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The container specifications came from the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and several shipping lines and container manufacturers.
The container illustrations were drawn in 3-D modeling software.


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Life In 'The National' Spotlight with the Young Theatre Makers of Tomorrow
It's been something of an eventful few months for the Belgrade Theatre's Young Company. Since kicking off the year with their critically-acclaimed production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, produced in association with Frantic Assembly, the company have enjoyed a number of high-profile public appearances both locally, as part of the Belgrade Theatre Unplugged 2014, and nationally as special guests at the prestigious Young Theatremakers Event held at The National Theatre on Saturday 13th September.
The event, which was held to mark the opening of the National Theatre's new Clore Learning Space saw young theatre-makers from across the UK come together to share extracts from their work, to reflect upon the theatre-making process and to share knowledge from across the sector.
The invitation to take part came at the request of the National Theatre's Youth Programme Co-ordinator, Robb Watt. So impressed was Rob by the work of the Young Company after previewing their show in March that he requested they open the celebrations with an extract from The Tempest in performance. This was followed by a question and answer session with the Young Company which took place on the stage of the newly re-named Dorfman Theatre – formerly known as The Cottesloe – which is currently undergoing re-development.
Among other Youth organisations in attendance on the day were 20 Stories High, Young Everyman Playhouse, Contact Theatre, National Theatre Young Studio, Theatre Royal Stratford East Young Artists and Islington Community Theatre.
Reflecting upon their experience, here's what a selection of our Young Company members thought of the event:
'I felt it was good to revisit the framework that we created for The Tempest and modify it ready for the occasion, as it gave it new life. Just the feeling of being at the National is one I have never experienced and it will stay with me forever.'
Amy Thompson
'Being in a creative space that people enjoyed being in was amazing. I have never experienced that with so many people at once before. It is like you are not on your own. It was amazing – the diversity of people and hearing about other people's struggles. I also enjoyed the workshop – a new way of analysing a script. I am definitely taking that with me. I had one of the best days of my life.'
Ben Durber
I feel honoured and blessed to be able to "bless" the new National Theatre. Performing on the new stage was fantastic, thrilling but nerve-wrecking experience. I also enjoyed being able to share our thoughts of the process after the performance.
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In June, days before Harper's contributor Bernard Avishai brought together a panel of experts for a conversation about the prospects of a lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped while hitchhiking in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly blamed Hamas for the abduction. While these events were much on the minds of our panelists, we encouraged them to remain focused on larger trends rather than more immediate concerns. Shortly after the discussion took place, the bodies of the three teenagers were found by an Israeli search team, and a Palestinian teenager was murdered in East Jerusalem in an apparent revenge killing. Hamas began launching rockets into Israel, and Israel bombed targets in Gaza. As this issue went to press, Hamas turned down a ceasefire brokered by Egypt, and Israel sent ground troops into Gaza. Our participants knew none of this at the time, but they are all longtime residents and students of the region, in which such outbreaks of violence are sadly familiar. They offer invaluable insight into how the conflict arrived at this point and where it might be headed.
The following forum is based on a conversation that took place at the Jerusalem YMCA on June 15.
is the author of The Tragedy of Zionism and The Hebrew Republic. He teaches at the Hebrew University and Dartmouth College.
was the chairman of the YESHA Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria from 2007 until 2013. He now serves as its chief foreign envoy.
is the CEO of the Jerusalem YMCA.
is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University and the president of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
is a pharmacist and industrial entrepreneur who has served as president of the Palestinian Federation of Industries and as economic minister for the Palestinian Authority.
is a venture capitalist and a member of Knesset from the Labor Party.
is a journalist who has covered Palestinian issues for more than forty years. He teaches at Ben Gurion University.
is the director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah.
BERNARD AVISHAI: First of all, thank you all for coming. It's an honor to be in a room with so much talent and so much experience. I'm going to do something very un-Israeli: Everybody gets to finish their sentences. We want to focus on the future, including long-term demographic trends — not just births and deaths, but also growth, education, and urbanization. It is also important to have a bit of historical perspective, and I'd like to start by asking Danny Rubinstein, who has been covering these issues for a long time, to provide some of that. Danny?
DANNY RUBINSTEIN: I'm a newspaper man. I've covered the Palestinian territories since 1967, right after the war, first with Davar newspaper for more than twenty years and then with Haaretz, for almost twenty years. Bernie said that we've gathered here talent and experience. I belong to the experience department.
What's the major difference compared with, let's say, the first twenty-five years I covered the area? Until 1992 or '93 there was not one checkpoint between Rafah on the Egyptian border and the Golan Heights. Not one checkpoint. There was freedom of movement for everybody. When I worked for Davar, I used to accompany two or three Israeli cabinet members every week who were visiting Arab cities. Moshe Dayan went once or twice a week to Nablus. Cabinet members from all parties came to every city, every village in the West Bank. I was with them. There was a sort of competition — who could make more visits and who would have more friends among the Palestinians.
* Editor's note: The week before this discussion took place, the New York Times published an op-ed by Dayan in which he argued that a "negotiated political agreement is impossible at the moment" and called instead for a "peaceful nonreconciliation" that would provide various improvements to the day-to-day lives of Palestinians, including dismantling the security wall and allowing for complete freedom of movement.
So this is the major difference for me. Of course, there's bitterness, hatred, frustration, on both sides. But it's very important to say that without freedom of movement you cannot run anything in this country. And I was glad, when I read Dani Dayan's article,* that he said: Let's begin with freedom of movement. When there was freedom of movement, there were about 200,000 Palestinian laborers working in Israel. I'm hesitant to say they made good money, but the standard of living went up dramatically in those years. Now we have 300,000 or more foreign laborers — from Africa, from Asia, from all over the world — and we don't give those job opportunities to our neighbors. This is the major change that I've seen since 1967 — really, since '91 or '92.
BASSIM KHOURY: One result of what you're talking about is the complete schism between the two sides; we live so close to each other, yet we know so little about each other. You used to know us as laborers, doing the labor that Israelis didn't want to do, and now you know us as homicide bombers. And we only know you as colonists and occupiers. What's amazing but often ignored is that it's been almost fifty years. In Dani's article that he's so proud of, which was published in the New York Times, he mentions a fifty-year-old Palestinian man being humiliated while having to deal with an Israeli soldier half his age, just to carry out mundane daily chores.
DANI DAYAN: I criticized that.
KHOURY: Yes, yes, you criticized that. But you failed to mention that this fifty-year-old man has lived almost all his life under occupation and has been continuously humiliated for almost half a century! So you have lived all your life in a certain situation, yet you know so little about the person in front of you. When we were allowed to travel, when there was no wall separating us, I used to take my employees to the Sea of Galilee on day trips to swim. And I would ask: "How many of you have ever crossed into Israel?" We are speaking before the First Intifada, when you could just get into your car and in two hours be in Haifa or in Tiberius. The number was never more than 10 percent.
Simply put, for almost half a century we Palestinians have been living in a big prison. We all feel imprisoned. A majority of Gaza residents have never left Gaza. Almost no young people — and they are more than half of the population — almost none have ever left Gaza. You're speaking of a territory smaller than Greater Tel Aviv. One and a half million people locked in an area of 365 square kilometers. They believe Gaza is the center of the world. The situation is very much the same for young people in the West Bank. Even at this time of the global village, people are becoming less and not more open to what's happening around them.
The major effect of the current situation, which people like me have been warning about for years, is that the moderate core of societies, the people who do know better, are voting with their feet. They are leaving. And as a result, who's staying? The extremists.
DAYAN: I relate completely to many of the things that Bassim has said. Without asking him, I think that the main difference of opinion is who is to blame for it. Bassim, I suppose, will say the occupation, the so-called occupation. And I will say the political and moral choices that Palestinians made during the past decades. Let's take, for instance, Gaza. I haven't been in Gaza since the disengagement, obviously. But I assume that the human conditions in Gaza are quite harsh. I agree with Bassim there. But the truth is that the Palestinian residents of Gaza were given a historic choice seldom given so clearly to a group of persons. They had the ability to decide whether they wanted Gaza to be a Middle Eastern Singapore or a Middle Eastern Somalia. If they had decided that they wanted Gaza to be a Middle Eastern Singapore, I don't have the smallest doubt that Israel would have contributed all it could to that effort.
But they made a cold-blooded decision that they prefer Gaza to be a Middle Eastern Somalia, that they want Gaza to be a launching pad for aggression against Israel, that they want almost every single penny, every single euro, every single yen, every single pound that was generously contributed to Gaza by the international community not to improve infrastructure, not to build hospitals, not to build schools, but to amass armaments against Israel.
AVISHAI: We are trying to talk about long-term issues more than who is to blame for what. I'm a little concerned about degenerating into a back and forth over —
DAYAN: Okay, but you have to understand the background in order to do that.
AVISHAI: We will, I'm sure, get into the question of who is to blame. I would like you to talk about the future a little bit.
DAYAN: I have described a plan for what I call peaceful nonreconciliation, because reconciliation between Israel and the Palestinians — or between Zionism and the Palestinian national movement — is not reachable right now. Incidentally, I think this is the most accurate definition of the conflict. It's a conflict between the Zionist movement and the Palestinian national movement. A national-liberation movement, the Zionist movement, which sees itself as reclaiming its homeland, and a national movement like the Palestinian movement, which sees Zionism as a colonialist project, don't have a reconciliation point.
Therefore, what we have to do is invest our energy in the question: How do you handle life as normally as possible under the abnormal circumstances of the lack of reconciliation? Ten years after the Second Intifada, Israel has to start to heal and take calculated risks. And I'm very much in favor of this. If I can offer three main points, the first one is, as Danny said, freedom of movement, complete freedom of movement. I want to go back to those days that you just mentioned, when my neighbor in the Palestinian village of Azzoun could wake up in the morning and tell his children, "It's a very nice day today. Let's go to the beach in Tel Aviv." No permit needed.
The second one is employment. I want to see high-tech professionals from Ramallah in the startups of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem — not only blue-collar labor, as Bassim mentioned. I want to see joint industrial parks. The third one I think is the most problematic but maybe the most important: the complete rehabilitation of the refugee camps. The fact that sixty-five years after the creation of the refugee problem the fifth generation still lives in squalid conditions maintained by a corrupt U.N. agency whose task is to perpetuate the refugee status — I think it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace for the Palestinians and it's a disgrace for us.
If all of that is done, it's not a solution to the problem. The conflict will be as unresolvable as it is today. But it will make a dramatic change in the lives of real people. This is the option we pose now. Do we want to do nothing but engage in escalating diplomatic warfare with outbursts of violence, or come to grips with the conclusion that the conflict does not have a solution right now and make out of it the best things we can?
EREL MARGALIT: I don't buy that premise. You know, I come from the start-up-nation generation. I have been an entrepreneur for about twenty years and started many companies here in Jerusalem. My generation in Israel is moving into political life, and we do not accept some of the premises that the previous leadership brought to the table. One premise is that the situation is not solvable or that we can focus on economic advances and give up on political agreements. Granted, we have a very tough situation here. But no victory can be achieved if you don't maintain optimism. I am convinced that with this attitude we will have a two-state solution within five or ten years.
Sometimes I think it's healthy for my fellow Israelis to look at the Middle East and remove ourselves from the picture for a moment, just for perspective. And when you look at what's going on around us, you see a lot of challenging situations — in Syria, in Lebanon, in Iraq — but you also see a few rays of light that are interesting and worth exploring. This is especially true with entrepreneurs, who view one another through a different prism, across different cultures. You see a very entrepreneurial community in Jordan of people who were not connected to the administration. You're seeing in Egypt that the Arab Spring is not just a democratic process; it's also an economic process. And you see pockets of innovation, especially among women, around Cairo. You see places like Tunisia, where the Arab Spring has brought not only frightening events but also the first real democracy.
Although politicians are having a hard time finding models of cooperation, in the business community we have a few of these models. If you want to talk about bleak situations — in 2002 you had about two dozen suicide bombers coming just from the city of Jenin alone. I was in the Golani Brigade, and we worried about it all the time. Today, in the governorate of Jenin there is a big discussion with the Israeli region of Gilboa, which is right next door, about creating an industrial zone that would span both. And just recently I saw that they are marketing a tourist package in Germany: three days Jenin, three days Gilboa.
If you drive half an hour north from where we are and you stand in the middle of Ramallah, you see thirty-five cranes. You see another society that's trying to build a country. To me, it's not a question of whether this is going to happen. I am sure it is going to happen. I'm just looking for the right people to lead it and want to be involved as part of it.
EVA ILLOUZ: Erel, it seems to me that your view that there is great possibility for change has much to do with being involved in the process. I wonder if such involvement does not create the illusion of movement. There is a kind of asymmetry between those who are involved in what is happening on the ground and those who are spectators — or victims — of it. I view myself as belonging to the second group. Like most Israelis, I am a bystander, and I do not see the things you see. Those actively involved in the two populations fall prey to an illusion that many changes are possible because they confuse movement and change, whereas people like me fall prey to the opposite illusion: that things are more static and bleaker than they actually are, only because most of the changes abundantly covered by the media are not palpable.
AVISHAI: So you see negative trends?
ILLOUZ: I see conflicting trends. I define myself as being at the juncture between diasporic Jews and Israeli Jews. I was born in Morocco, but I grew up largely in France and spent many years as an academic in the United States. I arrived in Israel after the age of thirty and have never really been able to become a full-fledged sabra. As someone who still identifies with the Diaspora, I often feel like a stranger to myself as an Israeli. This, it seems to me, is a breach in Israeli identity that is going to grow increasingly and reshape the relationships between Jews and Israel. Remember that originally the vocation of the country was not only national but transnational as well. Israel was to represent the unity of the entire Jewish people. That was very much Theodor Herzl's objective, the initial objective of much of Zionist thought: not only to build a state but to unite the entire Jewish people. For a long time Israel's relationship with the Jews outside Israel rested on that assumption.
We are starting to see this change dramatically. One example: A group of intellectual Israelis have emigrated to Berlin and claimed they were returning to their real roots in Europe. For those of us who wanted to be Jewish and yet did not relish separating ourselves from non-Jews, Israel was a universalist solution to our dilemma. Israel was the solution to the contradiction between particularity and universality. We are witnessing a complete reversal of this dynamic: a significant faction of the Jewish people, inside and outside Israel, who view themselves as the bearers of universalist values, think that such universalism can only be achieved outside Israel. In the past few years it has become painfully clear that Israel has in fact become a particularistic, ethno-religious project. In the first Knesset, there were sixteen members from the only distinguished religious party, the United Religious Front. Today, religious parties constitute a quarter of the Knesset — thirty out of 120 Knesset members. That's without counting religious members of the Likud party, such as Tzipi Hotovely and Moshe Feiglin. Over the past decade, the number of students in ultra-Orthodox elementary schools has grown by almost 60 percent, while the number of students in secular elementary schools has remained basically unchanged. The forecast is that by 2025, 35 percent of all children entering elementary schools in the Hebrew education system will be ultra-Orthodox.
These changes are reflected in the public rhetoric, which has become far more religious, as was obvious when Netanyahu demanded that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state. Such a demand had never been made before. Politically, Israel is a different entity. Many Jews have stopped identifying with Israel, not because they are assimilating, not out of apathy, but through a conscious, deliberate belief that Israel jeopardizes the moral core of their identity. The new trend is toward the isolation of Israel not only from the world but from an increasingly large faction of the Jewish people. This is not only because of the way in which Israel relates to the Palestinians and the Palestinian issue but also because of the ways in which Israel has treated Jews themselves. The state has missed a very important opportunity to be a platform in which all the plurality of forms of Judaism could meet and flourish. In fact, Judaism has been less able to flourish in Israel than in Christian countries after World War II because of the control of Orthodox Judaism in all major state institutions and its legal framework.
And this is not disconnected to the issue we are discussing. Israel is unable to solve the conflict with Palestinians for the same reasons it is unable to provide a platform uniting Jews: the country is premised on a primordial, religious, ethnic vision of itself which prevents it from articulating a universal language of rights. Ultra-Orthodox, various religious factions, and settlers have in fact reshaped public rhetoric, schools, and key state institutions, thus making it increasingly difficult to hold on to a liberal, universalist vision of humanity from which grand projects like peace and pluralism can emerge.
If left to its own devices, the trend I see for Israel on the horizon is its increasing mental and economic isolation. Here I am simply echoing a general sense that everyone has. Certainly at the university it is palpable. It's much more problematic to collaborate with foreign universities than it used to be. I suspect this is only the beginning of what will be an irresistible process. There is a deep crisis of trust in Israeli institutions. Many secular people, members of the traditional elite, have no faith whatsoever in their political leadership and institutions and are leaving Israel.
KHOURY: It's the same in Palestine.
ILLOUZ: Of course. And I think what you said is absolutely relevant.
MARGALIT: I mean, some are leaving. But it's not a big trend, is it? I don't see it.
ILLOUZ: I think it is a significant trend. The university feels it very much. We have great difficulties bringing back the outstanding students who went to do their Ph.D.'s outside the country.
MARGALIT: I deal with these centers of excellence and . . .
DAYAN: I will say that in insignificant circles it's a significant trend.
ILLOUZ: In insignificant circles? I am not surprised that Dani Dayan thinks Israeli academia to be an insignificant circle. It takes time until we can properly measure the percentage of migration and the characteristics of immigrants in the last years. But just so we understand the current atmosphere, a comprehensive survey published in Haaretz revealed that nearly 40 percent of Israelis think about emigration. This is a striking number.
AVISHAI: Let's table that for a second. We should come back to the question of whether the kinds of political changes you anticipate, Erel, are conceivable without the threat of global isolation that Eva is referring to. But I want to give — do you want to say one last sentence?
ILLOUZ: I just wanted to add another observation, about the trends I see on the horizon. I see at work a process of what I would call the dis-enclavation of Israeli Arabs. Arab towns are exploding because they have no land or building permits, and there is no way for the tiny physical space left by Israeli authorities to fit the demographic growth. This will lead to two trends: spillover of Arabs into Jewish towns and urban centers, and greater racism. Israeli society was relatively free of noxious racism for as long as Arabs were kept in faraway enclaves. But those enclaves will not work anymore. We are going to see greater integration, not by ideology and not by principle, just by the force of demography, and this will in turn create racist backlashes inside Israeli society.
AVISHAI: Since Eva mentioned the trends among Palestinians who are Israeli citizens, I want to give Forsan a chance to jump in here.
FORSAN HUSSEIN: I want to go back to Bassim's first point, which is that we don't know each other. This is the heart of the issue. I come from a small village up north, Sha'ab. It was a major village before 1948. Today, Sha'ab is a place of internal refugees. As an Israeli Arab, a Palestinian Israeli — whatever you want to call me — I grew up on the most extreme Palestinian narrative, was fed every type of stereotype you can get. When I was nine and ten years old, it was the height of the First Intifada. And as an Arab who does not speak Hebrew, from that early age it was easier for us to watch Syrian and Jordanian TV. And, of course, the Arab media at the time portrayed the worst images of Israel. Realistically speaking, these were ugly images — of the Intifada, of the soldiers. It was only by chance that when I was ten years old I met a Jewish person. I tended my family's goats, and one of them wandered into the neighboring village, a Jewish village. It was such a shock that it dismantled all the stereotypes that I had. I helped create the first organization in Israel that brings Arabs and Jews together.
I'm thirty-six years old today. Twenty-six years have passed. That's an entire generation. Today, if you look at the polls, 58 percent of young Jewish Israeli high school students believe that Israeli Arabs should be encouraged to emigrate. So I'm not that optimistic about greater integration. I was blessed to have left my village and gone to the States. I spent thirteen years of my life there. And I learned one very important thing about the American model, which is: strength comes from diversity. But in Israel diversity is a source of major suspicion. We're not comfortable with diversity.
AVISHAI: Khalil, you're the numbers man. Are we in fact pulling ourselves further apart?
KHALIL SHIKAKI: That's a good question. There is no doubt that on the issue of what Palestinians believe — and I will talk about Palestinians; there are enough Israelis here to talk about what Israelis believe — in terms of ideas and in terms of loyalties, things have been in a little turmoil. I lived in this city in the 1960s and early '70s, right after '67. Because of that openness that Danny describes, I was able to leave Rafah, where I was born, to live in Jerusalem and go to school here. In those days, traditional values were much more important than national identity. Loyalty to Jordan and continued belief in links to Jordan were still very strong. The idea of a two-state solution was universally rejected by Palestinians. The idea was basically considered treason. You're abandoning the goal of liberating all of Palestine.
After the '73 war, however, the Palestinians felt that the Arabs were abandoning them. That's when the idea of a two-state solution gained significant momentum. There were no Islamists during that period. By the mid-1970s, the pro-Jordanian elements were being gradually kicked out of the West Bank, politically, in part because Israel opened its labor market. Going to work in Israel made a lot of Palestinians develop different perceptions — about Israel, about Jordan, but most importantly about their own identity. They no longer viewed themselves as connected to Jordan. The Palestinian national movement became essentially the master of both the West Bank and Gaza by the second half of the 1970s.
Another development started to take place at that time, which was that West Bankers and Gazans were developing their own political views that were not necessarily compatible with those of the PLO. And the eruption of the First Intifada was when things inside the West Bank and Gaza started to take the lead in Palestinian affairs, which accelerated the idea that a two-state solution was the way to go. But it also introduced the Islamists. So the First Intifada essentially introduced the two conflicting ideas that have fought for Palestinian loyalty since then — a two-state solution emerging among the nationalists, and Islamists rising to threaten that.
While the Islamists were beginning to gather their strength, the nationalists were conspiring to sign the Oslo Accords. The signing of Oslo essentially preempted the Islamists, and for almost a decade the nationalists reigned supreme among Palestinians. The peace process and the two-state solution were the dominant ideas among Palestinians. Although there was some violence at that time, Palestinians who supported the two-state solution and the peace process rejected violence completely and believed in diplomacy. In terms of Palestinian public opinion, and for the Palestinian national movement, this was the golden age. This was the heyday for nationalists, for the two-state solution, and for diplomacy.
The Second Intifada changed all of that. What the Islamists could not do in the First Intifada they did in the Second Intifada. They became number one in terms of public support. They won the 2006 elections. This did not necessarily mean the end of the two-state solution. There's no doubt that we see less support for the two-state solution, but most Palestinians continue to support it. The nationalists continue to be the largest political force, though not as big as they were before the Second Intifada. Islamists have the support of about one third of the Palestinians. Of this one third, the overwhelming majority are people who share Hamas's values, which is to say this support is solid and not a temporary kind of support. The rest support it because of other reasons. One reason is the belief that the nationalists have failed in their most vital goal, which is to end the occupation and build a Palestinian state through diplomacy.
Assuming that diplomacy will not bring about a two-state solution, the trend will most likely take two forms. Either the Islamists will win the day, or a new development among the nationalists will emerge. The new development I'm talking about is something we observe among the younger half of the adult population — people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four — and that is the solid support they have for a one-state solution.
If the generation currently in favor of a one-state solution continues to grow — that is to say they do not abandon the one-state solution as they get older — then in ten to twenty years, they will be the overwhelming majority of the population. We're moving away from national identity; we're moving away from a two-state solution; we're embracing more universal values or else Islamist values. That is where the competition is likely to be in the future.
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Cue Thursday night dinner club. You are all wecome to join, although you must bring wine. C and I were hosting this week. On the menu? Stuffed mushrooms, baby tortillas, paella, and rice pudding.
It all started off innocently; C and I sipping tea, chopping onions, peppers, and sausage, peacefully browning the chicken thighs. Little did we know what was in store for us.
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(adapted from BBC food recipes)
- 170g/6oz spicy sausage, cut into thin slices
- 110g/4oz lardons (pancetta), cut into small dice
- 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 1 large Spanish onion, finely diced
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 1 tsp soft thyme leaves
- ¼ tsp dried red chilli flakes
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- 1 bag of frozen seafood (mussels, clams, scallops, squid)
- 110g/4oz canned peas
- 1 can of tomato purée
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- 1 head garlic, cloves separated and peeled
- 5 tbsp chopped flatleaf parsley
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
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2. Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil with the garlic cloves in a separate pan and add the seafood. Sprinkle in the peas and chopped tomatoes and continue to cook gently for another 10 minutes. Now add the seafood to the paella. Serve immediately.


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Musicians, from classical orchestras to rock groups, are exposed to high decibel ranges. Hearing is important to the livelihood of a musician. Musical performance may create sounds loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. Some hearing loss in musicians may be considered occupational hearing loss, and it may interfere with the musician's ability to perform the daily tasks of his or her profession (Sataloff, 1991).
Musicians suffer not just from hearing loss but also a ringing in their ears and various pitch-perception problems. Music lovers should be modest in the length of time and level of loud music to which they expose their ears. Many performing musicians use ear monitors to regulate the levels of sound they absorb on the stage while performing.
In-ear monitors are devices used by musicians to listen to music or to hear a custom mix of vocals and stage instrumentation for live performance or recording studio mixing. They are often custom fitted for an individual's ears and provide a high level of noise reduction from ambient surroundings. Depending on the quality of the fit and length of the ear canal, a custom fit in-ear monitor will generally provide somewhere between 25 and 35 dB of noise reduction.
Musicians who do not need amplified playback in their ears may benefit from custom-fitted musicians' earplugs. These are non-electrical earplugs fitted with custom filters to make specific sounds in the music spectrum softer, while not compromising the overall musical experience. Ordinary ear plugs cut off high-frequency sounds, making voices muffled and the timbre of music dull. The natural sound from musicians' ear plugs solves this problem by reducing the volume you hear without distorting the sounds.
Both in-ear monitors and musicians' ear plugs can be custom made and fitted by a licensed hearing-care professional to each musician's personal needs.
Sataloff, R.T. (1991). Hearing loss in musicians. American Journal of Otology, 12(2), 122-127.
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Boston is no stranger to home-grown musicians who have made it big: Aerosmith, Boston, Extreme, New Kids on the Block, Dropkick Murphys, Jo Dee Messina… the list goes on. While they are household names now, these musicians were once up and coming, "the next big thing". One new face to look out for the Boston music scene and beyond is Boy Without God. Boston native Gabriel Birnbaum founded Boy Without God answered some questions for us.
CBSBoston: How did Boy Without God form and what's the story behind the name?
Gabriel Birnbaum: Boy Without God was originally a private bedroom project that documented me learning how to play guitar, write songs and sing. It wasn't really supposed to be serious. Before that I'd only played saxophone and written complicated noisy, free jazz, and I felt a lot of pressure associated with that and wanted to escape it and make music that sounded more like what I was listening to. Since then, BWG accidentally took over my brain and musical life.
The name is something a woman I barely knew called me when she found out I was an atheist attending a Jesuit university (Boston College). It struck me as funny, and so I used it. I didn't expect to be explaining it for the next five years. Like I said, it wasn't supposed to be a serious project.
CBSBoston: Tell us a bit about your background. Who were your musical influences growing up? Did you always want to make music?
GB: I've gone through a lot of phases. First, I wanted to be a baseball player because my older siblings were both already talented musicians and it seemed unwise to follow in their footsteps. I turned out to be lousy at baseball. In elementary school I started learning the saxophone and getting obsessed with jazz musicians like Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane. In high school I got more and more into violent, noisy free jazz, really abrasive but transcendent music by people like Albert Ayler and Joe McPhee and Assif Tsahar. Then, at the end of high school I realized that, even though I pretended not to, I liked rock music when I heard it in my friend's cars and, with some help, got into Wilco and Elliott Smith and Neutral Milk Hotel.
CBSBoston: Who or what are your musical influences today? How has your musical styles, likes and dislikes changed?
GB: I'm still pretty prone to phases when it comes to music. I just finished a huge late period Impressions binge, which is making me want to shake the dust off of my falsetto. I've also been really admiring Neil Young and Townes Van Zandt lately, for their ability to be direct without sounding generic. Bill Callahan's lyrics stun me over and over with how compact and gemlike they are, and how they can be simultaneously funny and heavy, because tragedy is always funny as well. And the drama and huge scope of Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa has been in my mind a lot lately.
Musically, there are three big changes the band has undergone. The first was learning how to sing. I'm not proud of how many shows I played or songs I recorded before I had it even remotely together, but that's the fastest way to learn. The next is a gradual motion away from the breathy, emotion-heavy 90's bedroom lofi that was my first inspiration and towards a wider and brighter palette of music: soul singers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, country musicians like Willie Nelson and Buck Owens, minimal classical composers like Arvo Part, early seventies songwriters like John Phillips, Richard Thompson. Half art, half pop, less diary. The last and biggest change is the slow coalescence of a group of marvelous musicians around me, including Will Graefe, Elio DeLuca, Pete Moffett, Andrew McGovern, Siv Lie, Aaron Kruziki, & Katie Slicher. They are the reason this music comes to life, and after playing with them I can't even imagine going back to solo shows.
CBSBoston:What songs are on current rotation your iPod?
GB: Townes Van Zandt – I'll Be Here in the Morning
The Beach Boys – Surf's Up
Isaac Hayes – Walk On By
George Harrison – I'd Have You Anytime
Bill Callahan – Drover
Blake Mills – Cheers
Jacques Dutronc – Les Cactus
CBSBoston: What's next for Boy Without God?
GB: We're recording a whole new batch of songs at a beautiful all-analog studio called The Soul Shop, in Medford, MA. Look out for those to slowly appear in the New Year, possibly under a new band name…
Visit Boy Without God's website or follow on Facebook and Twitter to learn of upcoming Boston show dates.
Jaime is a twenty-something blogger living, working, & shopping in Boston. Interested in all thing things stylish whether it be the latest fashion trend on the runways to the newest decor featured in home magazines, she blogs all about it, and tidbits of her life, at La vie…J'aime. Follow her on Twitter and Pinterest, as well.


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When you can use Advisory Fuel Rates
By HMRC
1. Current rates
2. When you can use the mileage rates
3. How rates are calculated
4. Previous rates
1. Current rates
Current rates start from 1 September 2016.
2. When you can use the mileage rates
The rates only apply when you either:
• reimburse employees for business travel in their company cars
• require employees to repay the cost of fuel used for private travel
You must not use these rates in any other circumstances. If you use them correctly you will not need to apply for a dispensation to cover the payments you make.
2.1 Reimburse employees for business travel in their company cars
If you pay a rate per mile for business travel no higher than the AFR, for the particular engine size and fuel type, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will accept there is no taxable profit and no Class 1A National Insurance to pay.
You can use your own rates which better reflect your circumstances if, for example, your cars are more fuel efficient, or if the cost of business travel is higher than the guideline rates.
If you pay rates that are higher than the advisory rates and can't demonstrate the fuel cost per mile is higher, there is no fuel benefit charge if the mileage payments are solely for miles of business travel. Instead, you will have to treat any excess as taxable profit and as earnings for Class 1 National Insurance purposes.
2.2 Require employees to repay the cost of fuel used for private travel
If you have correctly recorded all miles of private travel and used the correct rate (or anything higher) to work out the cost of fuel used for private travel that the employee must repay to you, HMRC will accept there is no fuel benefit charge.
The advisory rates will not be binding where you can demonstrate that employees cover the full cost of private fuel by repaying at a lower rate per mile.
3. How rates are calculated
Rates are calculated based on fuel prices and adjusted miles per gallon figures.
4. Previous rates
Previous rates are available to check from 1 March 2012.
These rates only apply to employees using a company car.
Advisory Fuel Rates from 1 September 2016
These rates apply from 1 September 2016. You can use the previous rates for up to one month from the date the new rates apply.
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5 Reasons To Attend a Yoga Retreat
By Liz Arch
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do." –Mark Twain.
There are a million reasons not to go on a yoga retreat. A few of the most common are: "It's too expensive." "I don't have the time." "I can't be away from work that long." "I won't know anybody there." "I've never been that far away from home."
I get it. Life is busy and jetting off to uncharted lands with a yoga mat strapped to your back is low on the priority list. But think of a yoga retreat as the ultimate investment in your mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. With all those reasons not to go, there's really only one reason to go – it just might change your life. If that's not reason enough, here are five other reasons why you should pack your bags and go on a yoga retreat:
1) You will deepen your practice.
Going on a yoga retreat is a chance to completely immerse yourself in your practice without the daily distractions of life tugging at you. Most retreats offer practices twice a day with opportunities for specialty workshops designed to take your practice to new heights. Retreats also offer a more intimate experience with plenty of personal attention to help grow your individual practice.
2) You will unplug.
Yoga retreats offer the opportunity to go on a digital detox. How many times a day do you reach for your iphone, ipad or computer? Do you spend countless hours scrolling compulsively through your Facebook or Instagram feed? Your email inbox will be the furthest thing from your mind when you're trekking through the Costa Rican jungle to a magnificent waterfall, snorkeling with playful sea lions in the Galapagos, or hiking to a majestic volcano in Bali. When you go off the grid, you realize you don't need Wi-Fi to connect. The best connections are made face-to-face.
3) You will create lifelong friendships.
Yoga retreats attract some truly awesome humans. Prepare to meet globetrotters from around the world who appreciate nature, culture, adventure, healthy eating and healthy living. I recently came back from leading a yoga retreat to the Galapagos Islands, where 10 people met as strangers, but quickly became dear friends. On our final night, we sat around the fire pit under a sea of stars and expressed our deep gratitude and love for every single person in the group. There were tears, hugs, laughter and genuine heartfelt connection. There were no goodbyes. We simply said "until I see you again."
4) You will nourish your body.
Yoga retreats offer the opportunity to experience the exotic tastes and flavors of other cultures. You will feast on healthy and delicious meals without the hassle of having to prepare it yourself. Most reputable retreat centers can accommodate any dietary restrictions and offer vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.
5) You will scientifically boost your happiness.
Whoa. I know that's a pretty bold statement. But hear me out. I recently attended a talk by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Norton titled "How to Make Choices that Bring You Sustainable Happiness." We've all heard the phrase "money can't buy happiness." But according to Norton, if you think money can't buy happiness, you're simply not spending it right. So what things don't buy us happiness? Fancy cars, gadgets, expensive electronics, clothes…basically any and all stuff that clutters our homes and our lives. How do we invest in things that could potentially create happiness? One way, Norton says, is to invest in experiences. Scientific research backs that experiences like taking a vacation can legitimately add to our happiness, and unlike a car or TV, which depreciates over time, a vacation actually appreciates over time and offers triple the returns in feel-good vibes.
Not only do you experience the excitement and anticipation before the trip, you also experience the joy and pleasure during the trip, and are left with long-lasting happy memories after the trip. As someone once said "Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer."
Biggest thanks to Temple Turmeric for being such a special part of my last retreat to the Galapagos and for generously giving away a free trip to our lucky winner @namasteheart.
If you feel the swell of adventure in your heart, I'm leading the ultimate yoga safari adventure retreat to Kenya in March 2016. For more info visit www.lizarch.com/retreats
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I moved house last weekend!
After a rather stressful week of dismantling furniture, putting things into boxes, throwing out items that are no longer useful and donating clothes to the charity shop, I finally packed my life up and moved.
Packing and moving have got to be my pet aversions, so the whole experience was, to say the least, emotionally draining and physically exhausting. To be honest, the stress starts way before the actual physical movement. It starts right from the time I click my way through the numerous house letting websites in search of a suitable place to live. It is stressful having to consider which area to live in, finding out whether the place is close by to a supermarket or bus-stop, deciding how much money I will be willing to fork out for rent monthly, choosing whether I want an apartment that is unfurnished/part-furnished, and trying to work out based on photos as to whether the place looks vaguely habitable.
Then, there is the stress of trying to arrange house/flat viewings. I honestly do not understand why letting agents only ever work Mondays to Fridays 0900-1700. Do they not realise that in order for one to be able to afford renting a flat, one must first hold down a job of some kind? And FYI, most people who have jobs tend not to be free Mondays to Fridays 0900-1700. Arranging a viewing can sometimes be akin to making an appointment to see the Queen.
When the viewings are finally arranged, one then faces the incredible frustration of being phoned up 2 hours before the time of appointment to be told that the flat is now off the market as someone else has put a deposit down for it. Or, if you have just seen a nice flat, the landlord/agent almost always puts the pressure on by saying that "you better make a decision quickly because I have 4-5 other viewings lined up today and the place will be gone before you know it." This was what exactly happened when I went to view my current flat. The apartment was really nice, and everything in it was perfect for me. However, it was flat number one of the six that I had lined up to view for the day. Simply "going for it" without seeing what the others had to offer almost seemed rash. But, what if other people who came to view the flat later seized it before I could turn back to take it? That day, I went to see 2 other flats after the first one, and upon realising that none of them even came close to what this first flat had to offer, I cancelled the rest of my afternoon viewings, prayed a quick prayer to God, and hurriedly rang the landlady back to confirm that I wanted to take her flat. Thank God the place was still available! Almost immediately after I had signed the contract and paid the deposit, one of the other flat-viewers came round (the landlady didn't manage to get in contact with her to cancel their viewing so she had to show her around) and actually wanted to take the flat stat! Imagine my relief then that I managed to "get in there first!"
So, after the contract is signed, packing then becomes the main source of stress. Putting one's life into boxes is no fun at all. Going through all your belongings and deciding which ones go in a box and which others go in the trash is a surprisingly difficult thing to do. I find it especially hard to throw away things that have been with me for a number of years. I may not have any use for them at all, but because I have had them with me for so long, I find it difficult to throw them out. The same goes for things that are still in good working order that I simply have no use for- it seems almost wasteful to throw them out, but it's not always easy to give them away to someone else either. Medical journals are another source of stress- they are so heavy, yet because they are a source of valuable knowledge and information, I cannot bring myself to callously throw them out, especially when I have yet to even take them out of their plastic packaging! At the end of the day, when everything is packed up and ready to go, I often find that I own a lot more stuff than I ever expected. I then stress over the day when I actually have to physically move all these heavy items out of the flat, into a van, and then out of the van into the new flat.
A van. And a man. Yes, these 2 things then take over as a constant source of headache. Should I ask friends to help me by taking several loads in 2-3 cars, or should I just hire a van and do 1 single big load at one go? The van seems like an easier option, but who will drive it? Will they be free to drive it on the proposed day of my move? Where can I rent one from? What size van will I need? How much will that cost? I find myself then going around begging people to give me a hand with the moving and driving. I hate doing that because I know that helping me move is extremely tiring, and will probably take up a good part of someone else's precious Saturday off work.
The day of the move eventually arrives, and I am embarrassed about the amount of stuff that I own. It is tough work getting things from the 4th floor to the first and finally into the van. My back hurts, my arm hurts, my leg hurts. I get bruises everywhere from lifting and banging into things. I feel guilty for using up someone else's precious Saturday. I say thank you and sorry non-stop. And I tell myself I never want to do this again.
Until I have to move again.
I am a seasoned "mover." I have moved 12 times in the last 8 years. I have moved so much that I am sick and tired of this whole routine already. I cannot tell you how glad I am to be moved into my current flat now. At least for the next 12 months, I know I am staying put. What a relief.
Anyway, I went back to my old flat after everything was emptied out of it last Saturday. Being completely empty, the flat was echo-y throughout. I took advantage of this and had some fun recording a song using the special effect this created:


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An African-American post-impressionist known for his imaginative use of color in his renderings of the ports of Gloucester, Allan Randall Freelon was born in Philadelphia on 2 September 1895. He studied at the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art, then at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a B.S. in Education. His art teachers were Earle Horter (1881-1940), Emile Gruppe (1896-1978), and Hugh Breckenridge (1870-1937), whose classes in Gloucester attracted Freelon for many summers. The Breckenridge School of Art at Rocky Neck opened in 1920, at which point Breckenridge was turning to abstraction. For instance, his painting The Mills, of 1916, might best be described as ne
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Usually I do something boring with asparagus and broil it with olive oil and balsamic, but I wanted something that highlighted the asparagus more. I'm back on my upswing of enjoying eggs - I go back and forth - so I was thinking of the classic dish of poached eggs over asparagus. I also wanted to have a light sauce over the dish, but definitely not hollandaise - that's a rare treat. I know that mock hollandaise is sometimes made with yogurt, so I came up with a creamy mustard dill sauce that goes together very easily. I garnished this with lemon zest because I don't think lemon zest is used enough as a garnish for savory foods, and perks up so many dishes.
Finally, to give the dish a little more substance, I served it over thickly-sliced toasted whole grain bread. If you shop at Publix, I love to use their whole grain seeded loaves, and slice it myself.
Poached Eggs over Asparagus with a Creamy Mustard Dill Sauce
Serves 2
Serves 2
1/2 lb asparagus
4 fresh eggs
1 tbsp vinegar
1/2 cup full fat yogurt
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp dried dill (or 1 tbsp fresh)
1 clove of garlic, finely minced
2 slices of whole grain bread
Zest of one lemon
Salt and pepper to taste
Trim the asparagus and place it into a steamer basket in a large saucepan with an inch of water below. Cover, turn to medium high, and steam until crisp-tender, approximately 5 minutes.
In a shallow pan (I like to use my large, deep skillet), heat 3 inches of water and the tablespoon of vinegar to a simmer. Crack two eggs each into two small bowls or ramekins, and when the water is gently simmering, quickly pour the eggs into the pan. Gently move the white over the yolk. Poach for three minutes for medium-done yolks. Toast the bread while the eggs are poaching.
Meanwhile, in a small microwave-safe bowl, combine the yogurt, mustard, dill, and garlic with salt and pepper to taste, and heat until warmed through.
On a plate, place the bread, asparagus on top, then the poached eggs. Drizzle 1/2 of the sauce over the eggs and sprinkle with the lemon zest, salt, and pepper, and serve.
Note: if you're not a fan of poached eggs, you can always use hard boiled eggs, slice them, and arrange over the asparagus as well. Thanks to Jenn for the input!