessions should focus not only on knowledge, but should aim to enable critical reflection on gender relations and foster a transformation in staff’s own attitudes. In addition, gender should also be integrated into the routine administration of any project - including agendas, reporting templates, etc. - to encourage regular reflection on progress.
Monitoring. Any project carries the risk of unintended consequences, and transformative work, in particular, has a particular risk of backlash. In all projects, careful, intentional monitoring conducted by trained female and male staff is needed to identify and respond to shifts in community dynamics and changes in protection risks.
Evaluation and learning. Most evaluations tend to rely on the standard DAC criteria, from which gender is conspicuously absent. Evaluations should actively seek to explore and understand a project’s impact on gender dynamics – both positive and negative – and should include gender as part of the evaluation criteria and framework.
Investing in the journey
For those looking for a simple checklist, the above may feel overwhelming or disappointing. Yet it must be recognised that gender mainstreaming is, and should be, a substantive undertaking.
NGOs and donors need to resist the temptation toward quick wins and easy answers and recognise that gender mainstreaming can’t be accomplished simply with a one-off training or a new policy. Rather, gender mainstreaming requires a significant investment of resources and dedicated staff who are equipped and supported to drive change. Gender mainstreaming also requires grappling with the contentious and thorny power dynamics embedded within every organisation and context. Without this difficult, often uncomfortable, reckoning, gender mainstreaming is likely to remain a tokenistic gesture.
For more on the thinking around gender mainstreaming, see the Beyond Gender Mainstreaming issue of the Gender and Development Journal.
A Theory of Change on Gender Mainstreaming [PDF], developed by the Gender Mainstreaming Working Group of the Gender and Development Network, usefully outlines various stages on the journey of gender mainstreaming, offering different entrypoints for organisations.
Get more practical ideas and steps for truly inclusive programme design and implementation at the Bond Conference.
Gabriella Pinto
Plan International UK
Gabriella is a gender specialist with extensive experience in girl-centred programming.
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Wherever She Goes
From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a brand new psychological thriller about the lengths one woman will go to in order to save a child.
"Few crimes are reported as quickly as a snatched kid."
That's what the officer tells single mother Aubrey Finch after she reports a kidnapping. So why hasn't anyone reported the little boy missing? Aubrey knows what she saw: a boy being taken against his will from the park. It doesn't matter that the mother can't be found. It doesn't matter if no one reported it. Aubrey knows he's missing.
Instead, people question her sanity. Aubrey hears the whispers. She's a former stay-at-home mom who doesn't have primary custody of her daughter, so there must be something wrong with her, right? Others may not understand her decision to walk away from her safe life at home, but years of hiding her past - even from the people she loves - were taking their toll, and Aubrey knows she can't be the mother or wife she envisions until she learns to leave her secrets behind.
When the police refuse to believe her, she realizes that rescuing the boy is up to her alone. But after all the secrets, how far is she willing to go? Even to protect a child.
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Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
If your dream vacation is getting cozy in a tiny English village
Jackson Brodie returns to bookshelves after a nine-year hiatus in Big Sky. Brodie is doing the typical PI work of spying on an unfaithful husband in the village of North Yorkshire when he encounters a man about to jump to his death from a cliff. Brodie intervenes and, in doing so, becomes embroiled in a complex case of murder, betrayal and sex trafficking. Meanwhile, police detectives Reggie Chase and Ronnie Dibicki are also caught up in the dizzying plot when their routine assignment to interview witnesses in a cold case brings them into contact with some of the same individuals as those in Brodie’s case. Atkinson expertly balances plotlines and viewpoints from chapter to chapter, giving readers a panoramic understanding of the characters, their motivations and the consequences of their actions. All of it coalesces into a wild, frantic finish in which each plotline is neatly tied together.
★ Your Life Is Mine by Nathan Ripley
For fans of “My Favorite Murder,” I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and all things Manson-related
Blanche Potter thought she had put her past behind her. She never talked about what happened when she was 7 years old. She changed her last name. She moved to a new city. She started a life of her own. But as the daughter of Chuck Varner, a deranged mass shooter, Blanche realizes the past may be buried, but it never goes away completely. Blanche learns that lesson the hard way in Nathan Ripley’s shocking new novel, Your Life Is Mine. Things are going well in her career as an up-and-coming filmmaker when she is told that her estranged mother, Crissy, has been shot and killed at her trailer home. News of Crissy’s death, brought to Blanche by a sleazy journalist who knows of her past, opens the floodgates of her memories and traumatic childhood. But as she tries to reconcile her past experiences with the recent death of her mother, someone else is gunning for her as well. The cult of Chuck Varner lives on, and it’s up to Blanche to stop it before his crazed follower can strike again. Ripley pulls no punches here, creating a tense and atmospheric story of personal identity and survival, while asking whether you can ever escape your past.
Gone Too Long by Lori Roy
If you’re looking for a mystery that’s almost too real
Lori Roy portrays the rise of white supremacy movements to chilling effect in Gone Too Long. Set in modern-day Simmonsville, Georgia, the story follows Imogene Coulter, the daughter of a Ku Klux Klan member, as she buries the sins of her father but unearths an even darker mystery. While sorting through her father’s KKK hideout, Imogene discovers a young boy. Along with Beth, a child abducted 10 years ago who has been raising the boy during their captivity, Imogene begins to discern the truth about her father’s role in the ordeal. But with another Klan member determined to reassert control of the situation, Imogene’s own life and the lives of her family are in peril. This darkly addictive tale is ultimately an engrossing portrait of survival and perseverance. With richly detailed prose, Roy pulls readers close into Imogene’s and Beth’s perspectives, creating empathy for both characters as their trauma and the threats against them, past and present, unfold.
Murder in Bel-Air by Cara Black
If your dream vacation is stylishly stalking through the streets of Paris
Sydney Leduc had one job: pick up her granddaughter from her play group and bring her home. But when Sydney fails to show up, her daughter Aimée is thrust into a convoluted case of murder and international intrigue in her attempt to find Sydney. Author Cara Black swiftly builds up the tension in her riveting new Aimée Leduc mystery, Murder in Bel-Air, en route to an action-packed finale. While retrieving her daughter in Sydney’s place, Aimée witnesses police investigating the death of a homeless woman at a nearby convent’s soup kitchen. She quickly learns that the last person to speak with the victim was none other than her own mother, adding to the mystery of Sydney’s whereabouts. The discovery of a bundle of cash stashed away in the convent’s laundry further complicates matters. Before long, Aimée and her unique cast of teammates are caught up in an international conspiracy involving a potential coup, a downed airplane and a dirty bomb. Hounding her every move are agents of the DGSE (France’s external intelligence agency), the CIA and a mercenary known as the Crocodile. Rich in Parisian settings and vernacular, Murder in Bel-Air is easily accessible and enjoyable to new and longtime series readers alike.
The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell
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Wherever She Goes by Kelley Armstrong
If you’re looking for a mystery with a deeply emotional hook
Kelley Armstrong’s gripping thriller, Wherever She Goes, is narrated by librarian and troubled mother Aubrey Finch. Aubrey’s marriage to successful lawyer Paul is strained, but they’re still raising their 3-year-old daughter together. Haunted by memories of past mistakes and her parents’ deaths, Aubrey finds that the life she’s built with her family is slowly eroding away. At the park one day, Aubrey watches helplessly as a little boy is forced into an SUV. She contacts the police, but when no further information about the abduction surfaces, they question her claims—and her mental health. A practiced hacker, Aubrey begins hunting for the child via computer, putting her own safety and reputation on the line. Armstrong balances the mystery of the kidnapping and the tension of Aubrey’s inner conflicts with moving scenes of a fragile marriage as Aubrey and Paul work to save their relationship. The latest from the bestselling author of Watcher in the Woods makes for pulse-racing summer reading.
★ Tell Me Everything by Cambria Brockman
For fans of The Secret History and Gone Girl
Cambria Brockman’s riveting debut, Tell Me Everything, takes place on the campus of an exclusive New England college, where six friends form a destructive connection. Introvert Malin comes out of her shell at Hawthorne College, bonding with five other students: Ruby, Max, John, Khaled and Gemma. They’re a close-knit group, but as graduation approaches, their relationships begin to unravel. Gemma drinks too much, and John is increasingly cruel to Ruby, who is now his girlfriend. Malin, meanwhile, excels academically while concealing her very dark past. The anxieties of senior year peak at semester’s end as she struggles to uphold her self-assured facade. She isn’t the only one in the circle who’s hiding something, and when a murder occurs, the six friends’ lives change forever. Narrated by Malin, whose intelligence and cunning drive the story, Tell Me Everything is an edgy exploration of loyalty and human desire. Readers in search of a true page-turner will savor this electrifying novel.
★ The Other Mrs. Miller by Allison Dickson
If you’re looking for a thriller you absolutely cannot predict
Fans of Paula Hawkins will be thrilled by Allison Dickson’s The Other Mrs. Miller. Phoebe Miller is starting to believe her best years are behind her. Heiress to a fortune left by her philandering late father, she passes the days in a haze of alcohol. Arguments with her husband, Wyatt, add to her feelings of discontent. But her life takes an unexpected turn after the Napiers move in across the street. Ron, a doctor; Vicki, his wife; and Jake, their attractive and flirtatious teenage son, appear to be a model family. Vicki is eager to be friends, but Phoebe doesn’t quite trust her. She also suspects she’s being watched by the driver of a car that keeps returning to the neighborhood. When Phoebe receives a series of frightening notes that may have some connection to her father, she begins to fear for her life. With an impossible-to-predict plot and a very unexpected murder, Dickson’s book is required reading for suspense addicts.
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State should tax Airbnb, but let cities make rules
The Airbnb logo displayed after a news conference in Tokyo. (Yuya Shino/Reuters/File)
Home-sharing through websites like Airbnb and HomeAway has meant more lodging choices for visitors to Massachusetts. And it’s allowed property owners to earn money renting out their spare rooms and stately Colonials.
But it’s also become a source of considerable agita on Beacon Hill: How to tax and regulate this sudden behemoth?
Lawmakers are feeling pressure from all sides: Airbnb, which wants a light touch; the hotel industry, which says its surging competitor should be subject to the same rules it has long abided; and housing advocates, concerned that short-term rentals are taking much-needed units off the market.
For all the complexities and competing interests, though, the path forward is surprisingly clear: The state should tax home-sharing but impose only a basic set of safety and antidiscrimination regulations on the industry, leaving it to cities and towns to add more rules as they see fit.
Start with taxes. Over 250 American jurisdictions — from the state of Connecticut to the city of Sebastopol, Calif. — already collect levies. Airbnb itself has embraced the trend. “Read my lips: ‘we want to pay taxes,’ ” said Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, at the US Conference of Mayors last year.
It’s not exactly altruism at work, here. Airbnb customers foot the bill, not the company. And certainty on the taxation question can only help with any plans to go public.
But whatever the company’s motivation, the elimination of any controversy over whether to tax home-sharing has made the job easier on lawmakers.
Now the question is how to tax home-sharing. Last year, Airbnb logged about 592,000 guests in Massachusetts. Had the rentals been taxed at the 5.7 percent rate now levied on hotels, the state would have collected about $15 million. The Senate has already passed legislation that would take just that approach. House legislation would employ a tiered strategy, levying escalating state and local taxes on three levels of host — “residential,” “professionally managed,” and “commercial” — separated out by how frequently they rent.
Either approach could work. The flat rate has the advantage of simplicity, while the graduated system would allow the state to incentivize “residential” hosts (homeowners renting out spare rooms) over “commercial” hosts (business people who have bought up two, three, or 10 units and are renting them out on a regular basis).
The trickiest questions facing lawmakers aren’t about taxation, but regulation: Should only homeowners be allowed to rent out rooms, outlawing the commercial operators snatching up precious housing in tight markets? Should Airbnb hosts be subject to the same kind of licensing and inspections required of hotels? And what about insurance?
Here, the state should tread lightly, so as not to quash a useful industry.
The state should bar discrimination against guests based on race, disability, and other factors. And a basic annual safety inspection is reasonable. But any additional regulation should be left to cities and towns, which can tailor rules to their specific circumstances. A city like Cambridge is likely to have different concerns than a Cape Cod town like Brewster.
Every city or town, though, will need better information from Airbnb and its competitors. Officials should insist on municipal registries, so they can keep tabs on how much home-sharing is happening, where, and by whom. Airbnb is starting to come around to the idea, as long as the process is a simple one. In Chicago and New Orleans, hosts can register with the city right on Airbnb’s web site. Massachusetts municipalities should emulate that approach.
With ready access to the data, city officials may learn that Airbnb is not quite the menace some imagine. The company says it facilitated entire-home rentals (as opposed to spare rooms in otherwise occupied houses or apartments) in just 1 percent of Boston’s housing stock last year — making it a comparatively small player in the city’s housing crunch.
The hotel industry insists that Airbnb’s footprint is bigger — and that the number of commercial operators running what amounts to off-the-books hotels is on the rise. City officials should remain vigilant. But home-sharing has been good for the region, on balance, and squeezing it with too much red tape is a bad idea.
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Too many Lake Roosevelt sturgeon is a win for fish, anglers and BPA
It’s a keeper! An angler on Grand Coulee Dam’s Lake Roosevelt hauls in a large white sturgeon. Thanks to a successful hatchery program, paid in large part by BPA, 2019 is the third consecutive sturgeon fishery on the lake after two decades of closure.
Anglers are probing the depths of Grand Coulee Dam’s Lake Roosevelt, attempting to catch a highly prized white sturgeon.
Three years ago was the first time in 20 years the fishery was open to the public. That year, with much anticipation and excitement, more than 17,000 anglers took to the water to bag white sturgeon, a prehistoric fish that can grow to more than 12 feet long and weigh hundreds of pounds.
This year is no different. Starting in June, thousands of anglers descended upon the lake to catch sturgeon. The success of the fishery derives from hatchery programs in Washington state and British Columbia. Funded largely by BPA ratepayers, the hatcheries began in the early 2000s, stocking up to 12,000 juvenile sturgeon annually. The hatcheries are managed by the Spokane Tribe of Indians, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation and some Canadian entities.
“The hatchery program has been very successful, much better than we ever expected,” says Jason McLellan, research scientist for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation. “However, certain families of sturgeon are surviving better than others, resulting in disparities among the abundances of family groups.”
The fact that just a handful of sturgeon families survived at a higher rate was a good thing in the short-term, but it’s something scientists are trying to address for the long haul. That’s because the genetic pool of Lake Roosevelt’s sturgeon could become too narrow. In response, hatchery managers opened the Lake Roosevelt sturgeon fishery in 2017.
“Before the fish get old enough to reproduce we need to thin them out, get their numbers down,” says Scott Bettin, a BPA fisheries biologist. “Some sturgeon could begin to produce at around 18 years of age, and that’s just about where we are right now. We don’t want the genes of just a few families to dominate the future.”
To ensure more families are represented, the program switched from using a limited number of wild adult broodstock to wild caught eggs and larvae for its source of young fish. The wild eggs and larvae are taken to hatcheries where they are reared for approximately one year and then released back into the river.
In Canada, white sturgeon are listed as endangered under the Canadian Species at Risk Act. But in the U.S., says Bettin, successful hatchery programs and the international Upper Columbia White Sturgeon Recovery Initiative have helped avoid an Endangered Species Act listing for Lake Roosevelt. That has saved BPA ratepayers big dollars while still helping the fish to thrive.
“The white sturgeon hatcheries and now fishery is definitely a huge success for us,” says Bettin. “Survival of the hatchery fish has been at the high end of what we expected, and that has resulted in a real win for our fish mitigation program.”
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Brian Matthew has been a working broadcaster for the BBC since 1954 and presenter of Sounds Of The Sixties since 1990. He is a much-loved radio host, who says he dearly wishes to continue presenting his 2-hour, Saturday morning show. Taking advantage of a brief absence due to an injury, BBC Radio 2 and the contracted Unique production company have dismissed Brian from his job with no notice given (see Radio Today, Fri 27th Jan 2017).
This is appalling treatment of a man who, at the age of 88, has devoted his long career to this job, and it shows a degenerate attitude on the part of managers for the rights and interests of radio employees and listeners. The decision must be immediately reversed, and Brian should continue with his presenting job until he decides to retire.
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Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
byJudith Stein
Paperback | September 13, 2011
In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory—the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and regulated capital produced both robust economic growth and greater income equality. When high oil prices and economic competition from Japan and Germany battered the American economy, new policies—both international and domestic—became necessary. But war was waged against inflation, rather than against unemployment, and the government promoted a balanced budget instead of growth. This, says Stein, marked the beginning of the age of finance and subsequent deregulation, free trade, low taxation, and weak unions that has fostered inequality and now the worst recession in sixty years.
Drawing on extensive archival research and covering the economic, intellectual, political, and labor history of the decade, Stein provides a wealth of information on the 1970s. She also shows that to restore prosperity today, America needs a new model: more factories and fewer financial houses.
Judith Stein is professor of history at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of The World of Marcus Garvey and Running Steel, Running America.
Title:Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the SeventiesFormat:PaperbackProduct dimensions:384 pages, 9.25 X 6.12 X 1.06 inShipping dimensions:384 pages, 9.25 X 6.12 X 1.06 inPublished:September 13, 2011Publisher:Yale University PressLanguage:English
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"Stein's book is full of fine-grained arguments about economics, labor, and history."—Josh Rothman, The Boston Globe"A highly original illumination of how the American Century collapsed."—Rick Perlstein, The Nation"[An] elegant, pinpoint dissection of the economic mistakes and far-reaching policy decisions of the seventies."—Oscar Villalon, Virginia Quarterly Review"Stein offers a welcome corrective to many recent works on the history of the Right."—Dissent Magazine"An extraordinary achievement."—The Journal of American History"Stein succeeds not only in making the 1970s much more interesting to read about, but in revealing the decade as the great historical pivot from postwar American boom to bust."—David Chappell, Journal of the Historical Society"This book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the economic restructuring of the 1970s led to our current age of inequality. It is a masterful study of the history of capitalism that is driven not by ideology but by a clearheaded interpretation of historical events and patterns."—Shane Hamilton, Industrial and Labor Relations Review"[A]n outstanding analytical history of the origins of neoliberalism in the 1970s."—Frank J. Whittington, The GerontologistWinner of the 2010 "Best Book Prize" given by Labor History"Here is one of those rare books in which a seasoned historian offers compelling analyses of urgent contemporary importance. Pivotal Decade will startle and provoke you. It is on my not-miss list."—Sean Wilentz, Princeton University"In this probing, economically literate analysis, Judith Stein explains how and why the 1970s became the only 20th century decade other than that of the Great Depression during which Americans ended up poorer than they began. By explaining how we got to an economy that subordinates the manufacture of stuff to one that trades, finances, and consumes it, Stein provides the fullest story of the way economic stagnation prepared the way for a new era of social inequality. Citizens of Obama''s America should take note."-Nelson Lichtenstein, author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-mart Created a Brave New World of Business"Americans perplexed by the use of defective Chinese steel to rebuild the iconic San Francisco Bay Bridge will find an explanation for their puzzlement in Judith Stein''s Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies. Bringing together political and economic history in the context of American foreign policy, Stein shows how Americans allowed the allure of paper profits to undermine our economic underpinnings."-Fred Siegel, The Cooper Union for Science and Art"Judith Stein gets it. Pivotal Decade''s illustration and examination of the last forty years of failed economic policy will be a powerful text for our generation as well as for the future. We must learn these lessons once and for all-before it''s too late."-Leo W. Gerard, president, United Steelworkers
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Chelsea Handler Gets Twitter Backlash for Mike Pence Gay Joke
Karen Bennett
Chelsea Handler has been receiving some backlash for a tweet Wednesday in which she joked that Vice President Mike Pence is gay. Some on Twitter pointed out that using “gay” as an insult is a “homophobic” and “hypocritical” move.
Comedian Chelsea Handler attends a premiere on July 24, 2017, in Los Angeles. | Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images
“Yay! Mike Pence’s brother Greg is running for his old congressional seat in Indiana. We’ve never had 2 gay brothers serve together!” the comedian tweeted Wednesday. She made the comment after reports that Greg Pence filed papers to run for Congress.
Yay! Mike Pence's brother Greg is running for his old congressional seat in Indiana. We've never had 2 gay brothers serve together!
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) October 18, 2017
Responses to the tweet ensued, including the likes of, “Kinda not cool to bag on the gay community. Look at the discussions you’ve prompted. Harassment is harassment.”
Another Twitter user responded and made reference to Handler’s expressed desire to travel around and hear from people of different viewpoints. “Have to say, this tweet doesn’t bode well for your next speaking about “visitng ppl of diff’t views” not very sincere? Not a good start :(”
Other responses expressed similar opinions:
Are you using “gay” as insult? That’s disgusting.
— Tom (@condad85) October 18, 2017
Using "gay" as an insult, is homophobic. You're just another Hollywood liberal hypocrite.
— Christopher Magaña (@CHRIS23LH) October 19, 2017
Homophobe alert!
— LaughingAtLibs (@DeplorableKat) October 18, 2017
You have something against #gays?
— Janice (@jcdwms) October 19, 2017
WTF? SO IS GAY A BAD THING?
— Sasha (@420aldy) October 19, 2017
In other news, Handler’s Netflix talk show Chelsea is ending after two seasons. Handler tweeted on Wednesday that she had decided not to return for another season. She posted a screenshot of a lengthier message, reading in part:
“Like so many across the country, the past presidential election and the countless events that have unfolded since have galvanized me. From the national level down to the grassroots, it’s clear our decisions at the ballot box next year will mark a defining moment for our nation. For these reasons, I’ve decided not to return for another season of Chelsea, and instead devote as much time as I can to becoming a more knowledgeable and engaged citizen and to focus on projects that have significance to me.
“I’m excited to share that I will continue my partnership with Netflix, working together on a documentary where I’ll engage with people I don’t talk with enough – people of different ethnicities, religions and political philosophies. Netflix could not be more understanding, and I’m grateful for their continued support. New episodes of Chelsea will continue to stream weekly until the end of this year.”
Handler’s full statement is provided in her tweet:
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Some followers tweeted messages of support, such as, “We need your voice, Miss Handler. We need your wisdom. But if you’re out there doing great things to bring about change, I am thankful!” and “RIGHT ON! Can’t wait to see where this leads!”
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Nestle wants your DNA
Thu, Aug 30, 2018 - 6:40 AM
The company that brought you milk chocolate, Maggi instant noodles and Rocky Road ice cream is worried about your health.
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[TOKYO] The company that brought you milk chocolate, Maggi instant noodles and Rocky Road ice cream is worried about your health.
Nestle SA, the world's largest food company, has joined the trend for personalised nutrition with a blend of artificial intelligence, DNA testing and the modern obsession with Instagramming food. The programme, begun in aging Japan, could provide the Swiss company with a wealth of data about customers' wellness and diet, as it pivots toward consumers who are seeking to improve their health and longevity.
In Japan, some 100,000 users of the "Nestle Wellness Ambassador" programme send pictures of their food via the popular Line app that then recommends lifestyle changes and specially formulated supplements. The programme can cost US$600 a year for capsules that make nutrient-rich teas, smoothies and other products such as vitamin-fortified snacks. A home kit to provide samples for blood and DNA testing helps identify susceptibility to common ailments like high cholesterol or diabetes.
"Most of the personalised approach is driven by smaller companies, that's why it was fairly limited," said Ray Fujii, a partner at LEK Consulting in Japan. "Nestle is taking a further step. They're trying to figure out the algorithm between the test results and the genetic information and what they recommend as a solution. If they could do it, it's a very big step."
SNACKS TO SUPPLEMENTS
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Nestle's programme is part of a change in direction for the 152-year-old company, which sold off its US candy unit this year amid falling demand for sugary treats. Nestle has made a spate of investments targeted at healthier options including vegetarian meal maker Sweet Earth Foods and meal-delivery service Freshly. The company bought Canadian dietary supplements maker Atrium Innovations in March for US$2.3 billion, its biggest medical-nutrition purchase in more than a decade.
"Health problems associated with food and nutrition have become a big issue," said Kozo Takaoka, head of the company's business in Japan, in an interview in Tokyo. "Nestle must address that on a global basis and make it our mission for the 21st century." He said the wellness segment could eventually account for half of Nestle's sales in Japan.
The investments come with the burgeoning interest in so-called nutraceuticals - food-derived ingredients that are processed and packaged as medicine or wellness aids - among consumers that are increasingly skeptical about mass products. Nestle employs more than a hundred scientists in areas including cell biology, gastrointestinal medicine and genomics at the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences and has been developing tools to analyse and measure people's nutrient levels.
"Decades in the future, all companies will probably have to be doing it," said Jon Cox, an analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux. "The industry has probably had a setback as consumers also want natural and less processed products while adding supplements is seen as artificial or creating Frankenstein food."
Some nutritionists are skeptical that tailored diet plans based around supplements are useful and that they may have more of a psychological effect than a medical one.
"Nestle's programme is designed to personalise diets in ways unlikely to be necessary," said Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University who isn't linked to the KitKat maker. "If we think something will make us healthier, we are likely to feel healthier."
GENETICS AND AI
One of the early adopters among the food companies was Campbell Soup Co, which invested US$32 million in 2016 in San Francisco-based startup Habit, which uses DNA and blood profiles to make diet recommendations, as well as offering nutritional coaching and tailored meal-kits.
Big Food is tapping expertise in AI and genetics to navigate a sea change in the way consumers make choices, which has upended businesses from transportation to television.
"In the 21st century, innovation is using the internet and AI to solve problems that our customers didn't realise they had, or problems they had given up on," said Mr Takaoka, who is famous in Japan for making the KitKat chocolate wafer an iconic local snack by adding green tea and other flavours.
He said big consumer companies can no longer rely on the power of their brands to woo a generation that grew up with e-commerce.
"They just search for things, they don't pick the brand," he said. "When people talk about brand marketing, I'm just thinking ‘what's that?'"
KALE SMOOTHIES
Hitomi Kasuda, a 47-year-old freelance writer, says drinking Nestle's kale smoothie and other health drinks as much as four times a week helps her feel better about not eating enough vegetables. She gave up using the chat function on the app, but said she's keen to get the DNA test.
"There's probably a lot of things I don't realise about my health that I can discover in a blood and genetics test," said Ms Kasuda, who lives south of Tokyo in Yokohama. "Even if I feel healthy, I'd like to know more about the quality of my health."
In his 2016 book "Nutrition for a Better Life," former Nestle chief Peter Brabeck-Letmathe proposed that personalised diet and health programmes were the future of nutrition. "Using a capsule similar to a Nespresso, people will be able to take individual nutrient cocktails or prepare their food via 3-D printers according to electronically recorded health recommendations," he wrote.
Two years later, Japanese subscribers in the wellness programme now drink nutrient-fortified teas dispensed in capsules using a product similar to Nespresso, Nestle's trademark coffee machine.
"We're getting consumer buy-in because we live in a hedonistic, me-first kind of world," said Peter Jones, a nutritional scientist at the University of Manitoba in Canada. "This is going to be the manifestation of the future. The one-size-fits-all platform is a thing of the past."
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Keep up to date with what’s happening at Bus Stop with our blog and meet some of our awesome students as they give you insight into what they are learning about in class!
Sangeetha’s trip to NZ for Doc Edge Film Festival
Sangeetha Punnia is a long term Bus Stop Films student and is one of the stars of the documentary “Lives in Action”. This film was inclusively made both in front of and behind the camera and is the eye opening and heartwarming documentary showcasing different stories about disability and culture. Lives in Action headed to the International Documentary Film Festival, Doc Edge Festival in Auckland NZ and so did Sangeetha!
Experimenting with dance.
Our brilliant tutors Stef Smith and Lianne Mackessy recently directed their students on an Experimental Dance film shoot. The students worked with choreographer Virginia Ferris to develop their amazing routines. On the shoot they were joined by professionally trained dancers Mia and Natalia. The production was supported by amazing team including Mikey and Jamie. The project was shot in the studios at AFTRS. The films is coming together to present a stunning visual story of dance and movement. We can’t wait to share it with audiences later this year.
TCM’s Bus Stop-Versary!
Sangeetha’s work experience in QLD!
Lights, “colour”, action!!! At our Wollongong Accessible Film Studies Program.
Nina, one of our awesome students from our Wollongong program shares her thoughts on Bus Stop Films!
The Angus Project – on set for a cracker comedy.
Our students had a blast being extras on the inclusive comedy “The Angus Project”. Rae, a BSF student recounted their time on set!
Our trip to The Voice
We were thrilled to visit The Voice and see the live dress rehearsal. A huge thanks to ITV for hosting us. It was an awesome excursion for our film studies students.
Shire Shorts! A student’s eye view.
Shire Shorts is a collaboration between Bus Stop Films, Sutherland Shire Council and GU Film House Cronulla! We delivered an inclusive film studies program as part of The Shire’s Youth Week activities. This blog is written by one of the students, Aimee!
Our Visit to the ABC Studios!!
Bus Stop Films visited the ABC’s Ultimo Studios. It was an awesome day! Student Charlotte Ryan has shared her experience of this fab excursion.
All aboard the bus to TIFF!
Bus Stop Films Ambassador Joni Campbell shares her experience attending TIFF in Canada.
Slap Stick Master Class with Craig Anderson
Last Sunday, 18th March, Director Craig Anderson came along to volunteer his time to give a masterclass to the Program 1 students at Bus Stop Films. Craig is an amazing writer/director who has made awesome television and feature film projects, and is quite extraordinary. The students LOVED having Craig at their class.
Bus Stop Films in Japan!
On Sunday the 13th of January 2018, Bus Stop Film’s co-founder and CEO, Genevieve Clay-Smith conducted Japan’s first ever inclusive film studies workshop at Sanwa, Japan’s premier camera and production resource facility. With the assistance and support of Bus Stop board member, Sarah Jane Johnson, the team were able to conduct a filmmaking workshop with six local people with Down Syndrome and prepare them to work as part of a professional film crew on a branded content short film project which Genevieve was directing. Check out Genevieve’s blog about the experience and learn more about what she and the team achieved in the land of the rising sun!
Catherine represents BSF at Adelaide Film Festival!
In October this year, we sent one of our amazing students from 2016, Catherine Lattari to the Adelaide Film Festival to represent the cohort of BSF students involved in making Kill Off! In this blog, Catherine talks about the experience of the festival and how she introduced the film in front of an audience at the screening!
Jordan’s travel notes and reflections on his time with Bus Stop Films, so far…..
In October Bus Stop Films received the wonderful news that two of our films would be screening in South Dakota. Jordan participated in the making of “Kill Off” and continues his work in our Intermediate program. Bus Stop Films was able to provide funding for Jordan and his mum to attend the South Dakota festival and meet fellow film makers from around the globe!
Gympie “Heart of Gold” Film Festival with Jahmia
In 2015 Bus Stop Films set out to produce it’s largest project to date… Kill Off! The film gave 12 students living with an intellectual disability the opportunity to learn about filmmaking through weekly workshops and mentorships with professional crew from the film industry. Jahmia is one of the students who participated in the film workshops and the making of ‘Kill Off’. For Jahmia, while filming Kill Off finished in 2015, the journey continues. Last month, Bus Stop Films supported Jahmia to attend the Gympie Heart of Gold Film Festival. Where Kill Off was screening in competition and was nominated for the Gympie Gold award! Jahmia shares her thoughts and photos in a short diary of the Gympie Heart of Gold festival experience.
Making of ‘I Am Black and Beautiful’ – with Joni Campbell
On Sunday the 23rd of July students from the intermediate Bus Stop Films class made a documentary about Afro-Australian women. Leading up to the day on set, the students studied the Refugee experience as part of their classroom curriculum Joni Campbell is a student in the intermediate documentary class. Joni shares her thoughts on the film-making process and what she learned while making the documentary.
Mel Visits Melbourne Documentary Film Festival!
Bus Stop Films sponsored one of our 2016 documentary filmmaking participants, Mel Travis to attend the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival mid-year to present Gratus, a short film made through our documentary film studies program. Mel travelled to the festival to represent the cohort behind the documentary which gives voice to the stories of people with lived experience of mental health issues. Check out her recap on the festival in our latest blog!
First Prize for Direction at Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival!
August 26, 2017 read more
Inclusive Filmmaking with comedy group Number One Friembs!
An amazing director-friend of ours, Stef Smith (who also tutors our classes!) recently directed an ABC and Screen Australia Project called The Lost Tapes, and decided to make the film set inclusive! We are so excited to see inclusive filmmaking taking over! Hear from one of our students, Rawley Reynolds who worked on the project and Stef Smith about the experience and get inspired, if you’re a filmmaker, to make your next film set inclusive!
Filmmaking and Human Rights – my journey with the short film, Gambling with Minds.
In February, Gambling with Minds had it’s world premiere at Flickerfest and then in May it screened at the Melbourne Human Rights and Arts Film Festival (HRAFF). It’s a little film with a powerful message. Created by 7 people with lived experience of mental health issues and the mental health system through our documentary studies program, delivered last year in partnership with 3 Bridges Community for people in recovery from mental health issues. In this blog post one of the participants Amanda, talks about her experience attending both Flickerfest and HRAFF and why the film is an important vehicle for social change.
Kill Off at St Kilda!
On March 19th and 20th one of our students, Christine Blanch attended the St Kilda Film Festival to represent her class the team behind Kill Off which was selected to screen at the festival this year out of thousands of entries! Read about her experience of the VIP events and red carpet!
Not Far-To-Go
We were proud to support Barbara Beinart Pashut in March with a filmmaker travel grant to enable her to travel to the Fargo Film Festival in the USA. As a participant in our film studies program for people in recovery from complex mental health issues, Barbara was a part of a class of individuals who shared their stories about mental health in order to advocate for greater awareness around mental health. Barbara travelled to Fargo where she represented the team behind Gratus and received the award for Best Experimental Film on behalf of the 7 participants who studied with us. As well as this, we recently supported Barbara to hold a mental health awareness event at the Australian Film Television and Radio School where she showed Gratus and used it to talk about important issues around mental health. In Barbara’s blog she talk about her experience at Fargo, the power of filmmaking and her special mental health event!
Gratus to Fargo!
We were so excited to be able to support two of our filmmaking students involved in making Gratus, with travel grants to represent their peers and the team behind the film at this years Fargo Film Festival. Izaak Love travelled to Fargo in the USA where the film received Best Experimental Film at the festival. Izaak has had an amazing journey – having experienced the impact of mental illness and coming through the other side to now be a mental health advocate while pursing a career as an actor and filmmaker. In this blog by Izaak he talks about the experience of going through our documentary studies program, what it was like travelling to Fargo and his plans for the future!
A selection of magical moments from 2016!
We can’t believe that 2016 is drawing to a close, it has been our biggest year EVER and there are so many highlights! To celebrate, we thought we would reflect on and share with you some of our proudest moments from the last 12 months.
Yesterday, today, Temora
We were very excited to be able to support the Dramatic Minds Festival in Temora this year by sending one of our filmmakers, Barbara Beinart Pashut to run workshops with the local youth, screen a short film she made with peers through our filmmaking program and judge the local high school filmmaking competition. Barbara has been on an incredible journey, she is a mental health advocate with lived experience of mental health issues and she has a passion for grassroots activism. Barbara joined our documentary filmmaking workshops conducted at 3 Bridges Community in March this year and made a short film ‘Gratus’ alongside six peers. Through the process Barbara found a passion for advocacy and filmmaking. In this blog, Barbara shares about her experiences from the Dramatic Minds Festival.
Celebrating International Day of People with Disability at Bus Stop!
We were delighted to be given the opportunity to send three of our students to various events this week in the lead up to International Day of People with a Disability. The students presented some of our films and conducted Q & A’s with local community groups and government sectors across Sydney to raise awareness about the abilities of people with a disability. Check out what they said!
The anniversary of my amputation :-)
Rubie Crofts is a creative and energetic designer and artist who’s also dabbled in some acting too. She’s a brilliant ambassador for positive body image and in this latest Bus Stop blog, Rubie shares about her journey with Neurofibromatosis type 1 and the liberation that came when she had her leg amputated six years ago. Since the amputation Rubie has gone onto achieve many personal goals and be a living example that people with disabilities are not limited, they can indeed achieve anything they put their mind to.
How To Write A Script Scene: A Five Point Checklist
Alex Bloom is the founder of Script Reader Pro where they help screenwriters to finesse their craft and skills through interactive and hands on exercises. They provide relevant and critical feedback to help writers develop and improve their scripts. Today Alex shares with us his Five-point checklist to writing a great scene.
Nathan Basha at Byron Bay International Film Festival!
We were excited to be able to support our ambassador Nathan Basha to attend the Byron Bay International Film Festival this year in order to represent the film Heartbreak and Beauty which was selected to screen in competition at the festival. The film was developed over 10 months of filmmaking workshops with 12 students with an intellectual disability. Three students co-directed, Nathan being one of them and 9 students performed. In this blog post, Nathan tells all about the festival and what the experience was like!
Rawley at Panavision!
We were so excited to partner with Panavision, to facilitate some work experience for our wonderful filmmaking student, Rawley Reynolds. Throughout August, Rawley had the opportunity to work with this iconic camera rental house and learn everything there was to learn about cameras, check out his blog on the experience!
Sarah: Program Manager and Bus Stop Films Advocate
Sarah’s been with Bus Stop Film’s since the early days, bringing not only enthusiasm and warmth to her role, but 7 years as a teacher and personal development planner for people living with disability. She’s also a warrior of justice, risking her life at times for vital messages to be shared as seen by her work documenting forgotten injustices, particularly within Africa. We were able to catch up with Sarah and learn more about her!
Authentic Casting in Action: Benjamin Phillips’ Experience on ‘Offspring’
I was very excited to have the opportunity to audition for a role on season six of, ‘Offspring’. They were looking for actors to play two blind characters, but wanted to remain genuine by putting authentic casting in action. Unfortunately, there aren’t many blind actors going around these days — many of them have sadly been discouraged in the past from performing on stage and screen, but leaders in the industry like Endemol Shine Australia are helping to change that.
Being blind my whole life, and being an actor, I was fairly confident that I could pull off playing a blind character. But how would this role fit in with the storyline of Offspring?
Introducing our Ambassadors, Abby Earl and Nathan Basha!
Bus Stop Films (BSF) is excited to welcome Abby Earl, star of Channel 7’s ‘A Place to Call Home’, and Nathan Basha, international speaker and award winning disability employment advocate, into the roles of ambassadors for Bus Stop Films. Together they bring with them a wealth of knowledge about the film industry and a passion to help us usher more diversity and inclusion into our cinematic landscape.
‘Gratus’ for the Memories
Excitingly in April, Bus Stop Films rolled out a 10 week documentary studies program involving 9 individuals who are on a path to recovery following a diagnosis of mental illness. Funded by 3 Bridges Community through their Partners in Recovery (PIR) program, students joined the Bus Stop documentary studies workshops to engage in an accessible ‘film school experience’ — culminating in, ‘Gratus’, a performative, poetic documentary exploring how the quality of gratitude, is an important step in the road to recovery.
Monica Power: Support Worker and Undercover Superwoman at BSF Workshops
She’s a dedicated support worker and undercover super woman, lending us a hand for a committed five years at our film studies workshops! These workshops are run through the Inclusive Communities Education Program (ICEP) at Sydney Community College (SCC) – and her support is invaluable to us – we wouldn’t run as smoothly without it! She is truly one of our unsung hero…that we really need to sing a song about!
Character Design, Costume Design – the Two Go Hand in Hand
Costume design goes hand in hand with character creation. What is one of the first things we notice about a character on film? How they look – and costume design plays an integral role in this. Our students were able to meet Bek Gould, costume designer for their film project, ‘Kill Off’, where she taught them the craft and processes of what costume designers do, explaining how elements like the clothing and accessories convey the character’s personality, circumstances and adds authenticity to the film.
So how exactly does it do this?
Advocacy, Inclusion and Diversity: An Evening with Jamie Brewer
We were very proud to be at the helm of bringing Jamie Brewer to Australia to work with our students on our upcoming film ‘Kill Off’. But we wanted to go a step further. Jamie is an advocate and our film industry needs some help in becoming more diverse and inclusive. So we partnered with the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and Screen NSW to put on an advocacy night: “An Evening with Jamie Brewer; thoughts and reflections on diversity and inclusion in the film industry.”
Excitement buzzed on the night of May 25th, as Bus Stop Films along with AFTRS and Screen NSW prepared for a night of rich discussion surrounding inclusion and diversity both in front of the camera and behind it.
Being a director: An Interview with Robin Bryan
Robin has been participating in film studies at Bus Stop Films since 2011 and over the last four years she has taken a keen interest in directing. She received first-hand experience of the directing process on The Interviewer, and was mentored by Genevieve throughout the making of the film. Robin took to the director’s chair again and directed the “Sisterhood” sequence of Bus Stop’s 2014 experimental film, Heartbreak & Beauty. She loves art and one of her favourite film of all time is Anne of Green Gables.
Bus Stop moves to AFTRS!
A new chapter opens for Bus Stop Films, as we partner with AFTRS to give our students the quality resources and facilities they all deserve in their pursuit for more knowledge and understanding of the film industry. Opening their doors to diversity and inclusion, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School is set to officially host the first BSF Film Club tomorrow!
READY. SET. MIRO! The journey begins…
Some of our lucky Bus Stop Films students had the Condobolin Feature Film Experience a few Tuesdays ago. They trekked the long journey to central NSW town, Condobolin (where Aussie icon, Shannon Noll, shot his (in)famous single, ‘What About Me?’), and helped out behind-the-scenes…as well as on-screen too! What have they gained from this valuable experience?
Johanna Garvin: Why can’t it be different?
Johanna Garvin is determined to forge a career for herself in the film industry, as a woman living with Cerebral Palsy (CP). She brings a unique perspective to just how exclusive our film industry can be. In this blog, Johanna reflects on the challenges she has been faced with in trying to enter the film industry and causes us to question: why can’t it be different?
Are you the One? — Choosing the Right Actor for your Film
It goes without saying that actors are a core piece of any film so it’s imperative we choose the right ones. So how do we pick the best actors for our films? Our Bus Stop Films students tackled this issue in recent workshops and were given the great opportunity to put their knowledge to the test by experiencing the auditioning process for themselves, whilst in the seat of the casting director! What are the important four (and fifth implicit) points we need to look for in our acting candidates?
Interviewing Nathan Basha – NSW Young Australian of the Year Finalist
Breaking disability stigma and stereotypes, Nathan Basha is a motivational advocate – a speaker for social change. As he likes to say, he might happen to have Down syndrome but, “That’s not who I am.” He is in fact a filmmaker, university student, actor and an assistant at both Nova 96.9 and Taste Creative. Nathan juggles all of that on top of working towards his goal of getting employment for 20 people with intellectual disability – a true wonder human who’s been awarded state finalist for NSW Young Australian of the Year. And he’s charitably taken time out of his busy life to answer a few questions for Bus Stop Films!
Meet the Team: Hello from Bus Stop Films
The film industry is notorious for exclusivity and how difficult it is to get into. It’s because of these barriers that we exist. Since our origins, we’ve been dedicated to building pathways for people who might usually be excluded in society, become included in an industry that is at the forefront of shaping culture and societal views through the power of storytelling.
It’s because of the film industry’s power to influence people that we believe, now, more than ever, diversity needs to be consciously shaped into its structure.
Our media – our film and television – are meant to represent its audience, but in a world that’s multicultural and multifaceted, so much of mainstream film and television still regularly miss the opportunity to tell stories about our diverse and marginalised communities.
So how are we trying to change this?
Scriptwriting- Breaking through Writers Block
Writing a script is never easy but Bus Stop Films want to give you a few tips and tricks to help you break through the writers block and get you inspired!
The Grateful Journey
Dianna La Grassa is joining our team as the Communications Manager and will be helping us with Film Club this year. She has shared a bit about her life experiences, passion for the film industry and overcoming adversity. Find out more about her Grateful Journey!
It’s not just plot – characters matter too!
Memorable characters add flavour to your films! They’re one of the many ways your audience can engage with your story. So how do you create amazing characters? How do you get viewers hooked on not yours, but your characters’ stories? How do you mould a being so fantastical, people can’t help but want to know more?
A day in the life of the teacher!
It goes without saying that there are many people who make up the incredible team at Bus Stop Films; however it is Genevieve Clay-Smith who is teaching, mentoring and delivering the Bus Stop Films, film studies program. 12 students each year are involved in producing their own film under her guidance. Some of these films have gone on to appear in famous film festivals around the world! So, this week’s blog post explores the day in the life of her role as teacher and mentor at Bus Stop Films!
By Paris Cutler
Emma’s top 7 Rom Coms!
Bus Stop Films recently held a 10 week course on the study of the romantic comedy genre. Students learned about the conventions of rom coms and how to recognise them in different films that belong to the genre. Emma Brodie was one of our students who partook in the course, she is an avid poet and artist with a deep appreciation for the romantic comedy and romance genres. Here’s her top 7 romantic comedies of all time and a recap on what she learned from our genre study!
Victory at South Dakota Film Festival!
Bus Stop Films is spreading the word of inclusive filmmaking across the world, and last weekend our film Heartbreak and Beauty won the Jury Award for most Inspiring film at the 2015 South Dakota Film Festival (SDFF) in America’s midwest! Our LA based Co-founder Eleanor Winkler, was fortunate enough to attend and represent Bus Stop Films at the event, check out what she has to say!
Student’s visit the set of feature film, Sci-Fi Version 1!!
On September 18th, two of our students, Alessio and Jordon from Bus Stop Films, were invited to explore the set of Sci-Fi Version 1, a new science fiction thriller starring Twilight’s Kellan Lutz and Daniel McPherson. Find out what they learned and saw!
Genevieve Clay-Smith Wins ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly Qantas Women of the Future competition 2015′
Congratulations to Bus Stop Film’s Founder, Genevieve Clay-Smith who was named the Judges’ Choice winner at a celebrity studded gala dinner on Tuesday night held at the Art Gallery of NSW, we couldn’t be more proud!
What’s it like to be a cinematographer?
There are so many roles in the filmmaking process, and our students at Bus Stop Films have had the opportunity learn about them all! In our blog post on what’s it like to be a cinematographer also known as a DOP (director of photography), we chat to Bus Stop Alumni, filmmaker, writer and actress, Audrey O’Connor about her experience working as a cinematographer with Henry Smith on our 2012 film, The Interviewer.
5 Lessons from Hitchcock
Our top 5 tips that aspiring filmmakers, scriptwriters and directors can learn from Hitchcock.
Story structure, can the rules be broken?
We all watch movies and most of us have a sense for how they flow. So why is it so hard to sit down and write one! What exactly is screen writing structure and what are the rules? Can the rules be broken?
10 Tips for Newbie Filmmakers!
When you first embark on a career in filmmaking it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the industry and feel daunted by all of the things you need to learn. This week we are sharing some tips for filmmakers that are just starting out.
Visiting the set of Mary: The Making of a Princess!
First we toured the makeup truck which was sooooo COOL! We met the lady who did the makeup for the whole cast and her name is Chiara Tripiodi and she did the makeup for Max in Where The Wild Things Are and won an Emmy which is a great achievement.
Inside Out review by student, Nathan Basha!
The film explores the importance of making mistakes, learning and how we all need to feel sad, happy, nervous, and angry at different times.
Libby in the Spotlight!
We were delighted to see one of our students Libby Banks, feature in the Inner West Courier to promote Heartbreak and Beauty and it’s inclusion in this year’s Palm Springs Shortfest film festival.
Palm Springs International ShortFest Film Festival 2015
Genevieve Clay-Smith is currently in LA, with Bus Stop Film’s latest short, Heart Break & Beauty which screened today, to a packed audience! So we thought it was a great time to ask her a few questions.
Film Review: Gladiator
By Nathan Basha
Ridley Scott’s action genre adventure revenge film, Gladiator is a physical and emotional journey following character Maximus Decimus Meridius’s struggle to overcome the loss of his loved ones, at the hand of a corrupt Roman Government…
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9 Unusual Period Products That Can Actually Make Your Cycle Better
By JR Thorpe
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Menstruation is a big deal. It costs people with uteruses a lot of money; it's estimated that over a menstruator's lifetime, their period will cost them $1,600 —provided they only buy tampons, and that those tampons' price never fluctuates. And that's not counting the labor involved, from cleaning stained clothes and sheets to time in the bathroom. So getting it right is important to us — and the menstrual market is out to make our periods easier, cleaner, greener, more technologically sophisticated, and better overall. These unusual period products may seem peculiar at first glance, but they're likely to shape the future of our periods, and even make our cycles better.
If you think these inventions are a bit too far-out for you, bear in mind that the way we deal with periods has undergone huge transformations since Eve first received "the curse." Ancient Egyptians had used rock salt and dung to stop their periods, and up until the 1960s menstrual products were sold in discreet, unmarked boxes because the entire idea of having a period carried such stigma. We've come a long way from using spare rags to disposable cotton tampons and pads, and it stands to reason that there's always room for improvement. Meet the period products of the future.
1. The Reusable Menstrual Cup
Reusable Menstrual Cup, $25, Diva Cup
As a recent convert to this amazing invention, I can testify that for the first few times it can feel deeply confusing. Inserting a tiny rubber cup into your intimate areas to hold period blood can be as strange a sensation as putting in a tampon for the first time. The good news is that you get the hang of it (and cleaning it out), it's much more earth-friendly than tampons or pads, and it's also much less expensive. No more midnight emergency drug store runs.
2. The D Reusable Tampon Applicator
D Reusable Tampon Applicator, $24, DAME
If you use tampons, you're likely familiar with the disposable cardboard or plastic applicators that come with each one — but D is aiming to make the practice more sustainable. Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, this reusable applicator is made of antimicrobial material so it's effectively self-cleaning; you just need to give it a wipe with a clean paper towel before using again and again (and saving thousands of applicators from the bin in the process). Be prepared to rethink your menstruation experience.
3. Washable Sanitary Pads
Lunapads
Reusable Pads, from $12, Lunapad
It sounds almost impossible, but washable sanitary pads are A Thing, and available at many different places. Lunapads are some of the most popular in the U.S., while Earthwise Girls are going strong in the UK. They're easily washable, save you money on your pad and tampon bills, and are environmentally friendly.
4. Combination Tampon & Liner
Callaly
Tampliner, $6, Callaly
Gynecologist Alex Hooi developed the Tampliner after finding through her research that many women find the combination of tampons and liners during their periods insufficient and wasteful. It's a liner with a special membrane that operates as both a way to insert tampons safely and as a replacement for pads. It's made of organic biodegradable cotton, so it won't spend much time on the landfill after you dispose of it.
5. The Menstrual Disc
FLEX, $15, Flex Company
The Flex disc was designed to operate in much the same way that menstrual cups do — except that, unlike a larger menstrual cup, it allows for sex. It's designed to sit at the very back of the vaginal canal for up to 12 hours, where most sexual activity won't reach it. If you're tired of having to remove your tampon for the sake of getting intimate — and then getting blood everywhere during sex — this one is for you.
6. Period Underwear
Billie Hipster, $26, Dear Kate
The growth in the period underwear industry has been pretty massive. Since THINX made a big impact a few years ago, other companies, including Dear Kate, Knixwear, and Adira, have been producing new version to help you avoid tampons and pads altogether without staining your clothes. Discerning shoppers now have a few different options to test out what suits them.
7. Period-Tracking Jewelery
Leaf Urban, $139, Bellabeat
The Bellabeat pendants, which can be worn as necklaces or as bracelets, track menstrual periods as part of their general design as health trackers. It links up to an app on your phone that ties what you tell it about your period to your sleep, activity levels and other aspects of your health. If you're all about the science of menstruation, this one's for you.
8. Period Subscription Boxes
PMS Package
Subscription box, $34.99 per month, The PMS Package
This is one of my favorite ideas: all your menstrual needs arriving at your door every month without your needing to lift a finger. And ther are many different options to help you tailor them to your needs. LOLA and Cora both provide customizable monthly deliveries of organic period supplies like tampons and ads, while subscription boxes from The PMS Package and Bonjour Jolie include period necessities and treats like chocolates, teas, and heat pads.
9. This Philanthropic Tampon Necklace
Cora Necklace
Fearless Necklace, $85, Cora
As well as providing subscription boxes, Cora also has some powerful period jewelry. The Fearless Necklace was designed by Katarina Hornwall to hold an emergency tampon when you're on the go, and is now offered by Cora complete with 18 tampons to go with it — and, because of a partnership with ZanaAfrica, every one purchased gets a girl in Africa a year's supply of pads, helping battle period poverty. Even if it's empty, it's still a stunning piece of period-pride you can wear out and about. Practical and philanthropic.
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Boost CPP payroll deductions, tax policy report suggests
A new report says there are steps the government can take to ensure Canadians have enough money in their retirement – and they don't have to be sweeping measures to make a difference.
University of Calgary experts also say Canada Pension Plan eligibility age could be 67
The Canadian Press · Posted: Feb 26, 2013 12:05 PM MT | Last Updated: February 26, 2013
Tax policy expert Jack Mintz calls on Ottawa to take steps to shore up the Canada Pension Plan. 8:00
A new report says there are steps the government can take to ensure Canadians have enough money in their retirement —and they don't have to be sweeping measures to make a difference.
The paper by the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy says Canadians have had a tougher time saving for old age since the 2008-2009 economic crisis, especially those with modest incomes.
The authors suggest that the Canadian Pension Plan be expanded to enable 35 per cent of a worker's income to be replaced in retirement, up from the current 25 per cent level.
Report co-author and tax policy expert Jack Mintz says anything larger could hurt Canadians, especially younger ones looking to buy a house or start a family.
The paper says the eligibility age for CPP benefits could be increased to 67 to minimize a payroll tax increase and contributions should be tax-deductible.
And the report says the age limit for Registered Pension Plans and Registered Retirement Savings Plans should be hiked to 75 from 71 to reflect an increase in life expectancies.
Longer life expectancies straining retirees' budgets
Selling options on stock in RRSPs is risky way to boost returns
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Vilma Bánky
Vilma Bánky appeared in Hungarian, Austrian and French movies between 1920 and 1925, the year in which Samuel Goldwyn signed her, in Budapest, to a Hollywood contract. In Hollywood she was billed as the "The Hungarian Rhapsody". In the mid and late 1920s she was Goldwyn's biggest money maker, especially playing with Ronald Colman. Her best-known works were with Rudolph Valentino: daughter of a Russian aristocrat in The Eagle (1925) and an Arab dancer in The Son of the Sheik (1926). Her first talking movie was This Is Heaven (1929). She toured the U.S. in "Cherries Are Ripe" with her husband Rod La Rocque in 1930-1 and, the next year, went with him to Germany to make her last film.
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Vilma Bánky was born in Nagydorog, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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Modern Abolition Club hosts fashion show fundraiser
The Modern Abolition Club at Claremont High School organized a fashion show fundraiser on Saturday, May 20 to promote awareness of and raise money for organizations combatting human trafficking.
The fashion show, entitled Price Tags are for Clothes Not People, benefited Freedom and Fashion, an organization which mentors young people in the US who are homeless or have run away from home, and teaches them skills of the fashion and beauty industry.
Approximately 70 people attended the fundraiser, which raised $1,200 for Freedom and Fashion.
The fashion show featured clothes from Freedom and Fashion, as well as silent auction baskets with fair trade products donated by Claremont vendors and bracelets made by survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia.
Claremont High School student Naomi Gonzales founded the Modern Abolition Club at the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year. Naomi was very impressed by the fundraiser’s results.
“I’m really happy with the way it turned out,” she said. “I’m excited that we were able to raise such awareness on such a large scale.”
—Marc Rod
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TX2K 2019 – Subarus playing with the “Big Boys”
Historically TX2K has been about the kings of import drag racing, the Toyota Supra and more recently the R35 GTR. Yet, as the event continues to evolve, so do the stories and machines that fill the staging lanes and blast down the quarter mile. As fun as it is to watch 2000 horsepower GTRs and Italian …
900hp stock engine build – The last of a dying breed?
Most “JDM Enthusiasts” are at least aware of the gentleman’s agreement that began in 1989 that limited all Japanese production vehicles to a maximum of 280hp. The true motivation behind the decision is debatable to some extent, but one universally accepted result of that agreement was that throughout the 90’s and early 2000’s Japan churned out an …
TX2K18 – COBB Tuning Event Recap
It’s that time of year again. In mid-March, most people think about spring break and the beach…but not everybody. For fans of big turbos and smokey burnouts, TX2K has become the ideal destination of the season. In 2018 the event was hosted once again by Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. The mix of a …
TX2k17 Wrap Up
Every March, some of the fastest street cars in the Nation descend upon Baytown, Texas for TX2k. The two main features of TX2k are Roll Racing and 1/4 Mile Drag Racing, both taking place on the drag strip at Royal Purple Raceway. What started out as Supra Nationals in 1999 has grown into a 4-day enthusiast …
Nissan GT-R – Upcoming Release Preview
Our GT-R team has been working on feature enhancements and has added some new stuff to go along with it! As outlined in the video, the main benefits coming down the pipeline are Bank balancing via the Accessport Rescalable clutch torque table Large injector characterization tables Updated Boost off the line (BOTL) COBB Staging Control (Feature …
New GT-R 1/4 Mile World Record!
The ETS GT-R is at it again! The Accessport tuned Nissan re-takes the title as the fastest GT-R in the world through a quarter mile. The Extreme Turbo Systems GT-R bested the previous record set by the AMS Alpha Omega GT-R by more than two tenths of a second! Making this feat even more impressive …
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Main Line Flax
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A sustainable take on a well-loved classic
Main Line Flax is a sustainable take on the well-loved and trusted classic Main Line Plus that has sold millions of metres since launch. Made from 70% wool and 30% flax, Main Line Flax continues our world leading progress in the design and manufacture of fabrics made from blends of bast fibre and wool.
A symbol of purity, wild flax has been used in textiles for thousands of years thanks to its strong, long and smooth fibres found inside the stem of the plant. The wool and flax fibres are individually fibre dyed and sent to our own spinning plant to be blended together in different proportions and spun into a 70-30 wool flax blend. The result is beautiful mixture yarns which are woven into interesting solids and cross-colours.
The harmonious colour palette is inspired by the way in which nature combines and cross fertilises colours, sometimes in surprising combinations. Soft neutral undertones of creams, greys and browns, cross other colours like seeds blown by the wind. The colour palette has been designed to be incredibly versatile for the end user. By using a smaller yarn string and combining these yarns cleverly with one another, we have opened up many, many possibilities for creating co-ordinating or contrasting combinations.
The blend of natural wool and flax produces an inherently flame retardant fabric to medium hazard level without chemical post-treatment. Suitable for task or soft seating, the fabric can be used in a myriad of interior schemes.
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New Yogi Bear Movie Trailer Released
Warner Bros. has released another movie trailer preview for the Yogi Bear Movie coming out in December. Lucky for you, we've got the trailer right here for you to watch! This latest Yogi Bear Movie preview gives you an extended look at Yogi Bear and his pal Boo Boo as they cause trouble at Jellystone Park. About the Movie The 2010 Yogi Bear movie features Dan Akroyd (Yogi Bear) and...
Yogi Bear gets 3-D makeover, and Dan Aykroyd's voice
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY Dan Aykroyd is bringing back a wild and crazy guy from his youth, but it's not one of the "swinging Czech brothers." Aykroyd voices the newly digitized Yogi Bear in a 3-D film, set to open Dec. 17, re-creating a childhood influence that nudged the Saturday Night Livea nd Ghostbusters star into comedy. Even when his parents tried to put a limit on his after-school...
Yogi Bear Movie Trailer - Official Release Date 12-17-10
View the new Yogi Bear movie trailer below: [videoplayer file="/videos/yogi-bear-movie-trailer-lg-1.flv" /] The 2010 Yogi Bear movie features Dan Akroyd (Yogi Bear) and Justin Timberlake (Boo Boo) in a live-action, 3D setting. The expected release date for the film is December 17th, 2010 - just in time for Christmas. Keep visiting CampJellystone.com and this blog for additional updates and news on the Yogi Bear movie as it gets closer to release....
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As undoubtedly the most colorful and memorable element of the U.S. National Park Service, the infamous Alcatraz Island gets more than a million visitors a year, and it shows. As a former military prison, federal penitentiary, bird sanctuary and, much more recently, a popular tourist destination within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, The Rock's concrete walkways, railings and other structures are weathered and badly in need of stabilization and repair.
"The 150-year-old military structures beneath the existing Prison Recreation Yard, the tops of which we exposed during slab repair work in cooperation with NPS archaeologists, have what could be some of the very earliest concrete in the United States, " says Dr. Tanya Komas. Her concrete repair and decorative concrete students in the CIM Program at California State University, Chico got the call to spend last summer making repairs.
Working under the watchful eye of NPS staff, archeologists (interested in the below-ground structures) and biologists (safeguarding the bird population), Komas' students painstakingly patched and repaired concrete a century old. The goal was to match as perfectly as possible the existing concrete work within the old prison rec yard and concrete stairs that are part of the old officers' row.
"The students started with mock-ups to decide on the best approach, then either formed and poured or hand-placed the repair material. As soon as the material would allow, they used decorative techniques to rough it up and scar it, " Komas recalls.
Her group used three different kinds of materials from BASF to accomplish structurally successful repairs as well as formulate concrete coloration and textures that replicated the shades brought about by decades of moss growth and bird droppings, the rough textural conditions incurred by the harsh weather, and the effects of millions of hands and feet.
"The company's Zero-C mixes perfectly matched what we were doing, " says Komas. "We shaped the Vertical Overhead Mortar mix like Play-Doh for hand placement in vertical applications, which was quickly followed by scratching and scarring to match the historic textures. We used the self-consolidating mix with wood forms in other places. The students devised a very creative method of texturizing the interior surfaces of their forms to match the historic texture in these cases.
"To achieve color matching, we dabbed on white and tinted microtoppings and an overall subtle application of color-matched water-based ecofriendly stains. All the while, we worked among the tourists and sea gulls. "
Bureaucracy was as much a working challenge as the environment. "Operating under Secretary of the Interior guidelines, we had to be very minimalist in what we took out. It was a situation where standard practices didn't always apply, and that was a valuable lesson to students, " says Komas.
"What they learned, " says Clark Branum, "was to do structural repair properly with a blend of artistry and concrete. "
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H.R.2064 - Jobs and Exports Renewal Act of 1997105th Congress (1997-1998)
Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16] (Introduced 06/25/1997)
House - International Relations
House - 07/16/1997 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote. (All Actions)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16] | Cosponsor statistics: 54 current - includes 34 original
Rep. Gilman, Benjamin A. [R-NY-20]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Gejdenson, Sam [D-CT-2]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Hamilton, Lee H. [D-IN-9]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Archer, Bill [R-TX-7]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Baldacci, John Elias [D-ME-2]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Bentsen, Ken [D-TX-25]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-26]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Bryant, Ed [R-TN-7]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Callahan, Sonny [R-AL-1]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Christensen, Jon [R-NE-2]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Deutsch, Peter [D-FL-20]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-28]* 06/25/1997
Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-21]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Ewing, Thomas W. [R-IL-15]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Fazio, Vic [D-CA-3]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-50]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Hastert, J. Dennis [R-IL-14]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Kennelly, Barbara B. [D-CT-1]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-5]* 06/25/1997
Rep. LaHood, Ray [R-IL-18]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Matsui, Robert T. [D-CA-5]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-24]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-20]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Torres, Estaban Edward [D-CA-34]* 06/25/1997
Rep. Hilliard, Earl F. [D-AL-7] 07/08/1997
Rep. Houghton, Amo [R-NY-31] 07/08/1997
Rep. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large] 07/10/1997
Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-6] 07/16/1997
Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7] 07/17/1997
Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27] 07/17/1997
Rep. Clement, Bob [D-TN-5] 07/17/1997
Rep. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY-9] 07/17/1997
Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6] 07/22/1997
Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19] 07/22/1997
Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8] 07/23/1997
Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-5] 07/23/1997
Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] 07/24/1997
Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3] 07/25/1997
Rep. Martinez, Matthew G. [D-CA-31] 07/25/1997
Rep. Sawyer, Tom [D-OH-14] 07/30/1997
Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19] 07/31/1997
Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-11] 08/01/1997
Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] 09/04/1997
Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29] 09/04/1997
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Some Terms & Concepts
Dance Roles
At Chi-Town Squares dances and classes, you can choose to dance the lead or follow part, regardless of your gender identification. At the beginning, it’s usually best to pick a role and stick with it. As you gain experience, you can challenge yourself by learning the other role. Many good dancers can switch easily between roles, a desirable skill that can facilitate forming a square.
Square dancing is commonly called at levels, with each level comprising many calls and concepts that must be learned and practiced to be able to dance it. The first two levels are Basic and Mainstream, 68 calls in all. Chi-Town Squares combines both levels in the beginners class. The next level is Plus, which has 29 calls. But wait, there’s more! After Plus there is Advanced, and after Advanced there are four additional Challenge levels (Challenge refers to the difficulty of the calls and concepts, not to a competition).
A square dance tip usually consists of two parts: a period of freeform calling known as patter or hash, where the caller uses sequences of calls to develop choreography that is unexpected to the dancer; and singing calls, where the calls are choreographed to a popular song and the girls rotate to each boy around the square, ending up with their original partner at the end.
Square dance clubs often used to have a strict dress code for dancers, requiring proper square dance attire. These days, such requirements are found less and less. Chi-Town Squares dances are always casual dress, meaning all comfortable clothing is acceptable, including traditional square dance attire.
Experienced dancers who dance with the beginner’s classes are called angels. Beginners are encouraged to ask angels, who are often wearing club badges, to be their partner for a tip.
Like many clubs, we dance “hands down,” most often holding hands with another dancer at waist level. The best dancers don’t grip other dancers’ hands, they keep their hand flat and touch palms. At the end of every call dancers should look for a formation and take hands to form it, such as a line or wave.
Handholds
You will notice that experienced dancers will add styling or flourishes (dancing movements) and callbacks (phrases called out by the dancers after certain calls) to their dancing. These vary from region to region, and LGBT-friendly clubs often have different styling than others.
Styling & Callbacks
Classes are where you go to learn a particular square dance level. Workshops are where you go when you know a level, and want to practice and get better at it (the caller will teach new ways of doing calls you already know). Dances are where you go to really dance the level.
A gathering of square dancers for a weekend dance at a destination city. Fly-ins often begin with a trail-in dance on the night before the weekend starts, and dancing starts in earnest on a Friday night, ending some time on Sunday. Fly-ins happen usually for Mainstream-level dancing and higher.
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Persecution in Indonesia
Indonesian Churches Blasted by Family of Suicide Bombers
Pence Meets Indonesia’s Top Muslim Leader After Church Attacks
Christian Governor of Jakarta Jailed, Found Guilty of Blasphemy
The World’s Biggest Muslim Organization Wants to Protect Christians
How Indonesia’s 'Religious Harmony' Law Has Closed 1,000 Churches
Christians outraged at “heinous and gory” terrorist attacks that killed and injured dozens of worshipers Sunday morning.
Image: Surabaya Government Handout / Andy Pinaria / Getty Images
Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church was one of three Indonesian churches attacked by terrorists on Sunday morning.
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Suicide bombers launched coordinated attacks on three Indonesian churches during worship services this morning, leaving more than a dozen people dead and at least 40 more injured in a series of bloody blasts that horrified the country’s Christian minority and Muslim majority alike.
Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church (GKI), Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church, and Santa Maria Tak Bercela Catholic Church—all in Surabaya, the second-largest city in the island-chain nation—suffered bombings carried out by six members of the same family, who are believed to be affiliated with Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an Indonesian terrorist cell aligned with ISIS.
Sunday’s bombings mark the deadliest terrorist attack in the world’s biggest Muslim country since the Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people in 2002.
The current death toll includes at least seven worshipers, plus the six family members who conducted the terror plot. Indonesian police told the Associated Press that within minutes, the father exploded a car bomb into one church building; two teenage sons on motorcycles drove into another; and the mother with two daughters, aged 12 and 9, wore explosives at the third, setting them off as she hugged a churchgoer.
According to initial reports by Asia News, after the explosions at the Catholic and two Protestant churches, police were able to thwart a fourth attack at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The Indonesian Church Association and Indonesia’s two biggest Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, condemned the attacks. President Joko Widodo called the incidents “cowardly actions” that were “very barbaric and beyond the limit of humanity.”
Though Indonesia is cheered for its pluralism—with a Christian community of about 17 million Protestants and 3 million Catholics (9% of the population) living alongside the biggest Muslim population in the world—the rise of radical Islam in some areas and sectors of society has made the situation for believers much worse.
“Indonesia has a proud history of pluralism and inclusivity, but the last two decades have seen a drastic shift towards a hitherto unseen intolerance,” said Wilson Chowdhry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association.
“In the most recent report the attack has been attributed to one particular family inspired by ISIS, the hatred that has been reinforced in this family led to the mother and father chillingly involving their young children in the terrorist plot… ,” Chowdhry stated. “It beggars belief that people can be so easily influenced to perpetrate such heinous and gory crimes especially when many of them lived peacefully with minority faiths, until they were washed of their wits by false doctrine and misspent religious zeal.”
The church bombings follow fatal attacks on Jakarta police in recent days, as well as a bombing in a nearby district, the AP reported.
Two years ago, a terrorist threw a Molotov cocktail at a church in Borneo, killing a toddler and wounding three others, according to Open Doors International, which rates the country’s persecution level as “high.”
Prior to the 2002 attack on various tourist sites in Bali, terrorists bombed a Catholic church in East Jakarta in 2001 and Christmas Eve services at 11 churches nationwide in 2000.
“We strongly condemn this mindless attack on Christians in Surabaya,” Godfrey Yogarajah, the deputy secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), in a statement released Sunday. “We stand in solidarity with Christians in Indonesia during this difficult time and call on the global church to pray for all those affected in the attacks.”
WEA asked that Christians around the world pray for a thorough investigation by the Indonesian government, so that Christians can receive better safety protections.
Pope Francis also lifted up Christian communities in Surabaya in prayer today, saying, “I raise my prayer for the victims and their relatives. Together we invoke the God of peace to stop these violent actions, and that feelings of hatred and violence be replaced in people’s heart with reconciliation and fraternity.”
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Friday Morning Session
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Spencer W. Kimball
The Reconstitution of the First Quorum of the Seventy
The Sustaining of Church Officers
N. Eldon Tanner
“I Am the Vine, Ye Are the Branches”
Dean L. Larsen
Notwithstanding My Weakness
Perfecting the Saints
Franklin D. Richards
The Temptations of Christ
Howard W. Hunter
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Families Are Forever
David B. Haight
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A. Theodore Tuttle
The Lord Offers Everyone a Way Back from Sin
Robert D. Hales
Dikes versus Living Water
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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William H. Bennett
More Joy and Rejoicing
Marion D. Hanks
Our Priceless Heritage
Ezra Taft Benson
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Marion G. Romney
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L. Tom Perry
The Spirit of Missionary Work
Carlos E. Asay
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John H. Groberg
To Die Well
Sterling W. Sill
The Savor of Men
Mark E. Petersen
Which Road Will You Travel?
Paul H. Dunn
You Never Know Who You May Save
Jacob de Jager
A Personal Relationship with the Savior
O. Leslie Stone
Search the Scriptures
Henry D. Taylor
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LeGrand Richards
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Rex D. Pinegar
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Our Own Liahona
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Marvin J. Ashton
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M. Russell Ballard
We Are a Covenant-making People
Joseph Anderson
Teachings of the Apostle Paul
Delbert L. Stapley
Everything to Gain—Nothing to Lose
Gordon B. Hinckley
A Gospel of Conversion
Hartman Rector Jr.
The Lord’s Support System
Robert L. Simpson
“I Have Gained”
S. Dilworth Young
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Vaughn J. Featherstone
The Dead Who Die in the Lord
Bruce R. McConkie
The Greatest Thing in My Life
Robert E. Wells
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Victor L. Brown
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I shall speak of a subject which strikes dread—even terror—into the hearts of most men. It is something we fear, of which we are sorely afraid, and from which most of us would flee if we could.
I shall speak of the passing of the immortal soul into the eternal realms ahead, of that dread day when we shall shuffle off this mortal coil and go back to the dust from whence we came. I shall speak of death—mortal death, the natural death, the death of the body—and of the state of the souls of men when this final consummation is imposed upon them.
Manifestly, we must all be guided and enlightened by the power of the Holy Spirit as we step into this realm, this realm of which carnal men know so little, but of which so much has been revealed to the saints of the Most High.
I pray that my words, spoken by the power of the Holy Ghost, shall sink deeply into your hearts by the power of that same Spirit, so that you will know of their truth and verity.
For a text I take these sweet and consoling words of biblical origin: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” (Ps. 116:15.) To them I append Paul’s pointed and painful pronouncement: “The sting of death is sin.” (1 Cor. 15:56.)
Death can be comforting and sweet and precious or it can thrust upon us all the agonies and sulphurous burnings of an endless hell. And we—each of us individually—make the choice as to which it shall be.
If we are to place death in its proper perspective in the eternal scheme of things, we must first learn the purposes of life. We must know whence we came, Whose we are, and why He placed us here. Only then can we envision whither we shall yet go in the providences of Him who made us.
We know, because the Lord has revealed it in this our day, that we are the spirit children of an exalted, glorified Being, a Holy Man who has a body of flesh and bones and who is our Father in heaven.
We know that the name of the kind of life He lives is eternal life and that it consists of living in the family unit and of possessing all power, all might, and all dominion.
We know that He ordained and established the plan of salvation to enable us to advance and progress from our spirit state, to the same state of glory, honor, and exaltation which He Himself possesses.
We know that the Father’s plan called for the creation of this earth, where we could dwell as mortals, receive bodies made of the dust of the earth, and undergo the tests and trials which now face us.
We know that this plan of salvation included provisions for the fall of man, with its consequent temporal and spiritual death; for a redemption from death through the atoning sacrifice of the Son of God; and for an inheritance of eternal life for all the obedient.
We know that this great plan of progression called for a birth which would provide a mortal tabernacle for our eternal spirits, and for a death which would free those spirits from the frailties, diseases, and weaknesses of mortality.
And may I say that this life never was intended to be easy. It is a probationary estate in which we are tested physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually. We are subject to disease and decay. We are attacked by cancer, leprosy, and contagious diseases. We suffer pain and sorrow and afflictions. Disasters strike; floods sweep away our homes; famines destroy our food; plagues and wars fill our graves with dead bodies and our broken homes with sorrow.
We are called upon to choose between the revealed word of God and the soul-destroying postulates of the theoretical sciences. Temptations, the lusts of the flesh, evils of every sort all these are part of the plan, and must be faced by every person privileged to undergo the experiences of mortality.
The testing processes of mortality are for all men, saints and sinners alike. Sometimes the tests and trials of those who have received the gospel far exceed any imposed upon worldly people. Abraham was called upon to sacrifice his only son. Lehi and his family left their lands and wealth to live in a wilderness. Saints in all ages have been commanded to lay all that they have upon the altar, sometimes even their very lives.
As to the individual trials and problems that befall any of us, all we need say is that in the wisdom of Him who knows all things, and who does all the things well, all of us are given the particular and specific tests that we need in our personal situations. It is to us, His saints, that the Lord speaks when He says: “I will prove you in all things, whether you will abide in my covenant, even unto death, that you may be found worthy.
“For if ye will not abide in my covenant ye are not worthy of me.” (D&C 98:14–15.)
Now, what of death? of the passing of loved ones? of our life beyond the grave?
Our scriptures say: “Death hath passed upon all men, to fulfil the merciful plan of the great Creator.” (2 Ne. 9:6.) Where the true Saints are concerned there is no sorrow in death except that which attends a temporary separation from loved ones. Birth and death are both essential steps in the unfolding drama of eternity.
We shouted for joy at the privilege of becoming mortal because without the tests of mortality there could be no eternal life. We now sing praises to the great Redeemer for the privilege of passing from this life because without death and the resurrection we could not be raised in immortal glory and gain eternal life.
When the faithful saints depart from this life they “are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow” (Alma 40:12), and they remain in this state until the day of their resurrection.
When the wicked and ungodly depart from this life they continue in their wickedness and rebellion. “That same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time ye go out of this life,” the scripture says, “that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.” (Alma 34:34.)
“Ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ,” Nephi said to members of the Church, “having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.” (2 Ne. 31:20.) That is to say—all the faithful Saints, all of those who have endured to the end, depart this life with the absolute guarantee of eternal life.
There is no equivocation, no doubt, no uncertainty in our minds. Those who have been true and faithful in this life will not fall by the wayside in the life to come. If they keep their covenants here and now and depart this life firm and true in the testimony of our blessed Lord, they shall come forth with an inheritance of eternal life.
We do not mean to say that those who die in the Lord, and who are true and faithful in this life, must be perfect in all things when they go into the next sphere of existence. There was only one perfect man—the Lord Jesus whose Father was God.
There have been many righteous souls who have attained relative degrees of perfection, and there have been great hosts of faithful people who have kept the faith, and lived the law, and departed this life with the full assurance of an eventual inheritance of eternal life.
There are many things they will do and must do, even beyond the grave, to merit the fulness of the Father’s kingdom in that final glorious day when the great King shall say unto them, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” (Matt. 25:34.)
But what we are saying is that when the saints of God chart a course of righteousness, when they gain sure testimonies of the truth and divinity of the Lord’s work, when they keep the commandments, when they overcome the world, when they put first in their lives the things of God’s kingdom: when they do all these things, and then depart this life—though they have not yet become perfect—they shall nonetheless gain eternal life in our Father’s kingdom; and eventually they shall be perfect as God their Father and Christ His Son are perfect.
Is it any wonder that the scriptures say: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints”? (Ps. 116:15.) Truly such is precious, wondrous, and glorious, for when the saints die, added souls have assured themselves of exaltation with Him who provided the way for them to advance and progress and become like Him.
Is it any wonder that the scriptures say: “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,” for they shall “rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” (Rev. 14:13.) Truly it is a blessed occasion, for the faithful saints have filled the full measure of their creation, and a gracious God will give them all things in due course.
Is it any wonder that the Lord says to His saints, “Those that die in me shall not taste of death, for it shall be sweet unto them”? (D&C 42:46.)
Is it any wonder that the Prophet Joseph Smith said such things as: “When men are prepared, they are better off to go hence”? (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 326.)
“Those who have died in Jesus Christ may expect to enter into all that fruition of joy when they come forth, which they possessed or anticipated here.” (Teachings, p. 295.)
“In the resurrection, some are raised to be angels, others are raised to become Gods.” (Teachings, p. 312.)
Now, we do not seek death, though it is part of the merciful plan of the great Creator. Rather, we rejoice in life, and desire to live as long as we can be of service to our fellowmen. Faithful saints are a leaven of righteousness in a wicked world.
But sometimes the Lord’s people are hounded and persecuted. Sometimes He deliberately lets His faithful saints linger and suffer, in both body and spirit, to prove them in all things, and to see if they will abide in His covenant, even unto death, that they may be found worthy of eternal life. If such be the lot of any of us, so be it.
But come what may, anything that befalls us here in mortality is but for a small moment, and if we are true and faithful God will eventually exalt us on high. All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.
We shall be raised from mortality to immortality, from corruption to incorruption. We shall come forth from the grave in physical perfection. Not a hair of the head shall be lost, and God shall wipe away all tears.
If we have lived the gospel we shall come forth with celestial bodies which are prepared to stand the glory of a celestial kingdom. We shall continue to live in the family unit, and as Joseph Smith said, “That same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy.” (D&C 130:2.)
We rejoice in life. We rejoice in death. We have no desires except to do the will of Him whose we are and to dwell with Him in His kingdom at the appointed time.
O that it might be with each of us as it was with that valiant apostle of old who said, as the hour of his death approached:
“I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” (2 Tim. 4:6–8.)
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Home Culture Uncovering Ayahuasca: When The Scientist Meets The Shaman.
Uncovering Ayahuasca: When The Scientist Meets The Shaman.
Each person was instructed to grab a small bucket before entering into the temple; It didn’t take long to figure out what these buckets were for. If the darkness of the room was not unnerving enough, the sounds of moaning, heaving, and intense vomiting certainly were.
My body convulses repeatedly, with eyes close, I still ‘see’ a cacophony of light beaming horizontally back and forth. I grab my bucket just in time, feeling as though my insides are about to be forced out, I only manage to dry heave with an intensity as though I’m about to explode.
It’s pitch black—22 individuals from all over the world travel to the ancient Sacred Valley, just outside of Cusco, Peru to partake in an Ayahuasca ceremony. I meet most of the participants before the ceremony begins. The word “consciousness” is thrown about, many are seeking this deeper connection and understanding with themselves, their mind, and the ever-elusive human consciousness; something spirituality and science both have trouble grasping.
Inside a circular temple, the floor is adorned with the “flower of life,” an ancient geometrical pattern that embodies spirituality and mathematics. One by one, each individual kneels down before the shaman as he says a blessing. The light brown brew has a slightly bitter taste and an earthy aroma.
It takes about half an hour for the ayahuasca to take effect. What follows is perhaps one of the most frightening experiences—the candles are put out, apart from the dull moonlight that barely passes through the curtains, you’re staring into absolutely darkness. The silence is broken by the chanting and traditional music from the shaman, he makes bird noises while fanning some dried leaves to a musical beat. The music is suddenly drowned out by the sounds of ‘purging.’ Each person was instructed to grab a small bucket before entering into the temple; It didn’t take long to figure out what these buckets were for. If the darkness of the room was not unnerving enough, the sounds of moaning, heaving, and intense vomiting certainly were.
While each individual’s experience was subjective, a common theme in every story was coming face to face with their own demons—negative experiences not properly dealt with begin to resurface. Some experienced intense shivering and convulsing; the brutal inner journey swings from one end of the spectrum to another, many report seeing their future path laid out before them before being overcome with a peaceful bliss with laughter and smiles.
A team of neuroscientists, led by Dr. Draulio de Araujo provide an intriguing angle in understanding some of Ayahuasca’s effects. Scanning the brains of ten frequent Ayahuasca users after consuming the tea showed increased activity in the Parahippocampal Gyrus (cortical areas BA 30 and BA 37), responsible for the retrieval of autobiographical memories, and the Frontopolar Prefrontal Cortex (BA 10), responsible for working memory and imagining future events.
So, the ability to ‘see’ into your future can be attributed to the activation of the brain’s ability to form vivid imaginations. Similar to the conscious practice of writing down your goals and visualising the outcome, which has been shown to bring about significant results. You are laying out hypothetical but practical steps to achieve a goal.
What is mysterious and unexplainable is the ‘conscious,’ while unconscious, process of uncovering suppressed memories of your past. And then, the ‘guided’ accessing of internal sources and the choice of imagery for a possible future reality. In the midst of an anaesthetic experience, there is still an awareness present.
The study brings into the forefront the hot debate in understanding the brain and the mind/consciousness/awareness. Where does one end and the other begin? As Ayahuasca accesses these memory centres of the brain, where does the vivd awareness of the process reside?
Ever since the Scientific Revolution from the mid 1500’s onward, science and spirituality have been bitter enemies. More recently, it seems an unthinkable romance may blossom—for as much clarity science and empiricism has been able to determine, there’s been an equal arrival at the mystery of human consciousness. The result is an eruption of dialogue between philosophers and neuroscientists, even in agreement with some theories.
While the respective theories and positions are well beyond the scope of this article, it is indeed an exciting cultural and intellectual revolution as scientific research begins to intermingle with ancient practices such as Ayahuasca. Similar studies with fascinating results have been conducted with other natural hallucinogenics—psilocybin mushrooms, salvia, and peyote.
As fascinating as modern research has been in uncovering the neurological activity of Ayahuasca, it’s baffling to consider how ancient tribes understood the synergy necessary among the plants used in Ayahuasca brews to create such a psychedelic-cognitive experience. Perhaps the final word will elude both the scientist and the shaman.
de Araujo, D. B., et al. (2011). Seeing With the Eyes Shut: Neural Basis of Enhanced Imagery Following Ayahuasca Ingestion. Human Brain Mapping, DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21381
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Port Huron schools sell old gym floors to aid fund
The Port Huron Schools endowment fund is raising money by selling off pieces of the old gym floors at Port Huron High School and Port Huron Northern.
Port Huron schools sell old gym floors to aid fund The Port Huron Schools endowment fund is raising money by selling off pieces of the old gym floors at Port Huron High School and Port Huron Northern. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2FTYNEn
Jeremy Ervin, Times Herald Published 12:00 a.m. ET March 19, 2018
The Port Huron Schools endowment fund is raising money by selling off pieces of the old gym floors at Port Huron High School and Port Huron Northern. The floor at Northern was replaced after a $140,000 community fundraising effort in 2016. The new gym floor at Port Huron High was paid for by the bond voters approved in 2016.(Photo: Jeremy Ervin / AP)
Port Huron — Indian Woods Elementary School third grade teacher Kim Randolph graduated from Port Huron Northern High School in 1983.
She remembers attending sports games, pep rallies and a Marti Gras-themed homecoming dance on the wooden floors of the school gym.
Randolph and the rest of the Port Huron Schools community now have a chance to take some of that history home — literally.
The Port Huron Schools endowment fund is raising money by selling off pieces of the old gym floors at Port Huron High School and Port Huron Northern. The floor at Northern was replaced after a $140,000 community fundraising effort in 2016. The new gym floor at Port Huron High was paid for by the bond voters approved in 2016.
“It is my generation that would want a memento of the gym floor,” Randolph said. “We were proud of being a Husky or Big Reds.
“There are quite a few of us still in town raising our children in Port Huron area schools.”
The floor pieces come in a variety of sizes and prices. The smallest pieces range between $10 and $50 and medium pieces range from $100 to $150. Buyers who want their pieces customized can expect to pay a little more.
“It depends on how the wood came apart,” endowment fund board chairwoman Randa Jundi-Samman said.
There are four large pieces that will be auctioned online starting on May 4.
Three of those pieces are the yellow and blue N’s that used to be on Port Huron Northern’s gym floor. The fourth “N’’ will be framed and kept by the school. The bidding will start at $1,000 for these, with overbid increments of $50.
For Port Huron High School fans, one big piece with red letters spelling “Big Reds” is available. The bidding starts at $1,500 with an overbid increment of $50.
Both these large pieces will be available for viewing at Port Huron Northern and Port Huron High on a date yet to be determined.
Orders must be submitted by May 4 and must be picked up from the district building at 2720 Riverside Drive in Port Huron by June 14.
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The letters of Casa Ricordi are an invaluable resource not only for the history of music and especially of opera, but also for our understanding of the complicated rapport between the worlds of art and commerce. Indeed, the company’s ability to strike and safeguard a delicate balance between artistic and business concerns was one of the principal reasons for its success. Throughout its history there has been ample evidence of the tremendous time and energy Casa Ricordi dedicated to relationships with those creative artists whose original work was essential to the publisher’s economic viability and independence; but also with others who shared and helped disseminate the fruits of their labor, including theatres, performers, and music periodicals, not to mention the vast market of consumers both public and private. The autograph letters presented here range from the beginning of its activity until 1948, when Tito II’s resignation marked the end of the family’s stewardship.
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Home Social Trends Semi-final rout raises Australia’s Ashes anxiety
Semi-final rout raises Australia’s Ashes anxiety
SYDNEY: Australian media lamented their team’s “shellacking” by England in the Cricket World Cup semi-final Friday, warning it was an ominous harbinger for the upcoming Ashes series.
Hosts England humbled Australia to secure an eight-wicket win at Edgbaston and set up a decider on Sunday against tournament surprise package New Zealand at Lord’s.
The Age’s Jon Pierik said the five-time champions were “chastened” after a one-sided defeat, pointing to a string of injuries that disrupted Australia’s momentum.
“Their campaign fell apart from the moment Shaun Marsh and Glenn Maxwell were hurt in a torrid net session in Manchester,” he wrote.
“Two days later, (Usman) Khawaja strained a hamstring in the shock defeat to South Africa — only their second loss of the tournament to that point.”
ABC cricket correspondent Geoff Lemon said Australia’s weakened line-up had no answers to an England bowling attack that finally matched the achievements of their free-scoring batters.
“It was the local bowlers who brought the fire. Right from the top, this was England bowling with serious heat,” he said, noting it was the first time Australia had lost in eight semi-final appearances.
Just last month, former Australian captain Mark Taylor warned an England failure at the World Cup would severely dent their confidence in the Ashes Test series, which begins next month.
But such was England’s dominance at Edgbaston that The Australian’s Jacquelin Magnay warned it was the men from Down Under who should be worried.
“The Australian loss should set alarm bells ringing for the upcoming Ashes series, even though the team achieved a lot more than what would have been expected a year ago,” she wrote.
Magnay said the campaign had produced positives for a team that was in disarray last year after the sandpaper-gate cheating scandal.
“Certainly, the captaincy of Aaron Finch, the reliability of Steve Smith and the emergence of Alex Carey as an elite middle-order batsman have been huge wins for Australia throughout this tournament,” she wrote.
“But the fragility of the batting order under sustained pressure is a worry.” (AGENCIES)
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Saudis join West in pulling out Yemen embassy staff
Saudi Arabia, Germany and Italy became the latest countries to withdraw embassy staff from Yemen on Friday as an exodus of foreign diplomats gathered pace over growing security problems.
Long on the front line of the war against Al-Qaeda, Yemen has descended into chaos since Shiite militiamen, known as Huthis, seized Sanaa in September and ousted the government last week.
Riyadh, Berlin and Rome said they had temporarily closed their missions in the capital Sanaa.
Shiite Huthi fighters drive through the Yemeni capital Sanaa on February 11, 2015 ©Mohammed Huwais (AFP/File)
"Due to the deteriorating security and political situation in the Yemeni capital, Saudi Arabia has suspended all embassy operations in Sanaa and evacuated all its staff," the Saudi foreign ministry said.
The United States, Britain and France have rushed to close their embassies over security fears, with US staff destroying top-secret documents and sensitive equipment before pulling out Wednesday.
The Netherlands followed suit the next day.
The Huthis said Western powers had no reason to shut their embassies, insisting that security was solid in the capital.
"The situation is anything but stable," said a German foreign ministry spokeswoman, calling the ouster of the government by the Shiite militiamen "unacceptable, dangerous and with consequences for the region".
"We decided yesterday to temporarily close the embassy in Sanaa and the personnel departed the country early this morning," she said.
The Italian foreign ministry said: "We hope mediation efforts led by UN envoy Jamal Benomar will create security conditions allowing a return of diplomatic personnel to Yemen as soon as possible."
The latest embassy closures came a day after remarks by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who warned Yemen was falling apart.
"Let me be clear: Yemen is collapsing before our eyes. We cannot stand by and watch," Ban told the UN Security Council in New York.
The instability in Yemen has been seized upon by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is expanding its foothold across the country.
AQAP fighters overran an army camp in southern Shabwa province on Thursday, that left 12 troops and 15 militants dead, military officials said, revising an earlier toll of seven killed.
The militants also seized a large quantity of armour and heavy weaponry, including dozens of tanks and army vehicles as well as artillery pieces, an military official said.
They later handed back control of the camp following tribal mediation but kept the weapons, local government officials said.
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On Friday, suspected AQAP militants also shot dead an air force pilot in the southern province of Lahij, a local government official told AFP.
Meanwhile, clashes erupted across several neighbourhoods in the central city of Baida which the militia entered on Tuesday, between the Huthis on one side and tribesmen and Al-Qaeda suspects on the other, leaving at least four people dead, local government sources said.
The Huthis stormed houses in the city and detained residents they accuse of having links to Al-Qaeda, the sources said.
Since seizing Sanaa, the Huthis have pressed into central and southern provinces and clashed regularly with AQAP and local Sunni tribes.
Last week, they dissolved parliament and declared a "presidential council" after Western-backed leader Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi resigned over what he said was an ungovernable situation.
At the weekend, Ban called for Hadi to be fully restored as president, following talks with King Salman in Saudi Arabia which has described the Huthi power grab as a coup.
Benomar said Yemen had reached "a crossroad".
"Either the country will descend into civil war and disintegration, or the country will find a way to put the transition back on track," Benomar told the UN Security Council by video link from Sanaa.
Following closed-door consultations in New York, Britain said it would work with Jordan on a resolution to outline the Security Council's stance on Yemen.
Yemeni security forces stand guard outside the Italian embassy in Sanaa as it was closed temporarily on February 13, 2015 ©Mohammed Huwais (AFP)
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Things to do in Manchester:
The Portico Library
The Portico Library, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY – Visit Now
This well-hidden Manchester library speaks volumes about the lives and times of its 19th century industrialist founders – but what else does it say about the city it calls home? We head up the steps and take a peek inside.
Established in 1806 with members-only areas, club chairs, cooked lunches and neatly laid-out newspapers, the Portico could at first give the impression of a Victorian gentleman’s club. In fact, the Portico was set up as a library and newsroom, a place where gentlemen – and women, after the 1870 Married Women’s Property Act and including the industrial novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell – could gather to digest the shipped-in news. This was the only place in Manchester that you could regularly read the London papers; back in the early 1800s, the Portico was where, politically speaking, it was at.
The Portico was aspirational, to say the least. The city’s earliest Greek Revival building, it was designed by the celebrated architect Thomas Harrison, and the huge Ionic columns that flank its original entrance were more than a passing nod to the intellectual achievements of ancient Greece. Its collection of around 25,000 books on Voyages and Travels, History, Biography, Polite literature (including some impolite literature, too) reflect the mindset of the Georgian and Victorian members who set it up – people like John Dalton (who pioneered atomic theory), Mark Roget (of Thesaurus fame) and the opium eater and essayist, Thomas de Quincey.
Access is now via a side door on Charlotte Street; that original entrance, and the whole of the grand ground floor, has been leased off. This little entrance leads up a narrow set of stairs, unpromising beginnings that open out onto what remains: a great domed gallery surrounded on all sides by mainly 19th century volumes that stand on similarly aged bookcases. Members sit at mahogany tables, researchers leaf through 200 year-old books and – perhaps best of all – tea and cake is served to all-comers, with lunch served also between 12pm-2pm on weekdays.
The gallery is open to the public every day, too, and is a regular venue for events and exhibitions. While there are some parts of the library that are out of bounds, stumbling upon this remnant of a gentlemanly past is an unexpected treat. It says better things about Britain’s privileged history that the library has since diversified, and is open to the people of Manchester, and beyond – to anyone, in fact. It talks quietly of a city that was big on ambition and that had its eyes on the rest of the world. Of men who got together to build a library that would add weight to Manchester’s literary, scientific and political learnings, and of the men and women who work there still. Come here, read and then head out into this UNESCO City of Literature renewed.
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Drug Smugglers Flow Across Our Border, Syrian Christians Don't
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Who should Americans see as worthier candidates for entering our country? Syrian Christians fleeing persecution — and possible beheading by the Islamic State — or smugglers moving drugs across our Mexican border?
Under existing U.S. law, a Christian fleeing from regions in Syria threatened or controlled by the Islamic State could claim asylum here. A smuggler moving drugs across our border has no justification at all.
Yet the way our federal government operates today, drug smugglers routinely cross our border while Christian refugees from Syria almost never do.
A recent report and a data set released by the Obama administration put this in perspective.
The Drug Enforcement Administration's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary, published in October, spells out the consequences of the government's failure to adequately enforce the U.S-Mexico border.
"The most significant drug trafficking organizations operating in the United States today are the dangerous and highly sophisticated Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) that continue to be the principal suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana," said DEA acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg, in a letter introducing the threat assessment.
"These organizations are responsible for the extreme violence seen in Mexico, as these groups battle for turf and attack public officials and innocent civilians," he said. "Domestically, affiliated and violent gangs are increasingly a threat to the safety and security of our communities. They profit primarily by putting drugs on the street and have become crucial to the Mexican cartels."
"The foundation of Mexican TCO operations in the United States is comprised of extended family and friends," says the DEA threat assessment. "Families affiliated with various Mexican TCOs in Mexico vouch for U.S.-based relatives or friends that are deemed trustworthy enough to help run various aspects of the drug trafficking operations in the United States. Actual members of Mexican TCOs are usually sent to important U.S. hub cities to manage stash houses containing drug shipments and bulk cash drug proceeds."
"Mexican TCOs transport the bulk of their drugs over the Southwest Border through ports of entry (POEs) using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers," said DEA.
"Mexican TCOs also smuggle drugs across the Southwest Border using other methods," said the summary. "Marijuana is occasionally trafficked through subterranean tunnels connected to a network of safe houses on both the Mexico and the U.S. sides of the border. Mexican TCOs also transport marijuana via commercial cargo trains and on small boats, often referred to as 'pangas,' from the West Coast of Baja California north to the central California coast. Finally, Mexican TCOs have also transported drugs across the Southwest Border using ultralight aircraft."
As Susan Jones of CNSNews.com reported, the assessment also notes that drug overdoses have become the leading cause of injury deaths in the United States — outnumbering those caused by motor vehicle accidents and guns.
46,471 people died in this country from drug overdoses in 2013.
While the number who died from overdosing on opioid-containing controlled prescription drugs (16,235) outnumbered those who overdosed on cocaine (4,944) and heroin (8,257) in 2013, the annual number of deaths from heroin overdoses has jumped in recent years — rising from 2,402 in 2007.
A State Department database on the flow of refugees also puts perspective on U.S. border enforcement.
As Patrick Goodenough of CNSNews.com reported this week, the State Department's data showed that, as of Monday, 2,184 Syrian refugees had been admitted to the United States since 2011. 2,098 of these were Muslims. Only 53 were Christians.
A rational policy for our government — one aimed at protecting human life and liberty as well as our American way of life — would seal our borders against drug smugglers and radical Islamic terrorists while opening a generous but carefully monitored portal to persecuted Middle Eastern Christians.
Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. To find out more about him, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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SeaDream Yacht Club is a privately-owned cruise line company headquartered in Norway (Oslo). It was established in 2002 by Larry Pimentel and Atle Brynestad. Atle is a Norwegian industrialist and also the founder of the top-luxury brand Seabourn. SeaDream company's owner, CEO and chairman is Atle Brynestad.
One of industry's small cruise lines, SeaDream delivers a luxurious, yet unpretentious "yacht cruise" experience in destinations, such as the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, northern Europe. Itineraries are quite flexible and allow the captain to linger in a port of call if passengers wish so, or to depart early in case rain spoils plans. Following the purchase of two luxury cruise ships (operated before that by Cunard), the new all-inclusive line promoted its innovative style of cruising as "yacht-like". Since its first day of operation, formal wear code is not required as the onboard dress code is officially "resort-casual".
Highlights of the line's luxury cruising experience are the delicious cuisine, an outstanding service, 5-star luxury hotel amenities, sophisticated enrichment program, exotic itineraries to remote ports where other cruise ships can be rarely seen. SeaDream Yacht Club is one of the most all-inclusive cruise lines in the world. Its deals are inclusive of gratuities, all beverages (including alcohol and cocktails), all shore excursions and tours, also the equipment at the watersports marina platform, However, passengers have to pay extra for Spa treatments and the super premium liquor brands at the bars.
The following YouTube video is an official SeaDream release about the line's "top luxury yachting" experience. It shows all the yachts' best features, including suites as configurations/furniture and cabin amenities, all the sophisticated relaxation, entertainment and dining options on the ship, along with the onboard facilities and activities.
SeaDream cruise passengers are sophisticated, laid-back, well-heeled and well-traveled. Ages range largely, staring from guests in their 30s. Solo travelers and occasional large groups of family and friends are not uncommon, though couples predominate.
SeaDream's current fleet includes the yachts SeaDream 1 (1984 built as "Sea Goddess I"), SeaDream 2 (1985 built as "Sea Goddess II") and SeaDream Innovation (2021 September, newbuild/currently under construction).
All shipboard meals are open-seating, with many 2-seat tables available, making the brand a great choice for romantically inclined travelers. Weather permitting, dining is available on the yacht's open deck. Expensive Champagnes are poured generously. There is a weekly Champagne Splash party with caviar. Another unique offer on the yachts is the "sleeping under the stars" experience. It includes either an 8-person bed (on ship's open deck forward) or a double Balinese lounger facing the sea (aft of the "Top of the Yacht Bar").
Itinerary of SeaDream
SeaDream Yacht Club's two mega-yachts (SeaDream 1 and SeaDream 2) spend 2019 summer in Southern Europe (Mediterranean) visiting smaller harbors and premium yacht marinas that large ships can't access. In addition, SeaDream 1 adds calls to Bordeaux. Company's 2019 Mediterranean schedule includes:
Italy, including Amalfi Coast and Taormina
Adriatic Sea, including Slovenia, Montenegro, Croatia, Corinth Canal transits
Spain's Balearic Islands Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza
Northern Africa (Morocco)
Greek Islands, including Patmos, Santorini, Hydra
The French Riviera, including St Tropez, Cassis, Antibes, Monte Carlo
Iberia, including Bilbao, Santander, San Sebastian, Malaga, Marbella, Motril, Lisbon
Passengers interested in longer itineraries can always book combined back-to-back cruises.
Seadream Yacht Club offers an extended itinerary of 9 days from Civitavecchia-Rome to 4 major French Riviera ports in May 2019. Motor-racing buffs can enjoy the Monaco Grand Prix Final. Visiting Cannes, Villefranche-sur-Mer, St-Tropez, SeaDream 1 has full days and mostly late-evening departures in Porto Cervo Marina (Sardinia), Bonifacio and Calvi (Corsica), Portovenere (Ligurian coast) and Portofino (Italy). SeaDream I departs from Civitavecchia on May 18, 2019. Prices start at USD 6350 pp (double occupancy), including food, drinks, power and sail watersports, onboard golf simulator and fitness center, all port charges and taxes, crew gratuities.
SeaDream yachts schedule for 2020 Mediterranean itineraries includes port destinations on the French and Italian Rivieras, Spain's Costa Smeralda, Adriatic Sea and Greek Isles. The program features new ports, many overnights, and land excursions. Passengers can experience an unforgettable vacation while sailing through the Greek Isles, Spanish Mediterranean coast, French and Italian Riviera, and to many less crowded ports in the region. SeaDream's Mediterranean season includes calls in Kusadasi, more itineraries featuring Croatia and Greece, and more overnights to provide ample time for discovering the rich culture and sights of the region.
SeaDream itineraries are combined with "Yachting Land Adventures". Both ships (SeaDream 1 and SeaDream 2) visit ports in Greece and Adriatic Sea. The company returns to Kusadasi Turkey, where passengers can enjoy a live concert at Ephesus (UNESCO site). New call ports in the schedule are Ikaria Island (Greece), Vis Island (Croatia), Santa Maria di Leuca (Italy) and Koper (Slovenia). New homeport in 2020 is Valletta (Malta). SeaDream will also visit Xlendi Bay (Gozo Island, Malta) for the first time in 2020.
Prior to Mediterranean 2020 season, SeaDream cruises in the Caribbean. Highlights include "The Cuba Voyage Collection" (SeaDream 2) out of Cienfuegos or Havana and along Cuba's western coast. A new Caribbean port of call for SeaDream in 2020 is Basseterre (St Kitts).
SeaDream's 2021 Spring Season (January through April) has scheduled visits to popular Caribbean destinations and secluded harbours, private islands, pristine beaches, picturesque towns. SeaDream's 2021 itineraries offer unique destinations like Puerto Rico's islands Culebra and Vieques, and Anegada (BVI's only coral island). Both mega-yachts are homeported in Barbados in 2021 prior to the Transatlantic repositioning to Europe/Mediterranean for the summer.
SeaDream Yacht Club opened reservations for its 2021 Mediterranean season in June 2019. For the first time, the cruise company is due to sail to Israel’s port of Ashdod, which features easy access to the most important cultural hubs of the country, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. With 6 new ports of call, the line's 2021 season ensures returning and new guests embark on an experience of a lifetime as they uncover the most mesmerizing destinations of the Mediterranean in the French and Italian Riviera, the Spanish coast, and Greek Isles.
For the first visit of SeaDream to Israel, SeaDream II departs from port Piraeus on an 11-night cruise with visits to Israel, Cyprus, Turkey. When visiting Ashdod, passengers can access Tel Aviv to explore the White City and the walled Old City of Jerusalem, that is filled with religious and cultural treasures. In Haifa, travellers will be dazzled by the famous Baha’i Gardens, also popular as the Hanging Gardens of Haifa.
Passengers can look forward to discovering new destinations with SeaDream in the 2021 season, including Ksamil, Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Otranto, Ashdod, Haifa, and Agios Nikolaus. To meet the rising demand for Greek itineraries, the twin luxury mega-yachts, SeaDream I and SeaDream II, are due to spend more time than ever in the Adriatic. All 2021 itineraries include at least 1 overnight call, allowing guests more time to explore the Mediterranean’s fascinating destinations and get immersed in the rich culture of the region. Each of the new destinations introduces exciting Yachting Land Adventures with options that appeal to every kind of traveller.
The new liner SeaDream Innovation starts operations in September 2021. Its itineraries visit all the 7 continents, with over 200 call ports in 49 different countries and remote destinations, such as Svalbard and Norway's fjords, Antarctica, Northwest Passage route, Australia New Zealand, Great Barrier Reef, Oceania, East Asia, Alaska. Bookings opened on April 17, 2019.
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Halliburton spill probe resolved. Will BP contractor cut another deal?
Halliburton has agreed to pay a fine for its role in the 2010 Gulf oil spill, thereby resolving a U.S. Justice Department criminal probe. Still, Halliburton, the cement contractor involved in the spill, has a powerful incentive to cut another deal with businesses and residents.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., after the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Halliburton has resolved a probe into its role in the spill, but the cement contractor could still cut another deal.
By Michael Kunzelman Associated Press
Halliburton has resolved a U.S. Justice Department criminal probe of its role in the 2010 Gulf oil spill by agreeing to pay a $200,000 fine and admitting it destroyed evidence, but the company still has a powerful incentive to cut another deal with businesses and residents.
The plea agreement doesn't shield Halliburton from a high-stakes decision by a federal judge, who is considering how much the companies involved in the well blowout should pay for damage from the nation's worst offshore oil spill. How much each pays would be determined by how much fault the judge assigns them for the disaster that killed 11 workers and led to millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Texas-based Halliburton, which was British oil giant BP's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded, can take its chances on getting a favorable ruling by a U.S. judge. Or it can eliminate much of the risk and potential liability by settling with a team of attorneys for tens of thousands of Gulf Coast businesses and residents who claim the spill cost them money.
The guilty plea could apply more pressure on Halliburton to get a deal done before the judge rules.
An arraignment for Halliburton is scheduled for Wednesday. It's unclear when the company will plead guilty.
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In a regulatory filing Friday, Halliburton said it is participating in court-facilitated settlement discussions to resolve a "substantial portion" of the private claims pending before the judge. But the pace of those talks has recently slowed while BP challenges a portion of its own multibillion-dollar settlement with the team of plaintiffs' lawyers, the filing says.
Halliburton won't face any other criminal charges in connection with the case, though individual employees could still be charged. The Justice Department agreed not to prosecute the company for any other conduct related to the blowout.
When BP reached its own criminal settlement with the Justice Department, it agreed to pay a record $4 billion and plead guilty to manslaughter charges for the deaths of the rig workers. Rig owner Transocean Ltd., meanwhile, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and agreed to pay $400 million in criminal penalties.
Fadel Gheit, an Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. senior analyst who covers the oil and gas industry, said he was surprised that the criminal settlement didn't cost Halliburton far more money.
"I call it a traffic violation," he said. "This is for (a company) that destroyed evidence, for heaven's sake."
The destruction of evidence involved a post-spill review of the cement job on BP's well.
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In their response two weeks ago, Halliburton attorneys claimed there was no evidence thatHalliburton or its employees concealed or destroyed evidence.
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BRITISH AIRWAYS LAUDS HIGH FLYING ST. LUCIA RESORT
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Anse Chastanet receives top marks from British Airways.
SOUFRIERE, ST. LUCIA, March 9, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — St. Lucia's renowned luxury resort Anse Chastanet has received a British Airways Customer Excellence Award for 2018 with an impressive overall rating of 9.1 out of 10.
Speaking from Germany, where she is attending one of the world's leading travel trade shows, ITB Berlin, resort Executive Director Karolin Troubetzkoy attributed the award not only to location, but also to the hard work and dedication of the resort's staff.
“I have the honor of running an incredible resort in one of the most scenic and beautiful parts of the world. But more important, I have the distinct pleasure of working with some of the most exceptional hospitality professionals and incredible human beings you can come across,” she explained.
The rating, which showcases hotels that make their guests happiest, is based on unbiased customer reviews. As part of its commitment to providing high-quality holidays, British Airways Holidays uses customer feedback to find and rate the best hotels. It works with Reevoo, an independent third-party company, to collect customer reviews from genuine British Airways Holidays clients, who score hotels based on location, service, cleanliness, and sleep quality. Respondents also give the hotel an overall score out of 10.
Troubetzkoy also congratulated fellow St. Lucia hotels Bay Gardens Hotel, Bel Jou Hotel, Coco Palm, East Winds, Rendezvous, Serenity at Coconut Bay, and The BodyHoliday for being recognized by British Airways.
British Airways Holidays has gathered over 80,000 independent hotel reviews this year. In 2018, it awarded almost 450 Customer Excellence Awards across the globe to recognize its top-rated hotels.
“Anse Chastanet has been recognized by British Airways holidays www.britishairways.com/holidays customers for providing a high-quality customer experience. We are delighted to inform you that you are one of our highest-rated hotels for 2018,” Claire Bentley, Managing Director of British Airways Holidays informed Anse Chastanet.
For further information, visit https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/destinations/hotel-information/St-Lucia/Anse-Chastanet/LC-SLU-4597000.
About Anse Chastanet
Anse Chastanet is set amid a lush 600-acre estate with two soft-sand beaches and breathtaking views of St. Lucia's twin Pitons mountains, the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amidst St. Lucia's lush tropical beauty, activities range from jungle biking, hiking and bird watching to snorkeling on the reef within swimming distance of the beach. The environmentally friendly, award-winning resort comprises 49 individually designed rooms, 37 of which are scattered about a lush hillside, and 12 that are nestled within a tropical garden at beach level. It offers innovative menus, one entirely vegetarian, in four different locations and features fresh produce served up from the resort's organic farm. Guests can take in interactive chocolate-making classes in the resort's chocolate laboratory and a variety of water sports are also on offer.
For more information, visit www.ansechastanet.com.
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PSSST Offers an Alternative to the Art World Status Quo
Janelle Zara
Photography by Aubree Bernier-Clarke
Barnett Cohen and Jules Gimbrone.
At PSSST, a new nonprofit artists’ space that opened in June in Los Angeles’ booming, formerly industrial Boyle Heights district, co-founders Barnett Cohen and Jules Gimbrone ask that you put away your phone. And unlike the other galleries in the neighborhood—Maccarone, Venus and 356 Mission among them—their openings won’t be serving alcohol or renting any taco trucks.
“If you value art, and if you value the artist,” says Cohen, “be with the work that they created, and ask more of yourself in terms of being present with it.”
It’s the mindset of a very different kind of space. At PSSST, Cohen and Gimbrone identify neither as gallerists nor curators, but as artists, and promote the idea of artists supporting other artists. Their goal is to provide an alternative to the market-based model that currently rules the art world, and run an all-inclusive space for “underrepresented artists—women, people of color, and LGBTQ-identified.”
“Right now, artists, just like other people in this country, are in crisis—one driven by ego, a real lack of self-worth and self-esteem,” says Gimbrone. “They feel they have no resources, and they feel the need to compete with rather than support each other. If we want to take risks and experiment, we have to rethink this model.”
A large part of PSSST’s model is exploring the possibility of a sustainable middle ground between the starving artist and the Jeff Koonses of the world, promoting economic viability for artists. “Artists essentially just don’t get paid for their labor,” says Cohen. “We’re expected to do a lot of free shit for exposure, and I don’t think exposure is enough.”
The space itself is rigged to support a broad range of artists, especially those who work in sound, performance or other media that isn’t created to be bought or sold. After the owner of a 5,000-square-foot former Thai-food distribution plant gave them a 20-year, rent-free lease on the space, local architect Daveed Kapoor began construction in September 2015 to outfit the space with the amenities they had found lacking elsewhere as performance-based artists themselves. With its sprung floors, modular A/V and elaborate lighting system, the space morphs easily between a gallery, concert hall, theater and dance floor, creating a home for exhibitions as well as performances, workshops, screenings and more. They even built four live-work spaces beyond the main exhibition floor to host both their own practices and two artists-in-residence.
Their ambitions, although high, are quickly summarized in the name they chose. “It’s a bit like pissed, as if we’re mad about things, but also it means lean in,” says Gimbrone. “It’s an invitation,” Cohen adds, one that is extended to all.
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Curated Place launch ENLIGHT EU-wide Light Art production network connecting UK, Italy and Norway
Curated Place has partnered with MIRIAD at the Manchester School of Art, I/O/Lab (Stavanger) and FONDAZIONE mondo DIGITALE (Rome) to form the European Light Expression Network (ENLIGHT), which will build on our existing programme to offer six international residencies connecting artists with technicians and scientists to create a series of accessible, large-scale public realm Light Art works.
The network will deliver a range of festivals, workshops, masterclasses and debates alongside professional development meetings and an online resource for organisations involved. As well as the residencies we will run two focused creative labs welcoming artists and technologists selected from across Europe to Rome and Manchester.
The presentation of these artworks will then take place at the established light and technology festivals/events already run by the partners, including Rome Media Art Festival, the innovative media arts festival Article Biennial in Stavanger, Enlighten Festival of Light and Sound Art in Manchester and the brilliantly successful Spectra, Aberdeen's Festival of Lightsupported by Aberdeen City Council's International Twinning Grant connecting Stavanger and Aberdeen.
We will be announcing the open call for artists in the coming week and you can be the first to hear by signing up to our news feeds on the links below. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, it promises to be quite a special opportunity to create new work with real support.
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i/o/labis an artist-run organization with expertise in the field of art, technology and science. Their expertise extends from production to dissemination and knowledge of art within new technology and science.They represent the region's most innovative arts festival focusing on media art that expresses contemporary technology and trends, Article Biennial, which has been arranged in the Stavanger region since 2006.
Fondazione Mondo Digitale deliver digital education programmes nationally in Italy and run the Rome Media Art Festival. They are committed to the creation of an inclusive learning society in which innovation, education, inclusion and fundamental values work together.
Manchester Arts School's research department MIRIAD carries forward Manchester's proud 175 year tradition in art and design education, whilst offering an innovative and modern approach to research and study. MIRIAD's main aim is to develop research capabilities commensurate with sustainable national and international levels of excellence.
Spectra Aberdeen's Festival of Light is a festival of high quality performances, spaces and works of art that marry light, sound and interactive experiences. Featuring major public realm and gallery installations alongside new experimental works from the North East’s creative community the festival enlivens the city and celebrates Aberdeen’s creative past, present and future.
Supported by The International Twinning Grant
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Looking back on Enlighten 2015 and forward to SPECTRA 2016
As the final installation comes down, Kathy Hinde's Luminous Birds, we're looking back at the success of Enlighten Manchester Festival of Light and Sound Art 2015.
Featuring an epic 22 installations throughout the Manchester Central Library and The Bridgewater Hall, this stunning festival lit up the dampened dark nights before Christmas, drawing large audiences in from the cold.
Visitors' imaginations were sparked by birds soaring across piano strings to create musical scores; a chandelier of sparkling earrings and a cutting edge sound and light installation that is felt not seen.
Visitors also enjoyed the nightly concerts, which began with the world premiere of The Bremen Town Musicians, a music and live animation work inspired by bestselling author Philip Pullman’s new translation of the Brothers’ Grimm fairy tales. The concert included a specially commissioned score by celebrated film composer Enrica Sciandrone for new music ensemble Psappha.
On Friday evening Kathy Hinde and Matthew Olden presented a live performance of Piano Migrations, which transforms the inside of a recycled piano into a kinetic sound sculpture. We watched enthralled as dozens of small birds landing on telegraph lines appeared to flutter and settle on its strings. Nature appeared to control machines as they came together to create a delicate and ever-changing musical score.
For the Festival's final performance Kay Duncan David performed to a packed room, his pieceRelayin which sound and light are combined in a rhythmic, trance-inducing play of echoey clicks and dancing shadows.
Enlighten 2015 was featured in press throughout Manchester and nationally, including in Creative Tourist, The Skinny, That's Manchester TV, Manchester Evening News and BBC News.
Creative Tourist:http://www.creativetourist.com/articles/art/manchester/enlighten-festival-2015-electrifying-manchester/
The Skinny:http://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/news/enlighten-festival-manchester-christmas
That's Manchester TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA8irMEwf7g
Thank you to everyone who made Enlighten 2015 such a success and we look forward to working again with you soon!
There is little time to relax however, as we prepare to launch SPECTRA: Aberdeen's Festival of Light in February.
In partnership with Aberdeen City Council we will deliver a four day light spectacular spanning from Union Terrace Gardens to the Kirk of St Nicholas graveyard and into the signature building of the Granite City Marischal College, celebrating the Scottish Year of Architecture, Innovation & Design through this year’s theme “Spark of Inspiration”.
The festival brings together leading international artists and Scottish collaborators, featuring major public realm and gallery installations alongside new experimental works from the North East’s creative community. The audience will be invited to engage with playful, accessible and high quality performances, spaces and works of art that marry light, sound and interactive experiences.
Read the Festival Programme here
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Visible Words From Invisible People Gallery
As part of Enlighten Manchester Festival of Light and Sound Art 2015, Curated Place collaborated with RECLAIM project and artist Richard William Wheater.
Focusing on the silenced voices of young people in society, the project created a series of neon statements from working class young people aged 13-19 years old, which were then photographed by David Lindsay around the city and displayed in Manchester Central Library, during Enlighten Festival in December 2015.
‘Being visible is so important. It determines your next step, allows people to acknowledge you and demands attention. I see this neon as a battle cry for the young people around the world.’ Mariama, aged 15
This collection of photographs documenting the project are on display at the Royal Exchange Theatre from Saturday 23rd January to Saturday 30th January.
Find out more about the project
Photographer: David Lindsay
This project is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
in collaboration with RECLAIM Project
categories: Art, Collaborative Compositions, Installation, Our Projects, Photography
The First Cycle Music and Art Festival received a great response
August was an exciting month seeing the Moving Classics team all come together in Iceland to deliver our first Cycle Music and Art Festival in Kopavogur. The festival is the main platform for Curated Place's Moving Classics - European Network for New Music to showcase the work of our composers and as well as being meeting point of creative worlds, producing and presenting works that reach outside the traditional boundaries of discipline, craft and process.
We presented over 26 events over four days and featured two Moving Classics premières – ‘Surrounded by Strangers’ written for the South Iceland Chamber Choir by Eyvind Gulbrandsen and ‘36000 Years Alongside Buabo’ written for Pinquins percussion trio by Brice Catherin. The festival received a great response from the public and the press seeing more than 6000 attending various events and concerts over the four days.
“Cycle Music & Art Festival is one of the most interesting addition to the Icelandic festival landscape this year”
– Kristján Gunnarson, critic at DV national newspaper, Iceland
Big thanks and congratulations to the Icelandic Festival team, composers, musicians, artists, volunteers and everyone involved.
Photos by Rut Sigurdardottir Photography.
Visit Moving Classics - European Network for New Music for more information about the programme or sign up to our newsletter and keep up to date with our activities. Moving Classics is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
categories: Art, International, Moving Classics, Music, Our Projects, Performance
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H.R.1301 - Mental Health Telemedicine Expansion Act116th Congress (2019-2020) |
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Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-16] 04/08/2019
Rep. Craig, Angie [D-MN-2] 04/08/2019
Rep. Rouda, Harley [D-CA-48] 04/08/2019
Rep. Marshall, Roger W. [R-KS-1] 04/08/2019
Rep. Finkenauer, Abby [D-IA-1] 04/15/2019
Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6] 04/15/2019
Rep. Watkins, Steve [R-KS-2] 04/15/2019
Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2] 05/01/2019
Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3] 05/01/2019
Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] 05/03/2019
Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4] 05/21/2019
Rep. Wild, Susan [D-PA-7] 06/06/2019
Rep. Horn, Kendra S. [D-OK-5] 06/06/2019
Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4] 06/25/2019
Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6] 06/27/2019
Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3] 07/11/2019
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Oklahoma [1]
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Legislation 110 (2007-2008) Legislative Subject : Home schooling House
1. H.R.6737 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Education Tax Deduction for All Act of 2008 Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2] (Introduced 07/31/2008) Cosponsors: (7) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 07/31/2008 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
2. H.R.6307 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Fostering Connections to Success Act Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] (Introduced 06/19/2008) Cosponsors: (27) Committees: House - Ways and Means | Senate - Finance Latest Action: Senate - 06/25/2008 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (All Actions) Notes: For further action, see H.R.6893, which became Public Law 110-351 on 10/7/2008. Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 2008-06-24 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5921-5927) [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Passed House )
3. H.R.1058 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Hope Plus Scholarship Act of 2007 Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14] (Introduced 02/14/2007) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 02/14/2007 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:
4. H.R.1056 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Family Education Freedom Act of 2007 Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14] (Introduced 02/14/2007) Cosponsors: (7) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: 02/15/2007 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (All Actions) Tracker:
5. H.Res.1076 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Calling upon the courts to uphold the fundamental and constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children. Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25] (Introduced 04/03/2008) Cosponsors: (57) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 06/03/2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. (All Actions) Tracker:
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Taxation [3]
Families [1]
Law [1]
Finance [1]
Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties [1]
Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property [1]
Paul, Ron [R-TX] [2]
Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI] [1]
McDermott, Jim [D-WA] [1]
McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA] [1]
Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD] [3]
Feeney, Tom [R-FL] [3]
Miller, Jeff [R-FL] [3]
Franks, Trent [R-AZ] [2]
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