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Tuesday 4th August 2015
Inflation remains flat across OECD countries membership
New figures show annual rate of inflation unchanged
Excluding food and energy, the annual inflation rate across the OECD stood at 1.6% for the third consecutive month
Global inflation rates remained flat during the year to June, according to new figures compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The group said the annual rate of inflation across its 34 members was unchanged at 0.6%. Excluding food and energy, the annual rate stood at 1.6% for the third consecutive month.
Energy prices continued to fall in the year by minute 9.3%, slightly lower than the 9.8% decline recorded in May. Food price inflation slowed to 1.5% in June as against 1.6% for the preceding month.
In the year to June, inflation was broadly stable in most major OECD economies. In France, inflation was up 0.3% while it expanded from 0.9% to 1% in Canada and from 0.1% to 0.2% in Italy. Inflation decreased slightly in Japan, falling to 0.4% from 0.5%. It also declined in the UK.
Denis O'Brien's legal action against the Dáil is 'foolish' says Lucinda Creighton
Renua leader Lucinda Creighton says she thinks that a legal action by Denis O'Brien against a Dáil Committee is very"foolish".
Mr O'Brien is taking a case against all 10 members of the Committee on Procedures and Privileges.
It's after the CPP rejected his complaint that Deputy Catherine Murphy abused parliamentary privilege when making claims about his banking arrangements with IBRC.
Deputy Creighton says it's essential to defend the integrity of the Houses of the Oireachtas.
"I think this is very unwise and foolish, it's ill-judged and it's very misfortunate that Mr O'Brien has chosen to go down this road," said Deputy Creighton.
"I totally support and fully stand by the members of the committee and indeed by the right of Deputy Murphy to speak on the record in the Dáil on issues that are of huge public concern, and we will continue to maintain that position, and to support the right of members of the Oireachtas to speak without fear on the floor of the Dáil."
Vehicles and licences to be linked in a points clampdown in Ireland
New central register for Gardaí, courts and RSA
New plans would see car owners being required to provide licence details when they purchase a car and each time they transfer ownership – so that a vehicle would always be linked with its driver or driver
Every vehicle on the road will be linked directly to the driver's licence for the first time, in a radical overhaul designed to ensure that penalty points effectively punish those who have committed motoring offences.
A new central register will be accessible to the Courts Service, the gardaí and the Road Safety Authority (RSA), which is responsible for the allocation of penalty points.
It would see car owners being required to provide licence details when they purchase a car and each time they transfer ownership – so that a vehicle would always be linked with its driver or drivers.
The move is a solution to problems which have dogged the enforcement of the penalty points system.
These include the failure by seven motorists out of every 10 convicted of penalty point offences to produce their licence in court, thus avoiding having the points applied to their licence.
It would also help authorities keep a better track of motorists who have been disqualified from driving.
Sources said the proposal had been discussed extensively by a working group comprising the Department of Justice, Department of Transport, An Garda Síochána, the Courts Service and the Road Safety Authority (RSA).
It is not yet clear what sort of financial investment would be needed in order to implement a system of matching driving licences to vehicles.
However, if the costings can be agreed upon, the initiative could be officially announced by the end of the year.
Details of the proposal come just weeks after the Irish Independent revealed how more than 20,000 motorists had taken advantage of a loophole to avoid getting penalty points on their licences. These were drivers who failed to produce their licences in court over the course of a 15-month period.
Some 72% of motorists convicted of penalty point offences between January 2014 and March of this year managed to avoid the imposition of penalty points in this way.
Significant efforts have been made by the Courts Service to ensure that licences are presented, including the prominent signage and announcements at the beginning of sittings informing motorists of the requirement.
However, in many cases these warnings are still simply being ignored.
It is thought that the new scheme linking licences with cars would get rid of the need to record licence numbers in courts.
Instead, there would be a central register where the details are stored and these would be accessible to the relevant authorities.
Under the current system, when licence numbers are not provided in court, the RSA has to do a time- and resource-consuming matching exercise to ensure that points are applied to the licence of the offender.
Although it is an offence not to produce your licence in court, punishable by a fine of up to €2,000, the law is regularly flouted and until recently was not being enforced by Gardaí.
The force initiated a crackdown last month, with Gardaí prosecuting people for not producing their licences when requested to do so by the judge or the registrar.
Gardaí are due to announce figures on such prosecutions later in the week, but it is understood that at least 30 arrests were made within days.
Meanwhile, the Department of Transport has said it is confident that a separate loophole, which threatened to void penalty points that were issued between August and December of last year, has now been fully closed.
One driver, an Athlone woman Kim Nugent, successfully challenged the imposition of six penalty points, which would have given her a total of 12 and therefore an automatic disqualification.
Her legal team argued that a technical loophole, relating to the failure to properly commence certain relevant legislation from 2010, had the effect of rendering the endorsement and penalty points null and void.
The case was settled and Ms Nugent had her points cancelled.
However, a department spokesman said it was confident that it could successfully fight off any other challenges.
Ms Nugent succeeded as her case had been lodged before the loophole was closed.
A recent survey indicates that cars with dangerous defects are on the road in Ireland
A survey by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry has found that half of their members see cars presenting with dangerous defects around once or twice a month.
93% of garages have seen cars come in with dangerous tyres in the past three months.
SIMI is calling on car owners to keep up their car maintenance as a priority.
Director General Alan Nolan said that it could be a matter of life and death.
"If you don't get your car serviced and looked after and checked to make sure that it doesn't have anything dangerous arising, it's not just about your investment into the car, and that's important, but it's about your family in the car, yourself in the car, and other people on the road," said Mr Nolan.
"And I think the increase in fatalities on the road indicate that there isn't the same degree of care about servicing cars as there was pre-recession."
Early diagnosis of lung cancer is critical when dealing with it
Lung cancer is the fourth commonest cause of cancer in Ireland. About 2,000 Irish people are diagnosed with lung cancer every year. Around 8 in 10 cases develop in people over the age of 60, usually in smokers. If lung cancer is diagnosed at an early stage, there is a chance of a cure. In general, the more advanced the cancer (the more it has grown and spread), the less chance that treatment will be curative.
Primary lung cancers arise from cells within the lung. The two most common types are called small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). NSCLCs include squamous cell cancers (the most common type of lung cancer), adenocarcinoma and large-cell carcinoma. About 1 in 5 cases of lung cancer are SCLC; the remainder are NSCLC. All these types of lung cancers arise from various cells which line the airways (bronchi). There are some other, rarer types of primary lung cancer which arise from other types of cells within the lung.
Secondary lung cancers (or lung metastases) are tumours which have spread to the lung from another cancer somewhere else in the body. The lung is a common site for metastases from other cancers. This is because all blood flows through the lungs and may contain tumour cells from any other part of the body.
Smoking is a major risk factor and is the main cause of lung cancer. Compared with non-smokers, those who smoke between 1-14 cigarettes a day have eight times the risk of dying from lung cancer. Those who smoke 25 or more cigarettes a day have 25 times the risk.
Non-smokers have a low risk of developing lung cancer. However, people who are regularly exposed to other people's smoke (passive smokers) have a small increased risk. People who work with certain substances have an increased risk, especially if they also smoke. These substances include radioactive materials, asbestos, nickel and chromium. People who live in areas where there is a high level of background radiation from radon have a small increased risk. Air pollution may be a small risk too.
A family history of lung cancer in a first-degree relative (mother, father, brother, sister) slightly increases the risk of lung cancer. But note: most cases of lung cancer do not run in families.
The symptoms of lung cancer can vary between different people. Many people do not have symptoms in the early stages and lung cancer may be diagnosed when a chest X-ray is performed for a different reason. Initial symptoms of lung cancer may include one or more of the following:
- Persistent cough.
- Coughing up blood or bloodstained phlegm (sputum).
- Chest and/or shoulder pains.
- Tiredness and loss of energy.
- Weight loss.
- Shortness of breath or wheezing – especially if a tumour is growing in a main airway and is partially blocking the airflow.
- Hoarse voice.
- A change in shape at the end of your fingers (clubbing).
If the cancer spreads to other parts of the body, various other symptoms can develop such as bone pain or swelling of the neck or above the collarbone.
If a doctor suspects that you may have lung cancer, the common initial test is a chest X-ray. This is a simple and quick test and may show changes such as abnormal shadowing. However, a chest X-ray cannot confirm cancer, as there are various other causes of shadowing on a chest X-ray. Other tests are therefore needed.
You may be offered a computerised tomography (CT) scan and other investigations which will help to confirm the diagnosis of lung cancer. You may need other tests which not only provide more information about the cancer but also help to detect whether or not it has spread.
Treatment options which may be considered include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The treatment advised for each case depends on various factors, such as:
- The site of the primary tumour in the lung.
- The type of cancer.
- The stage of the cancer (how large the cancer is and whether it has spread).
The types of treatment regimes for SCLC and NSCLC can be very different.
You should have a full discussion with a specialist who knows your case. They will be able to give the pros and cons, likely success rate, possible side-effects and details about the possible treatment options for your type of cancer.
Bonobos can talk like human babies
Infants have a limited range of communication options — but they make it work. Moms and dads know that a certain squeal can mean both "I'm happy" and "Change me." Long before they start speaking, children as young as three months old are able to use sounds to express both positive and negative emotions.
For a long time scientists thought that "functional flexibility," the ability to produce vocalizations in a range of emotional states and situations before language develops, was unique to human infants. But it turns out that may not be the case after all.
New research shows that wild bonobos, our closest living relative in the primate world, can vocalize in a similar manner by using a squeaking sound, termed "the peep," that requires context to be understood. Peeps are high-pitched sounds which are short in duration and produced with a closed mouth.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham, UK and the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland conducted research on bonobos in their native setting in the Congo. They found that bonobos utilized "the peep" in a wide range of situations across positive, negative and neutral situations without variation in acoustic structure, which means that the listener must take into account the context into order to discern what the bonobo is communicating.
"I was struck by how frequent their peeps were, and how many different contexts they produce them in," lead researcher Dr. Zanna Clay from the University of Birmingham's School of Psychology said in a press release. "It became apparent that because we couldn't always differentiate between peeps, we needed to understand the context to get to the root of their communication."
The researchers found that peeps made during negative contexts were acoustically distinct, however, which they believe is a result of higher subglottal air pressure during call production. Negative situations are charged, tense and urgent and can produce physiological consequences that could alter vocal tones.
The findings challenge the belief that animal vocalizations are tied to specific contexts or emotional state, which suggests that "functional flexibility" has evolutionary roots that predate the evolution of human speech.
"We felt that it was premature to conclude that this ability is uniquely human, especially as no one had really looked for it in the great apes," Dr. Clay said. "It appears that the more we look, the more similarity we find between animals and humans."


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It's been quite a while since we've done this one, and we RARELY spend a full hour on strength movements. But this one is a great test. Let's lift safely and efficiently, and give it 100%!
"CrossFit Total"
No more than 3 attempts at a 1RM of these movements:
Back Squat
Strict Press
Dead Lift
*for those itching to do some conditioning after the hour, a 5k row is a nice sweat session 🙂

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Saturday, December 18, 2010
UK's Sky News Carries A Pre-Session Report from Nick Pisa In Perugia This Morning
Posted by Peter Quennell
Courtroom images are from the session last Saturday.
Until now it seems that the two have obtained an extra reduction of 90 days (the time for the report release). The prosecution has opposed a new hearing of Curatolo.
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Wisconsin Badgers forward Sam Dekker will enter 2015 NBA Draft
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Badgers junior forward Sam Dekker says he will skip his final season of eligibility and enter the NBA draft.
In a letter released Friday by the school, Dekker said he is excited for the next chapter of his life.
Dekker averaged 13.9 points and 5.5 rebounds per game in the 2014-2015 season and helped the Badgers to a school-record 36 wins, Big Ten regular season and tournament championships, and Monday's national championship game against Duke. He reached double-figure scoring in 27 of the final 31 games of the season.
Decker is from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and appeared in 113 games and 81 starts in his career with the Badgers.
The draft will be held June 25 in New York.
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Through The Wire: When Youre Hot, Youre Hot
Comedy Central's red-hot SouthPark sure seems to quicken the pulse of national magazine editors. In February,Cartman & Co. got on the cover of both Rolling Stone and Spin.Then,dueling newsweeklies Time and Newsweek fought over the scatological scamps. Newsweekwon out, although a cover line appeared on Time, as well. To complete the hattrick, this week, the South Park gang are on the cover of no less than thebest-selling magazine in the country, TV Guide. What's ComedyCentral's secret? "Don't do anything," says Bert Gould, thenetwork's senior VP of marketing. "When things are happening this fast, youdon't have to."
Meanwhile, the prestigious Columbia Journalism Reviewputs the fledgling Fox News Channel under its microscope in the currentissue, asking the question, "Is Fox News Fair?" Author Neil Hickey, a veteran TVGuide reporter, concludes, "The answer is a qualified no," citing thenetwork's "right-of-center convictions." That said, he also called FNC"robustly controversial, which, for better or worse, expands the boundaries of ournational discourse." Network spokesman Brian Lewis called the article"fair," but he denied that Fox "tipped to the right." But let'sgive the last word to FNC's chairman and CEO, unabashed conservative Roger Ailes:"Everybody who claims that they're totally unbiased," he told Hickey,"is full of crap."
USSB wound up making a splash on USANetwork's $20 million primetime miniseries hit, Moby Dick, with aflashy commercial for its movies featuring famous film director Martin Scorsese. In thewake of the miniseries' success, some cable operators were wailing, almost as much asStarbuck grumbled about Ahab, that a DBS rival wasable to seize on such a whale ofan opportunity.In essence, when it came to USA's selling so much time to DBS,these cable executives borrowed from Starbuck's assessment of Ahab's whaleobsession: "'Tis madness." USA sales executives were unavailable forcomment.
EchoStar and TCI were atit again in the nation's cable capital last week: A Denver-based TCI installerapparently took it upon himself to remove an EchoStar satellite dish from the roof of alocal apartment building. The building's owner complained to the cable company, andthe dish was later returned. EchoStar spokeswoman Judianne Atencio said last Wednesdaythat she doesn't see this as a sign that the competition is secretly coveting DBS. "Ithink that they were going to use it as a birdbath," she said. "They justdon't want it on their territory."
With its promise of 24-hour customer service, EchoStarcan't afford to lose any staff to a snowstorm. Last week, the company, based justoutside of Denver, sent out four-wheel-drive vehicles to pick up stranded employees whootherwise wouldn't have made it in to work. As a backup, the company has also askedits customer-service reps to start keeping a spare set of clothes on hand, just in casetheir replacements don't show up. According to a spokeswoman, the CSRs don'tseem to mind. "It's like a pajama party to them," she said.
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Positive living
- 11 March 2014
- By Hiv Vereniging Nederland
A summary of the most important things to know. The new information guide for people who have just been diagnosed as HIV-positive.
During the Nationaal Congres Soa*Hiv*Seks on December 1st, 2009 (World AIDS Day), Brenda Mugabona (15) who has been HIV-positive since birth, presented the first copy of the new brochure, "Positive Living" to Oscar Hammerstein (a senior lawyer who is open about his HIV status).
HIV for beginners
Positive living is a guide about 'HIV for beginners': it contains basic information in easy-to-understand language on all the things you encounter when you've found out that you have HIV.
The guide includes tons of references to websites and brochures where people can read more about specific HIV-related topics, along with interviews and testimony from a wide spectrum of twelve people with HIV.
To disclose or not?! If you ever do disclose, you can't retract. In Positive living there are all sorts of possible arguments for revealing and a summary of arguments to keep it to yourself.
After reading this you will be up-to-date on relevant information about the treatment for HIV. If you have HIV, you don't need to know all the names of the HIV medicines. But it is really important, for example, that you know that your possibilities for the future are not limited if you change medication.
People with HIV can get Positive living in the hospital where they are being treated for HIV. Or order it from the Servicepunt of the Hiv Vereniging (Dutch HIV Association): 020-6892577, 2 PM – 10 PM Mon, Tues and Thurs. You can also download the information guide (pdf - big file - 25 MB)
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2010 Winter Olympics: Skeleton Medal Favorites
To win an Olympic medal at skeleton, you need to be fearless. The medal favorites in the sport are typically USA, Canada, German and Switzerland. The USA has won more Olympic medals than any other country, but other countries are beginning to move into contention, such as Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
The United States has a couple of strong medal hopefuls on the women's skeleton team. Katie Uhlaender has won the World Championship twice and Noelle Pikus-Pace was the 2007 world champion. Katie has been working her way back from an injury. They are both having decent seasons, but they are beatable.
On the men's side, Team USA has three strong competitors in Zach Lund, Matt Antoine and Eric Bonitas, but the men have been in a slump recently. However, just in January Eric Bonitas took the first World Cup gold the U.S. men have seen in the last two years. Hopefully, the men will peak at the right time to be in the medals in Vancouver.
Canada's strongest woman in skeleton is Mellissa Hollingsworth. Hollingsworth won a bronze in Torino and she has consistently performed well in competition. She has already won two World Cup events this season. Canada's men are also medal favorites. Jeff Pain, a silver medalist in Torino, is back again looking for gold, but he'll have a fight on his hands. Teammate Jon Montgomery is a real contender — having already won a race this season. He also won the World Cup event on the Whistler track last year.
The Germans are the skeleton team to beat this season. They have already won five out of seven races. Anja Huber won the World Championships last year and Marion Trott won the title last year. The German men have also been dominating the podiums this World Cup season, which makes them favorites at Vancouver. Frank Rommel and Michi Halilovic have both won World Cup races. Altogether, the German men and women have won 16 World Cup medals — this year!


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Ryan Reynolds is pulling a Jiminy Glick, and I can't really figure out why. The guy bulks up and grows a sexy beard… and then he shaves himself as smooth as a seal and then throws on a really crappy looking fat suit. What's the point?
Comedy I guess. Reynolds is starring in the upcoming romantic comedy Just Friends along with Amy Smart, Anna Faris, and Chris Klein. Unless there's a lot more to this than there seems to be on the surface, count me dissapointed. Ryan, you're a lot better than this.
Just Friends casts Reynolds as a high school geek who becomes a flashy Los Angeles music executive. A storm strands him back in his New Jersey home town, and he finds himself reunited with his high school crush. Wacky rom-com hijinks ensue. Wonder if he gets the girl? Probably, since now he's thin and rich. Hot chick kryptonite.
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Hello. Major long time no see. I won't go into lack of blogging blah blah blah....however, I am back.
I recently met up with Szeyuin - we had been meaning to meet ALL year it feels like and the stars finally aligned and it happened at the start of September.
We met in Peggy Porsches which is this beautifully pink, picturesque café in the Fitzrovia area. I don't think I have ever been to a place more instagrammable in my life or have seen so many people take so many photos in one place in such a short space of time. If you are after pretty photos, I highly recommend heading here. The cake is pretty good too.
I was a tiny bit apprehensive meeting Szeyuin as I can be socially awkward and weird when I meet new people as well as worrying about if we would get along. That was silly, Szeyuin is one of the loveliest people I have ever met and had a such a fun day laughing and talking about how much we love food.
She was also really inspiring, not only with her creative skills but also with her life! Moving across the World and having the courage to follow her dreams is just so cool.
One of the things that I have been actively trying to do this year is to appreciate the people around me a lot more and to recognise what makes them wonderful. Maybe this is something that comes with shrugging off insecurities but there's something so freeing in openly celebrating what others do, not only to others but to their faces. If you think someone is great, don't hold back - say it to their face, you might just make their day :)
All the above photos were taken by Szeyuin. If you like what she does, give her a shout on Instagram - she's a social media content creator! Go and follow Szeyuin on Instagram @szeyuin
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Proper Saddle and Bit Fit for the Gaited Horse (Video)
All horses, but especially gaited horses, have a good amount of movement in their muscles through their loins, back, and shoulders while moving under saddle. They require a saddle and bit that allows them complete comfort and freedom of movement, so they can comfortably and naturally collect under saddle. Proper collection is key for your horse to be able to perform an evenly timed 4-beat gait in good form. This video by Brenda Imus outlines some common fit problems and illustrates how a properly fitting saddle and bit can make a huge difference in your horse's abilities to gait in good form.


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To create the impression, your baby , child's hand or families hands and/or feet or pet's paw are placed in a soft clay. An appointment to make the impression can be arranged at my home, and will take approximately 30 minutes. I will then set to work making the reverse impression from plaster, and you can choose from a beautiful natural chalk, antique silver or antique gold finish. Raised impressions take 4-6 weeks to produce – this allows time for the plaster to dry, finish, and framing.
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The 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion was dueling with Joey Logano on Sunday in Las Vegas with the two racers battling for a top-5 finish at the third race of the season. Joey Logano races hard and he could sometimes get close to that line of being dirty but even he wouldn't intentionally wreck someone for 3rd place. As Busch went to go around Keselowski, he clipped the No. 22 Ford of Joey Logano.
Logano was restrained and pulled away from the pile as Busch got swarmed by Logano's crew members and dragged to the ground.
There wasn't much talking, there was a lot of swinging. Pole winner Brad Keselowski led Truex just two laps from the end until the former reported trouble with his auto.
Kyle Busch was one of three drivers to get caught for speeding on pit road, with the pass-through penalty leaving him a lap down. Nothing intentional. I understand his frustration; he crashed.
"It was a gift", Truex said of getting the win when Keselowski's auto sputtered.
"It started vibrating about four or five laps there before it blew out, and I was just trying to ride it to the end of the stage there", Harvick said. "It wouldn't turn and I lost brakes". "We know we're capable of running up front but we just have to make sure we execute as the race goes on". Keselowski was able to drive his hobbled vehicle to a fifth-place finish.
Keselowski, who was in position for consecutive wins this season and to repeat in Sin City, was not sure what happened to his auto. You just pick up the pieces and move on.
With 12 laps remaining in the first stage, Kevin Harvick had a tire blow out on his No. 4 Mobil1 which sent him into the wall just before turn one.
Truex called Sunday's victory a dream come true.
Heading into Las Vegas, Logano and Busch sat fifth and 19th in the standings, respectively.
Being on a different pit cycle, Jimmie Johnson took the lead when Truex pitted on Lap 210, but Truex was back at the front when Johnson pitted on Lap 229. Half of the drivers in the top 10 through two races are 26 or younger. The incident that resulted in the heated exchange occurred in turns three and four just as race victor Martin Truex Jr. took the checkered flag. During the post-race show, the Fox cameras caught the pit road brawl that took place when Busch tried to go after Logano. That put him nearly 30 seconds ahead of Truex, who was leading before the pit stops began.
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Holme Grange School is a thriving Independent co-educational school for 3-16 year olds. We offer a unique educational experience in an idyllic setting in 21 acres of Wokingham countryside. Each pupil can develop in an environment offering a wide variety of opportunities in the classroom, on the stage or sports field and in our woodland outdoor learning areas.
Our parents describe the School as caring, friendly and warm which highlights our strong pastoral support and sense of community. When a child leaves us, they will be well-prepared for the world – self-confident, sociable and articulate – and will have many special memories of their time at Holme Grange.
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With its sculpted body panels, wider stance, laid back windshield, upper grille morticing into wraparound headlights, and available 20-inch alloy wheels (a segment first), the Pacifica is as close to sexy as any minivan has ever come. Chrysler's trick of hiding the sliding door tracks just below the rear windows does a better job of disguising their presence than competing vans, and the rear window has a wraparound appearance.
An available three-panel sunroof, the rearmost pane is fixed, the other two open, runs from front to rear, amplifying a bright interior that feels airy even in base trim.
Another nifty new feature: Waving your foot beneath the rear bumper will activate the power rear liftgate. That's been with us for awhile, thanks to Ford. But Ford doesn't have a minivan, so it was left to Chrysler to develop the idea for sliding side doors. The side doors will also operate simply by touching the handles.
Pacifica's gestation included a lot of wind tunnel time, which paid off in terms of reduced interior noise and at the gas pump.
The new Pacifica comes with the latest version of Chrysler's Stow 'n Go fold-flat second- and third-row seats, re-engineered to make folding them into the floor even easier, leaving a truly flat surface and a vast cargo hold. This is the best design of its kind in the business, and it optimizes the fundamental trait in which minivans excel: versatility. These seats are not available on the hybrid version, however, due to the space taken up by the battery packs.
Another nifty feature is the Stow 'n Vac on-board vacuum cleaner. Yes, the Honda Odyssey was first with this idea, but Chrysler improves on it. The system stows in the left side of the body, just behind the second-row door, the readily accessible bag is in the left side wall of the cargo compartment, and the vac includes a 14-foot hose, with an additional 14 feet offered as an accessory.
Like all contemporary minivans, the Pacifica offers a rear seat entertainment system, this one equipped with a pair of 10-inch touchscreens integrated into the upper front seatbacks. In addition to movies, games, and other visual and audible diversions, Chrysler furnishes apps, including Are We There Yet, allowing rear seat occupants to track the progress of their journey.
Up front, Chrysler has adapted its dial-a-gear transmission control, pioneered in the Ram pickup truck (the Rotary E-shift), into the attractive and intuitive center dash array, which also includes a big (8.4-inch) color screen and a sensible array of switches and knobs. The test of any system is whether it can be operated without resorting to the owner's manual, and here's one vehicle whose primary and auxiliary controls present no mysteries.
Chrysler boasts more than 100 safety features for the Pacifica. Among them: adaptive cruise control, forward collision alert, auto emergency braking, 360-degree surround view, and rear view camera.
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Infographic: What's In a Name?
What's in a name, or in this case your website URL?
Similar to the days of yellow page directories, where you lobbied for top listing position with business names like
AAA Automotive, your website name is just as important and does affect your rankings in search.
Here is an informative infographic from our friends at Search Engine Land:
The ultimate guide to SEO-friendly URLs – An infographic by the team at Search Engine Land


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Book Review: The Art of Stopping Time: Practical Mindfulness for Busy People by Pedram Shojai
by Emma Warnken Johnson
Mindfulness is everywhere these days. There seems to be an endless supply of books, articles, and apps touting its benefits. The practices vary, but they all seek to focus the mind on the present moment, shedding distractions and helping us appreciate the little things in our lives. I've been meaning to try mindfulness for quite some time, but never seem to be able to fit it into my busy schedule.
This makes The Art of Stopping Time: Practical Mindfulness for Busy People a timely book for me, and I suspect it will be for a lot of other busy editors too. Taoist monk and Qi Gong master Pedram Shojai adapts the 100-day Gong—a traditional Taoist practice—to create a mindfulness routine that can fit into a busy schedule. The book is divided into 100 short chapters, and each one describes a brief daily activity that promotes mindfulness and a healthier relationship to the way we think about and spend our time.
The activities vary widely. Readers are asked to do some breathing exercises, to stretch and relax their muscles, and to eat a meal without the distraction of other activities (like watching TV). Some days include simple activities designed to give your mind a short break, like going for a walk, taking a bath, or making a cup of tea—and several of these seem tailor-made for an editor who takes regular breaks to improve productivity. Other days are more reflective, asking you to think about how you spend their time and review your priorities. Reading through the activities, I found several that I thought I would enjoy and could easily integrate into my daily schedule. (more…)
Taming time
By Jaye Marsh
Time management was a popular topic to start off the year for Editors Toronto branch meetings.
A full house of approximately 40 people greeted the guest panellists at our new venue. Thanks to Greg Ioannou, lifetime member of Editors Canada, the Toronto branch now meets at the Centre for Social Innovation, a lovely multimedia-capable space on Spadina Avenue near Queen Street West.
The evening's program, held on September 26, was about "Time-management for busy editors." Program chair Lee Parpart invited four panellists: Jennifer D. Foster, Jeanne McKane, Dr. Nicole Lyon Roccas, and Jayne S. Huhtanen.
Jennifer gave us a list of practical tips and guiding principles that work for her: knowing your needs, discipline, attitude, and creating the right space in which to work. She reviewed her unsuccessful experience with the Pomodoro technique (setting tasks and using timers); making lists; using a hard-copy calendar; the importance of checklists to relieve the memory banks; taking regular breaks; exercising; setting rewards; and learning to say no. At the end, Jennifer stressed the importance of surrounding herself with positive, kind people who are supportive and respectful of her and her work. The end result? A favourable effect on productivity, motivation, and efficiency. (more…)


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So this weekend, I have work to do. This damned assignment for the teaching and learning course, and when I realised yesterday that I hadn't really done the right thing with my drafting so far, I became very unmotivated indeed. Which is a farce, really, giving that part of my assignment is about helping student's find motivation and some form of enthusiasm for research methodology. Grrr.
I tried to break the cycle described in the first paragraph today. I will do some of the things I want to do instead, so that at least I enjoy my weekend as a break from the week. And maybe once I have done some of the things I enjoy, I can get down to work feeling less deprived of my fun.
As a result of my reasoning, I have already reedited chapter one of my Story and sent it to my Evil Twin (jane_somebody) and I have finished and posted off my bi-monthly column for the magazine of a society I belong to. I have also sweated over the current emither with pellegrina which is very enjoyable, but hard, hard work as it's plumbing some psychological depths that are hard to put into words. But very useful exercise nevertheless.
Yesterday, I finally spoke on the phone to my aunt Yo'Quith to thank her for her Christmas parcel. She sent me a couple of video tapes of a puppet show that I used to love as a child, because she saw it and was reminded of one of my "phases" (or "thuses" as eudesia might call it). It's about a ghost that lives in a castle. I don't remember this at all, apart from remembering that I liked ghosts and puppet-shows by this particular group of puppeteers.
Hm... while I think of it, a note for any one who recognises some of the names, such as Na'Lon or Yo'Quith, from my fiction writing and role-playing: I am borrowing these names for various people, including 'Na'Lon' for myself, but here they are only used as descriptors, and no similarity between character and RL person I refer to is intended. There are some similarities between character's family structures and my own family structure: e.g. The Marquis is also Na'Lon's mate in the Game, and Na'Kat really is Na'Lon's mother in Game and fiction. However, that is as far as the similarity goes...


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Award-winning edit house Stitch christened their new space in Newburgh Street, Soho, by hosting a crowd of industry friends and clients.
The event celebrated their move from their original home on Kingly Street, just around the corner, to a purpose-built facility in a bigger space.
Having outgrown their old offices, the move has allowed Stitch to fulfil their ambition to expand their business. Commenting on the reason for leaving their address on Kingly Street, Tim Hardy and Leo King, Stitch co-owners, said:
"We've given ourselves the chance to grow and develop further with this new space. It's a brilliant working environment and gives everyone the room they need to be their most creative selves. Stitch was born in the Kingly Street facility and we loved it there, but we just got too big for it. We started off with four edit suites, built a fifth and then needed more!"
In the past year, Stitch has recruited two new editors, signing Nicholas Larroquere and, most recently, Jack Singer. The two now work alongside editors and founding partners Leo King and Tim Hardy and editors Phil Currie, Max Windows, Paul O'Reilly and Charlie Reddie.
2017 also marked the biggest event yet for sister company Homespun. Its talent nurturing competition, Homespun Yarns, pulled in record numbers of entries and guests. New directing talent was spotted through the competition and the event is set to grow again in 2018.
To cater for all of this expansion, the new facility is spread over two floors and contains a client area, a communal space and eight edit suites.
Discussing the design, Tim and Leo added:
"We were really keen on having a social space and wanted to make as much as possible of the natural light. We now have suites available to our editing assistants so they can hone their craft in the right environment with support from our senior editors. And (most importantly) we still have a roof terrace!"
Whilst many in the industry have decided to disperse into parts of Greater London, Stitch felt it was important to stay in their Soho neighbourhood.
"Not only did we stay in Soho, we only moved one street away. We all love Soho and really wanted to remain in the area. The heart and soul of the industry is definitely still in W1" added Tim and Leo.


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Reviewed by: Patty Moliterno
|Bill Hader … Flint Lockwood (voice)
Anna Faris … Sam Sparks (voice)
James Caan … Tim Lockwood (voice)
Will Forte … Chester V (voice)
Andy Samberg … Brent McHale (voice)
Benjamin Bratt … Manny (voice)
Neil Patrick Harris … Steve (voice)
Terry Crews … Earl Devereaux (voice)
Kristen Schaal … Barb (voice)
Cody Cameron … Barry/Dill Pickle (voice)
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"Something big was leftover."
Prequel to this movie: "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" (2009)
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" is a sequel that continues where the first movie left off. The movie begins immediately after Flint Lockwood's (voice of Bill Hader) food generator invention has buried Swallow Falls in food. Flint, Sam Sparks (Anna Faris), Baby Brent (Andy Samberg), Manny (Benjamin Bratt), Steve (Neil Patrick Harris), and Earl (Terry Crews) make a pact to start Sparkswood Labs and all work together cleaning up their town. Flint's science "hero," Chester V (Will Forte), appears and offers him a job in San Franjose, CA, which Flint accepts. Chester V leaves a team behind to clean up the island.
Sam begins working for a major television station, and Flint begins his "dream job." In 6 months, one lucky employee of Live Corp. will join Chester V and an elite team of inventors. The employee will also be the recipient of the coveted orange vest. Flint works hard and on the day of the "vesting ceremonies," he is not chosen, but manages to make a fool of himself. He goes home utterly rejected. Later that evening, Chester V asks Flint to work on a special project. It seems that the food generator has turned itself back on and is producing mutant food animals. Chester V tells Flint the world is in danger from the food animals, and Flint needs to return to the island and destroy his invention. Flint goes to the island with his friends and dad, and they encounter unimaginable beasts.
There are very few objectionable moments in this film. However, the ones that are objectionable bothered me much more than the original movie.
Violence: Several of the food monsters chase the humans. The Tacodile roars, and this may be scary to some children. There are several fight scenes. A man is eaten by a giant cheeseburger. I would think some young children may be frightened by some of the food animals.
Nudity: Baby Brent once again has several scenes with just a diaper on. He also squeezes into skinny jeans which do not fit. He is shown with his belly hanging over the jeans.
Sex: Flint and Sam kiss a few times.
Language: The phrase "I'm going to cut the cheese" is used and then the sound of breaking wind is heard. Cheese is actually being cut. The phrase "scratch her buns" is used when a burger animal rolls over and wants to be scratched like a dog.
Other: Coffee and other caffeinated beverages are given out in excess to pump up the inventors, and one inventor is seen wearing multiple caffeine patches. A calf is being delivered, and the doctor leaves midway through the delivery leaving the calf hanging out of the cow. Flint and Chester V both have developed wedgie-free underwear, and their underwear is stretched repeatedly.
After the movie is over and before the credits roll, there are numerous cartoon strip scenes. In a "YouTube" video someone gets hit in the crotch with a ball. Brent has a volleyball get stuck in his buttocks. A fortune cookie is shown being cracked open.
Flint learns what true friendship means. He also learns not to judge a book by its cover. In addition, Flint admits that he was wrong and asks his friends for forgiveness. Their response is a great example of how Christ forgives us, even when we don't deserve that forgiveness. Ephesians 4:32 says "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."
This is a very creative movie. They did an excellent job developing the food animals, and there are several that are just adorable. In addition, several scenes in the movie are sappy and invoke an emotional response, however, that response iss short-lived due to the equally stupid scenes. I do not recommend this movie. Today, I viewed it with my husband and children. My 10 and 8 year old sons liked it, but my husband and I did not. My husband kept saying "this is a made-for-television movie." In my opinion, the dumb scenes just were a little too bothersome for me.
Violence: Mild / Profanity: None / Sex/Nudity: Minor
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At Toyko Express, Caleb decided to conduct a song "just like Pastor Kevin" while singing it. The hymn was "I've Decided To Follow Jesus". Pastor Kevin is our Associate Pastor of Music at First Baptist Church, Chandler, AZ. That conductor's baton is a chopstick.
There were customers at another table beside us. 🙂


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Albion boss Chris Hughton is eager for his side to continue their momentum when they travel to non-league Lincoln City in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday.
The Seagulls have recorded back-to-back home wins, against Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff City since an 18-game unbeaten run ended at Preston earlier this month.
Hughton is set to ring the changes in his squad for the game, like he did in the 2-0 win against MK Dons in the third round, and admits the pressure may be more on his side than their opponents.
He said: "We certainly go into the game on the back of a good feel because, irrespective of what team we play, we're on the back of a good result midweek. We're doing well as a team at the moment and I'm looking forward to it, although I think it's fair to say there's probably more pressure on us than there is on them. However, momentum is the big word and there's a feel-good factor going into it."
Hughton says no-one is getting carried away after Albion returned to the top of the Championship with Tuesday's 1-0 win over Cardiff.
He said: "I haven't had any fear at all that anybody has been getting carried away.
"If anything, it's probably the opposite. They're all very guarded and are trying to make sure as much as possible that we continue doing the things that we need to do. And, of course, the big cliché that will never change, whether it's here or any other club, is it's all about the next game."
Midfielder Richie Towell is set to start just his third match for the club since he joined last January. He was frustrated with injury in pre-season and said: "I want to play. My main goal now is to get into the team. I might have the opportunity to do that on Saturday, so hopefully the gaffer will like what he sees and I can put a little thought in his head."
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As part of the activities being held in conjunction with Donostia-San Sebastián being named European Capital of Culture for 2016, six sculptures by Henry Moore (1898-1986) were installed on Tuesday, June 21 in the city's Zurriola Promenade in a "Street Art" initiative, and will remain in place, free for all to view, until September 4.
Moore is considered to be one of the great 20th-century sculptors and in bringing the six pieces to Donostia, the organizers–Obra Social "La Caixa" Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation, and the Donostia City Council–are seeking to encourage a posthumous artistic dialogue between Moore and the equally renowned two towering figures of 20th-century Basque sculpture, Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) and Jorge Oteiza (1908-2003), whose works also adorn the city.
This is a unique opportunity to see works by these three masters in the same outdoor setting.
See a video report (in Spanish) on the inauguration of these visiting sculptures here.
There are numerous references to Moore's work in Oteiza's Selected Writings, edited by Joseba Zulaika.


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With Observations by Catalina Maria Johnson, Neva Wartell, Brice Rosenbloom
In these convulsive times, we affirm that the performing arts are a force, and that as a field, we can and will navigate and drive change together. – Mario Garcia Durham, APAP President & CEO
Despite the current, troubled, and uncertain times in the United States, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) served to rally and infuse thousands of its members and attendees with measures of inspiring and positive energies during its 62nd annual conference at the Hilton in New York City (January 4-8).
The world music and jazz conferences and showcase offerings in particular continue to be bellwethers of change and developing trends for all the performing arts in the country. Their combined focus was social justice.
Part I: Observations, Reflections
Wavelengths Preconference
Almost 20 years ago, when I first started to attend APAP's world music themed preconferences just before September 11th, 2001, the gathering or room of attendees held little racial or ethnic diversity. Slowly but surely this has changed and continues to change. Increasing numbers of "people of color" and from various ethnic origins, notably from younger generations – including agents, presenters, producers, artists, and newer world music industry thinkers and leaders – are starting to populate the by now branded Wavelengths preconference as participants or audience members.
Here's a one-stop newsletter about Wavelengths that summarizes the whole event, including links to all the panel discussions. "What Happens at Wavelengths: Takeaways from 2019's World Music Pre-Conference".
In keeping with this year's Wavelengths theme, "Acknowledgement of Land", the Canadian-based First Nation Anishinaabe singer and activist, ShoShona Kish delivered a compelling keynote address about the Indigenous peoples of North America. The impact of her talk resonated throughout all the APAP showcase events I attended. Her words underscored more than the torturous, disenfranchised past and present of the Indigenous peoples of North America. They also held hope and beauty through her call for global social activism in the coming years for future generations. Listen to her speech here, starting at 18 minutes into the video recording.
Going Deeper…
The most challenging and painful issues of Indigenous peoples have recently dominated the media due to a horrible incident of incendiary racial confrontations in America. Anti-immigration rhetoric is getting louder. At the same time, the first Latin American Indigenous actress has been nominated for this year's best actress Oscar in Hollywood. This is the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages. The United States has just left UNESCO, the world's great and indispensable organization, promoting peace and hope through culture. What could all this mean? Leadership in the arts is key.
Two media colleagues offer their interrelated thoughts:
Catalina Maria Johnson: Land Acknowledgement
In this century, as we gather in countries such as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S. it is becoming more customary to open events and gatherings by acknowledging the traditional inhabitants of the land.
It is the impact of this small verbal gesture that we discussed as part of our Wavelengths "Impact and Integrity" panel, which was focused on developing best practices for our world music community. On the one hand, to say a few words that over time can become stale and perfunctory may be perceived as an insignificant effort in the light of the enormous harm done to traditional societies across hundreds of years of colonial/settler imperialism; we barely understand the depth of those wounds and are very far from comprehending what needs to be done to heal them and move forward appropriately.
Yet, to come together as communities to create and experience art is one way in which we celebrate and share our common values. In the current political climate, words of hate have vomited forth in public gatherings, rallying and emboldening dark forces. As the philosopher/linguist Wittgenstein said, "The limits of my language, are the limits of my world." Today, more than ever, words matter. We can wield words as instruments capable of creating and shaping different ways of moving through our lives; we can advocate traditions that honor truth.
Additionally, as we reflected upon in our panel, a simple land acknowledgement is a seed of possibilities that can blossom into concrete actions. The words can serve to raise our awareness of a respectful relationship to the land, honor those that came before us, and become a an organic part of fostering a vision of protecting the earth that ties into concrete actions that can be undertaken as a world music community—-such as efforts like the Earth Muse Collective to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles at our concerts and festivals.
Yet, let us not be fooled into thinking that the acknowledgment in and of itself will be enough and lead us to reconciliation and some kind of utopia. It is important to understand the long-standing history that has brought each of us to reside on the land, and to understand what our role is within that history. Land acknowledgment should be approached as one way to consider our own place in the story of colonization and of undoing its legacy—-because as has been pointed out, there is no point in repeating words to atone for a crime that we are still committing.
And so, let me conclude by acknowledging that I live on the ancestral lands of the Peoria, Potawatomi and the Miami. And you? Take a moment to research and acknowledge the original peoples of your place of residence, then make a commitment to act and honor the vision those words represent.
Catalina Maria Johnson is a tropical being living in Polar-Vortex-loving Chicago who stays warm by listening to hot, hot music and sharing these grooves through her radio show and podcast, Beat Latino, as well as writing for NPR Music, Billboard, Downbeat and others.
Neva E. Wartell: Whose World Is It, Anyway?
An ethnomusicologist and cultural activist since the 1970s, by now I'm a senior member of the global music community that gathers every January at the Wavelengths: APAP World Music Pre-Conference in NYC. The two days of panels, workshops and presentations never fail to provide inspiration and food for thought, along with the opportunity to reunite with colleagues, and to encounter new musical discoveries. Having attended every year since the first, some dozen years ago, I found the 2019 edition to be the most engaging and thought-provoking yet. I also found myself infused with a powerful sense of optimism for the future of the world.
Why? Because clearly the world is in new hands.
For me, one of this year's most important markers was the generational shift in attendance and participation – and even more significantly, what such a shift represents: a changing social landscape, which by its nature creates a changing consciousness, which in turn demands…change.
This shift was reflected in both the topics of discussion at Wavelengths and the artists chosen to perform at globalFEST 2019. It's no surprise that conversations and performances shared themes such as respect for the land, acknowledgment of cultural roots, assertion of identities, and demand for respect as human beings on this shared and suffering planet. Addressing these subjects is necessary and overdue – a very positive indication that a new generation is preparing to take the lead.
What kind of world have we left for them? The generation before mine created a music industry built on assumptions of white supremacy and male privilege. My generation took those power dynamics to the next level, inventing genres and marketing strategies, exploitative practices, and an insider/outsider mentality that gave birth to an amorphous, culturally myopic category called "Other", which became the convenient home of "World Music".
The new generation stepping forward represents all things labeled "Other" – the lovechild of "World Music" mated with "No Known Genre" equals every genre in the musical universe – both the cause and the effect of our changing social landscape.
They have every right, and so many reasons, to reject our constructs. Young musicians I meet these days are urgently aware of climate issues, economic issues, race, ethnicity, gender and other identity issues. They know the power of music as a vehicle for achieving social justice. And growing up in a digital environment and an increasingly do-it-yourself music industry, more and more artists are adept at handling their own business.
Many are from families who migrated from elsewhere, wanting only to assimilate into the dominant culture. But this generation is utilizing the dominant culture to express their "otherness" – celebrating the same cultural roots their parents left behind while making it relevant to their own context, creating a whole new cultural reality in their own image.
As award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens said in a recent interview with The Root: "I'm not interested in trying to do a hip-hop track to try to 'reach across the aisle.' I'm like, 'This is our aisle.'"
The next generation is here, and they are unapologetically reclaiming the world. 'Nuff' respect.
"DJ Neva" E. Wartell is an ethnomusicologist, producer and cultural activist. Formerly with WBAI-FM and Radio Soleil in NYC, she currently works for WGXC community radio in NY's Hudson Valley region, where she lives with two cats, a dog, a turtle, the turtle's pet fish, and Pepe the Pig. She was the DJ for the very first globalFEST afterparty.
Globalfest 2019 Awards
This was the second year Globalfest presented awards "that celebrate those that excel in the small but crucial global music field in the USA, too often with little recognition…. The annual awards will be presented to artists and members of the field who have been instrumental in making significant, longstanding contributions to the performing arts landscape in the USA through risk taking, addressing cultural diversity and diplomacy, cultural activism, helping to keep, transmit, and extend the world's ancient traditions, commitment to working with local communities and making a difference to the greater American performing arts landscape as well as other areas."
A note about the honoree Leigh Ann Hahn, programming director of Grand Performances in Los Angeles. Marco Werman, host and producer with PRI's The World, presented her with the Impact Award. She used her moment in the spotlight during the awards ceremony to draw attention to the ongoing, terrible genocide of the Uighurs in China. She urged activism on their behalf. The entire situation concerning the Uighurs is an unfolding tragic story.
The New York Times recently reported, "According to the United States State Department, between 800,000 and two million people, or up to 15 percent of Xinjiang's Muslim population, have been incarcerated in a growing network of more than 1,000 concentration camps."
There has been systematic targeting over the past few years by the Chinese government to detain influential Uighur musicians, writers and critics, and cultural activists in those concentration camps. One of the greatest Uighur artists, Sanubar Tursun, Leigh Ann presented at Grand Performances in 2016, has been detained. It will take massive efforts by governments, human rights organizations, and all interested in the world's Indigenous populations to mount campaigns to oppose and counter this genocide.
GF Impact Award Honoree: Leigh Ann Hahn
Leigh Ann Hahn, who started at Grand Performances in 1992, is an endlessly creative and innovative programmer. She is a leading figure in the world music performing arts field who has done a remarkable job producing free programs that pay homage to her beloved LA and its diverse communities with global breadth, depth and power. Her programs are uniquely multidisciplinary and frequently shine a musical light on significant historical, political and social events.
GF Trouble Worldwide Award Honoree: Matthew Covey and Tamizdat
Tamizdat, founded in 1998 by Matthew Covey and a group of musicians, has become a critical organization in the performing arts and cultural exchange fields. Tamizdat's work facilitates cultural exchange by easing the burden of the visa process for artists entering the U.S through their programs: legal visa assistance, outreach, the Artist Mobility Forum, The White Paper Project and other activities. Their mission is motivated by the conviction that the international mobility of culture is fundamental to a healthy and progressive global civil society and their work has enabled thousands of artists to perform on stages across the country.
GF Pioneer Award Honoree: Lee Williams
Lee Williams has worked professionally as a venue booking agent, promoter, and non-profit arts leader since 1982, playing a defining role not only in the music culture and community identity of Bloomington, Indiana, but also as a champion of world music in North America. A co-founder of the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival and founder of the non-profit Lotus Education and Arts Foundation, Lee served as Director of Lotus from 1995 to 2013 and as Artistic Director from 2014 through his retirement in 2017. He also co-led the creation of the Midwest Consortium, a professional block-booking network for world-music presenters that now includes peers from across the US and Canada.
GF Artist Award Honoree: Mighty Sparrow/Slinger Francisco
83 year-old Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow and affectionately dubbed The Birdie, is the unrivaled Calypso King of the World. With a career that spans over 60 years and counting The Sparrow is one of the most important living exponents of one of Caribbean music's most important traditions, known for a combination of politics, daily life, humor, innuendo and dance music. Sparrow continues to translate his witty island authenticity to the world, in a one-man demonstration ot the role that culture plays in uniting humankind.
Part II: APAP World Showcase Notes
APAP's conference is the best occasion of the year to sample favorites of promoters and agents from all over North America and beyond. There are so many superb acts going on simultaneously, you literally need to be in several packed venues at once on any given night. These were some of my favorites.
Africa Yetu & Mateo Productions presented one of the best programming feats in this new year known as "The Soukous/Champeta Project" at S.O.B.'s nightclub. They co-billed the classic soukous group, Zaiko Langa Langa from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and one of the most popular champeta groups, the Bazurto All Stars from Colombia. Musical cousins, Zaiko Langa Langa celebrates its 50th anniversary while the Bazurto All Stars was formed just 10 years ago. Their generational and historically related genre contrasts – reaching as far back as the early 70s – were revelatory. The dance energies were contagious and at maximum levels of audience enjoyment. However, the club's poor sound engineering marred the overall quality of their performances.
Mundial Montréal, North America's World Music Summit, held their annual 7th edition "Mundial On the Road" APAP showcase in partnership with the DROM nightclub. Theirs is one of the most popular and "thoughtfully curated" showcase evenings during the conference. And always cram-packed. Drawing from Canada's vast cultural diversities including their Indigenous First Nations, and stand out international artists, Mundial Montreal's annual 9th edition summit will take place in Montreal, November 19-22, this year.
This year the Mundial + DROM roster featured 5 Canadian groups with Afro-Cuban, Colombian, Mexican, and Balkan roots. Two others were from southern Italy and Haiti/New York. I caught the last two acts: Lemon Bucket Orkestra from Canada and Malou Beauvoir from New York.
Lemon Bucket Orkestra is a Balkan brass band uniting Ukrainian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian, Romanian, and English languages in performance. Their songs covered many subjects with thrilling, high-energy paced rhythms with deep folk soul. A walk down a village street arm in arm with a girlfriend; wishing the audience a good night; sibling rivalry; love and loss.
The stunning musical moment was Marichka Marczyk's solo "Zajdy, Zajdy" – "My heart stopped as in a dream". She sang with such sorrowful passion, the club room seemed to fall into a swoon of silence. A well-known Macedonian song beloved all over the Balkans, a woman sings at twilight to a tree: "Let's cry together, you for your falling leaves and me for my lost years. Your leaves will grow back, but my years will never return…" In their triumphant, rousing finale, the band trooped off the stage into the audience playing their strings, brass, and thumping percussion in gleeful unison.
The Haitian-American singer Malou Beauvoir known for her international jazz career, surprised with entirely new music from her recent album "Spiritwalker" – where she explores her Haitian roots. Her buoyant performance celebrated and conjured the healing Vaudou spirits of her heritage. She professed her faith in their power to awaken and bless humanity. To protect us. To guide us all to peace and harmony. Paul Beaubrun from Boukman Eksperyans lineage and her partner in the recording, appeared with her superb band from Haiti, New York, Japan, and Cuba. The whole night reached an ecstatic musical moment when Paul and Malou sang their pop hit version of one of Haiti's deep Vaudou songs by Toto Bissainthe, "Rasanblemen", or the "rassemblement" of spirits – to honor and comfort victims of oppression and slavery. It was also a prayer and plea for world unity.
Winter Jazzfest
All in all, Winter Jazzfest continues to grow and expand phenomenally. This year, its 15th anniversary, the festival extended well beyond APAP's official dates over 9 days. Within the thematic framework of social justice, the focus was gender equity with over 140 groups, 12 venues, and close to 750 participating musicians. (Disclosure: Much as I intended to see many more showcases following APAP, I was hit by the flu.)
I look forward to Winter Jazzfest each year for many reasons, especially the international-related performances. Despite the feat of producing multiple differing jazz genre showcases all over lower Manhattan venues, the sound engineering is almost always perfect, as you sprint from stage to stage. I'm not forced to pull out earplugs to deaden overly aggressive or amateurish engineering. I find it impossible to review good shows when the sound levels are deafening or imbalanced. (Lighting is another issue…) Brice Rosenbloom, the founder-producer, and his team deserve highest kudos for the foremost crucial aspect of live music: excellent sound quality.
There's always a well-organized and invaluable program booklet that gives you all the basic festival information with venue maps, artist personnel and instrumentation, and good thematic introductory notes: In his tough-minded essay-manifesto,"Why Have We Been So Ass Backwards?", Brice reflects upon last year's Winter Jazzfest conversation at The New School on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. "Jazz and Gender: Challenging Inequality and Forging a New Legacy". Here are some excerpts:
Terri Lyne Carrington moderated the panel featuring activist and professor Angela Davis, bassist Esperanza Spalding, journalist Lara Pellegrinelli, trumpet player Arnetta Johnson, and pianist Vijay Iyer.
Terri Lyne Carrington started by asking the panel, "Considering the role jazz and jazz musicians have played in social justice movements why have we been so ass backward in this one with regards to women?
Angela Davis reminded the 600-person audience that we are witnessing the beginning of the era of women; "There was the amazing women's march, millions of women all over the world rose up against the Trump administration and the message was when women rise up, the whole world rises up with us." Davis then reiterated Carrington's quandary, "It's kind of bizarre that in the jazz community that has been so responsible over the decades for major contributions to social justice for doing civil rights work before the civil rights movement was born; it's kind of amazing that the jazz community isn't leading the rest of us with respect to issues of patriarchy."
Journalist Lara Pellegrinelli echoed these concerns when witnessing the #metoo and #timesup movements: "I was watching this movement gain momentum, women in the media, and women in Hollywood, and all these women in other spheres of labor stepping forward and outing their oppressors. And I was watching and asking myself when it it going to happen [in jazz]?"….
Today, with individual actions and music as the spark, it still takes the whole community – including men – to bring about change. Vijay Iyer challenged that "men can have feminist thoughts but what are they doing about it?" Carrington shared a quote from Jack DeJohnette: "Artistry is artistry no matter what the gender is. It's time for women to take their rightful place as equals in our predominantly patriarchal society. Now more than ever is a time for my gender to stop being part of the problem and embrace being part of the solution."
As many musicians echo strong messages in their music and offer a soundtrack to the movement, we have seen real ripples of change over the past year towards progress in the jazz community. This progress is absolutely vital to countering the bitter reality of blatant sexism pervading the jazz community (and overarching music industry)….
Winter Jazzfest is proudly among the first wave of adoptees of We Have Voice; and their Code of Conduct was distributed to all 140+ performing groups and to all participating venues to be posted in artist dressing rooms. Winter Jazzfest is also a proud member of Keychange. Last year Vanessa Reed proposed that we become of the first U.S. based festivals to sign the Keychange pledge of gender balance in programming by 2022. We are proud to have achieved that mark with both our 2018 and 2019 festival lineups.
There is still much more we can do and intend to do moving forward. While we reached Keychange's gender representation goal, we are far from being fully gender balanced. With nearly 750 musicians performing at this year's Winter Jazzfest, 129 are women. While we have taken steps towards gender equality in programming the next step is for bandleaders to also commit to more gender inclusivity in their groups.
In solidarity, we are committed to supporting progress and we hope to further inspire our colleagues, audiences, and artists to feel these ripples of change and to take the individual action necessary to forge a true movement of inclusivity in our jazz community. – Brice Rosenbloom
I am delighted that the Era of Women is happening. I believe Brice's gender equity activism is one of the most notable and influential developments in the entertainment industry. Mainstream media is beginning to reflect this. Women journalists and radio hosts have cause to rejoice.
Meshell Ndegeocello, this year's Winter Jazzfest's artist-in-residence, with her ensemble, delivered a fire and brimstone version of her tribute to James Baldwin, entitled "No More Water, The Fire Next Time, Auditory Portion". The set began with a live recording of James Baldwin's talk, "The Artist's Struggle for Integrity", given in 1963 at New York City's Community Church.
It seems to me that the artist's struggle for his integrity must be considered as a kind of metaphor for the struggle, which is universal and daily, of all human beings on the face of this globe to get to become human beings. It is not your fault, it is not my fault, that I write. And I never would come before you in the position of a complainant for doing something that I must do… The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don't. Statesmen don't. Priests don't. Union leaders don't. Only poets…. (partial quote).
Meshell hovered at Le Poisson Rouge's rear stage supplying a fierce bass undertow to the band's smooth R&B jazz grooves and choir-like gospel harmonies. Her ensemble unleashed a celebratory testimonial to civil rights' call to action and consciousness-raising for all the marginalized in song and spoken word. Staceyann Chin, the performance poet, condemned white supremacy's exploitation and hatred of black people. Her righteous fervor intensified as she voiced the pain and anger of the black woman's centuries-long bondage and victimization. Redemption lay in her cathartic fury.
The proclamation, "No More Water, The Fire Next Time!" Baldwin's rallying cry against injustice, carries even more power today after 56 years – through Meshell Ndegeocello's extraordinary summoning of his spirit.
Inspired by Paco de Lucia, Richard Bona, Cameroonian bass player and singer, has been performing his newer flamenco project "Bona De La Frontera" in Europe over the past few years. Le Poisson Rouge was a Winter Jazzfest American debut. Leaving aside his past Afro-Cuban explorations, he has plunged into flamenco's passion. Judging from the wild elation of the crowds, a recording seems imminent. In unison with Antonio Rey on flamenco guitar, Mara Rey cantaora, Paco Vega on percussions, Richard Bona's rippling bass lines were a love serenade to southern Spain's deep soul tradition.
Flamenco's laments and sorrows progressed in heart-skipping, clapped and tapped rhythms by the musicians as Bona called out the untitled songs, "Rumba Uno", Rumba Dos"… The dramatic tension built slowly and erupted in finale when the "bailaora de flamenco" Pedro Cordoba took center stage during the last two songs. Showmanship was at a zenith, as Cordoba whirled and stomped at dizzying pace. The whistling, cheering crowds were enthralled. No one wanted to leave.
The memorable highpoint of all the APAP showcases I attended was Winter Jazzfest's "Duologue" concert – title of the current Quincy Jones produced release– by Cuban jazz stars, pianist Alfredo Rodriguez and percussionist Pedrito Martinez. Their live performance together at SubCulture surpassed their recording in improvisational brilliance. Most of the evening's repertoire, drawn from the album, was a thrilling opportunity to experience superlative musicianship.
Rodriguez's head constantly bobbed in counterpoint as his fingers sped over the piano keys, skimming spidery delicate passages or pouncing with muscular syncopation. His ability to produce liquescent, bell-like tonalities, complex trilling ostinatos involving arpeggio-like chromatic scales, and flourished phrasings was sheer listening pleasure.
Pedrito Martinez was the perfect balance in their conversation, a unified rhythmic totality, as he switched between Cuban percussion and his drum set with precision and elan – spelling out the project's Cuban Santeria spiritual foundations. Rodriguez in spontaneous surprise, invited the flamenco star Antonio Lizana onstage. Lizana's vocals wailed and implored for a few moments, recalling Spain with nostalgia. The duologue ending riffed on a timba rhythm with echoes of an Andalusian melody. Still can't get over that showcase, it was so good.
Globalfest promotes outstanding examples of the world's cultural diversities. 2019 was its 16th edition. We don't have a bona fide world music festival in New York City like Chicago's city-wide World Music Festival, for example – although there are several excellent world music promoters here. Globalfest's attraction lies not only in its international scope, but its consistent levels of quality. (Although there seemed to be a few new-venue sound issues this year.)
It's a tough job for the producers to represent and showcase "the world" so successfully each year in a compressed format – 11 or 12 acts over 5 hours. Increasingly difficult visa challenges included. The producers are mission-driven. Shanta Thake, one of the co-producers, also served this year as an APAP Conference Co-Chair. During the APAP opening plenary introductions she paraphrased Martin Luther King Jr.: "We are bending the arc of history for justice." That could just as well be the motto of Globalfest.
This year's showcase of 11 acts was a glorious mix of rhythms and melodies from India, Palestine, South Africa, Mozambique-Ghana-Senegal, Ukraine, Canada's First Nation Tobique, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Tennessee and New Orleans. It took place at the Copacabana nightclub over 3 floors.
There were several examples of today's "freedom voices". Cha Wa from New Orleans started off the evening with a rousing blast of 2nd line brass-driven Mardi-Gras parade music, a few of its band members dressed in Native American feather headdress regalia. With their strutting, funk rhythms, they celebrate and honor the early Native Americans who took in and protected captive Africans during the days of slavery. South African B.C.U.C. (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) seems almost beguilingly cool and hip in their recordings, drawing on South Africa's danceable ethnic rhythms. But their performance was an explosion of righteous protest and fierce resistance. The room was boiling with their forceful lyrics and pounding beats.
Palestine's 47 Soul played one of the most popular dance grooves over the evening. The group's Arabic techno-dabke with its syncopated, sinuous step-dance rhythms electrified the jumping crowds. Their lyrics called for unity, equality, freedom. By contrast, in classic Latin dance mode, Cuban Orquesta Akokan held sway with signature Afro-Caribbean mambos and son cubanos harking back to the 40s and 50s and salsa dura from the 70s – while thoroughly captivating in their contemporary big band brightness. Theirs holds a vast history of cultural pride, triumph over social struggles, and the sacred rhythms of Santeria.
Hailing from Johnson City, Tennessee, and steeped in the great traditions of African American spirituals and blues, Amythyst Kiah's deep, tempered vocals with her melismatic wails cast a neo-folk spell among all present. When she switched from her guitar to her banjo, she noted that the instrument has its roots in West Africa's fretless ngoni lute. A rising star, she preserves memories of the long, musical journeys from Africa to Appalachian traditions by African Americans with effortless style, grace, and conviction not heard in a long time.
Tobique First Nation's Jeremy Dutcher's recent album "Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa" won Canada's 2018 Polaris Music Prize. A classically-trained tenor, composer, and musicologist, his determination to help preserve, dignify, and honor his rapidly disappearing Indigenous Wolastoq language is a worthy cause. There are fewer than 100 speakers of the language today. His set, sung in Wolastoq, was moving, emotional, solemn, as his operatic vocals dramatized his long research into the traditional music. He celebrated his culture with songs about honor, a chief's installation, a wedding dance, canoeing, and water spirits. Bravo to Globalfest for its activism in being part of what may become an Indigenous linguistic and cultural renaissance in North America.
We are passing through a dark period.
The precise role of the artist… is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place. – From James Baldwin's 1962 essay, "The Creative Process"


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There are standard-practice ways of doing things, and there are better ways of doing things. When it comes to evaluating CMSes, the two are not the same. WHO is choosing the better approach, focusing on the content lifecycle…
Christopher Strebel
Manager, Communications Dept, World Health Organization
Twitter: @c_strebel
Rick: What did you pick up in the book that you want to expound on?
Christopher: Your book was timely. We are considering looking into a new CMS.
One of the reasons we're doing this is our current one, which is a flavour of Bricolage, was created at a time when what you have labelled author experience wasn't really considered. So not surprisingly the author experience is quite difficult. Another reason is we have a lot of people wanting to create new flashy websites that our CMS, in its current form, can't deliver.
Rick: Yes.
Christopher: We are in the process of investigating other CMSes, gathering user and author needs, creating requirements documents, interviewing other UN agencies to find out what they have done. At the same time there are some people who want to, or need to, move ahead now. To roll out a new, small CMS for a particular department, which is happening with the help of IT. We made sure the web team was involved but were able to input just a few days before the launch.
Rick: If IT try to be too helpful, you could end up with a meta-CMmess.
Christopher: That's exactly what we're trying to avoid.
But our system has a steep and long learning curve so there aren't really very many authors and there are many people who want to be able to write and publish content faster. Even though our publishing is officially decentralised, it's still de facto centralised authoring, because there are so few trained people at the departmental level so the jobs come to the central team.
Some departments have producers. Ideally, they should all be authors. But because the system is so hard to use, the web team has started to work a little to a little too much of what as Gerry McGovern referred to as web putter-uppers rather than putting more focus on content strategy.
Rick: So, the people with specialist skills end up doing a strange type of menial work. I've seen that a lot.
Christopher: I don't want that to happen to the web team. They've got some really good skills. They should be offering a service: content management and content strategy. They should be doing governance, creating better user experience and leveraging our content in best ways possible and not spending time updating paragraphs for people, or shifting commas around.
Sometimes people forget that web content can stay online a long time. That it will be findable years later and that it needs a regular updates. Thank goodness, most people in WHO understand that they have to update their content. But they can't access it.
I know other systems have limitations, but ours is no longer fit for purpose. For example, you have to enter each paragraph as a separate element. Right now, we're trying to reintroduce WYSIWYG. That will help a little.
Rick: Adding paragraph at a time thing isn't unique to you. I recently dealt with a large energy company that has implemented one of the Gartner Magic Quadrant leading web CMSes. Their implementation has been customised so that there is no formatting of copy. They can get multiple paragraphs in one element, but if they want a title, that's a separate component, with its own edit dialog, and then the following paragraph is another component.
Editing, moving stuff around… it's a nightmare.
Christopher: Yeah. Ours is kind of like that.
But enough about the CMS. WHO does some good things on the author experience front, too.
Rick: Yes?
Christopher: We've got an excellent writing team that produces really good copy. And we take updates seriously. We try to make sure our fact sheets are as up-to-date as possible. Some elements of the site are updated yearly. Some several times a year.
Rick: That's a lot of content to review and keep accurate.
Christopher: Yes, we've got tens of thousands of pages. The people working on the content strategy really know their jobs. They're good. It's just the tool that makes it harder for them and that is what we are looking to improve.
Rick: Something that I've seen a bit of chatter about recently is the argument between centralised and decentralised authoring. I prefer a hybrid approach: decentralised content creation and raw data management, which then flows into a central team that can make it fit for publication. The versions are linked, so an update from the subject matter experts alerts the central team, who can ease the relevant bits through.
Christopher: That's essentially what we have. Except the platform isn't doing its part; we're missing that integration step.
We have content experts, and to an extent they do their own thing. But that person who actually writes the content should be able to update it in the system. Then, the central team's role becomes one of governance. They can check quality.
Rick: Yes.
Christopher: And that's what I think the team's role should be. To create a better experience as to how to move and follow content through the site.
Rick: Exactly. Following the evolution of content through its creation process is – in my view – the most important part of content management. (And the most overlooked.)
If you've got people in the field who really know their subject, and write stuff up – or even who draft a list of data points – that should be the scope of their interaction with content management.
That should feed someone else, who makes it readable.
Christopher: Yes.
Rick: But when the subject matter experts change their stuff – their private content – the next person should get those updates and be able to follow it through easily; pass it up the chain. And that way, the subject matter experts know that their knowledge and skill is being well used, that it is being disseminated. They're adding value.
Christopher: Yeah. It really is about having the workflow in place. And having as appropriate a CMS as possible for the workflow that the organisation has. You need both elements. You can't do it with just one. It's an interesting conundrum. We often solve one side but not the other…
Rick: In a sense, the people side is pre-solved. You have the people you have.
Christopher: There's some truth to that and that's why we're examining various CMSes to see if there are better ways to do things to assist the people we have and help them disseminate their content, improve their experience. I think organisations have to, every few years, review and improve their CMS, enhance its functionality; or change to a new one.
It's always interesting to see what has evolved in the CMS universe since I last analysed the CMS market.
Rick: I think the reason that has to be done so often is that most people approach it from the web end, or the CMS end. If you come at it instead from the communications and data end, if you model the data, its interactions, connections and relationships, and how you want it to come out – not as web pages, but the clusters and relationships – you end up with an infrastructure that maps to the content lifecycle.
Then, the web is just a front end. You can restyle it any way you want. It's an easy job.
Christopher: That's the point you were making in the book, which is quite a good one. It's really making sure you have the conversation with all the stakeholders. You have to involve the IT and the platform people, the developers, the web content writers, and the actual authors as well as just the web team.


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Sidmouth Folk Festival
Another regular event for us but the first with Tallulah is Sidmouth Folk Festival.
It runs for 8 days starting the last weekend of July and even without buying tickets for the festival itself, there is plenty to see and do in Sidmouth all week.
For the last few years we have stayed at Thorn Park Golf Centre in Salcombe Regis, which runs as a regular camp site for the duration (with the greens roped off) and itself hosts a Fringe Festival.
Thorn Park, while very basic, is also incredibly relaxed and very reasonably priced at just £10 per night (£13 with EHU although this is limited).
There is a shower block and a separate toilet block but these are used by the whole site so there are queues at peak times.
A bus service runs to and from Sidmouth hourly or there is a beautiful coastal work that takes 20-30 minutes going down and 30-40 coming back up.
Alternatively you can drive into Sidmouth in 5-10 minutes although you then have the issue of parking. In the past we have parked at Sidmouth Cricket Club who charge £10 for the day and are perfectly situated at the far end of the sea front.
Once in Sidmouth there are stalls all along the promenade selling jewellery, juggling items, arts & crafts, face painting and many other things as well as several music and performance acts drawing crowds.
Heading away from the beach there are several pubs with live performances and open mic sessions and regular comic and circus performances in front of the town hall.
All this before even thinking about the line-up for the actual festival which runs in several marques around the town and in other venues, for which tickets are required.
On the final day (night) there is a procession and fireworks and everything turns back to normal until the next year.
We have a great time every year at Sidmouth, not only because of everything that is going on, but because we also meet up with lots of friends from all over and camp together at Thorn Park.
Sidmouth Folk Festival is unusual in as much as you don't have to spend a fortune on tickets to be part of it, and is definitely worth a visit by anyone who enjoys unusual music.
This year we saw a guy playing Drum 'n' Bass on a didgeridoo, worth a visit just for that!
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Seasonings can be spendy, and full of things that we don't really want to put into our bodies. So, how can you make sure that you get 100% organic, healthy seasonings? One way is to grow and prepare them yourself. Here is a simple way to make onion powder using Egyptian Walking Onions. They are extremely easy to keep, as they come back every year by themselves, and the harvest is bountiful.
Here is where it starts, at the onion bed. These onions will develop a cluster of small bulbs that can be harvested and eaten – delicious!
Step 1
Harvest the tops of your Walking Onions by simply grabbing the top cluster of bulbs and popping them off. Rinse, and let dry. (more…)