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Union Officials
Forms And Contact
New York City Deputy Sheriffs' Association
Good law enforcement officers and professionals feel a sense of duty and commitment to community service. Sheriffs' Deputies are always on the front lines serving the community.
We take great pride working in conjunction with all other agencies working on the same goals. Deputies seen here working at The Office of Emergency Management Building.
Respect to all the men and women in blue out doing their job to make this city safe. The Warrants Unit along with The Field Support Unit seen here executing a Warrant of Arrest.
What does a NYC Sheriff Deputy do?
A NYC Deputy Sheriff enforces both Civil and Criminal matters. The New York City Sheriff's Office is composed of three sections: Operations, Intelligence, and Support.
Intelligence Section
The Intelligence Section is composed of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) and the Intelligence Unit. The BCI investigates city tax violation, real property larceny/deed fraud, synthetic narcotic enforcement (such as spice/K2 and bath salts) and other offenses against the Department of Finance. The Intelligence Unit collects, analyzes, and disseminates information from various sources to be readily available for agency use. Intelligence Section personnel include criminal investigators, deputy sheriffs, and civilian support personnel.
Support Section
The Support Section handles communications, property disposition, evidence destruction and field support services for the entire agency. Support Section personnel include deputy sheriffs and criminal investigators.
Operations Section
The Operations Section is composed of the five county field offices and certain units working citywide. Within the county field offices, deputy sheriffs assigned to civil enforcement duties are referenced as Law Enforcement Bureau (LEB) personnel. LEB deputies perform a wide array of tasks such as evictions, warrants of arrest, orders to commit, and the seizure and sale of property pursuant to judicial mandates. Businesses and individuals that owe the city money pursuant to unpaid city tax warrants, environmental control board summons, and fire and health code violation fines, are targeted for enforcement action. LEB deputies also serve a wide variety of legal process, with orders of protection considered a priority. These field offices are accessible to the public, giving citizens of the county/borough a local place to file court process in need of enforcement. Deputies of the Operations Section may be assigned to duties separate from the LEB, either within a county field office or citywide. These duties include arrests and apprehensions on behalf of other none law enforcement city agencies such as the Human Resources Administration, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Administration for Children's Services. Deputies may be assigned to scofflaw enforcement or security duties at the city treasury. The Operations Section will also provide deputies for any other assignment as deemed necessary by the agency.
If you have any questions or information please feel free to send us an email by clicking on the "Email Us" button.
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MIPIM | 20th Floor Trees & Astonishing MCR Dreams
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Mangled Car Makes A Point
Samantha Atherton and the shock tactic of displaying a car wrecked when drink-driver died
Written by Samantha Atherton. Published on March 21st 2013.
A MANGLED, rusting wreckage of a bomb-ravaged car was brought by Jeremy Deller to Manchester’s Imperial War Museum North in 2010, illustrating the reality of life in a 'liberated' Iraq still riven by sectarian violence.
By using shock tactics like this, we are pushing people to think of the consequences that having one drink and driving a car can cause.
Manchester has now welcomed another mangled car display to our city. This time though the message is closer to home, encouraging people to think about the consequences of drink driving.
Delivered as a part of Manchester Universities Well-being Week, the presentation also featured a £50,000 pint displayed behind velvet ropes and housed in a protective glass case representing the personal financial cost of drink-driving, as calculated by the Institute of Advanced Motorists.
The calculation reflects the fines, legal costs, rise in insurance premiums and possible job losses faced by those who are convicted.
Posh pint of woe
Road Safety Minister Stephen Hammond said: “Most people know not to drink and drive but a small number still do, which is why we are highlighting the consequences of a drink drive conviction through our THINK! campaign."
The new car wreckage known as the Think! Car was owned by a 21-year-old man who lost control of his car on his way home, hit a tree and died.
Inspector Matt Bailey-Smith from Greater Manchester Police said: "Drink driving ruins lives. It can cost motorists their family, job and worse still, their life or that of somebody else.
"Many people do not think of the consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol until it is too late and police are committed to tackling this issue so that we can make the roads of Greater Manchester a safer place to be."
Confidential wondered whether such shock tactics were useful.
Most drink-drivers, or for that matter speeders, have been bombarded by advertisements, campaigns and warnings since they were old enough to sit up and watch television, and yet they still do it. So what is the point of these campaigns?
Inspector Matt Bailey-Smith told us: “By using shock tactics like this, we are pushing people to think of the consequences of having one drink and driving a car. Shock tactics are important so that people put themselves into that situation, and that they can see the terrible results."
AnonymousMarch 21st 2013.
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330 MW Kishanganga power project fully commissioned
The National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) said today that 330 MW Kishanganga hydropower project in Gurez area of Bandipora district over river Kishanganga in the Kashmir valley has been fully
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Bhel commissions Ist unit of Kishanganga hydro project in Jammu&Kashmir
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The shrinking Wular lake a matter of concern
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Lake Pollution
Six months after: Will flood ravaged Kashmir learn?
Even when Srinagar hogged all the limelight post the September 2014 devastating floods in Jammu and Kashmir, areas such as Gund-i-Jehangir in remote Bandipora district, north-west of Srinagar near the
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Varsity researcher warned about catastrophe in 2010 “It was a natural catastrophe which could not have been prevented. If the government had vision, the flood on September 7, which inundated Srinagar,
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Snowfall in North India; avalanche claims 2 lives in J & K
Several hilly areas cut off from the rest of the States; communication network down; more rain, snow likely Northern India was fully in the grip of cold weather conditions on Sunday with widespread snowfall in the hilly areas even as the winter claimed its first casualties in Jammu and Kashmir where two teenaged girls lost their lives after being trapped beneath an avalanche.
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Welcome to Santa Rosa High School Mr. Englar. Englar is the new ArtQuest counselor at SRHS. Before coming to work here he worked at Ukiah High School as a counselor. In his freetime; Englar enjoys mountain biking because, “You see things you wouldn’t normally see on foot.”
Photo Provided By: Evan Englar
Article By: Maddie Sanabria
When the 2020-2021 school year began, a new ArtQuest counselor, Mr. Englar was hired. He grew up in Santa Rosa, where he went to El Molino High School.
Before joining the Santa Rosa High School faculty, Englar worked at Ukiah High School for four years as a counselor. Prior to becoming a school counselor, Englar worked for an agency that helps developmentally disabled adults live independently.
When deciding what job to pursue, Englar thought about his past experiences. He had work experience as a tutor, athletic coach and working with disabled adults. All of these jobs influenced him to become a counselor. However, his main influence into becoming a counselor was because he has Tourette syndrome.
Tourette syndrome is a medical condition in which you uncontrollably move your body or blurt out sounds repeatedly. Because of this, Englar had a hard time in school but he,“found that talking to a counselor helped me understand who I was and how to manage my tics so I could be successful in school,” said Englar. Since he felt that a counselor really helped him in his time of need, he wanted to provide that for other students.
Joining a new school as a teacher or counselor under normal circumstances brings many challenges, but joining a new school when you cannot physically meet with your students is even harder.
When asked how Englar has adjusted to distance learning, he said, “I feel like I have adjusted as best as I can,” however, he feels that, “distant learning makes my work as a counselor slower and inauthentic.”
Working at Santa Rosa High has given Englar better resources and opportunities to better support the students that he is working with. Being an ArtQuest counselor can be hard, but Enlgar states that, “ [He] really enjoys being the counselor for ArtQuest because the students’ passion for the arts meshes with [his] own artistic passions and personality”.
When Englar is not working, he is usually either mountain biking, landscaping or spending time with his pets. Of those three he enjoys mountain biking the most. “I absolutely love how exhilarating it is,” he said.
Englar’s first year at Santa Rosa High will definitely not be easy, but very memorable.
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 CHKD Tennis Tournament
The Oceanfront Circle's 8th Annual CHKD Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament presented by OVM Financial was recently held at the Princess Anne Country Club. In it's 8th year, this event has raised over $170,000 for The Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters. During this sold out event, players and sponsors were treated to a fabulous weekend of tennis and festivities capped off with the band Cheap Thrills taking the stage during the Saturday night party.
9.5 Division Winners - Scott Baxter and Michele Dallman
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Tattoo Paradise
Grim Reaper Tattoo Designs and Meanings
Grim reaper tattoos are one kind of tattoo that is special for its uniqueness. The trend of tattooing these tattoos is becoming more and more popular in the community of those who have tattoos. It’s the favorite tattoo design that men favor, however, women can have it, too.
The reaper can be tattooed on your skin in a lot of styles and designs. Usually, this tattoo is recognized in the black ink and in a big size that covers your whole arm or the whole body. This time, I will give you some necessary information about grim reaper tattoos, from its meaning to its diversified designs.
What is The Meaning?
Many of you surely have known the grim reaper image, it is considered as one of the deadly symbols in the history of the symbol. Nevertheless, in many religions, it just represents for someone who escorts you to your next incarnation. Most people can recognize the grim look and the razor-sharp scythe that are permanent traits of the reaper. These features look gloomy and somehow creepy that can scare or make anyone’s skin crawls.
You can feature a reaper just by looking at its appearance when you have to choose a design for your grim reaper tattoos. There are some who love to tattoo him with a black hood and his scythe is put in different positions, the others have a featureless reaper with no face and empty eyes.
Because the grim reaper is the representative for death, the designer has a tendency to tattoo it in different, stunning colors while many prefer the traditional ones: gray and black. Nonetheless, you will find the mixture of red and deep oranges which are shaded around the reaper – bringing up a 3D feeling, a brand new intuitive experience.
The reaper image is a tattoo style that is attached to people who are of the old school. Yet, with the non-stop creativity of the designers as well as the artists, there are more and more tattoos that vary in colors and styles, some of them even make a break through the original style when using vibrant colors as their main inks. As the matter of fact, they are attracting a lot of attention as well as gaining the favor of the tattoo-lovers. No one, today, considers it as a devil, deadly symbol. With a better view about the tattoos, I hope that you can flash out a rousing idea for your upcoming tattoo.
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The Complete Guide to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Protocols
posted Sep 20, 2020, 3:01 PM by Chris G [ updated Sep 20, 2020, 3:02 PM ]
From: https://medium.com/better-programming/the-complete-guide-to-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect-protocols-35ebc1cbc11a
Find out how the most widely-used protocols for authentication and authorization really work
Photo by James Pond on Unsplash
We’ve all seen the “sign in with Google” and “connect to Facebook” buttons on websites and mobile apps. Click the button and a screen opens that says, “This app wants to access your public profile, contacts…” and asks you whether you want to give access. This is OAuth at a high level. Understanding these protocols is crucial for every software engineer, security expert, and even hacker.
A complete guide to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, the two most widely used protocols on the internet today for authorization and authentication. OAuth 2.0 is used for authorization and OpenID Connect is used for authentication. There are two most common OAuth 2.0 authorization flows, authorization code flow for server-side applications, and implicit flow for browser-based applications. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol to make OAuth suitable for the authentication use cases.
Why OAuth?
To understand the reason for the birth of OAuth we need to understand a term called Delegated Authorization.
Delegated authorization
Delegated authorization is an approach to allowing a third-party application access to a user’s data.
Two approaches to delegated authorization
There are two approaches for delegated authorization, whether you give the third-party application your account password so they can login into your account on your behalf and access your data or you grant the application to access your data using OAuth without giving your password (and none of us will give our password!).
Now we know the need and importance of OAuth, let’s dive deeper into the protocol.
What is OAuth?
OAuth (Open Authorization) is a standard protocol for delegated authorization. It allows applications to access user data without the user’s password.
OAuth 2.0 terminology
Understanding this protocol requires us to understand its terminology:
Resource Owner: The user who owns the data that the client application wants to access.
Client: The application that wants access to the user’s data.
Authorization Server: The authorization server authorizes the client to access a user’s data by granting permission from the user.
Resource Server: The system that holds the data that the client wants to access. In some cases, the resource server and authorization server are the same.
Access Token: An access token is the only key that the client can use to access the granted data by the user on the resource server.
Take a look at this terminology in the OAuth 2.0 abstract flow:
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The authorization key/grant can be of type code or token. We’ll learn about different authorization grants later. Now, let’s take a look at the authorization flow in detail:
The user starts the authorization flow, usually by clicking a button like Connect with Google or Facebook or any other service.
The client then redirects the user to the authorization server. While redirecting the client sends information such as the client id and the redirect URI.
The authorization server handles user authentication and shows a consent screen, granting permission from the user. If you’re signing in with Google you have to provide your login credentials to Google — i.e. accounts.google.com and not the client.
If the user grants permission, the authorization server redirects the user to the client with the authorization key (code/token).
The client then requests the resource server with the authorization key included, asking the resource server to respond with the user’s data.
The resource server then validates the authorization key and responds with the requested data to the client.
That’s how users give third-party applications access to their data without giving them the password. At this point, the following questions arise:
How do we limit the client to access only some part of our data on the resource server?
What if we want the client to only read our data and not change it?
These questions take us to another important piece of OAuth terminology: scopes.
Scopes in OAuth
Scopes in OAuth 2.0 are used to limit an application’s access to a user’s data. By issuing an authorization grant that is limited only to the scopes granted by the user.
When the client makes a request to the authorization server for authorization grant, it sends a list of scopes with it. The authorization server uses this list of scopes to generate a consent screen and grants permission from the user. If the user agrees to the consent screen, the authorization server issues a token or authorization code that is limited only to the scopes granted by the user.
For instance, if I grant a client application to see the list of my Google contacts then the token issued to the client by the authorization server can’t be used to delete my contacts or see my calendar events — it’s only scoped to read my Google contacts.
Setup for OAuth 2.0
Before moving on to OAuth flows, it’s good to know some prior OAuth configuration. When the request for authorization grant is initiated, the client sends some configuration data to the authorization server as query params. The basic query params are:
response_type the type of response we want to get from the authorization server.
scope list of scopes that the client wants access to. This list is used by the authorization server to generate a consent screen for the user.
client_id is provided by the authorization service when setting up the client for OAuth. This ID helps the authorization server to determine the client who is initiating the OAuth flow.
redirect_uri tells the authorization server where to go when the OAuth flow is completed.
client_secret is provided by the authorization service. This parameter may or may not be required, based on the OAuth flow. We’ll see its importance in the authorization code flow.
Understanding Different OAuth Flows
The two most commonly used OAuth 2.0 flows are authorization code flow for server-based applications and implicit flow for pure JavaScript Single Page Applications (SPAs).
To explain the OAuth flows, I’m considering Google as the OAuth service provider.
Authorization code flow
The authorization code flow or authorization code grant is an ideal OAuth flow which is considered to be highly secured because it uses both the front-end channel (browser) and the backend-channel (server) to implement the OAuth 2.0 mechanism.
The client begins the authorization sequence by redirecting the user to the authorization server with response_type set to code this tells the authorization server to respond with an authorization code. The URI for this flow looks like this:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth?
response_type=code&
client_id=your_client_id&
scope=profile%20contacts&
redirect_uri=https%3A//oauth2.example.com/code
In the above request, the client is requiring the user’s permission to access his public profile and contacts by defining them in the scope parameter of the request. The result of this request is an authorization code, which the client can exchange for an access token. The authorization code looks like this:
4/W7q7P51a-iMsCeLvIaQc6bYrgtp9
Why exchange code for a token?
An access token is the only thing that can be used to access data on the resource server, not the application code. So why is the client set response_type to code when it actually needs an access token? The reason is to make the OAuth flow highly secure.
Problem: An access token is a secret piece of information that we don’t want someone to access. If the client requests an access token directly and stores it in the browser, it can be stolen because browsers are not fully secure. Anyone can see the page source or potentially use dev tools to acquire the access token.
Solution: To avoid exposure of the access token in the browser, the front end channel of the client gets the application code from the authorization server, then it sends the application code to the client’s back end channel. Now to exchange this application code for an access token, a thing called client_secret is needed. The client_secret is only known by the client’s back-end channel, the back-end channel then makes a POST request to the authorization server with application code and client secret included. The request might look something like this:
POST /token HTTP/1.1
Host: oauth2.googleapis.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedcode=4/W7q7P51a-iMsCeLvIaQc6bYrgtp9&
client_secret=your_client_secret_only_known_by_server&
The authorization server validates the client secret and application code and responds with an access token. The back end channel stores the access token and potentially use this token to access a resource server. In this way, the browser cannot access the access token.
Implicit flow
The OAuth 2.0 implicit flow is used when you don’t have a back end channel and your website is a static site that uses only the browser. In this case, you skip the last step that happens on the backchannel when you exchange the application code for an access token. In the implicit flow, the authorization server responds with an access token right away.
The client redirects the browser to the authorization server URI to start the authorization flow with response_type set to token. The authorization server handles the user's login and consent. The result of the request is an access token that the client can consume to access a resource server.
Implicit flow is considered less secure because the browser is responsible for managing the access token, so it could potentially be stolen. Still, it’s widely used for single-page applications.
Authentication vs Authorization
As we know, OAuth solves the delegated authorization problem, but it doesn’t provide a standard way to authenticate the user. You could say that:
OAuth 2.0 is for authorization.
OpenID Connect is for authentication.
If you’re confused by these terms, here’s the difference between them:
Authentication is the assurance that the communicating entity is the one claimed.
Authorization is the process of verifying whether the communicating entity has access to the resource.
In other words, authentication cares who you are, authorization cares what permissions you have.
OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It extends OAuth 2.0 to standardize a way for authentication.
OAuth does not provide user identity right away but rather it provides an access token for authorization. OpenID Connect enables the client to identify the user based on the authentication performed by the authorization server. This is achieved by defining a scope named openid when requesting the authorization server for user login and consent. openid is a mandatory scope to tell the authorization server that OpenID Connect is required.
The URI for OpenID Connect authentication request made by the client looks like this:
scope=openid%20contacts&
The result of the request is an application code that the client can exchange for an access token and ID token. If the OAuth flow is implicit then the authorization server responds with an access token and an ID token right away.
The ID token is a JWT or JSON Web Token. A JWT is an encoded token that consists of three parts: header, payload, and signature. After acquiring the ID token, the client can decode it to get the user info encoded in the payload part — like this:
"iss": "https://accounts.google.com",
"sub": "10965150351106250715113082368",
"email": "johndoe@example.com",
"iat": 1516239022,
"exp": 1516242922
The payload of the ID token contains some fields known as claims. Basic claims are:
iss token issuer.
sub unique identifier for the user.
email user’s email.
iat token issuing time represented as Unix time.
exp token expiration time represented as Unix time.
However, claims are not limited to these fields. It’s up to the authorization server to encode claims. The client can use this information to authenticate the user.
If the client needs more user information, the client can specify standard OpenID Connect scopes to tell the authorization server to include the required information in the ID token’s payload. These scopes are profile, email, address, and phone.
It’s always good to practice what you have learned. To play with OAuth 2.0 scopes, authorization codes, and tokens go to Google OAuth 2.0 Playground.
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Why ignore this? If you asics gel kayano 24 believe that humans are variable, why is the 12mm model so ubiquitous in the ASICS shoe lineup. Where's the evidence?He asks for ONE piece of evidence, so here's one. Again to Squadrone and Gallozzi, 2009. Running in zero drop Vibram Fivefingers compared to traditional shoes reduces oxygen consumption and reduces ground contact time (which has been shown to be associated with greater speed). Maybe it's not a perfect example, but the claim that there is NO evidence is false. We can turn this around and ask for peer reviewed, published evidence of a benefit to running in ASICS shoes.
What is the benefit of a 12mm lifted heel? You'll typically hear about reduced Achilles problems, but has this been proven? Richards et al., 2008 state that "& the overall impact on injury rates of running in a shoe with an elevated heel remains untested in clinical trials asics gel lyte v ."Finally, there's a snide remark about minimalist shoes following the path of toning shoes. However, I have a big problem with this. Toning shoes are an aberration that deviate humans farther from the condition we are born with (barefoot). Minimalist shoes bring us closer to our natural condition (barefoot).
high arch asics gt 1000 gets cushioning, medium arch gets structure cushioning, low arch gets maximum support. These are basically different words for neutral, stability, and motion control. Since we're in the business of asking for peer reviewed, published evidence, I'd ask what the evidence for using arch height to choose a shoe might be? I'd ask whether pronation has been reliably shown as a major cause of running injury that needs to be controlled by a shoe? I'd ask whether ASICS shoes or pronation control devices have been proven to prevent injuries?How about the series of studies by the military.
Dude, are you serious? Ok, forget about asics 2000 claims. Let's get down to the actual process of going to the store and buying running shoes. Why does the shoe industry feel that shoes with a 12mm (or greater) heel lift are the "gold standard?" If there is no peer-reviewed evidence that these highly-cushioned shoes prevent injury or are more beneficial than zero drop shoes then why is there not more variety out there? If the studies are "still out" on either "minimal" or "maximal" .
(for lack of a better term) shoes then why isn't there an even representation of both styles on shoe store shelves? It would make sense that since you've said yourself that all runners are different and will therefore require different styles of running shoes then there would be an even representation of both "minimal" and "maximal" shoes in stores. Instead, when I go to my local Fleet Feet running store there are about 60 highly-cushioned shoe choices and only about 6 "minimal" style shoes. I know you can't speak for the shoe industry so just speak for Asics or what you've come to learn in your employment at Asics (if possible).
That's the difference between the height of the forefoot and the height of the rear foot, so if you've got a cushion type asics cumulus shoe it might be 24mm and 14mm off the ground. A racing flat might be slimmer at 10mm and 20mm. We've done a lot of research on this and we understand that it actually puts your foot in a mechanically better position, makes it more stable, takes a load off the Achilles tendon& so there's a lot of positives. There's a lot of myths and all that sort of crap and the problem is that every time you add a little raise, people are going to say oh [img]http://www.jeanwyllys.com/images/detail/asics cumulus-056upi.jpg[/img] but you're removing the foot from the ground therefore .
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Inception | a film review by Gary Chew
GARY CHEW/Sacramento
The night before I was scheduled to see a screening of "Inception," I had the strangest dream. I dreamt I was in more than one place at a time, and time itself moved at dissimilar speeds according to which ever of the three levels my multi-tasking dreams were going forward.
Some of the players in my dreams included Ellen Page, in the role of Juno, as she appeared in the movie of the same name. Another character in my layer of reveries was Michael Cera, also in "Juno" and another fine film called "Youth in Revolt." (Cera's new film, "Scott Pilgrim vs The World" opens next month.)
Michael Caine as 'Alfie'
Mr. Cera was playing against type since he was masquerading as Leonardo DiCaprio with the same mannerisms Mr. DiCaprio uses when he does his overwrought characters. Marion Cotillard, the lovely and talented French actor was, for some bizarre reason, Leonardo's wife in this crazy dream of mine. And, probably, the nuttiest thing of all was that Alfie, that lothario from the same titled movie had a couple of passing moments in my dreams in a dream. Alfie appeared rather elderly and seemed to be less of the jerk than back in 1966, but still a real talent. A young man looking suspiciously like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, sporting a haircut much different than the one he had in "500 Days of Summer," manifested as sort of an adroit side kick of the Cera/DiCaprio character.
At the inception of my dream, there was no exposition, just an abrupt lurching into all kinds of chaos and action around me. I couldn't immediately grasp what the hell was going on. But heck, I've had stranger dreams than that. Furthermore, all the people in my dream were very sketchy, I couldn't get much of a handle on anything about their characters. But they were all good in my triple-threat of sleepy time ruminations, exuding great confidence, athletic ability and especially adept at handling automatic weapons and explosive devices.
I thought, "Oh, my dream is something akin to a James Bond caper," but as I dreamt on, I realized no one in these near nightmares of mine worked for a big government and there was no hanky panky with hot, foreign ladies. Actually, all were employed by large corporations with an ultimate intent of trying to dissolve a successful businessman's advantage by putting a new idea (an inception, you see) in the mind of his son.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page
The elderly father was about to die of natural causes and kept secreted in a safe his last will and testament that would greatly affect what the son would do with his father's large company. The will, although hazy now, seemed to be what the corporate dream guys wanted to get their hands on.
Well, not quite all of them were working to accomplish that. Some were trying to keep Michael Cera as Leonardo DiCaprio from putting that specific idea in the head of the son who, as I recall, was named Robert Fischer, Jr. I guess the infirm father in my dream was Robert Fischer, Sr. but maybe not, I can't remember.
Since it's hard to tell how long dreams actually last, I can't say how long I dreamed all this. It could've been but a few moments, even though it seemed like it was a really, really long time.
Something sort of funny came up as I dreamt on. The dream guys referred to getting into the lowest stage or third tier of dreaming, since it happens so suddenly, as sort of a limbo rush, and whenever they'd say "limbo rush" looking into a mirror, the words, like the image, reversed and sounded out as "Rush Limbo." That may be the silliest part of my dream of dreams. I can't figure out why that term popped into my sleeping brain.
And now, that I'm awake here on the morning of the day I'll later see "Inception," I'm all excited as I hear tonight's movie was directed and written by Christopher Nolan ("The Black Knight").
Earlier, Mr. Nolan did two really good films that have to do with time and sleeplessness. I hear this new one of his has really spectacular special effects, even if the music by Hans Zimmer (doing some John Barry chords over and over) is too loud. Hopefully, "Inception" will be as good as "Memento" and "Insomnia."
Golly, I hope what I dreamt last night isn't some kind of premonition since someone in the dream awakened me shouting, "Cool! More pseudo-smart cinema." It makes me ponder what the chances are this outré dreamscape reoccurs---you know, like a sequel?
"Inception" official site. Opens wide Friday.
See Yahoo Movies-Tulsa for theaters and times.
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Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy?
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US Capitol riots
media caption"We will never give up, we will never concede", Trump tells supporters
This is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.
For weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.
On Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.
Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through "trial by combat".
Donald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not "fight" for their president.
"This isn't their Republican Party anymore," he said. "This is Donald Trump's Republican Party."
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Then the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted "stop the steal" and "bullshit" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.
"We will never give up. We will never concede," the president said. "Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore."
As the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.
First, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was "largely ceremonial".
Then Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.
The House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.
"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty," said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. "I will not allow the people to be ignored."
image captionProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started
In the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.
"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral," McConnell said. "We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost."
The Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to "stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic".
His words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.
media captionHow a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol
The drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.
In Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an "insurrection" in Washington.
"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times," he said. "An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself."
He concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and "demand an end to this siege".
media captionJoe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are
Minutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.
Instead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being "stolen", he told his supporters "to go 中通快递香港查詢, we love you, you're very special".
It was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the "very fine people on both sides" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his "stand back and stand by" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.
Trump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.
For the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.
If this is the "at long last, have you left no sense of decency" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.
As the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.
"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history," he said. "A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin."
More noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.
"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty," tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. "There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob."
The condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.
"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence," he said.
First Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.
CBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.
Whether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.
media captionMitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy
Wednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.
They will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.
Crisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.
Meanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.
And once he decamps for his new Florida 中通快递香港查詢, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.
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SiriusXM’s New Morning Show with Pete Dominick
February 1, 2013 by WCQJ
Beginning February 11, a new morning show with stand-up comedian Pete Dominick will air live weekdays from 6:00am – 9:00amET on SiriusXM channel 104 Indie.
Dominick who has been fascinated with politics and social issues says he will explore everything from foreign policy and economics to parenting and education, as well as the day’s top stories with expert guests and listeners nationwide. Dominick is looking to interview a wide range of guests from authors, celebrities, filmmakers, veterans and beyond inviting them to open up without censorship, scripts, or time limits.
“I don’t pretend to have all the answers. I’m proud to say I learn from my listeners instead of lecturing at them,” said Dominick. “My perspective as a stand-up comic and father of two girls is why I relate to and have a truly authentic connection with my listeners from all backgrounds. I’ll leave celebrity gossip and voyeurism to others while I explore more important issues with my listeners and the experts that can speak to them best.”
“Pete is a great entertainer and fearless thinker, unwilling to accept conventional wisdom and challenging people to think for themselves,” said Scott Greenstein, President and CCO, SiriusXM. “There’s nothing else like this, and we look forward to giving our national audience a place to gather for smart, motivational and entertaining conversation where no idea is off limits.”
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“The routine” developed by Dr. Humberto Jimenez provides a systematic way of examining a plant specimen in order to determine its identity to the family, genus, or even species level. Follow the routine in conjunction with the Jimenz Matrix or a botanical key to identify your specimen. All you need for starting material is a branch and some leaves. Is your specimen a '''monocot''' or '''dicot'''? Monocots have parallel leaf veination and usually have strap-like leaves. Some, like palms and aroids, have large leaves with pinnate veination, but the secondary veins are parallel. Dicots have veins that fan out in various netted patterns and are usually broad-leaved. How are the leaves arranged along the stem ('''phyllotaxy''')? Are they '''alternate'''? '''Opposite'''? Or are there 3 or more leaves at a node arranged in a '''whorl'''? Alternate leaves may be '''distichous''', coming off the stem in two ranks in a well-defined left-right-left-right pattern. In other cases alternate leaves may be '''spirally''' arranged. Opposite-leaved plants are often '''decussate''', meaning that one pair of opposite leaves is offset by 90° from the next pair of leaves. Are leaves '''simple''' or '''compound'''? *If compound are they '''pinnate''' (feathery with multiple leaflets coming off of an elongated continuation of the petiole known as a '''rachis''') or '''palmate''' (hand-like with leaflets radiating from a single point)? (note that the “stem” of a leaflet is called the '''petiolule''') *If pinnate, are they mono- or bi-pinnate? (in bipinnate leaves, the leaflets themselves are pinnate) *If mono-pinnate, do they have an even number of leaflets occurring in pairs along the rachis ('''paripinnate''')? Or do they have an odd number of leaflets with a terminal leaflet at the end of the rachis ('''imparipinnate''')? *If palmately compound, how many leaflets do they have? Are the margins of the leaves or leaflets '''entire''' (smooth) or '''serrate''' (toothed)? (Note that serrate leaves are not particularly common in the tropics.) Are '''stipules''' present or absent? For some reason, much of tropical botany seems to hinge on these seemingly insignificant flaps of tissue, or the scars that they leave behind. Use a hand lens! Some are '''terminal''', meaning they are located at the tip of a branch. Most are located where the petiole meets the stem. They are usually tiny and usually fall off by the time the leaf has matured. The only evidence of their presence may be a tiny scar. Do cut stems or severed petioles yield '''exudations'''? Are the exudations clear and watery? Milky white? Yellow, orange, or red? Do exudations flow freely or do they need to be squeezed from the petiole? Do crushed petioles exude slightly sticky '''mucilage'''? Chew up a petiole and then feel between thumb and forefinger while looking for sticky strands as you spread your fingers apart. (Don’t make the mistake of chewing on a leaf that clearly has milky white or colored latex, as it’s likely to be highly toxic! There is a real, but subtle, difference between mucilage and latex exudations.) Is there an '''odor'''? Crush up the leaves and smell them. Or tear off a leaf and immediately smell the broken petiole. What kind of odor do you detect? Primitive “ranalean odor”, anise, turpentine, unripe avocado, guava, eucalyptus, rank, sweet, green bean, or just plain nasty? Or like crushed leaves? Examine the upper and lower surfaces of the leaf carefully with a hand lens (an essential piece of field equipment). Experiment by holding the leaf up to the light. Are translucent dots, also called '''pellucid dots''', visible? Are the pellucid spots only in the shape of round dots or are some shaped like dashes? Are pellucid dots larger at the margin of the leaf or uniform in size? Leaves with pellucid dots often have an odor as well. Can you peel the bark? Does it peel in long strings, sometimes referred to as “'''strong bark'''” or “'''stringy bark'''”? Are '''hairs''' present? Use a hand lens to determine if they are present and if they are star shaped ('''stellate''') or T-shaped (as in Malpighiaceae) or some other shape? Are they white or brown? How are the primary, secondary, and tertiary '''veins''' arranged? If you can answer most of the questions, then you should be able to determine the family of your plant specimen using the Jimenez Matrix, Susan Letcher’s key, or Alwin Gentry’s key. == THE JIMENEZ MATRIX == '''The Matrix''' was developed by Dr. Humberto Jimenez Saa as a way of teaching dendrology, the science of tree identification, to students of all levels. It builds upon early work by Dr. Leslie Holdridge, a pioneer in tropical forestry and tropical ecology, aimed at elucidating plant families using only vegetative material. In tropical forests, leaves and bark are almost always available, but flowers and fruits are seasonal and often hidden from those of us who cannot access the canopy the same way as a monkey, bird, or bee. Traditional plant identification and classification is based on flowers which are readily available to most temperate zone botanists, but not easily accessible in most tropical forests. Strictly speaking, The Matrix is not a taxonomic key. It does not set out to identify any and all plant specimens. It doesn’t even claim to work all the time. BUT it works MOST of the time and is relatively easy to use once you learn some basic terminology and agree to follow The Routine. To truly appreciate the beauty of The Matrix and to master it, you should take one of the Tropical Dendrology courses offered by Dr. Humberto Jimenez. Dr. Humberto Jimenez is an inspirational teacher. His deep connection to and passionate love of trees is infectious. It is hard to imagine anyone with a greater knowledge of tree identification. As a teacher, he is firmly committed to sharing this knowledge with his students or anyone with an interest in trees. After studying with Humberto, you will have a newfound appreciation for every tree, leaf, or stipule that you encounter anywhere in the world. His love of trees and zeal for teaching is matched by a love of life and hope for the future of humanity. He measures his remaining time on Earth by the need to identify and label as many plants as possible, and freely admits that he has at least another 50-60 years left before his work will be complete. Until then, he will continue to tell us “here’s another tree for you to study…” Using the matrix… The Matrix consists of eight sections and can fit on a mere 6 pages. Each section is based upon phyllotaxy (alternate, opposite, or whorled), leaf type (simple or compound), and the presence or absence of stipules. Once these three basic pieces of information have been determined, it is a matter of identifying the combination of two or three other traits that allow you to determine the family to which a plant belongs. Please note that The Matrix is not complete. Each user may develop his own version of the matrix utilizing features that are easily remembered or observed by the user. As your botanical knowledge increases, you will certainly want to expand the matrix to accommodate your expanding list of plant families and genera. The Matrix presented here was constructed by Scott Shumway with the help of Dr. Jimenez as part of a course in Tropical Dendrology. The Matrix may be reproduced, but Dr. Humberto Jimenez should be properly credited as its creator.
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Local MSP Urges Retailers and Consumers to go Scottish on Poultry
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson is backing efforts by Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead to promote the Scottish poultry sector with the new Scottish Poultry Plan.
Mr Lochhead is writing to major supermarkets, catering companies and fast food chains to find out where they currently source their chicken and what their future intentions are. Other work being taken forward includes examining the options for creating a premium brand for Scottish chicken, identifying opportunities for poultry farmers to work together to cut costs.
Local MSP Mr Stevenson is also urging consumers in the North-east to think Scottish when buying poultry and check labels on products to see where they are being sourced from.
Commenting, Stewart Stevenson MSP said:
“The poultry sector has been under immense pressure of late with recent announcements by major processors adding to the uncertainty.
“I am therefore very pleased that the Scottish Government recognises the importance of this vital sector to the rural economy and is taking steps to support and promote Scottish-produced poultry.”
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs Richard Lochhead said:
“In the wake of the horsemeat scandal, people are even more aware now than ever before of where their food comes from. For our local producers in Moray and for Scotland as a whole, where we have a reputation for high quality premium product this has the potential for significant benefit to our vital agricultural sector.
“People want to know what they are buying and Scottish produce has impeccable quality and provenance. The sooner we move to a position where the poultry consumed in Scotland is produced in Scotland, the better for us all – for consumers, for food companies, and, above all, for Scotland’s poultry sector.
“I have no doubt that when consumers are served chicken or purchase chicken at their local supermarket or in a fast food chain they would prefer it to be sourced as close to home as possible.
“Whether on poultry or other meat products the closer to home it is produced the more likely it is to support local farm jobs, hauliers, feed suppliers and other supply chain jobs.
“I am writing to major supermarkets, food service companies and fast food chains to ask where the currently source their chicken, including whole birds, chicken portions and the cooked ingredients used in their meals and sandwiches. Consumers need to know the facts and need transparency.
“Earlier this year Tesco made a very welcome commitment to source 100 per cent fresh Scottish chicken in its stores and I would like to see that replicated elsewhere.”
Scotland Food and Drink Chief Executive James Withers said:
“For any sector to have a future, it needs clear demand from customers. We know there is strong demand from shoppers in Scotland for high quality chicken. A number of supermarkets have a strong track record in sourcing their chicken from Scotland and, clearly, they will have a pivotal role in the future of the sector. We’ll need their support to underpin the poultry plan.
“When it comes to the catering industry though, the picture can be much more mixed. It will be hugely helpful to explore further how the big catering firms might source chicken in future. I’ve spoken to hotel chefs myself who would be interested in sourcing high quality Scottish poultry and switching away from imports. It is these kinds of opportunities we now need to grasp, at the same time as developing a more sustainable processing structure.”
Concessionary Travel Brings People Together for Christmas
PROGRESSIVE POLICY WILL BE MAINTAINED BY THE SNP
Scotland’s National Older and Disabled Persons Concessionary Travel Scheme runs year-round but is especially important over Christmas and New Year, helping bring families together from across Scotland at a special time.
The concessionary travel scheme - which has been rolled out for injured armed services veterans too – has been hailed as “a service Scotland can be proud of and one that will be protected and maintained by the gains of independence” by Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson.
The average saving per year is approximately £232 to each of the 1.27 million people holding a National Entitlement Card. 145 million journeys were made by card holders in 2012/13.
Labour’s Cuts Commission has raised the prospect of cuts across Scotland’s public spending, warning that “nothing is off the table”. In January 2013, Labour’s then Transport Spokesperson Elaine Murray raised the prospect of cuts to the current scheme, stating “we will be looking at the most effective way to provide support, including whether to raise the age to 65.”
Commenting, Mr Stevenson said:
“This progressive policy enables people to get across Scotland to be with their loved ones; it encourages well-being and helps strengthen family and community ties.
“Funding for concessionary travel has increased every year since its introduction and in the last year has benefited Scotland's older bus users by an average of around £232.
“With the scheme helping older and disabled people to make 145 million journeys last year, it is the height of irresponsibility for Labour leader Johann Lamont’s Cuts Commission to have the policy in their sights.
“All of the Westminster-led parties have threatened Scotland with billions of pounds of cuts to the money Scotland gets back from Westminster.
“This universal service is one of the gains of self-government – and an indication of the kind of country we want to be – and we can do so much more with a Yes vote.”
Stevenson Urges People to be 'Fire Safe' This Christmas
People are being urged to be extra vigilant over the festive season at the end of a big year of change for the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service.
Fire deaths reduced by 23 per cent last year, and fires in Scotland are also continuing to fall, with house fires dropping by 41% since Scottish Government records began and the lowest in a generation.
But in Scotland, most fatal fires are started by smoking and many are started by people who have also been drinking and are sleepy.
The Fire and Rescue Service recommend:
Taking extra care if you’ve been drinking alcohol
Never smoke in bed
Don’t smoke in your chair if you’ve been drinking or you’re feeling sleepy
If you do feel sleepy, smoke outside, standing up or at a window or outside door
Commenting, SNP MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast Stewart Stevenson said:
“This year the single Fire and Rescue Service was launched to ensure we reduce unnecessary duplication and cost and making sure maximum funding is channelled to the front line.
“We have seen fire deaths in Scotland continue to fall over the long term and we want to continue that trend but this can only be done if everyone takes the necessary precautions to keep their homes fire safe this Christmas.
“The success of our fire service underlines what Scotland can achieve when we are in control of our own affairs – just imagine what we can do with the full powers of independence that a Yes vote next year can deliver.”
“As we enter into the festive period I urge people to be extra vigilant and keep homes safe.
“One way we can do this is by taking extra precautions to ensure house fires are not started recklessly – many of which are caused by drinking.
“Our fire-fighters put their lives on the line every day and we must pay tribute to the outstanding contribution they make to our communities.”
Stevenson Welcomes New Arrangements for GPs
Local MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed new contract arrangements for GPs which will mean more time available to spend with patients after changes to were given the green light. The changes, agreed with BMA Scotland, aims to reduce bureaucracy and give doctors more time to focus on the needs of their patients.
Under the contract there will be a review of patient access to GP services across the country. The results will help Health Boards make any necessary improvements.
“The Scottish Government has worked with BMA Scotland in making these changes which will now see a new focus on quality and safety and have GPs more involved in the integration of health and social care as well as the existing anticipatory care plans and patient safety.
“Our local GPs are valued and respected members of our community and, while things have changed greatly from the days when my father was a country GP, being able to see the doctor in person and without too long a wait is still of great importance to patients. I hope that the renewed focus on cutting down admin work and bureaucracy will help achieve that.”
Health Secretary Alex Neil said:
“I am delighted that we have been able to agree this contract in partnership with GPs. It is only by listening to them that we can understand the pressures they feel and crucially how they can best meet the needs of patients.
“There are over 16.2 million GP consultations every year in Scotland, with patients having contact with their GP an average of 4.4 times in a year. We have a great opportunity at this time to make things better, and I believe this contract will benefit patients across Scotland.
“We recognise that GPs are at the heart of our vision for health care in Scotland, ensuring people are provided with quality care in their homes and communities and helping them live longer and healthier lives.
“This is further evidence of our move towards a more Scottish GP contract, reflecting the needs of patients in Scotland. I am pleased that we have been able to agree this direction of travel with GPs and look to build further on this specifically Scottish approach in the future.”
Currently the vast majority of the GP contract in Scotland is negotiated on a Scottish basis. This has allowed key elements of the contract to be tailored to respond to the public health needs of the Scottish population. The contract is worth over £500 million.
Stevenson Launches 2013 Parliamentary Report
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson has launched his 2013 Parliamentary Report.
The report will be distributed across towns and villages in the constituency in the coming weeks and is an opportunity to give constituents an update on issues their MSP has been involved in throughout the year, as well as a note of how to get in contact with their MSP.
Commenting, Stewart Stevenson said:
“I’m delighted to be able to launch my 2013 Parliamentary Report. While this year saw me reach my 850th constituency surgery, I feel it is important that I make an effort to engage with my constituents who may not have cause to contact me from one year to the next and to let people know how they can get in touch with me and some examples of the things I’ve been involved in.”
Mr Stevenson also revealed that part of the report is already out of date but he’s very happy that is the case. He explained:
“Part of my report highlights the fight against the decision by the Tories and Independents on Moray Council to close local libraries. However, shortly after going to print, the council caved into the local community-led campaign and decided to reprieve Cullen Library. It just shows how quickly some issues can move and I’m very happy for the people of Cullen that their campaign has paid off.
“It was a privilege to work with the campaigners and I pay tribute to their achievement.”
Stevenson Welcomes Support for Small Businesses
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed the Scottish Government’s proposed funding settlement for local government, which provides funding to maintain Scotland’s place as the best place to do business in the UK, funding to deliver 600 hours of childcare and the continuation of the Council Tax freeze.
Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced that the Scottish Government will act to ensure that Scotland continues to provide the most comprehensive package of support for small businesses anywhere in the UK, by capping the annual increase in business rates poundage at 2%.
The funding settlement also includes £190 million for Local Government over financial years 2014-15 and 2015-16 to fund an increase in nursery care from 475 hours a year to 600 hours a year for 3 and 4 year olds and looked-after 2 year olds from 2014.
Meanwhile the Council Tax freeze will continue, with bills not having risen by a single penny since the SNP took office. By the end of the current Parliament, this will have saved the average household around £1,200.
“Families in the North-east faced massive Council Tax rises before 2007 and in Government the SNP continues to provide financial support for local councils to maintain the Council Tax Freeze to redress the balance of taxation for families at a challenging time.
“Additionally, local small businesses are supported through the SNP Government’s Small Business Bonus Scheme that provides significant rates relief to this lifeblood of our local economy. This maintains Scotland’s competitive edge over other parts of the UK and supports local investment.
“Meanwhile the funding to provide a substantial increase in childcare provision is one that will be of real benefit to thousands of families across the North-east.
“It provides us with a platform upon which to build the childcare revolution we have proposed for an independent Scotland – using the powers of a Yes vote to ensure the increased revenues from supporting people into employment through childcare provision are put to work to fund and maintain further improvements in childcare support instead of disappearing into Westminster’s Treasury.”
Stevenson Calls for More Leaders of Youth Organisations
Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast, has appealed for more people to volunteer with youth organisations that greatly benefit young people in the North-east.
This week, in a Parliamentary debate congratulating the work of YouthLink Scotland, Mr Stevenson said:
“I visited the annual general meeting of the scouting movement in the North-east recently, which was quite an illuminating experience.
“They had in the room a wide range of projects. Some were outdoor projects to do with self-development, such as the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, for which people were working. Others were community-based projects in which the young people were learning to support people in their communities. I thought that it was a very good mix of projects indeed.
“I left very much enthused by what I had seen but there was clearly a lack of people who wanted to step forward and provide the administrative leadership that is necessary to make that infrastructure of grass roots volunteers work.”
As well as the Scouts, Mr Stevenson also commended the Boys Brigade, and in particular the group in Buckie, which at 250 members is one of Scotland’s biggest.
The debate on Tuesday commended the work of YouthLink Scotland with young people across the country, reflected in their recent inspection report by Education Scotland.
Local MSP Welcomes Advice on Charity Giving
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed advice released by Scottish charity regulator OSCR in relation to donating to charities.
Mr Stevenson commented:
“I welcome the research from OSCR showing that 92% of people in Scotland give to charities over the Christmas period.
“By taking some simple steps to ensure that charity collectors are who they say that they are, people can be assured that their donations will help good causes.”
David Robb, Chief Executive of OSCR, commented:
“We work hard with charities in Scotland to maintain the public’s trust, and I would urge anyone asked to give to make sure their contribution goes to the right causes.”
OSCR recommends that the public should follow the tips below to continue to give safely this Christmas:
Before giving, check the Scottish Charity Register at www.oscr.org.uk to see if the organisation is a charity. A charity’s Register entry will also show whether it is up to date with its annual reporting requirements. Some 418,370 searches of the Scottish Charity Register were made between 1 January and 31 December 2012.
When approached by collectors, check whether they are wearing a proper ID badge, and that any collection tin is sealed. Be wary of ID that looks photocopied or home made. Check that collecting tins and buckets bear the name of the charity and are sealed and undamaged – it’s illegal to collect in ordinary containers.
If in doubt, ask the collector for more information - a genuine fundraiser should be happy to answer questions and explain more about the work of the charity.
Genuine fundraising materials should feature the charity’s name, registered name and a landline contact number. Be wary of those that list only a mobile number.
To check whether a fundraiser is authorised to collect money in a public place, contact your local authority. If it is a private place, check with the owner. A few Scottish charities are exempt from licensing – check with the Regulator.
Take care when responding to emails or clicking direct links to a website to check they are genuine. Instead, search online for your favourite charity to check that you have the right web address.
Carefully review collection bags for clothing and household goods to check whether they are from a genuine charity.
After making these checks, if you think that a collection or appeal is not legitimate, report it to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or to Police Scotland on 101. The Scottish Charity Regulator has powers to act where an organisation claims to be a charity when it is not entered in the Scottish Charity Register.
If in any doubt, contact your favoured charity direct to make a donation.
For further information, contact Mark Simpson on 01382 220446 or email communications@oscr.org.uk
Stevenson Previews Library Closure Debate
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP, Stewart Stevenson, has spoken ahead of the Scottish Parliament’s debate on the decision taken by Moray Council to close four of its libraries.
(l to r) Angus Robertson MP, Richard Lochhead MSP
Stewart Stevenson MSP
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The motion on the library closures will be debated at 5.00pm next Tuesday (17 December).
The Council’s Conservative / Independent administration has decided to press ahead with the closure of four libraries, including the ones in Findochty and Portknockie which are in Mr Stevenson’s constituency.
Previewing next week’s debate, Mr Stevenson commented:
“Whilst I welcome the Council’s decision to keep three of the closure threatened libraries open, the move to close four libraries is still deeply concerning.
“I am not convinced that the impact of these closures has been sufficiently mitigated.
“I look forward to speaking in the debate and listening to the views of other MSPs on this decision. The debate will also present a chance to praise the tireless work of those who have campaigned to oppose these closures.”
The motion to be debated is as follows:
Motion S4M-08484: Stewart Stevenson, Banffshire & Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
That the Parliament condemns Moray Council's decision to remove a mobile library from service and close the libraries in Findochty, Hopeman, Portknockie and Rothes; believes that the decision to close four of its 15 libraries could have an adverse impact on families with young children and both older and disabled people; believes that libraries play a valuable role in communities and that the proposed closures would have a detrimental impact on education and learning and restrict access in rural communities to information technology services; further believes that this is particularly concerning as, it understands, the UK Government is increasingly making access to many services online only; notes that the Scottish Library and Information Council has commissioned a review of the Public Library Quality Improvement Matrix, which examines the quality of such services, and recognises the work of the Save our Libraries Moray campaign and others, which aims to bring together the communities affected by the council’s decision.
Stewart Stevenson MSP delivers Christmas encouragement to Royal Mail posties at Fraserburgh Delivery Office
Stewart Stevenson MSP has visited Royal Mail’s Fraserburgh delivery office to pass on best Christmas wishes and encouragement to the postmen and women at their busiest time of year.
Mr Stevenson was shown round the office by local Delivery Office Manager Peter Grant and was accompanied by local SNP councillors Charles Buchan and Brian Topping. The MSP was introduced to the postmen and women who are working hard doing their bit to sort and deliver all the cards and parcels in the Fraserburgh area in the run-up to Christmas.
“It was great to meet the hard-working Royal Mail postmen and women at Fraserburgh delivery office and to see at first hand just how much effort they put into delivering for people at this time of year. It was particularly fascinating to see my own post being sorted for delivery.
“Postmen and women do such an important job at this time of year. I’d like to thank them for their efforts and wish them all the best over the busy festive period.”
Peter Grant, Royal Mail Delivery Office Manager at Fraserburgh said:
“Christmas is the busiest time of year for Royal Mail. Our people really do pull out all the stops throughout the year to ensure mail is delivered quickly, but even more so over the busy festive period. We are grateful that Mr Stevenson came along to sees the hard work that goes on behind the scenes.
“Our people do a fantastic job at this time of year to ensure that friends and families stay in touch through their Christmas greetings and gifts. And as usual, we’d like to remind our customers to post early so that friends and family have longer to enjoy their Christmas greetings!”
The recommended last posting dates for mail are:
Thursday 20 December for 1st Class items
Tuesday 18 December for 2nd Class items
Saturday 22 December for Special Delivery items
The last recommended posting dates for international mail are:
Wednesday 5 December for airmail to Asia, Far East, Australia and New Zealand
Friday 7 December for airmail to South & Central America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East
Monday 10 December for airmail to Eastern Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan
Wednesday 12 December for airmail items to Western Europe
Customers can help Royal Mail ensure that all their letters, cards and parcels are delivered as quickly and efficiently as possible by taking a few easy steps:
Use a 1st Class stamp! – Post 1st Class for just 60p and have your Christmas card delivered the next day – anywhere in the UK.
Post early! – Avoid disappointment by posting your cards and parcels early. The last posting dates this Christmas are: December 18 for 2nd Class mail; December 20 for 1st Class mail; December 22 for Special Delivery.
Use a postcode! – A clearly addressed card or parcel, with a postcode, and return address on the back of the envelope, will ensure quick and efficient delivery.
Use Special Delivery!– For valuable packages and parcels guarantee delivery with Royal Mail’s Special Delivery, which means your gift is tracked, traced and insured against loss.
For more information about Christmas with Royal Mail visit: www.royalmail.com or call 08457 740 740.
Fraserburgh Development Trust Praised in Parliament
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson has praised the work of local Development Trusts during a debate in the Scottish Parliament. Mr Stevenson highlighted the activities carried out by volunteers in local development trusts across the North-east.
Particular attention was paid to the work of the Fraserburgh Development Trust (FDT) in the MSP’s contribution. Mr Stevenson praised the Trust’s activities in organising the ‘highly successful Super Saturday’ events. FDT is also engaged currently in a project to secure the future of the bakery at New Pitsligo upon the retirement of the present owner.
Mr Stevenson said:
“Local Development Trusts and the people who work in them are the heart and soul of countless communities in rural Scotland. They are the driving force behind many of the regenerative projects undertaken in these areas.
“These trusts contribute to just about any aspect of daily life. From culture, to fitness, environmental sustainability to boating… the work that ordinary people have put into building and rebuilding their communities is a testament to Scotland’s spirit not just in the domestic sphere, but on the international front as well.
“Fraserburgh, for example, earns its living the hard way-in the fishing industry, both onshore and offshore. It has seen some pretty tough times, but it is definitely on the way up, and Fraserburgh Development Trust is an important part of that.”
Buckie Shipyard Move Welcomed
SNP representatives in Banffshire have welcomed Macduff Shipyard’s purchase of part of the former Buckie Shipyard, which had recently gone into administration.
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson said:
“The purchase of part of the Buckie Shipyard site is very welcome and looks to bring shipyard work back to the site. The vitality of the harbour is there to see with the level of interest that the site generated.
“With prospects of multi-billion renewables investment in The Moray Firth, Buckie Harbour has a major role to play.”
Moray MP Angus Robertson said:
“This is good news for Buckie that a quick turnaround of a major part of the former Buckie Shipyard has happened with Macduff Shipyard speaking very positively about the future prospects of their business and for the Buckie site.
“There is obviously still more work to be done by The Moray Council, which owns a significant part of the former yard and I know this is being actively marketed. This investment shows confidence in Buckie and, in particular, the commercial potential of the harbour for the future.”
SNP Councillor in Buckie, Gordon McDonald, who chairs both the Buckie Harbour Advisory Committee and the Buckie Regeneration Group, said:
“I am pleased to see the southern part of the shipyard being deployed and I hope that there will be local jobs created as result of this venture.I have already been in communication with Macduff Shipyards and hope to meet with them soon to discuss their future plans in Buckie.”
Stevenson Welcomes Expert Interventions on Currency and Debt
COMMENTS BY DEUTSCHE BANK AND CITIGROUP CURRENCY EXPERTS SUPPORTIVE OF STERLING AREA
AND INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND’S DEBT BURDEN "LOWER THAN THE UK's" - EXPERT THINK TANK
Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast has today welcomed two significant interventions from impartial experts in the economic debate about Scottish independence.
First, currency experts at Deutsche Bank AG and Citigroup Inc have made supportive comments that the best currency option for an independent Scotland is to retain the pound as part of a currency area with the rest of the UK.
Oliver Harvey, a strategist at Deutsche Bank, said: “Scotland fits an optimum currency area with the rest of the UK very well… It wouldn’t make any sense for Scotland not to have the pound.”
Valentin Marinov, the head of European Group-of-10 currency strategy at Citigroup said: “Given the close economic ties between the two and assuming that these ties need not weaken going forward, the potential introduction of a currency union need not affect significantly trade and other flows.”
Second, the economic case for a Yes vote has been further boosted with an analysis by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), which concludes that: "Scotland’s debt burden will be lower than the UK's in all cases."
Stewart Stevenson MSP said:
“I welcome these interventions in the referendum debate by impartial experts. The views of currency experts at Deutsche Bank AG and Citigroup Inc validate the common-sense position that a sterling area between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK suits the interests of both countries.
“National Institute of Economic and Social Research analysis also concludes that: ‘Scotland’s debt burden will be lower than the UK’s in all cases’ demonstrates that Scotland is financially stronger than the UK as a whole, and that therefore we've got what it takes to be an independent country.
“As the debate continues, the more people are recognising the value of a Yes vote and the gains of independence.”
Stevenson Welcomes Publication of Guide to an Independent Scotland
URGES ALL BANFFSHIRE AND BUCHAN COAST RESIDENTS TO READ MOST DETAILED INDEPENDENCE BLUEPRINT EVER PRODUCED
SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson is urging all Banffshire and Buchan Coast residents to get involved in the referendum debate by reading the Scottish Government's flagship guide to independence, which was published today (Tuesday).
The 670-page document - the most comprehensive blueprint for independence ever produced by any country ahead of an independence vote - was launched to an audience of hundreds of journalists from across the globe.
The document Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to An Independent Scotland contains a comprehensive Question and Answer section, running to more than 200 pages, providing answers to 650 questions on independence.
The answers – along with downloadable copies of “Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to An Independent Scotland" - are available at www.scotreferendum.com as a fully searchable resource so that residents of Banffshire and Buchan Coast can easily find the answers they are looking for ahead of the referendum.
The guide shows how Scotland will move from a Yes vote on September 18th next year, toward its independence on March 24th 2016 – ahead of the first elections in an independent Scotland. It also describes the huge financial savings that can be made – including half a billion pounds on defence spending, and savings from no longer contributing to the funding of the Westminster Parliament.
Besides addressing the various questions asked about what independence offers, Scotland's Future also outlines the Scottish Government's ambitious plans to use the powers to make Scotland a fairer, more prosperous country – should the SNP win the first elections of an independent Scotland in 2016.
At the heart of this is a transformational increase in childcare provision that would help more people into work – particularly women – and provide up to 35,000 jobs in the process. This only becomes possible with the powers offered by independence, because only an independent Scotland would have the resources to make it happen. Currently all the increased tax revenues that would help make the policy affordable would go to the Westminster Treasury, rather than staying in Scotland.
As well as guarantees on the minimum wage and a ‘triple lock’ on pension increases to ensure that they rise at least in line with the cost of living, the Scottish Government also proposes new measures to permanently reduce energy bills by 5% and ensure basic rate tax allowances and credits to rise in line at least with inflation.
Commenting, MSP Stevenson said:
"This landmark document takes the referendum debate into a new phase. No country in history is as well-equipped as Scotland is to move toward independence, and even the staunchest opponents of Yes now accept that Scotland has got what it takes to be an independent country.
“The guide and the answers it provides will show clearly and simply the difference that we can make in Scotland if decisions on Scotland’s future are taken by those who care most about Scotland, that is the people who live and work here.
"The referendum on 18th September next year is a vote unlike any other - it is the biggest opportunity we have had as a country in 300 years. That's why I'm calling on everyone in Banffshire and Buchan Coast - regardless of what their current views are on independence - to read this guide, to compare it with any alternative future for Scotland and make up your own mind.”
MSP & Councillors Comment on Offshore Windfarm Proposals
Commenting on the news that Statoil are proposing to develop a windfarm off the Buchan coast, Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson said:
“Renewables technology will be an important cornerstone to Scotland’s future economy and it is no surprise that Peterhead has been chosen to be one of the key locations in that development.
“Peterhead’s deep water harbour makes it an ideal location for the offshore renewables industry. The town’s designation as a strategic hub for offshore renewables will no doubt have been a key factor in Statoil’s decision.”
Peterhead South & Cruden councillor Stephen Smith said:
“Provided this can be done safely and securely and without any detriment to vessels or fishing, I would generally always favour offshore turbines over onshore ones.”
Peterhead North & Rattray councillor Fiona McRae added:
“The principle of offshore wind power is one which I support. The huge advances in technology mean that the renewables industry is constantly changing an adapting and I think offshore windpower will become increasingly important in the future.”
Stevenson Raises Lonmay Road Safety Concerns with Officials
Local MSP Stewart Stevenson has met with senior officials from Transport Scotland and trunk roads agency BEAR to discuss concerns regarding road safety on the A90 Trunk Road at the Cortes area of Lonmay.
Mr Stevenson arranged the meeting, at the Ban-Car Hotel in Lonmay, which included representatives from the local Community Council, local councillor Charles Buchan, and constituents who had contacted him in light of the recent serious accident at the location, when a lorry left the road and ploughed into a residential property causing severe damage.
Following the meeting, Mr Stevenson commented:
“I was pleased that Transport Scotland and BEAR Scotland officials agreed to my request that they come to Lonmay to hear the views of local residents and the Community Council at first hand.
“The officials agreed to take forward ideas for the short term, including flashing chevron warning signs at the bends, as well as look into possible longer term solutions, which I welcome.
“I do hope that these measures will go some way to improving the situation and we will follow these up with BEAR.”
Local councillor, Charles Buchan said:
“I felt this was a very useful meeting. There is a history of accidents at this location over many years. A lot of these will be down to driver error but the authorities need to look and see what further interventions they can make to reduce the possibilities of such errors becoming accidents.
“For my part, I undertook to raise the issue of speed limits on the roads leading to this area which are council-maintained, and also speak to the Education Department about school bus access.”
MP & MSP Comment on St Fergus Post Office Relocation
Local representatives Stewart Stevenson MSP and Eilidh Whiteford MP have commented on the confirmation that the Post Office branch in St Fergus is to be relocated to the Public Hall in the village.
The Post Office will start operating from the Public Hall on Tuesday, 10 December 2013.
“I am pleased that the Post Office will be retaining its service in St Fergus.
“The Post Office consulted with local people regarding these changes and I note that no concerns were raised by local people.”
Eilidh Whiteford MP commented:
“Post Offices are a vital part of our local communities, which I believe need to be retained.
“People who live in smaller settlements should not be disconnected from services simply for where they have chosen to live.
“I therefore welcome the commitment to St Fergus shown by the Post Office.”
The Post Office in St Fergus’ Village Hall will be open from 9.00am to 12.00pm on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Stevenson Welcomes Announcement on Nursery Provision
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP, Stewart Stevenson, has welcomed the announcement from the Minister and Children Young People, Aileen Campbell MSP, that more than 100,000 families will benefit from a yearly saving of £700 owing to the Scottish Government’s increased nursery provision.
The increase in nursery provision from 475 hours to 600 hours, which has been proposed in legislation which is currently being looked at by MSPs, will add up to a saving of £85 million across Scotland. The extra hours will be available to three and four year olds, as well as the most vulnerable two year olds, reaching an estimated 106,400 families across the country.
Local authorities are being given £50 million in 2014/15, with Aberdeenshire Council receiving £2.7 million and Moray Council £900,000 to support this. Councils will from next year have to ask parents what they want for their children in terms of nursery provision, and offer more choice.
“The early years of a child’s development are crucial, and I am glad to see that the Scottish Government is committed to extending nursery care.
“Moreover, this is another sign of the Scottish Government’s desire to help families who wish to get back into work, rather than taking punitively forcing them to do so, as the UK Government is doing.”
Minister for Children and Young People Aileen Campbell MSP said:
“The increase in nursery care from 475 to 600 hours a year will make a real difference to families both in terms of organising day to day life and in balancing increasingly tight household budgets.
“In giving more free hours to three and four year olds and the most vulnerable two year olds, we are ensuring that 121,000 children will have access to more high quality care. This will help the education of our children and support parents who want to get back to work.
“Our consultations show that for many families the cost of childcare is prohibitive; it takes up a significant portion of family income and can dictate what work or training parents can take on.”
Stevenson Welcomes Announcement that Independence Would Boost Job Opportunities
SNP Banffshire & Buchan MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed announcement from the First Minister that Independence would create a jobs boost.
In the 200-page report, “Economic policy choices in an independent Scotland”, Mr Salmond set out the economic policy choices available for an independent Scotland. The country would be free to pursue policies better tailored to Scotland’s needs. These policies would maximise the country’s potential and deliver a fairer society by creating more jobs. Some of the policies include diversifying Scotland’s industrial base—so as to boost employment by 21,000—promoting participation in the labour market, and reducing the corporation tax to draw investments that would otherwise go to London and the Southeast. Along with reforming the structures that facilitate trade in a way that would boost the brand recognition of Scotland’s economy, these key policies would create over 100,000 jobs in the long-term. Commenting, Mr Stevenson said
“It is no surprise to see that Independence would allow the Scottish Government the freedom to do away with that one-size-fits-all Westminster mentality and pursue policies better suited for Scotland.
“We aim to create a fair and equal society unlike that created by the current Westminster system, which has produced one of the largest gaps between the rich and poor the developed world has ever seen.
“It’s rather simple. With its vast resources and huge human talent, an unhindered Scotland means a successful Scotland. A Yes-vote in 2014 would not only herald a jobs boom, but also a new era for the Scottish people.”
Stevenson Responds to Moray Council Libraries U-Turn
Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire and the Buchan Coast has responded to news that Moray Council Independent and Tory Administration has announced a major climb down on library closures.
Moray Council have stated that three libraries out of seven libraries will now remain open - Burghead, Dufftown and Cullen.
The Independent and Tory Administration claim that the reason for the U-turn was because they could not afford a lengthy period of litigation.
Commenting, Mr Stevenson said
“Obviously, I welcome the news that Moray Council have decided to keep three libraries open, one of which that is based in Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency.
“However, despite this news, I feel that there is a strong case for the remaining libraries earmarked for closure to remain open.
“Libraries provide a vital service to rural communities, and the Independent and Tory Councillors in Moray Council have completely disregarded this. It is to the credit of the campaigners that they have forced the current administration to reconsider its decision. In light of this, I now hope that the Council will carefully consider the future of remaining four libraries and the mobile service."
Stevenson Backs Befriending Networks
Local MSP Stewart Stevenson has signed up to back Befriending Networks at an event in Parliament this week.
The Befriending Networks offers supportive, reliable relationships through volunteer befrienders to people who would otherwise be socially isolated. It has been shown that befriending often provides people with a new direction in life, opens up a range of activities and leads to increased self-esteem and self-confidence.
The network is an umbrella body supporting and representing 180+ members befriending services in Scotland. These services support people of all ages who are isolated for whatever reason, by recruiting, training, matching, deploying and supporting volunteer befrienders.
The Befriending Network is currently in the second year of a three-year funding cycle, from which they receive £40,000 a year in core funding from the Scottish Government.
“With an ageing population it is of utmost importance that we secure funding for the befriending sector and I’m pleased the Scottish Government is supporting this.
“Such a humanitarian effort also affords us budget benefits as befriending reduces the burden on other services which people may use inappropriately as they seek social contact.
“The Befriending Network particularly benefits younger and older people in our communities and I’m delighted to lend my support to the organisation and help promote the good work it carries out.”
MSP to Sign Cullen Library "Book of Hope"
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson will sign the ‘Book of Hope’ at Cullen Post Office, Seafield Street, Cullen on Monday 11 November [tomorrow] at 12.30pm.
The Book of Hope has been started by local people campaigning to save Cullen Library from the decision to axe the facility by Moray Council’s Conservative/Independent administration. The book is for local people to write and record what their library means to them and campaigners have invited their MSP to add his name to many people who have already signed.
“The tenacity of the local campaigners is commendable and underlines the very strong case that exists for retaining the library here in Cullen.
“I will be taking the case for local libraries to Parliament next week with cross-party support and, even at this late stage, I would urge Moray Council’s administration to do the sensible thing and rethink this fundamentally-flawed decision.”
Moray MP & MSPs Welcome Campaigners' Library Challenge
Moray’s MSP, Richard Lochhead, MP, Angus Robertson, and Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP, Stewart Stevenson, have welcomed the decision by campaigners to save Moray’s libraries to challenge the decision in court.
The challenge, being made after receiving positive early legal advice, is being made following the decision by Moray Council’s Independent and Tory Administration to close 7 of its 15 libraries as a budget measure.
SNP Councillors and the local MP and MSP have opposed and condemned the decision, which has been deeply unpopular.
Commenting on the campaign group’s legal move Richard Lochhead MSP said:
“Today’s announcement by Save Our Libraries Moray, that are now set to challenge the Council’s decision in court is to be welcomed. I have been inundated with messages about the decision taken by Moray’s Independent and Tory Councillors and I strongly believe that they have taken the wrong decision and it will have a completely disproportionate impact.
“The SNP is fully behind the library campaigners and believe the Council must think again. The Council’s administration should now reconsider their wrong decision to close seven libraries, which has been roundly condemned by local communities, prominent authors and many others. They should accept they are wrong and back down rather than taking further financial and reputational damage by fighting this court challenge.”
Angus Robertson MP said:
“SNP politicians in Moray have voted against these library closures and we have joined the campaigners in protest against the decision. This is a passionate campaign about the saving of a critical local service.
“Libraries are at the heart and soul of our local communities and to close them is complete folly. Moray Council’s Independent and Tory Councillors should look long and hard at themselves and consider whether the comparatively small amount of savings being achieved is worth the damage this will do to communities. They must accept the clear opposition from the communities they represent and leave Moray’s libraries alone.”
Banffshire and Buchan Coast MSP, Stewart Stevenson, whose constituency includes the communities of Cullen, Portknockie and Findochty, who are set to lose their libraries, said:
"The communities of Moray have been rightly shocked by the decision to close seven libraries, which seems to have no strategic or logical basis.
“I congratulate the campaigners on their tenacity in pushing forward with a legal challenge to the decision and I would urge the Independents and Tories in Moray Council’s administration to reconsider the closures and listen to the communities they claim to represent.”
Empowerment Bill a Major Development for Local Self-Determination
The launch of the consultation of the Community Empowerment Bill has been described as a major development for local self-determination by local MSP Stewart Stevenson.
The Bill proposes to build upon Scotland’s world leading community right to buy legislation by making it fit for all communities in Scotland and making it more straightforward for communities to take on public sector lands and buildings.
It will also provide a new statutory role for community councils when it comes to the Common Good, while giving communities a greater voice in the services the public sector delivers, and proposes to update Scotland’s land reform legislation by extending the community right to buy to urban areas.
“The people who know best what needs to be done to improve life in a local community are the people who live and work there.
“This bill is an opportunity to give people in Scotland’s communities the tools they need to shape the future of their local areas.
“The launch of this bill is a significant step towards greater local self-determination, and I would encourage as many people as possible to make their views known in the consultation on what is being proposed.
“Just as the SNP believe that it is the people of Scotland who are best placed to make decision affecting Scotland, it is also true that the people best place to make decisions about local communities are the people who live and work in them.
“This is a major opportunity to build upon Scotland’s world leading community right to buy legislation and empower communities across Scotland.”
Stevenson Welcomes Lifting of US Ban on Scotch Beef
SNP Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed the news that the United States has lifted its ban on Scotch Beef. This comes after a decision on Friday to issue new import rules for cattle and beef that will comply with international standards for the prevention of mad cow disease.
This is the first time that Scotch Beef will be available to American consumers after the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) banned EU beef and other bovine and ruminant products in January 1998. The ban was imposed at the height of concerns over the BSE disease in cattle.
“I am delighted to see that the USDA has taken a monumental decision to break down such a long-standing trade barrier so that the two nations can once again enjoy a flourishing trade and investment partnership.
“For 30 years the United States has continued to be the single largest export market of Scottish goods and services. With the lift of this ban the road is clear for the US to now become the greatest appreciator of Scotch Beef.
“It is clear that after 16 years both countries are eager to resume trade in the red meat industry. That is why it is imperative that the UK Government act now to facilitate export activity and avoid any unnecessary delays later.”
MSP Comments on Banff Academy Inspection Report
Local MSP Stewart Stevenson has today written to the Chief Executive of Aberdeenshire Council regarding the inspection that was recently carried out by Education Scotland at Banff Academy.
Inspectors awarded the school five ‘weak’ ratings in the quality indicators that it was assessed on.
“Whilst I know that the staff at Banff Academy work very hard to ensure that they provide a quality education for all pupils, this report shows that there is considerable room for improvement at the school.
“Having studied the inspectors’ report, I have written to the Chief Executive of Aberdeenshire Council to ask what measures the school and the Council will be taking to build on the inspectors’ findings.”
Scientific Warning on CCS Delays Shows Reality of Westminster's Research Obstruction
The No campaign faced embarrassment today as the launch of its ‘academics together’ group was overshadowed by warnings from scientists that Scotland’s progress towards Carbon Capture technology is being held back by the Westminster Government.
Speaking on Good Morning Scotland, leading expert in the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) field Professor Stuart Haszeldine warned that people in the field are ‘angry and depressed’ by the lack of progress being made.
The Professor who chairs the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage group hit out at the delays, stating “what we’re asking is we get on and do something about it – we stop talking, we start doing. People who’re working on the pure science are depressed that the message is not being heard adequately and the people who’re trying to do something practical working with industry are getting quite angry that they’re being ignored as well and just parked as continually Governments kick the can down the road in the UK and in Europe.
Progress towards CCS technology in Scotland has repeatedly hit roadblocks put up by the Westminster Government. In 2007, BP was forced to withdraw from previous plans to develop the technology in Peterhead, citing Westminster dithering and delay while in 2011 plans to install CCS at Longannet collapsed after Westminster failed to reach an agreement on funding.
Commenting, SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson said:
“These warnings that scientists in Scotland are ‘angry and depressed’ by the lack of progress emanating from Westminster are deeply concerning, and ones that everyone in Scotland would do well to heed.
“On the very day that the No campaign has launched its academics group, the roadblocks to scientific progress in Scotland that Westminster all too often puts up have been made abundantly clear.
“Why does the No campaign think it is better for Westminster to make decisions for Scotland, when time and time again they have dithered and delayed when it comes to backing carbon capture and storage?
“Scotland can and should be playing a leading role in the development of this vital technology, and the fact that Westminster has hindered progress in this area - under both Labour and Tory-led UK governments - shows why Scotland can achieve more with the powers of independence.
“The fact is that with five universities in the world top 200 – more by head of population than anywhere else in the world – Scotland is in a fantastic position internationally, and that is something we can build on in an independent Scotland.
“A Yes vote next year will allow people in Scotland to elect a Government that always supports and prioritises Scottish research, and the development of new technology in Scotland."
Professor Stuart Haszeldine’s remarks can be heard at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03flxnf
MP & MSP Comment on Findochty Post Office Proposals
Proposed changes to Findochty Post Office have been broadly welcomed by Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast, and Angus Robertson, MP for Moray.
The Post Office plan to move their Findochty branch to the Findochty Pharmacy on Seaview Road. The consultation on the proposed changes closes on 3 December 2013.
Stewart Stevenson MSP commented:
“I welcome the Post Office’s commitment to Findochty. I am pleased that most Post Office services will continue to be available in Findochty.
“I would encourage anyone with any concerns to make their views known.”
"This proposed move looks fairly positive, retaining a Post Office in Findochty with longer opening hours. It is still important for people to take time to respond to the consultation, however, to ensure that any issues such as access arrangements are well covered.
"Post Offices are hugely valued by communities across Moray and I would urge anyone that wants to comment on the plans to do so."
Stevenson Signs Epilepsy Pledge
Local MSP Stewart Stevenson has signed the Epilepsy Consortium Scotland’s pledge for equal access to care. Stewart joins fellow SNP MSP supporters, including the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Alex Neil and Public Health Minister Michael Matheson in backing a fair provision of services for the 54,000 people living with epilepsy across Scotland.
“Around 700 of my constituents have or will develop epilepsy. It is important to ensure that when people need to access epilepsy care there is parity in what’s available to them.”
Epilepsy Consortium Scotland (ECS) Chair Allana Parker was encouraged that so many MSPs, including those on the Cross-Party Group on Epilepsy headed by Convener Kenneth Gibson, came by the ECS exhibition at the 2013 SNP conference to find out more about patchy services in parts of Scotland.
She remarked:
“Eight people are newly diagnosed with epilepsy each and every day. For some, access to specialist clinicians and nurses is still a geographical lottery. This is why our members are currently mapping epilepsy services run by health, education, social care providers, and the third sector. Details of postcode gaps will be passed to the Scottish Government and joint working agencies so that we can assist them to redress this situation.”
Scottish Farmers Losing Out on CAP Funding says Stevenson
Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast, has highlighted figures produced by the Scottish Government which show the full extent to which Scottish farmers are losing out as a result of the Westminster Government’s failure to negotiate a favourable deal on the Common Agricultural Policy. The figures demonstrate that payments to Scottish farmers are likely to be the lowest in Europe for both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2.
“These figures really do show the extent to which Westminster is letting down Scotland’s farmers. The analysis shows how the UK Government negotiated Scotland down to the bottom of the league tables of EU funding.
“Scotland went into the negotiations with the third lowest level of farm support in Europe for Pillar 1. The EU then agreed a formula to close the gap between the countries with lowest payments with those of the highest.
“Scotland is now likely to be leapfrogged by Latvia and Estonia, whose Ministers sit at the top table and make their farmers a priority. In contrast, we are looking at being rooted at the bottom of the league.
“Scotland didn’t benefit from the new funding formula because it only applies to member states. As a result, Scottish farmers have lost out to the tune of a massive £850 million over the whole budget period.
“In the same negotiations, 16 out of the 28 countries negotiated an uplift in their rural development budgets. But Westminster didn’t lift a finger for Scotland – the country with the lowest share of that fund in Europe.
“Our farmers are getting a raw deal from a CAP budget which was negotiated without Scotland’s agriculture sector in mind. This potentially has huge implications for a very rural area such as Banffshire & Buchan Coast, particularly given the importance of agriculture to the region’s economy.
“It is clearer than ever before that Scotland’s farming industry needs a voice at the EU’s top table, standing up for its interests.”
The analysis can be found here: www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/farmingrural
Stevenson Welcomes Engagement on A96 Dualling
MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast Stewart Stevenson has welcomed Transport Scotland’s commitment to engage with the public on plans to dual the A96 at a series of exhibitions.
Transport Scotland officials will be available at these meetings to explain the context of the current work on the A96 dualling programme and to discuss the planning and design process, and how it informs the dualling programme.
“The A96 is a key road for the North and North-east of Scotland, and I am therefore pleased that the Scottish Government is committed to complete the dualling the A96 by 2030.
“By engaging with the public, I hope that Transport Scotland will ensure that work on this route has the support of those who reside alongside the road, as well as those who use it on a regular basis.
“I would encourage anyone with an interest to attend one of the meetings to make their views known.”
Public engagement events will take place in 9 communities along the length of the A96 and include The Longmore Hotel, Keith on Tuesday 19 November and The Gordon Arms Hotel, Huntly on Thursday 21 November. Both events are open from 12.00pm to 7.00pm.
Stevenson Welcomes Broadband Boost for Buckie
Local SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed the announcement that Buckie will be one of the locations set to benefit from fibre broadband services, which provide speeds of up to 80Mbps, from early 2014.
The first eight areas which will go live in Scotland as part of a multi-million pound publicly-funded fibre broadband project were announced today.
Representatives of the partnership funding the £146m rollout were in Milton of Leys in Inverness to mark the milestone for a project which, together with BT’s commercial rollout, will ultimately bring faster broadband to around 84% of the region’s premises.
More than 16,000 homes and businesses on the outskirts of the Highland capital Inverness, and along the coast into Moray and Banffshire, will be the first to benefit.
Hailed as one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in Scotland’s recent history, the Highlands and Islands rural broadband project is being led by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and delivered by BT. It is partly-funded by the Scottish Government, HIE and BT.
“This announcement of a major fibre broadband upgrade in Buckie is very welcome news indeed. It is critical to our local economy that we see investment in new communications technology to enable business to remain competitive with major urban centres and to attract new investment in businesses, including life sciences, which are viewed as so important to the area’s economic future.
“The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that a world class digital infrastructure is in place across Scotland by 2020 and that a significant increase in coverage has been achieved by 2015. This investment will ensure that this ambition is achieved.”
Stuart Robertson, HIE’s Director of Digital Highlands and Islands, said:
“This is by far the most challenging rural broadband rollout in the UK and we are delighted that our first communities will be accessing services within months.
“Commercial rollout taking place across the UK would have reached no more than one in five premises in the Highlands and Islands. So the project’s target of 84% coverage levels for the region will represent a significant step change.
“This first rollout of fibre broadband will be available to customers who are connected to a number of street cabinets within the eight exchange areas. Homes and businesses will be able to check availability over the coming weeks and there will be further work carried out in these areas to extend the reach as the rollout progresses.”
The announcement is the first in a series of updates which will be made quarterly for the life of the project as the fibre network rolls out across the region. Anyone interested in superfast broadband rollout can keep up to date on a new Scotland wide website www.scotlandsuperfast.com being introduced by the Scottish Government.
“The Scottish Government is determined to ensure that all communities can benefit from the opportunities of the digital age. This is demonstrated by our substantial investment - totalling about £64 million - in this infrastructure project, which is one of the most ambitious in Scotland’s history. I am delighted to see rural communities and businesses beginning to enjoy the benefits from this high quality digital connectivity which will be critical in ensuring the long-term economic prosperity of the Highlands and Islands.”
BT is to lay more than 800km of fibre backbone cable on land, and 400km more via 20 subsea crossings as part of the project.
Brendan Dick, Director, BT Scotland, said:
“Today’s announcement means that early next year access to fibre broadband will be available to more than 14,400 homes and businesses around Ardersier, Buckie, Culloden, Milton of Leys, Fortrose, Hopeman, Lhanbryde and Lossiemouth, along with an additional 1,825 in Elgin and on the Inverness Macdhui exchange.
“This exciting technology will play a vital part in the area’s future success. It is crucial if local businesses are to continue to thrive in a competitive environment. Improved communications enhance businesses, helping them develop and generate more recruitment opportunities. Fibre broadband is also a huge boost for local households whether they use the internet for on-line training and development, shopping or entertainment.”
SNP Representatives Comment on Culture Secretary's Intervention in Moray Library Closures
SNP representatives in Moray have welcomed developments in the ongoing libraries closure saga impacting communities across Moray.
Scottish Government Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has written to Moray Council expressing her concern and urging them to reconsider the closures.
Meanwhile the Equalities & Human Rights Commission has written to the SNP Opposition Group in Moray Council setting out the issues that a court could be asked to consider in relation to the decision by Tory and Independent councillors last month.
“This is hugely significant for a Government Minister to intervene in this way and in such strong terms.
“It underlines the case made by the local campaigners that this is a short-sighted decision which, in this age of online business, will leave people who don’t have access to computers of their own at a severe disadvantage.”
Commenting the SNP’s Opposition Education Spokesperson on Moray Council, Cllr Mike Shand, said:
“The high level intervention by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop is very welcome and underlines the serious concerns held by many, many people about the decision to close seven libraries.
“In the meantime I know that the campaigners against the closures have been seeking legal opinion and the response we have now received from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission is very helpful in setting out what the court would have to consider in relation to the Council’s equality duty and its decision making process.
“The SNP remains fully behind the efforts being made to prevent these closures, which we believe is a fundamentally flawed decision from an Independent/Tory coalition that is making the wrong choices with little regard for the consequences.”
Moray MSP Richard Lochhead said:
“Moray Council’s Independent and Tory Councillors are facing fierce criticism from both local communities in Moray and from people across the country - from well known authors like Allan Bissett and Janice Galloway to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, who has roundly condemned this decision.
“It is time Moray Council’s Administration reconsidered this decision and responded positively to the concerns and priorities of people across Moray.”
“It has been said that ‘Libraries are the mind and soul of their communities’ and the response to the crazy decision by Independent and Tory councillors in Moray to close over half of the region’s libraries quite clearly demonstrates that community link.
“On the one hand the Independent Convener of Moray Council is espousing the virtues of internet access as a way round reduced library provision, while on the same day he congratulated an organisation for their face-to-face work in their communities in an age of ipads and Twitter. This two-facedness is symptomatic of a Council Administration that has no strategy and no vision for Moray.”
Stevenson Celebrates Energy Action Scotland 30th Anniversary
Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast has this week highlighted the contributions achieved by national charity group Energy Action Scotland.
Energy Action Scotland is a charity organization that campaigns to promote awareness of the issue of fuel poverty, researches the causes and effects, and secures public and private investment for effective solutions.
Celebration of the charity’s 30th anniversary comes amidst news this week that the Scottish Government has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the £74million fund allocated to help people with home heating bills.
“Energy Action Scotland looks for effective solutions, hounds Government and searches for private investment. We should all hold that national charity dear to our hearts in the present environment because, when we address fuel poverty, we also address employment and climate change.
“In my own constituency, the work of Energy Action Scotland has made all the difference to 31% of rural dwellers who are spending 10% or more of their income on fuel alone. Their research today paves the way for the solutions tomorrow
“On a global level, organizations such as these have not only secured Scotland’s role as a leading figure in the world’s struggle to combat carbon emissions… but has shaped a greener world for future generations
“Funding energy efficiency is a step in the right direction… but if we want to reach our goal of eradicating fuel poverty by 2016 we need the full powers of independence to address not just some, but all the causes of fuel poverty”
Stevenson Welcomes Campaign to Raise Awareness for Home Energy Hotline
Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast has this week welcomed the news that the Scottish Government has made £74m available for home improvements that increase energy efficiency.
In November 2012, the Scottish Government launched the Green Homes Cashback scheme, which gave householders cash back towards the cost of maximizing energy efficiency. Local authorities and registered social landlords can apply for a grant of up to £1m for homes under their care, and up to £1200 per home.
Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, launched the campaign which highlights the benefits available to people in Scotland through the Scottish Government’s Home Energy Scotland hotline [0808 808 2282] which offers free impartial energy advice and support.
A recent survey has shown that 75 per cent of people in Scotland are worried about their energy bills while 70 per cent of Scottish bill-payers said last winter’s energy bills had a negative impact on their disposable incomes.
“Too many people in Scotland are simply unaware of the energy initiatives to which they are entitled. The SNP is committed to educating people on the options available to them in the struggle against fuel poverty.
“With £74m set aside to help Scottish people reduce their fuel bills, and the cooperation between the Scottish Government and groups such as the Citizens Advice Scotland, there is no reason why we cannot reach our goal of eradicating fuel poverty by 2016
“No one should be worried about their energy bills in a country as rich in energy as ours.”
Local MP & MSPs Encourage Residents to Vote for Moray Funding Bids
Moray’s local MP and two MSPs are encouraging residents to get behind funding bids from the region or the Bank of Scotland’s Community Fund.
The Bank of Scotland’s Community Fund provides grants to good causes in villages, towns and cities across Scotland and, from 23 September to 1 November, the public have the chance to vote for the local good cause that matters most to them.
In Moray four local charities have submitted bids for funding. The charities are:
Findhorn Village Centre, Findhorn, which aims to attract young people and their parents and help integrate newcomers to the community.
The Aila Coull Foundation, Elgin, which aims to fund research projects into the rare and aggressive childhood cancer Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
The Sunshine Developmental Playgroup, Keith, which provides facilities for children with developmental delays or disorders in physical, developmental or behavioural terms.
Crossreach Counselling Moray, Buckie, which provides a free counselling service to young people and adults covering issues such as depression, bereavement, low self-esteem, abuse and many other difficulties.
Commenting Angus Robertson MP said:
“The Bank of Scotland’s Community Fund has provided a significant amount of support to good causes in communities across Scotland in recent years and the four good causes in Moray are all engaged in significant efforts to improve things for their community in a range of different ways.”
“I would encourage people in Moray to get behind the local organisations that are bidding for funding in this year’s awards from the Bank of Scotland Community Fund. A fantastic amount of really beneficial work is being carried out in Moray by these groups and they are very deserving of their communities’ support in there funding bids.”
Banffshire and Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson said(R):
“There is a great opportunity for communities to recognise the efforts of these local organisations by going onto the Bank of Scotland communities website and casting a vote for the cause that matters most to them and giving them the support they deserve.”
More details of the organisations bidding for funding and how to vote for them is at:
http://www.bankofscotlandcommunities.co.uk/
Voting closes on 1 November.
(R)I am a small shareholder in Lloyds Bank plc. This is voluntarily declared in my Parliamentary Register of Interests.
MSP Stevenson Welcomes Funding Boost to Fight Bedroom Tax in Banffshire and Buchan Coast
Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast has welcomed confirmation that the Aberdeenshire Council will see an injection of Scottish Government funding worth £883,262 to help people affected by the Bedroom Tax.
The Scottish Government has pledged £20 million to boost Discretionary Housing Payments in local authorities across Scotland, to provide the most help possible to people affected by the London Government’s Bedroom Tax. This will see the Aberdeenshire Council benefit to the tune of £1,478,087 – taking funding for Discretionary Housing Payments in Aberdeenshire Council Area to the legal maximum.
Shelter Scotland led the way in campaigning for an additional £20 million to top up Discretionary Housing Payments and have publicly welcomed the funding from the Scottish Government.
“The Bedroom Tax is a horrendous policy that should never have made it off the drawing board of the Tories in Westminster. It is utterly unfair and is devastating the lives of people across Scotland who have no way to avoid the financial penalties Westminster has imposed.
“The Scottish Government is doing what it can, with £20 million recently announced to boost Discretionary Housing Payments to help people in financial trouble across Scotland.
“That will mean an additional £883,262 to help people in Aberdeenshire Council area and comes on top of the Scottish Government’s broader £68 million package to mitigate Westminster’s welfare cuts.
“Of course while these efforts to mitigate the worst effects of Westminster’s welfare cuts are welcome, Scotland should not be in the position of simply having to clean up Westminster’s mess.
“A Yes vote in next year’s referendum will be a vote to end the Bedroom Tax and ensure that nothing like it can be imposed on Scotland by a Westminster Government ever again.”
MSP Opens Peterhead Flower Show
Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast, opened the Peterhead and District Chrysanthemum and Horticultural Society annual show on Saturday.
Peter Scott, the Society’s President welcomed Mr Stevenson to open the show, which took place at the Rescue Hall in Peterhead. Mr Stevenson’s wife, Sandra, then presented the prizes.
Speaking after the show, Stewart said:
“Sandra and I were delighted to be asked to the Peterhead and District Chrysanthemum and Horticultural Society annual show.
“Peter Scott gave us an excellent tour of the stunning displays. It was clear that a lot of hard work had been put into the show by those who had entered and organised the event.
“I would like to congratulate on all those who took part in the show, especially those who took home prizes.”
Stevenson Welcomes Report from Fiscal Commission Working Group
SNP Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed the second report from the Fiscal Commission Working Group recommending that both a short-term and long-term savings fund be established immediately following independence.
The Working Group highlighted the economic opportunities that Scotland’s oil and gas wealth presents and how to best maximise on these so to secure long-lasting prosperity for generations to come.
The only other major oil producing country in the world that doesn’t have an oil fund is Iraq – but it does have a form of investment through its Development Fund.
Commenting afterwards, Mr Stevenson said
“The report highlights that if oil resources had been invested into a savings fund in the past then the country could now have accumulated financial assets of between £82 billion and £116 billion, as opposed to a share of the UK’s huge debt.
“Successive Westminster Governments have used North Sea oil as a short-term cash cow to be squeezed at every opportunity to prop up the Treasury’s crumbling books.
“Such an analysis of the reality of where our wealth has gone makes it difficult for Anti-Independence politicians to insist that together is better.
“The report reinforces what has been clear to the SNP all along—Scotland has as suitable macroeconomic framework in place that is based on a realistic picture of our resources."
Stevenson Welcomes Plans to Further Rights of Carers
Banffshire & Buchan Coast MSP Stewart Stevenson has welcomed the Scottish Government’s plans to bring about specific legislation that will promote, defend and extend the rights of carers and young carers.
A widespread consultation on this new legislation for carers and young carers will start before the end of this year. This marks a significant step forward in recognising and addressing the needs of the 657,000 unpaid adult carers and up to 100,000 young carers who care for their families, friends and neighbours.
Stewart Stevenson commented:
“Carers play a vital role in looking after friends and relatives.
“However, we must remember that when taking on these roles, there must also be support for carers available. Carers need to be able to socialise and remain in work if they wish to do so.
“I therefore welcome the Scottish Government’s commitment to take action on this issue and would encourage anyone who encourage any carers in Banffshire and Buchan Coast to respond to the consultation when it opens.”
First Minister Alex Salmond MSP announced the legislation plans at the 2nd annual Carers’ Parliament in Edinburgh. Speaking at the event the First Minister, said:
“This Government recognises the vital role that carers play in looking after the most vulnerable in society. We know that being an unpaid carer can be a difficult and isolating experience and we want to do all that we can to make sure we are doing everything within our powers to help carers in Scotland.
“Progress is being made including the setting up of this Carers’ Parliament - giving carers a voice and an important platform to raise and discuss issues of concern.
“However, more must be done to ensure carers are supported properly and are fully involved in decisions affecting their lives and those they care for. Therefore I am delighted to announce that the Scottish Government will consult on legislation to support carers and young carers. The consultation period will start before the end of the year and I would encourage all those who are interested or affected to feed into the consultation process.”
Simon Hodgson, Director of Carers Scotland, said:
“Most people will be carers at some point in their lives and today’s announcement marks another important milestone in recognising the crucial role carers play in homes across the country. We look forward to working with the Scottish Government to ensure carers are able to help shape the details in the months ahead.”
Shared Care Scotland, Chief Executive, Don Williamson, said:
““Over recent years the Scottish Government has worked together with a range of interests to promote the vital contribution made by carers in Scotland, and to increase the levels of support available to help carers with their caring role. This is making a real difference in many areas but we all appreciate that more must be done to ensure carers can rely on consistent availability of support across the country. We therefore warmly welcome the Scottish Government’s commitment today to build on the progress that has been made, and to consult on further ways carers can be supported, and their own health protected, through new duties and legislation.”
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GET OUT! March 18 to 20
Openings and closings all over the place this weekend. You’ve even got a couple of videos to entreat your interest for the two new shows which are both designed to delight and provoke:
“TARTUFFE” opens tonight at Melbourne Civic Theatre. Although Moliere wrote this in 1664, it remains one of the funniest comedies you’ll find. It concerns the pious Tartuffe and his exploitation of a gullible family. What a perfect comedy for this political season. It runs through April 24 at MCT, 817 E. Strawbridge Ave., Melbourne. Tickets are general and for students, seniors and military. Credit card purchases add . Call 321-723-6935, visit MyMCT.org or better yet, show MCT you appreciate their support of Brevard Culture by clicking onto their ad on the right side of this page.
Here’s a little video the funny folks at MCT created to whet your appetite for “Tartuffe”…
Richard Renaldi’s “Tari, Shawn, and Summer, Los Angeles, CA, 2012.” from his ‘Touching Strangers’ series. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“TOUCHING STRANGERS” photo exhibition opens Saturday at Florida Tech’s Foosaner Art Museum. Yes, I know this is not a theatrical production, but the show should have plenty of drama and I urge you to see it. The exhibit comes from Richard Renaldi’s series for which the the photographer asked strangers to pose together in close physical proximity. To see a video about the exhibition and/or to read more click here. The Foosaner is at 1463 Highland Ave., Melbourne. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Free admission to the galleries. Call 321-674-8916, visit FoosanerArtMuseum.org or better yet, show the Foosaner you appreciate their support of Brevard Culture by clicking onto their ad on the right side of this page.
CLOSING THIS WEEKEND
“NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT” closes Sunday at the Henegar Center. This is a most fun show with great choreography and super performances. Read more by clicking here. , 625 E. New Haven Ave., Melbourne. Tickets are $16 to $26. Call 321-723-8698, visit Henegar.org or better yet, show the Henegar you appreciate their support of Brevard Culture by clicking onto their ad on the right side of this page.
“Nice Work If You Can Get It” at the Henegar Center. Photo by Dana Niemeier
“SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN” closes Sunday at Titusville Playhouse. To read about how the theater actually gets it to rain all over the stage, click here. Titusville Playhouse, 301 Julia St., Titusville, FL. It performs 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. $20 to $26. Call 321-268-1125, visit TitusvillePlayhouse.com or better yet, show TPI you appreciate their support of Brevard Culture by clicking onto their ad on the right side of this page.
“THE WHO’S TOMMY” closes Sunday at Surfside Playhouse. Read Brevard Culture’s review by clicking here. Surfside Playhouse is at 301 Ramp Road (5th Street and Brevard Ave.) in Cocoa Beach. Tickets are $17 to $22. Call 321-783-3127 or visit SurfsidePlayers.com.
THIS WEEKEND ONLY
LONGFORM SHOW with the Not Quite Right Players take adventurous audiences on one long, totally improvised play 8 p.m. Saturday at the Derek Gores Gallery, 587 W. Eau Gallie Blvd., Melbourne, FL. Tickets are $11.54 and available on line by clicking here. These shows typically sell out.
“ROCKETS & ROBOTS” exhibition has its opening 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday night. The show continues its run through April at Rocket City Retro in Cocoa. Read more by clicking here. Rocket City Retro is at 116 Forrest Ave., Cocoa. Admission is free. Regular hours are 11 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call 321-446-0129 or visit RocketCityRetroFl.com.
Photo by Chris Kridler
ONE MORE WEEK
Michele Ragusa and Adam Heller in Riverside Theatre’s production of “Hello, Dolly!”
“HELLO DOLLY!” is having a triumphant run at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach. This thoroughly professional production is nothing less than Broadway quality. Read my review by clicking here. The show runs through March 27. Riverside Theatre is at 3250 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, FL. It performs Tuesdays through Sundays with matinees on Wednesdays, select Thursdays and weekends. Tickets begin at $35. Call 772-231-6990, visit RiversideTheatre.com or better yet, show Riverside you appreciate their support of Brevard Culture by clicking onto their ad on the right side of this page.
“SUGAR” is charming audiences at Cocoa Village Playhouse. Read the review by clicking here. The Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse, 300 Brevard Ave., Cocoa. Tickets are $16 to $24. Call 321-636-5050 or visit CocoaVillagePlayhouse.com.
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From IMPRINTS: THOSE MADE / LEFT BEHIND by David Wallace
REIMAGINED: INNOVATIONS IN FIBER ART by Alex Trimino and Carrie Sieh runs through May 7 at the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts. This is a vivid, fun, engaging exhibit filled with color and, as the title suggests — imagination. This is a real treat. Free admission. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. The Funk Center is on the campus of Florida Tech, 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne. Call 321-674-8313 or click here.
IMPRINTS: THOSE MADE / LEFT BEHIND by photographer David Wallace exhibit focuses in part on his love of Paris. The exhibit runs through March 27 at the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, 1470 Highland Ave., Melbourne. Call 321-259-8261 or visit FifthAvenueArtGallery.com.
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Composed of Marian Murray (violin), Neil O’Loghlen (double bass) and Han-earl Park (guitar), the Jitney Trio is a small-scale, real-time, improvised music ‘chamber’ ensemble. The members of the trio have performed in Canada, Denmark, Ireland, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA, and with some of the most influential improvisers including Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Dunmall, Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Buckner, Kato Hideki and Mark Sanders. The trio debuted in January 2010 with a four week residency at Basement Project Space (Cork), and performed a double bill with Quiet Music Ensemble in March 2010.
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MA South Leave Their Mark
Seacoast United MA South sent 25 teams and almost 350 young players to participate in the Columbus Day Invitational. Players, coaches and families hailing from the South Shore and Boston region got to enjoy the beautiful fall weather and were able to spend time, both on and off the field, taking in all of the sights across New Hampshire.
Achieving incredible success, MA South had 7 finalists and 4 eventual Champions. The 07 Boys Elite, coached by Martin Doherty, led the way by winning the Premiership Bracket. "The boys got to play in four outstanding games and although a little nervous, we found a way to beat a very good Rhode Island Surf Team in the final", stated Doherty.
Other Champions' included the 07 MA Girls Elite, who overcame SUSC NH DPL Girls, 2-0. Two teams from the south shore celebrated victories, the 08 Boys, along with the 09 Boys, Pre-Elite. The finalists were rounded out by the 2010 Boston Girls Elite, who competed in the Premiership Bracket, 2009 Boston Girls Elite and the 2008 South Shore Girls Premier.
Technical Director, Rob Jones was beaming when he said, "Every one of our teams did us proud. To have 7 teams progress to the finals and 4 eventual champions shows how far our club has come in a short space of time. More importantly, our players and families represented the club extremely well.” Jones went on to say, “Huge thanks goes out to Chris Scott and the entire tournament team for putting on such a competitive, safe and fun event for all of the players"
All MA South teams will get back to their regular schedule next week, including our 09 Boys, who will represent the club in the Boys Pre-Academy League. Keep following Seacoast United Massachusetts on social media for the most up to date club news.
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Making Babies, Making Families
What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' RIghts
Author: Mary L. Shanley
Thanks to new reproductive technologies and new ways of forming families, the world of parenting is opening up as never before. What defines a legal family? Should there be any restrictions on buying and selling eggs and sperm, or hiring "surrogate mothers"? How many parents can a child have?
While there's no going back to the traditional family, Mary Lyndon Shanley shows us that we don't have to live in moral chaos. She offers a new vision of family law that puts each child's right to be cared for at its center, while also taking into account the complex needs of every family member.
"If you want to consider all sides of the thorniest issues affecting creation of a parent-child relationship . . . you could read over a hundred books, essays, and law review articles. Or you could read this book."
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"Critically sophisticated yet readily accessible."
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"This distinctive and valuable contribution ensures that we protect the interests of children and other vulnerable people while sustaining the bonds of intimacy."
-Martha Minow, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness
"Making Babies, Making Families takes on all the hard questions . . . and with unflinching clear sight, carefully defined principles, and moral compassion creates a compelling basis for answers."
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Home Mission Parish Missions with First Nations people in Saskatoon
Parish Missions with First Nations people in Saskatoon
From left, Fr. Ciro Alfonso Perez, pastor of St. Mary’s Parish and director of the Redemptorists in Saskatoon, Gayle Weenie, First Nations elder and member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, and Fr. Graham Hill, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish
Many First Nations communities are facing an identity crisis,
says Fr. Graham Hill, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Catholic Parish which is a citywide congregation of First Nations and Métis.
(Saskatoon, Canada) – “The youth feel no sense of connection with either their culture or the faith of their parents,” he says. And it is because of this crisis that the Redemptorist Order, of which Hill is a part, has invited Megan McKenna, theologian, storyteller, and spiritual writer and lecturer, to do a series of workshops at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish on sharing the faith and handing on tradition.
Says Fr. Ciro Alfonso Perez, pastor of St. Mary’s and director of the Redemptorists in Saskatoon, “The mission of Redemptorists is to preach the Gospel in obedience to Jesus’ directive to go and make disciples and teach them. We find new ways to connect with people, and Megan McKenna does that. She uses the First Nations tradition of storytelling to present the message of the Gospel.”
McKenna will conduct several workshops and preach at a number of masses in Saskatoon. All events are taking place at St. Mary’s Parish Hall located at 211 Avenue O South. Everyone is welcome to attend.
On Friday, McKenna spoke to the young people of St. Mary’s.
She will preach at the 7 p.m. mass at St. Mary’s tonight, and all the masses there on Sunday. She will also speak before morning masses from Monday to Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.
McKenna’s first workshop, Elders Story Telling Circle, on March 31 at 7 p.m., is directed at elders and those interested in that role.
On April 1, at 10 a.m., she will address Handing on the Tradition, sharing traditions and faith from elders to youth. At 2 p.m. she will present a workshop on Creating Your Own Story, explicitly identifying who you are.
On April 2, McKenna will preach at Our Lady of Guadalupe’s 1 p.m. Mass, followed by a short presentation on Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patron of the Americas.
Gayle Weenie, a First Nations elder and member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, believes McKenna’s workshops will be helpful in reminding First Nations people of who they uniquely are. She says retaining language, spirituality, traditions and culture are a start.
According to Weenie, First Nations languages have been introduced in the school systems, but are competing for attention with television and electronics.
“Often the language isn’t spoken at home any more. Maybe the grandparents speak it, but they’re back home on the reserve,” she says.
“And as for spirituality, when I was growing up, the government didn’t allow us to practise our spirituality. It mostly went underground, and survived because of a few people who kept the traditions alive. Now we’re getting our young people educated and our pow wows are coming back.
“Some of our people have maintained a hold on the traditions and are trying to pass them on, but nothing is written down. Our culture is an oral tradition, learned by listening to the elders, and many of our elders have passed on.”
Under the guidance of elders and the bishop, Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish is intentionally incorporating elements of Native spirituality in its masses.
The mass begins with a smudge. The smoke from burning sage is fanned toward the person to bless mind, body and spirit in preparation for hearing the Word of Creator God.
“We incorporate the star blanket in the collection of offerings. The star blanket is given as a gift to others to honour them,” Weenie says. “We go to the front and place our gifts on the blanket to honour the Creator and the church. It is much more personal than passing a basket.”
The Great Amen is accompanied by the drum, a sacred way of praying in First Nations culture. The prayer begins facing east, turns to the south which represents the Father, west to the Son, and ends facing north symbolizing the Holy Spirit.
“The exchange of peace at the end of the mass is more than a nod or a wave,” Weenie says. “First Nations generally greet you with a handshake. It’s more personal, and the exchange of peace conveys a notion of visiting.”
Hill grieves the loss of identity of First Nations people. “The government has been complicit in the past stealing First Nations identity, language and culture — both as Aboriginals and as Christians,” he says. “When we lose the sense of who we are, external influences like consumerism, and consumption of drugs and alcohol fill in the gaps and lead to loss of hope and dignity. By handing over traditional wisdom, we’re hoping Megan McKenna can help us make a reconnection.”
(from: thestarphoenix.com)
Parish Mission: Making Disciples, with Megan McKenna (Theologian, Story Teller, Spiritual Writer and Lecturer)
Internationally recognized story teller Megan McKenna will lead St. Mary’s Parish in a series of workshops on making disciples.
Megan will be preaching at all of the weekend Masses on March 25/26. She will be preaching on the Gospel reading for the weekend.
The mission will start on March 24 and run through March 29. The mission schedule is as follows:
Friday, March 24 – 7:00pm Megan will meet with the youth group in the upper meeting room of St. Mary’s Parish Hall
Saturday, March 25 – Megan will preach at the 7:00pm Mass
Sunday, March 26 – Megan will preach at the 9:00am, 11:00am, and 4:00pm Masses at St. Mary’s Parish
Monday, March 27 – Wednesday, March 29 – Megan will present a short message each morning at 8:30am before Mass
Monday, March 27 – 7:00pm The Mission begins, in the church, with Megan’s presentation on the Woman at the Well
Tuesday, March 28 – 7:00pm The Mission continues in the church, with a presentation on “The Man Born Blind”
Wednesday, March 29 – 7:00pm The Mission concludes in the church, with Megan discussing “The Raising of Lazarus as Levels of Faith and Practice in the Community of Beloved Disciples”
Wednesday, March 29 – 8:30pm Mother of Perpetual Help Devotions
(from: https://stmaryssaskatoon.com/)
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Residence expiring in Sep ‘not covered’ in Nov – end permit extension
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 14: The Residency Affairs Departments have received instructions from the concerned authority to strictly apply the law on all expatriates whose residence permits have expired on Sept 1, 2020, reports Al-Anba daily quoting an informed security source. The source pointed out expatriates whose residence permits expired on Sept 1, 2020, will not benefit from the deadline of Nov 30, 2020, issued by the Ministry of Interior. The source added, the decision states only those whose residence permit expired from March until end of August 2020 can benefit from the Nov 30, deadline.
Those whose residence permits have expired from the beginning of September will have to pay two dinars fine for each day, unless they approach any of the Residence Affairs Department to obtain an extension. The source said there can be no justification for those whose residence permit expired after Sept 1, 2020 not to renew it. If such persons have not applied for renewal they will have to pay KD 2 fine for each day for staying in the country illegally especially since the Residence Affairs Departments began receiving visitors from the end of June 2020.
The source emphasized that those whose residence permits and visit visas expired before the end of August 2020 got automatic extension until the end of November 2020. The source emphasized these new instructions indicate that there is no intention to grant visitors and violators of residence law a new deadline after the current deadline expires at the end of Nov 30. The source emphasized those outside the country will continue to get automatic waiver of the 6 months stay outside the country provided they hold valid residence permit or their residence permit has been renewed online or by the sponsor
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The Great British Bake Off: Get a Pieful
Previously on The Great British Bake Off: Some hateful producers forced the Bakewells to make ice cream-based desserts on the hottest day of the year with two freezers completely non-functional. Diana apparently took Iain’s dessert out of the freezer and just left it sitting out, which naturally turned it into a Lake Alaska (courtesy: Sue). In a fit of pique, Iain binned it and was unceremoniously sent off by Paul and Mary.
I’m going to take it as a sign of the improving economy that we now have little enough to worry about that Bingate could actually blow up the internet. Because damn, that really went nuts on Twitter and beyond, didn’t it? People actually complained to the TV watchdog. What the hell is the watchdog going to do about a show that’s pre-filmed? Bring everyone back so they can redo the whole thing? And it just kept getting weirder, too—did you hear about what happened to Diana? Not long after episode four filmed, she fainted, hit her head on a table, and lost her senses of taste and smell. Can you imagine that? That’s got to be one of the worst types of torture for someone who likes to have anything to do with food. I think I’m going to add losing those two senses to my top list of horrifying freak things to worry about. Right up there with blindness. I didn’t even know hitting your head could do something like that. I’m sure some of the trollier types out there will chant: ‘Karma’s a bitch!’, I feel really badly for her. I think it was really shitty of her to take his dessert out of the freezer, leave it, and not at least have the grace to apologise (unless she did and we just didn’t see it, in which case, sorry, Diana, you’re ok with me), but I wouldn’t wish what happened to her on anybody. That sucks. And yet she’s remarkably blasé about it, which is pretty admirable.
Pies and tarts week, everyone. Also, we’re halfway through the bakeoff. And Diana’s off the show because of her accident. This does raise one issue: with Diana gone, couldn’t they bring Iain back to bring the numbers back up? Didn’t they do that once before? Or am I thinking of some other food show I watch? Pretty sure it was the Bakeoff, maybe two seasons ago. Anyway, everyone’s super sad that Diana’s gone. Martha misses her ‘grandma in the tent.’ But there’s no time to lose, it’s signature bake time: make a family-sized custard tart. And don’t bin it. They get to work.
Kate informs us that she loves custard tarts. Paul says that this is all about texture: crispy base and silky filling. Mary tells us you have to be really careful about putting the pastry in the tin, so it doesn’t get holes in it and let the custard leak out.
Norman is making a classic tarte au citron. Mmmm, one of my favourites. He promises he’s going to go risky tomorrow and apparently saving all of his risk for that. He rations it out, I guess.
Martha’s doing a pistachio, apricot, and honey tart. She’s not a fan of making pastry. I’m with her. Pastry’s a pain.
Nancy says pastry is her favourite. She’s making a chocolate pastry for her chocolate passion fruit tart. Paul notes that her tart tin is really shallow and worries about not getting much filling, once the pastry’s in there.
Kate is cooking down rhubarb for her rhubarb and custard tart. It’ll have a swirl of rhubarb compote through it, which sounds pretty lovely.
Luis is chopping up mango for his tart. VO explains that the Bakewells adding fruit to their custard are risking it not setting up properly. The judges stop by Luis’s table and hear he’s doing a tropical tart that sounds really nice.
Richard is poaching figs for his fig and orange tart, hoping the poaching will bring out the fig flavour a little more. Paul approves his plan.
Chetna is using rice in her tart. Uh, ok. Could be good, I guess. I’m waiting to see the face Paul makes when he hears about that, though.
Chilled pastry comes out of the fridges and is rolled out. Some Bakewells add extra flour while others cover it with clingfilm, which is generally the method I prefer, because then you don’t end up adding extra flour to the dough and possibly drying it out or toughening it. Kate’s goes into the tin really messily. Pastry is blind baked. Martha confesses she’s super nervous today, and she’s not sure why.
Pastry comes out of the ovens and is trimmed, with varying degrees of success. Norman’s is all ragged. Custards are poured into the cases veeeery carefully. Richard tries some of his leftover custard and seems pleased.
Timers go off and tarts come back out. Kate’s first and starts piping a spiral of rhubarb compote over the top before putting the tart back in to finish cooking. Luis’s looks perfect and Martha wonders aloud how he manages to do these amazing bakes every time. She doesn’t think her tart’s quite set enough but has no choice but to take it out. Some of Richard’s custard dribbled around the edge. Martha can’t get her tart out of the tin. Kate helps her, but it looks like a chunk of her crust came away. Norman dumps a HUGE amount of icing sugar over his tart. ‘Gives it a nice finish,’ he says blithely. Oh, Norman. It should be a nice light dusting, it shouldn’t look like a Christmas landscape as decorated by a kindergartener. Kate’s tart is finally done enough to come out of the oven. Last-minute decorations are applied and time is called.
Norman’s tarte au citron looks a mess, according to Paul. He’s not wrong. It looks really amateurish. Mary thinks it could have done with a little more baking.
Nancy’s chocolate passion fruit tart looks really fun, with a cute squiggle design across the top. It gets top marks.
Chetna’s rice custard with mangoes and raspberries has slightly undercooked rice. It looks beautiful, though.
Kate’s rhubarb and custard isn’t rhubarb-y enough. Good custard, though.
Richard’s fig and orange gets called out on the leakage by Mary and the orange doesn’t come through enough, disappointing Paul.
Martha’s pistachio, apricot, and honey needs a glaze, says Mary. It’s also underbaked. Soggy bottom alert! Paul doesn’t care for the flavour. He thinks the apricots are too tart.
Luis’s tropical tart has beautiful pastry and perfectly set custard. Paul loves it. Martha’s now crying. She interviews that it’s rough to have the judges hate something you’ve made. That’s a first for her, isn’t it? Chetna’s sad too. Nancy’s both pleased and relieved.
Mel is here to bring us our history lesson: wedding cakes of days of yore, including the 17th century bride pie. A food historian says that most of the ingredients are aphrodisiacs. One of those ingredients? Lamb testicles. Also, sweetbreads, ox cheek, and artichokes. There’s a lot going on in that pie. The historian shows off a multi-piece pie that looks really lovely and elaborate. Mel finds a glass ring in one piece that means she’ll be the next to wed. Lucky her!
Time for the technical: Paul’s mini pear pies. Except they’re not actually pies, they’re poached pears surrounded by a puff pastry spiral and then baked. Martha’s never done this, but Norman thinks this is really straightforward.
Paul says this is good for testing the Bakewells’ timing abilities. They need to poach a pear, let it cool, make the pastry, and then bake the pear.
The Bakewells have to make rough puff, which Richard’s never done. Don’t sweat it, Richard, it’s so easy I’m kicking myself for ever having bought puff pastry for topping pies and things. The VO says they need to be gentle, so the fat doesn’t melt and keep the pastry from making flaky layers. Pastry is folded and put in the fridge so the Bakewells can make the poaching syrup and peel the pears. Everyone’s really tense about poaching these pears, but I don’t really know what they’re so stressed about. Poaching fruit is fairly easy. They just have to be careful the pears aren’t too soft, or they’ll collapse. Pastry is retrieved, rolled out, and re-folded. The folding is what creates those puff-pastry layers. The Bakewells go back to staring at their pears. Luis takes his out and soon the others follow suit. Martha puts hers in the fridge to cool them faster. Pastry gets rolled out, with 30 minutes left, and cut into strips. The Bakewells coat the pears in syrup and start wrapping strips around them. Martha thinks this is strange, because it’s like she’s mummifying a pear. Richard thinks his pastry might be a bit too thick, but since he has no idea what these things are supposed to look like, he’s just going with it. Martha pops some of her pears in the oven, just so she has something to present. A few minutes later, the rest of them join. Others get theirs in and figure there’s no way these are going to be done. All the pastry’s drooped right off Richard’s.
With one minute left, the pears come out. Richard’s look terrible, poor man. Some of Chetna’s pastry sagged. Time is called and the pears are presented.
Paul and Mary come in and Paul makes that, ‘oh, it’s gonna be one of these days,’ noises. Norman’s pears are ok, but the pastry’s undercooked. Richard’s are a disaster. Luis’s needed more cooking time. Chetna’s are pretty good. Kate’s too, though the pear needed longer. Nancy’s could have used a few more minutes in the oven. Martha’s are great. Mary declares that hers show that it can be done. Ranking: Richard, Luis, Norman, Nancy, Kate, Chetna, Martha. Good girl, Martha, way to bring it back after that disappointing first round! She pinks up, she’s so pleased. Luis interviews that he’ll never wrap a piece of fruit in pastry again, that was so awful.
The next day, the hosts and judges confab. Nancy’s doing really well, and so is Kate, despite the lack of rhubarb. Norman’s in a bad spot, as is Richard.
And signature: make a three-tiered pie. Whaaaa? What a strange concept. Who would ever make a tiered pie? I feel like the producers are starting to run out of ideas. Or coming up with these challenges by choosing random words out of a hat.
Anyway, they get to work. Paul wants the pies to all link together somehow. The judges stop by Luis’s station first. He’s making four tiers, with pork, chicken, venison, and duck pies topped with fruit. Mary notes that he likes to go the extra mile.
Most of the Bakewells are making hot water crust pastry. Kate is filling hers with rhubarb, prune, and apple with pork. She says they take a while to cook, so she needs to get them going.
Martha’s doing a three little pigs theme: the bottom tier is chorizo, the middle pulled pork, and the top pork and apple. Mmmm. I do love me a pork pie. She’s also flavouring the hot water crust pastry. Nice touch. Paul likes the idea.
Norman’s making a three-course meal in a pie—venison and haggis, fish, and a passionfruit meringue. I’m having trouble marrying venison and haggis with passionfruit and meringue in my head, but maybe it could work. He’s called it the Pieful Tower. Heh. He’s making three different types of pastry, apparently.
Richard is making posh builder pies. Hee! Steak and ale, chicken, and pear and apple. Paul is a tiny bit skeptical about the sweet pie using hot water crust but seems willing to give it a go.
Pastry is rolled, pie tins lined. Nancy is hand-raising her pie. Damn. She’s making a trio of apple pies, two of which are sweet.
Chetna’s also making different pastries for every pie, and she’s making four pies. They’re all inspired by Indian flavours. She promises Mary they won’t be spicy, but they will have lots of flavour. Bakewells start putting filling in their pies. Mel asks Norman to address the haggis with a bit of Burns. He obliges. Pies start going into the ovens. Martha’s biggest one barely fits. The Bakewells get started on other pies. Richard says he’s just ‘knocking up’ his last pie, and then laughs and corrects that he’s ‘lovingly crafting’ his final pie. Nancy borrows his omnipresent builder’s pencil for a sec. Martha layers pulled pork and sweet potatoes in her pie and pops it in the oven. Nancy admires Richard’s apple, pear, and frangipane pie. Norman’s working on his meringue. Sue tries it and comments that you can really taste the lavender in it. Judging from her face, that’s not a compliment.
Martha unmolds one of her pies and it starts leaking a stream of liquid. She decides to put it back in the oven for a little bit.
With just a few minutes left, they start stacking and decorating the pies. Martha’s leaker now has burnt fat around the edges. Oh dear. I hope it tastes really good. She laughs that Paul’s not going to be really impressed with this one. Pies are stacked. Luis’s fall over, but it looks like they survive. That’s some sturdy pastry. Time is called. Everyone looks done in.
Kate’s rhubarb, prune, and apple pork pies look good, have a good colour, and a nice bake. Paul likes them. Mary compliments the super crisp pastry.
Richard’s three course autumn pie feast is a tiny bit burnt. Mary tells him he’s at least been consistent—all three are overdone. The frangipane didn’t properly caramelize, but the rest of it is good.
Chetna’s tiered pies look beautiful and are wonderfully decorated. Good pastry, lots of flavour.
Luis’s four fruity seasons look great and hold together beautifully. Mary says the pastry’s too thick, though.
Nancy’s trip of apple pies get brownie points for not using a tin. Paul likes the flavours but finds the pies dry inside.
Norman’s pieful tower has underbaked pastry and the meringue pie is weeping all over the place. Paul hates the lavender in the meringue. I don’t know why the heck Norman thought lavender would go with passionfruit. I like lavender, and I like passionfruit, but those two don’t marry well at all. His haggis pie is too crumbly.
Martha’s three little pigs look ok (except for the burning on the bottom one). Mary likes the paprika in the crust of the bottom one. The top one needed just a little more cooking. Middle layer is great.
Judgment time. The judges chat. Nancy’s done well, as has Kate. Richard had a lousy week, and so did Norman. It’s Norman’s week to go, I think we all know it. He’s been underperforming pretty much since this thing started. Sue wonders if, with Diana out sick, anyone should go. Oh, so Diana’s still technically on the show?
The judges head back into the tent and name the star baker: Kate! And we’ll be bidding farewell to Norman. Yeah, it was time. He seemed a cool guy, but it was time. Richard realizes he just had a narrow escape. Martha can’t believe she survived pastry. Kate interviews that Luis said that no southerner should ever win pie week, and here she is to prove him wrong. Do they not do pie down south? That seems an odd thing to say.
EditorBee September 4, 2014 Mary Berry, pastry, Paul Hollywood, pie
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Cards Against Humanity is an Entertaining Adult Game
by MAngelides | Dec 31, 2016 | Reviews | 0 comments
Cards Against Humanity is unlike any other game on the market. Made by adults with a sense of humor for adults with a sense of humor, this game is an event in itself. The game lets players unleash their darker side in a battle of wits and fun. It has an emphasis on pushing your limits and allows you to make the game as fun as you want it to be.
CAH is easy to learn, easy to set up and can be played almost anywhere. The key to the game is you and your sharp, tactical wit. You can play at parties, on the move, or anywhere you want as the pack is small and portable.
Critical Reception
As well as being one of the most popular games ever sold, it also has the honor of being one of the most talked about. It has rave reviews on Amazon and is in the top five best sellers list. More than 30,000 reviews and five star ratings it is continuing to grow at a startling rate.
This is a controversial game with both critics and fans. Fans love the game, while critics are shocked at the fans. This game is not only fun, but special in ways no other game can be.
Make the best combinations you can.
Cards Against Humanity take literally only a couple of minutes to learn. Each player is given ten white cards. The cards have a simple word or phrase that might be odd, funny or vague. Then the “Card Czar” reads out a black card that is either a question or a “fill the blank” statement. The player that chooses the funniest combination of black and white cards is the winner of that hand.
The funniest card is chosen by the Card Czar and this role rotates so everyone gets a chance to have a go. You win by making the funniest combo so test your own comedic skills in each round. You play for however many rounds you want (depending on player numbers) and the player who has made the most amount of “best-combos” wins! Or set your own rule for winning as the game is fun and flexible.
The game is very flexible and you can decide to change some or even all of the rules. You and the other players can choose to include your own “House Rules’. For example, players can democratically choose the winning card for each round. Or you can give points for first, second and third place. You can even trade points for new cards. many players add their own little “twists” to the rules to make it suit their group better, and you can, too.
Variants on Cards Against Humanity
You can get Cards Against Humanity in various box designs and travel pack formats. There are also a range of expansion packs available that have new questions. So the games will keep on being fun and new.
CAH also has a massive online community. Players can suggest new cards to include in the next edition, tell you about their best combinations, and even download cards to print yourself. Cards Against Humanity is also available in different country editions such as UK and US.
Why is this Game So Unique?
What makes this game so special is that the input and game play comes entirely from the players. Each new game will be completely different. As you play, you start to push your boundaries, getting funnier and more daring with each turn. No other game gives you the opportunity to use your wits so quickly and readily.
The designers of this game (a group of eight friends), not only put their humor into it, but also a vision. While most modern games are electronic and expensive, this is a simple back to basics game that has swept the world.
A event in itself.
An Event in Itself
The reason that Cards Against Humanity is so wildly popular is that people the world over are having “Card Parties”. The game is now the point of the party. People invite their friends over to have a few drinks, some snacks and to match wits in healthy, riotous fun. It guarantees that any party will be huge fun and your guests will love it. The more you play, the more your guests get more daring and inventive. It works well with old friends or as an ice-breaker with new people.
Related: Interested in more games for adults? Check our our Best Board Games For Adults Buyers Guide And Reviews
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COOKE, William (by 1507-58), of London.
NEW WOODSTOCK
Oct. 1553
b. by 1507. educ. fellow, All Souls, Oxf. 1525-40, BCL 18 Feb. 1528, DCL 11 Oct. 1536; adv. Doctors’ Commons 15 Oct. 1537. m. disp. 21 Apr. 1541, Mary, da. of William Wild of London, 2s.1
Law dean, Oxf. 1528-9, principal, Hinxsey Hall 28 Feb. 1531-June 1534; moderator, civil law sch. Oxf. 1537; dean of the arches 1545-9; master, prerogative ct. of Canterbury 13 Jan. 1547-d.; commr. of Admiralty in Nov. 1547, heresies 1549, 1552, 1557, eccles. laws 1552; master, Chancery by Oct. 1550; receiver of petitions in the Lords, Parlt. of Mar. 1553; judge, ct. Admiralty Aug. 1553-d.; master, Ilford hospital, Essex in 1558.2
William Cooke’s origins are unknown although it is possible that he may have been related to John Cocks of All Souls who died in 1546, having held several offices which were also to be held by Cooke and naming Cooke as an executor of his will. He did not, however, describe Cooke as a kinsman but only as a friend so that the connexion may, after all, have been no more than a professional one. Whatever the connexion, the Member’s career probably owed something to Cocks and almost certainly more to (Sir) William Petre, another civil lawyer from All Souls, whom Cocks asked to assist his executors and whom Cooke was to mention in his own will, ‘desiring him to be an aid and as good to my wife and children as he was to me being alive’.3
Petre had been suggested for appointment as dean of the arches in November 1535 and John Cocks held the office before Cooke. With regard to another of Cooke’s offices, there was some question whether the mastership of the prerogative court of Canterbury could properly be held by a layman and Cardinal Pole felt it necessary to absolve Cooke on 8 Feb. 1556 for having used ecclesiastical authority; but because ‘there cannot easily be found ecclesiastical persons who are skilful in the law’ he allowed him to continue in office, giving him power to obtain clerical assistance. After Cooke’s death, the dean and chapter protested when Walter Haddon was appointed master and asked that a cleric should be joined with him to give ‘the censures of the Church’; the Council replied that Haddon had agreed to have a cleric always present with him and ordered them to be content with this, ‘considering Doctor Cooke, being a mere layman, had it in like sort’. As a prominent civil lawyer, Cooke served on a number of commissions, notably on those against heresies under both Edward VI and Mary, service which may justify the description of him as ‘a right temporizer’. When John Philpot asked to be treated by the Marian commission as a gentleman, it was Cooke who told him, ‘A heretic is no gentleman: for he is a gentleman that hath gentle conditions’.4
Cooke was a receiver of petitions in the Lords in the Parliament of March 1553, and his later return to Parliament for New Woodstock and Portsmouth was probably due to his official standing (especially at Portsmouth as a judge of the Admiralty) and his aggressive Catholicism. His name was added in a different hand to the Portsmouth indenture. He did, however, have at least one possible link through John Cocks with the Chamberlain family, patrons at New Woodstock. Cocks named one of the Welsborne family in his will and the widow of (Sir) John Welsborne married Edward Chamberlain II of Astley, Warwickshire. Moreover, Cocks was born at Westcott Barton, six miles from Woodstock, and another of Cooke’s circle, Edward Napper, had settled in Oxfordshire, so that there may well have been other connexions. It may also be significant that Sir Leonard Chamberlain himself sat in the Parliament of October 1553 for Scarborough where his fellow-Member was the civilian Sir John Tregonwell. When Cooke sat for Portsmouth in April 1554, the Member for New Woodstock, William Johnson I, was perhaps the ex-paymaster of the works at Portsmouth, and it is possible that Cooke had a hand in his return.5
Cooke made his will on 10 Oct. 1556, providing for his sons, remembering Edward Napper and Sir William Petre among others, and naming his wife residuary legatee and sole executrix. He died on 25 Aug. 1558, when his elder son was 14, and was buried with great pomp on the 28th in the church of St. Gregory. His widow later erected a small tablet to his memory there, describing him as second to none in civil law.6
Author: Patricia Hyde
1. Date of birth estimated from first appointment. Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, p. 127; C. Coote, Civilians, 34; D. G. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 147; Fac. Off. Reg. 1534-49, ed. Chambers, 212; PCC 6 Welles; C142/118/77.
2. Oxf. Univ. Arch. T/S cal. chancellor’s ct. reg. EEE, pp. 212, 299; Antiqs. Oxf. i (Oxf. Hist. Soc. xv), 603; CPR, 1548-9, p. 406; 1549-51, p. 346; 1550-3, pp. 354-5; 1553-4, p. 262; 1555-7, pp. 281-2; 1557-8, p. 446; PPC Wills 1383-1558, i (Brit. Rec. Soc. x), p. xxii; LJ, i. 430; HCA 14/2.
3. Al. Ox. 296; PCC 7 Alen.
4. PCC Wills 1383-1558, i, p. xxv; APC, vii. 30-31; Strype, Eccles. Memorials, iii(2), 116; Foxe, Acts and Mons. vii. 610.
5. C219/22/76; A. E. Preston, Abingdon, 73, 295.
6. PCC 6 Welles; F. G. Emmison, Tudor Sec. 154, 279; C142/118/77; Machyn’s Diary (Cam. Soc. xlii), 172, 187, 365; Stow’s Surv. London (1618), 702.
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Jessica Chastain Buys Leonard Bernstein’s Former NYC Roost
by Jaime G · March 14, 2015
TruliaThe four-bedroom, 3,200-square-foot apartment on 57th Street was once home to conductor Leonard Bernstein.
Movie fans and theater nerds will love this: Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain has dropped $ 5.1 million on an apartment where maestro Leonard Bernstein lived for about a decade, and it’s across from Carnegie Hall.
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The New York Post is reporting that Chastain, a Julliard-trained actress, has bought the classic nine-room, four-bedroom co-op on Manhattan’s 57th Street under a private trust with Italian boyfriend Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, a fashion executive who also reportedly is a count. Chastain twice has been nominated for an Oscar, as a leading actress in 2012’s “Zero Dark Thirty” and as a supporting actress in 2011’s “The Help.”
As for Bernstein, to watch him at work was like witnessing a miracle, seeing how with just a flick of a wrist or shrug of one shoulder, he could wrest the best from an orchestra. The image of him preparing for performances in the apartment only adds to the aura of the Osborne building, which is steeped in show business history. Bernstein lived there for about 10 years during the time he worked with Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim on “West Side Story,” which opened on Broadway in 1958. Other famous residents of apartment 4B were “F Troop” actor Larry Storch, café singer Bobby Short and most recently, Adam Guettel, the Tony-winning composer of “The Light in the Piazza” and a grandson of Richard Rodgers.
More about the 3,200-square-foot duplex apartment. It features:
Tiger-oak floors
Hand-carved mahogany doors
14-foot ceilings
Five ornate fireplaces
Original Lalique glass pane on the library door.
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Reconnecting with the Helmet Range
On Wednesday 27th of April a group of brave intrepid adventurers traversed the Helmet Range in order to establish a safe and reliable access to the property before future works are to commence. This group forms the collaborative partnership between the Gugin Guddaba Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC), North Coast Local Land Services (LLS), Employment and Training Company (ETC) and NCC Firesticks. The partnership aims to support implementation of cultural burning and environmental restoration on the LALC properties.
The clouds lifted and revealed the view of the valley from the Helmet.
The Gugin Guddaba LALC lands are located north of Kyogle and east of Wiangaree township. There is no easy way to access the property and in effect the Gugin Guddaba lands are like an island that emerge out of the sea of farms that surround it. The neighbours on the north and southern slopes were approached about the proposed project and they are all very interested to help with best access to support the proposed works.
The main ridge line on the Helmet is covered with native grasses such as themeda and native sorghum; waypoints are marked by John Nagle (LLS) and Richard Brittingham (Firesticks Project Coordinator) to create a map of the path traversed over the Helmet.
The Helmet Range sits within the Aboriginal cultural landscape of the upper Richmond Valley. There are many special places within the landscape that are important to local Aboriginal people. It is exciting that this piece of land has been returned to the Gugin Guddaba LALC, and that it will now have an opportunity to be managed in an appropriate and culturally sensitive manner.
Andrew Johnston from Gudgin Guddaba LALC inspects the vegetation on the Helmet; Invasive weeds such as Crofton and Lantana are degrading the Eastern Bristle Bird Habitat
During a biodiversity assessment ecologists observed the presence of the critically endangered Eastern Bristlebird (EBB) on the Helmet Range as the range provides the necessary habitat required for the endangered EBB. The proposed program of works aims to enhance the habitat of the EBB by removing invasive weeds such as Crofton Weed and Lantana that are encroaching on the grassy wooded ridgelines. This will inform the focus of the a work team to specific key management areas that need to be restored for the EBB and other threatened species reliant on the grassy understorey.
The ridgeline is grassy and narrow along the Helmet.
Now that access has been established, that hard work of organising the movement of equipment and personnel to the work area may begin. More exciting stories from The Helmet Range coming soon.
Andrew Johnston from Gugin Guddaba LALC inspects a potential scar tree on the northern end of the Helmet; native orchids growing on the Helmet.
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Years after the housing bubble burst, residents in the Sunshine State. trying to settle down, trying to make a living, trying to buy what they were told. zone, become super-specialised in their field, it is still causing problems.
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Florida was leveled by the housing bust, but now is back on top. One of the problems for New orleans' economy 12 years after Hurricane Katrina. Population there is still 18% below pre-storm levels.. But there are pockets of Florida's economy that are struggling, particularly the signature citrus industry.
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10 Cities Where the Housing Crash Still looms largest. ten years after the mortgage meltdown, only 3.4% of the homes in the Riverside/San. The worst 10 markets, listed below, have either struggled economically or had.
It was the first housing program for female veterans in the nation. Patti, an Army veteran, moved into the Athena House a.
Some are still. housing – further complicating things when the number of livable units dropped precipitously after the hurricane struck, just as the number of people seeking shelter spiked. McQueen.
The median price in January, at $247,500, was still up 2.8% from a year earlier, The market can fix that when sellers are motivated enough to make deals and cut. housing bubble 2.0 pops!.. Wolf, is there any data to suggest prices in FL and TX are weathering the downturn better than other areas?
But plenty of markets are still struggling to recover their lost value. Homes in Las Vegas, which have seen some of the steepest gains in the country over the past year, remain 16 percent below.
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The Quest for 100 Steals: Can Carl Crawford or Anyone Else Do It?
Published by Joe Mikolai on June 16, 2009
If you've read my first two articles, "The Stolen Base: A Lost Art. Will we ever see a 100 Steal Man Again?" and "Gimmie Five! Dexter "The Prowler" Fowler Steals Five Bases in a Game," then you know I am a fan of the stolen base and its return to baseball prominence.
In short, I'd rather see a single player steal four bags a game than hit four home runs, and I've advocated the return of the 100-steal man.
I was fooled into thinking Emilio Bonifacio would be the man to do it, but he fizzled a few weeks into the season following a promising start.
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KENYA’S NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM: WHEN WILL THE STARS SHINE?
Dennis Oliech: 'had quit after disagreements with Football Kenya Federation (FKF)'
For how long will we remain disappointed? This is a question most Kenyan local football fans are asking themselves. Year in year out the national team is backed hugely by the fans only to keep on breaking their hearts.
Last weekend fans were left disappointed as Kenya’s ‘Stars’ were held to a dispiriting barren draw by the Flames of Malawi in their opening Group F World Cup qualifier match at Moi International Centre, Kasarani. Now they face Namibia at Windhoek in a must win match if they are to have any chances of topping the group.
After last Saturday’s performance, the fans’ loss of faith in the national team was confirmed for this World Cup campaign as they already had their doubts especially given the drama and confusion that was going on in the team.
Team captain Dennis Oliech had quit after disagreements with Football Kenya Federation (FKF) over image rights only to come back to the team late. Again there were issues with players delayed allowances. Some concerns were also raised over the team selection as some claimed that Kenya’s team coach Kimanzi was selecting his ‘friends’.
Kenya’s long-suffering football fans will continue singing the ‘get your act together’ song until we see our stars shining.
EURO 2012 EXCITEMENT
After a “long” break from football – well it has been a month since the English Premier League ended! – and a disappointing
Euro 2012: Poland v Greece ended in a 1-1 draw
performance by our very own, attention has now turned to the Euro 2012 competition in Poland and Ukraine where the best of the best face each other fighting for the coveted trophy.
This is one of the tournaments that one cannot pick underdogs as almost all the teams are the ‘teams to watch’ and there’s
almost as much interest in the tournament here in Kenya with the topic already trending on twitter, as there is in Europe. Poland played Greece last night to kick off the tournament, the match ending 1-1.
A tournament with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Robin Van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Eden Hazard, Frank Ribery, Wesley Sneider along with other big names surely is going to be exciting.
Until Kenya’s national football team (and their management) get their act together and even look like they might qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations or the World Cup then the nation’s football fans will continue to turn their attention to the action on the pitch on another continent.
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This just may make you laugh too hard.
This version of Jackass isn't like the others. Usually they do pranks or just even randomly do stupid stuff that is sure to make you laugh. Bad Grandma is its own unique take. It has more of a story to it. They do things that are not normal in front of other people, while the other people don't realize they are being filmed.
There are way too many scenes in this movie that will make you laugh louder the you have laughed before. As to not spoil any seconds of laughter, I shall not tell you a funny scene until below. This was good because there was a storyline. About a Grandpa taking his grandson across country to get him to his father. There is a emotion aspect to this movie, although you really won't feel anything because you know it's not real. The actor and stunts were really the star of the show. Enjoy seeing this movie as soon as you can so it doesn't get spoiled to you.
What was the funniest scene? (Spoilers)
The funniest scene that I know is sure to make everyone laugh, is when Grandpa (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy were in a restaurant and eating. They decided to do some farting. The faces the other patrons had were mildly funny, but then Grandpa decides to take it up a notch. He stands up to fart but then he ends up sharting. This was so priceless to see. Him and Billy decide to just run out, leaving it on the wall. It was way to funny, I could barely breathe.
Comment your funny scene below.
What would I have changed? (Spoilers)
Well they could have always added more scenes of comedy in the bit. It should have been two hours long, not just ninety minutes. Also remember to stay after the credits for an extra funny scene. You really don't want to miss it.
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Home GENERAL NEWS Nchelenge Tender Committee dissolved
Nchelenge Tender Committee dissolved
—The Nchelenge District Tender Board Committee has been dissolved with immediate effect.
Nchelenge District Commissioner (DC), Joseph Chisakula, announced the development during the first quarter District Development Coordinating Committee (DDCC) meeting held at the civic centre this morning.
“I wish to inform this August house that the District Tender Board Committee has been dissolved with immediate effect,” Mr Chisakula said.
The DC attributed the dissolution of the District Tender Board Committee to lack of transparency and the secretive manner in awarding of the contracts.
Mr Chisakula said time has come to work as a unit in order to foster development in the district and urged the Heads of Departments to work as a team.
The DC also urged the heads of government departments and the members of the Civil Society Organizations to help sensitize Nchelenge residents over the accessibility of the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) loans.
He said there is need to raise awareness of the people on how to access the CEEC loans in order to speed up the application process before the grace period elapses.
During the same meeting, the Nchelenge District Business Association (DBA) complained that it is not happy with the secretive manner in which the District Tender Board Committee awards contracts.
DBA Secretary, Felix Chileshe, told the meeting that the tender committee has always favoured outsiders when awarding contracts at the expense of local contractors.
Meanwhile, Earnest Musonda, a member of the planning subcommittee, blamed the awarding of contracts to the outsiders on lack of capacity to provide the required technical information by the local contractors.
Mr Musonda said the local contractors shun working with the technocrats when processing their bid documents and end up submitting inadequate information.
However, Nchelenge Member of Parliament (MP), Raymond Mpundu, disagreed with Mr Musonda and argued that the local contractors must be given a priority and consider outsiders as a last resort.
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Six Fantastic Destinations for Sports Fans
January 6, 2014 July 17, 2017 3 minute readby Ian Garstang
In Destinations, Experiences, Sports and Activities
The world is the sports fan’s playground. Such a wealth of destinations can make it difficult to choose where to go. The following six hot spots all provide excitement for everyone, from horse racing to downhill skiing; these luxurious locations captivate sports fans around the globe.
Le Mans 24 Hours, France
The world’s best known car races, the 24-Hours of Le Mans, has a reputation for speed, skill, and stamina (the three S’s). Organized and maintained by the Automobile Club of L’Ouest, it is a mainstay in the arena of car-racing, and a great destination for fans. Set in Circuit de la Sarthe, close to Le Mans, France, the race takes place annually on a temporary track. Around 45 cars from different categories begin the race… high-performance automobiles, staunch race-autos, to street-cars. The variety of vehicles defines the race with its eclectic array of classic to modern contestants. The car that wins covers the longest distance in the twenty-four hour period. Established in the spring of 1923, the race takes place each June and runs through the pastoral French country-side.
The Kentucky Derby, USA
When Colonel M. Lewis Clark, Jr. returned from Europe in 1872, he set out to establish a Jockey Club in Kentucky. The racetrack quickly became known as Churchill Downs, and excited fans came from all corners of the country to place their bets on their favorite horse. Originally the first Kentucky Derby was one and a half miles long, following the tradition of the Epsom Derby, then changed (in 1896) to one and a quarter miles, or two kilometers. A colt, by the name of Aristides, won the first race. Fifteen three-year-old horses raced before a crowd of approximately 10,000 fans, during the inaugural Derby. The jockey, Oliver Lewis went on to ride Aristides at the Belmont Stakes, finishing in second-place, later that same year.
Tour de France, France
In the Tour de France, cyclists complete their last three week circuit in Paris, France. Organized in 1903, the bike-race has taken place each year, except during World Wars I and II. Today’s teams are made up of racers from several counties, primarily UCI Pro-members.
National Rodeo Finals, USA
Each year, Las Vegas, Nevada gears up for the National Finals Rodeo in December. Controlled by the Prof. Rodeo Cowboys Association, the event is the premier rodeo in the USA. Sponsored by Wrangler Jeans, the ten-day championship is referred to as the National Finals. The NFR provides a platform for the country’s top-fifteen riders as they compete in several events for the world championship title.
Olympic Games, Brazil
An ancient Greek tradition, the contemporary Olympics have evolved into two week competitions that include both summer and winter games. Every other year scores of athletes from all continents compete for the bronze, silver, or gold medals in numerous athletic categories. The Summer and Winter Olympics alternate on even-numbered years; this scheduling allows different countries the opportunity to host the games.
Wimbledon Tennis Championship, UK
Tennis events happen all year round all over the world but for a ‘real’ experience you can’t beat Wimbledon. From the servings of strawberries and cream to the presence of the Royal Family just yards away from your seat Wimbledon has it all. Sadly that also includes rain but you will find it adds to the authentic British experience.
Just six of the best destinations for sports fans. With so many great locations, isn’t it time to get out there and play?
Tags: Auto racing, Churchill Downs, France, Kentucky Derby, Las Vegas, Le Mans, Le Mans 24 Hours, National Finals Rodeo / Category: Destinations, Experiences, Sports and Activities
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2018 JAMES WHITE AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2018 James White Award is:
“Two Worlds Apart” by Dustin Blair Steinacker
The winning story was selected by our judges: Anne Charnock, RJ Barker and Una McCormack.
Dustin wins £200 and “Two Worlds Apart” will be published in a future issue of Interzone.
In a very close decision, the judges also awarded a special commendation to:
“A Sip of Pombé” by Gustavo Bondoni
RJ Barker praised the winning story:
“A short story is a hard thing to write. You have to establish a a realistic and believable character in a very short space of time to carry it (sometimes I struggle to do this with a whole novel at hand). Then of course you have to tell a satisfying, and self-contained, story. An SFF short story is an even harder thing to write because you not only have to do all of the above but you have to establish a world with rules and structure and make the reader buy into it. ‘Two Worlds Apart’ does that brilliantly.
“Life springing up on a planet with no sun that just wanders the galaxy? Is that even possible or likely? Probably not, I reckon, when you start thinking about radiation and meteors and all that science stuff. But did I ever question it in this story? No. Not for a moment. It absolutely sold its premise and ideas and I flew through it with a real sense of wonder at the alien-ness of it all, it felt like something new – and that is a beautiful thing to happen. More than that, the story itself left me with a sense of hope and real feeling that in the end people are worthwhile and I think, in a time when the news cycle is increasingly grim, that’s an important message to be putting across. A worthy winner in among a set of stories that showed some real talent at work and were a pleasure to judge.”
And Anne Charnock added:
“A tightly written story with well-drawn characters, ‘Two Worlds Apart’ poses profound questions about what it is to be a species. Earth hopes to join a Consortium of species and, as a test, a group of human emissaries aided by a Consortium facilitator – an augmented insectoid – is attempting first contact with the Tarshach. The Tarshach face extinction, their energy resources close to depletion. But will they accept help? Why do the Tarshach repeatedly ask “What is expected of us?” A fascinating glimpse into the imagined cultural differences between intelligent species, the inevitability of good intentions lost in translation.”
Una McCormack had this to say about the runner-up, Gustavo Bondoni’s “A Sip of Pombé”:
“Our world at the moment seems to have turned inwards, away from the stars and the promise of the stars, becoming lost in divisions and threat. ‘A Sip of Pombé’, which concerns an illicit Ugandan mission to Mars, shows us how humanity can be audacious and strive towards a better future. It reminds us that if we are to have such a future, it must be found together. A fine story within an excellent set of short stories.”
Award administrator, Martin McGrath thanked those who supported this year’s competition.
“I would like to thank all the readers and the judging panel for their efforts in helping to deliver this year’s award. Thank you, as always, to the British Science Fiction Association and Interzone’s publisher Andy Cox for their continued support of the competition. Commiserations to the other entrants. With over 300 entries those who made it to the long list did well and those that made it to the final shortlist overcame very strong competition. We wish all those authors well with their future writing and hope to see stories from you all again.”
The other shortlisted stories in this year’s competition were:
“Imago” by Matthew Eeles
“Ms. Höffern Stays Abreast of the News” by Sarah Pauling
“My Fault” by Sarah Palmer
“The Big I Am” by E.M Faulds
The 2019 James White Award will open to entries in October 2019. Check the website or follow us on Twitter (@JamesWhiteAward) or on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/JamesWhiteAward/) to keep up-to-date with competition news.
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
Dimitri A.C. Ly September 3, 2011 Leave a Comment on Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
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In his book-length essay On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King compares horror fiction to our childhood fear of the boogeyman. Scary things, he explains, derive all their power from the unknown. As soon as we turn on the light or open the closet door, we strip the monster of our morbid imaginings and expose it for what it really is: a trapped pet, a jacket falling off its hanger, or, in the case of movies, a detailed but ultimately underwhelming digital construct.
Given its title, you’d figure the minds behind this remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark would pay closer attention to the principle. The film opens with Lord Blackwood (Garry McDonald) murdering his maid (Edwina Ritchard) while mumbling panicked apologies. Every corner of the room is drowning in shadows, from which mysterious whispers call out, luring the toothless man toward the hearth. It’s fantastically creepy, but then we get a glimpse of the tiny creatures taunting Blackwood, and the movie loses its edge.
This is not to say suspense is lacking when the Hirsts take over the Blackwood estate a century later. Our lead, Sally (Bailee Madison), has yet to celebrate her eleventh birthday, so the idea of any entity, big or small, threatening her life is enough to get our hearts pounding. Consider the bit in which she delves beneath her covers, crawling toward the foot of her bed. I love how the scene taps into universal childhood memories, but the fact we’ve already seen what lurks at the other end of the tunnel does lessen the effect.
Mind you, I understand the creators wanting to show off their clever concept early on. Director Troy Nixey and producer Guillermo del Toro have taken a 1973 TV movie about pocket-sized demons and turned it into a twisted fairy tale in which all the roles are reversed: the absentee mother (Abbe Homes), symbol of the peaceful old order, has a shrivelled walnut for a heart; the intrusive stepmother (Katie Holmes) turns out the heroine’s only ally; and the magical fairies feed on children’s marrow.
This interpretation of fairies existed before, of course, as the model predates Tinker Bell and Jack from Will and Grace by a few centuries. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark draws from Celtic folklore and olden traditions in the creation of its diminutive villains. It also adds a few twists of its own such as the notion that the critters need “a sacrifice to replenish their ranks”. The ominous tidbit pays off in the final shot, though the lead fairy’s design already provides an important clue.
Now, some of you may question the threat posed by a bunch of photosensitive Smurfs when the Hirsts can, at any time, move out of the house or, you know, flick a switch. That’s indeed where the movie falters. Much of the plot relies on Sally’s father, Alex (Guy Pearce), neglecting his charge to an almost criminal level, refusing to acknowledge her increasing anguish (not to mention the mutilation of one of his employees) and deciding he’d rather medicate his kid into a stupor than let his girlfriend take her to a motel for a few days.
I find myself more forgiving of Kim, who, as the notional stepmother, can’t make decisions for Sally. The woman starts off awkward and distant. She hands Sally a stuffed animal without explaining it’s a gift and later tells Alex she wasn’t ready for a child. However, we soon learn the complaint stems from her taking the responsibility very seriously. Kim would die for Sally, and that terrifies her just a bit. Katie Holmes does a solid job conveying these conflicting emotions, though she never convinced me that anyone of right mind would leave a little girl alone after she repeatedly hurt herself struggling in the dark.
In fairness, the film goes out of its way to discredit Sally in the eyes of her family. The child is on psychiatric medication. She’s got a history of emotional issues and just cause for feeling abandoned. Besides, who among us would move out of a house just because our ten-year-old is throwing temper tantrums? Using Gothic imagery and a saturated palette, Nixey captures to a T the isolation that comes with prepubescent existence. I particularly like the dinner party scene, in which Sally chases a fairy under the table and the grown-ups don’t bat an eye. Kids will be kids, they all think, and can we blame them?
If Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark shows us anything about the real world, it’s that adults and children live in separate realms. I find the idea of malevolent spirits exploiting this divide terrifying, but the monsters themselves don’t haunt me as much. In his essay Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King explains that we give our nightmares a name and shape in order to overcome the darkness within. Is it just me, or does that seem like the sort of thing one ought to save for the final act?
Tagged Bailee Madison, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo del Toro, Guy Pearce, Horror, Katie Holmes, Matthew Robbins, Monster
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The use and consequences of performance management and control systems: A study of a professional services firm
Beekes, W. A., Otley, D. T. & Ururuka, V., 2010, In : Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Research Executive Summary Series. 6, 10, p. 1-6 6 p.
The Use & Consequences of Performance Management & Control Systems : A Study of a Professional Services Firm.
Ururuka, V. O., 2007, (Unpublished) Lancaster: Lancaster University. 331 p.
Factors influencing quality threatening behaviour in a big four accounting firm
Beekes, W., Otley, D. & Ururuka, V., 3/07/2014, p. 1-39, 39 p.
Explaining Adverse Behavioural Impact of Performance Management Systems in a Professional Accounting Firm
Ururuka, V., Otley, D. T. & Beekes, W. A., 2009, Lancaster University: The Department of Accounting and Finance, (Accounting and Finance Working Paper Series).
Beekes, W. A., Otley, D. T. & Ururuka, V., 2007, In : CIMA Excellence in Leadership Series, Performance Management. 4, p. 28-31 4 p.
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It comes from the Himalayas - the Nepal region and it's spectacular because of this lush green foliage that it holds onto all year and these rather sensational clusters of flowers - pink to mauve to lilac. Cotton blue. Hydrangeas are another evergreen favorite. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Privacy Policy and So its very disappointing when hydrangeas dont bloom for a season. Many Hydrangea varieties develop lovely red to dark purple & mahogany fall color. Lacecap, oak leaf, and large-leafed hydrangeas bring diverse texture and form to the summer landscape. Like a hydrangea, it depends on the pH of the soil as to what colour you get, but in a lovely cool moist spot, protected from the hot afternoon sun, this would do really well. Can flower throughout the year in mild areas. Evergreen or Deciduous. Browse our flowers & plants selections and save today. 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Light shade (2) Shade (1) Sun (2) + Show more filters Soil type. The Bush in Blue Evergreen Hydrangea is small, the leaves are large, elongated, shoots are covered with a group of inflorescences having a lilac-purple color with a white middle. After making comparisons and testing all the different options we came up with the most accurate answer for the hint 'Evergreen bush'. The type of hydrangea bush that is probably the most familiar is the bigleaf hydrangea. Aug 3, 2020 - Explore jane legeay's board "Evergreen bush" on Pinterest. It's in the broad family of the hydrangea but it's different because it's an evergreen hydrangea. Plant database entry for Blue Evergreen Hydrangea (Hydrangea febrifuga) with 16 images and 31 data details. The ball-shaped flowers bloom from mid-spring to early fall and are blue, hot pink, white, or lavender. Sure you could be like everybody else and plant timid little meek girly shrubs like lilacs, burning bush, and viburnum. 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A long-time favorite in the South, hydrangeas are now available in many exciting cultivars more than capable of handling colder climates. It's a beautiful plant. Deciduous vine. Everything you need to know about choosing the right shrubby hydrangea for you. I was thinking of hydrangea, which is what a women at the nursery suggested. Jane profiles a gorgeous Himalayan native. The round flower buds form on the end of each stem and open as a dome of pink true flowers surrounded by white lacecaps. Hydrangea Shrubs. Leaves are deciduous or evergreen and vary from simple, opposite or in whorls of three, oval or toothed, smooth or serrated. Use these convenient icons to share this page on various social media platforms: Zone 9a -6.7 °C (20 °F) to -3.9 °C (25 °F). Grows about 2 metres high - quite tall - and if you've got a border of them with a mass growing of them, absolutely wonderful. Zones US, MS, LS; 9–1. It's a beautiful plant. The flowers, which arrive in early summer, tend to be bright blue to lavender in acidic soil and lilac to mauve in alkaline conditions. These beautifully blooming bushes are excellent garden plants due to the beautiful flowers. Endless Summer 2 Gal. Two of the main types of hydrangea … Boxwood. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Carry on browsing if youre happy with this or find out how to manage cookies. Evergreen shrubs and bushes, as the name suggests, are those which remain green throughout the year. This is the shrub that boasts large, globe-shaped flower heads in shades of purple, blue, pink or white.This hydrangea bush is known botanically as Hydrangea macrophylla. Hydrangea longifolia. Chinese Fringe Flower. It's not this one. The same with this - the Gold Dust plant. This is it - for something special -Dichroa. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google If you want something different in the garden it, always adds pleasure. A mainstay of foundation gardens for generations, Hydrangea has recently expanded its look to include so many new flowering possibilities! These hydrangeas climb up trellises, walls or trees, but can also be grown as shrubs. If you want something different in the garden it always adds pleasure. Plant hydrangeas in the spring after the frost, or … These are also the only hydrangea variety that form trees rather than bushes. Evergreen. Hydrangeas make beautiful focal points in the garden and require minimal care, other than pruning. IÂd like opinions / suggestions. It is an upright bush with very long pointed leaves, covered in fine hairs. Our range of Hydrangea plants also features reblooming varieties that flower on both old and new growth, to give you an abundance of colourful blooms all summer. Comes from the Himalayas - the Nepal region and it's spectacular because of this lush green foliage that it holds onto all year and these rather sensational clusters of flowers - pink to mauve to lilac. There are so many evergreen flowering shrubs to brighten up the garden - or container - that we have decided to aim out list at those evergreen shrubs that flower for long periods. They provide structure, all year interest, and being very easy to look after, are labour saving. It's called Dichroa (Dichroa febrifuga ). I say bold, because with leaves as big as your hand, this is not a shrub for the timid. Another example of pink hydrangeas a long a brick wall. The flowers turn green again as they age. Hydrangea serrata cultivars, prized for their exquisite delicate beauty, are similar to macrophylla but more slender in stature, typically with smaller flowers arranged in lacecap form. Common Name. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. Many new Hydrangea species, such as the Endless Summer and Everlasting series, rebloom throughout the summer and fall. I would like something that flowers, but an evergreen would be nice too. Viburnum flowering shrubs are an extremely popular shrub famous for their beautiful flowers and often have a pleasant scent. East (1) North (1) South (1) West (1) How much sun. The Evolution Of My Garden Living With Thanksgiving. In containers or in the ground, few plants give gardeners the same bang for their buck as the hydrangea. It’s the bold oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia). It's calledDichroa(Dichroa febrifuga). Burning Bush. Contact us and we will update if necessary Plants (2) Facing. Dress up your plant beds, borders and more with our Evergreen Shrubs for Sale. If that happens, it is probably one of three reasons. CLIMBING HYDRANGEA. 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Choose from easy to grow hydrangeas including popular lacecap and mopheads as well as unusual and exotic flowering plants.From delicate white flowers through to warm mauves and striking blues, these stunning plants can change colour depending on your soil. It's in the broad family of the hydrangea but it's different because it's an evergreen hydrangea. They produce large, magnificent flower clusters that put on a spectacular show in the garden during summer into fall. document.write(''); » Upload a photo» Post a comment» Add an event report, » Search the Hydrangeas Database: by characteristics or by cultivar name, « See the general plant entry for Hydrangeas (Hydrangea), © 1972 - 2020 National Gardening Association, Times are presented in US Central Standard Time, Today's site banner is by lauriemorningglory and is called "October Skies". Play. The Annabelle hydrangea (sometimes referred to as a snowball hydrangea) and the Chinese snowball viburnum (also known as the Chinese snowball bush) both check all the boxes, but they do have a number of factors that will differentiate one from the other. See more ideas about Planting flowers, Plants, Flower garden. Discover shrubby hydrangeas. Ever popular Hydrangeas are well known for the ability for their flowers to change colour, from pink through to blue, depending on the pH levels of your soil. Evergreen Climbing Hydrangea Information. Chaste Tree. Get involved. Acid (1) Heavy clay (1) Light sandy (1) Normal (2) Flowering month. Like a hydrangea, it depends on the pH of the soil as to what colour you get, but in a lovely cool moist spot, protected from the hot afternoon sun, this would do really well. The most popular variety of Euonymus is the Burning Bush, but there are many other evergreen types, including low and controlled options, as well as tall and upright. Short grasses can be used in front along the border of a hydrangea bed and taller ones can be used at the ends of a hydrangea border garden. If you are considering growing an evergreen climbing hydrangea, or just want more evergreen climbing hydrangea information, read on. Butterfly Bush. [Download] Evergreen Hydrangea Bush.
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The mobile apps listed below emerged from my work as a partner in creative firm Sea/Salt Ventures. Our team sought out entrepreneurs with big assumptions that needed MVP mobile apps to proceed, either to find equity partners or funding. Our model was built much like Y-combinator or other incubators, but we specialized in submitting new apps to the App Store in 3-6 weeks. We leaned heavily on Eric Ries' foundational book, "The Lean Startup" to built, measure and quickly learn about each product's assumptions.
To learn more about Solo, click here.
Split - It Pays to Share
Founded on the idea that it's better to share, Split leverages commissions offered by online retailers to help users "split the rewards." My team at Sea/Salt Ventures was retained to build V1 of this innovative concept. I conducted market research before we began sketching; aided in concept development and user experience design; conducted usability testing after the first prototype was completed; and developed the first version of the Split website.
Check out the Split website and get the Chrome Extension.
Download Split on the iOS App Store.
Madhat
Madhat emerged as the creative vision of entrepreneur Cory Burr. The original concept was inspired by Snapchat. Stickers and doodles, by Corey's estimation, could only be improved with animation. Through early explorations of the technology, Sea/Salt Ventures partner Kyle Truscott discovered a solution that could play back doodles with a lightweight user interaction. This MVP product was submitted to the App Store in just 4 weeks. For the Madhat team, I provided market research, competitive analysis and product release / marketing plans. Additionally, I participated in ideation sessions, including UX sketching; I assisted in user research and usability testing of the product; and participated in the QA process before release.
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Opedia
Everyone has an opinion, right? The idea for Opedia emerged as a platform for people to express their opinions. The trick was developing something fast and easy-to-consume. Reading a long argument was not in the cards, so the Opedia team embraced the hashtag. Users could create cards on any topic and, with it, assign a hashtag. This pairing represented an opinion. Portland is #toohipster. Kim Kardashian is a #marketinggenious. For those out of the loop, Opedia could also serve as a source of news with linked stories. By counting the number of votes (and giving them a score that decayed over time) we could present hot topics to the user. As part of the Sea/Salt Ventures team, I consulted with the Opedia team on their release and marketing plans. Additionally, I participated in ideation sessions, generating sketches and documentation of our work. Lastly, I participated in user research and usability testing.
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Pingsy
In the 21st century, we're overwhelmed with information. Pertinent exchanges, like making dinner plans or inviting a colleague to coffee, should be remarkable. In 2014, Brooklyn-based UX agency FreeAssociation launched an internal design contest. The most intriguing problems won prototyping sprints with the Sea/Salt Ventures team. The need for Pingsy stemmed from Mike Piliero's busy schedule. Between soccer matches, raising two girls under the (then) age of three and acting as a partner at FreeAssociation, Mike identified a need to make important communications faster and easier. Pingsy was born as a touch-and-release tools that sends the appropriate emoji on demand. The interaction is so clean and purpose-driven that it remains one of my favorite products. Later sprints with the FreeAssociation team led to the development of the complementary Apple Watch app.
My role in the FreeLab, FreeAssociation's internal design contest, was to manage non-technical prototyping and user testing. Additionally, I conducted keyword and competitive analyses as an input to the product selection process. Through the app-development process, I participated in ideation sessions, conducted user research and usability testing and well as QA before release.
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Oconee County Public Works Director Criticizes State Transportation Project Agreements Now Under Review
At Citizen Meeting
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners should not approve three pending project agreements with the Georgia Department of Transportation without a clearer understanding of project details, the county’s Public Works director told a citizen group last Tuesday night.
The agreements call for one project on Jimmy Daniell Road and two projects on Daniells Bridge Road, but Public Works Director Emil Beshara said the county should not allow GDOT planners “who may or may not have been influenced by other forces, dictate to us what our projects are.”
Beshara identified BOC Chairman Melvin Davis as the driving force behind at least one of those projects–an extension of Daniells Bridge Road with a flyover of SR Loop 10 to link up with a dead-end section of the Oconee Connector behind Home Depot.
Beshara said that building that flyover before making improvements to Daniells Bridge Road would be “exacerbating a problem” the county already has identified.
“If you are going to build the Extension,” he said, “let’s prepare the Daniells Bridge Road corridor to receive the increased traffic flows that that is certainly going to generate.”
Background On GDOT Documents
BOC Chairman Davis provided the four voting Commissioners with project framework agreements for the Jimmy Daniell and Daniells Bridge Road projects just prior to the July 29 BOC agenda-setting meeting.
The documents spell out the funding sources for the projects and project time lines.
Included are the widening of Jimmy Daniell Road from SR 316 to the Atlanta Highway, the widening of Daniells Bridge Road from Mars Hill Road to Hog Mountain Road, and the construction of an extension of Daniells Bridge Road with a flyover of SR Loop 10.
All three projects are in the current Madison Athens-Clarke Oconee Regional Transportation Study (MACORTS) list of projects, adopted in October of 2013, and in the MACORTS draft of projects, dated June 25, 2014.
The time lines and even funding figures before the BOC are different from what are in the MACORTS documents, which are the official public documents on the three projects.
The BOC has not taken any action of the three agreements, but it is expected to consider them again at its meeting on Aug. 26.
Isaac Request
Beshara’s comments at the Land Use Committee meeting last Tuesday were in response to a request from Bob Isaac, a member of the Land Use Committee and an opponent of the proposed changes to Daniells Bridge Road.
After Beshara had talked for 29 minutes about the widening of Mars Hill Road, Isaac asked him to explain why the two Daniells Bridge Road projects were coming before the Commission for action. A section of Isaac’s request is in the video below.
Provost Response
Before Beshara could respond to Isaac, Wayne Provote, director of Strategic and Long Rang Planning for the county, said he would provide the answer.
Provost said the extension of Daniells Bridge Road to link up with the stub of the Oconee Connector behind Home Depot had been in the planning stage for years and had been supported by “everybody involved in long ranged planning.”
The county’s goal, he said, is to create a loop that will relieve the SR 316 and Loop 10 intersection of local traffic. The video clip below is of Provost’s explanation.
Beshara Response
Beshara said he agreed with Provost that the creation of a loop, including the Daniells Bridge Road extension and flyover of SR 316, had been “around for a while.”
He said that he had been trying to keep the project designated as “long range unfunded” in MACORTS, but he has run into resistance from the MACORTS Policy Committee, on which Chairman Davis represents the county.
Beshara said the county was being asked, through the project framework agreements from GDOT, to spend between $4 and $5 million on the projects, and the county would have to borrow money for that purpose.
Beshara said the BOC, not GDOT, should be deciding on the priorities of these projects, because transportation projects affect land use, and land use is the responsibility of the county.
Beshara told Isaac that he represents the county on MACORTS and is the primary technical contact for the county with GDOT, but he had “no idea” GDOT was sending the agreements for county action.
Welbrook Farms
Isaac is a resident of Welbrook Farms on Daniells Bridge Road, and he expressed frustration at the meeting on Tuesday night that the two Daniells Bridge Road projects had gone forward without review by the Land Use and Transportation Planning Committee.
Isaac has spoken against the Daniells flyover at the Land Use Committee meetings in the past.
Isaac also was one of those who spoke against the widening and the flyover at the BOC meetings of July 29 and Aug. 5. (I also am a resident of Welbrook Farms and spoke against the flyover as proposed at the meeting of July 29.)
Beshara told Isaac that he had proposed a much less expensive version of the Daniells Bridge Road widening that did not involve the construction of three lanes all the way from Chestnut Hill Road to Hog Mountain Road, as is being proposed in the documents awaiting BOC action.
Connector And Traffic
While Provost said the Daniells Bridge Road flyover was being built to eliminate traffic on SR 316, Beshara, in the clip above, acknowledged that roadways have impact on land use.
When the county decided to put the construction of the existing Oconee Connector from SR 316 to Epps Bridge Parkway ahead of the Mars Hill Road widening project more than five years ago, it spoke of the project in the terms used by Provost on Tuesday night.
But a key goal was to open up the area behind Lowe’s and the area that is now the Epps Bridge Centre for commercial development.
Epps Bridge Centre developer Frank Bishop thanked the county for taking that action in a keynote address he gave to the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce in January.
The Epps Bridge Centre has been envisioned from the start as a regional center that would attract visitors from Oconee County and surrounding areas, putting more traffic, rather than reducing traffic, on SR 316 and Loop 10.
Abouhamdan Rescue
The meeting on Tuesday night had started at 7 p.m. in the community center at Veterans Park.
Fifth-three minutes into the discussion, Land Use and Transportation Planning Committee Chairman Abe Abouhamdan interrupted the discussion of the GDOT project framework agreements, saying he needed to stay to his schedule and end the meeting at the end of the hour.
“I think this has been a really interesting topic, and I’m fine discussing with,” he said, “but we are getting close to the end of the agenda time here, and I’d like to move on.”
Beshara and one of the committee members ignored Abouhamdam, and it was another two minutes before Abouhamdam got his wish.
The Committee adjourned at 7:59 p.m.
The entire video of the discussion of the three project framework agreements is below.
The video runs for 27 minutes. The clips inserted into the post above were taken from this longer video.
WOW! This is earth shattering! Public Works Director Emil Beshara calling out those “who may or may not have been influenced by other forces, dictate to us what our projects are”???!!!!
Those other forces trying to influence the GDOT planners are clearly Melvin Davis (and his ego, the sixth county commissioner) and GDOT Board member/local real estate broker Jamie Boswell, who's business interests clearly benefit from these proposed projects.
Will Davis try to find a way to fire Emil for calling him out? Will the other four commissioners grow backbones and do something about this??? Or will they allow Melvin & his ego to run the county unfettered?
Wow, great work Lee! The utterly clueless Athens Banner-Herald, the Oconee Leader, and the Oconee Enterprise will never cover this. Thank you Lee for all you do!
Emil Beshara is right on with this. It is clear that Melvin Davis and Jamie Boswell are manipulating the County for their own financial gain and disregarding what is best for the County.
Jamie Boswell, a realtor with several large listings in the area being discussed, should not even be on the GDOT Planning Board, That's like enlisting a fox to watch the chickens, a definite conflict of interest.
In the meantime, Melvin Davis should be drummed out of office for being a party to these political manipulations. There is something rotten in Denmark.
Kudos to Beshara for having the mangos to stand up for us!
-Racer X
Lee Becker said...
Below is an edited version of an anonymous comment submitted at 9:27 a.m. this morning.
Please see My Standards For Oconee County Observations in the right-hand column of this blog.
Edited Comment:
Melvin is not going to stand for this; someone, anyone, let alone a county employee, calling him out, along with Jamie Boswell. Emil better watch his back. Melvin (and his ego, the sixth commissioner) will be vindictive, and find some way to push Emil out without it being obvious retaliation, avoiding a lawsuit.
This is a story with state-wide implications. Maybe the AJC will pick it up. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant. Thanks Lee Becker! Melvin, you should have run for state rep. Unchecked power corrupts. You’re too big of a fish in a small pond. Thank you for your previous service, but it’s time to move on. This is Oconee County, not Melvin Davis County.
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a house of rage and sorrow, bereavement, fantasci, indian mythology retelling, non-western inspired sci-fi, poc, poc - indian, review, sangu mandanna, sci-fi, the celestial trilogy, the mahabharata, ukya, YA
Review: A House of Rage and Sorrow by Sangu Mandanna
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A House of Rage and Sorrow by Sangu Mandanna
Published: 3rd September 2019 | Publisher: Sky Pony Press | Cover Designer: Kate Gartner | Source: Publisher/Caffeine Book Tours via Edelweiss
Sangu Mandanna's Website
One kingdom. One crown. One family.
"Maybe it’s time the great House of Rey came to an end. After all, what are we now? Just a house of rage and sorrow."
Esmae once wanted nothing more than to help her golden brother win the crown of Kali but that dream died with her best friend. Alexi broke her heart, and she vowed to destroy him for it. And with her sentient warship Titania beside her, how can she possibly fail?
As gods, beasts, and kingdoms choose sides, Alexi seeks out a weapon more devastating than even Titania. Past lives threaten the present. Old enemies claim their due. And Esmae cannot outrun the ghosts and the questions that haunt her. What really happened to her father? What was the third boon her mother asked of Amba? For in the shadows, lurking in wait, are secrets that will swallow her whole.
The House of Rey is at war. And the entire galaxy will bleed before the end. From Goodreads.
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My other reviews of The Celestial Trilogy:
A Spark of White Fire (Book 1)
I received this eProof for free from Sky Pony Press in conjunction with Caffeine Book Tours for the purposes of providing an honest review, as part of a blog tour.
WARNING! I cannot review this book without spoiling the others in the series. Read no further if you're planning on reading this series and don't want it spoilt for you.
Trigger/Content Warnings: This book features grief, graphic violence, discussion of suicide, discussion of murder, abduction, a poisoning, and execution.
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I really enjoyed A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna, so I was super excited to be approved to take part in the blog tour for the sequel, A House of Rage and Sorrow, hosted by Caffeine Book Tours. And oh my god, this book is absolutely bloody incredible!
After the tragic and devastating ending of A Spark of White Fire - where goddess Amba has Esmae's best friend, Rama, take her place in a duel with her brother Alexi, and is murdered by her brother -Esmae is all grief and anger. As the title suggests, she is raging, and her anger boils in her blood. There is an everlasting scream in her head, that she refuses to let out, that just builds and builds. There is no way Esmae can forgive her brother for murdering Rama, and she will not stop until she has destroyed him. But it's complicated, because while she is all grief and anger, there is still the longing for her family, her mother, for the love that she has been denied her whole life. As much as she longs for Bear and her mother to be part of her life, with her dedication to bringing about the end of Alexi, and the war that has begun, it looks impossible now that the rift will ever be healed.
As I said in my review of A Spark of White Fire, although technically sci-fi as it's a space opera, ithis trilogy feels very much like a high fantasy. And A House of Rage and Sorrow had everything that I love about high fantasy! A character driven plot. Politics and intrigue. Battles and strategy. Like a highly emotional game of chess with real people. This book was simply a complete joy to read from page one! I was completely captivated by Esmae's story, and I couldn't put it down. And the small issues I had with the first book - that major events happen and are moved on from quite quickly, making it feel like, overall, not a huge amount happened - are completely absent from this book. Quite a lot happens, and each major event is followed by an even bigger event. The tension just builds and builds, and it was just so epic!
I also adored the development of the various relationships. Esmae and Max are just so adorable, it hurts. Esmae's friendship with spiky Sybilla, and how Sybilla is so loyal she would literally lay down her life for those she loves. The relationship between Esmae and Radha, Rama's sister, who comes to Kali to help in anyway she can in order to bring about the demise of the one who murdered her brother. Radha is complicated, and has so many layers, and I just loved seeing them unfold and getting to know her. And Amba. She may not have the largest presence in this book, but I love and adore her, and it really is no wonder that she is a goddess.
I also have to talk about how incredibly diverse this story is. Being a retelling of the Indian myth the Mahabharata, and written by an Indian author, it's no surprise that all the major characters are people of colour. Then there's King Elvar, who is blind, and General Khay, who has a prophetic, mechanical arm. And then there is the inclusion of multiple LGBTQ* characters in this world. At an celebratory feast, we see General Khay's two fathers, and Laika - a Rashka demon Esmae trains with, with General Khay - has brought her two children, a boy and a girl, who are both wearing identical dresses. When Esmae looks through the the portraits in the Gallery of her ancestors, she mentions genderfluid Shiv, who chose to wear a dress. At one point we meet Vahana, a garuda - a creature that is part human and part bird - who uses they/them pronouns. And then there's the obvious and undeniable same sex attraction between two side characters.
But now we have to talk about the twists. My god, they were just incredible! The first one I felt so smug about, because I had a theory about it when reading the first book, and my theory just grew stronger as I was reading A House of Rage and Sorrow. When it was confirmed, I was just so bloody happy to have got it right, but also amazed in regards to what it would mean for the story overall. The second twist, though, I absolutely did not see coming at all, and it had my jaw drop. It is monumetal, and it's going to have unimaginable consequences, and I am just absolutely devastated for Esmae. And that ending. Oh my god, oh my god! It was explosive, and I dread to think where it will lead in the third and final book of the series, but I absolutely cannot wait to read it! It is going to be agony waiting for book three, but it is going to be well worth the wait! This book was unbelievable! If you loved the first book, you absolutely need to read A House of Rage and Sorrow!
Thank you to Sky Pony Press and Caffeine Book Tours via Edelweiss for the eProof.
Sangu Mandanna was four years old when an elephant chased her down a forest road and she decided to write her first story about it. Seventeen years and many, many manuscripts later, she signed her first book deal. Sangu now lives in Norwich, a city in the east of England, with her husband and kids. Find Sangu on her website, on Goodreads, and on Twitter.
There is a Twitter giveaway hosted by Caffeine Book Tours, where the winner gets to name one of the characters in book 3 of The Celestial Trilogy! The giveaway is open internationally, so head over to @CaffeineTours for details on how to enter.
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What's been the most shocking YA you've read in regards to twists? What non-western stories would you like to see retold? What books have you read that just overflow with diverse characters? Will you be reading A House of Rage and Sorrow? Let me know in the comments!
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DJ Vegas Vibe at Cazz’s Sports Bar on Thursdays Starting May 3rd….
DJ Vegas Vibe returns home to Lower Bucks County
Direct From Las Vegas – He will mix his music at Cazz’s
Sports Bar on Thursdays Starting May 3rd….
Chadd J Mc Geehan,aka Dj Vegas Vibe is coming back to his hometown for the late spring and summer. He’s back for some time to take care of his family. You can see this master spinner starting on Thursday May 3rd…at Cazz’s Sports Bar in Levittown. Vegas Vibe is one of the biggest DJ’s in the country. His fan base is huge and from major celebrities reads like a who’s who in the entertainment world from Movie actors, sports personalities, and many recording stars follow this amazing DJ.
Dj Vegas Vibe Fresh off his 2010 ASIA tour is Back In Las Vegas Burning Up The airways and Dance floors All over the City from his Live Mix shows on the #1 Dance station 94.5FM to his weekly Residencies @ Blue Martini to Headlining world Famous Events Like fetish and Fantasy Ball, Vegas Prom and Many more Or sharing the stage with Headlining acts such as Bobby Valintino to Pretty Ricky, Vince Neil and so on .
As one of Sin City’s top DJs, Vegas Vibe has earned his name the only way he knows how, rocking every party like it’s his last. With incredible energy, skill, and passion, Vibe has galvanized the club scene in Vegas by not only headlining more top spots than any other local. His past Gigs & residencies in Vegas alone include such top caliber events & venues like Empire Ballroom, Body English, Rain, Ra, Studio 54, Voodoo, Hugh Heffner’s Play Boy party’s, Vince Neil’s party at the Hard Rock, Mike Tyson’s Mansion party & the Fetish & Fantasy Ball in Las Vegas for the past 3 years in a row and many more. He headlines parties across America including regular stints at top clubs in Hawaii, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Atlantic City, San Diego, LA, Miami and the list goes on, he is making a very big name for himself with the Hollywood A list actors as well. Expect to see the latest beats mixed to perfection with scratching skills that will wow both dance floors and spectators. This is combined with an ability to innovate with remixing on the fly like very few DJs can. Oh, and he does it all while making the dance floor scream for more. Find out why the prestigious “Nightclub and Bar Magazine” has named him America’s DJ to watch for in 2008 and Beyond
2008 Was monumental for DJ Vegas Vibe After years of setting the dance floors on Fire @ some of the most respected and high profile night clubs in Las Vegas Vibe has been touring across the globe bringing his trade marked sound of “Electro Mash up ” to the world, that is a combination of high energy electro and dance music infused with familiar Hip Hop Rock and even 80’s to keep crowds of all walks of life amazed with His ability to mix in and out of the genres of music keeping the crowd screaming for more on the dance floors. After returning home from a Canadian tour in early March of 2008, he was signed on to the largest Internet radio station on the west coast www.In2DeepRadio.com to host The Las Vegas Bad Boyz Mix show quickly gaining a world wide audience from as far as Japan, Australia Europe, Russia and so on.
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XFINITY LIVE! PHILADELPHIA-BRINGING BACK THE FUN & A WHOLE LOT MORE!
“XFINITY Live! Philadelphia” grand opening was Friday, March 30th. They reported that over 30,000 guests came out to celebrate with them on opening weekend! If you were lucky enough to get there you would have enjoyed a free concert with Third Eye Blind on opening night! This ultimate and unique dining and entertainment complex is located in the Wells Fargo Complex, at 1100 Pattison Avenue. It features over a dozen different dining and entertainment options, including free concerts, family events, and is equipped with state-of-the art studio and video systems that will take you “Way Beyond Game Day!” You can also hold your next private party there-and what an unforgettable party that will be! The expansive outdoor area of XFINITY Live! Philadelphia is centered around the XFINITY™ On Demand Theater, a 24-foot wide, Sony LED video board, which will show both sports game and family friendly movies. Adjacent to the XFINITY™ On Demand Theater, the NBC Sports Field, an outdoor miniature artificial turf field, will host numerous activities and free concerts. Through a partnership with Sony, XFINITY Live! Philadelphia will open with state-of-the-art audio and video systems, including Sony flat panel televisions, to ensure everyone in the venue will have a high definition view of the game.
Since I haven’t had the pleasure of checking this place out for myself yet. I did a little digging on my own to let everyone know what they too, can look forward to! XFinity Live! Philadelphia is open daily from 11am – 2am. There is plenty of parking for a fee, but on non-event nights its free and it is also free one hour after the start of the final event of the day. Also, any person under 21 must be under the supervision of a person over 25 years of age to enter any venue. After 9pm, all guests must be 21+ to enter. Here is a summary of what unique and exciting features you can expect.
Philly Marketplace includes all the “Philly Favorites” like: Chickie’s & Pete’s, Comcast SportsNet Interactive Zone, Goodnoe’s Ice Cream, Old Original Nick’s Roast Beef, and the Original Philadelphia Cheesesteak Company. It also features a VIP lounge, custom draft tables, a raw bar, and world class sports viewing.
The Spectrum Grill: “A sophisticated, intimate atmosphere and an extraordinary dining experience. The “crown jewel” of XFINITY Live! Philadelphia, features prime steaks, chops, and seafood, and will host one of Philadelphia’s finest cocktail parties nightly.
Broad Street Bullies Pub: This pub features authentic memorabilia from the legendary Broad Street Bullies team of the 1970’s. “Classic tavern meets gastro pub”. Specializes in gourmet burgers and classic pub fare as well as an expansive variety of beer including 48 drafts on tap. Serves up lunch, dinner and features live acoustic entertainment at night!
Victory Beer Hall: In partnership with Philadelphia’s Victory Brewing Company, the Victory Beer Hall; featuring elongated, beer hall style tables, a stage for live indoor entertainment, and a 2,000 square-foot patio complete with a fire pit and a unique panoramic view of the Philadelphia skyline. A great variety of Craft beer, featuring an eclectic selection of regional Philadelphia brews as well.
PBR Bar and Grill: “Country cool meets urban chic”; a western-themed venue and authentic Tex-Mex cuisine daily. In the evening hours you will experience a country and southern rock party featuring a mechanical bull!
NBC Sports Arena: “Offers fans a one-of-a-kind sports viewing experience, featuring a 32-foot diagonal, 6mm, Sony LED HD television, high impact LED Rings displaying the NBC Sports Ticker, and in-game promotions that will rival any live sports experience in the world, making for a true fourth stadium experience at the Philadelphia Sports Complex. With a full service menu, the NBC Sports Arena will be the best place to catch the game or host an unforgettable event.”
Who says Philly doesn’t know how to have fun?! For more information on events, reservations, or to request information about your private event please visit their website at www.xfininitylive.com ; or call (215) 609-1600.
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Dining out @ Amada, Atlantic City
CHEF JOSE GARCES’ AMADA
HOSTS LIVE FLAMENCO PERFORMANCES
EVERY THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Diners and gamblers alike will be delighted by the public Flamenco Performances hosted every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. at Chef Jose Garces’ Andalucian tapas bar and restaurant, Amada (609-225-9900), at Revel (500 Boardwalk, 855-348-0500), the newest resort destination in Atlantic City. The live performances are hosted by the restaurant on their custom-built flamenco stage, visible to the entire 300-seat dining room as well as from the casino floor beyond.
“Dancing and music are as important to Spanish culture as food and wine, and I’m thrilled to bring them together at Amada,” says Chef Garces, who owns Garces Group, with restaurants in Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Scottsdale, AZ; and Palm Springs, CA. “These spirited live performances are a true taste of Spain for our guests and an incomparable experience that you can’t find anywhere else in Atlantic City.”
The performances feature flamenco troupes De Luna a Lunares (Thursdays and Saturdays) and Flamenco del Encuentro (Fridays). Known for their dynamic style, authentic costumes and exceptional musical talent, both troupes have performed at Chef Garces’ original Amada in Philadelphia and are thrilled to partner with him again at Revel. Dinner reservations on flamenco nights are strongly recommended, and can be arranged by calling (609) 225-9900.
Amada is an authentic Andalusian tapas bar located on the casino level at Revel, with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as a central white marble bar and chic lounge seating; a 14-seat private dining room; a convenient walk-up take-out area for sangria and grilled snacks a la planxa with additional seating; and a stunning dining room tucked against the resort’s sweeping glass façade with floor-to-ceiling views of the water. The dining room features gray, brown and orange Spanish tiles and suspended orange glass drop chandeliers. The entrance to the restaurant is adorned with twinkling candles, which also line the hallway that leads to the private room. Seating throughout the restaurant, from circular brown leather banquettes to cream leather benches to hi-top butcher block tables and stools, is designed to offer guests optimal views of the ocean.
Amada’s grand open kitchen turns out an extensive menu that encourages guests to mix and share multiple dishes, whether enjoying drinks or indulging in a full meal. Signature dishes include: Charcutería y Quesos, assorted cured Spanish hams and sausages and artisanal cheeses, served with house-made accoutrements; Pulpo a la Gallega, Spanish octopus with smoked paprika and potato coins; Costillas de Ternera Coca, beef shortribs with horseradish, Parmesan and bacon on house-baked flatbread; and Chipirones a la Planxa, grilled baby squid dressed simply with olive oil, sea salt, lemon, parsley and garlic. Tapas range in price from $5 to $23. A signature La Mesa de Jose tasting menu is also available, allowing guests to enjoy a selection of Chef Garces’ favorite tapas, all portioned appropriately for the number of diners at the table.
Chef Garces has two other restaurants inside Revel including Distrito Cantina, a lively margarita bar serving food from Guapos Tacos – a customized, stationary “food truck” that is styled after his wildly popular Philadelphia-based truck, and Village Whiskey, a retro-cool space that evokes the original in Philadelphia and is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of its namesake spirit available in Atlantic City.
Amada serves food from 11:30 a.m. until 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 12 midnight on weekends and holidays. The restaurant hosts live flamenco performances every Thursday, Friday and Saturday beginning at 9 p.m. For more information, or to make a reservation, please call (609) 225-9900.
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World saddened by passing of “The Oldest Teen-ager”
By Lynn Ramage’
Not many Philadelphian Legends have gotten the attention that the Passing of Dick Clark has received nationally since his passing o of a sudden Heart attack on April 18, 2012. Born Richard Wagstaff Clark on November 30, 1929, Dick was only 82 when he left us. He knew since he was a small boy he wanted to pursue a career in Radio. As a teen in 1945, he landed a job in the mailroom at radio station WRUN in New York. Not long after he was promoted to weather and then News announcer.
In 1952 he moved to WFIL radio in Philadelphia in 1952.”American Bandstand” then propelled Clark’s career from 1957 all the way to 1989 which featured many new and budding artist’s such as “The Jackson’s, Madonna, and our own local teen throb in 1959 was Bobby Rydal and Fabian were on his show too! He will be very missed by so many of the heavy hitters here in this area such as Chubby Checker, Bill Wright, Sr., from WIBG (Wibbage),Tommy McCarthy Program Director from WOGL, Jerry Blavat, Mikey Vagnoni from OOTT and I even saw collaborator, producer/ songwriter Jerry Ross on the news who very saddened by this as well. This has really hit home with so many local Philadelphians. Some say “American Bandstand put Philadelphia on the map! The show was a teen sensation as it showed the way teens from all over danced to the hits of the day! American Bandstand was here in Philadelphia until 1963 then the show was moved to Hollywood until it ended in 1989 which aided Dick into developing other shows along the way such as ”The $25,000 Pyramid and TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes.”
In 1972 we saw the first “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” which Dick Hosted even after his stroke till just this past New Years Eve. One wonders if bringing in the New Years will ever be the same without Dick now. Even after his stoke which left him partially paralyzed and caused difficulty of speech you have to give him credit for still hosting the News Years to millions of Americans who looked forward to seeing him bring in the New Year!
Some of Dick’s famous Quotes were; “If you want to stay young looking, pick your parents carefully” and “I Don’t pick Trends, I find out what they are and then Exploit the living heck out of them” and finally We’ll leave you with his most famous words; “Music Is the Soundtrack of Your Life”
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Kirko…The Perfect Band for ANY Party!
Kirko has been rocking the East Coast for more than 20 years now. From bars and night clubs to weddings and corporate events, this band provides an extremely high level of professionalism and awesome musicianship!
I remember the first time I saw this band. It was at my niece Jamie’s wedding a few years ago at The Philmont Country Club in Huntington Valley. What a beautiful place to have a wedding! It was outside on the patio area and it was a gorgeous day. The sun was shining, the drinks were flowing and the music grabbed me and made me turn around from the very first note! Here were these extremely handsome guys up there on the stage playing some of my favorite songs. Everyone was dancing, as their lead singer Kevin Kirk was walking through the crowd with the wireless microphone, while playing his acoustic guitar. They really made the wedding so much more enjoyable with a wonderful selection of songs, played with excellence.
One of the many great things about Kirko is that they can accommodate any party or venue. They can come as a full band, or can scale down to a duo or solo. They can even provide DJ services. Whatever your need, this band delivers live music that will entertain any crowd. Kirko plays a mix of everything – Classic and Modern Rock, Motown, Blues – you name it, they play it all!
The band itself is comprised of the Kirk brothers Kevin, Chris and Scott, along with their adopted brother, Mike Thompson. You can see them playing all over the area at many great venues. Kevin has an acoustic solo vertical every Thursday night at The Fireside in Feasterville from 8:30 – 1 am. On Fridays, Kevin and Scott perform together for happy hour on the outdoor patio at The Fireside as well, from 5-9 pm. Kirko will be one of the bands playing the 2nd Annual Hampton Brewfest, being held on Saturday May 19 from 1 – 6 pm at The Phoenix Sports Club located at 301 W Bristol Road in Feasterville. Tickets are on sale now at www.hamptonbrewfest.com. On Cinco De Mayo, they will be back at The Buck Hotel in Feasterville from 9:00 pm – 1 am. Starting in September you can catch Kirko at The Parx Casino every month from 3-6 pm!
If you are having a private event of any kind and you are looking for a band that will make your party even better, contact the Kirko Band and you won’t be disappointed! You can view their whole schedule and read more on the band’s website at www.thekirkoband.com – and be sure to join their Facebook page at Facebook.com/thekirkoband!
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Cara & Skaggs
By Rose DeMilio Andress
The first time I heard Cara Cartney play was at Sparky’s World Famous in Levittown. A huge crowd gathered to celebrate our dear friend Jodi’s 50th birthday. Jayded was taking a break and up walks this obviously shy girl with a noticeable bit of stage fright. I was nervous and unsure for this kiddo but when Cara Cartney began to play and sing her voice was a delight and her style captured the room!
Music has always been a part of Cara’s life. Her musical influence and inspiration comes from her father Tim, a guitar player himself who passed his passion for Paul McCartney and the Beatles as well as many other great talents on to his daughter. When Cara was three years old her Dad gave her a big orange guitar and at that tender age Cara would join her father in singing the words to all of the songs. Around the age of 13 Cara realized that playing music came naturally to her, she learned to play the guitar by ear and had no formal vocal training. At age 15 Cara began writing her own songs and recording them on an 8 track. With the support of her mother Jane and her sister Kelly, Cara began to step out of her shyness and battle against her stage fright. She would share her beautiful voice and her passion for her music by playing out at many local venues and open mics, where she would meet and have the opportunity to play with “Skaggs”. Kismet!
Marc Magnani affectionately knows, as “Skaggs” is a brilliant self-taught percussionist. Music grabbed his soul at a young age with influences such as Curtis Mayfield, Santana and the Grateful Dead as well as some of Lower Bucks County’s finest musicians such as Danny DeGennaro. “Skaggs” jokingly admits to sneakin’ in to some of the favorite nightspots around town just to get the chance to play music with some of the very best! These early influences lead him on a musical journey to blue grass, blues, zydeco as well as working with a Grateful Dead cover band. Marc Magnani has been playing professionally for over twnety years now and thirteen of those were spent touring the East Coast with Paul Brion and the Raucous Brothers Band. “Skaggs” performance on percussion is a pleasure for the listener. You’ll find Marc Magnani playing on many occasion at the Logan Inn in New Hope PA and hosting weekly open mic nights at such places as Marie’s Kozy Korner in Fairless Hills, PA on Wednesday. “Skaggs” easy going nature invites everyone to join in, creating a room filled with fantastic musical energy.
Cara and Skaggs perform beautifully as a duo. Together they are hosting Sunday night open mic at Sparky’s World Famous in Levittown, PA and they are sharing their unique sound at other popular venues such as Dog&Bull in Croydon, PA. They were recently afforded the opportunity to play along with Sharon Rivera at a talent show hosted by Parx Casino in Bensalem, PA. T
hey won second place in that competition. The story doesn’t end there. Cara and Skaggs plan to collaborate, blending their creative writing and creating their unique sound. It’s an exciting time for these two talented musicians! This Cara & Skaggs fan can’t wait to see what their bright future has in store.
Cara and Skaggs Contact Information:
www.facebook.com/caracartney
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Jody is miss personality behind the bar and works at the new Sky Box in Bristol Pa.
You can see her doing shifts Tuesday thru Saturday nights from 7pm to close.
Jody stands in at 5′ 8” and has brown hair and brown eyes. She is a resident of Levittown Pa
Jody has been a bartender for over 13 years and she knows the business and knows how to make friends. ” I love meeting new people and staying connected…seeing our customers having a great time really makes my job so much fun here at the Sky Box”, she says. Jody likes to get know her regulars and she also had this to say,” Here at the Sky Box we have a great bar and an awesome & diverse kind of crowd”.
Hobbies: Spending time with family, BBQing, going to pool parties. She loves the summer time and likes taking trips to the beach. She likes to go dancing and enjoys going to concerts. She also makes it a point to travel and once a year and take a vacation. Las Vegas is her favorite place.
Birthsign: Scorpio
Favorite Radio Station: Likes all kinds of music. Listens to Country 92.5 FM and also tunes to Wired 96.5 FM
On Sports: Favorite teams are the Phillies and the Flyers. She is so excited about the Flyers in the Playoffs. ” Love them Flyers” she says. I’m so glad to see that they took care of the Penguins and can’t wait to see them in the next paly-off round”
Favorte Drink to Serve: Stoli Doli – “the are dangerously delicious”
Favorite Drink to Drink: Dirty Corona….”have one here at the Sky Box on Cinco De Mayo”.
Stop by the new Sky Box Tuesday thru Saturday nights and meet up with Jody Mc Geachy behing the bar Tell her you did see her in the latest OOT guide .(see more by going to: www.ootonline.com) ;
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Coming up in the new OOT Guide (April 25th to May 16th)-many exciting things are in store for you-this is all brought to you by the Northeast Car Connection…If you are in need of a car – let them help you find the perfect car – they can also get you the loan – visit them now at www.MyNortheastAuto.com or call NOW > 888-847-0833...let them know you are an* OOT reader-fan…and grab a discount…*If you work in the biz…they can help you out big time. Attention all Bartenders and Waiters, DJ’s Local bands and everyone in the local scene….
Here is what’s in store for you.. in the new Out On The Town Entertainment Guide
On the Cover – He’s called Vegas Vibe and he’s back in his hometown area…*He’s one of the hottest DJ’s in the entire country…direct from Las Vegas..where he performs and also has a radio show…see him starting at Cazz’s on Thursday May 3rd…see the report in the new OOT Guide tonight!
In Memory off: See our item – American Music Legend Dick Clark – this Icon of American Music will live on Forever! Great item by Lynn.
In the Spotlight:Meet up with the local band KIRKO with a report by our local band editor Krista D…
In Review: Creed … by our concert reporter Jimmy Abagarian
Bartender of the Month: Meet Jody from the Sky Box in Bristol
DJ of the Month: Meet up with DJ Buddy Love – he’s one solid DJ/Entertainer from NE Phila
The Xfinity Live – see what’s there – at the new entertainment destination spot in South Philly!See this up close look at the new complex by Helene.
*Around Town Photos from Mc Stews and Wired 96.5 Fm with the OOT EXTREME DANCE PARTY Kick-off! From the morning show Meet up with DJ Tingle…see these photos by Melissa
*Around Town Photos from Chickie’s & Pete’s Cafe with 1210 the Big Talker’s Sid Mark along with Frank Sinatra Jr, with the live radio broadcast of Sidnatra Cafe that was held on April 16th…(see the photos!)
Be Seen, Be Heard, Be Discovered!… www.theSeen.com – Find out about new company that can get you national Attention…thanks to Cindy Margolis…this is where every performer will want to be….see this report by Neil Cirucci
Good Eats: Check out what’s coming down at Amada Restaurant! ( Inside the new Revel Casino in AC Town)
Video Game Report: Find out about the latest in upcoming Video Games by our Video guru Cowboy Bob!
Astrology: It’s all in the stars and see what’s in store for you this month by Perry.
Hitz Squad: A Killer Duo plays Da’ Hitz!!!! This band has been up and down the pike for years and keep the music going.
DR. Lou on Music: He keeps the flow going for those who are getting into the biz or for those who are in the biz…He tells it like it is…each month he hits on a topic that will open up your inner thoughts about music. Get to understand the biz! * Dr Lou also can be heard weekly on 1360 WNJC and also can be seen on WMCN DT 44 -Comcast with Inside the Music Today….plus he is a bar owner the features open mic nights 24/7 each day @Dr Lou’s Place!
Jimmy Buffett is coming to AC Town at the Boardwalk Hall on August 4th – get the jump on the tickets now!
* Amazing shows are always the norm at the Boardwalk Hall….
Concerts: See the Live Nation Listings and also Listings for the Sun Bank Arena in Trenton NJ
Meet up with Cara & Skaggs – this duo sparked attention in the music competition – contest held at Parx Casinon…meet them in this special OOT guide…see the report by our gal Rose
Jokes’ by Donny: Each OOT Guide we want to see you smile …Donny does just that -he’s the guy that’s always all over the place and knows just about everybody…*He’s called the Mayor of Mayfair! Hey >did you know that Tire Slasher? U need a smile= he will put one on your face for sure!
Also you will get to see the promotions,and entertainment schedules and all that is going on and being offered to you from our official Out On The Town Hot Spots…get to see the entire picture for the next full month all at one glance!
Out On The Town Entertainment Guide…Each guide is special and shows you – The People, Places and Things that make our local Entertainment Scene the hottest place to be on the East Coast…
Check one out now… see it anytime online www.ootonline.com or just grab a copy at any of our selected area locations in the region.
*Our dedicated staff help put together the OOT Guide…we might be a small , but we are very big in size when it comes to the local area Entertainment Scene….”When you see it in the Out On The Town – ya’ know it’s Gotta’ Be Good! Best
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CHIROPRACTIC'S SPINE MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN IS NOT ADVISABLE
A common chiropractic treatment for neck pain, which involves applying thrusts to the neck area of the spine, should be abandoned, say experts.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, Neil O'Connell and colleagues say that cervical spine manipulation carries a low risk of stroke, resulting from damage to the major neck arteries.
They say the technique is "unnecessary and inadvisable".
But other experts believe it is a valuable addition to patient care.
Spinal manipulation can be used to treat neck and back pain or other musculoskeletal conditions. It is a technique used by physiotherapists, osteopaths and most commonly by chiropractors.
Cervical spine manipulation focuses on the neck and involves a range of high-speed manual manoeuvres that stretch, mobilise or manipulate the upper spine in order to relieve pain.
'Serious complications'
Neil O'Connell, from the Centre for Research and Rehabilitation at Brunel University and colleagues argue that cervical spine manipulation "may carry the potential for serious neurovascular complications".
They also say that studies "provide consistent evidence of an association between neurovascular injury and recent exposure to cervical manipulation."
Such injuries include tearing the lining of the vertebral artery, which is located in the neck and supplies blood to the brain, and stroke.
O'Connell and colleagues refer to a Cochrane review of randomised trials of neck manipulation or mobilisation which found that as a stand-alone treatment, the technique provides only moderate short-term pain relief.
They point to other recent, high-quality trials which suggest that manipulation is no better than other treatments such as physical exercise.
In their view, the risks of using manipulation for neck pain outweigh the benefits.
They conclude: "The potential for catastrophic events and the clear absence of unique benefit lead to the inevitable conclusion that manipulation of the cervical spine should be abandoned as part of conservative care for neck pain."
Safe treatment
However, not all experts agree.
Writing in the same edition of the BMJ, Professor David Cassidy, from the University of Toronto, and colleagues argue that cervical spine manipulation should not be abandoned as a treatment for neck pain.
They point to high quality evidence that "clearly suggests that manipulation benefits patients with neck pain" and raises doubt about any direct relation between manipulation and stroke.
But they want to see more research into the pros and cons of this and other techniques with the aim of identifying safe and effective treatments.
The British Chiropractic Association said chiropractors were highly trained in spine care.
"The cherry-picking of poor quality research needlessly raises alarm in patients and does little to help the people suffering from neck pain and headaches to choose the most appropriate treatment," it said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18356045
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Director General and Inspector General of Police, Karnataka State, Bengaluru.
Infosys Foundation build cybercrime probe centre Bengaluru K’taka CID
« Infosys Foundation to Build Center for Handling Cybercrime Investigation
B’luru gets high-tech cybercrime investigation centre »
2 Apr 2019 | Press Reports
Global software major’s philanthropic arm Infosys Foundation on Wednesday said it would build the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation Training and Research (CCITR) in Bengaluru for the Karnataka Police.
“The centre aims to train police, prosecution, judiciary and other departments in handling technology investigations and create standard operating procedures in cybercrime investigations,” said the city-based Infosys Foundation in a statement.
The Foundation has signed an agreement with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the state police and the IT industry body Nasscom-owned Data Security Council of India (DSCI) to set up the centre.
Through hacking, online harassment, unwarranted surveillance, frauds, copyright infringement and other means, cybercrime not only hurts individuals, but is a threat to nations, causing billions of dollars of damage to the global economy.
The facility will be used to perform research in digital forensics and cybercrime investigation to improve the prosecution of cybercrime cases investigation by Karnataka Police, the statement added.
The Foundation said it will bear the costs incurred in setting up, operation and maintenance of the technological infrastructure at the centre and will provide the investment for hardware, software and capital required for holding training programmes.
The cost involved in setting up of the centre, however, has not been specified.
“We will also support the upgradation of the existing cyber lab for a period of five years along with technological infrastructure by providing specialised tools and incurring licensing costs,” it added.
The centre will be a project for both present and the future, said Infosys Foundation Chairperson Sudha Murty in the statement.
“We aim to build state-of-the-art facilities to tackle cyber and forensic crimes in Karnataka. Once operational, the centre will be a milestone to curb misuse and unethical use of technology to create distress for fellow beings,” said Murty.
With cybercrime said to become one of the largest organised crimes in the near future, law enforcement agencies need to be equipped with the hardware, software and expertise to face the challenges ahead, Karnataka CID Director General of Police Praveen Sood said.
“Cyberspace has turned out to be the world’s largest ungoverned space demolishing all geographical boundaries. The centre will improve the investigation and prosecution of cybercrime,” added Sood.
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Praveen Sood, alumni of IIT Delhi, IIM Bangalore and Syracuse University, New York, joined IPS in 1986. He served as Superintendent of Police of Bellary and Raichur districts; Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law & Order) & Addl. Commissioner of Police (Traffic) of Bangalore City and Commissioner of Police of Mysore City. He served as Police Advisor to Government of Mauritius. He is staunch supporter of use of technology in traffic management and delivery of service to citizens and has been decorated with various honours and awards.
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Climate & Temperature > Philippines > Puerto Princesa, Palawan >
Vs > Jerba
Puerto Princesa, Palawan vs Jerba Climate & Distance Between
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The distance between Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines and Jerba, Tunisia is approximately 11,019 km or 6,847 mi.
To reach Puerto Princesa, Palawan in this distance one would set out from Jerba bearing 71.7° or ENE and follow the great circles arc to approach Puerto Princesa, Palawan bearing 126.9° or SE .
Puerto Princesa, Palawan has a tropical wet and dry/ savanna climate with dry winters (Aw) whereas Jerba has a subtropical hot steppe climate (BSh).
The annual mean temperature is 7.6 °C (13.7°F) warmer.
Average monthly temperatures vary by 13.2 °C (23.8°F) less in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. The continentality subtype is extremely hyperoceanic as opposed to truly oceanic.
Total annual precipitation averages 1372.4 mm (54 in) more which is equivalent to 1372.4 l/m² (33.68 US gal/ft²) or 13,724,000 l/ha (1,467,187 US gal/ac) more. About 6 6/7 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 17.5° higher in Puerto Princesa, Palawan than in Jerba.
Relative humidity levels are 2.1% higher.
The mean dew point temperature is 7.7°C (13.8°F) higher.
Climate Comparison Table
The table shows values for Puerto Princesa, Palawan relative to Jerba. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Jerba vs Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
Average Max Temperature °C ( °F) +15 (+27) +15 (+26) +13 (+23) +11 (+20) +8 (+14) +3 (+6) +0 (+0) 0 (-1) +2 (+4) +5 (+9) +10 (+17) +14 (+25) +8 (+14)
Average Temperature °C ( °F) +15 (+26) +14 (+24) +13 (+23) +11 (+20) +8 (+14) +3 (+5) +0 (+0) -1 (-1) +1 (+2) +5 (+8) +10 (+17) +13 (+24) +8 (+14)
Average Min Temperature °C ( °F) +12 (+22) +12 (+21) +10 (+18) +9 (+15) +7 (+12) +3 (+6) +1 (+2) -1 (-2) +0 (+1) +4 (+7) +8 (+15) +12 (+21) +6 (+12)
Average Precipitation mm (in) +10 (+0) +8 (+0) +41 (+2) +29 (+1) +131 (+5) +170 (+7) +180 (+7) +198 (+8) +201 (+8) +154 (+6) +170 (+7) +82 (+3) +1372 (+54)
Average Daylight Hours & Minutes/ Day +1h 28' +0h 55' +0h 10' -0h 38' -1h 18' -1h 39' -1h 30' -0h 55' -0h 08' +0h 39' +1h 19' +1h 39' 0h 00'
Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (°) +24 +23.9 +23.9 +19.8 +3.3 -3.3 +2.7 +19.3 +24.1 +24.1 +24.1 +24.1 +17.5
Relative Humidity (%) -2 -3 -4 -3 +4 +5 +9 +6 +2 +5 +6 +1 +2.2
Average Dew Point Temperature °C & (°F) +13.4 (+24) +12.1 (+22) +11.1 (+20) +9.8 (+18) +8.5 (+15) +3.7 (+7) +2.2 (+4) +0.8 (+1) +1.5 (+3) +5.6 (+10) +10.6 (+19) +13 (+23) +7.7 (+14)
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Puerto Princesa, Palawan vs Jerba Discussion
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Climate Guides for Locations near Puerto Princesa, Palawan
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Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam - 680 kms (422.5 miles) SW
Miri, Malaysia - 798.3 kms (496.1 miles) SW
Tawau, Malaysia - 616.9 kms (383.3 miles) S
Bintulu, Malaysia - 962.6 kms (598.2 miles) SW
Sibu, Malaysia - 1123.1 kms (697.9 miles) SW
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Legaspi, Philippines - 662.7 kms (411.8 miles) NE
Tacloban City, Philippines - 707.1 kms (439.4 miles) ENE
Iloilo, Philippines - 430.4 kms (267.5 miles) ENE
Mactan, Philippines - 578 kms (359.2 miles) E
Surigao, Mindanao, Philippines - 740.3 kms (460 miles) E
Zamboanga City, Philippines - 482.9 kms (300.1 miles) SE
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Climate Guides for Locations near Jerba
Bizerte, Tunisia - 386.2 kms (240 miles) NNW
Tunis, Tunisia - 333.4 kms (207.2 miles) N
Annaba (Les Salines), Algeria - 424.7 kms (263.9 miles) NW
Jendouba, Tunisia - 341.5 kms (212.2 miles) NNW
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Gafsa, Tunisia - 189.6 kms (117.8 miles) WNW
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Pantelleria, Italy - 345.4 kms (214.7 miles) NNE
Luqa, Malta - 404.5 kms (251.3 miles) NE
Lampedusa Island, Italy - 248.1 kms (154.2 miles) NE
Djerba, Tunisia - 31.5 kms (19.6 miles) S
Tripoli, Libya - 258.6 kms (160.7 miles) ESE
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SPI Energy's EdisonFuture Subsididiary Strengthens EV Supply Chain and Sales Infrastructure through Joint Agreement with Liuzhou Liancheng Industrial Co., Ltd. and Guangxi Dazhou Automobile Sales Co., Ltd.
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November 09, 2020 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- SANTA CLARA, CA / ACCESSWIRE / November 9, 2020 / SPI Energy Co., Ltd., /zigman2/quotes/207301620/composite SPI -6.48% (the "Company"), a global renewable energy company and provider of photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) solutions for business, residential, government, logistics and utility customers and investors, today announced its wholly owned EdisonFuture, Inc. ("EdisonFuture") subsidiary signed a joint strategic cooperation framework agreement with Liuzhou Liancheng Industrial Co., Ltd. ("Liancheng") and Guangxi Dazhou Automobile Sales Co., Ltd. ("Dazhou").
Liancheng is a leading China-based international exporter of EVs and EV parts serving a global customer base through its established network of manufacturing partners in China. Dazhou is a leading EV reseller in Guangxi Autonomous Region in China with a strong sales record and well-established customer base.
"By establishing our joint agreement with Liancheng and Dazhou, combined with our previously announced partnership already underway, we have rapidly built a strong foundation for long-term growth in the multi-billion-dollar EV market," stated Xiaofeng Peng, Chairman and CEO of SPI Energy.
Under the terms of the agreement, Liancheng will supply EV parts to EdisonFuture's assembly facility in Fresno County, California and will leverage its international relationships to help EdisonFuture establish access to market opportunities in South America and the Asia Pacific region.
Dazhou, which sells next generation smart electric pickup trucks, busses, and logistic vehicles, manufactured by selected leading Chinese companies, in Guangxi Autonomous Region in China, will help implement its proven and effective sales and marketing platform and after-sales service system for EdisonFuture.
Sales of EVs topped 2.1 million globally in 2019, surpassing record sales in 2018. EVs, which accounted for 2.6% of global car sales and about 1% of global car stock in 2019, registered a 40% year-on-year increase.
The infrastructure for EV charging grew to 7.3 million chargers globally in 2019. Publicly accessible chargers accounted for 12% of global light-duty vehicle chargers in 2019, most of which are slow chargers. Globally, the number of publicly accessible chargers (slow and fast) increased by 60% in 2019 compared with the previous year, higher than the electric light-duty vehicle stock growth.
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SPI Energy Co., Ltd. (SPI) is a global renewable energy company and provider of photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) solutions for business, residential, government, logistics and utility customers and investors. The Company provides a full spectrum of EPC services to third party project developers, as well as develops, owns and operates solar projects that sell electricity to the grid in multiple countries, including the U.S., the U.K., Greece, Japan and Italy. The Company has its US headquarters in Santa Clara, California and maintains global operations in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. SPI is also targeting strategic investment opportunities in green industries such as battery storage and charging stations, leveraging the Company's expertise and growing base of cash flow from solar projects and funding development of projects in agriculture and other markets with significant growth potential.For more information on SPI Energy and its subsidiaries, the Company recommends that stockholders, investors and any other interested parties read the Company's public filings and press releases available under the Investor Relations section at www.SPIgroups.com or available at www.sec.gov .
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Penciltwister
En litteraturblog af Jenny Johannessen
Metro Literature
On 08/01/2012 by Penciltwister With 0 Comments - 2012, The power of literature
If you forgot your book, your mp3-player, your smartphone, your laptop, your magazine, in conclusion yourself, on the Copenhagen Metro there is always an alternative solution to staring at the punch-date on your ticket coupon ’til you go blind. As proponents of happy, smiley customers (adding a bit of branding techniques inspired by the bastard of humanities ideology) the Metro company is kind enough to include literature as one of their services starting in the dark and wet hours of November (who even likes November, it’s the middle child of blah and irk) – I do apologize for the now apparent, even to me, snarly tone. I don’t know where it came from, I promised myself to be positive. Anyways, the Metro Company, in cooperation with Subway Letteratura, has put up a cardboard box (called Literary Jukeboxes) filled with 13 young authored, contest-won stories at the metro stations, under the spiffy name Metro Literature. The goal, as is written on Metro Literature’s webpage, is to “promote the creation and reading of high quality literature by circulating the Jukeboxes and other means and events.” What those other means and events are, is unclear to me at this point, but they also state that response has been overwhelming, and this project will give both young authors a forum for presenting works, and readers the insight in the “latest trends of prose and poetry.” I don’t find it surprising that there is a heavy response to a contest; people love contests, authors need outlets, and it is an exciting way for young people to live out their fantasies in the search of their own identity. And yay for that, and yay for fantasy and identity searches.
However, I chose to remain skeptical for a little while of the project itself, because I have a problem with the believability of the sender and applicability of intention. Granted, for the contest itself there has been a jury set up of authors, a translator, a graphic designer, a literary agent and a publisher. But communication-wise the sender is after all still a transportation service, not even close, in my mind, to a cultural intermediary, and there are just so many easy ways to shoot this “we-wanna-be-part-of-the-trendsetters-with-our-innovative-approaches-to-culture”-ideology down. I love public transportation, it’s a good service in itself, and I am all for the notion of interactive spaces, where urban life shows itself as a living organism. I just think there are fine examples of circumventing the traditional route in public spaces for texts and authors, whose innovative playfulness shows plentiful these days without playing into the hands of metro companies and McDonald’s joints. It causes unnecessary muddling of communication lines and in some cases reception-fatigue. It will come to no surprise that I don’t think it should be in the hands of these companies – not to say they should be excluded, it just doesn’t seem to be a cooperation of the creative and economic forces, more like the latter acting as patron, 14th century style, to the former which gives me the shingles. I will say about the participants in the Metro Literature project that the writing in itself is not bad as such in the pamphlets I’ve read – I just think it is a shame that their stories are placed in a transitory setting with a dubious co-sender, where their contribution becomes more of a read, throwaway and non-contemplatory contribution in urbanity’s many visual and textual offers. And the texts don’t question their place or role in this setting or themselves as texts, so in reality they are merely reproducing the chain of recyclable written material which is lost in and to the crowd immediately after publication. Maybe that also explains my fault in the matter – I can’t transcend the setting/sender.
In contrast to this project there is a project called Ordskælv! It is inspired by and draws information from author Dave Eggers‘ non-profit project in San Francisco, 826 Valencia, and has been initiated by local organization Hygge Factory, organized by the local library and school with support from different other institutions, including The Ministry of Culture. Ordskælv! encouraged young people from 2200 Nørrebro (Copenhagen) to write and illustrate their own stories in 2200 words – performing in essence a collective conceptual work – and in 2010 they published their writings in a book called ‘2200 N – orakler, shawarmaer og bristede fordomme’ (2200 N – oracles, shawarma’s and burst prejudice’). The book is a chance for youths in Nørrebro to use their creative talent in telling their story and show others the plethora of lifestyles and -choices that Nørrebro has to offer when, for the most part, Nørrebro is branded as a troubled part of Copenhagen. Hygge Factory has continued this work in Ordskælv! 2012, where youths write essays about losing a loved one and will be publishing their works in cooperation with artists who will illustrate each writer’s essay in March. As it is a project originating in, and funded by, institutions such as libraries and schools, we must not forget that there is a matter of learning curve to be included in the success criteria. But I would nonetheless deem this to be a far favorable milieu for creative exercise and supportive community than the usual notion of writers in their ivory towers.
The participants make all decisions on layout and content with the help of volunteers who offer a wide field of competences to the youths, from creative writing, to publishing. As such they are actively involved in the collective process, which appeals to me greatly, and they get a sense of ownership that transcends any isolated participation as I would imagine the Metro competition has been.
conceptual literature, metro literature, orskælv!, urbanity
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Title: The Pharaoh's Daughter
Author: Mesu Andrews
Publisher: Water Brooke
“Fear is the most fertile ground for faith.”
“You will be called Anippe, daughter of the Nile. Do you like it?” Without waiting for a reply, she pulls me into her squishy, round tummy for a hug.
I’m trying not to cry. Pharaoh’s daughters don’t cry.
When we make our way down the tiled hall, I try to stop at ummi Kiya’s chamber. I know her spirit has flown yet I long for one more moment. Amenia pushes me past so I keep walking and don’t look back.
Like the waters of the Nile, I will flow.
Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt’s good god Pharaoh, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her or her siblings at any moment. She watched him snatch her mother and infant brother during childbirth, a moment which awakens in her a terrible dread of ever bearing a child. Now she is to be become the bride of Sebak, a kind but quick-tempered Captain of Pharaoh Tut’s army. In order to provide Sebak the heir he deserves and yet protect herself from the underworld gods, Anippe must launch a series of deceptions, even involving the Hebrew midwives—women ordered by Tut to drown the sons of their own people in the Nile.
When she finds a baby floating in a basket on the great river, Anippe believes Egypt’s gods have answered her pleas, entrenching her more deeply in deception and placing her and her son Mehy, whom handmaiden Miriam calls Moses, in mortal danger.
As bloodshed and savage politics shift the balance of power in Egypt, the gods reveal their fickle natures and Anippe wonders if her son, a boy of Hebrew blood, could one day become king. Or does the god of her Hebrew servants, the one they call El Shaddai, have a different plan—for them all?
In the last couple of years, I have plunged head first into Biblical fiction. Years ago, there wasn't as big as a selection as there is today. A part of that growth is in part to Mesu Andrews' books. And what books they are!
Mesu Andrews has traveled around in the Old Testament from Dinah to Jezebel's Granddaughter. The range of research that she puts into her books is phenomenal and even though her work is Biblical fiction, she does her best to stay as true to the original story as presented in the Bible, but with added fiction to fill in and make the story more relateable and with a little more adventure.
I have always loved ancient Egypt. It was one of my favorite eras to study in history class. There is just so much there and it all hasn't been discovered yet, which was just proven this past week with some archeological digs going on. Mesu Andrews just brought her beautiful writing, to my favorite time and my goodness how they mesh!
I think it is safe to say, most people know the story of Moses, whether through Sunday school or Cecil B. Demil's classic that is a tradition in my house every Easter. We know Moses was raised in a palace and by Pharaoh's daughter. Mesu takes this story deeper and connects us more with a very thought out and possible timeline (one we may never know for certain, but this one was great!) and one that you didn't know where it would fully lead you after what is known.
I wasn't sure how I would feel reading about Anippe, when we are first really introduced to her, she comes off as a bit spoiled, which I can get being with her a princess, but as you get to know her through the constant shifting time of life, I grew to care for her as her character opened up. I applauded her for standing up for her sister, who in all honesty, got so many second chances from her. Anippe had a deep love for Ankhe, even with Ankhe's firmly planted bitterness. I was back and forth on my feelings for Anippe's sister. How she was treated was heartbreaking by all of those who should have been closest to her, but her response was harsh and at times cruel.
In comparison, Anippe faced her struggles with grace and she grew and learned from them. She had a deep love for her son, Mehy and in her way cared for his birth family. It was the connection that helped her to grow and be saved in so many ways. It opened her up to new possibilities.
It was also in this story, that we get to meet Miriam. We are introduced to her as a young girl among the rushes, as she watched after her baby brother to being a midwife in the skilled labor slave camp where she and her family lived. After reading these parts about her, I can't wait for Miriam's story! Miriam was a gentle soul who cared and loved all those around her. I can't wait see how Miriam's story is expanded on.
Mered was a wonderful character to read about. He has such love and dedication to his family, along with a strong friendship to Sebak, his master. Mered was honorable and he was valued for the work and dedication he offered. Despite everything that was going on and that he and his family were enslaved, he tried to keep positive for his family and those around him and also watching after to protect everyone.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I'm so glad I closed out 2014 on such a high note.
Too Read!
Mesu Andrews is the award-winning author of Love Amid the Ashes, Love's Sacred Song, and Love in a Broken Vessel. Winner of the 2012 ECPA Christian Book Award for New Author, she has devoted herself to passionate and intense study of Scripture, bringing the biblical world vividly alive for her readers. She lives in Washington. Learn more at www.mesuandrews.com.
Thank you to the author and to Mesu's BFF Group, I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review.
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Greymoore - Session 10
We had the 10th session of our Greymoore game last night.
Liam Callahan - a 17 year old human farm boy who constantly has his head in the clouds (you guessed it. The Hero!). Liam hails from the "Road's End Villages" the far North Western section of the Kingdom of Cerimea, not that anyone particularly remembers that.
Ilian Holhan - A 19 year old apprentice mage Seraphim who has come down to the surface (accompanied by his mentor and master) to further his studies on the weather as well as several other studies for his magical pursuits.. The Seraphim are a race of winged scholars and magi who live high above the clouds.
Abar Dan Rab Beynonn - A 19 year old Azrian Sword Dancer. The Azrian are a tribe of humans that live in cities in the forests (think Sherwood from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves), they are some of the premiere sword fighters in the land, using a style that emphasizes grace and finesse over power.
Genru Crabshall - A Dwarven caravan guard from the Dwarf's War Caste. Genru hails from the famed floating cities of the Dwarves, though it has been years since he has seen home. Assigned to a guard a caravan heading to the northern provinces of Cerimea.
Ornu Tana Dar - An experienced Elven Woodsman, Ornu is specifically trained to be able to counter rogues, spies, and assassins, and also in taking out larger groups of opponents as quickly and efficiently possible. One year ago (beginning of the game) he was sent to retrieve Darcy back to the Kingdom so that officials could speak to her on matters of some importance to the Elven kingdom.
The session started with the aftermath of the battle to rescue Liam from the six grey skinned warriors. Checking people's injuries and healing them, Ilian released the spell he had put on everyone for stamina causing himself and Darcy to promptly collapse into sleep from exhaustion. Rab, Grenru, Ornu, and Liam divided up the watches between them, and everyone slept for the night with a one person watch up for the night.
The next morning, when everyone was awake, Liam gathered everyone together. He thanked Ilian for pulling him off of their prisoner, apologizing for his rage. He also admitted that the gravity of the situation and him being a target had finally struck home, that anyone who was with him was likely to be in real danger, and that he didn't want people to get hurt because of him. He said he'd understand if everyone wanted to go away, and that he would go onwards on his own. Everyone looked at him as if he was crazy and said that they were staying.
Darcy took over next, speaking a bit about the severity of the situation, and the fact that there was more going on than they expected. One of the groups had been going after Rab after all. Rab tried to dismiss it as a case of mistaken identity, something Darcy and Ilian shot down immediately as if nothing else their enemy has proven that they are not morons and while it may be a case of mistaken identity, until they know otherwise they should not assume so.
Renewed, at least for the moment, with a sense of purpose the group got everything ready to continue the titan wall. Leaving only the case of what to do with their prisoner. After some debate, they decided to interrogate him with the caveat that if the prisoner tried to escape or harm them that they would kill him. Ornu took the lead on the interrogation with Darcy near by for support and everyone else just a bit beyond that to make sure the man didn't run anywhere. Ilian released the prisoner from the sleep spell, and they awoke him.
There was no need for interrogation. The prisoner's name was Todoku, a soldier in the Devrean army that was up here for some purpose he didn't know (decisions was not his department). His superior was another Devrean named Shashin - the same Shashin from the Azrian village - and their orders came down from someone known as the Falling Leaf. Though he clarified he did not know if the Falling Leaf was also known as Brighid. He gave a number for armies, at least six each numbering in the hundreds of thousands - though it was possible he was having trouble with numbers while speaking a foreign language - and beyond those armies there were at least 10 dragons. The Falling Leaf has at least two lieutenants, The Chosen - a champion of the gods, and someone named Sora. Though he had never seen either of them, the mission was to bring Liam to the Chosen near the wall. The reason simply because Liam is important, beyond that he didn't know. Why was he answering all of this? Because it didn't matter as there was nothing he felt the party could do. He was shocked by the lack of ability for shadow stepping, and gave some vague information on how it worked. Particularly that it was like breathing for his people. Just something they did and learned to do like walking. He also implied that a code of honor made him answer questions, but not to offer information freely. Though he wouldn't answer further down that line of questioning. At least not with clear answers.
Satisfied with their answer, Ilian put the Devrean back to sleep - though this time with the ability for him to wake up on his own - and the group headed out for the Titan Wall. Changing their course to arrive some distance away from where they felt that the Devrean had been bringing Liam. Weeks of travel later (probably month or two) they arrived at the wall. Made of stone that is 20' high and stacked at least seven tall. Flying to the top Ilian notes that it is at least 60' thick as well. Strangely, upon approaching the wall, Grenru begins to glow faintly. Though with rigorous testing this doesn't seem to be related tot he secret of the wall itself, just a strange happening. Ilian also notes that the wall is completely and thoroughly infused with warding magic, protecting the wall if nothing else, and that despite being completely in the shade almost all the time the grass immediately on the other side is still quite healthy.
The investigation however bears fruit when Liam touches the wall. An indentation forming in the wall where he touches and stretching out in a long line towards the center of the wall. The group knows the Chosen will be waiting for them in that direction, but they also know that they need to go that way, so off they go. A few days of travel later, following the wall, and they see him standing and waiting for them. A 6' tall brute of a man fully encased in plate mail. He reminds them of Malik, only he is a good foot and a third shorter than their friend. They challenge him on purpose, he tells them he is to bring Liam through the wall to claim his sword and take his rightful place at the Falling Leaf's side. He will not let the party go through alone, as their purpose is against the will of the gods, and the gods wish to restore everything to how it was at the beginning. A clean slate so balance can be renewed properly from the get go. The PCs take heart when they realize that if he is there to stop them, that all is not lost. If Liam has to be stopped or recruited than the wiping of th eslate can be stopped. The Chosen simply responds that everything has its rules.
It is then that Ilian notices that the Chosen is positioned horribly to guard where the line in the wall ends, the supposed placement of the door. The group backs off a bit to make a plan. Grenru will keep the Chosen busy, buying Liam the time to get to the door and open it so they can get through before joining them. They're sure that Grenru will die, but he volunteered for it himself and seems the most likely to get the job done. Their plan in place, they put it into action.
Grenru charges, sweeping the Chosen off his feet with an axe, the blade chips and cracks on the Chosen's leg but manages to knock him to the ground. The group runs for the wall, Ilian staying put to provide magical support for Grenru while Rab and Ornu position themselves as secondary speed bumps for the Chosen. The Chosen gets back to his feet and hammers a blow into the dwarf. A more painful blow than the dwarf has ever received in one hit but still Grenru manages to stay standing. Liam hits the wall, and immediately a huge chunk of it recedes 10-15' and takes the form of a much more ornate Castle front wall, complete with a large doorway. Ilian uses magic to encase the dwarf in a further layer of protection as the earth itself encapsulates the dwarf as a second layer of armor. The chosen avoids the Dwarf's next attacks, but also sees the doorway forming. Realizing he's been played he breaks off and runs to intercept Liam before he can make it to the door itself.
Ornu tries to tackle the Chosen, Rab trying to hit him high with the pommel of his sword. They stagger the Chosen one step, but do not stop him. Ornu being dragged along on the Chosen's legs from his failed tackle attempt. Ilian tries magic again, raising an angled wall right in front of the charging Chosen. The wall won't stop the charge, but with the help of the angle it does deflect it and buy everyone more time. Liam makes it to the door, noting that there is an indentation for a sword in the middle, however that doesn't matter as the doors begin to open automatically as he approaches.
Still trying to stop the Chosen's advance, Ornu attempts to hamstring a leg while hanging off of it, his sickle piercing the chainmail but not the skin of the Chosen. Almost losing the weapon in the attempt. Grenru however charges up behind the chosen, faster than a dwarf should be, and leaping into the air grabs the Chosen by his head and bulldogs him to the ground. Ilian encases the lower half of the Chosen's body in earth, Ornu and Rab run for the door and Grenru begins to head for it as well managing to avoid having his leg grabbed by the Chosen in the process. The Chosen angrily breaks the earth holding him down and stands, finally spotting that it is the Seraphim causing the magical ruckus he throws a chunk of earth and nails the young winged mage just as it tries to fly over him to the door.
Ilian crashes down hard to the ground, Darcy points it out and Rab runs out to collect their friend. Grenru, seeing the downed mage and Rab going for it, turns to face the charge of the Chosen once more. Taking his axe in both hands, he chokes up on it like a bat and swings for the fences. The blade shatters with the force of the impact, but the shaft holds strong, nailing the Chosen just below the throat. The full force of the Dwarf's blow sending the Chosen into a backflip before slamming him into the ground stunned. Everyone makes it to the door and through, the doors closing behind Liam as soon as he is far enough in and sealing out the Chosen.
On the other side, they see that everything looks exactly the same as it did on the other side before the battle. only everything is a mirror reflection. The sun is now rising in the west, trees are on their opposite side. The only thing missing from the picture is the Chosen himself, and the lasting effects of Ilian's spells. Wounds are checked again, after the shock of what they're seeing is gotten over. Everyone also notices that they want to go in different directions, like they are being called.
Turning a map over, they try to figure out where everyone wants to go. Grenru wishes to go straight west, towards the oceans and presumably the Dwarven cities. Liam wants to go South East, which would (on the mirrored map) bring him back to the Roads End Villages eventually. Ornu wants to go straight South, bringing him to the Elven kingdoms. Ilian wants to go towards the sun in the sky, to the Seraphim cities presumably. Darcy has no pull anywhere, and Rab wants to go to the South West. The only thing significant along that line though is Castle Wyvern.
The response to Rab's realization sets Darcy on edge, and everyone picks up on it. There are secrets here, important secrets in Rab's life that Darcy is keeping from him. He confronts her on it, she refuses to speak, and Rab gets angry. Liam decides that they can at least hit Rab, his, and Ornu's 'want to go' places easily enough and they head off. About a week before they hit Wyvern itself though, Darcy finally opens up.
She and Ornu tell the story of the fall of Castle Wyvern. A night when Darcy, acting as an agent for the elves, ended a couple years of infiltration and assassinated the King of Cimerea so he could not start a war. The monsters came out of the basement and sacked the castle, the scene very much like what happened in Asgoth. She talks about the horrors she saw, about seeing a human child but she couldn't kill a child no matter her orders. So she saved the child and ran off, breaking off fromt he plan. Ornu tells of his side of the mission, providing cover and an escape root. The emergence of the monsters and everything going to hell. He tells of the death of his team, and how he alone made it out.
Darcy goes on to tell that she brought the child to the Azrian and then went home to the elves. Coming back to check on the child as it grew, doing good things for him, doing terrible things for him. Eventually, as she had to go back to the elves again, comingback to meet his son, Rab, and deciding to go on from there with her life. Rab still thinks there is more, btu Darcy is not speaking on it in public. Ilian recommends they do so privately and not in front of the group. They agree.
The next night, on second watch the moon stops above them. It grows larger, there is a blinding white light...and the session closes.
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West Musgrave Prospectivity
The West Musgrave Region is highly prospective for intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE deposits and IOCG deposits for the following reasons:
It is of Proterozoic age which is a peak time for the development of Ni-Cu-PGE and IOCG deposits worldwide and has a favourable structural setting and source rocks, which include the massive mafic-ultramafic Giles Complex and A-type Tollu Granite.
The Giles Complex is one of the largest layered mafic-ultramafic intrusive complexes in the world and is related to the continental-scale Warakurna Igneous Province. Large intrusive complexes elsewhere host magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE deposits (i.e. Voisey’s Bay, Canada and Duluth, USA).
The district has had very little modern exploration. The virtual exclusion from exploration for the 25 year period to the late 1990s (due to the Ngaanyatjarra Land Council restrictions), means that the bulk of the West Musgrave Region has never been subjected to modern exploration techniques, including for much of Redstone’s groundholding.
The West Musgrave Region is predominately blanketed by thin cover, which hindered explorers in the 1950’s and 60’s due to the lack of appropriate exploration tools at the time. This terrain is amenable to modern geochemical sampling (such as soil/lag geochemistry and Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drilling), which allows exploration for multiple commodities quickly, effectively and inexpensively.
Supergene processes are demonstrated to have created broad halos of supergene mineralisation, which not only aid exploration targeting but may yield supergene enriched minable deposits.
The distribution and diversity of known mineral occurrences, including Ni-Cu-(Co)-PGE, Ti, V, Cu-Au (with fluorine, uranium and rare earth elements: ie. potential IOCG), support the applied exploration models and strategies.
Mineral Deposits and Occurrences
There are numerous mineral occurrences in the Musgrave Block. Potential exists for Ni-Cu-PGE-Co deposits, base metals (sediment and volcanic hosted Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag) and various types of gold mineralisation. Major deposits and known mineral occurrences in the district include:
the Wingellina Nickel-Cobalt Project in the Musgrave region in WA, near the border with South Australia and Northern Territory, a large nickel laterite deposit containing 187Mt @ 1% nickel and 0.08% cobalt. Over 167M tonnes or 90% of this resource is classified as Probable Mining Reserve. This deposit was discovered in the late 1950s by Southwestern Mining Co (Inco) and is currently in feasibility studies. The deposit is associated with limonitic ocherous laterite with gem quality chrysoprase and sits atop an ultramafic intrusive of the Giles Complex.
the Claude Hills nickel laterite lies 30km east of Wingellina in South Australia and has identified an initial deposit of 33.3 million tonnes at 0.81% Ni and 0.07% Co.
Metals X who hold the Wingellina and Claude Hills Projects consider that the identified resources represent exploration on less than 25% of the known potential mineralised zones in the area.
the Nebo-Babel project, a major nickel sulphide deposit discovered by WMC in 2000 which included drill intersections of 106.5m @ 2.4% Ni, 2.7% Cu and 0.2g/t PGE, and a resource of about 1 million tonnes contained Ni and 1 million tonnes contained Cu+Co, with an in-ground value of AU$25 billion. Nebo-Babel was discovered using lag sampling and outcropped as scattered gossan, and is therefore principally a geochemical discovery. However, strong magnetic, EM and gravity anomalies highlight the massive and disseminated mineralisation which is hosted within a shallowly WSW-plunging, pipe of gabbronorite intrusive (1078Ma), offset by a fault. The style of deposit is almost identical to the giant Voisey’s Bay Ni deposit in Canada.
Cassini Resources Limited (ASX: CZI) who acquired the Nebo-Babel project from BHP Billiton in 2014, have been actively exploring in the Musgrave region and on the Nebo-Babel project. The Nebo-Babel Resource is now estimated to be 203Mt @ 0.41% Ni, 0.42% Cu. Cassini have also since identified the Succoth deposit (approximately 13km NW of Nebo-Babel). The Succoth Cu + PGE sulphide deposit has an inferred mineral resource estimate of 156Mt @ 0.6% Cu.
The Halleys Prospect Cu-PGE mineralisation identified by Redstone Resources is situated on a magmatic flow through zone on the SE flank of the Saturn intrusive complex. Redstone Resources drilling on this prospect resulted in intercepts of up to 74m @ 0.33% Cu and 0.24g/t PGE + Au including 20m @0.56% Cu, 0.32g/t PGE + Au and 0.14% Ni.
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Paris Part III – The Lumière Project
22 May, 2016 All Blogs, Café Culture, Cinema, Paris, PoetrySue
My five week stay in Paris is over and I’ve written thirteen new poems. This is more than my average annual output so I’m feeling very pleased and slightly smug. The combination of one of the most beautiful and inspiring cities in the world, the thematic starting point of considering films set in Paris and my own strong relationship with this city have all done the trick in more ways than I could have hoped. I feel incredibly privileged to have had this opportunity thanks to the grant I received from the Arts Council to develop my writing over the next twelve months. I was so excited by this opportunity that I’d already written the first of the thirteen new poems by the time the train pulled in to the Gare du Nord on Day 1!
My wonderful rented apartment in Cité de Trevise in the ninth arrondissement was just round the corner from Les Folies Bergeres in Rue Richer. In one direction it was a15-minute walk to République along the Rue Chateau d’Eau which, at certain intersections was like a scene from The Wire, although thankfully far less threatening with cool black guys on the corners doing lots of amicable shouting to each other, the giveaway being the large wads of money they were clutching…. Fifteen minutes the other way and I could be at Opéra Garnier and the Grands Boulevards or Montmartre and Pigalle.
I spent hours wandering the streets checking out film locations, discovering that Julie Delpy’s flat in Before Sunrise was very close to mine in the hard to find Passage des Petites Ecuries. One of Edith Piaf’s favourite restaurants Julien, a belle époque gem where I had a lovely lunch, was just round the corner. Marion Cotillard got to sit in Piaf’s favourite booth when they filmed La Vie en Rose.
I did eight guided walks, five by the excellent company Paris Walks www.pariswalks.com where I gained a real insight into the history, development and personalities of the city; and three by the wonderful Juliette of Ciné Balades www.cine-balade.com who visits film locations in specific areas, explains the history of the area and shows extracts of films on her i-pad as we stand in the very spot where they were shot. One of my favourites was the Truffaut walk. I began my stay in Paris looking for Truffaut’s grave in Montmartre Cemetery and after several fruitless, but very enjoyable, visits gave up until Juliette pointed me in the right direction and I finished my stay in Paris by finding him. Strange how things come full circle…
The Paris Walks were in English, the Ciné Balades in French so, needless to say, one of the bonus elements of my stay has been the great improvement in my somewhat rusty spoken French. Those of you who know me well will be able to imagine me launching into conversations with shopkeepers, security guards, swimming pool attendants, anything to speak French! Ah yes, swimming pool attendants. On my final night I swam 30 lengths in the wonderful pool in Rue de Pontoise, the very pool where Juliette Binoche tries to swim out her grief in Krystof Kieslowski’s Blue. It was interesting to see how intensely blue they had made this environment in the film (otherwise it’s just a normal swimming pool colour). It’s an art deco pool with two-tier changing rooms and rather an eccentric method of accessing them, hence the long conversation with the attendant – we ended up arguing which city was more beautiful, London or Paris. Paris of course!
I met a really interesting artist and writer, Grace Ndiritu (check out www.gracendiritu.com) as well as two talented prose writers, Rosemary Milne and Isabelle Llasera. I was also very fortunate that the fabulous Irish poet and academic Mary Noonan was staying very close by on a sabbatical researching aspects of French theatre along with the equally fabulous Matthew Sweeney. Paul Stephenson, soon to move to Brussels, was enjoying his last few weeks in Paris so I was able to get plenty of creative stimulation talking to these wonderful poets.
I first met Grace at Shakespeare & Company at the launch of Emma Beddington’s We’ll Always Have Paris, a witty memoir about failing to live successfully in the city. I would strongly recommend checking out the events listings for Shakespeare & Company. The new cafe next door has the best expresso in town and one of the best views (opposite Notre Dame no less!) and it’s a truly iconic bookshop with a fascinating history. Sadly, the founder, George Whitman, died recently but his daughter Sylvia is carrying on the very good work. I went back towards the end of my stay for a poetry reading by Jack Hirschman and Heather Hartley. Heather Hartley’s excellent Adult Swim is well worth a look and Jack, well, he’s just a legend. A Beat poet, sacked by UCLA for encouraging his students to dodge the draft, he read from The Viet Arcane, a collection that has been many years in the making. His delivery was pure Beat and after each passionately delivered poem his French translator took the stage and read beautifully crafted translations. As we staggered outside we noticed that there were chairs in the little courtyard with relay speakers…. so my other recommendation is, always get there early for S and Co readings!
Boosted by Grace I went to the zany Café Culture Rapide in Belleville where they have open mic evenings and tried out two of my new poems on a very supportive audience, although slightly freaked out by the ritual that if it’s your first time there they shriek “Virgin! Virgin!” as you battle your way to the stage.
As well as following my nose and wandering like a true flâneuse, I also visited specific locations and one of my favourites was the Café des Deux Moulins where Amélie Poulain works in Amélie. My top tip if you are in a hurry or broke, or both, is to stand or sit at the bar and knock back your drink. My expressos were all around a euro using this method. And my other tip is, if you can’t decide whether to have dessert or coffee or both then opt for a caée gourmand – you’ll get a selection of mini desserts from the menu all tastefully grouped around an expresso.
Did I find a substitute for Le Charlotte en L’Isle (see Paris Part II – Rue de Lappe)? I did indeed, the wonderful My Place in Rue St Lazare, bursting with Parisian shabby chic and lovely home-made food.
I saw a dozen or so films during my stay, partly because I wanted to visit cinemas which had appeared in French films (a particular trait of New Wave directors who loved to pay homage to the world of cinema). One of the highlights was Cinema MacMahon, just off the Arc de Triomphe, a real gem of a cinema in glowing red velvet with the original ticket booth. It’s the only cinema I can think of where it’s more essential to visit the ladies toilets than to see a film – this is where Jean Seberg climbed out of the toilet window to escape the cops and rejoin Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless. They were having a John Ford season so I saw How Green Was My Valley.
On the 11 May I met Jack Toye (Picturehouse Cambridge Marketing Manager) and Sarah McIntosh (Cambridge Film Festival Short Film Programmer) for a strong early morning coffee at Gare du Lyon and then waved them off, slightly green-tinged with envy, as they sped southwards for ten days at the Cannes Film Festival. I compensated by going to iconic cinema Studio 28 in Montmartre to see the Cannes opening ceremony followed by a preview of the opening night film Woody Allen’s Café Society. What’s so special about Studio 28? Ah, so many things, for a start it has wacky chandeliers designed by Jean Cocteau and it’s the cinema Amélie goes to watch the audience rather than the film. It was one of the first arthouse cinemas in Paris, opening in 1928 with Abel Gance’s Napoléon and the scene of a riot in 1930 at the première of Buῆuel’s L’Age d’Or.
A short walk from my apartment was the Luxour which soon became my local cinema. It’s the most gorgeously restored 1921 picture palace opposite the elevated metro at Barbès Rochechouart so it could have been my local cinema when I lived there in the 1980s but at that time it was the largest gay nightclub in Paris. One of the many films I saw here was The Extravagant Mr Deeds, with my oldest friend and fellow cinephile Sally, during the cinema’s Capra season.
I did a one-day research trip which was really enjoyable – a quick zip down to Lyons to check out the Institut Lumière, one of the places that can truly claim to be the birthplace of cinema as we know it today. I stood on the spot where the cinematograph had been placed to film the Lumière factory workers leaving their shift, one of the earliest films and one which was included in the nine films shown to the first paying audience at the Salon Indien in the Grand Café (now the basement conference room in the Hotel Scribe on Boulevard des Capucines).
Site of the Lumiere Factory
And finally, a very nice bonus was my friend and poetic mentor, Heidi Williamson, coming to stay to look through what I’d written and offer support and feedback. Heidi is an excellent mentor and also a writing coach. She gave me a really insightful coaching session on the way forward with my current work and ideas – check out her website www.heidiwilliamsonpoet.com. And in return I did a Sue’s Parisian Highlights Tour, watch out Paris Walks, there’s a new kid in town!
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Fire Breaks out at 301-303 Grand St.; Fundraiser Supports Grand Tea and Imports
Photos: FDNY Twitter.
Just after midnight on Thursday, a big fire broke out at 301-303 Grand St., a 3 story building at Allen Street. Three firefighters were treated for minor injuries.
As City Council member Margaret Chin noted later in the day on Thursday, “Our office was on the scene today to offer support to those affected by last night’s fire at 301 and 303 Grand St. This bakery and dollar store were beloved by so many members of our community. We must continue to look out for our small businesses.”
One of the impacted businesses is Grand Tea and Imports. Here’s what the owners had to say on their Instagram feed:
Sometimes when you take a big leap forward, you will hit a couple of snags. We felt this last night when a three-alarm fire hit our store and severely damaged inventory that we were going to move to our new location. We were one of three victims in the Grand Street fire and came out with extensive inventory loss. Initial estimates puts the amount at $60K. We incurred more than just financial losses though. We had teas and antiques dating more than 30 years old. And treasures that our family collected from all parts of China for years are no longer replaceable. We are incredibly grateful that in the aftermath of this event, we have been supported by friends and family from all corners. Though times have been tough, we are inspired by everyone’s support to keep rallying. We will survive this and we will be open again soon.
The newish organization, Send Chinatown Love, has set up a fundraising page for the business, and more than $16,000 has been donated so far. And you can visit the new location at 300 Grand St.
Sometimes when you take a big leap forward, you will hit a couple of snags. We felt this last night when a three-alarm fire hit our store and severely damaged inventory that we were going to move to our new location. We were one of three victims in the Grand Street fire and came out with Extensive inventory loss. Initial estimates puts the amount at $60K. We incurred more than just financial losses though. We had teas and antiques dating more than 30 years old. And treasures that our family collected from all parts of China for years are no longer replaceable. We are incredibly grateful that in the aftermath of this event, we have been supported by friends and family from all corners. Though times have been tough, we are inspired by everyone’s support to keep rallying. We will survive this and we will be open again soon. @sendchinatownlove has set up a fundraiser page for our fire recovery (link in bio). Please help us spread the word!
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Our office was on the scene today to offer support to those affected by last night’s fire at 301 and 303 Grand St. This bakery and dollar store were beloved by so many members of our community. We must continue to look out for our small businesses. pic.twitter.com/Rx5PdR3A6f
— Margaret S. Chin (@CM_MargaretChin) September 17, 2020
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Five Alarm Fire Tears Through Chinatown Building That’s Home to Several Non-Profits
Photos from FDNY.
A five alarm fire broke out in a city-owned building at 70 Mulberry St. last night, injuring nine people and impacting several non-profit organizations housed in the property across from Columbus Park in the heart of Chinatown.
A 59-year-old civilian was rescued from the fifth floor and taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center for smoke inhalation. Eight firefighters also suffered minor smoke inhalation. The building includes offices for the Chinatown Manpower Project (CMP), historic archives owned by the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), offices of the United East Athletics Association (UEAA), as well as Chen Dance Center and a senior center run by Chinese American Planning Council (CPC).
The fire erupted at about 8:40 p.m. on the fourth floor and spread quickly on account of the historic building’s wooden interior and, as Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro explained, “many things in it that are flammable.” The fire was so intense that firefighters were forced to withdraw from the building and battle the blaze from ladder trucks. Nigro added, “(The flames) went out of the fourth floor windows, into the fifth floor windows, extended quite rapidly and quite rapidly through the roof of almost the entire structure. “So it’s very heavily damaged.” An eyewitness, Anthony Lei, told Channel 2, “I heard a big explosion. Once I turned around, I saw the flame coming out. I was a little bit shocked, as well as everyone else.”
On Twitter last night, Mayor de Blasio said, “This building is home to many local non profits and a senior center that serves as a pillar to the Chinatown community. I know the neighborhood is in shock tonight. We’re going to help the community get through this.”
City Council Member Margaret Chin released a statement just after midnight last night. It read, in part:
70 Mulberry is the building where I went to school, P.S. 23, after my family immigrated to New York from Hong Kong in 1963. It has been an anchor in the Chinatown community for generations, serving as home to community groups… (that) provide cultural and youth programming, workforce development, and critical senior services. We are now working closely with these nonprofits, City Hall, NYPD 5th Precinct, and FDNY to determine how and when these groups can access their spaces safely and soundly. We are also beginning a dialogue to identify alternative spaces they can use in the interim. We must make sure vital services are not lost, and that these groups’ needs are met. I am grateful to all the first responders from Ladder 20 FDNY and the 5th Precinct for your swift action and bravery. I look forward to working with you and the Chinatown community to restore what was lost.
The Museum of Chinese in America put up a statement via Twitter this morning that reads, “MOCA is deeply saddened and shocked by the devastating fire at Chinatown’s beloved 70 Mulberry. The MOCA team stayed on site until hoses stopped last night. Have reached out to emergency conservators. Thank you for outpouring of community support re: MOCA archives. Will update.”
This morning, firefighters were still putting out hot spots. There is significant water damage inside the building. The cause of the fire has not been determined. In a briefing at the scene a short time ago, Chief of Fire Operations Thomas Richardson said, “Right now we are operating from the exterior with our tower ladder streams. We have a deep-seated fire in the roof area that is difficult to access. This will be an extended operation.”
UPDATE 11:14 a.m. The Chinese American Planning Council is out with the following statement:
CPC is deeply saddened by the devastating fire that started at 70 Mulberry Street last night, but we are grateful that it is under control and that FDNY continues to be at the scene managing the situation. 70 Mulberry Street houses CPC’s Chinatown Senior Center and other community based organizations and programs. There were no fatalities, but one serious injury and some minor injuries of the firefighters. We are sending everyone wishes for a speedy recovery. Thank you to the firefighters and first responders, to our elected partners, DFTA and our City officials, and to our community based organization partners and allies for your outpouring of support. Restoring programming for our community members is an utmost priority for us. The Chinatown Senior Center was already closed today for Lunar New Year, but we are working with our other CPC sites and community partners to restore services as soon as possible and have been communicating with all of our community members. We are deeply grateful for everyone who has offered to support.
By The Lo-Down in chinatown on January 24, 2020 9:04 am | Comments closed
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82-Year-Old Man Suffers Serious Burns in Fire at Baruch Senior Houses
Man Critically Injured In Fire At Lower East Side Building https://t.co/nLUsKNW9Jy
— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) January 16, 2017
An 82-year old man was badly burned in a fire at the Baruch senior apartments at 72 Columbia St. late last night. The fire broke out in Juan Reyes’ sixth floor apartment shortly before midnight.
Camile Napoleon, a tenant association leader, told the Daily News, “His window faces the street and I knew immediately it was him… I saw paramedics take him out the building. He was moving but I didn’t see him say anything.”
The fire was put out at about 12:25 a.m. Firefighters have not yet determined how it started. Roberto Napoleon, tenant association president, told the News that Reyes recently dismissed his home attendant because he suspected her of stealing. “She was supposed to be replaced but it’s been at least a few weeks and no one has been sent. He has been getting around on his own,” said Napoleon.
Reyes’ family lives in Cuba. Camile Napoleon described him as a “tough cookie,” but a “real good guy” who participates in all of the community events at the NYCHA complex. She told Channel 2, “He had burns on his side, he looked like, really bad burns. We’re just praying that he’s gonna be okay.” Reyes was taken to New York Presbyterian/Cornell Hospital.
By Ed Litvak in Lower East Side News on January 16, 2017 9:23 am | Comments closed
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Fire on Norfolk Street Leaves Businesses, Residents Without Power
By Ed Litvak in Breaking News on July 28, 2015 2:52 pm | Comments closed
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35 Occupants of 73 Monroe St. Displaced Following Fire
By Ed Litvak in Lower East Side News on June 10, 2015 2:17 pm | Comments closed
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Fire Breaks Out Tonight at Clinton Street Restaurant Black Crescent
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A Short-Lived Garbage Fire at Seward Park Extension
Firefighters made quick work of a garbage fire at the Seward Park Extension housing complex on Essex Street this morning. They were on the scene quickly and extinguished the blaze in a matter of minutes.
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Firefighters Respond to Dumpster Fire at Vladeck Houses
Fire at the Vladeck Houses. Photo from @cooperativelyyours.
Firefighters worked this afternoon for more than an hour to put out a fire that had been set inside a dumpster at the Vladeck Houses. The dumpster is located in a courtyard at the public housing complex, between Water and Madison streets. No one was injured, but the smoke could be seen throughout the neighborhood.
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87-Year Old Woman Dies in Fire at Vladeck Houses
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Photos: Fire at 40 Ludlow St. (Updated 2:52 p.m.)
40 Ludlow St. Photo by The Lo-Down.
A fire broke out this morning in an air shaft at 40 Ludlow St., a tenement located on the block between Grand and Hester streets. There were no reports of injuries, but most apartments suffered some damage.
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Fire Breaks Out Inside 71 Clinton St. Restaurant
Photo by Manon van den Berg.
There was some excitement on Clinton Street last night. Here was the scene after a fire was put out at DoDomPa, the restaurant at 71 Clinton Street. According to witnesses on the block, the fire happened in a wall adjacent to the bathroom. Firefighters were on the scene quickly and extinguished the blaze.
By Ed Litvak in Lower East Side News on August 30, 2013 6:05 am | Comments closed
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Awning Catches Fire at 49 Clinton St.
49 Clinton St.
A little excitement outside 49 Clinton St. this afternoon after an awning caught on fire.
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Three Firefighters Suffer Minor Injuries in Blaze at 75 Mott Street
75 Mott Street. Photos: NYC Fire Wire.
According to a report on Channel 11, three firefighters suffered minor injuries during a fire at 75 Mott Street yesterday. The fire started in a third floor apartment around 4:30 p.m. and spread to the rest of the floor, but firefighters extinguished the flames quickly.
Investigators said there was a lot of debris in the apartment, piled five feet high. The firefighters tossed a lot of it out windows. “We need(ed) to remove everything that (was) burning from the apartment, that (was) still smoldering — get it out in the event that the fire lights up again,” deputy fire chief John Esposito said.
Department of Buildings records show three violations at 75 Mott because the boilers had not been inspected.
The photo above is from NYC Fire Wire.
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One Person Hospitalized Following Fire at 157 Rivington Street
157 Rivington Street. Photos via FDNY Incidents.
About 65 firefightewrs responded to a blaze at 157 Rivington, near Clinton Street, late last night. The call came in at 1:16 a.m. according to a FDNY spokesperson. The fire started in a second floor apartment. One resident was injured and transported in serious but stable condition to an area hospital.
By Ed Litvak in Lower East Side News on October 8, 2012 12:41 pm | Comments closed
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Fire at 318 Madison Street
318 Madison Street.
We’re on the scene at 318 Madison Street, where firefighters are putting out a fire inside an apartment building. More to come…
UPDATE 10:50 a.m. The fire was contained to one apartment in the Vladeck Houses. No one was injured and firefighters extinguished the flames quickly. There was a huge response for a small fire; at least 40 firefighters were on the scene. More photos after the jump.
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Four hills tournament: longing for a high-Flyer
John Torrendo
Eight jumps, four jumps, two countries – and a big question: when, finally, the winner of the four hills tournament is coming again from Germany? The last Victor is known. More still: He has written history, since before the Coup of Sven Hanna forest, there had been world’s no ski-jumper to win all four competitions. Victory in Oberstdorf, victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, victory in Innsbruck and victory stations in Bishop. In the year 2018 it has done hannawald of the Pole Kamil Stoch equal and with four individual victories, confidently won the tour. It was Stochs Second overall victory in the series and, therefore, the ski jumping enthusiasts in Poland have great hopes that Stoch in the 67. Edition of the hat Trick is a success. But the man of the previous winter, comes not from Poland but from Japan and is called Ryoyu Kobayashi.
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Small, agile, just 22 years old. The young Japanese traveled with the recommendation of four world Cup victories this winter to Oberstdorf, where traditionally, the four-hills-tournament starts and the athletes this Saturday jump for the kick-off on Sunday to qualify. For the German Team, the national coach Werner Schuster, Markus eisenbichler (TSV Siegsdorf), Richard Freitag (SG Nickel cottage Aue), Severin Freund (WSV DJK Rastbüchl), Karl Geiger (SC Oberstdorf), Stephan Leyhe (SC Willingen), David Siegel (SC Baiersbronn) and Olympic winner Andreas wellinger (SC Ruhpolding) has been nominated, as expected, the seven ski jumpers, he is the least traveled of the world Cup to the world Cup and the period of time between the General sample in Engelberg and the tour kick-off this weekend in Oberstdorf for a last form check in Norway has used.
The Olympic venue cut Lillehammer as a stage for the final: “The weather has cooperated, and we were able to work in a concentrated and effective at the stabilization of the individual jumping technique,” says Schuster. Then the Active could then drive the “systems” down. Only Friday had a practice in patience. Instead of jump training, physiotherapy and light exercise for him on the program, in order to compensate for the effects of his fall in Engelberg. Schuster and his helpers are, but according to the Doctors confident that Friday can jump in the previous year, even as overall world Cup Leader went to the tour.
cobbler knows about the longings for a tour winner with the German eagle on the chest. But the pragmatist is also enough of a Realist to accurately assess, Wellinger, Friday, and a friend, “which formed in the past, the spearhead of the team, could not continue in the previous course of the season in the usual way”.
Satisfied, the 49-year-old head coach from the Kleinwalsertal valley, with the performances of violinist and Leyhe. “You jumped with great benefits to the Public.” And also the last form of strong and air-resistant iron Bichler is implemented in the complex sport of ski jumping in the Swiss monastery village of Engelberg succeeded, “his great technique in the Competition”. Shoemaker’s hope: “Karl and Stephan are currently our best-placed German ski jumper, and therefore belong also to the wider circle of co-favorites.”
there is a Consensus on Kobayashi role in the jump tradition event around the turn of the year. “He is the big favorite,” says Schuster, and is also one of a Polish Duo to Kobayashi worst opponents. “Piotr Zyla is ahead of Kamil Stoch and the Pace.” The German jumpers is like to trust a lot, keeps a shoemaker, due to the continuous construction work over the past years. “The show not least, two second places in the overall standings by Andreas Wellinger and Severin Freund. Both times we had to give us only the former high-Flyers Prevz and Stoch struck. Maybe we can make the next tour even a high-Flyer. The hunger for success is great, but we have learned not to force anything. We have a couple of Springer in a good Position, but they are the favourites.“
The week-long ski jumping spectacle attracts every year many viewers. The 25.500 available Tickets for the Start on Sunday in Oberstdorf, were quickly sold. “The tour is just a cult,” says the in the black forest, living Willinger Leyhe. “Such an event, there is no second Time.” For Leyhe an incentive and a challenge at the same time, also in the forthcoming German-Austrian border experience keep flying course. “Rarely has made me ski jumping is so much fun as in the last few months. The entry with the second place in Wisla was fantastic. Since then, I ended up with only a few exceptions among the Ten best in the world.“
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Iran may increase supply
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Russian gas supplies to Turkey from a western pipeline passing through Ukraine have been completely cut.
Russian gas supplies to Turkey from a western pipeline passing through Ukraine have been completely cut as a result of the Moscow-Kiev price row, the Turkish energy minister said on Tuesday. Iran may increase its gas flow.
"We are trying to compensate the cut," Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler was quoted.
He said Turkey has raised supplies of Russian gas delivered via the Blue-Stream pipeline which passes under the Black Sea to 48 million cubic meters (mcm) per day from a previous 40 mcm, and would use liquid natural gas sources as well as natural gas stores.
Turkey has taken precautions to protect against such a situation, and there is no problem for natural gas supplies.
Iran may be able to increase its natural gas supplies to Turkey if a shortfall is created by the cut off of Russian gas supplies, an Iranian embassy source told.
Iran supplies approximately a third of Turkey's gas.
Iran supplies approximately a third of Turkey's gas. Earlier Bulgaria's economy ministry said Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Macedonia via Ukraine were stopped at 3:30 am (0130 GMT) Tuesday.
Bulgaria, which relies almost entirely on Russian gas for its needs, will be worst hit as, like Macedonia, it has no access to alternative pipeline routes.
The moves came after Russia and Ukraine agreed yesterday to restart talks on their dispute and as Gazprom warned that Ukraine risks amassing a debt of ?billions of dollars? if the conflict continues.
Russia, which supplies a quarter of Europe"s gas, cut shipments to Ukraine on Jan. 1, in a repetition of a 2006 dispute which also interrupted supplies to Europe.
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Titan’s Ice Shell overlies Salty Ocean: As Salty as Earth’s Dead Sea
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NASA’s Cassini mission has given strong confirmation regarding the saltiness of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Space scientists have even compared the salt content with Earth’s Dead Sea.
The result corresponds to 10 years observation, where Cassini was busy accumulating the gravitational and topographical data. Researchers organized this information and developed a model based on Titan’s structure. This resulted in gaining better insights of the moon’s exterior ice shell.
Spilker, lead scientist at the Cassini project said that Titan is full of fascination and it comes up with new mysteries as soon as the old ones are solved. There is still long way to go before they reach to the full consensus regarding the spatial body.
Ice shell similar to saltiest bodies of water on Earth
Current findings have also supported the earlier idea concerning the icy rigid shell, which has been formed due to the process similar to freezing solid. The salts in the ocean bed might have formed due to the composition of sulfur, sodium and potassium, which makes it similar to saltiest bodies of water on Earth. However, Mitri, the lead author of the study explained that this does not conform of life as it is on Earth on the contrary, there could be conditions different in the past relatively.
Cassini’s data also insinuated the heterogeneous distribution of the ice crust. Researchers asserted that this could be because of the ocean water that is being crystallizing and morphing into ice gradually. This process is making the habitability slightly difficult over Titan since it would not allow for the exchange of the materials between the surface and the ocean.
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End of an era: Many Wii online services shutting down in June
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Nintendo is slowly phasing the original Wii out of its hardware lineup, announcing today that many of the system's online services will be permanently shut down on June 28.
Don't worry, the Wii Shop Channel will still be available for you to purchase downloadable games and redownload previous purchases. The shutdown applies to the following free online channels, which most users probably aren't using regularly in any case:
Nintendo Channel
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Everybody Votes Channel
Mii Contest Channel
You'll no longer be able to send messages or Miis to other Wii owners over the Internet, either. Nintendo also said that "message/data exchange within some games will be disabled" but didn't clarify which games this applies to, or whether online gameplay in popular titles like Mario Kart Wii or Super Smash Bros. Brawl would be affected (Nintendo refused to comment on this matter in response to an Ars request).
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Film25YL: Clear and Present Danger
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by Jason Sheppard January 2, 2019, 1:00 pm
Imagine a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster opening today which dared to criticize the United States or the powers that be who govern it. Imagine that Hollywood blockbuster depicting American lawmakers as betraying the core principles in which the country was founded on and which so many sacrificed themselves for. Imagine if that Hollywood blockbuster was directed by an outsider—an Australian—and it starred the country’s most formidable symbol of what an American hero should be, which at the time was a middle-aged everyman in a suit and tie. Imagine that everyman telling off the President of the United States in anger. It’s hard to imagine how audiences would respond to such a movie today but, 25 years ago, they flocked to it. Simpler times, indeed.
Clear and Present Danger stars Harrison Ford, once again playing CIA analyst Jack Ryan after 1992’s Patriot Games. Phillip Noyce returned to direct and the scope of this outing makes Patriot Games look like a chamber piece. The story of Clear and Present Danger is much more layered and complex than its predecessor. Not merely a tale of one noble hero protecting his family from the long-range automatics and timed explosions at the hands of a batch of bad guys; this movie crosses borders, introducing power players in high positions making life or death decisions as easily as they were ordering their morning coffee.
Jack Ryan (Ford) has now returned to the folds of the CIA much to the worry of his wife, Cathy (Anne Archer), who clearly misses the days when Jack’s biggest danger was having his student’s papers graded on time when he was an instructor. Ryan is tasked with investigating the murder of an American family with ties to the President, who have thought to have been killed by a Colombian drug cartel. When his boss, Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones), falls ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence, which places him into the hushed halls of the CIA. Ryan discovers that secrets speak very loud and when he learns of an abandoned Special Ops unit in Columbia, Ryan soon finds himself battling the CIA, dealing with a possible fallout from Congress—a former soldier of Castro’s named Félix Cortez (Joaquim de Almeida), who’s hell-bent on assuming power of Columbia’s top cartels, and seems to know about Washington’s actions before they do.
Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) warns Bob Ritter (Henry Czerny) he’s the wrong guy to mess with.
Clear and Present Danger is an extremely dense political thriller which requires attention. Credit goes to screenwriters John Milius, Donald E. Stewart, and Steven Zaillian for crafting a story bristling with tension where the first action scene doesn’t even occur until the 60-minute mark. It’s a bold decision by the writers and Noyce, especially while the action of Patriot Games began less than 10 minutes in. Ford does an incredible job in his role here. He’s got a more complex story this time, which means the character is explored through different areas. It’s a tricky thing for an actor of his stature to play someone who’s constantly being kept in the dark and even put up as a patsy (such as when he’s unknowingly lying to Congress), but the intelligence for which Ford is also known is right there. Ford was the perfect actor for this role—he has the quiet everyman quality of say a Tom Hanks, but he can kick some ass as fierce as a Stallone. He is the perfect symbol of America.
Speaking of this, the movie is full of American symbols of honor and patriotism (a billowing American flag in the wind is the first shot of the film), but this is no Michael Bay rah-rah rallying cry. The enemies depicted here are not thousands of miles away plotting their next attack on democracy; no, the enemies of Clear and Present Danger are homegrown. They walk the halls and offices of Congress and, hell, they even lie to other members of Congress. There comes a point in this movie where nobody seems to know who to trust. Should the CIA trust members up on Capitol Hill? Should the operatives in the field trust their commanding officer who trusts the operatives in chilly, wintry Washington? Should their commanding officer trust the members on the hill or the CIA operatives who suddenly arrive to rescue them?
This is a movie where lovers are not even to be trusted and, for anyone who has seen this film, the phrase “the machine is still on, Moira” still sends a chill up the neck. Even the CIA co-workers don’t trust each other (whoever knew a paper jam in an office printer could be ripe for creating such fingernail-biting character and story tension?) Betrayal is a common trait established by nearly everybody in Clear and Present Danger (except our hero). It’s a movie where characters justify their secrets among each other no matter what the cost or how many casualties it leads to.
Clark (Willem Dafoe) and Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) shooting their way out of Ernesto Escobedo’s Colombian mansion where a Black Ops chopper is waiting for them.
In 1996, the British director Mike Leigh made the film Secrets & Lies, and one can’t help but feel that title would have been a fitting one for this movie, as Clear and Present Danger is full of such things. Secrets, lies, betrayals, and it even adds an element of loss that Patriot Games did not. It’s amazing now to think that a major studio would finance a movie such as Clear and Present Danger, and release it smack in the midst of the blockbuster season. The studio, Paramount, probably didn’t anticipate that its other summer ’94 movie, Forrest Gump, would rule the box office but there you go. Today, it would be considered daring for a studio to take such a gamble (although the still-running Mission: Impossible series plays as a distant relative to these early ’90s Jack Ryan movies). I very much hope we see a summer filled with the intelligent and intriguing movies like we had in 1994 very soon.
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“Whoa, what’s that approaching Mars, a comet breaking apart?” he said as he excitedly examined the images. He realized it would be quite a find for an amateur astronomer — another Shoemaker-Levy 9 magnitude event. But to make sure it wasn’t just hot pixels or other phantom artifacts, he returned to his backyard telescope and took another hundred exposures with a different camera and filter. Satisfied, he submitted coordinates and photos for others to confirm his discovery. But what they confirmed was that the objects streaming toward the red planet were not cometary fragments.
“They are alien spaceships, Mr. President, hundreds of them, a fleet orbiting the planet, and several already on the surface.” NASA’s Administrator offered several photos, “These were taken by our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. All the ships are outwardly identical, over a mile long and about a third of a mile wide.”
“How far are they from Mars Colony?”
“Thousands of miles. And that may be deliberate. The Colony revealed itself by trying to contact them during their approach. The aliens could have landed near it, or on it, if they’d wanted to.”
It was always a stretch to call the half-buried habitat and the dozen scientists within a “colony.” It was more like an antarctic research station, whose nine surviving staff members were hunkered down against an environment hostile to life.
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“They may not communicate by radio or any other means we’re familiar with. Or they may not want to communicate.”
“So, what do you recommend that we do?”
“Nothing. The Colony can ration supplies to last two years. I urge you to put a hold on upcoming Mars missions and ask other nations to do likewise. The aliens are far ahead of us technologically and until we have established communication we should not do anything they might misinterpret as a threat. Meanwhile, we’ll keep an eye on them from our MRO.”
And that’s exactly what the president and his counterparts worldwide did for the next astonishing 16 months. Nothing. Nothing while the aliens somehow gave Mars a magnetic field and a breathable atmosphere. Nothing while they created oceans and fresh water lakes. Nothing while prairies of grass and forests of trees sprouted and grew remarkably fast.
Mars Colony survived the planetary transformation — the aliens apparently having taken pains to protect its inhabitants — and the day finally came when humans first braved the Martian atmosphere without pressure suits and oxygen supplies. Later that day, they transplanted vegetable seedlings to an outside garden and were seen by the MRO sunbathing in the nude.
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From their new position at Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, the aliens transmitted their first message to Earth. It was to be the only one. Over every radio station, television channel, and internet website on the planet, in the six official languages of the United Nations, the following words were repeated for 24 hours:
WE HAVE PREPARED MARS TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONS. YOU WILL TRANSPORT YOURSELVES AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU REQUIRE FROM EARTH TO MARS. EXACTLY ONE YEAR FROM NOW, WE WILL BEGIN PREPARING EARTH TO OUR SPECIFICATIONS.
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Journal extract, Capt. Taylor, Intel. Officer 1 Gordons
Withdrawal from the Foret d’Arques
Sketch map by Capt. Taylor, Intelligence Office 1 Gordons, showing the line of withdrawal from the Foret d’Arques June 9th - June 10th 1940
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1940 . 1st Gordon Highlanders . Account / Extract . Map / Diagram . The B.E.F.
All companies excepting ‘A’ had travelled by MT from Villey-en-Haut, through Bailly to Envermeu, which seemed to be a general dispersal point. We arrived at the latter at 0600 hrs but no one was able to direct us to our billeting area. We ourselves did not know our final destination at this juncture as all arrangements had of necessity been made in a hurry and we were promised guides from this DP. (Drop-off Point) No guides were there, and in the fog of war we were sent to St Nicholas via the Dieppe road and by 0630 hrs there was a solid traffic block on this road. This was due partly to lost vehicles and partly to small lost detachments of troops who were trying to find suitable ‘hides’ near the road, as it was now broad daylight.
At 0645, just as the chaos was at its height, a squadron of German fighters flew over at about 500 feet, and after ‘dipping in salute’ flew back without firing a shot!! During this halt I went back to Envermeu, where I found Cluny MacPherson the BM, (Brigade Major) and he told me that the Bn area was at St Nicholas, so on my return the Colonel and I led the Bn, who were still embussed, into St Nicholas via the Forêt d’Arques. We reached our area at 0700 hrs, where we found Hutchy, who showed the companies to their rest areas. I went straight back to Envermeu to find ‘A’ Coy and thus prevent them from taking the circuitous route. It was some miles along the Bailly road before I found them. I arranged with Stuart Aylmer to put out the necessary guides for him and brought Ian Cobb his 2 I/C back in the car with me. The Company, although extremely tired, were marching awfully well.
Hutchy had again found a magnificent mansion for Bn HQ; it was, I think, the nicest of all. A very large and up-to-date townhouse and the owners, obviously wealthy people, had been forced to leave everything behind them. Driving up to the main entrance in the Colonel’s lovely car made me feel as if I was a guest arriving for a weekend house party—one had lost all idea of time now that we tried to sleep between 0900 hrs - 1200 hrs daily!
We re-equipped our mess with china and also our cellar with some excellent wines. After a quick breakfast I managed to get three hours lying down, but was wakened by David Crichton at midday, who came into my room, having already marked my map for me with the latest information. I was extremely grateful to him. He also was dog tired but nevertheless very cheerful.
The Bde Commander arrived a few minutes later and saw the Colonel in his room. He explained that there was a danger of the enemy coming round our left flank and that we were to move at once into a position in rear of the 5th Bn Gordon Highlanders from where we could protect the left flank of the Bde. The 5th Bn was in the Forêt d’Arques. He wrote the confirmation of this verbal order in the room before he left. As a result of this order, which meant an immediate ‘clear out’, we wolfed a hurried lunch and companies were told to move to the Forêt d’Arques at 1400 hrs. The Colonel and I left at once by car to make a recce, and to liaise with the 5th Bn: Bn HQ were told to RV at the Henri Quatre crossroads.
1 Gordons disositions June 9th 1940
Sketch map by Capt. Taylor, Intelligence Office 1 Gordons, showing the 1st Gordon Highlanders' dispositions between 1400-2130 hrs on June 9th 1940
The Bn arrived at 1445 hrs and Companies were given areas as follows. Left: ‘D’ Coy. Centre: ‘B’ Coy. Right: ‘C’ Coy. Reserve ‘C’ Coy at Bn HQ (see sketch, plate ix). By 1600 hrs everyone was in position and orders were received that the Colonel should report to Div. HQ at once for a conference. He sent Hutchy to this meeting and from 1600-1900 hrs all was quiet. We had tea in the forest and supper was being prepared for 1900 hrs on account of the light. Hutchy returned from Div. HQ at 1930 hrs and a Coy Comds was held at once. Orders were given out that the Bn had to withdraw any time after dark to Colmesnil by march route. The Colonel ordered Companies to withdraw and RV at Bn HQ by 2130 hrs. At 2130 hrs Hutchy set off with the usual advance party and ‘A’ Echelon Transport for our new destination. ‘B’ Echelon Transport was also in the forest but moved under Bde arrangements. Sgt Littlejohn set off with the ‘I’ section to picquet the route. By this date we had taken part in many large-scale moves but never in all our experience had we come across one like this to equal it for complete chaos and disorganisation. The distance to be covered was only 10 kilometres, and it took marching troops and MT 7½ hours!
The main hold-up, which lasted for over an hour, was in Archelles, which was a complete bottleneck. Here the Buffs and Foresters were trying to enbuss, the 154 Bde all on MT were passing through, and apart from this unit transport from the Buffs and Foresters brigade was cutting in from a side road. There were also many other small detachments converging in Archelles from different directions and all of which arrived at the same time! The French, I feel, were to blame as they had blown prematurely all bridges across the river with the exception of one!
The result of all this was that the one road leading back had four lines of traffic on it intermingled which were all the marching troops. Sgt Littlejohn’s motorbike broke down, which made any further route picqueting impossible, and our MT eventually lost its way right at the end of the journey. The Colonel’s car with the Colonel, Hector and myself in it had got sandwiched in the middle of all this chaos and we were not able to pass or get clear of it until we were two miles outside Sauqueville. The only maps available were the 1:250,000 copies, which added to one’s difficulty.
We found Hutchy and one rifle company who had halted unfortunately just past the turning-off to Colmesnil, which necessitated having to turn out MT. Whilst this was taking place we drove on to Sauqueville and allotted company areas for the Bn here. It was now already 0430 hrs and broad daylight; the majority of the Bn had still four miles to march and, had we gone to Colmesnil, this would have lengthened it by a further 1½ miles.
Up to date this proved to be quite the worst night that we had spent, being reserve Bn. No contact had been gained with the enemy. For the men, although it was their shortest march it was by far the most tiring. We knew at this stage that each move was designed to take us nearer the coast with the view to embarkation, which made each move more tense than it otherwise would have been!
Sauqueville – vice Colmesnil
The Bn arrived here at 0500 hrs and went into farms around the village, the two forward Companies ‘B’ and ‘D’ taking up a defensive position facing east, overlooking the railway. As many men as possible were given a rest. The remainder of the morning was absolutely quiet and the afternoon was only broken with occasional evening recce planes flying overhead. By this stage of the proceedings we were beginning to have grave doubts as to whether we would see England again and realised the hopelessness of the situation, although the original plan of embarking from Havre still held good. At 1400 hrs artillery and SAA fire was heard on the line of the River Bethune and the Colonel was called to Bde as it was possible that we might be required to assist in the extrication of the 5th Gordons from the river-line. It was at this meeting that the Colonel was ordered that all kits and everything excepting fighting material was to be jettisoned so as to make it possible to transport the whole battalion in our own MT at 1700 hrs. An order then came from Bde stating that we were to be prepared to withdraw that night and that all our MT was to be made available for troop-carrying purposes.
Very soon after receipt of this message, a second was received explaining that the original scheme of embarking at Havre was cancelled and that the Division would form a box-shaped bridgehead round St-Valéry-en-Caux and endeavour to embark from there. The Bn was to hold a position west of Cany le Burgh (Cany-Barville) and our withdrawal route was given via St-Pierre le Viger and Ste-Colombe. Bde HQ was to be at Cany. (Although we did not know it, the enemy by the time this order reached us had been sitting in Cany for 12 hours!)
I left at once to make a recce of this route but, as I was only allowed one hour for the job, I was unable to go further than Luneray. Luckily my time was curtailed, otherwise I would have walked into the enemy two days before schedule! I returned to Bn HQ at 1830 hrs, just in time to see the Colonel before he left for a Divisional conference at Deauville.
During the next half-hour, warning orders were given to Company Comds and they marked this devious route on their maps. (By this stage we were using Michelin maps of France in lieu of the 1:250,000 sheet 4s. Personally, I preferred the latter as they were more detailed, despite the smaller scale. No sooner than all this had been completed, we received an order from Div. HQ at 1900 hrs, telling us to withdraw at once by march route to Petit, and thence along the Le Bourg-Dun road, where from the latter we would find MT to take us to St-Valéry. It stated that this Tpt would be on the outskirts of Le Bourg-Dun at 2230 hrs. Our own Tpt was sent off empty under Bde orders, I never understood why.
As it was a good 3½ hours’ march to the Tpt RV, there was no time to be lost and Major Hutchins in the absence of the Colonel decided to get everyone on the move at once, and to leave our M/C DR behind to meet the Colonel on his return. It was now of course known that the enemy were in Cany, hence the alteration of plans.
Hutchy decided to take the marching personnel and ordered me to guide our ‘A’ Echelon MT. Sgt Littlejohn did what he could to picquet the route. Everyone was on the move by 1930 hrs and shortly afterwards Hutchy left the Bn in charge of Stuart Aylmer and went back to Div. HQ to try and make contact with the Colonel. Hector sent Sgt Keiller back on a motorbike to Bn HQ with orders to wait for the Colonel and guide him onto the route we were taking and also to inform him of our whereabouts in the column. It transpired afterwards that Keiller never made contact. Neither of us knew at this stage that Hutchy had gone back to Division, however everything went like clockwork until the head of the marching column reached the outskirts of Avremesnil (see sketch, plate x), when everyone halted. I got out and went on foot up to the head of the column, where I found the Colonel in his car by himself. It was now about 2300 hrs and, being a wooded area, extremely dark. The Colonel ordered me to go off in his car to find the Transport, which we thought would be very near at hand in fact on the outskirts of Pitié.
Route Veules Les Roses to Gueures
Sketch map by Capt. Taylor, Intelligence Office 1 Gordons, showing the route taken by the 1st Gordons from Veules Les Roses to Gueures on June 10th 1940
I motored to Pitié, which was only a hamlet and separated from Avresmesnil by a small country lane. When from there I turned onto the Le Bourg-Dun road and found no transport, I became rather anxious and thought I had lost myself, but I motored on and arrived at Le Bourg-Dun; and it wasn’t until reaching the town itself that I found the MT, which had been allotted to us, and also, to my surprise and relief, I found Hutchy in the back of an enormous three-ton lorry!
I told him that the Bn were a good 1½ hours’ march from here, and we decided to turn the MT and motor back to pick them up as there was suitable turning space in Avremesnil. Hutchy was extremely anxious to see the Colonel as he had received orders from Division that we were to launch a small attack on Cany at dawn that morning and the same old story that there were only a few odd motorised troops holding it, which we were to drive out! It was now one hour to dawn and we were several miles from St-Valéry with absolutely no chance of reaching there before about 0700 hrs at the earliest.
We motored back with all the MT to where the Bn had halted, but only to find that they had gone! I made a quick trip down all the other roads leading out of Avremesnil but, seeing no sign of the Bn, we turned the Tpt again and brought it back to its original RV.
We then broke into the local Mairie at Le Bourg-Dun and wrote a message to Div. HQ, explaining that the Bn had not yet arrived and it would be impossible for us to attack before about 0800 hours. We gave this message to an M/C DR of the Provost Company, who said he would get it through.
Shortly afterwards we met the Colonel and the Bn all embussed entering the town from the Avremesnil road. The Colonel had found some Tpt carrying MT on this road and had embussed the Bn. It actually belonged to the 5th Gordons, so I suppose they took ours. We left Le Bourg-Dun at about 0200 hrs for St-Valéry. It was a most unfortunate muddle but, owing to the continual countermanding of orders because of the changing events, there was little hope of any proper organisation from Div. HQ, who weren’t awfully clever with moves long before the Blitz started! Even if we had not been compelled to halt at Avremesnil, we would never have reached St-Valéry by 0200 hrs.
Our ‘B’ Echelon Transport, which could have taken all of us the whole way, moved under orders of 153 Bde to Blosseville and arrived at about 0730 hrs.
Before putting to paper the events of our last 36 hours, I should like to point out that it will not be a full account as neither the Commanders of ‘B’ or ‘C’ Companies are here, and in the case of the latter there is unfortunately no representative whatsoever.
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Capt. J.P.P. Taylor's War Diary extracts continue with a detailed description of 1 Gordon's movements in the hours leading up to the eventual surrender at St. Valery, 11th/12th June 1940
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‘Hobbs & Shaw:’ Sputters to the Finish Line
The first The Fast and the Furious debuted in 2001. Back then, the series tapped into the long forgotten thirst by bros to admire cars, women, chases: of women and cars, and high octane dumb action sequences. The winning formula has spawned a $5 billion franchise, and while it’s taken eight films, a spin-off has finally joined their ranks. Director David Leitch of John Wick, Atomic Blonde, and Deadpool 2, helms Hobbs & Shaw, a gravity and logic defying frenemies spy-action film that at its best provides laughs and at its worst spins wildly out of control.
Opening in London, a team of MI6 agents work to retrieve the CT17 virus: a bio engineered weapon that melts people’s insides. They’re attacked by Brixton Lore (Idris Elba, who slays as an evil Black Superman), a mechanically modified super soldier and assassin from a shadow company named Eteon who wants the virus to wipe out the world’s weakest humans. The lone MI6 survivor of his attack, Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), injects herself with the virus and must extract it from her body within 72 hours or the virus will activate itself, go airborne, and kills the entire world. Framed by Bixton for her team’s murder, she must do so while on the run from several government agencies. Here enters Hobbs and Shaw.
Both characters are familiar with one another, having various tussles since Fast & Furious 6. The two are polar opposites, and Leitch and cinematographer Jonathan Sela make such clear in a split screen, as Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) occupies a gritty, orange filtered Los Angeles: lifting weights and chugging eggs, while Shaw (Jason Statham) lives in luxury and class in the austerely muted London. The two are approached by their respective CIA contacts, one being a surprising cameo, to track down Hattie and the virus. Cross-cutting action ensues as both go to their underworld contacts, and their varying fighting styles are put on display: Hobbs is the bulldozer whose first thought is to throw furniture, while Shaw’s technique is refined, akin to John Wick in fact. The two: Johnson and Statham, do have great chemistry and comedically play off each other well, as their respective characters perform games of one-upmanship and hi-jinks, the best occurring during a flight to Moscow.
When the two do meet, a good chunk of Leitch’s film becomes a testosterone race with Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce’s screenplay of one-line insults providing the soundtrack, as each character hurls degrading and hilarious offenses at one another. Ultimately, Hobbs and Shaw must learn to work together because they have more in common than they think: they have family issues. Shaw’s mother Queenie (Helen Mirren, who makes this film 30% better whenever she appears on screen), remains in jail, while Shaw has not spoken with his estranged sister for years. Hobbs, on the other hand, does have a wonderfully precocious daughter, but hasn’t visited his home: Samoa, or his brother, in the same span.
Through a series of events, the three: Hattie, Hobbs, and Shaw, do team up, while on the run, to stop Brixton and Eteon. In the process, another surprising cameo happens. And during this period, there are obviously a few chase sequences. The first, which happens in London, occurs between the three protagonists riding in a McLaren 720S and Brixton and his cohorts on motorcycles. The sequence is somewhat reminiscent of Mission Impossible, reliant on slow-mo frames, yet retains the Fast and Furious style editing: close-ups of car parts: tires and rims, engines, and steering wheels, made more enlivening by a mounted backseat angle masquerading as a near-dashboard shot. Did I mention that during this sequence the Rock literary jumps from a building to catch Brixton running down on a rope? With a little CG help of course.
Ultimately, both Hobbs and Shaw do learn to work together and heal their respective wounds with their siblings. Like the other Fast and the Furious movies: “It’s about family,” to the point of meaninglessness. In fact, the final showdown occurs on Samoa. The Samoan sequence is out of place: in style and substance. Leitch goes out of the way to demonstrate the beauty of Samoa, especially with the use of circular drone shots in fields basking in the setting sun. It’s as if Dwayne Johnson only agreed to do Hobbs & Shaw under the requirement of making a travel ad for the island. And while it’s wonderful to see the historic Samoan culture take center stage in a large-scale battle sequence with Brixton and Eteon, the moment feels misplaced in this near Sci-Fi action movie, especially as the setting and time switches frm idyllic sunset, to dawn, to rainy Tarzan-esque night within a span of a few minutes.
Made worse, barring the moment when Johnson lassos a helicopter in mid-flight, the final chase sequence lacks sharpness and punch. Much of this owes to the lack of practical effects and stunts, and cars too. Instead, these chases rely on more CG than any other Fast and Furious, and it shows, because the CG isn’t high quality either, even with the movie’s $200 mill. budget. Instead, shots are out of focus, and the cuts are generic in pacing. In fact, I found myself bored during Hobbs & Shaw‘s final moments, with only Elba’s character providing any drama, and Elba is truly savage throughout in a could’ve been Bond performance of action and brute force. Because ultimately, no one is going to a Fast and Furious spin-off for its message: “It’s about family,” or jokes, we’re going for cars, chases, and action. All three come up short as the film listlessly spins out of control during its bloated 136-minute run time.
Additonal Note: there are two post-credit scenes.
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peggyatthemovies says:
I hate to admit I liked it – because it was cheesy fun. But I completely agree with you about the ending which the Samoan thing I found kinda lame because it’s already been done by Jason Momoa at his premiere.. And the hypocrisy of the helicopter thing made me laugh so hard!! I mean that’s when they just took things a bit to far on the silly. But..hey..at least I laughed! 🙂
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Sunday December 8
Coming up this week in Cleveland, The Cavs take on the Houston Rockets down at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on Wednesday, a stage performance of The Nutcracker is at The Hanna Theater on Thursday, The Cleveland Orchestra Christmas Concert is on Friday and Wintertide at Gordon Square is on Saturday.
Get in the Holiday spirit today with a visit to University Circle for their 26th Annual Holiday Circlefest. From 1 to 7 today, Wade Oval will come to life with ice carving demonstrations, live music, photos with santa, plenty of food, shopping and more. Or you can get some laughs in tonight over at Hilarities with comic Gary Gulman. The Boston native has long been open about his struggles with anxiety and depression and he incorporates both into his act starting tonight at 7.
Monday December 9
Head over to Nighttown on the east side to see The Baldwin Wallace Music Theater Class of 2021 perform excerpts from musicals past and present. The performance starts at 7 tonight. Or if you want something a little bit educational, go to the Science Café over at the Music Box Supper Club. It’s an informal lecture series featuring regional scientists and it all gets started at 7.
Go catch a movie on the cheap tonight at a participating Cleveland Cinemas Theater. They'll have $5 movie tickets and discounted concession items too. Or make your Thursday plans now to see a stage production of A Christmas Carol put on by The Great Lakes Theater. Charles Dickens’ classic tale of one man’s ultimate redemption takes place starting this Thursday night at 7:30 inside the Mimi Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square.
Tuesday December 10
Head down to Akron for a Honky-Tonk twist on the Holidays with The 11th Annual Ryan Humbert Holiday Extravaganza. The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank will be on hand to collect non-perishable donations while you enjoy a mix of traditional Americana and Holiday music. It all starts at 7:30 tonight inside the Akron Civic Theater. Or make your Saturday plans to hit Wintertide at Gordon Square. This free festival features local art, kids activities, live music, a beer garden and more. It happens from 2 to 6 down in Gordon Square.
Catch a new stage production of Mean Girls down at Playhouse Square. It’s a musical adaptation based on the movie of the same name. It starts at 7:30 tonight down at the Connor Palace Theater. Or go check out The Cleveland Museum Of Art’s newest exhibit, “Michelangelo: Mind Of The Master”. Over two dozen of the legendary artist’s rarely-seen sketches will be on display today from 10 to 5 and 10 to 9 tomorrow.
Wednesday December 11
Go support our Cavs down at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse tonight as they go up against the Houston Rockets. Tipoff is at 7. Or go see comic Josh Sneed down at Hilarities. The Ohio-native quit his comfy job at Proctor & Gamble to become a stand-up comic and his humor draws from everyday life experiences. He’ll take the stage at 7 tonight.
Get in the Holiday spirit down at the Great Lakes Brewing Company. They will be screening A Christmas Story tonight at 7 and each ticket includes a complimentary pint along with snacks from their bar. Or make your weekend plans now to hit the Cleveland Bazaar Holiday down at 78th Street Studios. This will be a shopping extravaganza with loads of local vendors selling all sorts of handmade goods from 10-6 this Saturday.
Thursday December 12
Go hear The Cleveland Orchestra tonight down at Severance Hall as they perform the score to the Holiday classic “It’s A Wonderful Life”. They’ll perform the score while the movie shows on the big screen and it all goes down at 7:30 tonight. Or go catch comic Brian Regan as he rolls into town at the Masonic Auditorium tonight. He’s one of the few clean comics out there and uses lots of sarcasm and physical humor into his act. He goes onstage tonight at 7:30.
No Holiday season is complete without The Nutcracker and you can see it tonight down at the Hanna Theater as the Cleveland Ballet brings the classic story to life. It starts at 7 tonight with performances through this Sunday. Or head to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo for their Wild Winter Lights Festival. Starting tonight, there will be thousands of lights, an extremely tall teddy bear, a visit from santa and more. It goes from 5:30 - 9:30.
Friday December 13
Celebrate the Holidays in grand style tonight down at Severance Hall with The Cleveland Orchestra’s Christmas Concert. They’ll team up with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for a night of Holiday music and sing-alongs for the whole family. It starts at 7:30 tonight. Or go to Walkabout Tremont. The theme this month is Light Up Your Holidays. You can check out some of the best Tremont restaurants, featured art openings, live music and more tonight from 5-10.
Go see the Monsters tonight as they hit the ice down at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse. It’s also 1-2-3 Friday with $1 Pepsi products, $2 Sugardale hot dogs and $3 select beer specials. The puck drops at 7. Or go see The Hip-Hop Nutcracker down at Playhouse Square. It’s a modern take on the classic Holiday tale with dancers, a DJ, string musicians and even one of Hip-Hop’s founding fathers, Kurtis Blow, on hand. It starts tonight at 8 inside The KeyBank State Theater.
Saturday December 14
Go see Cleveland-native pianist Jim Brickman as he performs a special Holiday Concert tonight at Playhouse Square. His concert, dubbed “A Christmas Celebration” will span music from all through his career in addition to Holiday favorites. It starts at 8 tonight. Or go see a live stage production of the classic film A Christmas Story put on by the Cleveland Play House. This family-friendly show will feature all the things you love about the movie an there’s two shows today: one at 2:30 and the other at 7:30 inside the Allen Theater.
Catch the Holiday vibe today over at Wintertide at Gordon Square. This free festival features local art, kids activities, live music, a beer garden and more. It happens today from 2 to 6 down in Gordon Square. Or hit the Cleveland Bazaar Holiday down at 78th Street Studios. This will be a major shopping extravaganza with loads of local vendors selling all sorts of handmade goods from 10-6 today.
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“Salim Yadav character not based on Pappu Yadav”: Tuhin Sinha
Posted: June 2, 2012 in Uncategorized
A group of MLAs in Bihar, owing allegiance to Pappu Yadav are up in arms against author Tuhin A. Sinha, even demanding that his new book, The Edge of Desire be banned in the state. The main grouse of these MLAs is that one of the characters in the book, Salim Yadav, portrayed as a criminal turned politician bears an unmistakable resemblance to former MLA, MP, politician Pappu Yadav.
Though in the murder of Communist Party of India (Marxist) legislator Ajit Sarkar and sentenced to life, Pappu Yadav and his family still enjoy significant clout in some of the districts of the state.
“Not only will we get this book banned in Bihar, but we will demand its ban all over the country!” claims a former fellow party-member and associate, on conditions of anonymity. Surprisingly, Sadhu Yadav, brother-in-law of former CM, Laloo Yadav has apparently supported this demand.
When asked to respond to the allegations, Tuhin replied, “When you choose to write about politics, it is obvious that you are going to ruffle a few feathers. Such incidents do not perturb me. As far as the issues people seem to have with my book go, I wish to clarify that Salim Yadav has nothing to do with Pappu Yadav. Apart from the shared last name, and the fact that they both happen to be politicians of notorious repute in Bihar, I see no resemblance to Pappu Yadav..”
The repercussions of this public outcry and outrage against the book in Bihar; and the extent of its influence in other parts of the country wait to be seen. The book meanwhile has been reporting steady sales and positive reviews from readers and critics alike. The author’s website and the Facebook page for ‘The Edge of Desire’ have been seeing a steadily rising graph of conversations and reactions to the book.
Here’s an excerpt of what Salim yadav is all about, leaving it for our readers to decide if the character is indeed inspired from Pappu Yadav.
Salim actually barged in carrying a huge bouquet of roses and ignoring the protests of the guards. I gathered from his name that he was the same person of whose exploits I had heard from Harish, the driver.
Salim was bearded and big built. Both his eyes and his smile had something distinctly lecherous about them. He sported a white khadi kurta-pyjama with a dark green gamcha thrown rakishly around his neck. From the reactions of the other guests, I could make tell he was detested by them all.
Salim swaggered up to Rohit. ‘Collector sahib, it’s a happy moment for you. Even though I was not invited I couldn’t resist coming and wishing you. That’s how happy I am for you and your beautiful wife.’
I admired Rohit for the restraint he showed. He acknowledged the remark with a curt nod and then turned to talk to someone else.
‘Won’t you introduce me to my beautiful Bhabhiji?’ Salim persisted brazenly. He came and stood in front of me. I must say that every time he called me beautiful, my skin crawled.
‘Namaste, Bhabhiji. Myself Salim Yadav, social worker.’ He introduced himself in his rustic insult of the English language and added, ‘Both of you look so nice together. I pray to God to keep you both happy forever.’
Even as Salim uttered these supposedly well-intentioned words there was something evil about his expression that shadowed everything else. I could not decipher what it was. He left soon after, leaving us all bewildered by his abrupt entry and exit.
You can get hold of a copy of The Edge of Desire and read on to find out what happens next. It will help you take the right decision of whether to side the people of Purnea or express solidarity with Tuhin! Buy a copy now.
A Great Tribute To Womanhood!
A beautifully plotted blend of emotions, relationships and politics!
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Chehaw Hours
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Chehaw is driven by its mission of inspiring people to connect with nature and encouraging conservation action through positive recreational and educational experiences. The Park, founded over eight decades ago ...
Located on the banks of the Flint River, the Flint RiverQuarium promotes the education and awareness of water and its value by telling the story of the Flint River and the blue hole springs that helped create it ...
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About the Artesian Alliance
Formed in 2019, The Artesian Alliance is a partnership between Chehaw Park & Zoo, the Flint RiverQuarium, and Thronateeska Heritage Center. The collaboration created by the partnership has already led to joint programmatic efforts, greater operating efficiencies and cost containment, and a more effective use of limited resources for the three organizations involved. The Artesian Alliance designation also paves the way for future joint staffing and programming, as well as memberships and fundraising. In short, we are all much stronger together than individually. Through the Artesian Alliance, the three venues look forward to both a re-energized base of support and a slate of new initiatives that will help lead the community into the future.
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GIPCA Infects the City as part of Public Art Fest
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The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) partners with the Africa Centre in Infecting the (Mother) City from 11-16 March 2013.
The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) partners with the Africa Centre in Infecting the (Mother) City through installations, performances, readings, film screenings and discussion sessions, from 11 – 16 March 2013.
In collaboration with several national and international partners, the Gordon Institute presents a diverse range of works that embrace interdisciplinarity whilst engaging with public spaces in compelling ways. These works emerge from the University of Cape Town's Creative and Performing Arts departments, the culminating presentations of 2012-2013 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellows and Award Winners, as well as workshops and commissioned international pieces.
Along with the Public Culture CityLab (African Centre for Cities, UCT), GIPCA also presents Thinking the City, a series of talks and discussions seeking to strengthen thinking and practice at the intersection of culture and public space.
“This year’s marvellous crop of works for Infecting the City emerge from the Dance, Music, Drama and Creative Writing departments as well as through UCT’s African Centre for Cities and international partnerships; and reflects a wonderful surge of interest in and engagement with interdisciplinarity and public art,” commented GIPCA Director Jay Pather.
Having recently returned from sold-out performances at the Ovalhouse in London, highly acclaimed choreographer and Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow, Mamela Nyamza, presents a startling dance performance Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo (The Meal), for which she received a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival 2012. Also featuring Dinah Eppel and Kirsty Ndawo, the work celebrates the creative capacity of young South Africans to subvert and transform instruments of oppression and denigration into expressions of ecstasy and beauty; and reflects on the relationship between women from different generations and races.
Awarded the main Puma Creative Prize and the first prize in the Group Pieces category at danse l'Afrique danse in Bamako, 2010, Orobroy, Stop! was conceptualised under the creative direction of esteemed Mozambican choreographer, Horácio Macuácua. In an inventive intercultural reconstruction of Flamenco; deep emotions, notions of identity, gender and conflicting experiences are explored in a visceral manner in this provocative work. The work is presented with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The initiators of Trespassing Permitted, Donald Gordon Creative Arts Award Winner Mike Rossi and composer Ulrich Suesse, have created a crossover performance that leaves behind musical conventions. Featuring Feya Faku, choreography by Nicola Elliot and dancers from the UCT School of Dance, the works 'trespass' or overstep various boundaries: improvisation encroaches on composition, jazz invades western classical composition, African and European sound spectra are interpolated, and dancers meddle in the creation of sound.
In Shades of Grey, the Cape Consort presents a fractured audioscape of late medieval European and 19th-century colonial culture in historically informed interpretation, based on research by musicologist Rebekka Sandmeier (also a 2012 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Award Winner).
Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow, Michael MacGarry’s short film As Above, So Below, concerns a philosophical re-imaging of naturalist Charles Darwin's brief visit to the Cape of Good Hope in 1836. A black and white period film, it focuses on issues of industrial progress, the absurd, colonial taxonomy and The Uncanny, all within the mode of narrative cinema.
Award-winning fiction writer, Henrietta Rose-Innes, shares excerpts from and insight into her novel, Green Lion, developed during her Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellowship. Through the interaction between a human protagonist and a rare lion, this novel explores species loss and animal / human encounters.
Known in the UK for their innovative approaches to theatre and community engagement, Arcola Theatre and Punchdrunk’s The Uncommercial Traveller project involves a series of workshops with post-graduate students and theatre practitioners to devise and write reflective audio tours in locations in Cape Town, using Charles Dickens’s approach of seeking out forgotten places and uncovering hidden stories. Collaborating with internationally recognised local artist, James Webb (sound design); these engaging audio tours will be made available to Festival audiences. The Uncommercial Traveller is supported by the British Council and to date has travelled to Karachi, Melbourne, Penang, Singapore and Portsmouth.
Curated by Nadja Daehnke around the themes of movement and transit, the Platform_18_28 exhibition at the Cape Town station includes paintings, sculptures and photographs produced by students from the Michaelis School of Fine Art. The collaborative building project between Tokyo-based artist Aeneas Wilder, curator Winnie Sze and the UCT School of Architecture, Under Construction, seeks to ask poignant questions around what it means to be a resident in the City. Installed in the District 6 Museum, Wilder’s fragile work, which involves meticulous construction and then a spectacular public destruction, will have particular resonance within the space that it is installed.
Presented in collaboration with the Public Culture CityLab, four Thinking the City discussion sessions will contribute to the Infecting the City programme by unpacking a series of examples and contested territories related to cultural practice in the city. Themes will include: Public space, festivalisation and contested cultural expression; Design and the creative city: the creative city for whom?; Managing access: city bylaws and the regulation of culture; and What makes art ‘public’?: reflections on participation and practice in contemporary public culture in South Africa.
These installations, performances, readings, film screenings and discussion sessions will take place at various Cape Town venues, and are presented by The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, as part of the 2013 programme for the Infecting the City Public Arts Festival. For more information on the Festival, please visit www.infectingthecity.com and www.gipca.uct.ac.za
About GIPCA: The University of Cape Town’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) facilitates new collaborative and interdisciplinary creative research projects in the disciplines of Music, Dance, Fine Art, Drama, Creative Writing, Film and Media Studies. Interdisciplinarity is a key theme of the institute and projects are imbued with innovation, collaboration and dialogue with urbanism and community. GIPCA was launched in December 2008 with a substantial grant from Sir Donald Gordon, founder of Liberty Life. An Advisory Board comprising Heads of Departments of all Performing and Creative Arts Departments at UCT helps to shape contexts for the instigation and development of projects by students and staff, as well as a wide range of institutions and individuals outside the university. For more information on the 2013 GIPCA programme, visit www.gipca.uct.ac.za, or phone 021 480 7156.
GIPCA Director: Associate Professor Jay Pather
GIPCA Project Manager: Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton
Chair of the GIPCA Board: Professor Paula Ensor
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Infecting the City
Dates: Wednesday, 5th April 2017 - Saturday, 8th April 2017
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
A review and a scientific analysis of a tiny and powerful book that inaugurated the genre of addiction memoir.
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Opium-fuelled literature. Image source
English essayist Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was published in three forms: in the September-December 1821 issues of the London Magazine; in 1822 in book form; and in greatly expanded form in 1856, as part of a collected edition of his works. I read the first version, generally agreed to be the best.
Confessions is a tiny book: 115 pages including appendix. The book has an odd structure:
The “Preliminary Confessions” occupy 43 pages. This section narrates key events and phases of de Quincey’s life before opium use – as a child and adolescent (Part One, September issue). Why so extensive an introduction to the main subject? De Quincey explains: to create sympathy for the hero of the drug narrative to come.
The main material occupies 53 pages: narrating how de Quincey began using opium; followed by sections on the pleasures of opium, and then its pains (Part Two October issue).
An Appendix explains why the projected Part Three never appeared, and offers instead a short addendum (Part Three, December issue).
Initially seeming only to defer what you came for, the Preliminary Confessions are striking in some respects:
1) In describing his years of formal education, de Quincey jackhammers you on the head with his scholarly gifts and inclinations. He was a better “Grecian” (speaker of classical Greek) than his teachers. This precocious fluency he acquired by rendering newspaper reports into Greek, which demanded periphrasis and other creative language-learning techniques.
2) Throughout the book, de Quincey quotes classical writers, and engages in often protracted philosophical debates with classical and modern scholars. De Quincey preemptively defends his hedonism as philosophically justifiable, and the only human way to live. He conducts a vicarious debate with a renowned physician and longtime opium-user, disputing the doctor’s view that opium causes inebriation.
De Quincey is at least as interested in parading his vast and fluent scholarship, as in telling us about opium. Is de Quincey trying to dispel a belief that opium-eaters were lowly, unschooled vagabonds? I’m not sure. De Quincey says himself that the English have no idea how widespread opium use is; he doesn’t mention any cultural stereotypes of opium use, for good or for bad. Given how widely opium was prescribed medically in de Quincey’s day, and how many Romantic and Victorian writers used it, I’m guessing it’s not to counterbalance any negative cultural associations of drug use that de Quincey parades his learning. He seems to have seized on this autobiographical opportunity to stake his claim as a scholar.
An opium den. Image source
3) Confessions was published anonymously. In his quest to preserve his own and his friends’ privacy, de Quincey’s resolve seems to falter. On the one hand, de Quincey suppresses any clues that could reveal that, for instance, he knew S. T. Coleridge (an opium-eater) and William Wordsworth (not an opium-eater), and that it was the death of Wordsworth’s young daughter that precipitated de Quincey’s own transition from regular recreational opium-user to opium-addict. On the other hand, in setting up the ideal locus of his drug use, de Quincey paints unmistakably the picture of Dove Cottage which he rented for some years after his erstwhile hero Wordsworth vacated it.
4) De Quincey is a hedonist loud and proud. It was to escape pain that de Quincey first sought opium: to cure what he describes as “unbearable head pains after sleeping with a wet head” – which were probably neuralgia. De Quincey’s descent from eight years of recreational use into a lifetime of addiction also resulted from pain: in this case, escape from the pain of bereavement. In Part Two, in describing the pains of opium, de Quincey confesses freely that he has abbreviated and glossed over details because he could not bear to relive the pain. In describing the Pleasures of Opium, he invokes an idyllic picture of a winter in Dove Hut spent among books: with opium and a pleasant (female) face to look at. He wants it to be harsh winter weather outside – both because summer had negative associations for him (which he doesn’t say) and because he wants to “get the most out of his fireplace.” The intense sensual savour with which de Quincey describes his opium-fuelled dreams is the savour of a man who, for all his intellectual ambitions, was a slave to his senses.
Kids: don’t do drugs. Adults: don’t do drugs. Please seek help. Image source
The Pleasures and the Pains of Opium
Though the Pleasures of Opium section is quickly overwhelmed by De Quincey’s Romantic, lyrical, self-indulgent, psychosis-celebrating properties, De Quincey does make attempts to analyse the effect of opium, and to distinguish it from that of alcohol.
Opium did alleviate the pain for which de Quincey originally took it. But, he maintains, opium does not depress the spirits overall: it increases the brain’s sensitivity to stimulation. De Quincey describes scheduling his opium nights for the evenings of the week when his favourite opera singer performed in London, and deriving from this drug-enhanced aesthetic experience supernatural pleasure. He also describes opium-fuelled vivid dreams, including a phenomenon that sounds like lucid dreaming. At bedtime, says de Quincey, he could summon any image into his mind, and he could be sure that image would animate his dreams. (This idea I recognised from The Moonstone. More generally, the observation that what occupies our brain before sleep continues in some form to work it during sleep seems anecdotally true.)
The Pains of Opium section is – for all De Quincey’s obvious reluctance to revisit a state that, when he published the Confessions, he perhaps really thought he’d left behind – considerable. The most problematic symptom of long-term abuse de Quincey describes is cognitive slowing. Another is his dreams which became now disturbingly vivid, dragging him down into an abyss. Both cognitive slowing and feeling literally low are classic symptoms of depression. But De Quincey does not analyse this distinction between opium’s short-term effects (which he claimed were the opposite of depressive) vs. its long-term effects. Instead, he correlates his increasingly negative experience of opium with the number of grains or drops of opium he took per day.
De Quincey offers enough observations, and records of his intake over a period of months and days, for us to be able to subject his claims to scientific analysis. These details include the chronology of his high – “I got high, and stayed high at the same level for eight hours” (I’m paraphrasing) and the half-life of opium: “When I took above my usual dose one night, I felt ashamed, but much better the next day, and angry enough with my failure of self-resolve to thereafter stick with my usual low dose.” I felt sure a neuroscientific analysis of de Quincey’s detailed record had already been done; oddly, I could not find one. The extant scholarship on Confessions is from literary and cultural criticism. So here we go.
Putting Confessions under the lens of addiction science
How do the findings of contemporary science compare with De Quincey’s anecdotal, if extensive, notes? Here’s a short comparison of De Quincey’s experiences with the state of the science.
Opium, morphine, heroin, codeine etc. are narcotic drugs. (Greek ναρκωτικό = ‘that which numbs.’) Narcotics numb pain and create euphoria. Today, tincture of opium tincture is prescribed only to reduce diarrhoea, by slowing intestinal smooth muscle motility. Laudanum, tincture of opium dissolved in alcohol, is what de Quincey took. Laudanum was historically prescribed for a range of illnesses: coughing, pain, cramps, and insomnia as well as diarrhoea. Medicinal laudanum today has the narcotic compounds removed, and is 1% morphine by weight.
At his acme (in the period reviewed in Confessions), de Quincey took 8,000 drops a day. If 1 drop is .05 ml, then 8,000 drops are 400ml: so De Quincey took 4ml morphine a day. Compare that with the 2.5-20mg doses therapeutically prescribed today for severe pain. (The doses vary based on route of administration.)
Given that de Quincey was ingesting his 8,000 drops orally, he probably got less of the pain-numbing effects than do contemporary patients, who receive in intravenously or intramuscularly; given that he was getting stoned in the 1810s, his laudanum probably had much higher concentrations of narcotic compounds, and thus much stronger psychoactive effects, than does contemporary morphine.
Laudanum is opium in alcohol; this combination is particularly dangerous, leading to extreme drowsiness (which De Quincey denies experiencing with short-term use). Both alcohol, and the opiate drugs, are central nervous system depressants in the short-term. They slow cognition and motor skills. De Quincey categorically denies short-term depressive effects of laudanum. He enjoys walks when stoned, and feels more sensitive to music – phenomena that the pharmacology of morphine contradicts.
However, the euphoria that De Quincey reports does exist in other anecdotal and epidemiological evidence regarding opiate use; ditto vivid dreams. And, as testified by de Quincey’s numerous failed attempts to quit, both before and after the period documented in Confessions – morphine is indeed highly addictive.
Gothic is not my scene. Image source
I didn’t really enjoy Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
The book’s narco-Gothic tone, eulogising as sublime both the pleasures of opium and its pains, left me cold. I got more didactical, vicarious debates with dead scholars – and less personal opium chronology – than I came for. The lengthy Preliminary Remarks aims to create sympathy with the narrator. What it does instead is illuminate the narrator’s character in spite of his intentions. The Prelim introduces characters that seem unconnected to the main narrative, and postpones rather than enriches this narrative. Not until you learn from external reading that the young girl, and the young prostitute, with whom we spend a while in Prelim, are relevant in representing two embodiments of the sister de Quincey lost as a child, and kept identifying all his life in different girls – do the pages devoted to them in Prelim have any significance to de Quincey’s opium-eating, or to the hedonism that drove him to opium. Without this external knowledge, and without de Quincey himself drawing conclusions from his Prelim to his main narrative, this long Prelim to a short book reads like a self-indulgent addon existing solely to insist upon the drug addict-to-be as a scholarly, kindhearted man.
I also disliked Confessions for ideological reasons.
As a child and teen I was fond of the Romantics. Their pantheism, cultural heterodoxy, and embrace of the emotions appealed to my immature intellect. In retrospect, many of the Romantics’ beliefs did me grave and longlasting harm – as I think it does many. Embracing emotions and drugs, and forsaking reason and discipline, may make for good literature – but it makes for a shitty life. Many lives are poisoned, many talents ruined, and many sanities destabilised by Romantic beliefs still with us today. The idea that the genius is necessarily a misfit. The idea that the genius is mad, and becomes a noble martyr on the cross of his own gifts. The idea that creative work occurs in a vacuum, and occurs magically.
Lord Byron, the archetypal Romantic poet. Gifted, disturbed, heroic. Image source
All pernicious ideas. My erstwhile infatuation with Romantic myths, and my objections to them now, I will explore another time.
Meanwhile: at 119 pages, Confessions is a breezy read. My reservations notwithstanding, it is an entertaining read. I was unmoved by the seduction of its “intoxicating prose.” But perhaps you’ll experience the vicarious pleasure that I didn’t.
Have you read any drug memoirs? Confessional literature? Which authors/poets do you enjoy in this genre? Do you like the Romantics? Can for an aesthetic ideology produce great art, but shitty life advice?
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Emi Canyn
Quick Facts of Emi Canyn
Full NameEmi Canyn
Date of Birth1954 /12 /05
Marital StatusDivorced
BirthplaceTacoma, Washington, the United States of America
EthnicityWhite
ReligionChristian
ProfessionSinger
Eye colourBrown
Hair colourBlonde
BuildSlim
SpouseMick Mars
EducationMount Tahoma High School
HoroscopeSagittarius
Late American singer Emi Canyn rose to prominence after she became the lead vocalist of Canon. She was also the lead vocalist of She Roc and Alice N Thunderland. Moreover, she further worked as a backup vocalist and further toured along with her former husband’s band Mötley Crüe.
Canyn was married to the guitarist of heavy metal Mötley Crüe, Mick Mars in 1990. However, the couple divorced within a few years of their marriage. So did the pair share children from their relationship?
Parents & Birthdate
Emi Canyn was born on 5th December 1954 in Tacoma, Washington, the United States of America. Her birth name is Emi Jo Schmidt. Further, her birth sign is Sagittarius. Canyn’s parents are Eleanor Schmidt and Joan McMahan.
Late singer Emi Canyn performing on stage
Canyn had a sister, Joan McMahan. Canyn belonged to white ethnicity and her nationality was American. She attended Mount Tahoma High School in 1973.
Former Husband- Mick Mars
Emi was married to the popular metal band lead guitarist Mick Mars. Before walking down the aisle the duo dated for many years. The couple started dating after meeting in a music tour in June 1987. Moreover, Emi and her boyfriend Mick dated for almost 2 years and finally tied the knot in 1990.
Mick Mars & Emi Canyn’s wedding ceremony
Their wedding was held in a private ceremony in the presence of their family and close friends. Unfortunately, the things did not work out well in between the couple and they divorced just after four years of their marriage in May 1994.
Emi Canyn and her Ex-husband Mick,
However, the concrete reason behind their separation is still under the sleeve. They did not have children from their conjugal relationship. After the divorce, Canyn stayed low key whereas her ex-spouse Mick dated a few girls.
From 1995 to 2004, Mick stayed in a relationship with Robbie Mantooth. Furthermore, he is currently in a relationship with her partner Seraina Schönenberger since 2017.
Cause Of Her Death
Canyn died at her home in Lacey, Washington on February 25, 2017. At the time of her death, she was 62 years old. The cause of her death was natural. Moreover, her parents and sister preceded in a funeral.
Emi Canyn undoubtfully amassed a tremendous amount of money from her career in the music industry. She worked with several popular bands. Moreover, Canyn further went on tours and performed on concerts. In addition, during the divorce settlement with her former spouse, Canyn probably received some amount of money and property as alimony. Nevertheless, her net worth is still under review.
Apart from her net worth, her former spouse Mick Mars is one of the renowned and richest musicians. Mick’s net worth is $70 Million as of 2019. Mick’s band Motley Crue has sold 75 million albums worldwide and 25 million in the US. It is one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time. Mick is still active in the music industry, thus his income is bound to increase in the coming days.
Emi Canyn’s Career
Canyn was a famous singer. After dropping out of college, in 1970 she went to California to pursue her career in the music industry. Emi was the lead vocalist of several bands such as Canon, She Roc, and Alice N Thunderland. Emi also toured with Motley Crue and sang backup vocals.
Besides this, Canyn’s former husband Mick is also a renowned musician. He is the lead guitarist of famous metal band Motley.
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Luana Micallef & Peter Rodgers
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http://www.mendeley.com/research/euler-ape-drawing-areaproportional-3venn-diagrams-using-ellipses
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599146"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Comparing the cell-type of differentially regulated genes after an anti-cancer drug treatment <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Regenbrecht1\" target=\"_blank\">[11]</a>. The method used to draw the diagram has not been noted. This diagram is a reprint of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g003\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 3B</a> in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Regenbrecht1\" target=\"_blank\">[11]</a>, previously published under a CC BY license. (B) Summarizing prognostic indicators of severe malaria <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-DzeingElla1\" target=\"_blank\">[12]</a>. The method used to draw the diagram has not been noted. This diagram is a reprint of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g003\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 3</a> in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-DzeingElla1\" target=\"_blank\">[12]</a> (with the <i>N</i> value and the percentages in parenthesis removed), previously published under a CC BY license. (C) Analysing differences and similarities between identified chicken egg white proteome in three different studies <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Mann1\" target=\"_blank\">[13]</a>. Drawn using Venn Diagram Plotter [<a href=\"http://omics.pnl.gov/software/VennDiagramPlotter.php\" target=\"_blank\">http://omics.pnl.gov/software/VennDiagramPlotter.php</a>]. This diagram is a reprint of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g002\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 2A</a> in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Mann1\" target=\"_blank\">[13]</a>, previously published under a CC BY license. (D) Analysing overlaps between gene libraries <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Huber1\" target=\"_blank\">[14]</a>. Drawn using DrawVenn <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Chow1\" target=\"_blank\">[5]</a>. This diagram is a reprint of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g004\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 4B</a> in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Huber1\" target=\"_blank\">[14]</a> under a CC BY license, with permission from John Wiley and Sons, original copyright 2009. (E) Studying transcriptome variation of different tissue types of the male field cricket, namely testis, accessory gland and the rest of the body <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Bailey1\" target=\"_blank\">[15]</a>. Drawn using Convex Venn-3 <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Rodgers1\" target=\"_blank\">[51]</a>. This diagram is a reprint of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g001\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 1</a> (left) in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Bailey1\" target=\"_blank\">[15]</a> under a CC BY license, with permission from Nathan Bailey, original copyright 2013. (F) Summarizing genes affecting Top1-induced DNA damage identified in three different studies <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Reid1\" target=\"_blank\">[16]</a>. Drawn using DrawEuler <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Chow5\" target=\"_blank\">[55]</a>. This diagram is a reprint of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g003\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 3A</a> in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Reid1\" target=\"_blank\">[16]</a> (with added numeric labels indicating the quantitative data that according to the article each region in the diagram should represent), previously published under a CC BY license.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "area-proportional", "3-venn", "diagrams", "drawn", "circles", "polygons"], "article_id"=>1109129, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>31, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Examples_of_area_proportional_3_Venn_diagrams_drawn_with_circles_A_8211_C_and_polygons_D_8211_F_in_literature_/1109129", "title"=>"Examples of area-proportional 3-Venn diagrams drawn with circles (A–C) and polygons (D–F) in literature.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599163"], "description"=>"<p>The <i>log<sub>10</sub></i> (<i>time in seconds</i>) and <i>log<sub>10</sub></i>(<i>total number of iterations</i>) taken to generate good diagrams for 9939 of the 10,000 data items in L1 during the first run (labelled as ‘<i>Run 1</i>’) and for 61 of the 10,000 data items in L1 during any of the one to a maximum of 10 reruns (labelled as ‘<i>Reruns</i>’).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "iterations", "diagrams"], "article_id"=>1109146, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g008", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>6, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Time_and_total_number_of_iterations_to_generate_good_diagrams_for_data_in_L1_/1109146", "title"=>"Time and total number of iterations to generate good diagrams for data in L1.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599158"], "description"=>"<p>At every iteration of the optimization algorithm, the (A) centre, (B) semi-axes and (C) angle of rotation of every ellipse are respectively modified by parameters <i>pγ</i>, <i>pαβ</i> and <i>pθ</i> in search for other solutions. (A) The grey points indicate the new centres that are obtained when one or both coordinates of the centre of an ellipse (solid black) are increasing or decreasing by <i>pγ</i>. (B) A label <i>+pαβ</i> means that that semi-axis was increased by the <i>pαβ</i> percentage, while -<i>pαβ</i> means that that semi-axis was decreased by the <i>pαβ</i> percentage. The dashed ellipses indicate how an ellipse (solid black) is changed when: (top, left) only the semi-major axis is increased or decreased by <i>pαβ</i>; (top, right) only the semi-minor is increased or decreased by <i>pαβ</i>; (bottom, left) the semi-axes are both increased or both decreased by <i>pαβ</i>; (bottom, right) one of the semi-axes is increased and the other is decreased by <i>pαβ</i>. (C) The dashed ellipses indicate how an ellipse (solid black) is changed when its angle of rotation is increased or decreased by <i>pθ</i>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "ways", "modified", "optimization"], "article_id"=>1109141, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g006", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_different_ways_the_ellipses_properties_are_modified_during_the_optimization_search_process_/1109141", "title"=>"The different ways the ellipses' properties are modified during the optimization search process.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599174"], "description"=>"<p>(A) The figure with two Venn diagrams drawn with circles in a medical journal article <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Lenz1\" target=\"_blank\">[37]</a>. This is a redrawing of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g005\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 5</a> in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Lenz1\" target=\"_blank\">[37]</a>, previously published under a CC BY license. (B) The figure as it would have looked like if the diagrams were drawn with ellipses using euler<i>APE</i>. Labels for euler<i>APE</i>'s diagrams were added manually.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "recreated"], "article_id"=>1109155, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g013", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>11, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_figure_in_a_medical_journal_article_and_the_figure_recreated_with_euler_APE_/1109155", "title"=>"The figure in a medical journal article and the figure recreated with euler<i>APE</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599156"], "description"=>"<p>The centre of ellipse <i>e</i><sub>3</sub> is a point on the line <i>L</i> bisecting the angle <i>ψ</i> between the two tangents <i>T</i><sub>1</sub> and <i>T</i><sub>2</sub>. The bisection method is applied in the interval indicated by the faded blue circles along <i>L</i>. The obtained centre should minimize the discrepancy of the required and the actual area of the region in exactly the three ellipses.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "diagram", "generator", "bisecting", "bisector"], "article_id"=>1109140, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g005", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>7, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_starting_diagram_generator_bisecting_the_interval_along_bisector_line_to_position_the_third_ellipse_/1109140", "title"=>"The starting diagram generator bisecting the interval along bisector line to position the third ellipse.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599173"], "description"=>"<p>The (A) <i>stress</i> and (B) <i>diagError</i> of all the diagrams generated with circles by venneuler, with circles by euler<i>APE</i> and with ellipses by euler<i>APE</i> for the 10,000 3-set data in L2. The 10,000 diagrams generated with circles by venneuler had <i>stress</i> in [3.77×10<sup>−5</sup>, 6.14×10<sup>−1</sup>] with median 3.04×10<sup>−2</sup> and mean 6.41×10<sup>−2</sup>, and <i>diagError</i> in [1.56×10<sup>−3</sup>, 2.46×10<sup>−1</sup>] with median 4.56×10<sup>−2</sup> and mean 5.73×10<sup>−2</sup>. The 10,000 diagrams generated with circles by euler<i>APE</i> had <i>stress</i> in [1.91×10<sup>−10</sup>, 7.79×10<sup>−1</sup>] with median 7.00×10<sup>−2</sup> and mean 1.13×10<sup>−1</sup>, and <i>diagError</i> in [3.30×10<sup>−6</sup>, 3.31×10<sup>−1</sup>] with median 6.28×10<sup>−2</sup> and mean 6.73×10<sup>−2</sup>. The 10,000 diagrams generated with ellipses by euler<i>APE</i> had <i>stress</i> in [3.98×10<sup>−14</sup>, 2.24×10<sup>−1</sup>] with median 7.59×10<sup>−12</sup> and mean 1.17×10<sup>−10</sup>, and <i>diagError</i> in [6.00×10<sup>−8</sup>, 1.39×10<sup>−1</sup>] with median 8.00×10<sup>−7</sup> and mean 2.94×10<sup>−3</sup>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "diagrams", "generated", "venneuler"], "article_id"=>1109154, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g012", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>12, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Stress_and_diagError_of_all_the_diagrams_generated_by_venneuler_and_euler_APE_circles_and_ellipses_/1109154", "title"=>"<i>Stress</i> and <i>diagError</i> of all the diagrams generated by venneuler and euler<i>APE</i> (circles and ellipses).", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599152"], "description"=>"<p>All the diagrams are meant to depict <i>ω</i> = {<i>A</i> = 0.25, <i>B</i> = 0.01, <i>C</i> = 0.11, <i>AB</i> = 0.10, <i>AC</i> = 0.29, <i>BC</i> = 0.03, <i>ABC</i> = 0.15}, which represents the findings of a medical survey from a journal article <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Lenz1\" target=\"_blank\">[37]</a> that also included diagram D for <i>ω</i>. The diagrams generated for <i>ω</i> using circle-based drawing methods are marked as C, those of polygon-based methods are marked as P, and the only diagram with ellipses, that by euler<i>APE</i>, is E. Green indicates accurate diagrams with <i>diagError</i> ≤10<sup>−6</sup>. Red indicates diagrams with inaccurate or missing regions. D is a redrawing of <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g005\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 5</a> (bottom) in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone.0101717-Lenz1\" target=\"_blank\">[37]</a>, previously published under a CC BY license.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "generated", "methods"], "article_id"=>1109135, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Diagrams_generated_by_various_drawing_methods_for_the_same_medical_data_from_a_journal_article_/1109135", "title"=>"Diagrams generated by various drawing methods for the same medical data from a journal article.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599153"], "description"=>"<p>(A) The quantitative values in each region indicate the required region areas, for which an area-proportional 3-Venn diagram should be drawn. (B) The first step of the construction whereby the three accurate 2-Venn diagrams are drawn. (C) The second step of the construction whereby the identical copies of the circle labelled <i>c</i> are rotated such that they overlap completely and only one circle labelled <i>c</i> is visible. (D) The instance when only three circles are visible, such that the regions of the 3-Venn diagram are obtained. (E) The actual area of the regions in the constructed diagram D, which, as in most cases when these diagrams are drawn with circles, do not correspond to the desired values in A. The numeric label in each region of this diagram indicates the regions' actual area.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "constructing", "area-proportional", "3-venn", "diagram"], "article_id"=>1109136, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g004", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>20, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_A_method_for_constructing_an_area_proportional_3_Venn_diagram_using_circles_/1109136", "title"=>"A method for constructing an area-proportional 3-Venn diagram using circles.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599148"], "description"=>"<p>Each of these diagrams depicts the sets and the quantitative data indicated by the numeric labels in the regions of the corresponding diagram in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717#pone-0101717-g001\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 1</a>. These diagrams have been drawn with euler<i>APE</i>, but the labels have been added manually.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "area-proportional", "3-venn", "diagrams", "drawn", "ellipses"], "article_id"=>1109131, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>37, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Accurate_area_proportional_3_Venn_diagrams_drawn_with_ellipses_and_euler_APE_for_the_data_in_Figure_1_/1109131", "title"=>"Accurate area-proportional 3-Venn diagrams drawn with ellipses and euler<i>APE</i> for the data in Figure 1.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599167"], "description"=>"<p>(A) and (B) illustrate (<i>i</i>) the good diagram that was found using (<i>ii</i>) the starting diagram generated for the data item in L1 ({<i>a</i> = 2273, <i>b</i> = 24458, <i>c</i> = 44454, <i>ab</i> = 7116, <i>ac</i> = 740, <i>bc</i> = 18807, <i>abc</i> = 12092} for A and {<i>a</i> = 17033, <i>b</i> = 6248, <i>c</i> = 16230, <i>ab</i> = 615, <i>ac</i> = 289, <i>bc</i> = 840, <i>abc</i> = 922} for B) that was equal to the set of region areas of (<i>iii</i>) a randomly generated 3-Venn diagram.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "diagrams", "generated"], "article_id"=>1109148, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g009", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>2, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Examples_of_good_diagrams_generated_after_the_first_run_for_data_in_L1_/1109148", "title"=>"Examples of good diagrams generated after the first run for data in L1.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599162"], "description"=>"<p>The number of reruns (1–10) that were required for euler<i>APE</i> to generate a good diagram for the 61 data items in L1 for which a non-good diagram was generated during the first run.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "reruns", "diagram", "61", "items"], "article_id"=>1109145, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g007", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>4, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_number_of_reruns_to_generate_a_good_diagram_for_61_data_items_in_L1_/1109145", "title"=>"The number of reruns to generate a good diagram for 61 data items in L1.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1599172"], "description"=>"<p>Examples of diagrams generated with (<i>i</i>) circles by venneuler, (<i>ii</i>) circles by euler<i>APE</i>, and (<i>iii</i>) ellipses by euler<i>APE</i> for random 3-set data in L2. (A) Diagrams generated for data {<i>a</i> = 3491, <i>b</i> = 3409, <i>c</i> = 3503, <i>ab</i> = 120, <i>ac</i> = 114, <i>bc</i> = 132, <i>abc</i> = 126}. A<i>i</i> is missing region <i>abc</i> and has <i>stress</i> = 5.69×10<sup>−4</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 1.16×10<sup>−2</sup>. A<i>ii</i> and A<i>iii</i> have the required regions, one for every data set relation. A<i>ii</i> has <i>stress</i> = 8.36×10<sup>−3</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 2.63×10<sup>−2</sup>. A<i>iii</i> has <i>stress</i> = 3.96×10<sup>−12</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 6.55×10<sup>−7</sup>. (B) Diagrams generated for data {<i>a</i> = 45910, <i>b</i> = 3261, <i>c</i> = 45467, <i>ab</i> = 58845, <i>ac</i> = 3028, <i>bc</i> = 16406, <i>abc</i> = 18496}. B<i>i</i> is missing region <i>ac</i> and has <i>stress</i> = 3.17×10<sup>−3</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 2.07×10<sup>−2</sup>. There are two regions in B<i>i</i> depicting only <i>b</i>. B<i>ii</i> and B<i>iii</i> have the required regions, one for every data set relation. B<i>ii</i> has <i>stress</i> = 2.13×10<sup>−2</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 4.36×10<sup>−2</sup>. B<i>iii</i> has <i>stress</i> = 3.43×10<sup>−12</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 6.85×10<sup>−7</sup>. (C) Diagrams generated for data {<i>a</i> = 3664, <i>b</i> = 46743, <i>c</i> = 59811, <i>ab</i> = 1742, <i>ac</i> = 2099, <i>bc</i> = 17210, <i>abc</i> = 24504}. C<i>i</i>, C<i>ii</i> and C<i>iii</i> have the required regions, one for every data set relation. C<i>i</i> has <i>stress</i> = 4.27×10<sup>−3</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 2.30×10<sup>−2</sup>. C<i>ii</i> has <i>stress</i> = 8.31×10<sup>−3</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 2.44×10<sup>−2</sup>. C<i>iii</i> has <i>stress</i> = 1.13×10<sup>−12</sup> and <i>diagError</i> = 4.03×10<sup>−7</sup>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["Computer applications", "software engineering", "Software design", "Software tools", "mathematics", "Applied mathematics", "algorithms", "calculus", "geometry", "diagrams", "generated", "venneuler"], "article_id"=>1109153, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Luana Micallef", "Peter Rodgers"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101717.g011", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>2, "page_views"=>110, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Examples_of_diagrams_generated_by_venneuler_and_euler_APE_circles_and_ellipses_for_data_in_L2_/1109153", "title"=>"Examples of diagrams generated by venneuler and euler<i>APE</i> (circles and ellipses) for data in L2.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2014-07-17 03:45:31"}
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Chapter Twenty: Hybrid Arbitration Processes - CCA Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration - Fourth Edition
Trey Bergman
Thomas J. Brewer
William H. Levit, Jr
Richard R. Mainland
Gerald F. Phillips
Edna Sussman
Enforcement of Arbitral Awards
Hybrid Proceedings,
Trey Bergman, Houston, Texas
Thomas J. Brewer, Seattle, Washington
William H. Levit, Jr., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Richard R. Mainland, Los Angeles, California
Gerald F. Phillips, Los Angeles, California dead
Edna R. Sussman, New York, New York
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Arbitrators undertaking a dual role of arbitrator and mediator should understand the differences between arbitration and mediation and the measures that will ensure the effectiveness of a dispute resolution proceeding that combines elements of both processes.
Parties sometimes request a neutral to serve in two capacities—as arbitrator and mediator—for the same dispute. Such hybrid proceedings may involve a mediation followed by an arbitration if the mediation is unsuccessful (med-arb) or an arbitration followed by a mediation (arb-med). In one arb-med process, the arbitrator’s award is withheld from the parties pending a mediation before the same neutral. Another hybrid process may involve commencement of an arbitration, followed by a midstream mediation, and then completion of the arbitration (arb-med-arb) if the case does not settle. Sometimes the process may go back and forth between the two modalities depending on the needs of the parties and the nature of the dispute.
Some parties may favor certain hybrid processes because the use of a single neutral in one combined process may lead to quicker and less costly dispute resolution. Hybrid processes also may have the advantage over pure mediation of ensuring that the dispute will be resolved. Other parties may believe that the prospect of arbitration before the same neutral that conducts the mediation creates incentives for the parties to settle and that the knowledge gained by the neutral during the mediation may lead to a more efficient and less costly arbitration if the case does not settle. Hybrid processes also may be attractive when the amount at stake is relatively small or when the parties’ interest in preserving their business relationship outweighs winning the particular dispute.
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Appendix I: Guidance Note: Arbitration and Social Media - CCA Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration - Fourth Edition
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We and they. News of November
The last month of dawn, has stood out with especially rich crop on delivery of premiums, two of which are absolutely new, at once have loudly declared themselves. The second main theme of the month became the discussion of projects of a Gazprom tower - on December, 1st the winner have been declared.
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The rewarding of winners of premium ARX awards, referred to without superfluous modesty « key event in the field of architecture and constructions » has passed in great pomposity. From such reckless frankness in business of self-eulogy all a little bit shivered, but obediently waited for great event. Also it is necessary to recognize, as a whole the premium has gone right. First, in nominees of the premium it was possible to call many recognized architects who get together in few places now, except for Arx-Moscow. Given up the place somewhere young, and somewhere - to not Moscow colleagues, venerable architects last years have ceased to be appreciable, as though having sated with glory. It is not absolutely correct, because as a result that they do, becomes not so noticeably, as earlier. Perhaps, successful start of premium ARX awards will help to overcome this injustice.
Secondly, the decision of jury in the pleasant image has smoothed PR aplomb of action, having stopped on very quiet things: at once two nominations has won one wooden Yachts-clubs Totan Kuzembaev, having made obvious analogy and some kind of continuation to consecutive victories of “small forms” Brodsky on Arx-Moscow. Same building of Kuzembaev was chosen by two of three foreigners participated in jury, this concurrence clearly having expressed that exactly this, conditionally speaking, «kliazminskoe» the direction in modern Russian architecture for them is more interesting than the rest: no one can argue, it is really special creative product, something an average between concept and architecture. Winners of other nominations: the house in Tessinskij pereulok by S.Skuratov, Crete settlement by D. Aleksandrov, the town-planning concept of Ufa peninsula Raum architects - differ by thoughtful context on the verge of ecology, somewhere natural, somewhere cultural.
If in ARX awards the international jury chose works of the recognized Russian architects, then in some days the rewarding of somewhat mirror took place - on behalf of Russian avant guarde handed over other premium, for the first time this year, the premium of a name of Jacob Chernihova from the same fund. Here not a figurine was handed over, but the solid sum in ? 50 000 (and the general fund twice is more), not venerable, but young and promising, and not Russian, but foreign - is more true international, but from Russians Boris Bernaskoni who has brought the tablet last day has dared to participate only. Awarded not for the concrete work, but for creative credo, finding among 55 nominees the most headed in the future, corresponding not to the letter, but spirit of avant guarde. As those have recognized the urbanists-theorists working, in particular, for administration of the European Union and for the Albanian capital, architects of group DOGMA. Architects represent obvious alternative to modern searches of new in the refined complex bends counted on a computer - they despise style refined, think in scale of cities, buildings for simplicity represent in the form of cubes, speak by manifests - looking directly before themselves, drop the perfected phrases, probably, fragments of dogma. Anyway their loss from the formalized searches of the present is obvious; and avaricious images of their tablets even more then avant guarde, also remind most of all Leda - from here, probably, the name « city of new Jacobins». On the other hand, such theorized urbanism well corresponds to slogans of the present Venetian Biennial, devoted to problems of cities on which DOGMA represented the project of the ideal city of Vema in the Italian pavilion; they have not been noticed on Biennial, probably, just because of utopianism.
Not Utopias, but real business was awarded on Biennial. The Danes successfully cooperating with Chinese in sphere of ecology. Capital of Colombia Bogota which like Munhauzen with success has pulled out itself from problems with own hand, have named « a beacon of hope » for all other cities. Not so much beautiful exhibition design was estimated, but the maintenance - the present exhibition of achievements. As in Russia urbanistic successes now are not present, and there is only a fact of uncontrollable growth of one big city so there was nothing to count for. The graceful decision - to show the Russian urbanism in the form of memoirs on its consequences presented in poetical installations of Brodsky, it was pleasant for those who understands, and for the rest, most likely, it was not clear - this time on Biennial estimated not the language of arts, but figures. Though one beautiful exposition have awarded, Japanese.
Besides two absolutely new and loud premiums, in Moscow have handed over already become for four years habitual «Arhip» from magazine Salon, the premium for interiors and private houses. This year traditionally qualitative works of winners had an easy strike of nervousness - asymmetric windows, shifts - whether a style, whether the general mood of private architecture. The winner of the main nomination « the Individual house » architect Dmitry Gejchenko could not come on rewarding - in the summer he had been arrested at the Ukrainian customs for a harmless pack of medicines, not so long ago have released under a subscription not to leave and in the middle of December he was going to be judged.
The turn of very different premiums not connected with trade unions has recovered an architectural life in general and November in particular, but the main sensation has concentrated not here. During the whole November everyone who could, discussed projects of a skyscraper "Gazprom-city", exposed in Academies of arts in Petersburg. The press was flooded with clauses against a skyscraper, it is impossible to spoil the unique in the country beautiful city, strictly speaking. Have called some press conferences, there were youth associations, protest actions. In the answer have received assurances that projects - only sketches and nothing is decided jet.
Movement in protest is very active, though is non-uniform. Its the first, the most nice, the part, conditionally speaking, intellectual, is presented by Michael Piotrovsky and the truth inherits D.S.Lihacheva's ideas, already defended Peter from one skyscraper, that was growth below and not gazprom’s, it was not planed as a symbol of the statement above city of a very large and influential company and in this respect positions of a skyscraper of the ninetieth were rather weaker. Closer by the end of the month this movement, at last, has found support of foreign colleagues in the form of the letter of lord Norvicha and Kolin Ameri, Englishmen, representatives of the World fund of protection of monuments; clause in Times has followed.
The second part of resistance - trade-union, and though they act for one business, the performance of the unions of architects does not leave the insult that the Russian architects were have not involved in designing.
The opinions concerning the projects of foreign stars also dispatch – the director of the Museum of architecture David Sakrisjan has named all of them bad and slipshod, but has not explained why. Piotrovsky opposite, has recognized projects to be good, having divided the quality of architecture and that damage which it will put to city if will appear in that place where it is planned. Somewhere here exists the output - why not to construct a good skyscraper « from a star » somewhere in the suburb of the city, at the same time having recycled the area? If, certainly Gazprom is ready to go on the compromise.
If to look at projects generally it would be desirable to agree with Piotrovsky. Remaining within the limits of not most refined genre, "star" have offered various enough decisions. One law is observed: from six invited, five were unconditional stars of the first size, and the sixth project was also foreign, but « with greater Russian participation » - RMJM. It is also a workshop of not the last size, but not with such world glory, as the others - the seventh among the British architectural companies. It participated in construction of the Scottish parliament known for very delicate attitude to historical building, but not on the first roles. But it works for Dubai, it is not a secret, that for the Russian officials and businessmen this place is almost an ideal of happiness.
If to look at projects the small difference is felt at once. Five "stars", everyone in own way, have tried to brighten up the intrusion of the giant into city. Nuvel has built "Aurora", it is not the first building in the form of the ship designed by him ; Libeskind - an arch of the General Staff, having tried to open a view on Smolnyi Cathedral by Rastrelli; Fuksas - a spike, whether Admiralties, whether Petropavlovka. Koolhas «cut away» the volume by cubic niches, having tried to retire the massiveness of a building, the tower by Hertzoga and De Meron is bent as if it is ashamed for it to stand on this place. In vain spoke, that our scandal has not reached the foreigners, either all of them knew, or felt - all five present "stars" have anyhow expressed their confusion to what they do, interfering in « a heavenly line ».
Only one project has appeared to be alien doubts and meditations. It represents a pure embodiment of an emblem of Gazprom, a gas candle, the size even higher the one was announced for 20 meters. It is very expensive, technologically complex sculpture of a torch - the cleanest embodiment of the order for an arrogant symbol of gas. Whether it was necessary to doubt, what project would be choosen. What about the public, declaring the results, Valentine Matvienko has told, that petersburgers should be happy, and Alexey Miller has suggested the public to be consoled whith a skating rink which at the same time will be constructed in the territory of Okhta. It was on the 1st of December.
The autumn crop of awards is collected. Serious events in professional sphere in December are not expected, but development of scandal with a Petersburg tower is probable.
Headlines now
On Leningrad Avenue, not far away from the Sokol metro station, the construction of the A-Class business center Alcon II has been completed. ADM architects designed the main façade as three volumetric ribbons, as if the busy traffic of the avenue “shook” the matter sending large waves through it.
An apartment hotel that looks like a ship with wide decks has been designed for a land plot on a lake shore in Moscow’s South Tushino. This “steamer” house, overlooking the lake and the river port, does indeed look as if it were ready to sail away.
Sergey Tchoban: “You need to dress your buildings in the kind of skin that will age...
In this issue, we are speaking to Sergey Tchoban about the principles of modern architecture in the light of his “30:70” theory.
Designed by Sergey Tchoban, the housing complex Veren Place in St. Petersburg is the perfect example of inserting a new building into a historical city, and one the cases of implementing the strategy that the architect presented a few years ago in the book, which he coauthored with Vladimir Sedov, called “30:70. Architecture as a Balance of Forces”.
In the nearest future, the Marc Chagall Embankment will be turned into Moscow’s largest riverside park with green promenades, cycling and jogging trails, a spa center on water, a water garden, and sculptural pavilions designed in the spirit of the Russian avant-garde artists of the 1920, and, first of all, Chagall himself. In this issue, we are covering the second-stage project.
A-Len has developed and patented the “Perfect Apartments” program, which totally eliminates “bad” apartment layouts. In this article, we are sharing how this program came around, what it is about, who can benefit from it, and how.
“Architectural Archaeology of the Narkomfin Building”: the Recap
One of the most important events of 2020 has been the completion of the long-awaited restoration of the monument of Soviet avant-garde architecture – the Narkomfin Building, the progenitor of the typology of social housing in this country. The house retained its residential function as the main one, alongside with a number of artifacts and restoration clearances turned into living museum exhibits.
LIFE on the Setun River
The area in the valley of the Setun River near the Vereiskaya Street got two new blocks of the “LIFE-Kutuzovsky” housing complex, designed by ADM architects. The two new blocks have a retail boulevard of their own, and a small riverside park.
Celestial Tectonics
Three towers on a podium over the Ramenka River are the new dominant elements on the edge of a Soviet “microdistrict”. Their scale is quite modern: the height is 176 m – almost a skyscraper; the facades are made of glass and steel. Their graceful proportions are emphasized by a strict white grid, and the volumetric composition picks up the diagonal “grid of coordinates” that was once outlined in the southwest of Moscow by the architects of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Clouds over the Railroad
In the stead of former warehouses near “Lyubertsy-1” station, a new housing complex has been built, which peacefully coexists with the railroad, with the flyover bridge, and with the diverse surrounding scenery, not only dominating over the latter, but improving it.
Towers in a Forest
The authors of the housing complex “In the Heart of Pushkino” were faced with a difficult task: to preserve the already existing urban forest, at the same time building on it a compound of rather high density. This is how three towers at the edge of the forest appeared with highly developed public spaces in their podiums and graceful “tucks” in the crowning part of the 18-story volumes.
The Towers of “Sputnik”
Six towers, which make up a large housing complex standing on the bank of the Moskva River at the very start of the Novorizhskoe Highway, provide the answers to a whole number of marketing requirements and meets a whole number of restrictions, offering a simple rhythm and a laconic formula for the houses that the developer preferred to see as “flashy”.
The Starting Point
In this article, we are reviewing two retro projects: one is 20 years old, the other is 25. One of them is Saint Petersburg’s first-ever townhouse complex; the other became the first example of a high-end residential complex on Krestovsky Island. Both were designed and built by Evgeny Gerasimov and Partners.
Moscow Institute of Architecture: projects by Vsevolod Medvedev group
In this issue, we are reviewing the diploma projects of a group of bachelors from Moscow Architectural Institute working under the leadership of Vsevolod Medvedev, Mikhail Kanunnikov and Elizaveta Medvedeva.
The Path to New Ornamentation
The high-end residential complex “Aristocrat” situated next to a pine park at the start of the Rublev Highway presents a new stage of development of Moscow’s decorative historicist architecture: expensively decorated, yet largely based on light-colored tones, and masterfully using the romantic veneer of majolica inserts.
Renovation: the Far East Style
The competition project of renovating two central city blocks of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, developed by UNK project, won the nomination “Architectural and planning solutions of city construction”.
Sergey Trukhanov: “The main thing is to find a solution to a challenge that originally...
How will our workspaces change? Can you prepare your companies for similar situations in the future? What factors are generally important for modern offices? What are the subtleties of working with international companies, and what kind of architectural typology are we yet to discover?
The Contact
The Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome presents Sergei Tchoban’s exhibition “Imprint of the future. Destiny of Piranesi’s City”. The exhibition includes four etchings, based on Roman architectural views of the XVIII century complemented by futuristic insertions, as well as a lot of drawings that investigate the same topic, at times quite expressively. The exhibition poses questions, but does not seem to give any answers. Since going to Rome is pretty problematic now, let’s at least examine the pictures.
In Search of Visual Clarity
In this article, we are reviewing a discussion devoted to the question of designing city space elements, which is quite complicated for the Russian expanses of land. The discussion was organized by the Genplan Institute of Moscow at the ArchMoscow convention in Gostiny Dvor.
The City of the Sun
Jointly designed by Sergey Tchoban and Vladimir Plotkin, the VTB Arena Park complex can arguably be considered the perfect experiment on solving the centuries-old controversy between traditional architecture and modernism. The framework of the design code, combined with the creative character of the plastique-based dialogue between the buildings, formed an all-but-perfect fragment of the city fabric.
...The Other Was Just Railroad Gin*
In their project of the third stage of “Ligovsky City” housing complex, located in the industrial “gray” belt of Saint Petersburg, the KCAP & Orange Architects & A-Len consortium set before themselves a task of keeping up the genius loci by preserving the contours of the railroad and likening the volumes of residential buildings to railroad containers, stacked up at the goods unloading station.
Lions on Glass
While reconstructing the facades of Building 4 of Moscow Hospital #23, SPEECH architects applied a technique, already known from Saint Petersburg projects by Sergey Tchoban – cassettes with elements of classical architecture printed on glass. The project was developed gratis, as a help to the hospital.
Park of Sentiments
The project of “Romantic Park Tuchkov Buyan”, which was developed by the consortium of Studio 44 and WEST 8, and has won an international competition, combines sculptural landscape design and wooden structures, variety of spatial features and an eventful agenda, designed for diverse audience, with a beautiful and complex passeist idea of a palace park, meant to evoke thoughts and feelings.
Architecture as an Educational Tool
The concept of a charity school “Tochka Budushchego” (“Point of the Future”) in Irkutsk is based on cutting-edge educational programs, and is designed, among other things, for adapting orphaned children for independent life. An important role is played by the architecture of the building: its structure and different types of interconnected spaces.
The Gallery Approach
In this article, we are covering the concept of a Central District Clinic for 240 patients, designed by Ginzburg Architects, which won at a competition organized by the Architects Union and the Healthcare Ministry.
Health Constructor
In this issue, we are publishing the concept of a standard clinic designed by UNK Project, which took second place in the competition organized by the Union of Architects of Russia in collaboration with the Healthcare Ministry.
From Foundation to Teaspoon
Based on the taste of their friendly clients, the architects Olga Budennaya and Roman Leonidov designed and built a house in the Moscow metropolitan area playing Art Nouveau. At the same time, they enriched the typology of a private house with modern functions of a garage loft and a children’s art studio.
Continuation and Development
The second “office” stage of Comcity, the most popular business park of the “New Moscow” area, continues the underground street of the already existing part of the complex, responding to its architectural identity.
The Flying One
Expected to become an analogue of Moscow’s Skolkovo, the project of the High Park campus at Saint Petersburg’s ITMO University, designed by Studio 44, mesmerizes us with its sheer scale and the passion that the architects poured into it. Its core – the academic center – is interpreted as an avant-garde composition inspired by Piazza del Campo with a bell tower; the park is reminiscent of the “rays” of the main streets of Saint Petersburg, and, if watched from a birds-eye view, the whole complex looks like a motherboard with at least four processors on it. The design of the academic building even displays a few features of a sports arena. The project has a lot of meanings and allusions about it; all of them are united by plastique energy that the hadron collider itself could be jealous of.
The Aperture Effect
For a housing complex built in the town of Pushkino in the Moscow metropolitan area, KPLN Architects designed facades that adjust the stream of light by using the wall geometry.
A Comfortable City in Itself
The project that we are about to cover is seemingly impossible amidst human anthills, chaotically interspersed with old semi-neglected dachas. Meanwhile, the housing complex built on the Comcity business part does offer a comfortable environment of decent city: not excessively high-rise and moderately private as a version of the perfect modern urbanist solution.
Moving on the Edge
The housing complex “Litsa” (“Faces”) on Moscow’s Khodynka Field is one of the new grand-scale buildings that complement the construction around it. This particular building skillfully tackles the scale, subjugating it to the silhouette and the pattern; it also makes the most of the combination of a challenging land site and formidable square footage requirements, packing a whole number of features within one volume, so the house becomes an analogue of a city. And, to cap it all, it looks like a family that securely protects the children playing in the yard from... well, from everything, really.
Visual Stability Agent
A comparatively small house standing on the border of the Bolshevik Factory combines two diametrically opposite features: expensive materials and decorative character of Art Deco, and a wide-spaced, even somewhat brutal, facade grid that highlights a laminated attic.
UNK Project: “Our school is compared to the Apple Headquarters”
In this issue, we are publishing the competition project of the MGIMO School in Garden Quarters, designed by the consortium UNK Project (Moscow) + Storaket (Erevan) + Umnaya Shkola (Moscow) with the architects’ comments.
The Faraday Cage
The project of the boutique apartment complex in the 1st Truzhenikov Lane is the architects’ attempt to squeeze a considerable volume into a tiny spot of land, at the same time making it look graceful and respectable. What came to their rescue was metal, stone, and curvilinear glass.
Color and Line
The new successful techniques developed by A.Len for designing a kindergarten under budget constraints: the mosaic of irregular windows and working with color.
Sergey Skuratov: “The school was to become the gem of Garden Quarters. All of us waited for...
In this issue, we are interviewing Sergey Skuratov about the results of the competition for the building in the center of the residential complex, on which the architect has been working since 2006. We are examining the project that never did win, making an attempt to study the case in detail.
The Union of Art and Technology
His interest for architecture of the 1930’s is pretty much the guiding star for Stepan Liphart. In his project of the “Amo” house on St. Petersburg’s Vasilyevsky Island, the architect based himself on Moscow Art Deco - aesthetically intricate and decorated in scratch-work technique. As a bonus, he developed the city block typology as an organic structure.
The consortium “Vostok”+Martela wins the competition for the best project of the school...
The project that Evgeniy Gerasimov and Partners developed for Moscow’s Leningrad Avenue: the tallest building in the company’s portfolio, continuing the tradition of Moscow’s Stalin architecture.
The Pre-Fire Classicism
Ginzburg Architects restored the Sytin Mansion, a rare monument of Moscow wooden architecture of the early XIX century.
In the project that they developed for a southern region of Russia, OSA Architects use multilayered facades that create an image of seaside resort architecture, and, in the vein of the latest trends of today, mix up different social groups that the residents belong to.
Just a Mirror for the Sun
The house that Sergey Skuratov designed in Nikolovorobinsky Alley is thought out down to the last detail. It adapts three historical facades, interprets a feeling of a complex city, is composed of many layers, and catches plenty of sunlight, from sunrises to sunsets. The architect himself believes that the main role of this house is creating a background for another nearby project of his, Art House in the Tessinsky Alley.
Part of the Whole
On June 5, the winners of Moscow Architectural Award were announced. The winners list includes the project of a school in Troitsk for 2,100 students, with its own astronomy dome, IT testing ground, museum, and a greenhouse on the roof.
Pedagogical Architecture
Yet another project of a private school, in which Archimatika realizes the concept of aesthetic education and introduces a new tradition: combining Scandinavian and Soviet experience, turning to works of art, and implementing sustainable technologies.
Rational Arrangement
In this article, we are examining a complex of buildings and interiors of the first stage of the project that has recently become extremely popular – the Kommunarka clinic.
Parallel Universe
In the “Parallel House” residence that he designed in the Moscow metropolitan area, the architect Roman Leonidov created a dramatic sculptural composition from totally basic shapes – parallelepipeds, whose collision turned into an exciting show.
Breakwater
In the Istra district of Moscow metropolitan area, the tandem of 4izmerenie and ARS-ST designed a sports complex – a monovolume that has the shape of a chamfered parallelepiped with a pointed “nose” like a ship’s bow.
Stairway to Heaven
The project of a hotel in the settlement of Yantarny is an example of a new recreational complex typology, and a new format that unites the hotel, the business, and the cultural functions. All of this is complemented by 100% integration with nature.
Cape of Good Hope
In this issue, we are showing all the seven projects that participated in a closed-door competition to create a concept for the headquarters of Gazprom Neft, as well as provide expert opinions on those projects.
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Four Arrangements - April 19, 1982
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The Students Speak - April 22, 1982
Tasty Licks For Your Chops - April 22, 1982
A Peek Inside- - April 23, 1982
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Woodwind Chamber Music - April 29, 1982
Jazz of Ages - April 29, 1982
Large Be-Bop Ensemble - April 30, 1982
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Still No Bop - July 06, 1982
Diversity - July 08, 1982
Mark Wagnon Sextet - July 27, 1982
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Senior Trumpet Recital - August 02, 1982
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Dominique Picardat Quartet - August 06, 1982
Faculty Chamber Music Series - August 06, 1982
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Family Song - August 10, 1982
Short & Sweet - August 11, 1982
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Italian Way - October 20, 1982
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Music - October 25, 1982
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Through Your Eyes - October 27, 1982
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What Story Do These Stones Tell? - December 01, 1982
Berklee Brass Choir - December 02, 1982
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Woodwind Concert - December 06, 1982
This Song's For You - December 06, 1982
Chameleon - December 08, 1982
Music For Flute And Guitar - December 08, 1982
Senior Trombone Recital - December 09, 1982
Melange - December 09, 1982
Saxophone Quartets & The Berklee Hollywood Sax Quartet - December 10, 1982
Senior Bass Recital - December 10, 1982
Shhh. . .Be Quiet! We're Singing The Love Songs - December 13, 1982
Mr. Negative - December 13, 1982
Reedings By Goodwinds - December 14, 1982
Once Upon a Time Senior Voice Recital - December 14, 1982
B.W. & The Soul Dukes Doing the Sounds of Old Motown and Soul - December 15, 1982
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18th Child - February 10, 1983
A Ballifunk Connection - February 14, 1983
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It's Better (If We Do It) Together - February 16, 1983
..We Will Play Anyway! - February 17, 1983
Thundermist Brass Quintet - February 22, 1983
Potpourri For Trombone - February 23, 1983
Cat's Pajamas - February 24, 1983
Dancing Bears Never Sleep....... - February 24, 1983
Berklee Tuba Night - February 25, 1983
3 Pianists, 1 Recital - February 28, 1983
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Why Be Normal - March 23, 1983
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Mitsu-Reminiscence of the Year - March 25, 1983
Something I Said - March 28, 1983
A Stupid Guide To An Intelligent Science - March 30, 1983
4-Way Combo - March 31, 1983
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Senior Percussion Recital - April 04, 1983
Never Trust Anyone With A Rolled 'R' - April 05, 1983
I Remember April 5th - April 05, 1983
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George Cordeiro - April 13, 1983
Berklee Brass Ensembles - April 14, 1983
Facing Realities - April 14, 1983
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Surreal Electronic Improvisation Images of Infinity In Music - April 15, 1983
Anxiety - April 19, 1983
Debut I'll Sing His Praise - April 19, 1983
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Planet Jazz - April 20, 1983
Jazz Violin Session - April 21, 1983
Something In My Throat - April 21, 1983
Blended At Last - April 22, 1983
The Best Is Yet To Come - April 22, 1983
Woodwind Workshop - April 25, 1983
Give "Us" This Day - April 25, 1983
Jannes Smorgasboard - April 25, 1983
Senior Saxophone Recital - April 26, 1983
Robert J. Recital - April 26, 1983
Jean Barthelemy - April 27, 1983
The John La Porta Recital Seminar - April 28, 1983
Five Easy Pieces - April 28, 1983
Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone - May 02, 1983
Senior Vibraphone Recital - May 03, 1983
Senior Percussion Recital - May 04, 1983
The Berklee String Stretchers And Art Scientists - May 05, 1983
Extra Mild - May 06, 1983
Run Will Robinson, Run! - May 06, 1983
Senior Guitar Recital - May 06, 1983
Senior Saxophone Recital - May 10, 1983
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Senior Piano Recital - May 12, 1983
Continue In Love - June 20, 1983
So Clear So Bright - June 21, 1983
My Last Summer - June 22, 1983
Senior Woodwind Recital - June 27, 1983
GTO Doing It Again - June 28, 1983
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Best Friends Are Forever - July 07, 1983
Patrick Farrant - July 08, 1983
The Road To Damascus - July 11, 1983
JB Holloway "Love" - July 11, 1983
So Clear So Bright - July 12, 1983
Things Swing After Sing - July 14, 1983
Blouse Vegas - July 15, 1983
The Time Element - July 15, 1983
Comett - July 18, 1983
Return Of The Willy D-I - July 19, 1983
Summer Band Camp - July 20, 1983
Oasis - July 22, 1983
"O" - July 25, 1983
Short And Suite - July 26, 1983
Samambaia - July 26, 1983
Pieces Of Dreams - July 28, 1983
Full House - July 28, 1983
Sneaks The C.I.A. - July 29, 1983
Moondance - August 02, 1983
Behind The Shadows - August 08, 1983
Today's Situation - August 08, 1983
E=MF2 - August 09, 1983
Ichiroh's Band - August 09, 1983
Berklee Brass Ensembles - August 11, 1983
Yoshiki Miura - August 11, 1983
Something That Represents The Semester's End - August 18, 1983
Phare Pleigh - September 26, 1983
Impressions of the Avenue - October 11, 1983
Funktion - October 12, 1983
Something New - October 13, 1983
Another Magic Brew - October 17, 1983
Reel To Real - October 19, 1983
Face The Music - October 20, 1983
Convergence A Coming Together - October 24, 1983
Making The Most of It.... - October 25, 1983
Ahmad Mansour - October 26, 1983
Blue Notes - October 26, 1983
First Quartet - October 27, 1983
Senior Saxophone Recital - October 27, 1983
For Henry - October 28, 1983
Harlequin - October 28, 1983
Full House II - October 31, 1983
Douglas-Wingate Group - November 02, 1983
The Berklee Garage Band Ensemble - November 02, 1983
Bassment - November 03, 1983
The John Laporta Recital Series - November 04, 1983
The Janguar and the Moon - November 07, 1983
From The Shed To You - November 08, 1983
Flat Seven Premiere - November 09, 1983
Phases - November 10, 1983
Pocket-Size Pocket - November 14, 1983
What You Need - November 15, 1983
I'm Beginnning To See The Light - November 16, 1983
Breeze Form L.A. - November 17, 1983
Best Friends "The Sequel" - November 22, 1983
Feel So Bad - February 08, 1984
Cool-Train - February 10, 1984
Our Thang - February 14, 1984
Resolution - February 16, 1984
Very Early - February 16, 1984
Immigrants - February 17, 1984
Scraps of Rapture - February 19, 1984
Four Play - February 22, 1984
Spur of the Moment - February 22, 1984
Remet M'en 20 Kilos - February 23, 1984
What Is This Magic Brew Anyway? - February 23, 1984
The Littman Project - February 24, 1984
A New Life - February 27, 1984
Circle Music - February 28, 1984
City & Eastern - February 29, 1984
Dedicated To My Love - March 02, 1984
David August Yewchuk & Friends - March 02, 1984
The Great White North - March 05, 1984
Jam For Berklee - March 06, 1984
Enough Is Enough - March 07, 1984
Unchained - March 07, 1984
Farewell - March 08, 1984
No, That's To Go - March 08, 1984
Divertimento - March 08, 1984
Feel The Vibes - March 12, 1984
Knowledge of Self The Foreign - March 12, 1984
Thoughts - March 13, 1984
Reggae In A Different Style - Can't Get Away - March 14, 1984
Collage - March 14, 1984
Coulors - March 15, 1984
Only The Beginning - March 15, 1984
Jazz On A Monday Afternoon - March 26, 1984
Son Of John - March 26, 1984
Blue Lips - March 27, 1984
Fantasia - March 28, 1984
Staying In With The Times - March 28, 1984
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine - March 29, 1984
Two Sides Of The Coin - March 29, 1984
Klaus Sounsaari Quartet - March 30, 1984
Un Cadeau Pour Toi - April 02, 1984
Did You Notice? - April 02, 1984
Mixed Bag - April 09, 1984
The Missing Link (Part II) - April 11, 1984
A Little Of Everything - April 11, 1984
What's Wrong? - April 12, 1984
Trendmonger - April 12, 1984
Friday The 13th - April 13, 1984
Touching You I Say (It Being Like Spring...) - April 13, 1984
Talking Back - April 17, 1984
Drunken Meanderings - April 18, 1984
Eclectricity - April 19, 1984
Tessera - April 19, 1984
Once You Get Started - April 20, 1984
Presenting - April 23, 1984
New Music Series - April 24, 1984
Music For Cheryl - April 25, 1984
Wish You Were Here - April 26, 1984
Breath of Rain - April 26, 1984
And Now For Something Completely Different - April 27, 1984
The Emerging Class Musician Quartet - April 27, 1984
3 Pianists - 1 Recital - April 30, 1984
Music Education MIxed Chorus - May 02, 1984
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine - May 03, 1984
Primo Saxophone Quartet - May 04, 1984
Senior Violin Recital - May 07, 1984
Berklee Brass Ensembles - May 11, 1984
Buddy Rich Band - May 11, 1984
One For Bobby K. - June 21, 1984
Senior Saxophone Recital - July 11, 1984
The Avant Gardners - July 12, 1984
A Summer In Boston - July 13, 1984
Destination-The Fusion Remains - July 16, 1984
Face The Fact - July 18, 1984
Control-A-Fly - July 19, 1984
Recital - July 23, 1984
A Jazz Consort - July 25, 1984
Random Music - July 26, 1984
Victor Mendoza-Javier Perez Salo Duet - July 30, 1984
Senior Vibraphone Recital - July 30, 1984
Victor Mendoz-Javier PErez Saco Duo - July 31, 1984
Tomorrow Begins Today - August 01, 1984
The Night of Piano Improvisation - August 01, 1984
More Quiet - August 06, 1984
Trio Music - August 08, 1984
Knowledge of Self Insight - August 08, 1984
The Praise of the Sun - August 10, 1984
Djangology and Friends - August 13, 1984
Stuck On Automatic - October 04, 1984
Quartet - October 10, 1984
Teak - October 12, 1984
The Rat Race - October 12, 1984
Appaloosa - October 15, 1984
Ahab Speaks - October 15, 1984
Paripuno - October 16, 1984
BC's Little Big Men - October 17, 1984
Round Trip - October 18, 1984
Wet Paint - October 19, 1984
Brother To Brother - October 19, 1984
The Internatioal Quartet - October 22, 1984
Passage - October 22, 1984
Often Misquoted - October 26, 1984
Terra Firma Flight - October 29, 1984
Nola Sings - October 29, 1984
Windows - October 31, 1984
Live From The Poconos - November 01, 1984
Swedish Meatballs - November 02, 1984
Cornerstone The First Step - November 06, 1984
Just Me - November 07, 1984
Bitihorn - November 08, 1984
Out of Bounds - November 08, 1984
Trio Music - November 13, 1984
Shining - November 13, 1984
The Bavarian Connection - November 14, 1984
An Evening of Jazz Featuring Darelle Holden - November 14, 1984
Rhythmic Celebration - November 15, 1984
Impresiones Latinas - November 16, 1984
The Jazz Sound of Motown - November 16, 1984
Gonna Make Changes - November 19, 1984
Pipe Dream I - November 20, 1984
Micky's Monkey - November 26, 1984
It's Time For Me To Skip 'N Dip - November 30, 1984
Gimme An Extension - November 30, 1984
One Beat At A Time - December 03, 1984
Sax Quartets & Woodwind Quintet - December 05, 1984
Berklee Brass Ensembles - December 06, 1984
Newer Directions (In Boston) - February 01, 1985
Going To Pieces - February 06, 1985
Turn It Up - February 07, 1985
New Elements - February 07, 1985
Berklee Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition Final Round - February 08, 1985
Impressions of Venezuela - February 08, 1985
Jazz On A Monday Afternoon, Part II - February 11, 1985
Red Isle - February 12, 1985
Transformation - February 15, 1985
Taking Off - February 19, 1985
Back To Kaniksu - February 21, 1985
Connections - February 22, 1985
Thanks For Showing Up - February 25, 1985
Class Act - February 25, 1985
Brouhaha - February 26, 1985
Batu - February 28, 1985
Busy, Busy, Busy - March 04, 1985
Thomas Kin-Sketches - March 04, 1985
Vectoring - March 06, 1985
Green Pepper - March 06, 1985
The U.M.F. Is Alive & Well - March 08, 1985
Waterloo G. - March 11, 1985
High Time - March 13, 1985
Three As One (Plus One) - March 13, 1985
Locomotive Truth - March 14, 1985
Love's So Fine - March 25, 1985
Messages - March 27, 1985
Experimentation - March 27, 1985
Having Fun - March 28, 1985
Freetime - March 29, 1985
Recital - April 01, 1985
Springtime Kevin & The April Fools - April 01, 1985
Spring Fever - April 02, 1985
Djian-Djian - April 03, 1985
Koyagi First - April 04, 1985
Looks Bad...Feels Good - April 08, 1985
Moods of the Amazon - April 08, 1985
Decisions, Decisions! - April 09, 1985
Play! - April 11, 1985
Searching For Love - April 11, 1985
Moire - April 12, 1985
Charles Kefover Trio - April 17, 1985
Bass Duet - April 17, 1985
Quintet - April 18, 1985
Bensjammin' - April 19, 1985
In The Key of Kie - April 19, 1985
Full Circle - April 24, 1985
Two Pianists In Recital - April 29, 1985
Saxophone Quartets, Flutes and Clarinet Choirs - April 29, 1985
Let's Step On It - April 30, 1985
Contraband! - May 01, 1985
Baroque Jazz Ensemble - May 02, 1985
Senior Trumpet Recital - May 03, 1985
Woodwind Quintets & Saxophone Quartets - May 06, 1985
The Performing Solo Guitarist - May 07, 1985
Conversations - May 08, 1985
Singers Ensemble - May 09, 1985
Berklee Flatpicking String Stretchers - May 09, 1985
Hey, Steve III!! - June 26, 1985
Cal Bop - June 27, 1985
Wildlife - June 28, 1985
A Sordid Mixture - July 11, 1985
Just Jazz - July 16, 1985
My First Berklee Steps - July 17, 1985
In One Ear and Out The Other - July 17, 1985
Changes - July 25, 1985
Frayed Knot - July 31, 1985
The Lot - August 06, 1985
Standing On Your Head - August 07, 1985
Senior Percussion Recital - August 08, 1985
B-5 Beehive - August 14, 1985
Macumba - August 16, 1985
The Benjamin Rodefer Group - September 16, 1985
Yesterdays - September 26, 1985
On The Cusp - September 27, 1985
The Sydney Or The Bush - October 01, 1985
Rashomon - October 04, 1985
Shaved Puppies (Randomly Chosen) - October 10, 1985
Check It Out! - October 16, 1985
Mark Poniatowski Trio - October 17, 1985
Read In Blue - October 18, 1985
Now Hear This - October 21, 1985
Klandestine - October 23, 1985
Fuse Funk Plays - October 24, 1985
Locomotive Truth II - October 24, 1985
Rock In A Jazz Place - October 25, 1985
Song Of Life - October 29, 1985
It's About Time - October 30, 1985
Trilogy - October 31, 1985
Turn It On Again - November 01, 1985
November Snaps - November 04, 1985
"Time Out" - November 06, 1985
Kazu's Concert II - November 07, 1985
Dreams and Other Realities - November 07, 1985
Nora - November 12, 1985
Fuse Funk - November 13, 1985
"Woodwind Approaches" - November 13, 1985
Hamhorta - November 14, 1985
Listen - November 15, 1985
Springtime Kevin and the April Fools, The Autumn Edition - November 18, 1985
City Shades - November 20, 1985
Phasers On Stun - November 20, 1985
Berklee Ragtime & Fingerpicking String Stetchers - November 21, 1985
Senior Saxophone Recital - November 21, 1985
The Erroneous Zone - November 22, 1985
Flyin' Hawaiian Productions - November 25, 1985
Hoosier Funk - November 26, 1985
The Performing Guitarist - December 03, 1985
Deja Vu - December 04, 1985
"Free Man In Paris" - December 05, 1985
Senior Guitar Recital - December 09, 1985
Senior Percussion Recital - December 10, 1985
Vivaldi's Gloria - The Concert Choir - December 11, 1985
Performer/Songwriters Concert - December 11, 1985
Side B - December 12, 1985
Saxophone Quartet - December 13, 1985
Berklee Wind Ensemble Concerto Finalists Concert - December 16, 1985
Cliff Wittstruck and Friends - January 22, 1986
Trisphere (Curtain Call) - January 29, 1986
G.K. - January 30, 1986
The One Dream - January 31, 1986
He Will Provide - February 04, 1986
Pluggin'--p02.tif - February 05, 1986
Think Big - February 06, 1986
It Might As Well Be Spring - February 10, 1986
Cotyja - February 11, 1986
You Can't Get There From Here - February 13, 1986
The Wooden Pier - February 14, 1986
There's Be Groovin' Tonight - February 18, 1986
Run For Cover - February 19, 1986
Sassafras and Silk An Evening of Sweet & Sassy Songs - February 20, 1986
Windows - February 21, 1986
Gene Shimosato Quartet - February 24, 1986
"That Lovin' Feeling" - February 25, 1986
"The Thing To Do" - February 26, 1986
Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble - February 27, 1986
"Outside In.." - February 28, 1986
Firm Roots - March 03, 1986
For Funk Reasons - March 04, 1986
Multiplicity - March 05, 1986
Stoic Reverb - March 06, 1986
Salambo - March 07, 1986
Primary Warning Of Hades - March 07, 1986
Untitled - March 10, 1986
Vintage Estate - March 11, 1986
Ample Opportunity An Ampule Of Opportunity - March 12, 1986
Memories Of Tomorro - March 13, 1986
Extensions - March 24, 1986
Vulture's Banquet - March 25, 1986
Danglin' - March 26, 1986
"No Title Required" - March 27, 1986
Stick Man - March 31, 1986
Escala Mercally - April 01, 1986
SId The Kid & His Orchestra - April 02, 1986
Music Is...An Open Sky - April 03, 1986
Changing of the Mustard - April 04, 1986
Stick Man - April 04, 1986
First Step - April 07, 1986
Look For Good - April 08, 1986
If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem - April 09, 1986
Heartstrings - April 10, 1986
Rock In A Jazz Place II - April 16, 1986
Round Trip - April 17, 1986
Mondo Furioso - April 18, 1986
Aefrisomnia A Sick Man's Dreams - April 18, 1986
Ludicrous Movement - April 22, 1986
The Medicine Man - April 23, 1986
String Department Recital - April 24, 1986
Mushroom Seeking Dogs - April 24, 1986
Some Latin Stuff - April 25, 1986
The Future - April 29, 1986
Senior Bass Recital - May 06, 1986
Funktional Differences - May 07, 1986
Madrigal Madness - May 08, 1986
Intruder - May 09, 1986
Senior Clarinet - May 12, 1986
Silalahi's Recital - June 16, 1986
Last Danse - June 16, 1986
Alex and Friends - July 02, 1986
In Search Of… - July 03, 1986
Milongueando - July 09, 1986
Another Showcase - July 10, 1986
Senior Piano Recital - July 11, 1986
Good Luck! - July 14, 1986
Untitled - July 15, 1986
In Touch - July 16, 1986
Quest - July 17, 1986
The Bohemian Angels of East Jabib Discover Lust, Pain, and the Last Game of Chance - July 17, 1986
Sly Mongoose - July 21, 1986
Summertime - July 21, 1986
Philip Hii and Friends - July 22, 1986
The Frolicking Escapades of Phineas Squeal - July 22, 1986
Opus Rock '86 - July 23, 1986
First Step - July 23, 1986
Senior Guitar Recital - July 24, 1986
Quahdrophonic - July 24, 1986
The Guitar Liberation Front - July 25, 1986
Origamy - July 25, 1986
Markus Lonardoni & Friends - July 28, 1986
Colours - July 28, 1986
First Step in "1W" - July 29, 1986
Spotless Future - July 31, 1986
Contents Under Pressure - July 31, 1986
Back From Florida - August 01, 1986
Quimbiamba II - August 01, 1986
Significant Numbers - August 04, 1986
Baroque Jazz Ensemble - August 05, 1986
An Evening With Two Blenders & A Vegomatic - August 05, 1986
Sugar - August 06, 1986
Lessons In Love - August 06, 1986
5 Week Concert (Presented by Bruce Nifong) - August 07, 1986
Stock Holders - August 07, 1986
Folk City - August 07, 1986
5 Week Concert - August 08, 1986
Prudential - August 08, 1986
More Burning Mellowdies - August 08, 1986
The Reception - August 12, 1986
Zippity-Do-Da - August 14, 1986
Sound Check - September 22, 1986
Play It Again Samson - September 24, 1986
One Night Stand - September 29, 1986
New Voice - September 29, 1986
Ipso Facto - September 30, 1986
5 - October 01, 1986
What It Is - October 01, 1986
"Sucka-Boy" - October 02, 1986
Listen To The Sound - October 03, 1986
The Moist Sheep - October 06, 1986
Call Me Frank - October 07, 1986
Untitled - October 09, 1986
Funkin' A II - October 09, 1986
Gloves A Foreshadow - October 10, 1986
Ecoute - October 14, 1986
Determination - October 16, 1986
Ha! - October 17, 1986
We Hate Cops, And We Drink A Lot - October 17, 1986
Fumio's Revenge - October 20, 1986
Tibidiana - October 21, 1986
Altogether Now - October 22, 1986
The Critical Edge - October 22, 1986
Agent - October 24, 1986
Takin' It Down - October 27, 1986
Inner Thoughts - October 27, 1986
Request - October 28, 1986
Memories - Gene Shimosato Quartet - October 29, 1986
Prelude - October 29, 1986
No, Really...I'm Awake - October 30, 1986
Dreamscape - October 31, 1986
First Time Out - October 31, 1986
Title Unknown - November 03, 1986
Yo, Jazz - November 04, 1986
Better Late Than Never - November 05, 1986
Balance - November 06, 1986
Out Here On My Own - November 07, 1986
The Jazz Passengers - November 07, 1986
Fine And Mellow - November 07, 1986
The Canuck Mode - November 07, 1986
Al's Little Problem - November 12, 1986
Too Hot! - November 14, 1986
Gus - November 18, 1986
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro - November 19, 1986
The Beginning Of The Past - November 20, 1986
Sink Or Swing - November 20, 1986
Mackin' It! - November 21, 1986
Jazz...Not Just A Four Letter Word - November 24, 1986
Shigeyology - November 24, 1986
Now What? - November 25, 1986
Brazilian Love Affair - December 01, 1986
This One's For You - December 01, 1986
Voice Recital - December 03, 1986
Senior Trumpet Recital - December 03, 1986
Untitled - December 04, 1986
The B-3 Band - December 04, 1986
Senior Saxophone - December 04, 1986
The Gumb Returns - December 04, 1986
Senior Piano Recital - December 05, 1986
En 507 Jazz Sextet - December 08, 1986
Tom's Thumbs - December 08, 1986
Anything Can Happen - December 10, 1986
Performer-Songwriter Showcase - December 10, 1986
The Concert Choir Sing Faure- The Requiem - December 10, 1986
Ictupus - December 11, 1986
Woodwind Workshop - December 11, 1986
Metal Shop - December 12, 1986
Vocal Recital - December 12, 1986
Berklee Concert Wind Ensemble Concerto Finalists - December 15, 1986
Danse Macabre - January 19, 1987
Go Dog Go - January 20, 1987
Presents the Music of Bill Holman - January 22, 1987
Spit Coffee - January 23, 1987
George Washington and His Band of Merry Newts - January 27, 1987
Toshi's Recital - January 28, 1987
Re-Emergence - January 29, 1987
Gusagain - February 03, 1987
Simplicity of Expression - Depth of Thought - February 04, 1987
C'est La Vie - February 05, 1987
De Aqui Y De A Jazz - February 05, 1987
Maximum R&B - February 06, 1987
A Fat Snowman - February 09, 1987
Two Pianists in Recital - February 10, 1987
Elaborations in Blue - February 10, 1987
Crossbreed - February 11, 1987
Revenge of the Surf Doge - February 12, 1987
Hata Group - February 12, 1987
Friday The 13th - February 13, 1987
Welcome To The Factory - February 13, 1987
Who Is The Leader? - February 17, 1987
Sound Check II - February 18, 1987
Slow Night - February 18, 1987
Mr. Roberts Goes To College - February 19, 1987
Wicked Wihk Weekend Band - February 20, 1987
One Saturday Night In Glasgow - February 20, 1987
Shige-Logic - February 23, 1987
Vocal Workshop - February 24, 1987
Feeler! - February 25, 1987
The End and the Beginning - March 02, 1987
You MIght Get Lost In There - March 03, 1987
The Music Gallery II - March 03, 1987
Master Jam - March 04, 1987
Off Center - March 05, 1987
Mas Masuda (Beyond) - March 05, 1987
A Joyful Noise - March 06, 1987
Expressions - March 06, 1987
Kiyo - March 09, 1987
As Time Goes By - March 09, 1987
Solo, Duo, Trio - March 10, 1987
Vic (Live) Visual Instrumental Compositions - March 10, 1987
Markoh, Live - March 11, 1987
Passage of Time - March 11, 1987
Re-Fuse - March 12, 1987
Music By Colors - March 12, 1987
Mmrrph! (2) - March 23, 1987
1W - March 24, 1987
Derivative - March 25, 1987
Right On Track - March 25, 1987
J&F Big Band - March 26, 1987
Come and Feel My Beat! (Something Happens Today) - March 26, 1987
My Brazilian Guitar - March 27, 1987
Winter Moods In Spring - March 27, 1987
So Long - March 30, 1987
Vocal Workshop - March 31, 1987
Morita "Ichiza" - March 31, 1987
Decorative, Yet Functional - April 01, 1987
Sweet Revenge - April 01, 1987
Blue Notes - April 02, 1987
Don't Ask - April 02, 1987
Restless - April 03, 1987
The Insatiable Delights of the Burgermeister - April 03, 1987
Our Man In Allston - April 06, 1987
Stronger Than Before - April 06, 1987
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - April 07, 1987
Schoenwetter - Zone - April 08, 1987
Dr. Kato and His Amazing Robot Friends - April 08, 1987
Acoustic Music - Electric Heart - April 09, 1987
A Longer April - April 10, 1987
19870414-400pm-1W-- - April 14, 1987
Latinlandia - April 14, 1987
Doin' The Wild Thing - April 14, 1987
Untitled - April 15, 1987
Questions - April 15, 1987
In Over Out Haeds and Having Fun - April 16, 1987
Art Effect - April 16, 1987
Songwriters' Night III - April 16, 1987
"That's All, Folks" - April 17, 1987
One LIttle Indian, Two Little Indians... - April 17, 1987
Vast Minority 3 - April 21, 1987
Anything Goes - April 21, 1987
As We Are! - April 22, 1987
Tibidiana II - April 22, 1987
Look At Me - April 23, 1987
Shed Bebop! - April 23, 1987
Seven Corners - April 24, 1987
First Steps - April 24, 1987
Beethoven's Fourth - April 27, 1987
Communication - April 27, 1987
Catharsis - April 27, 1987
En 507 Jazz Sextet - April 28, 1987
Double Vision Out - April 28, 1987
Rehearsal Techniques Class Recital - April 29, 1987
Senior Bass Recital - April 29, 1987
The Berklee Brass Ensemble - April 30, 1987
Mwisho - April 30, 1987
Someone MIght Think We're Playing - May 01, 1987
Superblue - May 01, 1987
Berklee Small Concert Jazz Ensemble - May 04, 1987
Mash It Up - May 05, 1987
Cold Water Sextet - May 06, 1987
Rhythm Section & Vocal Recital - May 06, 1987
Senior Flute Recital - May 06, 1987
Blues Power - May 07, 1987
CM 140 "Oya-Oya" - May 07, 1987
Jazz - May 08, 1987
Blues In The Closet - May 08, 1987
"Last Call" - May 08, 1987
Music For French Horns - May 08, 1987
Heroes/Heroines - June 16, 1987
The Grief Bros. - June 16, 1987
Noam Shefi Band - June 17, 1987
Soggy Toast - June 18, 1987
My Favorite Things - June 18, 1987
From This Moment - June 22, 1987
Queebs - June 23, 1987
Senior Voice Recital - June 24, 1987
Burning Party, Vol.2 - June 25, 1987
Senior Trumpet Recital - June 26, 1987
The One Finger Snap - June 26, 1987
"Help!" My Ears Are Are Rotting From All This Noize!" - June 29, 1987
Keeque Booh - June 30, 1987
Marquee Du Commerce - July 01, 1987
Some Like It Hot! - July 06, 1987
Now Pain, Not Gain - July 07, 1987
Original Music - July 08, 1987
Kasach - July 10, 1987
Plexiglass - July 10, 1987
"Jazz Graphic" - July 13, 1987
"Imbroglio" - July 15, 1987
Songs For Summer - July 15, 1987
Smoking Funk - July 17, 1987
Vjamaa - July 20, 1987
Strong Winds - July 21, 1987
Senior Flute Recital - July 22, 1987
Senior Percussion Recital - July 23, 1987
Zeugma - July 24, 1987
For The Dogs - July 24, 1987
"A-No-Ne" - July 27, 1987
Vague Outline - July 28, 1987
Jazz Must Be A Woman - July 28, 1987
Shigeyology - July 31, 1987
"Now I Am, Now I Ain't" - August 04, 1987
Shakin' It - August 05, 1987
An Evening of Chamber Music For Flute and Guitar - August 05, 1987
Performer-Songwriter Showcase - August 06, 1987
Acoustic/Electric - August 07, 1987
Quartet - August 07, 1987
Lights In The Sky - August 07, 1987
"Darryl & The I-20's" - August 10, 1987
Understanding Love - August 10, 1987
Visions of Duluoz - August 11, 1987
"Chihuahua Connection" - August 12, 1987
Five Week Performance - August 13, 1987
Rio Life - August 14, 1987
Watch Out, The Earth is Spinning - August 17, 1987
Hime - August 17, 1987
Guerrilla Jazz The Grief Brothers - August 19, 1987
Senior Piano Recital - August 21, 1987
Delirium - September 10, 1987
Jazz - September 10, 1987
*Senior Vocal Recital - September 10, 1987
The Last Of The Pharoahs - September 11, 1987
"Bop" - September 14, 1987
Van Buck - September 16, 1987
Got Any Bread - September 16, 1987
A Jolly Fellow - September 18, 1987
*Senior Piano Recital - September 21, 1987
The Insatiable Delights Of The Burgermeister's Mother - September 21, 1987
Deka Kazu Session Group, Vol 1 - September 22, 1987
Ganbei - September 23, 1987
J. Quartet - September 24, 1987
Legacy - September 25, 1987
With My Whole Heart - September 28, 1987
"Ha Ta Yat Goof" - September 29, 1987
Yoshihiko Katori Group - October 01, 1987
Brazil In My Heart - October 02, 1987
*Senior Bass Recital Program - October 02, 1987
Beyond The Techno-Fear - October 05, 1987
An Evening With Klondyke Annie And The Fly God Orchestra - October 05, 1987
Ken's Recital - October 06, 1987
A Recital - October 08, 1987
Whachawanna - October 08, 1987
Our Thing II - October 09, 1987
Duo & Trio - October 09, 1987
It's Time - October 13, 1987
Autumn Attraction - October 14, 1987
Tribute To Blues-Rock - October 15, 1987
Picture This - October 16, 1987
Fusion - October 19, 1987
Singers' Workshop - October 20, 1987
Peace - October 20, 1987
Hubtones-A Tribute To Freddie Hubbard - October 20, 1987
Trio - October 21, 1987
"More Standards" - October 22, 1987
Sally And Friends... - October 23, 1987
The Girl Next Door - October 23, 1987
The Straight Life - October 26, 1987
This Is Our Music - October 26, 1987
The Joe Carozza Quartet - October 26, 1987
Lennyar Transformation - October 27, 1987
The Night Is In Pumpers - October 27, 1987
B & O - October 28, 1987
Let's Have A Ball - October 29, 1987
Renaissance-The Beginning - October 29, 1987
Encore - October 30, 1987
Decomposition - November 02, 1987
Vaughan Who? - November 03, 1987
Geisha Smile - November 04, 1987
It's About Time - November 05, 1987
Chiminey Bimini Pop - November 06, 1987
Some Kind Of Changes - November 06, 1987
Hime II - November 09, 1987
Charles J.P. Craig - November 09, 1987
The Deep End - November 10, 1987
The New Quartet - Thoughts Of Plessis - November 12, 1987
999 - November 12, 1987
Symmetric Talent - November 13, 1987
Phil Curtis - November 13, 1987
So What-Part II - November 13, 1987
Four Pianists In Recital - November 16, 1987
Good, Clean Fun - November 16, 1987
Caught In The Moment - November 16, 1987
Rover, Rieser & Sverrison - November 17, 1987
Gotcha! - November 17, 1987
When All Is Said - November 18, 1987
Just Existing - November 19, 1987
Criss Cross - November 19, 1987
A Tribute To Miles Davis - November 20, 1987
Over Seas - November 23, 1987
Jazz In The Afternoon - November 30, 1987
Christmas In November - November 30, 1987
La Dissonance - November 30, 1987
Student Ensemble - December 01, 1987
Voice Student Recital - December 01, 1987
The Boppers In "Hip Displacement" - December 02, 1987
All As One - December 02, 1987
Chamber Music For Flute And Guitar - December 02, 1987
John Scofield Ensemble Recital - December 03, 1987
Jazz Improv - December 03, 1987
*Senior Guitar Recital - December 03, 1987
Mili's Bounce - December 04, 1987
Three In OnE - December 04, 1987
*Senior Piano Recital - December 04, 1987
Nice To Meet You - December 07, 1987
Danny Harrington Quintet - December 07, 1987
Blues Collage - December 08, 1987
Bret's Fret's - December 08, 1987
*Senior Percussion Recital - December 09, 1987
Berklee Music Education Mixed Chorus - December 09, 1987
Grey Thoughts - December 09, 1987
Two Jazz Ensembles - December 10, 1987
39th & Russell - December 10, 1987
A Student Recital - December 11, 1987
Simply Loud (Excuse Me?) - December 14, 1987
Taking It Out - December 14, 1987
The Dinosaur Hour - December 15, 1987
Christmas Songs - December 15, 1987
Blues From The World - December 15, 1987
Contemporary Workshop - December 16, 1987
Senior Woodwind Recital - December 16, 1987
Very Much - January 25, 1988
Right In Your Bowl - January 28, 1988
Dreamspeak - February 01, 1988
Second Point - February 02, 1988
Toshi's Word IV - February 02, 1988
Sort Of But Not Really - February 03, 1988
Jim's Jazz Jam - February 04, 1988
The Bottom Line - February 04, 1988
Amoroso - February 05, 1988
Multi-Coloured Ping-Pong Balls That Love You - February 05, 1988
Americas - February 09, 1988
Landscapes - February 10, 1988
From The Sheds - February 10, 1988
"Wheatcheck" - February 11, 1988
Songs From The Generic Decade - February 11, 1988
! - February 12, 1988
One Mind, One Soul - February 12, 1988
Oh Yeah !!! - February 16, 1988
Way Out West - February 17, 1988
Listen To The Light - February 17, 1988
Hi Bunky - February 18, 1988
What's New Out West - February 18, 1988
Michael Felberbaum - February 19, 1988
Hime III - February 22, 1988
Wonderama - February 22, 1988
A Day In The Sun - February 23, 1988
Just About Everything - February 24, 1988
"Sayamanda" - February 25, 1988
The Piano - February 25, 1988
No Compression, Please - February 29, 1988
Affinity - March 01, 1988
The Color Of Vision - March 01, 1988
Out Of Our Minds! - March 02, 1988
Raw Roar; Waiting For The T - March 02, 1988
Vegetating Fruition - March 03, 1988
Lagniappe - March 03, 1988
Wesmont Stingalong - March 03, 1988
Root Motion - March 04, 1988
Blowin' Jazz - March 04, 1988
A Horse Of A Different Color - March 07, 1988
Senior Vocal Recital - March 08, 1988
The Domino Effect - March 10, 1988
Heaven Is In Your Mind - March 11, 1988
Scott Reichardt Group - March 21, 1988
Umjabuglafeesh - March 22, 1988
Vision Quest - March 23, 1988
Reverse Curve - March 23, 1988
Dual Force - March 24, 1988
Keep On Keeping On - March 25, 1988
Ise Acabo! - March 28, 1988
Sex Devils From The Planet Miles - March 28, 1988
Blue And Green - March 29, 1988
Cuernavaca - March 30, 1988
Tell Me Something Good - March 31, 1988
Places I Can Go - March 31, 1988
Straight Ahead - April 01, 1988
Stasinos - April 05, 1988
Jazz Review - A Concert Of Jazz Singing* - April 05, 1988
Montparnaxe - April 06, 1988
Human Feel - April 06, 1988
Let The Good Times Roll - April 07, 1988
Funky Tinsel Town - April 08, 1988
Sarah Meet Berklee - April 08, 1988
Hot Rabbits - April 11, 1988
You Must Believe In Spring - April 11, 1988
Don't Forget The Blues - April 12, 1988
Gotcha Again - April 12, 1988
Some Laughed, Some Cried - April 13, 1988
Jazz Decorum - April 14, 1988
Primary Colors - April 14, 1988
Truth Or Dare?? - April 15, 1988
The Band of Sarcasm - April 19, 1988
This Must Be The Place - April 19, 1988
Baroque Jazz Ensemble - April 19, 1988
Eternal Triangle - April 20, 1988
Confusion - April 21, 1988
From Yoko And Misa With Love - April 21, 1988
The Way To Escape - April 22, 1988
Housequake - April 22, 1988
3 Pianists In A Recital - April 25, 1988
The David Mullen Group - April 25, 1988
Vocal/Rhythm Section Ensemble/The Big Ears Olympics - April 26, 1988
Mili's Cooking Sauce - April 26, 1988
Two Ensembles In Concert - April 27, 1988
The Mashinists - April 27, 1988
Chaos - April 27, 1988
The John Scofield Ensemble - April 28, 1988
Berklee Jazz Flute Ensemble In Concert - April 28, 1988
Life Is Good - April 28, 1988
Passarelli's Pultry Farm - April 29, 1988
Dave Weigert's Acoustic Jazz Recording Ensemble - April 29, 1988
Something New - April 29, 1988
Will Dave Play?? - May 02, 1988
Shockadelica - May 02, 1988
Burn City - May 02, 1988
The Natural Choice - May 03, 1988
Presented By Bruno Raberg - May 03, 1988
Lis - May 03, 1988
John Stein Quartet - May 04, 1988
The Society of Composers, Berklee Chapter - May 04, 1988
Stage Performance Workshop - Jazz - May 05, 1988
Jaco Inspired - May 05, 1988
Sonatas For Diverse Instruments - May 05, 1988
The Jazz Comp Ensemble In Concert - May 05, 1988
Two Jazz Perspectives - May 06, 1988
Advanced Technique In Voice Production - May 09, 1988
Tripple Time - May 09, 1988
Senior Vocal Recital - May 10, 1988
Senior Drum Recital - May 11, 1988
Still Alive - June 13, 1988
Senior Piano Recital - June 14, 1988
The Tesuya Joh Trio - June 16, 1988
Lunatic Fringe - June 16, 1988
It Don't Mean A Thing - June 17, 1988
Fat Time - June 20, 1988
The New Voice Jazz Sexter - June 21, 1988
The Teenage Theologians - June 23, 1988
Iyam Taweela - June 24, 1988
A Night At The Opera - June 27, 1988
Bop III - June 28, 1988
Genta Ueki - June 30, 1988
The Voice Of Goddard - July 01, 1988
"Have I Been Here This Long Already?!" - July 07, 1988
The Nifty Hours - July 12, 1988
Wish It So - July 13, 1988
Hime IV - July 15, 1988
Kaiso Sunsplash - July 18, 1988
Video Sushi - July 20, 1988
Please Insert Your Master Disk - July 20, 1988
A-No-Ne V; Hiro's A-No-Ne Big Band - July 25, 1988
Bull's Eye - July 25, 1988
Dai Quartet - July 26, 1988
Berklee College Of Metal - August 05, 1988
Blues Rockin' Time - August 08, 1988
The Jazz Improvisors - August 08, 1988
Last Minute - August 09, 1988
Final Exam - August 09, 1988
The Jazz Rockers - August 10, 1988
Hopscotch - August 11, 1988
A Student Recital-2 - August 11, 1988
Dark Matter - September 21, 1988
This Is Not Totalitarian Cinderblock Playing Rush - September 27, 1988
Steve Enos Quintet - October 03, 1988
Dos Duos - October 03, 1988
One Voice In A Night - October 04, 1988
Made In Switzerland - October 06, 1988
Michiko My Favorite Songs III - October 06, 1988
The Westmorelands - October 07, 1988
But Not For Me - October 12, 1988
Hime V - October 17, 1988
Stämbandet - October 17, 1988
Sextal Hexads - October 21, 1988
Overseas - October 25, 1988
Standard Procedure - October 25, 1988
Brian Lewis Big Band - October 26, 1988
Uprising - October 27, 1988
I'm Your Pal - October 28, 1988
My Cozmic Romance - November 01, 1988
Here They Are! - November 01, 1988
Third Culture - November 02, 1988
Chromatisphere - November 02, 1988
A-No-Ne VI - November 03, 1988
Danny Harrington Quartet - November 07, 1988
Light Without Heat II - November 07, 1988
Too Close For Comfort - November 07, 1988
Time After Time - November 09, 1988
Star Dust - November 09, 1988
One Little Meadow - November 14, 1988
Sing That? Anyone Can! - November 15, 1988
Bite Your Nails and Look at the Clock - November 17, 1988
Feel Like Making Jazzy Love - November 17, 1988
Nature - November 18, 1988
Trios - November 18, 1988
Saito - November 21, 1988
The Thing To Do - November 21, 1988
Mili Bermejo's Students' Recital - November 22, 1988
From Yoko and Misa With Love II - November 22, 1988
The Thelonious Monk Ensemble/EN 170 Live! - November 29, 1988
A Songwriters Concert - November 29, 1988
The B-3 Band - November 30, 1988
Bossa Nova!!! - November 30, 1988
Donovan Mixon - December 01, 1988
Communication - December 01, 1988
Bousen - December 01, 1988
Lizy And The All-Stars - December 02, 1988
Mashinist Union - December 02, 1988
Cruisin' For Fusion - December 02, 1988
Busy Fingers - December 05, 1988
Senior Voice Recital - December 06, 1988
The Boppers - We Like Tension" ... Happy Holidays! - December 08, 1988
Bret's Frets - December 08, 1988
Nostalgic Affairs - December 08, 1988
That's All - December 09, 1988
Luz Bermejo's Student's Recital - December 12, 1988
Student Recital - December 13, 1988
Stage Workshop Recital-Jazz Standards - December 13, 1988
Berklee College Vocal Jazz Ensemble - December 13, 1988
Jazz Revue - December 14, 1988
Good Question - January 19, 1989
Hanging Around - January 25, 1989
Coming Back Home - January 26, 1989
Samba Torto (Warped Samba) - January 27, 1989
Birks' Works - January 30, 1989
Shittoruke ? - January 30, 1989
Human Feel - January 31, 1989
Standards - February 01, 1989
Changes? What Changes!!! - February 01, 1989
Reeding Is Fundamental - February 02, 1989
The Jonathan Geiger Band - February 03, 1989
Three Pianists In Recital - February 06, 1989
Flying Free - February 07, 1989
Senior Bass Recital - February 07, 1989
The Groove - February 08, 1989
Hemagioma II - February 08, 1989
Move! - February 09, 1989
In The Idiom - February 10, 1989
Big Plans (For A Small Planet) - February 13, 1989
Run Away - February 13, 1989
Homowack Impressions - February 14, 1989
This Ending Has A Very Happy Journey - February 14, 1989
The Janusz Kowalski International Quintet - February 15, 1989
Fun-tasy - February 16, 1989
"O.K. I'll Leave" - February 16, 1989
Mate Hari and the Sex Engines - February 17, 1989
South American Fusion - February 21, 1989
Fuzzinesss In Green - February 21, 1989
The Cube - February 22, 1989
Funky Hangover - February 22, 1989
Bach and Fourth(s) - February 23, 1989
Venetian Blind - February 24, 1989
Dat Calypso Ting - February 24, 1989
Recording Concert - February 27, 1989
Hides + 1 - February 27, 1989
The Danny Harrington Quintet - February 28, 1989
Here It Comes - February 28, 1989
Bob Folse - March 01, 1989
The Time Is Near - March 02, 1989
Rayuela-Hopscotch - March 02, 1989
Listen To Me - March 03, 1989
Piano Trio Night - March 03, 1989
Pressing On - March 06, 1989
Gobbledygook - March 06, 1989
No Corporate Rubbish - March 07, 1989
One Unjugged Rabbit-fish - March 08, 1989
Raggamuffin Soldier/Musical Diplomacy - March 09, 1989
Just Kidding...Not Really - March 09, 1989
Park Street Station - March 20, 1989
Murphy's Law - March 21, 1989
Three And Four - March 22, 1989
"Garden Of Eden" - March 22, 1989
Intense Sleeping Intents - March 23, 1989
Spring Of Salvation The Dawn Of Destiny - March 23, 1989
Dig This - March 24, 1989
Kiyotaka Takiyama - March 24, 1989
Make My Day - March 27, 1989
Maurizio Loprevite - March 28, 1989
One Song For You - March 28, 1989
Step By Step - March 29, 1989
All Of You - March 29, 1989
Disorder - March 30, 1989
Voice Recital Students of Sara Goldstein - March 30, 1989
Down Wind - March 31, 1989
The Truth About Dharma - March 31, 1989
Gun Ga - April 03, 1989
Danish Pastries - April 04, 1989
Roberta Radley/Ed Perkins Duo - April 04, 1989
Love Songs - April 05, 1989
The Lou Terzini Dimension - April 05, 1989
Recovery - April 06, 1989
Both Sides Of The Coin - April 07, 1989
Gee Chumley, Aren't You A Pudgy Walrus? - April 07, 1989
A Perfect Day For Bananafish - April 11, 1989
Look Out! Elk! - April 11, 1989
Inside/Outside - April 12, 1989
I - April 12, 1989
Prototype - April 13, 1989
Vegetalian People - April 13, 1989
Serce - April 14, 1989
A Songwriters' Concert - April 14, 1989
A Student Voice Recital - April 18, 1989
Spring Breeze - April 18, 1989
Destructive Penmanship - April 18, 1989
*Senior Trumpet Recital - April 19, 1989
Advanced Vocal Performance Lab Revue - April 20, 1989
*Senior Vocal Recital - April 20, 1989
Crazy They Call Us - April 21, 1989
Ujamaa - April 21, 1989
Student Ensembles - April 24, 1989
Three Pianists In Recital - April 24, 1989
Live Wire Flute - April 24, 1989
Jazz And Blues - April 25, 1989
La Onda Va Bien - April 25, 1989
Turnaround - April 25, 1989
Society Of Composers-Berklee Chapter Concert of New Music - April 25, 1989
The Wayne Shorter Ensemble - April 26, 1989
Three Voices, Three Players - April 26, 1989
Five By Five By Five - April 27, 1989
Jazz Composition Ensemble Concert - April 27, 1989
Foreign Exchange - April 28, 1989
Friday At Four - April 28, 1989
Senior Voice Recital - April 28, 1989
B Minus 13 - May 01, 1989
The B13 Band - May 01, 1989
Performer/Songwriter Programme - Spring '89 - May 01, 1989
Berklee Jazz Flute Ensemble - May 02, 1989
The Berklee College John Scofield Ensmble - May 02, 1989
Big Band Bash - May 03, 1989
Jazz Improv 2 Class - May 03, 1989
Jazz Revue - May 03, 1989
By Myself - May 04, 1989
Mili Bermejo's Students' Recital - May 05, 1989
Nobuyuki Yamamoto and Scott W. Curtis - May 08, 1989
Yes, No - Now This - May 09, 1989
Advanced Technique Voice Production - May 10, 1989
Two Ensembles Live! - May 11, 1989
Samba Torto II - June 06, 1989
Subjectum Objectum - June 07, 1989
Jazz Party - June 08, 1989
I Love You - June 09, 1989
Something Magic - June 12, 1989
An Afternoon Of Jazz - June 13, 1989
Besieguim The Art Of Living - June 13, 1989
Broken Bone Improv - June 14, 1989
Blue Twist - June 16, 1989
Summer Madness - June 16, 1989
4.40 - June 19, 1989
European Bloopers - June 19, 1989
Senior Voice Recital* - June 20, 1989
Beauty And Horror - Music For Guitar And Synthesizer - June 21, 1989
Morris Acevedo Roomate Band - June 21, 1989
Fire And Ice - June 22, 1989
Final Movement/Happy Birthday - June 22, 1989
Shadows - June 23, 1989
Don't Go See Batman - June 23, 1989
Senior Saxophone Recital* - June 26, 1989
Funtasy II - June 27, 1989
Senior Bass Recital* - June 27, 1989
Musica Ficta - June 30, 1989
Unconsious Mind - July 03, 1989
Candombeando - July 05, 1989
He Sang His Didn't He Danced His Did - July 05, 1989
Ralph Lange - July 06, 1989
My Pocket - July 06, 1989
Hanging Around II - July 07, 1989
South American Fusion - July 07, 1989
No Mercy - July 10, 1989
All In The Name Of Love - July 10, 1989
#.♮. Meets Bb's & Eb's - July 11, 1989
Wave - July 11, 1989
A Summer Jame - July 12, 1989
From Yoko And Misa With Love III - July 12, 1989
Call It What You Want - July 13, 1989
Vaughan Hawthorne Presents - July 13, 1989
Open Mind - July 14, 1989
A High-And Low Tech Solo Performance - July 14, 1989
My Romance - July 17, 1989
Umbrella's Juice - July 18, 1989
Gotcha V - Suh Weetness - July 18, 1989
Common Ground - July 19, 1989
B & M - July 20, 1989
Forgotten Memories Of Montevideo - July 20, 1989
Bambi Meets Godzilla - July 21, 1989
Masumi's Nite - July 21, 1989
I Never Loved A Man - July 24, 1989
Final Project - July 25, 1989
Vulgar Fractions - July 25, 1989
The Jay Weik Group - July 26, 1989
Eastern Western Cookin' - July 26, 1989
Voice Recital - Students Of Sara Goldstein - July 28, 1989
Senior Voice Recital* - July 31, 1989
An Afternoon Of Funk - August 01, 1989
The International Avante Garde Ensemble - August 01, 1989
Senior Guitar Recital - August 01, 1989
El Guevo - August 01, 1989
Senior Flute Recital - August 07, 1989
Five Week Student Performance - August 09, 1989
Senior Voice Recital - August 10, 1989
Senior Saxophone Recital - August 11, 1989
Final Project - August 14, 1989
Hot Summer Jazz - August 14, 1989
Concert Choir - August 15, 1989
The 11th Hour - August 15, 1989
Senior Drums Recital - August 15, 1989
Hello & Goodbye - August 16, 1989
Senior Drum Recital - August 17, 1989
HORNS - September 24, 1991
OPTIMISTIC - September 25, 1991
REVERSE OF THE MEDAL - September 26, 1991
THREE AMIGOS - September 27, 1991
"STOP. LOOK. LISTEN" - October 01, 1991
SONGS FOR AZALEA - October 02, 1991
MUSIC FOR MALLARDS - October 03, 1991
HIGH TIME - October 07, 1991
BASS DESIRES - October 09, 1991
NUETRAL DRIP - October 10, 1991
ROCKIN THE BLUES - October 11, 1991
SIR DUKE - October 15, 1991
AFTER THE MASQUERADE - October 16, 1991
THE RETURN OF SLOP BOP - October 17, 1991
CONCERT FOR RICHARD MARTIN - October 17, 1991
THE BIRDS AND THE LEAVES - October 17, 1991
PAROLE E CAPRIOLE (WORDS AND SOMERSAULTS) - October 19, 1991
TINO DERADO GROUP - October 21, 1991
"THREE MEN IN TRENCH COAST" - October 22, 1991
SINGING OF MOUNT ABORA - October 23, 1991
THE REAL THING - October 25, 1991
SWINGS AT ALL - October 28, 1991
JUST LIVIN - October 31, 1991
BOP HENDRIX - November 01, 1991
Unity Village - November 05, 1991
INFLUENCES - November 05, 1991
THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN JAZZ - November 06, 1991
NO VOLTAGE REQUIRED - November 08, 1991
PEOPLE WITH GLASSES ARE HARMLESS - November 12, 1991
BERKLEE STUDENT COMPOSITION CONCERT - November 12, 1991
NOTA ALOTTA LOTTA FOR WHAT YOU GOTTA DO - November 13, 1991
BEARDS - November 15, 1991
THE BAROQUE JAZZ ENSEMBLE - November 19, 1991
20th CENTURY PIANO MUSIC - November 21, 1991
WHO'S AFRAID OF THELONIOUS CARLOS SHUBERT ? - November 22, 1991
FLUTE WORKSHOP - November 26, 1991
THE FINAL XAM - December 03, 1991
STUDIO RECITAL - December 03, 1991
ROCK IMPROV RECITAL - December 04, 1991
MARGIE POS - December 04, 1991
BLUES IN THE JAZZ TRADITION - December 05, 1991
GOT IT! - December 05, 1991
LATIN JAZZ IMPROV - December 09, 1991
SIX PIANIST IN RECITAL - December 09, 1991
ENSEMBLE; RHYTHM SECTION VOCALIST - December 10, 1991
BY MYSELF - December 10, 1991
F. F. I. (FUNK/FUSION INTERNATIONAL) - December 10, 1991
BERKLEE CONCERT WIND ENSEMBLE - December 11, 1991
BLACK BEAN BOP - December 11, 1991
UNCLE BILL'S CHRISTMAS - December 11, 1991
BEBOP JAZZ ENSEMBLE - December 12, 1991
THE MUSIC OF CEDAR WALTON - December 12, 1991
MUSIC OF WES MONTGOMERY - December 13, 1991
SLAMMIN - December 13, 1991
THE NO TITLE RECITAL - December 17, 1991
Move On Ahead - April 01, 1992
Garage Fusion - April 02, 1992
Play Ground - April 02, 1992
Just Go Straight - April 03, 1992
Everything's Alright Now - April 03, 1992
Stripes - April 06, 1992
Brazilian Sounds - April 07, 1992
Nookyooler Power - April 07, 1992
William and Mary won't do - April 09, 1992
Partners - April 09, 1992
Dixie Chicken - April 10, 1992
Jazz Composition Portfolio Series - April 10, 1992
The Guitar Department Faculty Be Bop Ensemble - April 13, 1992
Time Pieces - April 14, 1992
Art Ensemble Of Berklee - May 01, 1992
The Music of Wayne Shorter - May 01, 1992
Brass Ensemble - May 05, 1992
Funky Sea Funky Dew - May 06, 1992
Spring Is Here - May 06, 1992
Blue Mish Mash - June 08, 1992
Jazz Standards - June 12, 1992
Leyh Tietze Persowen Speed - June 18, 1992
Back To Basics - June 19, 1992
Life is just a bowl of larries - June 19, 1992
Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - June 22, 1992
Recital - June 26, 1992
Festival of Liquid Bread - June 29, 1992
Nice To Be Here - July 02, 1992
The Air Conditioned Nightmare - July 08, 1992
Youji Development on the Basics - July 10, 1992
The Best Music of Monday - July 13, 1992
Triton - July 15, 1992
Lullaby for u ki - July 16, 1992
Places To Go - July 17, 1992
Die Bremer Stadimusikanten - July 21, 1992
Music II - July 21, 1992
Lynn's Recital - July 22, 1992
Classic and Original Composition for Violin - July 23, 1992
Saudades - July 23, 1992
Masayuki Shigihara Quintet - July 24, 1992
Jazz Composition Portfolio Concert - July 27, 1992
It was a Hazy Day - July 28, 1992
Dialects - July 28, 1992
Midsummer Afternoon's Jam - July 29, 1992
Sten Hostfalt and New Sonic Fish Cult plays Sten Hostfalt - July 29, 1992
She said What ! - July 30, 1992
Tino Derado Group - July 30, 1992
Neutral Drop II - July 31, 1992
tree too won awl - August 03, 1992
Student Piano Recital - August 04, 1992
The Danny Harrington Quartet - August 05, 1992
Momma Daddy Sista - August 06, 1992
The Blasters - August 07, 1992
The Chameleon - August 11, 1992
5 Week Ensembles - August 11, 1992
Tino Derado Group - August 11, 1992
Uncle Lumpys Rag Time Band - August 12, 1992
Straight Ahead - August 12, 1992
Fusion Chord Monopoly - August 13, 1992
E11 Band - August 13, 1992
038 - August 14, 1992
Contemporary Jazz - September 23, 1992
Disciples of Soul - September 25, 1992
Back In The Old Days - September 28, 1992
The Fine Line - September 30, 1992
The Colors I Hear - October 01, 1992
The Truth - October 02, 1992
Romances for Trombone - October 05, 1992
Just Friends - October 06, 1992
Parents - October 09, 1992
The Ernesto Jodos Posse Quartet - October 13, 1992
Knowing What I Know Now - October 14, 1992
Disciples of soul - October 15, 1992
Paul's Confusion - October 16, 1992
The Atomic Aunt - October 20, 1992
Air Shots - October 21, 1992
Rob Burbea - October 21, 1992
All Of Us - October 22, 1992
Brazilian Sounds - October 22, 1992
An Unexpected High Gnu Window - October 23, 1992
The Well - October 23, 1992
Help - October 26, 1992
Summertime - October 29, 1992
A Solo Performance - October 29, 1992
Kenya C Hathaway - November 02, 1992
The Virile Young Woman - November 02, 1992
Emission - November 04, 1992
2 1 2 weeks - November 05, 1992
Taft - November 05, 1992
I'll be good to you - November 06, 1992
Hangin In There - November 10, 1992
An Afternoon of Swing - November 12, 1992
Blue Boogie Grab - November 12, 1992
Steve Hamilton - November 16, 1992
How Strong is a Woman - November 18, 1992
Stefan Hiller Quartet - November 18, 1992
Twentieth Century Piano Music - November 19, 1992
Emerald Sky - November 19, 1992
Day Of The Laundry - November 19, 1992
Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde - November 20, 1992
Sax Bomb Baby - November 20, 1992
Student Piano Recital - November 23, 1992
The Performing Guitarist Green - November 24, 1992
The Performing Guitarist Yellow - November 24, 1992
Youji 2nd Love Songs - November 24, 1992
The Dreamer In Me - November 24, 1992
Blues Time - November 30, 1992
Ensemble Recital - December 11, 1992
Stage Performance Jazz Standards - December 14, 1992
Baroque Jazz Ensemble Toms Thumbs - December 14, 1992
Student Pianist Concert - December 15, 1992
Friday The 16th Part I - December 16, 1992
Advanced Techniques in Voice Production - December 16, 1992
senior drum recital - February 25, 1993
A Touch of Steel - February 26, 1993
Composition Department Faculty Concert - March 08, 1993
Swing For Spring - April 27, 1993
Senior Woodwind Recital - April 27, 1993
Bebop From 508 - April 28, 1993
Berklee Thelonious Monk Ensemble - April 28, 1993
Look Ma No Hans - April 29, 1993
Berklee Jazz Flute Ensemble - April 30, 1993
Spanish Spring - April 30, 1993
Piano Trios - May 04, 1993
Its About Time - May 04, 1993
Section 8 Guitar Band - May 05, 1993
Advanced Techniques In Voice Production - May 05, 1993
Senior Trombone Recital - May 06, 1993
Musical Theater Opera Scenes Workshop - May 06, 1993
1993 Commencement Concert - May 07, 1993
Watts Gnu - June 10, 1993
United Colours - June 11, 1993
I Play Bass - June 15, 1993
quartet east quintet - June 17, 1993
instru metal - June 21, 1993
for the first time and again - June 22, 1993
eve n up - June 24, 1993
tribute to obi - June 25, 1993
here comes the cello - June 29, 1993
sonny moon for newk - July 01, 1993
boku's fandjango - July 02, 1993
ayas shouting out - July 13, 1993
non funk tonal - July 14, 1993
azo - July 14, 1993
masayuki nakamura trio - July 15, 1993
a transplant seeking solid soil - July 16, 1993
secrets in your ear - July 19, 1993
recital preparation performance - July 19, 1993
its not hard to love you - July 20, 1993
forbidden colour - July 20, 1993
guitar quartet - July 21, 1993
preparation performance - July 22, 1993
antonio arnedo group - July 23, 1993
this girl plays guitar - July 23, 1993
senior bass recital - July 26, 1993
windows - July 27, 1993
jurassic bop - July 29, 1993
advanced techniques in voice production - August 04, 1993
light blue cat food - August 05, 1993
something hip - August 10, 1993
es 001026 - August 10, 1993
sweet thing to talk about - August 11, 1993
five week ensemble - August 11, 1993
taking care of business - August 11, 1993
Wonderful World - August 12, 1993
Kramer - August 13, 1993
ES 001 096 - August 13, 1993
Marios Toumbas Quintet - September 29, 1993
Body and Soul - September 30, 1993
Skinny Rabb Is In 1W - October 05, 1993
The 2nd Impression - October 07, 1993
Cornelius Claudio Kreusch Trio - October 12, 1993
Just A Man And His Piano - October 13, 1993
SKankin And Groovin - October 14, 1993
Victims of Stars - October 14, 1993
And Then There Were Three - October 15, 1993
On The Other Side - October 18, 1993
Jungle Book - October 18, 1993
Mama The Trees are Naked - October 19, 1993
Tale of Erendira And Her Soulless Grandmother - October 20, 1993
Ben Butler Quintet - October 20, 1993
Got To Be Real - October 21, 1993
Theres no greater love - October 22, 1993
Falling Grace - October 22, 1993
Clifford Brown MAx Roach Quintet - October 25, 1993
don_t waste your time - October 25, 1993
ungowa - October 26, 1993
for no reason - October 27, 1993
chaos and silence - October 27, 1993
songs of depression - October 28, 1993
sambaiao - October 29, 1993
secret and the cats - October 29, 1993
equal rights and justice - November 02, 1993
nonfunctional funktonals - November 02, 1993
Senior Guitar Recital - November 04, 1993
Jazz Not From France - November 08, 1993
The Danny Harrington Quartet - November 10, 1993
Recital Preparation Performance - November 10, 1993
Guitars Guitars Guitars - November 10, 1993
Senrio Drum Recital - November 17, 1993
Jazz Composition Portfolio Recital - November 18, 1993
Century Piano Music - November 18, 1993
Thad Jones Ensemble - December 01, 1993
the curt shumate quartet - December 01, 1993
ensemble 170 - December 02, 1993
the nutcracker comes to berklee - December 02, 1993
the mahdi experience - December 03, 1993
jazz rock fusion improvvisation - December 06, 1993
the show goes on - December 06, 1993
musical theater opera scenes - December 06, 1993
armandos rhumba - December 07, 1993
free fallin - December 07, 1993
e22 rnb - December 08, 1993
flute festival - December 09, 1993
night shift - December 09, 1993
real tunes by real people - December 09, 1993
string labs-_-ensembles - December 13, 1993
piano student concert - December 14, 1993
bop heads fishtails part IXX - December 14, 1993
The Jeremy Stockton Quartet - February 07, 1994
One - February 08, 1994
The Way Home - February 11, 1994
The Ryan Shore Quintet - February 15, 1994
Def Hook Up Connection - February 16, 1994
Disintegration of 5 Assymetrical Structures - February 16, 1994
All Blues - February 17, 1994
My Frizzy Pompadour Soul - February 18, 1994
Tenor Madness - February 22, 1994
Ofer Ganor Quartet and Special Guest Christopher Hollyday - February 23, 1994
Silly Walks - February 24, 1994
Brazilian Jazz - February 24, 1994
S P Q R - February 28, 1994
Florian Feuser - February 28, 1994
David Bauerand His Quartet - March 02, 1994
Yeah Whateva - March 02, 1994
Carlos Sanoja - March 04, 1994
Two of a Kind - March 04, 1994
Blue Funk - March 07, 1994
Silly Walks - March 08, 1994
Pieces - March 08, 1994
Only Originals - March 09, 1994
Ofer Ganor Quartet - March 09, 1994
Scott Koziol Group - March 10, 1994
The Gothic Bed - March 10, 1994
Stormy Weather - March 11, 1994
Brown Blues - March 11, 1994
Senior Guitar Recital - March 11, 1994
A Recital - March 14, 1994
The Big Break Up - March 14, 1994
Instrumental Voices - March 15, 1994
Tuesday Melt Sandwich MMMMMMM - March 15, 1994
Kevin Bregande Trio - March 16, 1994
20th Century Brazilian Music - March 16, 1994
The Music of The Two Colemans - March 17, 1994
Recital Preparation Performance - March 28, 1994
Man Facing North - March 28, 1994
My Venezuelan Heart - March 28, 1994
Skunk Voovee - March 29, 1994
Words - March 29, 1994
This is Just The Begining - March 30, 1994
Keep Changing - March 30, 1994
Songs of the day - March 31, 1994
Recital Preparation Performance - April 01, 1994
Entree - April 01, 1994
The Ben Butler Band - April 01, 1994
Liz - April 01, 1994
John Baboian Trio - April 04, 1994
Acoustic Duets - April 05, 1994
Out For A Stroll - April 05, 1994
The Spinning Energy - April 06, 1994
Motor Booty Affair I - April 07, 1994
Craig Hlady Quartet - April 07, 1994
For The First Time - April 11, 1994
Love - April 11, 1994
So and So - April 12, 1994
City Lights - April 12, 1994
Taking a Trip A Musical Journey - April 13, 1994
Cest Mon Plaisir - April 13, 1994
An Open Musical Forum With Ideas From The Past - April 14, 1994
The Way Home - April 14, 1994
The Chris Gestrin Group - April 15, 1994
Senior Trumpet Recital - April 15, 1994
Student Concert - April 19, 1994
Jazz Composition Portfolio Series Ming in us - April 19, 1994
20th Century Piano Music - April 20, 1994
Jazz Composition Portfolio Series This is It - April 20, 1994
The Eclectic Guitar Ensemble - April 21, 1994
Cellodrumatics - April 21, 1994
Sunshine and Popcorn - April 22, 1994
Jazz Composition Portfolio Series Together We Climb - April 22, 1994
E22 Blues - April 25, 1994
1-A Band Takin Care of Business - April 25, 1994
What It Is - April 25, 1994
Jazz Composition Portfolio Series Modal Thoughts - April 25, 1994
All This Time - April 26, 1994
Super Arpeggio Extravaganza - April 27, 1994
Latin Jazz Improv - April 27, 1994
Jazz Composition Portfolio Recital - April 27, 1994
Keep Me Hanging On - April 28, 1994
Reunion - April 28, 1994
Improv Rock R and B Idiom - April 29, 1994
Rock Improv I - April 29, 1994
Were Outta Control Here - May 01, 1994
The Odd Time Bandits Hit A Shank - May 02, 1994
Who's Got My CD'S? - March 06, 1995
I Wish I Knew - March 10, 1995
Angels & Other Dumb Stuff - March 13, 1995
Free / Mio's Final Project - March 13, 1995
Beyond The Horizon - March 14, 1995
"We Three" Play Michael Camilo - March 14, 1995
The Answers - March 15, 1995
Voices Of Tien Shan - March 15, 1995
"Unter'm Wasser Steht Ein Haus" A German ArtSong Concert - March 16, 1995
The Point Of You - March 28, 1995
Selections From The Bitten Moon - March 31, 1995
Improvising With Bartok - March 31, 1995
The Cool Flavor (Mr. Cool) - June 20, 1995
Mo'Joy - June 21, 1995
Stuart Mac Donald - June 22, 1995
The Radio Faucet Company - June 23, 1995
Dance of the Red Dwarfs - July 31, 1995
My Foolish Heart - July 31, 1995
Ryosuke Hashizume - November 01, 1995
Jeff Ellwood Group and Sveti - November 02, 1995
Serra do Jacú - November 02, 1995
Nestor Demopoulos - November 05, 1995
Kenta Nagai Quartet - November 07, 1995
High Wood, Bent Horn & Co - November 08, 1995
The Fabian Bausch Group - November 08, 1995
Barranget de Casenave - November 09, 1995
The Day Funk Went to the Bathroom - November 09, 1995
The Swing Set - November 13, 1995
Helena Ostling Recital - November 13, 1995
Sophia Olivet and Her Trio - November 14, 1995
Ziriguidum, Telecotéco, Balacobáco II - November 14, 1995
Beautiful Music - November 15, 1995
Kris Hadsall's Happy Fun Side - November 16, 1995
Jazz Composition Portofolio Recital - November 21, 1995
Billy Bob and the Prime Steak House Boys! - November 22, 1995
The Wayne Shorter Ensemble - December 04, 1995
Happy Suicide - December 06, 1995
Rock Soup - December 06, 1995
Cannonball Adderley Ensemble - December 08, 1995
Rat In a Bag - December 08, 1995
Rock R&B - December 12, 1995
Toms Thumbs - December 13, 1995
Mohlers Rollers - December 14, 1995
Advance Techniques In Voice Production - December 15, 1995
Woodwind Department Recital - December 18, 1995
Musical Theater Scenes - December 18, 1995
Brets "Freshman" Frets - December 19, 1995
Finals Week Blues - December 19, 1995
Play - February 04, 2005
Quartet - February 07, 2005
RBC And Anything We Hit On The Way To The Gig - February 08, 2005
My Aim is Blue - January 27, 2017
Ascension Presented by Alonzo Demetrius - January 30, 2017
Milu - February 02, 2017
New Sounds - February 06, 2017
The Kanun Journey - February 07, 2017
Jazz Alchemists Junior Recital - February 14, 2017
Mikail Seet and the Colour Wheel - February 23, 2017
Hunter And The Gatherers - February 24, 2017
Iming Lins Senior Recital - February 27, 2017
Eli Flowers Senior Recital - April 05, 2017
Loiseau Senvole - April 10, 2017
Pebbles of Truth - April 12, 2017
A Grateful Dead Tribute - April 13, 2017
Lizhous Senior Recital - April 14, 2017
Stripped Down And Acoustic - February 01, 2018
MixWorld - February 01, 2018
The Callan Project - February 05, 2018
Combining Artistic Spaces - February 08, 2018
Half and Half - February 12, 2018
Kaya Meller Quartet - February 14, 2018
Roots in South Carolina - February 16, 2018
Beauman Show - February 20, 2018
Bittymacbeth Funk Soul Sister - February 21, 2018
Time Stands - February 23, 2018
Solomon Alber and Wilfie Williams Quartet - February 26, 2018
Stacey Kelleher - March 01, 2018
Emery Mesich Quartet - March 07, 2018
Victory At Arnot - March 15, 2018
Once And For All - March 16, 2018
Ashley Zarah - March 28, 2018
Flying Mid-Air - April 02, 2018
Evan Tamagni's Senior Recital - April 06, 2018
Jonathan Salas Senior Recital - April 11, 2018
Double Trio The New Stretch Of A New Sound - April 18, 2018
Funk Fusion Ensemble - April 23, 2018
Liam Compton Senior Recital - April 25, 2018
Blue Note Jazz Ensemble - April 26, 2018
Waiting To Give A Senior Recital - April 26, 2018
Balkan Rock Ensemble - April 26, 2018
Odd Folks - April 27, 2018
Mike Tuckers Jazz Ensemble - April 27, 2018
Never Piss Off A Songwriter - April 27, 2018
Passarim - April 30, 2018
Amy Winehouse Tribute - May 01, 2018
Sai Dessa - May 02, 2018
Composition Department Directed Study Concert - May 02, 2018
Anything But Ordinary - May 03, 2018
Solo Piano Improvisations of Keith Jarrett - May 07, 2018
unConventional Music - May 07, 2018
Artist Ensemble BeBop Guitars - May 08, 2018
The Piano Vocalist Recital - May 09, 2018
The Eclective Electrics - May 10, 2018
Groovalicious - May 10, 2018
Violin Recital presented by Herman Hampton - September 17, 2018
Violin Recital - September 17, 2018
Doubler's Holiday presented by Jeri Sykes - September 18, 2018
Doubler's Holiday - September 18, 2018
Whoops Pt.1 - September 19, 2018
Mikiko's World - September 20, 2018
Pengxiao Zhou - September 20, 2018
Ashley Zarah's Final Berklee Recital - September 24, 2018
The Psychedelic Folk Sounds of Caleb Hickman and Friends - September 24, 2018
An Evening with Muffins Ft. Haezy Choi - September 27, 2018
Art Baden Quintet - September 28, 2018
Kilough presented by Kelsey Johnson - October 03, 2018
Songs from the Great River of American Music presented by Ira Klein - October 04, 2018
First in Battle Presented by Charity Ann Brady - October 05, 2018
Seoul Sister presented by Heesu Yu - October 08, 2018
Indiana Heights presented by William Bersterin - October 19, 2018
Esen-Banar Duo - October 25, 2018
Amazing and Fun Recital presented by Vik Bam - October 25, 2018
Brandon Xue's Classical Jazz Quartet - October 26, 2018
Karen Shiraishi Trio with Guests - October 30, 2018
Trick or Treat! - October 31, 2018
Jazz Up Dat Mando Pop - November 05, 2018
Visiting Artist Series:Tenor-Eric Jose Mendoza Masterclass - November 08, 2018
Flipe Cemim Plays Brazillian Choro - November 08, 2018
Hide The Trio Project - November 09, 2018
Back to Basics - November 15, 2018
Robert Resendez' Senior Recital - November 29, 2018
Our Eternal Verities - November 30, 2018
The "Meters" Ensemble - December 03, 2018
Vocals Cello and Djembe Latin Jazz ensemble - December 03, 2018
Contemporary Middle Eastern Ensemble directed by Graig Macae - December 04, 2018
New Orleans Street Band Plays New Orleans Standards - December 05, 2018
The Astronauts - December 07, 2018
Free Jazz Bebop Ensemble - December 13, 2018
The Berklee Yellowjackets - December 13, 2018
Nisa's Wonderful Adventures - December 14, 2018
Avant-Garde Ensemble Recital - December 14, 2018
ECM Free Jazz - December 14, 2018
Guitar Artist Ensemble-Be-Bop Guitars - December 18, 2018
Classical String Chamber Music - December 19, 2018
The Eclectic Electrics - December 20, 2018
Melting Point - January 13, 2019
Anastasia - January 13, 2019
Unha e Carne: A Brazilian Guitar Night - January 30, 2019
Tribue To Women in Jazz Spring 2019 Show - February 08, 2019
Hidemi's Quartet Project - February 08, 2019
Unha e Carne A Brazilian Guitar Night - February 13, 2019
Latin American Music - February 15, 2019
Chapter One "The Introduction" - February 19, 2019
Natsuki Jazz - February 20, 2019
Você Vai Ver - February 22, 2019
HD Imaginative Collection - February 25, 2019
Paden Osburn - March 08, 2019
Anastasia - March 13, 2019
Melting Point - March 13, 2019
Music For Inspiration - March 14, 2019
Miguel Siso - March 15, 2019
Ryan Siegel - March 15, 2019
Miguel Siso: Identidad—When Folklore Meets Contemporary - March 15, 2019
My Foolish Heart - April 01, 2019
Argentinian and Uruguayan Folklore - April 08, 2019
Argentinian and Uruguayan Folklore: Fusion and Inclusion to Jazz - April 08, 2019
Javier Limón Master Class - April 11, 2019
Javier Limón Master Class - April 11, 2019
Abigail Shelton's Senior Recital - April 12, 2019
Charlie Lincoln Senior Recital - April 17, 2019
Josep Quer - April 19, 2019
Rosina's Senior Recital - April 24, 2019
Charlotte Yayuan Hsu's Senior Recital - April 29, 2019
"A Lot of Hope" Nozomi Mizuno Senior Recital - April 30, 2019
Western Swing Ensemble presented by Bobby Stanton - May 06, 2019
Be-Bop Guitars presented by John Baboian - May 07, 2019
The Eclectic Electrics - May 09, 2019
Groovalicious presented by Gwen Leathers - May 09, 2019
Anastasia - May 13, 2019
Melting Point - May 13, 2019
Anastasia - June 13, 2019
Melting Point - June 13, 2019
Gen Yoshimura Trio - July 02, 2019
One-Woman Barbie Musical - July 08, 2019
Sentence EP Release Show - July 12, 2019
Anastasia - July 13, 2019
Melting Point - July 13, 2019
From Classic to Modern - July 19, 2019
Yifu and Lorne Electronic Live Set - July 24, 2019
Mixing - July 30, 2019
Partido Alto - July 31, 2019
Vera Cruz - July 31, 2019
Mixed Pop Ensemble Concert - August 01, 2019
Mixed Pop Ensemble Concert directed by Utar Artun - August 01, 2019
Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame - August 01, 2019
Ain't No Way, For Once In My Life - August 01, 2019
Mixed Pop And Jazz Styles - August 02, 2019
Anastasia - August 13, 2019
Melting Point - August 13, 2019
Roger Lin's Senior Recital-Voice From the Isolated Land - August 16, 2019
Norm Zocher's Electric Strings Quintet - September 19, 2019
The Grief Suite - September 20, 2019
Green Line X-Tension - September 23, 2019
Green Line X Tension - September 23, 2019
Yuta Fukuhara and Friends - November 13, 2019
The Rustling of A Boston Fall - November 14, 2019
Chi-Lung Hsieh Senior Recital - November 30, 2019
Chi-Lung, Hsieh Senior Recital - November 30, 2019
Steve's Funk House - December 02, 2019
Christian Iman:One Night Only - December 04, 2019
Mami Matsuura's Senior Recital - December 05, 2019
Cravo E Canela - December 09, 2019
Henken's Habit - December 10, 2019
Brayden Bradford's Senior Recital - December 11, 2019
I Have No Idea - December 13, 2019
Original Fusion Ensemble directed by Tiger Okoshi - December 13, 2019
Guitar Artist Ensemble: Be-Bop Guitars - December 17, 2019
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Amundsen, Ingrid
This interview was conducted with Ingrid Amundsen on January 18, 1983 in Seattle, Washington. It contains information on family background, emigration, work, marriage and family, and community activities. Also available are two photographs of Ingrid at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.
Ingrid Amundsen was born on May 12, 1987 in Alstahaug, Norway, a small island west of Mosjoen, to Kristian and Marie Ulrikson. Kristian was a shoemaker and Marie a homemaker. Ingrid had four siblings: Eli, Magda, Olaf, and Kristjuf. Ingrid has no special memories of her childhood, but remembers Christmas in Norway fondly. On Christmas Eve, they received gifts and had risengynsgroet, and on Christmas Day, they attended church and had lutefisk, soetsuppe, potatoes, and other vegetables. After her confirmation, Ingrid went to work in Namsos, where her father had relatives, and then immigrated to America in 1919 when she was twenty-one. Her older sister, Eli, already lived in America, and Ingrid went to her house in Sioux City, Iowa. Ingrid worked as a domestic, and in 1921, she married Emil Amundsen, who was also from Norway. The couple had two children: Clarence and Ethel and later moved to Seattle, WA. In America, Ingrid attended some Norwegian organizations, but never got very involved. She did, however, continue to attend church regularly with her family.
Full Name: Ingrid (Charlotte ?) Amundsen Maiden Name: Ingrid (Charlotte ?) Ulrikson Father: Kristian Ulrikson Mother: Marie Ulrikson Brothers and Sisters: Eli Astrid Ulrikson Magda Ulrikson Olaf Ulrikson Kristjuf(?)Ulrikson Spouse: Emil Amundsen Children: Clarence (Bud) Amundsen Ethel Amundsen
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Artsakh War
Thousands March to Promise on 24 April 2017 in Little Armenia
24 April 2017 March in Little Armenia
March for Justice on April 24 at 10 AM in Little Armenia, at the Armenian Genocide Martyr’s Square at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue, in City of Los Angeles. The event will be attended by tens of thousands of community members, community and religious leaders, human rights activists, politicians and government officials. Year after year, the Hollywood March has been the LARGEST Armenian Genocide Commemorative event outside the Republic of Armenia. Be part of it!
To join us, to volunteer, to donate, or to learn more click here.
According to the LA Times Sources tens of thousands are expected to march and rally outside the Turkish Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard on Monday to commemorate the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
The 1.5-mile march — which drew an estimated 60,000 people last year — is scheduled to begin at noon at Pan Pacific Park at 7600 Beverly Blvd. and end outside the Turkish Consulate at 6300 Wilshire Blvd., according to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.
Among the speakers scheduled are Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), according to the Armenian Genocide Committee, the coalition that organized the march.
LA Times’ Hailey Branson-Potts adds “…But most historians outside Turkey describe a state-organized campaign of ethnic cleansing that meets the definition of genocide…”
Free Transportation will be provided on April 24. Buses will be leaving at 8 AM from the following locations:
St. Mary’s Church: 500 S. Central Ave., Glendale
Anoush Banquet Hall, 401 W. Colorado St., Glendale
Anoush Banquet Hall, 1320 W. Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale
Maple Park, 820 E. Maple St., Glendale
Whole Foods, 331 N. Glendale Ave., Glendale
Western Diocese, 3325 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank
Arbat Banquet Hall, 711 S. San Fernando Blvd., Burbank
TUJUNGA/SUNLAND
Shirak Deli, 3857 Foothill Blvd., La Crescenta
The Great Caesar Palace, 6723 Foothill Blvd., Tujunga
Blackjack Market, 12643 Sherman Way, North Hollywood
Armenian Diaspora, Armenian Genocide
Garo Kotchounian
Entrepreneur, Web Developer, SEO, and Internet Marketing expert. Social Media Manager, Founder of Aypoupen Armenian Website 2013-to date. Founder of Hostitue Marketing Agency Cyprus 2015-to date. Spoken languages: Armenian, English, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, French.
The Message of His Holiness Aram I Delivered on 24th April 2017
Arjani- Worthy: Duet By Karnig Sarkissian and Sevak Amroyan
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Halsey Debuts New Hand Tattoo in Juice WRLD’s Memory
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Halsey honored Juice WRLD with a new hand tattoo.
The "You Should Be Sad" hit-maker debuted her latest ink via Instagram Monday (July 6), revealing it was inspired by her and the late rapper's latest collaboration, "Life’s a Mess," off his posthumous album Legends Never Dies.
"Juice was one of the greatest people I have ever known, and one of the most brilliant artists we will ever live to witness," Halsey began her caption. "A true genius who had lyric and melody spilling out of him without any second thought or hesitation."
She continued, "And a beautiful soul who believed in spreading love and creating a community for people to feel less alone. It means everything to me that I could be a part of this album. I cried the first time that I heard it."
The singer tattooed the words "Life's a Mess 999" across her knuckles. (Juice also had the numbers 999 inked on his arm and consistently referenced them in his music.)
Juice died on December 9, 2018, from an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine. At the time, Halsey posted a heartfelt tribute alongside a photo of them together.
"Sweet boy. The fastest brain in the game," she wrote. "Your creativity, endless. Immortal. Rest in power. I can’t even explain the sadness."
Legends Never Dies drops this Friday, July 10. It's a 15 song collection that "best represents the music Juice was in the process of creating" at the time of his death, including the "Life's Messy" collab with Halsey.
Celebrities Before their Tattoos
Source: Halsey Debuts New Hand Tattoo in Juice WRLD’s Memory
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Unresponsive Plane Crashes Off the Coast of Jamaica
The turboprop plane, bound for Naples, Florida, went unresponsive during its flight.
Transcript for Unresponsive Plane Crashes Off the Coast of Jamaica
Playing down the FAA says the -- -- a plane that too. F fifteens have been followed until it hit Cuban airspace. Has gone down crashing into the ocean about fourteen miles off the coast of Jamaica. -- when I'm down Cutler in new York and ABC's and Martinez is standing by at the Pentagon with the latest on this -- what do we now. Dan we know that unfortunately there's an aircraft has gone down. Fourteen miles north -- -- A fourteen miles north Jamaica. The plane crashed into the waters. Jamaican. Coast Guard vessels approached it it is in the wreckage site. And there's also. An American Coast Guard. A C 130 aircraft that had been trailing. The general aviation aircraft as fast as it could try to link up with it. And unfortunately it is it is the plane crash into the waters after it ran out of fuel -- we know that there were three passengers aboard the aircraft. American F fifteen fighter jets high -- -- had visual contact with the aircraft and spotted the pilot slumped over at the controls. They did not have not seen the other two passengers aboard but -- noted that the windows in the passenger section where five. Probably frosting. Which indicates that the pressurization of the aircraft it's believed that everyone aboard the aircraft was already unconscious at the time that the plane went down. And that lack of oxygen known as hypoxia is expected now this aircraft was flying from New York from Rochester in upstate New York down to Naples Florida. When after about two half hours of flight. There -- no contact made with air traffic controllers NORAD got involved and they sent up fighter jets to intercept the aircraft. They trail this aircraft over the Bahamas north of -- once they approached Cuban airspace they dropped off. Now they were originally going to fly around Cuba -- -- link up with that on the south side after it travel over the island of Cuba. But that plan was scrapped and the planes returned to base and ultimately unfortunately this aircraft crashed in the waters north of Jamaica. Part of that response -- as you pointed out there what's from a C 130. To look for this such play it listen if you need to get a drink water to the -- -- get -- -- information coming in and we obviously much to take that as well. But a C 130 is a very large response to this why such a big aircraft sent out. Well as to the Coast Guard aircraft remember this the Coast Guard C 130s are used for recovery efforts if they if the plane goes down in the water. And is so it's actually an appropriate kind of aircraft for that kind of mission. The NORAD actually had reached out to -- the Coast Guard -- launch their aircraft and they did this is aircraft that flew from Miami. When the F fifteens return to their home base in Miami is well -- air force base. Then the C 130 was just fifteen minutes behind. The general aviation aircraft. That -- crash into the waters now -- its interest in -- note this at turboprop. This aircraft -- was -- from upstate New York gallon and was headed to Florida and ultimately ended up over Cuba. That this aircraft was flying -- announcing -- 25000. Feet that's pretty high this -- was in which point the fighter aircraft are appropriate for that. The C 130 not gonna fly that high four potential intercepts obviously there is planning already underway for the appropriate aircraft when he appropriate mission. And just look at that at the limitations of this kind of a plane. Going from that route from Rochester died down to where it crashed off of the coast of Jamaica that's about 16100 miles. It's 14100 nautical miles in the distance that most of these planes can travel on a full tank of gas is about 18100. Nautical miles. I want to ask you about this reports we've been seen about an unconfirmed audio between a fighter pilot to ground control what do we know about this. Well and. Fighter aircraft source dispatched by NORAD to make contact with general aviation and aircraft that is unresponsive to -- -- context. The first thing that the -- pilots do with a fighter pilot Steve is they. The maker and an attempt plane to -- contact. Now we have been unable to confirm the authenticity. These recordings right now but they are plausible because that's what. Fighter pilots are trained to do they also do visual cues with hand signals that the pilot is. Unconscious at the controls and lets say the potentially they may have lost their radio. Contact. If -- -- -- very important. Other times they can do flight motions by the -- let's say the flight when of the fighter's wings communicating that way. So good that's probably what we're hearing that -- so far we're we're trying to verify the authenticity of the recording and the response now from Jamaican authorities and falsely US authorities are also involved in this -- well. At -- -- there's a lot of international coordination here particularly with Cuba remember the United States does not have diplomatic relations with. Cuba. But in the State Department confirms that they received a contract from the FAA and that outreach efforts were made with the Cuban government and that there was cooperation between US. And Cuban aviation authorities witness. I mean every -- military American military aircraft headed to Cuba you -- sure that the Cubans are aware that this is a peaceful mission. That that they are tracking a civilian aircraft that is unresponsive. Now the united states military aircraft they pulled away once the approached and the the Cuban airspace and return back to Florida. But we are told that -- Cuban authorities is not dispatched their own aircraft what they did is that they monitor the craft yet radar as it flew over the island of Cuba. Of the Jamaican authorities are also involved when it was calculated that potentially they would -- -- -- Cuba. And they don't so that's why those ships those and Jamaican Coast Guard vessels were dispatched. -- by asking you this next question is is in no way to kind of lead of any part of this investigation because obviously it's a very fluid situation right now. Terrorism has that been ruled out on this I mean obviously a cause this'll. Try to be determined. I get a million. That appeared Thomas -- -- Homeland Security correspondent has said that. His contacts tell him that there is no nexus to terrorism as far as they can tell with this episode. And as we've been played out there right now there is an international effort going on I -- about fourteen miles off the coast of Jamaica there where that plane had gone down. Where we had seen that played average and left about a 26 minutes after 8 o'clock on eastern time this went from Rochester New York headed down to Naples Florida. Just how quickly get walking back through -- -- my how quickly. Was NORAD notified if -- that this plane was not responsive. Well a listener -- how era aircraft communicate with air traffic controllers they're handed off from air traffic region to region. And if those contacts are maintained -- men who that raises red flags and that's when -- gets involved after contact from FAA. The in the U -- and NORAD scrambled initially QF sixteens out of South Carolina. When the aircraft veered eastward over towards the Atlantic Ocean. Naples on the West Coast of Florida so that is obviously a a diversion that raises -- red flags in addition to the non contact. Those aircraft could not follow because of bad weather so F fifteens. Pick up the trail and that's when that -- -- the same time that the F fifteens out of Florida were dispatched the Coast Guard has notified by the by NORAD as well and gain in turn dispatch -- C 130. From southern Florida and ultimately now they are the ones that are looking over flying. The crash site. And in terms of recovery efforts to spot the wreckage and the C. Who might. Again and that is believed that. The three passenger -- the aircraft had already. Succumbed to hypoxia. Rick and and that as -- -- -- Eller was in fact made by visual visual reference from two of those F fifteen fighter pilots that were able to actually look into the cockpit and saw that. Some of the inside of the windows was actually frosted over or -- in a bunny inside there. We -- there were three people on board that is does include the pilot just how big is a plane like this obvious obvious this is that this a private plane this is a private plane but it. As well as you noted a very long reach again reach as far as 818100 nautical miles I don't feel awful tank of gas with the appropriate speed. Now do we know that -- this aircraft is the smallest size I think if you if you look at a picture added. It's a turboprop which means it has broader range than it was just propeller aircraft. And any -- is able to fly at higher altitudes and that's noted by the fact that it was flying at 25000 feet. Which is pretty federal for an aircraft that's flying that far this is a very long trip going from upstate New York County southwest coast of Florida. But. Again this is. Something that today is gonna require a lot of investigation this is the second episode that we -- of of this in two weeks Stan. Previously last week we had in an incident where an aircraft general aviation aircraft flying. Out of Wisconsin. Was headed to of the suburban. Virginia area outside of Washington DC continued on. Again fighter jets were scrambled and ultimately the plane. Crashed and water in Atlantic Ocean southeast of Virginia. All right ABC's there are tears saying by the Pentagon with the latest on this -- thank you for that so of course you can keep up with this story in real time by downloading the ABC news App Store in the story. For exclusive updates on the go. For now -- down -- New York.
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3 Quick Steps to Secure Your Facebook Profile
The social network is giving its 1.3 billion users a privacy check-up.
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a press event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., June 20, 2013.
— -- Facebook's 1.3 billion users are getting a privacy tune-up.
In the coming days, users will be given the option for a quick and painless three-step check-up to make sure their privacy settings are exactly where they want them to be.
The entire process should just take a minute or two, according to Paddy Underwood, a Facebook product manager.
Facebook is rolling out a new privacy check-up feature.
A friendly blue dinosaur will guide people through three steps. The first will review who can see their posts, the second will address which apps they use and the third step will deal with who has access to information on their profile, such as photos, birthdays and phone numbers.
The simple check-up takes users through three steps to review and edit key pieces of information.
The changes are expected to help users better understand who can see their information and prevent "over-sharing" to a public audience.
Facebook said they want to make sure users are in control and aware of who they're sharing with on the site.
"We know you come to Facebook to connect with friends, not with us. But we also know how important it is to be in control of what you share and who you share with," Underwood wrote in a blog post.
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Release Day Blitz – Twice As Hard by Amber Bardan.
By ACBookBlog on March 20, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
They caught me. Naked, shivering and dripping after a spontaneous swim in the forest. Two rugged men whose hard gazes captivated and scared me all at once.
They warned me. Told me I was on private property and I needed to obey the law…or I would be punished.
The idea of them both punishing me, pleasuring me, kept tormenting me. I couldn’t want them. I shouldn’t. But I did.
I didn’t mean to trespass again. I thought I could retreat without notice. But they’re coming for me.
To show me the pleasure in pain. To show me just how right forbidden can feel. And to love me twice as hard as I ever fantasized.
A man emerges, face pressed against the barrel of a shotgun.
I fall back on my elbows. A scream tears from my lungs. The sound radiates, gaining traction in its echo around us.
The gun lowers, revealing a face of molten fury. “What are you doing here?”
I swallow, gasping, “I’m sorry.”
“You shouldn’t be here. This is private land.”
“I’m sorry.” I scramble backward across the ground on my palms. Blood roars in my ears.
“I thought you were a deer. I could’ve shot you.” His gun falls the rest of the way down, pointing to the ground, but he’s no less menacing as he approaches. No less a hunter.
Me no less a deer.
“I could’ve killed you.”
I struggle for words. “I was at the waterfall. My husband told me to come this way.”
“Your husband?” He steps closer again. His dirty blond hair is cut short but ungroomed. Sandy bristles cover his jaw and continue down his neck. He isn’t as huge as the other man, but he’s plenty big enough.
“You’re not wearing a ring.” He looks at my hands, pressed to the dirt, then to my chest—still damp and shirt clinging. My nipples still ridiculously hard. “You’re not wearing much.”
My pulse hammers in my ears.
He crouches, then reaches for me and takes my hand. My fingers shake. I tell myself only because I’m still shaken up over the gunshot. He’s done nothing wrong. I’m the one who’s half-wet trespassing on private hunting ground. He helps me up, but doesn’t let my hand go. Intuition sweeps me into electrified sense of vulnerability. Not because of my state of dress, or rather undress, but because of the power of his hand around mine.
“Where would this husband of yours be?” The question could be innocent if his cool blue eyes didn’t narrow on me that way. If his voice wasn’t a silken lure, wrapping around me like an anaconda.
If his features didn’t pinch with the callous assessment of a hunter lining up a shot.
And maybe I could give my answer—nowhere that can help me now—if heat didn’t bubble in my blood.
“He’s waiting for me in our cabin. It’s just down the hill off the main road.” My tongue darts across my dry lips. “He’s expecting me back any minute.”
He’ll come looking. I let that statement, that outright lie, suggest.
His gaze flicks to my mouth. “We should let you go, then.”
I feel, rather than hear, the movement behind me. I look back. The other man, the darker man, the one I’d let see me naked, emerges from the trees.
Oh, shit. My lungs freeze with foreboding, and blood rushes to my limbs, muscles twitching to flee.
“This time…” He keeps my hand held tight, belying his promise to let me go. “But know this, you’re on our land. Everything on this side of the mountain down to the canyon is ours.”
Steps approach, and for one heart-stopping moment I think they’ll catch me between them. Everything on this side of the mountain down to the canyon is theirs. There’s no doubt in my mind that, right now, that includes me.
“We hunt here.” He releases my hand. I don’t stumble back. The other man is too close. “Wander here again and who knows what will happen to you.”
“I’m sorry,” I repeat, and step sideways. “I won’t.”
He smiles so wolfishly. The silly fear I first had when I set out this morning, of what wild animals might lurk in the forest, vanishes.
It isn’t wild animals I have to fear.
It’s wild men.
“See that you don’t, Mrs.…?”
I take three more steps. He wants my name? Really? I glance between them. The darker one remains as stony and silent as he’d been before. His gaze now less desperate but more intense.
“Gabby.” I’m not quite brave enough to refuse to identify myself, but there’s not much you can do with a first name, especially one that’s shortened.
“I’m Clarke,” the gunman says, then gestures to the other. “That’s my brother Luke.”
My mouth opens. What am I supposed to say, nice to meet you? They threatened me then told me their names. Why?
“Goodbye,” I say, then spin and run as though my motherfucking life depends on it.
Sure feels like it does.
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CHAPTER 13: MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA
LARS STANGENBERG; MARK C. WYERS
STANGENBERG L, WYERS MC. STANGENBERG L, & WYERS M.C. STANGENBERG, LARS, and MARK C. WYERS.MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA. In: Butler KL, Harisinghani M. Butler K.L., & Harisinghani M(Eds.),Eds. Kathryn L. Butler, and Mukesh Harisinghani.eds. Acute Care Surgery: Imaging Essentials for Rapid Diagnosis. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 15, 2021. https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1461§ionid=82242835
STANGENBERG L, WYERS MC. STANGENBERG L, & WYERS M.C. STANGENBERG, LARS, and MARK C. WYERS. (2015). Mesenteric ischemia. Butler KL, Harisinghani M. Butler K.L., & Harisinghani M(Eds.),Eds. Kathryn L. Butler, and Mukesh Harisinghani. Acute Care Surgery: Imaging Essentials for Rapid Diagnosis. McGraw-Hill. https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1461§ionid=82242835
STANGENBERG L, WYERS MC. STANGENBERG L, & WYERS M.C. STANGENBERG, LARS, and MARK C. WYERS. "MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA." Acute Care Surgery: Imaging Essentials for Rapid Diagnosis Butler KL, Harisinghani M. Butler K.L., & Harisinghani M(Eds.),Eds. Kathryn L. Butler, and Mukesh Harisinghani. McGraw-Hill, 2015, https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1461§ionid=82242835.
A 59-year-old woman with a past medical history of smoking, hypertension, and claudication was transferred from an outside hospital for further management of acute, diffuse abdominal pain, worst in the right lower quadrant, as well as nausea and vomiting. She was previously seen at the outside institution for similar symptoms, and at that time she was diagnosed with acute cholecystitis and taken to the operating room for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Intraoperatively, it was found that the gallbladder was not inflamed. After conversion to an open procedure, however, a loop of necrotic jejunum was identified that was resected and primarily reconstructed. The superior mesenteric artery (SMA) was palpated and found to have a normal to slightly diminished pulse. Upon further review of her symptoms, she admitted to approximately 6 months of intermittent, sharp abdominal pain that was most pronounced after eating. Just prior to her acute presentation, the abdominal pain worsened sufficiently to decrease her oral intake.
The term “mesenteric ischemia” (MI) includes a wide array of diseases that lead to insufficiency of the mesenteric vasculature and subsequent intestinal compromise, often with dire consequences. Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) was first recognized as a pathologic entity in 1895, when 2 case reports of bowel resection for compromised mesenteric flow, due to venous as well as arterial thrombosis, were published.1 The fundamental finding of “pain out of proportion to physical examination” was first described in that publication. Furthermore, the acuteness of the disease process and grave prognosis were established in early reports.
Several years later, a related but distinct pathology was defined: chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI). Brunton was one of the first to report mesenteric vascular insufficiency leading to chronic pain and weight loss.2 He also made reference to the term “angina abdominis” and credited Baccelli with its first use.
In the 1950s, surgeons addressed the cause of mesenteric ischemia and performed thrombendarterectomy of the SMA for chronic disease as well as embolectomy for acute disease.3 The understanding of mesenteric ischemia continued to evolve, as evidenced by descriptions of compressive syndromes such as median arcuate ligament syndrome.4
There are several suggestions for classification of mesenteric vascular insufficiency based on etiology: arterial vs venous, and embolic vs thrombotic. For this chapter we will focus on the radiologic and clinical evaluation of the acute forms of mesenteric ischemia and make some important distinctions about imaging options depending on the acuity of presentation. The acute-on-chronic scenario, with terminal thrombosis of an atherosclerotic SMA stenosis, as presented in the clinical scenario above, is chosen as one of the more likely presentations that general surgeons are called upon to evaluate. It is often insidious in onset, with potential for misdiagnosis and delay in care.
Overall, MI is a rare disease. Within the spectrum of this disease, however, acute presentations are much more prevalent, accounting for about ...
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Chapter 158: Resection of Substernal Goiter
Alexander S. Farivar; Rene Razzak; Eric Vallières
Farivar AS, Razzak R, Vallières E. Farivar A.S., & Razzak R, & Vallières E Farivar, Alexander S., et al.Resection of Substernal Goiter. In: Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R, Burt BM, Groth SS, Loor G, Wolf AS, Williams M, Adams A. Sugarbaker D.J., & Bueno R, & Burt B.M., & Groth S.S., & Loor G, & Wolf A.S., & Williams M, & Adams A(Eds.),Eds. David J. Sugarbaker, et al.eds. Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 15, 2021. https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2781§ionid=239716714
Farivar AS, Razzak R, Vallières E. Farivar A.S., & Razzak R, & Vallières E Farivar, Alexander S., et al. (2020). Resection of substernal goiter. Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R, Burt BM, Groth SS, Loor G, Wolf AS, Williams M, Adams A. Sugarbaker D.J., & Bueno R, & Burt B.M., & Groth S.S., & Loor G, & Wolf A.S., & Williams M, & Adams A(Eds.),Eds. David J. Sugarbaker, et al. Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e. McGraw-Hill. https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2781§ionid=239716714
Farivar AS, Razzak R, Vallières E. Farivar A.S., & Razzak R, & Vallières E Farivar, Alexander S., et al. "Resection of Substernal Goiter." Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R, Burt BM, Groth SS, Loor G, Wolf AS, Williams M, Adams A. Sugarbaker D.J., & Bueno R, & Burt B.M., & Groth S.S., & Loor G, & Wolf A.S., & Williams M, & Adams A(Eds.),Eds. David J. Sugarbaker, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2020, https://accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2781§ionid=239716714.
Goiter refers to an enlargement of the thyroid gland. The condition is estimated to affect 5% of the general population. While the definition of substernal goiter varies in the medical literature, goiters usually are considered substernal (also referred to as mediastinal, intrathoracic, or retrosternal) when more than 50% of the thyroid parenchyma is located below the sternal notch. Such tumors have been a focus of interest for surgeons for over 150 years. Klein is credited with being the first to successfully remove a mediastinal goiter in 1820, although the earliest surgical description of mediastinal thyroid extension dates back to Haller in 1749. Today, substernal goiters are treated by a number of different surgical specialists, including thoracic, general, and head and neck surgeons. Goiters account for as many as 10% to 15% of space-occupying mediastinal lesions and are the most common of the superior mediastinal masses.
Mediastinal goiters are classified as primary or secondary. Primary mediastinal goiters, also referred to as ectopic or aberrant goiters, do not possess any direct fibrous or parenchymal connections to the cervical portion of the gland. They are uncommon and represent fewer than 1% of all surgically excised goiters. Ectopic mediastinal thyroid tissue generally lies in proximity to the thymus owing to their shared embryologic origins and to an intimate association with the thymothyroid ligament but also has been described in the pericardium and heart. Patients with ectopic thyroid tissue typically are clinically euthyroid, although hyperthyroidism has been described. The blood supply of these goiters originates from a mediastinal source, most commonly a branch from the internal mammary artery, the innominate artery, or the intrathoracic aorta itself. Other criteria used to define a primary mediastinal goiter include a normal or absent cervical thyroid gland, no history of prior thyroid surgery, and a lack of similar pathology in both the cervical and mediastinal portions of the thyroid. Confirmation of an ectopic thyroid gland can occur assuredly only at surgical resection if these criteria are met.1
Secondary mediastinal goiters are a much more common clinical entity. As many as 5% to 15% of all goiters demonstrate some extension into the mediastinum. These goiters derive their blood supply from cervical branches of the superior and inferior thyroid arteries and therefore can be resected almost uniformly via a cervical collar incision. One exception to this rule, to be discussed later, is of special importance to the thoracic surgeon.
Substernal goiters are an important clinical entity for a number of reasons. Patients may eventually develop compressive or obstructive symptoms when the goiter, which is confined within the narrow thoracic inlet, begins to exert extrinsic compression on respiratory, esophageal, vascular, and/or neural structures. There is also a risk of malignant degeneration within the substernal goiter, reported to be as high as 15% to 20% in some published series.2 In most situations, pathologic substernal goiter is an entity that ...
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Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Michael Stone is professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 2006 to 2008, Stone hosted the series Most Evil on the Discovery Channel, for which he developed a "Gradations of Evil Scale" to rank homicides from 1 to 22 based on their level of evil. He has written 10 books, including The Anatomy of Evil.
Question: What is it like inside the mind of a serial killer?
Michael Stone: Well, men who commit Serial Sexual Homicide, which is what the public usually is referring to when they talk about serial killers as opposed to nurses and doctors that kill patients in hospitals, “Angels of Death,” etc. The serial killer, like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, and David Parker Ray, and those people, almost all of them, more than 90% meet criteria, hard criteria for psychopathy. Almost all of them are sadists. Meaning that they meet criteria for sadistic personality as it had been described in the official psychiatric manual, where there’s enjoyment of the suffering of others as a key quality, and a love of control and domination of others, etc. Half of them are loners, men that can’t make long relationships with others. So in effect, some of them use serial killing as a way of having a one-night stand where they rape the woman and then kill her to destroy evidence; dump their body along the road or whatever, like Ed Kemper out in California. And then go on to the next because they are incapable of sustained romantic, intimate relationship.
Some of them, seeking revenge—revenge is a motive in some of them, like Debarr Labon in Texas who had been brutalized by his father and his mother... so they're constantly getting back at the parents who abused them or neglected them. That would probably be true of Leonard Lake that had this torture place he built in a remote area of California.
And another motive... killing a specific parent over and over, but not actually killing the parent. For example, when I interviewed Tommy Lynn Sells on death row in Texas, he had been neglected, abused, neglected again by his mother, never knew his father; terrible, terrible childhood. And he went around killing about 70 people, most of them women. And when I asked him, I said, “Tommy, you know, it sounds to me like maybe these women were like symbols or duplicates of your mother. Did you ever have a thought about, you know, killing your mom?” And he told me, ”Anyone touch a hair of her head, I’ll kill them in a minute. You only got one mom.”
So that was a very important point that I see over and over in these men. They have the same kind of loyalty and love of a parent even if the parent was abusive and horrible, that you can whip and hurt and yell and scream at a child, but if you’re the mom or you’re the dad, there still going to love you. They may hate you as well, but they’re going to love you. So, he never touched a hair of his mother’s head, instead he did symbolically get back at her through these other murders.
Question: Are serial killers born or created?
Michael Stone: Important question because there’s no one simple answer. There are a few serial killers, six or seven in my very large series, who were adopted at birth into normal homes, never abused, never neglected. But who, from adolescence on became violent and then in their 20’s embarked onto the career of serial sexual homicide that you can only ascribe to some genetic flaw along the lines of deficits in the amygdala or the prefrontal cortex that I had spoken about. Gerald Stano would be an example of such a person who killed 40 women and was finally executed in San Quentin.
There are other men who were raised in fairly good homes, or even rather normal homes, but who suffered a head injury that affected these key areas in the frontal lobe, such as Richard Starett in Georgia. He was raised in a wealthy home. He went around killing 10 women after he had married and had a daughter, but then he got kind of fed up with the marriage, et cetera. Now he had suffered two bouts of prolonged unconsciousness when he fell from jungle gyms and things like that when he was a kid. After which he underwent a dramatic and swift change in his personality. The same thing, by the way, that happened to Phil Garrido, who was a normal kid in a normal home, but who fell off his older brother’s motorcycle when he was 14 and within days—he was unconscious, had to have a brain operation—within days, he began to develop rape fantasies. And then carried out a number of rapes and finally kidnapped that young Jaycee Dugard girl that he kept for 18 years and had two children by her.
Now, the thing there is, there are other areas of the brain in the limbic system connected to the frontal lobes and so on and involving the temporal lobes on the side that have to do with our sexual responsiveness. What we respond to sexually. If those areas are damaged, we may end up with pedophilia, or abnormal desires for inappropriate objects. So that clearly happened to Phil Garrido and he became immediately fascinated and eager to commit rape when he was 14, 15 years old, after the head injury.
So there’s... and about 30% of the serial killers had experienced some form of rather serious head injury. So that’s a factor that not too many people know about, but that’s important also.
So the bulk of them; however, have come from horrible homes where the early damage and misery of their home becomes a motivating force later for seeking revenge, against those who had hurt them, plus which they have also been raised in such a way that they don’t have the social skills in order to kind of compensate for that and to make a good relationship anyway and kind of get past it. So they’re stuck, they’re mired in the misery of their childhood forever.
Recorded on July 27, 2010
Interviewed by Max Miller
Dr. Stone explains what motivates men who commit serial sexual homicide and whether or not they are born evil.
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Philosophers of the Islamic world enjoyed thought experiments.
<p>If the heavens vanished, they wondered, would time continue to pass? If existence were distinct from essence, would that mean that existence itself must exist? Can God turn your household servant into a horse, so that you come back home to find it has urinated all over your books?</p><p>But the most famous is the so-called 'flying man' thought experiment, devised by the most influential philosopher of the Islamic world, Avicenna (in Arabic, <em>Ibn Sīnā</em>, who lived from 980 to 1037 CE). Imagine, he says, that a person is created by God in mid-air, in good condition but with his sight veiled and his limbs outstretched so that he is touching nothing, not even his own body. This person has no memories, having only just been created. Will his mind be a blank, devoid as it is of past or present sensory experience? No, says Avicenna. He will be aware of his own existence.</p><p>Three questions immediately arise. First, when Douglas Adams, the author of <em>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</em> (1978), imagined a whale popping into existence in mid-air above an alien planet, had he been reading Avicenna? I have no idea, but I like to think so.</p><p>Second, is Avicenna right that the 'flying man' would be self-aware? Well, it's important to realise that Avicenna does not attempt to <em>argue</em> that the flying man would know that he exists. Rather, he takes it as obvious. In one version, he even tells readers that we should imagine ourselves being so created. If we put ourselves in the flying man's dangling shoes, we should just see that we would be self-aware. Indeed, this turns out to be a fundamental idea in Avicenna's philosophy. He thinks that we are all always self-aware, even when we're asleep or focusing hard on something other than ourselves. Paradoxically, we're often not <em>aware</em> of being self-aware: it is the non-interruptive background music of human psychology, something we notice only when our attention is called to it, a pre-reflective awareness of self. The flying man thought experiment is itself one way to call attention to this self-awareness: Avicenna calls it a <em>tanbīh</em>, meaning a 'pointer' to something.</p>
<p>Our self-awareness is a foundation for our first-person perspective on things. It's a sign of this that when I see, imagine or think something, I can immediately apprehend that I am seeing, imagining or thinking about that thing. Any other form of cognition – any awareness of other things – presupposes awareness of oneself.</p><p>Incidentally, you might object that the flying man would have certain forms of bodily awareness despite his lack of vision, hearing and so on. Wouldn't he at least sense the location of his limbs by another form of sensation, namely proprioception? Imagine you are in total darkness and your arm is not resting on anything: proprioception is the sense that tells you where it is. This is indeed a problem for the thought experiment as Avicenna sets it up, but it isn't really philosophically decisive. One can just modify the scenario by adding that God blocks the man's ability to use proprioception, or that the flying man's proprioceptive faculty happens to be defective. Avicenna's claim will then be that, even under these circumstances, the flying man would be aware of himself.</p><p>Now for the third, and hardest, question: what does the flying man thought experiment prove? Avicenna draws a surprising conclusion: it shows that we are not identical with our bodies. Just consider. The flying man is aware of himself; he knows that he exists. But he is not aware of his body; he doesn't know that his body exists, nor indeed that any body exists. And if I am aware of one thing but not another, how can those two things be identical?</p>
<p>This sounds pretty persuasive, until you reflect that one can be conscious of a thing without being conscious of everything about it. You, for example, have been aware of reading this article for the past few minutes, but you haven't been aware of reading something written while Dixieland jazz was playing. It would be a mistake to conclude from this that the article is not something written with Dixieland jazz playing. In fact, that is exactly what it is. To put it another way, the flying man could be aware of his self without realising that his self is a body. Contemporary philosophers would say that Avicenna is mistakenly moving from a 'transparent' to an 'opaque' context, which is basically a fancy way of saying what I just said.</p><p><a href="http://philpapers.org/rec/MARAFM" target="_blank">Efforts</a> have been made to spare Avicenna from this mistake. One possible way to rescue the argument would go like this. Avicenna is trying to criticise another way of thinking about the soul, one that goes back to Aristotle. According to the theory he rejects, the soul is so closely associated with the body that it can only be understood as an aspect or organising principle of the body, which Aristotle called the body's 'form'. The thought experiment is designed to show that this is wrong. It does so by calling to our attention that we have a means of access to our souls apart from bodily sensation, namely self-awareness.</p><p>How would this refute Aristotle? Well, consider again just why it is that the flying man is not aware of his body. It is because he is not currently using his senses and has never done so (he only just started existing, remember), and sense perception is, Avicenna assumes, the <em>only</em> way to become aware of any body. If this is right, then anything that the flying man grasps without using sense perception is not a body, not material. Since he does grasp his soul without using sense perception, his soul is therefore not a body.</p><p>On this reading, Avicenna would be helping himself to a pretty big assumption, which is that bodies can be discovered only by the senses. You can see, hear, touch, taste or smell them, but otherwise you can never so much as know that they exist. Since for Aristotle the soul was a form of the body, if you couldn't experience the body, you would not, on his account, have access to the soul; and yet, Avicenna claims, the falling man <em>would</em> have access to his soul.</p><p>I suspect this is (at least in part) what he had in mind in creating this thought experiment. But that's not to say that I'm convinced. All Avicenna has really done is to throw down a challenge to his materialist opponents: show me how a body could be aware of itself without using sensation to do so.</p><p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/philosophy-in-the-islamic-world-9780199577491?cc=au&lang=en&" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Philosophy in the Islamic World</em></a><em> by Peter Adamson is out now through Oxford University Press.</em><img src="https://metrics.aeon.co/count/99e82cab-61e0-4404-a510-3e190ab2802e.gif" alt="Aeon counter – do not remove"></p><p>Peter Adamson</p><p>This article was originally published at <a href="https://aeon.co/?utm_campaign=republished-article" target="_blank">Aeon</a> and has been republished under Creative Commons. Read the <a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/what-can-avicenna-teach-us-about-the-mind-body-problem" target="_blank">original article</a>.</p>
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Can computers do calculations in multiple universes? Scientists are working on it. Step into the world of quantum computing.
While today's computers—referred to as classical computers—continue to become more and more powerful, there is a ceiling to their advancement due to the physical limits of the materials used to make them. Quantum computing allows physicists and researchers to exponentially increase computation power, harnessing potential parallel realities to do so.
Quantum computer chips are astoundingly small, about the size of a fingernail. Scientists have to not only build the computer itself but also the ultra-protected environment in which they operate. Total isolation is required to eliminate vibrations and other external influences on synchronized atoms; if the atoms become 'decoherent' the quantum computer cannot function.
"You need to create a very quiet, clean, cold environment for these chips to work in," says quantum computing expert Vern Brownell. The coldest temperature possible in physics is -273.15 degrees C. The rooms required for quantum computing are -273.14 degrees C, which is 150 times colder than outer space. It is complex and mind-boggling work, but the potential for computation that harnesses the power of parallel universes is worth the chase.
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Agreement on ’Trade in Goods’ in the proposed ASEAN-Japan economic pact to be finalized November
Balita (Philippines) | May 12 2007
The agreement on "Trade in Goods", the first chapter of the proposed ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and Japan Comprehensive Economic Agreement, is expected to be finalized in November this year after both parties have narrowed down gaps on some contentious issues.
Trade Secretary Peter B. Favila said both parties are ironing out the modalities.
Favila said countries have already came up with initial offers encompassing 95 percent of their tariff lines to kick off negotiations on the first chapter of the FTA.
A matrix on the offers is being circulated among ASEAN countries.
The Philippines, however, has yet to come up with its offer sheet and the DTI is just awaiting for the inputs from the Department of Agriculture.
"We can say the gap between ASEAN and Japan have been narrowed down," he said.
The trade chief said it would be too early to say if the negotiations on "Trade in Goods", the first chapter of the FTA deal, would be encountering roadblocks.
"There would be possible roadblocks or contentious issues but it is still too early to say," he said.
Initial talks, however, already points to Japan’s determination to continually protect rice from any move to liberalize this commodity or open up its market for imports.
Rice is a staple Japanese food and comes with a package of subsidies from the Japanese government.
While rice is a staple food among ASEAN countries, some ASEAN members like Thailand and Vietnam have been producing rice for the exports market.
"I think something more concrete would come out by August this year when the ASEAN economic ministers meet again in Manila," he added.
The Philippines, which has existing FTA with Japan, is expected to get the best from both FTA because the best benefit from any of the two deals must accrue to the signifying party.
"No one agreement will prevail against the other but the best benefit would be the one that should be recognized. It is an advantage for us because we are crossing between two agreements, which guarantee the best desired arrangement," he added.
The schedule on the tariff cuts under the ASEAN-JAPAN Comprehensive Economic Agreement would be the same as that of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
But Favila noted that since the JPEPA still needs ratification by Senate, it could be that the ASEAN-Japan may be implemented ahead of the JPEPA.
On the contentious issue of transboundary movement of toxic waste, which inclusion in the JPEPA had caused an uproar locally, Favila said it is likely that the same provision would be carried in the Japan-ASEAN trade deal. (PNA)
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02-27-20 Testimony Before Dallas ISD Board on Supplantation, 2020 Bond, and Single Spreadsheet Transparency
I am here to pull together three related themes of thought. Please see footnotes and linked sources at www.dallasisd.us. The themes are Supplantation, 2020 Bond, and Transparency
Supplantation is the replacement of Regular funds that come from the property taxes all Dallas residents pay into Dallas ISD. Regular funds make up almost 64% of all Program Funds used to educate our children. Regular funds should be equally distributed so that every Dallas student receives the same amount of funds each school year used for their education. Sadly these funds have never been equally distributed in Dallas ISD.
Five years ago there were differences of over $2,000 between DISD schools. Now the largest differences are half that, but still $1,000. Those differences show high poverty schools receiving the lowest amounts and schools with more wealthy student populations receiving the most Regular funding per student.
(To better understand the supplantation history in Dallas ISD please go to
http://billbetzen.blogspot.com/2018/04/government-response-to-4-21-15.html and see the 9 page federal letter on the supplantation complaint documenting the allegations which they stated they would not investigate. The 15 allegations are clearly documented, true, and have never been disproven.)
The 2020 Bond requires Dallas Citizens to trust Dallas ISD as a good steward of the hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds they manage. Multiple assaults on that credibility are happening almost weekly. Another one happened last night at Spruce and a public meeting about the 2020 Bond. As DISD staff clearly documented the history and damage from redlining in Dallas ISD over the years decades in the past, I looked up the funding for 92% high poverty Spruce and compared it with the funding for 52% high poverty Woodrow Wilson. Wilson had $310 more per student than Spruce and also had class sizes that were a full student smaller than Spruce!
This was shared at the meeting and DISD staff were quiet. Current discrimination by race was not on the table. (See blog posting on this meeting at http://billbetzen.blogspot.com/2020/02/transparency-within-dallas-isd-will.html. It includes links to data sources so you can do this when you attend a DISD Bond meeting.)
Transparency arguments declare that public schools now have greater transparency than ever in Texas History. I agree! But that transparency is fragmented into hundreds of spreadsheet in hundreds of locations. The most critical data for each school must be gathered into one large spreadsheet including all 261 Dallas ISD schools and academies and 250 of the most valuable and in demand variables, especially funding and expenditures as well as academic achievement and demographics of both teachers and students.
(See http://billbetzen.blogspot.com/2020/02/single-spreadsheet-transparency-for.html for more information on Single Spreadsheet Transparency.)
I applaud DISD for the exposure of racist treatment of our students 30+ years ago. Now Dallas ISD is doing well enough to also admit, and expose, the racist treatment of our students continuing to happen now.
Please see www.dallasisd.us for more information on these issues.
Transparency within Dallas ISD will continue to be an issue.
But, as this evening's presentation continued on redlining and other "safe" forms of racism today's folks can comfortably distance themselves from, I looked up 2018/19 PEIMS Financial data on DISD, Spruce, and Woodrow Wilson. This is most recent data available. Then I looked up poverty and class size data on the 2018/19 TAPR's (Texas Academic Progress Reports) for Wilson and Spruce.
The results were as sad as I expected!
Wilson High School, with 52% poverty, had $310 more Regular funds (64% of DISD Program Budget) per student & an average class size of one full student smaller than the 92% poverty Spruce H.S.!
Yes the highest poverty school by 40 percentage points had an average of one more student in the average class than the lower poverty school.
I reported this to the group this evening and did not receive the response that was appropriate to such current abuse. I pointed out that the Dallas poverty map would show the high poverty schools in DISD having the least Regular funding per student.
This is why Dallas ISD needs to embrace Single Spreadsheet Transparency. It will expose the past decade of such abuse, often much worse than last year. Believe it or not things have improved significantly since 2015.
Below are the data that I collected during this meeting from the PEIMS Financial Reports at https://tea.texas.gov/finance-and-grants/state-funding/state-funding-reports-and-data/peims-financial-standard-reports.
First is the full financial report for all of Dallas ISD:
Below is H Grady Spruce High School
Below is Woodrow Wilson High School
Here is the Texas Academic Progress Report (TAPR) class enrollment numbers for 2018/19 for Spruce H.S.. They are from https://tea.texas.gov/student-testing-and-accountability/accountability/state-accountability/performance-reporting/texas-0:
Here is the Texas Academic Progress Report (TAPR) class enrollment numbers for 2018/19 for Woodrow Wilson H.S.:
Single Spreadsheet Transparency will continue public education improvement in Dallas and every city!
Single Spreadsheet Transparency for Dallas ISD, and all districts, is the foundation that is lacking for a true public education revolution in Texas.
In DISD it would simply expand the School Information File found under "Resources" in the current DISD Data Portal. It would add columns of data to the 45 columns of data already present for the 261 schools and academies, one school or academy in each spreadsheet row. Single Spreadsheet Transparency adds columns with the most commonly requested and useful data, already public, but fragmented into charts in multiple locations online. Parents do not have hours needed to pull all such fragmented data together when they have a question comparing schools.
Any person with a middle school understanding of spreadsheets will be able to erase the columns of data and rows of schools they are not interested in within seconds in their downloaded spreadsheet. They could quickly drill down to the information they are concerned about. DISD enrollment would grow!
With all the most basic data for every school in one spreadsheet row, with the entire district in one spreadsheet, DISD will enjoy a revolution in public transparency! With the continued confidence of DISD Administration, and DISD's willingness to constantly improve, the foundation for a true national public education revolution will be laid! The public will become involved as drivers in educational reform as never before.
The columns of data to be added would include the 32 funding sources per student for each school from the PEIMS Financial Reports online so advocates can quickly verify funding equity. Additional columns would include average teacher salary in each school for the current year, and the previous 5 years, average teacher tenure and turnover, as well as multiple additional variables, available online but in multiple locations! It is anticipated about 200 columns of data will need to be added to achieve true Single Spreadsheet Transparency.
Each school year that year's data will be added to a new spreadsheet online as it is collected. At the end of the year, when all data is finalized, that year's spreadsheet will be finalized and archived to join the 10-year archive of such data that the public needs to be able to study for patterns.
Spreadsheets for the past decade will be created following the decided upon format so a full decade of history, plus one, will be immediately available to the public. What could lead to stronger public confidence than such ultimate transparency? Without such transparency, or a resistance to such transparency, it appears DISD may have something to hide.
There are probable over a dozen staff in DISD who could create all 10 spreadsheets for each year of the past decade within a week.
Yes, problems will be exposed. But as long as they are admitted and corrected, DISD will be on the way to being the greatest urban school district in the nation! We already have much to be proud of! Now we should have the confidence to be this transparent.
2020 Bond Program for Dallas ISD needs transparency.
The first report on work done to date on the 2020 Dallas ISD Bond Program was made public with the Board Briefing on Tuesday 2/11/20. The report was given in a 39 page slide presentation, packed with data, that can be downloaded as the attachment to item 6A in the Briefing Agenda. It raised many red flags. (The real shock is the accounting scandal unfolding, just before the Briefing began as documented, here: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/audits-raise-questions-about-dallas-isd-construction-oversight/2308635/)
To begin the process toward a more usable set of transparency tools, 2 questions were sent today to the Dallas ISD 2020 Bond Committee. The comment link used is at the bottom of the page at https://www.dallasisd.org/bond2020. They were sent separately as they would not both fit in the 255 characters allowed:
1) Will a School Information File (SIF) be created, including all data in the SIF in DISD Data Portal, with additional variables of building age & FCI type data, & Bond funds, & school plans for those funds in the spreadsheet as made, so the public can easily follow?
Such a 2020 Bond Spreadsheet, updated monthly with the monthly versions archived, will provide a priceless record of changes and allocations planned as DISD goes through the 2020 Bond process. Additional columns of data could be added with variables in each school that help explain the 2020 Bond process with factors considered and allocations planned of funds raised.
2) Can a DISD map be created with the district divided into 4 quadrants with as equal a student enrollment in each quadrant as is possible with quadrant enrollment number given? Can each school's quadrant number be added to the School Information File for the 2020 Bond?
Yes, there is concern, based on plans heard so far, that all students in all quadrants and in each school benefit equitably. The presentation at the Dallas ISD Board Briefing yesterday suggested many red flags. More transparency in formats like maps and spreadsheets that allow a much closer inspection of the 2020 Bond process are needed.
Currently the 39 page slide presentation is still available in agenda item 6A for the 2/11/20 Briefing at https://go.boarddocs.com/tx/disd/Board.nsf/vpublic?open. It will soon be archived but should remain available in the archived area of Board meetings on the DISD web site at
https://www.dallasisd.org/Page/35466
Dallas has much work to do to take advantage of this opportunity to continue to grow the best urban school system in the nation! It will never happen without a very transparent and publicly understood equity for each student.
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They always loose. Eliminate the hassle of tournament scheduling . @darkangel: A gray code is code when the hamming distance to the next codeword is 1 and unlike binary code it differ only in 1 bit. Single Elimination Seeded Tournament Brackets (and double) [Answered] RSS 5 replies Last post Jul 18, 2011 02:46 PM by alstephen You can load the Demo and click through these settings to see what they do. elements between them at even positions. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow! but with the following. Easily attach playoffs to any league. Thanks in advance. Algorithme de placement des crochets de tournois. What, actually, are your requirements? Since giving you the code and pointing you to a resource are both off topic I will attempt to show you how to make it much easier to write your own solution to this problem. Is there a way to notate the repeat of a larger section that itself has repeats in it? [From the New Oxford American Dictionary.]. Visit the office pools link for many unique printable office pool ideas. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion. ... the matches being played in the Losers Bracket, you may want to edit the placement of participants in this particular setting. but with the following. I also added the possibility to give byes to the higher seed players. Is there a contradiction in being told by disciples the hidden (disciple only) meaning behind parables for the masses, even though we are the masses? But the double elimination brackets are throwing me off. A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors. To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers. I have only tested the code without byes and with two byes. Modal code. Put another way: why, specifically, isn't "randomly throw all applicants onto the leaves of a binary tree" good enough? thanks … Create new polls. See my answer here: Very interesting idea, although I would have to think about how to translate it into code. Depending on your tournament prize bracket, you can have a maximum of 10-200 players in your tournament. Easily attach playoffs to any league. This is just a suggestion that I haven't thought through at all: work backwards from the final. 1578. I have a small question about this. 2. It may not be super-efficient, but I don't think that it really needs to be. The null object pattern can let you leave all the previous code alone by simply creating a null competitor that represents the absence of an assigned opponent. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. Constructors. wp_list_pluck. Bootstrap Themes is a collection of the best templates and themes curated by Bootstrap’s creators. Due to the great demand for professional services and high-quality products, HellermannTyton is also present in the Middle East since 2014. into "matches" is fairly easy, but I also need to make sure that the higher seed will play the lower seed in subsequent rounds. The winner of this tournament will be crowned the 2020 SMITE World Champion. Viewed 16k times 22. Advancement points are fairly simple. The second one (1) occupies the opposite spot in the other half of the bracket. I need to place the teams in the first round so that the top seeds advancing to the next round will automatically be matched up top-seed vs bottom-seed, etc. The tournament bracket settings below can be activated with checkboxes. Put our free Sports schedule maker to work for you and create your next schedule in seconds.. League round robin schedules can have games across many weeks or all in one day. 2020 will include over 100 event days featuring new formats, games, interactive extensions, and millions of dollars in prize money. DeepMind just announced a breakthrough in protein folding, what are the consequences? Eight teams participate; Single Elimination Bracket site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa. Voting . Tournament tree can effectively be used to find median of sorted arrays. Given a list of opponent seeds (for example seeds 1 to 16), I'm trying to write an algorithm that will result in the top seed playing the lowest seed in that round, the 2nd seed playing the 2nd-lowest seed, etc. I'm not quite sure what you mean – this just ensures that the highest seed will play the lowest seed in each round (and the 2nd-highest will play the 2nd-lowest, etc.). You will need to estimate the number of teams to determine if you want a Single or Double elimination tournament. Like a few people mentioned today, the -13 that wins a lower bracket won’t even qualify in a higher bracket. SimpleModal. erasabletournamentbrackets.com - Seeded Tournaments. If there is a tournament of the same power level … How do I sort a dictionary by value? The matches are the same as in his example, but in a prettier order, seed 1 and seed number 16 are on the outside of the schema (as you see in tennis tournaments). I'd certainly go with this method. 1 vs 8 1 vs 4 4 vs 5 1 vs 2 2 vs 7 7 vs 10 2 vs 3 3 vs 14 3 vs 6 6 vs 11 1, 8, 4, 5, and 2 went bye to the next round who met with the winners of the three prelimination games 7, 3, and 6. Sort a Map by values. These selected candidates are then passed on to the next generation. What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048? I am having trouble to find actual algorithms to generate single elimination brackets and double elimination brackets. A seed is then attributed to them depending on the order you picked them. Like say 12: Look carefully at that and you may notice what it has in common with the 16 player seeded field. Teams that lose in the first round (or show up after the Tournament start time) can join a "Second Chance" bracket for another try at victory. Ordered - Mark the teams in the first column with numbers. If there are no upsets (meaning a higher seeded player always wins from a lower seeded player), you will end up with seed 1 vs seed 2 in the final. Else, the whole Seeding and Placement is made from a single interface where you can add participants into the phase (because all participants don't have to start in the first stage of a tournament, or play all stages) with a multi-selection modal window. Getting at least one win in any Tournament gives you Tournament Credits, but most of your earnings will come from your Top 3 Weekly Placements, which reset at the end of each week on Sunday. 2. Put our free Sports schedule maker to work for you and create your next schedule in seconds.. League round robin schedules can have games across many weeks or all in one day. Assume, given M sorted arrays of equal size L (for simplicity). All your spells will also have 20% added pierce. I also wrote a solution written in PHP. But now I am trying to define the algorithms to make the brackets. For JavaScript code, use one of the two functions below. To expand the tree recursively to the next level, take all the nodes on the bottom layer in the tree, one by one, and create two children for them each, and place one of the players of the original node to each one of the child nodes created. Calculate winners of previous rounds. 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Chaque seconde, la dette de la France varie de +2 685,70€ Chaque jour, la dette de la France varie de +232 044 198,90€ En 2017 la dette de la France s'élevait à 2 299 800 000 000€. How to explain the LCM algorithm to an 11 year old? Teams. Relics mean less and less after every prestige. You can load the Demo and click through these settings to see what they do. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. Seeds - Statically. That can all be managed by sorting the winners from the last round according to their pre-tournament rank and doing it all again. Rather than make yourself dizzy pouring over published solutions to the programming problem, consult a domain expert: There are two ways to run single or double elimination tournaments --- either "Blind Draw" or "Seeded". Basically, you do the same mirroring as in the previous function, but recursively: For n = 2 teams, you apply this function to the argument n-1 (that is, An example bracket with the correct placement: As you can see, seed 1 and 2 only meet up in the final. Au niveau mondial le nombre total de cas est de 63 236 891, le nombre de guérisons est de 40 528 823, le nombre de décès est de 1 467 988. Someone can be millions times stronger than me with only 100m relics earned lifetime vs my 1bil relics earned lifetime. This way you can have brackets that DON'T start with a power of 2. Addition vs multiplication on algorithm performance, Tournament bracket method to put distance between teammates, Genetic Algorithm's Tournament Selection limit to be selected, Scheduling: balanced home/away round-robin tournament algorithm, Algorithm for a round robin based tournament with a specific amount of matches per round, Calendar scheduling: home field constraints. It only takes a minute to sign up. 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By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service. The first phase of the World Championship for NA, EU, and SA is an open-entry double-elimination bracket in which the winner qualifies to play in the World Championship Final. Subscribe & Hide Ads. 20. Thanks in advance. brackets elimination tournament-bracket Updated Jan 25, 2018 This is basically a gray code (if you use zero-indexing). Filtering array data. Skill brackets should be based on score, not placement. Tap Tournament Brackets to see your Club's current Bracket and information about the other Brackets. Filtering array data. In this way many such tournaments … You can use Silent Marchand Portars during the tournament. DeepMind just announced a breakthrough in protein folding, what are the consequences? Voting . Tournament bracket algorithm. 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Busy Rascals
Hub for Bubs: Parent, baby and toddler activities in North West London
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In Application Examples, Internet of Things
Photon: Teach Children Programming with a Cute Robot and ST
A Photon Robot
Photon is an educational robot by Photon Entertainment, a Polish company that aims to teach the basics of programming to pupils between the age of 5 and 12. Students can interact with Photon through a storytelling application that uses inputs from its young companions to move the plot forward. Educators also have access to a simplified programming paradigm to teach children how to control machines in fun and pedagogical ways. Individual users can purchase a Photon through the company store, and the system is easy enough even for parents and children who have no prior knowledge of programming. However, the robot is primarily seen in school as it helps entire classrooms become more familiar with technology while developing the students’ creativity and their interest in computer science.
This project is also highly symbolic because this educational robot full of ST components began with engineers who became familiar with our products while they were students themselves, thus reinforcing once again the importance of the strong presence of ST technologies in universities. Photon started with a dozen ST development boards, and the teams were able to create their various prototypes rapidly. We thus sat down with Michal Grzes, founder and CTO of Photon Entertainment, who told us that this ability to quickly iterate taught him a valuable lesson: put prototypes in the hands of a test audience as soon and as frequently as possible. Feedback is vital and understanding what features people appreciate and what functionalities they don’t care for will change how your teams approach the challenges they face. This is why Michal and his engineers quickly stuck with our solutions.
Photon’s Brain and Heart
The Photon robot
Photon relies on an STM32F105 microcontroller (MCU) as the primary host. It is responsible for the most demanding computations and for talking to the users’ smartphones or tablets. It also offers various energy saving modes to push the battery to last longer. For instance, the power consumption in standby is only 1.9 µA, with the speed oscillator and real-time clock (RTC) off. There’s also a second microcontroller in the robot’s head, an STM32F0, that’s in charge of pre-processing some of the data from the sensors, as well as managing the RF module that the engineers put away from the main board to improve the signal and reduce the output power necessary. They thus decided to use a second MCU to reduce the number of cables, benefit from significant RF optimizations, and simplify the overall designs.
Their choice of STM32 MCUs is also fascinating because of how they got to the final design. As Michal explained:
“We used the CubeMX approach to go from the Discovery Boards to our PCB, but also to experiment with various microcontrollers. It made swapping components easy so that we could try different pins, various packaging, and more or less memory. We ended up trying six or seven different MCUs from the same family to see which one would work best and using CubeMX helped us speed up developments.
Photon Entertainment also relied on X-CUBE libraries to jump-start their application, and they told us that some of our open-source code even made it to their final product, which is the best testament to the importance of having an entire ecosystem, rather than merely manufacturing silicon.
Photon’s Eyes
A child controlling the Photon with a tablet
The engineering team decided to put the world’s smallest time-of-flight (ToF) sensor, our VL53L0X, on the front of the robot for obstacle avoidance purposes. Its 940 nm VCSEL laser offers an absolute range of up to two meters and measurements take about 30 ms. However, our time-of-flight sensor wasn’t the only model they tried. As Michal recounted:
“Very early in the development, we experimented with many sensors from various companies, to figure out the most important features for our design and test the possibilities of each component. That’s when we learned that two meters were a good range for our application and that it needed to work on a broad range of textures, surfaces, colors, as well as a wide range of angles to offer a great user experience.”
In the end, he found that only one component would work best behind their 0.5 mm thick glass: our VL53L0X. Michal’s team also used the X-NUCLEO-53L0A1 Discover Board, which integrates the ToF sensor, and experimented with the cover glass we provide with the platform. The X-CUBE-53L0A1 software expansion pack also helped the engineers take advantage of the sensor’s features faster. They explained that the performance of the ToF was vastly superior to the competition and that by choosing our component, they could spend more time on the cover glass that would house the MEMS, to guarantee optimal performance.
Photon’s Sixth Sense
A classroom interacting with the Photon
Our STC3100 gas gauge monitors the robot’s battery, by offering a Coulomb counter, while also checking the critical parameters of the single cell Li-Ion battery, such as the voltage, temperature, and current, to ensure the user’s safety. Photon Entertainment decided to rely on that device because of its precision, performance, and ease of use. By implementing our algorithms, the designers could confidently offer crucial features without spending an inordinate amount of time developing such solutions. As the company learned the importance of prototyping faster to get as much feedback as they could, it was essential to use our turnkey solutions so engineers could instead focus on optimizing the user’s experience. Choosing more of our components also helped them get better discounts and get more support from our experts.
This is also why Photon uses our LIS2DH three-axis accelerometer. Michal admitted that his design didn’t need a high precision inertial sensor since the Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) focuses on strong shakes and grand rotations detection. However, by using more ST pieces, they were able to secure a much better price than what the competition could offer, and they got to centralize customer support, highlighting the importance of our ecosystem for startups that are hugely sensitive to these types of considerations. They were also able to use our libraries and build upon them to reduce the component’s power consumption. Since their application can tolerate a lesser precision, they use the LIS2DH’s power-saving measures to ensure the battery can last longer.
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Photon recently won the Toy of the Year 2018 distinction as well as the best Polish market implementation, and we are proud that so many of our components are driving this innovation that is planting the STEM seed in the makers of tomorrow. It is no surprise that Photon Entertainment also received the award for the best startup in Europe by the European Business Angels Network (EBAN). They offer a solid foundation for children taking their first step in the programming world thanks to an innovative platform and intuitive applications. And we are proud to be a part of this extraordinary adventure that shows that by using the best and most efficient hardware, teams can focus on all the other things that will make their products remarkable. Photon is available for about €200 in the company’s store.
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BOB RANDALL
Singer-songwriter and recording artist with over 200 original songs and six albums.
Also performs covers of the old school country music greats: Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, David Alan Coe, and Ray Price.
Worked with many national artists from Wheeling, West Virginia & Nashville, Tennessee.
Inducted into the New York State Country Music Hall of Fame.
Won the Global Music Award & Outstanding Achievement for Doc Holiday produced release of "Gone". Also won Male Artist Of The Year on Clay's Country Radio,
Nominated for Telly Award & Independent Music Award as well as on the voting ballot for Grammy Award.
Read more about Bob Randall
2019 - "OUTLAW"
All songs written and recorded by Bob Randall; produced by Bob Randall and Alexander Paul at Double-A-Productions.
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Recorded at Sony Studios in Nashville, TN; produced by Doc Holiday and the Legendary Studio "A" Team. Released on Mega International Records.
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First album of original country songs.
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Bodnant Garden Blog
Behind the scenes at a National Trust wonder of Wales
Tag Archives: Champion trees
September 13, 2017 by bodnantgarden
Get rooting for Bodnant Garden’s Welsh Champion Tree
This autumn, as dazzling leaf colour lights up Bodnant Garden’s 80 acres, we’re inviting everyone to go wild about trees in a month-long festival… and to kick off the celebrations we’re asking you to get rooting for one of our special residents.
Our Coast Redwood in The Dell is in the Wales finals for the Woodland Trust Tree of the Year 2017 competition. This 130-year-old native American lady (or is it an old man?) soars over the riverside where she’s made herself perfectly at home – a living symbol of the garden’s rich and amazingly beautiful tree collection.
We’ll be celebrating her and our other trees during Treefest from October 13 to November 10, with a host of woodland activities.
We love our trees here at Bodnant Garden. The collection goes back to the Georgian era when the first beech, oak, sycamore and chestnut were planted. Successive generations of the garden’s owners planted American conifers and Asian broad-leaved trees and today Bodnant is home to 42 UK Champion Trees – the biggest, rarest and best of their kind – plus 130 Welsh Champs too.
The garden’s Victorian ‘founding father’ Henry Pochin planted the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in 1887. At 51-metres she’s now a Wales Champion Tree (rated second tallest in the UK at the last Tree Register survey in 2016 and as she’s still growing, who knows how far she’ll go?)
It was Mr Pochin who developed the pinetum in the valley garden, planting American and oriental conifers along the banks of the River Hiraethlyn. Some of these were exotic to British gardens, newly discovered by 19th century plant hunters. In Bodnant’s waterside dells these new trees thrived, sheltered against the elements were they have grown taller and faster than in other areas of the garden.
Head Gardener John Rippin says: “For me the most dramatic tree at Bodnant is the champion Sequoia sempervirens which is the tallest of its kind in Wales. It’s not just about the immense size (which is pretty awesome) but also the potential this tree has to carry on growing.
“The average age of redwoods in the wild is 600 years but some are believed to be over 2,000 years old. Conwy Valley has ideal growing conditions for them and I would love to think Bodnant’s giants will be going strong in 200 years, possibly reaching the magical 100 metre mark, providing future visitors with an even more awesome sight and helping preserve one of the world’s most incredible trees.”
There are some amazing stories behind our trees; the rare and exotic ones discovered by intrepid plant hunters in centuries past, and the native ones which are home to so much wildlife today. Come and discover more during Treeefest… and in the meantime, if you feel inspired to cast a vote for our Coast Redwood, you can do it here until October 8: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/tree-of-the-year/wales Our Sweet Chestnut on the Top Lawn was a runner-up in the competition last year and featured on a Channel 4 documentary – let’s see if we can go all the way!
You can see the full programme of events for Treefest on our website at Treefest Bodnant Garden 2017
For more details about Bodnant Garden call 01492 650460, check out our website nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
Posted in Gardeners' Notes, What's On
Tagged Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, Conwy gardens, National Trust, National Trust Wales, The Woodland Trust, Tree of the Year, Treefest, Wales gardens
Help crown Bodnant Garden’s old chestnut as Wales Tree of the Year
Here at Bodnant Garden the grand old Sweet Chestnut on our Top Lawn is one of our most loved residents. Known as a ‘walking tree’, she’s now in the running for the title of Wales Tree of the Year.
Gardener Dave Larter hugging our Sweet Chestnut
Striding across the grass of the formal lawn with her gnarled, many-legged trunk, the old girl is one of the first sights to greet visitors when they arrive through the garden gates, much photographed, painted and admired.
Now, she is one of six great trees around the country vying for the prestigious title of Wales Tree of the Year in a competition being run by the Woodland Trust. The public are being asked to vote for their favourite and the winner will be announced in mid-October.
So why is she so special? This tree is one of the oldest at Bodnant Garden, a remnant of its early, Georgian past.
Owner John Forbes built the original hall in 1782 and created a parkland around it in the Landscape style of the day after designers like Kent, Capability Brown and Repton. This brought nature close to the house with a panorama of rolling grassland dotted with native trees like oak, beech, sycamore and chestnut, and a ha-ha or ditch keep grazing animals away from the hall.
She’s there somewhere… among the group of trees in front of the hall in this picture of Bodnant Garden from the mid 1800s
With her solid Georgian roots, our Sweet Chestnut has withstood the passage of time and the rugged North Wales weather, being encorporated into the later, formal Victorian upper garden and ageing into her very own, unique character. Her main stem was blown out at some point in the past by a lightening strike causing the trunk to split. Over time several of the larger branches have layered themselves upon the lawn, giving her ‘legs’.
Today, a great place for a bug hunt
She’s a favourite of gardener Dave Larter who watches over our trees here at Bodnant Garden. He says: “I love trees! Especially old trees with some history, trees with character and trees with potential for the future. This one has it all. At well over 200 years of age, maybe 250, she is making her claim on the top lawn for sure.
“Having lost her top many decades ago, she started to ‘walk’ northwards. Beaten back by strong winds and chainsaws, she is now intent on a south-westerly route. A truly ‘walking tree’, she appears almost Elephantine without foliage, placing her trunk where she wants to go next. She has already layered daughters which are layering their own offspring and, given chance, they will layer theirs. Who knows where she could be in years to come?”
Perfect for just enjoying the shade on a hot day
Bodnant Garden is home to many exotic and native trees, some of them UK Champions – the biggest and best of their kind in the UK. The Sweet Chestnut is an honourary native, having been introduced to Britain by the Romans, and while ours hasn’t attained any official Champion status (yet!) she certainly holds a special place of honour here at the garden.
The Wales Tree of the Year competition runs until October 9. To vote for our Sweet Chestnut find the details at the Woodland Trust website here http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/tree-of-the-year/wales
Draped in finery during our recent textile exhibition at the garden
Posted in Gardeners' Notes
Tagged Autumn colour, Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, Conwy, Gardens in Wales, heritage gardens, National Trust, National Trust Wales, Wales gardens, Woodland Trust
October 9, 2015 by bodnantgarden
Talking the talk and walking the walk
We’ve got an amazing garden…and a passionate team of staff and volunteers willing, able and just itching to tell you about it! Whether it’s Champion Trees, everything you ever wanted to know about salvias or Bodnant history, our team regularly give talks, from daytime guided walks around the garden to evening presentations for outside groups.
Our head gardener John Rippin, supervisor Bill Warrell and gardener Fiona Braithwaite regularly give presentations to local groups, and some further afield, on subjects ranging from garden history to plants to wildlife, supported by other staff and volunteers.
Head gardener John joined the team in January but is already making his mark and giving presentations on his vision for Bodnant Garden, what areas of the garden are opening in the coming years and our plans for the future.
It’s all about the plants for Bill, who will wax lyrical about the diverse collection of plants to be found throughout the seasons, as well as the garden work entailed in maintaining this much-visited, much-loved, Grade 1 listed gem.
Bill Warrell giving a talk on Champion Trees
Fiona is our history expert and is well known, and in demand, for her presentations about Bodnant Garden through the ages; the families, famous plant hunters and gardeners who developed it.
If you’d like one of our team to come and give a presentation to your group all we ask is a donation; £50 for small local groups under 25 members and £60 for large local groups over 25 members within 10 miles (with a travel allowance for further distances.)
Volunteers giving a tour of the garden
As well as group presentations there is a regular programme of monthly specialist guided walks and talks around the garden provided by our gardeners and students. Topics covered this year have ranged from rose care, plants and folklore to propagation. This year we’ve also started a new series of bird walks with local experts BirdwatchingTrips, which are becoming increasingly popular. Our knowledgeable volunteers also provide free guided tours of areas of the garden throughout the week.
A Birds of Bodnant tour
For details of our guided garden walks check our website and Facebook page and if you’d like to book a presentation to your group call the garden office on 01492 650460.
Tagged Autumn colour, Champion trees, Family activities, Garden talks, Gardens in Wales, heritage gardens, North Wales gardens, Plant hunters, Wales gardens, What's in Flower
Autumn’s so bright you’ll need to wear shades
There’s plenty to warm the cockles of your heart at Bodnant Garden this autumn. We’ve got 80 acres of autumn glow, plus events for all the family and a warm welcome in our tearooms.
Bodnant Garden is a firework display of colour in autumn, with the dazzling leaf colour of trees and shrubs, ripening fruit and berries and late flowering plants putting on a show to rival the bright colours of summer.
The garden’s 140-year-old collection of trees are at their finest at this time of year, especially in Chapel Park (seen below) where you can enjoy the reds, purples and ambers of Japanese acers plus many others – some exotics collected by plant hunters more than a century ago along with other beautiful native trees.
For the first time in the garden’s history this autumn, visitors can explore the arboretum in the newly opened lakeside area, The Far End, which includes some of the garden’s Champion Trees.
In the formal gardens on The Terraces roses are still in bloom and herbaceous beds are full with late flowering asters, sedums and dahlias; in The Dell our swathes of hydrangeas are changing all the colours of the kaleidoscope as they age; and in the Shrub Borders plants are laden with berries and fruit.
Look out for the weirdest fruit of the garden, the blue pods of Decaisnea fargesii (Dead Man’s Fingers), and giant raspberries of Cornus kousa (seen above). Birds are loving the autumn too as they make the most of the fruits on offer. There’s a chance to see them on October 9 with our Birds of Bodnant Walk at 11am. This is a free guided tour with an expert from Birdwatching Trips.
There’s plenty for younger visitors during half term week – from Monday October 26 to Friday October 31 we’re hosting Wild About Gardens Week with craft activities in the Old Mill in The Dell, from 11am to 2pm.
There will be environmental art around the garden and families will be encouraged to make their own from items like leaves and cones. There will also be a trail of pumpkins to lead people to the Old Mill. On Saturday, October 31, there are Halloween activities at The Far End and the Old Mill from 12am to 3pm including Making a Witch’s Hovel. These are free events so drop in at any time.
On Wednesday November 18 there’s a Walk with the Head Gardener – this is an opportunity to meet John Rippin, who took over in January, and find out about his vision for the future (cost £10, call 01492 650460 to book a place.)
And talking of walks…Dogs Welcome starts again in November (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays), with the garden now open to our four-legged friends every day from January until the end of February.
If the candyfloss scent of Cercidiphyllum japonicum (Katsura Tree) gives you an appetite there are refreshments on offer every day in the Pavilion and Magnolia tearooms throughout the autumn, plus the kiosks in the Dell and Far End at weekends.
For more details about Bodnant Garden call 01492 650460, check out our website nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden or catch up with us on Facebook or Twitter.
Posted in Gardeners' Notes, Now Showing, What's On
Tagged Autumn colour, Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, dog friendly, Family activities, Gardens in Wales, heritage gardens, Himalayan garden, National Trust, Wales gardens, What's in Flower
March 6, 2015 by bodnantgarden
The Far End – it’s getting closer!
On March 28, after years of renovation work, we’re opening up a new area to the public and it’s all hands to the pump right now as we make the final push before opening day.
The Far End is ten acres of tranquil riverside. Some of you might have seen it in our Secret Bodnant walks last year exploring private areas of the garden, but until now most visitors have not been able to walk further than the famous Waterfall Bridge in The Dell. Soon everyone can explore what lies beyond…waterside walks, a Skating Pond, boathouse and arboretum.
Horticulturalist and broadcaster Christine Walkden will perform the official opening at a special day of celebration on Saturday, March 28. That day we’ll also have harp music in the boat house, demonstrations of coracle making on the lakeside, country dancing, guided walks, a nature trail for children and refreshments.
Then and now, the Skating Pond in the Far End
The Far End is quite different in character to other parts of the garden – unlike the formal Italianate Terraces or the dramatic Dell with its rushing river and waterfall – here the paths lead visitors to a small lake which is quiet, peaceful and full of wildlife.
The smaller Otter Pond
It is one of the oldest parts of the garden, originally laid out by Bodnant’s creator Henry Pochin from the 1870s who envisaged it as The Wild Garden in the style of Victorian garden designer William Robinson. Pochin began by creating paths along the riverside and planting conifers, some of which are now Champion Trees. Pochin’s daughter Laura and grandson Henry McLaren laid out the large Skating Pond and Boat House and continued planting trees and shrubs from all around the world.
The original thatched Boat House, which has now been restored
The area was never opened to the public but over the last few years gardeners have been renovating banks, beds and paths, creating a new circular walkway and bridge which will give visitors an easy access, level route around this beautiful part of the garden. The work hasn’t been without setbacks. In November 2011 flooding devastated the area, washing away new plantings, damaging paths and leaving a trail of debris…but the next day garden supervisor Maxine Singleton and her team were clearing up and starting again.
Supervisor Maxine with gardeners Steve and Fiona
Steve and Alex doing some aquatic gardening
Now, three years on, the Far End has been rejuvinated and is ready to open, though renovation and replanting work will be ongoing. Christine Walkden, a horticulturalist well known for her TV and radio work – and friend and fan of Bodnant Garden – will cut a ribbon officially opening the area at 12 noon. It’s a historic event for Bodnant so be among the first to see this secret garden unveiled!
Christine Walkden with staff and volunteers at the garden last year
For more details about Bodnant Garden call 01492 650460, check out our website www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BodnantGardenNT
Tagged Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, Family activities, Far End, Gardens in Wales, heritage gardens, Himalayan garden, Rhododendrons, Spring garden, Waterfall Bridge, Wild garden, year round interest
February 10, 2015 by bodnantgarden
View from a tree
Our intrepid arborists have been taking down an old oak tree in the North Garden – and got these stunning shots of the garden from the canopy. If you haven’t got a head for heights look away now!
Tagged Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, gardens to visit, heritage gardens, Tree work
January 9, 2015 by bodnantgarden
A proud history of head gardeners
The wait is over – we have a new head gardener. After an 18-month search the coveted horticultural role goes to John Rippin (right), who joins us here on January 19. John was previously head gardener at the National Trust’s Castle Drogo, in Devon.
Our quest began with the departure of Troy Smith a year-and-a-half ago, who left to take the lead at another of the National Trust’s most prestigious sites, Sissinghurst in Kent.
Why has the recruitment taken so long? William Greenwood, our property manager, says: “It has taken some time, but we were determined to find the right person for this very special job. We have met some outstanding candidates along the way but at last we have found our head gardener.”
Bodnant Garden ranks among the finest in Britain and attracts around 180,000 visitors from all over the world, each year. Taking the helm of this national treasure is no mean feat. When Troy (seen left) arrived in 2006 he stepped into an illustrious role dominated by three generations of one family, The Puddles – head gardeners who famously helped shape the garden throughout much of the 20th century alongside the McLaren donor family.
But the story didn’t start there…the Puddles themselves built on the (literally) ground-breaking work of others.
The garden as we know it today really began when Victorian entrepreneur Henry Davis Pochin (seen right) bought Bodnant Estate in 1874, which then included a Georgian mansion house and parkland of native trees laid out in the late 1700s. Pochin was a self made man – the son of a farmer who became a chemist, industialist, businessman, landowner, MP, JP – a man of enormous energy and vision. Not content with remodelling the house, he enlisted landscape designer Edward Milner, apprentice to Joseph Paxton, to resculpt the hillside around Bodnant Hall.
Above, the Italianate house and parkland bought by Pochin and his remodelled version – with sloping lawn where now are terraces
Putting Milner’s grand plans (seen left) into effect were George Ellis and his team of gardeners. A native of Suffolk, Ellis had risen in the ranks to become head gardener at Kirkby Mallory in Leicestershire, the home of Lady Byron, estranged wife of the notorious lord. Taking on the Bodnant job in the mid 1870s, he settled in the nearby village of Eglwysbach with his wife Ellen and young family. Sadly Ellen died in 1881 aged only 45 and it appears Mr Ellis moved on, or moved away from the area, but not before a decade or so of work which truly shaped the garden.
Ellis would have been involved in the early development of the pinetum in The Dell and in planting the Asian and American conifers being newly discovered by plant hunters, in the laying out of paths throughout the valley, in the rockworks to re-enforce the banks of the River Hiraethlyn, in the establishment of new watercourses and sculpting of the pools and falls which define the lower garden.
He would also have overseen the planting of the famous Laburnum Arch in 1880 (above, with yew hedges now replaced by azaleas) and the construction of The Poem mausoeum, in 1883 (below).
In the early to mid 1800s a new head gardener appears in the Bodnant records. Joseph Saunderson previously worked at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, designed by Paxton and Milner…famous for it’s glasshouse (perhaps he is among the Victorian gardeners pictured here at Chatsworth?)
Saunderson certainly knew his onions, in fact all manner of fruit and veg and plenty about greenhouse growing. He arrived when Pochin was constructing the fernery and glasshouses; the fernery remains, attached to the house, but sadly the glasshouses, sited on the south wall which is now the Range border, were demolished in the 1980s. It is believed there was also a kitchen garden within the walls where the garden centre now stands, as this picture gives a tantalising glimpse:
Newspaper articles from the 1880s and 1890s record the success of Bodnant’s kitchen garden, with many awards for fruit, even grapes. The Manchester Courier reported in 1888 that “at the Chester Conference an account was given of the great success in the cultivation of pears and apples achieved by Mr Pochin of Bodnant Hall, Conway Valley…and opions were expressed that there was no reason such success could not be achieved on many a sunny slope in Cheshire.” That showed them.
Saunderson would also have been involved in work on the Italianate Terraces under Pochin’s daughter Laura and grandson Henry McLaren (Lord Aberconway) which began in 1904, and also the introduction to the garden, and Britain, of the first Chinese magnolias, camellias and other exotic plants.
Left, a young magnolia planted against a terrace wall
He had married wife Florence in Derbyshire in 1881 before moving to Eglwysbach. On his retirement in 1911 Joseph was awarded a silver teapot by Lord and Lady Aberconway for thirty years service. He and his family remained living in the area and son Eric also became a gardener – sadly Eric died aged 23, killed in France during the First World War along with 24 other young men from the village, including fellow garden and estate workers.
The mantle of head gardener was next taken on by George Gurney, originally from Hertfordshire, who held the role for almost a decade through these difficult years of World War One. It was a challenging time; in addition to those working men who left to fight and did not return, Bodnant mourned Francis McLaren, Henry’s younger brother, who was killed in 1917.
Gurney took over the massive building project of the Terraces (seen above), which was completed in 1914 with finishing touches in 1918. He died in 1920 at the age of 56…perhaps those sad times had taken their toll. An obituary in the Gardener’s Chronicle reported: “He was an enthusiastic and successful gardener, and passionately fond of flowers. Mr Gurney took an active part in War-Savings Associations, and the church and social events in the neighbourhood…a true patriot, loved and respected by all who knew him.”
Mr Gurney’s successor was Frederick Puddle (left) – and so began the most famous period in the garden’s history. For the next eight and a half decades the development of the garden was very much a family affair, a partnership between three generations of the McLarens – Henry, Charles and Michael (the current garden manager) – and three generations of Puddles – Fredrick (1920-1947) Charles (1947-1982) and Martin (1982-2005).
Frederick Puddle worked closely with Henry McLaren during a dynamic phase of the garden’s development. Through the 1920s and 1930s Henry sponsored expeditions by plant hunters such as George Forrest, Harold Comber and Frank Kingdon-Ward who brought back new plants from Asia and America to Bodnant. Most significantly, Forest introduced great quantities of rhododendrons to the garden. Frederick famously doubted whether these would thrive in North Wales…and was happily proved wrong. Not only did they thrive but he and Henry went on to breed new specimens, forming a collection of Bodnant hybrids.
The Canal Terrace before the Pin Mill
On another occasion Mr Puddle’s judgement was clearly spot on. Frederick oversaw the erection of the now iconic Pin Mill on the Canal Terrace, an 18th century building brought from Gloucestershire brick by brick in 1938. Legend has it that he persuaded Lord Aberconway not to site it in the middle of the terrace where it would spoil the mountain view – for which we can be forever thankful!
Frederick’s son Charles followed in his footsteps to become head gardener in 1947 and he was at the helm two years later when Henry McLaren, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, persuaded the National Trust to accept gardens on their own merit, handing over Bodnant to the care of the Trust – the second garden to be accepted after Hidcote.
So began another chapter of Bodnant Garden as a National Trust visitor attraction, but the continuity remained in the links between the Puddle family as head gardeners and the McLarens, as garden managers. Charles and Martin Puddle (seen above) steered Bodnant through this new era, during which time it became one of Wales’ and Britain’s most famous gardens. The family link was sadly broken when Martin died unexpectedly in 2005. This was a huge loss to the garden and to staff, many of whom are still at Bodnant today and remember him with pride and great fondness.
Troy and the team launching the new Winter Garden in 2012
On his arrival in 2007 Troy Smith drove forward a number of innovations at the garden; the renovation of the two rose terraces, the redesign and replanting of herbaceous beds and borders and the construction of our new winter garden. He also championed the introduction of volunteers to the team.
Since Troy left, the ship has been steered by acting head gardener Adam Salvin, who has been at Bodnant man and boy since coming here as a student for work experience. Adam has charted staff and volunteers through an incredibly busy 18 months which has seen the opening of new areas such as the Yew Dell and the Prim Path (above left) ongoing work to open The Far End this spring, the introduction of new picnic areas, family events, dog walking and winter garden openings.
John Rippin will be following in firm footsteps (no pressure there then) but brings a wide range of experience to Bodnant, from his career at Hilliers, Hidcote and laterlly Castle Drogo. He is relocating to North Wales along with his family and menagerie of animals…and there are some Bodnant parallels to make him feel at home. His former Devon domain is a National Trust property with a formal garden noted for its rhododendrons, magnolias, rose garden and even a croquet lawn. Here’s to another new era!
Tagged Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, Gardens in Wales, heritage gardens, Magnolias, Plant hunters, Rhododendrons, Rose gardens, Winter Garden
Far reaching dream coming to fruition
In Spring 2015 we will be revealing part of Bodnant Garden never before seen by the public.
Our Conwy hillside garden is well know for its Italianate Terraces, expansive Shrub Borders and pinetum in The Dell. Until now visitors have not been able to walk further than the dramatic Waterfall Bridge in The Dell, but from April next year they will be able to explore what lies beyond…The Far End.
It is the latest private area on the fringes of the garden to be opened to the public and part of our vision for the future – in 2012 we opened The Old Park, a wildflower meadow, and in 2013 the Yew Dell, a wooded Himalayan style glade. In 2017 we will also be opening Furnace Wood, to the west of the garden.
Leaving the Waterfall Bridge and Dell behind and following the river upstream to the Far End
The Far End is a tranquil riverside haven which follows the course of River Hiraethlyn, forming pools and ponds as it winds along, finally opening out into a lake. It is one of the oldest parts of the garden, originally laid out by Bodnant’s creator Henry Pochin from the 1870s who envisaged it as The Wild Garden – blending native and exotic trees to form an area very different from both the formal terraces at the top of the garden and from other wilder, informal areas of the garden too.
Pochin began by creating paths along the riverside and planting Asian and American conifers, some of which were new to Britain being introduced by plant hunters of the Victorian era. His successors continued planting along the banks of the river, adding a Skating Pond and an Arts and Crafts style boathouse (seen above).
Perhaps because it has never been open to the public and intensively managed, this area has a very different character from anywhere else in the garden. Making your way upstream from the steep sided Dell the valley opens out more widely; the conifers here don’t soar overhead in enclosed space but blend into the hillside along with wide drifts of deciduous natives an exotics – Chinese magnolias and Japanese acers mingling with waterside willows. The water doesn’t roar and rush quite like it does through the waterfall-powered gorge of The Dell (though it has done just that, quite spectacularly, when in flood!)
Bogside planting along the river which opens out into the Otter Pond (below)
The Boat House on the tranquil Skating Pond
The riverside here is less manicured with its reeds and bogside planting and the whole effect if less dramatic is more naturalistic, with a charm all of its own. It is a paradise for wildlife too; here you’re more likely to see birds and even otters enjoying the calm waters.
2012 flood damage to riverside beds (above) didn’t stop play…the new bridge takes shape (below)
Over the last few years area supervisor Maxine Singleton and her team have been renovating banks, beds and paths, creating a new circular walkway and bridge which will give visitors an easy access, level route around this beautiful part of the garden. It hasn’t been without setbacks – the floods of winter 2012 caused extensive damage as water swept away vast quantities new riverside plantings, but the work has continued and the ropes will come down in spring 2015.
The Far End in autumn
If you’d like to have a preview of The Far End and Furnace Wood before opening we’re running Secret Bodnant walks on the second Wednesday of every month, at 2pm. There’s no extra charge (normal garden entry applies) but call 01492 650460 to book a place as numbers are limited. For more details about Bodnant Garden call 01492 650460, check out our website www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BodnantGardenNT
Tagged Autumn colour, autumn events, Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, Gardens in Wales, heritage gardens, Plant hunters, Water gardens
November 3, 2013 by bodnantgarden
When it comes to trees, we are the champions!
Bodnant Garden is home to some fine Champion Trees – trees introduced many years ago from all over the world which are now some of the best of their kind to be found in the UK.
It takes something special to be included in the Tree Register of the British Isles, which maintains a database of more than 190,000 Champion Trees dating back centuries. All are exceptional examples of their species because of their enormous size, great age, rarity or historical significance.
Richard admiring the Arbutus x andrachnoides on the Top Rose Terrace, planted in 1902
Our student gardener Richard Marriot has been researching and cataloguing Bodnant Garden’s ‘champs’ and they tell a fascinating tale not just about the garden but of global horticultural discovery.
The history of Bodnant Garden’s trees goes back to the 1700s when the land around the original house was landscaped. Around this time native species such as oak and beech were planted in The Old Park, now a wildflower meadow, which can be seen there today.
The Sweet Chestnut on the Top Lawn
We think this is also when the massive Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) on the Top Lawn was planted, now much loved by visitors because of its twisted trunk…the main stem was blown out at some point in the past and several larger branches have layered themselves on the lawn. The Sweet Chestnut is considered an ‘honourary’ native, having been introduced by the Romans.
But the story of our Champion Trees really started when the house and estate was bought by entrepreneur Henry Pochin in the 1870s. Pochin and his descendents were inspired by the plant hunting expeditions of the Victorian and Edwardian period and introduced many newly-discovered trees from all over the world to North Wales.
It was Pochin who created the Pinetum in the Dell, planting the giant American and Asian conifers; the redwoods, cypress and firs (like the Douglas Fir, named after the ill fated David Douglas who scaled mountains and battled Indians, bears and disease in his North American quest for new plants during the 1830s, only to die from being gored by a bull in Hawaii.) In the early 1900s the garden became home to more broad-leaved exotics brought back from Asia by by other famous plant hunters such as Ernest ‘Chinese Wilson’ and George Forrest, who endured their own hair-raising, life-threatening expeditions.
Many of Bodnant Garden’s Champion Trees can now be found in The Dell. The valley has helped shelter them against the elements and they have been able to grow taller and more quickly than in other areas of the garden. Look out for these next time you visit:
Sequoia sempervirens
Sequoia sempervirens – This Californian Redwood is the tallest in Britain, at 49m. Planted in 1886 and among Bodnant Garden’s tallest trees, this example almost perfectly mimics wild specimens by being sited within a deep gorge next to a fast flowing river.
Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’
Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ – Arching silvery-blue stems make this arguably the most spectacular of all ‘blue‘ conifers and at 39m this specimen is the tallest in Britain. In common with so many trees in the Dell, this tree has been forced upwards in order to search out the light.
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Squarrosa’
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Squarrosa’ – Differing from the species form in that it has softer blue foliage, this contrasts with the bright rusted bark. A Native of Japan, this is the tallest specimen in the UK at 25m, having been planted in 1890.
Sequioadendron giganteum ‘Pendulum’
Sequoiadendron giganteum ‘Pendulum’ – An unusual Champion Tree given that this cultivar rarely attains much height, preferring to grow at a corkscrewed slant. Displaying a much narrower main stem than the species, stiff pendulous side branches hang down from this attractive specimen. Planted in 1890, this is the tallest of its form at 34m and has the largest girth at 298cm.
Acer palmatum ‘Hagoromo’ – Quite a rare acer, the tallest in the UK at 12m and with the largest girth at 180cm. Typically quite a small tree, this acer exhibits short stalked, deeply cut leaves which colour an attractive scarlet come the autumn.
Meliosma beaniana
Meliosma beaniana – A rarity in UK gardens, this species is almost unknown outside a few very select gardens. Handsome ash-like leaves are produced during the summer months folowed by fragrant white flowers in large panicles. Native to China and Korea, this species was introduced by the plant hunter Ernest Wilson in 1900. Bodnant Garden’s example is the tallest at 19.5m and has the largest girth at 169cm.
Other Champion Trees can be found in the Shrub Borders too, including:
Acer truncatum
Acer truncatum – Situated in Chapel Park, this tree is characterised by its many lobed bright green leaves leaves which are heart shaped at the base. This particular tree is the largest by girth in Britain at 219cm.
Eucryphia x intermedia ‘Rostrevor’
Eucryphia x intermedia ‘Rostrevor’ with the largest girth at 128cm, this cultivar found on the Magnolia Walk displays fragrant white flowers which smother the slender stems in August.
In all there are currently throught to be 16 Champion Trees around the garden, along with many others which are magnificent in their own right and all have tall tales to tell: The massive cedars on the Lily Terrace, planted in the 1870s, around which the terraces were later built so as not to disturb the trees; the towering Magnolia campbellii brought back as seed from from Asia in the early 1900s by Forrest, grown against the shelter of the terrace walls because it was not known how hardy they were; the Handkerchief Tree in the Shrub Borders grown from seed collected by Wilson on one of his trips to China; and the Embothrium (Chilean Fire Bush) and Eucryphia brought back from South America by Harold Comber, of which we now hold National Collections of both.
Richard’s full list of Bodnant Garden’s Champion Trees will soon be on our website and we’re hoping to produce a printed garden guide too, so watch out for that. We also run special Champion Tree guided walks where you can find out more about these fascinating giants.
For more details contact Bodnant Garden on 01492 650460, check out our website www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BodnantGardenNT
Posted in Gardeners' Notes, Green Shoots: Student News
Tagged Autumn colour, Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, Gardens in Wales, Plant hunters
September 6, 2013 by bodnantgarden
A tree team at the cutting edge
From little acorns great oaks grow…and from humble beginnings the intrepid tree team at Bodnant Garden is scaling new heights.
In recent years our arborists have been crucial in the fight against the disease Sudden Oak Death at our National Trust property near Conwy. Now we are winning that battle we have begun offering our armoury of specialist skills and equipment to other gardens. Our boys have gone from woodsmen responsible for in-house maintenance to capable of carrying out felling work on a monumental scale.
Acting Head Gardener Adam Salvin
Bodnant Garden’s acting head gardener Adam Salvin says: “We’ve got a highly trained, fully equipped team that can tackle a range of work quickly, safely and efficiently and the message to others is, we’re here to help!”
Adam heads up the team, along with Paul Roberts and Richard Clifton, all highly trained arborists and machinery operators. Paul has been working in the garden for around 25 years, man and boy, while Richard joined us nearly two years ago…or rather rejoined us as a professional tree surgeon after visiting Bodnant as a school boy on work experience some years ago!
Adam has himself been at Bodnant since 1997 and is now at the helm following head gardener Troy Smith’s departure. He says: “There have long been trained woodsmen working on the estate and in the garden with more specialist tree surgeons starting in the 1970s. Paul was trained by these original tree surgeons. Richard joined us two years ago. They have played a vital role in the garden at a difficult time and can now offer all that skill and experience beyond Bodnant Garden.”
Arborist Paul
That teamwork has never been more critical than in the fight against Phytopthora ramorum, which has involved removing hundreds of large and mature Rhododendron ponticum throughout the 80 acre site as well as old and declining larch trees, which are hosts of the fungal disease.
It’s been a trial by fire for our arborists but they have emerged from it with improved skills and an impressive catalogue of equipment – full rope access kit, winching, lowering and lifting equipment, a 15metre MEWP and a shredder which makes light work of plant debris.
It means they are capable of tackling a wide range of jobs from crown thinning and deadwooding to dismantling of large trees using a crane such as was recently called for at Plas Newydd on Anglesey.
Arborist Richard
On that job, Paul, Richard and Adam were called in to take down a number of mature and ailing beech trees along the main drive of our neighbouring National Trust property which were posing a threat to public safety. It was a massive operation which had to be done and cleaned up fast and they got the work completed within days.
Adam says: “With the skills and equipment we have we are now looking to put these to wider use outside Bodnant Garden, so to all other gardens out there – if it’s tree work you need, give us a call!”
For further details contact Adam Salvin on 01492 650460. See our website www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BodnantGardenNT for more about Bodnant Garden.
Tagged arborists, Bodnant Garden, Champion trees, North Wales gardens, phytopthora, tree lopping
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Art residency “A River Rises” now on view
Friday, January 15, 2021 | By gminaker
Caption: Brown Homestead (Photo by Shawn Serfas)
STAC’s Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture presents “A River Rises,” a collective investigation of a creative-writing piece, resulting in the creation of photography work, a recorded performance, an inverted sculpture, an experimental book, and more fiction writing. The project also documents the Brown Homestead, in close proximity of Short Hills Provincial Park and the oldest building in St. Catharines.
View A River Rises here.
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Jan. 18, 2021: Walker Cultural Leaders Series features artists Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
Thursday, January 14, 2021 | By gminaker
The Walker Cultural Leader Series continues in 2021, beginning with an engaging talk from artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner on Monday, Jan. 18. The series continues in a virtual format for the 2021 season.
Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 at 7 p.m.
View the presentation premiere and join in the chat on the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts YouTube channel.
Jamelie Hassan, born in London, Ontario, of Arabic background, is a visual artist and long-time member of CARFAC who is also active as a lecturer, writer, and independent curator. She has organized both national and international programs including Orientalism and Ephemera, a national touring exhibition, originally presented at Art Metropole, Toronto and most recently Dar’a/Full Circle for Artcite Inc. Windsor, ON. She was one of the founders of two artist-run centres in London, Ontario: the Forest City Gallery (1973-present) and the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990). Her work is represented in numerous public collections in Canada and internationally, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC ; and the Library of Alexandria ,Alexandria, Egypt. Other recent projects and group exhibitions where her works have been featured include, Here: Contemporary Canadian Art, curated by Swapnaa Tamhane, Aga Khan Museum (2017); Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971 -1989, curated by Wanda Nanibush, Art Gallery of Ontario (2016 – 2017); In Order to Join: the Political in a Historical Moment, organized by Museum Abteilberg in Monchengladbach, Germany (2013-14) and Mumbai, India (2015). Receipient of numerous awards, in 2001 she received the Govenor General’s Award in Visual Arts and in 2018 an honorary doctorate from OCAD University, Toronto. For more information visit: www.jameliehassan.ca
Ron Benner is an internationally recognized, London, Ontario – based artist whose longstanding practice investigates the history and political economy of food cultures. Benner originally studied agriculture engineering at the University of Guelph 1969/70. Finding himself ethically opposed to industrial agriculture and bioengineering, he began to travel and research the politics of food. In 1995, he began working with Rural Advancement Foundation International, Ottawa (RAFI). In 2000 he was awarded the Canada Council Studio in Paris. In 2005 he participated in Art, Geography and Invisibility at an international geography symposium in Olot, Catalonia, the University of Barcelona, Spain. In 2010 he was appointed Adjunct Research Professor in the Visual Arts Department, Western University, London, ON. Ron Benner’s mixed media installation works, including commissions of photographic-garden installations, have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Museum London, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Western University, London, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario and many other galleries, museums and cultural institutions in Canada and internationally. His work is included in numerous public collections both in Canada and internationally including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He has recently been appointed artist in residence in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 2020-2023.
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Department of Music Virtual Ensembles – The Show Zooms On
Brock Music ensembles have gone virtual for the 2020-21 performance season! The Department of Music Virtual Ensembles present a virtual concert series The Show Zooms On featuring:
The University Wind Ensemble, Zoltan Kalman, Conductor
The Choral Ensemble, Rachel Rensink-Hoff, Conductor
The University String Orchestra, George Cleland, Conductor
The University Jazz Ensemble, Zoltan Kalman, Conductor
The first virtual performance premieres Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 with the Wind Ensemble:
January 15, 2021 – 7 p.m.
Wind Ensemble, Zoltan Kalman, Director
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View the Wind Ensemble January 15 program here.
For the 2020-21 season, the performances will be broadcasted virtually on the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts YouTube channel. Please visit our Concerts page for more information.
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BIPOC Speaker Series welcomes Tanisha Taitt
Monday, January 11, 2021 | By gminaker
The DART/MIWSFPA 2020-21 BIPOC Speaker Series presents:
CONSCIOUSNESS IN COLOUR: INTERCULTURAL SCENE STUDY FOR CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOMS WITH TANISHA TAITT
To register and receive Zoom details, please RSVP via ExperienceBU: experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/172561
Tanisha Taitt is Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre and a director/actor/playwright, musical artist, accidental essayist, and audiobook director with Penguin Random House Canada. In this talk she will focus on her work as a theatre and anti-racism educator.
Supported by the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at Brock University in partnership with Niagara Community Foundations.
Conversations in which Black, Indigenous, and people of colour theatre leaders address issues of interest to the theatre community, and beyond. For more information and upcoming speaker announcements, please visit the BIPOC Speaker Series webpage.
Tags: dart, DART/MIWSFPA BIPOC Speaker Series, Department of Dramatic Arts, humanities, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, miwsfpa, Tanisha Taitt
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STAC’s journal ti< listed on Mir@bel
Monday, December 21, 2020 | By dvivian
STAC’s online, free-access journal ti< A JOURNAL OF TEXT-AND-IMAGE CRITICISM/CREATION – UN JOURNAL DE CRITIQUE/CREATION TEXTE-ET-IMAGE publishes creative work by students, their instructors, as well as by artists and writers whose work combines literature and the visual arts.
All languages are welcome, including endangered languages. No translation is needed.
ti< has recently been included in the Mir@bel database, an initiative by top higher-education institutions in France and Europe, such as Sciences Po and ENA.
To submit work, please consult the website of the journal: https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/ti/index
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Brock Mitacs award winner takes a closer look at online conspiracy theories
Saturday, December 12, 2020 | By gminaker
Originally published in The Brock News FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020 | by Gillian Minaker
The images we encounter in everyday life have always had an important role to play in our lives. Now, as many daily activities have moved online, these images have the ability to reach a global audience thanks to digital technology.
But how has this online shift affected the visual culture of conspiracy theories, and what are the implications for society during a pandemic?
Brock University fourth-year student Ian Ball is examining these questions as part of his research on visual culture and online conspiracy theories. Ball is pursuing a double major in the History of Art and Visual Culture and Dramatic Arts and is a recipient of a Mitacs Research Training Award which he received in the summer.
Guiding the research project is Linda Steer, Associate Professor in Visual Arts at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.
In his research, Ball has been collecting and analyzing visual images associated with online conspiracy theories. His interest in the subject stems from his area of study, a deep interest in folklore as well as being a fan of the science fiction genre.
Through the examination and analysis of the images used in relation to conspiracy theories on popular social networking sites, including Facebook and Reddit, Ball has discovered some of the effects these images have on viewers and the emotional responses produced.
According to Ball, this is especially timely given the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting uncertainty people have been experiencing.
“A world event that is disrupting the status quo, a lack of control socially, politically, intellectually or in our personal lives, all have the potential to make us feel uncertain,” says Ball. “Research has shown that these factors might play a significant role in conspiratorial beliefs.”
Ball had originally considered writing an essay on this topic, but Steer suggested a blog because of the accessibility it offers readers.
“It has been great to supervise Ian’s fascinating and timely research project,” Steer says. “In a world that feels unstable, where we are isolated and looking to social media for answers, images have a lot of power.”
Ball’s research has uncovered themes relating conspiracy theories to collective experiences of fear, society’s want for protection, and the instinctual desire for control. His project is adding to the discourse on the visual culture of conspiratorial beliefs, a research area that Steer says is fairly new and still developing.
“It is important that we understand how visual images create meaning: how and why they become attached to certain ideas and how those ideas circulate,” she says.
Graduating in 2021, Ball plans to use this research project as a foundation for his master’s thesis, looking at the relationships between folklore, visual culture, social messaging, critical thinking and misinformation.
Visit Ball’s research blog to learn more about the outcomes of his work.
Tags: Department of Visual Arts, History of Arts and Culture, humanities, Ian Ball, Linda Steer, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Mitacs Research Training Award, miwsfpa, VISA
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Brock students create innovative video art in the age of COVID-19
Thursday, December 03, 2020 | By gminaker
Caption: Pictured above, Brock students create pandemic video art for class VISA/IASC 2PN7 “Video Art”. Clockwise from top left: Lindsay Liboiron, Isolation; Ama Okafor, A Little Adjustment; Christy Mitchell, Saudade; Jamie Wong, Screen Recording 2020-11-04 at 1.46.14PM.mp4
As most learning this fall has happened through a screen, Brock arts students have picked up their cameras to explore the new look of video art during a pandemic.
Students taking Video Art (VISA/IASC 2P97) are virtually screening their reflective and experiential videos in a new series entitled “Video Art in the Age of COVID-19” that can now be viewed on the Department of Visual Arts website and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) YouTube channel.
This project is led by Donna Szoke, media artist and Associate Professor in Studio Art at the MIWSFPA and supported by an Experiential Education grant from the Centre of Pedagogical Innovation at Brock University.
As part of the creative and academic process to create the videos, students considered how the pandemic has changed video art and how new visual interfaces have marked this shift. They critically examined the new video aesthetic of the COVID-19 era, and how this has changed perceptions of individuality and collectivity.
To watch the student-created videos and learn more about their research, please visit the project webpage Video Art in the Age of COVID-19.
Tags: Department of Visual Arts, Donna Szoke, IASC 2P97, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Video Art, VISA, VISA 2P97
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Dramatic Arts students mount ominous play from award-winning Canadian playwright
Thursday, November 26, 2020 | By gminaker
Originally published in The Brock News WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2020 | by Gillian Minaker
Pictured above: Members of Sandbox Theatre, Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts fourth-year student-run company, rehearse a scene for their online production of Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill.
Ten teenagers must face their guilt — and their past — in the latest online production offered by Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts (DART).
Sandbox Theatre, Brock’s fourth-year DART student company, will present the evocative play Concord Floral next month through a virtual format.
Written by Canadian theatre maker Jordan Tannahill, two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Concord Floral was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 2016 and has been produced by theatre companies across the country.
Directed by Dramatic Arts Instructor Ali Joy Richardson, the play will be streamed on the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) YouTube channel on Friday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m.
Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s 13th century literary classic The Decameron, the story follows 10 teenagers who are fleeing a plague of their own making after a rumour spreads that two girls have found a body in an abandoned greenhouse called Concord Floral.
The gripping production features original design, choreography and musical composition by the student cast as they perform virtually from their homes.
To reserve your free viewing spot on the MIWSFPA YouTube channel, please visit Brock University Tickets.
While there is no cost for tickets, donations are encouraged in support of the Black Health Alliance, a community-led registered charity working to improve the health and well-being of Black communities in Canada.
Tags: Concord Floral, Department of Dramatic Arts, dramatic arts, humanities, Jordan Tannahill, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, miwsfpa
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Music@Noon concert series goes virtual
Monday, November 16, 2020 | By gminaker
Former Music students Gavino Oresta (left) and Eric Godfree perform their recitals during a previous Music@Noon Series event. This year, the concert series will be held online in accordance with public health guidelines.
The RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series returns Tuesday, Nov. 17, albeit with a new format.
The anticipated concert series will be held virtually this season, with Brock Music students recording solos from their own homes.
In the past, performances have taken place live on the stage of the Recital Hall at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC), adjacent to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA). This year, the PAC and Brock’s Department of Music changed the format in accordance with public health guidelines.
Self-recorded performances from the solo recital students will be streamed Tuesday through the MIWSFPA and PAC YouTube channels and Facebook pages, marking the first online presentation of the 2020-21 concert series.
Generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation, the free concert series takes place most Tuesdays at noon throughout the academic year. The recitals are open to the public and feature Brock’s performance faculty and special guests, as well as talented students and alumni.
For full event details, please visit the Music concert listings page.
Tags: department of music, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, humanities, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, music@noon
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Dramatic Arts rewrites script for online learning with Shaw Festival
Wednesday, November 04, 2020 | By gminaker
Pictured above: Shaw Festival Theatre actors Jonathan Tan, left, and Olivia Sinclair-Brisbane coached Brock students online in DART 1F01: Acting for Non-Majors. (Photos by David Cooper)
Originally published FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020 | by Gillian Minaker
Brock Dramatic Arts students got a virtual backstage pass to the revered Shaw Festival Theatre this summer.
An innovative teaching initiative gave students taking DART 1F01: Acting for Non-Majors the opportunity to connect online with and receive personalized coaching from professional actors Jonathan Tan and Olivia Sinclair-Brisbane from the Shaw Festival Theatre permanent company.
For third-year student Jordan Henderson, the virtual experience was both valuable and uplifting.
“Jonathan Tan had many wise words that really helped me build confidence in my acting skills,” he said. “He also helped me to understand that what I might consider a mistake, audiences may interpret as something completely different.”
David Fancy, Professor and Chair in the Department of Dramatic Arts at Brock’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, developed the course’s online teaching material with the future in mind and produced 700 minutes of lessons over 70 separate videos.
This foundational acting course, which Fancy describes as “extreme monologuing,” is designed to help students discover the underlying principles of acting. Students explore the actor’s process, including awareness, stimulus, impulse, intention and action.
“We’re making some exciting changes to DART 1F01,” Fancy said. “We’re using this opportunity to build a course that we can also share with students who have to work remotely in the future.”
In the virtual coaching sessions, students rehearsed monologues they’d written themselves with the Shaw actors, soaking in their expertise and knowledge.
Second-year student Benoit St-Aubin gained unique perspective on the acting world, and it left him craving more.
“I absolutely loved the session that I had with Olivia. We had the opportunity to run through our monologues with her and she gave us great tips to improve them,” he said. “I didn’t realize how much I missed being in class, but this meeting really made me want to go back in September.”
Fourth-year student Alexandra Hunter was able to immerse herself in the story of her monologue, giving her a deeper connection and understanding of her character and the creative process.
“I learned so much from Olivia,” Hunter said. “She helped me illustrate the emotions in a strong way so that I knew how to perform them and react accordingly.”
This opportunity to leverage technology and connect students to professional actors was co-ordinated by Fancy and Dramatic Arts instructor Carolyn Mackenzie in partnership with the Shaw Festival. They worked alongside Shaw’s Senior Manager for Education Suzanne Merriam, Education Assistant Melissa Domingos and Education Co-ordinator Megan Gilchrist.
This course is just one of the ways Brock’s Department of Dramatic Arts is using innovative thinking and a creative approach to lead the charge on the future of performing arts. This fall, audiences can expect riveting new work, pushing the boundaries of live theatre with the Dramatic Arts mainstage production Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker.
More details on the Department of Dramatic Arts and the fall mainstage virtual production are available online.
Tags: dart, David Fancy, dramatic arts, humanities, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, miwsfpa, Shaw Festival Theatre
Art residency “A River Rises” now on view January 15, 2021
Jan. 18, 2021: Walker Cultural Leaders Series features artists Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner January 14, 2021
Department of Music Virtual Ensembles – The Show Zooms On January 14, 2021
STAC’s journal ti< listed on Mir@bel December 21, 2020
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Boycott threat insults First Amendment
By Ellen Case
Pastor Protection Act prompts filmmakers to consider removal of projects in Georgia.
Hollywood filmakers and entertainment goliaths misunderstood the intentions behind a House Bill proposed in February in Georgia, causing arguments and an unnecessary threat of retraction from several studios in the state. Georgia House Bill 757, also known as The Pastor Protection Act, proposed allowing religious officials to refrain from performing marriages that went against their beliefs. However, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed the bill March 28 after the controversy began.
The bill stated religious officials shall not be required to perform marriage ceremonies, perform rites or administer sacraments in violation of their legal rights to free exercise of religion.
It would have also stood as a protection for privately owned businesses affiliated with religious organizations that stick to their personal ideals.
However, Hollywood called the bill “The Anti-Gay Bill.” Corporations such as The Walt Disney Company and The Weinstein Company stated they would boycott and abandon their productions in the state if Deal signed.
“Disney and Marvel are inclusive companies, and although we have had great experiences filming in Georgia, we will plan to take our business elsewhere should any legislation allowing discriminatory practices be signed into state law,” according to a statement released by Disney.
One problem with this is the bill never specifically mentioned same-sex marriages. HB 757 was created to allow any religious official to stand by their beliefs and not be punished by law. It did not say same-sex couples could not marry in Georgia. Hollywood acted as if the bill singled out the gay community, but it could also have affected heterosexual couples.
Hollywood’s bullying of Georgia shows how assumptive some people can be and how easily an idea can be misconstrued.
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The Congress of Berlin Fan
Nominated by: Robert Bandy
An international yet very personal triumph, hidden away in Buckinghamshire.
The Hughenden Fan was presented to Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield at the conclusion of the Congress of Berlin in 1878. In an effort to curb Russian aggression towards the Ottoman Empire, the German Chancellor, Bismarck, drew the leaders of Europe together at Berlin in June 1878. The Queen was concerned at her dear but unwell friend travelling, but for Disraeli, the lure of performing his role as the elder statesman of Europe was too tempting.
The only power able to reverse Russian advances to the Mediterranean coast was Britain. The Ottoman Empire was widely regarded as the ‘sick man of Europe’, and looked to Disraeli to defend her integrity. With health failing, Disraeli rose to this most crucial occasion, securing concession after concession from the Russians, with each new border being drawn to British instruction and liking. Bismarck himself acknowledged the skill of Disraeli to carry the Congress so forcefully. The Congress drew to a close in mid-July, as Disraeli’s health began to deteriorate swiftly. The Queen herself rushed his doctors from London to his bedside, who made him well enough to be walked to the final document for signing. Although physically diminished, Disraeli’s international prestige, and that of his British administration reached new heights. He wrote to the Queen that ‘he had assisted in bringing about a settlement which will probably secure the peace of Europe for a long time, and will certainly not disgrace your Majesty’s throne’.
Although incorrect in his assumption of long-lasting peace, the role of the British in steering the future of Europe was cemented. The Ottoman government was so delighted with the resolution that they directed their delegate Mahomet Ali to present his Cherrywood fan to Disraeli as a keepsake. Ali encouraged the other European leaders to each sign a blade of the fan as a memento, acknowledgement of his greatest achievement on the international stage. Disraeli brought the fan to Hughenden where it remains, reminding us of his special relationship with this place, this town and county.
Hughenden is where one of Buckinghamshire’s most eminent sons chose to look upon his greatest achievements. It serves as a poignant narration of Britain’s relationship with Europe and empire, of how our international self-regard has changed and particularly how through force of personality, international history may be influenced. Perhaps most chillingly, it illustrates that difficulties in the relationship between Europe and the Islamic near east are not new. Generations of statesman, the most able of their age, have grappled and negotiated. Some, like Disraeli even felt that they may have secured a lasting peace. The fan reminds us however, how difficult these relationships are, and how some personalities glitter in their engagement with them, but that in the end, resolution remains out of reach.
You can learn more about Hughenden and its collection on their website.
The Congress of Berlin Fan was nominated by Robert Bandy, House and Collections Manager, for Hughenden.
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COVID-19 infections rose to unprecedented levels last week in Bucks County, with more cases reported than in any week of the eight-month pandemic.
Despite the record spike in cases, deaths and hospitalizations remained at relatively low levels among county residents.
The Bucks County Department of Health reported 826 additional infections from Nov. 1 – 7, an average of about 118 cases per day, and a 79 percent increase over the previous week. The average daily count is more than 3.5 times higher than it was a month ago.
The county also set a single-day record with 161 new cases on Friday, surpassing the previous high of 144 cases on April 15.
There was not, however, a corresponding increase in deaths or hospitalizations.
Three deaths were reported: two men ages 54 and 71, and a 91-year-old woman. All had histories of underlying medical conditions and one lived in a long-term care facility. By comparison, the two weeks last spring when previous case records were set had more than 90 deaths each.
By the end of the week, 16 county residents were hospitalized with coronavirus, one of whom was in critical condition and on a ventilator. That number also is dwarfed by hospitalization levels reported last spring.
The Bucks County Commissioners will hold a news conference Tuesday morning to address the rising case numbers. The briefing will be held at the new Emergency Services warehouse off of Route 611 in Doylestown, where truckloads of personal protective equipment are being loaded and dispatched to hospitals, first responders, long-term care facilities and other destinations throughout the county.
Dr. David Damsker, director of the county health department, said the anticipated autumn spike in new COVID cases has been exacerbated by ill-advised social gatherings in the community, such as Halloween parties, sports-related get-togethers, weddings and other celebrations. He expressed concern that increased infections in the community could spread to employees at long-term care facilities, raising the chances of renewed outbreaks among vulnerable older people.
Damsker warned against what he called “COVID fatigue,” saying that while it is human nature for people to drop their guard after months of restrictions, it remains vital for citizens to continue to wear masks and practice social distancing. “People are getting it from unmasked exposures,” he said.
For example, Damsker said, COVID spread within Bucks County schools has not been happening because students, teachers and staff are required to wear masks and maintain social distancing.
At the same time, 261 school students and 59 school staff have been infected this semester because of activities and exposures outside of schools, he said. And more than a third of them were utilizing full virtual learning in their school district when they became ill.
The unprecedented county case numbers have overwhelmed the health department’s capacity to perform contact tracing on many of the new infections. Of the 826 cases reported last week, 337 of the patients were unable to be reached for interviews immediately.
“At these very high case counts, contract tracing starts becoming difficult and less effective, so we depend more and more on education and people taking personal responsibility for keeping spread in check,” Damsker said. “We will continue focusing on schools and long-term care facilities as our investigative priorities.”
Of the remaining 489 cases, 262 were spread within households or from gatherings with family and friends, 104 were attributed to community spread, 44 were infected at workplaces, 41 are residents or workers at long-term care facilities, 20 resulted from out-of-state travel, and 18 are healthcare workers.
Bucks County now has had more than 10,000 residents test positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic, reaching a total of 10,545 on Saturday. A total of 539 deaths have been attributed to the virus, including 417 long-term care residents, while 8,953 are confirmed to have recovered.
The median age of those who have been infected in Bucks is 48, while the median age of death is 84.
Statistics, charts and other coronavirus-related information can be found on the s data portal: https://covid19-bucksgis.hub.arcgis.com.
An interactive Bucks County map showing numbers of active infections by municipality can be found here.
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School, Workplace, and Cyber Bullying
School Bullying
NDP proposes law against workplace bullying, psychological …
Annette Harpell might have had a chance of winning her workplace bullying case in another province.
But Nova Scotia is the only province that doesn’t have legislation in some form outlawing bullying and psychological harassment in the workplace.
The NDP tabled that legislation at Province House on Friday and Harpell was there to witness it. The bill, calling for a simple amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, needs the support of the Liberal government in order to become law, and that’s not a certainty.
“This has taken so long and has been very traumatic for me personally,” said Harpell. “I went through the Occupational Health and Safety process because I thought they could give me some measure of justice. I’ve lost this round, so the next round is for the government to change the law.”
The Antigonish resident was fired from her job at Lawtons Drug Store in 2018 after she endured daily – and eventually debilitating – harassment from a senior colleague. Her work superiors couldn’t put an end to the abuse and cut her loose. The Nova Scotia Labour Board dismissed her case this past June because psychological harassment is not part of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
As part of the decision, the director of occupational health and safety strongly suggested the “complex policy question should be left to the legislative process to resolve and not the board to impose.”
The amendments are a no-brainer said NDP Labour and Advanced Education critic Tammy Martin, who tabled the bill.
“No one should have to worry that they will lose their job because they experience bullying or harassment at work ,” said Martin. “Our province is behind the rest of the country when it comes to workplace harm of this kind and I hope all parties will support addressing this gap in the Act.”
Larry Haiven, a Saint Mary’s University business professor, also supports the proposed law and advocated for Harpell while she pursued her case before the labour board. Haiven’s a member of Equity Watch, an organization working to protect people’s rights at work.
“The law is supposed to protect employees from work hazards. The scientific literature shows that humiliation, harassment, intimidation and other forms of abuse are harmful,” said Haiven. “If a box fell on Ms. Harpell’s head, she would be covered. But because the injury had to do with psychological health, she was fired. Nova Scotia is half a century behind the times.”
Minister of Labour and Advanced Education Labi Kousoulis said his department is looking at the legislation and changing regulations in the act but offered no guarantees that the bill would become law. He said the challenge is getting the regulations right but said the issue is a big concern for his department.
“I don’t think anyone should be experiencing bullying or harassment in the workplace,” Kousoulis said. “It’s equivalent to physical violence, in some case it’s even worse.”
Haiven agreed and said the time for the government to act is now.
“Every single jurisdiction in Canada has this legislation now, except for Nova Scotia,” said Haiven. “(If) you are harassed at work you have no place to go, not in this province.”
Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:46:00 +0000
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Sohel F Fidai :
Actress Yami Gautam is a household name owing her popularity being a face of several endorsements. Much before she became a successful on screen actress, Yami has dabbled in a bit of modelling during her hay days. Always grounded in her past and humble beginnings, Yami always stays connected to her past and the experiences that have shaped her. Yami before stepping into tinsel town as an actor has had a successful modelling career. She did modelling for a brief period of time before she made her debut in Hindi cinema with Vicky Donor in 2012.
Recently it was reported Yami is all set to play a model in her next film with Ayushmann Khurrana in Bala. In the film Yami will be seen exploring the character of a model, and a pretty uninsurable one. Yami is thrilled to play such a character for the first time and her modelling days came handy to Yami to play her part of a model in the film. The part in the film she plays is a local city model from Lucknow who is a popular face for the locals and the local brands of the city.
Speaking on this Yami said, “I play a popular model from a local city in Lucknow. Unlike a lot of characters shown on screen so far, my character is a local model who’s famous in a local town. There have been many occasions in my hay days which I associate with my character on a personal level even though the character is far different and her experiences are different from what I have experienced. Of course this character is very different and something I haven’t done before. But my personal experience as a model has come in handy in certain nuances. It has been a great experience be walking down the memory lane to play a model in Bala.”
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