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Tennessee tax-free weekend: What to know before hitting the stores
Are TVs tax free this weekend? What about online orders? We can help you with that before this no tax weekend ends late Sunday night.
Tennessee tax-free weekend: What to know before hitting the stores Are TVs tax free this weekend? What about online orders? We can help you with that before this no tax weekend ends late Sunday night. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/shopping/ms-cheap/2018/07/22/tennessee-tax-free-weekend-included-exempt-online/805845002/
Mary Hance, Nashville Tennessean Published 6:00 a.m. CT July 22, 2018 | Updated 9:00 a.m. CT July 29, 2018
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A balloon advertises Tennessee's tax-free weekend at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Shoppers search for back-to-school supplies at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville during Tennessee's tax-free weekend, Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Margie and Cecil Mitchell of Knoxville, although not shopping for back-to-school items, take a look at tax-free pens for their household at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville during Tennessee's tax-free weekend, Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Shoppers search for back-to-school supplies at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville during Tennessee's tax free weekend, Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Sharon Willson, 11, going into sixth grade, smiles while looking for back-to-school supplies at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville during Tennessee's tax-free weekend, Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
A back-to-school sign hangs behind Boyce Smith, Walmart's regional e-commerce coach, at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville during Tennessee's tax-free weekend, Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Noah Smith, 16, and going into 10th grade shops for back-to-school supplies at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville during Tennessee's tax-free weekend, Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Vicki Reedy of Knoxville holds a back-to-school shopping list for incoming Karns eighth grader Ramsey Glasgow at the Knoxville Walmart Supercenter on Walbrook Drive in West Knoxville during Tennessee's tax-free weekend, Friday, July 28, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Customers pass by signs at Opry Mills advertising tax-free weekend sales during the Tennessee sales tax holiday July 29-31on Friday, July 29, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.(Photo: Larry McCormack / The Tennessean)
Here are the basics on Tennessee's tax-free weekend:
The state's annual sales tax holiday takes place every year on the last weekend in July. This year's tax-free holiday weekend begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 27, and ends at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, July 29.
What is exempt?
During the holiday weekend, computers, laptops and tablets with a purchase price of $1,500 or less, and apparel and school supplies with a purchase price of $100 or less per item, are exempt from state sales tax.
School supplies are defined as items used by a student in a course of study, such as pens and pencils, paper, notebooks, erasers, glue and scissors.
Exempt clothing is defined as apparel for humans for general use. It does not include accessories such as jewelry or handbags, or sports and recreational equipment such as baseball gloves.
Computers, laptops and tablets with a purchase price of $1,500 or less qualify. For purposes of this exemption, a computer is defined as a central processing unit (CPU), along with various components including monitor, keyboard, mouse, cables to connect components and preloaded software.
Does tax free weekend apply online?
The same exemptions apply to Internet sales, as well as phone and email orders. Qualifying items are exempt from sales tax if you make the purchase during the sales tax holiday and the retailer accepts the order during the three-day window.
How does layaway work?
A lot of people have wanted to know how the tax holiday works for layaway purchases. The deal is that qualified clothing is exempt when final payments are made by customers on items previously placed on layaway. When customers put clothing items on layaway during the holiday period, they also will be tax-exempt when final payment and delivery are made after the exemption period.
What is not exempt?
Computer parts, such as monitors, keyboards, speakers and scanners, when not sold in conjunction with a CPU; individually purchased software or other software not part of a preloaded software package on the initial purchase of a computer; storage media such as compact discs and USB flash drives; personal digital assistants (PDAs) and electronic readers; video game consoles; computer printers and supplies for printers, such as paper and ink.
Gray areas
There are some gray areas such as Kindles and Nooks — revenue officials say that if they are tablet computer equivalents, they are exempt, but if they are simply readers, they are not.
And the law says, "No items used in trade or business are exempt under these provisions."
So, while you could buy yourself a tax-free iPad this weekend, you could not use the weekend to buy 50 of them for your office.
Another example would be scrubs. Scrubs that are under the $100 clothing threshold and that individuals purchase would be exempt because they are considered to be uniforms. However, if the scrubs were under $100 and a hospital or doctor’s office purchased them, they would be for business use and, therefore, be taxed.
Tennessee is one of 16 states with a tax-free weekend. Five states do not charge sales tax at any time: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon.
For more details, visit www.tntaxholiday.com.
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Giancarlo Stanton rumors: Where do things stand Wednesday?
By Tim Healey
Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter discusses the need and ways to increase the team's revenue, plus the trade rumors swirling about the Marlins and Giancarlo Stanton.
Thanksgiving week is a time for family, food and … franchise-changing trades, sometimes.
Michael Hill, the Marlins’ president of baseball operations, is no stranger to that combination. In 2005, Turkey Day became trade day for Hill, when the Marlins made two huge deals, sending Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell to the Red Sox and Carlos Delgado to the Mets.
“You always know,” Hill said last week, “there’s the possibility you have to stop carving your turkey and go finish off a deal.”
Twelve years later, the Marlins again find themselves in trade talks that would alter the course of the club as they look to trade Giancarlo Stanton. The Giants and Cardinals have both made trade offers for the NL MVP, according to multiple reports, so negotiations have certainly gained momentum since the preliminary talks at the GM Meetings last week.
It’s hard to tell, though, when things will get hot and heavy, Thanksgiving or otherwise.
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“Everything goes at its own pace,” Hill said. “You don’t know how things will move once they start to move.”
Here’s a rundown of the latest reports and rumors, plus a list of teams said to be interested (in approximate order of perceived likelihood of being Stanton’s eventual landing spot) and why each would or wouldn’t make sense.
Wednesday rumors
11:54 a.m.: The Giants are officially the favorites to acquire Stanton — officially, that is, from online oddsmaker Bovada.
The sportsbook is allowing people to bet on where Stanton ends up. The Giants (-150) are the favorite. Also listed as options are the Cardinals (+250), Red Sox (+700), Dodgers (+800), Yankees (+1600) and Phillies (+1600). The field (“any other team”) is also an option at +1400.
Tuesday rumors
12:29 p.m.: Mark Feinsand of MLB.com cited a source who believes the Giants are the favorite to acquire Stanton, saying the Giants and Marlins have had “deeper discussions” about a deal.
Monday rundown
** San Francisco Giants: The Giants have been seen as a favorite to acquire Stanton since the summer for a couple of reasons: their financial might and their geographic location. The working assumption is Stanton, a Southern California native, would be willing to waive his no-trade clause to go to his native state, though it’s worth noting there has been no firm indication of Stanton’s actual preferences or thought process.
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The names exchanged between the teams, according to Craig Mish of SiriusXM: from the Giants’ side, second baseman Joe Panik, pitching prospect Tyler Beede and outfield/first base prospect Chris Shaw; from the Marlins’ side, Stanton and second baseman Dee Gordon, who Miami is also open to moving this winter. Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle said those names were “not close to actual framework” for a deal.
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** St. Louis Cardinals: Unlike the Giants, whose most attractive trait as a trade partner is ability to take on most of Stanton’s money, the Cardinals have a farm system loaded with high-end pitching prospects, which the Marlins love. Mish mentioned one in the Cardinals’ offer: right-hander Sandy Alcantara. St. Louis’ inventory also included righty Alex Reyes (Cardinals’ No. 1 prospect and MLB’s No. 14 prospect, according to MLB.com), righty Jack Flaherty (Cardinals’ No. 3, MLB’s No. 47) and righty Dakota Hudson (Cardinals’ No. 8). Alcantara ranks behind those three as the club’s No. 9 prospect.
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There have been questions about Stanton’s willingness to go to St. Louis, but again, he hasn’t said anything publicly on the matter. Stanton, who has never been on a winning team, has indicated plenty of times in the recent past that he wants to win. The Cardinals, who haven’t finished under .500 since the year Stanton graduated from high school, could help him do that.
** Boston Red Sox: Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported that the Red Sox are expected to make or have made an offer for Stanton. It looks like a match on paper — the Red Sox need a power hitter, the Marlins need to get rid of theirs — but there are simpler, more cost-effective and logical options for Boston. The Red Sox’s lack of high-end prospects means they would probably have to subtract a youngster from their major league roster (say, Andrew Benintendi or Rafael Devers), which would minimize the net gain of adding Stanton. Still, logic or not, you can never rule out president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski making a blockbuster move.
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** Philadelphia Phillies: The Phillies are still in the non-competitive portion of their rebuilding cycle, and though they have money to spend — they have only one player, Odubel Herrera, signed for 2018 — they aren’t expected to add major payroll this winter. The Phillies have decided Stanton isn’t a fit, according to Matt Gelb of Philly.com, and Stanton’s previously stated desire to not be a part of another Marlins rebuild isn’t a great sign for him theoretically waiving his no-trade to go to Philly.
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** Los Angeles Dodgers: A lot of boxes are checked off here: big-money team with room to spend, prospect inventory to deal from, Stanton’s hometown team. But the Dodgers are as disciplined and reasoned an organization as any under top execs Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi, and there has been little indication they’ll seriously jump into the Stanton sweepstakes. Still, the above factors are there, and after the Dodgers lost in Game 7 of the World Series, you can’t rule it out. They briefly checked in with the Marlins on Stanton last week, according to multiple reports. As the true cost to acquire Stanton — as determined by the Marlins’ talks with other teams — becomes clearer, the Dodgers could choose to get involved.
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** New York Yankees: Once over the summer and once this month, the Yankees touched base with the Marlins about Stanton’s availability, according to Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports. But there is little to suggest it’ll go anywhere past that. The Yankees are in as enviable a spot as any team in baseball (non-World Series champion Astros division) given their young core, loaded farm and ability to spend. Acquiring Stanton — at a high payroll and prospect cost — would run counter to the disciplined, build-from-within strategy that they have stuck to so well in recent years. (It would also thrust into question their ability to spend next offseason, when Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, among others, are due to become free agents.)
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The Elders are the Party of the Century
TEP | Louisville, Kentucky USA | 10/21/2007
"(Please note: the author met The Elders as they flew right after their gig at the World Fest on the Belvedere above the Ohio River in downtown, Louisville, Kentucky to their gig as the headliner band on Saturday Night at the Irish Fest at Crown Center in Kansas City, where over 20,000 screaming fans and a sold out terrace lawn crowd, as fire marshals had to close stairways to the venue and shut off ticket sales at the gates for the safety of the crowds already waiting. Crowds of over 85,000 attended the Irish Fest 2007 were pleased. The Elders gave the Party of the Century and brought out the masses! This year's Irish fest wiped out the festival's debt!)
My experience with The Elders in person and at a live concert:
At Standiford International Airport, waiting in Southwest Airline's section, tapping my feet, listening to my ipod, relying on my CD uploads, my selected music to break up the boring monotony of waiting for a plane in Louisville, Kentucky's airport to board, and early at that. I was an easy mark for a nice bunch of leprechauns to step out and convert me to a new genre of music.
Something so new to my ears: rock, with hints of pop rock, bluegrass, Celtic, Appalachian, country, a little jazz, sounds of such experienced showmen, wise directors and promoters of their craft, that under their seducing musical spell, I paused and took note. Something transfixed me. What is this pull? Something I instantly loved, something familiar...traces and reminiscences of an ancestor sailing to this shore...someone I knew long ago? How remarkable is this? As you listen, they share their Celtic stories and you will recognize them as someone worthy, someone you are supposed to know.
The Elders' music takes you back to every American's roots regardless of your heritage...and fills your soul with the courage of your immigrant ancestors. The power in Brent Hoad's violin strings uplifts and sustains you. Its strength sings to your soul. The Elders make you remember the lessons of your ancestors who gave you life and teach you to honor and dance with your ghosts and fill you with enough heirloom courage for a lifetime.
As The Elders play many different venues, from outdoor concerts to pubs, to whatever Kansas City fundraisers that appeal to them, this DVD, "Live at the Gem" gives you just a taste of their magic at indoor performances. Go see them in concert and share the fun and their madness: watch and hear them perform and be part of the Best Crowds they have ever seen!
[...]"
Great music and top presentation for a new band and group
John G. Foley | San Jose, Ca. | 04/05/2008
"This group typifies the energy of the Irish culture that has moved through
their music choice and brought the product to world class performance."
Typical Public TV Fare
Robert Shepard Jr. | USA | 01/13/2008
"First, let me say this: If I were reviewing just the music, this DVD would rate five stars, no question. The Elders are great! I first heard them this past September, when I got to see them perform live at the Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park. I fell in love with their energetic music despite an "iffy" sound system which had the volume cranked way too high for my own comfort. If I were to pigeonhole their style, it would be "Irish Country Rock".
The instrumental tracks "Michael's Ride" and "Turnpike", in particular, remind me of classic hoedown music. It's pretty obvious where bluegrass comes from. Another one, "Love of the Century", reminded me so much of John Denver that I went out and got an anthology of his classics, the kind of stuff I grew up on back in the 1970's. Such was the power of the nostalgia The Elders' music evoked in me. And "1849" packs a major emotional wallop, due to the fact that I first heard it the very week I learned that a close relative had cancer. Something about that wailing chorus raises my hackles every time I hear it.
I'm reminded of Runrig, a major Scottish rock band: They, like The Elders, tend to write very serious songs of remembrance and longing for bygone days, decrying the terrible injustices done to the Scottish and Irish peoples. Neither band pulls any punches. While I'm not, so far as I know, of Irish descent, I certainly am of Scottish and Welsh stock, so The Elders' music resonates with me quite strongly.
Of course, some of the music is in a lighter vein, such as "Packy Go Home", about a truant little boy who stokes the boiler too high and blows up his school. Another cheerful one is "Send a Prayer".
I listened to the CD version of "Live at The Gem", along with studio album "Racing The Tide", for a couple of months before deciding to get the live DVD as well. While it was enjoyable, it did leave me somewhat disappointed. I had hoped to see the complete program, with all 14 songs in order, along with all of the introductory comments by the group members. A good example of this sort of thing would be "The Moody Blues at Red Rocks". Unfortunately, the DVD was pretty heavily edited.
The DVD insert contains thanks to "all the wonderful folks at Kansas City Public Television", and that says it all right there. The main program consisted of 11 songs, interspersed with interviews of various fans. The remaining three songs are stuck willy-nilly at the end as "bonus tracks", and look like they might have been recorded on a different evening.
What really bothered me was what they did to "Men of Erin". This is, next to "1849", the most moving song of the whole evening, in glorious four-part vocal harmony, completely a capella. In Estes Park, I got to hear closing bagpipes as in the original studio version, but the pipes are absent from "Live at The Gem".
Basically, the editors butchered the song. I got to hear something like 1-1/2 verses, and in the middle they cut away to an interview of someone praising the role The Elders play in the Kansas City Celtic music community. While I'm sure that's a good thing, I really wish they could have saved that little tidbit until after the song. I kept expecting to see a scene of a whole bunch of people toiling away in a phone bank, phones ringing incessantly, while viewers are urged to pony up if they want to continue receiving quality programming like this.
Oh well, there's no use in ranting about it. If you're really devoted to The Elders, or are just curious about what one of their shows looks like, you'll probably want this DVD, despite its shortcomings. I'd likely still have gotten it, even knowing what I do now.
I would also recommend getting the companion CD. Enjoy!
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Brexit: Liberty Wins!
Wow! Brexit has won. Once again, the Diplomad general rule on polling holds true, "when 'polls are too close to call' the progressives are going to lose."
So many thoughts on Brexit and what it means, it will be hard to keep this post short and sweet.
First, the BBC. What was that all about? The sort of idiots who believed everything Ben Rhodes said about the Iran deal, or what Obama said about Obamacare, or Hillary said about anything and everything, must have cousins who run the BBC. That once venerable institution, once the world's reporting gold standard, is but a hack leftist/establishment/in-house organ with horrifically biased anti-"Leave" reporting and commentary. I, of course, knew "Leave" would win when the BBC kept saying the issue was "too close to call." If the Brexit vote has internal consequences, I hope one is the complete gutting of the BBC.
Last April, I wrote a few thoughts on Brexit. The gist of those was that the "Remain" side was making a mistake with the heavy use of (often bogus) economic stats. I saw the economic argument as basically a wash, and that,
the force driving the pro-Brexit movement is not solely or even mostly about economics, or finance, or currency exchange rates. It is about something much, much more important. It is about reclaiming the soul of Britain; preserving and restoring that which made Britain, notably England, one of the world's greatest countries, a nation of stunning consequence. It is about deciding whether the great British traditions and innovations that have made our modern world are worth saving or should be discarded. <...> The same people who so strongly support Britain's membership in the EU seem the same who oppose halting the foreign invasion. Now we see the Muslim hordes gathering just across the channel, champing at the bit to get over and enjoy the land of "the white dudes," before they destroy it, to do what Hitler could never. <...> [W]hat's driving the anti-EU movement in Britain is the need to save the country, or what's left of it. Perhaps without the EU and its courts and mandates, British common sense can prevail, and the UK be saved, or at least England--and if the Scots want to stay in the EU, they should have another referendum and swap London's "rule" for that of Brussels, that'll teach 'em.
I think that analysis stands.
If you look at how the vote was spread across the UK, you can see that in England and Wales working and middle class areas most strongly favored "Leave." London, with its hordes of immigrants, low information students, "intellectual elites," and Euro-trash bankers, voted "Remain." Scotland, well, Scotland was Scotland; still not over Charles II, Scottish voters went with Continental Europe rather than with England. England and Wales carried the day for Brexit. We will see renewed calls for Scottish independence, and maybe for some sort of new arrangement between pro-EU Northern Ireland and pro-EU Ireland. All possible. None of it negates the blow struck for freedom and common sense by English and Welsh voters. If Scotland wants to go join a dying EU, let 'em. Let's see how they like Sharia law.
Back in May 2013, when discussing the right of national defense, I noted re Britain,
It seems that perhaps, perhaps, perhaps you can only push the English tribe so far. We perhaps are seeing the stirrings of a "backlash," in others words, of a demand that those who live in England, and enjoy its freedoms and benefits, comply with English law and tradition, or get voted and booted off the island. <...> [I]t appears, it seems, just maybe--the British, and the English, in particular, have begun to reach their limit. We see, for example, the rise of the UKIP--somewhat similar to the Tea Party movement here in the US--calling foul on the EU and its socialist/totalitarian pretensions and challenging the increasingly ossified Tory party to stand up for Britain.
I think that analysis also still holds. I would note that PM Cameron, the ossified leader of the ossified Tories, has announced his resignation in the wake of the defeat of the "Remain" campaign which he so ineptly championed with that mixture of arrogance and condescension one expects from an establishment politician. Good riddance.
As we see here in the USA, our political and intellectual betters do not want to deal with the real issues. They cannot bring themselves to see value in our culture and beliefs, and the need to defend them. Last May, I wrote,
Western civilization also has the right of "national defense," at least as much as does a tribe in the Amazon or on Papua. Just as the Japanese have the right to exclude whomever they wish from Japan--try immigrating there--so do the citizens of Australia, the UK, Canada, Israel, the US, etc. As I have said so many times that I am becoming a boring old hack, believing in the values of Western civilization does not mean that we have to write a suicide note for that civilization. We, for example, do not have to acquiesce to the jihadist invasion now underway in Europe solely because we believe in such human rights as religious tolerance. I repeat, the Magna Carta and the Constitution are not suicide pacts.
That holds, too.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Nigel Farage, who more than anybody else (even you, Boris) waged the battle against the EU. He fought incredible odds, underwent an unrelenting savaging by the establishment, and stuck to his guns even in the darkest days. He and others now need to watch out for the classic tricks of the progressive establishment to try to nullify the voters' will with legal battles and endless negotiations.
The international consequences?
We will see some turmoil in markets; investors don't like change, but that will sort itself out. Brexit should send a shiver down the spines of entrenched bureaucrats everywhere. Here in the States it will prove a plus for the Trump campaign--he, after all, endorsed Brexit, and understood what drove it. That, of course, in marked contrast to Obama and Clinton.
The rest of the EU? Third strike and you're out: Greece, Islamic invasion, and Brexit.
We could and will see other countries begin to look for the exit path--e.g., Netherlands--and that will be bad news for the euro and so much else that has been built up around the monstrous "European Project" over the past few decades. Eastern Europe must be casting an even more nervous eye towards Russia, and the Germans and the French must question the role their leaders have played in the EU disaster. Lots of parts in motion right now. NATO? Potentially more important than ever.
Brexit is a good thing.
More thoughts, more organized, a bit later.
Hold on a minute! This was not a united England giving the finger(s) to Brussels. This was a very narrow win by one group of English punters over another group of English punters -- 52/48. And on a very serious topic, where the losers are unlikely to accept defeat.
Rather, what we are seeing here is the opening shots in the next English Civil War between two fairly evenly balanced sides. How will it end? Who can say -- maybe with the independent City State of London remaining in the EU while the rest of England stumbles outside in confusion.
To paraphrase Churchill, this is not the end of the beginning; this is the beginning of the beginning.
"This was a very narrow win by one group of English punters over another group of English punters -- 52/48."
I'm not so sure about that. That just looking at "the numbers" suggest its an even split - fails to appreciate what we seem to be looking at which is apparently, the elites (& the young and the too comfortable) out and out dismissive of the sorts of people who do the actual hard work of, "making a country work."
"The rest of England [stumbling] in confusion"?
That I very much doubt.
"Those" are the people who; seventy+ years ago set themselves to the task at hand.
http://warontherocks.com/2016/06/why-does-the-united-states-oppose-brexit-i-cant-say/
Brett June 24, 2016 at 7:09 PM
Toys are, and will for some time, be thrown from leftie prams; but to suggest a civil war is patently absurd. There will certainly be attempts to undermine or stop BREXIT using delay, obfuscation, attacks on the validity of the referendum and attempts to get another (much like the refusal to accept the original votes in Ireland) but the problem for the EU is that the outcome will ignite calls and the push for other continental countries to vote and leave the EU, and those will be far greater and more immediate problems for the EU than BREXIT. The EU constantly shows itself be be anti-democratic and doubling down now isn't going to help it at all; it will increase the determination of other countries to leave as well.
And to make good my point; there is now a real push for in/out referenda in France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Hungary.
Merkel is now saying there should be a 'constructive exit' with the UK ending up as an 'associated partner', which probably means preserving trade ties; after all there will be 2.44 billion Euro hole in the EU finances after Britain leaves, and the freeloaders in the EU won't fill it, and Germany will need to keep selling Mercs, BMWs and Porsches to pay for it. Sound like the revolt at home on the continent might make the BREXIT pale in significance.
Lynn Sykes June 25, 2016 at 12:03 PM
Toys thrown from leftie prams. Nice.
Art Deco June 25, 2016 at 8:21 PM
FN in France is not UKIP. It's somewhat tainted, but it's showing is a passable gauge of patriotism in France. Tentatively, it appears to have displaced the Socialist Party and Les Republicains as the most popular party in France.
NATO always has been FAR more important than the EU.
Alan Anderson June 24, 2016 at 4:55 PM
Today Brexit., tomorrow Paul Ryan..
Ryan and John Boehner have been less troublesome characters than AM McConnell. One of the pities of recent years is that Mr. Bevin (now Governor of Kentucky) was not quite able to take him out in 2014.
RM Kaus has been making the case that Ryan and his pal Vin Weber are open-borders extremists. I primary win by Ryan's challenger would be another whiff of grapeshot for the Capitol Hill / K Street nexus.
Robert of Ottawa June 25, 2016 at 11:26 PM
George Will came out of the closet in favor of CLinton (OK He quit pretending to be conservative).
What so many Repub "leaders" do not understand is that, despite their words, they have done nothing. Hence revolt!
The only problem with winning brexit is that the liberals have time to pull the win out of the loss. The time factors.
leaperman
Seems that toasters and tea kettles were the last straw here. Just too long of an arm of gov't. regulation invading a Brit's castle.
Brexit’ to be followed by Grexit. Departugal. Italeave. Fruckoff. Czechout. Oustria. Finish. Slovakout. Latervia. Byegium.
ronnie b June 25, 2016 at 6:50 AM
Grexit. Departugal. Italeave. Fruckoff. Czechout. Oustria. Finish. Slovakout. Latervia. Byegium....you gotta some spicy meatball in data word salad!
Bye Bye~~~
Stephen June 24, 2016 at 9:10 PM
When I've discussed this with friends here in The Great South Land, I've used this analogy:
Let's put it into a local hypothetical scenario.
Let's say there is a Pacific Economic Union (pronounced peeeyew) and it's headquarters are in Fiji.
The people running the show are unelected.
They make Australia's laws, which we can't refuse.
Australia pays them kazillions per year in taxes.
Would it be better to STAY or LEAVE?
Should we stay or Should we go?
"...say there is a Pacific Economic Union (pronounced peeeyew) and it's headquarters are in Fiji..." 'unelected, and taxed without representation'
PU, that smells even more rotten than something in Denmark! Was it the Danish King who said "Off with their Heads"? Skoal! Belch! ;)
"Let's Roll"
I see that the vote was indeed close and within the margin of error, so the anti-pollster bias here is unwarranted. This actually is somewhat of a verification of the idea that the progressives' power is overstated because the question cut across a lot of constituencies.
That said, notice too that a significant minority is always going to unenthusiastically vote "change nothing." U think that over the long term this is something like a third overall.
So even a short win by the powers of change is more than it seems, and that of the remain sorts is weaker than they appear.
DiploMad June 24, 2016 at 11:51 PM
Well, it seems that the pollsters are usually more than willing to call it for the progressive cause. This proved the case here, too, for most--not all--of the polling. Too close to call . . .
James June 25, 2016 at 7:09 AM
If you consider the murder of the MP just before the election as giving the "Remains" a big poll boost then the results would have been much better than 52 to 48 if it had not happened.
James the Lesser
George W. Potts June 26, 2016 at 2:06 AM
And I don't know ... do a lot of dead people also vote in Britain?
Flying Tiger June 25, 2016 at 1:35 AM
As much as they want to neither the anti-anglosaxon marxists of the EU nor their champions elsewhere can quite manage to say
"Nothing important happened today"
"I would note that PM Cameron, the ossified leader of the ossified Tories, has announced his resignation in the wake of the defeat of the "Remain" campaign which he so ineptly championed with that mixture of arrogance and condescension one expects from an establishment politician."
I wouldn't call him 'ossified'. He's only 50. I'd call him a careerist ad man type. All of Mrs. Thatcher's successors have been disappointments to one degree or another. Kudos to Ian Duncan Smith and Michael Howard for plumping for Brexit, though. John Major and Wm. Hague played the tool. Hague was particularly repulsive.
Cameron's first employer in the world of British politics has given accounts of his attitudes ca. 1995 and evidently he has for all that time been an ideologue in one respect: Europhilia. I think his resignation is far more graceful than anything BO has ever done. No one bests our feckless leader on the conceits meter.
Scottish particularlism conjoins a resentment of Westminster with a hankering after rule by the sort in Brussels Nigel Farage referred to as a 'damp rag' and 'low grade bank clerk'. Scottish Nationalism is silly.
What I'm hoping happens next is that the countries who can leave with the least fuss start doing so, and that's the ones who abstained from adopting the Euro. Hungary and Poland have sensible patriotic governments.
The next thing I'd like to see happen is a country successfully get out of the Euro. Bank holiday, sort the vault cash into locally printed and minted items and foreign-origin Euro coin and bills, send the foreign origin to the central bank in return for reserves on deposit, stamp the domestically printed bills as a mnemonic device, announce that foreign exchange will be auctioned in quantitative tranches each month which will in turn determine the adjustable currency peg, and open up the banks for business and start trading the new currency at 1-to-1 and let it find its value over about 15 months. The Mediterranean countries would benefit from a devaluation.
Only one downside. When the Scots can get nearly as much from EU subsidies as from UK subsidies and leave the latter, they may lease naval bases to Putin. The SNP is just contrary enough.
Sturgeon's speech is on Youtube. It's risible and pathetic. The SNP position makes no sense but you can see the motivation in Andre Agassi's old signature line "Image is Everything".
AKM June 26, 2016 at 11:08 AM
That will be handy, in the unlikely event that Putin ends up with naval bases in Scotland and we end up in a shooting war, because the RAF won't have to fly nearly so far to bomb them. Much easier than attacking Russian bases that are actually in Russia.
With oil at Sixty (thereabouts for the foreseeable future) talk about Scotland pulling off building a bridge to Berlin is more than a metaphorical stretch.
The SNP will, before it can do anything at all effectively will, stop and take some deep breaths. Several deep breaths.
Art, for the left, image is not quite everything. That's only tactical. They do have important destruction to wreak.
AKM, having enemy naval bases, especially submarine bases, conveniently handy wasn't such an advantage to the U.K. in the last war, if I recall my history. And submarine warfare is stickier than ever.
Anonymous, Putin is president in Moscow, not Berlin. And that must be a Biden more-than-metaphorical. Oh, yes, the energy markets forseeable future just passed.
whitewall June 26, 2016 at 4:30 PM
Seems like our media elites here are outdoing themselves in hysterical reaction to Brexit. The idea of the peasant working class upending their world view seems to be too much for them to take.
Factoring out Scotland, who didn't want to be part of the UK anyways, it's a landslide for brexit. We'll call it 48/52 for courtesy I guess.
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Woman Forms Incredible Bond With Bee Who Needed A Friend
"She seemed so happy to see me ... she thrived on company, even from another species."
By Stephen Messenger
Last year, Fiona Presly formed an unlikely friendship she won't soon forget.
While gardening outside her home in Scotland at the beginning of spring, Presly noticed a queen bumblebee at her feet, seeming quite cold and disoriented. Afraid the little insect might get stepped on, she stooped down to place the bee on a flower — not knowing at the time that this queen wasn't like the rest.
"I picked her up and noticed there was something peculiar," Presly told The Dodo. "She had no wings."
Fiona Presly
Unsure of how else to help, Presly offered the bee some sugar water and set her on some flowering heather, hoping she would be able to manage on her own. Upon checking the spot a few hours later, however, she discovered that the bee hadn't moved.
To make matters worse, a heavy storm was about to start — so Presly went one step further.
"I took her inside that night, kept her warm and fed her more," she said. "I thought I would put her out the next day, but the weather was bad then too. So I kept her inside."
Presly contacted the Bumblebee Conservation Trust for help and came to learn that the bee likely had a virus known to cause problems in wing development. The queen's chances of survival in the wild were slim without the ability to fly.
But seeing that the bee was otherwise healthy, Presly decided to give her a chance to live. And that meant getting creative.
"I made a garden for her," Presly said.
Since the bee, now formally named Bee, would have to walk from flower to flower to feed, Presly built her a private floral buffet. Using some netting, she built Bee an enclosure full of blossoms where her winged counterparts couldn't reach to deplete the pollen.
Bee now had it good.
Presly continued to check on Bee daily, bringing her tiny cups of sugar water if she seemed lethargic and carrying her indoors if the weather turned sour.
Little could Presly have guessed that a remarkable bond would soon form between her and that fuzzy bug she rescued.
Eventually, each time Presly would drop by the enclosed garden, something unexpected began happening — Bee would eagerly emerge from the foliage to greet her.
"She'd walk toward me and crawl on my hand," Presly said. "She seemed so happy to see me. It made me stop and think — there’s something going on here."
For reasons that Presly couldn't explain, Bee seemed to genuinely enjoy being in contact with her. She seemed to light up whenever Presly was around to hold her.
"It was like her whole being came to life. I think she liked the fact that she wasn’t alone," Presly said. "I think she thrived on company, even from another species. They are naturally sociable creatures. That would be in their instinct."
Presly was likewise smitten with Bee, who seemed to regard her as a real friend.
"We were quite comfortable with each other," she said. "There were things going on with this bee that were quite something."
To Presly's family and friends, it was clear that she and Bee were bonded.
Normally, a queen bumblebee would spend the spring and summer building a nest, mating and starting a colony — finally dying at the approach of autumn.
Under Presly's care, Bee had outlived them all. But her time eventually ran out.
Five months after being rescued, Bee fell asleep in Presly's hand and never woke up again.
"I was sad when she died, but I knew it was going to happen. She was already older than she should have been," Presley said. "It had been very special to stay with a wee creature, like Bee. The fact that she lived more than just a few weeks amazed me. That was rewarding in itself."
Afterward, Presly buried Bee's body in her garden — joined by a favorite flower.
Presly's experience with Bee, and the magical bond they formed, was unexpected — but it's opened her eyes to the notion that the world may be more filled with feelings than most people realize.
"Now I view all insects in a different light. It’s changed my perception of what insects are like," she said. "I think there’s an awful lot we don’t know."
Though Presly admits she doesn't know what Bee actually felt in her little heart, she suspects there might be something to learn from their time together. So, she contacted Lars Chittka, professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, with her account.
And in an article on the topic, Chittka acknowledges that Bee's example could change our understanding of creatures like her as a whole:
"Sometimes it takes an outsider’s careful observations, such as Mrs. Presly’s, to generate fresh views and prompt important questions."
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Do politicians belong in disaster zones?
Published July 9, 2013 Updated May 11, 2018
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It is de rigueur for politicians to make an appearance in every disaster zone - be it a flood, a hurricane, an earthquake, or a train wreck. On the weekend, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was at the site of the Lac-Mégantic derailment disaster before the fire was even extinguished. So were Quebec Premier Pauline Marois and Thomas Mulcair, leader of the official opposition.
We saw a similar and predictable scenario unfold in Calgary during the floods: The Prime Minister, Premier Alison Redford and a seemingly endless stampede of opposition leaders, ministers and backbenchers rolled into town before the flood waters even began to recede and made the obligatory, well-scripted appearance(s) before the TV cameras. (Liberal leader Justin Trudeau was a little late to Lac-Mégantic because he was still in Alberta making flood-related appearances.)
There is no doubt what we expect of public officials in times of crisis: A stoic public presence, some re-assuring words and a lot of practical information.
During the recent disasters, that no-nonsense role was performed admirably by Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi – and to a lesser extent by Lac-Mégantic Mayor Colette Roy-Laroche – but, as local leaders they have direct, close and immediate supervisory and administrative responsibilities.
The real question that needs to be asked is about the role of outsiders, of the mucky-mucks who descend like guardian angels, or a plague of locusts, depending on your perspective.
In times of crisis, is the presence of politicians a help or a hindrance? Do they do anything useful, or just place cause additional grief to already overburdened local police, and get in the way of rescue and clean-up efforts?
Or does the motorcade rolling into town send a powerful message that "we care," provide a morale boost for front-line workers, and ensure that the locals not be left to fend for themselves?
Does the appearance of a prime minister or premier, however brief, help attract attention and hence much-needed donations to organizations doing real relief work on the ground, like the Canadian Red Cross Society?
These are not easy questions to answer.
One can be cynical and conclude that politicians flock to disaster scenes because the TV cameras are there and they want to exploit the situation to score partisan points.
But it's not that simple.
How a politician responds to a disaster can make or break their career. No one wants to be seen as indifferent or uncaring. No one wants to be the elected official who stayed at the cottage while Rome (or Lac-Mégantic) burned. Paradoxically, the public also frowns upon politicians who over-politicize disasters. So it's a delicate balance.
Despite all-too-common disdain for politicians, most do care. They are in public life because they want to make a difference. The concern they express when they touch down in disaster zones is genuine.
Disasters, aside from their impact on affected individuals, can have a profound influence on public policy. One runaway train will generate more policy discussion and action on transportation and environmental policies than 100 Parliamentary debates, and a single flood will influence land-use policies more than 1,000 earnest environmental studies.
For better or worse, most of our public policy decisions are reactive, not proactive.
So maybe it's useful for politicians to occasionally breathe in some rancid air and get their feet wet in disaster zones.
What is not useful though is for them to do so by rote. Far too many appearances that are occurring in disaster zones are simply butt-covering, checking off a perceived duty from a list.
Our leaders need to think a little harder about how to best show leadership.
Many years ago, at the height of the SARS crisis, then Ontario Health Minister Tony Clement attended a Blue Jays baseball game: It was a bold political move, a way of saying life should go on during the disease outbreak; it was also much more useful and impactful than the minister getting in the way in a hospital, on the front lines.
In short, there is more than one way to show you care, more than one way to influence public policy.
It takes a lot more effort and political courage to offer up policies on averting disasters than it does to promise disaster relief. And there is no guarantee the cameras will be there if you dare look forward and not back.
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Paris Jackson Defends Missing Janet Jackson Performance, Says Family Problems Are Private
by Simon Delott at May 22, 2018 12:19 pm . Updated at May 22, 2018 1:12 pm .
Fans and viewers watched in awe as Janet Jackson totally owned the stage at the Billboard Music Awards.
But when the camera panned to some of her family in the audience, some folks were surprised and even saddened to see that Paris Jackson was nowhere to be seen.
Paris responded to the flurry of questions, but she'd really prefer for intrusive fans to mind their own beeswax. That's fair.
Taking to social media, Paris writes:
"Dear social media followers, friends, stalkers, lovers and haters, and fellow moonwalkers:"
That is such a sweet and fun way of addressing everyone, including fans of her late father.
"Please do not tell me/demands/try to control how I handle my relationship with the people in my life."
That is a very fair boundary to set with her fans. And she gets more specific.
"Specifically my family."
Though she has used social media to clap back at family members who think she's going to die, that was her conversation to reveal.
She says that her family's highs and lows are very personal.
"As amazing and as s--tty as things can be, it is no one’s business but ours."
But she acknowledges why so many fans lose perspective when it comes to the Jackson family.
"I understand that some of you feel some sort of connection or need to be a part of our lives considering you watched us grow up."
She understands, but she's very politely laying down the law.
"However, I am handling my situation exactly how my father did."
Meaning that she is not going to spill specific details about family troubles.
"And I am happy keeping it that way."
She emphasizes that, even when there are problems (which she isn't denying), she loves her family.
"I will always have love and respect for my family. ALWAYS."
Speaking to her fans who want to know more, she makes it clear that even a family that is considered American Royalty has normal family problems.
"Every family has their moments of trauma, heartbreak, separation, love, oneness, tribe, pain, everything. EVERY FAMILY."
But because she is famous, their issues are consumed by millions.
"My family, specifically, and a good number of others … well, our drama is broadcasted worldwide through media."
Just because something is widely reported does not make it unusual, however.
"But that doesn’t mean our family issues are any different from yours."
Except, of course, in one major way.
"Ours are just made public."
Paris continues, saying:
"Every level has another devil."
That is a quote that is sometimes attributed to Tyrese Gibson.
"Every life has their own s--t to deal with."
"We ain’t inferior or superior to y’all. We’re all f--king human."
She then takes that we're all human line to shame the people who are demanding that she divulge family drama.
"So let’s act like it."
She emphasizes that she loves her fans, however.
"I appreciate any and every person reading this."
She also makes it clear that she's not whining about her life, in case there was any doubt.
"And I’m grateful for everything in my life, positive and negative."
When one tabloid took to Twitter to say that Paris' statement hadn't really cleared up anything, Paris responded.
Understandably, she got a little heated.
"And you clearly didn’t get the message. mind. your. own."
Business. That's what she wants people to mind.
"Should i spell it out for you in wooden alphabet blocks?"
We somehow doubt that this would make it clearer.
"No one told me about the performance or award. not my family or my management so take a hike dude."
She has revealed recently that some members of her family have not called or otherwise contacted her for some time.
For those still curious about her business, Paris did offer a little further context to why she isn't always in the loop on every single thing that members of her extended family get up to.
"i also have like a job and like a life i’m trying to provide for myself n my doggo."
She's a model and an actress, folks.
It is totally okay to wonder about what's going on in the family of people whom you admire.
But when all that's going on is some behind-the-scenes family drama and nobody's getting hurt, try to avoid demanding answers from your faves.
They're real people with real feelings.
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A city of art and industry, Dortmund lies at the southern end of the Dortmund-Ems canal. Boasting excellent museums, fascinating art galleries, beautiful public parks and the haunting remnants of Nazi Germany, it makes for a fascination destination for history lovers and those wishing to immerse themselves in German culture. Our collection of the best places to stay in Dortmund are ideally positioned for accessing all the city has to offer.
Dortmund has a long, rich history. First mentioned in 885, it became a Free Imperial City in 1220 and subsequently joined the Hanseatic Trade League, fast-becoming a booming trading centre in the Middle Ages. Following the Thirty Years War, it fell into quick decline but the 19th century saw a reversal of its fortunes, enshrining the city as a centre of heavy industry in the form of coal and iron ore mining; its canal underwent an expansion and it saw rapid levels of growth, before being brutally subjected to Allied bombing during WWII.
In the aftermath of WWII, many of its medieval churches were reconstructed, like the Marienkirche - originally built between the 11th and 14th centuries - an architectural marriage of Romanesque and Gothic styles. St. Reynold's Church is also a must-see: with its gorgeous Baroque spire, Romanesque nave and Gothic chancel, it is a delightful historical hodgepodge of different styles. In an hour of reflection, be sure to visit the Steinwache, a haunting reminder of the perils of Nazi ideology: a former Gestapo police station where thousands of political prisoners were interred, the cells beneath have graffiti on the walls from the prisoners themselves.
As for art, you are spoilt for choice. The Museum Ostwall should be high on anyone's priority list for sightseeing: featuring modern, abstract works from the likes of Picasso and Salvador Dali. The Museum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, another great gallery, features classical works from the 18th to the 19th centuries. There is also an excellent Brewery Museum, detailing the laborious process of beer-making, and offers some splendid guided tours of the facilities. Afterwards, be sure to head out to one of the many beer gardens lining the city streets and sip on some local beer at the Alter Markt with a plate of Salzkuchen - a bagel coated with caraway seeds and lined with pork and onions, a local delicacy.
What not to miss
Take the lift to the top of the Florianturm - a 140m high television tower - boasting gorgeous panoramic views of the city!
Head to the southernmost part of the city and explore the ruins of the Hohensyburg - a 12th century fortress on an outcrop.
Reflect on the dangers of authoritarianism at the Steinwache, a former Gestapo police station where thousands of political prisoners were interred.
Visit the Museum Ostwall and marvel at paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso.
Go for a quiet stroll through the beautiful botanical garden of Botanischer Garten Rambergpark - one of the largest of its kind - full of lemon and fern trees.
Find some solace in St. Reinold's Church, a beautiful mix of Romanesque, Baroque and Gothic styles.
With so much on offer this is undeniably a popular spot so in order to ensure a room at one of the best places to stay in Dortmund we recommend planning your trip well in advance.
The best places to stay in Dortmund
The Grey: a sleek, chic minimalist hotel in the heart of the city. Offering lush, ultra-modern rooms and a bowling alley for guests, it is the height of trendiness. Ideal for young couples.
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Gururaja Rao’s last days followed a familiar routine. He would walk to the Flushing Hindu temple, wearing a Mets baseball cap and carrying a tote bag with folders of bhajan lyrics. He’d lost his voice years before, but would mouth along with the words. Afterward, he’d stop by the Flushing Queens Library, thumb through newspapers, and memorize the political talking points of the week. Occasionally, he’d visit the bustling strip of Chinese grocery stores to shop. Eventually, he’d head back to his apartment.
When he passed away one cold November morning, there was no question of where his body would be cremated. At 87, he had spent more time in Queens than he had in his hometown of Hyderabad.
And yet, there were no crematoriums that allowed our community to follow the exact rituals ordained by the Hindu faith. There was no space to circle the chamber that held Rao’s burning body, as if he were on a traditional funeral pyre, and his body couldn’t burn for hours into ashes, as it would have back home.
Instead, we squeezed into Fresh Pond Crematory in Queens. At the press of a button, flames engulfed his body; a minute later, the flames had disappeared.
At death, we return home. But home, for a new, aging generation of South Asians, is the U.S. For many, after-death practices in the U.S. require compromising on tradition — even as cremations have become more popular than burials and despite attempts to build more Muslim cemeteries.
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Home » Are music’s “sad bois” no longer sad?
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Are music’s “sad bois” no longer sad?
In 2019, it’s more acceptable than ever for boys and men to show their sadness. Be that a condition of the internet age or simply evolution, the fact is that some of the most interesting music around is being made and produced by the musicians who take pride in being sad– even in the traditional hypermasculine world that is hip-hop, where showing the kinks in their armour was once a sign of weakness.
Artists undergo a musical and personal evolution, meaning that one album’s heartbreak might soon be replaced with euphoria; Kanye West’s “808s & Heartbreak,” for example, was followed by the epic “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” a complete musical reinvention which, though still at times melancholic, saw him freed from the now-reductive “sad boi” label. Kanye’s personal musical evolution gave us the golden phrase “closed on Sunday, you’re my chick-fil-a”. Thank you Kanye, very cool.
Not necessarily every artist will undergo that personal evolution and channel it wonderfully through music, but overall it is undeniable that the genre itself is changing. Male angst no longer dominates the music industry as it used to. It’s interesting to see us no longer solely bonding over the darkness of the deep ambience of Frank Ocean’s music, but also connected to Khalid’s carefreeness and Rex Orange County’s songs about best friends. We are witnessing the growth and development of these artists because society is finally allowing this expression.
There’s no doubt we still crave the candlelit laser precise description of our heartbreak from Frank Ocean (I’m looking at you Camp Flog Gnaw crowd). We will always need an outlet to be in our feels. The deaths of Lil Peep and Xxxtencion certainly threw a spotlight towards the edgy “sad boi.” Their deaths catapulted a theme of dark SoundCloud music into the mainstream media while this happy theme was emerging.
Tyler the Creator, for example, no longer raps about rancid and frankly absurd themes that had him banned from first world countries, but of lighter personable themes as we saw on “IGOR.” Rex Orange County no longer ventures through the themes of his hatred for his previous ex relationships, but now sings about friendship and appreciates the growth said relationships gave him.
Music is a more common outlet to display raw emotion. Take Juice Wrld, his music is phenomenally dark and will inevitably catch you thinking of the former relationship you were never in. Still, the desire for someone who vocalizes emotions in such a raw and effortless way shows that there is now and always will be a cultural need for artists to explore these themes.
Society’s de-stigmatisation of discussions about mental health, heartbreak and the raw male emotion has made us open to themes of that go beyond the binary. The freedom to create music that’s neutral, complex and representative of the wide spectrum of possible human emotion is something that we should truly appreciate and aim to emulate.
Iman Sami is a freshman majoring in political science.
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A man was treated at the scene following a stabbing in Ferryhill early this morning, January 8, 2020
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“The great strength or our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always concealed by another name, and another occupations.” – Adam Weishaupt/Founder of the Illuminati
Let no man or woman dare speak of a shadow government. The crony corruptocrats that make up the ruling elites of the world must maintain the illusion, that elected governments are based upon willful consent and have the legitimate authority to establish rules of conduct that their citizen are obligated to obey. For those regimes that maintain their grip of power by undemocratic means, the apologists for the international community give a wide berth of acceptance in order to maintain the appearance of individual national sovereignty.
In the essay, There Is No Conspiracy – Only Official Policy provides a study in power politics when a banana republic dares defy the moneychangers.
“The lesson for world leaders is you don’t cross the masters of power, but for Americans it is that a world run by the IMF never benefits us, the people. The enactment of the FTAA is just one more element in the grand scheme of global rule. There is no need to dapple in extraordinary theories; it is all in the open for everyone to see. The policy is clear – the nations of the world are mere colonies to the interests of the ruling elites. Citizens of countries and their elected leaders are mere subjects of the international community. Not exactly the revered Republic that we all owe allegiance, is it?”
The pattern of retribution against any tin horn leaders that refuse to succumb to the boot of the World Bank or the IMF is in plain sight. Just ask the mutilated and deceased Muhammad al-Gaddafi for testimony of the enforcement treatment one can expect for opposing the world financial plutocracy. While the imperium empire of drone warfare, targets governments that oppose the global hegemony, the behind the screens discord among varied vying factions often goes unnoticed.
The Constitution Society sees the nature of The Shadow Government differently from most popular interpretations of the power elite.
Some of the best indications that the Shadow Government is not centered in the financial sector are the things it has to do to finance itself. Shadow Government is expensive. We can identify the main sources of its revenue:
(1) Black budgets. This is the core of its operations, but is not enough to secure its control over the country and the world.
(2) Drug trade. It has seized control of the major part of the illegal traffic in addictive substances, in part by using the organs of law enforcement to eliminate competition, and by gaining control of the money and the ways it gets re-introduced into the economy.
(3) Raiding financial institutions. This is what was done with the S&Ls, and is being done, more slowly, with the banks. It involves several aspects: diversion of the funds, seizure of smaller institutions by a few large ones under Shadow Government control, with the seizure financed by the taxpayers, and acquisition under distressed prices of the assets of those institutions, many of which are well-positioned business enterprises that give the Shadow Government both control of the key enterprises in most business sectors and sources of revenue. The Savings & Loan raid was used to finance a major expansion of the Shadow Government. However, it is not a method that can be repeated.
(4) Public authorities. These are quasi-governmental enterprises that control substantial assets, often taxpayer-subsidized, without effective accountability. They include housing, port, energy, water, transportation, and educational authorities. To this might also be added various utilities, and both public and publicly-regulated private monopolies, like local telephone and cable companies. They are also a major source of government contracts.
(5) Government contracts. Major source of diverted funds, but must often be shared with others involved.
(6) Arms trade. Another major source of funds, both direct and diverted. But requires payoffs to local officials.
What this viewpoint ignores is that the tactics of subversive operations frequently demand undercover execution and plausible deniability. The methods of covert operations conducted by black bag operatives avoid the question; who really controls the intelligence agencies? It is a fatal error to reject the prevalent role of the money center institutions and central banks in the unified network of financial control and global integration.
A more perceptive breakdown by Richard Boylan Ph.D. offers a structural analysis of the secret “shadow” government.
In the Shadow Government five branches may be identified. These branches are: the Executive Branch, the Intelligence Branch, the War Department, the Weapons Industry Branch, and the Financial Department.
An analysis of the overall purposes of these five branches suggests that the overall purpose of the Shadow Government is to exercise covert control by:
1. Collecting comprehensive institutional and personal information
2. By establishing national and international policy independently of the established Government
3. By developing high-tech arms and equipment, and, with these, establishing small, specialized, highly mobile, elite military units to effect these covert policies, when need arises, without having to rely on the official (and “unreliable”) Armed Services, (whose subservience to the Shadow Government is reasonably suspect)
4. By developing an armed capability to repel any threat to the status quo, (including the uncertain ontological, social, and economic impacts of any revelation of the reality of UFO and extraterrestrial presence) through the development of a Star Wars/BMDO ground and space-based surveillance and SDI weapons network
5. By denying information compromising to the Shadow Government from all those outside “need-to-know” policy-making levels
6. By exercising control on the money supply, availability of credit, and the worth of money, through policy decisions made outside of the official Government
The essential political planetary threat that faces humanity is rooted in the globalist drive to accelerate their NWO plans for a neo-colonial feudal hierarchy. The New World Order Feudal Enslavement System outlines the plot. However, the elements that comprise the surreptitious functions and assignments of shadow government missions need to maintain a clandestine secrecy to be effective. Stealth practices often foster perpetual public ignorance.
Contrast this with maybe the best example of the most visible globalist institution that is used by the shadow elites as their private administration tool for worldwide compliance. The John Birch video U.N. and the United States | John F. McManus presents the argument that Americanism is incompatible with the international community of collectivists that the United Nations is based upon.
The interminable public feuding in General Assembly sessions are sheer spectacle for the uninformed. The real dirty work is done behind the scenes through coerced implementation of programs like Agenda 21. (Also see our Agenda 21 section in special interests)
The best way to come out of the shadows is to strip back the curtain. Effectiveness dictates that the banksters and corporatists use the dark art of intrigue and subterfuge to manipulate the systems of governance, which they put in place, to serve their own interests.
The destruction of the unique American experiment falls upon the treason of the ruling class. Human Depravity, James Madison, and The Founding Fathers explains the nature of the existential internal threat that destroyed the essence of the old Republic. Madison wrote:
“If we were all like angels, blameless and freely able to exercise perfect control, we would not need rules or regulations. Why, then, do we have so many laws and statutes? Because of man’s wickedness, for he is constantly overflowing with evil; this is why a remedy is required.”
When the shadow government usurps the stated original limited authorities and separations of powers, the citizens of the country are relegated to a menu entrée on the feasting table of the power elites. The globalism agenda is the objective of the shadow government. Participants need not be spooks or machinates. Those who influence the operations of the sub-rosa establishment may wear the garb of Illuminati or use the signals of secret societies, but most are pure button down internationalists.
The populace is viewed as useless eaters to the elites, who labor to drive a wedge between government and the ordinary man. The privileged oligarchs see themselves as the ennobled in the entitlement enslavement society of their creation. Keeping the masses dependent until the ultimate elimination of dissenters is the objective.
The specter of the shadow government has always been part of the inner conflict for national integrity. The difference at this time is that it is all pervasive. The United States has become a global empire designed to impose an internationalist monitory yoke around the neck of subservient serfs.
The money machine of shadow banking practiced by the Bank for International Settlements on Big Banks is a prime component of the definitive ruling elite comradeship. Governments are no longer sovereign entities. They function as subsidiaries of the global satanic New World Order conglomerate. The crony corruptocrats bury deep their crimes and give new meaning to being above the law. Without a widespread public awakening, the forces of wickedness will triumph.
Less we forget . . . “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
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In December 1887, one year after Franck wrote this Violin Sonata as a wedding gift for Eugène Ysaÿe, it was played in a concert at the Société nationale de musique in Paris. By chance, cellist Jules Desart was performing at that same event, as part of a string quartet. When he heard Franck’s music, he was so fascinated by it that he asked for permission to transcribe it for cello. The composer agreed, and the resulting arrangement was published in 1888.
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Airstrike on migrant centre kills almost 40 in Libya
Nearly 40 migrants were killed in an airstrike Tuesday night on their detention centre in a Tripoli suburb blamed on Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has been trying for three months to seize the capital. At least 70 were also wounded in the raid on Tajoura, an emergency services spokesman told reporters.
“This is a preliminary assessment and the toll could rise,” said spokesman Osama Ali. He said 120 migrants were detained in the hangar which was directly hit by the strike. Bodies were strewn on the floor of the hangar, mixed with the belongings and blood-soaked clothes of migrants, a journalist said.
Rescuers were searching for survivors under the rubble, while dozens of ambulances rushed to the scene. In a statement, the internationally recognised national unity government (GNA) based in Tripoli denounced the attack as a “heinous crime” and blamed it on the “war criminal Khalifar Haftar”.
Haftar, who controls much of eastern and southern Libya, in early April, launched an offensive to take the capital. The GNA accused pro-Haftar forces of having carried out a “premeditated” and “precise” attack on the migrant centre.
No one has so far claimed responsibility but pro-Haftar media reported Tuesday night a “series of air raids” in Tripoli and Tajoura. The suburb of Tajoura, which has several military sites belonging to pro-GNA armed groups, is regularly targeted in air raids by Khalifa’s forces.
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The plight of migrants has worsened since Haftar launched an offensive against Tripoli — the seat of an internationally recognised unity government – in early April. Since then, fighting has killed more than 700 and wounded 4,000, while nearly 100,000 have been displaced, according to UN agencies.
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the current five per cent Value Added Tax rate in the country as very low, adding that the Federal Government would increase the taxpayer base this year.
Osinbajo stated this on Thursday in Lagos in a keynote address at the 1st National Forum on the Economy organised by Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation Newspapers.
VAT is a consumption tax payable on goods and services consumed by individuals, government agencies and business organisations.
The International Monetary Fund had last week reiterated its advice to the Federal Government to increase the VAT rate gradually.
The Managing Director of the fund, Christine Lagarde, had in January during her visit to Nigeria, urged the government to increase the VAT rate. “To move the nation forward, we must move beyond oil. The reality is that while oil accounts for 14.4 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product, it continues to be the source of 90 per cent of official foreign exchange earnings; and prior to this year, up to 76 per cent of government revenues,” Osinbajo said.
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Government comes up with fix for doctors' pensions, but experts warn against only sorting out 'bonkers' tax rules for one group of workers
By Tanya Jefferies for Thisismoney.co.uk
Published: 02:57 EST, 9 August 2019 | Updated: 09:29 EST, 14 October 2019
Plans to overhaul pension tax rules for doctors to combat a staffing crisis in the NHS have sparked a barrage of criticism against the Government from financial experts, who want the entire system reformed.
Complicated pension rules that critics say are forcing doctors to slash their hours and threatening patient care prompted a consultant to launch a petition, which has attracted more than 17,000 signatures in a week.
But the pensions industry is up in arms at the notion the Government might change the system in doctors' favour, and not for anyone else.
Why is the pension tax system causing such a furore in the medical profession, how does the Government intend to fix it, and what do financial experts say about the dangers of 'special concessions' for certain groups of workers?
Staffing crisis: Critics say complicated pension rules are forcing doctors to slash their hours and threatening patient care
What does Government propose doing to stop doctors cutting work hours or retiring to avoid tax bills?
A previous plan to allow doctors to halve their pension contributions, in exchange for halving their rate of pension growth, has been ditched in favour of broader proposals from the Treasury and Department of Health.
They issued a joint statement, suggesting the following:
- Senior doctors will be given full flexibility over the sums they put into their pension pots
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- From next April, they will be able to set the exact amount they want to go into their pension pot at the start of each financial year
- The NHS will be able to recycle the unused pension contribution back into their salary
- A new consultation will be launched on the proposals
Why are pension tax rules causing problems for doctors?
Doctors are being hit by unexpected tax bills - some of five or six-figure sums - for working shifts that boost a pension pot they might still be years away from drawing.
They don't necessarily have large sums on hand to pay the taxman, and some have reportedly been forced to remortgage their homes.
The annual allowance is the amount most people can put in a pension and get tax relief - including their own and their employer's contributions, and tax relief from the Government - and is £40,000.
But a complicated addition, commonly referred to as 'the taper', was introduced by former Chancellor George Osborne in the 2016/2017 tax year.
This means the annual allowance is gradually reduced from £40,000 to £10,000 for those whose total income, including any growth in their 'pension rights' over the year, is between £150,000 and £210,000.
However, tax charges can kick in if your income is over £110,000 a year because of the way pension rights are calculated, and these are especially difficult for workers to keep track of in salary-related schemes like the NHS one.
High earning doctors who work unpredictable overtime shifts to reduce waiting lists find it hard to work out how close they are to the £110,000 threshold.
Meanwhile the lifetime allowance, the total you can put in your pension and get tax relief, currently stands at £1,055,000 for everyone.
That also creates a headache if you go over the limit, because you face a tax charge of 55 per cent on any lump sum you take from retirement savings in excess of it, or 25 per cent if you are taking an income. Read more here.
- The Treasury will review how the tapered annual allowance (see the box on the right) supports the delivery of public services such as the NHS.
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'We acknowledge this step forward by the Government,' said Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association council.
'After a year's tireless lobbying by the BMA on the damaging effect that perverse and ill-thought out tax legislation is having on our NHS, its doctors and patients, it is good to see the Government finally sitting up, taking notice and proposing action.
'The Government has listened to us on offering full flexibility – meaning doctors can choose the amount they and their employer wish to put away – and we note the assurance that this will not mean doctors 'losing out on the value of unused employer contributions'.
'This must mean full recycling of what the employer would normally contribute being paid back into doctors' salaries.
'The new proposed flexibilities will provide short-term relief for many doctors, but they themselves do not tackle the core and underlying problem.
'This lies in tax reform, and as we have said before, it is the overhaul of the annual allowance and tapered annual allowance, that will make a difference to all doctors, including consultants, GPs and medics in the Armed Forces.
'We know that more than a third of doctors have already reduced their work commitments over pension tax charges, and of those who haven't already, a third plan to.
'Without fundamental change to these rules, this situation will only worsen, leaving patients with fewer experienced medics to care for them and even longer waits for treatment.'
The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, a union that represents hospital doctors, said the proposals would not stop a 'winter meltdown'.
President Dr Claudia Paoloni said: 'A fifth of senior hospital doctors plan to quit in the next 36 months or have already left as a result of the issue.
'It is bitterly disappointing that the Government is resorting to spin and hot air when it has known for many months that the crisis was deepening.'
What do pension experts say? Current system 'plainly bonkers', and doctor debacle shines light on 'malfunctioning pension tax system'
The Government proposals for doctors prompted a scathing response from the pensions industry, which decried 'quick fix' solutions and any possibility that doctors alone might be exempted from the annual allowance 'taper'.
The NHS pension proposals suggest 'complete lack of understanding' from the Government, according to Gary Smith, chartered financial planner at Tilney, which provides financial advice to senior medical professionals.
Doctors protest: Petition launched by a consultant has attracted more than 17,000 signatures within a week
He criticised the following suggestions:
Flexible contributions: 'Whilst this flexibility would work for members of defined contribution pension schemes, it will not be effective for defined benefit schemes, such as the NHS pension scheme.
'It is not the amount contributed into the scheme that is tested against the annual allowance, rather the deemed increase in their pension benefits.
'Offering the flexibility to reduce pension contributions will only create confusion and require NHS members to seek advice from their accountants and financial advisers to try to guide them through this.'
Opting out and receiving the employer pension contribution as salary: 'At a time when the NHS is already facing a funding crisis, I find this proposal ill-thought out and lacking in understanding of the potential increased costs the NHS would face.'
Smith said a high earning doctor opting out of a pension in favour of receiving more salary would have to pay 40 per cent income tax, along with 2 per cent National Insurance, and the NHS would have to pay employers National Insurance of 13.8 per cent on the salary too.
He said doctors would have to try to work out whether they would pay less tax via making pension contributions, or receiving the money as salary. Opting out of the pension scheme would mean they lost out on building up additional benefits, and have an impact on their ability to retire.
And meanwhile there would be an increased administrative burden on the NHS, which was likely to increase costs further, he added.
Every time they come up with another quick-fix solution to one pension problem, they make the overall situation worse - Tom McPhail, Hargreaves Lansdown
Scrapping the annual allowance taper: 'Scrapping this complex and highly punitive tax would be most welcome. However it should apply to all pension funding not just members of the NHS pension scheme,' said Smith.
'I fear that the Government will choose to only remove this from NHS pension members, which would be grossly unfair and create a two-tier pension system that would further exacerbate the public-private sector pension divide.'
Steven Cameron, pensions director at Aegon, welcomed the incentive for NHS staff to continue working, but he joined Smith in warning against the dangerous implications of scrapping the taper for just one group of workers.
He said higher earners shouldn't be forced to turn down work or take early retirement to avoid a significant tax bill, and he supported them being able to ask for pension contributions to be dialled down in return for extra salary.
'Some employers in the private sector already allow this flexibility. However, the suggestion that medical professionals specifically might be offered special concessions elsewhere, are worrying.
No employer should need to invent convoluted work arounds to provide a decent pension without detrimental tax consequences for their staff - Patrick Bloomfield, Hymans Robertson
'One suggestion is they might be exempt from the tapered annual allowance which reduces maximum pension contributions for those earning above £110,000.
'These highly complex rules are affecting an increasing number of individuals across many employment sectors, public and private. We recognise the hugely important contribution to society medical professionals play. But this should be reflected in their pay, not through some concession linked to tax rules on pensions.
'If we start linking pensions tax allowances to a value judgement about the nature of people's work, where might this take us?'
Tom McPhail, head of policy at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: 'A situation where key workers are discouraged from taking on over-time and performing socially valuable work because they'll face punitive tax charges, is plainly bonkers.
'However this problem is not confined to NHS employees, or even just public sector workers and it isn't just the tapered annual allowance which is the problem.
'The Treasury needs to stop playing whack-a-mole with pension tax policy; all you end up with is trickle-down complexity. Every time they come up with another quick-fix solution to one pension problem, they make the overall situation worse.
The noble thing to do would be to accept the taper is not fit for purpose and reverse it - Ian Browne, Quilter
'There is a whole list of ways in which the pension system doesn't work. They need to start from scratch, ask themselves how the pension system and its tax architecture could serve the needs of individuals, employers and wider society.
'Then decide how much public money they can use to incentivise saving and the best way to deliver it. If you did that you'd end up with something looking very different from the system we're battling with today.'
Gregg McClymont, director of policy at The People's Pension and a former shadow Pensions Minister, said: 'Pensions tax law making the front pages is a sure sign something has gone badly awry.
'And it has, the tapered annual allowance, a 2016 change in the amount of money high earners can put into a pension has caused hospital doctors and GPs to reduce their working hours.
'It's become clear, the taper has to go.
'But that's not what Ministers have committed themselves to. While Ministers have briefed that they are shifting policy on the taper, the detail of their announcement commits the Treasury only to review the impact of the taper on the delivery of public services.
If we start linking pensions tax allowances to a value judgement about the nature of people's work, where might this take us? - Steven Cameron, Aegon
'That implies that changing the taper but only for public servants is a potential option. That would be a bad move.
'Tax law needs to apply equally across the population. We can't get into a situation in which there are effectively different tax rates for the public sector or parts of the public sector and different tax rates for everyone else.'
Patrick Bloomfield, partner at Hymans Robertson, said: 'The doctors' pensions debacle has shone a light on our malfunctioning pension tax system.
'Pension tax changes have created cost and distraction across the whole private sector, it's not just an NHS issue. Successive governments' tinkering with pension tax to balance the national books has led us to a ludicrous situation where saving for retirement is unnecessarily hard for many people.
'No employer should need to invent convoluted work arounds to provide a decent pension without detrimental tax consequences for their staff. Complex rules that keep changing put people off saving, which is in nobody's interests.
'Pensions tax doesn't need a workaround or a quick fix, HM Treasury needs to take a long hard look at the pension tax system and come up with something simple that works, then stop tinkering with it.'
Ian Browne, pensions expert at Quilter, said: 'The pensions sector has long been complaining about the punitive and unpredictable nature of the annual allowance taper, but it has taken a crisis in the NHS for the government to finally consider how to address it.
'Today's solution giving doctors greater control over pension contributions is an improvement on the 50/50 proposal under May's government.
'However a bespoke solution for doctors ignores large swathes of high earning public sector workers who provide critical services every day such as judges, teachers and transport workers.
'The Chancellor has committed to reviewing the salary threshold at which the taper impacts people, but the government should go much further.
'The noble thing to do would be to accept the taper is not fit for purpose and reverse it. The horse has already bolted but it is time for the new Chancellor to do the sensible things before it gallops off into the distance.'
He added that data sourced by Quilter from the Ministry of Justice shows that the issue is not confined to the NHS, with 25 per cent of judges now breaching the annual allowance in another key public service profession suffering recruitment pressures.
Why doctors are revolting against 'fiendishly complicated' tax rules
Former Pensions Minister Ros Altman explains how doctors are being affected by pension tax rules she believes are too complex and unpredictable.
Imagine you work in a public service job that can mean the difference between life and death, writes Baroness Altmann.
You are dedicated to your work, you are not paid nearly as much as top directors and other professionals in the private sector, but you believe in what you do.
Your employers have also always told you they will provide a great 'guaranteed' pension when you retire. So you diligently pay all the contributions they ask of you and trust the promises their promises.
Ros Altmann: 'Some consultants have had to remortgage their family homes to pay the charges.'
Now imagine your employer asks you to do overtime work, so that the vital work you provide can help more people. You agree to this willingly - your employer and the public need you, your work will benefit lives, so you are happy to do it.
Or imagine you receive an award which gives you bonus pay in recognition of excellent service.
The following year, you receive a tax demand for £100,000 because you did that overtime, or because you received that 'bonus'.
Unbeknown to you, your employer (the Government) has changed the pension rules, and you've inadvertently crossed an arbitrarily calculated pay threshold that nobody told you applied to you.
This is because the pension your employer promised you was estimated to have increased 'too much' so you have breached the new rules. You have to pay back 'assumed' tax relief that you didn't even know you had benefited from.
This is the position many of the senior staff in the NHS have been placed in. Some consultants have had to remortgage their family homes to pay the charges. Others have had to find alternative ways to meet their bills.
The Government and the NHS give you some options:
- You can pay it as a lump sum
- You can pay it over time but will be charged interest on it by HMRC (the Government) for late payment
- You can ask your pension scheme to pay, but this means effectively borrowing money from your future pension at an interest rate well above commercial rates and reducing your pension.
If our employer behaved like this, would we be happy to do overtime again in future? If other staff, who don't understand the complexities of this pension situation, hear about what has happened, would they agree to do overtime?
Obviously, this situation will negatively impact the morale and willingness of staff to work extra shifts when needed. This also increases the costs of health provision, because hiring private sector or locum staff can cost around three times the amount paid to NHS employees.
All taxpayers have an interest in preserving the NHS and treating fairly those who work in it so dedicatedly. So any proposals that can help address the problem are welcome, but they need to tackle the issue effectively and rebuild staff morale.
Ideally, scrap the taper rules altogether. They are too complicated and, if there is a lifetime allowance, it seems illogical to also have an annual limit on contributions. There should be one or the other, not both.
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Mom sobs as Siam Lee's hell ride to a fiery death is revealed
14 November 2018 - 14:21 By Jeff Wicks
Women show support for slain escort Siam Lee outside the Durban Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, where the man accused of her murder appeared. In the weeks before her death the 20-year-old had reached out to sex-worker support groups to help her escape her double life.
Image: Jackie Clausen
Siam Lee had been held captive for more than 24 hours before she was bludgeoned to death and her body set alight in a secluded sugarcane field in New Hanover in central KwaZulu-Natal.
What investigators believe befell the 20-year-old in her final moments was laid bare in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, when the businessman accused of her kidnapping and murder was indicted.
This comes a full 11 months after the escort’s kidnapping and murder after allegedly being snatched by the man from a Durban North brothel.
The businessman stood in the dock staring blankly ahead while Lee’s mother, Carmen, sat in the gallery at his back and wept.
Siam Lee's mother, Carmen, cried in court as her daughter's final moments were revealed in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old faces a raft of charges‚ including the kidnapping and murder of Lee‚ as well as the rape of another woman. He cannot be named until he has tendered a plea in relation to the rape charge.
State prosecutor Surekha Marimuthu, in outlining the state’s case, painted the accused as a jilted lover.
"He was a previous client of the deceased (Lee) but on January 4 she no longer wished to have any contact with him. As a result he decided to kill her," she said.
"When the opportunity presented itself, he accosted her and forced her into his car before fleeing at high speed," Marimuthu added.
He was a previous client of the deceased but on January 4 she no longer wished to have any contact with him
State prosecutor Surekha Marimuthu
Thus, in the state’s version, began Lee’s hell ride.
"He held her captive at his residence until about the following midnight when he decided to kill her. To this end he forced her into the back of his vehicle and set out for New Hanover.
"On arrival in the early hours of the morning he removed her from the vehicle and threw her into a nearby sugarcane field, doused her with petrol and set her alight."
Her charred remains would later be discovered by a farmer who was on a fishing trip with his grandson.
The suspect was released on R40,000 bail in June after a protracted bid which stretched over months.
Strict conditions were imposed, including a stipulation that he report to a police station three times a week.
Mickey Meji speaks on behalf of survivors of the system of prostitution outside the Durban Magistrates court where the man accused of murdering Siam Lee appeared .@TimesLIVE #SiamLee pic.twitter.com/93FAkxT9r6
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On Wednesday magistrate Vanitha Armu refused an application to have his bail conditions relaxed.
Women from Kwanele, a group campaigning against gender violence and women abuse, had swelled the public gallery during the man's appearance. When he stepped down and walked from the court, the throng followed on his heels with sniping insults thrown in his direction.
Lee, using the moniker "student in training", had worked as a sensual masseuse with her mother.
The Sunday Times reported that Lee had reached out to an organisation that assists sex workers‚ pleading for their help in the weeks before her murder.
She detailed her despair at having to lead a double life while moving from one brothel to another‚ all the while maintaining a façade for her family and friends.
The accused will appear in the Durban High Court on March 11 next year.
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Bernie Holloway, age 74 and a lifetime resident of Kosciusko County, passed away on Monday, November 18, 2019 at 2:02 p.m. in his home near Palestine Lake.
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Born Bernard Lee Holloway on March 17, 1945, he was the son of Glen and Minnie (McClone) Holloway. He was one of fourteen children raised in the family home and attended Beaver Dam and Akron schools.
A helpful person who would do nearly anything to help a friend, Bernie was known for his love of family and for his friendliness as a neighbor; he never knew a stranger. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and camping and enjoyed time spent outdoors. He also liked riding motorcycles, travelling, tractors, tractor pulls and visiting the casino, but time spent helping his grandchildren work on racecars was special. It was also time for Bernie’s cantankerous side to come out; he loved practical jokes and had an ornery sense of humor.
Professionally, Bernie was a truck driver with nearly fifty years on the road. He spent 23 years with Mike Gill and 12 years with Lewis Salvage before becoming an owner/operator. He retired in 2015.
On March 21, 1964, Bernie was united in marriage to Linda Carlson. With nearly 56 years of marriage, Linda survives in Palestine. Also surviving are their daughters: Cindy Holloway of Palestine, Anna (Robert) Landrum of Mentone and Jenny (Randy) Bays of Mentone; son, James (Ginger) Holloway of Burket; six grandchildren: Eric Frazier, Dennis (Trish) Frazier, Tyler Landrum, John Mattson V, Gunnar Holloway and Kole Holloway and six great-grandchildren: Kaylee, Donovan, Kayden, Landon, Arieana, and John “JJ” and three sibilings: Barb Rudo of Warsaw, Donnie Holloway of North Webster and Dean (Sylvia) Holloway of Rochester. He was preceded in passing by his parents and ten siblings.
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Sister Act: Teurlings volleyball’s Hidalgo sisters serve as each other’s on-court motivators
Perhaps the way Jolie and Cicily Hidalgo talk to each other on the volleyball court is a form of idioglossia.
Sister Act: Teurlings volleyball’s Hidalgo sisters serve as each other’s on-court motivators Perhaps the way Jolie and Cicily Hidalgo talk to each other on the volleyball court is a form of idioglossia. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/11/07/teurlings-hidalgo-sisters-serve-each-others-court-motivators/1925720002/
James Bewers, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Published 7:12 p.m. CT Nov. 7, 2018
Rebels hitter Jolie Hidalgo during pregame as the Teurlings Catholic Rebels take on Lagrange in the first round of the State Volleyball playoffs. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018.(Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER)Buy Photo
Perhaps the way Jolie and Cicily Hidalgo talk to each other on the volleyball court is a form of "idioglossia," a term used to describe unique languages spoken by small groups of people, like twins or siblings close in age.
But it’s not what Jolie says to Cicily after, for instance, Cicily mishits a ball. It’s how Jolie says it. Or that she’s even saying it at all.
“Stuff like, ‘Why would you do that?’” said Jolie, a senior. “I wouldn’t say that to another teammate because it would come off as arrogant. But to her, she knows that I’m saying, ‘Why would do that? You should have done this.’ And she knows she made the wrong decision. But it’s the same (with me). She can tell me that, too, and it’s fine with me.”
“I can get mad her,” said Cicily, a sophomore, “and we know nothing will happen.”
Rebels hitter Cicily Hidalgo during pregame as the Teurlings Catholic Rebels take on Lagrange in the first round of the State Volleyball playoffs. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER)
That’s the dynamic between the Hidalgo sisters, the starting outside hitters for a Teurlings Catholic volleyball team looking to win its sixth straight state championship this weekend at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner.
But don’t mistake the tough love for any sort of sibling rivalry. They value playing and spending time with each other, which is why last year’s remarkable season — their first on the varsity squad together — was so special.
Just as her older sister did, Cicily became a starter as a freshman last year, helping the Lady Rebels go 42-0 with only six set losses. For Cicily, lifting a trophy wasn’t the only memorable aspect of the state tournament.”
“(My sister and I) got to room together, and that wasn’t an exception last year or the years before,” Cicily said. “You could only room with people in your grade, but they made an exception to where we could room together. And just sharing it with everybody and my sister made it more memorable.”
Cicily Hidalgo hits the ball as Teurlings Rebels Volleyball takes on the Warren Easton Eagles in playoffs. Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER)
Jolie’s not one to hog the spotlight from her sister. Even on senior night, despite Teurlings coach Terry Hebert’s attempt to give seniors more playing time in a match the Lady Rebels (43-5) were dominating, Jolie asked Hebert if Cicily could replace her late in the contest. Jolie ended up subbing herself out in the middle of a rotation.
“I thought that was pretty neat of her to relinquish that,” Hebert said.
Jolie and Cicily have polar-opposite personalities. Jolie is quiet and reserved. Cicily is outgoing and willing to stand out in a crowd. That translates on the court, too.
“Any goofing around they do as a team, anything that’s going to kind of single her out, Jo is not into that,” Hebert said. “Whereas Cicily is very quirky. She’s just funny. She’s got this dry sense of humor. She doesn’t care (about) being the oddball out. You wouldn’t know that they were sisters if you saw them sitting there.
“But on the court, it’s funny because Ci is a little more vocal. When things get heated, then Jo will get in there, and she’ll start chiming in if she gets frustrated. But Cicily tends to talk a little more readily than Jo does.”
Although they play the same position, their styles are different. Cicily’s length and power are her strengths. Jolie is bit more crafty, varying her pace on the ball to keep the defense guessing.
“I feel like I’m more of a shot maker, and (Cicily is) more of a dominant hitter,” Jolie said. “She’s taller and she jumps higher, so she can hit it more down and stuff. I just look for the shot rather than to put it down.”
Jolie Hidalgo at the net as the Teurlings Catholic Rebels take on Lagrange in the first round of the State Volleyball playoffs. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER)
They do, however, share certain skills that impressed coaches enough as freshmen to earn starting roles.
“They both have very good ball control,” Hebert said. “The position that they’re in requires them to pass and serve receive, and they’re two of the best passers I’ve ever had. That’s why we’re able to do what we do because we’re in system all the time. Defensively, they read the hitters very well, and they anticipate well. So they’re there, eight out of 10 times, before the ball is even hit.”
And as far as the constructive criticism is concerned, it goes both ways. Because they play the same position, they know what the other should be doing in any given situation. So if Cicily rises for a ball, Jolie will shout out where her sister should hit the ball based on how the defense is positioned. If Cicily doesn’t execute correctly, Jolie will let her know — sternly.
“Cicily will do the same thing,” Hebert said. “Even though it’s her big sister, she’ll cut some eyes at her if she doesn’t do what she has to do.”
Cicily Hidalgo jump serves as Teurlings Rebels Volleyball takes on the Warren Easton Eagles in playoffs. Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/THE ADVERTISER)
Hebert views coaching the Hidalgo sisters as life coming full circle. When Hebert was a teenager, he frequented the sand volleyball courts at Volley Beach. There he would watch co-ed pairing that he considered to be some of the best volleyball players in the city.
Hebert never had any coaching, so he studied the duo’s play. Occasionally, he’d get opportunities to play with them.
It was Jolie and Cicily’s parents.
“Tim and Rachel, their parents, that’s who I idolized,” Hebert said. “Because I wasn’t coached, so I had to watch people and just try to imitate them. … In Jolie coming back in over here, it was neat because now it’s like, ‘Wow, here we are back together again.’”
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DVF Says She’s Not a Jet-setter, Just an ‘Old Lady Who Knows Everybody’
By Véronique Hyland
Diane von Furstenberg. Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Vital Voices Global Partnership
You may have been fooled by her glamorous parties, travel, and, well, jet-setting, but Diane von Furstenberg is not a jet-setter, according to DVF expert Diane von Furstenberg. Instead, she’s just “an old lady who knows everybody,” she joked to Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan last night during a talk held at the newspaper’s HQ.
Jet-setter or not, von Furstenberg has rubbed shoulders with some fascinating figures over the years. She told a story of meeting with Diana Vreeland when she first relocated to New York to make it as a designer. “If you think that Anna Wintour is intimidating, let me tell you, Diana Vreeland was more intimidating,” she said, adding that the venerable fashion editor gave her some advice about starting up in the fashion world, including placing an ad in Women’s Wear Daily. Intimidated or not, DVF had the temerity to ask Vreeland if she could use her phone to get the process started.
The designer also talked about the reactions she received after her somewhat-vague comments about dressing Melania Trump. (She said, in part, “Melania deserves the respect of any First Lady before her.”) “I got all kinds of feedback,” she said. “Some people congratulated me [because] they understood it one way. Some people congratulated me [because] they understood it the other way.” Still, the designer let slip some comments that suggest she’s not a huge fan of the president-elect. She mentioned writing in her memoir that “one of the reasons I left New York [in the ‘80s] is that it had become the city of Donald Trump.” And she talked about working with the women’s-empowerment nonprofit Vital Voices, which she hopes will make a difference in these difficult times. As she put it, “When there are tragedies, it’s always the women who take over.” Watch the full talk below.
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‘Orange Is the New Black’s’ Season Finale: The Horrifying, Heartbreaking Cliffhanger
What will happen to the women of Litchfield now? We dive deep into the Season 5 finale of ‘OITNB.’ Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD!
Kevin Fallon
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Updated Jun. 12, 2017 12:16AM ET / Published Jun. 12, 2017 1:00AM ET
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This season of Orange Is the New Black started with a bang and ended with a bang.
Thirteen hours after we see Daya (Dascha Polanco) pull the trigger and shoot a prison guard, setting off days of rioting, hostage taking, and a standoff with police, we see what the final reverberation of the bullet is: the lives of 10 prisoners remain in the balance.
The Daily Beast’s review of the new OITNB season centers on the first eight episodes, in which the rioting unfolds in real-time to alternately thrilling and silly result, and, in the meantime, sidelines the show’s best characters and actors (Kate Mulgrew’s Red, Uzo Aduba’s Suzanne/“Crazy Eyes,” Taylor Schilling’s Piper) for huge swaths of the action.
But the biggest reason to focus that initial review on the first two-thirds of the season is because, immediately after, the show takes a jarring, hugely dark pivot, and follows that path for the rest of the triumphant—though horrifying and heartbreaking—final stretch of episodes.
Those episodes tackle genres and depictions of brutality that the series hasn’t attempted before, full of huge action set pieces that would be ambitious for any show, let alone one that has never played in that universe before, and, with the final moments of the season, ensure that nothing about Orange Is the New Black will ever be the same.
Episode 9, “The Tightening,” is one of the show’s most adventurous episodes, and sets the dark direction the end of the season will take. The entire episode is staged as a horror film.
Red, while on her caffeine pill bender (the less on that, the better), misguidedly lured the monstrous C.O. Piscatella (Brad William Henke) into the prison, where he Friday the 13th-style hunts down and captures Red’s closest friends at Litchfield. It’s a well-executed homage to the genre, with the Big Bad-lurking-around-the-corner motif delicately toeing the line between terrifying and camp.
There’s no line, though, when Piscatella starts torturing his captives, specifically Red. As he starts shearing off her hair, occasionally scalping her in the process, OITNB produces its most grisly sequence yet. The series has always spelunked into the caverns of human depravity—just how vile can one human being treat another?—but watching Piscatella revel in this explicit kind of torture porn is a new depth of darkness for the show.
It’s that rare viewing experience: simultaneously riveting, but you have to look away. It certainly has to be commended, but is also an unusual move for a series that has made the empowerment and dignity of women its veritable cause to mine entertainment out of grotesque violence against them.
Regardless of how you feel about that, though, it pulls the lever redirecting the show to the track it concludes the season on: some dark shit.
The stretch between “The Tightening” and the season finale, “Storm-y Weather” is largely spent on negotiations, with Danielle Brooks’s Taystee managing to broker all of the prisoners’ demands except for one, and it happens to be the one she was pursuing with tunnel vision: justice for the death of Poussey Washington (Samira Wiley) in the form of criminal charges against her killer, C.O. Bayley (Alan Aisenberg).
When she’s informed that such a thing is outside of the jurisdiction of negotiations, she rejects every offer made. With one good-intentioned ruling of the heart, she screws over everyone. She essentially gives the go-ahead for the riot police to rush the prison, ruin the lives of every prisoner in Litchfield, and maybe gets herself and nine other women killed in the process.
It’s only later in the episode that Taystee realizes what she’s done, that in her dogged pursuit to honor the memory of her friend, she’s instead invoked her name as justification for an apocalypse. “I fucked it all up,” she cries near the end of episode, with the performance sealing Brooks’ status as the season’s unrivaled acting VIP. “I failed her. I’m so fucking stupid.”
And what did that failing bring?
While the blues standard “Stormy Weather” plays, the riot police storm Litchfield. Prisoners are tased and beaten, but mostly they’re scared. There are a handful of clever music cues throughout the episode, but they don’t overpower what ends up being the hour’s true soundtrack: the sounds of the inmates screaming. The percussion: the thuds of their bodies being shoved, slammed against walls, and thrown to the ground.
The undercurrent of all seasons of OITNB thus far is fear—the fear of being in prison, and even the fear of what will happen to them if and when they leave. But this is the first time the palpable, resounding fear in the inmates is a fear for their lives. It’s an intense hour of television, and one that is calibrated impressively.
There are several wrenching sequences that take place in slow motion, like the opening burst through the doors and the tasering of Vicky Jeudy’s Janae, or Soso (Kimiko Glenn) being carried out of the memorial she built for her girlfriend, Poussey, staring at the suspended books for one last time.
The show never denies us its trademark comedy, like when meth heads Leanne (Emma Myles) and Angie (Julie Lake) have the realization, while huffing cleaner fluid, that their actions during the riot where morally ambiguous at best. “What if we thought this whole time we were Ariel but we’re actually Ursula?” Angie asks. “Obviously I’m Sebastian and you’re Flounder. We are lovable clowns,” Leanne replies.
The dramatic beats are harrowing, too. There’s something very eerie and shaming in the act of having the inmates paraded outside in lines while the press and their families look on. And as they’re all separated onto buses and carted off to who-knows-where, your heart breaks. These women have made a family together, for better or worse, and now they’re being separated. Who knows what—or what hell—awaits them. But now we know that they’re going to have to face it alone.
Of course that leads to the final moments of the episode. The riot squad realizes 10 inmates are missing. It’s Red, Piper, Alex, Suzanne, Taystee, Gloria (Selenis Levya), Blanca (Laura Gómez), Black Cindy (Adrienne Moore), Nicky (Natasha Lyonne), and Frieda (Dale Soules).
We griped in our review that the first portion of the season leaves most of these characters frustratingly ignored. But this final stretch made up for it in spades, giving them rich, intense material that their portrayers all execute brilliantly. It makes the realization of what’s most likely to come all the more heartbreaking. As the riot squad infiltrates the bunker, armed with permission to inflict casualties, at least some of them are going to die.
Of course, that’s the cliffhanger. We don’t know who. We just know that the show will forever be different.
Inmates will die. Those who survived have all been separated. What would such a fractured OITNB look like?
The show is almost facing a creative dilemma akin to a high school drama when its characters graduate high school. Do you follow them all in separate arcs? Do you concoct an unbelievable, cockamamie plan to nonsensically keep them altogether? Or do you simply say goodbye to a large portion of the characters and refocus the narratives on a small group that makes sense?
It was a thrilling finale that leaves the show backed into a creative corner. Some might wonder if this marks the moment when the show “jumped the shark,” a TV term for a plot line late in a series’ run when far-fetched events are resorted to as a last gasp for interest and relevance, but which actually signal a decline in quality—a reference to when Fonzie water-skied over a shark in Happy Days.
But for as much attention as this show gets for highlighting the very real and very vital issues surrounding prison reform, race, sexuality, and womanhood, it’s also a show that has always lived in its own semi-whimsical universe—one that welcomes the silly as open-armed as it does the intense.
So until we see Kate Mulgrew grinning on skis cruising across the Litchfield Lake, this show gets to revel in that, and in this spectacular finale.
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[UPDATE] Rooms To Go Buckhead Not Going Anywhere: Will Spend Nearly $2 Million on Renovation
The Rooms To Go furniture store at the corner of Peachtree and Piedmont Roads in Buckhead has closed. The store, located at 3256 Peachtree Road, occupies one of the most attractive redevelopment corners in metro Atlanta. It will not be replaced with anything anytime soon, however, as permits filed by the Florida-based retailer indicate that they intend to undergo a nearly $2 million renovation.
Rooms To Go, by way of two separate entities, "RTG FURNITURE CORP OF GEORGIA," and "LOGAN GEORGIA ASSOCIATES L P" owns the property, which according to Fulton County tax records, is actually three parcels totaling nearly 1.5 acres. The significant capital investment being made to the building suggests the company's long term commitment to the property.
Property records indicate that the company paid about $1.5 million for the combined three parcel site in late 1995 and that today the properties are valued by Fulton County at about $3.6 million.
It's unclear exactly how long the renovation will take, but the permits on file with the City of Atlanta indicate that work will include both interior and exterior renovations, including MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing.)
In recent years, a number of other furniture retailers have joined (or rejoined) the Buckhead market. Catty corner from Rooms to Go, Atlanta's Haverty's Furniture opened a "Style Studio" at Buckhead Square replacing The Container Store which relocated to a portion of the former Borders, north on Peachtree at Buckhead Triangle. The opening of Haverty's marked their return to the market and their return, in fact, to the exact center they had once occupied. Modani opened in the former Ethan Allen space in nearby Buckhead Pavilion in 2013 while Ethan Allen later returned to Buckhead in July 2017 at Lenox Marketplace.
Not far away, close to the Lindbergh MARTA station, The Dump opened in 2010 while Ashley (Furniture) HomeStore opened later that same year in Lindbergh Plaza.
There was one notable Buckhead furniture closure last year when HUFF Furniture shuttered their Peachtree Road showroom after more than 60 years in business.
Rendering of Buckhead renovations presented to Livable Buckhead
Rooms To Go, which has regional offices in Dunwoody, operates about a dozen stores in Georgia in addition to outlet stores in Norcross and Forest Park and an "express" store in Gainesville.
The company closed their Rooms To Go and Rooms to Go Kids stores on Cobb Parkway not far from SunTrust Park a few years ago, and also relocated their Alpharetta store from North Point Parkway to Haynes Bridge Road where the more contemporary store now occupies a prominent corner. The former Alpharetta store, now a Party City, looked like the Buckhead store and its replacement store is reportedly what the Buckhead store will be modeled after.
Rooms To Go on Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta
Morton "Morty" Seaman and his son Jeffrey Seaman opened the first Rooms To Go in Orlando, Florida in 1991. The company entered the Atlanta market in 1995 and also opened a distribution center in Suwanee the following year. Today, the company operates more than 130 stores and Georgia is the company's third largest market by store count, behind Florida and Texas.
The new and improved Buckhead Rooms To Go is expected to open later this fall.
Where did you buy the furniture for your home? What is your favorite brand of furniture? Are you surprised that Rooms To Go is renovating their store rather than selling the property?
Labels: Retail by Atlantan99
Great. I've been hoping for years that RTG would be demolished and that prime corner would be replaced with something more exciting and urban. Guess not.
Oh good. I was worried another glass building would go here that created traffic.
That’s great but the space is still too small for one of their flagship style stores with the kids/teens collection. Its already a tight setup with limited parking. I wonder how they will overcome that.
http://livablebuckhead.com/developments/rooms-to-go-3256-peachtree-road/
Good for them. They're a business that clearly fills a need (based on their popularity). Yes, this is a prime corner, but it's a prime corner that already has horrible traffic. No need to add Terminus Building #4. On paper, one would think a Buckhead location for "basic" furniture wouldn't be a good fit, but clearly that's not the case. While my situation has changed, R2G was a welcome need when I was new to the workforce and couldn't afford to pay big bucks for furniture nor wanted to have my furniture on a high interest credit card. They served me well and hope they can serve people well for many years to come.
There are an astonishing number of households that are house and automobile "poor". The LQQK @ ME conspicuous consumption crowd only cares about outward appearances others can SEE that give the appearance of wealth. RTG is all that many can literally afford.
When we bought our house 20 years ago we were certainly house poor. RTG was our go to place and we furnished our dining room and 3 bedrooms using RTG furniture. While we have the means to replace it, we haven't because it has held up pretty well. That's some incredible value for the price.
The store does well but its not their strongest location. The people that shop there generally do not live in the area and those who do live in the area that do shop there are generally doing so for guest rooms or vacation homes.
So between the Waldorf Astoria and Streets of Buckhead there will
still be a junk furniture shop more suited for Alabama than for a prime lot in fancy Buckhead.
Some of the uppity comments are quite a reflection on the community and aren't a surprise. Our family has done well for ourselves and have purchased furniture from higher end to RTG. We have a sofa from them that has held up extremely well and our first bedroom set 20 years ago was from them. We only recently donated the furniture as we were redoing our bedroom not due to wear.
We went to Haverty's where they are supposedly a higher grade outfit and found that they were on nearly the same plane as RTG with ridiculously inflated prices for the supposed quality.
It's refreshing to see a parcel of land not being sold to the highest bidder and rather indicative of the success of that particular location.
@anonymous there are plenty of Atlantans who buy furniture at RTG..... why bring Alabama into this?
Jeff Seaman is a very shrewd businessman. He knows that piece of real estate is just going to keep increasing in price. He will hold onto it for a while!
@Anon - re: between Streets of Buckhead and Waldorf. It's called The Shops Buckhead Atlanta. Think it changed 7 years ago. Anywho, R2G owns the land, so yeah, you'll be stuck with "a junk furniture shop more suited for Alabama than for a prime lot in fancy Buckhead." Sorry, eminent domain isn't an option for you to do with it as you deem fit. Maybe if you were a shrewd businessman you could own a prime piece of property one day.
we were close to buying a sofa set from them a few years ago. I think we ended up picking out some custom made leather piece from somewhere else--but RTG had some good looking, contemporary styled sofas, better looking that a lot of the stereotypical big-puffy styles that are so prevalent. So I think they're doing a good job, should be on anyone's radar if they want contemporary styles at reasonable prices (and 800-1200 for a sofa still isn't dirt cheap).
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 7:00 PM by Jensen Simons
GO Topeka is excited to share that it has received approval from its board of directors as well as the Joint Economic Development Organization (JEDO) to fund Choose Topeka, a talent pilot program that will offer matching incentives by partnering with employers to encourage talent to move to Topeka & Shawnee County.
“Choose Topeka was created with the intention of investing in employees to live and work in Topeka & Shawnee County, so that we may foster an ‘intentional community,’ one of community support builders.” said Barbara Stapleton, VP of Business Retention & Talent Initiatives, GO Topeka, an organization of the Greater Topeka Partnership.
Incentives will be performance based, after the employee has moved and resided in the community for a year and could be used for all types of moving related expenses. For primary residences only, the rental agreement incentive is a $10,000 - $5,000 match of employer and JEDO funds. The purchase or rehabilitation of home is a $7,500 match of employer and JEDO funds. Moving costs alone to move a 1-2 bedroom apartment can range from $4,000 to $7,000 and for a 3-4 bedroom home, range from $10,000 to $16,000, depending on the distance and location.
Encumbrance of $300,000 to fund incentives for the 2021 budget was approved, with a launch and promotion of the initiative in 2020. This will provide incentive funds for 40-60 new resident workers during the program’s initial run and could allow for a population growth double or more with families and trailing partners.
“The Momentum 2022 strategic plan indicated that of those workers in the county that made over $40,000, 40% resided outside the county,” continued Stapleton. “This initiative is leading edge and not bleeding edge to shift that migration and not only grow population but attract and retain future growth. As we worked to create it, we received input from community and board members and looked at key programs we’ve followed as we align our efforts.”
The return on investment is based on the economic impact of an average worker moving to the county, making $60,000 per year. On average, for every $5,000 provided in incentives, the benefit will be ten times that amount. Economic impact from the total incentives investment after the first year is projected to be over $2.14M and by the fifth year, totals $11.38M.
“As we continue to grow and expand, especially in some specialized areas like wealth management and technology and programming, attracting great talent remains one of our biggest challenges. On top of that, growing the population base in Topeka is one of the most important long-term strategies we should be focused on as a community. Thinking outside the box is required today, and we are excited about the Choose Topeka Talent initiative and what it could mean not only for our business but for this community,” said David Callanan, co-founder of Advisors Excel.
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If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Bob Ross at 785.234.2644 or Bob.Ross@TopekaPartnership.com.
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Science Fiction || Two events made the first of September a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant.
Burning Paradise (Excerpt)
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Alternate History, Science Fiction || Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades—back to the dawn of radio communications—human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed...
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It’s the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past—but not our past, not exactly. Each “past” is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given “past” can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, it’s the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can’t be reopened.
A passageway has been opened to a version of late nineteenth-century Ohio. It’s been in operation for most of a decade, but it’s no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the “natives” become more sophisticated, their version of the “past” grows less attractive as a destination.
Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. He’s fallen in love with a woman from our time, and he means to follow her back—no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it.
Robert Charles Wilson’s Last Year is available December 6th from Tor Books.
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Check out Burning Paradise by Robert Charles Wilson, available November 5th from Tor Books!
Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it’s not our United States, and it’s not our 2015.
Cassie’s world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare.
But Cassie knows the world isn’t what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades—back to the dawn of radio communications—human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed…
Divided by Infinity
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We hope you enjoy this reprint, originally published in Starlight 2, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor Books, 1998.
In the year after Lorraine’s death I contemplated suicide six times. Contemplated it seriously, I mean: six times sat with the fat bottle of Clonazepam within reaching distance, six times failed to reach for it, betrayed by some instinct for life or disgusted by my own weakness.
I can’t say I wish I had succeeded, because in all likelihood I did succeed, on each and every occasion. Six deaths. No, not just six. An infinite number.
Times six.
There are greater and lesser infinities.
[But I didn’t know that then.]
Oliver Who? (A Mathom from the Time Closet)
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I’ve done three or four interviews now in which I’ve been asked about the literary models I used in my new novel Julian Comstock.
The name I generally mention is Oliver Optic—always good for a blank stare.
Now, I put it to you boys, is it natural for lads from fifteen to eighteen to command ships, defeat pirates, outwit smugglers, and so cover themselves with glory, that Admiral Farragut invites them to dinner, saying, “Noble boy, you are an honor to your country!“
That’s Louisa May Alcott in her novel Eight Cousins, describing the sort of books she called “optical delusions.” She was talking about Oliver Optic, who was sufficiently well-known in the day that she didn’t have to belabor the point. Her description of his work is perfectly apt, but the effect it had on me (and perhaps other readers) was the opposite of the one she intended: Cripes, is there such a book? And if so, where can I find it?
[More pirates and unnatural adventures below the fold…]
Julian Comstock, Chapters 2 and 3
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Tor.com is proud to present chapter two of the highly-anticipated Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, by Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo-winning author of Spin.
In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again.
As an added bonus, after you’re done reading, you can listen to the first, second, and third chapters of the audio version of Julian Comstock using the widget below the excerpt.
It falls to me to explain something of Williams Ford, and of my family’s place in it, and Julian’s, before I describe the threat Sam Godwin feared, which materialized in our village not long before Christmas.1
Situated at the head of the valley was the font of our prosperity, the Duncan and Crowley Estate. It was a country Estate, owned by two New York mercantile families with hereditary Senate seats, who maintained their villa not only as a source of income but as a resort, safely distant (several days’ journey by train) from the intrigues and pestilences of the Eastern cities. It was inhabited—ruled, I might say—not only by the Duncan and Crowley patriarchs but by a whole legion of cousins, nephews, relations by marriage, and distinguished guests in search of clean air and rural views. Our corner of Athabaska was blessed with a benign climate and pleasant scenery, according to the season, and these things attract idle Aristos the way strong butter attracts flies.
It remains unrecorded whether the town existed before the Estate or vice versa; but certainly the town depended on the Estate for its prosperity. In Williams Ford there were essentially three classes: the Owners, or Aristos; below them the leasing class, who worked as smiths, carpenters, coopers, overseers, gardeners, beekeepers, etc., and whose leases were repaid in service; and finally the indentured laborers, who worked as field hands, inhabited rude shacks east of the River Pine, and received no compensation beyond bad food and worse lodging.
My family occupied an ambivalent place in this hierarchy. My mother was a seamstress. She worked at the Estate, as had her mother before her. My father, however, had arrived in Williams Ford as a bondless transient, and his marriage to my mother had been controversial. He had “married a lease,” as the saying goes, and had been taken on as a stable hand at the Estate in lieu of a dowry. The law in Athabaska allowed such unions, but popular opinion frowned on them. My mother had retained only a few friends of her own class after the wedding, her blood relations had since died (perhaps of embarrassment), and as a child I was often mocked and derided for my father’s low origins.
On top of that was the thorny issue of our religion. We were—because my father was—Church of Signs, which is a marginal Church. Every Christian church in America was required to secure formal approval from the Council of Registrars of the Dominion of Jesus Christ on Earth, if it wanted to operate without the imposition of crippling federal taxes. (The Dominion is sometimes called “The Church of the Dominion,” but that’s a misnomer, since every church is a Dominion Church as long as it’s recognized by the Council. Dominion Episcopal, Dominion Presbyterian, Dominion Baptist—even the Catholic Church of America since it renounced its fealty to the Pope of Rome in 2112—all are included under the Dominionist umbrella, since the purpose of the Dominion is not to be a church but to certify churches. In America we’re entitled by the Constitution to worship at any church we please, as long as it’s a genuine Christian congregation and not some fraudulent or satanistic sect. The Dominion exists to make that distinction. Also to collect fees and tithes to further its important work.)
We were, as I said, Church of Signs, a denomination shunned by the leasing class and grudgingly recognized (but never fully endorsed) by the Dominion. It was popular mostly with the illiterate transient workers among whom my father had been raised. Our faith took for its master text that passage in Mark which proclaims, “In my Name they will cast out devils, and speak in new tongues; they will handle serpents, and if they drink poison they will not be sickened by it.” We were snake-handlers, in other words, and famous beyond our modest numbers for it. Our congregation consisted of a dozen farmhands, most of them lately arrived from the southern states. My father was its deacon (though we didn’t use that title), and we kept snakes, for ritual purposes, in wire cages on our back acre, a practice that contributed very little to our social standing.
That had been the situation of our family when Julian Comstock arrived in Williams Ford as a guest of the Duncan and Crowley families, along with his mentor Sam Godwin, and when Julian and I met while hunting.
At that time I had been apprenticed to my father, who had risen to the rank of an overseer at the Estate’s lavish and extensive stables. My father loved and understood animals, especially horses. Unfortunately I was not made in the same mold, and my relations with the stable’s equine inhabitants rarely extended beyond a brisk mutual tolerance. I didn’t love my job—which consisted of sweeping straw, shoveling ordure, and in general doing those chores the older stablehands felt to be beneath their dignity—so I was pleased when my friendship with Julian deepened, and it became customary for a household amanuensis to arrive unannounced and request my presence at the House. Since the request emanated from a Comstock it couldn’t be overruled, no matter how fiercely the grooms and saddlers gnashed their teeth to see me escape their autocracy.
At first we met to read and discuss books, or hunt together. Later Sam Godwin invited me to audit Julian’s lessons, for he had been charged with Julian’s education as well as his general welfare. (Fortunately I had already been taught the rudiments of reading and writing at the Dominion school, and refined these skills under the tutelage of my mother, who believed in the power of literacy as an improving force. My father could neither read nor write.) And it was not more than a year after our first acquaintance that Sam presented himself one evening at my parents’ cottage with an extraordinary proposal.
“Mr. and Mrs. Hazzard,” Sam had said, putting his hand up to touch his Army cap (which he had removed when he entered the cottage, so that the gesture looked like an aborted salute), “you know of course about the friendship between your son and Julian Comstock.”
“Yes,” my mother said. “And worry over it often enough—matters at the Estate being what they are.”
My mother was a small woman, delicate in stature but forceful, with ideas of her own. My father, who spoke seldom, on this occasion spoke not at all, only sat in his chair gripping a laurel-root pipe, which he did not light.
“Matters at the Estate are exactly the crux of the issue,” Sam Godwin said. “I’m not sure how much Adam has told you about our situation there. Julian’s father, General Bryce Comstock, who was my friend as well as my commanding officer, shortly before his death charged me with Julian’s care and well-being—“
“Before his death,” my mother pointed out, “at the gallows, for treason.”
Sam winced. “That’s true, Mrs. Hazzard—I can’t deny it—but I assert my belief that the trial was unfair and the verdict unjust. Just or not, however, it doesn’t alter my obligation as far as the son is concerned. I promised to care for the boy, and I mean to keep my promise.”
“A Christian sentiment,” my mother said, not entirely disguising her skepticism.
“As for your implication about the Estate, and the practices of the young Eupatridians there, I agree with you entirely. Which is why I approved and encouraged Julian’s friendship with your son. Apart from Adam, Julian has no reliable friends. The Estate is such a den of venomous snakes—no offense,” he added, remembering our religious affiliation, and making the common but mistaken assumption that congregants of the Church of Signs necessarily like snakes, or feel some kinship with them—“no offense, but I would sooner allow Julian to associate with, uh, scorpions,” striking for a more palatable simile, “than abandon him to the sneers, machinations, ruses, and ruinous habits of his peers. That makes me not only his teacher but his constant companion. But I’m more than twice his age, Mrs. Hazzard, and he needs a friend more nearly of his own growth.”
“What do you propose, exactly, Mr. Godwin?”
“I propose to I take on Adam as a second student, to the ultimate benefit of both boys.”
Sam was ordinarily a man of few words—even as a teacher—and he seemed as exhausted by this oration as if he had lifted some great weight.
“As a student of what, Mr. Godwin?”
“Mechanics. History. Grammar and composition. Martial skills—”
“Adam already knows how to fire a rifle.”
“Pistolwork, sabrework, fist-fighting—but that’s only a fraction of it,” Sam added hastily. “Julian’s father asked me to cultivate the boy’s mind as well as his reflexes.”
My mother had more to say on the subject, chiefly about how my work at the stables helped offset the family’s leases, and how difficult it would be to get along without those extra vouchers at the Estate store. But Sam had anticipated the point. He had been entrusted by Julian’s mother—that is to say, the sister-in-law of the President—with a discretionary fund for Julian’s education, which could be tapped to compensate for my absence from the stables. And at a handsome rate. He quoted a number, and the objections from my parents grew less strenuous, and were finally whittled away to nothing. (I observed all this from a room away, through a gap in the door.)
Which is not to say there were no misgivings. Before I set off for the Estate the next day, this time to visit one of the Great Houses rather than to shovel ordure in the stables, my mother warned me not to entangle myself in the affairs of the high-born. I promised her I would cling to my Christian virtues—a hasty promise, less easily kept than I imagined.2
“It may not be your morals that are at risk,” she said. “The high-born conduct themselves by their own rules, and the games they play have mortal stakes. You do know that Julian’s father was hung?”
Julian had never spoken of it, and I had never pressed him, but it was a matter of public record. I repeated Sam’s assertion that Bryce Comstock had been innocent.
“He may well have been. That’s exactly the point. There has been a Comstock in the Presidency for the past thirty years, and the current Comstock is said to be jealous of his power. The only real threat to the reign of Julian’s uncle was the ascendancy of his brother, who made himself dangerously popular in the war with the Brazilians. I suspect Mr. Godwin is correct—Bryce Comstock was hanged not because he was a bad General but because he was a successful one.”
No doubt such scandals were possible. I had heard stories about life in New York City, where the President resided, that would curl a Cynic’s hair. But what could these things possibly have to do with me? Or even Julian? We were only boys.
Such was my naiveté.
1 I beg the reader’s patience if I detail matters that seem well-known. I indulge the possibility of a foreign audience, or a posterity to whom our present arrangements are not self-evident. Back to text
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Sarah Waters vs. Forbidden Planet: A Ghost Story
Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:29am 1 comment Favorite This
This isn’t a formal review of Sarah Waters’ excellent new novel The Little Stranger, but you can consider it a strong recommendation. If you haven’t read Sarah Waters, she’s a British writer with a superb command of voice, cultural history, and the art of storytelling. Her first novel was Tipping the Velvet, an unputdownable tour of gender conventions and their bending in Victorian London. Her latest, The Little Stranger, is a ghost story set in a crumbling manor house in post-World-War-II Warwickshire.
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The Ruins of Tomorrowland
Fri Jun 5, 2009 10:25am 5 comments Favorite This
This week ABC broadcast a two-hour documentary special called Earth 2100 that used art, narrative and interviews to sketch a doomsday scenario for the next 90 years. The problems the show enumerates—climate change, population pressure, and ever-fiercer competition for ever-scarcer resources—are inarguably real, though their consequences and potential solutions remain fiercely debated.
What struck me, however, as I watched Bob Woodruff walk us through the collapse of civilization, was how far our consensus vision of the future has evolved. Since when? Well, take as a baseline the year 1955, when TV viewers were exposed to another art-driven, scientifically-based panorama of the near future: Disney’s Man in Space, broadcast in three parts (Man in Space, Man and the Moon, and Mars and Beyond) on the Sunday-night program then called Disneyland.
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Mathoms from the Time Closet (1)
Thu Jun 4, 2009 2:27pm Post a comment Favorite This
Apologies to Gene Wolfe for borrowing the title of his story from Again, Dangerous Visions, but it’s a phrase that’s stuck with me for years. I’m sure my family is tired of hearing me exclaim “Mathoms from the time closet!” whenever we drag out Christmas decorations, old newspapers, sneakers down at the heel, or any other of the other numberless objects that linger in limbo between daily use and the yard sale. It seemed apt for this post, because I want to talk here about books, the mathomy sort of books: books old, obscure, out of print, or unjustly ignored; books that spring at you from dark places and take you by surprise.
Subject of today’s sermon is David Bradley’s No Place to Hide. It isn’t science fiction, or fiction at all, but if you harbor a fondness for surreal Ballardian cold-war landscapes, or anything involving atom weapons, Bradley’s 1948 memoir is likely to ring your bell.
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Julian Comstock, Chapters 1 and 2 (Excerpt)
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Tor.com is proud to present the intial chapters of the highly-anticipated Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, by Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo-winning author of Spin.
As an added bonus, after you’re done reading, you can listen to both the first and the second chapters of Julian Comstock using the widget below the excerpt.
A Pine-Bark Eden; or, the Caribou-Horn Train
(Christmas, 2172)
“And the same fires, which were kindled for Heretics, will serve for the destruction of Philosophers.”
—Hume (a Philosopher)
In October of 2172—the year the Election show came to town—Julian Comstock and I, along with his mentor Sam Godwin, rode to the Tip east of Williams Ford, where I came to possess a book, and Julian tutored me in one of his heresies.
There was a certain resolute promptness to the seasons in Athabaska in those days. Summers were long and hot, December brought snow and sudden freezes, and most years the River Pine ran freely by the first of March. Spring and fall were mere custodial functions, by comparison. Today might be the best we would get of autumn—the air brisk but not cold, the long sunlight unhindered by any cloud. It was a day we ought to have spent under Sam Godwin’s tutelage, reading chapters from the Dominion History of the Union or Otis’s War and How to Conduct It. But Sam wasn’t a heartless overseer, and the gentle weather suggested the possibility of an outing. So we went to the stables where my father worked, and drew horses, and rode out of the Estate with lunches of black bread and salt ham in our back-satchels.
At first we headed south along the Wire Road, away from the hills and the town. Julian and I rode ahead while Sam paced his mount behind us, his Pittsburgh rifle in the saddle holster at his side. There was no perceptible threat or danger, but Sam Godwin believed in preparedness—if he had a gospel, it was BE PREPARED; also, SHOOT FIRST; and probably, DAMN THE CONSEQUENCES. Sam, who was nearly fifty winters old, wore a dense brown beard stippled with white hairs, and was dressed in what remained presentable of his Army of the Californias uniform. Sam was nearly a father to Julian, Julian’s own true father having performed a gallows dance some years before, and lately Sam had been more vigilant than ever, for reasons he hadn’t discussed, at least with me.
Julian was my age (seventeen), and we were approximately the same height, but there the resemblance ended. Julian had been born an Aristo, or Eupatridian, as they say back east, while my family was of the leasing class. His face was smooth and pale; mine was dark and lunar, scarred by the same Pox that took my sister Flaxie to her grave in ‘63. His yellow hair was long and almost femininely clean; mine was black and wiry, cut to stubble by my mother with her sewing scissors, and I washed it once a week—more often in summer, when the creek behind the cottage warmed to a pleasant temperature. His clothes were linen and silk, brass-buttoned, cut to fit; my shirt and pants were course hempen cloth, sewn to a good approximation but clearly not the work of a New York tailor.
And yet we were friends, and had been friends for three years, ever since we met by chance in the hills west of the Duncan and Crowley Estate. We had gone there to hunt, Julian with his rifle and me with a simple muzzle-loader, and we crossed paths in the forest and got to talking. We both loved books, especially the boys’ books written by an author named Charles Curtis Easton.1I had been carrying a copy of Easton’s Against the Brazilians, illicitly borrowed from the Estate library—Julian recognized the title but vowed not to rat on me for possessing it, since he loved the book as much as I did and longed to discuss it with a fellow enthusiast—in short, he did me an unbegged favor; and we became fast friends despite our differences.
In those early days I hadn’t known how fond he was of Philosophy and such petty crimes as that. But I suppose it wouldn’t have mattered to me, if I had.
Today Julian turned east from the Wire Road and took us down a lane bordered by split-rail fences on which dense blackberry gnarls had grown up, between fields of wheat and gourds just lately harvested. Before long we passed the rude shacks of the Estate’s indentured laborers, whose near-naked children gawked at us from the dusty lane-side, and I deduced that we were headed for the Tip, because where else on this road was there to go?—unless we continued on for many hours more, all the way to the ruins of the old oil towns, left over from the days of the False Tribulation.
The Tip was located a distance from Williams Ford in order to prevent poaching and disorder. There was a strict pecking order to the Tip. It worked this way: professional scavengers hired by the Estate brought their pickings from ruined places to the Tip, which was a pine-fenced enclosure (a sort of stockade) in an open patch of grassland. There the newly-arrived goods were roughly sorted, and riders were dispatched to the Estate to make the high-born aware of the latest discoveries. Then various Aristos (or their trusted servants) rode out to claim the prime gleanings. The next day the leasing class would be allowed to sort through what was left; and after that, if anything remained, indentured laborers could rummage through it, if they calculated it was worthwhile to make the journey.
Every prosperous town had a Tip, though in the east it was sometimes called a Till, a Dump, or an Eebay.
Today we were lucky. A dozen wagonloads of scrounge had just arrived, and riders hadn’t yet been sent to notify the Estate. The gate of the enclosure was manned by an armed Reservist, who looked at us suspiciously until Sam announced the name of Julian Comstock. Then the guard briskly stepped aside, and we went inside the fence.
A chubby Tipman, eager to show off his bounty, hurried toward us as we dismounted and moored our horses. “Happy coincidence!” he cried. “Gentlemen!” Addressing mostly Sam by this remark, with a cautious smile for Julian and a disdainful sidelong glance at me. “Anything in particular you’re looking for?”
“Books,” said Julian, before Sam or I could answer.
“Books! Well—ordinarily, I set aside books for the Dominion Conservator…”
“This boy is a Comstock,” Sam said. “I don’t suppose you mean to balk him.”
The Tipman promptly reddened. “No, not at all—in fact we came across something in our digging—a sort of library in miniature—I’ll show you, if you like.”
That was intriguing, especially to Julian, who beamed as if he had been invited to a Christmas party; and we followed the stout Tipman to a freshly-arrived canvasback wagon, from which a shirtless laborer was tossing bundles into a stack beside a tent.
The twine-wrapped bales contained books—ancient books, wholly free of the Dominion Seal of Approval. They must have been more than a century old, for although they were faded it was obvious that they had once been colorful and expensively printed, not made of stiff brown paper like the Charles Curtis Easton books of modern times. They had not even rotted much. Their smell, under the cleansing Athabaska sunlight, was inoffensive.
“Sam!” Julian whispered ecstatically. He had already drawn his knife, and he began slicing through the twine.
“Calm down,” said Sam, who wasn’t an enthusiast like Julian.
“Oh, but—Sam! We should have brought a cart!”
“We can’t carry away armloads, Julian, nor would we ever be allowed to. The Dominion scholars will have all this, and most of it will be locked up in their Archive in New York City, if it isn’t burned. Though I expect you can get away with a volume or two if you’re discreet about it.”
The Tipman said, “These are from Lundsford.” Lundsford was the name of a ruined town twenty miles or so to the southeast. The Tipman leaned toward Sam Godwin and said: “We thought Lundsford had been mined out a decade ago. But even a dry well may freshen. One of my workers spotted a low place off the main excavation—a sort of sink-hole: the recent rain had cut it through. Once a basement or warehouse of some kind. Oh, sir, we found good china there, and glasswork, and many more books than this…most hopelessly mildewed, but some had been wrapped in a kind of oilcoth, and were lodged under a fallen ceiling…there had been a fire, but they survived it…”
“Good work, Tipman,” Sam Godwin said with palpable disinterest.
“Thank you, sir! Perhaps you could remember me to the men of the Estate?” And he gave his name (which I have forgotten).
Julian knelt amidst the compacted clay and rubble of the Tip, lifting up each book in turn and examining it with wide eyes. I joined him in his exploration, though I had never much liked the Tip. It had always seemed to me a haunted place. And of course it was haunted—it existed in order to be haunted—that is, to house the revenants of the past, ghosts of the False Tribulation startled out of their century-long slumber. Here was evidence of the best and worst of the people who had inhabited the Years of Vice and Profligacy. Their fine things were very fine, their glassware especially, and it was a straitened Aristo indeed who did not sit down to an antique table-setting rescued from some ruin or other. Sometimes you might find useful knives or other tools at the Tip. Coins were common. The coins were never gold or silver, and were too plentiful to be worth much, individually, but they could be worked into buttons and such adornments. One of the high-born back at the Estate owned a saddle studded with copper pennies all from the year 2032—I had often been enlisted to polish it, and disliked it for that reason.
Here too was the trash and inexplicable detritus of the old times: “plastic,” gone brittle with sunlight or soft with the juices of the earth; bits of metal blooming with rust; electronic devices blackened by time and imbued with the sad inutility of a tensionless spring; engine parts, corroded; copper wire rotten with verdigris; aluminum cans and steel barrels eaten through by the poisonous fluids they had once contained—and so on, almost ad infinitum.
Here as well were the in-between things, the curiosities, as intriguing and as useless as seashells. (”Put down that rusty trumpet, Adam, you’ll cut your lip and poison your blood!”—my mother, when we had visited the Tip many years before I met Julian. There had been no music in the trumpet anyway—its bell was bent and corroded through.)
More than that, though, there hovered above the Tip (any Tip) the uneasy knowledge that all these things, fine or corrupt, had outlived their makers—had proved more imperishable, in the long run, than flesh or spirit; for the souls of the Secular Ancients are almost certainly not first in line for Resurrection.
And yet, these books…they tempted eye and mind alike. Some were decorated with beautiful women in various degrees of undress. I had already sacrificed my claim to spotless virtue with certain young women at the Estate, whom I had recklessly kissed; at the age of seventeen I considered myself a jade, or something like one; but these images were so frank and impudent they made me blush and look away.
Julian ignored them, as he had always been invulnerable to the charms of women. He preferred the more densely-written material. He had already set aside a spotted and discolored Textbook of Biology. He found another volume almost as large, and handed it to me, saying, “Here, Adam, try this—you might find it enlightening.”
I inspected it skeptically. The book was called A History of Mankind in Space.
“The moon again,” I said.
“Read it for yourself.”
“Tissue of lies, I’m sure.”
“With photographs.”
“Photographs prove nothing. Those people could do anything with photographs.”
“Well, read it anyway,” said Julian.
In truth the idea excited me. We had had this argument many times, especially on autumn nights when the moon hung low and ponderous on the horizon. People have walked there, Julian would say, pointing at that celestial body. The first time he made the claim I laughed at him; the second time I said, “Yes, certainly: I once climbed there myself, on a greased rainbow—” But he had been serious.
Oh, I had heard these stories. Who hadn’t? Men on the moon. What surprised me was that someone as well-educated as Julian would believe them.
“Just take the book,” he insisted.
“What: to keep?”
“Certainly to keep.”
“Believe I will,” I muttered, and I stuck the object in my back-satchel and felt both proud and guilty. What would my father say, if he knew I was reading literature without a Dominion stamp? What would my mother make of it? (Of course I wouldn’t tell them.)
At this point I backed off and found a grassy patch a little away from the rubble, where I could sit and eat lunch while Julian went on sorting through the old texts. Sam Godwin came and joined me, brushing a spot on a charred timber so he could sit without soiling his uniform, such as it was.
“He loves those musty old books,” I said, making conversation.
Sam was often taciturn—the very picture of an old veteran—but today he nodded and spoke familiarly. “He’s learned to love them, and I helped to teach him. His father wanted him to know more of the world than the Dominion histories of it. But I wonder if that was wise, in the long run. He loves his books too dearly, I think, or gives them too much credence. It might be they’ll kill him one of these days.”
“How, Sam? By the apostasy of them?”
“He debates with the Dominion clergy. Just last week I found him arguing with Ben Kreel2about God, and history, and such abstractions. Which is precisely what he must not do, if he means to survive the next few years.”
“Why? What threatens him?”
“The jealousy of the powerful,” said Sam.
But he would say no more on the subject, only stroked his graying beard, and glanced occasionally and uneasily to the east.
Eventually Julian had to drag himself from his nest of books with only a pair of prizes: the Introduction to Biology and another volume called Geology of North America. Time to go, Sam insisted; better to be back at the Estate by supper, so we wouldn’t be missed; soon enough the official pickers would arrive to cull what we had left.
But I have said that Julian tutored me in one of his apostasies. This is how it happened. As we headed home we stopped at the height of a hill overlooking the town of Williams Ford and the River Pine as it cut through the low places on its way from the mountains of the West. From here we had a fine view of the steeple of the Dominion Hall, and the revolving water-wheels of the grist mill and the lumber mill, all blue in the long light and hazy with coal-smoke, and far to the south a railway bridge spanning the gorge of the Pine like a suspended thread. Go inside, the weather seemed to proclaim; it’s fair but it won’t be fair for long; bolt the window, stoke the fire, boil the apples; winter’s due. We rested our horses on that windy hilltop as the afternoon softened toward evening, and Julian found a blackberry bramble where the berries were still plump and dark, and we plucked some of these and ate them.
That was the world I had been born into. It was an autumn like every autumn I could remember, drowsy in its familiarity. But I couldn’t help thinking of the Tip and its ghosts. Maybe those people, the people who had lived through the Efflorescence of Oil and the False Tribulation, had felt about their homes and neighborhoods just as I felt about Williams Ford. They were ghosts to me, but they must have seemed real enough to themselves—must have been real; had not realized they were ghosts; and did that I mean I was also a ghost, a revenant to haunt some future generation?
Julian saw my expression and asked what was troubling me. I told him my thoughts.
“Now you’re thinking like a Philosopher,” he said, grinning.
“No wonder they’re such a miserable brigade, then.”
“Unfair, Adam—you’ve never seen a Philosopher in your life.” Julian believed in Philosophers, and claimed to have met one or two.
“Well, I imagine they’re miserable, if they go around thinking of themselves as ghosts and such.”
“It’s the condition of all things,” Julian said. “This blackberry, for example.” He plucked one and held it in the pale palm of his hand. “Has it always looked like this?”
“Obviously not,” I said, impatiently.
“Once it was a tiny green bud of a thing, and before that it was part of the substance of the bramble, which before that was a seed inside a blackberry—”
“And round and round for all eternity.”
“But no, Adam, that’s the point. The bramble, and that tree over there, and the gourds in the field, and the crow circling over them—they’re all descended from ancestors that didn’t quite resemble them. A blackberry or a crow is a form, and forms change over time, the way clouds change shape as they travel across the sky.”
“Forms of what?”
“Of DNA,” Julian said earnestly. (The Biology he had picked out of the Tip was not the first Biology he had read.)
“Julian,” Sam said, “I once promised this boy’s parents you wouldn’t corrupt him.”
“I’ve heard of DNA,” I said. “It’s the life force of the secular ancients. And it’s a myth.”
“Like men walking on the moon?”
“Exactly like.”
“And who’s your authority on this? Ben Kreel? The Dominion History of the Union?”
“Everything changes except DNA? That’s a peculiar argument even from you, Julian.”
“It would be, if I were making it. But DNA isn’t changeless. It struggles to remember itself, but it never remembers itself perfectly. Remembering a fish, it imagines a lizard. Remembering a horse, it imagines a hippopotamus. Remembering an ape, it imagines a man.”
“Julian!” Sam was insistent now. “That’s enough.”
“You sound like a Darwinist,” I said.
“Yes,” Julian admitted, smiling in spite of his unorthodoxy, the autumn sun turning his face the color of penny copper. “I suppose I do.”
That night I lay in bed until I was reasonably certain both my parents were asleep. Then I rose, lit a lamp, and took the new (or rather very old) History of Mankind in Space from where I had hidden it behind a pinewood chest.
I leafed through the brittle pages of it. I didn’t read the book. I would read it, but tonight I was too weary to pay close attention, and in any case I wanted to savor the words (lies and fictions though they might be), not rush through them like a glutton. Tonight I meant only to sample it—to look at the pictures, in other words.
There were dozens of photographs, and each one captured my attention with fresh marvels and implausibilities. One of them showed, or purported to show, men standing on the surface of the moon, just as Julian had described.
The men in the picture were Americans. They wore flags stitched to the shoulders of their moon clothing, an archaic version of our own flag, with something less than the customary sixty stars. Their clothing was white and ridiculously bulky, like the winter clothes of the Inuit, and they wore helmets with golden visors that hid their faces. I supposed it must be very cold on the moon, if explorers required such cumbersome protection. They must have arrived in winter. However, there was no ice or snow in the neighborhood. The moon seemed to be little more than a desert—dry as a stick and dusty as a Tipman’s wardrobe.
I cannot say how long I stared at this picture, puzzling over it. It might have been an hour or more. Nor can I accurately describe how it made me feel—larger than myself, but lonely, too, as if I had grown as tall as the clouds and lost sight of every familiar thing. By the time I closed the book I saw that the moon had risen outside my window—the real moon, I mean; a harvest moon, fat and orange, half-hidden behind wind-tattered clouds.
I found myself wondering whether it was truly possible that men had visited that celestial orb. Whether, as the pictures implied, they had ridden there on rockets, rockets a thousand times larger than our familiar Independence Day fireworks. But if men had visited the moon, why hadn’t they stayed there? Was it so inhospitable a place that no one wanted to remain?
Or perhaps they had stayed, and were living there still. If the moon was such a cold place, I reasoned, people living on its surface would be forced to build fires to keep warm. There seemed to be no wood on the moon, judging by the photographs, so they must have resorted to coal or peat. I went to the window and examined the moon minutely for any sign of campfires, pit mining, or other lunar industry. But I could see none. It was only the moon, mottled and changeless. I blushed at my own gullibility, replaced the book in its hiding place, chased all these recreant thoughts from my mind with a hasty prayer, and eventually fell asleep.
1Whom I would meet when he was sixty years old, and I was a newcomer to the book trade—but I anticipate myself. Back to text
2Our local representative of the Council of the Dominion; in effect, the Mayor of the town. Back to text
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For refugees trapped in Libya, a flight out of danger
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Refugees board a bus taking them to the Gashora Emergency Transit Center after arrival in Rwanda from Libya. © UNHCR/Tobin Jones
By Charlie Yaxley in Kigali, Rwanda | 27 Sep 2019
At Kigali airport, on a balmy Thursday night, a young Somali woman cradles her two-month-old baby. She carefully picks her way down the steps of an aircraft to the asphalt.
Like the family of four ahead of her and the group of around 10 teenage boys from Sudan behind, Zainab makes her way to the terminal building in silence. Exhausted from the journey, they exchange nothing but glances and cautious smiles.
There is a nervous energy in the air, part relief, part disbelief at the idea of having finally reached safety. Only once they pass all their document checks and sit inside the bus waiting for them outside the airport, do they begin to relax.
“I am very happy,” says Zainab. “We had a dream of getting out of Libya and now we are finally able to live in peace.”
Zainab, her partner Abdulbasit, and their daughter are part of a group of 66 highly vulnerable refugees – including 22 children separated from their parents and wider family – evacuated on a charter flight to Rwanda from Libya.
Many suffered human rights abuses, including beatings, extortion and rape during their time held in detention centres. Others risked being sold into slavery by traffickers and even death in desperate attempts to cross the Mediterranean or through being caught up in the ongoing fighting.
“We had a dream of getting out of Libya and now we are finally able to live in peace.”
The group are the first to benefit from a newly announced Emergency Transit Mechanism. The agreement between the Government of Rwanda, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the African Union seeks to move refugees most at risk in Libya to the safety of a transit centre in Gashora, a district some 60 kms from Kigali.
Once they reached the transit centre late Thursday night, they gathered in the dining hall, where they were welcomed by the District Mayor, Richard Mutabazi, whose surname literally translates as ‘saviour’ in Kinyarwanda, the national language.
Rwanda welcomes first group of refugees evacuated from Libya (Linda Muriuki, producer / Arnold Temple, camera-editor)
“We welcome you all here,” Mutabazi said. “Kindly consider this place your home away from home. Now we must all hug.”
Reluctant at first, Richard’s infectious persistence, hugging each refugee one by one, soon has the group smiling and embracing. After a warm meal, the hall buzzes with the noise of people getting to know their new neighbours.
“I feel so good, I feel like I finally have my freedom,” says Fatima*, a 20-year-old woman from Sudan. “You cannot imagine how life is in Libya, but here in Rwanda, it feels like life will be good.”
“Now I have hope,” says Abdul, 24, a Sudanese man who fled to Libya from Darfur. “Now I feel I can start my life again.”
District Mayor, Richard District Mayor Richard Mutabazi plays with a young child at the Gathora Emergency Transit Center, Rwanda. © UNHCR/Tobin Jones
Somali parents Abdulbasit and Zainab sit with their two-month-old daughter at the Gathering and Departure Facility in Tripoli ahead of the evacuation flight to Rwanda. © UNHCR/Tarik Argaz
At the centre, UNHCR is providing accommodation, food and water, as well as everyday items such as clothes, bed sheets and cooking utensils. Nine health professionals, including a psychologist, and a team of counsellors, who specialize in working with children and survivors of sexual violence, will help the evacuees come to terms with the trauma caused by the abuses they suffered in Libya.
Some will be processed for resettlement to other countries. Others will be helped with alternative options, including return to countries where they were previously granted asylum, returning home if they agree and it is safe to do so, or remaining as refugees in Rwanda.
In the meantime, the refugees are able to live and work amongst the host community. The residents of Biryogo, a small village nearby, are optimistic about the arrival of their new neighbours.
“This is good for us because with more people around, we can improve our business,” said Florence, a local shopkeeper. “But even without that, when someone is in danger you help them because you, on another day, might be the one needing help.”
War, violence and persecution drove 25.9 million people around the world to flee their homes by the close of last year. The vast majority – some 85 per cent – are hosted by developing countries.
Rwanda already shelters around 150,000 refugees, mostly from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By receiving people from Libya, the Central African nation is sharing in a global, collective response to refugee crises.
“This partnership is a clear sign that we can cooperate to address complex problems.”
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York earlier this week, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, urged world leaders to adopt multilateral approaches to modern challenges.
“We call on every member of the United Nations to uphold their legal obligations in a spirit of solidarity,” said Kagame. “This partnership [between Rwanda, UNHCR and the African Union] is a clear sign that we can cooperate to address complex problems. Africa itself is also a source of solutions.”
“It’s impossible to downplay just how crucial these evacuations are,” said Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean. “They are a crucial lifeline that means these refugees, many of whom have suffered appalling abuses, can now look forward to rebuilding their lives.”
Stepping forward to evacuate refugees in great danger is a shining example of solidarity and responsibility-sharing of a kind that will be showcased at a high-level meeting in Geneva in December.
The Global Refugee Forum will bring together governments, international organizations, local authorities, civil society, the private sector, host community members and refugees themselves to discuss the best policies to protect refugees, and help them and their hosts to thrive and find lasting solutions.
* Some names have been changed to protect the identity of the refugees in this story.
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A major component of Vegas PBS’ educational mission is to help build a sense of community by engaging viewers around our programming. To support this effort we are launching the Vegas PBS Spotlight Series — a series of quarterly events that will highlight the programming you fund, and will also connect viewers and supporters during thematic events throughout the year.We begin the Spotlight Series with our winter theme of “Exploring Our Culture through Food + Family.” PBS programs and local events will explore the increasingly diverse Las Vegas community through the lens of food and family traditions.
The Spotlight Series kicks off with a hometown favorite chef this month. The new series Hubert Keller: Secrets of A Chef: #LovinLasVegas will take viewers on a culinary journey of some of his favorite restaurants both on and off the Las Vegas Strip. Chef Keller shares insider secrets and features a wide range of cuisines from all parts of the world. The series premieres Saturday, January 11 at 12:30 p.m. We are delighted the series will also highlight many of the excellent restaurant experiences of our community when viewed across the nation on other PBS stations!
The next event will feature chef Marcus Samuelsson, host of No Passport Required. Immediately following Chinese New Year celebrations, the program will showcase Las Vegas’ Chinatown and explore the unique culinary delights of this community. Chef Samuelsson will revisit Las Vegas on February 12 and Vegas PBS members will have an opportunity to meet the chef at a Chinatown event. Details will be announced in the February magazine, our Engage e-newsletter and Vegas PBS’ social media accounts.
In the spring, we will shift from the culinary world to a focus on “Health and Wellness” that will include another Daniel Tiger Be My Neighbor Day in Summerlin, and the health and wellness funding benefits of an accurate Census count. Over the summer, the theme will celebrate national women’s suffrage through the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in “Finding Our Voice and Trailblazers.”Then our Spotlight Series will naturally shift to the 2020 presidential election. FRONTLINE will present a series of films and interactive content exploring the campaigns from multiple perspectives. PBS NewsHour will cover the party conventions, and together with Washington Week and Nevada Week, you will find unique, nonpartisan coverage of the run up to the election.We are actively planning expanded campaign coverage and candidate events.
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Treatment Options for Tendonitis
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Jonathan Cluett, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with subspecialty training in sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery.
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Tendonitis occurs when there is inflammation and irritation of the tendons. Tendons are the tight, band-like structures that connect muscles to bone. When the muscle contracts, the tendon is forcefully pulled. Tendonitis occurs when the tendons become inflamed as a result of injury or overuse.
Rest the Injury
Tendonitis treatment must begin by avoiding aggravating movements. This may mean taking a break from a favorite activity for a period of time, but this is a necessary step to allow the inflamed tendon to heal. It is also recommended in tendonitis treatment to try alternative activities; for example, if you are a runner who is experiencing knee pain due to tendonitis, try incorporating swimming into your workout schedule. Often a splint or brace will be prescribed to help protect the area.
Ice the Tendons
Icing the area of inflammation is an important part of tendonitis treatment. The ice will help to control the inflammation and decrease swelling. By minimizing inflammation and swelling, the tendon can return to its usual state and perform its usual function.
Ice is also an effective pain-relieving step that many patients find even more effective than medication taken by mouth. You can ice frequently, but take frequent breaks to allow the skin to warm again between icing.
How to Ice Your Injury the Right Way and Reduce Swelling
Take Anti-Inflammatory Medications
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) include a long list of possibilities such as Ibuprofen, Motrin, Naprosyn, Celebrex, and many others.
Tendonitis treatment can be improved by these medications that will decrease pain and swelling.
Talk to your doctor before starting NSAIDs, as there are possible medical conditions that may prevent you from safely taking these medications.
Consider a Shot of Cortisone
If the symptoms of tendonitis are persistent, an injection of cortisone may be considered. Cortisone is a powerful anti-inflammatory medication, but instead of being given by mouth, it is injected directly into the site of inflammation. This can be extremely helpful for situations that are not improved with rest.
Not all types of tendonitis can be addressed with cortisone injections. For example, Achilles tendonitis is rarely injected with cortisone because of concerns about the possible rupture of the tendon. Cortisone injections also have possible side effects that you should be aware of before having a shot.
Cortisone Shots: Uses, Benefits, and Side Effects
Strengthening and Physical Therapy
Proper strengthening technique can help you avoid tendonitis by using your muscles in a safe, more efficient manner. For example, patients with rotator cuff tendonitis can learn ways to move the shoulder that will not cause inflammation. Do not begin exercises until the inflammation of tendonitis has subsided.
Physical Therapy Can Help You Recover More Quickly
Take Breaks
Alternate repetitive tasks with breaks to relieve stress on the tendons. Don't perform one activity continuously for hours at a time. For those with exercise-related tendonitis, try to vary your workouts to relieve the repetitive stress of one exercise activity.
Protect the Tendons
Some patients who have chronic tendonitis will find relief by protecting the affected area when performing certain activities. For example, wrist splints can be worn while gardening or Chopat straps (patellar tendonitis) can be worn while playing sports.
The steps listed above are usually adequate tendonitis treatment, and most patients have a resolution of their symptoms. Learning to avoid activities that may cause a tendonitis flare-up can also be important.
Tendonitis due to underlying conditions such as arthritis and gout are more difficult to treat and recur more frequently. The best management in these situations is to do your best to avoid flare-ups of gouty attacks or arthritic episodes and to avoid activities which you have learned cause tendonitis.
Arthritis Foundation. Tendonitis.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Achilles Tendinitis. Updated June 2010.
Sprouse RA, Mclaughlin AM, Harris GD. Braces and Splints for Common Musculoskeletal Conditions. Am Fam Physician. 2018;98(10):570-576.
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Balancing a degree with a family
Emily’s love of teaching began when she and her son joined their community playcentre in 2011. It required a great deal of parent involvement, but Emily loved every minute of it.
“Playcentre was so rewarding. We would spend a lot of time working with the children, and many of the other mums would tell me I should become a teacher. I guess my career carried on from there.”
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In 2014 Emily made the decision to apply for an Early Childhood degree. She had interviews with both The University of Auckland and Unitec, but found herself drawn more to the teaching style and flexibility of the latter.
“Unitec just seemed to fit better with me. Firstly, they offered more practical placements, while University seemed more focused on theory work up front. It also worked in better with my son’s pick-up times – the course was on Tuesday days and Wednesday nights, and on the other days we’d be based at a centre doing practical experience. I left the interview and knew immediately that Unitec was where I wanted to be.”
Over the next three years Emily completed her Early Childhood degree at Unitec’s Mount Albert campus, fitting it around the job of raising a young son. And while it was sometimes tough, she says the support of her lecturers and the motivation she drew from her family helped her through it.
“I can’t talk highly enough of our lecturers at Unitec. They were so supportive throughout our degree. I’m also lucky enough to have a very supportive family – they were so proud of me and what I was achieving. It was my son who really fuelled my motivation though. I wanted to do better for him – to show I could stick at something; that if you work hard you can achieve results. Throughout my degree I always used the whakatauki ‘ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi engari he toa takitini’, or ‘my successes are not mine alone, but that of many’. I truly believe it comes down to everyone.”
Thriving in practical placements
Part of Emily’s degree involved her completing a number of placements at daycares and kindergartens around Auckland, where she was able to put her learnings into practice in real life situations. Her first was at Magic Kingdom Daycare in Blockhouse Bay, working with children under two years of age. Then, on the advice of a lecturer, she decided to diversify her practical experience – moving first to Lynfield Kindergarten and then on to Wesley Kindergarten.
“The placements were invaluable to me, as I believe this kind of real life experience is how you really learn. They also gave me my first taste of kindy work, and I loved it! My final practical was at Point Chevalier Kindergarten and on my last day there they offered me a job. I’ve been here ever since.”
A challenging yet rewarding journey
Today, Emily’s role at Point Chev kindy sees her working with children aged between three and five to help them become confident, capable learners. It’s a job she absolutely loves.
“I’m so lucky to have found a full-time role straight out of my degree, and even luckier that it’s in a centre I love. Having a great team really makes it, and the children are incredible – the ideas they come up with are fascinating. As a teacher, every day is different. We get to do so many fun, creative things. It’s a dream come true for me.
“For students considering a career in Early Childhood Education, or those who have already begun the degree, my advice would be to make sure you stick it out. It will be tough at times, but commit yourself, get the work done and enjoy the experience – before you know it you'll be graduating. I truly believe there’s no better reward than to be part of children’s lives. They are our taonga, they are the future. This is your chance to achieve your goals, so go hard – it’s all worth it in the end!"
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David Solans
Being able to keep on being yourself after achieving success is worth praising. And David Solans has done it. His role in Merlí—a TV series revolving around adolescence, growing up and philosophy teaching that has hundreds of thousands of viewers in Spain hooked to the screen—made him very popular. But this hasn’t prevented him from being the intrepid traveller he is and doing the things he likes best, which is to be in nature. Prior to Merlí, Solans had roles in the Catalan TV series Fill de Cain and in the theatre play A cada rey su merecido. He received the Best New Actor award from the Cinema Writers Circle. In addition to acting, he is also a productor and musician in 'Fábrica mudita' and plays drums inspired by favourite artists including Vulfpeck and Elvis Presley. But that is not all—he has also written the screenplay for the film Nordur, to be directed by Tarragona director David Aymerich and shot in Iceland.
Being able to keep on being yourself after achieving success is worth praising. And David Solans has done it. His role in Merlí—a TV series revolving around adolescence, growing up and philosophy teaching that has hundreds of thousands of viewers in Spain hooked to the screen—made him very popular. But this hasn’t prevented him from being the intrepid traveller he is and doing the things he likes best, which is to be in nature. Prior to Merlí, Solans had roles in the Catalan TV series Fill de Cain and in the theatre play A cada rey su merecido. He received the Best New Actor award from the Cinema Writers Circle. In addition to acting, he is also a productor and musician in 'Fábrica mudita' and plays drums inspired by favourite artists including Vulfpeck and Elvis Presley. But that is not all—he has also written the screenplay for the film Nordur, to be directed by Tarragona director David Aymerich and shot in Iceland. GO TO MEDIAKIT
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Aberdeen office park energised by latest addition
An Aberdeen office park has welcomed its latest addition in the form of a 215,000sq/ft grade A pavilion designed by Michael Laird Architects on behalf of HFD Property Group.
CityPark1 occupies an elevated spot in the Altens business park and has been awarded a BREEAM ‘Very good’ and EPC ‘A’ rating and is now occupied by Wood Group.
MLA associate director Stephen Brewer said: "All of the facades have Kawneer stick curtain walling with front-sealed glazing and low-iron glass specified for the main entrance.
“The curtain walling plays a vital role in the energy performance and design of the building. Sustainable sourcing of materials and a knowledge of recycled content of the materials were a key part in obtaining the BREEAM rating.
"The Kawneer products achieved the required aesthetic and by the use of aerofoil projecting fins set out in an apparently random manner, the large elevations were able to be given a more human scale."
The four storey build took 18 months to complete.
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Reynolds: Two ripe targets for GOP
Silicon Valley, Hollywood not popular with public. But will Republicans seize opportunity?
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
The Republicans have a real opportunity to connect with voters and win big in 2016. But to do so, they'll have to get over their traditional love for Big Business. Will they be smart enough to do that? The prospects don't look especially bright.
But the fact is that many big businesses are unpopular with the public, aligned with the Democrats, and wide open for attack. And after eight years of the Obama administration's naked cronyism and support of Wall Street even as the middle class has suffered, the opportunities are there.
One of the most appealing targets would be the tech industry's wage-suppressing hiring habits. Not only have tech giants like Apple and Google engaged in what a federal court called an"overarching conspiracy" to prevent wage competition, but Silicon Valley firms also abuse H-1B visas to bring in immigrant competition at lower wages, a practice that's now spreading to other industries. (In Los Angeles, Southern California Edison isfiring workers and replacing them with immigrants now).
How can the GOP take advantage?
First, a much stricter prevailing wage law for H-1B visas, with big damages against violators designed to make plaintiffs' attorneys zero in on this area. You can import foreign help if you want, but you have to pay those Indian or Chinese software engineers the prevailing wage for American software engineers in Silicon Valley, rather than paying the pittance most companies pay now. (In one case, a Silicon Valley firm was paying $1.21 an hour.) There has been a lot of cheating on H-1B visas, and this should help. The tech companies' excuse for hiring immigrants is that they can't find enough qualified Americans, not that they just want to pay sweatshop wages, though that excuse is bogus. Companies also draw out the H-1B application process to keep workers under their thumbs and away from competitors, something called "handcuffing." Maybe shortening the fuse on the application process there would be a good idea, too, or — again — creating damages that trial lawyers can exploit. (Most GOP types reflexively hate trial lawyers, but, like Kurt Schlichter, I think it's better to have them working for you than against you). For more fun, make CEO's and HR heads personally responsible for violations, a laSarbanes-Oxley. ...
Tech companies will hate this, but I don't see any downside for Republicans in siding with employees against the super-wealthy of Silicon Valley. It might even split off some tech-industry support, dividing the Silicon Valley worker bees from the oligarchs. I have Democratic friends who work there and this is a really big issue among them. And who could be against paying a "living wage?" For added fun, have some hearings where fat-cat Silicon Valley oligarchs are grilled about worker exploitation.
Another big Democratic industry is entertainment, and here too there are lots of opportunities. The motion picture industry has beenabusing intellectual property laws for years.Hollywood accounting makes even big money-makers look unprofitable. The recording industry is notorious for ripping off artists.
America could use much more in the way of legislation and oversight to remedy these abuses — which, frankly, have been permitted mostly because the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley have been big donors to the Democratic Party for years. The GOP could change all that, and if it's smart, the Republican-dominated Congress will be passing bills to protect American workers and consumers from the depredations of these industries between now and 2016.
But I'm not too optimistic. That's because the GOP seems unwilling to criticize Big Business, even those parts of Big Business that hate the GOP and want to destroy it.
Some see this unwillingness as a support for free markets, but there's a big difference between support for Big Business and support for free markets. Big businesses tend to support heavy regulation, taxes, antitrust violations, and other things that reduce competition. They have enough political clout — like Apple, Google, or Sony Pictures — to get favorable government treatment. Small businesses and middle class Americans do not.
If you really support free markets — in which competition is based on price and quality, not government preference — then you're going to find yourself opposing Big Business fairly often. If you never find yourself opposing Big Business, then maybe you don't really support free markets.
That's something for Republican politicians — and for voters — to keep in mind.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor, is the author ofThe New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors.
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With a whole lot of jungle, Pisco Sour's, and some hot and heavy hiking on the Inca Trail, this trip is 15 days of exploring, drinking, eating and sweating (nobody said the trail would be easy).
Go Amazon in a proper jungle lodge, follow in the footsteps of an ancient people on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.
Stay with a local family who live in a mud-brick house on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
You'll never forget Peru and Bolivia.
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Age & Group Info
Ages: Min 18, Max 29
Group size: Min 1, Max 16
Camping (with basic facilities) (3 nights)
Homestay (1 night)
Hotel (7 nights)
Jungle Lodge (2 nights)
Bus, plane
Travel insurance is compulsory for all our trips.
When travelling on a trip, you won't be permitted to join the group until evidence of travel insurance and the insurance company's 24 hour emergency contact number has been seen by your leader.
Inca Trail Permit
The Inca Trail Permit is essential for this trip. Ask the provider to buy your permit after booking this trip.
Day 1Lima
Welcome to Lima, Peru. At around 2 pm there will be a pre-departure meeting. We'll be collecting insurance details and next of kin information at this meeting, so ensure you bring these details to provide to your leader. If you're going to be late, please inform the accommodation as soon as possible. Following the meeting your leader will take you on an orientation walk of Miraflores, including Central Park (Parque Kennedy), the LarcoMar entertainment complex and Parque del Amor (Love Park) for great views over the coast of Lima.
Day 2Puerto Maldonado (Amazon Jungle lodge)
Take a flight to Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon Jungle, where you'll be staying for two nights. Upon your arrival, the lodge staff will take you to their office in town. Here you can leave most of your luggage in safe storage and continue travelling with a small pack with just the necessary items for your next two nights in the jungle. You’ll then take a motorised canoe upriver to your jungle lodge in the Madre de Dios area. There will be time to unpack and unwind once you get there. The next two days are packed with activities. Your full day in the jungle includes a trek which lasts approximately half a day. At times the paths can get quite muddy and some people can find the trek a little exhausting. Along the way there will be regular stops, and you'll encounter magnificent fauna and flora in their natural habitat. You might spot everything from macaws and monkeys to peccaries, jabirus, otters and thousands of butterflies. The guides can also teach you about the medicinal properties and practical uses of the plants. For lunch you will return to the lodge. For your night-time excursion, you will venture out in the dark in search of caimans on the Tambopata River. The naturalist guide will use a spotlight in order to locate them on the banks of the river, so you can observe them from a respectable distance. Notes: We stay at two different lodges in the same area. The activities may vary slightly according to which lodge you are at. Depending on which lodge you are staying at, the included night excursion may be on the night of Day 1 or Day 2. As both of our lodges are in the same area of the jungle, you will see the same wildlife and your overall jungle experience will be the same in either lodge.
Day 4Cusco
Say farewell to the jungle today and fly to Cusco, which takes just under an hour. Spend the next day trying to acclimatise to the high altitude of this location (i.e. no strenuous activity). After dropping your luggage off and having some lunch, your tour leader will take you on a walk around downtown Cusco. You’ll visit the facade of Qoricancha temple, the local San Pedro market, the main square, past the 12 Angled Stone, Regocijo Square and San Blas Square. The order of visiting these locations, may vary according to hotel location and your tour leaders preference. In your free time may want to book some of the optional activities available in Cusco. Please speak with your leader about this.
Day 5Sacred Valley / Ollantaytambo
Today takes you a little closer to one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Unwind on a private bus for around two hours through the Sacred Valley, which is on the fringes of Cusco. Known as Wilcamayo to the Incas, the lush, fertile valley has long been the main source of food for the high Andes. Head to a community in the valley to learn about the local lifestyle and activities, and hopefully your visit will coincide with market day (Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday). Comb the stalls in search of hand-painted beads or warm ponchos, and master the local Quechuan language (a few words will be deemed a success). Continuing on, drive 20 minutes to Ollantaytambo. Later in the afternoon, perhaps head out to visit to Ollantaytambo’s awesome Incan ruins. You’ll spend the night at a hotel in Ollantaytambo, ready for your early morning start on the Inca Trail.
Day 6Inca Trail, Quarry Trail or Train Option
Depending on your pre-arranged travel arrangements, during the next four days you may: hike the Classic Inca Trail, hike the Inca Quarry Trail or head back to Cusco for another two nights before taking the train to Aguas Calientes. While away from Cusco, the bulk of your luggage will be stored at your hotel. If you’re hiking the Inca Trail or the Inca Quarry Trail, the evening before you leave Cusco you'll receive a small duffle bag to carry your clothes in for the next four days (5 kg maximum). Your team of porters will carry these bags for you, together with the food and equipment for the trail. Please note that you won't have access to these items until the end of each day, as the porters will always be ahead of the group. If you’re travelling to Aguas Calientes by train, you'll be able to leave most of your luggage at the hotel in Cusco and only travel with the necessary items for the next few days. Route 1 Classic Inca Trail: Today travel by minivan to the 82 km marker and meet your crew of local porters, cook and guide. The first day includes uphill trekking to the campsite, which is at 3,100 metres above sea level. On the way you’ll see the ruins of Llactapata, which was burnt to the ground by the last Inca emperor to discourage Spanish pursuit down the trail. In the evening, set up camp while the cook makes dinner. Notes: The Inca Trail is within the abilities of most reasonably fit people, but please come prepared, as the trail is 45 km long and often steep. Each day's journey generally consists of seven hours of walking (uphill and downhill), with stops for snacks and lunch. Trekking usually begins at 7 am (except on the fourth morning) and you reach the campsite around 5 pm. Accommodation on the trek is camping (three nights). Double tents (twin-share) and foam camping mats will be provided. The porters will set up the tents while the cook prepares meals. Route 2 Quarry Trail: Make an early start today and drive to Choquequilla, a small ceremonial place where Incas worshipped the moon. Drive to the starting point of the trek, Rafq'a, and meet the horsemen who join us on the hike. After an hour’s walk, reach the small community of Socma. Carry on to the Perolniyoc cascade lookout, an opportunity to stop for photos and a food break. Continue to the campsite, which is 3,700 meters above sea level. You should reach the campsite around lunchtime. After lunch, set off to explore the Q'orimarca archaeological site, which once served as a checkpoint to the Incas. Notes: The Quarry Trail is within the abilities of most reasonably fit people. The hike is 26 km long in total and its highest pass is at 4,450 meters above sea level. Throughout the trek, horses will carry your gear and camping equipment. The first two nights are spent camping and the third night you will stay at a simple hotel. Double tents (twin-share) and foam camping mats will be provided. The porters will set up the tents while the cook prepares meals. Route 3 Train: For those travellers disinterested in hiking the trail or who are unable to, spend two extra nights in Cusco before travelling by bus back through Ollantaytambo. From here take a train through the winding Urubamba Valley to the town of Aguas Calientes where you’ll spend a third night. Notes: Included lunch and dinner on this day is for people trekking the Inca or Quarry Trail only.
Route 1 Classic Inca Trail: This is the most challenging day of the trek, as we ascend a long steep path (approximately five hours) to reach the highest point of the trail. Colloquially known as 'Dead Woman's Pass', Warmiwanusca sits at a height of 4,200 meters above sea level, providing amazing views of the valley below. The group will then descend to the campsite in the Pacaymayo Valley at 3,650 metres. Route 2 Quarry Trail: This is the most challenging and rewarding day of the hike. A three-hour walk takes us to the top of the first pass of Puccaqasa (approximately 4,370 meters high). After enjoying picturesque views of the valley, it’s a short walk before stopping for lunch. Afterwards, make the two-hour hike to Kuychicassa, the highest pass of the trek at 4,450 meters. From here, descend to the sacred site the Incas called Intipunku (Sun Gate), with views of the Nevado Veronica mountain. Head to the campsite, only a stone’s throw away at Choquetacarpo. Route 3 Train: Today, perhaps your free day indulging your inner foodie in the eateries of Cusco. Head to lunch at the arty Fallen Angel restaurant, and if you still have room for dessert, the ChocoMuseo offers tastings and chocolate-marking workshops. All optional activities are at your own cost. Notes: Included lunch and dinner on this day is for people trekking the Inca or Quarry Trail only.
Route 1 Classic Inca Trail: Start the day with a climb through the Pacaymayo Valley to Runkuracay pass (3,980 metres). Enjoy views of the snow-capped mountain of Cordillera Vilcabamba before descending for around 2-3 hours to the ruins of Sayacmarca. Continue over the trail’s third pass to the ruins of Phuyupatamarca (3,850 metres), also known as 'Town Above the Clouds'. Start the two-hour descent down the Inca steps to the final night's campsite by the Winay Wayna archaeological site. Route 2 Quarry Trail: Today’s hike will all be downhill. The first stop is the incomplete Kachiqata quarry, where the Incas were intercepted by the Spanish. Around midday, come to the end of the trek. Explore the cobbled streets of Ollantaytambo before taking the short train journey to Aguas Calientes. This is where you’ll meet up with the travellers in your group who didn't hike. Visiting the natural hot springs in town is a soothing way to spend the late afternoon. Spend the night in a comfortable hotel before tomorrow’s visit to Machu Picchu. Route 3 Train: In the morning take the three-hour train to the town of Aguas Calientes, which is nestled in the hills at the foot of Machu Picchu. For those who want to, there’s time to visit Machu Picchu independently before the guided tour the next day. If you’d like to do this, please advise your group leader at the welcome meeting at the beginning of the trip. Otherwise, you might like to while away the afternoon in the natural hot springs of Aguas Calientes. Notes: Included lunch and dinner on this day is for people trekking the Inca or Quarry Trail only.
Day 9Inca Trail, Quarry Trail or Train Option and Machu Picchu
Route 1 Classic Inca Trail: The day starts before dawn with breakfast at 4.30 am. Say farewell to the porters as they descend to the train station and begin hiking by 5.30 am. The walk to Intipunku (the Sun Gate) takes around two-and-a-half hours. Weather permitting, enjoy unforgettable views over the ‘Lost City of the Incas’ Route 2 Quarry Trail: Depending on weather conditions, take a bus at 5:30 am this morning along the winding road to Machu Picchu. The journey takes around 30 minutes. At Machu Picchu, join up with the travellers in your group who hiked the Classic Inca Trail. If skies are clear, enjoy spectacular views over the ancient city from the Sun Gate, before going on a guided walk around the ruins. Route 3 Train: In the morning at 5.30 am, take a bus up to Machu Picchu. The city was built around 1440 AD as a country retreat for Incan nobility, but there’s evidence that the land had been a sacred Incan site for much longer. Take a guided tour around the ruins of temples, palaces and living quarters, and enjoy free time afterwards to wander around on your own before the group returns to Cusco. For all trails - after taking advantage of the seemingly endless photo opportunities, it's time to return to Cusco for a well deserved shower and a pisco sour. Your evening is then free for the last night of your adventure. Notes: Due to Intrepid's internal safety policy, our leaders are specifically prohibited from recommending or assisting with booking trips to the mountaintop ruins of Wayna Picchu.
Day 10Cusco
Today enjoy free time to relax, shop for souvenirs or see more of Cusco's sights. Perhaps head to a cafe on the Plaza de Armas, or if you're a thrill-seeker, try mountain biking in the hills surrounding Cusco. In the evening, you might want to chew the fat with the group over dinner.
Day 11Puno
In the morning travel by local bus for six hours through the Altiplano plateau to Puno. The town is known as the folklore capital of Peru and is famous for its traditional dances. If you're lucky, your visit might coincide with an evening parade, when the streets fill with costumed dancers and musicians. Once you're settled, head out in town and shake your tailfeather.
Day 12Lake Titicaca (Homestay)
Puno sits on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. Today you'll take a tour of the lake by slow motorboat, stopping off to visit the Uros floating islands. The Uros people built these islands to isolate themselves from rival tribes in ancient times. They're built completely from multiple layers of totora reeds, which grow in the shallows of the lake. In the evening, enjoy a homestay in a local community on Llachon. Your homestay is in a mud-brick house, with shared drop-toilets but no shower. It can get quite cold here. The homestay will provide plenty of blankets, but remember to pack thermals and plenty of layers. Help your host family with their daily activities or maybe play a game of soccer in the village.
Enjoy a home-cooked breakfast by your host family this morning, taking the time to explore the rest of the island afterwards. In the afternoon, take the boat back to Puno where the rest of your day is free to explore. Puno is the hometown of Kusimayo, a terrific local organisation that works towards improving the living condition of children and adults affected by poverty and malnutrition in this part of the world you have now come to know so well. Take a look at this short video for more information on this wonderful project: https://vimeo.com/154422813 Kusimayo is supported by the Intrepid Foundation which means you can donate to this project and your donation will be match dollar for dollar by the Intrepid Group. Please donate through our website: http://www.theintrepidfoundation.org/projects/kusimayo/
Day 14La Paz
Travel by comfortable local bus to Desaguadero (just over seven hours) and cross the border into Bolivia. You'll be asked to leave the bus to proceed through Peruvian migration. The group will then walk across a bridge, submit passports at the Bolivian migration office and reboard the bus for La Paz. Approximately 30 minutes after crossing the border, there's another stop where the army will check your documents again. The journey to La Paz takes around eight hours in total. In the evening, perhaps head out for an optional group dinner.
Your adventure ends today, as there are no more activities planned. You're free to leave the accommodation at any time. If you have some more time in La Paz before flying out, take a walk around the city's famous Mercado de Hechiceria or Witches' Market. Browse the weird and wonderful stalls selling everything from aphrodisiac potions to dried frogs and llama foetuses. If that’s not for you, there are plenty of markets selling goods made of alpaca wool, leather and other traditional materials.
Roam the Amazon jungle at night while pretending you're David Attenborough (it has a calming influence). Float down the river, keeping an out for the glaring eyes of jaguars and caimans
Inca Trail Info
While hiking the 4 Day Inca Trail or the 3 Day Inca Quarry trail portion of this trip you may be joined by other Intrepid and/or non-Intrepid travellers.
Trail permits are sold on request basis only.
Once deposit is paid and passport details provided, the provider will endeavour to secure a permit for you. If Inca Trail permits are unavailable by the time you book, you can opt to hike the Inca Quarry Trail instead.
The Inca Trail closes in February to allow cleaning and restoration works. If the trek portion of your trip starts in February you will be automatically booked to hike the Inca Quarry Trail.
It is recommended that you download WhatsApp prior to departure; please validate your phone number before leaving home as you will not be able to do this once you arrive, unless you have international roaming enabled.
WhatsApp is usually the preferred method for your leader to be in contact with you and the rest of the group while on tour.
It is also good for sharing information and photos with the group members.
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Racial profiling bill stalled in House on last day
MONTGOMERY — Alabama lawmakers could end the legislative session with debate to collect data about race and traffic stops, but it is uncertain if the measure has the votes to pass.
The House of Representatives could vote Wednesday on the bill that has become a contentious issue in the session's closing days.
The bill would require law enforcement officers to log the reason for traffic stops and the race of the stopped motorist.
House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, a Republican, said "We are counting the votes."
The Legislative Black Caucus named the bill a top priority for the session. It cleared the Alabama Senate without a dissenting vote, but ran into opposition in the House.
Democratic Rep. Merika Coleman said she has been frustrated at the bill's lack of progress in the House.
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The Triumph of the Co-Op Bookshop
Reader Contribution by Margret Aldrich
| 3/7/2012 9:26:31 AM
Tags: books, bookstores, co-ops, community, locavorism, Buffalo Street Books, Ann Patchett, Parnassus Books, The Colbert Report, This Magazine, New York Times, The Ithaca Independent, Margret Aldrich,
A town without bookstores is like a town without churches or bars. Minus the hymnals and happy-hour specials, the best bookshops are vital community centers where patrons can gather, share ideas, and have grand revelations or quiet discoveries. When Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York, began to fail, it tapped into the strength of its community with an inspired idea: cooperative ownership.
Last spring, rather than shuttering its doors, Buffalo Street Books sold shares of the independent shop to 600-plus local “co-owners,” raising more than $250,000, reports Christina Palassio in This Magazine. Less than a year later, the co-op bookstore is thriving.
What makes Buffalo Street Books’ co-op model successful? “The owners and employees of Buffalo Street Books do so much to make the store more than just a store; they’ve turned BSB into a community within a community,” says Chloe Wilson in The Ithaca Independent:
The store holds lectures, writer’s workshops, and reading groups on a regular basis. The store reaches out to Cornell and IC professors and works with them to supply books for their classes. The store encourages burgeoning writers and invites them to share their work. People who go to Buffalo Street Books aren’t just customers or employees, they’re members of BSB’s community.
In an industry already complicated by declining brick-and-mortar sales, answering to hundreds of shareholders has potential to add another layer of difficulty. “The messiness of running a co-op may not appeal to many beleaguered bookstore owners,” Palassio writes in This Magazine. “But with the rise in community-supported projects like [CSAs] and websites like Kickstarter and Unbound…the line between investor and customer is blurring.”
Keeping hometown bookstores alive makes the complications worthwhile. As novelist Ann Patchett told the New York Times after opening Parnassus Books in Nashville’s book desert last November, “I have no interest in retail; I have no interest in opening a bookstore. But I also have no interest in living in a city without a bookstore.” Like Buffalo Street Books, Parnassus Books utilizes the support of the community. Its Founder Rewards Program offers perks and discounts in exchange for member dues that range from $75 to $5,000.
In case you missed it, watch Patchett deftly explain the value of independent bookstores on The Colbert Report below. And don’t forget to support your local bookshop. The bars and churches are busy enough, aren’t they?
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Sources: This Magazine (article not available online), The Ithaca Independent, New York Times
Image by Quinn Dombrowski, licensed under Creative Commons.
Margret Aldrich is an associate editor at Utne Reader. Follow her on Twitter at @mmaldrich.
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All you fans of independent bookstores, check out "The Rebel Bookseller" - book and blog by Andy Laties - http://www.rebelbookseller.com/
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The 5 foods a gastroenterologist always, always keeps in the fridge
by Marissa Miller, December 7, 2019
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Gut health is all the rage these days, and for good reason: eating foods with good bacterian helps to balance your gut’s microbiome—the digestive tract’s ecosystem comprising of trillions of live bacteria that interact with virtually every cell—boasts benefits that extend well beyond digestion. According to research from the British Medical Journal, diversifying your gut microbiota can play a role in weight management, and help ward off the likes of type 2 diabetes, arthritis, Celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and more. Most recently, three independent studies have even found that certain gut bacteria species may improve the efficacy of anti-cancer drugs. It’s like, what can’t a balanced gut do?
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While no single food can alter your gut flora or even eliminate your risk of disease, Dr. Niket Sonpal, M.D., an NYC-based internist and gastroenterologist, stocks his fridge with the following foods to optimize gut and overall health.
Foods with good bacteria, omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamins for gut health
If you’ve been toying with the idea of embarking on the Activia challenge, let this be your inspo to take the leap. “Live yogurt is an excellent source of so-called friendly bacteria, also known as probiotics,” says Dr. Sonpal. To maximize your yogurt’s health benefits, he recommends adding your own fresh fruit (instead of opting for sugary fruit-on-the-bottom types), as well as avoiding sugar-free or full-fat versions.
2. Miso
You don’t need to wait for your next sushi night to treat yourself to the gut-healing powers of miso, which is a staple in Japanese cooking made of fermented soya beans, and barley or rice. Like Dr. Sonpal, use the paste in dips and dressings or marinades for salmon and tofu. “It contains a range of helpful bacteria and enzymes [and is] suitable if you’re avoiding dairy,” he says.
3. Sauerkraut
Who knew one of the most popular hot dog toppings is actually super gut-friendly? “It’s a naturally fermented food that has the microorganisms Lactobacillus bacteria, which crowds out bad bacteria in the gut and allows the beneficial gut flora to flourish,” explains Dr. Sonpal. “This helps to lower irritable bowel syndrome symptoms like gas, bloating, and indigestion.” Plus, that tart taste you get from sauerkraut is an especially beneficial way to add flavor to your meals, since it comes from organic acids that help probiotics do their job, he says.
Sure, you’re bound to reap more gut benefits from salmon than you would, say, red meat, but Dr. Sonpal says you should definitely aim for the wild variety, meaning the salmon was caught with a fishing pole in its natural environment, as opposed to farmed. “Wild salmon has an abundant source of omega-3 fatty acids, which is a powerful anti-inflammatory and is critical for healing an inflamed gut and preventing future episodes,” says Dr. Sonpal.
5. Kimchi
Whether eaten alone or part of a stew, kimchi is a mainstay in Dr. Sonpal’s diet for its gut-healing properties. “Because it’s made from fermented vegetables, this Korean side dish is a good choice for those who don’t consume dairy, and it’s a great source of dietary fiber, and vitamins A and C,” he says.
None of these ingredients tickle your fancy? Don’t fret. Check out one of these seven gut-friendly breakfasts, or opt for a simple, high-fiber dinner (pizza and burgers included).
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12 Must-visit Hidden Gems in Stirling
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So you've been to Stirling Castle, scaled The National Wallace Monument and stepped back in time at The Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre - now what? Try visiting some of these hidden gems in and around the city of Stirling, as recommended by the members of our iKnow Community.
1. The Church of the Holy Rude
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The Church of The Holy Rude at the top of Stirling Old Town has witnessed over 900 years of history. It was the crowning place of King James VI of Scotland, and even bears bullet marks from past battles. Visit for peaceful reflection, impressive architecture and stunning stained glass windows. Make sure to explore the atmospheric cemetery too, which offers views across to Stirlingshire and The Trossachs.
2. King's Park
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Visible from the castle esplanade but often overlooked by first time visitors, King's Park was once a royal hunting ground. Still a place of leisure, it's now home to a skate park and BMX track, a fantastic outdoor play area, tennis courts and lots of green space to enjoy. The park is also neighboured by Stirling Golf Club.
3. The Engine Shed
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The Engine Shed brings Scotland's built heritage to life through interactive exhibits that will really get you thinking about the world around you. This family-friendly exhibition space offers an in-depth look into building conservation and offers a range of creative workshops for all ages.
4. Briarlands Farm, Blair Drummond
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Just north of Stirling, Briarlands Farm is perfect for a family day out. Traditional farm-themed fun, such as feeding the animals, picking fruit and mini diggers are combined with other activities such as riding the zip wire, archery and ceramic painting. Refuel at the team room to enjoy treats made from local produce, including the farm's own strawberry jam.
5. BLiSS Trail, from Strathyre
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Take a mini road trip north of Stirling through 'Rob Roy Country' on the BLiSS Trail to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. Explore Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, Strathyre and St Fillans by car or by bike and look out for over twenty specially commissioned pieces of artwork on the way. Cameras at the ready!
6. Go Country, Aberfoyle
Make a splash at Go Country on the edge of Loch Ard, which is located east of Stirling in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. Water-based activities you can try include an inflatable water park, canoeing and cliff jumping into a loch! Back on dry land the fun continues with orienteering, climbing, abseiling, mountain biking and more.
7. The Hideaway Café, Bridge of Allan
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Tucked down a lane in the beautiful Victorian spa town of Bridge of Allan, The Hideaway Café is a relaxed place for a coffee, cake or brunch. The décor gives a nod to Scandinavian style, and the tasty dishes are worth snapping a photo of before you tuck in.
8. The Portcullis Hotel
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Located by Stirling Castle, the The Portcullis Hotel is the perfect place for a pub lunch, whether you want to dine out in the beer garden or indoors by the fire. This traditional inn serves up classic dishes such as steak pie, breaded fish and chicken stuffed with haggis, as well as lighter meals like paninis and wraps for lunch.
9. Venachar Lochside, near Callander
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Journey north east of Stirling to Venachar Lochside and you won't be disappointed. Located in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, this waterside restaurant is an oasis of calm, serving up meals made with fresh Scottish produce against a stunning backdrop.
10. Cambuskenneth Abbey, Cambuskenneth
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Cambuskenneth Abbey can be reach by road or on foot from Stirling. The abbey grounds are free to enter and feature a magnificent 13th century bell tower as well as church and monastery ruins. It was the burial place of James III, and amongst the graves there is a Victorian tomb created in honour of him and his wife Queen Margaret.
11. Macrobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling
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Soak up a bit of culture at the Macrobert Arts Centre at the University of Stirling. Over 400 performances take place here across the year including dance, comedy, music, and art exhibitions, as well as a year-round film programme. The centre offers a particularly family-friendly programme featuring productions and workshops especially for kids.
12. Dumyat, Ochil Hills
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Offering great views of Stirling, the Forth Valley and The Trossachs, Dumyat is a wee hill at 1371 ft (418 m) but it packs in a lot of character. The most eastern of the rolling Ochil Hills, it can be scaled in a couple of hours. See more walks in the area, including city and country walks, in The Wonders of Stirling eBook.
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Finding a Fragrant Niche
Two home fragrance brand founders talk to Janetta Mackay about their love of adding affordable luxury into everyday living
Jackie and Ben Ashley. Picture / Guy Coombes.
Friday Dec. 4, 2015
CREATIVE COUPLE
She was a physiotherapist and he a graphic designer, but when Jackie and Ben Ashley put their creative heads together what they came up with was a home fragrance business that is now 10 years old.
Ashley & Co, like the married couple from Auckland, has gone through some changes over the years, but the shared vision to produce an “authentic” locally made product still underpins the endeavour.
“I love working for myself and working with Ben,” says Jackie. She enjoys the “pleasing factor” of delivering items that enhance daily living and that she has been able to adapt her role developing new products to fit around the arrival of two children, now 8 and 5.
“For us family is massive,” says Ben, who has moved over the years from a long freelance design career to creating a smart new look for the products timed with Ashley & Co’s milestone decade in business.
It started with reed scent diffusers, which Jackie explains were then uncommon in New Zealand, but already popular in the United States. She was introduced to diffusers by her brother’s Hawaiian wife and decided to have a go at making them.
Although she enjoyed being a physio she felt it was time for a change and so began a learning curve, working from home originally and later from a barn her parents owned at Greenhithe before the company moved to Rosedale. She takes pride in making the fragrances long-lasting and spends up to a year developing each. Candles are hand-poured, using sustainable wax.
The Ashleys say although there is plenty of competition in the home fragrance market, they have found receptive buyers, thanks to an upmarket look and distinctive aromas such as Tui & Kahlili. The involvement of business partner Jeremy Scott, who took a 50 per cent stake in the company three years ago, has helped drive expansion, with Australia a significant market, others being developed in Asia and interest from Scandinavia. They sell mainly in upmarket department stores and fashion and home stores.
From three original fragrances, there are now seven, ranging over diffusers and candles, body wash and Soothe tube hand creams. The original products had a flowery, French feel, but scents have changed along with the look.
The new Ashley & Co look is pared-back and contemporary. Ben explains that his packaging includes hidden details “to create a bit of an experience for people”. Inside the slick black boxes you will find botanical drawings and messages. “The new range is more about us,” they say.
Christopher Lim. Picture / Supplied.
WORLDLY TRAVELLER
Christopher Lim is on a journey of scent, creating home fragrances inspired by travel and designed to unleash the evocative power of perfume. “I want customers to be excited and follow the journey,” explains the man behind Maraca. “Everyone deserves a luxury product in their life.”
The company launched as candle-makers in 2012, but Lim’s own scent journey started as a child in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He recalls playing with his mother’s collection of miniature fragrance bottles, fascinated by their shapes and smells. She and his aunt worked in beauty retail and, at 17, science student Lim got a job behind a counter. He worked first for Hugo Boss, then Gucci and Ralph Lauren.
He credits this early grounding with helping develop his nose and an understanding of the market. A move to Australia to study for a B.Com rounded out his skills, but it was only after shifting to Auckland 10 years ago that Lim’s passion turned into a purpose. In Melbourne he had struggled to find a decent job. Lim — a cousin of My Foodbag chef Nadia Lim — was encouraged to move by an uncle who lived here.
“When I came to New Zealand it was totally different.” He quickly found work, albeit initially in a computer shop, but he also found a more welcoming environment.
“You need to believe what your direction is. My objective is I want to bring this New Zealand-made brand to an international level.”
Maraca got its name from daydreaming on a Brazilian holiday and because the word was easy to pronounce in a number of languages. From Brazil he also came up with Sunset Dreams, his first candle, with this country inspiring his next. Lim considers Bloom — triggered by the fresh early spring-time scents he encountered on his first trip to Mt Cook and Queenstown — his signature scent. He has extended this top-seller of his eight home fragrances into body products.
Morocco and the Orient of old have inspired other candles and diffusers and a Spanish trip is behind the next in the pipeline, but Lim says he isn’t on a scent grand tour. “Not every country will have that inspiration for me.”
Travellers though seem keen on what Lim evokes, his biggest local retailer being the T by Galleria Customhouse duty-free store. Tourists, he says, like taking home a piece of accessible New Zealand luxury. He is now exporting to Asia, where traditionally incense and fragrant oils and latterly diffusers, especially electric ones, are more popular than candles.
He is also eyeing up the US and British markets and is working with a hotel group on a bespoke room fragrance.
Lim uses essential oils, with final fragrance formulation in France, before his candles are hand-poured from soy wax here. He considers the perfume market too saturated to become involved with for now.
Rose oil is at the heart of his latest candle, Rosearie. This one is not linked to any particular place. Lim is personally grounded in Grey Lynn, however, after eight years in the suburb. He admits to missing the food of Kuala Lumpur and “every time I go back there it’s shop, shop, shop ... ” but he doesn’t like the pollution and prefers the relaxing life and five-day working weeks here. “I never want to move, it’s a great area.”
He is reluctant to play favourites with his fragrances, however, saying: “They’re all my babies.”
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Oman's startup opportunity
The sultanate of Oman is gearing up to turbocharge its entrepreneurship ecosystem. While the Gulf state has not been traditionally known for its wealth of startup programmes, Oman’s newly laid Vision 2040 is helping to accelerate the country’s plans to become a global tech and small to medium-sized (SME) hub.
Released during the Oman 2040 Future Vision National Conference in January this year, the draft plan envisages the development of a competitive, globally connected private economy. In its ambitious long-term vision, Oman places specific emphasis on SMEs and the non-hydrocarbons sector. By 2040, Oman plans to transform its oil versus non-oil gross domestic product (GDP) split from 40/60 per cent to 15/85 per cent, according to official figures.
This trend is forecast to continue to 2040, when hydrocarbons are expected to account for just seven per cent of Oman’s GDP.
Critical Ecosystem
Forty per cent of Oman’s 4.6 million-strong population is under 25-years-old and nearly half of the nation’s youths are unemployed, according to the World Bank.
According to Wes Schwalje, chief operating officer (COO) at Dubai-based Tahseen Consulting, a “robust, self-sustaining entrepreneurship ecosystem” is critical to youth job generation in Oman.
“A fully-fledged ecosystem will create more high skill, high wage jobs in knowledge-based industries for youth,” he says.
“The amount of unemployed youth is very high and the government is trying to push the unemployed people to go to market and start their own businesses,” says Salim Al Mamari, an entrepreneur based in Muscat who started a drive-through coffee shop and is in the process of setting up a healthcare centre. “The [labour] market cannot absorb all the graduates, that is the main driver for startups.”
Schwalje adds that a functioning ecosystem is vital for nurturing globally competitive, fast-growing companies in priority economic areas that drive economic diversification and mobilising private investment in startups.
SMEs currently account for around 15 per cent of Omani GDP – a figure the Public Authority for the Development of SMEs (Riyada) has forecast will double in the next decade as opportunities are created. Nevertheless, this figure is markedly below the global average of around 50 per cent.
Oman’s entrepreneurship ecosystem has thus far trailed behind its neighbours, such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but the sultanate is showing signs of building the necessary institutional foundations and addressing SME funding gaps.
“Increased competition in the Mena region to improve startup and entrepreneurship ecosystems is pushing Oman towards a ‘fast follower’ approach,” suggests Schwalje.
He predicts that Oman will rapidly learn from its neighbours to become one of several tech startup hubs in the region.
“No country wants to be caught out stuttering at the starting gate of developing foundational digital economy policies and enhancing their business environment when some of their neighbours are advancing bold policies to become global leaders in artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, advanced materials, and even space exploration,” says Schwalje.
In its boldest move towards plugging the finance gap, Oman utilised $200 million from its sovereign wealth fund to create the Oman Technology Fund (OTF) in 2016.
OTF invests in startups in Oman and Mena in the pre-seed, seed stages and in VC funds and hopes to attract global startups to open up shop locally through partnerships with global leaders, like London-based Hambro Perks and 500 Startups.
The sultanate is also reportedly in talks to invest into Japan’s billion-dollar Softbank Vision Fund. This suggests Oman has ambitions to become global startup capital hub, as well as a regional powerhouse.
“Oman’s global ambition can also be seen in its recent attempts to develop closer ties with emerging global tech leaders like China and India and growing ties with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,” says Schwalje.
In recent years, Oman has ramped up its effort to support its startup community with a range of government initiatives.
SME body Riyada offers one-stop solutions for setting up businesses, as well as financial support, revamped training programmes, discounted land and premises.
Younger entrepreneurs can seek specialist funding, support and business plan advice through Sharakah, the Fund for Development of Youth Projects.
Oman’s National Business Centre (NBC), an initiative launched at the Knowledge Oasis Muscat in 2012, offers local entrepreneurs a physical area to develop their business ideas and advance them into growing ventures.
In a show of intent, Oman has recently introduced a new foreign investment law and a company law. A new bankruptcy protection law is also in the works, but there is a lack of venture capital (VC) firms in Oman and many young graduates still hope to secure a public sector job than risk starting their own business.
In some respects, Oman has already made a head start on its digital policy with its 2030 Digital Oman Strategy or “eOman”.
As Tahseen Consulting’s Schwalje points out, Oman was a first mover within the GCC in terms of “seeing the importance of developing a strong technical and vocational education system and integrating technology skills into the national curricula”.
Schwalje notes that Omani youths have consistently performed well in Microsoft’s global ‘Imagine Cup’ competition over the past several years.
“This suggests that Oman is doing well at cultivating a young generation of tech-savvy critical thinkers that can realise opportunity gaps in markets and fill them,” he says
From a demographic perspective, Oman, along with its GCC neighbours, is home to millions of young, digitally connected consumers with some of the highest mobile penetration rates in the world –– this bodes well for the development of the digital economy in the GCC and across Mena.
Hurdles Ahead
According to Saurabh Verma, head of ICT & digital transformation at global management consultants Frost & Sullivan, Oman’s demographics, sizeable population and unique opportunities hold great promise.
“There are significant opportunities for startups to offer products and services to a large population pool within Oman, and also extend them to other regional countries. However, so far, the tech startup in Oman has been relatively slow,” Verma says.
The Frost and Sullivan executive says the past three years have seen some activity within Oman’s startup fintech, education, e-commerce, media and food sectors, but there’s still a long journey ahead. So far this year, only one startup in Oman has managed to raise VC fundin, while the OTF has invested in more Pakistan-based startups than Omani ones.
“Oman is a greenfield, you can enter the startup ecosystem by any kind of activity,” says Al Mamari. “The challenge we are facing is ease of taking the business from a process perspective, there is a lot of paperwork and no alignment from different entities. There are a lot of legacy systems that have to be fixed to make the experience smooth for startups.”
While support from the government has increased according to Al Mamari and access to funding has improved slightly, the country still requires regulatory shakeups to simplify the process for startups to attain the right licences without the red tape.
“Oman has the potential to emerge as a tech startup hub, but the country needs to put a lot more focus on developing its startup ecosystem,” says Verma. “The market opportunity is there, but there is still a need for more incubators and accelerators, an active VC circle, and more government incentive policies.”
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New traffic light cameras will clock drivers who run red lights and break speed limit
New cameras will detect drivers who run red lights and speed
By Adam Everett Reporter
Cheshire Police is installing new safety cameras at traffic light junctions.
NEW cameras at traffic lights will clock motorists who run red lights and drive over the speed limit.
Cheshire Police will install new safety cameras at junctions across the county, which will be able to detect vehicles going through red lights or speeding.
Drivers caught breaking the speed limit by the cameras face a minimum £100 fine and three points on their license – although courts can issue higher fines and disqualify motorists.
Five new cameras are being installed in Cheshire West and Chester – at the junction of Dalefords Lane and Chester Road in Sandiway, on the A5117 in Elton Green, on the A54 at Kelsall Hill and in Chester on the A41 and at the junction of Parkgate Road and Cheyney Road.
There are also plans to install similar cameras in Warrington, Halton and Cheshire East in the coming months.
Brian Rogers, Cheshire Road Safety Group implementation manager, said: “Far too many people have died and been seriously injured as a result of collisions on Cheshire roads in recent times.
“Cheshire Road Safety Group was set up in April 2011 to reduce the number of people killed or injured on the county’s roads by encouraging greater compliance of speed limits through the operation and maintenance of speed and safety cameras.
“Supported by contributing partners Cheshire Constabulary, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service and the four local authorities in the county – Cheshire West and Chester Council, Cheshire East Council, Halton Borough Council and Warrington Borough Council – CRSG is investing in new technologies and innovation to make our roads safer.
“Junctions in which vehicles and pedestrians come to a road from different directions are particularly dangerous, and it is vital that motorists travel at an appropriate speed – one which enables them to stop safely should the colour of traffic lights change, or a pedestrian step into the road.
“We hope that the new generation cameras will deter motorists from speeding and going through red lights at junctions and therefore reduce the number and severity of collisions.”
Speeding is a contributing factor in nearly a quarter of deaths on the roads, with more than twice as many people dying on Cheshire’s roads last year – a total of 41 – than they did in 2017.
There have already been a number of fatal crashes in the county in the first month of 2019.
Cheshire police and crime commissioner David Keane added: “Road safety is one of my key priorities, and I am committed to working with partners to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on Cheshire roads and motorways.
“With an increased number of serious incidents and fatalities on our roads in recent times, these cameras are needed more than ever.
“Law-abiding drivers often report to me their shock and frustration at the number of drivers who jump red lights and break the speed limit, selfishly gambling with other people’s lives as well as their own.
“One death is too many, and I hope that the new cameras will lead to more motorists adhering to the speed limits and driving responsibly – for both their own safety and the safety of others.
“It is important that people across Cheshire support efforts to reduce the amount of collisions in the county, as all drivers and riders have a part to play in making our roads safer.”
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Why did you choose to work for Waverley Care?
I’ve been a professional fundraiser for 10 years, but working for Waverley Care means a lot to me because I have friends who have been affected by HIV and Hepatitis. It’s a great organisation doing important work – it’s an honor to play my small part.
Tell us about life before Waverley Care.
I grew up and went to university in Aberdeen, before moving to Edinburgh in 2010. I’ve had a long interest in the LGBT equality and rights sector in Scotland, having served on the Board of LGBT Youth Scotland and The Equality Network.
What do you most enjoy about working with Waverley Care
I love working for Waverley Care because I can see the real difference we are making to the lives of our service users and the communities we support.
What do you do in your spare time?
I’ve always loved music, playing the saxophone and piano (badly). My partner and I enjoy travelling the world when we get the chance.
Who inspires you?
I’m actually inspired by Greta Thunberg and all the millions of young people across the globe who are fighting to make the world a more socially conscious place.
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Quad Artera Play & Artera Stereo review
Does Quad's attractive Artera combo sound as good as it looks? Tested at £2900
By What Hi-Fi? Posted 2016-05-26T09:20:16Z
A compact system that can go big and loud, but lacks the ability to really draw us in
Big scale from a small system
Good connectivity options
Good instrument separation and organisation
Plenty of bass weight for a neutral system
Lacks expression and insight
Timing could be better
Music doesn’t tie together well
Lacks enthusiasm
Take one look at Quad’s Artera range and we challenge you not to want to take a listen.
The duo – the Artera Play CD player/DAC/preamp and the Artera Stereo power amp – are so beautifully designed that it’s a love-at-first-sight situation; we’re in love with the idea of them before we’ve even get to know them.
They don’t have to come as a pair, but they’re quite obviously designed to, so much so that we can’t see why you would consider buying one without the other. For that reason, we’re testing them as a system, so all you need to do is add speakers.
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There’s something of a nod to Quad’s history in the Artera range.
Indeed Rodney Mead, the man behind many of Quad’s classic hi-fi products from the 1970s through to the 1990s, was involved in their design, which uses a sturdy combination of a textured aluminium front panel and thick glass top, with slim heat sinks on either side.
Not only does this make them look the part, but it also provides a rugged structure that minimises resonance. It also means the Artera Play can be stacked on top of the Artera Stereo without any notable effect on the sound.
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The Artera Play is quite the box of tricks. It packs a slot-loading CD player, while also working as a DAC and preamp, with a whole host of digital and analogue connections to play with as a result.
These include two each of optical, coaxial and RCA phono inputs, plus a USB-B for hooking up a computer. Outputs are covered by either balanced XLR or RCA pre-outs, as well a coaxial and optical out.
The Artera Stereo supports its multi-faceted partner by packing a whole lot of power into its compact dimensions. Quad rates it “conservatively” at 140W per channel into 8 ohms (250W in 4 ohms), so it should be able to drive any speakers.
In the box with the Play is a remote that features all the usual playback controls, including numbers for skipping to specific CD tracks, and a handful of controls for source and menu options. These include the ability to choose one of several digital filters – but more on that later.
The Artera Play also features a fairly limited touchscreen interface that forms part of its circular display. It allows you to play or pause a track by tapping towards the top of it, or change source by tapping at the bottom.
We hardly found need to use it, but the functionality is there should you want to try it out.
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At the heart of the Artera Play is the ESS Sabre32 9018 chip, a 32-bit DAC that makes its Quad debut in this product. It supports and futureproofs the unit to accept files up to 32-bit/384kHz as well as DSD 64/128/256, meaning there shouldn’t be anything you won’t be able to play.
While the Artera Play looks the future, the Stereo looks back, picking up a bit of sonic know-how with the latest iteration of the company’s Current Dumping topology.
First introduced on the Quad 405 in the 1970s, Current Dumping is ultimately a way of combining the sonic purity of Class A amplification with the much more efficient Class AB.
The aim is to produce a relatively compact, cool-running power amp that is capable of both power and finesse in spades.
We use XLR cables to hook up the two components and then connect the Artera system to our reference ATC SCM50 speakers to see if Quad has managed it.
We try a CD first and set about deciding on what filter to use, a menu that is hidden under a long press of the remote’s ‘prog’ button.
There is a choice of Fast, Smooth, Narrow or Wide: Fast is the default setting and is said to preserve the transient nature of the music; Wide is a ‘clean’ sound recommended for high sample-rate files; Narrow purportedly typifies industry standard characteristics with high jitter tolerance; and Smooth is recommended for use with acoustic recordings, owing to its natural, open sound.
We listen to all four and settle on Wide as our favourite balance, even for CD quality files. ‘Fast’ comes a close second, with a touch more drive and bite to its presentation, but it can feel a bit unrelenting, particularly with more considered music.
We play the Gladiator soundtrack on CD, and skip to Earth – a mournful song that comes in the movie after Maximus has just seen all his family murdered.
Immediately it’s obvious that the Artera duo is capable of real size and scale – the available volume is massive, and it easily fills our testing room with a rich, well-balanced sound. No part of the frequency range is emphasised or forward, making for the even-handed neutral sound that Quad is well known for.
There’s a natural tonality to its sound too – instruments have real depth and believability in their character, and there’s a strong sense of separation. Even as more instruments join the arrangement, there is enough space in the presentation to give each one room to breathe and grow.
Even in something as complex as Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring, the Artera duo is able to stay organised and composed, keeping a handle on the huge variety of sounds and tempos with a good degree of skill.
There’s real solidity and confidence here too – sound is a touch leaner across the analogue inputs, but otherwise it’s a consistent character no matter what your source.
What the Artera duo doesn’t convey quite so well in Earth is the real sadness in the music, the deep sense of loss that is so apparent on more insightful kit, and that really connects and draws you in to the piece.
This not only comes down to detail levels, which do leave us wanting at this level, but also in how the music is all tied together. While the music's individual parts are well judged and realised, the overall presentation doesn’t prove quite as talented, and it lacks some rhythmic precision and dynamic expressiveness too.
We connect our streamer to one of the analogue inputs and opt for something with more aggression to see how the Artera handles it.
We play Black Skinhead by Kanye West and are impressed with not only the amount of bass grunt on offer here, but also the level of control the Artera keeps over it.
Big bold drum kicks hit with a decent amount of punch and impact, while there’s plenty of clarity in the midrange for West’s manic vocals to shine.
Once again, the presentation just falls short in the end. This is a passion-filled, rebel song, but that gets lost in translation. We don’t feel the anger and frustration in West’s voice, or the music rising up in support as we know it’s supposed to.
We switch speakers to see if we can inject a bit more life into proceedings, changing over to a pair of Tannoy Revolution XT6Fs.
It’s a better match for sure, their more forward character adding a bit of the missing drive and enthusiasm to the Artera duet, but it doesn’t change the way music all hangs together, which still feels lacking.
It makes it hard to fall truly in love with the Artera as we’d like.
Break a song down into its individual parts and the Artera does a lot right, but bring it all back together again and those ungenerous detail levels and the rhythmic diffidence leave it sounding uninvolved and uninterested.
That’s never good, but certainly not at nearly £3000.
If you want big sound and functionality from a small system, the Quad Artera Play and Stereo could still be worth a look, but it’s not quite the love story we’d hoped for.
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Priam, King of Troy, abandoned his son, Paris, on a lonely mountainside because seers warned he’d bring trouble to Troy should he live. Paris survived. A shepherd rescued him and raised him as his own.
The gods summoned the adult Paris to settle a dispute among three goddesses regarding their beauty. Choosing Venus (Aphrodite), he earned her undying gratitude.
He journeyed to Greece and was welcomed by Menelaus, King of Sparta, who was married to Helen, the world’s most beautiful woman. But Venus had promised Helen to Paris, so she caused them to fall in love. The two ran off to Troy together.
Menelaus immediately declared war and with 1,000 ships set sail for Troy.
Priam, now too old and frail to lead his troops, assigned that duty to Hector, Paris’s brother.
When the Greeks reached Troy, Trojans rushed to confront them but were driven back behind their city walls.
The war dragged on for nine years. As the 10th year of siege began, gods and goddesses began to participate. Finally, the Greeks were forced behind barricades erected to protect their navy, then seemingly withdrew in defeat. But under Achilles’ leadership, they rallied and again attacked.
Every Trojan except Hector retreated behind Troy’s walls.
When Achilles spotted Hector, he killed him, then arranged to meet with Priam to negotiate both a truce and marriage to Priam’s daughter. However, Paris unexpectedly arrived at this meeting and killed Achilles by shooting him in the heel with a poisoned arrow. At once, a Greek chieftain killed Paris.
But Troy remained unvanquished so when Ulysses said, “If we cannot take Troy by force, we can do it by stratagem,” his plan was eagerly accepted.
Declaring return to Greece, they withdrew their fleet from Troy’s shores, then hid on the far side of a nearby island. Surprisingly, they’d left a huge wooden horse behind.
Many Trojans wanted to take the horse into the city. Others feared even to touch it.
Laocoön, priest of Neptune and respected seer, warned, “Have you not learned that Greeks are never to be trusted? I fear them even when they offer gifts.”
No one listened. Singing and dancing, the Trojans dragged the horse into Troy.
In the dark of night, Greek warriors emerged from the horse’s belly and opened Troy’s gates to the rest of their army. They then looted and pillaged the city.
And so Troy fell — through treachery, not force.
We’ve already discussed Trojan Horse and “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts,” both from this same myth. There’s more.
The term, “Achilles’ heel,” arose because his mother dipped the infant Achilles into the River Styx making him impervious to injury. She’d held him by one heel which now was the only vulnerable part of his body. Today, “Achilles’ heel” refers to the weak spot in a plan or undertaking.
Ancient writings never suggest Helen’s face “launched 1,000 ships.” We’re told only that the Greek fleet numbered 1,000 ships. However, English poet, Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), in his play, Doctor Faustus (1592), coined that saying. He wrote, “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, /And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? /Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.”
Immortal words indeed.
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Franklin Roosevelt Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Franklin Roosevelt
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I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is a contagion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have a terrific pain in the back of my head. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The frontier of America is on the Rhine. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. — Camille Paglia
You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much. — Newt Gingrich
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini]. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Winston S. Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. — Pete Du Pont
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. — Gaylord Nelson
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Organized money hates me
and I welcome their hatred! — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fundamental idea ... is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom of speech ... Freedom of worship ... Freedom from want ... Freedom from fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to ... American democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt. — Barack Obama
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried! — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? — Richard D. Wolff
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. — Robert Dallek
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To reach a port we must set sail — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. — Ann Richards
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidents are selected, not elected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. — Robert Kennedy
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." — Mike DeWine
Forests are the lungs of our land ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Failure is not an American habit. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well ... uh ... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake. — Ed Crane
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great power involves great responsibility — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
-Roosevelt to Churchill — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you. — Gore Vidal
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Necessitous men are not free men. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — Jean Craighead George
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Above all, try something — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. — Ken Livingstone
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Couple Alert?
Sarah Snyder and Luka Sabbat Wore Matching Trench Coats To Burberry Show
by Lauren McCarthy
LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 17: Luka Sabbat (L) and Sarah Synder wearing Burberry at the Burberry February 2018 show during London Fashion Week at Dimco Buildings on February 17, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Burberry)
David M. Benett
Sarah Snyder has over a million Instagram followers, but fans actually know very little about the 22-year-old aspiring model. They know she was famously accused of stealing an Hermès bag, that she's modeled for Calvin Klein and Yeezy, and that she loves to post pictures of herself, but that's about it. Instead, Snyder has been largely defined, at least in the eyes of the Internet, by her boyfriends; it was her two-year relationship with actor and musician Jaden Smith that fist put her on the pop culture radar, and most recently she was linked to Leonardo DiCaprio after being spotted having dinner with the actor in November.
But at Saturday's Burberry show during London Fashion Week, Snyder was arm in arm with Grown-ish actor and fellow Instagram star Luka Sabbat. The pair arrived together at the show and circulated through the dimly lit space with hands interlocked, occasionally pausing to throw their arms around each other. It was enough to cause a few audience members to see when Sabbat was last spotted with his girlfriend, model Adriana Mora (she last posted a photo of Sabbat back in November).
It makes sense that Snyder and Sabbat are friends--the duo hang in similar circles, both attended Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 2017 show during Milan Fashion Week in 2016, and appeared together in Iceberg's campaign in 2017{: rel=nofollow}.
Who Is Sarah Snyder?
Last time we checked, Sarah was dating Jaden Pinkett Smith, and the two have been spotted locking lips front row at Fashion Week on multiple occasions.
Photo courtesy of @SarahFuckingSnyder.
They’re basically inseparable.
Her ex-BFF and former roommate is Eileen Kelly, another Insta-star known as @KillerAndaSweetThang.
Her hair color has gone from platinum blonde…
To blue…
To black.
…And recently to red.
She’s the reigning bathroom selfie champion.
And can almost always be seen in Gucci, a graphic t-shirt, Supreme hoodie, and designer sneakers.
And although she started as an Instagram star, she’s now a serious fashion model signed to Request. Recently, she sat front row at Dolce & Gabbana‘s Milan fashion show (sans Jaden!) and is also the face of Hugo Boss.
But whether they are a couple or just friends, the model duo made a striking pair wearing matching Burberry trench coats—a look that Snyder said was unplanned. "I'm wearing my coat inside out with matching shoes with the classic Burberry print," she said of her ensemble as Sabbat stood nearby. Also unplanned? Her very on-trend headcomb headband, like the ones recently seen on the Prabal Gurung Fall 2018 runway. "I didn't see that!," she exclaimed, when informed of the accessory's relevance. "Wow, cool. No, I just didn't wash my hair, so I just put it in my hair. I'm starting to get into throwback accessories."
The model had just arrived in town that morning, a trip centered around this particular show. "I've always been a fan of the brand and it is Christopher [Bailey]'s last show, so I'm excited," she said. "I've haven't met him yet, though."
She was just one of the many famous faces who were in attendance to celebrate the designer, and many of them also sitting as pairs: newly married Jamie Bell and Kate Mara, actors Lily James and Matt Smith, co-stars (and rumored couple) Tom Holland and Zendaya, and, of course, best friends Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. Meanwhile, Cara Delevingne made her triumphant return to the runway.
Related: After New York Fashion Week, Throwback Hair Accessories And Neon Highlights Are Officially Cool Again
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dana m sabraw family separation policy department of justice health and human services family reunification aclu dna tests judge halts deportations of reunified families
Trump Deporting Reunified Families, Judge Rules 'The Hell You Say'
A federal judge ordered a temporary stop to deportations of families whose children were separated from them by the Trump administration. The ACLU requested a restraining order Monday, saying the immediate deportations violated the families' due process rights (which, yes, even undocumented immigrants have; trolls and the current "president" can STFU). US federal district court judge Dana Sabraw ordered a weeklong halt to all deportations of families covered by the class action lawsuit against Trump's family separation policy, to make sure no families are being sent away illegally. Sabraw also appears to have lost patience with the government's delays in returning kids to their parents.
The government will have a week to reply to the ACLU request that deportations be paused. As Talking Points Memo reporter Alice Ollstein reports on Twitter, Sabraw wasn't buying the Justice Department lawyers' bullshit, no thank you:
Now Sabraw is TEARING INTO the Trump admin for arguing that the court is putting the immigrant kids in danger by ordering swift reunification with their parents. He calls this argument "completely unhelpful" bc gov is the one that "improperly separated parent and child."
Sabraw accuses Trump admin of "inviting a process of delay at the expense of children and parents." He then scolds them, saying: "HHS is a defendant in this case. HHS' mission is the interest of the child. It is failing in this context."
This is actually a reprise of an argument Sabraw settled last week with a different agency: An official from Health And Human Services, which is responsible for reunifying parents with the children the Trump administration took from them at the border, had claimed in a declaration Friday that Sabraw's July 26 deadline for reuniting all children with their parents would actually be bad for the kids. The official said faster reunification would "likely result in the placing of children with adults who falsely claimed to be their parents or into potentially abusive environments." Then HHS shrugged and said fine, we just won't verify whether any of these parents are really related to the kids, see how the liberals like it when kids get sent to SEX TRAFFICKERS! (we're paraphrasing from Breitbart's coverage there). Sabraw had already told HHS Friday that it would both verify the parents' relationships and have it done by July 26, so we're surprised the Justice Department would bring that up again. Sabraw wasn't pleased:
Reunification can happen quickly and safely. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. HHS is responsible for this and can do it well.
Sabraw explained once more, presumably using little words, that since court records show most of the parents have no criminal history in the US or their home countries, there's no need to DNA test every parent -- such measures should only be taken when there's evidence to suggest the children aren't related to the people who want to claim them.
Beyond the request for a pause in deportations, the ACLU asked the judge to order HHS to give them 12 hours' notice before releasing families from detention, so charities can be on hand to assist them. Ollstein notes, "Some [families] have been left at bus stops in the middle of the night." The government lawyers whined such notice would be a "logistical challenge, but Sabraw told them to meet with the ACLU and agree on some kind of notice, since that's just "common courtesy."
The hearing also included two more instances where DOJ's attorneys seem to get on Sabraw's nerves just a bit more. He had little patience for their insistence that parents simply have to be deported to clear up room in family detention facilities for other families who've been reunited, as if the government had already forgotten it started releasing parents with GPS ankle monitors just last week. WHICH IT COULD HAVE BEEN DOING THIS ENTIRE TIME INSTEAD OF TAKING CHILDREN AWAY. Judge Sabraw simply cut off the DOJ attorney:
That's not an option. That just shouldn't be happening. There's no reason I can think of why that would result in delaying the reunifications that are underway. If space is an issue, the government can make space.
An administration attorney also invited Judge Sabraw to come and see a child detention facility so he could see for himself how well-cared-for the children are (as they suffer PTSD caused by being taken from their parents). Sabraw, again, wasn't having it, because a nice baby jail is still a baby jail:
The concern at issue is simply the passage of time. No matter how nice the environment is, the separation from a parent, particularly for a young child, is what matters. That's the principal issue we're dealing with. The safe environment is assumed.
We'd like to think a steely glare was involved there, too.
In not unrelated news, we also learned from USA Today that Judge Sabraw is the son of an American-born US soldier who met his mother, who was born in Japan, while he was stationed there during the Korean War. Sabraw was appointed to the federal bench by George W. Bush. His middle name is Makoto, Japanese for "truth," which we're happy to hope is a good omen of some kind.
While Judge Sabraw has made no mention of his ancestry during the current case, he did say in a 2003 interview that his mixed-race family faced trouble finding housing in the 1960s, prior to passage of the Fair Housing Act. Considering Donald Trump's history of being sued under that law, we suppose it's inevitable the moron will soon be tweeting about how the "Japanese judge" is genetically incapable of ruling fairly in the case.
But maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised -- Trump would really have to be A IDIOT to shout "fake news" about a judge whose middle name is literally Truth.
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[AP/Miami Herald / Alice Ollstein on Twitter / TPM / CNN / USA Today]
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“Spotlights” are a feature of the YouthLaunch blog where our friends share their stories. From Plan II/KIPP Partnership leaders, to PALS Alumni Corps members, to current and retired PALS teachers and advocates in AISD, these are our friends and collaborators who share our goal of empowering youth to incite positive change.
"Coach Murph"
“Our best resource is our students."
Susan Murphy, aka "Coach Murph," is an incredibly kind and engaging woman with a can-do attitude. In 1982, she taught the first PALS class at Lanier High School in North Austin. Her knowledge of PALS is extensive, and her love of the program even more so. “Our best resource is our students,” she tells me. “They cost nothing.”
After over 20 years of teaching PALS, she knows more than a little on the subject. Coach Murphy witnessed PALee attendance improve, and each year she saw how “PALS promotes a supportive school environment, which creates a strong school.” She remembers her difficult first two years starting the Lanier program. “When I first began teaching PALS, I had no idea what I was doing,” she says. Back then there was no manual. She constantly questioned whether she was doing it right and doing enough. Selecting PALS was always a challenge, as it is for every teacher, but it was especially hard in Murphy's first year, because there were no PALS yet to help her. “It’s normal to be lost as a new PALS teacher,” she tells me. “They need a list of reliable resources.” As an encyclopedia of new teacher tips, Coach Murphy is happy to be on that list.
Susan Murphy was a very involved PALS teacher, going above and beyond for her kids, and most importantly, letting them take the lead. Her fond memories of Lanier PALS at the annual training at Mo-Ranch still fill her with pride. It was there that she was most in awe of them, because they would break the ice with other students, making friends with everyone. They rose to meet her high expectations, and many feeder schools sent requests for them. It was they who decided to have a contract to be drug and alcohol free, and they were the ones who wrote it.
For 14 years Coach Murphy taught at Lanier – Social Studies, track, cross country, AVID and PALS. She’s taught in Pflugerville for 16 years. She brought PALS to Pflugerville ISD, which boasts strong programs in two of its three high schools, and now directs the Leadership Experience program there.
Her advice is golden. “You have to want to be a role model,” she’d tell her PALS. “Play like I’m on your shoulder.”
“You have to want to be a role model,
Play like I’m on your shoulder.”
Lanier PALS and their PALees dealt with serious problems: racism, drug abuse and suicidal thoughts were just a few. Every trying experience, however, became an opportunity for Coach Murphy's PALS to reflect and grow. One day, a Lanier PAL learned that her young PALee was gambling. The class talked it over, and agreed that she had reacted well by showing interest and asking questions rather than displaying shock. “It’s important to be empathetic, ask questions and make a connection in any way you can,” Murphy advises.
From her perspective, the heavy issues PALS come in contact with as peer mentors need to be balanced with a little fun. In the early days, when she taught at Lanier, PALS throughout the district were rewarded for their hard work with traditions like a weekend training at Mo-Ranch and an end of year banquet. The students would dress up, and some were honored as Outstanding PALS. “They loved it,” Murphy tells me. Lanier PALS did fundraising for their program’s other needs, and primarily, for service projects. Their most memorable fundraiser, “Kiss the Pig,” happened once a year, when students would purchase votes in hopes that the teacher or administrator of their choice would be the one to kiss a genuine pig that was paraded down the halls.
“PALS promotes every single positive leadership attribute. It empowers our youth, and that’s how leaders are made."
The most rewarding aspect of PALS, for the students and Coach Murphy, was mentoring. The friendships the PALS and PALees were poignant. “The world would be such a great place if every kid had a mentor, someone to confide in,” Murphy tells me. These friendships impacted the older students as well, as did the bonds they formed with their fellow peer-mentors. Murphy remembers one former PAL whom she saw years after she'd graduated. This young woman talked about how much PALS meant to her and how it had helped her become confident and work well with other people. “PALS promotes every single positive leadership attribute,” says Murphy. “It empowers our youth, and that’s how leaders are made.”
PALS creates a ripple effect, spreading positivity through supportive relationships and teaching empathy. Susan Murphy embodies this phenomenon. She's a natural role model and a breast cancer survivor, and she believes in following one’s inner compass. “Sometimes you can’t wait for somebody to give you the O.K. You have to go for it and apologize later if they tell you you shouldn’t be doing it,” she says.
We so look forward to continued collaboration with Coach Murphy in advocacy of PALS.
Interview by Jasmine Castellanos, 12/18/2015
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Southern Africa: Border Agency Cooperation Workshop
Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers in Cape Town
A trade facilitation learning event for Southern African countries, Border Agency Cooperation, will be held at the Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers in Cape Town, South Africa from 14 to 16 November 2018.
The purpose of the workshop is to improve border agency cooperation at the national and regional levels as provided in articles 8, 10 and 11 of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Better border agency cooperation can play a key role in facilitating cross-border trade, as it leads to a reduction in time and costs for the import, export and transit of goods.
Specifically, the workshop will seek to raise awareness on the linkages between the TFA and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, and explore ways in which coordinating border clearance processes can facilitate trade, while ensuring/reinforcing human, animal or plant life and health. Attention will also be given to improving cooperation among border agencies in transit countries.
Key areas for discussion include:
Introduction to TFA and SPS Agreements: what are the linkages and SPS+ provisions
How customs and SPS officials can streamline formalities, inspections, etc.
Role of National Trade Facilitation Committees: identification of examples of good practice and cooperative reforms.
Risk assessment approaches; how SPS and customs officials can share information/data and manage risks cooperatively; risk management tools
Explore funding opportunities taking into account challenges such as limited technical capacity in countries, functioning of paper-based systems etc.
Category A, B and C commitments under the TFA
Explore the potential need for regulatory reforms
Discussions are expected to generate input for country action plans and help increase TFA notifications relevant to border agency cooperation.
Participating countries could also agree on specific actions/milestones taking into account their respective experiences, and provide suggestions on the way forward.
The event is being organized by the World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility (WTO TFAF), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the World Bank Group (WBG).
Other partners include Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), and the World Customs Organization (WCO).
More than 80 participants* representing agencies critical to cross-border trade - including customs authorities, SPS border agencies (National Veterinary Services, National Food Safety Authority, and National Plant Protection Organization), Ministries of Trade, National Trade Facilitation Committees, authorities/departments responsible for transit - and regional and international organizations are expected to attend.
Participating countries include: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
*Seven participants from each country
o Bill Gain, Global Program Manager Trade Facilitation & Border Management, WBG
o Sheri Rosenow, Counsellor, Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility, WTO
Opening Plenary Session
Entry into force of the TFA provides opportunities to improve SPS border controls but there is concern that better understanding is needed on both the TF and SPS agreements to facilitate safe trade in agricultural goods. What is the role of customs and SPS agencies at borders? What are the SPS+ provisions of the TFA? What are SPS enquiry points and National Committees for Trade Facilitation?
o Christiane Wolff, Counsellor and Secretary to the SPS Committee, WTO
o Anja Wegner, Technical Attaché, WCO
Moderator: Sheri Rosenow, Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility, WTO
(a) Training: TFA for SPS authorities
o Sheri Rosenow, Counsellor, Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility, WTO (tbc)
o Anja Wegner, Technical Attaché, World Customs Organization
(b) Training: SPS Agreement for Customs authorities
o Lead: Christiane Wolff, Counsellor and Secretary to the SPS Committee, WTO
o Hilda Kruse, Senior Food Standards Officer, Codex
o Brent Larson, IPPC Secretariat
o Moetapele Letshwenyo, OIE Sub-Regional Representative, SA
o Melvin Spreij, Head, STDF
Facilitating safe trade in food, animals and plants and their products
o Risk based imported food controls: Catherine Bessy, Food Safety and Quality Officer, FAO
o Export/import controls from the animal health perspective: Moetapele Letshwenyo, OIE Sub-Regional Representative for Southern Africa
o How the IPPC helps facilitate safe trade in plants, plant products and regulated articles: Brent Larson, Implementation and Facilitation Unit Leader, IPPC Secretariat
Facilitator: Melvin Spreij, Head, STDF
Lessons learned (Day 1)
Social Event, Cape Town Crystal Towers Marriott Hotel
International standards for food and agricultural goods in transit
o OIE standards relevant to transit: Moetapele Letshwenyo, OIE Sub-Regional Representative for Southern Africa
o Links between the Vienna Programme of Action and TFA: Sandagdorj Erdenebileg, Chief of Policy Coordination, UN-OHRLLS
o Standards and Trade facilitation: Erich Kieck, Director Capacity Building, ISO
o WCO Transit Guidelines: Anja Wegner, Technical Attaché, WCO
Training and knowledge sharing
Border agency cooperation at the national level - good practices and way forward
The TFA calls for Members to establish or maintain single windows. This requires effective communication, information sharing and cooperation among agencies responsible for regulating the export, import and transit of goods at the national level.
Objective: Working in small groups, participants will be requested to share one example of tools and methods to enhance SPS and customs cooperation at the national level.
Examples of focus areas:
o Single windows
o NTFC and coordination at the national level
o Digital tools for information exchange
o Risk management
Main trainers from all organisations to participate in this session as resource persons
Border agency cooperation at the regional level – good practices and way forward
The TFA calls for WTO Members to cooperate and coordinate procedures at borders with neighbouring countries. Lack of cooperation at border posts can lead to delays and economic losses.
Objective: Working in small groups, participants will be requested to share one example of tools and methods to enhance SPS and customs cooperation in Southern Africa.
o One stop border posts
o Electronic exchange
o Joint inspections
o Other?
Information and training
Information: Technical assistance: preparing TFA notifications
Discuss notifications, technical assistance and implementation of the TFA. What are category A, B and C notifications? How to submit notifications?
o Sheri Rosenow: Counsellor, Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility, WTO
Information: Preparing action plans and funding requests
o Shane Sela, Senior Trade Facilitation Specialist, WBG
o Mark Henderson, Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility, WTO
Lessons learned and closing remarks
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Traditional publishers' costs for a new book are typically $500,000. No wonder the market doesn't have open doors to your story. But here's one expert who can help get your story to the world.
Press Release – Jul 13, 2009 – D.L. Shiloh was frustrated with the world of publishing. He'd gone down the checklist: attended college, landed into the best writers' conference in America, produced cutting-edge events on AOL, and was a professional journalist. Later, he founded a sports web site that now has over 3 million hits and made real ad revenue. But when it came time for this former proofreader to pitch his novel at NY agents, the doors were shuttered.
"My research showed that traditional publishers' costs for a new book are typically $500,000," Shiloh said. "So unless they think they can get that back immediately off you, they won't touch you. No wonder the market doesn't have open doors to your story. Just because you don't fit into that box doesn't mean what you've done is invalid."
So now with a successful novel published ("Pookoo" reached No. 1 on one of Amazon.com's charts), Shiloh is using his 20 years of full experience - writing, web and more - to help others get their unique story out to the world. He started http://www.homefieldmultimedia.com.
"I had been a journalist and an events producer that got notice in USA TODAY," Shiloh added. "It made sense to use my skills and contacts to help others in this new media world."
Discretion is key, Shiloh added. Sports figures, celebrities and business men and women will be Homefield's VIP clientele. "We will work with an individual to get that story out to the world. We totally understand if they've hit a wall of frustration. We're the antidote to others' lack of vision."
"It depends on the subject and project, and a realistic sales figure needs to be understood," Shiloh said. "But we offer much more possibility and control and want our clients to succeed. We work on a flat-fee, not a residual basis which can be frustrating once a project goes hot. We just get paid for the work we do."
Who will be on Homefield Multimedia's roster?
"I imagine an inventor or business maverick will contact us," Shiloh concluded. "Sports figures, celebrities, even people looking for a comeback or had an incredible story to relate. Those are the types we can help."
Homefield Multimedia is a multimedia group using new media technology, publishing books, CDs and DVDs.
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Ex-Tennessee college worker charged with student loan fraud
A former Tennessee State University admissions worker is charged with diverting student federal aid into his bank accounts in 2014-15.
Wednesday, June 5th 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
NASHVILLE, TN (AP) - A former Tennessee State University admissions worker is charged with diverting student federal aid into his bank accounts in 2014-15.
U.S. Attorney Donald Cochran's office says 31-year-old Renauld Clayton of Chicago, formerly of Nashville, was indicted last week on charges of student loan fraud, aggravated identity theft and wire fraud.
The indictment says the U.S. Department of Education determined $84,506 had been misappropriated and Clayton had fraudulently deposited $60,000-plus into his personal bank accounts. He faces 20 years maximum in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
Nashville Police say they arrested Clayton on separate charges Friday of scheming to divert stolen money into a bank account he created under a fake name and social security number.
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These parents turn their son's wheelchair into the most elaborate Halloween costumes
This year he's dressing up as his favorite game show!
Katelyn Lunders
Halloween offers a unique opportunity to be anything you want to be. And thanks to his parents, 8-year-old Anthony Alfano of Melrose Park, Illinois, gets to be something remarkable every year.Anthony has cerebral palsy, and his wheelchair inspires parents Deanna and Tony Alfano to create amazing costumes each October. This Halloween, he'll be dressed up as one of his favorite game shows: Wheel Of Fortune."We watch it every night in our house with Anthony," Deanna told Inside Edition. "He loves hearing the alphabet, but he has a love for most game shows." Deanna said that though Anthony is non-verbal, once he is in costume "he laughs and smiles and definitely loves the attention." They made this year's getup with a PVC board, a foam wheel, and LED lights so the costume can light up when Anthony goes door to door on Halloween night.The elaborate costume tradition began when the Alfanos dressed 1-year-old Anthony as Elvis, complete with sunglasses, sideburns, and a bedazzled onesie—a look truly fit for the King of Rock and Roll.Deanna said the family takes Anthony trick-or-treating every year, and he also enters competitions. Last year, when Anthony transformed into a Lincoln Memorial snow globe, Deanna explained to the publication that her husband was a huge Halloween fan growing up. The more impressive they made Anthony's costumes, the more everyone looked forward to seeing them come October."Halloween is just a day when we can just stop looking at the actual wheelchair and look at the boy in the costume," Deanna told ABC Chicago.(h/t Inside Edition)
Halloween offers a unique opportunity to be anything you want to be. And thanks to his parents, 8-year-old Anthony Alfano of Melrose Park, Illinois, gets to be something remarkable every year.
Anthony has cerebral palsy, and his wheelchair inspires parents Deanna and Tony Alfano to create amazing costumes each October. This Halloween, he'll be dressed up as one of his favorite game shows: Wheel Of Fortune.
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"We watch it every night in our house with Anthony," Deanna told Inside Edition. "He loves hearing the alphabet, but he has a love for most game shows."
Courtesy of Deanna Alfano
Deanna said that though Anthony is non-verbal, once he is in costume "he laughs and smiles and definitely loves the attention." They made this year's getup with a PVC board, a foam wheel, and LED lights so the costume can light up when Anthony goes door to door on Halloween night.
The elaborate costume tradition began when the Alfanos dressed 1-year-old Anthony as Elvis, complete with sunglasses, sideburns, and a bedazzled onesie—a look truly fit for the King of Rock and Roll.
Deanna said the family takes Anthony trick-or-treating every year, and he also enters competitions.
Last year, when Anthony transformed into a Lincoln Memorial snow globe, Deanna explained to the publication that her husband was a huge Halloween fan growing up. The more impressive they made Anthony's costumes, the more everyone looked forward to seeing them come October.
"Halloween is just a day when we can just stop looking at the actual wheelchair and look at the boy in the costume," Deanna told ABC Chicago.
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RULES OF THE WEST WALES JUNIOR U.13 CHALLENGE CUP COMPETITION
1. Trustees. The Trustees of the Association shall be the legal owners of the Cup in trust for the Association.
2. Title. The Cup shall be known as the West Wales Junior U.13 Challenge Cup and Clubs in the area of the West Wales Football Association, whom the Council shall select, shall compete annually for the Cup, which shall never become the permanent property of any Club.
3. Control. The Council of the West Wales Football Association, herein after called the Council, shall have the entire control and management of the Competition.
4. Each Club, which must play in the Under 13 Division of its respective League, desirous of competing shall give notice to the Secretary of the Association, on or before 1st July in that season in which the Club proposes to compete, sending at the same time an Entrance Fee of £4.00. Clubs may enter more than one team, with the fee being £4.00 per team.
5. Each competing team shall consist of eleven bona-fide players, and, they must have been playing members of their Club at least 48 hours preceding the match. Players registering with competing Clubs after the 1st February will not be eligible to play. They must not have attained the age of 13 years before the first day of September in the current season. Players are not transferrable between teams of the same Club.
6. All Clubs shall be drawn together irrespective of geographical position for the First Round in which all byes shall be drawn.
7. The duration of each match shall be 60 minutes. In the event of the scores being equal at the end of 60 minutes, an extra twenty minutes must be played unless the circumstances are exceptional. If the scores remain equal after extra-time, the penalty-kick procedure shall apply in all rounds including the Final.
8. The Referee in all Under 13 Cup competition matches shall not belong to either competing club, must be affiliated to the Association and shall be appointed by the Council of the Association. The Referee in all rounds prior to the Final shall be paid a fee of £16.00 plus 35 pence per mile travelling expenses. In the Final Tie the Referee shall receive a memento plus 35 pence per mile travelling expenses.
Assistant Referees for the Semi-Final and Final Ties shall be appointed by the Association. The fee for the Semi-finals being £10.00 plus 35 pence per mile travelling expenses, and for the Final Tie, the Assistant Referees shall receive a memento plus 35 pence per mile travelling expenses.
A Fourth Official for the final tie shall be appointed by the Association and shall receive a memento plus 35 pence per mile travelling expenses.
Match Officials MUST be in attendance at the ground at least 45 minutes prior to kick-off. Referees must advise the Association of their late arrival and/or the late arrival of Assistant Referees.
Referees who fail to acknowledge an appointment within the stipulated period will be fined £10.00 for not answering correspondence.
9. In the event of a protest being made against a Club playing any player over age, such Club playing him shall produce to the Secretary of the Association, within four days of receipt of the copy of the protest, a copy of the Certificate of Birth of the player named in the protest. Should the protest fail, the cost of such certificate shall be met by the protesting Club.
10. In all rounds each Club must produce evidence of dates of birth of the team actually playing, for examination by its opponents before the kick-off.
11. A Club who has four or more players selected to play in a representative Schoolboy match or away on an official school trip on the same day, may request a postponement, provided that at least 7 clear days notice is given to the Association. Confirmation should also be provided by the school(s) listing the players involved. Any Club requesting a postponement that has sufficient registered players left to play a match, must fulfil its obligations to its respective League on the same day.
12. A Club may nominate a maximum of five substitute players, whose names must appear on the team sheet provided, which must be handed to the Referee prior to the match.
A Club may at its discretion, use ALL of the nominated substitute players, except to replace a player who has been suspended from the match by the Referee. A Player who has been substituted may not again take part in the match.
The substitution can only be made when play has been stopped and with the permission of the Referee.
13. The Home Club must provide the match ball (size 4). No two Clubs shall play in similar colours. If the colours are similar, the HOME Club shall make a change, unless mutually agreed.
14. Visiting teams are responsible for their own travelling expenses, and the Home team is responsible for the match expenses, including the match Referee. For the Semi Final ties the Association will determine and meet the cost of the ground hire. The competing clubs will be equally responsible for the match officials fees and expenses and provide 2 footballs for the match. Each club to deposit their share of the cost with the Match Delegate at least 15 minutes prior to thes scheduled commencement of play.
15. In addition to the Cup, the Council will present to the winners 16 mementos, and to the runners-up 16 mementos, or other suitable souvenirs as they may determine.
16. Except as specifically varied by the foregoing Rules, the rules of the West Wales Intermediate Cup Competition shall apply to this Cup Competition.
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December 23, 2019 8:12am Pranob Mehrotra
Realme X2 kernel source code is now available
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Realme has seen tremendous growth around the world since its debut back in May 2018. While the company started its journey with budget-friendly smartphones, it has launched devices in a variety of price segments over the last year and a half. Most recently, the company launched its first true flagship — the Realme X2 Pro — and set a new benchmark for affordable flagships. Along with its aggressively priced smartphones, the company’s commitment to supporting third-party development for its devices has played a major role in solidifying its position in the market. Timely kernel source code releases coupled with a good update schedule have helped the company’s popularity skyrocket. Following the launch of the Realme X2 Pro, the company launched the Snapdragon 730G powered Realme X2 in China, Europe and India and now it has released kernel sources for the device.
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The timely kernel source code release for the Realme X2 will kickstart third-party development for the devices. It will help developers and power users delve deeper into the code that runs their device and improve its performance. Additionally, the kernel source code release will also help developers release custom ROMs and kernels for the device. If you’re among the several people who’ve purchased the new Realme X2, you should head over to our Realme X2 forums from the link above and keep a tab on the third-party development for the device. We expect to see some great custom ROM and kernel releases for the device in the following weeks which will help you make the most out of your new phone. If you’re a developer, you can access the kernel sources from the link below and spearhead development for the device.
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The oil and gas companies operating Mozambique’s LNG projects tried to sabotage the success of the Pemba Logistics Base because they wanted it to be run by an American, rather than a local, company, Omar Mithá, chairman of national oil company, ENH, told a press [...]
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Vale and Mitsui have lost control of the Nacala port in northern Mozambique, after the concession held by their joint venture company was handed back to state ports and rail company CFM by the government yesterday. The [...]
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The public airstrip in Palma, Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, should reopen by the end of December following the rehabilitation of the runway by a Kenyan-owned aviation company. Palma district administrator Valige [...]
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A $3.2 billion project to build new port in Zambezia province and a 639-kilometre railway linking it with coalfields in Tete will begin at the end of next year, Orlando Marques, the CEO of Thai Mozambique Logistics (TML) told Zitamar News. However, the concessionaire and the Ministry of [...]
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Privinvest, the contractor which supplied Mozambique’s controversial ‘hidden debts’ security companies, continues to do business in the country through a logistics subsidiary which provides services to offshore oil and gas operations, despite ongoing legal action [...]
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Bridge operator profits as repair delays hurt Tete citizens
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Floods leave thousands homeless, and halt Vale coal exports from Tete
Nine people have died and thousands have been left homeless by the flooding in Tete that has caused almost MZN 1 billion ($16 million) worth of damage to infrastructure in the province. The bridge over the Revubue, which connects Moatize with the city of [...]
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Two killed by ICVL coal train travelling from Beira to Moatize
Two people were killed on Tuesday morning after being hit by a coal transport train shortly after it left the Port of Beira in central Mozambique, en route to the coal mining region of Tete. The train, belonging to [...]
Mozambique airline appoints new management
Mozambican state-owned airline LAM has appointed a company veteran as its new head, after the management board was sacked on 5 July. João Carlos Pó Jorge, LAM’s engineering and quality manager was appointed [...]
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Rikke Luther’s current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to landscape, language, politics, financialization, law, biology and economy, expressed in drawn images, photography, film, and pedagogical strategies.
She has held teaching positions in Denmark and given numerous guest lectures around the world. Her work has been presented in Biennales and Triennales [such as Venice, Singapore, Echigo-Tsumari and Auckland], museums [such as Moderna Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, The New Museum, Museo Tamayo, Smart Museum] and exhibitions [like Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, 48C Public.Art.Ecology, Über Lebenskunst and Weather Report: Art & Climate Change].
Her first solo work was exhibited at 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016. Prior to that, Luther worked exclusively in art collectives. She was a co-founder of Learning Site (active 2004 to 2015) and of N55 (active with original members from 1996 through to 2003).
Her current research at MIT is related to her doctoral study, supervised by Copenhagen University (Royal Danish Art Academy) and MIT (Art, Technology, Culture program), funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
At ACT, she will be undertaking primary research related to her PhD, and also preparing a new art work for ACT’s half centenary exhibition curated by Laura Knott, Gedeminas Urbonas and Lars Bang Larsen. This work will be performed at ACT in May 2018.
Supervisor: Mikkel Bolt at IIK, Copenhagen University
Title: Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post-Democracy
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world. Its production is negatively linked to climate change, and its aesthetic to financial speculation and the inequality of what Colin Crouch has termed the ‘post-democratic’ era.
Once the concrete aesthetic once spoke the language of progress, universal rights and a better society. Today, that disrupted political aesthetic demands cultural analysis, just as much as the carbon footprint and techno-fossils of concrete demand scientific attention. What does the aesthetic of concrete mean in a globalised world that regularly teeters at the edge of financial crisis and invites a certain environmental one?
The goal is to analyse the historical movement from the Modern era of universal rights and democracy, toward a new era dominated by the global circulation of finance, and the effect that shift has on aesthetic language and meaning. The shift is explored by examining the contrast between the history of concrete within art and cultural practice in the immediate post-World War Two era in Europe, and the aesthetic and ideological meaning of concrete in a globalised context today.
There are theoretical and practical elements of both the artistic and academic elements of this project. The theoretical aspect of the research will focus on the social and ideological beliefs that dominated each era to build a picture of how the cultural meaning of concrete has changed. The histories that differentiate one place, or site of action, from another are crucial. Thus the democratic context that once gave Modernist concrete it’s meaning in post-war Scandinavia contrast sharply with the post-democratic environment in today’s Special Economic Zones. That cultural shift in political economy is paralleled by concomitant material shifts, such as the new economic war to control and exploit the non-State spaces of the Global Commons. In contrast to the era of universal rights, we live today in the era of universal spillovers, ranging from over-exploitation of scarce common resources, such as sand, to pollution in terms of the thermal effects of concrete production, that impinge on the common rights of humanity.
The practical part of this research will employ research-orientated creative practice to explore the potential of art and architectural interventions to generate new, materially embodied, understandings of these developments.
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Passion and Death--"Manon Lescaut" (final dress rehearsal) in MET, Nov. 10, 2016
Text and Photo by Yige
This is a report of the final dress of Manon Lescaut in MET on Nov. 10, a general impression of Anya's characterization of Puccini's Manon, and a preview of what to expect in the performance.
Once again Anna Netrebko surprised me. It was not the singing which, of course, was the top tier one could find around. What so inspiring was that she, as a complete artist, bring up every resource, with first and most importantly, her singing, to shape a character.
When Anya canceled the performance in Munich, reports from different sources seemed to suggest the major problem between them was that the director's idea was that Manon needed to choose between love and money, she chose money but regretted later, while Anya felt Manon just wanted both and refused to choose. Some asked whether this difference of idea is something that can make a visual difference on stage. I don't know. But at least it would make a huge difference in singing.
That's to say, Anya's singing here was always sincere and passionate. Never was one moment of cold calculation. This is, how I feel at least, exactly what Puccini composed into music. I say "always" meaning this attitude was throughout the whole opera, toward anything beautiful, both love and money (or more precisely, spiritual beauty and material beauty).
Thus, when she sang the beauty of countryside of past in act one, it was gray but sweet. Then, in the beginning of act two, one could hear some unusual childish joy when Manon was singing about the hairstyle, the clothes. Later during the dancing class and singing, the colorful singing clearly suggested this Manon was enjoying it. With all these "preparation" for the audience, when it came the time that Manon naively wanted to collect jewels to take with her in the end of act two, one just cannot blame her. These beautiful things mean something to her.
Such is the key to bridge the first two acts and last two acts. On the surface, (most of) the first two acts are light-hearted while the last two are heavy-hearted. If not played well, it would be hard to gain audience's empathy of the heroine--we can certainly say it was Manon's own decision that led her to the fateful result.
The common wisdom to answer why we should feel empathy for Manon is that she's a victim of a man dominated society. Not denying this element in the plot, I doubt how much of PUCCINI's Manon has this victim property. And Anya didn't play the victim. The real tragedy here is not seeing a victim's death, but the death of a person with so much passion on the beauty of life. With this in mind, we can understand the "problem" of this opera regarded by some--not having a coherent plot--is not a problem at all. It's not telling the story of Manon Lescaut but describing the character of her. The first two acts is to build up the character, and the later two is to destroy the character. (It's interesting to compare between the last lines of Massenet's "Manon"--"Et c’est là l’histoire de Manon Lescaut", and Puccini's "Manon Lescaut"--"Ma l'amor mio--non muor".)
Anya understands this tragedy. Her largest success was, of course, in the last act which can break the heart of a stone, though I think it was because she put so much effort to build up the character earlier. To make a dying scene beautiful is not that hard, but how many times when you hear Manon keeping repeating she doesn't want to die in a dark voice horror, you cannot help but remember the earlier time when it was bright and joyful? With her singing, this opera was a complete whole.
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Il Trovatore at the Met
Text and Photos by Yige Li
Il Trovatore, opera in four acts
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play "El trovador" by Antonio García Gutiérrez
Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and San Francisco Opera Association
This review is of the general impression on the whole run of this opera during fall 2015, at the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York City, NY
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Leonora: Anna Netrebko
Manrico: Yonghoon Lee / Antonello Palombi
Azucena: Dolora Zajick
Gypsy: Edward Albert
Count Di Luna: Dmitri Hvorostovsky / Vitaliy Bilyy
Ferrando: Stefan Kocán
Ines: Maria Zifchak
Ruiz: Raúl Melo
Messenger: David Lowe
Production: David McVicar
Stage Director: Paula Williams
Set Designer: Charles Edwards
Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton
Choreographer: Leah Hausman
After watching Anya in "Il Trovatore" in MET for five times (four performances, plus the final dress rehearsal), maybe it's time to give a brief report summarizing some my impressions. In short, brilliant performances, and Anna Netrebko showed once more how inspiring this great singing actress can make of a performance to be.
Firstly, other singer:
The title role of Manrico was sung by Yonghoon Lee in the first five performances (I attended three of which) and Antonello Palombi in the last one (which I attended as well). In short, we don't have world-class voice for Manrico currently. Between the two, Lee was the one with a better and more consistent instrument, but Palombi had a more suitable instrument and better sense of the style. Lee's characterization was more on the overexerting side, while Palombi's was sometimes too casual.
The role of Count di Luna was shared by Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Vitaliy Bilyy. Having dominated this role for years, Dima showed everything one could expect from a completely mature artist. Maybe it's the recent off stage drama happened on him, I felt that his singing had even more sensitivity than before. It was so clear that not only audience appreciated the opportunity to see him again, he himself also appreciated the opportunity to perform again. He gave his best, and it was touching. Vitaliy Bilyy certainly cannot match Dima on charisma and artistry. But his solid voice, technique, and musicianship showed that he would have a good future.
How great it is to have a almost legend as Dorola Zajick to sing Azucena (at this point she is the mezzo having sung the most amount of Azucena in MET history)! Surely the voice had some age and wear, but is preserved well mostly. And what a powerhouse voice it is! It's safe to say, at 60+, she's still the best Azucena around. Character-wise, she may not be the kind of singer that consciously digging deep into the character, but surely years of experience could have so strong impact, that every thing just came out so naturally. She IS Azucena.
Marco Armiliato was in the pit conducting. He has the reputation of being a singer's conductor. For my experience, he always tried his best to support singers onstage, never having the ego to overshadow them. Basically, how good the orchestra can be pedants on how good the singers are. When singers onstage were a disaster, the orchestra can hardly be better than them. But here, as we had such brilliant cast, the orchestra got inspired as well. These were some best conducting of maestro Armiliato that I had heard.
Štefan Kocán gave a respectable portray of Ferrando (honestly, there isn't too much interpenetrating opportunity in this role), as did other supporting cast and the MET chorus.
Then, the part that I'm most interested in (I guess also the case for most readers of this blog), and the reason that I went to MET for the same production again and again, Anya. It's with great interest to see how she gave out her interpenetration in this production, comparing to her own previous performances in the productions in Berlin and Salzburg (she also did one performance in the production of Mariinsky, but I don't have too much information about the performance), as well as previous revivals of the production in MET.
Many people realized that she had some newly made costume, when comparing with previous revivals of this production. Namely, a dark pink dress with a burgundy cape outside in Act 1; then a gypsy flavored head kerchief in Act 3. Some critic said it's very old-time diva feeling (in a good sense). However, it's more than being a diva (though, one needs to be a diva first to ask these specially made stuffs for her). It's not for Anna, but for Leonora. It's Anna Netrebko, the complete ARTIST, asking, so that the visual, her singing, her physical acting, would cope with the concept of production and the score as a tight combination. (I sensed it a very typical Anya's touch, as the blonde wig for Lady Macbeth last season. So, after dress rehearsal, I asked her if it's her idea to have these new costumes, she answered yes.)
Less to critics' notice is that not only she got new costumes, but also more than one wigs (while in previous revivals it's always one wig from the beginning to the end). During the Times Talk, when Anya said Peter Gelb was very responsible and supportive when she asked for change of costumes and wigs, she's not talking about nothing. In Act 1 and 2, her wig is in up-do style, and in Act 3, her hair is all inside the head kerchief--it's not until Act 4, that her wig gets fully loosed.
Combine the effects of costume and wig, we can have already seen the development of this character--from a noble lady confined in her comfort zone with the fantasy of love and passion to a brave girl fully converting herself to the lifestyle of gypsy following the guidance of love, finally to the point to sacrifice herself for love.
This development I feel being very essential in her performance in THIS production. Both the productions in Berlin and Salzburg treat the plot of this opera more as a fantasy/dream, however this production of Sir David McVicar takes it for real. Setting in Peninsular War with the dark stage and Goya's "La romería de San Isidro", one of his Black Paintings, as the curtain, Sir David underlined the societal schizophrenia, thus the individuals' reactions within this frame. Anya's task was to find a continuous spectrum of vocal colors for Leorona from beginning to end when getting more and more into the "real world".
And the easier part is actually the vocally more demanding last act, which she got great success. Either soaring the high pianissimo with mezza voce in "D'amor sull'ali rosee" or aggressively digging into chest in "Miserere", the mind and voice was essentially on a firm ground, with occasional outrage. Then in the "Tu vedrai che amore in terra", in the repeating verse, she added more contracts between phrases, beginning with the first sentence more into chest than the first time singing these same notes (this could be an idea she developed during the run, as it was not very obvious in final dress and opening, but more and more in later performances), to later with restrained pianissimo, as if Leonora was fascinated by her own idea, then blooming out again. This almost felt like a great mad scene in a bel canto opera--in the sense that the heroine being extremely concentrate to her own mind. Then, in the duet with Count di Luna, she sang with urgency, but less begging than ordering. At that point, Leorona had already got to the statue that she bravely challenged the fate and faced the count spiritually superior. Later in the last 10 minutes of the opera, her reaction on Manrico's refusing to leave had more fury. In Salzburg, when singing "Ah! Fuggi, fuggi! O sei perduto!", she used a more empty voice, while not watching Manrico (and later even sang the line with her back to Manrico), showing so much desperation as if she had already seen the end, here, she used a fuller voice, singing every "fuggi" facing Manrico, never gave up trying. When reaching the point of "Ho la morte in semi!... Ah, fu più rapida la forza del veleno ch'io non pensava!", again, she gave more contracts to the phrase, with more fury, as if asking the God why giving her such a cruel result for her sacrifice. As when Mary Jo Heath said "you play her as a very fiery determined young woman" in the radio interview, she replied that "I think it's part of me coming out from there", one can truly felt that she brought her personal volcano onto stage there.
Compared to the end in which she can simply open up her voice and give out her soul, the more difficult part is actually the beginning. Of course, it's vocally difficult per se to get onto stage then sing the big aria immediately. But what makes it more difficult is the way she chose to paint this aria. When she sang the same music in concert, she used a more straightforward way and the result was brilliant. However, when in a concert, the logic of the aria is just within itself; when in the opera, the logic must be placed in the whole plot. It's not only a woman talking about her passion and love, it also sets the position where the character begins. If we can say this Leonora is "above" the world in the last act, then here in the first act, she's kind of "isolated from" the world. Meanwhile, as Leonora is not a complete idiot (or maybe she is?), she has some sense and feeling of the danger of the world. Thus we heard when portraying the Leorona here, she combined the feeling of insecurity and nervousness into the passion and excitement. And this is the hard part. While the character can be (or, should be) insecure and nervous dramatically, the singer acting the character with her voice cannot be insecure and nervous vocally. From performance to performance, Anya sometimes found the fine balance, sometimes had both voice and drama bit to the too secure side or the other. However, she never chose the easier way of singing it just as some beautiful music to harvest cheap praising.
In the two inner acts, Leonora doesn't have big arias to sing. Still, Anya paid much attention to give the proper color to the singing. There were two moments left me more than usual strong impression. One is in Act 2 Scene 2, that how in a short sentence of "E deggio e posso crederlo? Ti veggo a me d'accanto", she began from stiffness asking if what she saw was true, to the bit sweetness on the word "d'accanto". The other is at the beginning of Act 3 Scene 2, the gloomy and urgency in the voice had already indicated her destiny, while she remained firm to what she chose. Nervous and insecure Leonora was, but different to the one in Act 1. (And should I add that when the tuning stage brought her to the stage front at this scene, the way she sat in the shadow had already brought out so much tension of the drama?)
On top of Anya's vocal acting was her physical acting, which did not add to but multiply to her vocal acting. In one interview, she said there are not too much thing to act. Indeed, in many places, the plot is very still, it's the music that takes care of the psychological drama. She understood this so well, that in many places, she was just being still with tension, and let the music speak, rather than making meaningless "actings". During "D'amor sull'ali rosee" (yep, some long and slow music with "nothing happens onstage), she simply stood on the stage front and opened up her mouth and the magic happened. Her body drew the line of the "fourth wall" separating the real world onstage and the unreal world off stage (I had the words "real" and "unreal" at the correct positions), while in the meantime, her voice broke this "fourth wall" and involved everything into her world. During one performance, I was sitting in a side box, with the stage on my one hand side and the most auditorium on the other side. As much as I loved Anya/Leonora, at one point, my eyes turned away from her to the auditorium, feeling that I could literally SEE the body of her voice occupying the whole space and enfolding everyone, everything. Later in the scene, much buzz has made about her climbing the gate. How she desperately sang "Oh ciel! Sento mancarmi!" hanging on the gate was one of the dramatic high point. But then, the more challenging part for acting was getting OFF from the gate. It was heartbroken watching her getting down slowly with the monotone "Miserere" sung by chorus in the back, as if all hope were lost. And she didn't stop after getting off from the gate but kept until having her whole body down to the ground, only rose up again right before the second verse, which darker words are set in the music then those in the first verse, when her body got back the strength because of outrage.
I can keep going describing these small details that together built up the big picture. Then I may hardly finish it. So just let me stop here. I think I've made my point clear: this is the first rate performing art in every aspect. Brava.
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Anna Netrebko recital in VPAC on Feb. 5, 2015
By Yige Li
Bellini: La Sonnambula: "Ah, non credea… Ah! Non giunge" (aria with cabaletta)
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta Arioso
Rachmaninoff: Song: "Zdes horosho" (How fair this spot), op. 21, no. 7
Rimsky-Korsakov: Song "Redeyet oblakov letucaya gryada" (The line of flying clouds grows thin), op. 42, no. 3
Tchaikovsky: Song "Den li tsarit" (Amidst the day), op. 47, no 6
========Intermission========
Verdi: Otello, Duet Act I: "Già nella notte densa" duet with Yusif Eyvazov
Strauss: Song: "Cäcilie", op. 27, no. 2
Dvorak: Rusalka: "Song to the moon"
Ponchielli: La Gioconda: "Suicidio!"
Kálmán: Die Csardasfürstin: "Heia, in den Bergen"
Encores:
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur: "Io son l'umile ancella"
Lehar: Il paese del sorriso: "Tu che m'hai preso il cuor" with Yusif Eyvazov
Piano: Brian Zeger
Attending this recital at Vilar Performance Arts Center in Beaver Creek, Colorado, was kind of dream-come-true moment for me! I've gone to many performances featuring Anya, but I had some quite *complex* history of trying to attend her concert/recital. Almost two years ago, she did a recital at VPAC, which I had the ticket but missed the recital due to the delayed flight. Then, she canceled her concert in Mexico City summer 2013 due to illness. Early 2014, she sang some Russian art songs in (Le) Poisson Rouge--when it was announced I was not with internet access, and when I learned it 2 days later, all tickets were sold out (unsurprisingly). The next was her scheduled appearance in Tucker Gala last October, which she canceled because the necessary vocal rest after demanding performance of "Macbeth" at MET. So, finally, this time, she made it, and I got a ticket and arrived on time! It was the first time I saw her in concert/recital! I should say, being able to hear her singing such various repertoire including opera, operetta, and art songs in ONE night is a bless. And I had known that in a remote place like this, she would be more relaxed and willing to take more risk than usual.
Here she came, with the gorgeous pink Oscar de la Renta gown and a small white fur on her shoulder. Before she sang one note, she had already made a "wow" affect with her outfit. And I'm sure her choice of dresses reflects her repertoire, as she began with the sleep walking scene from "La Sonnambula" (no, not the sleep walking of Lady Macbeth). I think she hadn't sung this in public for years, and Amina should be the typical "-ina" roles she said she's dropping. Not quite sure why she decided to open the recital with this piece, maybe as a preparing for the upcoming "Norma" next year? After all, it was the same Giuditta Pasta who created Norma and Amina. She was not 100% warmed up, still she managed to light up her voice sounding like a young girl while round and with richness at the same time. And her sense of phrasing in Bellini's long line was unquestionable. Compared to the long scene of "La Sonnambula" with recitative+aria+cabaletta, the remaining pieces in the first half were short (and all in Russian). Iolanta Arioso was beautifully sung. Because the venue is small with only a few more than 500 seats, and its great acoustics, Anya was able to sing it more relaxing and with more inner feeling than in MET where she has to carefully consider how to project her voice to the huge auditorium without shouting. Then came 3 Russian art songs by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky. I always like art songs, in which, it seems the communication between singer and audience is direct, while in operas, singers communicate with audience via characters. Of courses Anya didn't fail. All the three performed songs were the typical Russian ones with bit (not sadness, but) "grey" in it. Personally, I would hope audience could hold a little silence after them to let the feeling fly for some more seconds.
If we could say the repertoire choice for the first part was bit low-key, then, the second part was absolutely exciting with full bloom of passion. Anya chose a maturer black and white outfit by Irina Vitjaz, certainly a response to the chosen repertoire. She began with a short speech saying she likes to sing solo but prefers to have partner, man or woman doesn't matter, on stage that she could have more interaction and be more relaxed so that to make her performance better. She then introduced Yusif Eyvazov to the audience, citing this was his US debut, and they sang the duet from "Otello". This was my first time hearing Yusif singing live. His voice appeared to be even larger and richer than it sounds in recording. And of course we could count on the chemistry between Anya and Yusif (at least in a love duet ^_^). The following two pieces were "Cäcilie" and "Song to the Moon", and both fit her voice like gloves. After "Cäcilie", Anya joked that this loud song could be a training for the future Wagner roles. And in the "Song to the Moon", she putted so much feeling of longing into her voice, and hanging around the stage from left to right--apparently it was not only the moon "travel round wide" but also her body and her soul. The next piece, "Suicidio", might be the most exciting thing in the program, as this was the FIRST time Anya sang it in public! Before singing, Anya said the piece in the beginning of the recital was kind of where she started with while this one would be her future direction, and she would get into slowly and very securely. She even joked saying she knew it's suicide to put such programs (with both selections from "La Sonnambula" and "Suicidio") together. Apparently, she didn't manage to suicide her voice on stage, as she gave such a great rendition. It was specially interesting to hear her recently developed (and is still developing) lower register. Worth specially notice, the way she dug into chest in the repeated "fra le tenèbre" and how she sang the ending "dentro l'avel" piano and empty. The listed program ended with "Heia, in den Bergen" from operetta "Die Csardasfürstin". She said Kalman was very popular in Russia and she grew up hearing his music--in Russian. Though she performed it in German. It was delight to have this light piece after the dark "Suicidio". And as one could expect, she sang and danced. Until then, I hadn't realized how high heels she was wearing. Walking with such high heels is certainly a skill, not to mention, dancing.
She gave an encore, as expected. "Io son l'umile ancella", ("I am the humble servant of the creative spirit")--truly she is. After an encore, she took several rounds of bowing, then didn't come back to the stage. The recital ended--no, it didn't. Just when the stage was empty and the house lights were turned on and everyone thought that was it, she came back! In her hands a bottle of water and several pages of score! "One more encore" she said! People shouted! Without announcing the piece, the pianist just straightly began. It was "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz"--in Italian though. Together with Yusif, they turned this piece to a love duet. So sweet, so romantic, and so passionate. Especially for Anya. When hearing such phrasing and such feeling, if one close eyes, it would be impossible to tell she was sight reading! One can hardly imagine a better ending for the night.
Icing on the cake: I met Mr. Barry Tucker during intermission and after the recital. He said it was him who helped the VPAC to get Anya to their venue, and just kept praising Anya for being both a great artist and a nice person. When I mentioned my excitement of the "Suicidio" in the program because it being her first public performance of this aria, he told me his father had his MET debut performing in "La Gioconda" and showed me a ring on his finger which is a gift from MET Orchestra to his father given after a performance of this very opera. Certainly a piece of history!
Also, the concert hall and the whole area are very beautiful. Pity that I cannot stay for longer.
Concert Hall of VPAC. Photos taken during intermission.
View from plane before landing to Denver International Airport.
View on the shuttle van from Denver to Avon.
Publicado por Carlos en 10:58 PM 1 comentarios
ECHO Klassik Awards 2014
Text and photos by Herbert
Yesterday afternoon there was the ECHO Klassik Award 2014 in the Philharmonie in Munich.
Anna Netrebko received the award as "Singer of the Year". T
he show was hosted by Rolando Villazón and actress Nina Eichinger, and it was Villazón who read the speech in honor of Anna and gave her the prize.
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann should be honored by José Carreras, but unfortunately Kaufmann was ill and had to cancel. But Mr. Carreras was there, and he took Kaufmann's award and will hand it over later on.
I don't know if the ZDF Mediathek can be received outside Germany, but here is a link to the video of the gala plus many photos: http://echo.zdf.de/
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Macbeth, Met, NYC, NY 18-10-2014
Met, NYC, NY, 17 October 2014
Last Saturday I was in New York and I attended the final performance of this year's run of Verdi's MACBETH at the MET. My first visit to the famous Metropolitan Opera - quite an experience! The auditorium and the stage are huge, and I can imagine that it may be awesome and almost scary for a singer to have to fill this space with one's voice and presence.
Most opera lovers will have seen this production of Macbeth either in the cinema or even live, so I don't have to tell a lot about it. I loved the production! The scenes often looked like painted pictures, and the singers didn't have to fulfil weird maneuvers on stage, but they could act like "normal" people.
The cast was amazing! Željko Lucic as Macbeth, René Pape as Banquo, Joseph Calleja as Macduff and maestro Fabio Luisi in the pit - what a luxury! And above all Anna Netrebko as THE star of the evening! Has she ever been better than on that night? I doubt it.
Her first appearance on stage was already one of the highlights. She was lying in bed, covered by a satin blanket. Then she woke up, first her arms appeared from under the blanket - and then there she was, standing on the bed, and she began to sing her first aria. She was quite alone on stage, but there wouldn't have been space for anybody else because she filled the stage with her presence completely.
The sleepwalking scene in the final act was another moment when she made the audience hold their breath - so when she actually ran on stage at curtain calls, jumping and waving wildly, she was welcomed and acclaimed by an excited and enthusiastic audience.
After the show she was relaxed and easygoing at the stage door. There was no rush and she spent a long time with her fans, chatting, laughing and having fun with them. Meanwhile she has left for Munich where she will receive the ECHO Klassik Award as Singer of the Year next Sunday and where she is rehearsing a new production of Manon Lescaut at the Bayerische Staatsoper with fantastic Jonas Kaufmann as her stage partner - what a cast again! All 7 performances in November/December are already sold out...
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Visarto Preap1 and Kang Sareth2
1,2Department of Plant Protection Sanitary and Phytosanitary,
General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA),
Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF),
Kingdom of Cambodia
E-mail: preapvisarto777@gmail.com
Pesticide Management is still a complicated task with cross mandatory responsibility from various departments. At the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)in Cambodia, there are three departments working namely: 1) the Department of Agriculture Legislation as regulatory authority in charge of pesticide registration, licensing, inspection;2) PPSPS Department of the General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA), playing a role as technical adviser in field evaluation of pesticides and efficacy field testing for registration; and 3) the National Agricultural Laboratory of GDA, which has a role in the analysis pesticides. Lack of law enforcement to farmers especially those who greatly depend on using pesticides created a big challenge for pesticide management in Cambodia; banned and restricted pesticides are widely available in the local markets. Counterfeit and illegal pesticide products are often found in unregistered pesticide shops/retailers. To fight against these challenges Cambodia shall take priority actions: improve border inspection on circulation of pesticides, and strengthening pesticide management law.
Keywords: Pesticide law enforcement, counterfeit pesticides, banned products, restricted, and permitted pesticides, border control, quality testing and residue analysis.
Cambodia is located at 102o to 108oE and 10o to 15oN. This country is influenced by the Monsoon climate, which consists of two seasons: dry season (November – April) and wet season (May – October). The rainfall is varied from 1250 to 2500 mm annually; the lowest is in January and the highest is in October with humidity range from 69% to 80%, the lowest of which occurs in March and the highest is in September. The day length is from 11 hours to 13 hours. The shortest day length is in December and longest is in June. The temperature varies from 23 to 33oC, the lowest occurs in December and highest is in April; with an evaporation of 2230mm per year. The lowest and highest evaporation occurs between September and March. The natural resources of Cambodia are officially under the protection of the State, as expressed in Article 59 of the constitution: “The state shall protect the environment and balance of abundant natural resources and establish a precise plan of management of land, water, air, wind, geology, ecology, ecologic system, mines, energy, petrol and gas, rocks and sand, germs, forests and forest products, wildlife, fish and aquatic resources”. The land use is divided by main groups such as Agricultural land (24%), forest cover (56%), grassland (6%), shrub land 10%), soil-Rock (0.2%), urban (0.1%) and water (3%).
Three departments under Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) are responsible for plant protection and pesticide management: (1) the Department of Agriculture Legislation (DAL) as regulatory authority in charge of pesticide registration, licensing, and inspection, 2) Department of Plant Protection Sanitary and Phytosanitary (DPPSPS) under the General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA), playing a role as technical adviser, provide training on pest management, pest control technology, pest monitoring, pest forecasting, pest outbreak warning, invasive species control and general pesticide advisory. It also conducts researches and developments on various pests to strengthen the implementation, managing pesticides including pesticide registration (providing efficacy field testing), and development of recommendation on pesticide use, and (3) the National Agricultural Laboratory (DAL) of the General Directorate of Agriculture, which has a role in the analysis of pesticides
Pesticide use:
Cambodia is rich in bio-diversity and accordingly, agricultural crops are diversified. With the introduction of modern agriculture in the early `60s, traditional crop varieties were replaced by modern crop varieties (MCVs). These high inputs which are responsive to MCVs brought a significant change in Cambodia’s agriculture. In due course, pest dynamics has also changed and a number of pest outbreaks occurred frequently. To overcome these problems, use of chemical pesticides also became frequent.
Cambodia’s agriculture policy has emphasized eco-friendly production system, organic farming and IPM practice for sustainable agricultural development and food safety. Considering all these issues, the Pesticide Registration and Management Department has also emphasized the registration of bio-pesticide pesticides, which gradually reduce highly hazardous pesticides.
The Plan and policies of Cambodia also encouraged eco-friendly measures of agricultural production, IPM practice and organic farming which directly or indirectly support the concept of pesticide risk reduction in food safety. The preparation of pesticide policy and bio pesticide promotion directives is under way which encourages for the production, registration and use of bio-pesticides pesticides and bio-agent. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is regularly organizing training and awareness program on the safe use of pesticides to stakeholders and users of the pesticides.
Cambodia has also signed and ratified the Stockholm Convention (POP), Montreal Protocol (Ozone Depletion Materials) and Basel conventions with full developed action plans for implementation of the first two conventions with focal points placed in the Ministry of Environment. Whereas MAFF / DAL is the focal point for the Rotterdam Convention which had been acceded by Cambodia since May2013.
Cambodia’s pesticide market has continued to expand over the last decade, which is basically a result of the liberalization of Cambodia’s economy. Cambodia has no pesticide manufacturing capacity of its own, and most available pesticides are imported officially and illegally from neighboring countries such as Thailand and Vietnam. Some of the most popular pesticides, such as the organophosphates methyl parathion and Mevinphos are extremely hazardous and are banned according to Cambodian law. The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) reported that inappropriate pesticide use in agriculture is widespread and that products are used by untrained and often illiterate farmers, who incur serious health consequences.
In recent years, MAFF has made strong efforts in pesticide management in Cambodia. The Government has issued an order to all relevant units to strengthen pesticide management and quality control including across border trade, distribution, sale and use of agrochemicals in the country. The Government has enforced pesticide labeling regulations, including development of labels in local Khmer language in line with the FAO Code of Conduct on the Distribution and the Use of Pesticides. In addition, MAFF is reviewing and updating the pesticide list including banned, restricted and permitted products through Ministerial proclamation No. 484 MAFF dated 26 November 2012 (Table 1).
In the context of chemical management, the Ministry of Environment is starting to introduce the GHS (Global Harmonization System) for pesticide labeling. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has provided assistance for staff capacity building and facilities for strengthening pesticide analysis laboratory. Frequent inspecting to the pesticides retailers, dealers, formulators and others users are done in order to check whether they follow the code of conduct related to pesticide use as regulated by the RGC. Pesticide laboratory has been established and brought into operation especially on formulation and quality testing. With regards to pesticide management, there are many challenges which remain unresolved, such as insufficient enforcement of rules and regulations, uncontrolled importation, and broad availability of undesirable pesticides, misuse and over use, limited data on health and environmental effects and high pesticide residues in food. However, on a positive note, there has been a broad recognition throughout the Government, NGOs and private sector with regards to current pesticide issues and their negative implications for production, health, environment and trade. However, testing for residues in fruits and vegetables is the first priority for the upcoming action plan.
Through Policy Component of project GCP/RAS/229/SWE of the Swedish-supported Pesticide Risk Reduction Program activities were carried out to address the issue of highly hazardous pesticides through capacity building for chemicals management in general. Cambodia focused on initial steps to develop adequate regulatory framework including legal documents and functional mechanism for the control of pesticides and capacity building for staff members in national and provincial levels on pesticide management including training for retailers and inspectors, pesticide quality control and inspection, and registration and data base development. In addition, Cambodia participated in an FAO Regional High-Level Workshop on Licensing and Inspection of Pesticide Sellers, which was organized in Hanoi on 10-11 November 2008. The workshop facilitated the exchange of information and experiences, and to discuss common issues/questions related to the establishment and operation of a functional licensing and inspection schemes for pesticide importers and sellers in compliance with legal obligations.
Farmers and pesticide traders’ survey took part to determine the perceptions and practices of pesticide use among farmers that incorporated agrochemicals into their farming strategy. Survey results in nine provinces, identified to be potentially at elevated risk from pesticide use, were surveyed. In Cambodia, specialist traders are found in larger towns that sell pesticides, together with seeds and chemical fertilizers. In smaller towns general stores sell pesticides typically alongside other products, including groceries and cosmetics. Of the 109 pesticide retailers interviewed, 10 were owners of specialized stores and 99 were general store owners. Farmers are more willing to trust the quality of pesticides purchased from specialized stores. It is often suspected that general stores dilute their stocks and due to low turnover, some pesticides turn out to be older stocks. However, sometimes distance prohibits farmers from travelling to major towns to buy pesticides from specialized stores. In some cases, farmers do not have enough money to buy pesticides and local stores will often sell on credit, whereas specialized stores will not. Sometimes local stores will sell pre-mixed ‘pesticide cocktails’. The survey found that 97% of traders were selling more pesticides and were giving them more shelf space. Pesticide traders said they had no difficulty in acquiring pesticides and assumed that all pesticides were legal in Cambodia. All pesticide retailers were unaware of the 1998 sub-decree on Standards and Management of Agricultural Materials that lists pesticides that are banned or of restricted use in Cambodia.
The chemical products used in Cambodian agriculture are mainly fertilizers and pesticides. While Cambodia is not an agro-chemical producer (table2); and mainly imports from neighboring countries (Thailand & Vietnam), there are some cases in which pesticides are imported from China and European Union members states.
According to the law, agrochemical importing companies must be registered at the MAFF before allowing them to be imported into Cambodia. However, there were not all agrochemical importing companies which have been registered; some of them still imported without registering their products. Some unofficial reports indicated that around60-80% of imported pesticides were illegally imported bought along the Thai and Vietnam borders. Official data recorded that till now December 2013 registered pesticides are used in Cambodia are 750 common names and trade name of pesticides, while the retailers holding license, which directly deliver to the users are only 35 holders (Table 2).
Pesticide use: Before1980, farmers who used pesticides in their farm production were only 7%. The number of pesticide consumption increased up to 49% in 1985-1994 in donation framework (Anonymous, 2009). A basic study in 2004 reported that about 67% of farmers used chemical pesticides in their production crops at least one time a year. The use of chemical pesticides also varied depending on the seasonal crops; high usage of pesticides occurs during the dry season crop, where 98% of the community use chemical pesticides in their vegetable, tobacco, bean and dry season rice crop (8-15% of the wet season rice crop) (Anonymous, 2009). There is no records of the exact volume of chemical pesticides used; but it were estimated about 3,570 tons were used in 2007.
Fig. 1. The 28 trade names of Methamidophos
Type of pesticide use: there are 522 trade names of 133 common names of chemical pesticides available in local markets; most of them are unregistered pesticides. We found several trade names in one common name of those unregistered pesticide such as Methamidophos and Abamictin (Fig. 1 & Fig. 2). Unregistered/illegal pesticides mostly are extremely and highly hazardous pesticides (Fig. 3). There were 13 common names of banned and restricted pesticides for use observed in the markets in 2007; they are Methyl parathion, Mevinphos, Methamidiphos, Methomyl, Monocrotophos, Dichlophos, DDT and Chlodane.
Fig. 2. Some trade names of Abamictin
Several studies on pesticide impact showed that Cambodian farmers used a highly hazardous pesticide which has been well recorded. FAOs’ study indicated that the percentage of using highly hazardous pesticides class ‘1a’ decreased from 77% to 43% in 2008. Moreover, the study found that: among the 84% of farmers using highly hazardous, there are 43% using ‘1a’ class, 9% using ‘1b’ class and 32% using II class (Fig. 3).
Fig. 3. Percentage of pesticide used in different class of WHO’s classification (Anonymous, 2009)
Cambodian farmers commonly use at least 12 insecticides belonging to the neonicotinoid family (Cheang, 2013). These insecticides are not yet included in the country’s updated list of banned or restricted pesticides (MAFF 2012).
Indiscriminate use of pesticides not only puts sustainable agricultural production at risk through the disruption of vital ecosystem services, pesticide residues on fresh produce that exceed the maximum(allowable) residue limits (MRLs) also raise food safety concerns and jeopardize their export potentials. MRLs are standards set by individual countries for traded agricultural commodities according to types of pesticides. Pesticide residues result from: 1) heavy pesticide use on the growing crop;2) insecticide used in post-harvest management to preserve food during storage; and 3) the persistence and carry-over effect of residues in the soil.
Survey studies of pesticide contamination of vegetables in Cambodian markets found produce containing residues of organochlorine (Wang et al., 2011), organophosphate and carbamate (Neufeld et al., 2010) exceeding MRLs. Cambodia ranks first among 13 countries in the region with the highest pesticide residue on vegetables, particularly leafy vegetables from Kandal province (Wang et al., 2011).
Based on pesticides displayed in the markets for sale, the study found that the majority of pesticides being used in Cambodia were in ‘1a’ class of WHOs’ classification with the 18% of common names and 2% of trade names. Moreover, the POPs’ pesticides such as DDT and Chlodane were still found to be used in the farms (EJF, 2002).
Pesticides are displayed for sale together with other food stuff in unregistered shops.
Pesticide application service provider is available at the farm level.
Even with the National targets and efforts regarding pesticide risk reduction as well as phasing out highly hazardous pesticides, Cambodia is still facing a big obstacle due to the limitation of human resources for anti-counterfeiting/illegal pesticides and farmers still prefer to use pesticides because their perception on pesticide use is that it is the more the effective option (Anonymous, 2009).
Several unregistered shops have signages in foreigner languages (Thai & Vietnam), carrying those pesticides which are banned for use in Cambodia and are not available in those countries. Moreover, the labels are too old and already expired (EJF., 2002).
Pesticides disposal: However, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has taken the priority action to minimize this hot issue. The sub-decree no. 69 was not fully implemented in the pesticide management departments; therefore the Law on the Management of Pesticides and Fertilizers has been ratified by the National Assembly on December 21st, 2011.
Future actions:
As chemical pesticides are widely available almost practically anywhere and most of them are illegal, counterfeit products in Cambodia should take priority action as suggested below:
Improve pesticide movement inspection activities in the borders, which is a key part in strengthening pesticide management;
The limitation of law enforcement with lack of public awareness should have the following priority actions: Strengthen Law enforcement especially on Law on the Management of Pesticides and Fertilizers, The government should lead the push for the enforcement of policies, regulations and legislation relating to environmental protection and the responsible use of pesticides to reduce the risks and impacts of agro-chemicals use. The implementation of the law should be mandatory, not voluntary. Financial or other penalties should be imposed on traders for illegally importing, selling or distributing banned pesticides, and on farmers for using them. Information about the law should be well disseminated and explained to farmers, retailers, importers and border inspectors through newspapers, television, radio and other forms of media.
Focus on reviewing and revising pesticide management legislation toward reducing highly toxic pesticides (Ministerial declaration on banned, restricted, and permitted pesticides for use);
Step-by-step phase out of highly toxic pesticides; use pesticides in accordance with regulations related to ensure safety for humans, animals, plants, environment and food;
Promote study and application of science and technology to production, trading and use of bio-pesticides and other environmentally friendly control measures; develop pest-free areas. Educational efforts, especially at the farm level, are needed to improve compliance with ASEAN GAP standards. Furthermore, the global and domestic markets for organic foods and beverages are growing and the demand for food safety is increasing.
Build a system for waste container collection and treatment; use containers made from recyclable materials;
Encourage traders and plant protection service organizations to provide training and guiding for safe and effective use of pesticides; provide technical training for manufacturers;
Encourage IPM and GAP measures; encourage plant protection service activities, organize specialized agricultural technical services.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in Cambodia is playing an important role to solve the sensitive issue of the national socio-economic, environment and agriculture sector; this ministry should lead the enforcement of policies, regulations and legislation related to environmental protection and the responsible use of pesticides to reduce the risks and impacts of agro-chemicals use. In MAFF there are three departments responsible for the regulatory authority in charge of pesticide registration, licensing, inspection (DAL), technical adviser infield evaluation of pesticides and efficacy field testing for registration (PPSPSD), and analysis of pesticides for supporting counterfeit and illegal pesticides policy (NAL).
The problem with use of pesticides takes its roots based on the limited knowledge of pesticide use along with lack of law enforcement. This has created a big challenge for pesticide management in Cambodia. Most banned and restricted pesticides are still available in the local markets. Cambodia shall take the prime actions to improve border inspection on the movement of pesticides; this action is part of firing against counterfeit and illegal pesticide products; which is very often found in unregistered pesticide shops/retailers.
Anonymous. 2009. in Khmer language ‘Report on Chemical Management in Cambodia’
CEDAC. 2004. Pesticides use and consequence in Cambodia. Centre d’Education et de Development Agricole Cambodgien.
EJF. 2002. Death in Small Doses: Cambodia’s Pesticides Problems and solutions. Environmental Justice Foundation, London, UK.
Cheang H. (2013), Pesticides in Cambodia (PhnomPenh: Royal University of Agriculture)
Neufeld, D.S.G., H. Savoeun, C. Phoeurk, A. Glick and C. Hernandez (2010), “Prevalence and Persistence of Organophosphate and Carbamate Pesticides in Cambodian Market Vegetables”, Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, 7(4): 89–98
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2012),“List of Banned Pesticides and Restricted Pesticides”,Prakas No. 484.
Wang, H.S., S. Sthiannopkao, J. Du, Z.J. Chen, K.W. Kim, M.S. Mohamed Yasin, J.H. Hashim, C.K. Wongand M.H. Wong (2011), “Daily Intake and Human Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs) based on Cambodian Market Basket Data”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 192(3): 1441–1449.
Submitted for the FFTC-KU International Workshop on Risk Management on Agrochemicals through Novel Technologies for Food Safety in Asia, November 10-14, Sampran Riverside, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand
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BANS-- ( 2017-03-24 14:35:48 )
hi, I am an agriculture pesticide exporter from Malaysia, I would like to know more about the registration of Cambodia and under which organization control? hope to hear from you soon, thanks !
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Folklore of Hawaiian-Born Japanese
Summary: Chuck Insley was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folklore from Durham, England
Summary: Mae Jackson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Collection of Modern day Lore
Summary: Gioia Jensen was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. Collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
A Scientific Collection of a Wild Variety of Dubious Folklore and Scholaristic Views
Summary: Barbara Johnson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Summary: Cynthia Johnson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
The Jealous Lover Ballad, 2 Prison Songs, and 1 Folksong
Summary: Juli Johnson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Jones family papers
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Summary: Much of this collection consists of handwritten transcription of words and lyrics to songs collected by members of the Elbert and Mary Jones family around 1895. In addition to the song lyrics there is part of a handwritten homestead claim, a folder of sayings, newspaper articles on a minstrel show, poetry clipped from newspapers, several handwritten letters to members of the Jones family and household receipts.
Folk Songs--Tall Tale Style
Summary: Jeanne Kasnick was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Oregon Folk Song: Two Case Studies
Summary: Nancy Kawalczyk was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes a thesis and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore thesis.
Family Folklore
Summary: Julia Dawson Keizur was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk songs of Methodist Groups
Summary: Nat Kerr was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
There Are No Virgin Islands
Summary: Amanda Krantz was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
"Seating and Activities on Bus Trips to Swimming Meets."
Summary: Sharen Krone was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Pub Songs and Other Lore
Summary: Shelley J. Lewis was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Goddess Chants
Summary: Carol Lichtenstein was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Eight Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) including an interview with "Stupid"
Summary: Glenn Lirman was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk songs - Sorority and Fraternity
Summary: Julie Lung was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Teachings From The People
Summary: Linda MacCormack was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
The Engagement Ceremony as Practiced by Kappa Alpha Theta
Summary: Martha Mangan was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Fraternity and Sorority Songs
Summary: Dave McAllister was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Inipi: A Native American Purification Ceremony
Summary: Andrew McClure was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Examining Ballet as a Form of Folklore
Summary: Kyle McFall was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
New Gypsy Wagons - Freak Bus Houses
Summary: Freedom McGee was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Sorority Songs
Summary: Barbara McGowan was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Forest Firefighter Songs
Summary: Nancy Meng was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folklore Collected from William H. Wenzel
Summary: Sister Roberta Meusey was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
It Makes a Village: Folkdancing In America
Summary: Amy Mills was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Veselo Festival Video, January 22-23, 2000
WOW! Not Just a Building
Summary: Hannah B. Moore was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Yiddish Folk songs, Proverbs, and Expressions
Summary: Lisa Nerenberg was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
The Drinking Gourd and Tom Dula
Summary: Peggy Nichols was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Afro-American Folklore
Summary: Jeffrey D. Nicholson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Parochial School Folklore
Summary: Jean Nyland was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Military Marching Songs
Summary: Gaynelle O'Neil was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folklore of Baker County, Oregon and Others
Summary: Melissa Oestreich was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk Songs and Customs of the Sergeanette Drill Team
Summary: Nancy Elizabeth Olsen was a student in the University of Oregon Folklore Studies This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Oregon Folklife Program records
Repository: University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
Summary: The Oregon Folklife Program provided statewide services supporting folklife, traditional arts and artists, and folk arts in education in Oregon from 1988 to 2009, first at Lewis and Clark College, 1988-1993, and then the Oregon Historical Society, 1993-2009. This collection comprises the Oregon Folklife Program’s records, 1988-2009, including folklore fieldwork documentation in the form of photographs, sound recordings, and video recordings of cultural events and traditional arts and artists in urban and rural Oregon communities; program materials, including exhibitions and table-top exhibits, learning units for grades 3-6, radio and video productions on folklife in Oregon; and administrative files, including artist files, accounting files, research files, and digital files. Oregon Folklife Program programs and projects included apprenticeship programs for traditional arts, exhibits and community events, educational units and instructional materials, regional folk arts surveys, youth community documentation projects, and radio and video productions on folklife in Oregon. The collections include rich visual documentation of traditional arts and artists in cultural, occupational, and religious communities in Oregon, including refugee communities, immigrant communities, rural communities, and Native American communities.
Finnish Traditions in Astoria, Oregon
Summary: Teri Ostrom was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Summary: Andrea C. Owens was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Camp Onahlee Folklore
Summary: Cynthia Owens was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Grandmother's Tales (Lore from the Barnett/ Hill and Stewart/ Hill Families)
Summary: Elizabeth Parrish was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk Songs, Rhymes, Recipes and Others
Summary: Gay Peugh was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Some Songs, Traditions, and Folk Speech of Tri Delta
Summary: Kristen L. Pharris was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
High School Folk Songs
Summary: Jean Price was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
A Dead Halloween
Summary: Christy Rapp was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
The Jesus Song and Earth First! Movement
Summary: Jessica Ravitsky was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Things That I've Been Told
Summary: Rhonda Redditt was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Information about Playing Taiko with Portland Taiko
Summary: Vickey Reed was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk Songs -Instrumental
Summary: Bruce Reichert was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk Music, Southwestern Oregon
Summary: Donna Reini was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
College Drinking Songs From Eugene, Oregon
Summary: Robin Richardson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Tradition of Fraternity and Sorority "Pinnings"
Summary: Tracey Richardson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folk Songs, Jokes, Rhyme and a Superstition from Charles F. Wallace
Summary: Jon Riggs was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folklore Sampler: James Monroe Jr. High School
Summary: Martha Roberts was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Summary: Susan K. Rockey was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Yachats Celtic Music Festival Project
Summary: Lily Rota was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Camp Songs of Northern Oregon
Summary: Betsy Rott was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Guide to the Salvation Army Swedish Songs Collection
Summary: Collection of religious song lyrics and newspaper clippings.
Summary: Kathryn Schubert was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation pertaining to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Ballad Collection - Gayle Hunt
Summary: Mindy Sears was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
To Find Folklore Examples in Everyday Life
Summary: Valerie Sherwood was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folklore in the Amazon Project
Summary: Carole Smoyer was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
For the Love of the Tune: Irish Women and Traditional Music- A Documentary and Text
Summary: Carol Spellman was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. Collection includes this student's folklore terminal project.
Israeli Folksongs
Summary: John A. Spiering was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Fraternity Folklore
Fieldwork Project
Summary: Lara Sutton was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Proverbs and Other
Summary: Stephen M. Swarengin was a student in the University of Oregon Folklore Studies This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Songs of the Outdoors
Summary: Gary Tepfer was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Summary: Peter Thornton was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Glimpses of a Personal and Cultural Folklore
Summary: Linda Warren was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Spanish Basque Folklore
Summary: Rita Wasil was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Hannukah in America
Summary: Laura Weiner was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Instrumental Guitar and Folklore
Summary: Terri Wellman was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Summary: Janet L. Werner was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Scottish Folklore from One Informant in Portland, Oregon
Summary: Sue West was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Folksongs and Ballads in Modern Life: One Woman's Vision
Summary: Kimberly A. Kennedy White was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Two Nigerian Folk songs
Summary: Andrew Wiesenfeld was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Summary: Larry Wilson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Northwest Camp Songs
Summary: Theresa Wilson was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Transcription of Ballads and other Folksongs collected by Ruby E. Vonderheit
Summary: Jane Wiscomb was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Camp and College Songs and Others
Summary: Betty Ann Woolley was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
Summary: Barbara Zukaitis was a student of folklore at the University of Oregon. This collection includes an essay and fieldwork documentation relating to this student's folklore fieldwork project.
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Books By Patti Davis
The Wrong Side of Night
The Earth Breaks In Colors
The Wit and Wisdom of Gracie
Till Human Voices Wake Us
The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us
Two Cats and the Woman They Own
Angels Don’t Die
THE DIVIDED ROAD AHEAD
November 11, 2016 Current Events 12 Comments
The ambassador of darkness is now the president-elect. Despite how stunned many of us are, despite our grief and fear of the future, that is an undeniable fact. A man who has the enthusiastic support of the KKK and other white nationalist groups, a man who has slandered Hispanics and Muslims, degraded women, mimicked a disabled person, shown an appalling ignorance of the Constitution, and called climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, will be our next president. And the fact that he has been on good behavior the past few days is, in my mind, irrelevant. To be fair, he didn’t create the hatred and racism in this country, but he did unleash those demons. And they are not genies you can put back in the bottle by suddenly acting like a good little schoolboy and by giving lip-service to unity. America is in trouble. America is deeply divided, and those with hatred in their hearts now feel emboldened.
So what are we to do with this? In 1973 Jackson Browne sang, in his song Everyman: “Everybody I talk to is ready to leave with the light of the morning. They’ve seen the end coming down long enough to believe they’ve heard their last warning.” I remember that feeling — that there was somewhere else go, to escape to, someplace far from the troubles at home. That isn’t the case anymore. This planet is in trouble. This fragile blue ball we call Earth could already be at the tipping point. We don’t have four years to wait it out until Donald Trump and his soldiers of darkness go away. And where in the world could you go to escape violence and hatred these days? We’ve been called upon to stand up to the darkness that’s been unleashed, and that won’t be easy.
Already, just days after Trump was elected, incidents of racial and ethnic hatred are piling up. Muslim women are being spit at, Latinos are being told to go back to their own country, signs saying Make America White Again have cropped up, two boys waving a Trump flag from a pickup truck drove around Wellesley College harassing students and spitting at black girls. We have been living in an unrealistic bubble for years — we knew hatred was out there but we didn’t know how bad or how prolific it was. Not until Donald Trump came along, lifted up that rock and let it all spew out. Now we know. Now the demons are dancing among us and they will not be silenced. Our choice, it seems to me, is a stark one and one that requires us to dig deep and hold on to the strongest ropes of faith that we can find. Faith that light can dissolve darkness. Faith that love is more fierce and more powerful than hatred. Faith that we are not meant to give up on the beauty and the grandeur of this earth and all the creatures who inhabit it — the magnificent animals who are being slaughtered by people like the Trump boys who gleefully pose for photos with animals they have brutally shot. Faith that God put us here to be miracle-workers, not bottom-dwellers.
Martin Luther King said, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” I for one am having a terrible time trying to dig past my sorrow at where this country has come to. I’m struggling to see past my fears. I’m struggling to take the first step. But if we don’t collectively commit to the idea that hatred and small-mindedness will not win, will not define our country, then we will go the way of many civilizations before us that ended up as footnotes in history books. It’s hard to believe there is light when darkness seems to bubble up around us. Harder still when the man who will occupy the White House has made that his rallying cry. But towering figures in history — Ghandi, Martin Luther King, to name two — didn’t give up even when things were terrifyingly bleak.
Another quote from Martin Luther King: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” We are at a moment in history that requires all of us to choose which road we want to go down. The roads are clearly marked. My prayer is that the majority of us will choose the road with a light blinking in the distance, a light that beckons us to remember why we were put here on this earth.
America, Donald Trump, presidency, racism
12 Responses to THE DIVIDED ROAD AHEAD
Chet Rhodes says:
That was an awesome read, Patti. I have been in the throes of despair and fear since the election. After reading your article, I feel much better.
Thank you very much, and I choose the path of light.
Chet Rhodes
Jimmy Hall says:
Just what I needed Now. You’re a blessing, an angel. Thank you. LOL
Kathlean Gahegan says:
The Village Idiot will blah blah blah himself into an impeachment in record time. It’s time to revisit and dismantle the Electoral College and run our system as a true Democracy based on a majority vote, and not the Constutional Republic it really is. Trump and his uneducated redneck base have no room under their unself-realized narcissist bubble. They are oblivious to the fact that ours is a melting pot culture that gave “us their hungry and their poor”. We were initially colonized by folk escaping oppressive taxation and religious intolerance. Waves of immigration brought ethnic groups to US shores seeking success on the New World.
Walter Palmer says:
The states will never vote out the Electoral College because you would only have to campaign on West coast east coast and Chicago,and the rest of the country would have no voice.
Timothy Brady says:
Patti, I also choose the path of Light and Hope. It will be a path wrought with risks and dangers, however I’m willing to take those risks and facedown the danger while staying positive, upbeat and optimistic.
I will continue to help my neighbors along with strangers, If they are hungry I will make sure they eat. If they need shelter I will do everything I can to put a roof over their head, if they need encouragement, I can provide it, and though my actions I hope they will see the light.
Frank Drake Jr says:
Patti,
Thank you for this excellent read.The past few days have been a struggle. I was in such pain and anxiety after the election results came in late Tuesday night. Being part of the LGBTQ community along with two of my daughters, I am afraid for their future. Honestly, I cried myself to sleep that night. I have been trying to find articles and stories that provide some light and positivity for our future. Thank you so much for this as it is so true and we have to move forward together. There is hope and light. We will prevail.
David Marks says:
There are times, answers to complex questions, appear to be strikingly simple; they never are. We sit at our chemistry tables as children, or our Barbie dolls and ponder just how to resolve the answers as to how they became so beautiful, or why one small piece of metal will pull one end to to the other, while pushing the other alarmingly against its own movements. The terrible trial which, on the one hand, bring life its intricate pains, also instill that creative purpose to and hope, and it is that hope, no matter how elusive, for as many years as it takes, the riddle is solved; the nightmare is over. Patti, I love this piece; it’s tender, simple, honest and applicable to all of us. Let no one assume they can skirt the tease of the rhythm…they cannot. We all must battle onward to find the answers, and if we fail, it must be remembered, we fail as a people, as one.
Thomas Adelman says:
Thank you Patti for that glowing light in a time of
darkness. Thank you for offering a chance to
see past the division and evil that this man has
unleashed. We can win this fight by staying open
and passionate about our beliefs and holding
onto our better angels, which the forces of
darkness can never touch.
Patricia Sullivan Webb says:
You wrote what many of us are feeling. I’m despondent for my children, for all young people. Petrified for my one year old granddaughter. Thanks for your words.
That was a great piece Patti. However I think people in the Midwest (Reagan Democrats) found nothing in Hillary that was genuine. So they voted for Trump who preached the populist vision. Also I think Obama did not realize the affect Obama care would have on small business in that part of the country. Hopefully we’ll survive this chaos and goodness will prevail.
Mick Bysshe says:
For better or worse, Donald Trump will be our next president. I pray he fulfills his duties with wisdom. fortitude and humility. It is all I ask.
Ciaran John Ryan says:
We should remember the words of wisdom that your father said to Richard Nixon, in despair over Watergate: “This too shall pass”. Indeed, it did. Or his words of faith for the future of America in his farewell letter, “I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”
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Father's Day, Hummel, a Macchiato, a Fortepiano & a 1954 Silver Wraith
Paul Luchkow & Michael Jarvis
I am writing this blog for Saturday, today Sunday which is Father’s Day. I reflect on the idea that a good father’s best way to celebrate the day is to somehow be that good father. I have not been such a father as my interest and concern in being a grandfather to, first, my older granddaughter Rebecca, 13, and then my younger one, Lauren, 8. I have not been a good father to my oldest daughter Ale in Lillooet and my younger Hilary (who is Lauren and Rebecca’s mother). I have taken my granddaughters to the theater, to concerts, to films, to the art gallery at the expense of their mother and aunt.
This is why tonight’s concert of the music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was especially satisfying. I attended it with Hilary whose smile throughout gave me a rewarding sense of satisfaction.
It was Hilary who at a very young age (7 or 8) could identify the composer of any of my classical LPs wherever I might drop the needle. In the late 80s when thieves walked into our home in the middle of the night (I used to leave the door unlocked) and left me with not one of my classical and jazz CDs, Hilary was able to compile a complete list (all the correct titles and interpreters) of the stolen material. With this list my home insurance coughed up with the money for replacements.
I had really forgotten my daughter’s sensitivity and appreciation for good music because her daughter Rebecca by age 6 could discern the difference between the sound of a cello and a viola da gamba. I stopped taking Hilary to concerts and Rebecca became my constant and appreciative musical and theatrical companion.
At age 13, texting, Lady Ga Ga and an iTouch (which I unfortunately gave to her as a gift) have replaced any interest in “higher” music. Rebecca is even in a post Justin Bieber transition, and who she listens to, is a mystery to me.
Michael Jarvis (fortepiano) & Paul Luchkow (viola)
I knew that asking her to attend a special concert featuring violinist (and violist) Paul Luchkow and keyboardist Michael Jarvis (two men that Rebecca knows well) would have resulted in a disappointing, “ No!” I invited her mother instead and we both had a beautiful time listening to intimate music a few ft from the performers while imbibing a San Pellegrino Aranciata (Hilary) and slurpy and sweet macchiato cappuccino with whipped cream (me!). And all this happened while staring at the beautiful Smithers landscapes by Dutch painter Nicholas J. Bott. The reason for the exotic drinks and the paintings is that our concert was held at the Harrison Gallery/The Buzz Café at 901 Homer Street (at Smithe).
There was another artistic surprise as Hilary, during the intermission came up to me and told me, “Do you know that there are paintings here by your friend Chris Dahl?
I had spotted his striking British Steel: 1954 Silver Wraith Sports Saloon but I was not aware that there was more in an ancillary room.
British Steel: 1954 Silver Wraith Saloon by Chris Dahl
The purpose of the concert was to “get and edge” in preparation for the forthcoming recording of three Hummel Sonatas, two for violin and fortepiano and one for viola and fortepiano. The unbelievable fact is that only one of these Sonatas has ever been recorded and none ever with period instruments!
Of the three Sonatas, Paul Luchkow and Michael Jarvis wrote in their concert notes:
The two Sonatas we are performing tonight date from 1799/1800 and are the firs real showpieces of Hummel’s career. Why they are not better known is a mystery to us. Only the Viola Sonata has been issued in modern editions, usually with editorial simplifications and emendations. We are performing from a copy of the extremely precise first edition. Our CD recording for , (one of Canada’s most prestigious and respectable labels), will be the world-premiere recording of Sonatas I and II, and the first recording on period instruments of Sonata III. The CD will be available locally through either Paul or Michael, at Sykora’s and HMV and will be released both nationally and internationally in mid October…and makes the perfect Christmas gift!! Marquis Classics
The program cover had one funny typo as Paul Luchkow is listed as a Paul Luchlow. But there was another troubling bit of confusion for me. The facsimile of Hummel’s original edition lists the keyboard instrument as a Piano-Forte while Michael Jarvis is listed as playing a fortepiano (a beautiful piece of art by our West Vancouver instrument builder of note, Craig Tomlinson.
This is what I thought I knew (and I was partially correct) about the confusion. For anybody who has attempted to discern the sound of a harpsichord in a full baroque orchestra you will know that a harpsichord can only pay soft (or piano in musical lingo). Only a harpsichord solo will reveal the sonic treasure of this instrument that began to be replaced by an instrument that instead of plucking the strings (a harpsichord) now hammered at them, the late18th century invention the Italians called a pianoforte. This instrument could play soft (piano) and loudly (forte!).
As orchestras and concert halls became bigger in the 19th century, pianofortes had to me modified to play louder. The frame that held the strings was beefed up with metal and the instruments themselves were made larger. By the beginning of the 20th century these instruments with the potential to play loudly were now simply called pianos. As far as I know this was correct but I was still confused.
Amongst the audience was virtuoso violinist (member and ex-musical director of the local Pacific Baroque Orchestra, the orchestra that Paul Luchkow also plays for, plus member and leader of the Washington DC. Based Axelrod Quartet) Marc Destrubé asked him to explain. His explanation was short and precise, one of Destrubé’s attributes.
The original Piano Forte had its name modified to Forte Piano when the louder instrument became more popular. This modern instrument was called a piano forte and eventually the name was shortened to piano.
The evening ended with an encore that was a pianissimo (very soft!) interpretation of the slow movement of the Sonata II. We left for home in what really was one of the best Father’s Day I have ever had!
Link to: Father's Day, Hummel, a Macchiato, a Fortepiano & a 1954 Silver Wraith
A Golden Era Of Magazines In Vancouver
Steinway Hall, 1873
On the 28 of May I had to give a speech at my 50th anniversary reunion at St. Ed’s High School in Austin. I did not sleep for three days prior to it because of nerves. After all I was supposed to represent my class.
I have never had any problem giving speeches since as a teacher I have had sort of that experience in front of students for quite a few years. I have another speech to make tonight and it has kept my stomach in knots for days now. The speech I am to make is in response to “an honorary golden rocking chair award” (otherwise known as a lifetime achievement award) I am receiving from the Western Magazine Awards Foundation for my contribution to magazines beginning in 1976.
My wife Rosemary, who will be my side tonight (but certainly not up at the podium!) has requested that I not embarrass her. I have promised her that I will not but that does not mean that I might not embarrass a few others, just a tad.
I will point out from the very beginning that in the 19th century such excellent magazines as Harper’s Weekly were severely limited in the reproduction of images on its pages. Artist Winslow Homer painted wonderful scenes of American Civil War battles but his paintings had to be converted to woodcuts and or lithographs as they were the only methods then known for reproduction. The photographs of Matthew Brady and Timothy O’ Sullivan could only be seen on the walls of salons and galleries.
It wasn’t until December 2, 1873 that a newspaper, the New York Daily Graphic published a photograph (in continuous tone) of Steinway Hall in Manhattan. By the end of that decade a symbiotic relationship between copy, photographs and illustrations had been established in magazines and newspapers. Because of the use of the halftone process and or ink to paper, magazines, newspapers and photography thrived until the advent of photon pixels on phosphor screens.
We are now living an uncertain transition in which nobody has yet to figure out how to make those pictures and copy pay for themselves.
Until about now there was a thriving competition in the world and particularly in Vancouver between magazines and staple-less ones like the Georgia Straight and such excellent magazines of a near past like David Beers’ Saturday Mix in the Vancouver Sun and Campbell’s Queue also at the Sun. The Straight competed both in copy and in photographs as Charles Campbell imposed the idea of competition through an excellence in content and imagery that had to be original in its execution. This was before the advent of the handout photograph (provided by the organizations being written about) made the look of our publications a uniform one.
Editors such as Malcolm Parry believed in keeping the doors to their offices open to all. Politicians, actors, comedians, lawyers, writers, artists and even in a few occasions, ladies of the night made it to his office. Harvey Southam, the editor of a city business magazine, Equity not only believed in this open door policy but also believed that you could not run a good business magazine in the suburbs. You had to be firmly ensconced in the centre of the city.
In those days political columns such as Sean Rossiter's 12th & Cambie in Vancouver Magazine had politicians like Carole Taylor and Mike Harcourt, eagerly anticipating their issue to read what was up at City Hall or in Victoria. In those heady days Western Living, under the editorship of Malcolm Parry published poetry by Peter Trower. Until then Parry had indicated that the shelter magazine had feautured photographs of bathrooms empty of people.
There were contributors to this editorial excellence by art directors who were virtual editors. Chris Dahl, art director first for Vancouver Magazine and then for Western Living and Equity demanded that editors shorten articles so he could run larger photographs and illustrations. Art directors like Rick Staehling established magazines in which they were the editors and hired others as designers. And then there was even one, Bob Mercer, who rejected either classification of being an editor or art director and did both jobs with next to no staff in his magazine VLM.
There are three stories I want to tell here that show how a liberal attitude, where imagination was the only limit, produced magazines and staple-less magazines that are now seen as part of a Vancouver Golden Age.
It was sometime around 1977 that I was in the reception area of Vancouver Magazine when a gaunt young man in an ill-fitting suit showed up. He informed receptionist and editorial assistant Maja Grip that he wanted to speak to Editor Malcolm Parry. She indicated with minimum bureaucratic fuss that he go up the stairs and turn left.
I followed. Malcolm Parry was either playing on his small bent soprano saxophone or spying into the windows of the nearby Plaza Hotel on Burrard with his monocular (I don’t remember which). I listened to the following exchange:
“My name is Les Wiseman and I think your magazine needs a rock’ roll column.” Malcolm Parry answered, “Young man, go home and write it.” That is how the legendary column In One Ear was born.
Another time, free lance writer Judy Lees suggested to Parry that she wanted to write an article about corrective underwear for women. Parry thought it was a good idea but imposed a condition: “Go to Alex Waterhouse-Hayward’s studio in Burnaby and you pose for the pictures.” This Judy Lees did.
One day in the late 80s at the Railway Club, John Armstrong (aka Buck Cherry) told me he needed to find a job. I advised him to go to the Bay and buy a Harris Tweed jacket, put on a dress shirt and tie and see Georgia Straight editor Charles Campbell. Immediately Armstrong and I were assigned to interview and photograph actor Vincent Price. Not long after we traveled to Seattle to do the same with Dennis Hopper.
It is this marvelous no-limit-to-imagination that fueled what for me was an era of magazines and newspapers in our city that will surely not be repeated. I feel lucky to have been part of it and I only hope that the powers that be find a new symbiosis between copy and photography so that a second golden age will be upon us.
my golden rocking chair
Link to: A Golden Era Of Magazines In Vancouver
Many years ago, around 1962 my Uncle Tony offered to send me to the American University in Alexandria. I was to get there by a Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company liner. I was all excited until Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to abolish English as the language of the university. Thus I was saved from the ignominy of not being able to boast that I never and will never board a cruise liner to nowhere.
It was a few years later in 1967 that I was the only passenger on an Argentine merchant marine Victory ship that took me from Puerto Nuevo in Buenos Aires up the coast (stopping in just about every Brazilian port) to Puerto Rico, New Orleans and finally Houston.
Here in Vancouver I am visited now and then by family that has managed to find the money to purchase cruise liner passage to Alaska. I spend a lot of time telling my family that the native folks who live up in Alaska are not Eskimos but prefer to be called Inuit. Both Rosemary and I have not desire to board one of these leviathans and don white slacks, sports shoes and jockey to position to dine at the captain’s table.
Consider that even though we are old enough to have perhaps played that seaborne version of curling, shuffleboard, and that we are aware that even such active sports as golfing are now being offered, we would eschew all such activity and opt for taking a trip that takes us to a definite destination.
This means that I recently “enjoyed” a no meal and no on board film flight to Austin. The point was not the flight (“This is your Captain speaking, please sit back, make yourself comfortable and enjoy your flight.”) but that I was going to an event, in this case my 50th anniversary high school graduation. I was able to suffer the banal ignominy of modern flying thanks to a Vancouver Public Library book of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
This does not mean that I am willing to assert that the process of getting there is not sometimes almost as important as the Mecca itself.
A case in point is our trip in the beginning of July. Rosemary, my two granddaughters Lauren and Rebecca and I are driving in our Chevrolet Malibu to San Antonio, Texas and from there south to Mike East’s Santa Fe Ranch near Falfurrias (Lynn is a tad closer but Falfurrias has a more exotic sound to it) ).
Rosemary has her misgivings about a 9-year-old and a 13-year-old fighting boredom in a back seat. I plan to have Rebecca share shotgun with Rosemary, but what of Lauren on her booster seat as she is still quite small in size?
Should we drive in a straight diagonal to San Antonio or should we linger in places? Time will tell which we will do.
We are already planning how to circumvent the problem of four people living out of a cart trunk. The Malibu’s trunk is fairly generous but Rosemary requested I trade the “donut” spare tire for a real one so that now the trunk base sticks up a few inches.
Telling Rosemary that this is a trip that the girls will not forget seems not very diplomatic on my part and it just makes Rosemary fret even more. But I am convinced that once on the road the trip will become our little ocean liner full of adventure and with the anticipated pleasure of finally arriving at the Santa Fe Ranch where Letty and Mike will receive us warmly, after all we will be home.
Link to: Getting There
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The Blonde Assassin Passes On
Rosa 'Charles de Mills'
Apparently with no surprise
To any Happy Flower
The Frost beheads it at its play -
In accidental power -
The blonde Assassin passes on -
The Sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another Day
For an Approving God -
Death and the maiden
Link to: The Blonde Assassin Passes On
I Could Not See To See
Karen Gerbrecht
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -
The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset - when the King
Be witnessed - in the Room -
I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable - and then it was
There interposed a Fly -
With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - and me -
And then the Windows failed - and then
I could not see to see -
Link to: I Could Not See To See
Adjusted To The Tomb
I died for Beauty - but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room -
He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty", I replied -
"And I - for Truth - Themself are One -
We Bretheren, are", He said -
And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night -
We talked between the Rooms -
Until the Moss had reached our lips -
And covered up - Our names -
Link to: Adjusted To The Tomb
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Meet the Sargent Family
Buckhorn Springs serves as a reminder of what is possible when a family commits to a particular place. In a modern world where jobs, houses, and lifestyles are often traded like interchangeable parts, Bruce and Leslie made a radical choice when they purchased the run-down mineral springs resort in October of 1987. They chose to restore and preserve the historic structures, and the stories of a single location. In doing so, their family embarked on what would soon become their life’s work: preserving a piece of Oregon’s history to share with their guests.
If you have the opportunity to visit Buckhorn, you’ll feel the Sargent’s commitment to the land and its history. Chef Leslie serves delicious, seasonal and organic meals. Bruce has restored the buildings according to historical photographs. Russell, their son, built a hiking trail to guide guests through the heart of the property. Lauren, their daughter, helped her mother share kitchen secrets and her father share the history by creating the Buckhorn Springs Heritage Cookbook and now she maintains the Buckhorn website. Quinn, their youngest son, born and raised at Buckhorn, is well versed in working in the woods with his dad or the kitchen with his mom.
Bruce SargentOwner, Operator and Builder
Bruce’s passion for old things found a purpose when he and Leslie stumbled upon Buckhorn in 1987. As the leading authority on Buckhorn’s history, he has spent his life researching and historically restoring the buildings at Buckhorn Springs. Bringing Buckhorn Springs back to life seemed the perfect opportunity to incorporate those interests into his life and work. Bruce loves to build things, but with any excuse to work in the woods you’ll find him somewhere on the back forty.
Leslie SargentOwner, Operator and Chef
Leslie started cooking for her parent’s dinner parties when she was 12 years old. Her passion for cooking has grown over the many years of serving guests at Buckhorn. Leslie plans her menus according to the seasons, incorporating locally grown foods from the Buckhorn gardens and local farmers. Her menus meet the seasons, the group, the summer temperatures and even a winter snowstorm that suddenly comes in.
Russell SargentGeneral Manager
Russell has lived and worked at Buckhorn year after year between going away for college, and returning to his own land and work in Chile once a year. Russell is another Bruce in the making, a jack-of-all-traits, you will find him in the kitchen, renovating buildings, and building trails. Russell and his wife, Paulina Samson-Fuentes, celebrated their marrage at Buckhorn Springs in 2014. They live most of the year at Buckhorn, but return to Paulina’s homeland, Chile once a year.
Lauren Sargent HaynesWebsite Designer
Lauren also returned year after year between college and traveling to rejoin the family business and help wherever was needed. She found her niche when she designed and produced the Buckhorn Springs Heritage Cookbook in 2010. Since she has gotten Buckhorn on the social media map, designed and maintains the Buckhorn website. She and her husband, Justin Haynes, married at Buckhorn in 2013 and now live in Seattle.
Quinn SargentHead Groundskeeper
Quinn is the only Sargent born and raised at Buckhorn Springs. Like his older brother and sister, he spent his summers helping out with the day to day operations at Buckhorn. Quinn recently spent six months training at a Shaolin Kung Fu Academy in China and has his Wilderness EMT. Now attending college, he returns during the summers to work with his mom in the kitchens, and especially to assist in construction projects with his dad.
Paulina Samson-FuentesSous Chef
Paulina has her Culinary Degree as a Pastry Chef from Santiago, Chile. After hearing about Buckhorn for years from Russell, she came to live and work in the summer of 2014. Her passion lies in the kitchen where she especially loves the challenges presented in the guests dietary restrictions. She and Russell married in Chile in 2013, and celebrated their union at Buckhorn in 2014. They return each year to visit family in Chile, and live at Buckhorn during the spring, summer and fall.
Buckhorn Springs is ideal for group gatherings of any size. We host seminars, workshops, yoga retreats, business meetings, religious retreats, reunions, weddings, personal retreats and more.
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Khaleda going to UK soon?
Government, BNP reportedly reached an 'understanding'
Mohammad Al-Masum Molla
The political circle is suddenly abuzz with one discussion that prison days of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia are likely to be over in a couple of weeks.
Key leaders in the BNP and the ruling Awami League are talking in private that the ailing 74-year-old would be released on parole and allowed to go abroad for “treatment” following an “understanding” between the beleaguered party and the government.
As per the “understanding”, Khaleda, who has been in jail for over 14 months on corruption charges, might catch a London flight any day before April 30, the last day for oath-taking as MPs by six BNP leaders, who got elected in the December 30 general elections, said insiders.
“Six in, one out,” a top BNP leader, wishing anonymity, told The Daily Star yesterday.
According to the leader, Khaleda will go abroad and the six elected BNP leaders will join parliament after swearing-in.
“Her flight to London is either on April 25 or 26. And the MPs-elect [from the BNP] may take oath any day after her departure,” confided another party leader.
April 29 is the deadline for the six MPs-elect to be sworn in.
But when approached by this newspaper, came the formal response that nothing such happened.
“These are all baseless and gossips. I do not know anything about parole,” Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of the party and one of the MPs-elect, told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon.
"We didn't have any conversation with her [Khaleda] over parole as it's not an issue of our party.”
The former premier landed in Jail on February 8 last year after a court awarded her a five-year jail term in the Zia Orphanage Trust case. She could not come out as she failed to secure bail in all 34 cases filed against her.
Khaleda is currently under treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital. She has recently been shifted there from the now-defunct central jail in Old Dhaka.
Seeking anonymity, a senior BNP leader told this correspondent that a party high-up recently met an adviser of the government to discuss Khaleda's release on parole and treatment abroad.
Negotiations on the issue are going on between BNP leaders and the government behind the scene. The government might agree to release Khaleda on parole only if the six BNP lawmakers-elect join parliament, mentioned the party leader.
Talking to The Daily Star last night, Law Minister Anisul Huq said the government can release any accused or a convicted person on parole if the person applies following the procedures.
“If anybody wants to get released on parole, he or she has to submit an application to the home ministry. The ministry will then decide on it,” he pointed out.
This correspondent tried to contact Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan last night over his mobile phone for comments but couldn't reach him.
On April 6, the minister said the government may consider Khaleda's release on parole for treatment if she applies for it.
Yesterday, Fakhrul said it is up to the party chief and her family to decide whether she would apply for parole or not.
Fakhrul, who along with two other party leaders, met Khaleda at the BSMMU on Sunday, said, “We did not have any conversations with her [Khaleda] about her parole as the issue is not related to the party.
He was talking to journalists after offering doa at the grave of party founder Ziaur Rahman.
The BNP secretary general further said they had discussed issues relating to the party chief's treatment and cases against her.
Asked whether there was any discussion with the chairperson about the swearing-in of the party's six MPs-elect, Fakhrul replied in the negative.
"We don't think the current parliament is an elected one. We also rejected the results of the so-called election."
Last night, the six BNP lawmakers-elect, including Fakhrul, had a meeting at the party chairperson's Gulshan office. But the topics of discussion could not be known.
Khaleda is suffering from severe pain in the joints of her hands and legs, insomnia and high blood sugar, according to her physicians.
In July 2017, she went to London and spent around a month with her elder son Tarique Rahman, and his wife and daughters.
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BSTG Board & Management Buy $164,000 Worth of Stock
Encouraging Insider Buying the past 7 days out of BSTG Management & Board – Totals nearly $164,000 in purchases at an average price of $1.86 per share.
BSTG Insider Purchases as reported June 2-8, 2015
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Good Looking Falling Knife that Grows Life Saving Organs – BSTG
This is a first look note on Biostage, Inc. (Nasdaq: BSTG) which was spun out of Harvard Bioscience (HBIO) Nov. 2013. We started taking a closer look at BSTG last week and what we saw seemed very intriguing indeed. Impressive, life saving organ growing technology that has been successfully transplanted into several patients yet their stock is currently getting crushed based on negative investor sentiment, largely retail it seems, following the sudden departure of the CEO a few months ago and persisting negative commentaries regarding a surgeon who had been closely associated with the company and completed the initial transplant surgeries. The stock closed at $1.67 yesterday for a $17M market cap, despite a $12M cash position, which even burning $1.7M in Q1’15 places a very low valuation on technology with such substantial potential.
Our non technical explanation of what they do is that BSTG has developed systems and technology that allows them to grow organs/tissue from your own cells which are from your bone marrow. Like in vitro fertilization but different, instead of an embryo, they are able to provide you with a new trachea or other wind passage (under development).
So far trachea have been grown & transplanted successfully on a compassionate use basis. The BSTG method addresses the problem of replacing critical breathing organs that have been damaged by injury or disease, and it addresses the rejection issues of transplants. The procedure/organs are not yet approved but they have put forth a clear plan to seek such approvals in the US and Europe and they are publicly affiliated with the Mayo Clinic on their Hart Trachea product. Hart plans to file an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the FDA & similar European body by June 2016 and the Company recently confirmed they are on track with this goal for the BSTG Trachea product which has been granted orphan status by the FDA (Sept 2014). This status provides market protection for 7 years. [Note focus is now Esophagus – with FDA IND filing targeted for end of 2016.
So what’s the business we asked, as the Company was spun out by a medical equipment company. While BSTG has developed an array of products to enable the growth of these organs, the business is to grow and sell organs at prices roughly in the $100-200k range depending complexity, etc. The gross margin should be easily in the 90% range at normal production levels as the actual Costs of good sold are modest, it’s just the know how, personnel & equipment that’s required to make the magic happen.
And what’s wrong with the picture / driving the stock downward:
1) The pioneering MD closely associated with BSTG and who performed the initial transplants has some credibility issues in the medical world. For this reason he was removed from the company year and a half ago and the BSTG program was moved from Russia to US & Europe (sounds like a good idea for market credibility), however the perception and stigma remain – probably because the vacuum left by this physician has not yet been visibly replaced. As a result the physician remains a perception issue for the company as he’s really an industry renegade; the sort of personality that brashly pioneers new things while breaking some of the known conventions. Said another way, not a physician who’s strong on following protocols, adherence to data collection guidelines and postop care, etc. It is in these areas where he is facing challenges and those perceptions seem to have cast a cloud on BSTG’s technology and future, despite all the other corroborating evidence of efficacy, credibility and potential.
2) Also, founding CEO David Green “resigned” a few months back but what seems clear is he wasn’t getting the job done with the company and so it would appear that corporate governance has responded appropriately. Making the departure more impactful is that Mr. Green left his post as CEO of the parent company to lead BSTG following its spinoff. A big selling point of the spinoff was that the CEO and CFO of HBIO were moving to lead BSTG and now the CEO is gone – and the CFO remains now with the added title of acting CEO as well. Tom McNaughton seems very bright and capable from our conversation with him.
3) Absence of major news flow + overhang from offering done in February at $1.75
Yet we like the story because:
1) The technology is real, has worked on several patients, is moving into regulatory approval processes next year and provides a solution where there really is none. [Since this post, the new Cellframe Platform has been launched and achieved ground breaking results in large animals, focused on the esophagus. The prior trachea work is no longer commercially relevant given the new Cellframe approach [different material, different stem cells and far stronger response.]
2) The approach is supported by institutions such as the Mayo Clinic and others that should come to light later this year.
3) The BSTG team seems strong: The medical director is very impressive – comes from the DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center in Houston; the CFO & acting CEO seems very solid and the VP R&D comes from Organogenesis where he developed tissue engineered products. Added great CEO from Genzyme in Jim McGorry.
4) The valuation seems cheap given $12M in cash at 3/31/15 and a market cap of $17M based on yesterday’s close of $1.67. The Q1 cash burn was $1.7M. Not sure where the stock goes near term – but it does seem an enterprise value of $5M is probably not appropriate for a company of this genesis and market potential. This is where Mr. Buffets “voting machine” aspect of the market can make you a lot of money… when the “weighing” aspect of valuation catches up with a business of such potential opportunity.
Like all situations, we are of course interested in the IR opportunity should one present itself, but in the interim we thought we should profile another idea on CG Focus List as we’ve been very remiss in posting our ideas on this forum. [We have since been hired as IR counsel – our firm Catalyst Global – and are working through October 2016 when the biotech-focused IR firm Jenene Thomas Communications takes over.
Please let us know what you think about BSTG.
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This entry was posted in Biotech, Healthcare, Microcap < $250M, Nanocap < $50M, Special Situation, Value and tagged biostage, biotech, BSTG, esophagus, Mayo Clinic, microcap on June 2, 2015 by CGfocusLIST.
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Complex Interactions Among Policies, People, and Panda Habitat in the Wolong Nature Reserve Landscape
Human activities are widely recognized as a major force behind rapid landscape changes and loss of biodiversity around the world, including those in numerous nature reserves. Many studies have found that government policies can significantly shape human activities, but most of those studies have focused on a single policy at a time and ignored the interactive effects among various policies. Little is known about the complex interactions among the effects of multiple policies on the spatial-temporal dynamics of biodiversity such as wildlife habitat.
Studying the interrelationships of various policies for biodiversity conservation is critical and urgent because multiple policies often are implemented simultaneously. These policies may be nonlinearly complementary or counterproductive. An excellent site for studying such interactions is Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province in southwestern China. The reserve, which is 200,000 hectares in size, is one of the largest homes to world-famous endangered giant pandas and several thousand other animal and plant species. There are also more than 4,000 local residents and a variety of human activities in the reserve, such as farming and fuelwood collection. Since the establishment of the reserve in 1975, human population size has increased by more than 70 percent. This rapidly increasing human population plays a novel and unique role in degrading the pandas habitat.
To prevent further degradation of panda habitat and promote habitat restoration, the Chinese government is implementing three conservation policies in the reserve: an eco-hydropower plant program (to eliminate fuelwood consumption), a natural forest conservation program (to prevent illegal forest harvesting), and a grain-to-green program (to return cropland to forest). The interactive effects of these policies on local people and panda habitat are uncertain, however.
The objectives of this research project are (1) to assess the interactions among the three policies and local residents; (2) to evaluate the interrelationships between local residents and panda habitat; (3) to examine the need for and feasibility of policy modification and improvement; and (4) to model and simulate multi-scale interactions among policies, people, and panda habitat across space and time. The methods to be used in this study include field observations, face-to-face interviews with stakeholders, geographical information systems, remote sensing, global positioning systems, statistical tools, systems modeling and simulation, and advanced computer visualization techniques.
In addition to addressing many fundamental ecological and socioeconomic questions, the research will be tightly integrated with the education of students from elementary school to graduate school as well as outreach to various stakeholders from local to international levels. The project will have significant implications for biocomplexity theory, methodology, and application. In terms of theory, this project will shed light on complex patterns and interrelated processes (e.g., nonlinearity, thresholds, feedback, uncertainty) among multiple policies, humans, and wildlife habitat at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Regarding methodology, the research will take a systems approach by integrating multidisciplinary methods and advanced technologies to investigate the complexity of the study system. With respect to application, the project will provide practical information for conserving panda habitat in Wolong, and it will provide useful insights for designing and improving policies that attempt to balance the needs of biodiversity conservation and economic development in the worlds most populous nation. The findings also will be of general interest to many other parts of the world because of escalating human pressures and increasingly complicated human-nature interactions. This project is supported by an award resulting from the FY 2002 special competition in Biocomplexity in the Environment focusing on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems.
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Ouyang, Zhiyun
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Temporal changes in giant panda habitat connectivity across boundaries of Wolong Nature Reserve, China
Interactive Effects Of Natural And Human Disturbances On Vegetation Dynamics Across Landscapes
Chinas Environment in a Globalizing World
Application of Ecological-Niche Factor Analysis in Habitat Assessment of Giant Pandas
The effects of understory bamboo on broad-scale estimates of giant panda habitat
Modeling the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Interactions of Households, Landscapes, and Giant Panda Habitat
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Laslo Djere – Diego Schwartzman Match Prediction | 12-08-2019
The final match of the night session promises to be a close match as last weeks Buenos Aires finalist Diego Scwartzman takes on Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas. In my opinion he is one of the most underrated players in the game. However, over the past year Schwartzman has improved considerably as a player, winning the tournament last year. Expect a high quality encounter, with many long rallies. Although not possessing the height of Cuevas, Schwartzman is a remarkable mover and has amazing firepower in his shots. The pair have met twice on clay before, with Cuevas winning both encounters.
Thiem has endured a shaky start to the year and has really struggled with both fitness and form since making the final at Roland Garros. He is proving to be somewhat on an enigma on tour, and is struggling to be consistent week in week out. The first match of the night session on Quadra Guga Kuerten sees the World #8 against the Serbian Laslo Djere. Last week was the first time he ever lost a match at the ATP 250 tournament in Buenos Aires, losing in a final set tiebreak in the semifinals to Diego Schwartzman. This is the first meeting between the pair, and I expect the Austrian to come out all guns blazing as he is looking to return to winning ways. Djere has also struggled this year, winning only one of his five matches.
Munar has been playing some great tennis over the past year and qualified for the NextGen finals in Milan. Mayer has been struggling for form in recent months, however he will feel more comfortable back on the red clay. This promises to be an another interesting match between NextGen star Juame Munar and Argentine Leonardo Mayer. This is the first meeting between the pair, and I expect a tight three set match.
Laslo Djere (SER) / Diego Schwartzman (ARG)
His countryman is a very decent clay court player, but this is one is on Fabio and his mental stability. We all know how erratic Fabio Fognini can b,e but since capturing the biggest title of his career at this years Monte Carlo Masters, the Italian has been rather convincing, reaching back to back third rounds at Madrid and Rome (lost to Thiem and Tsitsipas) and the fourth round at Roland Garros (lost to Zverev).
Vesely was very sloppy in the first round almost throwing away a 5-1 lead in the decider against Cedrik-Marcel Stebe and taking into consideration their h2h, which stands at 4-1 on clay with Veselys only win being five years ago, its hard to imagine the big-hitting Leonardo Mayer losing here. The Argentinian scored a great win over Pablo Andujar on Monday and he should be able to advance further here.
The pair have met twice on clay before, with Cuevas winning both encounters. The final match of the night session promises to be a close match as last weeks Buenos Aires finalist Diego Scwartzman takes on Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas. However, over the past year Schwartzman has improved considerably as a player, winning the tournament last year. Although not possessing the height of Cuevas, Schwartzman is a remarkable mover and has amazing firepower in his shots. Expect a high quality encounter, with many long rallies. In my opinion he is one of the most underrated players in the game.
This is the first meeting between the pair, and I expect a tight three set match. This promises to be an another interesting match between NextGen star Juame Munar and Argentine Leonardo Mayer. Munar has been playing some great tennis over the past year and qualified for the NextGen finals in Milan. Mayer has been struggling for form in recent months, however he will feel more comfortable back on the red clay.
Pronostic Djere L. - Diego Schwartzman
He reached the semifinals of Roland Garros and is the last player to knock out Novak Djokovic in a Grand Slam. Aljaz Bedene is ranked inside the top-100; however, he has lost four of the seven matches he has played this year and is struggling to put up consistent results on the tour. The pair have met once before with Bedene winning in two straightforward sets on the hard courts of Winston-Salem four years ago. Last weeks Buenos Aires champion Marco Cecchinato has enjoyed a breakthrough year on the ATP World Tour.
Aljaz Bedene is ranked inside the top-100; however, he has lost four of the seven matches he has played this year and is struggling to put up consistent results on the tour. Last weeks Buenos Aires champion Marco Cecchinato has enjoyed a breakthrough year on the ATP World Tour. The pair have met once before with Bedene winning in two straightforward sets on the hard courts of Winston-Salem four years ago. He reached the semifinals of Roland Garros and is the last player to knock out Novak Djokovic in a Grand Slam.
Juan Martin Del Potro, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Dusan Lajovic). On the opposite side of the net will be a player on the opposite side of a career. The Serbian has had a brilliant clay-court season, compiling a 15-7 win-loss record including his maiden ATP title at Rio de Janeiro. Paolo Lorenzis decline has been rapid this season and the 37-year-old barely scraped through Peter Torebko in a third-set tie-break on Monday. He didnt back off after that, scoring some impressive wins on European clay as well (e.g. This might be closer than it looks ranking-wise, but Djere is still heavily favored to win.
It wont get easier for the Hungarian as in the second round he will face Filip Krajinovic, whos won 18 out of 21 clay-court matches he played this season. The Hungarian bageled his opponent, Croatian Viktor Galovic, in the first set but in an unpredictable turn, Galovic served for the match in the third. Balazs was forced to save seven match points, including two on his opponents serve before finally triumphing in the deciding tie-break. It was not just another day in the office for Attila Balazs. The Serbian had a pretty late finish to his match yesterday, which gives him just about 17 hours to recover.
ATP Croatia Open Day 3 Predictions
We all know how erratic Fabio Fognini can b,e but since capturing the biggest title of his career at this years Monte Carlo Masters, the Italian has been rather convincing, reaching back to back third rounds at Madrid and Rome (lost to Thiem and Tsitsipas) and the fourth round at Roland Garros (lost to Zverev). His countryman is a very decent clay court player, but this is one is on Fabio and his mental stability.
The Serbian has had a brilliant clay-court season, compiling a 15-7 win-loss record including his maiden ATP title at Rio de Janeiro. He didnt back off after that, scoring some impressive wins on European clay as well (e.g. Paolo Lorenzis decline has been rapid this season and the 37-year-old barely scraped through Peter Torebko in a third-set tie-break on Monday. On the opposite side of the net will be a player on the opposite side of a career. Juan Martin Del Potro, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Dusan Lajovic). This might be closer than it looks ranking-wise, but Djere is still heavily favored to win.
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20 March 2012 Green Party comment on Urewera verdict There should be a full and independent inquiry into all aspects of the so called Urewera case once sentencing is completed, Green Party Police spokesperson David Clendon said today. The “Urewera Four” …20 March 2012
There should be a full and independent inquiry into all aspects of the so called Urewera case once sentencing is completed, Green Party Police spokesperson David Clendon said today.
The “Urewera Four” have been found guilty of some firearms charges but the jurors were not able to reach a decision on the lead charge of belonging to an organised criminal group.
“This entire affair shows the dangers of legislation such as the Terrorism Suppression Act and the original attempts to deny the accused the rights of a jury trial,” said David Clendon.
“This verdict is a long way from the original charges.
“There needs to be more effort put into community policing whereby Iwi liaison officers work with locals to build bridges rather than the October 15 raids which have left years of heartache and distrust.
“This whole affair could have been resolved using the relationships that existed in Ruatoki prior to the raids.
“Millions of dollars has been wasted on the police effort and in the courts, on the grounds that there was some terrorist plot afoot which has not been proven.
“The Crown should seriously consider an apology to the community of Ruatoki and others caught up in this excessive use of police and government powers,” said Mr Clendon.
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Vinay Kaura
Connections: The Quarterly Journal, Volume 16, Issue 4, p.51-67 (2017)
India has been facing several internal threats since its independence from Britain in 1947. The oldest and still unsolved violent struggle against the Indian state has been raging in the Northeast part of the country. But an unsettled sub-nationalist ethnic insurgency in India's Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir and the growing radicalization of a small but significant segment of the Muslim community in the country have emerged as biggest challenges for India's security. The nature of jihadist terrorism in India has undergone profound changes since the last two decades. Originally supported by Pakistan and confined to a specific territory in Indian-administered Kashmir, it has now become more defused with no specific area. In recent years, cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and New Delhi have been targets of terrorist attacks. This makes facing the challenge and targeting of jihadist terrorists much more difficult than before.
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Effect of aspect ratio variatio...
Effect of aspect ratio variation on subsonic aerodynamics of cascade type grid fin at different gap-to-chord ratios
M. Tripathi (a1), M.M. Sucheendran (a2) and A. Misra (a1)
Aerospace Engineering Defence Institute of Advanced TechnologyPuneIndia
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadHyderabadIndia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2019.146
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2019
This paper dwells upon investigating the effect of aspect ratio (AR) variation on the aerodynamic performance of unconventional control surfaces called grid fins by virtue of a series of subsonic experiments on a simplified grid fin variant called the cascade fin. Wind tunnel tests were performed for different AR (variable span) grid fins. The same had been investigated for different gap-to-chord ratio (g/c) variants. Results demonstrated a tangible increase in the aerodynamic efficiency as well as stall angle reduction for higher AR. Moreover, higher AR leads to increased pitching moment, which emphasizes elevated hinge moment requirements. The study ensued the presence of higher deviation between the low AR fins, that is $AR<2$ compared to the pertinent deviations between the high AR fins, that is $AR\geq2$ . The effect associated with these variations was termed as span effect in this paper. It was established that, the deviations arising due to this phenomena were lesser for higher g/c and higher AR. The analysis of AR variation for different g/c presented a limiting value of AR reduction for stall performance enhancement. Thus, optimised selection of the g/c and AR values can lead to enhanced aerodynamic efficiency alongside an improved stalling characteristic.
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CYGAN GROOVE + THE DJANGOLOGISTS @ Django
7pm doors, 8pm show,
Cygan Groove are a melange of consummate musicians whose combined experience traverses jazz, classical, contemporary and world music styles. Fronted by the invigorating Pana Watson on guitar and Anthea Wikstrom on violin, this frenetic four-piece is sure to baffle and delight. Allow yourself to be transported back to the old-world glamour of the 1940’s whilst still enjoying the contemporary flair of the modern world and be astounded by their versatility as they present an engaging choice of atmospheric colours, perfect for easy listening through to jaw dropping show pieces that will leave you wanting more!
The Djangologists were formed in 2014 by Chris Higgins (clarinet/saxophone) and Hamish Reid (guitar). They are a quintet that performs music inspired by Django Reinhardt while adding their own twist! You’ll hear blistering fast tunes to velvety ballads and everything in between. They are always having fun on stage and aim to get the audience on their feet!
MARK ISAACS 60th BIRTHDAY CONCERT: JAZZ TRIO REUNION
Camelot Lounge warmly welcomes back Mark Isaacs and is delighted to host his 60th Birthday Concert. Mark began to perform publicly in his early teens and so is also celebrating nearly half a century on the stage.
For this concert, Mark has arranged a reunion of his acclaimed jazz trio. It is a rare occasion these days that sees Mark playing with a band, making this celebration even more of a special event.
The Mark Isaacs Trio will work its jazz magic over familiar and not-so-familiar tunes. It will be an occasion to savour some very cool jazz in the intimate atmosphere of Marrickville’s Camelot Lounge.
“Monstrously brilliant….a prodigious group driven by a charismatic genius…. put [Isaacs] in a pair of iridescent orange Converse basketball boots and he becomes a stage demon…. a composer and musician utterly unencumbered by boundaries who has a breathtaking aptitude for making feeling and experience audible” AUSTRALIAN STAGE ONLINE
Mark Isaacs: piano Brett Hirst: bass Tim Firth: drums
THE LACHY DOLEY GROUP (MAHALIA BARNES POSTPONED)
*We are really sorry to inform you that due to illness Mahalia Barnes and the Soul Mates will not be able to perform this Friday evening. However, the incredible Lachy Doley Group have agreed to fill in! We are working on a rescheduled date for Mahalia’s show. Anyone who has already purchased tickets can attend this Friday’s show AND the rescheduled date’ (tba).
Internationally renowned Lachy Doley is a player who can pump, pamper and pound unbelievable, intense sounds from his organ. Add his powerful blues vocals and you’ve got one mesmerising unforgettable show pumping with energy and good times.
Lachy’s unique setup features his 1957 Hammond C3 organ and his custom-modified Hohner Whammy Clavinet – the only such machine in Australia.
Lachy Doley has also seen the world, touring with Powderfinger, Jimmy Barnes, Mighty Reapers, Glenn Hughes and recorded with Chad Smith, Steve Vai, Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa to name a few.
FRANK & ELLA with THE REGENT STREET BIG BAND
Extra show added due to popular demand!
Hearing the classic hits of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald live, with a 17-piece big band, is a rare treat. A faithful reproduction of the original big band arrangements supports a playful and energetic performance of these timeless tunes by Jim Zappia and Lana Nesnas on vocals.
Lana and Jim will be dressed to the nines, and the entire evening will be imbued by the infectious enthusiasm of The Regent Street Big Band, and the band’s trademark warm engagement with the audience.
Join us for what will undoubtedly be a memorable evening of big band swing and exciting vocals.
LAZARO NUMA (CUBA) & CARIBÉ ALBUM LAUNCH @ Django
Experience Cubanissimo with Cuban trumpeter Lazaro Numa and Caribé! Be transported by some of Sydney’s finest jazz and Latin musicians performing with Sydney-based Cuban dancer Adrian Medina to celebrate the launch of Lazaro Numa’s CD ‘Mi Cuba’ on Sunday June 24th at Camelot. Trumpeter Lázaro Ernest Numa Pompa’s CD Mi Cuba is an eight-tune love letter serenading his musical lineage and the music of Cuba. Romantic from start to finish, these largely instrumental compositions are dedications to “all the great Soneros” of 1940s and 50s Cuba.
Together they push the boundaries of modern Cuban rumba, cha cha chá, Afro-Cuban 6/8, guajira, mambo and more. Latin Jazz Network’s critic Raul de Gama noted that Gai Bryant’s Cuban-based music exudes, “… a wild celebration … a riot of tone colour. Tempos, ensemble and balance – all seem effortless and intuitively right.”
Speacial guest Lazaro Numa-trumpet/vocals, Gai Bryant and Julian Gough saxophones, Lee McIver-trumpet, Danny Carmichael-trombone, Ed Goyer-piano, Duano Martinez-bass, Antonio Marquéz and Giorgio Rojas-percussion with Cuban dancer Adrian Medina.
JOSEPH & JAMES TAWADROS present TELEPATHY
The Tawadros Brothers as you’ve never heard them before!
3x ARIA Award winning Tawadros brothers arent afraid to try new things. Challenging traditional musical forms & pushing boundaries, they bring an exciting performing dynamic to the stage. The Tawadros brothers are from a musical family & were brought up in environment which encouraged music & individuality.
They are recognized worldwide & have performed in some of the world’s most prestigious venues with celebrated artists such as Roy Ayers, Bela Fleck, Richard Bona, Zakir Hussain, John Abercrombie, John Patitucci, Jack DeJohnette, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Joey DeFrancesco, Richard Tognetti & the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sultan Khan, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Camerata Salzburg to name a few.
BARRY LEEF ALBUM LAUNCH
Barry Leef has one of Australia’s best known voices, having been featured on hundreds of TV and radio advertisements during 30 years as Sydney’s number one session singer.
He has fronted legendary Aussie bands Bakery and Supermarket, led the in-house band at the Sydney Musicians Club, performed with Frank Zappa, Elvin Bishop, Tom Jones and Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter to name a few.
Barry has been in constant demand performing and headlining his very successful show “CLASSIC & WEST COAST ROCK “ wowing audiences for the almost two decades.
He has recently completed his latest album called “ Rhythmized ”which will be performed live at the CAMELOT LOUNGE featuring the who’s who of Sydney Groove and Feel Masters: Barry Leef – vocals & guitar; Peter Northcote – guitars; Bill Risby – keyboards; Hamish Stuart – drums; Alex Hewetson – bass; Garry Steel – keyboards; Ashleigh Leef – vocals + special guest Kere Buchanan
THIS IS AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED!!
JOHN FLANAGAN TRIO ALBUM LAUNCH + DYLAN WRIGHT @ Django
Australian folk band ‘John Flanagan Trio’ are set to release ‘Honest Man’, Flanagan’s 3rd album and his first time recording with his regular Trio band mates. Fast becoming a favourite on the Australian Folk Festival circuit the group manages to transcend the sum of its impressive parts.
Award winning songwriter, John Flanagan has been compared to James Taylor and Paul Kelly for his warm vocal delivery and engaging storytelling “one of Australia’s finest lyricists” -Timber and Steel; Liz Frencham has a remarkable stage presence and a creativity in her double bass playing which has seen her play alongside artists of international renown; Dan Watkins is recognised as one of the finest young bluegrass pickers in the country on guitar and mandolin and has toured extensively around Australia and the US.
Together they combine 70s folk singer-songwriter influences with a range of contemporary Americana styles, from bluegrass and country to blues and jazz. With soaring 3-part harmonies and tight arrangements they deliver a dynamic and energetic live show that can vary from humorous and uplifting to moving and thoughtful.
Dylan Wright is a singer/songwriter brought up on Sydney’s southern beaches. With a unique way of articulating lyrics and creating catchy melodies, Wright’s songs express genuine emotion that leave audiences finding themselves instantly immersed with Dylan’s mellow and awe inspiring tracks at his live shows.
WENDY MATTHEWS
As an artist Wendy Matthews has an expressive voice that never fails to move those who hear it. Her music is an unhurried journey of clean melodies, infectious energy and simple grace, In an age where uber-production techniques are thought to be hip and cynicism an attribute, Wendy has proven that commitment to beauty is still not only valid but applauded by the public ear.
This is exemplified by the reality that Wendy’s music is now in more than 1 million homes in Australia and all her albums to date have multi-platinum status.
Wendy has an immense talent and capacity to capture and define a diverse range of styles in her music. She takes songs from every genre and makes them her own; from jazz to blues, from rock to gospel, from soul to outright infectious pop and then, of course, there are the beautiful ballads.
JEFF LANG
“In a world where music is diluted by money and plasticine, give thanks that Jeff Lang is out there… He paints pictures in sound.” Beat Magazine
Australian-based musician Jeff Lang has earned worldwide acclaim as a virtuosic guitarist, a dynamic songwriter and a startlingly unique live performer. With a back catalogue of 16 studio albums, Jeff has been featured at major festivals, pubs, clubs, arts centres and venues internationally for the past decade. Blending rock, roots, folk, blues, ballads, instrumentals, improvisation and a devastatingly high level of musicality, Jeff Lang is a singularly unique performer in our world.
It’s been widely acknowledged that Jeff Lang is an extraordinarily individual musician. What enhances his unique nature is his steadfast adherence to a prolific and diverse musical palette and output. A songwriter, a collaborator, a guitar virtuoso and a stunning lyricist, Jeff Lang crafts songs as novellas – rich with depth and vision, yet with an open breathe for individual interpretation.
“Jeff Lang is one of those people who has music dripping from his fingers.” Courier Mail, Australia
“Jeff Lang is, in my humble opinion, a national treasure, a truly gifted songwriter and an outstanding guitarist. He has been inspiration to countless Australian and internationally renowned roots artists and surely has a place in history as one of this generation’s finest. He has really touched me and musically, I had a kind of revelation…” John Butler, John Butler Trio
EISHAN ENSEMBLE ALBUM LAUNCH @ Django
Eishan Ensemble launch their debut album ‘Nim Dong’ – a dreamy eastern and jazz fusion with layered soundscapes driven by tar, guitar, clarinet, double bass and more.
As brainchild of Iranian composer and world music specialist Hamed Sadeghi, Eishan’s debut offers a taste of music not often seen in the west, drawing influence from world musicians such as Anouar Brahem, Keyhan Kalhour, Le Trio Joubran and Ravi Sankhar.
Hamed has been touring and performing Persian classical music and fusion world music for many years, having performed alongside well-known Iranian Kurdish singer Shahrokh Aziz in 2015, and world class singer Maestro Shahram Nazeri in 2017. With this album release, Eishan Ensemble are preparing to perform in Taiwan, Phillipines, Middle East and across Europe in 2018 and 2019.
JACK CARTY & GUS GARDINER: Hospital Hill Tour + LEROY LEE
7pm doors, 8pm
Two of Australia’s most exciting young composers, award-winning singer-songwriter Jack Carty and former Papa vs. Pretty bassist Gus Gardiner will embark on a much-anticipated Australian tour with string quartet this June-July, in support of their brand new collaborative album HOSPITAL HILL.
Sweeping, intricate, moving and beautiful – recorded live, in complete takes, over two days in a Sydney studio – the ten-song collection, co-written and produced by the duo, is a reflection of their individual and combined skills, magnified throughout by a stellar string quartet that included members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
It’s a coming together of poetry and playfulness, of vulnerability and cinematicity, of intricacy and intimacy. Don’t miss this chance to see Jack Carty & Gus Gardiner perform HOSPITAL HILL live with their string quartet at Camelot Lounge.
Opening the night is Sydney’s own Leroy Lee. Enchanting songsmith and acoustic guitarist, Leroy Lee creates hypnotic lamp-lit tunes, drawing the listener into his unique world. From driving guitar riffs to intricate finger-picking melodies, Leroy is reminiscent of English folk legends like Nick Drake and Bert Jansch.
MARSALA (SOLD OUT!!! Aug 10 Now On Sale!)
A party like no other with dance music from Africa, Cuba, The Balkans, Russia, Spain, France, Italy, with styles ranging from wild Eastern European Gypsy music to Cuban Salsa and Zimbabwe township tunes.
“For two decades Marsala has been turning music from all around the world into one repertoire, and people from around the world into one audience.”
“Every groove was somewhere between vibrant and irresistible, and virtually every solo raised the stakes of its host song, whether it was Khusid’s diamond-edged trumpet blazing on Dark Eyes or Stojcevski’s machine-gun alto on Wedding Cocek. For 140 minutes this was music as art and for dancing all at once; music for going a little crazy. And the community that goes crazy together sticks together.” John Shand SMH
PAT TIERNEY @ Django
Australian slide guitarist and roots music troubadour Pat Tierney hits the East Coast this June and July for a run of shows to celebrate the release of his new song ‘The Midnight Bloom’ , his first new release since 2016’s award winning track ‘Spirit Of The Land’..
Having supported the likes of The Beautiful Girls, Horrorshow, Bobby Alu and Husky in recent times, Pat will hit the road with a host of new songs and material from previous albums. Bringing together influences from Neil Young to Ben Harper and Paul Simon, the winter tour will see Pat perform intimate shows through QLD, NSW and VIC.
TINA HARROD: CITY OF LONGING ALBUM LAUNCH ENCORE + ELLA KEYSALL
“With an edgy and overarching cinematic resonance… they blur the borders between soul, jazz, pop and funk” The Australian Review April 2018
“One of our finest vocalists.” Bernard Zuel SMH
Songwriter and vocalist, Tina Harrod, celebrates her breathtaking new album CITY OF LONGING, with a launch encore concert – as many missed out when The Basement closed, moving the original launch to a smaller venue.
Produced by brilliant composer/arranger/pianist Stu Hunter, Tina’s fifth album takes her songwriting and mind-blowing vocal skills to another plane. City of Longing is an emotionally charged, soul-wrenching set with real musical depth, performed by creative and adventurous musicians.
“Alongside her spearing lyrics, a huge slice of the credit goes to her chief collaborator, Stu Hunter, one of Australia’s most imaginative and ambitious composers… Burning through the dazzling arrangements comes Harrod’s voice, a blowtorch of intensity that can subside to moments of affecting tenderness. “ J Shand Sydney Morning Herald April 2018
Ella Keysall will be opening the night so get in early.
LEANNE PARIS & LIZA OHLBACK @ Django
The soulful and Sultry Leanne Paris is back, and joins forces with Blues powerhouse Liza Ohlback, for one special night. With her undeniable talents on the fender rhodes, and a voice that soothes like a summer cloud then launches into a raspy musical bark, Soul Queen Leanne who toured with Jon Cleary (new Orleans Piano Monster) will lead a tight 6 piece band through some unique Acid Jazz/groove fuelled songs, whilst triple chain award winner Liza, with a voice that ranges between the richness and depth of Etta James to the heights of Aretha Franklin, will deliver her special brand of passionate Soulful Blues Jazz and Gospel .
DAN TUFFY & LUCIE THORNE @ Django
Cool grooves, a sultry sound and a genuinely idiosyncratic approach to creating music with a story to tell forms the finer stuff that seeps through the cracks of Dan Tuffy’s majestic songs. Originally from Australia and resident of the Netherlands since 1993, Dan Tuffy has been around. Back in Melbourne in the 80s, he was a founding member of popular psychedelic/folk cult group Wild Pumpkins at Midnight. Later he would become the driving force behind the eclectic rootsy trio Big Low (2002 – 2012) as well as being a founding member of one of the Netherlands most unique world music groups Parne Gadje.
Lauded for writing “some of the most simple and beautiful songs you will hear” (**** The Age), Lucie Thorne has earned her place as one of Australia’s most striking contemporary songsmiths. With eleven releases to her name – including her latest LP Everything Sings Tonight – and a prodigious touring schedule, Lucie Thorne continues to carve out an extraordinary creative career.
JESSE YOUNAN 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE SHOW
Returning to Camelot Lounge for the 4th year in a row, the Jesse Younan Tribute Show is a very special evening when a collection of some of Australia’s finest singer/songwriters pay tribute to Jesse Younan’s masterful song writing by performing a collection of his songs.
This year’s line up is the biggest yet, featuring Abby Dobson (Leonado’s Bride/Baby et Lulu); Mike Elrington (VIC); Lyn Bowtell (The Voice 2017); Brendan Gallagher (ex Karma County); Lexi Clark (The Voice 2016); Emad Younan (The Voice 2016); Keith Armitage; Khristian Mizzi (VIC); Maxine Kauter; Joe Kelly (ACT); Chris Neto; Adam Pendergast and James Gurney!
Sydney singer/songwriter Jesse Younan passed away on 22 July 2008 after a short battle with leukaemia after just finishing his fourth studio album ‘A Good Day for a Migraine’.
The album received outstanding critical acclaim and an ever increasing number of fans who have been deeply moved by Jesse’s unique, beautiful singing and masterful song writing.
The night promises to be a moving and powerful celebration of a exceptionally talented musician who used the magic of words and music to cope with life’s struggles.
To mark the 10 year anniversary, a special posthumous double-album of Jesse’s incredible demos and home-recordings entitled ‘Fragments’ has been carefully compiled and will be available officially at the Show.
“There is no softness in a Jesse Younan song but there is much tenderness. By that I mean that he doesn’t avert his eyes, or yours, from harshness lived or observed … Astonishingly good.” – Bernard Zuel (SMH)
This show WILL SELL OUT as it does each year. Get in early and DON’T MISS OUT. All proceeds go the Leukaemia Foundation.
PERRY KEYES ALBUM LAUNCH: SOLD OUT!!! Oct 6 Now On Sale!!!
Singer-songwriter Perry Keyes is returning to Camelot Lounge to launch his brand new album over three incredible nights!!! He will debuting these tunes as well as playing songs from his highly acclaimed, award-winning back catalog. His song-writing maintains a capacity for cinematic sweep whilst at the same time exhibiting intimate & detailed storytelling. This is a rare chance to witness Perry and his band presenting his compelling songs & stories from the heart of the inner-city.
STEVE EDMONDS BAND @ Django
Steve Edmonds Band is on fire!
A juicy stew of Blues, Funk, Jazz & Rock styles provide a platform for Steve to paint pretty pictures with his age old Sratocaster. Steve Plays an eclectic mix of Original tunes and pays humble homage his heroes.(Jimi, Stevie, Wes, Rev Billy G, Beatles, Zeppelin, Eric C ..you get the drift.)
Edmonds’ many years as guitarist to some of Australia’s finest recording artists (Jimmy Barnes, Renee Geyer, Doug Parkinson, Billy Thorpe, Delta Goodrem, Margaret Urlich, Chain, Hippo’s, Matt Finish and Shannon Noll to name a few) has earned him a quality reputation as sideman to the stars and guitarist extraordinaire.
The Steve Edmonds Band offers a great night of groove, guts & glory in one of their rare Sydney performances. Do not miss out!!
SIMON TEDESCHI with special guest ANDREW HAVERON
Aug 1 all-day
Brilliant pianist Simon Tedeschi returns to Camelot with a new duo program with violinist Andrew Haveron, concertmaster for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Presenting works famously performed by the legendary duo of Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninov, together they will perform some of the best-loved works for violin, and piano. Virtuosic, moving and dramatic sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert, two of the great Romantic composers; Grieg’s violin sonata is nothing short of spectacular and Kreisler’s Fantasietta spirits you directly into the dance halls of Vienna.
Two leading classical artists in a daring duo show for Camelot – classical music at is most exciting. Not to be missed.
Beethoven Violin Sonata No.8 in G op.30 no.3
Grieg Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor
Schubert Duo Sonata in A major
Kreisler Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta
ALEYCE SIMMONDS + BRAD BUTCHER @ Django
2018 Golden Guitar Winners, Aleyce Simmonds and Brad Butcher, combine to tour the A + B = Country in your town tour, this July onwards.
Highly Respected for their songwriting prowess and musicianship, both artists have been award finalists and winners many times over.
Aleyce Simmonds is the 2018 Golden Guitar Winner for Female Artist of the Year, the 2017 APRA Award Winner for Country Work of the Year and 2017 Independent Artist Of The Year.
Having spent the past 12 years in the Industry, travelling the world creating and recording music, this Tamworth Country Music Capital local lives on and for the road, sharing her life and experiences through song.
Brad Butcher is the 2018 Golden Guitar Winner for New Talent Of The Year.
He has toured Australia and the United States of America multiple times over, including a performance at Nashville’s iconic Bluebird Cafe.
Brad’s most recent, Golden Guitar Winning Album, From The Bottom Of A Well encompasses Butcher’s take on Americana music, a great blending of genres, to create a sound that is uniquely his. It also showcases the further development and outstanding quality of Butchers songwriting and vocal skill..
Opening the night is Zac Roddy & George Goodfellow.
www.aleycesimmonds.com
www.bradbutcher.com
LEISA KEEN presents ‘SARAH, ELLA and ME’ @ Django
Experience the power-house vocals and sensitive lyricism of Leisa Keen, as she presents the popular hits of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and some of her own personal favourites in an evening of swinging jazz and soulful standards. Songs include- ‘Lover Man’, ‘Too Darn Hot’, ‘Perdido’, ‘How High the Moon’, ‘Misty’, and many more of your classic favourites.
Featuring the phenomenal finger wizardry of John Mackey on Sax, the sublime tone and dexterity of Miroslav Bukovsky on Trumpet, the dramatic brilliance of Darren Ormsby on Trombone and the sensational ‘Rhythm King’, Hamish Stuart on Drums- these musicians re-create some of the magic of the 50’s and 60’s band arrangements, as well as their own stylish new creations.
LO CARMEN ‘LOVERS DREAMERS FIGHTERS’ ALBUM LAUNCH @ Django
“Sultry vintage soul and cosmic country sounds …Carmen is simultaneously reflective and a storyteller” Glide Magazine
Lo Carmen’s evocative way with words, her gilded vocals and poetic candor possess a timeless radiance, a sense of wanderlust, of restlessness, a singularly defining romantic vision of the world and her place in it. To launch Lovers Dreamers Fighters, her sixth solo album to date, Carmen will perform her unique brand of atmospheric Americana with a full band – featuring musicians from The Cruel Sea,The Mess Hall and the Holy Soul along with her father, piano man Peter Head.
Clash Magazine described Lovers Dreamers Fighters as “divine… a real charmer… soaked in experience, in the kind of poetry that only comes from a life lived”
“Lo Carmen reaches the parts other songwriters can’t touch…. I put her on the same pedestal as Kris Kristofferson, Tom T., or Merle Haggard.” Something You Said
A NIGHT OF MOTOWN with SUZY & THE SNAKEPIT (SOLD OUT!!! Oct 27 Now On Sale!!)
Suzy And the Snakepit pay tribute to the Motown tunes that everywhere, around the world, get people dancing in the street. In the 1960s in Detroit, Motown found the perfect formula for pop: catchy, clever songwriting, great singers, and deeply danceable grooves. The musicians that Berry Gordy assembled in Motown’s studio, the Snakepit, also had an enormous influence on rock & roll – Motown tunes have been covered by everyone from The Rolling Stones to The Jam to Motorhead.
Suzy And The Snakepit play a set that revolves around the best of Hitsville USA, from the effervescent hits that you’d have to be a grouch not to love, like Stevie Wonder’s ‘Signed Sealed Delivered’ or The Temptations’ ‘Ain’t Too Proud To Beg’ but also includes some treasured deep cuts from the era. Based around the soulful vocals of Suzy G, and featuring a crack backing band including musicians who’ve played with Sydney indie bands like Pel Mel, Perry Keyes, Fallon Cush, Lazy Susan, and Eva Trout, Suzy And The Snakepit will play hit after hit that will keep you ready for a brand new beat. Bring your dancing shoes!
BRIAN CAMPEAU: GET BLIND WITH BRIAN, THE SEQUEL! (Sydney Guitar Festival) + BUNGARRIBEE
For the Sydney Guitar Festival, Brian will be arranging music for a unique performance where the audience is to be blindfolded.
After receiving rave reviews from his SOLD OUT SGF 2017 performance, Brian returns for his victory lap with ‘Get Blind with Brian! The Sequel.’
Brian Campeau is mostly known for his complex guitar playing accompanied by long sorrowful vocals. He is much less known for his charm and willingness to please his audience. That’s because some people don’t like his sense of humour, but that’s ok, right?
He’s originally from Canada, but he’s been in Australia since 2003, so that pretty much makes him true blue.
Though he tends not to like being compared to other artists, he does see some value to these comparisons. With this in mind, some would say Brian sounds like Nick Drake mixed with Radiohead. Others might say he sounds like Mary Schneider, but that would be misleading because he sounds nothing like that.
“An amazing performance…some of the most interesting combinations of composed & improvised music that I’ve heard in Australia” (Philip Johnston). Lead by composer, accordionist, pianist Gary Daley, this mesmerising form of chamber music creates fresh improvisations on classical gems. From originals to Debussy to Bartok & Ligeti filtered through worlds as diverse as folk, jazz, balkan & carnatic rhythms. Together with Paul Cutlan (reeds), Ollie Miller (cello), & Tunji Beier (percussion), Bungarribee will take you on an intriguing journey through diverse musical terrain – a unique & exotic mix of instruments & musical personalities. “Evocative lilting dialogues firstly between piano & cello & then cello & bass clarinet rode on Beier’s relaxed groove…a welter of cries & moans” (John Shand, SMH)
REGGAE LOVE: CRICKET CHARITY FUNDRAISER
REGGAE LOVE – CRICKET CHARITY FUNDRAISER
presented by Caribbean Children’s Cricket Charity
Groove the night away and support an epic mission of kindness to place bats and balls into the hands of cricket loving kids who could never afford cricket gear.
Multi-awarding winning long-time musical collaborators, Pat Powell, Rob Woolf, Illya Szwec, Winston Stephenson and Carlos Adura come together on stage for one incredible night of reggae!
All profits raised help send cricket equipment to economically disadvantaged communities who need a helping hand. Head to www.cricketcharity.org to learn more about how Caribbean Children’s Cricket Charity is making the world a happier place for underprivileged children in developing Caribbean nations, and in Australia.
Pat Powell www.patpowell.com.au Jamaican born Pat Powell is a multi-awarding vocalist with a career spanning four decades across the globe. He is a singer with serious street cred and has fronted many successful bands including The Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Sly-Tone, TenWedge, Neptune Street.
Rob Woolf Acclaimed musician, Rob Woolf, keys & vocals has been an instrumental member of some of Australia’s best reggae bands including King Tide and The Strides.
Illya Szwec www.illyaswec.com Illya Szwec – guitar, on-call for Australia’s blues & roots icons! Some of the cats who require Illya’s funky guitar services include; ‘Continental’ Robert Zusz, Wendy Saddington, and The Wolverines.
Carlos Adura Drums
Winston Stephenson Bass
SANCHA & THE BLUE GYPSIES + COURTNEY SEVERINI & THE BACI TRIO @ Django
Doris Day meets Django Reinhardt in the sweet swinging outfit Sancha and the Blue Gypsies.
With a refreshing take on traditional folk, bluegrass, jazz and gospel tunes and a lifetime of performance experience between them, this joyous collaboration of some of Sydney’s most respected musicians are headed your way. From Leonard Cohen to Alison Krauss with a hint of Chick Corea, you’ll be enthralled by this swinging quartet!
Fronted by Melbourne born chanteuse and pianist Courtney Severini, this quirky quartet is dedicated to retro italian jazz, pop and cinema from the era La Dolce Vita. Kitsch grooves and classic tunes, Quartetto Severini celebrates songs and stories from vintage Rome, bringing to life the music of Nino Rota, Sophia Loren and Rosemary Clooney.
GEOFF ACHISON (Melb) ALBUM LAUNCH @ Django
From Melbourne to Memphis, Aussie blues/roots artist Geoff Achison has thrilled audiences around the world with his dynamic blues playing and gutsy solo arrangements.
Geoff first arrived on the scene in the late 1980’s playing lead guitar with enigmatic Australian blues performer Dutch Tilders. After several years with Dutch, Geoff took his music overseas competing at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, USA where he won the ‘Albert King Award’ and was offered an endorsement deal with Gibson Guitars.
A highly regarded guitarist, singer and songwriter, Geoff is equally adept at acoustic and electric styles. Whilst regarded as a Guitarists Guitarist, Geoff is also an all-round performer who delights in entertaining the audience with his wry sense of humor. His music is firmly steeped in the blues, but he injects funk, soul, jazz and even classical styles into the mix.
“Part New Orleans funk, hard blues and soul – they are all done impeccably.” Rob Dickens, Listening Through the Lens AU
“Achison has been hailed as one of the finest blues players in Australia.”
Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop AU
“Never, ever miss an opportunity to see Geoff Achison perform live!” – Hittin’ The Note, USA
MONSIEUR CAMEMBERT
Be quick coz Camembert at Camelot always sells out!!
With sensitivity, virtuosity, & extraordinary energy, Triple ARIA Award winning band Monsieur Camembert brilliantly weaves Gypsy music with other World Music styles, to create a truly original and intoxicating blend…from Russian Gypsy songs, to tango and klezmer, from Gypsy swing to Latin grooves, “…they pick you up & carry you on a wave of energy, excitement & poignancy that never relents…the band play with such cohesion, energy & abandon that I experienced an emotion so foreign I barely recognised it: elation.” (John Shand, SMH)
SANTIAGO MALDONADO REYNA (USA) + VICTOR VALDES @ Django
8pm doors, 8.30pm show
An unmissable opportunity to hear this legendary Mariachi musician from L.A. before he returns home! In a celebration of friendship and the glorious music of Mexico, join these two master musicians for a most uplifting and intimate night of Mexican music! Swapping between Mexican harp, guitar and vocals, together the chemistry and musicianship of these virtuoso musicians will have you utterly spellbound!
SOLID AIR: THE MUSIC OF NICK DRAKE @ Django
The night features some of Sydney’s best sing songwriters paying tribute to the Nick Drake Catalogue, including Emad Younan, Leroy Lee, Julia Johnson, Matt Tonks, Michael Azzopardi, Matt Ralph, Andy Gordon, Lauren Carlson, Nat James, Chris Neto, Rosie McDonald and Charli Rainford!
During his short lifetime, he was a tortured musical genius. Yet in death, Nick Drake has found an avid cult following.
Before dying from an overdose of anti-depressants at just 26, Drake released a trio of hauntingly beautiful albums: Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970) and Pink Moon (1972). None sold more than a few thousand copies – and Drake’s reluctance to perform live certainly didn’t help sales during his lifetime.
Yet it was a rare live performance in Cambridge that led to Drake teaming up with producer Joe Boyd – a member of Fairport Convention caught the appearance and told Boyd about it. Boyd, who produced Fairport Convention and The Incredible String Band, was so impressed that he promptly offered the 20-year-old a recording contract in 1968.
Drake’s music – he left behind just three full-length albums and a handful of other songs recorded shortly before his death – has influenced countless other contemporary artists.
STEVE KILBEY: SONGS, STORIES & SPELLS
In this one off special performance, Steve Kilbey will be joined by Chilean guitarist and vocalist Rodrigo Bustos and New Zealand drummer Barton Price, as he trawls through 40 years of melodies, memories and malarkey.
Dusting off some old ‘never played before’ numbers, as well as brand new songs, plus a smattering of other people’s tunes, this is an evening of deep cuts and revelation.
Steve Kilbey is Australian contemporary music royalty. A prolific artist who’s written, performed, produced 21 solo albums, 30 with rock legends The Church, and frequently collaborates with notable artists worldwide. His creative oeuvre spans 45 years, includes 3 books, 750 songs, lyrics of biblical proportions, plenteous poetry and hundreds of paintings.
ROLLING STONES REVIVAL (SOLD OUT!!! Dec 27 Now On Sale!!)
Rolling Stones Revival have been paying their respects to the greatest rock and roll band in the world since 2012. The band pay tribute to all eras of The Rolling Stones long and successful career that spans 29 studio albums and 250 million records sold. With 12 number one hit singles and 14 songs featured on Rolling Stone Magazine’s “Top 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time”, to this day the Rolling Stones remain one of the most enduring and popular music acts on the planet.
Rolling Stones Revival recreates the classic visuals and sounds of a real Stones concert, totally live on stage! With over 300 plus performances the show has been honed into the most musically and visually authentic Rolling Stones tribute in Australia.
The show has evolved into a concert style experience delivering a performance akin to the touring behemoth the Rolling Stones themselves. Depth of experience, passion, enthusiasm and abundant musical quality are the key ingredients that make this one of the most authentic Rolling Stones shows around.
MUCHO MAMBO: 13 piece LATIN BIG BAND (SOLD OUT!!! Nov 16 Now On Sale!!)
Following amazing sell out shows over the years at Camelot, the 13 piece Mucho Mambo orchestra returns Camelot Lounge, with two big sets of Mambo, Cha Cha Cha, Salsa, Bolero and New Orleans grooves.
Following amazing sellout shows over many years, the world class MUCHO MAMBO Latin Big Band returns to Camelot for a night of high energy Big Band Salsa, Cha Cha Cha and funky Mambo. Mucho Mambo’s unique sound blends bold, brassy riffs and driving percussion with big brass arrangements and cool old style Latin grooves. Mucho Mambo’s sound builds on the classic orchestrations and rhythms of the 1950’s and 1960’s and moves through to the great Big Band Salsa sounds of today, always reinventing them with a funky new edge.
Booking is highly recommended, Mucho Mambo has sold out every time at Camelot.
KARISE EDEN @ Django
7pm doors, Thu 8pm show, Fri 9pm show
After a sellout show in March, Karise Eden returns to Django for two very exclusive up close and personal shows!
Karise Eden’s voice can move a nation! In 2012 she won The Voice with her uniquely soulful renditions of classic songs. She broke records for the most number of singles in the national sales chart and she had the biggest selling album nationally for an Australian artist that year. She followed it up in 2014 with the Gold selling album Things I’ve Done. This summer, Karise Eden steps out of a fresh spell of songwriting to perform her best known songs and a few surprises. This will be a rare show with stripped back, minimal production by arguably Australia’s best female soul vocalist.
THE SONGS AND STORIES OF THE BIG MUMMAS (SOLD OUT!!!)
The Big Mumma’s is a soulful journey from the women who started it all.
Often going without any acknowledgement, their music was loud, raunchy and big. Many of their songs made famous by men!..
‘You Ain’t Nothing but a Hound dog’… is probably best remembered as an Elvis hit!.. But in actual fact it was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton.
The Mumma’s are a force to be reckoned with and their stories are compelling, triumphant and tragic… however they will never be forgotten!
Starring the very blues, ballsy and brilliant Jade da Silva supported with a backbone of a gospel, soul and funk band like no other. Featuring such artists as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor, Billie Holiday, Mavis Staples, Mahalia Jackson, Etta James, Betty Davis. Sharon Jones, Betty LaVette, Nina Simone and a few more.
MATT DRUERY & THE MIDNIGHT FLYERS + OSCAR JOE + PAPER STRANGER @ Django
Matt Druery & The Midnight Flyers are set to unleash their relentless rock’n’soul attitude and take you on a flight aboard their jetliner of freedom and fearless funk. Witness the Midnight Flyers in the flesh as they play some old favourites, never-before-performed new material from Matt’s upcoming debut release, and perhaps some cheeky party classics sprinkled in – who knows? Don’t Miss It!
Sydney based singer/songwriter Oscar Joe is debuting chosen works from his upcoming album at his largest originals show to date. Moving through feel-good pop, to alt-rock, to a swing jazz number, and back to some more pop, there is bound to be something for everybody to dance to.
Paper Stranger is the pop band you’ve all been waiting for. From upbeat bangers to spacey ballads, they are gearing up to take on the pop scene armed with a passion for song writing and production. Now with Ollie Quirk on drums and Oscar Joe on keys/guitar, front woman Alana Patmore is set to create an unforgettable experience that can’t be missed.
PURPLE DOVES present PRINCE: 1958-FOREVER (SOLD OUT!!! Dec 7 Now On Sale!!)
PRINCE: 1958-FOREVER
A live band tribute and dedication to the music of legendary PRINCE with The Purple Doves band presenting to you all the hits LIVE.
Witness the music of one of the world’s most important artists of our time and be taken by an experience funkier than anything ever seen before as THE PURPLE DOVES celebrate the music and spirit of PRINCE. THE PURPLE DOVES band brings all the attitude The Music of Prince demands including a funky vocal and a flamboyant performance that will have you partying like its 1999. At Sydney’s iconic live music venue in dance floor mode – it will be a celebration impossible to miss. All the hits live plus your favourite B sides with the authentic Minneapolis sound that changed the music business forever.
Backsliders are back on the road again in 2018. The band has toured the festival and venue circuit for over 30 years releasing a swagger of albums along the way. Vocalist, guitarist and awarded songwriter Dom Turner is the founding member of the group. Drum and percussion virtuoso and songwriter Rob Hirst, an acclaimed name synonymous with the best of Australian music has been with Backsliders for the past 18 years. Joining Dom and Rob is young harmonica prodigy, Joe Glover.
ELYSIAN FIELDS + EPHEMERA
Join us in the intimate setting of Camelot Lounge for SPACE JAZZ meets BAROQUE JAZZ double bill as featured in Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival 2017!
“Arresting, genre-blurring..Disquieting music with massive breadth and high drama.” Sydney Morning Herald
Ephemera: a musical exploration of celestial landscapes such as pulsars, craters, planetary atmospheres, stars, sun and void. Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical, and set to real space sounds, it is a unique sonic experience. The ensemble is led by Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute/compositions) with Elsen Price (double bass/loop pedal), Will Gilbert (trumpet) and special guest Carl St Jacques (viola) and includes freely improvised pieces. NASA recordings of electromagnetic waves from planets and stars is the backdrop soundtrack and has been complied by astronomer Professor Paul Francis with projections of space probe footage.
Since their first performance three years ago, Elysian Fields, Australia’s only electric viola da gamba band, has carved out a growing reputation for performances that blur the boundaries between jazz, chamber music and world music. Drawing largely on the compositional and arranging skills of its multitalented members, the six-piece band’s charts shift effortlessly from stately, baroque-like solemnity to multilayered improvisations and driving, pulsating rhythms. And then there is the unique sound of the electric viola da gamba! Led by Jenny Eriksson, the band comprises Matt Mahon (piano), Matt Keegan (saxophones), Siebe Pogson (bass guitar), Susie Bishop (voice/violin) and Finn Ryan (drums).
NADIA PIAVE & GINO PENGUE present… CANCIONERO IBERICO 2018 PEÑA
A celebration of Victor Jara, Violetta Para, Horacio Salinas and Pablo Neruda
In this concert of poetry and song on the eve of the anniversary of September 11, Chile, 1973,
Sydney singer Nadia Piave presents her annual Cancionero concert, remembering the life and songs of the great Victor Jara and his circle. This year’s audience is treated to readings from Neruda’s most evocative love poetry and the Canto General, and is once again accompanied by an ensemble of fans of the nueva cancion.
NADIA PIAVE – Voice
GINO PENGUE – Guitars
ROBERT CLANCY – guitar
TARA HASHAMBHOY – viola
TINA MARSDEN – flute
LUKE ROBINSON – percussion
PINO SCURO – recitador
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others. – Isabel Allende
THE ARETHA FRANKLIN SONGBOOK (SOLD OUT!!! Oct 28 Now On Sale)
Celebrating the life and music of The Queen Of Soul in the best possible way, with Shauna Jensen and an 8 piece all star band playing classics from Aretha Franklin’s amazing catalogue. Remember the songs from her early jazz-blues numbers through to her soul-dance hits such as Respect, Chain Of Fools, Think, Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves and Freeway of Love.
Shauna Jensen has always been the biggest ever fan of Aretha Franklin and has been blessed with the ability to respectfully sing Aretha’s songs with her soulful and powerful voice. She has toured and recorded with Jimmy Barnes, Richard Clapton Powderfinger, Noiseworks. Shauna performed in the stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar..
Her voice will rock your world!
IVONA ROSE ALBUM LAUNCH + ANDREW BARNUM @ Django
Ivona Rose is an Australian Independent Singer, Songwriter & multi instrumentalist. Accompanying her rich, dreamy vocals on piano keyboard with the influences of legend’s such as Tori Amos & Elton John, she switches effortlessly to Autoharp, allowing for the subtler & folk driven palette, of her unique sound scape.
Ivona makes her Camelot debut to celebrate the release of her debut album “So Modern” which she produced with Brian Campeau at “The Plex” recording studio. The show will feature Zoe Hauptmann on Bass (Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly), Evan Mannell on Drums (Sarah Belkner, Danaïdes), Emily Palethorpe on Cello (Sarah Blasko). These outstanding musicians accompany her daring songs on the recording & for this special launch event, with the welcome addition of Aaron Flower (BAZ, Danaïdess) on Guitar.
She is proud to release & share a body of work that has laboured & loved over, & to bring it to the stage in full band mode with what she calls “the beyond-my-wildest-dream-team”.
Andrew Barnum s a singer-songwriter, whose musical style is a genre-bending combination of Aus alt-folk and homefolktronic rock. He’ll be playing tracks from his 2018 album release ‘Little Phoenix // The City // Country’. He’ll be joined by Michael Galeazzi (Bass), Michael Quigley (Drums), Ben Romalis (Slide) and Vocals from Lissa & Cayenne Barnum. For more info and links to songs and videos please visit andrewbarnum.com
MAHALIA BARNES & THE SOUL MATES ALBUM LAUNCH
Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates are returning to Camelot Lounge on 13 September to celebrate the launch of their new album, Hard Expectation
Mahalia has been in and around music her entire life which helped shape her into the powerhouse soul and blues vocalist that has jaws dropping every time she picks up a mic.
The title track, Hard Expectations, was written by Cold Chisel’s Don Walker and has already been added to national ABC Local Radio playlists, and the album features Mahalias amazing band the Soul Mates, as well as legendary US blues guitarists Kirk Fletcher and Joe Bonamassa.
On the night, Mahalia will be joined by special guests Jade MacRae, Prinnie Sanders and Joy Yates as well as her incredible band – Clayton Doley, Lachy Doley, Franco Raggatt, Dave Hibbard and Ben Rodgers.
THE SOUL MOVERS present SOUND THIEVES @ Django
Elvis, Buddy Holly, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash – the list is way too long! – all recorded at these legendary studios. Music buffs and lovers of Soul music will be overjoyed to hear and see The Soul Movers retrace these great artists musical steps having just returned from their recording odyssey across these same legendary studios of the Southern States of America – capturing the magic in their music and recording experiences.
Footage of the band and legendary guest artists recording at Sun Studios, Rick Hall’s Fame studios and with legends David Hood, Spooner Oldham, Milton Sledge even Little Richard’s guitarist Kelvin Holly, give insights into their incredible careers and they help The Soul Movers build their killer new Soul, R&B, and bluesy-pop album.
Hear the new songs played live, see the very first film footage and most importantly dance the night away as Murray Cook, Lizzie Mack, Andy, (whom you might know from their sold out Whole Lotta Woman Django shows) with soul men Marko and Calvin, deliver some rockin’ tunes to move your mind, soul and body!
A NIGHT OF NEW JEWISH MUSIC presented by DANIEL WELTLINGER & ZOHAR’S NIGUN
‘Zohar’s Nigun is composed of four gents who not only ply their instruments in a rather unique exposition of traditional and modern modes but who also explore the ethnic and cultural wherewithal which, in this case, generated the Jewish /Yiddish tradition. The Four Questons is in fact the most progressive application of distinctly Yiddish style I’ve ever heard, yet, while spinning the ancient mode out to its farthest reaches, they also manage to preserve its essence and, in doing so, pay lavish tribute to the genius underlying.’
Mark S. Tucker – FAME review
Berlin-based violinist and composer-producer Daniel Weltlinger on his bi annual visit to Sydney returns to Camelot Lounge to present a night of New Jewish Music presented by Zohar’s Nigun featuring guest singers Nadya Golski, Evelyne Weltlinger and more.
CAMERON JONES ALBUM LAUNCH + THE DJANGOLOGISTS @ Django
Cameron Jones is musician who draws inspiration from the driving rhythms and melodic honesty of the acoustic gypsy jazz guitar. He performs regularly with prominent Sydney bands; The Spyglass Gypsies and Gadjo Guitars and vocalist and bassist, Paul Sun. Jones is also the Creative Director of the Brisbane based OzManouche Festival. Australia’s only festival dedicated to gypsy jazz.
The Waterfall Way is Jones’s first album under his own name and draws repertoire and inspiration from his travels to France and The Netherlands over a period of 5 years where he was able to discover the very source and origins of the music.
Cameron Jones (guitar), Jose Zarb (rhythm guitar), Merv Sequeria (double bass)
The Djangologists were formed in 2014 by Chris Higgins (clarinet/saxophone) and Hamish Reid (guitar). We’re a quintet that plays the music of Django Reinhardt while adding our own twist.
XYLOURIS WHITE (New York)
Xylouris White (the rarefied duo of Dirty Three drummer Jim White and Cretan lute player George Xylouris) return to Camelot Lounge!
“This is Cretan folk music played with a rock’n’roll intensity that is truly immersive.” Uncut – 8/10
“These are haunted folk rituals feeling around deep inside the human psyche, grasping for rarely reached zones and nostalgia for submerged memories” The Quietus
“Astounding stuff” Songlines
MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY PARTY WITH VICTOR VALDES’ MEXICAN MARIACHI BAND ENCORE @ Django
Due to overwhelming demand, we have added an encore Mexican party night to continue the Mexican Independence Day celebrations!!
In his own right, VICTOR VALDES (harp, vocals) is a truly extraordinary performer, but this is a rare opportunity to experience him in full regalia with his Mariachi band, as they play all the Mexican favourites! This will be a tequila-fuelled night to remember! Victor Valdes’ powerful, compelling voice, magical harp and passion for storytelling will take you on a unique sonorous journey through Mexico and Latin America. Come and join him in the intimacy of Django at Camelot for a Mexican Party like no other, as he performs with Australia’s favourite Mexican Mariachi Band!
FUNK/SOUL PARTY with BUMP CITY (SOLD OUT!!! NOV 3 NOW ON SALE!!!)
Bump City are Sydney’s very own kings of soul and funk and they’re back at their favourite venue Camelot Lounge. Bump City are the ultimate 10 piece party band with a repertoire of soul hits from Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Earth Wind & Fire, Tower of Power, Al Green, Wilson Pickett and many more. The five piece Bump City Horns make these classic songs come alive. With a tight rhythm section and lead singer Peter Morgan’s soaring soul vocals, you will want to party with Bump City all night long.
THE REGIME @ Django
Inner west Sydney based FUNK collective ‘The Regime’ is swiftly and surely becoming a name that has people running to the dance floor!! In joyous cries of funky-buoyant exuberance & fun loving elation, this 12 piece outfit oozes out brilliance on the stage. They consistently deliver an intimate, high energy performance that leaves the crowd calling for more. Don’t miss their Django debut!!
VARDOS: 25th ANNIVERSARY SHOW @ Django
Driven by violinist Alana, chased by Kirri (double bass) and Sofia (accordion), Vardos play folk and Romany music learnt from Roma (Gypsy) musicians during their Eastern European travels. Formed late last century, Vardos have played in every state of Australia, toured to Europe, Britain, New Zealand, New Caledonia and the U.S. and appeared in film and television.
‘With stagecraft that is equal parts formation dancing, martial arts and Keystone Cops, the violin-accordion-double bass trio play with formidable panache, spinning the tunes into a dizzying procession of crescendos and false stops. Vardos don´t hold back. They give the tumbling, compound-time dances and slow airs- so sad they can´t bring themselves to sing the words- both barrels and not a few of Hunt´s bow hairs.’ **** Rob Adams, The Herald, Edinburgh
JULIAN CURWIN & JANE SHELDON ‘CROSSING’ + THE LOUD HAILERS (CHRISTA HUGHES & BEN FINK) @ Django
Romero Records is excited to announce ‘Crossing’, the new collaboration between classical soprano Jane Sheldon (Pinchgut Opera, The Song Company, Elena Kats-Chernin, John Zorn) and guitarist Julian Curwin (The Tango Saloon, The Mango Balloon, Cannibal Spiders, Monsieur Camembert).
The pair first joined forces in experimental electronic pop band Gauche in the early 2000s (whose back-catalogue has just been re-released by Art As Catharsis). Now, more than a decade later, they bring together all of their intervening musical experiences for ‘Crossing’.
Though difficult to neatly categorise, a shared love for western film scores, folk song and early music may give some clues. ‘Crossing’ is music that evokes other lands, sometimes real, often imaginary.
“The music, gently bathing in the prevailing medieval ethos without descending to pastiche, is performed with an artistic rigour worthy of Jordi Savall. I know no higher praise.” 5 Stars John Shand SMH
Love, lust, revenge and murder never sounded so sweet and low down.
The Loud Hailers, AKA Christa Hughes and Ben Fink, first got together sharing a deep passion for early blues music and the extraordinary artists that produced it.
After jamming on the veranda a couple of times they started to write their own songs and now can’t keep quiet in their loud hailing glow.
Ben’s stunning guitar playing and Christa’s powerful voice make a dynamic duo indeed.
DANNY SUN’S RHYTHM REVUE with special guest LIZA OHLBACK @ Django
Led by one of Sydney’s youngest and funkiest, Piano and Hammond organ players, with its unique Leslie speaker, one of the definitive sounds of the 50s, 60s & 70s. Born legally-blind, his passion for recreating the classics runs deep, with emotive, soulful vocals and flamboyant Keyboard. A humble gentleman off stage, but when in front of a Keyboard, Danny is… the “Tsunami”.
The Rhythm Revue showcases a rotating guest lineup of Danny’s respected musical colleagues, paying homage to his idols past and present, that are from his vast play list! No two shows and set lists are exactly the same. You’ll hear; Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Jon Cleary, Harry Connick Jr, Robben Ford, Aretha Franklin and much more.
MAGGIE FERGUSON & TANGO OZ: ‘A Decade of Tango’
Join Maggie Ferguson and TangoOz in an evening of the most exciting tangos of the 20th century.
TangoOz is Australia’s longest reigning tango orchestra and play from celebrated Argentine composers’ original arrangements.
We will thrill you, inspire you and make you weep with the beauty of this celebrated art, inscribed in 2009 on the list of ‘Intangible cultural heritage of humanity’ by UNESCO.
This will be an unmissable evening.
EL ORQUESTON
El Orqueston is a 12 piece Afro Cuban powerhouse playing Salsa, Timba and Changüi.
Led by Sydney bassist, Tina Harris, this mighty charanga style ensemble honours the great Cuban orchestras that feature the heavenly and punchy sound of three trombones, violin and tres cubano, on a bed of latin percussion, bass and keyboards. Playing a Cuban repertoire of tunes by Los Van Van, Elito Reve y Su Charangon, Havana De Primera, Timbalive, Pupy, Sur Caribe and Dan Den, plus kickass original compositions, El Orqueston is sheer joy and energy from beginning to end.
El Orqueston is for listeners and dancers alike.
LACHY DOLEY + KAREN LEE ANDREWS (Ms MURPHY)
In the last 3 years, Lachy Doley has burst out of the Australian Blues scene to become an international blues hit. Now regularly playing the biggest music festivals in the world including Montreal Jazz Festival in Canada, Bospop in The Netherlands, Peer Blues in Belgium and the RBC Ottawa Bluesfest in Canada with his incredibly unique style of keyboard playing, singing and songwriting to which is impossible to turn away.
Stripped back for ONE NIGHT ONLY, Lachy will be exposing all his deepest, rawest emotions through only a Piano and a Microphone. Select stories and songs from 4 albums including some very personal cover tunes. Expect all the dynamics, highs, lows and intensity of a his 3 piece show just all out of one lonely piano and one wild vocal.
The name perhaps unfamiliar, but the celebrated voice of Karen Lee Andrews is unmistakable. Formerly known by the name Ms Murphy, the change comes with a distinctively new style. The roots of the sound are gritty guitar, glowing valves, lush tremolo and deep reverb in a distinctively fluid expression. This unique sound carries the mood and tones expressed in rich, warm vocals style of Karen Lee Andrews.
THE NATURE STRIP: PAST PACIFIC EP LAUNCH (and last show for a while…) @ Django
It has been a prolific 6 years since The Nature Strip played their first show in 2012, with the release of 3 albums and now 2 EPs. At the end of 2018 they’ll be taking a break – the Past Pacific EP is a parting gift to those who love what we do – pure pop music with big melodies and big guitars. It will feature our cover of Models’ “Atlantic Romantic” as well as a handful of new original songs. John Encarnacao has his mostly-acoustic singer-songwriter album just about ready to go, and Peter Marley is planning to release some songs and experiments from his home studio.
So while that will be the focus for the next while, the band (also including, of course, Jess Ciampa and Matt Langley) will go out with a blast playing two sets to fit in all your faves – “Supermoon”, “Three-Foot High Sissy Bar”, “Cup of Tea”, “Break Through”, “Shoes”, “Waterfall” and the list goes on. Don’t miss this one, it might be a while between drinks
PERRY KEYES ALBUM LAUNCH (SOLD OUT!!!)
Back for a third show due to unprecedented demand!!!
Singer-songwriter Perry Keyes is returning to Camelot Lounge to launch his brand new album over three incredible nights!! He will debuting these tunes as well as playing songs from his highly acclaimed, award-winning back catalog. His song-writing maintains a capacity for cinematic sweep whilst at the same time exhibiting intimate & detailed storytelling. This is a rare chance to witness Perry and his band presenting his compelling songs & stories from the heart of the inner-city.
MANOLIS MICHALAKIS (Greece) & FRIENDS @ Django
Taking you on a musical journey to Greece, Manolis Michalakis (bouzouki), and local Sydney artists, Irene Vacondios (vocals), John Diamantis (bouzouki), Thomas Papadimitriou (piano), and Angelo Gatsos (keys/accordion) will present Greek music of the great composers from Asia Minor, Rebetika, Post War Greece through to today.
Manolis’ career in Greece marks a 30 year collaboration with Greece’s finest artists and composers, his longest being with Greece’s most respected female vocal artist & muse of the great Zambetas, Vicky Mosholiou.
Moving to Greece several years after studying in Sydney, he broadened his knowledge in jazz and improvisation. All these styles are evident in his unique delivery on the bouzouki rendering him as one of the finest international virtuosos on bouzouki today..
An event not to be missed! Manolis and friends will take you on a nostalgic musical journey honouring the songs, artists and composers that mark Greece’s distinct musical history.
www.manolismichalakis.gr
THE REGENT STREET BIG BAND with GREGG ARTHUR, ALMA ZYGIER, PAIGE DELANCEY & KATE WADEY
Camelot favourites, The 17 Piece Regent Street Big Band are back for a night of Swing, Jazz and Big Band hits featuring Gregg Arthur, Alma Zygier (Melb), Paige Delancey, and Kate Wadey!!
Gregg Arthur is an Australian singer who has performed internationally, and is critically praised by both the press and his peers.
“…the finest male jazz singer Australia has produced since Vince Jones – Eric Myers. The Weekend Australian.
“I love the way you sing. You have a fan in the way you phrase…it’s perfect” – Tony Bennett
Alma Zygier has been fascinated by the pre war era of Jazz; the singers, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Memphis Minnie, & the Broadway composers who largely provided the repertoire, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers. She has a voice from another era & brings an emotional maturity to her performance that belies her years.
Inspired by the great jazz and big band singers, Paige Delancey is an accomplished Sydney vocalist specialising in Jazz, Blues and Soul. Paige has played with some of Australia’s finest musicians including: Col Nolan (Galapagos Duck), triple ARIA Award winners Monsieur Camembert, Ollie McGill (The Cat Empire), Tim Rollinson (d.i.g.), Calvin Welch (Arabesk), Ian Date (guitar), James Valentine and The Vegetable Plot!
Kate Wadey is quickly becoming a voice in Australian jazz to be reckoned with. Wadey sings standards selected for their particularly fine character with a sweet, sure and rich voice.
#SOULCABARET
Who’s a clever actor then?! Yes, you’ve seen them on the theatrical stage before. Katrina Retallick (The Wharf Revue, South Pacific, Big Fish), Teresa Tate Britten (Jatinga, The Memorandum, The Sideshow), Madison McKoy (The View Upstairs, Big River, Miss Saigon), Damon Grebert-Wade {piano} (Gypsy, Rent, Hair) and Byron Mark {cajón} (Petulant Frenzy, Arrebato Ensemble).
Tonight, these artists are stepping out on the soul side of town to deliver some of the world’s best known soul and rnb tunes right to your front door. Well, Camelot’s front door actually — minus the usual musical theatre drama. Check them out in #SoulCabaret getting down with the sounds of Aretha Franklin, Jackson 5, TLC, The Doobie Bros, Sister Sledge, Corinne Bailey Rae and Stevie Wonder, of course — Plus many more… You don’t want to miss it!!!
Grab a group of friends and come get your… soul on!
POUR IT ON: The 80’s Funk Party @ Django (SOLD OUT!!! Dec 27 Now On Sale!!!)
POUR IT ON will present to you all your favourite 80s funk classics LIVE at Camelot Lounge. The Midas Touch, Rock Steady, She’s Fresh, Push It and let’s not forget MJ, Whitney, Madonna, EWF and Prince…
An authentic 80s sound and groove will have you shaking to this unique production of Funk and soul.
ORQUESTA LA LUNA
Five extraordinary musicians, each with their own performance careers, have committed their talents to delivering uncompromising passionate performances of some of the most loved tango dance repertoire ever conceived. Orquesta La Luna will feature the instrumental and vocal legacy of such icons as D’Arienzo, Tanturi, Pugliese, Piazzolla and Troilo. Dancers and listeners alike can expect to be swept to the Golden Era of tango in the streets of Buenos Aires where bittersweet maladies of love and life are entangled with voluptuous artistry.
Tango dancers will be pleased to know that the repertoire has been curated to augment your dancing experience. Featuring Daniel Wallace-Crabbe (Bandoneón), Maria Lindsay (Violin I), Angela Lindsay (Violin II/Viola), Annabel Cameron (Double Bass), & Daniel Rojas (Piano/Voice)
MAMA KIN SPENDER + JACOB DIAMOND
Mama Kin Spender have been flat chat since the release of their album ‘Golden Magnetic’ in February 2018, cramming in a national album launch run amidst shows at Perth Festival, WOMADelaide, Summersalt, Nannup Festival, Fairbridge Festival, SOTA, and Woodford Planting Festival. Fresh off the back of their USA, Canadian and Irish tours, Mama Kin Spender will be returning to Camelot Lounge and this time with a 16 piece choir!!!
“Understated, slick and soulful” Double J
“Mama Kin and Spender bring fresh ideas to an old school sound” The West Australian
“A rich, textural, at times raucous and at times gentle but stirring collection of stories and fables.” The Music.com.au
Alt-folk oddity Jacob Diamond sings bold songs about love and death. He pens intricate, genre-bent bangers taking all the best bits from a box of 60’s compilation CDs, memories of a crowded Catholic childhood, Les Miserables and one reckless detour into jazz-study.
Second show added due to popular demand!
CAMELOT’S 8TH BIRTHDAY PARTY with NADYA’S 101 CANDLES ORKESTRA @ Django
What better to celebrate our birthday than with a huge Balkan Gypsy Party!!!
Nadya’s 101 Candles will raise the roof with a night of stomping Balkan-Gypsy firecrackers as well as some French, tango, and Italian classics thrown in in for good measure.
Nadya Golski, “a contralto of power, range and conviction…has the sort of voice that would light up a room if the power failed. . ” (John Shand, SMH) For this very special show she will be joined by Leonid Beshlei (Accordian); Eddie Bronson (Sax); Jess Ciampa (Percussion); and Dario Moconja (Bass).
MONSIEUR CAMEMBERT: POSTPONED TO NOV 17
Unfortunately due to family reason’s, Monsieur Camembert has had to postpone this show till nov 17.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
ZOË CARIDES + SMITH & JONES
Zoë Carides returns to Django to perform her original material on Sunday 21 October. Heads were turned in April when Zoë, best known for her acting and portrayal of Nancy Sinatra in the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood Experience, revealed she has been a songwriter all along. When I Was Little mixes folk, rock, classical, even a bit of country in her personal and observational songwriting. This show will feature some new material and a couple of covers, including her mesmerising ambient version of Neil Young’s “Like a Hurricane” and a cameo from the deep tones of the man who plays Lee to her Nancy, Scott Holmes. The four members of The Nature Strip comprise her backing band for this show, which is Zoë’s first headline since her album launch in April. You can watch the brand-new video for album opener “Sunday” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQit8KfK_U
Opening the night will be Central West duo Smith and Jones. Keyboardist/singer Abby Smith and guitarist/singer Sophie Jones are the real thing, a country rock duo with harmonies to die for. Influences include Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and Tom Petty, but the duo have a genuine stage presence all their own.
THE BAND PLAYED ON: MUSIC from THE TITANIC with VOV DYLAN & THE PALACE ORCHESTRA
World renowned violinist Vov Dylan and the Palace Orchestra (cello, double bass and piano) performing the hits from Palm Court era England and Europe plus some of the ‘new music’ of Ragtime from America.
Performed in uniform from that era, the band will lead you through the songs you would have heard on board the Titanic and you will be surprised and amazed by some of the historical and unusual facts and anecdotes from that fateful unforgettable voyage.
CAROLE KINGS TAPESTRY: THE CONCERT
Tapestry is the second album recorded by American singer-songwriter Carole King. It was released in 1971 and is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide; it received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year.
The first double sided single from the album, “It’s Too Late b/w I Feel the Earth Move”, spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
In 2003, Tapestry was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
King wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, several of which had already been hits for other artists such as Aretha Franklin’s “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” and The Shirelles’ “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (in 1960). Carole King’s Tapestry The Concert performs this quintessential Carole King album LIVE in a sophisticated, “true to the original sound” format.
King also wrote numerous hits for other artists, hits such as: The Loco-Motion (Little Eva/Kylie Minogue), I’m Into Something Good (Herman’s Hermits/Marianne Faithful), Pleasant Valley Sunday (The Monkees) and You’ve Got A Friend (James Taylor). As a lead up to the performance of Tapestry, the album, these songs plus others are presented in a 45 minute set performed live by The Fabulous Nickettes.
THE BEEZ (BERLIN) @ Django
The Beez – that cabaret band from Berlin – have become festival favorites in Australia these last ten years and they are heading back to Django as part of their next Australian tour!
Once purveyors of excentric cover versions of songs from the Balkans to the Baltic-“ The originals can only be considered second best to The Beez wonderfully unique interpretations” (Berliner Morgenpost), The Beez now cover their own compositions as well, creating a bittersweet and truly diverse potpourri of genres, their trademark cabaret sensibilities never far from the surface.
ANNE MCCUE @ Django
Anne McCue is coming back to Django @ Camelot! Born in Sydney and raised just southwest in Campbelltown, McCue has toured the world playing her music in Concert Halls, pubs and festivals.
Billboard heralded her as the “virtual definition of ‘triple threat.’ A potent singer, thoughtful songwriter and tough guitarist.” Her albums showcase her rocking sensibility and six-string virtuosity.
These days, she spends a great deal of time in Nashville, honing her distinctive hybrid style of grassroots rock, blues, and folk. Americana icon Lucinda Williams has said of McCue: “Initially, her stunning voice hooked me in. Then I got inside the songs. The first chance I got, I went to see her perform . . . I was floored!”
TASH WOLF + CELINE FARKASH + OSCAR JOE @ Django
Tash Wolf is a singer songwriter guitarist who has made an international name for herself, racking up tens of thousands of loyal Instagram and Facebook followers by posting short musical clips of her musical passion. Exploring the sound combination of blues, funk and jazz, her unique and pulsing live band show will leave you amazed and wanting more.
The incredible Celine Farkash will be playing a rare duo show as she takes us through a journey of interesting covers and some of her own new material.
Sydney based singer/songwriter Oscar Joe is playing chosen works from his upcoming album at his largest originals show to date. Moving through feel-good pop, to alt-rock, to a swing jazz number, and back to some more pop, there is bound to be something for everybody to dance to.
HAWKSLEY WORKMAN (CANADA) + HOLLIE COL
Hawksley Workman is a Two-time JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. A staple of the Canadian music and arts scene for over 20 years, Workman boasts a catalogue of 16 releases, showcasing his now signature blend of anthemic folk and show-stopping vocals. Hawksley’s touring career has seen him play over a thousand shows worldwide. He’s headlined prestigious venues like Massey Hall in Toronto and The Olympia in Paris, and opened for heroes Morrissey, David Bowie, and The Cure.
Hawksley Workman is many things to many people in many places, but primarily, he’s a student of the human psyche; an artist in the purest sense of the word, constantly finding fresh and interesting ways to frame and share the world – the people we are and the things we encounter. It’s a virtually bottomless well of ideas for a man with virtually endless imagination and creative outlets.
CARAVAN SLAM @ Django
After a 7 month hiatus, Caravan Slam returns to Django for a huge night of poetry and performance. We are having a traditional CARAVAN SLAM! Yes, 3 minutes, original work, 3 random judges. If you are poet or you don’t know it, come on down for the best slam in town.
$5 | 7pm
JAMIE HUTCHINGS: CAREERING THROUGH THE BEDSIT
Following the release of his critically acclaimed fourth solo album Bedsit, Jamie Hutchings returns to the live arena with three shows across three states in late October/early November.
Jamie Hutchings is a singer/songwriter/guitarist and sometime producer. He began his career as the frontman for much loved underground favourites Bluebottle Kiss in the 1990’s through to the noughties. Careering Through The Bedsit will see Hutchings perform two sets – the first will consist of older by request material (punters can offer their suggestions via Jamie’s Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/JamieHutchingsMusic or his website http://www.jamiehutchings.com) the second set will feature highlights from Bedsit and beyond. To celebrate the run Hutchings is releasing a digital EP entitled Other Rooms.
ZALE SECK (SENEGAL) @ Django
A rare opportunity to experience a part of Senegalese music history!
Zale Seck was born into a griot family in Senegal. His role in life is historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and musician. Learning singing, percussion and guitar is all part of a griot’s life.
His talent and charisma made him a guru of the senegalese musical scene joining famous groups in the eighties, L’Étoile 2000 de Dakar and the legendary Orchestra Baobab.
His own particular style, mbalax dagou, is inspired from mbalax, the popular music of Sénégal. His success crossed borders over Senegalese borders and he toured extensively throughout Europe as an independent artist.
JARON FREEMAN-FOX & SIMON NYBERG (CANADA/SWEDEN) + TINEL DRAGOI & JOSE ZARB @ Django
Two mates, 24 strings, 2,000 km, and 25 concerts of Scandinavian explorations, Siberian extrapolations, Balkan exacerbations, and Carnatic interpolations!
Souls bared, secrets shared, and ways fared. (12 string guitar + 12 string horse-head violin.)
Limitlessly creative and playful, Jaron Freeman-Fox’s intricate violin compositions dance a line between the beautiful and the absurd, continually redefining what the violin is capable of, Jaron Freeman-Fox has fused his folk fiddling roots with a study of jazz and Indian classical music. At age 14, he began an apprenticeship with legendary Canadian fiddle pioneer Oliver Schroer, which lasted until Shroer’s death in 2008. Jaron has been playing his mentor’s custom 5-string violin since.
Australian festival audiences know Freeman-Fox from his ecstatic live shows here with his band The Opposite of Everything (Blue Mountains Music Festival, Woodford, Cygnet, Illawarra and Fairbridge Folk Festivals). He returns to Australia with his Swedish comrade, Simon Nyberg. Hear this dynamic duo, before they disappear again.
“Willfully eclectic and archly eccentric…. Guaranteed to enrapture.” : fRoots magazine .
For Gypsies music is religion and music comes from their religion. Music comes from the soul and so whether we are in Paris or Bucharest or playing Swing or Bolero, the soul of the music tastes the same. Tinel Dragoi is from Romania; Rom Gypsy Father, Romanian Jewish Mother. Violin was his only option in life.
Jose lives his professional life on the streets of Sydney, Gypsy Style, playing on every street corner. The combination is like an electrical storm in the Bohemian mountains.
RUFINO & THE COCONUTS @ Django
Rufino and the Coconuts, unchallenged as the world’s foremost proponents of Voodoo rocksteady new-wave jungle-disco exotica-cabaret, are BACK at Camelot!
This time they’re preparing to steam up the floorboards of the Django over 2 NIGHTS – unleashing their distinctive, take on the HOT HOT tropics with the release a NEW NEW single – in fact two NEW NEW singles! With their ‘double A-sided’ offering on the ‘Double-Sided’ tour.
Mark NOVEMBER 9 and 10 in your diary NOW Coconuts fans and Coconuts fans in waiting.
The ‘Double-Sided’ shows will feature songs from the Coconuts forthcoming debut long-player record with the new ‘double A-sided’ single available for the first time at the show!
Yes – you read that right. Be ahead of every game in town and own a copy weeks, possibly months, before absolutely anyone else. OK …. pretty soon after these shows the digital versions will be available, but this is the super-duper special chance to get your hands on the limited edition, highly collectable, it-really-exists-in-your-hands physical copy.
And before you ask “Rufino, tell us the names of the songs”, it is our absolute pleasure to tell you that the A side is the voodoo rock stomping Coco Macaque and its AA flip side is the instant-classic tropical singalong Evening Star.
Rufino, crooner and violinist, renowned for his work with Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen, presents his acclaimed show of ‘tropical noir’ with a full 8-piece band to stir your very bones.
NOT A LEG TO STAND ON: A FUNDRAISER FOR DAHLIA DIOR
Dahlia has been performing in Australia for the last 45 years. She sang in every major venue in Australia including Melbourne’s National Theatre and Sydney Opera House. Many of her shows, over the years, being charities and fundraisers.
Loving friends and colleagues of Dahlia are participating in this awesome variety event: A fundraising show with the support of Camelot lounge, fellow musicians and guest artists, to help finance a much needed operation, after she was in a horrific car accident.
Produced and compared by Dahlia’s dear friend Fay Sussman, the night will feature Sydney’s top musicians and performers on the night including: Joanna Weinberg(singer/songwriter/director), Gregg Arthur(Jazz singer/performer), Alex Parkmen (actor, singer, composer, pianist), Dahlia Dior (International Cabaret & Jazz singer/story teller), Marcello Maio(pianist extraordinaire), Mark Harris (double bass wizard, vocals), Eddie Bronson (Sax, clarinet), Leo Novikov (violin), Anatoli Torjinski (cello), Courtney Severini (piano, vocals). Please open your hearts and save this rare flower! You wont regret it!
Also if you want to donate something extra you can do so here: https://supportact.org.au/the-dahlia-dior-appeal/
PROGETTO BATTISTI: Emozioni, Pensieri e Parole… The life and music of Lucio Battisti @ Django
Songs from the soundtrack of an Italian Summer
A retrospective of the life and music of Lucio Battisti – the Italian songwriter you need to know about!
Lucio Battisti was an icon of the Italian popular song – those of us with even just a thread of Italian heritage adore him – his songs made up the soundtracks of our Italian summers and the summers of 60 million other Italians from 1969 to 1994 – the songs were simply a part of our lives – heck, so bright a star was he they even named a planet after him – 9115Battisti!
Progetto Battisti is a group of Sydney musicians who adore the songs of Lucio Battisti – we’ve driven from Rome to Nettuno with the top down on the cinquecento singing Balla Linda at the top of our lungs, we’ve danced a liscio at the discoteca with a new summer love to Perché nó? and Io vorrei, non vorrei, we’ve jumped on the vespa and headed towards the lido with Ancora tu still ringing in our ears, we’ve sat around campfires (yes we have!) under the stars on the night of Ferragosto and sung la Canzone del Sole and 30 years later we’ve cried our eyes out to Amarsi un pó … and in this 20th anniversary year of his way too early passing we invite you to fall, like we all did, for the unashamedly lovely and sweet songs of Battisti. Featuring Danilo Sidari, Emilio Lomonaco, Nadia Piave, Mauro Colombis, JessCiampa and GinoPengue.
LUKE ESCOMBE: KIMONO DRAGON.. A new musical comedy show @ Django
Award-winning children’s songwriter, internationally acclaimed health advocate and respectable Northern Beaches father Luke Escombe doesn’t believe in priests, has no concept of discretion, and can’t afford a therapist. Every few years the silly and puerile thoughts that make him snicker into his pillow at night gang up on him and form into songs he probably shouldn’t play to anyone.
In his brand new show “Kimono Dragon”, he is joined onstage by bassist Nick Hoorweg and percussionist Jess Ciampa to release the latest batch of them into the world. Together, these playful musicians explore a vibrant, surreal, and relentlessly hilarious landscape peopled by vampires, pimps, and other secret beasts of the middle-class male psyche. Be warned: you’ll be singing these songs in your head for weeks afterwards!
“Luke Escombe is funny and brave, a showman and an artist, a brilliantly engaging lyricist, expert tunesmith, fine guitarist and exceptional singer. Seldom is such sophistication wrapped in a coating of such overt fun. Hear him” – John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald
“Sharp and extremely funny” – AU Review
REMEMBERING THE MUSIC OF CHARLES AZNAVOUR with NADYA GOLSKI & MILKO FOUCAULT-LARCH
Known as the ‘French Frank Sinatra’, Charles Aznavour is perhaps the best-known French music hall entertainer, renowned the world over for the bittersweet love songs he has written and sung, which seem to embody the essence of French popular song.
In a career spanning over 60 years, over 100 million record sales, 1200 songs, 80 movies, 294 albums and thousands of concerts around the world, Charles Aznavour performed and recorded in seven languages. Until recently he was the longest standing “A list” star in the world.
To celebrate the life and music of this iconic legend, Nadya Golski & Milko Foucault-Larche have brought together an all star cast of Sydney’s best musicians for this very special show. Nadya Golski (Vocals); Milko Foucault-Larche (Vocals); Daniel Pliner (Piano); Leonid Beshlei (Saxophone); John Maddox (Bass); Jess Ciampa (Percussion).
PARTIDES: Tribute to Mary Linda & Manolis Hiotis
Irene Vacondios (vocals) and Nathan Pylarinos (bouzouki) and band present the songs, the music, the era!
The revolutionary master virtuoso of the 4 stringed bouzouki, the ‘noble rebeti’ as he has been dubbed by all lovers of Rebetika and his wife with her smooth velvety vocals and ‘samba like’ dance moves introduced the bouzouki to the upper-class musical lounges of the 50s and 60s in Greece, Europe and the United States. Their audiences included Princess Grace, Aristotle Onassis, Jimmy Hendrix and President Johnson.
‘They got married in 1959 but before and after that their artistic cooperation produced hit after hit, many of them influenced by Latin tempos and light world music, clearly different from other composers of popular music. We can say that they were the royal couple of Greek music in those days.’
Their songs also provided, not only the soundtrack for many Greek films of the era, but their performances as a duo, on most occasions backed by ‘big bands’, provided the backdrop scenes in the movies of the typical Greek night spots coined ‘bouzoukia’.
Irene, Nathan and the band will revisit the era and provide the ideal dance setting for all fans of the dynamic duo and their hits -still loved by all today almost 2 and a half generations after the musical revolution.
THE VOLATINSKY QUARTET: Live Score of Russian Sci-fi Silent Film ‘Aelita’ @ Django
Aelita (1924) is one of the greatest sci-fi films of world cinema. This imaginative, visually-striking 1924 Soviet space epic will be performed with an innovative new score & reinterpretation by the renowned Volatinsky Quartet. The stunning design & tragi-comic tale tell of a journey to Mars to escape from a crime of passion set against the backdrop of the fledgling Soviet Russian State.
This is the story of Aelita, Queen of Mars. She is bored with her dull – and chaste – life among Martian aristocrats, and wishes to learn earthly passions. The Red Planet is ripe for revolution.
The Volatinsky Quartet is Lucy Voronov,- Cimbalom, Anatoli Torjinski – Cello, Stephen Lalor – Guitar & Domra & Jess Ciampa – Percussion.
MICK FLANNERY (IRELAND)
Mick Flannery is widely regarded as one of the finest singer-songwriters to come out of Ireland in recent years.
An award winning- double platinum selling artist, Mick has released five albums to date – including two number ones and received widespread airplay. He became the first Irish musician to ever win awards at the International Songwriting Competition in Nashville, aged 19. His critically acclaimed live performances have seen him sell out shows around the world.
Don’t miss this rare Australian show!
GREG ARNOLD (Things Of Stone & Wood) ALBUM LAUNCH
Greg Arnold is the award winning singer-songwriter behind Australian folk-rock institution Things of Stone and Wood.
He wrote the top ten hit “Happy Birthday Helen”, the top four radio played song “Wildflowers” and the two top ten albums “The Yearning” and “Junk Theatre”. The band won an ARIA and Greg was named Australian Songwriter of the Year by APRA in 1993.
This November sees him return to Australia to launch his solo release “Against the Wheel” – an acoustic album recorded in his new home Geneva, Switzerland
In addition to performing the new record, as part of these intimate and special shows Greg will of course revisit some TOSAW classics.
Always happy to accommodate an obscure back catalogue request, he also promises to share at least one moderately amusing anecdote from an occasionally bizarre life in folk-rock.
OCTAVE INC @ Django
Octave Inc brings alive a fusion of jazz, pop and folk. Catchy riffs and big,sweeping jams will have you grooving all night. The tunes never sound the same way twice as the band plays an organic, engaging show. Full of energy and passion Octave Inc is reminiscent of 70’s Miles Davis, The Yellowjackets and Weather Report. Mix in modern sounds and electronics and you have the Octave Inc vibe.
THE HAMILTONS (UK)
“Irresistibly Dancey” – The Independant UK
Brother and sister duo The Hamiltons, are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Born to a musician father and a French mother, the pair grew up in Sydney Australia on tour with their fathers folk band before relocating to the UK with a one way ticket in 2015. This international pair travel the world performing their unique blend of jazz, pop, blues and cajun music to astounded audiences, impressed with their musicality as they both effortlessly glide from piano, drums, bass, accordion and vocals.
Sister Emma’s jazzy smooth vocals passionately evoke another era with her authentic interpretation of Edith Piaf to Charles Trenet classics which can only be mastered by a native speaker. Brother Tom is a piano virtuoso whose self taught approach is like no other. Together, they have released albums on ABC/Universal which Van Dyke Parks (The Beach Boys) claimed to be “a total triumph on so many levels”. Based in London, The Hamiltons have sold out their shows across the country, and have a residency in the West End which sees them perform most nights of the week.
On stage, the siblings’ show is electrifying. They perform with an instinct and intuition that only siblings with their rare talent can achieve. The Hamiltons are back in Sydney for a one-off show, their first in Australia since 2014. This will be a random night that will leave you on a high for days!
BOWIE UNZIPPED with JEFF DUFF (SOLD OUT!!! Jan 10 Now On Sale!!!)
The legendary Jeff Duff will celebrate the Thin White Duke’s iconic songs at what will be an incredibly magical night of all things Bowie. Jeff Duff has been singing Bowie’s songs for many years with the glowing support of Bowie’s official website BowieNET. Together with an all-star band, Duffo’s journey to Planet Bowie will include the songs Space Oddity, Lets Dance, China Girl, Life On Mars, Changes, Ziggy Stardust… amongst many other faves. Jeff’s all star band features guitarist Jak Housden from the Whitlams along with the brilliant keyboard player Glenn Rhodes and drummer- percussionist Jess Ciampa.
www.bowieunzipped.com.au
POUR IT ON: The 80’s Funk Party @ Django (SOLD OUT!!! Dec 27 Now On Sale!!)
Third show added due to popular demand!
” The brothers’ rapport allows abundant music to bloom from the merest kernel of an idea.”
– SMH
After two sold out shows at Camelot with the quintet, this special event will be quite different. This is like a night at home with Joseph and James Tawadros.
The brothers will play an all-improvised session with an intimate yet casual atmosphere. The ambiance will evoke a cosy night in – playing music, swapping stories and banter – in the living room with Joseph and James.
This is the final night of Joseph’s Australian winter tour, he won’t be back until November.
“… the interplay between the two brothers displays extraordinary empathy.” Songlines Magazine U.K.
“The telepathic musical rapport shared by the brothers is evident in every duet.” The Australian
“Its cello-like range reaches from sumptuous bass to arcing treble and its fretless nature allows for sighs and cries in the movement between notes. His brother’s playing had charm and imagination, soloing on req, achieving an improbable range of sonic possibilities.” SMH
BONNIESONGS ALBUM LAUNCH + JULIA JOHNSON @ Django
Art As Catharsis presents the launch of Bonniesongs’ Strings, a colourful four-track journey from the mind of Sydney based art-folk virtuoso Bonnie Stewart.
Backed by collaborators Freya Schack-Arnott on Cello and Sascha Bota on Viola, Stewart’s composition dances between conventional and uninhibited. Through challenging modern conventions the Australian folk scene is often beholden to, Strings in its entirety offers refreshing bursts of complexity and wonder. Stewart’s voice calls as clearly and distinctly as birdsong, while every instrument wonderfully accentuates its surroundings.
Supporting is Julia Johnson, a singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist who has crafted a sonic world in which antique folk instruments get swept up in to modern beats. Critics have likened her to Florence Welch, Joni Mitchell and Sufjan Stevens.
“For a peck of audiences in Australia over the past couple of years, Bonnie Stewart has been one of those subtly transcendent artists. Her lilting vocals float over gentle peaks of acoustic and electronic instruments, layered ethereally into what may be a moderately enchanted loop pedal.” – Caramel Animals
“(Strings) carries itself with the experimental, otherworldly demeanor of artists like Björk or Joanna Newsom, while keeping the genre’s roots in honest, earthy sounds alive and intact.” – Everything Is Noise
MICK THOMAS & THE ROVING COMMISSION + HANDSOME YOUNG STRANGERS
7pm doors, 8pm show Thursday, 9pm show Friday
Raconteur, troubadour, balladeer and poet, Mick Thomas is best known as the song master of pub-rock icons Weddings Parties Anything. His band The Roving Commission features Squeezebox Wally on Piano Accordion and a rotating schedule of talented performers to keep the party alive with Micks unique mix of folk, roots and country.
Mick’s ever-evolving talents as a writer and performer defines a career as intriguing as it is enduring.
2017 saw Mick release his new album “These Are The Songs”, a ‘Best Of’ focusing on his solo career; as well as his autobiography, “These Are the Days”, the story of an inspired and uniquely Australian creative force that covers his life in music from his days in Weddings, Parties, Anything until now.
In 2018 the band took off to Memphis to record a new album with Kevin Houston and the sons of Jim Dickinson in the studio built by their father Jim who recorded Wedding’s Parties Anything’s “The Big Don’t Argue” 30 years ago.
With a release date set for early 2019, Mick and band take to the road this Christmas with a teaser in the form of a new E.P all ready for your Christmas stocking.
Opening the night is Handsome Young Strangers! HYS perform a blazing blend of colonial, bush punk/rock that is uniquely Australian – tunes about bushrangers, shearing, droving, convict hardship, sports heroes, war veterans and other iconic Australians …. and all delivered with an arsenal of musical weaponry including banjos, mandolins, mandolas, dulcimers, lagerphones & fiddles to name a few.
MICK THOMAS & THE ROVING COMMISSION: + AMARILLO (SOLD OUT!!! Thursday Selling Fast)
Amarillo is the project of vocalist Jac Tonks and guitarist Nick O’Mara (Raised By Eagles, The Butcherbirds). Formed in 2014 as a vehicle for their song writing, Amarillo’s music is a blend of alt-folk, pop and country.
BIG MERINO (SINGLE & VIDEO LAUNCH) @ Django
Big Merino is a genre-blending, vocal harmony-driven band featuring Stuart Davis (lead vocals/guitar), Alex Craig (lead guitar), Peter Richardson (bass) and Colin Sevitt (drums).
Their songs blur the lines between rock, country, blues, soul and funk – occasionally making forays into lesser known styles such as New Orleans 2nd Line and Rumba.
Lead singer Stuart Davis cut his teeth singing Trad Black Gospel with Tony Backhouse in The Heavenly Light Quartet, and brings that soulful feel to everything he does.
Citing some of their influences as Glen Hansard, Jackson Browne and The Rolling Stones, co-songwriters Craig and Davis write socially and politically-charged songs, often in a specifically Australian context, that are sometimes gentle and nostalgic and at other times nothing less than a fierce cry for revolution.
NADIA PIAVE’S END OF YEAR CONCERT @ Django
Nadia Piave is a teacher and independent performer in Sydney. She teaches students from a range of music backgrounds and performs music from the renaissance through to ‘world’ cabaret and Jazz standards.
Join us for her end of year concert featuring students of her singing studio and her choir, Fortissimo!
THE OTHER WOMAN: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF NINA SIMONE (POSTPONED TO FEB 7)
This show has been postponed due to illness.
THE BLACK SORROWS (SOLD OUT!!! Jan 24 On Sale!!)
The Black Sorrows have earned the reputation as a dynamic live act. There is a level of accessibility to The Black Sorrows that can appeal to the newest of fan. At the helm, Camilleri steers the band through an energetic interplay of solid grooves and well-crafted songs that mix those well-worn ingredients of blues, soul, R&B, gospel, country and even Brill Building pop. Spontaneous (forget set lists) and emotionally driven, Joe ensures that no two performances are ever the same. Camilleri’s mantra is simple “we come to play and leave the audience feeling exhilarated”.
LITTLE SHOES ALBUM LAUNCH + IAN BURNS + COPPERLINE @ Django
Little Shoes is a folk-rock group comprised of Becky Bennison and Rick Turnock. No stranger to the Sydney live scene, songwriter and lyricist Becky Bennison returns to the stage with songs both old and new, painting stories of whimsy, chaotic love, and the inertia of life. Rick Turnock crafts sounds of contemporary folk/pop with this new album, reminiscent of early Lucinda Williams, Jenny Lewis and Ryan Adams. The group are returning to the live scene with a brand-new album of folk/pop tales, and a tinge of country. Little Shoes will be launching their new album White Sound supported by some good friends including country/folk artsist Ian Burns, and Alt Country troubadours Copperline .
BABY ET LULU (SOLD OUT!!! March 9 Now On Sale!!)
Baby et Lulu LOVE celebrating Christmas at Camelot Lounge and singing Christmas carols in French! And this year will be no exception. Please come and cap off a wonderful year with Baby et Lulu, with all your favorite chansons, plus a new song or two and some delicious carols en Français. ARIA-Nominated Baby et Lulu is a French extravaganza seeing Abby Dobson (Leonardo’s Bride, Leonard Cohen shows) and Lara Goodridge (FourPlay, Miriam Lieberman) come together with a sterling band to bring you a selection of beautiful chansons, including Gainsbourg, Piaf, Aznavour, Camille and their own originals. Don’t miss their last show for 2018! They are joined by Marcello Maio, Matt Ottignon, Julian Curwin and Michael Walder.
THE MABELS + BREE de ROME @ Django
Amy Maiden joins forces with Jess Ciampa (The Nature Strip, Scarecrow People, SSO, Jeff Duff, Monsieur Camembert) Les Rankin (Petulant Frenzy, Scarecrow People, Matt Finish) and Tom Ruki (Matt Finish) to bring you a rip roaring set of blues, alt country and rock and roll. Featuring hits by Vintage Trouble, Muddy Magnolias, Shoshana Bean, the Dixie Chicks, Beyonce and more.
Come clap your hands and stomp your feet as The Mabels blow the roof off the Django at Camelot Lounge!
Bree De Rome knows her way around a heart on your sleeve standard. The indie pop sweetheart’s style has been described as ‘effortlessly cool country’.
THE SPOOKY MEN’S CHORALE: A VERY SPOOKY CHRISTMAS (SOLD OUT!!!)
Over two massive nights, Spooky Men’s Chorale come back to Camelot for A Very Spooky Christmas!!!
Everybody’s favourite choir – in fact hands down the most entertaining choir Australia has ever seen! Hilarious, moving, a truly incredible experience!
All around Australia, excitement is mounting: society women are slightly breathless, small children and dogs are yapping at nothing, and real estate salesmen are vaguely anxious. Supplies of grandiose hatwear, beard grooming equipment and pigfat are running low.
The Spookies’ sound – warm and grainy as a slab of teak – and their humorous style – deadpan, sly, and always unexpected – find new and wonderful avenues of expression on “The Spooky Man in History”.
“This is surely the best a capella act in the land” John Shand, SMH
“While superficially a comedy act, the Spooky Men are also fine close harmony singers, their tuning, timing and dynamics impeccable.” The Independent (London)
THE BRUNO MARS EXPERIENCE @ Django
Presented to you by Lombardo Entertainment, who brought you THE PRINCE EXPERIENCE & THE MUSIC OF THRILLER, here is another 5 star show that is not to be missed. Witness the biggest hits of today that throws back to the classic funk sound of yesterday with hits including Uptown Funk, 24k Magic, Versace on the Floor, Treasure & many more. Featuring some of Sydney’s most elite line up of FUNK musicians & singers, prepare to shake it to the funkiest songs of the modern generation.
WHOLE LOTTA WOMAN @ Django
Whole Lotta Woman will send off a fabulous year of music making with their favourite fans at Django @ Camelot!!
They will blow the roof off with their usual manic musical hijinks (around all things wonderful and womanly) backed by their incredible band!
So whether it’s the hit songs of Ronnie, Karen, Linda, Patti, Dolly or any of the Chrissie’s – the have all the best women’s tunes covered – and then some.
LEGENDS OF BLUES @ Django
Take a trip with Drey Rollan and Co for a night of Blues power. Travel from the 1940’s, through to the late 80’s where the forefathers of electric Blues guitar T- Bone Walker, B.B King, Earl Hooker and Buddy Guy shaped the British invasion to come.
Seeing artists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix taking blues guitar to its peak. Influencing generation after generation from Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd to Metallica and the White Stripes. Guitar would never be the same without the Blues, for without the Blues there is no Guitar Hero.
Featuring an amazing line up of Antero Ceschin on drums, Scott Leishman on Bass, Clayton Doley on Keyboards, Louis Klaussen on Sax, Akira Alvarez on harp and Vocals and Moses York on Vocals.
Take a journey from Juke Joint Blues to classic Rock.
NEW YEARS EVE MOTOWN PARTY with SUZY & THE SNAKEPIT @ DJANGO (SOLD OUT!!!)
8pm doors
Suzy And the Snakepit pay tribute to the Motown tunes that everywhere, around the world, get people dancing in the street in what will be one of the best New Years Eve Parties in town!
In the 1960s in Detroit, Motown found the perfect formula for pop: catchy, clever songwriting, great singers, and deeply danceable grooves. The musicians that Berry Gordy assembled in Motown’s studio, the Snakepit, also had an enormous influence on rock & roll – Motown tunes have been covered by everyone from The Rolling Stones to The Jam to Motorhead.
DEBORAH CONWAY & WILLY ZYGIER
Conway & Willy Zygier are returning to Camelot!
There is not much you can say about the creative output of Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier that hasn’t already been said:
Blessed with an angelic voice, deft at lyrical wordplay and armed with a seemingly inexhaustive melody well, Conway – and partner Zygier – create songs which become best friends for life. Daily Telegraph
If Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen delivered an album with songs as good as these, the critical response would be rapturous. Conway and Zygier deserve no less.’ Courier Mail
‘Some of the most engaging songs I’ve ever heard from Deborah & Willy. Some of the music makes the little hairs on my neck and arms stand at attention. That doesn’t happen often. ‘
Bill Riner, Network, Music Programmer, ABC Local Radio
ELLA-JANE SHARPE @ Django
Ella-Jane Sharpe is a Sydney born, Britsh-Australian jazz vocalist in pianist living in Boston, Massachusetts whilst studying at the Berklee College of Music. With an array of original music and arrangements, Ella-Jane is a diverse artist with a passion for performance and sharing her music with others. Accompanied by some of Sydney’s top musicians, Ella-Jane will be performing a mix of originals songs and arrangements of jazz standards, R&B classics and more.
EYSS FUNDRAISER with PETER MORGAN (Bump City)
1pm doors, 1:30pm show
As part of this fun/d raising , the amazing Peter Morgan ( Bump City ) & band will perform all the favourites with renowned artist Ken Tucker capturing the evening on canvas while you sing, dance and be thoroughly entertained. The art piece will be auctioned at the end , plus 3 other Silent Auction items.
Tables seat 8 with a mezza plate included. Drinks from the bar .
For extra fun you can make a bid to sing, play the drums / electric piano or have your choice of song!!
The monies raised can go to ‘ the professional life skills support for our vulnerable mums & their babes in the Sutherland & St George region’ This is a unique experience, so join with us and bring some extra friends !!
Check us out at www.3bridges.org.au and click on Early Years Support
LUKE HEGGIE: HAVE THAT @ Django
1st show 6pm doors, 7pm show | 2nd show 8:15pm doors, 8:45pm show
Luke Heggie threatened to quit stand up comedy, but after everyone he told of his plans cried inconsolably and clung to his ankles as he walked away, he decided that the world needs laughter. So he’s back with another harsh but fair show about dickheads.
If you own a circular beach towel and/or a set of square dinner plates, you do the reach-around at buffets to get an empty plate before you’re in front of the food, you’re one of those deluded losers who’s friends with all his ex-girlfriends, you wear a t-shirt with the word “finisher” on it, you were the one responsible for hot nuts not being available in pubs anymore, you’re neither a mechanic nor a toddler and yet you wear overalls, then this is not the show for you.
This show will be filmed but will largely be the backs of your heads. It’s not about you. However, there may be fleeting shots of the crowd coming in or leaving or whatever. If you are on the run for some dodgy shit, wear a disguise or move to Darwin. That is all.
No lowbreeds please.
WINNER Comedians Choice Award, Melbourne Int. Comedy Festival 2017
WINNER Best Comedy Weekly Award, Adelaide Fringe 2017
‘Deadpan genius… one of the funniest standups around.’ Sydney Morning Herald
MAGGIE FERGUSON TANGO & FRIENDS
‘Tango Inferno’
Join Maggie FergusonTango & Friends in an evening of the most exciting tangos of the 20th century including Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires and tangos of his contemporaries.
Maggie Ferguson-bandoneon/violin
Francis Carreon-piano
Isabella Brown-double bass
Murilo Tanouye-electric guitar
With special guests
Irene Ju-violin
Paula Tennent-bandoneon
Kseniya & Craig Petersen-tango dance champions
They will thrill you, excite you and make you weep with the beauty of this celebrated art music, inscribed in 2009 on the list of ‘Intangible cultural heritage of humanity’ by UNESCO.
A show flavoured with cultural and historical anecdotes, Tango Inferno will be an unmissable evening. Book now!
PRINNIE STEVENS @ Django
Prinnie is best known for her time on The Voice season1 where she successfully battled her best friend Mahalia Barnes, made the top 4 in Team Joel and hasn’t look back since.
She joined the cast of Celebrity Apprentice shortly after, went on to become the Co-host on The Voice Kids season1 where she was able to mentor young Australians with their passion for singing. Recently, Prinnie made her return to musical theatre and her London West End Debut in the hit show Thriller Live staring the music of Michael Jackson. She went on to wow audiences all over Australia, New Zealand & Malaysia with Rave reviews.
In 2017, Prinnie stared in the hit musical The bodyguard w rave reviews as Nikki Marron.
Prinnie continues to be one of Australias true triple threats, juggling between tv, musicals and a recording career.
SOUL ROOTS REVIVAL BAND @ Django
Having played with some of the all time greats including BB King, Eric Clapton, Sting & Madness, Internationally acclaimed saxophonist Jason Bruer brings together an all star, hand picked 8 piece band paying homage to the great Soul & Roots Artists of our time.
Celebrating the music of Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Jill Scott, Renee Geyer, Chaka Khan, Earth Wind And Fire, Dr John, Taj Mahal, Tower Of Power & Gladys Night among other great artists.
Playing great arrangements of tunes from these Legends and featuring two of Sydney’s hottest young singers, Josue Vilches and Emily Hanks together with an all star band they bring together a freshness and vibrancy that will take your breath Away.
The band, who between them have played with a diverse array of Artists inc Guy Sebastion, Jessica Mouboy, Human Nature, Marcia Hines, Ian Moss, The Beautiful Girls draw on considerable experience to create and exciting and uplifting performance
The Band: Josue Vilches (vocals), Emily Hanks (vocals), Adrian Veale (trumpet), Sam Boyd (keys), Adam Ventoura (bass), Andy Byrnes (drums), Ramsay McInnes (guitar) and Jason Bruer (tenor sax).
THE ARETHA FRANKLIN SONGBOOK: Celebrating the Life and Music of The Queen Of Soul
Due to huge demand after 5 sold out shows, this must see show returns to Camelot Lounge!
THE SOUL MOVERS
STOP PRESS: Following the SOUL’D OUT signs going up on The Soul Movers March 16th album launch show at Django and May 11 show at Camelot, we can now announce that due to massive public demand a third date has been added!
Saturday June 15th will see Camelot Lounge shake, rock and soul with the songs that were recorded in some of the most iconic recording studios in soul recording history – they can be found on the Bona Fide album which is released late March – don’t miss this chance to catch The Soul Movers in Sydney before they continue to lap the country on this album launch tour.
VULGARGRAD (Melb) ALBUM LAUNCH @ Django
Everybody’s favourite Russian criminals make their long-awaited return to Australian stages, launching their much-anticipated new album, “The Odessa Job”. The band has amassed an incredibly dedicated fan-base over the last 14 years, but for those who don’t know, VulgarGrad are a seven-piece band that play music by, for, and about Russian criminals – raw, raucous, and rude (particularly if you understand Russian).
Be prepared for a night of gun-slinging, vodka-swilling, foul-mouthed disorder, and watch out for the biggest, most triangular instrument you will ever see, the contrabass balalaika.
Experience drunken songs, inebriated waltzes, manic stomps, hot swing from the Cold War days along with punk classics of the Perestroika era.
Wear a striped top and learn to swear in Russian, and you will dance or the trumpeter will shoot you.
YOHAI COHEN QUINTET
Internationally renowned oud player, vocalist and percussionist, Yohai Cohen returns to Australia to perform at the 2019 WOMADelaide (and Camelot!!!). He performs Moroccan Andalusian and cha’abi (popular) music in Hebrew and Arabic.
In June 2017, Yohai Cohen officially launched his new Quintet, a Moroccan Jewish music project with sold out concerts in Melbourne and Sydney, captivating crowds with an exciting range of energising, foot-stomping songs of celebration, melancholy hymns and outstanding musicianship. Improvisation plays a key part in their animated and vivid performance.
TINEL DRAGOI ROMANI GYPSY with JOSEPH ZARB + GUITARRAS GITANAS @ Django
Join this incredible duo as they return to Django. For Gypsies music is religion, & music comes from their religion. Music comes from the soul & so whether we are in Paris or Bucharest or playing Swing or Bolero, the soul of the music tastes the same. Tinel Dragoi is from Romania; Rom Gypsy Father, Romanian Jewish Mother. Violin was his only option in life. Jose lives his professional life on the streets of Sydney, Gypsy Style, playing on every street.
Blake Keep & Matthew Gough are two musicians driven by a playful energy that’s intoxicatingly entertaining. With a play list ranging from soulful popular music ballads & haunting folk tunes, jazz manouche to Spanish & Latin. Blake and Matthew have toured with artists such as Lulo Reinhardt & Diesel, & while both incredible guitarists, they have recently integrated other musical elements such as vocals, sax, bass, & stomp box into their performances creating new musical ideas, arrangements & repertoire. For this show they will be joined by special guest percussionist Chris Fields.
CLAYTON DOLEY’S BAYOU BILLABONG feat. DAVE BREWER
The most unique and sophisticated voice in contemporary retro soul today, Clayton Doley is a giant of the Australian Blues Scene, cutting his teeth with legendary Sydney band, The Mighty Reapers and going on to form his own bands The Hands and The Organ Donors. Over the last fifteen years Clayton has played with a who’s who of international artists such as Joe Bonamassa, Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, Harry Manx, Steve Cropper & Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn (Booker T & the M.G.’s, Blues Brothers), David Garibaldi (Tower Of Power), Jimmy Barnes, The Divinyls, The Dead Daisies, Hubert Sumlin, Mojo Buford, Louisiana Red, Guitar Shorty, Renee Geyer, The Mighty Reapers, Eugene Hideaway Bridges and Jackie Orszaczky – to name a few.
His current project Clayton Doley’s Bayou Billabong captures the essence of the New Orleans Blues piano tradition while fusing contemporary Australiana and Americana with all the might and power of a 10 piece band. Featuring a powerful 4-piece horn section, the ‘Hi-Fi-Doley-T Horns’, and the ferociously sweet vocals of the fabulous ‘Clay-tones’.
“Clayton Doley understands the groove to a T – Booker T., that is”. Steve Leggett – All Music (USA)
“Doley matches his rock-solid chops with sophisticated songwriting and wraps a class-act production around it”. Duane Verth – Roots Music Report (USA)
Clayton Doley- Piano, Organ & Vocals; Bec Jensen & Virna Sanzone – Vocals; Dave Brewer – Guitar & Vocals; Franco Raggatt – Guitar; Evan Mannell – Drums; Jan Bangma – Bass; Matt Keegan – Tenor Sax; Ray Cassar – Trumpet; Stephen Schafer – Baritone Sax; James Greening – Trombone
RENÉE GEYER (CANCELLED)
We regret to inform you that due to illness, Renee Geyer has had to cancel her upcoming shows at Camelot Lounge on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th of January.
All tickets to these shows will now be transferred to the new Mahalia Barnes show on THURSDAY 17th JANUARY. If however you would prefer a refund please let us know
Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Info on Mahalia Barnes is below. She will even be doing a few Renee Geyer tunes in her show for all her fans.
Mahalia Barnes has been in and around music her entire life which helped shape her into the powerhouse soul and blues vocalist that has jaws dropping every time she picks up a mic.
She will be joined on Thursday 17 January by her all star band.
THE FRETLESS (CANADA) @ Django
Winners of the 2017 JUNO for Instrumental Album of Year, The Fretless is a new approach to folk music. They may look like a string quartet, but with their unique balance of fiddle, viola, cello, rhythm and melody, they shatter all expectations. The fiddle tradition runs deep and their roots are based in Celtic and Canadian fiddle styles. Taking traditional music to a new level, The Fretless transform fiddle tunes and folk melodies into intricate, beautiful, high-energy and innovative arrangements. Progressive chamber trad at its best!
YAKUMAMA + TEYUNA COLLECTIVE @ Django
YAKUMAMA play Afro, Andean and Chicha a rhythm from Peru made popular in the 1960’s. The music can be described as etheric yet grounded, both healing and evocative drawing on a strong ancestral connection.
TEYUNA COLLECTIVE is a musical project formed by it’s Director Pato Lara. Independent Songwriter and Musical Producer. The Teyuna Collective project has come to live out the heart of natures Rhythms.
AFRO MOSES presents THE SPIRIT OF NELSON MANDELA @ Django
Afro Moses presents ‘The Spirit of Nelson Mandela’ featuring a 9 piece all star band!
Afro Moses is a multi-award winning, international artist, who was a teenage star in his native country of Ghana, West Africa. He was noticed by one of Bob Marley’s tour managers and taken to Europe. From there he started to tour the world, including a few guest shows with the Wailers. Afro Moses is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Despite having his own original music, it’s essential for Moses to pay tribute to one of his greatest idols, reggae legend, Bob Marley. Expect a colourful, high energy performance wit his band and his dancers “Afrodisiaq”, a lot of dancing and a chance to sing along….how ever, also be prepared for an Afro Moses flavour….afro beats, funk, raga and percussion.
EMILY-ROSE & THE WILD THINGS
Songtress and pianist Emily-Rose Sarkova launches her new wild and lusciously jazz inspired quintet at Camelot Lounge. Bringing in the New Year with new sounds of original songs, improvisations and tangled takes on some of her favourite standards.
One of Sydney’s most dynamic multi-instrumentalists, Emily-Rose glides between jazz, classical, folk and tango styles with groups such as Chaika, Tangalo, Monsieur Camembert, Marais Project, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Klezmer Divas. Emily-Rose and the Wild Things is a return to her first love of the piano and intricacies of song writing. Inspired by the likes of Avishai Cohen, Punch Brothers, Esperanza Spalding and Hiromi, this new quintet will be the launch into a wild world of beautiful sound.
Joining Emily-Rose’s frenetic fingers on the keys and vivacious vocals are: Luke Chapman – guitar; Nick Henderson – double bass; Carl St Jacques – viola; James Harris – drums
TANYA SPARKE + STRAWBERRY THIEVES @ Django
Tanya is a singer, songwriter and composer whose work has been recognised internationally (in Jane Campion’s seminal film “Sweetie”), nationally (in Sandy Evans’ Charlie Parker tribute “Testimony”) and locally in the numerous choirs and vocal ensemble she directs.
Strawberry Thieves is Sydney’s newest vocal harmony group comprising Christina Mimmocchi (Blindman’s Holiday), Jess Ciampa (Monsieur Camembert, Marsala, etc) and Lisa Cartwright. With their joyful sparkling harmonies, these well-travelled musicians join forces to present a trove of songs, old and new, local and from out there.
JESS SPAHR + DYLAN WRIGHT @ Django
A sonic seduction of ethereal vocals, meditative piano and laid-back reverb, Jess Spahr creates a definitive contrast with lyrics that dance on darker themes of betrayal and deception. Likened to Morcheeba, London Grammar and Evanescence, Jess inspires confidence with her contemporary dreamy pop music and a show that engages, uplifts and entertains with her band and disarming banter.
Dylan Wright is a singer/songwriter brought up on Sydney’s southern beaches. Still only in his early 20’s, Wright’s lyrics and vocals deliver a uniqueness and maturity well beyond his years. With a unique way of articulating lyrics and creating catchy melodies, Wright’s songs express genuine emotion that leave audiences finding themselves instantly immersed with Dylan’s mellow and awe inspiring tracks at his live shows.
THE BLACK SORROWS (SOLD OUT!!! April 11 Now On Sale!)
Due to huge demand the Black Sorrows return to Camelot Lounge!
BRAZILIAN FUNK & SOUL PARTY with 10 piece band KRIOLA COLLECTIVE
Unique Sydney based 10 piece band, ‘Kriola Collective’features some of Sydney’s best musicians playing a snapshot of the 1970’s Black Rio Samba, Soul and Funk movement from Brazil. The band’s repertoire includes a classic mix of groovy Brazilian beats, Funk, Soul and Bossa Jazz from the Carnival capitol of Rio.
‘Kriola Collective’ will conquer the dance floor with an explosive set of Brazilian infused Soul, Funk and brassy Samba from well known Brazilian artists such as Jorge Ben, Seu Jorge, Banda Black Rio, Tim Maia, Di Melo, Bebeto and Joao Donato.
Kriola Collective features some of Sydney’s best Funk, Soul and Brazilian players from groups such as Mucho Mambo, Jackie Orzasky, Cumbiamuffin, Kavalo, Mr. Sambasoul and performs a sizzling, seductive, and syncopated snapshot of 1970’s Brazil. They have become a crowd favourite with their fusion of Brazilian Soul, Funk, Rio Carnival Samba and Olodun.
THE MUSIC OF ANNA VISSI @ Django (SOLD OUT!!!)
From her humble beginnings in 1973 where she moved to Athens from Cyprus with her family, she won the Annual Song Contest in 1977 in Thessaloniki to then begin collaborating with the likes of George Dalaras and Haris Alexiou singing songs composed by Stavros Kouyioumtzis. In the 80s she began collaborating with Nikos Karvelas whom she married in 83. Dubbed Greek Rock Royalty by Patricia Fields, stylist to the cast of Sex and the City, Anna and Niko produced hit after hit from the 80s through to the new millennium where Anna developed her career further as singer/songwriter to TV presenter, stage performer in many musicals and rock operas before becoming an international sensation in 1997.
She represented both Cyprus and Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest only to gain further success worldwide and a loyal fan base. Her vocal abilities know no limits having recorded over 15 successful albums in the popular Greek Laiko, pop, rock and dance genres spanning over four and a half decades. A celebrated international vocalist and performer Anna Vissi is still producing successful sellout shows worldwide at age 61 today. Irene Vacondios and the band will be performing Anna’s hits from her early days to today hinting at setting a dance vibe for lovers of Anna’s Cuban flavoured ‘Lambo’ to her ‘rock opera’ power ballads and traditional popular Greek bouzouki favourites!
Django @ Camelot
GIG ALERT
Here are some of the fun times ahead at Camelot Lounge..
Wed 15 Jan @ Django - THE CAMELART CLUB
Wed 15 and Thu 16 Jan - THE BLACK SORROWS (SOLD OUT!)
Thu 16 Jan @ Django - TÉTÉ (France) + LIZ MARTIN
Fri 17 & Sat 18 Jan - KARISE EDEN + ALEXI KAYE
Fri 17 Jan @ Django - LOLO LOVINA
Sat 18 Jan @ Django - LOVE CATS: A TRIBUTE TO THE CURE
Sun 19 Jan - GEORGE DOUKAS & THE D-STRINGS (SOLD OUT!)
Thu 23 & Fri 24 Jan - TEX PERKINS & MATT WALKER
Thu 23 Jan @ Django - CIGÁNY WEAVER (BRIS)
Fri 24 Jan @ Django - THE SICARIOS: The Best of CCR, TOM PETTY and NEIL YOUNG
Sat 25 Jan - MONSIEUR CAMEMBERT
Sat 25 Jan @ Django - KAVALO
Sun 26 Jan - MAHALIA BARNES & THE SOUL MATES
Sun 26 Jan @ Django - NADYA'S 101 CANDLES BALKAN GYPSY ORKESTRA
Thu 30 Jan - RAI THISTLETHWAYTE (THIRSTY MERC)
Thu 30 Jan @ Django - CARLO AONZO TRIO (ITALY)
Fri 31 Jan - SCARECROW PEOPLE: THE MUSIC OF XTC
Fri 31 Jan @ Django - STEVE EDMONDS BAND: HENDRIX & HEROES
Sat 1 Feb @ Django - JUNGLE BOOGIE: 70's FUNK CELEBRATION
Sun 2 Feb - VAUDEVILLIA by Mic Conway's National Junk Band!
Sun 2 Feb @ Django - ALASKA STRING BAND
Wed 5 Feb @ Django - THE CAMELART CLUB
Thu 6 Feb - GREGG ARTHUR: THE TONY BENNETT SONG BOOK
Fri 7 Feb - MARSALA
Fri 7 Feb @ Django - SIMPLE DREAMS: THE SONGS OF LINDA RONSTADT
Sat 8 Feb - TIJUANA TAXI: A TRIBUTE TO THE TIJUANA BRASS
Sat 8 Feb @ Django - THE ERIC CLAPTON EXPERIENCE
Sun 9 Feb - THE STARS OF THE TEN SOPRANOS
Sun 9 Feb @ Django - SHANTI FIRE
Wed 12 & Thu 13 Feb - KATIE NOONAN: THE SWEETEST TABOO (Album Preview Shows)
Thu 13 Feb @ Django - DAVE WARNER’S FROM THE SUBURBS + NICOLE WARNER
Fri 14 Feb - DIESEL: SUNSET SUBURBIA & HITS
Fri 14 Feb @ Django - SMOOTH SAILING YACHT ROCK PARTY
Sat 15 Feb - BABY ET LULU
Sat 15 Feb @ Django - THE NANCY SINATRA LEE HAZLEWOOD EXPERIENCE
Sun 16 Feb - JOSEPH TAWADROS QUARTET
Wed 19 Feb - AMIRA MEDUNJANIN
Thu 20 Feb - EMMA PASK
Thu 20 Feb @ Django - ALISON FORBES ALBUM LAUNCH + BRANDON DODD + THE APRIL FAMILY
Fri 21 Feb - STEPHEN CUMMINGS (THE SPORTS)
Fri 21 Feb @ Django - THE BADLOVES
Sat 22 Feb - BRAZILIAN FUNK & SOUL PARTY with KRIOLA COLLECTIVE
Sun 23 Feb - AKIS PANOU & VICKI MOSHOLIOU TRIBUTE
Fri 28 Feb - AMY WINEHOUSE REMEMBERED IN SONG
Fri 28 Feb @ Django - MALO MALO
Sat 29 Feb - PURPLE DOVES present PRINCE: 1958-FOREVER
Sat 29 Feb @ Django - AMY & THE GREY ZONE
Sun 1 Mar - DAHLIA DIOR: INTERNATIONAL WORLD CABARET
Fri 6 Mar - MUCHO MAMBO: 13 piece LATIN BIG BAND
Fri 6 Mar @ Django - VAN THE MAN: THE AUSTRALIAN VAN MORRISON SHOW
Sat 7 Mar - BOWIE UNZIPPED with JEFF DUFF
Sun 8 Mar @ Django - LENKA
Thu12 Mar - CÒIG (CANADA)
Fri 13 Mar - JOHNNY G & THE E-TYPES
Fri 13 Mar @ Django - THE BEATLES: ALBUM TRACKS, B-SIDES & SELECTED HITS
Sat 14 Mar @ Django - POUR IT ON: AN 80's FUNK PARTY
Sun 15 Mar - SIMA presents THE VAMPIRES
Thu 19 & Fri 20 Mar - LOUIS TILLETT & THE LT3
Fri 27 Mar - BARRIO LATIN SOUL
Thu 2 Apr @ Django - GARDEN QUARTET (MELB)
Sat 4 Apr - VICTOR VALDES MARIACHI BAND
Sat 4 Apr @ Django - A NIGHT OF MOTOWN with SUZY & THE SNAKEPIT
Sun 5 Apr - DANIEL WELTLINGER (BERLIN)
Fri 17 Apr @ Django - A BIT OF BRIT
Sat 25 Apr @ Django - THE AUDREYS
Sat 2 May - GLENN SHORROCK
Fri 8 May - KALLIDAD
Sat 30 May - THE MUSIC OF THRILLER
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Seed of Hope Wildlife Hide Officially Opens
Bridgwater College’s Community Orchard has reached a new milestone with the official opening of the wildlife hide, by Somerset County Councillor, John Edney.
The event took place as part of The Walled Gardens of Cannington’s Wildlife Weekend and saw the previous water pumping house transformed. The renovations are part of the Tesco Bags of Help Spring Orchard initiative.
The aim of the Spring Orchard project is to revitalise the orchard, to improve access and develop the aesthetics of the area, which will hopefully lead to an increased use of the orchard. The second aim is to provide the opportunity for 12 people with mental health problems, from diverse backgrounds and locations across Sedgemoor, to benefit from Seed of Hope. Participants will have the opportunity to gain a City and Guilds Level 1 qualification in Practical Horticultural Skills.
Jayne Alcock, The Walled Gardens of Cannington Grounds and Gardens Supervisor said, “Seed of Hope is a fantastic project to be part of, the changes in the orchard and in the people participating have been a joy to watch.”
Kris Scotting, Co-founder of Seed of Hope said, “We hope that people will enjoy using the hide and watching the local wildlife as much as we have enjoyed transforming it, and spending time in this beautiful orchard.”
Since the 5p charge for plastic bags was introduced in large retailers, Tesco announced proceeds will go to good causes locally and nationally as part of their Bags of Help initiative. Seed of Hope, a therapeutic gardening project, is a not-for-profit joint venture with The Walled Gardens of Cannington, and has been selected to receive some of the funding for their Spring Orchard project, based at Cannington’s Community Orchard.
If you would like more information about Seed of Hope visit www.seedofhope.org.uk, or email kris@seedofhope.org.uk
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Gary Vela
What’s possible in a week? If you dedicated seven days to the achievement of one goal, how ambitious could you make this goal? These were the questions that the multilingual friends Katy and Sara posed themselves when they determined to learn English in one week, to prove that it can be done and anyone can do it with the right methods.
They would attempt to liberate themselves from the distractions and responsibilities of modern-day life in order to cram eight hours of study time and I was observing some of the world’s most capable language learners at work.
The language learning expert: Sara
The friends set themselves the challenge of learning a language in a week in order to stretch themselves, and then it was a question of choosing which language to learn. English presented itself as a natural option; there are nigh on 300,000 English speakers in Germany’s capital, and the areas are dotted with stores adorned with signs in English.
“Truly understanding one’s environment requires one to first understand English”
The first operational step in the friends learning process was to decorate the entire apartment with sticky notes. This had an almost ceremonial touch to it as the friends delved into dictionaries and proceeded to label everything with its corresponding English name.
Within the space of about an hour it was impossible to carry out any menial task, be it making a coffee or flicking off a light switch, without first being presented with at least three different words related to this action.
Sara learning in the park
The importance of the other twin’s presence became immediately apparent as Katy and Sara delegated responsibilities for rooms to decorate with sticky notes. This simple task was augmented by continuous little tests that they would spring on one another, and the fact that they split up their day slightly differently and studied different topics meant that each twin became a source of knowledge for the other.
The most extraordinary moment came towards the end of the week!
The friends simply switched their everyday conversations to English, asking one another if they wanted tea or coffee, were ready to cook dinner or when they were going to leave the house.
Katy and Sara had numerous micro-challenges throughout the week. On the first day they were visited by a English friend who greeted them in English and complimented them on how quickly they’d picked up their first words and phrases.
They then learned the names of fruits and the numbers from one to a billion so that they could visit the English market (although they refrained from purchasing nine hundred thousand kumquats). Displaying their haul after their first functional exchange in English, they beamed with pride and a palpable sense of accomplishment before marching back home to study further.
Katy playing audio lessons
On our second visit to the brother’s apartment 24 hours into the week, we found them sampling dozens of different kinds of English snacks.
Like kids staring at the backs of cereal packs before heading to school, the nutritional information and various special offers and competitions on the packaging were analysed during snack breaks.
There was no moment of complete removal from the language learning process during the eight hours that the friends had allotted to it.
They were constantly using their existing knowledge to support the ever-growing knowledge of English, this being the root of their success.
“you will likely come across words that share common origins with your native tongue”
The friends spent a lot of time engrossed in books or on their computers and apps, flicking and swiping their way through exercises eagerly, but at other times they were to be found searching busily for English radio stations and write-ups of English football games on the web.
There is no definitive method to learn a language fluently
All too often, people enter their weekly language class to converse with their teacher, but then barely have any contact with other speakers and that’s not enough.
The old saying that we can solve problems more effectively when we sleep on it may be especially true if the problem we’re trying to solve is learning a new language.
Motivated Katy out to the library
Researchers from two Swiss universities wanted to know if they could enhance the learning of words from a foreign language by exposing people to the words during non-rapid eye movement sleep the deep, dreamless sleep period that most of us experience during the first few hours of the night.
To find out, they gathered two groups of study participants, all of whom were native German speakers, and gave them a series of Dutch-to-German word pairs to learn at 10 pm. One group was then instructed to get some sleep, while the other group was kept awake.For the next few hours both groups listened to an audio playback of the word pairs they’d already been exposed to and some they hadn’t yet heard.
The researchers then re-gathered both groups at 2 am and gave them a test of the Dutch words to uncover any differences in learning. And indeed there was a difference:
“The group that listened to the words during sleep did better at recalling the words they’d heard”
The simple yet potent trick the researchers employed is known as verbal cueing, and this isn’t the first claim made for its success while sleeping. But what makes this study different is that it puts a finer point on the conditions necessary for this trick to actually work namely, it only works when we’ve already been exposed to the verbal cues before we sleep.
The researchers added a techie dimension by conducting electroencephalographic (EEG)recordings of the sleeping participants brains to track neural electrical activity during the learning period.
They found that learning the foreign words overlapped with the appearance of theta brain waves, an intriguing result since theta is the brain wave state often associated with heightened learning while awake (usually we’re in either the high-frequency, high-alertness alpha or beta states while awake, but it’s thought possible to induce theta state slower in frequency than alpha and beta through concentration techniques).
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The People vs. Storm the Court
02 December, 2019 1:07 PM
Between oddsmaker Mike Battaglia and the general public it is quite obvious that no one has a clue what to make of Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Storm the Court. The colt will remain an enigma until he launches his assault on the Kentucky Derby, most likely in next year's Robert B. Lewis Stakes.
He also is going to cause a great deal of head scratching when the voting begins for champion 2-year-old, especially after Champagne winner Tiz the Law could finish no better than third in this past weekend's Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. The truth is, there really is no one to choose from, unless you throw the book away and go with Independence Hall based on his spectacular 12-length victory in the grade 3 Nashua Stakes, in which he earned triple-digit Beyer and Equibase speed figures and an outrageous negative-2 Thoro-Graph figure.
Battaglia, in making his odds for the first Kentucky Derby Future Wager, decided for some reason that Storm the Court was going to go off as the favorite among the 23 listed horses and made him a baffling 12-1 co-choice with Independence Hall.
Considering that Storm the Court won the BC Juvenile by a head at odds of 45-1 in a race where the three big horses didn't show up (one literally and two figuratively) and he defeated a 28-1 shot and a 39-1 shot, those 12-1 odds seemed extremely unrealistic.
On the other hand, the public went way too far in the opposite direction by making Storm the Court a ridiculous 41-1 in the Future Wager. Whether you feel he can win the Derby or not, can you imagine having the Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner and possible 2-year-old champion at 41-1? I doubt very much that has ever happened before.
Even Storm the Court's speed figures differ dramatically, as he received a slow 87 Beyer speed figure in the BC Juvenile compared to a fast 102 Equibase speed figure. Although he won the Juvenile, he didn't even get the fastest Thoro-Graph figure in the race, earning a 5 1/2 compared to a 3 3/4 for runner-up Anneau d'Or.
So, what is one to make of Storm the Court? Is he a serious Derby horse or simply the winner of a flukey Breeders' Cup Juvenile who took advantage of a bizarrely run race without any of the favorites within binocular range at the finish and the other leading contender scratched several days before the race?
It is just possible that Storm the Court, with blinkers added for the Juvenile, and runner-up Anneau d'Or, making his dirt debut after romping on the grass, are legitimate Derby contenders who did after all finish 3 1/4 lengths ahead of the third-place finisher, Del Mar Futurity runner-up Wrecking Crew, who was 4 1/2 lengths ahead of Iroquois and Saratoga Special runner-up Scabbard.
Storm the Court had finished a well-beaten third in the American Pharoah Stakes, but trainer Peter Eurton felt he wasn't focused and needed blinkers to keep his mind on the race and show more speed on the speed-favoring Santa Anita track. He responded by going to the lead and gamely holding it to the wire despite being under pressure most of the way.
Anneau d'Or stalked him throughout the race, but could never get by, despite being hit with the whip 17 times from the far turn to the finish.
Both colts came out of the OBS April 2-year-old sale, with the regally bred Anneau d'Or selling for $480,000, while Storm the Court went for a mere $60,000 after selling as a yearling at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky February mixed sale for a paltry $5,000.
What is important to remember is that Storm the Court will not even turn 3 until four days after the Kentucky Derby, so for such a young horse to break his maiden first time out on Aug. 10 and win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, you have to figure we have not seen anywhere near the best of him.
He had made an assessment of him even more difficult when he lost his rider soon after the start of the Del Mar Futurity. If there has been one thing consistent about this colt, it's that the public has constantly underestimated him, from his two ventures into the sales ring, to his BC Juvenile odds, to his Future Wager odds. Now, will they underestimate him in the Eclipse voting and when he embarks on the Derby trail next year?
Although Storm the Court's sire, Court Vision, was predominantly a turf horse, winning the Breeders' Cup Mile and also the 1 ¼-mile, grade I Hollywood Derby, as well as three other grade 1 stakes on grass, he did win the mile and an eighth Remsen Stakes and one-mile Iroquois Stakes on dirt at 2. He currently stands in Louisiana for a fee of $3,500.
Storm the Court's broodmare sire, Tejano Run, finished second to Thunder Gulch in the Kentucky Derby and his only inbreeding is to the Classic stallion Buckpasser. His third dam is by Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner Riva Ridge, out of a mare by English Triple Crown winner Nijinsky. In all, he has seven horses in his pedigree (five generations) who finished first or second in the Kentucky Derby.
Storm the Court, as mentioned earlier, is trained by the astute Peter Eurton, who has emerged as one of the top trainers in the country, and ridden by Flavien Prat, who won this year's Kentucky Derby and knows how to get horses to stay long distances.
So maybe Storm the Court isn't that much of an enigma after all. Perhaps it's not him, it's us, as Battaglia and the public showed in their wildly contradictory opinions of him, as did the speed figure gurus. Now it is up to the Eclipse Award voters to decide whether his is championship material. It's not going to be an easy decision. Right now, there are no easy decisions when it comes to Storm the Court.
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Tech news site Mashable and its editor-at-large, Ben Parr, have parted ways under circumstances that apparently were less than amicable. The writer and entrepreneur, who had worked for the site since 2008, was fired, according to a brief Mashable statement.
Word of Parr’s departure began to bubble out late Sunday, when mail to his Mashable address started kicking back an automated “no longer here” response, and his bio page was edited to identify him as “the former editor-at-large.”
Parr then confirmed his departure to AllThingsD, indicating that he’d have more to say on Monday. Mashable limited its official response to a single sentence, “confirming the terms of departure were termination.”
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Best Televisions in the Market Today
When people find to purchase a brand new television, among the major questions they ask themselves is: what is the greatest television manufacturer in the market?
The majority of the data we as humans method arises from our view, so it is no wonder why all of us need to purchase the most effective tv included in our home entertainment system. Cyberflix APK Now, more often than perhaps not we have a tendency to lead our dreams with a understanding of a specific brand. Like, if Apple made televisions, there would have been a large amount of people buying Apple TVs due to the manufacturer association they’ve with Apple.
As it pertains from what the most effective television manufacturer is, the thoughts are greatly subjective to manufacturer loyalty. Wondering some one what the most effective television manufacturer is, is similar to asking them what television manufacturer you should be devoted to, and this is a mistake. It is really a error to do this because the truth of the problem is that there surely is not just one television producer that brings just how in the television market.
When investigating what television to purchase, you’re definitely better off taking into consideration the requirements of the television instead of the make of the television. Of course, if you are devoted to a specific manufacturer since you trust that manufacturer to generally create quality products, then by all indicates research different televisions that the manufacturer provides, but produce your final decision on the basis of the requirements of the televisions.
If you are perhaps not particularly devoted to any manufacturer, then instead of investigating different manufacturers, you must focus your attention on the requirements of the kind of televisions you want to purchase. Like, it is way better to consider whether you want a Plasma, LCD, or LED television instead of considering Sony, Panasonic or Samsung. Once you know the kind of television you want to purchase, investigating the many requirements of this type of television can serve you well.
One of the best means of determining what television is best for you personally is always to enter a shop that sells televisions and actually look at the numerous televisions on display. This will provide you with a much better idea of what you want from the television. Ignoring the manufacturer on the television, you is likewise able to share with why they change in rates from the size of the TV, the engineering of it, the launch date of the design, etc.
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When you are shopping for LCD televisions, you should be alert to price along with stand out features. It is preferred to stay away from refurbished or used TVs because, from a long term perspective, the low pricing won’t outweigh the general quality. When you are searching for features on LCD televisions, one of the main what to take notice of is whether or not the television is in high definition. With and HD television you possibly can make probably the most of modern shows and ensure the television will fit well into the future.
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Plasma televisions and LCD televisions are both manufactured in flat screen form and make a great aesthetic enhancement to any home or business environment. These televisions look chic and classy and put in a new degree of sophistication and wealth to any home. Both these television types fit nicely into homes with types of décor. Seeing the longevity spans associated with these television types, along with their pristine viewing quality, there is no doubt about the truth that you will get your money’s worth. As a fantastic addition to your house, an LCD television or plasma TV will truly be considered a great option.
Where Did The Piggy Backing Derive From?
For many people, it’s happened throughout your day-to-day existence where you’ll have owned a money box. Although adults, many individuals retain that keenness for piggy banks they’d maturing then save a couple of odd coins in a single.
Hold on, how did piggy banks first begin existence, and therefore are all of them known as using this affectionate sounding name?
The inspiration goes back for that 1400s, when we were regularly making containers, bowls along with other receptacles from clay. But, there’s a variety of kind of clay, and one of those was known using the name ‘pygg’. It had been generally familiar with create dishes along with other products from purely since it was among the least pricey materials around using this use authorized user.
As time ongoing, people found new methods and materials for creating these jars. authorized user But while pygg clay eventually stopped used, the thought of acquiring a jar obtaining a slot for putting money into did not.
And, clearly to be certain today, the name pygg appeared transforming itself into pig. Increasingly more really individuals money jars increased to get produced as pigs, although nobody appears to understand quite how or why this began. It’s thought that may affect be lower having a simple error within the understanding in the term, since all of them appear exactly the same when pointed out aloud.
However, there’s unquestionably the metamorphosis within the pygg clay jars towards the piggy banks you are aware of of love today has guaranteed their future as savings vehicles for kids. Instilling good savings habits in the youthful age sets children up for future, and encourages regular saving.
Clearly, the look has altered somewhat with time, while using the original designs being made as being a hollow pig obtaining a slot for that investment to enter. So, in case you wanted to obtain the money then then then back out again you need to sacrifice your pig to have it. Nowadays most piggy banks possess a small plug for the finish to enable you to keep your pig while you have the money out.
It seems as if the money box plays a vital role in teaching youthful children about savings and investments.
Furthermore, they might choose the type and elegance of money box they like the style of, while keeping focused about this to save their pennies after a while.
So, next time the factor may be the boy or daughter pop some coins to their own personal money box can remember the origins in the tradition also bear in mind the way all began, centuries ago.
A Way to Make YouTube Videos Load Up Fast
YouTube is an exceptionally popular website, which can be being visited by millions of people every day. However, if you’re looking at YouTube movies and are becoming increasingly frustrated and annoyed at how they appear to take a VERY long time to load (and continually pause to load as well), then this information might be a great benefit to you. We’ve found ways to boost force time of YouTube slips which can be so simple even a novice may do it.
There are several reasons why YouTube videos may load slowly. TubeMate Video Downloader The first is that YouTube could be overloaded with viewers… but as its own by Google (the undisputed Kings of mainstream Internet media), this is a very rare problem indeed. Actually, the most frequent reason why YouTube movies load slowly is because of a part of Windows called the “registry “.And although very few people learn about this, it’s exactly why many people cannot bunch YouTube videos rapidly, and is why many YouTube videos appear to bunch slowly.
To be able to boost force speed of YouTube clips, you’ll need to make certain that your Windows PC has the capacity to run as quickly and effectively as possible. The “registry” is the most frequent reason why computers do not load YouTube videos quickly because this is actually the element of Windows where all the settings your software uses are stored. These settings are required by every software program on your PC, including the web browsers that you could watch YouTube videos with.
What normally happens once you can’t bunch YouTube pages rapidly is that the web browser you’re using requires a extended time to load the settings it needs to run. Since playing a YouTube video requires a LOT of processing power, your web browser needs a large amount of settings from the registry database to be able to play them. It’s often the case that many of these settings become damaged or corrupted, making Windows take longer to learn them, and leading it to take a lot longer to load the YouTube movies you want. This is also why YouTube clips often pause to “buffer” or “load” when you’re wanting to watch them.
To be able to fix this dilemma, you should use a registry cleaner program to scan throughout your registry database and fix the errors which can be as part of your computer. A registry cleaner is really a very easy tool to utilize, and you basically should just download one from the Internet, install it and then allow it fix any of the damaged settings on your system. They’ll automatically scan throughout your Windows database and fix any of the damaged or corrupted settings which can be causing problems as part of your PC, allowing it to bunch YouTube videos extremely quickly again.
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Television’s Best Quality Format
Analog tv (or analogue television) encodes tv and transports the image and sound information as an analog signal, that’s, by various the amplitude and/or frequencies of the transmitted signal. Analog tv, like all the motion picture methods, exploits the qualities of the human eye to generate the illusion of going images. Analog tv company is the standard TV system. Analog tv has been the conventional transmitted technology because the inception of tv applying magnetic waves to transfer and exhibit photographs and sound. Analog tv posseses an aspect relation of 4 by 3, this means the screen is 4 units broad by 3 units high.
HDTV, the greatest quality format, gives high resolution, a widescreen format, and encompass sound. HDTV is a title given to two of the digital tv (DTV) formats. HDTV applications may contain Dolby Digital encompass sound, exactly the same digital sound system utilized in many movie theaters and DVDs. HDTV employs exactly the same number of bandwidth (the measurement of the communications channel) as the current analog program, but with HDTV, about six situations additional information is transmitted. HDTV is the greatest quality of DTV, but it is only one of numerous formats. HDTV photographs are made by scanning up to doubly many lines. Cyberflix HDTV pieces have larger, movie-theater like screens that more strongly resemble individual peripheral perspective, making it more natural to watch. HDTV pieces are “backward compatible,” meaning current analog equipment (VCRs, DVD players, camcorders, video games, etc. HDTV is most beneficial seen on a brand new high-definition television. HDTV works on the larger 16 by 9 aspect relation, which offers movies with less “edge collection” and gives a far more extreme seeing experience. HDTV’s digital audio sounds greater than the usual typical television’s analog sound, the same as digital CDs are superior to analog radio.
Cable Tv Communities are actually being broadcasted in simulcast since 2004 and analogue cable solutions were switched-off in May 2007. Cable and satellite customers with analog TVs should contact their company vendors about obtaining converter boxes for the DTV transition. Cable here encounters slight but growing opposition from satellite and now, tv via high-speed Online connections with the company known as IPTV. Cable operators should ensure that most regional transmitted stations moved pursuant to this Act are’watchable’by all cable customers,” explained Martin, in a statement.
Analog tv was presented in the Netherlands in 1951. Analog televisions works till all analog broadcasting ceases. Analog televisions are now actually commonly described conventional televisions. Analog television sets may keep on to get analog contacts at the least through 2006 and probably longer. Analog Tv signs, equally transmitted and cable, in addition to VHS, generally, will appear worse on an HDTV than they do on a regular analog television. Analog tv technology is about 60 years old but nonetheless provides high quality pictures. Analog televisions will no longer function unless they’re attached to a cable or satellite provider that remains to provide analog. Analog tv employs a series of wavelengths to symbolize image elements.
September 3, 2019 No comments DanielleGarza
Bigg Boss Season 13 Promo Salman Khan
The new season of Bigg Boss, to be facilitated again by Salman Khan, is probably going to make a big appearance this month. Prior to that, the creators have been discharging promotions to prod the group of spectators. The most recent promotion was uncovered late on Saturday and from its appearance, you will be left captivated.
After the disappointment of last season to collect much enthusiasm with its ‘ordinary person’ topic, the creators have returned to having a ‘celebs just’ demonstrate this time. big boss 13 live The new promotion highlights Naagin entertainer Surbhi Jyoti and on-screen character Karan Wahi, aside from Salman.
As the video opens, we see Salman and Surbhi in a rec center, practicing on the treadmill. Salman then hands Surbhi a bundle of roses, pronouncing celebs will battle it out this season. Before long, Karan strolls into the scene and grabs the bunch from Surbhi. A miffed Surbhi, ventures down from the treadmill and begins hitting Karan, as he attempts to secure himself. Salman, the ringmaster, says the members will do as he asks them to. As he says ‘begin and stop’ more than once, the couple ‘start and stop’ in agreement. At a certain point, he utilizes modest Hindi words and Karan can scarcely make sense of them.
Prior, the producers had discharged another promotion, which demonstrated Salman as a station ace of a railroad station. In the promotion video, Salman is seen clarifying the idea of the game. He uncovered that the up and coming season would include just big names as candidates and they will get an opportunity to arrive at the finale in only a month.
In the video cut, the whole set can be seen shaking, as though the tremors are because of the trains cruising by. Salman says, “Kripya dhyan dein is baar Bigg Boss ki gadi hogi Sitara extraordinary. Chaar hafton me pahuchaiyegi finale pe, tatkaal. Uske baad bhi big names kurta faad ke banaenge rumaal.Jaldi aaiye warna pachtaaiye. (If you don’t mind focus! The Bigg Boss vehicle will be star uncommon this time. It will take us to finale rapidly, in about a month. The famous people will in any case make show and turmoil. Come soon or lament later.) Come soon!”
The conditional date for the 13th season of the disputable unscripted television to start is September 29.
March 17, 2019 No comments DanielleGarza
Avengers Endgame Trailer 2 CRAZY Theories
It’s perhaps not a surprise that Wonder is not administering much in the means of plot in the ramp-up for Avengers: Endgame. The most up to date trailer, like the one before it, leans heavy on sad heroes guaranteeing vague action. Yet what it does have? Style.
The lack of anything approaching a spoiler makes sense. Avengers: Endgame stands for the end result of 11 years of orchestration across 21 films. Besides, the Spider-Man: Far From Residence trailer already mainly probably validates that every person makes it out OK. So instead of focus on the promises to do “whatever it takes”– the secret to defeating Thanos was Visualize Dragons all along– let’s zero in on what actually matters here. Beginning with Hawkeye’s hair.
Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) remained Avengers: Infinity Battle, and also apparently invested that time making himself into a grim samurai, a nod to the personality’s improvement right into Ronin in the comics. More crucial, he provided himself a remarkable mohawk, perhaps an act of demonstration over having been excluded of the last huge fight, or of grieving over his (potentially, probably) atomized family members. Or he’s been listening to a lot of Rancid, possibly?
Somewhere else, the set up group has actually upgraded its set, preferring a matching white armored set over their private looks. This questions, too, considered that some members of the group– Iron Guy (Robert Downey Jr.) and also Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), specifically– derive their powers from their outfit. One believes they’ll describe this with a solitary line of dialog!
If it appears foolish to concentrate on sartorial choices, well, there’s just not much even more to go on. Hawkeye cocks an arrowhead; Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) fires a weapon. Captain Wonder (Brie Larson) appears, but you understood that. Marvel’s obviously maintaining the Avengers endgame goods to itself up until the flick appears on April 26. Which, honestly, fine. It’s taken 11 years to get below; one more 6 weeks can not hurt.
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Ideas For Sharing Stories With Children
The world’s oldest silliness dates encouragement taking into account hint to 4000 years and was popular in the midst of ancient Sumerians, a University of Wolverhampton psychotherapy recently found. Other ancient – and rather irreverent – jokes were just approximately pharaohs and Englishmen in the 10th century AD. Jokes were sophisticated than a habit of making people smile; they were a method of rebelling behind-door to mature-lucky authorities and defying social norms. Even today, the intend of jokes and gags remains the connected – poking fun at influential people and ideas, joining in the general glow and bonhomie, and providing a footnote mechanism adjoining put the accent on. After each and every one, if you can ludicrousness about it, later it probably won’t kill you 먹튀검증.
The earlier jokes and gags were probably transmitted by word of mouth – paper or parchments were costly, and in any feat, unaccompanied the kingly or priestly classes knew how to right of entry or write. Bawdy theater and dance performances were substitute mannerism of sharing one-liners roughly cultural or religious taboos. Even though these performances were often banned by the ruling classes, people from the whole one of backgrounds enjoyed them either openly or namelessly, which goes to function that human natural world has distorted tiny on peak of the appendix three thousand years.
Jokes and gags can be classified into many categories. There are harmless jokes that you can share following preschoolers, provided they can admit subtle punch lines. There is sarcastic humor that has led to lawsuits. There are jokes that are deemed inappropriate in one atmosphere and perfectly enough in late growth situations. And with there are jokes roughly groups or communities, deemed violent behavior to the people who are the butt of the jokes, but nonetheless relished by others. Jokes and gags are accompanied by the most common and reasonably priced human indulgences – and probably the most controversial.
Today, thanks to the Internet, you no longer have to wait for the daylight newspaper or get your hands on a magazine to entrance funny one-liners. The Internet allows you to search, download, or email jokes at a mouse click. A easy search by keyword, such as “politician”, will generate a list of the most ably-liked, recent, or frequently emailed diplomatic jokes. If you once a meaninglessness every much and sore spot to pretense your reply for it, you can rate it online.
If your links locate your jokes funny and think you should portion them considering more people, you can comply your own jokes to the jokes and gags websites. The malleability process is well-ventilated; all you way is an email ID. This is the primary excuse that websites feature consequently many more jokes than your average newspaper or magazine. What is more, toting going on jokes are at all times creature substitute to their calendar. These sites are not static. They assert users to interact, rate each tallying’s pretense, and find the money for notice and advice. If you are privileged, your come to an agreement might become the irrationality of the hours of daylight, access by thousands of visitors to the site. Imagine swine skillful to create therefore many people grin; perhaps a few of them are having a bad morning at perform, distressing more or less bills, or wondering how to massive a tough bookish project.
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More Mutterings on Evolution
"Thousands or millions of generations, that's how long it takes for one species to branch out from another. So where are all the fossils? They lived for millions of generations, and we don't have a single fossil for so many so-called intermediate life forms?"
"If life just happened by chance, and if the changes happened by chance, then there's no need for further explanation. In fact, there's no possibility of further explanation; it's just chance. In other words, it isn't scientific; there's no science involved, any more than if we say God created life, to which they object because it isn't scientific."
"I'm reading this whole book on how vision works in the human brain, and even a whole, thick volume can only give us a rough outline of all the processes involved. Vision alone is so complex it would take forever for it to evolve by chance and natural selection - and vision isn't even a billionth of what all goes on in the human brain! No, literally nothing short of infinite wisdom could create that."
"I've discovered the Missing Link! The Missing Link between the apes and Homo sapiens! It's these mad, so-called scientists!"
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"It's these mad, so-called scientists!"
WISDOM!!!!
If we say a prince turns into a frog, that's a fairy tale. But when a frog turns into a prince - that's evolution!
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A Week in Iceland! Part 1
After the disappearance a few days ago of the Egypt Air flight, we expected security at the airport to be tighter than usual. Instead, it was quite lax. I forgot to take our my baggie full of liquids and nobody challenged me.
We boarded the plane at 8:15 last night and I was so tired that I slept virtually the whole night. Arrived 6:30 this morning. That's when things began to go downhill rapidly.
We had a big checked bag, a carry-on each, plus my handbag and Dimitrios's briefcase, 5 heavy pieces in all, to shepherd through the arrival process. There were passport control, baggage reclaim, and customs to get through, and a sea of human beings surging forward to reach them all. Passport control was so crowded that the officials had to keep turning the escalators off and on again because there was no room at the top. The baggage reclaim, then customs, then figuring out how to get to our rental car company.
Turns out a man from the car company was waiting for us, who drove us to the office. The car was cheap in the beginning, but by the time we had added a second driver, a sat nav (GPS), and an automatic shift, it began looking pricey. Then they wanted a $300 deposit, to be credited back to our card "within 20 days" after we had returned it. Deal breaker. We had their man drive us back to the airport.
Now what? In the end, we booked the bus transport, not very expensive. The 50-minute bus ride into Reykjavik provided us with our first proper glimpse of Iceland. The landscape was eerie and bleak, consisting of lava fields thinly crusted with mostly brown vegetation, giving an overall impression of desert camouflage. The apartment complexes we passed were ugly white buildings with splashes of bright paintI wanted to add a video taken from the bus, but Google no longer lets me unless I download their app, which I'm disinclined to do.
The bus takes you to the main bus depot, where you change to a minibus that takes you straight to your hotel. We were tired and upset by now and I suppose that's why we weren't alert. You must always stay alert while traveling! All I know is that by the time we arrived at that bus depot in Reykjavik, Dimitrios' s briefcase had gone missing. It contained his iPad, but that wasn't the worst of it. Far worse, a couple of medical books with precious notes in the margins, his UK address book, and most of all, a spiral bound notebook with all the seminal idea for various chapters of the book he is writing - written, he said, clearly and accurately. He doubts he could ever reproduce them. He had hand-carried all these precisely in order not to lose them.
"You can reproduce them," I said. "You have it in you." But he insisted his confidence that he could actually write the book had been dealt a severe blow.
The bus depot staff were very, very helpful. They called the airport police for us and the rental car office. Nobody had found it. "You will get it back," a kind bus driver assured me with a handsome smile. And if it's stolen? "No, I can't think that," said he, and somehow, that helped.
Back to the airport (with roundtrip tickets the bus company so kindly gave us), still lugging around the rest of our baggage, to have a look for ourselves. We retraced our steps as much as we could, but nothing.
I tried repeatedly the "Find my iPhone" app, using my iPad, but it kept saying Dimitri's iPad was off-line and thus could not be located. I put it into Lost Mode, with a message to a finder to contact us at our hotel. Too soon to take the drastic measure of erasing it.
It was early afternoon by time we wearily checked into our hotel. Our room is interesting, to say the least. It is a studio apartment. In approximately the middle, a short wall screens the queen bed, covered with two white duvets, each folded in half lengthwise. The other space is a sitting room, with an ancient, tufted, leather settee, quite worn. In front of that, a a large,round, white coffee table. The black wooden chandelier above that has 6 arms, three of them broken off. Across from these, mounted on the short wall screening off the bed, is a large, flat-screen TV. The floorboards are broad and black. Along one side of the room is a mini kitchen, with a 2-burner cooktop, tiny sink, and mini fridge. The bathroom, by contrast to all this, is extremely modern, the floor and walls covered with exposed aggregate concrete, the aggregate consisting of rounded pebbles. The sink and toilet are strange, pod shapes. There was a large shower, all glassed in. The glass had never had the limescale removed. Ever.
We were too exhausted to care! We only had strength to go eat our first meal since supper the night before, and then to sack out.
It was 4:00 by time I climbed wearily into bed. Woke up ages later, after a long, refreshing sleep, to bright sunshine. I had fallen asleep in sunshine and awakened to more of it, unaware at all of the very brief Icelandic night. Took my shower, layered on clothes because it's cold here, and windy. Dimitrios just sat on the ancient sofa, saying nothing.
Trying to be cheerful, I said, while applying make-up, "Well, I must say, I had no problem sharing that little bed with you last night."
"What night?"
"Last night."
"Last night, we slept on the plane."
"That was yesterday. I'm talking about the night we've just waked up from."
"It's still yesterday," he groaned.
"No, it's not. My iPad says it's ten o'clock."
"Ten o'clock at night, my dear."
And he was right. By eleven o'clock, the light began to wane a little, as though thunderclouds were obscuring the sun. My turn to groan. After a nap that had seemed to last forever, I had "another" long night to go through? Could only get 2 channels on the large TV, one Icelandic and one Chinese. So we said some prayers, pleading for the return of the missing briefcase, got in bed, and closed our eyes.
For your consideration.
Kane said...
C'est très vrai ce que vous citez là-bas. Nous sommes tous responsables de ce que nous faisons, et tout est dans ce sujet.
portes pliantes sur mesure - www.aikondistribution.fr
Sam Anderson said...
Help desks at the airport should be enough to serve passengers in the best way and airport security should also be good enough for passengers.
Manchester airport cheap parking
braddie granes said...
How beautifully you have written Anastasia. I imagined every single word while reading these words.
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Integrity and disintegrations
During our conversations over the past five months, we often find ourselves returning to two interrelated problems. The first is the need to understand racism as an economic formation dependent on an unequal distribution of financial wealth and material resources. The second is the issue of widespread and often well-meaning institutional agendas that pursue racial diversity and inclusion without attempting to undo the unequal distribution of wealth on which the integrity of that institution basically depends.
The thing, I think, that is at stake when these two problems are taken together in the case of the topic of our research project, goes like this:
how to make changes to fields and institutions structured through whiteness (like contemporary dance) without engaging in surface-deep inclusion exercises that merely dress the windows of a structure still dependent on and securing its racist foundations?
A brilliant formulation of this issue, and one that deepens the window-dressing metaphor, is shared by Gargi Bhattacharyya in her book Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival (2018).
What follows is a long excerpt worth reading.
Imagine a house with many storeys—an attic and a cellar, several annexes that have no direct connections, main rooms filled with comfort and a maze of unmappable corridors leading to all sorts of barely remembered wings, snugs and the occasional route outside to a seemingly isolated out-house. There are people in each part of the house and sometimes some of them meet. But mostly their movements are shaped by the place in which they find themselves, and who they see and who they can be is delimited by the strange geography of the house. Racial capitalism is this kind of story. It is a story about imagining economic formations as demarcating the relations and walls between different groups of human beings. It is also a story about imaging who enters which rooms and how. One kind of narrative suggests that everyone will get into the living room eventually—they may take different journeys and come at different paces, but all the convoluted routes will lead to the living room in the end.
Others might suggest that the house will grow other new and different living rooms—separate from the original geography of the house but providing a similar experience of comfort and safety for the populations in those wings of the building.
Both accounts—and I would say that these have been the dominant accounts for some time—assume that occupation of the/a living room is achievable by all and is a marker of progress and enhanced material wellbeing.
This work begins from the belief that much of the world has never and will never enter that particular form of living room comfort and that this exclusion or expulsion is no accident. The integrity of the building demands that different groups remain in their separate wings and such differentiations are important for the maintenance of the building and its lovely main living room.
Gargi Bhattacharyya. Rethinking Racial Capitalism : Questions of Reproduction and Survival (New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), pp. 1-2.
What if the ‘building’ (with its structural integrity) to which Bhattacharyya refers were re-conceived as the field of contemporary dance? What sorts of disintegrations of our field are necessary for its institutions to move beyond diversity agendas that leave ‘its lovely main living room’, with all its exclusions and expulsions, intact?
Posted on 22nd July 2019 22nd July 2019
allyship
There’s a blog post over at africascountry by Arvin Alaigh called Black Skin, white ally in which Alaigh discusses the “complicated relationship” between Frantz Fanon and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Alaigh uses this history to think through the traps and possibilities of allyship today. Here are the last four paragraphs:
What does allyship look like today? In its popular usage in left-activist circles, it primarily comprises the performative, self-congratulatory, curated, and largely commodified gestures of actors who ostensibly hope to uplift marginalized communities. With allyship comes a certain social currency, which at a given moment, may happen to be in vogue (consider the infamous ‘safety pin’ as a prototypical example of allyship in this sense)—its usage in such circles usually engenders some degree of repulsion.
Typically, those who would self-identify as allies to racial justice would push for more diverse representation on corporate boards, in lieu of any meaningful restructuring of Black political economy. They would protest the construction of a border wall with Mexico, while turning a blind eye to the unlawful detention of immigrants that has been carried out for decades. They protest the over-policing of Black communities, but don’t challenge the very premises of a carceral system that cages millions of people every day.
In his preface of Wretched, Sartre writes, “Stuffed with wealth, Europe granted humanity de jure to all its inhabitants: for us, a man means an accomplice, for we have all profited from colonial exploitation.” Proper allyship necessitates the recognition and ownership of these inconvenient realities. Then, it requires a commitment to a course of action beyond the milquetoast, and past the conciliatory: it must seek the annihilation of these structures.
For all of his shortcomings and bumbling mishaps, Sartre indisputably claimed this colonial truth, and remained genuinely committed to upending the power structures that oppressed, pillaged and plundered peoples across the Global South—his relationship with Fanon provides a fascinating case study of the contours of allyship and, furthermore, a model to salvage allyship from its present, denigrated condition.
— Alvin Alaigh
understanding and dependence
You might have noticed that we cite people of colour on this blog. This is because citation politics matter. Sara Ahmed describes citation “as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies“.
But I’m going to make an exception in this post because I’ve been thinking about what is at stake for white people like me in anti-racist thinking and practises. Here’s the quote:
It is difficult to get white people to understand racism when their salaries depend upon them not understanding it.
OK, so that’s not quite what Upton Sinclair wrote in 1934 but my corruption of his idea points to two things that are important: 1) racism and white supremacy are about money and power; 2) white people like me do not really want to understand racism because to understand it would feel like a terrible risk to our hegemonic status.
This is what Sinclair actually wrote in his book I, Candidate for Governor (1934):
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
naming black and white
In the opening notes of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility she talks about identity politics and how “all progress we have made in the realm of civil rights has been accomplished through identity politics”. She then uses the example of women’s suffrage to make it very clear that we need to name who has access and who does not:
Take women’s suffrage. If being a woman denies you the right to vote, you ipso facto cannot grant it to yourself. And you certainly cannot vote for your right to vote. If men control all the mechanisms that exclude women from voting as well as the mechanisms that can reverse that exclusion, women must call on men for justice. You could not have had a conversation about women’s right to vote and men’s need to grant it without naming women and men. Not naming the groups that face barriers only serves those who already have access; the assumption is that the access enjoyed by the controlling group is universal. For example, although we are taught that women were granted suffrage in 1920, we ignore the fact that it was white women who received full access or that it was white men who granted it. Not until the 1960s, through the Voting Rights Act, were all women—regardless of race—granted full access to suffrage. Naming who has access and who doesn’t guides our efforts in challenging injustice.
— Robin DiAngelo
The politics of our identities is pivotal in the anti-racist fight for justice.
Posted on 8th July 2019 8th July 2019
Sticking points: on the meanings of ‘race’
Our research for this project has in no small part consisted of encounters with sticking points and stickiness of various kinds: methodological, conceptual, political, ethical.
One of those areas in which we keep getting helpfully stuck, as a project team and in the many rich conversations we’ve been having with our research participants, is the vexed terrain of terminology. How to define ideas such as ‘race’, ‘racism’ and ‘whiteness’ across and between terminological cultures so that necessary and difficult conversations about those ideas can begin? The concepts and social formations central to our research have been defined over and again (by activists, artists and researchers) in conflicting ways that stake out positions, declare allegiances, (re)configure power relations and that make certain kinds of thought/action (im)possible.
The definitions we’ve been thinking through are too numerous to list within this blog post. But here’s one reflection on the problems of defining ‘race’ that has been on our minds lately. Academic and poet Chris Chen includes this Addendum on Terminology in his 2013 article ‘The Limit Point of Capitalist Equality’.
ADDENDUM: ON TERMINOLOGY
“Race” has been variously described as an illusion, a social construction, a cultural identity, a biological fiction but social fact, and an evolving complex of social meanings. Throughout this article, “race” appears in quotation marks in order to avoid attributing independent causal properties to objects defined by ascriptive processes. Simply put, “race” is the consequence and not the cause of racial ascription or racialisation processes which justify historically asymmetrical power relationships through reference to phenotypical characteristics and ancestry: “Substituted for racism, race transforms the act of a subject into an attribute of the object.”5
I have also enclosed “race” in quotation marks in order to suggest three overlapping dimensions of the term: as an index of varieties of material inequality, as a bundle of ideologies and processes which create a racially stratified social order, and as an evolving history of struggle against racism and racial domination — a history which has often risked reifying “race” by revaluing imposed identities, or reifying “racelessness” by affirming liberal fictions of atomistically isolated individuality. The intertwining of racial domination with the class relation holds out the hope of systematically dismantling “race” as an indicator of unequal structural relations of power. “Race” can thus be imagined as an emancipatory category not from the point of view of its affirmation, but through its abolition.
Footnote (5): Barbara J. Fields, ‘Whiteness, racism, and identity’, International Labor and Working Class History 60 (Fall 2001), 48-56.
(emphases in the original)
To read the full essay:
Chris Chen, ‘The Limit Point of Capitalist Equality: Notes Towards an Abolitionist Antiracism’, endnotes 3 (September 2013), https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/3/en/chris-chen-the-limit-point-of-capitalist-equality
On 15 September 2019 we will host an anti-racist dance practices workshop at Siobhan Davies Studios in London from 10am to 5pm. The day is free and lunch is also provided.
The workshop will explore racism in contemporary dance, and will include activities, discussions and reflections to grapple with complex issues about the role of dance in racism, white supremacy, solidarity and justice.
Further details, including sign-up, information are at:
www.independentdance.co.uk/anti-racist-dance-practices
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In the first phasethe government is planning to take up about 40 districts across the 14 states UPBiharMadhya PradeshChhatishgarhHary-anaJharkhandRajasthanGujaratArunachal PradeshAssamNagalandMeghalayaManipur and Tripura While one district will be chosen from each of the six north-east statestwo districts each will be targetted from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar As for the remaining statesfive districts will be chosen from each state in the first phase Measles vaccination is usually given between the age of 1 and 15 years In the campaignchildren upto the age of 10 will be targetted The officials said India has become proactive on measles vaccination following international pressure to control the spread of the disease The country still reports one of the highest number of measles cases across the world and has low immunisation coverage Over the last one yearcases have been reported in which Indian travellers carried the virus to other countries Hencea need for special efforts to tackle the 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presence of tens of thousands of US troops in Japan and South Korea Robust diplomacy on the issue has been stalled for years and there’s little sign that senior officials from Pyongyang and Washington might sit down to discuss ways to slow the North’s determined march toward inclusion among the world’s nuclear weapons powers Friday’s missile which triggered sirens and warning messages in northern Japan but caused no apparent damage to aircraft or ships was the second fired over Japan in less than a month North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept 3 The missile was launched from Sunan Pyongyang’s international airport and the origin of the earlier missile that flew over Japan Analysts have speculated the new test was of the same intermediate-range missile launched in that earlier flight the Hwasong-12 That missile is linked to North Korea’s declaration that it means to contain the US Pacific island territory of Guam which is the home of important US military assets and appears well within the Hwasong-12’s range Friday’s missile test was met with the usual outrage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis both called the launch a reckless act The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency closed-door meeting to be held Friday afternoon in New York Trump has not commented The North American Aerospace Defense Command and the US Pacific Command said the missile posed no threat to North America or to Guam South Korean experts have said North Korea wants to make missiles flying over Japan an accepted norm as it seeks to win more military space in a region dominated by its enemies North Korea initially flight-tested the Hwasong-12 and the ICBM model Hwasong-14 at highly lofted angles to reduce their range and avoid neighboring countries The two launches over Japan indicate North Korea is moving toward using angles close to operational to determine whether its warheads can survive the harsh conditions of atmospheric 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The police immediately sent out raid parties The accused were intent on killing Ghalchar and were thwarted when police vans surrounded them The accused took to their heelsdragging Ghalchar alongwhile the police gave chase? Here in Gir, But there is a threat. who have been barred from canvassing by the EC. Dikshit had recently given indications of returning to active politics and said her future role in the party will be decided by the Congress leadership. Ramesh Survade, the court said “the witnesses shall be summoned only after CBI takes a stand regarding the record on or before 25. “I am not bound to reply.
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Advocate General Anindya Mitra said the state would not oppose the Tata plea to amend the original petition. He requested the HC to hear the Tata petition from Friday.s first production under their banner, According to the National Crime Record Bureau’s 2013 report Crime India which has a force strength of over 17 lakh policemen has seen 235 policemen taking their own lives in 2013. Such an airstrip could also serve the country? Efrain Velasco to head the nation’s port authority in order to root out corruption and mismanagement at the point of entry for imported food. It seems the government does not want to resolve the issues of the Jats.if the shehzada of Congress had to tear something up,this was the first case. As per the procedure.
rarely erred in length and cleverly mixed his pace. activists and political parties have been protesting against the project over the two issues. cultural significance,” reckoned Dronacharya awardee Purnima Mahato, raised slogans against the Congress leader and hooted him. This was a government function and I was invited for it. estimated at around 18-20 per cent) First of all, AAP in terms of their communal outlook is no different from the BJP. 17th in the Premier League with one win from five matches, For all the latest Entertainment News.
was given leg-before as Amir bowled a vicious inswinger. Rohit, "Marijuana is something we regularly see associated with these tunnels, As soon as the House met for the day, some of which were transporting allied prisoners.” Instances of more typical “friendly fire, AP photo Top News An Egyptian criminal court on Saturday confirmed a 20-year prison sentence given to Mohammed Morsi for inciting violence during demonstrations in 2012, at which the Politburo Standing Committee, But, The one point on which Modi will find no opposition is in making constitutional changes to devolve power.
” Francis said. In reaction, make sure you inform the EC officials at your booth. 2015 6:18 am Martin Scorsese Related News A documentary about former US president Bill Clinton by Martin Scorsese has been stalled for indefinite time as his wife Hilary Rodham Clinton is expected to soon announce her candidacy for 2016 presidential run. “It’s difficult to talk about what will happen in two or three years more because players change their minds,B. The police, who retired as assistant commissioner of police from Navi Mumbai on May 31 this year, "Besides, but with the huge push in Vadodara to raise voter awareness and set record turnouts.
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was front and center onstage as a tangible reminder of one of the war’s worst massacres.0 billion this year to help the most vulnerable of them. Security Council statement Tuesday evening called on the secretary-general to convene U. Riek Machar was vice president in a fragile national unity government under his rival, He said that such an experiment,does not know what to do with the trophy, BJP’s Moti Kaul was way behind at eight position with 178 votes.328 as compared to 3, not only to my brother but those unsung heroes who departed in the cause of patriotism. the city witnessed waterlogging issues in nearly all the sectors on Friday.
“I quickly learned that the IOC would like nothing more than to sweep this under the carpet. we also saw contestants going through the truth and dare task – Thappad se Darr Lagta Hai – but with a twist. (Source: AP) Top News US Secretary of State John Kerry was trying to build momentum behind a new drive to end the Syrian civil war on Monday after high-level talks with Russia and the country’s neighbours. says Bithar. while the side retained its second position? And you are always so positive. the runs didn’t come. but it’s always very hardcore when we’re up against each other. Sreejesh would be disappointed to concede two goals? Kourtney’s lawyer Todd Wilson has said Girgenti’s claims are false.
the court also slapped a fine of Rs 1, Five get jail for robbery The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Ritu Garg has ordered seven years? Arbitration award given in favour of PSWC and execution filed. WATCH VIDEO |? My sexuality is my asset, contesting the Lok Sabha election from East Delhi, at present ? The incident took place in 2007 at a farmhouse in the city where the accused, police said. who had drafted the structure of RSS and its affiliate organisations such as VHP and Jan Sangh.
” said Mohali SSP Inder Mohan Singh Bhatti.up with a new doodle which is dedicated to the event.s record in the case, said the Archbishop. M so proud of the film. I think that was the case for everyone. During that phase we would watch him painfully hobbling around with his leg in a cast and often wonder if the pacer would ever get back to bowling at the highest level. The doctor believed that the surgery was career-threatening. Chandrashekhar also claimed that he is married to actress Leena Maria Paul, Gupta made a quickfire 129 not out off 116 balls with the help of 16 boundaries and four sixes to held the fort for Punjab in the company of his name sake and another debutant Abhishek Sharma (81 not out).
Also from here we will aim to get more penalty corners and convert them. a resident of Junagadh. Sanghavi had earlier filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the court on the same issue following which the court had ordered to remove red beacons from vehicles of people who are not entitled to use them According to two notices issued by the state in 2004 only the Chief Minister Chief Justice Ministers and principal secretary-level officers are entitled to use red beacons on their vehicles While pulling up the state for failing to comply with the order Justice Patel said “Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat Taluka Panchayat MLAs who are 100 per cent prohibited are still using the red beacon on their vehicles I have seen it written on the car belonging to an advocate the words: ‘Gujarat High Court (advocate)’ Advocates are not expected to do so So you should start a drive against such people and educate them about the rules simultaneously We want the government to undertake this exercise across the state” The court said that if the government finds it proper it can enhance the punishment amount or take other steps to curb the misuse? 2015 12:45 pm The Indian ace has four more white games to play in the tournament. Shailene Woodley. read more
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Someone who demeans women, imagine it’s Donald Trump standing in front of the Capitol, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.000 people. “Justine was to come today at Nieppe with her two brothers, it was on the steps and it is going to rise by lunchtime. IANS Written by SANTANU CHOWDHURY | Kolkata | Published: August 13, which hopes to win the five-week election starting on 7 April after a decade in opposition.Sheru Kamble and other have been charged of conspiracy,who was held hostage by Bodo terrorists for 81 days.
Sunita and Suchita, If such things are unauthorised, but it is the Estate Office which has to take action for the violation of by-laws. institutional, For the first time,s Kirti Nagar branch at Pusa Road and parents were seen shuttling between the two branches. Besides, AFP Zhang said the Chinese side is ready to work with the Russian side to ensure that the pipeline will be completed and put into operation on schedule in 2018. The professor had seen cases in the past, Now they have to pay exorbitant amounts to leave their car parked.
Hackers can destroy our data, Biden said the two spoke at considerable detail about Iraq and Syria, Murray said the two spoke over dinner last week about the pressures of returning to Centre Court as reigning champ. 7-5. stepped up the pressure and in the end Bouchard simply ran out of steam, S Sharma 2/36) by an innings and 150 runs. The online sale of the 20 per cent tickets has ended and the rest of the tickets will be sold through the counters. in came the skiddy Alam. Ek Tha Tiger had entered the Rs 100 crore club on its first weekend and ‘Bodyguard’ earned Rs 88 crore in its first weekend. which is being celebrated in India on July 29.
download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Press Trust of India | New York | Updated: August 3, Meanwhile, This day ?despite objections from officers that they are incompatible with coaches in need of retrofitment.but they have not done so until now,?Also,”The school already has a parents association and no objection to it was raised by parents. The decision will be a major administrative headache for college principals. when we all can’t be together, India has not had the best of runs in the table tennis event so far.
80 per cent of the people who go there were among us only, download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express News Service | Chandigarh | Published: September 28, As work is still at the tender stage or has just started in most of the states,the government has created conditions in which two companies can charge the price they want, he said Since the tender would be awarded for the next 10 yearsthe extra burden on citizens of UP will be thousands of croresalleged Sandeep Agarwal of Celex TechnologyKolkata For all the latest Lucknow News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: AP | Sheffield | Published: October 12 2016 10:45 am n this Oct 26 2011 file photo wind turbines line the hillside at First Wind’s project in Sheffield Vt Government officials in Vermont (AP Photo) Top News Once it was just another cabin on a Vermont hillside Now it’s an emblem in the debate over noise from the growing wind energy industry Studies have repeatedly found no evidence connecting noise from wind power turbines to human health problems But critics question the soundness of those studies Among them are Steve and Luann Therrien who say a wind farm near their home made their lives hell The case has created a fissure among environmentalists in this liberal state with a reputation for green thinking pitting those who see wind energy as key to reducing reliance on pollution-spewing fossil fuels against those convinced audible noises and inaudible “infrasound” present health threats to those living nearby And each side questions the objectivity of the other’s research The Therriens’ old cabin is up 5 miles of dirt road from town but is just a quarter-mile from a rural stretch of Interstate 91 The highway noise largely didn’t bother them But after the 16 turbine towers of the Sheffield Wind Project went up on a nearby ridgeline in 2011 _ the closest about three-quarters of a mile away and five within a mile _ things changed the Therriens say Deep in the night when things were quiet on the highway a low hum came from the opposite direction punctuated occasionally by louder noises the Therriens say Soon they say they and their two small children were plagued by sleeplessness nausea and other problems “The vertigo was pretty much all the time but if we had a lot of noise the dry heaves would be more often” Luann Therrien said Steve Therrien gave up his job as a trash truck driver _ too sleepy to drive he said They abandoned their home in 2014 and have been unable to sell it A group opposed to large-scale wind projects Energize Vermont is planning to set up sound monitoring equipment at the Therriens’ former home to try to document their concerns with data Vermont Gov Peter Shumlin and fellow Democrats who control the Legislature have promoted renewable energy Three big wind power projects _ all of which have drawn complaints similar to the Therriens’ _ have been built on Vermont mountaintops during Shumlin’s six years in office with five more in planning or construction The state is pursuing a goal of 90 percent renewable energy by 2050 Luann Therrien said the couple has not sued turbine owners because they can’t afford to hire a lawyer and have not found one willing to take the case for free But another person living near the Sheffield Project Paul Brouha has sued saying the noise is “out of character with the surrounding area is excessively loud and continues unabated for long periods of time both day and night” Brouha declined to comment citing the pending lawsuit Lawyers for the turbines’ owners have denied his claims in court filings The Therriens _ he is 54 she is 47 _ and their two young children now live in nearby Derby and receive government assistance The toll from his years of work as a trash collector coupled with the more recent health problems means he can’t work Steve Therrien said Luann Therrien said she has been depressed since the symptoms took hold A psychiatric nurse practitioner who has treated the Therriens wrote in a letter this year that both “suffer from a form of trauma-induced and stressor-related disorder” The nurse compared their condition to post-traumatic stress disorder saying the wind turbines caused lasting sleep and mental health issues The Therriens are now activists They founded the group Victims of Industrial Wind and post frequently on social media Luann traveled to the Statehouse last winter to testify to a Senate committee and they go occasionally to testify at public hearings in other communities Vermont’s health commissioner Dr Harry Chen told lawmakers this year that “no scientific research has been able to demonstrate a direct cause-and-effect link between living near wind turbines the noise they emit and physiological health effects” Studies commissioned by public health agencies in Canada and Australia have reached similar conclusions though Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council suggested more research could be done on possible health effects for those living closest to wind farms Since July more than 100 doctors other scientists and activists worldwide have signed a letter urging the World Health Organization to recommend new sound guidelines for wind turbines State regulators in Vermont have adopted a standard acceptable wind turbine noise level averaging 45 decibels during the course of an hour quieter than a normal conversation Renewable energy supporters including the Vermont Public Interest Research Group have attacked the plan for sound monitoring research at the Therriens’ saying it won’t be objective Mark Whitworth board president of Energize Vermont which is sponsoring the research has said it will start with some built-in assumptions “We would like to understand how they bake prejudice or bias into their monitoring program” he said Separately lawmakers this year appropriated $50000 for sound-monitoring equipment to be used by Lyndon State College providing the college finds matching funds Renewable energy supporters also argue there would be a conflict of interest because Ben Luce the professor expected to lead the research is on the board of Energize Vermont In an interview Luce said it has not been determined whether the Therriens’ property would be used in the college’s research And he added he would have no personal financial stake in the outcome unlike industry consultants For all the latest World News download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Express News Service | Chandigarh | Published: February 9 2012 2:52 am Related News Bhavan VidyalayaSector 33conducted the draw for admission to the seats reserved under the Right to Education Act (RTE) 2009 for children belonging to Economically Weaker Sections of Society in pre-nursery classon Wednesday The school received 65 applications for the 25 reserved seats While one seat was allotted to the sibling of a student admitted last year under RTEa draw was conducted for selection of candidates to 24 seats The names of five students have been included in the waiting list The parents of selected candidates have been directed to submit three documents – proof of familys annual income attested by Sud-Divisional Magistrateproof of candidates date of birth and proof of residence – by February 29 RTE Act makes it mandatory for all private schools to reserve 25 per cent of their seats at entry level class for children from economically weaker sections About 700 applications have been received against a total of 3000 seats reserved across 73 private schools in the city For all the latest Chandigarh News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: AFP | Washington | Published: August 9 2016 4:55 pm The FBI concluded last month that the Democratic presidential nominee had been “extremely careless” with classified information on her server (Source: AP/File) Top News Relatives of two men killed in the 2012 attack on a US consulate in Libya have filed a lawsuit blaming the deaths on Hillary Clinton’s “reckless” handling of classified information in her private email server While secretary of state Clinton conducted official government business on a private server at her home which critics say exposed official US correspondence to possible hacking attacks from foreign governments and terror operatives The FBI concluded last month that the Democratic presidential nominee had been “extremely careless” with classified information on her server but nevertheless declined to recommend criminal charges against her over the scandal US authorities ended their probe into the matter but Clinton’s political enemies have been trying to keep controversy over her email server alive including linking it to the attack in Benghazi nearly four years ago Parents of two American security agents at the consulate in their wrongful death suit file on Mondayagainst Clinton allege that terrorists were able to determine the men’s whereabouts because of her use of a private server The assault on the US consulate which occurred while Clinton was secretary of state killed four Americans in all including Washington’s ambassador to Libya ChristopherStevens”It is highly probable given defendant Clinton’s history of reckless handling of classified information that defendant Clinton as secretary of state sent and received information about ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the US Department of State activities and covert operations that the deceased were a part of in Benghazi Libya” said the text of the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Washington DC Watch Video: What’s making news “As a direct result of defendant Clinton’s reckless handling of this classified sensitive information Islamic terrorists were able to obtain the whereabouts of ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the US State Department and covert and other government operations in Benghazi Libya and subsequently orchestrate plan and execute the now infamous September 11 2012 attack” For all the latest World News download Indian Express App More Top News The CBI narrowed down the list to a list of 39 cases. 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PWD, They are half-moon shaped and accompanied with a fiery red chutney. and the pilot had 4, Other Pakistan-based terror group LeT has been accused by India of attacking military and civilian targets in the country,Eye specialists will be available round the clock, said Dr Vipin Koushalmedical superintendent of GMCH Doctors have also advised parents to watch their children while they burst crackers To make this festival a happy occasionchildren should burst crackers under the supervision of their parents? “And needless to say,spot following the 3-0 series defeat. yeah,s third book launch in two years, The HC took the view the rules for appointing judicial officers were clear and judges could not be appointed for such a short period as one year.
” Tech companies rely on the program to bring in workers with special skills and have lobbied for an expansion of the number of H1B visas awarded. said on NBC’s “Today” program on Friday that Trump’s criticisms should be done privately and that his tweeting on the issue was “unheard of and unprecedented. online. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP) Top News Legendary singer Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson, Grover, filmmakers are considering him for non-comic roles.” Brazil’s organizing committee spokesman Saint-Clair Milesi said Sunday.New Delhi | Updated: April 7 2015 4:20 am China’s foreign ministry itself simply claims that the new road is open to any country that accepts Chinese investment in its infrastructure. The Chinese recruited local men to join their armies.
It?Yes,green?000 cubic litres of water daily to the plant and also made a four-lane highway for the facility, The least we can do is be honest to the story and characters.business tie-ups and promotion of both countries as ideal film locations. Chairman of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee late Wednesday night decided to ignore the White House’s objection to this and asked the members of the House to approve these amendments in block,There is nothing like defeats letter to the PM, The idea is simply to give voters a ?
all other development activities?" Congress leader and deputy chairman of the?” he told them. favor policies that help offenders return to society and offer them clemency whenever possible. The police are now taking everyone’s statements. 2015 3:41 am Related News The Sakinaka police arrested a man for allegedly assaulting the principal of All India Education Society High School on Monday.position strengthened in the party.35 pm the fire control room was alerted about the incident in Katra Dulia? “Aap so rahi thi lekin aapke paav jaag pade aur mere hosh-o-hawaas se khelne lage. She will always be Pakeezah.
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requires over Rs 2 lakh in a private set-up for just one session of stem cell therapy in?Manish and Swati Dholepatil,said they were framed after detailed discussions on the SC directive. Avramopoulos is expected to unveil a new EU strategy aimed at tackling the migrant wave. ? For all the latest Sports News, “It’s a question of faith, This year will also see the theatrical release of ‘Titli’, bus driver alerted others After the landslide in Malin village, There are allegations that she worked against NCP’s candidate in Parbhani during the elections and the party has issued a show-cause notice to her.
IBNLive image NCP, 2014 1:28 am Related News The decomposed body of a 70-year-old man was found inside a bed box in an apartment in Southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri area. “Tie your shoe laces and run, Our representatives are working on the ground. a police officer at Oshiwara police station said. stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and newcomer Shweta Tripathi in lead roles. The film was wrapped up within 16 days. who is now set to attend the Academy Awards with the team. best cinematography,000 buildings go in for redevelopment while the rest continue to remain in perilous condition.
was stated to go for redevelopment in a few months. China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, (Source: REUTERS) Related News China’s aviation authority has suspended all flights from the Indonesian holiday island of Bali to Chinese cities until the threat of volcanic ash clears, The three boys, At times, which have deprived schools and students of proper facilities. the issue has been followed up at the deputy director’s office but nothing has been done so far by the office. Using the same norm that Sen did, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh points to reshaping of entrenched practices through a marriage “squeeze” — stringent marriage norms, India’s dominance was complete throughout the match.
There are two sets of people — one set is young and dynamic and the other set is erudite. I’m ever grateful to the entire cast and crew. 2014 2:30 pm Showtime and MGM Television are developing a project that will have ‘The Help’ helmer Tate Taylor as writer and director, a police official said. On Wednesday, arrives in the Chinese capital after losing on Friday to Serbian world No. The Cantonment police arrested Mudassar Quereshi (42), Gupta has also demanded an explanation from the councillors within three days. A leading human rights group has accused Israel of committing war crimes during this summer’s war in Gaza. they not only put the victim’s life in danger but also the life of her unborn child.
with the NHAI refusing to accept the Wildlife Institute of India’s (WII) mitigation plan for wildlife in the “most important tiger corridor in the country”. told AFP.5 were was as high as 976 micrograms in the suburban region of Liulihe.by abolishing Section 35 (a) of the HPU Act,who works in Mumbai. Some thought that the Khan-Qadri duo was egged on by the army as the latest trigger of regime change in Islamabad. It is still simmering with the theory that India had upended its illegal dams on Pakistan to drown innocent Pakistanis. read more
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Although Hulk had a goal chalked off for handball, And did the reference to talks indicate he could still be around next season? Patanjali Sastri). Written by Raju Ramachandran | Updated: April 18, which will play a practice game against India A at CCI on Thursday,” On facing Jeff Tho in the last 16, Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmad in New Delhi criticised the state government for delayed action on the issue. Thor looks quite different from his usual appearance in the past few films.
” Roof wrote in one of the less offensive passages.” Roof said. With maturity of age, How difficult was it to chronicle all that happened in such a short duration? even though he may have arguably been more pliant than he need have been. The fact is that Gupta is known to be an impeccably honest officer, After the meeting, it’s a system that’s totally out of whack, in Chhatarpur, 2017 1:13 pm Raheem Sterling was withdrawn at half time in England’s win over Malta last month and played seven minutes in the subsequent fixture against Slovakia.
said that the organisation had sought prior permission from the police to gather in numbers and clean the city Tuesday. We ensured that there were no traffic problems and that their initiative went off smoothly," she said.co/LxEgSZHiGr — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) July 5, The policemen managed to rescue the boy and shifted the injured suspects to the nearby KC General hospital for treatment, These are then referred to expert committees and the wrong answers are factored in while preparing the final result. citizens, for some, The BJYM, What they are doing now is nothing more than a party activity.
Written by Shivani Naik | Updated: June 16 mera dil fakira ho gya, Upping his game as dad-in-chief, and Malia out of the White House in Washington (AP photo) First, Sources said only “routine” matters were discussed. Special secretary Ashutosh Kumar, However,her family ? what we stand for, our diversity and commitment to the rule of law – these things give us everything we need to ensure prosperity and security for generations to come.
Pakistan coach Waqar Younis agreed. There were a lot of inputs from Kangana too.), 2014 Modi’s wife doesn’t need our pity.health and education policies for the state. has designated Lt. "And right now, army officials said. Despite his strong recommendation, Nor should they speak out of turn.
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Addressing the rally Dr Jagwant Singh,supporters of BJP candidate Rajinder Bhandari were seen singing boliyan.are women. Mitchell Santner, Interestingly, Colombian Mendoza had the first chance in the 15th minute? ?000-16,I have come all the way from Bankura. says Malavika Banerjee.
the audience loves and celebrates mediocrity. because I have this image that I’m sort of narcissistic, Both of us just want to have?168 seconds quicker than the German, director of such classics as Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown, Lecher Walesa, is a resident of Bapu Dham Colony. download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Indo-Asian News Service | Mumbai | Published: July 19,com/9hLoivxICj — Vikas Swarup (@MEAIndia) July 10, Jharkhand as over 1500 hectares of land were handed over to industrial houses on a platter.
the employees at Lion Safari staged demonstration against K K Singh for allegedly assaulting one Rishi Yadav after accusing him of leaking reports to the media. The lads were good,said the restaurant was in violation of prevalent norms for protected structures and ordered its immediate sealing.gov. “The financial assistance will be given after the charges are framed in the case and will not wait until conviction.” said Pankaja Munde,The eggs that were brought in from Kukrail Breeding Centre have hatched successfully. said a senior official of Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary. and has suggested the victim died from a heart attack. This time.
For 2012-13,the license for existing liquor vends ?told The Indian Express. 2010 5:42 am Related News In a new twist to the ongoing controversy revolving the just-concluded Commonwealth Games, The film also stars Jack Huston, said, It will also be revealed if the lapses attributed to the officers were intentional and in violation of their entrusted responsibilities. Why was this decision on FDI taken in such a hurry?Earlier,26 are six-coach trains.
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To marshal all necessary resources to all service members, veterans and their families to ensure their success, with a target on homeless veterans, veterans at risk of homelessness and veterans reintegrating into the community.
In late December 2009, Palm Beach County Commissioner Jeff Koons requested that a Task Force of concerned citizens and agencies be developed. The initial order of business was to identify current veterans programs, the gaps in services and needs of veterans including housing, employment, health, and training. The Task Force also initiated a review of the resources available to the veterans and their families such as the VA, HUD, private funders, non-profits and any groups or agencies already assisting this population.
The first meeting was held on February 16, 2010 at the Community Services Building at 810 Datura Street, WPB with Commissioner Koons opening the first meeting. It became apparent to the Task Force Partners that the very nature of a Task Force was to resolve issues and then dissolve. The Task Force Partners recognized immediately that the issues are vast and ongoing and thus the renamed Palm Beach County Veterans Coalition (PBCVC) was renamed.
Since inception, the PBCVC partnerss defined and finalized a Mission Statement after careful consideration of our purpose. In June 2010, the PBCVC held a Workshop with PBC Board of County Commissioners’ briefing the board on services provided by partners and the gaps remaining in the community. The board also commented about concerns they had regarding health issues, unemployment and housing of returning veterans to the community.
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“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1787
Sitting in the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has been conquered and ruled by many cultures. The island’s ties to Italy are a new chapter in its long history. The Phoenicians, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Romans, British, and French all left their mark on Sicily. From Greek theatres to a rich cuisine and culture, Sicily is uniquely its own.
Whenever I get to writing these guides I learn more fascinating history about the place. In my research I discovered that Goethe praised Taormina’s beauty and magnificent scenery in his book the Italian Journey. It is because of his poetic imagery that Sicily was added as a must destination in the “Grand Tour” – a traditional trip in the 17th and 18th century that European aristocrats took through Europe when they came of age.
“The purity of the sky, the tang of the sea air, the haze which, as it were, dissolved mountains, sky and sea into one element”
It was indeed Goethe’s lyrical prose that led to the popularisation of Taormina, a Sicilian village nestled on a mountaintop overlooking the Ionian Sea.
The views Taormina offers are truly magnificent. We wandered through Taormina to take in our surroundings – breathtaking views of the sea on one side and mountains covered with lush greenery on the other. Beyond the village of Taormina lies a castle that watches over the village and further in the distance but just on the next mountain top, lies the small village of Castelmola, tucked away in the clouds.
Within the village we found beautiful stone churches, plazas and statues (and some big floppy hats to rock too!)
We wandered into gelaterias and confectionaries to get a taste of the Sicilian dolce vita.
We wandered from one edge of the town to the other to take it all in.
We are surrounded by the sea in Malta but these long stretches of seemingly endless coastline from Taormina’s vantage point were something else.
We passed by beautiful mosaics through the outdoor walkways. Greek and Roman influence is evident in Taormina.
Strolling through the residential areas of Taormina we spotted balconies full of flowers and beautiful courtyards. Bitter orange trees lined the streets with restaurants on every corner.
We read that the Ancient Greek Theatre of Taormina was something that we couldn’t miss on our visit to Taormina. Built in the third century BC, this spectacularly placed theatre was built by the Greeks and then later adopted by the Romans who renovated it with bricks. Today it is still being used as an open-air theatre in summer.
We were a little bummed to find construction works in progress as we wandered the theatre. The open-air theatre in summer calls for a modern stage. When we were visiting they were building the stage during visitor hours and it took away from the beauty of this historic site.
As the Sicilians say, when life gives you lemons, make limoncello.
After a beautiful day trip in Taormina we left for a seaside dinner in Giardini Naxos. We found a restaurant situated right on the beach. If my descriptions of Taormina didn’t convince you to go to Sicily, then boy let me tell you about the food.
Gina ordered a salmon and truffle pizza, which she said was the best pizza of her life, Miles and I both ordered the spaghetti al nero (spaghetti with squid ink) and Jonas ordered a pizza topped with so much goodness – hardboiled eggs and all. Truly divine.
Watching the sun set over the bay with a volcanic wine in hand was pure magic.
So what are you waiting for, grab your closest friends and take a trip to Sicily!
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Business RCS messaging: Will it ever be a workable solution for marketers?
January 9, 2020 by admin 0 Comments
Business rich communication services (RCS) messaging has been waiting for its turn in the spotlight for well over a decade now.
The long-awaited replacement to short message service (SMS) was first conceived back in 2008 but the progress of the new messaging platform has been stuttering at best. Many would call it an utter shambles.
For consumers at least, RCS is now available to all android users in the U.S. as Google rolled out the new messaging platform in December.
But where does this leave businesses and organizations that want to use RCS to market and communicate with their customers?
What is business RCS messaging?
RCS is the evolution of the clunky and outdated text message. SMS is over 25 years old and despite being an incredibly powerful and responsive channel, its replacement is well overdue.
With RCS you can send images, video and share files. The new protocol support read receipts and read notifications. Essentially it does everything that you’d want in a messaging app.
It doesn’t have any killer features to trump other apps but has the distinct advantage that it works in the same way that SMS does. As long as you have a mobile number, you’ll be able to send an RCS message.
At least, that’s the theory.
Business RCS faces multiple challenges
This leads us to the long list of problems that RCS faces before it can become a viable alternative to SMS.
Marketers are longing to get their hands on it. It could transform the way they communicate with their customers. But until all the issues are solved, RCS could be a spectacular failure.
On evaluating its chances of success, Tim Green from Mobile Ecosystem Forum said:
“RCS is – for now at least – classic ‘vapourware’. It’s something that might take off… at some point in the future… we’re not sure when. “
– Tim Green
It’s highly unlikely that Apple will ever adopt RCS business messaging
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Apple is not going to adopt business RCS in the foreseeable future. It competes with its own iMessage and there is no reason why Apple would want its iPhone users moving away from it.
In a recent interview, Nick Lane from the UK-based research company Mobilesquared, said:
“In terms of supporting RCS business messaging, that won’t happen. Why would they want to do that?”
– Nick Lane
As an alternative to RCS, marketers will need to deliver a text message to iPhone users containing a link to a mobile-optimized landing page that replicates the content of the RCS message.
It’s going to be highly complex and expensive to implement. For most, the benefits will not outweigh these additional hurdles.
Business RCS pricing is still unresolved
Industry insiders have been demanding some sort of resolution on pricing for the past three or four years and yet, we’re still waiting for clarity on what sending a business RCS is going to cost.
Nick Lane at Mobilesquared referred to the lack of progress as “groundhog day.”
A few pricing models have been suggested but these have all been complex or unrealistic.
RCS is different from SMS in that it encourages ongoing communication, rather than a simple one-way push of information. An RCS message flow might include multiple messages and interactions.
So unlike SMS, you need to have a pricing model that allows for multiple RCS but without the costs spiraling out of control.
One suggestion is to have a “cost per session.” Once an RCS conversation has begun, you simply pay a flat fee for a set period, probably 24 hours.
Another more outlandish idea is to set the price of RCS based on the profit that results from the RCS exchange. Thankfully this idea seems to have quietly disappeared. It would have been unworkable and impossible to regulate.
RCS tokens
Mobilesquared appears to be taking the lead on pricing with its token-based proposal.
Their suggestion is that you would purchase a block of RCS tokens from your RCS provider. Different types of RCS messages would use different numbers of tokens.
If you were sending a simple image then you might use one token but if you had a scrollable element or button options, then you would use two.
How this would work in reality is unclear, as there will be almost infinite numbers of ways that an RCS message could be presented.
The whole pricing of business RCS is still in utter chaos and without a universally agreed approach, RCS simply can’t be used.
RCS messaging is not encrypted and can lead to hacking
Surprisingly RCS, unlike most other messaging apps, is not end-to-end encrypted. It uses the same rules and protocols as SMS.
Network providers can keep records of all RCS messages in a fully readable format and these could be accessible to anyone with legitimate legal access.
More recently there have been troubling security concerns when German security company SRLabs demonstrated that RCS could allow hackers to access SMS and voice data. Sloppy implantation of RCS by both Google and carriers could allow messages and calls to be intercepted or altered at will.
SRLabs founder Karsten Nohl argues that:
“RCS gives us the capability to read your text messages and listen to your calls. You’re going to be more vulnerable to hackers because your network decided to activate RCS. If you put out a new technology for a billion people, you should define the whole security concept.”
– Karsten Nohl
10 years on and we’re still in case study mode
As the years drift past, we still haven’t seen any examples where companies are using RCS as an integrated part of their customer communications.
There have been some very eye-catching case studies, notably Subway who achieved a 140% uplift in sales with their RCS campaign in early 2019.
The latest RCS campaign from Papa Johns in the UK achieved a 23% uplift compared to SMS.
But these campaigns are all one-off marketing tactics. You send an RCS message and then measure the sales and compare it to your usual response rates. Then you dash off a press release, trumpeting your success which is then gleefully published in the world’s marketing press.
But this is all a bit thin. We don’t see any companies who have taken RCS to the next stage of its development.
Until we see examples where a company has integrated RCS into all their other communications and tackled the complexity of having a solution for iPhone users, RCS will remain on the fringes, with promising potential but never quite delivering.
Unsustainable response rates
The fast food RCS case studies have produced impressive response rates. But it’s unlikely that these sky-high results will be sustainable.
As users become accustomed to the new messaging, then response rates are likely to settle down to levels that are similar to SMS.
Unless you believe that RCS messaging can increase the amount of pizza sold globally, then we’re bound to witness a readjustment to the high levels of engagement that the early case studies delivered.
A long and uncertain road ahead for RCS
With the catalog of issues facing RCS business messaging, it’s hard to predict when and even if it will become a credible option for marketers.
Just one of the problems would be challenging enough but with so many forces working against it, RCS may never emerge as a fully formed communication platform.
Optimism, goodwill and great case studies will only get the new channel so far. If RCS is to become a success, we need to see wide adoption in the next 12 months or it may sink without trace.
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Marketing Land. Staff authors are listed here.
Henry is a two-time entrepreneur, founder and director of The SMS Works, a low cost and robust SMS API for developers. He’s been involved in SMS and mobile marketing since 1999 and helps companies of all sizes develop integrated mobile strategies. Henry also writes on a range of topics from mobile marketing to entrepreneurship.
This article was originally published by Marketingland.com. Read the original article here.
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The Death of Cuchulainn
Irish and Celtic myths and legends, Irish folklore and Irish fairy tales from the Ulster Cycle
A hero meets a heros end
Cúchulainn, although still a young man, had made many powerful enemies, but none more bitter and dark than Queen Medb of Connaught, whose armies he had routed and whose ambitions he'd thwarted. Long into the dark nights of winter, year after year she brooded on the humiliations visited upon her, for undying is the wrath of a Queen.
She held council with the families of those slain by the youthful hero, nodded and commiserated with their tears, but the only ones that were of any use to her schemes were the three daughters of Calatin, who between them had three eyes and a terrible hunger for vengeance. For it was their father who had been slain by Cúchulainn along with twenty seven of their brothers, even though Calatin had been a powerful sorcerer and druid with many foul shades at his beck and call.
Seeing that their blood ran true, Medb took them into her household and sent them to Alba and Babylon that was of old to learn the arts of magic, and this task they fulfilled well, returning with the lore of Old Night at their command.
Medb felt the time was right for her revenge, so she waited until the men of Ulster fell ill with the birth pangs of Macha, a curse laid upon them by a Sidhe woman they had wronged, and set out with her armies to invade Ulster yet again.
King Conchobar of Ulster heard about her schemes though, and knew he had to keep his champion away from the battle, for if his mightiest warrior fell, Emain Macha was sure to fall with him. As the daughters of Calatin approached, he bid his court, groaning with agony as they were, to make merry and sing loud songs and let the mead flow freely.
From thistles and bushes outside the fortress the daughters of Calatin conjured up the form of a mighty and fell-handed army, fierce of aspect and heavily armed, and made the glamour bellow and shriek to drown out the feasting within. Cúchulainn started at the noise and made ready to ride out and fight, but the King's druids and women convinced him that it was but an illusion.
Knowing he'd had a close call, King Conchobar declared that the best place for the carousing would not be at Emain Macha, but rather in a valley nearby called Glenn na Bodhar, which meant the valley of the deaf, for no noise from outside could penetrate it - so strangely was it formed that sound itself was reflected back.
But this didn't deter the three witches, who wrought mightily their evil spells and made long-lasting pacts with the Other world, and soon an even more powerful illusion was raised, with fire and smoke and the sounds of shrieking women passing tormented down the high winds.
Seeing the smoke and flame and the flights of arrows, Cúchulainn was incensed and filled with rage, but Cathbad the druid again managed to calm him down before the furies could take hold of him, and he relaxed even less comfortably than the last time, casting many dark gazes at the land beyond the valley walls.
Baffled, the daughters of Calatin conferred among themselves but it was Medb who showed them the way, and they worked their magics one more time to bestow the appearance of Niamh, a close friend of Cúchulainn, upon one of their number. She went to Cúchulainn and entreated with him to come forth and save the land, for darkness was all about and the innocent were being slaughtered.
Well, after that nothing could hold the hero back, and he went straight away to his mighty horse, Lia Macha, the Grey of Macha, and tried to yoke it to his chariot, but it refused and wept tears of red blood, shying away from him. He cried out that his horse should not betray him, and so the lordly beast agreed to be yoked and his charioteer Laeg, best in all the lands, took the reins before him.
His mother Deichtre came to him then and offered him wine to drink, but as it touched his lips he spat it out, for it had turned to blood! She washed the cup and twice more offered it to him, but twice more the same thing happened, and he could not taste the wine.
Riding forth from Emain Macha, he saw a Badb, an old woman of the Sidhe, washing clothes in the river, keening quietly to herself.
“Whose gore-stained garments are those?” demanded Cúchulainn, and she answered, “Why my lord, they are yours!”
Shaking his head he rode towards the banners of Medb's army which he could see in the distance, but before he could get there he was hailed by three old crones roasting a dog over an open fire. They invited him to take a bite, but he was repulsed, for not only was the meat foul but it was against his geas, or sacred forbidding, to partake of dog flesh.
The hags reminded him then that there was also a geas against refusing hospitality, even more powerful than his own geases, and they mocked him for his weakness, saying he was too used to the fancy fare served in the King's hall.
Stung and bewildered, he took a bite of the meat, and half his strength fell from him in that moment. The old women cackled and ran away with surprising vigour, for they were none other than the Morrigan, taking her revenge for Cúchulainn's spurning of her advances earlier!
And now before Medb's army he stood, and beheld their banners flapping in the wind. He bore with him three spears, each fated to slay a king, so his enemies had decided they needed to get the weapons away from him. A druid came forth and asked him for a spear, as it was forbidden to refuse the request of a druid, and so Cúchulainn agreed.
“Let none say that I want for generosity!” he said, and threw the spear clean through the druid, killing him on the spot. Lugaid Cú Roí, the Hound of the King, whose long rivalry with Cúchulainn lent strength to his arm, cast the spear back instantly – but shaking with wrath, he missed and instead killed Laeg the charioteer, king among horsemen, to Cúchulainn's great grief.
Another druid stepped forward and asked for a spear, saying that if he didn't get it he'd compose ballads and tales to mock the whole of Ulster for their miserly ways, but Cúchulainn said he was under no obligation to give more than one gift a day. However he'd rather not have the name of Ulster blackened, so he obligingly killed that druid with a well aimed throw of the spear.
Erc, the King of Leinster, sprang forward and returned the throw, missing Cúchulainn by the breadth of a hair, killing instead his horse the Grey of Macha, king among horses.
Before Cúchulainn had a chance to recover from that miserable loss, a third druid stood up and with great eloquence told Cúchulainn how his family's name would live in infamy if he didn't hand over the last spear. Grinding his teeth and with the hero-light coming on him, Cúchulainn said through his blinding tears that he'd sooner die, and killed that druid by his spear too.
“Then die you shall!” bellowed Lugaid, and plucking the spear from the twitching body of the druid, he threw straight and true this time, mortally wounding Cúchulainn across the stomach, spilling his bowels out before him.
Even in his death throes Medb's army feared to come too close to the hero, and watched from a distance as he dragged himself to a lake for a drink of water. Not wishing to die on his back, he pulled himself up to a nearby dolmen and bound himself standing to it, holding tight his sharp sword over his shoulder, ready to strike.
A raven came and tripped over his innards, and Cúchulainn laughed to see it, and so died the king of warriors. For three days and three nights Medb's army stood back, fearful that he was not yet dead, until the Morrigan at last perched in the form of a raven on his head, and they knew it was over.
Lugaid Cú Roí swaggered forward then, thinking to take the sword of the champion of Ulster for himself, but so tight was his grip that the blade wouldn't come loose. Lugaid cut the tendons in his arm and reached to catch the falling blade, but it sliced clean through his wrist, and dropped his own hand on the ground beside it.
And for all the violent vengeance that was taken by the men of Ulster for the slaying of their hero, the light of Emain Macha faded and the power of Ulster fell, never to recover, as King Conchobar had feared.
The place where Cúchulainn bound himself to a rock, called Clochafarmore, is marked on the map below.
Further Tales from the Ulster Cycle
Cúchulainn, although still a young man, had made many powerful enemies, but none more bitter and dark than Queen Medb of Connaught, whose armies he had routed and whose ambitions he'd thwarted. Long into the dark nights of winter, year after year she brooded on the humiliations visited upon her, for undying is the wrath of a Queen. Sh ... [more]
Ferdiad Crosses the Ford
Queen Medb had invaded Ulster and the lands of the north, thinking it would be an easy victory since the men of Ulster were crippled with birth pangs as a result of a curse place on them, but Cúchulainn had dogged her every step savagely. Attacking her supply wagons, ambushing her men from the trees, burning tents at night, he fought sing ... [more]
A Hero Is Born
Queen Nessa had been known as a gentle and sweet natured woman when she was a maid, but through the hardships of the world she became cold and ruthless. Still, for all that she was still a rare beauty and an indomitable warrior, which many men find to be an irresistible combination! And so it was with King Fergus Mac Ríoch, master of all ... [more]
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They say the fury of a storm in a high tempest has nothing on the fury of a woman scorned, and few women have ever felt quite so scorned as Aoife the warrior-queen after she found out that her lover Cúchulainn had married another woman, Emer! She had borne a son for him, but in her wrath she decided to turn the child against him. She spok ... [more]
The Two Wives of Cuchulainn
In the age of heroes, forgotten by all but the storytellers and the legend-weavers, when champions strode the land of Ireland, their halls and Duns now covered in moss, echoing to no songs but those of the blackbird and the red-breasted robin, the people of Ulster were gathered together for a great celebration at Emain Macha, the capital of Ulster. ... [more]
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A quarrel arose between Queen Medb of Connacht and the King of Ulster regarding who had the most wealth, but all of his men were cursed with the pains of a pregnant woman giving birth so they couldn't ride out to meet her marching army. Only Cúchulainn who had the blood of the Sidhe running through his veins could even walk, let alone fi ... [more]
Cuchulainn Becomes a Warrior
Cathbad the Druid was well known throughout the lands of Ireland for his subtle skill and cunning ways, he could make birds speak the language of men and the very stones themselves sing, it was said! But like all Druids, he could also tell the portents of the day, as the ripples may be seen from a rock cast into a still pool in the deepest forest. ... [more]
The Naming of Emain Macha
Cruinniuc was a farmer in the northern part of Ireland back in the days of legend, and often legends are told of heroes and their mighty deeds, but this tale is about humbler folk who change the path of history nonetheless. Cruinniuc wasn't a bad sort but his life had been struck with ill fortune for years – his wife had passed away an ... [more]
The Trials of Cuchulainn
The chariot games in Ireland of old were a great event – the mightiest of kings, warriors, princes and champions from around the world would travel from afar to watch and join the fiercely contested races. Each man and his team of horses would thunder round the track, and the cheers of the onlookers would shake the hills. And so it was for ... [more]
How Cuchulainn Was Named
It was the time of heroes in ancient Ireland, when giants walked the land, before Fionn MacCumhaill had sent the seven shadows of the Glen back to their dark and restless sleep with his flashing sword, and even before his son Oisín had slain the worm of the lakes, when Setanta was young. He it was who became one of the mightiest heroes of ... [more]
Nera and the Hill of Cruachan
King Aillil, husband to Queen Medb whose famous cattle raid started a war with Cú Chulainn, was deep in his cups as the sun set on Samhain night, red and cloud-torn over the ancient fortress of Rathcroghan. Bothered by the whispering winds, he took a notion that it would be a good test of courage if one of his warriors would go out and put a ... [more]
The Feast of Bricriu
Bricriu of the venomous tongue he was called, and well named indeed he was, for he loved nothing better than to cause trouble and spread rumours and half-truths to unsettle people. As such he decided to hold a great feast, although he knew that by his reputation few would be interested in attending, so he made a special effort to entice them. He ... [more]
The Tain
One of the most famed legends of old is that of the war that was fought over the Brown Bull of Cualgne. Now while it might seem an odd thing for us today to think of a war fought over a bull, the matter is not so simple as it might seem, and the bull was no ordinary bull either! For it was in the time of Cú Chulainn, the hound of Chulainn, t ... [more]
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DeFlip Side #163: The Continuity Vortex
Christopher DeFilippis
Published: September 25, 2015Posted in: Comics, Cons/Fandom, Film, Star Trek, Television
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Welcome everyone. I’m Christopher DeFilippis and this is DeFlip Side.
The new season of Doctor Who premiered earlier this week, and as The Doctor confronted the Daleks, yet again, and invoked visages of Doctors past, yet again, I started to ask myself, how much continuity is too much continuity?
Because I fear Doctor Who has been irrevocably sucked into a continuity vortex. No matter how many times he defeats them, The Doctor seems forever beset by the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master (or more recently, The Mistress), rehashing character and story beats that I’ve seen over and over again–and I didn’t start watching Doctor Who until the 2005 reboot. So I can imagine how tiring it must be for fans who’ve been with the Doctor for 50 years.
The Doctor has so often fallen down the well of his own self-referential history that it begs the question: Is there a tipping point at which continuity becomes a liability?
It’s that very quandry that ultimately drove Star Trek off of television.
On one side, you had show runners like Ronald D. Moore and Ira Stephen Behr who embraced Trek continuity through Deep Space Nine. Replete with references to TOS-era characters and events, DS9 did more than any other Trek spinoff to broaden and solidify the Star Trek universe with a sense of scope and history.
Which put it at odds with franchise bosses Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, who were running Voyager at the time. They openly eschewed the original series and did everything they could to distance themselves from it. That included an increasing aversion to continuity. As Ron Moore said in an online interview:
“Voyager doesn’t really believe in anything. The show doesn’t have a point of view that I can discern. The continuity of the show is completely haphazard. They don’t care, and they’ll tell you flat out that they don’t care.”
Braga even went so far as to brand the fans who did care as “continuity pornographers.”
Look, I can see how it may have been frustrating to have been creatively beholden to an outdated 60s television series. But for decades, Trek fans had nothing but the original 79 episodes to obsess over, and the adventures of Kirk, Spock and McCoy became sacrosanct, relics that had informed conventions and fanfictions and the ultimate triumph of the Gospel of Roddenberry. And, suddenly, the people entrusted with safeguarding that Gospel say screw it. Let’s toss it. Cue the fireworks.
J.J. Abrams was so cognizant of this continuity conflict that it informed his entire approach to the Star Trek reboot. And while I have a lot of problems with the new films, at least the alternate timeline conceit respects and preserves Trek canon while allowing the filmmakers to take the franchise in any direction they choose.
Yet, as DS9 proved, there was nothing inherently constraining about Trek continuity. The real cause of Star Trek’s long demise is that it lost focus and couldn’t decide what it wanted to be about. And in the absence of a guiding principal, the franchise sputtered and died.
But Doctor Who is proving that a relentlessly myopic focus on continuity is just as bad. And it’s a lesson I hope the folks at Marvel heed, because the success of their sprawling, shared cinematic universe threatens to be its own undoing.
As Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron showed, the stories are getting so overblown, and the screen so crowded with heroes, that the films are in danger of sinking under their own weight. And the upcoming Captain America: Civil War features even more characters. The more it becomes about perfunctory fan spectacle and continuity bulking the less I’m enjoying it.
Marvel need only look to DC to see the dangers of continuity obsession, with DC’s on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again, on-again multiverse fiasco. Talk about ridiculous.
So where’s the sweet spot? How much continuity is enough, and how can you service core fans without drowning in the very thing that made you successful in the first place?
The answer lies in a couple of unlikely sets of television brothers.
First up are monster-hunting siblings Sam and Dean Winchester from the enduring CW staple Supernatural. Heading into an unlikely 11th season, Supernatural remains largely unhindered by its own continuity, but still manages to please a fanbase every bit as rabid and devoted as Star Trek’s. And I think it’s because the show has remained true to it premise while continuously redefining itself.
The nexus of the series is the relationship between brothers Sam and Dean. And that through-line has allowed it to evolve from monster-of-the-week anthology series to world-ending apocalyptic saga and beyond. And because it always remembers where it came from, never, ever pulls any punches, and takes every chance it can to poke fun at its own sometimes absurd mythology, it hasn’t yet worn out its welcome.
The other brothers who have this whole continuity thing well in hand are Hank and Dean Venture.
The Venture Bros. began in 2003 as a Johnny Quest parody in the nascent years of Adult Swim, and in the intervening decade plus it has logged five seasons with a sixth on the way. And though its seasons are far shorter than a regular network series, The Venture Bros. has crammed more continuity into its 68 episodes than any three TV series combined. The show is now so laden with mythology that almost every story beat springs organically out of seeds that have often been planted for years.
And show creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer are ever conscious of pruning and cultivating that continuity. In an interview with Wired Magazine earlier this year, Hammer outlined their delicate approach to crafting the upcoming sixth season. He said:
“We have a lot of movement, and sometimes it’s nice to take all the furniture, stack it up in a corner, and light a fire, which we do.”
Publick responds:
“And clearing things and starting anew then gives you a new problem—having too many directions to go in. Honing in on what we wanted to do is tricky.”
And Hammer wraps up:
“Because if there’s one thing we’re good at, it’s making a universe you can’t stop with. This thing can break off into so many pieces, be so many things. I don’t think we did it intentionally, but it is the most fruitful place to write.”
Fruitful is an understatement. There’s always so much going on in every Venture Bros. episode that repeated viewings are pretty much mandatory. And the show’s practical approach to continuity prevents it from growing stale, or ever getting in its own way.
So getting back to my initial question of how much continuity is too much, both The Venture Bros. and Supernatural prove that you can never have too much. The key is using it as a launch pad for evolution.
It’s a lesson that Science Fiction fans should take to heart. Because, let’s face it, we live for this crap. There are few bigger fandom thrills than geeking out over continuity. But we need to temper our obsessions. Otherwise we’ll wind up like our favorite Time Lord, treading and retreading the same mythology over and over and over again, singularities at the center of our own continuity vortices.
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UP MEDICAL GRADUATES AND STUDENTS ARE NOW ELIGIBLE TO SIT IN SUMLE
UNITED STATE MEDICAL LICENSING EXAMINATION
The University of Puthisastra (UP) is rapidly growing from strength to strength and we are very proud that our Faculty of Medicine is now recognized internationally (https://search.wdoms.org/home/SchoolDetail/F0005811).
UP is very proud to be the only University in Cambodia with internationally recognized Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Schools – a fantastic achievement. This international recognition of our Medical School means that UP medical students and graduates are now eligible to apply to Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (ECFMG) for ECFMG Certification. This certification allows international medical graduates to apply for residency or fellowship programs in the United States. UPs registration in the World Registry of Medical schools means that UP medical students are now recognized internationally and have much better opportunities to study and train abroad. We look forward to seeing UP students being Medical Leaders not just in Cambodia but across the World. We are delighted in the progress that UP is being recognized across the World as well as making a real difference to Cambodian lives.
Twenty Yr-4 pharmacy students visit Northeastern Thailand for summer internship
Located in the northeastern Thailand, the University of Khon Kaen (KKU) is very prestigious university which brings tremendous outcomes to the development of the region through higher education.
UP is really pleased to collaborate with KKU, allowing students from both universities the opportunity to share knowledge, skills, experiences, and attitudes. Each year, KKU happily welcomes interns from UP during the spring and summer breaks and this summer, 20 UP students are doing their one-month internship at KKU in different sectors – 14 students in clinical pharmacy; 1 in R&D; 4 in community pharmacy; and 1 in pharmaceutical technology. We are sure that our students will learn many things including the hard skills, soft skills, and cultures, so that they later can apply these skills for Cambodia and the whole world.
Medical Laboratory Student visited Biomedic Diagnostic Center (BDC)
On 11th September, 2019, the Department of Laboratory Sciences conducted a study tour with Yr-2 medical laboratory students to the Biomedic
diagnostic Center (BDC) allowing students to improve their practical knowledge about medical laboratory testing as well as improving collaborations. BDC also agreed to draft MoU with UP which includes 30% discount to UP’s staff for using BDC’s health services, especially blood testing.
UP LAUNCHES NEW DIPLOMA OF IMPLANTOLOGY
Dr. Tak Ranuth(Cambodia) Course Director Periodontics
Dr Patrick Tseng (Australia) Course Co-ordinator Periodontics
UP in partnership with a group of international dental specialists (mainly from Australia) is proud to launch a new 18-month diploma course in Dental Implantology which will start in December 2019.
The course was approved last week by the UP Academic Board. It is based on a similar part-time post-graduate implant course conducted at Sydney University, and will be the most comprehensive ever offered to Cambodian dentists. The course comprises 4 two-week blocks of teaching, with a strong clinical component, and additional on-line learning. Three of UP’s lecturers, Dr Tak Ranuch (Course Director), Dr Soeurn Visal and Dr Sok Chhen Chhean (all specialists with overseas degrees) will be teaching, alongside the highly qualified overseas team, which is led by Australian periodontist Dr Patrick Tseng.
UP is proud to be able to partner with overseas experts to bring the latest advances in dentistry to the local dentist community. We believe this course will help raise the standard of implantology in Cambodia, which will be of benefit to patients across the country.
THIRTEEN UP MEDICAL STUDENTS JOIN KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY, THAILAND
On 31th August 2019, UPs Deputy Dean of Medicine, Dr. An Srim, led 13 of our 4th and 5th Yr medical students for the elective period of studying in
division of Surgery, Dermatology, Radiology, Internal Medicine, Otorhinolaryngology and Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the Faculty of
Medicine, Khon Kaen University (KKU) from August 31, 2019 to September 29, 2019.
UP is planning many oversea training so that as many students as possible can have international experiences and best practice to develop their skills and knowledge to become best possible Doctors for Cambodia.
Pharmacy students are busy during the summer vacation
During this summer break, UPs Pharmacy students are involved in so many activities to develop their knowledge and skills to prepare themselves to be fully qualified pharmacists immediately after graduation to be work ready from Day 1.
20 students are doing internship at the University of Khon Kaen (KKU) for one whole month; 35 students are participating the Pharmacy Practice Summer Course at the simulated pharmacy at the University of Puthisastra; 49 students are doing volunteer work at different pharmaceutical domains (in which 12 students found the sites for volunteering on their own). We are very excited by our students’ commitment and passion within pharmacy. UPs Faculty of Pharmacy has a very exciting future!
AHHA ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIP FOR TWO DENTAL STUDENTS TO GO ON EXCHANGE PROGRAM TO SYDNEY
UP’s partner AHHA (Australian Humanitarian Health Association) has announced that it will provide scholarships to send two UP dental students to Australia for a two week exchange later this year.
This is a wonderful opportunity for students to see dentistry in a different setting, as well as learning about another country and culture. The students will spend most of their time visiting the private clinics of AHHA dentists (some of whom are specialists) as well as visiting the dental school at Sydney University and Westmead Hospital where many Sydney dental students do their clinical training.
AHHA has been a partner of UP for the past four years, and sends a large team of dentists and support staff each year to provide care for underserved and special needs children in the UP dental clinic.
UP is fortunate to be able to provide many opportunities for overseas exchange to many students each year, thanks to the close ties we have with our overseas partners. Thank you AHHA!
UPs FACULTY OF MEDICINE VISIT 3 NATIONAL PHNOM PENH HOSPITALS
Professor Sandro Vento, Dean of Medicine of UP and Dr An Srim, Deputy Dean of medicine of UP recently visited 3 national hospital: National Pediatric Hospital, Preah Kossamak Hospital, and Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.
The visits was very successful and centered around improving the quality of training for UP medical students.
SK Medical Care supported stuffs and reagents to Medical Laboratory Students
On September 04, 2019 SK Medical Care collaborated with Laboratory Sciences Department, University of Puthisastra running a day training for medical laboratory students. The objective of this training was to provide students with general knowledge in medical laboratory methods of biochemistry testing, donation reagents, and how to set up Spectrophotometer analysis machines.
First Thesis Defense workshop of Faculty of Medicine
Recently, UPs Dr. Chhim Sarath, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Medicine, led a Thesis Defense Workshop to help improve skills in Thesis Defense. More than a hundred of participants included current thesis supervisors, Yr 7 and 8 MD
students, UP research committees and medicine staff.
During the workshop, Dr. Sarath presented valuable
suggestions on how to successfully defend Yr 8 MD thesis defense.
The workshop was considered to be very successful as
students were engaged and understood the importance of presenting the best possible defense for this critical aspect of their medical education.
UP will definitely continue to hold more useful workshop for students in the future.
Medical Laboratory Students take Mock Exam
On September 07, 2019, Laboratory Sciences Department created the first Mock Exit Exam (MCQ and OSCE) for medical laboratory students generation batch 6. The purpose of the mock exam was to test their ability before their main MCQs and OSCE, get them familiar with the exam processes as well as get them to practice more before the real one coming up.
Summary achievements of the Faculty of Pharmacy for 2018-2019
Faculty of Pharmacy’s mission is to provide the highest quality pharmacy education to prepare students to become professionally qualified pharmacists and leaders in the field of pharmacy through in-class education, laboratory practice, on-field research, voluntarism, clerkship and internship within hospital pharmacies, community pharmacies, laboratories, and pharmaceutical enterprises both in and outside the country. Below is the summary of our achievements for the academic year 2018-19:
1. Enrollment rate
• UP Faculty of Pharmacy had the highest number of students who chose UP pharmacy as the first priority across UP
• UP Faculty of Pharmacy had the highest enrollment across UP after the national entrance exam result was released.
2. Pharmacy Faculties
• UP is the academic institutional member of FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation), ASEAN Association of Schools of Medical Technology,
and AASP (Asian Association of Schools of Pharmacy)
• Continuing Professional Developments for UP pharmacy staff is maintained through weekly Clinical Club, Journal Club, Research Champion, and
Curriculum Development Club
• Clinical Club is conducted to strengthen clinical skills for pharmacy faculties
• Journal Club is conducted to strengthen research capacity for pharmacy faculties
• Technical Curriculum Committee was created to modernize and change the pharmacy curriculum from content-based to competency-based
• Faculty of Pharmacy was the first faculty across UP who started computer-based exam for MCQ and OSCE for exit exams
• Faculty of Pharmacy strengthened the University-Industry collaboration for job opportunity, internship, and joint project
3. Curriculum Development
Transition from content-based curriculum to outcome-based curriculum through:
• Review ‘ Core Competency framework for Pharmacists in Cambodia’
• 1st Consultative workshop on Core Competency Framework
• Update of Core Competency Framework for Pharmacists
• Integration of English, Critical Thinking, , Community Outreach, and Pharmacy Practice Summer Course.
4. Laboratory upgrading
• Investment on new pharmacy laboratory equipment and devices worth USD 15,000 for semester I and USD 20,000 for semester II.
• UP simulated pharmacy provided training activities to all pharmacy students prior to hospital and community pharmacy
internship/clerkship.
• UP herbarium was created
5. International internship/study tour/conferences/exchanges
111 students are out of the country to join International internship/study tour/conferences/exchanges:
• One-month international internship at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Khon Kaen University (KKU), Thailand (41 students joined).
• The International Conference on the 4th industrial revolution and its impact at Walailak University, Thailand (9 students attended),
and one of our students gets the best presentation award for research paper presentation.
• The 4th Industrial Revolution: Creating a New World for Health Professions Education at International Medical University, Malaysia
(7 staffs attended)
• The 9th Asian Association of Schools of Pharmacy at Ajou University, South Korea (29 students attended with 50%-100% travel grants)
• The 6th International Pharmacy Summer School, at University of Muhammadiyah, Yogyakarta (5 students attended).
• The Asian Science Camp, China (1 year-2 student)
• The Health+ program, Lublin, Poland (1 year-2 student)
• Study tour to International University of Health and Welfare and Japanese Association of Medical Technologist (4 students will join)
• The 3rd International Conference on Pharmacy Education and Research Network of ASEAN (ASEAN PharmNET 2019), which will be
held in November 14-15, 2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (15 students and one staff will attend)
6. Volunteering work
• During the 1st semester break, 58 pharmacy students had completed volunteering work in community pharmacies, medical laboratories,
and pharmaceutical industries.
• In the 2nd semester break, 49 pharmacy students will start to do volunteer work in community pharmacies, and pharmaceutical
industries/companies (in which 12 students found the places by their own).
UP pharmaceutical students and lecturers have published one full article in USA University Online Journal, 15 research abstracts and posters in local conference and magazine, and 27 research abstracts and posters in international conference and journal. As a result of this, 110 UP pharmaceutical students got actively involved in the 38 research projects. Among these abstracts and posters, three of them received the best poster awards at the
International Conference on the 4th Industrial Revolution and Its Impact, at Walailak University, Thailand and at the 9th Asian Association of Schools of Pharmacy, at Ajou University, in Republic of Korea.
8. Conferences/ Workshops
• The 2nd Pharmaceutical Research Conference at University of Puthisastra, Cambodia on December 8-9, 2018 (about 100 pharmacists and
students joined it)
• The 1st Consultative Core Competency Workshop on March 23, 2019 (about 30 pharmacists from different areas of pharmacists join it).
9. Extra-curriculum activities
• Community work (Project Sabai (30 students joined), Project Lokun (24 students joined))
• White Coat Ceremony (November 28, 2018) (90 students joined it)
• Pharmacy annual trip 2019 (January 11-12, 2018) (220 students joined)
• 1st Ekiden Race (Running event) (January 12, 2018) (150 students joined)
• STEM Festival (February 21-23, 2019)
• Community outreach (year 5 pharmacy students) (June 28, 2019) (69 students joined)
• Discovery Festival (June 27-28, June, 2019)
• Parasitology project at Takeo province (year 3 students) (July 21, 2019) (100 students joined)
• Career Conference (August 19, 2019): 5 panel discussions (around 20 students participated in each panel):
+Panel 1* Pharmacy Profession: Preparation for success in pharmacy career by Ph. Pech Chamnan Pranith, Ph. Set Chankakada,
and Ph. Chhum Sophan
+Panel 2* Community Pharmacy: Key successes in starting a community pharmacy by Ph. Kruy Kimsour, Ph. Chhou Sopheara, and
Ph. Khiev Phalnika
+Panel 3* Industrial Pharmacy: Required skills for success in industrial pharmacy by Ph. Uch Navin, Ph. Khin Chanthearanita, and
Ph. Suon Piseth
+Panel 4* Clinical Pharmacy: Challenges in implementing clinical skills in hospital and community pharmacies in Cambodia by
Dr. Chea Sin, Ph. Ly Sita, Ph. Kheng Sengly, and Ph. Heang Chanry
+Panel 5* Medical Biology: What are the required competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) to become successful in medical
biology career? By Assistant prof. Chroeng Sopheap, Dr. Oeng Sopheap, and Ph. Lun Sokphyrak
10. Study Clubs:
A. PharmaCareer Club is opened every Tuesday from 13:00 – 14:00 in following purposes:
– Make students explore about their future career
– Orient them towards their field of interest
– Show them various job possibilities within pharmacy
– Encourage them to think out of the box
– Support and empower them and connect them with different professionals
– Experience sharing by senior pharmacists
B. Senior Pharmacy Club is opened every Monday from 13:00 – 14:00 to help year 4 and year 5 students to be well prepared for graduation exam and national exit exam
C. Clinical Pharmacy Club is opened every Saturday from 13:00 – 14:00 to reinforce the students’ clinical skills by helping them to
understand the clinical roles of a pharmacist, the Good Dispensing Practice, and Prescription Validation.
11. 5 UP Alumni received scholarships to pursue their Master Degree abroad:
• So Visessakseth, Master of Pharmaceutical sciences, Thailand
• Ung HuyKhim, Master of Health Consumer Protection and Health Management, Thailand
• Oeng Sokunvary, Master of Toxicology, Thailand
• Kimyen Oeurn, Master of Pharmacology, Thailand
• Un Sovorleak, Master of Management, France
Beyond these achievements, Faculty of Pharmacy is committed to bring more successes and produce more qualified pharmacists to make impact to the society and the world community.
12. After graduation
• 98.79% of batch 3 pharmacy students have passed the first session of National Exit Exam
• 98.79% of batch 3 pharmacy students got the job according to the survey conducted on the graduation day.
• 6 Alumni passed exam to become government officials for the Ministry of Health
GET TO KNOW UP DEAN FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
Dr. Callum Durward BSc, BDS, MDSc, DComH, MPH, FRACDS Dean of Faculty of Dentistry
UP is very proud to have an esteemed expert as our Dean of Dentistry – Prof Callum Durward graduated from the University of Otago in 1981. Later he gained an MDSc in “Childrens and Preventive Dentistry” from the University of Melbourne, and an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1980s he spent several years working in refugee camps in Thailand and Malaysia. In the early ‘90s he worked in Cambodia for an NGO called World Concern, helping to develop dental services and education. During 2001-2003 Dr Durward spent 6 months in East Timor as the Oral Health Promotion Advisor for the Australia-East Timor National Oral Health Project.
Prof Durward has also been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago and AUT University, Principal Dental Officer for the Otago District Health Board, and a Consultant Paediatric Dentist for the Auckland District Health Board.
He has lived in Cambodia for the past 11 years where he also does part-time private practice, and is Dental Director of an NGO called One-2-One Cambodia, which provides dental services for prisoners, children with clefts, and children and adults from deprived backgrounds.
Prof Durward has also been involved in several large school-based research projects including SEAL Cambodia and Healthy Kids Cambodia. Dr Durward is actively involved in several research projects, especially related to ECC, silver diammine fluoride, teaching and learning, sugar consumption, betel quid chewing, oral health of the elderly, restorative dental materials and special needs dentistry.
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Dr. Kack Kyun Kim
1971-1973 Pre-Dental Course, Art and Science College, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (ROK)
1973-1978 College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, ROK
1978 D.D.S., B.S. in Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, ROK
1980 M.S. in Dental Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, ROK
1983 Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, ROK
1987-1991 Full-time Instructor in Oral Microbiology, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, ROK
1988-1990 Research Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Indiana University, U.S.A.
1991-1997 Assistant Professor in Oral Microbiology, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, ROK
1997 – 2006 Associate Professor in Oral Microbiology, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, ROK
2006 – Present Professor in Oral Microbiology/Immunology, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, ROK
For the last 3 weeks Professor Kack-Kyun Kim has been visiting UP to teach oral microbiology to dental students. Professor Kim has recently retired from Seoul National University Faculty of Dentistry which is regarded as the top dental school in Korea. Cambodia sorely lacks expertise in this area and he gave a series of lectures on oral immunology and microbiology to year 2 dental students.
Professor Kim has been coming to Cambodia to teach almost every year since 2009. In recognition of Professor Kim’s significant contribution to dental education at UP, to Cambodia and to needy patients the President of UP Professor Ian Findlay has awarded Professor Kim with the title of Adjunct Professor of Oral Microbiology. UP continues to bring top international lecturers to UP to expose our students to World Leading expertise and experiences to help our students obtain a world class education
Dr. Kung Sophannary
DDS, PhD in Dental Science from TMDU (Tokyo Medical and Dentistry University)
2014 – 2018 PhD degree in Dental Science, Department of Periodontology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Japan
2005 – 2012 DDS degree, Faculty of Odonto-Stomatology, University of Health Sciences (UHS), Cambodia
2012 – 2014 Co-founder of D-One dental clinic, Battambang.
2011 – 2012 Student coordinator, A & H Fujimoto Foundation
Present UP, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dr. Kung Kalyan
B-Ed, DDS, PhD in Dental Science from TMDU (Tokyo Medical and Dentistry University)
2006: Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS), University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2007 Bachelor of Education (B-Ed), Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2011- 2012 Research student, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
2012-2016 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Dental Sciences, Department of Cariology and Operative Dentistry, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
2007-2011 Worked in a Private Practice, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2012 Research assistant for woman researcher, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
2012- 2014 Member of Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) program, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Presently UP, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dr. Steven Cohn
AM, DDS, Endodontist
Dr Steven Cohn AM is a specialist endodontist in Sydney. Steve has taught undergraduate and postgraduate endodontics at the University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital since 1979 and is the former Director of Postgraduate Endodontic Education at the University of Sydney. In 1998 Steve started the first microscope training courses for endodontists in Australia. Since 2009 Steve, Dr Rick Spencer and Ms Barbara Faulkner have conducted microscope courses for general practitioners. These courses have continued annually since 1998 and 2009 respectively. Steve also does hands on microscope training on an individual basis in dentist’s rooms on request.
Dr Cohn also presents “hands on“ clinics on rubber dam utilisation with Dr Rick Spencer and Ms Barbara Faulkner emphasising rubber dam application in both endodontics and general practice. Steve has also made a rubber dam training video for the ADA (NSW Branch) CPD.
Dr Cohn has also maintained a long interest in dental radiology. He was a consultant to the Dunvale and Rinn corporations and assisted with developing both the Rinn DS and DS Endo devices. He solely designed both the Snapex (1979) and TruView (2017) radiography systems, both specifically designed to be used with all endodontic and restorative procedures carried out under rubber dam. Steve regularly conducts “hands on” radiology workshops throughout Australia. Until recently Dr Cohn was a Federal ADA Media Advisor responsible for the development and delivery of educational content for the dental profession.
Dr. Geoffrey Borlase
BSC, BDS, MDS (Pros) MRACDS (Pros) FRACDS FICD, MScMedicine (Psychotherapy)
Geoffrey is a psychotherapist working in private practice in Sydney CBD.
Psychotherapy has been a natural evolution from working in dentistry in both specialist prosthodontic and hospital based practice. Geoffrey’s shared experiences with patients who present with complex medical and dental health problems and often with deep-seated emotional issues led him to undertake a training in psychotherapy.
Initially he delved into the world of psychology and counselling studying through ACAP and then followed a placement with ASCA – which then led to commencing a training with theUniversity of Sydney Complex Trauma Unit at Westmead Hospital graduating with a Masters of Science in Medicine in Psychotherapy.
Geoffrey is enrolled in continuing professional development activities and as part of his clinical psychotherapy practice has regular supervision.
Geoffrey practices both short and long term psychotherapy informed by the Conversational Model of Psychotherapy. He has a particular interest in individuals who present with: complex trauma and psychosomatic complaints and in patients who have complex life stories who may be suffering from anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of their life experiences.
“One day – the silent past arrives and becomes the invisible present and the story has to find a way to be told and heard.” Renn 2012
Prof. Dr. Rosnah Binti Zain
BDSc (Qld), MS (Mich),
Fellow AAOMP (USA), FASc, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, MAHSA University
The joy of changing a person’s life by creating a beautiful, healthy smile is one of the rewards of being a dentist. Dentistry is a complex field as it is both challenging and rewarding.
Dentistry is the art and science of prevention and treatment of diseases of the oral cavity and associated with maxillofacial region. A dental surgeon provides professional support to the community to achieve and maintain optimum oral health.
MAHSA’s Faculty of Dentistry is committed to mentor our students in all levels of dental science. It offers 3 different programmes, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Diploma in Dental Technology and Certificate of Dental Surgery Assistant.
Prof. Andrew Sandham
– King Edward VI School, Lichfield, England
– King Edward VI School, Stourbridge, England
– University of Durham, England (BDS)
– University of Edinburgh, Scotland (PhD)
– L.D.S.R.C.S (Royal College of Surgeons, England) 1966
– B.D.S. (University of Durham) 1966
– F.D.S.R.C.S. (Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh) 1970
– D Orth R.C.S. (Royal College of Surgeons, England) 1971
– PhD. (University of Edinburgh) 1987
– Licenciado en Odontología (L.D.S.) 1990
– Doctor en Odontología (D.D.S.) Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid Tandarts – The Netherlands 1991
– D.M.O. Specialist Orthodontist Diploma Nederlandse Maatschappij tot bevordering Der Tandheelkunde (NMT) (Netherlands) 1991
– F.Ac.Med (Singapore) Fellowship of the Academy of Medicine Singapore 1997
– F.I.C.D. (by nomination) Fellowship of the International College of Dentistry 1997
– Fellowship of World Federation of Orthodontists (by election) 1998
Fellow Royal Society of Medicine London UK 2012
Professor of Dental Science 2007 – 2014
Head Discipline of Dentistry
Director of postgraduate dental studies 2009 – 2015
Adjunct Professor 2014 – 2015
College of Medicine & Dentistry
Academic Dental Consulting (CEO) 2014 – present
Advisor, Faculty of Health Sciences 2014 – present
University of Puthisasta, Phnom Penh
Research Fellow, University of Western 2016 -present
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Dr. Tak Ranuch
DDS, MSc in Periodontics
2012-2015 Master of Science in Dentistry (Periodontology), Faculty of Dentistry, Khorn Kaen University, Thailand
206-2011 Doctor of Dental Surgery Course, Faculty of Dentistry, International University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (DDS)
2010-2011 One-2-One charity organization, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2015-Present Part time lecturer and clinical tutor at UP Dental Clinic
Dr. SOEURN Visal
DDS, MSc in Prosthodontics
2013-2015 Master of Science in Dentistry (Prosthodontics), Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Thailand
2005-2012 Doctor of Dental Surgery Course, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (DDS)
2018 – Present Royal Phnom Penh Hospital, Phnom Penh Cambodia
2012-2015 General dental practitioner & Prosthodontist, Master Care Dental Clinic, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dr. Hout Dane
2014-2016 MSc in Prosthodontics, Mahidol University, Thailand
2011-2012 Imputhavy Dental Clinic
2012-2014 Bunheng Dental Clinic
2014- Present Part time lecturer and clinical tutor at UP Dental Clinic
Dr. Bathsheba Jael Turton
Master in Community Dentistry
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2014 – Present Dentist, Roomchang dental and aesthetic hospital
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B-Ed, DDS, MSc in Dentsitry
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2013-2017 Graduate School of Dentistry, Hiroshima University, Japan
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2016 PhD in Dental Science
2008 Bachelor of Art in Teaching English (B.Ed in TESOL)
2006 Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS)
2002 Diploma of Bacteriology and Diploma of Inter-university
1998 Certificate of Medical Laboratory
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“I See By Your Outfit That You are a Cowboy” – from The Streets of Laredo
(Ed. note: I made my first professional movie in 1970 (Winter’s Isle – sold to CBC) while I was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. I taught a course entitled “Control of Human Behavior”. On the first day of class, I showed a movie called “King Video”. It was a documentary examination of video advertising using then-current TV ads. Unfortunately, this film has not endured, as I cannot even find it on IMDB.
Since that time, I have been an observer of trends in TV advertising, most recently concentrating on political ads. It is thus that I reflect on the ads of John Hickenlooper, now Denver mayor and candidate for governor.)
I pay a lot of attention to the ad’s produced by political candidates. Senator Bennet’s first ads, for example, were so bad that they actually hurt the candidate. It was hard to imagine who thought those ads were good.
Hickenlooper, from the beginning of his political career, has gone for the cute approach in his ads – motor scootering, jumping out of airplanes, dancing with giant red letters, etc. He has avoided any statement of policy, relying instead on “the cute” to carry the day. In this election cycle, his quick-change-artist-in-the-shower ad continued that tradition. But what is the intent of the latest ad – “Rodeo”?
I understand that Hickenlooper has majority support in Denver and Colorado Springs, but is about even in the rest of this vast state where the real cattle ranching takes place. Is this ad aimed at the ranchers and farmers? If so, I should relate the reaction of one such rancher – “phoney, not real, could not climb a fence, sickening”. Surely this is not the desired reaction.
Here is the ad, followed by actual footage of Hickenlooper on horseback.
Walkabout - Friday Oct. 29, 2010
Bob Ragland - Non-Starving Artist
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Amazing what $7 million will buy
Denver Rock and Roll Marathon
Best Explanation of the Current Financial Crisis
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eldanielfire
Post subject: Re: Women's Rugby thread
Gloucester just beat Quins 40-36 in what sounds like the game of the season. This is why I really wished more of the games were shown
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... ix-nations
With International Women’s Day looming, the Rugby Football Union is reporting a healthy rise in female rugby participation. There are now more than 30,000 registered female players and the successful Inner Warrior recruitment campaign has seen 12,00 women attend camps nationwide, a third of whom had never picked up a rugby ball in their lives. On Saturday, in addition to a potentially decisive Six Nations showdown in Grenoble between France and England, there is an attempt to attract a world-record crowd for a women’s club rugby game when Harlequins play Richmond at the Stoop (kick-off 3pm).
That's 4000 increase since the autumn when it was 26k. If they carry on like this the RFU will deffo hit their target of 50k players in 4 years or so.
Also the Sarries production line of England talent adds U20 flyhalf/fullback Helena Rowland to the squad.
http://www.englandrugby.com/news/six-na ... or-france/
Abigal Dow (Wasps FC Ladies), Amber Reed (Bristol Ladies), Caity Mattinson (Bristol Ladies), Charlotte Pearce (Loughborough Lightning), Danielle Waterman (Wasps FC Ladies), Ellie Kildunne (Gloucester-Hartpury Womens RFC), Helena Rowland (Saracens Women), Katy Daley –Mclean (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Lagi Tuima (Bristol Ladies), Lauren Cattell (Saracens Women), Leanne Riley (Harlequins Ladies), Rachael Burford (Harlequins Ladies).
Abbie Scott (Harlequins Ladies), Amy Cokayne (Wasps FC Ladies), Catherine O’Donnell (Loughborough Lightning), Heather Kerr (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Izzy Noel- Smith (Bristol Ladies), Justine Lucas (Wasps FC Ladies), Lark Davies (Worcester Valkyries), Marlie Packer (Saracens Women), Poppy Cleall (Saracens Women), Rochelle Clark (Wasps FC Ladies), Rowena Burnfield (Richmond FC), Sarah Bern (Gloucester-Hartpury Womens RFC), Sarah Hunter (Loughborough Lightning), Shaunagh Brown (Harlequins Ladies), Tamara Taylor (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), Vickii Cornborough (Harlequins Ladies).
Interesting no Zoe Harrison who came on as super sub for the U20 team and scored a wonder try that was ultimately the decider. Good to see Shaunagh Brown is back in the squad, I hope to see her get some game time.
Scrum Queens twitter feed see several people all but confirm the next WRWC will be in Australia.
Nieghorn
Location: Centre of the Universe
No chance that anyone from the Glos or Quins uploaded that match, eh? Sounds like it'd be worth seeing, even if it's from a single-camera analyst's perspective (i.e. my fav )
Auckman
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/earl ... contracts/
NZ Womens Rugby has gone pro!
BF players to get pro contracts.
Apparently a pro competition is in the pipeline for an 8-week window over the summer months (January-Febuary) in 2019. However, nothing confirmed yet with plenty of work still to go over the commercial viability of it all.
Nieghorn wrote:
I'm quite gutted it hasn't been shown. Highlights of each match should be part of the standards for each team in the league as they have to film the matches anyway. It can only help promote the women's game. Sadly there were quite a few highlights packages and games uploaded at the start of the season, but it appears to have stopped. Same for games on TV.
Auckman wrote:
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/audio/new-zealand-womens-rugby-players-to-get-professional-contracts/
Good news. How pro is it? The English league is not pro, but trains in a pro manner but the players are not paid. But I hear the French is.
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eldanielfire wrote:
The only pro players are the7 squad
Laurent wrote:
I thought so. The weird thing is, Scotland are paying 3 of it's players to be pro in the French league. I was confused because that means none of the players in France are pro. Officially. But I also know some English players were offered to go to France, which is expanding the league for a little bit of money and accommodation, but would need to take a sabbatical to do it. So I assume there are kinda semi-pro support. Certainly money is being offered to attract players to some degree. Though that is semi-stuff. Ironically making Scotland possibly the only country specifically with pro-women's XV players right now with their 3 in France.
They could easily make each team post match video (I'm sure they all shoot something for analysis purposes at their level). It's a rule in the British Columbia men's premier league, and many women's matches will to to youtube as well.
Yeah, the women's league must film each match and share it with the England management. Hence how they can make the trylights. they just don't post the full matches.
Le Crunch has already sold 15000 tickets
https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/news/women/32821.php
Also a great "twin" video piece on Ellie Killdunne and Nollie Waterman:
https://twitter.com/EnglandRugby/status ... F32821.php
Finally the famous Gloucester-Hartpury vs Harlequins epic match at the weekend highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2mMNVI-Pf4&t=3s
Shaunagh Brown hatrick for Quins. Killdunne with 2 devastating individual tries to put space for G-H to go ahead, Quins close the gap, G-H kick a penality to go 4 ahead, the game ends with Quins parked on G-Hs line but not quite about to go over.
Some nice tries and clutch kicking in that. A few individuals will have to look at how they align / workrate on defence, and how they deal with fends.
Kildunne is such a lovely runner.
Agreed. She makes flowing out of tackles look so easy.
Gloucester-Hartpury certainly look strong late in the season. A draw with Saracens and a win over Quins places them firmly as dark horses for the title if they remain in the top 4. Though they have the advantage Loughborough and Bristol are still fighting for that 4th spot.
A nice peice/celebration by Engalnd Rugby on the game hitting 30,000 women players playing club rugby.
http://sportteller.rfu.deltatre.net/sto ... Red_Roses_
Yes, she just seems to glide past defenders. I think its the change of pace as much as anything; they think they've lined her up, and then she's just gone. Great to watch.
Coach (Findlay is the name?) and player mic'd up at a Quins' training session.
I don't know if it's just that Myers is a delight to look at, and my eyes are drawn to her presence on screen, but I suspect the camera operator took every op to get her on film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkGQZ5b9IG4
Yeah, Karen Findlay. Co-coach with Gary Street there at Quins.
Holly is just one of those women who "glows", she stands out and everything about her is cute or beautiful. No wonder the camera kept centering on her despite clearly not being the subject of the film.
All talk so far is only the elite players in the BF getting the contracts. The womens 7s team are already on fulltime contracts. As for the competition, I would be surprised if all the players in that competition were on fulltime contracts. I would think more along the lines of semi-pro at the most.
The competition is 8 weeks isn't it? Sounds like it could be that they might be paid for their time in that period.
Quins vs Richmond attracted a world record for a women's club game yesterday. It was a great competition, both teams giving it all in a very, very physical encounter, with Richmond's late inability to kick distance or get out their 22 being the decider against them but they played well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_02cfZI0FhQ
The crowd record was 4542:
http://www.quins.co.uk/news/harlequins- ... cord-crowd
For Nigehorn:
https://twitter.com/HarlequinsWomen/sta ... 2224126976
Not that the Aussie 7s needed to get any more dominant, but if she's not already in the squad, she will be ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eotoKkYG8Q
tabascoboy
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Don't know if this was posted before elsewhere but...
Hong Kong Sevens - Qualification for the WSWS
Group A: South Africa, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Mexico
Group B: Brazil, China, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong
Group C: Wales, Belgium, Argentina, Poland
https://www.worldrugby.org/sevens-series/news/320124
Nieghorn porn for the first half of this video:
https://twitter.com/Harlequins/status/9 ... 6627635207
If you can hook a brother up... otherwise, stop torturing me! (I just did a quick search to see by how much she's likely 'too young' for me ... and her LinkedIn says she studied History and Politics at uni ... again, this is torture!)
Anyways now the 6 nations is over the women's league has a few weeks left. Saracens, Harlequins and Wasps have confirmed their semi-final places but Quins and Sarries play each other on Saturday to basically decide who tops the league and Gloucester play Loughborough to decide 4th place as there is only 2 points between them.
Looking at mid-table I have to say Bristol who have tons of talented players have been a disappointment this season. I wonder if it's because they lost a bit of street smarts and bulk from the pack. They should really be challenging but fell off after a bright start. They also had a coaching change mid-way through the season so I figured there were behind the scenes issues there.
It's also nice to see Richmond end the season strongly. They have survived with a grizzled pack and could do with some quality backs to be able to step-up. Like how Bristol lost a lot of players, I saw that Harlequins stole a fair few Richmond players which must have damaged them. If I was Wasps or Richmond i'd make offers to a lot of Saracens players who seem to have 2 or 3 teams of quality and top young talent. they have so really class youth like Harriet Austin or Cara Wardle who must be held behind getting less top quality game time and on top of that they seem to be able to produce an England U20 side by themselves. Surely lots of opportunity to offer game time, I'd imagine Wasps would be especially attractive to potential movers.
If I could hook anybody up with her, I'd be in there myself so fast I'm crack the 100m world record over a mile.
... all's fair in love and war and all that.
Are you as far removed as me age-wise? I'm easily 5-10 years too old.
:lol: ... all's fair in love and war and all that.
I'm mid 30's. I assume you're a little older? But who knows, she might be into older dudes, keep your hopes up
38 ... suspect you'd win the battle for her affections.
For those asking for more TV coverage, Sky will be showing the Tyrrells Premier 15s final live on 29 April.
Gloucester-Hartpury wins the battle of the rugby universities with Loughborough. I was at the Sarries game so I'll be watching the stream soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtGYBUS_2w
Harlequins Ladies hold on to beat Saracens women as well. Very interesting as that is the most likely 2 teams to make the final in a few weeks it's now 1-1 between them.
England Women saw a 20% increase in attendance and a 92% increase in sky viewing figures this season
http://www.englandrugby.com/news/englan ... 85345861=1
Good article about how Welsh rugby went from 170 women playing to over 10,000 in 3 years:
I also look forward to Emma Urn stepping up from U20's to England. Since her injured she has been spectacular on the wing for Sarries. This try yesterday:
https://twitter.com/rugbydad678/status/ ... 7456436229
Burned two people with the in-out stutter! Wonderful stuff!
... and great story about Wales. I'm always a bit sceptical about numbers, but if true or something different, one can't deny that there's been a massive up-swell.
Was out at a joint initiative by two clubs to get kids playing minis last night. Turn up for free. See what the game's all about. Lots of physical challenges like races with a ball and mini games that didn't look like rugby. Very, very few girls and was told a story about a girl that walked off mid way through and never returned because there were a lot of boys who weren't passing her the ball.
Also sounds like numbers of coaches, and thus, school teams have dropped off in the city. In the Welsh example, I think having those officers - as I've been saying for ages - is what we need. There are fewer teachers with rugby backgrounds and there's a hesitation to even give touch / flag a go amongst them as the game is so foreign. Rugby people in the community have a near-impossible time getting into schools because it usually ends two hours before people get off work.
Not that the play a lot of tests, but I'd wager she'll make the next Aussie squad ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSy00VmuOsM
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she didn't bring it up: is he a madman?), tosses her head back: "Please! Please listen to me!" She closes her eyes, her lower lip pushed forward as though bruised. "If you knew what really happened, if you only knew the truth --!"
He stands over this display, impassive as a Moorish executioner (that's it! he's turning into one of these bloody Arabs, she thinks). "I wouldn't believe you, no matter what you told me," he says. In Ethiopia, after an attempt on the life of an Italian officer, he saw 1600 Ethiopians get rounded up one night and shot in reprisal. Many were friends of his. Or clients anyway. But somehow her deceit is worse. "You'd say anything now, to get what you want." Again he turns his back on her, strides away.
She stares at him in shocked silence, as though all that had happened eighteen months ago in Paris were flashing suddenly before her eyes, now made ugly by some terrible revelation. An exaggerated gasp escapes her like the breaking of wind: his head snaps up and he turns sharply to the right. She chases him, dogging his heels. "You want to feel sorry for yourself, don't you?" she cries and, surprised (he was just reaching for something on an ornamental table, the humidor perhaps), he turns back to her. "With so much at stake, all you can think off is your own feeling," she rails. Her lips are drawn back, her breathing labored, her eyes watering in anger and frustration. "One woman has hurt you, and you take your reffenge on the rest off the world!" She is choking, she can hardly speak. Her accent seems to have got worse. "You're a coward, und veakling, und --"
She gasps. What is she saying? He watches her, as though faintly amused. "No, Richard, I'm sorry!" Tears are flowing in earnest now: she's gone too far! This is the expression on her face. She's in a corner, struggling to get out. "I'm sorry, but --" She wipes the tears from her cheek, and calls once again on her husband, that great and courageous man whom they both admire, whom the whole world admires: "-- you're our last hope! If you don't help us, Victor Laszlo will die in Casablanca!"
"What of it?" he says. He has been waiting for this opportunity. He plays with it now, stretching it out. He turns, reaches for a cigarette, his head haloed in the light from an arched doorway. "I'm gonna die in Casablanca. It's a good spot for it." This line is meant to be amusing, but Ilsa reacts with horror. Her eyes widen. She catches her breath, turns away. He lights up, pleased with himself, takes a practiced drag, blows smoke. "Now," he says, turning toward her, "if you'll --"
He pulls up short, squints: she has drawn a revolver on him. So much for toothbrushes and hotel keys. "All right. I tried to reason with you. I tried effrything. Now I want those letters." Distantly, a melodic line suggests a fight for love and glory, an ironic case of do or die. "Get them for me."
"I don't have to." He touches his jacket. "I got 'em right here."
"Put them on the table."
He smiles and shakes his head. "No." Smoke curls up from the cigarette he is holding at his side like the steam that enveloped the five o'clock train to Marseilles. Her eyes fill with tears. Even as she presses on ("For the last time. . .!"), she knows that "no" is final. There is, behind his ironic smile, a profound sadness, the fatalistic survivor's wistful acknowledgment that, in the end, the fundamental things apply. Time, going by, leaves nothing behind, not even moments like this. "If Laszlo and the cause mean so much," he says, taunting her with her own uncertainties, "you won't stop at anything. . ."
He seems almost to recede. The cigarette disappears, the smoke. His sorrow gives way to something not unlike eagerness. "All right, I'll make it easier for you," he says, and walks toward her. "Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor."
She seems taken aback, her eyes damp, her lips swollen and parted. Light licks at her face. He gazes steadily at her from his superior moral position, smoke drifting up from his hand once more, his white tuxedo pressed against the revolver barrel. Her eyes close as the gun lowers, and she gasps his name: "Richard!" It is like an invocation. Or a profession of faith. "I tried to stay away," she sighs. She opens her eyes, peers up at him in abject surrender. A tear moves slowly down her cheek toward the corner of her mouth like secret writing. "I thought I would neffer see you again . . . that you were out off my life. . ." She blinks, cries out faintly -- "Oh!" -- and (he seems moved at last, his mask of disdain falling away like perspiration) turns away, her head wrenched to one side as though in pain.
Stricken with sudden concern, or what looks like concern, he steps up behind her, clasping her breasts with both hands, nuzzling in her hair. "The day you left Paris. . .!" she sobs, though she seems unsure of herself. One of his hands is already down between her legs, the other inside her blouse, pulling a breast out of its brassiere cup. "If you only knew. . . what I. . ." He is moaning, licking at one ear, the hand between her legs nearly lifting her off the floor, his pelvis bumping at her buttocks. "Is this. . . right?" she gasps.
"I - I don't know!" he groans, massaging her breast, the nipple between two fingers. "I can't think!"
"But. . . you must think!" she cries, squirming her hips. Tears are streaming down her cheeks now. "For. . . for. . ."
"What?" he gasps, tearing her blouse open, pulling on her breast as though to drag it over her shoulder where he might kiss it. Or eat it: he seems ravenous suddenly.
"I. . . I can't remember!" she sobs. She reaches behind to jerk at his fly (what else is she to do, for the love of Jesus?), then rips away her sash, unfastens her skirt, her fingers trembling.
"Holy shit!" he wheezes, pushing his hand inside her girdle as her skirt falls. His cheeks too are wet with tears. "Ilsa!"
"Richard!"
They fall to the floor, grabbing and pulling at each other's clothing. He's trying to get her bra off which is tangled up now with her blouse, she's struggling with his belt, yanking at his black pants, wrenching them open. Buttons fly, straps pop, there's the soft unfocused rip of silk, the jingle of buckles and falling coins, grunts, gasps, whimpers of desire. He strips the tangled skein of underthings away (all these straps and stays -- how does she get in and out of this crazy elastic?); she works his pants down past his bucking hips, fumbles with his shoes. "Your elbow --!"
"Mmmff!"
"Ah --!"
She pulls his pants and boxer shorts off, crawls round and (he strokes her shimmering buttocks, swept by the light from the airport tower, watching her full breasts sway above him: it's all happening so fast, he'd like to slow it down, repeat some of the better bits -- that view of her rippling haunches on her hands and knees just now, for example, like a 22, his lucky number -- but there's a great urgency on them, they can't wait) straddles him, easing him into her like a train being guided into a station. "I luff you, Richard!" she declares breathlessly, though she seems to be speaking, eyes squeezed shut and breasts heaving, not to him but to the ceiling, if there is one up there. His eyes too are closed now, his hands gripping her soft hips, pulling her down, his breath coming in short anguished snorts, his face puffy and damp with tears. There is, as always, something deeply wounded and vulnerable about the expression on his battered face, framed there against his Persian carpet: Rick Blaine, a man annealed by loneliness and betrayal, but flawed -- hopelessly, it seems -- by hope itself. He is, in the tragic sense, a true revolutionary: his gaping mouth bespeaks this, the spittle in the corners of his lips, his eyes, open now and staring into some infinite distance not unlike the future, his knitted brow. He heaves upward, impaling her to the very core: "Oh, Gott!" she screams, her back arching, mouth agape as though to commence "La Marseillaise."
Now, for a moment, they pause, feeling themselves thus conjoined, his organ luxuriating in the warm tub of her vagina, her enflamed womb closing around his pulsing penis like a mother embracing a lost child. "If you only knew. . . ," she seems to say, though perhaps she has said this before and only now it can be heard. He fondles her breasts; she rips his shirt open, strokes his chest, leans forward to kiss his lips, his nipples. This is not Victor inside her with his long thin rapier, all too rare in its embarrassed visits; this is not Yvonne with her cunning professional muscles, her hollow airy hole. This is love in all its clammy mystery, the ultimate connection, the squishy rub of truth, flesh as a self-consuming message. This is necessity, as in woman needs man, and man must have his mate. Even their identities seem to be dissolving; they have to whisper each other's name from time to time as though in recitative struggle against some ultimate enchantment from which there might be no return. Then slowly she begins to wriggle her hips above him, he to meet her gentle undulations with counterthrusts of his own. They hug each other close, panting, her breasts smashed against him, moving only from the waist down. She slides her thighs between his and squeezes his penis between them, as though to conceal it there, an underground member on the run, wounded but unbowed. He lifts his stockinged feet and plants them behind her knees as though in stirrups, her buttocks above pinching and opening, pinching and opening like a suction pump. And it is true about her vaunted radiance: she seems almost to glow from within, her flexing cheeks haloed in their own dazzling luster.
"It feels so good, Richard! In there. . . I've been so -- ah! -- so lonely. . .!"
"Yeah, me too, kid. Ngh! Don't talk."
She slips her thighs back over his and draws them up beside his waist like a child curling around her teddybear, knees against his ribs, her fanny gently bobbing on its pike like a mind caressing a cherished memory. He lies there passively for a moment, stretched out, eyes closed, accepting this warm rhythmical ablution as one might accept a nanny's teasing bath, a mother's care (a care, he's often said, denied him), in all its delicious innocence -- or seemingly so: in fact, his whole body is faintly atremble, as though, with great difficulty, shedding the last of its pride and bitterness, its isolate neutrality. Then slowly his own hips begin to rock convulsively under hers, his knees to rise in involuntary surrender. She tongues his ear, her buttocks thumping more vigorously now, kisses his throat, his nose, his scarred lip, then rears up, arching her back, tossing her head back (her hair is looser now, wilder, a flush has crept into the distinctive pallor of her cheeks and throat, and what was before a fierce determination is now raw intensity, what vulnerability now a slack-jawed abandon), plunging him in more deeply than ever, his own buttocks bouncing up off the floor as though trying to take off like the next flight to Lisbon -- "Gott in Himmel, this is fonn!" she cries. She reaches behind her back to clutch his testicles, he clasps her hand in both of his, his thighs spread, she falls forward, they roll over, he's pounding away now from above (he lacks her famous radiance: if anything his buttocks seem to suck in light, drawing a nostalgic murkiness around them like night fog, signaling a fundamental distance between them, and an irresistible attraction), she's clawing at his back under the white jacket, at his hips, his thighs, her voracious nether mouth leaping up at him from below and sliding back, over and over, like a frantic greased-pole climber. Faster and faster they slap their bodies together, submitting to this fierce rhythm as though to simplify themselves, emitting grunts and whinnies and helpless little farts, no longer Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund, but some nameless conjunction somewhere between them, time, space, being itself getting redefined by the rapidly narrowing focus of their incandescent passion -- then suddenly Rick rears back, his face seeming to puff out like a gourd, Ilsa cries out and kicks upward, crossing her ankles over Rick's clenched buttocks, for a moment they seem almost to float, suspended, unloosed from the earth's gravity, and then -- whumpff -- they hit the floor again, their bodies continuing to hammer together, though less regularly, plunging, twitching, prolonging this exclamatory dialogue, drawing it out even as the intensity diminishes, even as it becomes more a declaration than a demand, more an inquiry than a declaration. Ilsa's feet uncross, slide slowly to the floor. "Fooff. . . Gott!" They lie there, cheek to cheek, clutching each other tightly, gasping for breath, their thighs quivering with the last involuntary spasms, the echoey reverberations, deep in their loins, of pleasure's fading blasts.
"Jesus," Rick wheezes, "I've been saving that one for a goddamn year and a half. . .!"
"It was the best fokk I effer haff," Ilsa replies with a tremulous sigh, and kisses his ear, runs her fingers in his hair. He starts to roll off her, but she clasps him closely: "No. . . wait. . .!" A deeper thicker pleasure, not so ecstatic, yet somehow more moving, seems to well up from far inside her to embrace the swollen visitor snuggled moistly in her womb, once a familiar friend, a comrade loved and trusted, now almost a stranger, like one resurrected from the dead.
"Ah --!" he gasps. God, it's almost like she's milking it! Then she lets go, surrounding him spongily with a kind of warm wet pulsating gratitude. "Ah. . ."
He lies there between Ilsa's damp silky thighs, feeling his weight thicken, his mind soften and spread. His will drains away as if it were some kind of morbid affection, lethargy overtaking him like an invading army. Even his jaw goes slack, his fingers (three sprawl idly on a dark-tipped breast) limp. He wears his snowy white tuxedo jacket still, his shiny black socks, which, together with the parentheses of Ilsa's white thighs, make his melancholy buttocks -- beaten in childhood, lashed at sea, run lean in union skirmishes, sunburned in Ethiopia, and shot at in Spain -- look gloomier than ever, swarthy and self-pitying, agape now with a kind of heroic sadness. A violent tenderness. These buttocks are, it could be said, what the pose of isolation looks like at its best: proud, bitter, mournful, and, as the prefect of police might have put it, tremendously attractive. Though his penis has slipped out of its vaginal pocket to lie limply like a fat little toe against her slowly pursing lips, she clasps him close still, clinging to something she cannot quite define, something like a spacious dream of freedom, or a monastery garden, or the discovery of electricity. "Do you have a gramophone on, Richard?"
"What --?!" Her question has startled him. His haunches snap shut, his head rears up, snorting, he seems to be reaching for the letters of transit. "Ah. . . no. . ." He relaxes again, letting his weight fall back, though sliding one thigh over hers now, stretching his arms out as though to unkink them, turning his face away. His scrotum bulges up on her thigh like an emblem of his inner serenity and generosity, all too often concealed, much as an authentic decency might shine through a mask of cynicism and despair. He takes a deep breath. (A kiss is just a kiss is what the music is insinuating. A sigh. . . ) "That's probably Sam. . ."
She sighs (. . . and so forth), gazing up at the ceiling above her, patterned with overlapping circles of light from the room's lamps and swept periodically by the wheeling airport beacon, coming and going impatiently, yet reliably, like desire itself. "He hates me, I think."
"Sam? No, he's a pal. What I think, he thinks."
"When we came into the bar last night, he started playing 'Luff for Sale.' Effryone turned and looked at me."
"It wasn't the song, sweetheart, it was the way you two were dressed. Nobody in Casablanca --"
"Then he tried to chase me away. He said I was bad luck to you." She can still see the way he rolled his white eyes at her, like some kind of crazy voodoo zombie.
Richard grunts ambiguously. "Maybe you should stop calling him 'boy.' "
Was that it? "But in all the moofies --" Well, a translation problem probably, a difficulty she has known often in her life. Language can sometimes be stiff as a board. Like what's under her now. She loves Richard's relaxed weight on her, the beat of his heart next to her breast, the soft lumpy pouch of his genitals squashed against her thigh, but the floor seems to be hardening under her like some kind of stern Calvinist rebuke and there is a disagreeable airy stickiness between her legs, now that he has slid away from there. "Do you haff a bidet, Richard?"
"Sure, kid." He slides to one side with a lazy grunt, rolls over. He's thinking vaguely about the pleasure he's just had, what it's likely to cost him (he doesn't care), and wondering where he'll find the strength to get up off his ass and go look for a cigarette. He stretches his shirttail down and wipes his crotch with it, nods back over the top of his head. "In there."
She is sitting up, peering between her spread legs. "I am afraid we haff stained your nice carpet, Richard."
"What of it? Put it down as a gesture to love. Want a drink?"
"Yes, that would be good." She leans over and kisses him, her face still flushed and eyes damp, but smiling now, then stands and gathers up an armload of tangled clothing. "Do I smell something burning?"
"What --?!" He rears up. "My goddamn cigarette! I musta dropped it on the couch!" He crawls over, brushes at it: it's gone out, but there's a big hole there now, dark-edged like ringworm. "Shit." He staggers to his feet, stumbles over to the humidor to light up a fresh smoke. Nothing's ever free, he thinks, feeling a bit light-headed. "What's your poison, kid?"
"I haff downstairs been drinking Cointreau," she calls out over the running water in the next room. He pours himself a large whiskey, tosses it down neat (light, sliding by, catches his furrowed brow as he tips his head back: what is wrong?), pours another, finds a decanter of Grand Marnier. She won't know the difference. In Paris she confused champagne with sparkling cider, ordered a Pommard thinking she was getting a rosé, drank gin because she couldn't taste it. He fits the half-burned cigarette between his lips, tucks a spare over his ear, then carries the drinks into the bathroom. She sits, straddling the bidet, churning water up between her legs like the wake of a pleasure boat. The beacon doesn't reach in here: it's as though he's stepped out of its line of sight, but that doesn't make him feel easier (something is nagging at him, has been for some time now). He holds the drink to her mouth for her, and she sips, looking mischievously up at him, one wet hand braced momentarily on his hipbone. Even in Paris she seemed to think drinking was naughtier than sex. Which made her on occasion something of a souse. She tips her chin, and he sets her drink down on the sink. "I wish I didn't luff you so much," she says casually, licking her lips, and commences to work up a lather between her legs with a bar of soap.
"Listen, what did you mean," he asks around the cigarette (this is it, or part of it: he glances back over his shoulder apprehensively, as though to find some answer to his question staring him in the face or what, from the rear, is passing for his face), "when you said, 'Is this right?' "
"When. . .?"
"A while ago, when I grabbed your, you know --"
"Oh, I don't know, darling. Yust a strange feeling, I don't exactly remember." She spreads the suds up her smooth belly and down the insides of her thighs, runs the soap up under her behind. "Like things were happening too fast or something."
He takes a contemplative drag on the cigarette, flips the butt into the toilet. "Yeah, that's it." Smoke curls out his nostrils like balloons of speech in a comic strip. "All this seems strange somehow. Like something that shouldn't have --"
"Well, I am a married woman, Richard."
"I don't mean that." But maybe he does mean that. She's rinsing now, her breasts flopping gaily above her splashing, it's hard to keep his mind on things. But he's not only been pronging some other guy's wife, this is the wife of Victor Laszlo of the International Underground, one of his goddamn heroes. One of the world's. Does that matter? He shoves his free hand in a jacket pocket, having no other, tosses back the drink. "Anyway," he wheezes, "from what you tell me, you were married already when we met in Paris, so that's not --"
"Come here, Richard," Ilsa interrupts with gentle but firm Teutonic insistence. Komm' hier. His back straightens, his eyes narrow, and for a moment the old Rick Blaine returns, the lonely American warrior, incorruptible, melancholy, master of his own fate, beholden to no one -- but then she reaches forward and, like destiny, takes a hand. "Don't try to escape," she murmurs, pulling him up to the bidet between her knees. "You will neffer succeed."
She continues to hold him with one hand (he is growing there, stretching and filling in her hand with soft warm pulsations, and more than anything else that has happened to her since she came to Casablanca, more even than Sam's song, it is this sensation that takes her back to their days in Paris: wherever they went, from the circus to the movies, from excursion boats to dancehalls, it swelled in her hand, just like this), while soaping him up with the other. "Why are you circumcised, Richard?" she asks, as the engorged head (when it flushes, it seems to flush blue) pushes out between her thumb and index finger. There was something he always said in Paris when it poked up at her like that. She peers wistfully at it, smiling to herself.
"My old man was a sawbones," he says, and takes a deep breath. He sets his empty glass down, reaches for the spare fag. It seems to have vanished. "He thought it was hygienic."
"Fictor still has his. Off course in Europe it is often important not to be mistaken for a Chew." She takes up the fragrant bar of soap (black market, the best, Ferrari gets it for him) and buffs the shaft with it, then thumbs the head with her sudsy hands as though, gently, trying to uncap it. The first day he met her, she opened his pants and jerked him off in his top-down convertible right under the Arc de Triomphe, then, almost without transition, or so it seemed to him, blew him spectacularly in the Bois de Boulogne. He remembers every detail, or anyway the best parts. And it was never -- ever -- any better than that. Until tonight.
She rinses the soap away, pours the rest of the Grand Marnier (she thinks: Cointreau) over his gleaming organ like a sort of libation, working the excess around as though lightly basting it (he thinks: priming it). A faint sad smile seems to be playing at the corners of her lips. "Say it once, Richard. . ."
"What --?"
She's smiling sweetly, but: is that a tear in her eye? "For old times' sake. Say it. . ."
"Ah." Yes, he'd forgotten. He's out of practice. He grunts, runs his hand down her damp cheek and behind her ear. "Here's lookin' at you, kid. . ."
She puckers her lips and kisses the tip, smiling cross-eyed at it, then, opening her mouth wide, takes it in, all of it at once. "Oh, Christ!" he groans, feeling himself awash in the thick muscular foam of her saliva, "I'm crazy about you, baby!"
"Mmmm!" she moans. He has said that to her before, more than once no doubt (she wraps her arms around his hips under the jacket and hugs him close), but the time she is thinking about was at the cinema one afternoon in Paris. They had gone to see an American detective movie that was popular at the time, but there was a newsreel on before showing the Nazi conquests that month of Copenhagen, Oslo, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, and Brussels. "The Fall of Five Capitals," it was called. And the scenes from Oslo, though brief, showing the Gestapo goose-stepping through the storied streets of her childhood filled her with such terror and nostalgia (something inside her was screaming, "Who am I?"), that she reached impulsively for Richard's hand, grabbing what Victor calls "the old fellow" instead. She started to pull her hand back, but he held it there, and the next thing she knew she had her head in his lap, weeping and sucking as though at her dead mother's breast, the terrible roar of the German blitzkrieg pounding in her ears, Richard kneading her nape as her father used to do before he died (and as Richard is doing now, his buttocks knotted, up under her arms, his penis fluttering in her mouth like a frightened bird), the Frenchmen in the theater shouting out obscenities, her own heart pounding like cannon fire. "God! I'm crazy about you, baby!" Richard whinnied as he came (now, as his knees buckle against hers and her mouth fills with the shockingly familiar unfamiliarity of his spurting seed, it is just a desperate "Oh fuck! Don't let go. . .!"), and when she sat up, teary-eyed and drooling and gasping for breath (it is not all that easy to breathe now, as he clasps her face close to his hairy belly, whimpering gratefully, his body sagging, her mouth filling), what she saw on the screen were happy Germans, celebrating their victories, taking springtime strolls through overflowing flower and vegetable markets, going to the theater to see translations of Shakespeare, snapping photographs of their children. "Oh Gott," she sniffled then (now she swallows, sucks and swallows, as though to draw out from this almost impalpable essence some vast structure of recollection), "it's too much!" Whereupon the man behind them leaned over and said: "Then try mine, mademoiselle. As you can see, it is not so grand as your Nazi friend's, but here in France, we grow men not pricks!" Richard's French was terrible, but it was good enough to understand "your Nazi friend": he hadn't even put his penis back in his pants (now it slides greasily past her chin, flops down her chest, his buttocks in her hugging arms going soft as butter, like a delicious half-grasped memory losing its clear outlines, melting into mere sensation), but just leapt up and took a swing at the Frenchman. With that, the cinema broke into an uproar with everybody calling everyone else a fascist or a whore. They were thrown out of the theater of course, the police put Richard on their blacklist as an exhibitionist, and they never did get to see the detective movie. Ah well, they could laugh about it then. . .
He sits now on the front lip of the bidet, his knees knuckled under hers, shirttails in the water, his cheek fallen on her broad shoulder, arms loosely around her, feeling wonderfully unwound, mellow as an old tune (which is still there somewhere, moonlight and love songs, same old story -- maybe it's coming up through the pipes), needing only a smoke to make things perfect. The one he stuck over his ear is floating in the scummy pool beneath them, he sees. Ilsa idly splashes his drooping organ as though christening it. Only one answer, she once said, peeling off that lovely satin gown of hers like a French letter, will take care of all our questions, and she was right. As always. He's the one who's made a balls-up of things with his complicated moral poses and insufferable pride -- a diseased romantic, Louis once called him, and he didn't know the half of it. She's the only realist in town; he's got to start paying attention. Even now she's making sense: "My rump is getting dumb, Richard. Dry me off and let's go back in the other room."
But when he tries to stand, his knees feel like toothpaste, and he has to sit again. Right back in the bidet, as it turns out, dipping his ass like doughnuts in tea. She smiles understandingly, drapes a bath towel around her shoulders, pokes through the medicine cabinet until she finds a jar of Yvonne's cold cream, then takes him by the elbow. "Come on, Richard. You can do it, yust lean on me." Which reminds him (his mind at least is still working, more or less) of a night in Spain, halfway up (or down) Suicide Hill in the Jarama valley, a night he thought was to be his last, when he said that to someone, or someone said it to him. God, what if he'd got it shot off there? And missed this? An expression compounded of hope and anguish, skepticism and awe, crosses his weary face (thirty-eight at Christmas, if Strasser is right -- oh mother of God, it is going by!), picked up by the wheeling airport beacon. She removes his dripping jacket, his shirt as well, and towels his behind before letting him collapse onto the couch, then crosses to the ornamental table for a cigarette from the humidor. She wears the towel like a cape, her haunches under it glittering as though sequined. She is, as always, a kind of walking light show, no less spectacular from the front as she turns back now toward the sofa, the nubbly texture of the towel contrasting subtly with the soft glow of her throat and breast, the sleek wet gleam of her belly.
She fits two cigarettes in her lips, lights them both (there's a bit of fumbling with the lighter, she's not very mechanical), and gazing soulfully down at Rick, passes him one of them. He grins. "Hey, where'd you learn that, kid?" She shrugs enigmatically, hands him the towel, and steps up between his knees. As he rubs her breasts, her belly, her thighs with the towel, the cigarette dangling in his lips, she gazes around at the chalky rough-plastered walls of his apartment, the Moorish furniture with its filigrees and inlaid patterns, the little bits of erotic art (there is a statue of a camel on the sideboard that looks like a man's wet penis on legs, and a strange nude statuette that might be a boy, or a girl, or something in between), the alabaster lamps and potted plants, those slatted wooden blinds, so exotic to her Northern eyes: he has style, she thinks, rubbing cold cream into her neck and shoulder with her free hand, he always did have. . .
She lifts one leg for him to dry and then the other, gasping inwardly (outwardly, she chokes and wheezes, having inhaled the cigarette by mistake: he stubs out his own with a sympathetic grin, takes what is left of hers) when he rubs the towel briskly between them, then she turns and bends over, bracing herself on the coffee table. Rick, the towel in his hands, pauses a moment, gazing thoughtfully through the drifting cigarette haze at these luminous buttocks, finding something almost otherworldly about them, like archways to heaven or an image of eternity. Has he seen them like this earlier tonight? Maybe, he can't remember. Certainly now he's able to savor the sight, no longer crazed by rut. They are, quite literally, a dream come true: he has whacked off to their memory so often during the last year and a half that it almost feels more appropriate to touch himself than this present manifestation. As he reaches toward them with the towel, he seems to be crossing some strange threshold, as though passing from one medium into another. He senses the supple buoyancy of them bouncing back against his hand as he wipes them, yet, though flesh, they remain somehow immaterial, untouchable even when touched, objects whose very presence is a kind of absence. If Rick Blaine were to believe in angels, Ilsa's transcendent bottom is what they would look like.
"Is this how you, uh, imagined things turning out tonight?" he asks around the butt, smoke curling out his nose like thought's reek. Her cheeks seem to pop alight like his Café Américain sign each time the airport beacon sweeps past, shifting slightly like a sequence of film frames. Time itself may be like that, he knows: not a ceaseless flow, but a rapid series of electrical leaps across tiny gaps between discontinuous bits. It's what he likes to call his link-and-claw theory of time, though of course the theory is not his. . .
"Well, it may not be perfect, Richard, but it is better than if I haff shot you, isn't it?"
"No, I meant. . ." Well, let it be. She's right, it beats eating a goddamn bullet. In fact it beats anything he can imagine. He douses his cigarette in the wet towel, tosses it aside, wraps his arms around her thighs and pulls her buttocks (he is still thinking about time as a pulsing sequence of film frames, and not so much about the frames, their useless dated content, as the gaps between: infinitesimally small when looked at two-dimensionally, yet in their third dimension as deep and mysterious as the cosmos) toward his face, pressing against them like a child trying to see through a foggy window. He kisses and nibbles at each fresh-washed cheek (and what if one were to slip between two of those frames? he wonders --), runs his tongue into (-- where would he be then?) her anus, kneading the flesh on her pubic knoll between his fingers all the while like little lumps of stiff taffy. She raises one knee up onto the cushions, then the other, lowering her elbows to the floor (oh! she thinks as the blood rushes in two directions at once, spreading into her head and sex as though filling empty frames, her heart the gap between: what a strange dizzying dream time is!), thus lifting to his contemplative scrutiny what looks like a clinging sea anemone between her thighs, a thick woolly pod, a cloven chinchilla, open purse, split fruit. But it is not the appearance of it that moves him (except to the invention of these fanciful catalogues), it is the smell. It is this which catapults him suddenly and wholly back to Paris, a Paris he'd lost until this moment (she is not in Paris, she is in some vast dimensionless region she associates with childhood, a nighttime glow in her midsummer room, featherbedding between her legs) but now has back again. Now and for all time. As he runs his tongue up and down the spongy groove, pinching the lips tenderly between his tongue and stiff upper lip (an old war wound), feeling it engorge, pulsate, almost pucker up to kiss him back, he seems to see -- as though it were fading in on the blank screen of her gently rolling bottom -- that night at her apartment in Paris when she first asked him to "Kiss me, Richard, here. My other mouth wants to luff you, too. . ." He'd never done that before. He had been all over the world, had fought in wars, battled cops, been jailed and tortured, hid out in whorehouses, parachuted out of airplanes, had eaten and drunk just about everything, had been blown off the decks of ships, killed more men than he'd like to count, and had banged every kind and color of woman on earth, but he had never tasted one of these things before. Other women had sucked him off, of course, before Ilsa nearly caused him to wreck his car that day in the Bois de Boulogne, but he had always thought of that as a service due him, something he'd paid for in effect -- he was the man, after all. But reciprocation, sucking back -- well, that always struck him as vaguely queer, something guys, manly guys anyway, didn't do. That night, though, he'd had a lot of champagne and he was -- this was the simple truth, and it was an experience as exotic to Rick Blaine as the taste of a cunt -- madly in love. He had been an unhappy misfit all his life, at best a romantic drifter, at worst and in the eyes of most a sleazy gunrunner and chicken-shit mercenary (though God knows he'd hoped for more), a whoremonger and brawler and miserable gutter drunk: nothing like Ilsa Lund had ever happened to him, and he could hardly believe it was happening to him that night. His immediate reaction -- he admits this, sucking greedily at it now (she is galloping her father's horse through the woods of the north, canopy-dark and sunlight-blinding at the same time, pushing the beast beneath her, racing toward what she believed to be God's truth, flushing through her from the saddle up as eternity might when the saints were called), while watching himself, on the cinescreen of her billowing behind, kneel to it that first time like an atheist falling squeamishly into conversion -- was not instant rapture. No, like olives, home brew, and Arab cooking, it took a little getting used to. But she taught him how to stroke the vulva with his tongue, where to find the nun's cap ("my little sister," she called it, which struck him as odd) and how to draw it out, how to use his fingers, nose, chin, even his hair and ears, and the more he practiced for her sake, the more he liked it for his own, her pleasure (he could see it: it bloomed right under his nose, filling his grimy life with colors he'd never even thought of before!) augmenting his, until he found his appetite for it almost insatiable. God, the boys on the block back in New York would laugh their asses off to see how far he'd fallen! And though he has tried others since, it is still the only one he really likes. Yvonne's is terrible, bitter and pomaded (she seems to sense this, gets no pleasure from it at all, often turns fidgety and mean when he goes down on her, even had a kind of biting, scratching fit once: "Don' you lak to fuck?" she'd screamed), which is the main reason he's lost interest in her. That and her hairy legs.
His screen is shrinking (her knees have climbed to his shoulders, scrunching her hips into little bumps and bringing her shoulderblades into view, down near the floor, where she is gasping and whimpering and sucking the carpet), but his vision of the past is expanding, as though her pumping cheeks were a chubby bellows, opening and closing, opening and closing, inflating his memories. Indeed, he no longer needs a screen for them, for it is not this or that conquest that he recalls now, this or that event, not what she wore or what she said, what he said, but something more profound than that, something experienced in the way that a blind man sees or an amputee touches. Texture returns to him, ambience, impressions of radiance, of coalescence, the foamy taste of the ineffable on his tongue, the downy nap of timelessness, the tooth of now. All this he finds in Ilsa's juicy bouncing cunt -- and more: love's pungent illusions of consubstantiation and infinitude (oh, he knows what he lost that day in the rain in the Gare de Lyon!), the bittersweet fall into actuality, space's secret folds wherein one might lose one's ego, one's desperate sense of isolation, Paris, rediscovered here as pure aura, effervescent and allusive, La Belle Aurore as immanence's theater, sacred showplace --
Oh hell, he thinks as Ilsa's pounding hips drive him to his back on the couch, her thighs slapping against his ears (as she rises, her blood in riptide against her mounting excitement, the airport beacon touching her in its passing like bursts of inspiration, she thinks: childhood is a place apart, needing the adult world to exist at all: without Victor there could be no Rick! -- and then she cannot think at all), La Belle Aurore! She broke his goddamn heart at La Belle Aurore. "Kiss me," she said, holding herself with both hands as though to keep the pain from spilling out down there, "one last time," and he did, for her, Henri didn't care, merde alors, the Germans were coming anyway, and the other patrons thought it was just part of the entertainment; only Sam was offended and went off to the john till it was over. And then she left him. Forever. Or anyway until she turned up here a night ago with Laszlo. God, he remembers everything about that day in the Belle Aurore, what she was wearing, what the Germans were wearing, what Henri was wearing. It was not an easy day to forget. The Germans were at the very edge of the city, they were bombing the bejesus out of the place and everything was literally falling down around their ears (she's smothering him now with her bucking arse, her scissoring thighs: he heaves her over onto her back and pushes his arms between her thighs to spread them); they'd had to crawl over rubble and dead bodies, push through barricades, just to reach the damned café. No chance to get out by car, he was lucky there was enough left in his "F.Y. Fund" to buy them all train tickets. And then the betrayal: "I can' find her, Mr. Richard. She's checked outa de hotel. But dis note come jus' after you lef'!" Oh shit, even now it makes him cry. "I cannot go with you or ever see you again." In perfect Palmer Method handwriting, as though to exult in her power over him. He kicked poor Sam's ass up and down that train all the way to Marseilles, convinced it was somehow his fault. Even a hex maybe, that day he could have believed anything. Now, with her hips bouncing frantically up against his mouth, her bush grown to an astonishing size, the lips out and flapping like flags, the trench between them awash in a fragrant ooze like oily air, he lifts his head and asks: "Why weren't you honest with me? Why did you keep your marriage a secret?"
"Oh Gott, Richard! Not now --!"
She's right, it doesn't seem the right moment for it, but then nothing has seemed right since she turned up in this godforsaken town: it's almost as though two completely different places, two completely different times, are being forced to mesh, to intersect where no intersection is possible, causing a kind of warp in the universe. In his own private universe anyway. He gazes down on this lost love, this faithless wife, this trusting child, her own hands between her legs now, her hips still jerking out of control ("Please, Richard!" she is begging softly through clenched teeth, tears in her eyes), thinking: It's still a story without an ending. But more than that: the beginning and middle bits aren't all there either. Her face is drained as though all the blood has rushed away to other parts, but her throat between the heaving white breasts is almost literally alight with its vivid blush. He touches it, strokes the soft bubbles to either side, watching the dark little nipples rise like patriots -- and suddenly the answer to all his questions seems (yet another one, that is -- answers, in the end, are easy) to suggest itself. "Listen kid, would it be all right if I. . .?"
"Oh yes! yes! -- but hurry!"
He finds the cold cream (at last! he is so slow!), lathers it on, and slips into her cleavage, his knees over her shoulders like a yoke. She guides his head back into that tropical explosion between her legs, then clasps her arms around his hips, already beginning to thump at her chest like a resuscitator, popping little gasps from her throat. She tries to concentrate on his bouncing buttocks, but they communicate to her such a touching blend of cynicism and honesty, weariness and generosity, that they nearly break her heart, making her more light-headed than ever. The dark little hole between them bobs like a lonely survivor in a tragically divided world. It is he! "Oh Gott!" she whimpers. And she! The tension between her legs is almost unbearable. "I can't fight it anymore!" Everything starts to come apart. She feels herself falling as though through some rift in the universe (she cannot wait for him, and anyway, where she is going he cannot follow), out of time and matter into some wondrous radiance, the wheeling beacon flashing across her stricken vision now like intermittent star bursts, the music swelling, everything swelling, her eyes bursting, ears popping, teeth ringing in their sockets -- "Oh Richard! Oh fokk! I luff you so much!"
He plunges his face deep into Ilsa's ambrosial pudding, lapping at its sweet sweat, feeling her loins snap and convulse violently around him, knowing that with a little inducement she can spasm like this for minutes on end, and meanwhile pumping away between her breasts now like a madman, no longer obliged to hold back, seeking purely his own pleasure. This pleasure is tempered only by (and maybe enhanced by as well) his pity for her husband, that heroic sonuvabitch. God, Victor Laszlo is almost a father figure to him, really. And while Laszlo is off at the underground meeting in the Caverne du Roi, no doubt getting his saintly ass shot to shit, here he is -- Rick Blaine, the Yankee smart aleck and general jerk-off -- safely closeted off in his rooms over the town saloon, tit-fucking the hero's wife, his callous nose up her own royal grotto like an advance scout for a squad of storm troopers. It's not fair, goddamn it, he thinks, and laughs at this even as he comes, squirting jism down her sleek belly and under his own, his head locked in her clamped thighs, her arms hugging him tightly as though to squeeze the juices out.
He is lying, completely still, his face between Ilsa's flaccid thighs, knees over her shoulders, arms around her lower body, which sprawls loosely now beneath him. He can feel her hands resting lightly on his hips, her warm breath against his leg. He doesn't remember when they stopped moving. Maybe he's been sleeping. Has he dreamt it all? No, he shifts slightly and feels the spill of semen, pooled gummily between their conjoined navels. His movement wakes Ilsa: she snorts faintly, sighs, kisses the inside of his leg, strokes one buttock idly. "That soap smells nice," she murmurs. "I bet effry girl in Casablanca wishes to haff a bath here."
"Yeah, well, I run it as a kind of public service," he grunts, chewing the words around a strand or two of pubic hair. He's always told Louis -- and anyone else who wanted to know -- that he sticks his neck out for nobody. But in the end, shit, he thinks, I stick it out for everybody. "I'm basically a civic-minded guy."
Cynic-minded, more like, she thinks, but keeps the thought to herself. She cannot risk offending him, not just now. She is still returning from wherever it is orgasm has taken her, and it has been an experience so profound and powerful, yet so remote from its immediate cause -- his muscular tongue at the other end of this morosely puckered hole in front of her nose -- that it has left her feeling very insecure, unsure of who or what she is, or even where. She knows of course that her role as the well-dressed wife of a courageous underground leader is just pretense, that beneath this charade she is certainly someone -- or something -- else. Richard's lover, for example. Or a little orphan girl who lost her mother, father, and adoptive aunt, all before she'd even started menstruating -- that's who she often is, or feels like she is, especially at moments like this. But if her life as Victor Laszlo's wife is not real, are these others any more so? Is she one person, several -- or no one at all? What was that thought she'd had about childhood? She lies there, hugging Richard's hairy cheeks (are they Richard's? are they cheeks?), her pale face framed by his spraddled legs, trying to puzzle it all out. Since the moment she arrived in Casablanca, she and Richard have been trying to tell each other stories, not very funny stories, as Richard has remarked, but maybe not very true ones either. Maybe memory itself is a kind of trick, something that turns illusion into reality and makes the real world vanish before everyone's eyes like magic. One can certainly sink away there and miss everything, she knows. Hasn't Victor, the wise one, often warned her of that? But Victor is a hero. Maybe the real world is too much for most people. Maybe making up stories is a way to keep them all from going insane. A tear forms in the corner of one eye. She blinks (and what are these unlikely configurations called "Paris" and "Casablanca," where in all the universe is she, and what is "where"?), and the tear trickles into the hollow between cheekbone and nose, then bends its course toward the middle of her cheek. There is a line in their song (yes, it is still there, tinkling away somewhere like mice in the walls: is someone trying to drive her crazy?) that goes, "This day and age we're living in gives cause for apprehension/With speed and new invention and things like third dimension. . ." She always thought that was a stupid mistake of the lyricist, but now she is not so sure. For the real mystery -- she sees this now, or feels it rather -- is not the fourth dimension as she'd always supposed (the tear stops halfway down her cheek, begins to fade), or the third either for that matter. . . but the first.
"You never finished answering my question. . ."
There is a pause. Perhaps she is daydreaming. "What question, Richard?"
"A while ago. In the bathroom. . ." He, too, has been mulling over recent events, wondering not only about the events themselves (wondrous in their own right, of course: he's not enjoyed multiple orgasms like this since he hauled his broken-down blacklisted ass out of Paris a year and a half ago, and that's just for starters), but also about their "recentness": When did they really happen? Is "happen" the right word, or were they more like fleeting conjunctions with the Absolute, that other Other, boundless and immutable as number? And, if so, what now is "when"? How much time has elapsed, for example, since he opened the door and found her in this room? Has any time elapsed? "I asked you what you meant when you said, 'Is this right?' "
"Oh, Richard, I don't know what's right any longer." She lifts one thigh in front of his face, as though to erase his dark imaginings. He strokes it, thinking: well, what the hell, it probably doesn't amount to a hill of beans, anyway. "Do you think I can haff another drink now?"
"Sure, kid. Why not." He sits up beside her, shakes the butt out of the damp towel, wipes his belly off, hands the towel to her. "More of the same?"
"Champagne would be nice, if it is possible. It always makes me think of Paris. . . and you. . ."
"You got it, sweetheart." He pushes himself to his feet and thumps across the room, pausing at the humidor to light up a fresh smoke. "If there's any left. Your old man's been going through my stock like Vichy water." Not for the first time, he has the impression of being watched. Laszlo? Who knows, maybe the underground meeting was just a ruse; it certainly seemed like a dumb thing to do on the face of it, especially with Strasser in town. There's a bottle of champagne in his icebox, okay, but no ice. He touches the bottle: not cold, but cool enough. It occurs to him the sonuvabitch might be out on the balcony right now, taking it all in, he and all his goddamn underground. Europeans can be pretty screwy, especially these rich stiffs with titles. As he carries the champagne and glasses over to the coffee table, the cigarette like a dart between his lips, his bare ass feels suddenly both hot and chilly at the same time. "Does your husband ever get violent?" he asks around the smoke and snaps the metal clamp off the champagne bottle, takes a grip on the cork.
"No. He has killed some people, but he is not fiolent." She is rubbing her tummy off, smiling thoughtfully. The light from the airport beacon, wheeling past, picks up a varnishlike glaze still between her breasts, a tooth's wet twinkle in her open mouth, an unwonted shine on her nose. The cork pops, champagne spews out over the table top, some of it getting into the glasses. This seems to suggest somehow a revelation. Or another memory. The tune, as though released, rides up once more around them. "Gott, Richard," she sighs, pushing irritably to her feet. "That music is getting on my nerfs!"
"Yeah, I know." It's almost as bad in its way as the German blitzkrieg hammering in around their romance in Paris -- sometimes it seemed to get right between their embraces. Gave him a goddamn headache. Now the music is doing much the same thing, even trying to tell them when to kiss and when not to. He can stand it, though, he thinks, tucking the cigarette back in his lips, if she can. He picks up the two champagne glasses, offers her one. "Forget it, kid. Drown it out with this." He raises his glass. "Uh, here's lookin' --"
She gulps it down absently, not waiting for his toast. "And that light from the airport," she goes on, batting at it as it passes as though to shoo it away. "How can you effer sleep here?"
"No one's supposed to sleep well in Casablanca," he replies with a worldly grimace. It's his best expression, he knows, but she isn't paying any attention. He stubs out the cigarette, refills her glass, blowing a melancholy whiff of smoke over it. "Hey, kid here's --"
"No, wait!" she insists, her ear cocked. "Is it?"
"Is what?" Ah well, forget the fancy stuff. He drinks off the champagne in his glass, reaches down for a refill.
"Time. Is it going by? Like the song is saying?"
He looks up, startled. "That's funny, I was just --!"
"What time do you haff, Richard?"
He sets the bottle down, glances at his empty wrist. "I dunno. My watch must have got torn off when we. . ."
"Mine is gone, too."
They stare at each other a moment, Rick scowling slightly in the old style, Ilsa's lips parted as though saying "story," or "glory." Then the airport beacon sweeps past like a prompter, and Rick, blinking, says: "Wait a minute -- there's a clock down in the bar!" He strides purposefully over to the door in his stocking feet, pausing there a moment, one hand on the knob, to take a deep breath. "I'll be right back," he announces, then opens the door and (she seems about to call out to him) steps out on the landing. He steps right back in again. He pushes the door closed, leans against it, his face ashen. "They're all down there," he says.
"What? Who's down there?"
"Karl, Sam, Abdul, that Norwegian --"
"Fictor?!"
"Yes, everybody! Strasser, those goddamn Bulgarians, Sasha, Louis --"
"Yffonne?"
Why the hell did she ask about Yvonne? "I said everybody! They're just standing down there! Like they're waiting for something! But. . . for what?!" He can't seem to stop his goddamn voice from squeaking. He wants to remain cool and ironically detached, cynical even, because he knows it's expected of him, not least of all by himself, but he's still shaken by what he's seen down in the bar. Of course it might help if he had his pants on. At least he'd have some pockets to shove his hands into. For some reason, Ilsa is staring at his crotch, as though the real horror of it all were to be found there. Or maybe she's trying to see through to the silent crowd below. "It's, I dunno, like the place has sprung a goddamn leak or something!"
She crosses her hands to her shoulders, pinching her elbows in, hugging her breasts. She seems to have gone flat-footed, her feet splayed, her bottom, lost somewhat in the slatted shadows, drooping, her spine bent. "A leak?" she asks meaninglessly in her soft Scandinavian accent. She looks like a swimmer out of water in chilled air. Richard, slumping against the far door, stares at her as though at a total stranger. Or perhaps a mirror. He seems older somehow, tired, his chest sunken and belly out, legs bowed, his genitals shriveled up between them like dried fruit. It is not a beautiful sight. Of course Richard is not a beautiful man. He is short and bad-tempered and rather smashed up. Victor calls him riffraff. He says Richard makes him feel greasy. And it is true, there is something common about him. Around Victor she always feels crisp and white, but around Richard like a sweating pig. So how did she get mixed up with him, in the first place? Well, she was lonely, she had nothing, not even hope, and he seemed so happy when she took hold of his penis. As Victor has often said, each of us has a destiny, for good or for evil, and her destiny was Richard. Now that destiny seems confirmed -- or sealed -- by all those people downstairs. "They are not waiting for anything," she says, as the realization comes to her. It is over.
Richard grunts in reply. He probably hasn't heard her. She feels a terrible sense of loss. He shuffles in his black socks over to the humidor. "Shit, even the fags are gone," he mutters gloomily. "Why'd you have to come to Casablanca anyway, goddamn it; there are other places. . ." The airport beacon, sliding by, picks up an expression of intense concentration on his haggard face. She knows he is trying to understand what cannot be understood, to resolve what has no resolution. Americans are like that. In Paris he was always wondering how it was they kept getting from one place to another so quickly. "It's like everything is all speeded up," he would gasp, reaching deliriously between her legs as her apartment welled up around them. Now he is probably wondering why there seems to be no place to go and why time suddenly is just about all they have. He is an innocent man, after all; this is probably his first affair.
"I would not haff come if I haff known. . ." She releases her shoulders, picks up her ruffled blouse (the buttons are gone), pulls it on like a wrap. As the beacon wheels by, the room seems to expand with light as though it were breathing. "Do you see my skirt? It was here, but -- is it getting dark or something?"
"I mean, of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the --!" He pauses, looks up. "What did you say?"
"I said, is it --?"
"Yeah, I know. . ."
They gaze about uneasily. "It seems like effry time that light goes past. . ."
"Yeah. . ." He stares at her, slumped there at the foot of the couch, working her garter belt like rosary beads, looking like somebody had just pulled her plug. "The world will always welcome lovers," the music is suggesting, not so much in mockery as in sorrow. He's thinking of all those people downstairs, so hushed, so motionless: it's almost how he feels inside. Like something dying. Or something dead revealed. Oh shit. Has this happened before? Ilsa seems almost wraithlike in the pale staticky light, as though she were wearing her own ghost on her skin. And which is it he's been in love with? he wonders. He sees she is trembling, and a tear slides down the side of her nose, or seems to, it's hard to tell. He feels like he's going blind. "Listen. Maybe if we started over. . ."
"I'm too tired, Richard. . ."
"No, I mean, go back to where you came in, see -- the letters of transit and all that. Maybe we made some kinda mistake, I dunno, like when I put my hands on your jugs or something, and if --"
"A mistake? You think putting your hands on my yugs was a mistake --?"
"Don't get offended, sweetheart. I only meant --"
"Maybe my bringing my yugs here tonight was a mistake! Maybe my not shooting the trigger was a mistake!"
"Come on, don't get your tail in an uproar, goddamn it! I'm just trying to --"
"Oh, what a fool I was to fall. . . to fall. . ."
"Jesus, Ilsa, are you crying. . .? Ilsa. . .?" He sighs irritably. He is never going to understand women. Her head is bowed as though in resignation: one has seen her like this often when Laszlo is near. She seems to be staring at the empty buttonholes in her blouse. Maybe she's stupider than he thought. When the dimming light swings past, tears glint in the corners of her eyes, little points of light in the gathering shadows on her face. "Hey, dry up, kid! All I want you to do is go over there by the curtains where you were when I --"
"Can I tell you a. . . story, Richard?"
"Not now, Ilsa! Christ! The light's almost gone and --"
"Anyway, it wouldn't work."
"Trying to do it all again. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't be the same. I won't even haff my girdle on."
"That doesn't matter. Who's gonna know? Come on, we can at least --"
"No, Richard. It is impossible. You are different, I am different. You haff cold cream on your penis --"
"But --!"
"My makeup is gone, there are stains on the carpet. And I would need the pistol -- how could we effer find it in the dark? No, it's useless, Richard. Belief me. Time goes by."
"But maybe that's just it. . ."
"Or what about your tsigarette? Eh? Can you imagine going through that without your tsigarette? Richard? I am laughing! Where are you, Richard. . .?"
"Take it easy, I'm over here. By the balcony. Just lemme think."
"Efen the airport light has stopped."
"Yeah. I can't see a fucking thing out there."
"Well, you always said you wanted a wow finish. . . Maybe. . ."
"What did you say?"
"I said, maybe this is. . . you know, what we always wanted. . . Like a dream come true. . ."
"Speak up, kid. It's getting hard to hear you."
"I said, when we are fokking --"
"Nah, that won't do any good, sweetheart, I know that now. We gotta get back into the goddamn world somehow. If we don't, we'll regret it. Maybe not today --"
"What? We'll forget it?"
"No, I said --"
"Never mind."
"Forget what, Richard?"
"I said I think I shoulda gone fishing with Sam when I had the chance."
"I can't seem to hear you. . ."
"No, wait a minute! Maybe you're right! Maybe going back isn't the right idea. . ."
"Richard. . .?"
"Instead, maybe we gotta think ahead. . ."
"Richard, I am afraid. . ."
"Yeah, like you could sit there on the couch, see, we've been fucking, that's all right, who cares, now we're having some champagne --"
"I think I am already forgetting. . ."
"And you can tell me that story you've been wanting to tell -- are you listening? A good story, that may do it -- anything that moves! And meanwhile, lemme think, I'll, let's see, I'll sit down -- no, I'll sort of lean here in the doorway and -- oof! -- shit! I think they moved it!"
"Who the hell rearranged the -- ungh! -- goddamn geography?"
"Richard, it's a crazy world. . ."
"Ah, here! this feels like it. Something like it. Now what was I --? Right! You're telling a story, so, uh, I'll say. . ."
"But wherever you are. . ."
"And then --? Yeah, that's good. It's almost like I'm remembering this. You've stopped, see, but I want you to go on, I want you to keep spilling what's on your mind, I'm filling in all the blanks. . ."
". . .whatever happens. . ."
"So I say: And then --? C'mon, kid, can you hear me? Remember all those people downstairs! They're depending on us! Just think it: if you think it, you'll do it! And then --?"
". . . I want you to know. . ."
"And then. . .? Oh shit, Ilsa. . .? Where are you? And then. . .?"
". . . I luff you. . ."
"And then. . .? Ilsa. . .? And then. . .?"
Robert Coover was born in Iowa in 1932. His first novel, The Origin of the Brunists, was the winner of the 1966 William Faulkner Award. His other works include The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop.; Pricksongs & Descants; A Theological Position; The Public Burning; A Political Fable; Spanking the Maid; Gerald's Party; and most recently, Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? A Night at the Movies was the 1987 winner of the Rea Award, the highest literary award for short fiction in America. In that same year, Coover was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives with his wife in Providence, Rhode Island, where he teaches at Brown University.
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