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By: Fr. Santo Arrigo C.Ss.R.
Spring has begun to blossom around us, and the air is filled with the freshness of new life. Our Lenten journey continues around us as faith is enlivened and renewed in the depths of our being. We take a pause at this point of Lent to really take stock of all that divides our hearts by moving deeper into this Lenten desert.
One way of depending our Lenten journey is to walk with Jesus as he journies to carry his cross. The Stations of the Cross, a practice of devotion dating back to the first centuries after the death of Jesus, have become a way of identifying ourselves with Jesus on that first Good Friday. It is a journey marked by time and space, of memory and imagination. By journeying with Christ to the Cross, we join our struggles and difficulties, pains and sorrows, broken hopes and desperations with those of Jesus. We allow the visual image of the Stations to trigger our memories of both faith and our personal experience. This devotion should not bring to our consciousness a sense of us "loving pain", but should move us to understand the "pain of love" and how that love transforms not only how we understand the meaning of the Cross in our friendship with Jesus, but how that love has a profound connection between you and I, brothers and sisters, called to carry our "cross" in the world – to be "redeeming love" where Good News needs to be proclaimed today.
Where might Good News need to proclaimed today? Where might we identify the carrying of our cross with Jesus carrying the cross today? We do not have to look very far. Look outside your door or window – a lonely neighbour, a family living from paycheque to paycheque, a terrorized neighbourhood due to violence and murder, a country marked by political confusion over basic issues of governance, a generation of young people inheriting attitudes and mistakes for actions made now, a nation facing imminent destruction from quakes, tsunamis and nuclear disaster.
The devotion of the Stations of the Cross allows us to meditate and contemplate the real struggles of today as moments of the cross of Christ still being carried through the lives of millions of people today. As we know from Tradition and the Gospels, the story does not end with just death. The story does continue with new life and with joy of death being conquered. Some people say, "Well, it's all made up…. Jesus didn't rise….. It's just a story….." For many, this journey of Lent and Easter is just an opportunity to "do better" with our life, but when we take the time to really enter deeply into the mystery, and identify that "way of the cross" with our own lives, we see that Jesus can, and does identify with our own struggles and the struggles of every living person today.
Each day, I will be presenting for reflection, the Stations of the Cross, depicted through the art of Farhad Nargol-O'Neil, an artist from Toronto who has skillfully represented the Stations of the Cross as Devotional Soul Objects. Farhad's complete works can be viewed on his website . Read Farhad's writings in his
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The Stations of the Cross – Devotional Soul Objects
Station I
Jesus is Condemned to Die
Having been brought forward as a traitor to the state, Jesus stands before Pontius Pilate and the people and is condemned to die on a cross. It had only been a short few days prior that Jesus was welcomed into Jerusalem and declared as king by the people, and now their shouts reflect their hearts as they respond to Pilate ponderings with "Crucify Him!" They have no king but Caesar, therefore Jesus should die.
Pilate's dilemma is often felt in our world today – How do we hold justice and responsibility together with our sense of value? Pilate must respond to the charges brought before this man who has become an enemy of the state. Though he sees no crime requiring punishment, he deems it necessary to satisfy the people's request and allows their judgement to be carried out. Pilates judgement and responsibility is made known. Water falls from Pilate's hand, the cup of sacrifice is placed in motion. The scales have been tipped. Injustice has been served.
Station II
Jesus receives his cross
As children, we are told to receive a gift with openness, and gratitude. But not everything that we receive is a gift. Or is it? Jesus receives his cross – a cross of shame, a cross of pain, a cross of death. Though it is not explicitly figured, the cross is present in the centre of this station. From the upper right, the hand of the condemned receives the cross that is to be carried. As our gaze moves from left to right, we sense the calm that quickly moves to storm and confusion as the cross is received.
We are moved and challenged by the receiving of crosses in our lives, knowing that when taken in our hands, our cross may be received as less than gifts. The mystery of picking up our cross each day and following Christ is the mystery of transforming our shame, our pain, our death in to opportunities for new life.
Station III
Jesus falls for the first time
This first fall of Jesus calls draws our attention to the weight of the cross on Jesus' shoulders. This first fall is depicted through the sin of our appetite. We seek intimacy yet allow lust to control our desires. Never being satisfied with what we have, we allow greed to dictate what we want, more than what we need. Our gluttony feeds our bellies, and leaves us always wanting more. The sin of appetite leads us to be selfish, wasteful, and always seeking more of what we want, and never mindful of what we really need, whether for our bodies, our minds, or our souls.
In the upper left corner, we are reminded through the etching of a single cross that we behold this first fall. Jesus carries the weight of sin, figured through the perversion of the human form, and of technology and machinery. It is our sin that he carries with him on the road to Calvary, carrying it out of love for us, so that these sins are forgiven.
Station IV
Jesus meets His blessed Mother
No words can contain the anguish of a mother who watches on as her son is being humiliated, tortured, and led to his own death. Mary breaks free through the crowd and takes hold of her Son as if to desire to take away all his pain, all this humiliation, yet she knows that this has to be. She bore him life, but she cannot bare his death. All Mary can do is to wait for the dawn of a new day and for the promise of new life to come from the womb of the earth.
Mary is represented in body and image. Mary is the rose, figured at the top of our image. Her gentle features are in contrast to the figure of her Son's hand reaching down from the right. Her hand is gentle, while his hand is full of pain and agony. This intimate yet corrupted embrace between a Mother and Son can only find its resolution in the dawn of the new day imaged to the right. This embrace does not end in death, because for this woman, her Son will be brought to birth again.
Station V
Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry His cross
Weakened by the heavy load on his shoulders, the soldiers force Simon of Cyrene to come forward and to burden the cross with Jesus. Tradition does not account much information about this man from Cyrene. Most likely he was a Jew from Cyrene, but was probably not a Roman Citizen, therefore he may have been a slave. We see in this encounter then, the identification and relationship of Jesus the Christ, with the face of the poor slave. They walk in solidarity with one another. We are reminded that in this encounter, much like other encounters of Jesus, the social order is rightly disturbed – the lowest are raised, while the mighty or brought low. Ironically, Jesus has been brought low, becoming one of us, becoming one for us.
We see imaged through geometric patterns the cross being a burdened by another's shoulders from below. The two images of eyes on either side of the centre cross invite us to reflect on the two perspectives engaged in the action of Jesus. Some people choose to watch, while others choose to act. Some people choose to turn a blind eye, while others choose to act towards change. As for Simon, do people make circumstances happen? Or do circumstances make the person? How do we get involved?
Station VI
Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
First Simon, now Veronica steps out from the crowd and shows great love and tenderness to man who reached out to liberate women from the oppressive culture of His time. It is not surprising therefore, that she had the courage to step out, as Jesus stepped out of the cultural norms to allow women to touch him, to anoint him, to talk to him and to share in the life of the community of disciples with him. Veronica, though not recorded in the Gospels, wipes Jesus' face and his facial image leaves a permanent impression in the cross, recording for all time the agony of the moment.
The veil, coming down from the top and flowing to the left side of the image enhances the movement or action of Veronica's gesture. Figured in this station are representations of the feminine as well as an abstract impression of touch, of tears, of blood and of compassion.
Station VII
Jesus falls for a second time
Violence and terror prevail in a moment of hopelessness. Jesus, with the weight of the cross beginning to overpower him, falls for a second time. Like our first fall, this second fall is depicted through sin. This sin is one of violence. We are all witnesses to violence, whether it is in our homes, workplace, neighbourhoods, or simply seen on every channel on our television screens. Violence is not only witnessed through the image of the abstract ferocious lion, but is experienced through the violent crushing of the cross. We are invited to recall the violence represented by the lion in Dante's Inferno.
Unlike the victorious Christ who tramples death by death on the cross, this lion's stance is to trample the victory of the cross; and not only trample the cross, but violently stomp all over it. Sin has gained the upper hand against the already weak and tired Christ. Despite the sin, Jesus gets his footing and rises to continue his walk. As we gaze upon this fall, imaged through the eye at the bottom right, we witness not only the violence and terror, but the determination to move forward.
Station VIII
Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem
Not only has Jesus fallen victim to the agony of the moment, but the women who watch from near and far experience each of his laborious steps as an angry mob trampling on their own hearts. Women have always been held with high respect in the life and ministry of Jesus.
We recall the woman at the well, Mary and Martha, Mary Magdalene, the repentant sinner who bathed His feet with his tears, the woman caught in adultery, the woman healed of her illness, the daughter of Jairus, the Widow of Nain, the Syrophoenician woman, and not to mention His own mother Mary, imaged here once again through the rose.
These are only a few of the women who may have been present that day along the way. We gaze upon the image of the encounter of the women with their beloved friend. It is a moment of tears, tenderness and love. The only grace conferred in the moment is that of consolation. Jesus speaks, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children".
The embrace of these women with Jesus, figured through the contours of the feminine alongside the harsh reality of the cross invites us to consider our own willingness to encounter this suffering servant.
Station IX
Jesus falls for the third time
The weight of sin has become so great. Jesus is overcome once again by the weight of the cross. This third fall is represented through the sin of fraud. Fraud is greater than the sins of the first and second falls (appetite and violence), as fraud is committed through the deliberate free act of knowing evil. In Dante's Inferno, the fraudulent are located in the eighth circle of hell, right before the circle where Satan is found waist deep in ice.
In this moment as Jesus succumbs to the weight of the cross, the tree of life is chocked ever more violently by Satan, imaged as the snake. Adam and Eve, the first to succumb to the sin of fraud through the deception of the snake to make them believe they were something more than they were, are figured through the hand with the apple.
How subtle is our imagining when we see the tree of life being choked by the snake, but we know that this fall of Jesus will ultimately lead us the liberation through that same tree of life. Figured in this fall, more than in the first two falls, the crosses not only indicate to us that this is the third fall, but that the tree of life is renewed through the salvific act of love through death on the tree. We see the almost unperceivable etch from the base of the choked tree of life leading us towards the liberated cross. We connect then the completion of our journey of salvation. The fall of Adam and Eve has given rise to this fall of Jesus. But this fall was necessary to bring love to triumph.
Station X
Jesus is stripped of His garments
There is nothing more degrading to human dignity than to have one's clothing stripped from their body. It is an attack that leaves the victim powerless, exposed and vulnerable to further shame. The dressing of Jesus in his "royal" robes is only made more twisted by removing them for all to see.
Jesus, the Lamb of God is the sacrifice for our sins that have burdened him throughout this journey. In the Hebrew Tradition of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the sheep is sent out into the desert carrying the listing of the sins of the people. Jesus the lamb is figured predominantly in this station, standing before the altar of sacrifice. The two beasts violently attack Jesus, removing his garments, placing the sins of the people upon him and preparing Him for sacrifice.
Though, the beasts are removing the garments from Jesus, they are actually aiding in the liberation of the world from the debt of sin.
Station XI
Jesus is crucified
Confusion – Horror – disbelief. These are the emotions that envelope the witnesses who watch their beloved being pierced with nails and thorns. Wounds touch deep within the skin. Wounds piercing through our very soul. Jesus is nailed to the cross. The end is near. The deed is done. Grace is absent in the midst of great confusion.
We see imaged how the journey takes us out of the city of Jerusalem, from the temple into the pit of chaos. Eyes of witnesses not knowing where to look – Roman Soldiers, Mary, the mother of Jesus, John, the beloved disciple. The tormented hand reaching high, figured with an eye where the nail is being placed. The wisdom of God is at work in this moment, even though alongside this eye, we see figured the devil, with horns and tail creeping in to devour and to conquer. Soon, he will be raised up. Soon, the spear will pierce his side. Soon, that wisdom of God will reveal grace again.
Station XII
Death on the Cross
Heaven and earth have met once again. Through the incarnation of the Word of God coming among us as a man gave new meaning to our life, so in this moment, the death of "God among us", Emmanuel has brought new meaning to death. We are reconciled with God in this moment and the Covenant formed long ago is once again restored. We are reminded that it is not so much the love of pain that brings us into this renewed covenant with God, but it is the pain of love that draws us back into this love relationship with our Creator. We are redeemed through this act of love, while we also await the future promise of the fullness of redemption.
Figured quite predominantly are the two Seraphim kneeling towards one another on top of what appears to be the tablets of the Covenant – the Ten Commandments. We behold the Ark of the Covenant, the repository of law in the person of Jesus Christ. In the desert of the Sinai Peninsula, the Ark was kept in the tent. It was from between the two Seraphim on the Ark that God spoke the word to Moses. Between the Seraphim at the direct centre of this Station, we see a small tablet with the etch of a Cross. Once again, it is between the Seraphim, that the Word of God has spoken. Jesus is the Word of God bringing life through His death. The temple, figured below the Seraphim, has been shaken, while the veil of the temple, starting from the bottom of the image, as been torn in two.
As in the image, represented in the eye to the right, we have become fellow witnesses to this death. We see the suffering of all of God's creation and our brothers and sisters day in and day out. All of creation cries out for this renewal to take place today. We find hope through this image, as death has not triumphed. It is still part of our lived experience to suffer and die, but death has not triumphed. This has been the promise of God in our love relationship with Him. This has been a part of the Covenant that has been renewed in the blood of Christ.
Station XIII
The Body of Christ is taken down from the Cross
Jesus is dead. His body hangs lifeless upon the Cross. The raging storm not only thunders around them, but adds to the confusion that lies deep within the hearts of those who behold this sight. Jesus is dead. All hope, expectations, dreams, good news is dead.
We gaze upon mass confusion in the piece before us. Even our gaze is shifted along the vertical plane, the top is slanted to the left, while the base of the image is slanted to the right. While trying to remove the body of Jesus from the cross with devotion and respect, everyone is rot with raw emotion. No one knows where to look, nor how to feel. The words of Jesus echo in their ears, "It is finished". But these witnesses cannot believe that it is finished. Though dazed and confused, their objective is clear: remove Jesus' body before sundown and place him in the tomb, figured at the bottom right of the piece.
Station XIV
The Body of Christ is put in the Tomb
Evening approaches and all have returned to their homes and families, the city has become silent. Many remain quiet; some, puzzled. A few, frightened of what is next for them. Joseph of Arimathea, along with Nicodemus, the disciple John, Mary Magdelene, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and the other women have removed Jesus' body and quietly and quickly bring Him to His final resting place, the tomb. There is no time to prepare the body, as the sun is about to set. The women plan to come back and properly prepare the body with spices and oil.
Figured in the upper left corner are windows through which we see the place of execution, where the cross still stands. The slope down the right to the centre illicit the movement of this Station – the journey of Jesus to the tomb, which is imaged to the left – the final resting place. Using inverse perspective in the tomb, we are invited to see this place as holy, like an Icon. It is a new altar of the lamb, the lamb that has been slaughtered and is now dead. Above the tomb, we see the subtle curved line reminding us of the waters of death which also figure as the waters of new life and baptism. As our gaze takes us further right we allow our imagination to take us to an open door near the centre. This is the door, or portal to the underworld. Jesus, in death, descends among the dead. There Jesus encounters the pit of evil, imaged through the presence of demons.
But our journey does not end here in the tomb and in the pit of death and despair of the underworld. From the place of the dead, Jesus steps up (toward the right), and we behold the figure of the outside of the tomb. Despite death, we see the re-birthing of life. Though the Stations traditionally end in the tomb, we are gifted and graced at the end of our journey with a foreshadow of what is to come – a new dawn, a new day, a new body. Christ has conquered death by death.


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Q1. Accounting is one of the oldest, structured management information system. Give the meaning of accounting and book keeping? Explain the objectives of accounting?
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Bad Debts written off Rs 9000
Discount allowed to Debtors Rs. 1800
Reserve for Bad and doubtful Debts 31-12-1999 Rs. 16500
Reserve for discount on Debtors 31-12-1999 Rs. 3200
You are required to provide the bad and doubtful debts at 5% and for discount on debtors at 2%. Show the adjustments for bad debts, bad debts reserve, discount account, and provision for discount on debtors.
Hint: RBD to be provided = 500
Reserve for discount to be provided now =1640
Answer. The amount debited to P&L account towards RBD is computed as follows:
Old RBD = Rs.16500
(-) Bad debts = Rs. 9000
Balance = Rs. 7500
New RBD @5%on 160000 = Rs. 8000
RBD to be provided = Rs. 500(8000-7500)
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With last week's closing of DC-10 and Sankey's, Ibiza's much loved clubbing season has finally come to an end. Thousands of people from all around the globe will be at their desks nostalgically yearning to be back at Café del Mar, losing themselves in the mesmerizing sight of the sun slowly sinking into the ocean as the perfect selection of Balearic, ambient sounds takes the beauty and emotion of the occasion to a higher level. Imagining a carefree version of yourself, cocktail in hand, gearing up for a night of excess with all your favourite DJs on some of the world's most iconic dance floors and you might be ready to book your flight. The only decision now is where to stay, San An or Playa den Bossa? This is how everyone in Ibiza hopes you're thinking, from the club owners and promoters to the 'lucky lucky' men selling sunglasses, watches and umbrella hats on the beaches of San Antonio, but is Ibiza really the only place to be? Or is the long-time king of club land's crown starting to slip? Could the island of free love and life changing beats have sold is soul?
In August 1987, a London based DJ by the name of Paul Oakenfold decided to celebrate his 24th birthday by flying out to Ibiza to visit a couple of friends working on the isle. He was accompanied by Danny Rampling, Johnny Walker and Nicky Holloway, who were all involved in the club scene in London at the time. It was on the first night of the trip that they ran into another London DJ, Trevor Fung, who told them about a new drug called ecstasy and an amazing party at a venue in the middle of nowhere calling itself Amnesia, run by DJ Alfredo Fiorito. Alfredo was a music journalist from Argentina who left the country during the military dictatorship for Europe in search of better things, finally ending up in Ibiza via Paris and Madrid. It was in 1982, when Alfredo was earning his living selling candles and clothes, that a friend told him he was leaving the island for Thailand, gave him the keys to Amnesia and told him that he was now in charge. In those days Amnesia was little more than a farmhouse with a few tables and chairs and Alfredo was the only DJ, but despite this modest set up every morning the club would open at 3am and the party would rage until 12 noon. This was the place to go to after the clubs whether you were rich or poor, young or old, everyone was welcome and together created an atmosphere that would shape the future of electronic music across the globe. Things had progressed a little by the time Oakie and friends arrived as Ulises Braun describes 'By 1987, Amnesia had six or seven bars and about half of them were rented out to people like me. Everything in Amnesia was spontaneous and different. It was a wild time. There were no laws: people were making love on the dance floor, drinking and dancing, taking litres of liquid ecstasy between them. It looked like a Federico Fellini movie; every personality was different.' The decision to spend a large chunk of the little money they had on traveling miles to a club they'd never heard of would turn out to be the one of the best they ever made as Johnny Walker explains 'We were under the stars, in the warm summer air, hearing this amazing mixture Alfredo was playing. In the middle of the open air dance floor was a mirrored pyramid, then around the edges were bars and chill out areas with cushions, and Mediterranean and tropical plants. It was high walled, like being in a tropical garden.' But it wasn't just the drugs, sex and spiritual vibe that affected the group, it was the music. As Oakenfold said 'In England at that time, clubs only played one type of music, and London was full of attitude. But at Amnesia you had 7,000 people dancing to Cyndi Lauper. Total freedom.' It's no surprise that within five months of being back in London, three ground-breaking new clubs opened, Oakenfolds 'Spectrum, Ramplings 'Shroom' and Nicky Hollways 'Trip'. The nights went from strength to strength but the group never forgot who was behind their success, Alfredo. Oakenfold flew him over to London on several occasions, Alfredo still being up for a party even after playing every night for seven months!
Fast forward to the summer of 2014 and my own trip to Amnesia, for one of the islands most successful ever club nights, Cream. Tickets were between €45 and €60 but the real horror is the drink pricing once inside the venue. Two rum and cokes will set you back a further €40 and a bottle of water so small you won't find it in any shop is €10. Don't think you can just go and get yourself a drink from the tap in the toilets as you will be treated to dehydrating, warm, salt water. No chance of finding a seat to cool down either as the only seating is for the disinterested VIPs looking down from the balconies above. Even the camel and bed that used to be at the back of the terrace has been removed to make way for another money making bar. The terrace is a historical name as the venue now has no open air spaces after a roof was added making it appear more like a warehouse than a Mediterranean paradise. The music was still amazing and the sound system incredible, but the atmosphere is nothing like it was even when I first went in 2001. As Paul Van Dyk left the decks at 4am, John O'Callaghen stepped up to take the music to another level but the dance floor didn't reflect this as a few people started to drift away throughout his set. I'm not sure how this was even possible as we were glued to the dance floor for 2 hours of hypnotic trance and techno, delivered through the legendary chest vibrating Amnesia V-prof sound system and accompanied by constant freezing cold blasts from the ten ice canons so famous they have their own Facebook page! By the time Adam Ellis took control to finish off the night the dance floor was down to the die-hards, a far cry from the days of Alfredo as Ulises Braun reminisces 'When Alfredo stopped the music, people started to scream: 'Alfredo! Alfredo!'
What truly concerns me however is the atmosphere at Amnesia was actually a lot better than it had been the previous night at Pacha for 'Aoki's Playhouse'. When I arrived Tommy Trash was banging out his usual adrenaline fuelled big room house sound to a disinterested crowd of wannabe super models and Italian footballers. It was, much to my dismay, actually uncomfortable to be on the dance floor for Trashes set, being in the midst of a sea of bored or at best blank faces. I was approaching the decision to leave but I'm glad I didn't as everything changed when Steve Aoki finally hit the decks. The club suddenly transformed from resembling a station packed full of commuters awaiting their delayed train to a super club with a richly deserved global reputation for putting on nights you will never forget, if indeed you remembered them in the first place! Still, I couldn't help but think to myself that this is not what Ibiza is about; it's never been about going to a famous club to see a famous DJ, posting a selfie on Facebook, and then going home at the end of the set. Thankfully Steve Aoki himself still encompasses the old Ibiza spirit as he joined me on the dance floor at the end of his set and danced amongst the crowd until 7am appeared without warning, the music stopped and it was time to step out under the painfully bright morning sky and begin to try and work out how we would ever get back to San An.
Two days after I got back to England I read that Orlando Bloom had been involved in a fist fight with Justin Bieber in a restaurant on the Island, the article mentioned the likes of Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton being there at the time and I wondered how the four of them would have coped at Amnesia in 1987. Overall my sixteenth trip to the White Isle had been great, it definitely hadn't been cheap and hadn't been as good as in the past, but I still wouldn't swap it for a week of cheap shots and dubious girls in Magaluf or stag infested pub crawls in Benidorm so maybe there really is no viable alternative to Ibiza? Maybe the clubs can try and price out the average clubber in favour of celebs but we'll just have to save a bit harder, work a few more shifts and have a few more cheap nights in and head back again next summer regardless. But not everyone is thinking this way. New club scenes are emerging around the world… If you want big, glamorous, multi-million dollar venues and daily pool parties with regular A-list DJ's, Las Vegas might be the place for you. If it's the open air, hippy beach vibe you're chasing then Thailand or Goa might be worth looking into. For the original free love Ibiza experience, the Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert is the ultimate rebellion against overpriced, celebrity commercialism. The bad news is they are all so far away and the flights are so expensive. The good news? There may yet be another alternative.
Mark Broadbent was the former programmer at seminal Ibiza event "We Love", but as he explains "I left what for some would have been the dream job of programming one of the best parties in the world due to a lack of enthusiasm in the way things are heading in Ibiza. A very different kind of clubber now comes here than 10 years ago, but Ibiza needs this kind of tourist to sustain the growth made during these past 10 years. The face of Ibiza has now changed … and there are now other places to visit if you want to recapture that hippie/free spirit we once loved here so much many moons ago." So where is Mark now? He's resurfaced in Croatia as chief promoter for The Garden Festival's off-site, open-air venue, Barbarella's, and he's not the only one making the switch from Ibiza to Croatia. Croatia now hosts over 20 summer festivals, including Hideout, which has exploded onto the European festival scene. One of Hideouts founders, Dan Blackledge, a former promoter in Ibiza himself, does not think comparisons between the two are fair "I think people are saying that because it's another destination that's getting increasingly popular and has electronic music but, in my opinion, it is completely different to Ibiza. It's new, it's fresh, and you can dance outside, all day until 6 in the morning under the stars, next to the sea, next to the mountains and forests. I don't know anywhere in Ibiza that you can do that anymore." Even Ibiza legend Richie Hawtin is beginning to think there might be something special developing in Croatia "There's a lot of talk about whether Croatia is the next #TechnoTourist destination, specially with Ibiza starting its slow course to re-invent itself more as a VIP than a tourist destination," the ENTER head honcho ponders in a new Facebook post. "If Friday night was any test of that then perhaps these rumours of Croatia are true. The Sonus Festival, it's incredibly curated line-up of top electronic talent & world class production …was a lightning rod of the energy and happiness that can be created when you combine great open-air venues, cool people and amazing music."
All this talk of Croatia prompted Ibiza-Spotlight.com to send reporter Francesca Evans over to examine the truth behind the hype. She concluded 'A festival capital by all means and if anything, Croatia is a nod to the old White Isle. But think of Croatia as the sparkling rocket, whizzing ahead in to everyone's conscience, while Ibiza is the slow burning Catherine Wheel, still as bright and as beautiful as always. There's enough room for the two fireworks in dance music's display' Maybe so, but if Ibiza doesn't re-evaluate its current path soon, it may finally burn out forever.
Jamie Rylett
For more Ibiza discussion, make sure you check out the Ibiza special episode of my podcast Eat Sleep Grow Repeat with special guest Chicane at: http://eatsleepgrowrepeat.com/chicane-ibiza-special-edition/


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Europe: Back from the brink
The summer of crisis, collapse and political disorientation is cancelled.
Last night the EU leaders took steps which, though not a complete solution to the crisis, averted its escalation. Crucially Angela Merkel did what she had insisted was impossible. She made major concessions on short-term measures to ease the crisis without achieving the long-term quid-pro-quo, German politics had dictated she must demand.
The EU leaders made a series of moves, each separately important, which have averted catastrophe - allowing Europe's troubles to become "just a crisis" again.
First, the Spanish bank bailout has been changed. Money will be injected directly into banks with no corresponding increase in Spain's national debt. To be clear - the liability is being assumed jointly by countries still healthy enough to inject money into the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) fund. The Irish bailout will be re-done in this way (though there is more detail to follow there).
Second - and an important precedent - the Spanish bank bailout money will not create "senior" claims by the bailout fund. Up to now, the countries lending the money had planned to award themselves "seniority" over private sector investors, which could have provoked massive capital flight from the bailed-out economies.
Third, they removed the "Troika-discipline" from future bailouts. If Italy and Spain are complying with the rules of the fiscal compact agreed last December, they can get bailout money from the 500bn euro fund without having to impose tough new austerity conditions.
Fourth, they agreed a (fairly meager, but morally significant) fiscal stimulus, borrowing money against structural funds to boost 130bn euros (£105bn) into the economies facing collapse.
Finally they agreed to move to a single banking supervisor by 1 January 2013; not the "full banking union" desired by some, but a clear and irrevocable step towards it. The single regulator is the only condition secured by Germany for the release of all the other monies and permissions.
'Vicious circle'
What's missing is the commitment, demanded by Italy, for the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and ESM to intervene in the bond markets - buying the bonds of stricken countries - in a kind of bailout-via-the-market. But it is still permitted and if done, it will be led by the European Central Bank, allowing the ECB to use the 500bn euro fund in a way that fudges fiscal and monetary intervention.
The memorandum begins: "We affirm that it is imperative to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns." And to this extent it does what it says on the tin.
Europe stood on the brink of a Spanish and Italian debt crisis that would have a) required massive austerity in both countries and b) probably been the signal for massive capital flight from Europe. There was real fear that one or more countries would exit the euro; that Spain and Italy would be forced to default; that the subsequent revaluation of assets would sink several core-country banks; that the technocrats, having failed, would be replaced in short order by ideological politicians, not least a back-from-zombification Silvio Berlusconi.
This is all averted - provided the Germans buy what Merkel signed up to.
However, having broken the link between bank and sovereign debt crises, these crises still exist.
Spain is - as Joe Stiglitz said on BBC Newsnight last night - in a depression. Italy is stagnating. There is still an inter-bank credit crunch across Europe and all three sectors - consumer, banks and governments - are still overwhelmed by bad debt.
As the hours ticked towards conclusion, I received the latest of several briefings from people who were "talking to the Germans", that is, to senior CDU politicians, bankers, businesspeople and so on. The message was "we're prepared to inflict pain on Europe now - including a recession on ourselves - to secure tough fiscal rules for the next generation. We can sit it out."
That is probably how Mrs Merkel went into the meeting thinking. But the rapid shift in the balance of forces in Europe defeated her and she could no longer use Sarkozy as a human shield.
Instead she has come out of the bruising overnight encounter committed to bailing out southern Europe with German taxpayers' funds, with no seniority for the debt and no special conditions of austerity such as were imposed on Greece, Portugal and Ireland.
Focus on growth
So though it is not the end of the crisis, it is the end of an era - which started with the first Greek bailout and ended in Brussels last night - in which Franco-German policy was to impose internal devaluation measures on the south that caused one Daily Telegraph economist to describe them as "basically fascist".
Growth is the solution to indebtedness, is the subtext of last night. Growth plus regular, long-term fiscal balancing measures and tough supervision of the banks. This, in its own way, brings Europe into line with America, where President Obama has completed the image of this as a corner-turning week by facing down the challenge to his healthcare law.
That leaves only one major economy committed to austerity first and growth maybe. It is an economy that could do with a bit of effective banking supervision itself. If the bond markets become convinced Europe is stabilised, they may now look quizzically at this last major economy, mired in a double-dip recession and with - on the admission of its industry minister - no real growth strategy. Meanwhile that country's people see the 17-member eurozone racing towards a banking union and locked-in fiscal policies.
To put it another way: the battle of Europe is over (for now). The battle of Britain may be about to begin.


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How to get my worst symptom fixed?
Over the years I have had many different symptoms...well.
For a long time I had a constant headache, I would go to sleep with it, wake up with it, it was terrible. That was certainly one of the worst ones. This one took a while to go away. At the time I was terrified of having a brain tumor, and I think that it was the anxiety related to this concern that was causing the headaches. Once I accepted the fact that I was healthy, they gradually went away. I still get them from time to time, but I don't even think about them, and they rarely last longer then a few hours.
Derealisation was by far the worst. As I have mentioned in other posts, I have a handle on this one now, but it was so scary when it was at it's peak. it still creeps up on my now and then, but I always immediately distract myself and just force myself to ignore it. Very hard, yes, but it does lesson it.
Currently, the major thing for me is tiredness. Being anxious and worrying all day wipes me out. I find that I can rarely get through watching a movie with my husband without falling asleep. I figure that my body is finally relaxed, and so it's just pure exhaustion.
Has anyone else found a way to cure this level of tiredness? My first thought is to drink coffee, ha ha, but that's terrible for people with anxiety, so I stay away from it. Any other ideas?
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Re: How to get my worst symptom fixed?
I understand that u have a lots of different symptoms..
U can try Homeopathy. Like - Aconite, Actaea rac., Drosera, Calc carb., and Sulfur are all useful homeopathic remedies for dealing with anxiety.
Hypnotherapy is a Self-hypnosis helps to impart to the mind imagery designed to bring about deep levels of relaxation.
And u can also try Meditation - which Develops the mind`s ability to stop anxiety at its source.
Hope it will sloved ur all problem. Thanks.
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Re: How to get my worst symptom fixed?
No offence but...arent you guys like...the same person? :shock:
I'd be a dog, a monkey or a bear, or anything but that vain animal, who is so proud of being rational.
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The United States' greatest export is probably its culture. American products, fashion, and cultural icons are used all over the world, even in countries that don't really like us very much.
Much of these are really part of America's immigrant subculture. For example, second and third generation Mexican-Americans have created distinctive subculture known as "cholo". These younger Mexican-Americans speak to a hybrid langue that melds Spanish and English into a form of speech called "Spanglish". Spanglish music has strong hip-hop influences and the Cholos" tend to sport tattoos, baggy clothing, and drive "low-rider" automobiles and favor "gangster rap" music. Cholo music has strong criminal influence to it, often glorifying gangs and drug dealing.
It's not the sort of "culture" our embassies, ambassadors and politicians care to promote or export; never the less, it has been "exported" and become a youth "subculture" in, of all places, Japan. Younger Japanese have adopted "cholo" for themselves; not only just the music, but the "style" as well. The Japanese version of cholo music mixes English, Spanish and Japanese lyrics as well as the Chicano fashion style.as well.
But cholo is not the only American subculture that has been unofficially exported an quite often equally condemned by other nations.
Sweden's international image is that of peaceful; politically correct country where general displays of rowdiness are frowned upon. But "Raggare" is a Swedish subculture obsessed with classic American cars. Swedes gather for huge tailgate parties where Country, Rock-and-Roll, and Rockabilly music is blasted, accompanied by large quantities of beer while waving Confederate flags.
American Heavy Metal became popular not only in Europe and Scandinavia but also in Islamic Syria, forcing both the Syrian Muslim Government, and the Islamist Syrian rebels to place official bans on all "non-Islamic" music. .


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We've got to hand it to good ol' Butch. Nobody rallies the Republican hard-liners like him. Earlier this year, Otter vowed to return Ada County and Boise to the control of the Republican Party and away from those nasty little Democrats. "The party's alive and well and vibrant and doing good, and we need it, especially in Ada County, especially in Boise," he said. "There's been some inroads there that I think just shouldn't be." As part of his spiel to the party loyalists, he urged them to become more involved in the race for Boise mayor, a race that pits incumbent (and Democrat) Dave Bieter, against City Council member (and buddy to Republicans) Jim Tibbs. "We need to resolve to make a difference in the next election," Otter said. "We need to take Ada County back because it belongs in the Republican portfolio." Funny thing is, the mayor's race is supposed to be non-partisan. We're just saying.
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A high-ranking Chicago police officer denied Tuesday that she sought only minimal charges in the case of an officer convicted of beating a bartender in 2007 in an attempt to "whitewash" the matter.
Chief Debra Kirby insisted that she conducted a thorough and serious investigation from the moment she learned of the beating involving officer Anthony Abbate.
"I wanted him charged with a felony," Kirby said.
But Kirby's testimony was contradicted by one of her own investigators. And at day's end, the city's own lawyer aggressively sparred with an Assistant Cook County State's Attorney over whether the case was serious enough to merit felony charges.
Kirby was head of the Chicago Police Department's Internal Affairs Division at the time of Anthony Abbate's 2007 attack on Karolina Obrycka at Jesse's Shortstop Inn on the city's northwest side.
She told jurors Tuesday that she always approached the case as a potential felony and never tried to minimize it.
Her testimony, however, was contradicted by the very next witness, one of her own investigators in the Internal Affairs. Sgt. Joseph Stehlik said that the first time he viewed the video of the attack with Kirby and another officer, it was quickly observed that Abbate was off-duty.
"I said that looks like a simple battery," he said, adding that Kirby and the third officer agreed that a misdemeanor charge was all the incident merited, and conveyed that to prosecutors in a conference call that same day.
"And she said that from what we see it appeared to be simple battery?" Abbate attorney Terry Ekl questioned.
"Correct," answered Stehlik.
Indeed, Stehlik said he visited with Obrycka later that day and had her sign a complaint for misdemeanor simple battery and not the stiffer felony charge.
"And that, to me, shows absolutely an attempt at the highest levels of the Chicago Police Department to whitewash this case in order to protect this image of the Chicago Police Department," Ekl told reporters outside the courtroom.
But the testimony of the day's last witness suggested that the decision making process on the Abbate case was rife with conflict at every level and that someone was not telling the truth.
Cook County prosecutor Thomas Bilyk, the supposed recipient of the Kirby conference call, testified that there never was such a call. And he said he was "shocked" when he learned of the Internal Affairs decision to seek misdemeanor charges when the State's Attorney's investigation was still underway.
Matthew Hurd, the city's lead attorney, pressed Bilyk on the decision to eventually charge Abbate with a felony. Just hours after Kirby testified that it was always her intent to seek the more serious charges, Hurd seemed to suggest that the case hardly merited felony status. At one point, he directly challenged Bilyk on whether he had ever filed felony charges in such a case.
The suggestion to the jury was clear: that if police sought only minimal charges, it was because the incident was relatively minor. That could be a tough sell for jurors who have seen clips of the violent beating nearly every day of the trial.
The video of the attack went viral nationwide and became a major embarrassment for the Chicago Police Department. Indeed, Bilyk said his supervisor in the Special Prosecutions unit, Scott Cassidy, called him the morning the video became a sensation, screaming that he had "f****d up the case."
Obrycka testified Monday the beating was so violent that she feared she would never again see her son.
Abbate last week told the court he didn't remember the attack because he was drunk and told the court that he never implored officers to cover up the incident. He was convicted of aggravated battery in 2009 and sentenced to probation.
The current trial is a civil case against the city of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department.


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Namibia cannot ignore the effects of climate change
Climate change will hit poor countries the hardest because they rely heavily on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture and fishery.
But, argues James MacGregor, Natural Resource Accounts (NRA) — accounts for natural assets such as fish and forests — could help evaluate the environment's contribution to national wealth.
Namibia's NRAs show that, under a best-case scenario, climate impacts would cause the country's gross domestic product to drop by one per cent, while the worst case sees a fall of nearly six per cent over 20 years.
And these estimates only consider agriculture and fisheries, without accounting for climate impacts on other sectors like health, infrastructure or energy.
Integrating Namibia's NRA data into a Social Accounting Matrix shows that climate change could leave a quarter of Namibians unemployed, says MacGregor.
He argues that countries like Namibia need "climate-proofed" policies and activities alongside strategies to deal with displaced agricultural workers.
MacGregor adds that industrialised nations, which are most responsible for climate change, must help vulnerable countries plan and cope with a climate-constrained future.
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It seems that the Americans aren't the only ones losing their ever loving minds. I am so sorry for your loss, the loss of the family, and the lost to the world of a bright, rising star.
Confessions of a Creative Writing Teacher
'She believed in a better world, and she fought for it every day'
OK, this is supposed to be a creative writing blog, but yesterday we lost a particularly wonderful human being and I feel the need to just pay my respects.
This week began with the most horrific act of violence in Orlando, and has continued to lurch from the surreal to the horrific ever since, as the political debate over Europe becomes ever more violent and divisive. Whatever side you're on, I think we can agree that this is getting scary now. We don't seem very far from the fascists, communists and anarchists fighting on the streets in the 1930s, and history warns us where that led. And yesterday, after Tuesday's positively bizarre flotilla on the Thames, with Sir Bob haranguing Nigel Farage in what a friend of mine described as 'the worst Titanic remake ever,' a lonely…
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Businessweek's Masthead -- At Last!
Most of the staff couldn't make it to the shelter
In previous posts I've commented on how BusinessWeek (n/k/a Bloomberg Businessweek) hasn't published a masthead as long as anyone can remember, which has made it hard to track the extent that the magazine has been decimated by layoffs.
Well, the newly redesigned magazine has a masthead, for the first time since before the takeover I believe, and "decimated" seems to be an understatement. As a matter of fact, the image that I have in mind is a nuclear explosion, in which only editors above the rank of senior editor were able to make it into the shelter. Most of the rest seem to have been vaporized.
The masthead was thoughtfully scanned here, and it's a shocker. The once-mighty staff, 250 domestic and overseas personnel as of 2004, has been reduced to 69. I'm not counting Matt Winkler, who is off the masthead but listed as editor in chief, though I am counting the 12 members of the Fortune-like "board of editors."
Here's a somewhat clearer version of the masthead:
Here's the bottom portion of the masthead, showing BW Online:
Every single department editor and domestic correspondent is gone, either fired or absorbed into the Bloomberg wire, and there are now three New York-based writers. There are now just four overseas correspondents. Of the three New York writers, one is Peter Coy, who covers economics, but there is no longer a Chief Economist or an economics editor. Another is Roben Farzad, who is all that is left of my old department that covered Wall Street and finance.
But then again, the magazine will be drawing from the staff of Bloomberg, and includes vast hordes of experienced people, including Pulitzer-winning investigative journalists. It will be interesting to see if this total slash-and-burn of the BW corporate culture results in a magazine that lives up to the hype.
© 2010 Gary Weiss. All rights reserved.
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Megan Abbott :: Die A Little (VO)
Could you tell us about your childhood, Ms Abbott, and tell us how you came to writing crime literature ?
As a kid growing up in Detroit, I spent Saturday mornings in front of the TV watching old movies, falling into their world. And my favorites were always film noir, which seemed to capture all the drama, danger and glamour that I imagined could be possible. It gave me such a larger idea of life, and made the adult world seem so thrilling. The movies led me to the books (James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett) and the books led me to writing myself. I wanted to write my way into that world.
You've already received many prizes for your books (Mystery writers of America and Edgar Allan Poe in 2008), how does it feel, winning all those prizes so early in your young career as a writer ?
It's wonderful. An honor, absolutely. I feel incredibly lucky and very, very surprised. Sometimes I feel like an imposter.
Human relations are the strongest aspect in your last last novel published in France, Red Room Lounge, at the Le masque Editions, how did you get the idea to write this novel ?
The idea began with an article I read in Newsweek about a schoolteacher, the wife of a military man, who was accused of drug trafficking. As the story unfolded it became clear that her husband went to all kinds of means to protect his wife and conceal her crimes. It seemed like such a classic noir story—the kind that would usually be told from the husband's point of view. The man who falls for a dangerous woman and she brings about his downfall. I started to think about what it would be like to look at the story from different angles. To see the supposed femme fatale from different vantage points.
One can recognize your novel thanks to the very detailed depiction of your characters , could you tell us about Lora King and Gloria ?
My idea for Lora was that she be the kind of woman who's likely never appear in a classic noir novel. She's a school teacher, a seeming "straight arrow." The book is about her "crossing over" from the world of suburban propriety, to the underbelly. But we see she has her own darknesses. I think that's what I love most about the noir tradition : we all carry lightness and darkness inside. We all carry both.
Tell us about the novel that made you famous in France : Absente (the song is you) , published by Sonatine Editions ?
Several years ago, I found a reference to Jean Spangler as one of Hollywood's unsolved cases, from 1949. She was an aspiring actress, gone missing. There were rumors of gangster boyfriends and dates with movie stars. And one day, just gone. I found a lot of coverage of the case in Los Angeles newspapers of the time. Then, with no leads, the stories just stopped. I tracked down one of her movies, called The Miracle of the Bells. She's on screen for just a few seconds. She's witnessing the "miracle" of the title and she has this frightened look on her face. Watching it while knowing what happened to her, I felt these chills up my spine. I began researching. Her story was so sad, this working single mother struggling to make ends meet, dancing in revues and taking any part that came her way. And I've always been interested in people who seem to lead two lives. Here was Jean Spangler, working hard to support her five-year-old daughter, sister-in-law and mother—and then she has this whole other life: dating Kirk Douglas, Mickey Cohen's goons, big shots, all taking her to these nightclubs on the Sunset Strip. I couldn't get the story out of my head, so Absente came from that.
The main characters of your novels are women, are you an active feminist ?
I'm certainly a feminist, but I don't think about any of that when I write. It's two parts of my brain—the social-political and the creative. Those two parts don't intersect much !
Your novels remind me of Hitchcock , your plots are real puzzles.
Thank you! I've been watching his movies since I was little. I think I read the Truffaut interview book with him a 100 times. Vertigo remains a touchstone for me.
What are your writing habits ? (in the morning, the evening, at your desk …)
Mornings are best, early as possible—I run out of steam! I used to only write at home, but lately I've been writing at cafes as well. Sometimes, I write on the subway, on the front flap of the book I'm reading. It's so quiet there, in its own way. And good ideas can come.
The fifties are your favourite period for your novels, why is that ?
I don't think they're my favorite, but I am fascinated by the movies from that era—the stark contrast between the lush Technicolor melodramas and musicals and the grittiest of film noir. The fact that the two existing at the same time speaks to a fascinating duality of the time.
Does your family read your novels ? What do they think of them ?
Oh, yes. They've always been big supporters. My parents are both writers and my brother is a prosecutor, so they are sources of both support and inspiration.
Le concierge masqué is very curious : what will be your next novel published in the US, and in France ?
In the U.S., I have a book coming out in July 2012, called Dare Me. It will be published in France in a year or two, but next in France will be The End of Everything, which is set in the 1980s and is about a missing 13-year-old girl. It's very different than my previous books in terms of time and place and yet somehow connected to them thematically. A tale of innocence and experience.
Could you tell us about the site The Abbott Gran Medicine Show ?
It's a blog I started with my friend, the author Sara Gran. Just a tiny corner of the internet for us to explore our strangest, most obscure interests. Everything from crime-scenes-rendered-in-miniature to conspiracy theories to V.C. Andrews novels to murder ballads.
Do you have a funny anecdote about one of the characters in your novels ?
Gloria, the main character in my novel Adieu, Gloria, is based loosely on Virginia Hill. Today, she's mostly known as the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, the one after whom he named the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. But she was so much more than that. She was a trusted courier who would move money and jewels and whom the mob would send to Switzerland to open bank accounts—big stuff like that. She was so steely, so hardboiled. When the press tracked her down in Paris to inform her that Bugsy Siegel had been murdered in the home he bought for her, she told reporters, "It looks so bad to have a thing like that happen in your house." That's a tough lady.
If you were alone on a desert island, what books would you take with you and why ?
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. That seems to cover every corner of the human heart.
What memories do you have of your visit to France last year at Quais du polar ?
I found it utterly intoxicated. In the U.S., noir is primarily a subgenre. Sometimes even an obscure one that I have to explain (or justify). But there, it was the center of everything and every conversation I had was so stimulating I could barely fall asleep each night.
Could you tell us about a young crime writer that you have discovered, whose talent surprised you, and that the French readers don't know yet ?
I'm not sure which authors French readers would or wouldn't know, but I love the work of Derek Nikitas. He has two dark, strange and wonderful novels out already : Pyres and The Long Division.
What international news topic makes you fume at the moment ?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
What are your favourite music and song ?
Good question. I like all kinds of music, but my favorite song ever is probably anything sung by Frank Sinatra, preferably played on a juke box in a dark bar.
The last question from Le concierge Masqué : if you had a last word for your french readers, what would it be ?
Viva la France ! One of the greatest experiences of my life was visiting your country last year, talking noir wherever I went. I felt so alive.
Thanks for your patience and for answering my questions, it was a real pleasure to read your books and i'm impatiently waiting forward to reading your next.
Thank you for your marvelous questions !


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Earlier in 2017, Alice Springs hosted the Sheffield Shield Final between Victoria and South Australia and the new deal will see both the Strikers men's and women's sides take to Traeger Park. The Strikers have secured a deal with the Northern Territory Government to host a BBL fixture in the Red Centre in both 2018 and 2019.
The Strikers will take on Perth Scorchers at Traeger Park on Saturday 13 January 2018 with the WBBL double header to be played on January 13 and 14 respectively.
Strikers coach Jason Gillespie said the opportunity to bring fixtures to regional venues such as Alice Springs was vital to help grow the game of cricket nationally.
"We as a franchise see that it is our responsibility and our duty to get it out there to these places and we're absolutely buzzing about the opportunity and hopefully getting some fans to travel and support us in Alice Springs," he said.
"It'll be a wonderful atmosphere and experience in the red centre of Australia and we're very excited."
NT Cricket CEO Troy Watson believes hosting a Big Bash fixture in Alice Springs is a major coup for the region, saying the idea was a long time in the making.
"It is a very significant announcement. The WBBL and BBL have been growing exponentially in the last few years recording record crowds," he said.
"To have a game with this pedigree, and not as a pre-season fixture or 'friendly, but for competition points' is a real coup for the town and cricket in the NT.
"Obviously bringing quality content to cricket fans in the NT is always at the forefront of our minds. Discussions between all parties started quite some time ago though with leagues the size and scale of the WBBL and BBL there is a lot to be considered.
"With the recent visit of the Australian Men's team to Darwin and now this announcement, we believe the unique circumstances and opportunities available throughout the NT are well recognised throughout cricket and will continue to grow."


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Homeschooling multiple children isn't easy. You have to make sure you spend the right amount of time teaching each one the necessary subjects.
Sometimes homeschooling feels more like a juggling act than teaching. I'm trying to keep all the balls in the air. Some days I'm successful, but there are many days when one (or sometimes ALL) of the balls come crashing down around me.
I've found that the best thing to do when I drop a ball (or two or ten) is to stop for a minute to collect my thoughts. Otherwise it's really easy for me to become overwhelmed, stressed out, and not fun to be around.
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