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South Sudan: Humanitarian agencies respond to refugee crisis
23 July, 2012
Sudanese refugees are entering South Sudan in large numbers as they flee fighting and food shortages in Sudan's Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states. At the start of July, up to 1,000 people were arriving at South Sudan's biggest refugee site in Unity state every day.
The refugee crisis began a year ago when fighting erupted between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Army-North in Southern Kordofan in June and in Blue Nile in September. The crisis has worsened recently as most of the arrivals have been travelling for weeks through areas of armed conflict, on foot and with little food or water. When they arrive, many refugees are suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, and have only the few possessions they could carry.
Humanitarian organizations in South Sudan are working around the clock to provide life-saving support to this growing influx, and they are scaling up to respond to increased needs. Some 170,000 Sudanese people are receiving emergency relief and assistance in South Sudan.
When they arrive, refugees are registered and given a medical screening. They receive food rations designed to last until they are enrolled in the regular monthly food distribution programmes. Five refugee sites have been established in Upper Nile and Unity where the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and some 20 organizations are providing vital relief, such as emergency shelter, medical support, water, sanitation and hygiene. However, refugee numbers are growing as settlement sites are cut off by floods. To keep pace with this increase, household items including mosquito nets, plastic sheeting and blankets for some 50,000 people have been airlifted to the sites.
"Humanitarian agencies are faced with enormous challenges," says Chris Nikoi, acting Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan. "In Upper Nile state, which hosts about 105,000 refugees, critical water shortages are hampering relief efforts. There's a risk of outbreaks of disease if we cannot source enough clean water for refugees."
Aid organizations are trucking water to refugee sites. Five rigs are operational in Upper Nile, and boreholes are being drilled while humanitarian agencies work with local authorities to identify new sites with reliable water sources.
In Unity state, UNHCR warns of a looming health crisis as the surge in new arrivals overwhelms the main refugee site, Yida. The refugee population at Yida has more than doubled since the end of April this year, from 27,500 to over 55,000 people.
"Sanitation and hygiene conditions at the site have worsened severely because of the rapid influx. Aid workers on the ground are racing to scale up health services to match the pace of refugee arrivals," adds Nikoi.
The start of the rainy season and logistical demands, including a lack of basic infrastructure, are compounding the challenges. Access is extremely difficult; most of the area where the refugees are located in Upper Nile is prone to floods. Ground transport operations have been hampered significantly by floods caused by torrential rains. In Unity state, the roads linking two key refugee sites are only passable after three dry days.
The humanitarian operation to respond to the refugee crisis in South Sudan is severely underfunded, and this is preventing life-saving work. UNHCR is appealing for US$186 million to respond to the refugee influx. The Central Emergency Respond Fund has announced the release of $20 million to humanitarian organizations in South Sudan. The entire South Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund, currently at $10 million, will be allocated to the refugee operation. But more money is urgently needed to deal with this crisis, ease suffering and save lives.
More>> OCHA South Sudan website - Consolidated Appeal Process - South Sudan Humanitarian Update (Source: Reliefweb)


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Ring: The final essential instrument that I mean to mention here is the ring. This fits over the index finger of the right hand, and acts as a sort of magical magnetic coil, magnifying the force of the will that passes along the index finger. It also serves as a miniature representation of the magic circle, and protects its wearer from harm. Perhaps the best form of the ring is a plain gold or silver band, a bit broader than usual. By it the Magus is wedded to the Art of magic. It is customary to inscribe the ring with names of power such as the Hebrew YHVH, the divine Tetragrammaton.
Several different rings may be made for specific purposes. For example, an individual spirit can be made to reside in a ring, and its power utilized when the ring is put on. The ancient Greek magician Apollonius of Tyana possessed seven rings named after the seven planets, given to him as a gift by Iarchas, leader of the Brahmans of India. He wore each of these rings in rotation on the day of the week related to its planet. As is true of all the instruments, there is no exact pattern for the magic ring. The shape and choice of inscription depends on its use, and the personality of its maker.
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Does the laptop not have a built in charger? Thus you will have nothing to do there, other than wait and something like 19.5 V to play with once charged?
and charge both the netbook's battery and the additional 12V battery (likely lipo) simultaneously.
oh! I thought you were using a seperate supply for the motorsQuoteand charge both the netbook's battery and the additional 12V battery (likely lipo) simultaneously.I'm making something similar ATM (no laptop), but using a solar panel to charge a 12V gel battery. Power requirements should be within daily charge capability, but I will be adding a sun-bathing routine if the bat gets low. I'll put the panel at optimum angle and allow the unit to rotate toward the sun. Bit dark for testing at the moment So waiting for the spring. Continuous activity is not necessary as this is an exercise in navigation rather doing any useful work. For that I will probably aim to set up a self serve "fuelling point" as the area available will not allow a high enough current density from a PV panel.Good luck
Are you using anything like a solar charger shield? Can those use an arbitrary external power source instead of a solar panel to recharge the battery?
Quote from: Cerin on Jan 17, 2013, 06:18 amAre you using anything like a solar charger shield? Can those use an arbitrary external power source instead of a solar panel to recharge the battery?That shield is designed specifically for a single cell lithium battery. Can't change the output voltage.To charge a lead acid battery a ready made solution would be called an "on board battery charger" (example). In real world use they are designed to stay permanently attached to a car/boat and then plugged in to a wall socket to maintain the battery.For a non-ready-made solution I'd look at something like a UC3906. Lots of examples from Mr. Google on this.
Thanks, but I was referring to the *input* source, not the output. e.g. charging the single lithium from a wall supply instead of a solar panel. If it expects a certain voltage/amperage from the solar panel, what would be the problem in getting that instead from a wall adapter?
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A New Year
Friday, January 3, 2014
I love the new year, with it's fresh slate and time for reflections and aspirations. The last few years I've started a new tradition of going for a long walk on New Year's Day, then sitting with a cup of tea and a notebook to write down goals and ideas for the year ahead. I tend to get over enthusiastic and come up with pages of things I'd like to do. So this year instead I'd like to focus on a single guiding concept. I want this year to be one of balance. I want to move more to counter all the hours sitting at my desk working on projects, I want to get outside more instead of choosing to cozy up at home most of the time, I want to read more instead of watching tv to unwind, I want to put down my phone and stop scrolling through Instagram and Facebook to write more letters and have more coffee dates with friends. I want to do more, but I also want to slow down and savour things - little and big. More mindful, less mindless. Happy New Year, my friends, I hope it's a great one.
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Dirs. Ed Sanchez and Daniel Myrick
In a film peppered with spine-tinglingly creepy moments, it still wasn't difficult to select the very creepiest. Just the thought of it sends shivers down my spine as I type this.
Josh, Heather and Mike travel to Burkittsville (formerly Blair), Maryland, to interview locals about the legend of the Blair Witch for a documentary Heather is making. The locals tell them of a hermit named Rustin Parr who lived in the woods surrounding the town. He kidnapped local children and brought them to his house. It is said Parr brought the children into his basement in twos - he could apparently feel their eyes staring into his soul, so he would kill one child while making the other face a corner. He would then kill the child – rooted to the spot in fear - in the corner. Parr eventually turned himself in to the police, claiming that the spirit of the Blair witch convinced him to kill the children.
After a couple of harrowing days and nights lost in the forest, Josh disappears and Heather and Mike come upon an old house in the middle of the forest. Searching frantically for their friend inside the house, they become separated and increasingly panicked. Eventually Heather follows screams into the basement where she is greeted by the sight of Mike standing stock still, facing a corner… Something attacks her from behind and she drops her camera.
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This Week in Muay Thai: Up and Comers and Action Fighters
- Written by Rian Scalia
Sunday, January 20
Yodbuangarm Pangyen-Ioderm vs. Yodsiam Sor. Chokamnuay
Saksongkram Poptheeratham vs. Phetmongkol Thor. Thepsutin
Singponchai Sor. Sarinya vs. Sakchainoi M-U-Den
Yodpop Eminentair vs. Phetnamngarn Sor. Me-Udon
Monday, January 21
Khunsueklek Or. Kwanmuang vs. Yodthongtai Por. Telakoon
Lom-Esarn Sitzornong vs. Adam Teded99
Kaimookao Watcharachaigym vs. Kongsiam Tor. Phithakchai
Tuesday, January 22
Kangwanlek Petchyindee vs. Choknumchai Sitjakong
Wanchai Sor. Kitisak vs. Sam-D Petchyindee
Superboy Teemuangloei vs. Peteng Kiatphontip
Wednesday, January 23
Dejnarong Wor. Sungprapai vs. Fahmeechai F.A. Group
Yuthachai Kiatpataraphan vs. Yodtuantong Petchyindeeacademy
Phetnakorn Sor. Latdagym vs. Hongtonglek Chor. Fahpiansi
Friday, January 25
Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong vs. Petchasawin Seatranferry
As you can see, there's a lot of good fights this week, and this isn't even the complete schedule. Fights will be added as more information is made obtainable. Of course there are some big Muay Thai fights happening outside of Thailand at Yokkao Extreme 2013 just to name one event, which will also be talked about in separate posts.
Yodbuangarm is one of the up and coming fighters to look out for at 130lbs at Channel 7. He's scored a bunch of knockouts in the lead-up to this fight.
Though Saeksan Or. Kwanmuang is off the card on Monday, his stablemate Khunseklek is on the card in what should be a nice fight against Yodthongthai. Adam Teded99 was added to the card after a fight of his fell through last week. Despite the absence of Saeksan and Pettawee to put on some fireworks, there should still be good fights on Monday.
The fight between Wanchai and Sam-D should be fireworks. They're both all action, yet highly skilled fighters. Sam-D is the Lumpini champion at the light flyweight limit of 108lbs, winning the title off Sarawut in December. Sam-D beat Wanchai back in November.
Also on Wednesday is another fighter to keep an eye on in Peteng Kiatphontip. He's really young but highly skilled and now making his way onto the big stadium shows, facing the Lumpini #4 ranked fighter at mini flyweight.
Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong is going to be one of the marquee international Thais, already having fought and defeated a lot of names. He's just 21 and one of the top 67kg Muay Thai fighters in the world. He beat Petchasawin without much trouble back in April, and this fight might be even more of a dominant win for Sitthichai.


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West End man pleased by '12 Years a Slave' film's depiction of ancestorNovember 13, 2013 4:34 PM
Twice, Clayton J. Adams has seen "12 Years a Slave," the new film about slavery in America.
Even so, he still hasn't seen how it ends. Each time, he said, the viewing was too emotional for him to make it through to the final scene, to witness what befalls a free black man who was kidnapped into slavery in 1841 and held in brutal captivity for more than a decade.
But Mr. Adams, a 43-year-old resident of the West End, knows how the story ends.
Solomon Northup, who published his first-hand account of slavery in 1853 and whose story is now the focus of a film directed by Steve McQueen, is Mr. Adams' great-great-great-grandfather.
And Mr. Adams, who saw the movie at two separate screenings for Northup's descendants earlier this fall, said it provoked the same response that reading Northup's account caused more than two decades earlier — tears.
"I can't even remember the end of the movie, my tears were just coming down so hard," Mr. Adams said of seeing the film for the first time at the AMC Loews Waterfront.
The release of "12 Years a Slave" has been, for many Americans, an introduction to Northup's story. For Mr. Adams and his family, that story has long been part of their identity.
Mr. Adams, who has lived in Pittsburgh since 1993, was born in Rochester, N.Y., and lived briefly in Washington, D.C. before his family moved to Syracuse, N.Y. His mother, Carol Adams-Sally, was the daughter of Victoria Northup Linzy Dunham, who was the granddaughter of Alonzo Northup, who was Solomon Northup's only son and youngest child.
As a high school student, Mr. Adams read "Twelve Years a Slave" and his mother told him the family connection, but he said it didn't click for him at first.
Later, as a college freshman taking a course in black literature, he read it again. In the book, in the movie, and in actuality, Northup was an educated man with a family and children whose life in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was upended when he was kidnapped.
He was sold into slavery in the South, where he had different masters, some far crueler than others, until he was able to get a message through to people who knew him in New York to rescue him.
On his second reading of the tale, Mr. Adams remembered, he cried, realizing that the man telling this story was connected to him by blood.
"It was like finding a missing piece of my life that I didn't know was missing," he said in a recent interview.
Since that reading, Mr. Adams has written poetry inspired by Northup's story. He has made sure that his two daughters know their ancestor's struggles and that they understand the full history of slavery in the United States.
In 1999, Renee Moore, an educator and activist in Saratoga Springs, founded Solomon Northup Day there, and Mr. Adams and his family were among the dozens of Northup descendants who attended, traveling from places including California, Maryland and other parts of New York, Ms. Moore said.
"It just gave us a sense of pride, a sense of belonging to something greater than just belonging to the normal family that we know of," Mr. Adams said.
Since 1999, Solomon Northup Day has been observed each year.
This year, when about 60 descendants attended, the impending release of the film about Northup's life gave the gathering added meaning. Lupita Nyong'o, the actress who plays the character of the slave Patsey, attended, and representatives from Fox Searchlight, the film's distributor, also were there, Mr. Adams said.
After so many years of imagining Northup's struggle, Mr. Adams was somewhat worried about how the movie would depict it. Upon seeing it, he said, he was "very pleased."
"He kept true to the book," he said of Mr. McQueen. And Chiwetel Ejiofor, who played Northup, captured "the essence of Solomon," he said.
Seeing the film, he said, he was even more impressed by Northup's perseverance and his undying belief that he would again experience freedom.
But the scene toward the end of the film, when Northup is forced to whip Patsey, another slave to whom he has grown close, proved too much for him to watch.
"That scene was very emotional to me," he said, and through his tears he was unable to see what happened next, when Northup finally gains freedom.
But he knows what, at the end, the audience is told: that the details of Northup's death, and where he is buried now, are unknown.
Mr. Adams, who is trying to get a book of his poetry published and is looking for a new job after losing his position with a real estate information company this year, hopes that the movie's release might lead to some sort of discovery about Northup's final chapter.
Already, with each year, he said, the family learns more about their ancestor.
"Hopefully, in the end, we'll be able to piece it all together, and hopefully figure out that mystery of where he is now."
Mr. Adams will speak and take questions following the 1:30 p.m. showing of "12 Years a Slave" Sunday at the Manor Theatre, 1729 Murray Ave., in Squirrel Hill. Tickets for the movie are $6.50.
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I'm trying to buy a house right now, and the market just hasn't dropped enough for me to avoid spending more than I had hoped to. To gather up cash for closing costs and repairs, and free up space in the old storage unit, I want to sell off a lot of Hasbro stuff.
Everything is MOMC, from smoke free air conditioned storage. I'll try to ask for retail or less on these, even if I may have spent more than that on evil-bay (back when I didn't have all of you to help me find stuff locally). There's too much to list, but it's primarily figures and some vehicles/creatures.
PM me with your wish lists and I'll try to pull what you want. I can't spend the time meeting up for a lot of single item requests, so if anyone is looking for a bunch of items at once, I want to talk to you. My collection isn't 100% complete, but it's pretty close. I know it's a longshot because most of you are completists like I was- but I don't want to deal with shipping and non-local transactions (ie. ebay or RS).
So here's what I'm purging:
POTF2 (green cards)
AOTC/Saga (blue cards)
Some ROTS
Some Saga Collection
Some OTC
I want to buy a house, too.
I want to buy a house to have room to build all my dioramas that will display my
- loose and posed of course.POTF2 (green cards)
AOTC/Saga (blue cards)
Some ROTS
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That's almost my only reason for wanting to buy a house.
A couple other things came to mind:
-having a yard for 2 big dogs, possibly (Husky and Labrador Retriever probably)
-losing my upstairs neighbors who pounded around today, deciding to vacuum their entire apartment at 7:30am on a Saturday morning.
But I like how apartments have on-site / on-demand handymen to immediately fix air conditioning, plumbing, lighting, the sink disposal, any ailments of the washer and dryer. But if I had a house, I'd sequester $200 or so in emergency funds and then find a private-sector guy to come and do it.
I hire housekeepers as it is, right now. That will continue. I might need to employ a yard and pool guy. My health (and my patience) is not where I'd be great at handling all that sort of stuff myself. Except maybe yardwork. I kind of like that sort of thing.
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Roasted Asparagus with Sesame-Soy Flavors
(Makes 4 services, recipe inspired by this recipe created by Jack Bishop for Vegetables Every Day, one of my favorite cookbooks.)
1 lb. asparagus, thick spears preferred for roasting
1 - 1 1/2 T peanut oil (use just enough to barely coat the asparagus)
1 T soy sauce (low sodium soy sauce is fine here)
1 tsp. toasted sesame oil
2 tsp. sesame seeds, toasted
Preheat oven to 400 F. Break one piece of asparagus to see where the woody part of the stalk starts, then cut all asparagus off at that length. Cut asparagus into diagonal pieces about 2 inches long. Put cut pieces into mixing bowl and toss with peanut oil.
Arrange asparagus on roasting pan in single layer. Roast about 15 minutes, shaking the pan or stirring a few times. When asparagus is starting to get tender and barely starting to brown, put back in mixing bowl and toss with the soy sauce and sesame oil. Then put asparagus back on roasting pan and roast 5 minutes more.
While asparagus roasts for the final five minutes, put the sesame seed in a dry pan and toast over hot stove for about 2 minutes, or until barely starting to brown. Remove asparagus from oven, place in serving bowl and sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds. Serve hot.
South Beach Suggestions:
This is a perfect side dish for any phase of the South Beach Diet. This would taste great with Grilled Salmon with Asian Dipping Sauce and Wake Up Your Mouth Thai Cucumber Salad for phase one. For phase two or three, skip the salad and try Lake Powell Spicy Rice.
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Oh my: New book claims Obama White House is "hostile" to women
posted at 7:22 pm on September 16, 2011 by Allahpundit
A little something new for that already bulging "If only Democrats had nominated Hillary instead" file. I don't get it. How could women feel uncomfortable in a White House run by a character as cuddly as Rahm Emanuel?
The bad news? Apparently our nation's economic policy was shaped by some sort of liberal Delta Tau Chi, with Larry Summers as "Bluto." The good news? This is going to make for a sweet new entry on "Attack Watch."
"This place would be in court for a hostile workplace," former White House communications director Anita Dunn is quoted as saying. "Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women."…
"I felt like a piece of meat," Christina Romer, former head of the Council of Economic Advisers, said of one meeting in which Suskind writes she was "boxed out" by Summers…
"The president has a real woman problem," an unnamed high-ranking female official told Suskind. " The idea of the boys' club being just Larry and Rahm isn't really fair. He [Obama] was just as responsible himself."…
Obama, according to the book published by Harper Collins, failed to call on Romer after asking her male colleagues for their opinions. The snub prompted Romer to pass a note to Summers where she threatened to walk out of the dinner, according to the book.
The Obama White House has long been dogged by similar claims of exclusivity — his golf outings have been typically all-male affairs, though Melody Barnes, who heads the Domestic Policy Council was invited on at least one round of golf in October 2009 after much grumbling about Obama's choice of golf buddies.
Read the whole piece. Dunn evidently thought better of her "hostility" accusation after making it to Ron Suskind, the book's author, because when the Post contacted her to follow-up for this story, she insisted she'd never said it and that Obama totally "values having strong women around him" or whatever. Uh huh. And so it came to be that another left-wing feminist, forced to choose between party and cause, bit her lip for the team. It is, after all, an election year.
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Bernalillo County Treasurer
Job Description: Acts as the property tax collector for Bernalillo County, the City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Public Schools, the State of New Mexico and other taxing agencies in Bernalillo County.
Term: Four years (maximum of two terms)
Salary: $56,956
Patrick Padilla, Democrat (Incumbent)
Website: patrickpadilla.com
1) What experience makes you qualified for this position?
I am the CEO of Padilla and Company, a successful Accounting and Tax Preparation Business started in 1973.
I served the people of Bernalillo County as:
• Current Bernalillo County Treasurer
• Two-Term Bernalillo County Treasurer, 1990-1993
• Bernalillo County Commissioner, 1981-1984, two years as Chairman
• Twice-elected president of the National Association of Hispanic County Elected Officials
• State Director of the National Association of County Collectors, Treasurers and Finance Officers
• Twice-elected president of New Mexico Association of Counties
2) Do you believe the County Treasurer's Office is as efficient as it could be? If not, what would you do to increase efficiency?
Efficiency improvements are needed in every government agency.
When re-elected, I will continue to improve customer service, maximize efficiency and minimize taxpayer frustration by working with the Assessor's Office. I'm implementing new software for my staff and continuing to improve interfaces with other county agencies and departments. These strategies will improve computer efficiency and customer service. I am improving investment efficiency by being current on innovative investment practices used throughout New Mexico that adhere to the Prudent Person Rule; Safety, Liquidity, and Yield. I will make every effort possible to continue to earn the highest return on investments in county history.
3) Do you believe the County Treasurer's Office has enough oversight?
The Treasurer's Office serves as the bank for all of county government and is responsible for investments, with oversight by the county's Board of Finance.
I accomplished these oversight improvements: Implemented and documented processes compliant with the county's Investment Policy, including formation of the Investment Committee, whose purpose and responsibility is to advise the treasurer in establishing, maintaining and administering the county's Investment Policy.
These oversight enhancements earned: One of the highest investment returns in county history; the first AAA bond rating in county history; a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting, 2005-2007.
4) What gaps in service exist in the County Treasurer's Office, and what would you do to fill them?
Every government agency needs service improvements. Some service improvements I've made:
• Additional ways to pay property taxes: online, drop boxes, payments at local banks and credit unions, payments by mail, and in-person.
• New Mexico's law authorizing equal monthly property tax payments. New Mexico is one of eight states offering this service.
• A simplified yet comprehensive tax bill.
• An online tax calculator for estimating property taxes based on purchase price of the home.
• Campaigning the New Mexico Legislature to enact a law giving property taxpayers who resided 15 years at the same home a 5 percent/year tax credit on the 16th year of residence with a 25 percent cap.
Harold Davis, Republican
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It's possible that no journalist in the world has received more court summonses in recent weeks than Editor Bob Rugurika of Burundi's Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), a station founded by CPJ award-winner Alexis Sinduhije.
On Tuesday, for the fifth time since July 18, Rugurika was interrogated by a magistrate in the capital, Bujumbura, about programs aired by his station, according to news reports and CPJ research. The magistrate allegedly asked Rugurika to "correct" a broadcast that pointed out that a 1996 U.N. report had implicated an official involved in the setting up of Burundi's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a massacre, RPA Editor-in-Chief Eric Manirakiza told CPJ.


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In 2013, the National Gallery of Ireland will present a programme of temporary exhibitions which will explore the breadth and significance the Gallery's vast collection of Irish and European works of art. Some elements in the programme will coincide with the period of Ireland's Presidency of the European Union, and tourism initiatives like 'The Gathering Ireland 2013'. There will also be an opportunity to display more of the Gallery's recent acquisitions, including Colin Davidson's portrait of the poet and anthologist, Michael Longley and William Crozier's Flanders Fields.
JMW Turner at the National Gallery of Ireland1-31 January 2013. Admission free.Curators: Anne Hodge and Niamh MacNally
In 1900, the National Gallery of Ireland accepted from the English collector Henry Vaughan (1809-99) a bequest of 31 watercolours and drawings by Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851). His prized Turner watercolours were divided between the National Galleries in London, Dublin and Edinburgh. In his bequest he stipulated that the Turner works be displayed in January only when the natural light levels are at their lowest. Although technologies in museum lighting have advanced in recent years, the National Gallery of Ireland continues to adhere to the conditions of the bequest by showing these luminous watercolours for one month only each year, making it one of the major attractions in the Gallery's exhibition calendar. The 2013 exhibition includes the entire Vaughan Bequest, in addition to 5 other watercolours acquired in recent years, and a selection of Turner's Liber Studiorum prints. A new catalogue on the Gallery's Turner collection, 'The Works of JMW Turner at the National Gallery of Ireland' by Anne Hodge and Niamh MacNally, is published by the National Gallery of Ireland with the support of Unicredit Bank Ireland plc. The catalogue presents new insights and research about Turner's technique and artistry. (Gallery Shop, €14.95pb).
The Sketchbooks of Jack B. Yeats 1897 – 19552 February – 5 May 2013. Admission free.Curators: Donal Maguire and Pauline Swords
This exhibition brings together, for the first time, a significant selection of Jack B. Yeats's personal sketchbooks, which form part of the Anne Yeats Gift (1996).By the end of his life, Yeats had assembled a collection of over 200 individual sketchbooks, 205 of which are held by the Gallery. By the late 1890s, these sketchbooks had become an integral part of his artistic practice and he drew regularly upon them for inspiration for both the subject matter and composition of his more formal oil paintings. When viewed as a body of work, this visual archive provides a unique insight into both the private life and public work of Jack B. Yeats. The exhibition will be complemented by a digital presentation with Samsung Galaxy Tablets and Note devices which will give more access to the sketchbooks, photographs and letters from the Yeats archive. An accompanying catalogue will be available featuring illustrations of the 135 sketches on display, as well as new historical analysis and commentary on Yeats and his sketchbook collection.
Treasured Sheets: European Works from the Collection16 February – 28 April 2013. Admission free.Curator: Anne Hodge
A presentation of some 50 drawings and prints will highlight the richness and scope of the Gallery's collection of European works on paper. It will feature old master drawings, landscapes, still life, portraits and prints spanning the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries by Mantegna, Degas, Watteau, Rossetti, Gainsborough, Daniel Maclise and Paul Henry. This exhibition is presented as part of the Culture Programme of the EU Presidency 2013.
Essential Ireland: A Mini Tour6 April - 28 July 2013. Admission free.Curator: Adrian Le Harivel
To coincide with Ireland's tourism initiative, 'The Gathering Ireland 2013', the National Gallery of Ireland will bring together paintings and drawings of historic places in Ireland including views of major cities Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford and Derry.
Imagining the Divine: The Holy Family in Art26 November 2012 - 1 April 2013. Admission free.Curator: Anne Hodge
This exhibition shows how artists through the ages have imagined and depicted the early life of Christ. It features 13 paintings and drawings, comprising colourful and delicate works by Lorenzo di Credi, Guercino and Murillo, among others. Highlights include The Dawn of Christianity: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by JMW Turner, on loan from the Ulster Museum, and an early Renaissance painted relief of the Virgin and Child from the workshop of Florentine sculptor, Lorenzo Ghiberti.
Art Surpassing Nature: Dutch Landscapes in the Age of Rembrandt and Ruisdael29 October 2012 - 20 January 2013. Admission free.Curator: Dr Adriaan Waiboer
The National Gallery of Ireland houses some of the finest landscapes by Dutch seventeenth-century artists. This exhibition highlights the scope and quality of the collection with works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Meindert Hobbema, Aelbert Cuyp and Hendrick Avercamp.
SPECIAL DISPLAY Conservation In Focus1 December 2012 – 17 February 2013. Admission free.Curators: Adrian Le Harivel, with Simone Mancini and Roy Hewson
One of the many paintings in the collection which has undergone forensic examination and conservation is Portrait of San Luigi Gonzaga (1568-1591), which is attributed to the Italian artist, Pietro Facchetti (1539-1613?). Recent restoration of the painting has recovered many hidden details and the original splendour of the artist's fine brushwork. Preliminary examination of the portrait established the paint-layer was in a fragile condition and the paint surface had been covered with a tinted varnish that had darkened over time. This sixteenth-century painting is the subject of an in-focus display which is complemented by full-size photographs of the painting before conservation, including X-Radiography carried out on the work.
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Japanese Kickboxing Scene: June Preview
- Written by Dave Walsh
After a bit of a hiatus, I'm back with a preview for June which features big events from Krush, RISE, the Hoost Cup and M-Fight.
June 2nd - Krush Ignition 2013 vol.4
Krush's 4th smaller event of the year is actually one of their better IGNITION cards, headlined by a 70kg bout between Hiroki Nakajima and NJKF's KEN. Both are in a bit of a slump right now and lost their most recent fight to Yutaro Yamauchi. Co-headlining are 67kg GP participant Makihira Keita and NJKF's Taeyeon. Keita lost his most recent bout in the GP to Shintaro Matsukura while Taeyeon was upset in his last bout, losing by 1st round KO to Shota Otsuki. Also on the card is the final bout of the 3rd leg of the 55kg WILDRUSH League as Kazyosi takes on Masanori Shimada.
Big Bang 13
The main event features top Japanese Middleweight Yasuhiro Kido taking on Iranian Minai Massoud. In the most intriguing bout of the night, Big Bang staple Shunta Ito takes on surging prospect Yasuyuki at Super Featherweight. Ito is just 2-2 in his last 4, but the losses came to Rajadamnern Stadium champ Kaimookaw Wacharachai and top Japanese Featherweight Hiroki Akimoto. This will be Yasuyuki's third straight matchup against a top fighter as he stopped Kanongsuk and took a decision off of Yuji Umehara in his past two fights. In a 64kg bout, slugger Mohan Dragon takes on the more technical Toshiki Taniyama. Taniyama has been susceptible to big punchers in the past, so we'll see if he's progressed at all lately.
June 9th - RISE 93
The main event features one of RISE's biggest fights of the year, pitting 60kg champ Kosuke Komiyama against former 63kg champ Yuki. Komiyama has won 11 in a row, most recently going 3-0 in Shootboxing and picking up wins over SB Feathweight champ Naguranchun Masa M16 and SB Super Featherweight champ Akifumi Utagawa. After a pair of losses to Sun Hyun Lee with a win over Javier Hernandez in between, Yuki fought in the Road to GLORY Japan 65kg Slam where he made it to the finals with wins over Mohan Dragon and Zen Fujita before being dominated by Masaaki Noiri in the finals. He'll be looking to make a statement after that loss, but Komiyama's style will make it very difficult for the powerful striker to pick up a win here. At 63kg, top contender Yuto Watanabe takes on Krush's Yukimitsu Takahashi. Watanabe has won two straight by knockout since an extension round loss to Sun Hyun Lee while Takahashi lost a split decision against Shunsuke Oishi in a bout for the vacant J-Network Super Lightweight title.
TNK1 feat. REBELS
The headlining bout pits NJKF Super Welterweight champion Kenta against Yuma Matsui in a 67kg bout. Kenta has won 2 in a row after losing 4 straight, most recently beating Yoshihiro Sato and taking his spot as the #2 Middleweight in Japan behind Yasuhiro Kido. After failing to find success at 63kg and 70kg, Matsui has come back to his best weight at 67kg where he knocked out MA Kick champion Jun Nakazawa in his most recent bout. Kenta is the better fighter, but Matsui has pulled out some magic in the past at this weight with wins over T-98 and Nakazawa who are two of the best at Welterweight. The co-main event pits #1 Flyweight Ryuji Kato against rising star Eisaki Ogasawara under a yet to be determined ruleset. After avenging a loss to Yuji Uwasawa, Kato has wins over almost every significant Flyweight in Japan, but has only started to test himself against the new crop of young Flyweights, beating Takashi Saenchaigym in his most recent bout. The 17 year old Ogasawara has burst onto the scene in the last 6 months with dominant wins over Kiminori Matsuzaki and Hiroyuki Yamano. A win for Ogasawara could mean the beginning of a long reign at the top of the Flyweight and Super Flyweight divisions.
K-Spirit 6
The main event pits Kunihiro against Tomo Arimatsu for the vacant RKA Super Bantamweight title. This is a rematch of a fight that Arimatsu won. However, Kunihiro has seemed to improve greatly since then, pushing MA Kick champion Keisuke Miyamoto to the limit and forcing a draw in their title fight. Conversely, Arimatsu lost his last fight to Yuta Sashikubi.
Chakuriki Gold Rush Double Blade 2
In the main event, K-1 veteran Takehero Murahama looks to pick up just his 2nd win in 8 years in a rematch against Yamato. Their first fight ended in a draw.
June 16th - Hoost Cup Kings
The biggest weekend of the month features possibly the best striker on the planet in Saenchai PK Saenchaimuaythaigym facing off against Yosuke Mizuochi. Saenchai is coming off of a loss to 17 year old wunderkind Yodwicha, but gets a rematch with him just 9 days before this fight. While it is unlikely, it could leave him open to be upset by Yosuke Mizuochi who is one of Japan's top Lightweights and holds wins over Yoshinori Nakasuka, Keijiro Miyakoshi, Yoshito Kajita and Nong'an Sasiprapa. Mizuochi was also upset in his most recent bout, having his impressive streak snapped by Shota Saenchaigym. The main event is a 70kg matchup between Yoshihiro Sato and Yuichiro Nagashima. Sato was recently upset by Kenta in Krush, but bounced back with a win over the much smaller Sun Hyun Lee in GLORY. Nagashima hasn't been the same fighter since taking time off to be a pro wrestler and has lost two in a row to Henri van Opstal and Robin van Roosmalen. At 55kg, Ryuya Kusakabe defends his WPMF Japan title against Ichinohe Sota in a rematch and at 59kg NJKF Super Featherweight champ Daichi Yamato takes on Pinsiam Maki.
The headliner here is the 4-man tournament for the vacant ISKA Lightweight title with Gagny Baradji facing Naoki Ishikawa in one semifinal and Koya Urabe facing Fumiya Osawa in the other. Krush 63kg champ Hideaki Yamazaki fights for the first time since winning his title against Ikki. At 55kg MA Kick champ Keisuke Miyamoto looks to pick up another high profile win over the hard hitting Ryuma Tobe. At 70kg TOMOYUKI faces Asami Zaurus and at 65kg HIROYA takes on NOMAN.
M-Fight Suk Weerasakreck 2
This 2-part event has a double headliner, most notably featuring Genji Umeno's return to full contact rules against Rudopet Por Warasin. At Welterweight, Hideya Tanaka looks to stop Kaew Fairtex's 4-fight run in Japan that has seen him go 4-0 with 3 KOs. At Super Flyweight, WPMF Japan champion Kiminori Matsuzaki takes on Thailand's Tinli Revival. The first part of the event features five WPMF Women's World title fights. At Mini-Flyweight, Erika Kamimura defends her title against Churi Gotawingym. At Pinweight, Chiharu defends her title against Pizza Sor. Thipjaroen. At Lightweight, Yui Takada defends her title against Petsinin Sitjepong. At Flyweight Graycer Aki and Petsyohjin Sitajurnspon fight for the vacant title. And finally at Mini Flyweight, Yordying SithMuaySiam defends her interim title against Little Tiger.
June 23rd - Shootboxing 2013 act.4
As of now there are no announced fights, but 4-time S-Cup winner Andy Souwer, Hiroki Shishido and Hiroaki Suzuki are all expected to participate.
J-Network and J-GIRLS 2013 2nd
The main event is the finals of the Super Featherweight tournament between Eishou Nakamuki and Takuro. This event also hosts the finals of the Welterweight tournament between Hideaki Yoshikawa and Ryota Kojima. In the headlining women's bout, Yuichiro Nagashima student Chihiro Kiratsu takes on Miyako "SMILE" Mihori in the semi-finals of the women's Atomweight tournament.
June 30th - NJKF Muay Thai Open 24
The main event is a battle of top Flyweights as NJKF champion Takashi Saenchaigym takes on WPMF Japan Flyweight champion Yuji Uwasawa. Both men are coming off of close losses to top Flyweight Ryuji Kato. At Lightweight, Gansuwan Sasiprapa, who owns wins over Tetsuya Yamato and Yuya Yamato, looks to bounce back from a loss to Keijiro Miyakoshi against former J-Network Lightweight champion Takenori Hosono.
MA Kick DRAGON ROAD ~One and Only Take 2~
The main event pits Yuji Takeuchi against Kanongsuk Weerasakreck at 62kg. Takeuchi is 1-1 this year with a KO of Shota Hayashi in Krush and a split decision loss to Tatsuya Inaishi at GLORY 8. Kanongsuk is 2-0 this year with a pair of wins over Hidekazu Tanaka.


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The program is located in the newly renovated CTC Hutchison Center on Geist Road. Lecture material is complemented with complete audio-visual training aids, enabling students to progress at the maximum rate per class hour. Most of our welding courses are taught in the evening or on the weekend so as to accommodate the needs of students who have daytime jobs or are in the military. Students are required to provide their own personal gear for the welding courses in which they enroll. Contact the Welding department for a list of required welding gear.
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Arthur Boyd's paintings during the Second World War reflect the personal turmoil he experienced at the time and his deep opposition to violence. Boyd was conscripted into the army in May 1941 and discharged in March 1944. His paintings from the war years include expressionistic images of human dislocation and suffering; images of crippled, grotesque figures in the streets of St Kilda and South Melbourne. In 1944 he completed a series of dark, dramatic paintings of figures in the Australian bush. The landscapes in these paintings, including The hunter I, were inspired by places in Victoria that Boyd had visited while on leave from the army, including the upper reaches of the Yarra, Launching Place, Warburton and Woods Point.1
In The hunter I Boyd has used private symbols to create an image of personal despair and anxiety. He portrayed the hunter as an exposed and vulnerable figure, naked with closed eyes. As if trapped or lost in the dense, straggly bush the hunter appears to be both part of the landscape and alien within it. Approached by the horned ram (a symbol of lust and corruption in Boyd's work) the hunter attempts to flee,
his extended arm a seemingly futile gesture.
1 Barry Pearce, Arthur Boyd retrospective, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1993, p.16.


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This post is part of the Sis Boom Rebecca Dress Sew Along! For complete details, click here!
Today's guest post is from my friend, Erica. She really is a whiz at creative dress thinking, and today she is sharing her process of making the Sis Boom Rebecca Dress!
Thanks, Sara for inviting me to participate in the Sew Along for the Sis Boom Rebecca dress! Sara has been my internet sewing buddy and cheerleader since I first started sewing, and I am grateful for her encouragement, and glad to have this opportunity to give back! A little background about me – I'm a full-time working mom of 2, who purchased my sewing machine in October of 2011 to make some Halloween costumes, so I've been at this a little more than a year. I usually post my completed projects to my Pinterest board, so you can check them out here: http://pinterest.com/ericasisme/my-sewing-creations/. I'm writing this post like a journal so you can get an idea of how I paced myself for the project.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Today I obtained my pattern. It's different from my usual style, but I like it and am excited. I looked on Google images for other examples of Rebecca dresses people have made, and pinned some for inspiration. This will only be my second dress from a pattern ever (3rd if you count my necktie dress)!
I began searching for fabric on www.fabricworm.com, and once I saw this combination, I knew it would be my choice and I had to have it! I chose Print & Pattern, Boys Toys, Click Camera in Pepper, and Robin Zingone for Robert Kaufman, Flirty Flowers, Plot Black.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
After an inventory question trying to order my fabric last night, I anxiously awaited the opening of the store on the West Coast, and placed my fabric order this morning. Now I just have to try not to stare at it and obsess over it all day!
After the kids were in bed, I confirmed my size and measurements. All measurements fall within a size 10, so I printed the pattern & cut it while watching the election results. This took about 45 min.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Tonight, I taped the pieces of the pattern together. At first I was unsure of a pdf pattern and thought the cutting and taping would be a lot of work. Consider me a convert! I loved how easily the pieces lined up with the shaded areas, I loved that the paper is thicker and easier to work with than tissue, I loved that I only had to work with my size, and I love that I can always reprint in my size or any other! This process took about 30 min while watching TV
My other project for tonight was to study the instructions for the contrasting neckline facing part of the pattern. I find that if I can visualize my project beforehand, it comes together much easier. After playing with my paper pieces, I realized it's the same as an inside facing. You sew 2 pieces together at the neckline, and then instead of turning to the inside, you turn to the outside and top stitch the top and bottom of the facing to the garment (reminds me of appliqué). So the top of the neckline seam is created like when you sew pieces right sides together and flip, and the bottom part is turned under once, and then sewn onto the dress. Clear as mud, right? 😉
Thursday, November 8, 2012
My fabric arrived when I came home from work for lunch! I did a quick wash and put in the dryer before heading back to work so I wouldn't lose a day from washing.
This evening, I cut my fabric. I re-read the sizing chart, and decided on a petite bodice with 35" length. I ended up "fussy cutting", as Sara calls it. I let my seam allowances go into the selvage b/c they won't show, and ended up using only 1 yard. Now I can make a matching bag! My only food for thought would have been to maybe center the pattern of my fabric in the front center bodice, but I'm happy with the results. For the contrast, when they say "cut on the fold", this doesn't have to mean fold in half. This allowed me to use the extra fabric for contrasting arm binding. Cutting took 2 hours, as I took my time while watching TV.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Tonight, I stopped by Joann with a fabric scrap in hand on the way home to get a matching zipper and thread. Then, I assembled the bodice and neck facing. The only instructions I didn't follow were for binding the armholes before sewing the bodice side pieces. This is because I sometimes need bust darts. Here's a photo of the contrasting neckline facing going in. You can see it being sewn on the "wrong side". I spent about 2.5 hours sewing this evening.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Today I sewed the bodice, belt, and skirt together, and inserted my zipper. I substituted an invisible zipper. I tried on the dress, and have to shorten the back bodice, take in the princess seams by the armholes, and figure out how to do a box pleat with contrast below the zipper on the skirt so that I can sit down! I use an invisible zipper foot, and instead of pressing the teeth out of the way with an iron, I use my finger to move the teeth as it feeds into the machine.
Sunday, November 11 – Thursday, November 15 – sewing time off – work week!
Friday, November 15, 2012
Tonight, I spent about 2 hours fussing with shortening the back bodice (ripping, aligning, sewing). I basically had to grade it and couldn't shorten it as much as I would have liked (it needed 2 inches in the back, and the front was fine). Cutting a size up on the belt and skirt probably would have helped with this. I also cut my arm facing, and used my bias tape maker and iron to create single fold bias tape, and then my iron and pins to create the double-fold bias tape needed. I finished one arm and went to bed. Total time was about 3-3.5 hours.
Saturday, November 16, 2012
I finished the other armhole, and went to work on figuring out how to do the box pleat on my skirt. I Googled it, and decided to cut a piece of fabric 5 inches wide, with a length from the hem to the bottom of my zipper. I pinned it to both sides of the skirt it was supposed to go between, right sides facing, and sewed it in. Here's a picture of the pinning, so you get an idea of where and how I was working.
Here are links to the three tutorials I found most helpful on understanding box pleats with contrast.
After getting my piece sewn in, I followed the tutorials to iron my pleat. Then, I sewed down my zipper tail to the seam allowance, including the pleat, as shown in the next photo.
The finished product is a little shorter than I'd anticipated, and while I could have added a contrasting band to the hem, I opted to keep the shorter length, and zig-zagged the bottom with a slim hem instead. Total time tonight – approx. 2-3 hours. And I'm all done!
I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out. I think the front is great, and my box pleat is both functional (I can sit in the dress) and an interesting design feature. The back bodice fit is not my favorite feature (it bunches a little despite my attempted alterations), but I like the rest enough, so I can live with it.
A final note on sizing – the pattern says it runs true to off the shelf size. I'm a 6 or 8 in off the shelf, and when my measurements said I should cut a 10, I didn't question it. I only measured my body. It would have been nice to also measure a well-fitting dress and use that chart, too. I also could have measured the pattern pieces and compared them to an existing dress. Or, to be safe, I could have cut a size up, as it's easier to take in than have a finished product that's too tight. The pattern says it's fitted, but I'd say it runs on the tight side of fitted. Also, the waist didn't turn out to be a drop waist. It hits more at my natural waist, but I don't mind as it's equally flattering. The length was on the shorter side (as previously mentioned), but I guess that's the consequence of basing the length off of a diagram of knees (although I have to say that is the coolest diagram ever!!!). I'm an Engineer, I should know better! Next time, I'll measure and be more precise. 🙂
I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!


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DENNIS HOPPER, one of the weirdest stars of his generation, is dead at the age of 74. The only shock is that he lived as long as he did, and that he was taken by something as mundane as prostate cancer, instead of, say, rappeling down Mt. Rushmore, naked, tripping his balls off.
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New Era Campaign News: Renowned Legal Educator Beverly Rubens Gordon Designates Historic Planned Gift
Professor Beverly Rubens Gordon '54, a major force in legal education for over 40 years, has designated an unprecedented planned gift to Southwestern. The Beverly Rubens Gordon Endowment Fund will provide a principal amount of approximately $3 million to support three Beverly Rubens Gordon Endowed Chairs. The bequest represents the largest gift from an individual ever received by the law school.
Professor Gordon's gift caps off a series of extraordinary donations that Dean Emeritus Bryant Garth secured for Southwestern during his tenure. These contributions will help ensure that Southwestern continues to provide a top-quality legal education, allowing the school to better support its students and to hire the finest faculty.
"This is a gift of historic proportions for Southwestern," Dean Austen Parrish said, "both in terms of its value and in the stature of our esteemed donor within legal education in California. Professor Gordon has been a trailblazer throughout a career distinguished by outstanding leadership, inspiring passion for the law, and steadfast dedication to her students and colleagues."
Professor Gordon earned her J.D. degree at Southwestern, where she later served on the faculty, and also became involved in the establishment of two other Southern California law schools. After graduating first in her law class in 1954 and becoming a member of the California State Bar, she taught at Southwestern for ten years and founded one of the leading bar review courses. In 1964, she was appointed as the first Dean of Orange University School of Law in Santa Ana, which would eventually become Pepperdine University School of Law. Two years later, she was instrumental in the formation of the Beverly Law School in the Beverly/Larchmont area of Los Angeles, where she served as Dean of Administration and a member of the faculty. The school became affiliated with Whittier College in 1975 and is now Whittier Law School. In the early 1980s, Professor Gordon served as a Visiting Professor at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, and in 1986 she was honored by the Whittier College Board of Trustees as the law school's first Professor Emeritus.
In the greater higher education community, Professor Gordon chaired or served as a member of evaluation teams for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the California State Department of Education, the State Bar Select Committee to study accreditation standards of California law schools, and the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Professor Gordon has received numerous awards for teaching excellence from Southwestern, the Beverly Law School and Whittier Law School. She was honored as Southwestern's Alumna of the Year in 1980 and was presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2007.
This major endowment is part of the New Era Campaign as Southwestern begins its second century of educating outstanding lawyers and civic leaders for Los Angeles and beyond. The campaign is focused on generating major support for endowed scholarship funds and faculty chairs, strengthening academic programs and clinics, and enhancing campus facilities.
"Beverly Rubens Gordon has been a cherished friend and advisor to Southwestern for many decades," Dean Parrish commented in his announcement. "We are tremendously grateful for her extraordinary investment in the law school's future."


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'Welcome to my Koori world [Delores' Koori world]' 1993
Michael Riley and Destiny Deacon had worked together before on numerous satirical projects during the 1990s: a short sat-com (as in satirical-comedy) series for Blackout on ABC TV, Delores' Koori World (1992), and An afternoon in Brunswick (1993).
Riley's videos with Deacon find a way to go to the heart of Aboriginal Australia by cutting through any expectations we might have over what Aboriginal people look like, how they behave, what their dreams are made of, what they eat, drink and listen to. In Welcome to my Koori world and I don't wanna be a bludger, Deacon takes on various roles – cook, poet, wife, mother, bludger – in order to reveal the inadequacy of categorisation.
'I don't wanna be a bludger' 1999
Watching I don't wanna be a bludger is haunting because the image of Riley disabled in a wheelchair predicts his own failing health a few years later.
At the 1999 exhibition Living here now: Australian perspecta at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, I don't wanna be a bludger (1999) was shown on a video monitor. Viewers stopped to let the video have its time; they slowly opened up to the experience of viewing. The video allowed the gallery space to become what it should be: a social space. Viewers openly giggled and laughed at Riley's film. Throughout the video one is uncertain about one's own response – tears and laughter seem equally appropriate to each scene. However, what remains almost unbearable are Riley's cameo performances.
Riley plays the part of Harold, a disabled cousin of Delores (Deacon), who visits her house in Brunswick where Delores is throwing him a birthday party. Riley has thick, black-rimmed glasses, wears a pink shirt and bow tie, trembles in his wheelchair, and is generally at the mercy of this afternoon escapade in Delores' Koori world. In the video, Riley's camera lovingly envelopes the character of Delores, allowing her the freedom to dig herself into more and more strife as she attempts a career in fortune telling, has an excruciating interview with a social worker, applies for a study grant and babysits three children at the end of a long day trying to make something of her life. Riley's camera stays with Delores' improvisatory humour, sometimes almost daring Deacon to go further. As a collaborative team of writer and director, Deacon and Riley find in this work an exquisite balance between excess and narrative; satire and kitsch; improvisation and script.
The key themes of this video are how we treat the 'outsider' or 'other' and how we respond to difference. The larger-than-life Delores meets her match with the silent, helpless Harold. Delores' humour depends on reaction: as an audience, we wait in anticipation for what she will say or do next, and how her chosen foe will respond. Harold is, however, Delores' foil: all he can do is dribble. As she spoons green jelly into a quivering mouth, gives him a box of magic tricks with which he clearly can't play, and dances with him around the lounge room, her slapstick humour is met with pathos. The 'troublemaker' comes face-to-face with the 'hapless victim' in a sequence that has audiences laughing aloud.
Deacon's bitter-sweet jokes and her incredulous undermining of bureaucratic authorities are funny and breathtakingly audacious. It is this tragicomic balancing act that brings these two great artists together. Deacon and Riley reclaim 'politically incorrect', archival cultural forms in order to forge a larger and more complex understanding of black identity.
The media frequently depicts Indigenous people in perpetually negative circumstances, often as either 'making trouble' or being 'bludgers'. Aboriginals are regularly referred to in terms of types, in dehumanised and degrading language. Deacon and Riley's characters use the devices of satire and humour, through the conventions of the soap opera and reality television, to utterly unravel what it means to be an Indigenous person in the Australian suburbs. We are faced with a complex and varied scenario, one that makes fun of stereotypes in the most politically incorrect way possible. In this video, everyone is 'mistreated' to one degree or another. Delores has no empathy for anyone, including cousin Harold or the youngsters she is babysitting. She views the welfare system with a wry and cynical attitude, almost revelling in the tap dance she has with the welfare officers.
'Blacktracker' 1996
Throughout the mid 1990s, Riley worked for ABC and SBS Television, completing a series of documentaries, including Blacktracker (1996) and Tent boxers (1997) for the ABC, and The Masters (1996) for SBS. The latter remains the only sit-com portraying contemporary Indigenous urban life produced in Australia, and the cast included Destiny Deacon, Lillian Crombie and Lee Madden. A number of projects were developed through Blackfella Films. In 1996–97 Riley was commissioned by Sheryl Connors, Aboriginal Education Officer at the Australian Museum, to produce a series of portraits of eminent Indigenous people based in Sydney. This series is displayed in the Indigenous Australians Gallery of the museum, and the rapport between the photographer and his subjects is evident.
The images in the exhibitions Yarns from the Talbragar 1999 and A common place: portraits of Moree Murries 1991 are reflected in the people and the places in the films Blacktracker (1996) and Tent boxers (1997). These are Riley's mob and his films are about their world.
'Tent boxers' 2000
In Riley's films and videos there is an accumulative, unforced style of editing that slowly and deliberately builds a picture. He can switch from short fragments to long sequences, in order to build up a momentum. The short sequences have as much power and meaning as the longer ones. In this, we see the photographer at work within the structure of the moving image. As such, one comes to love the characters in Riley's films, whether they are real or fictional, because we are encouraged to share their stories and journeys, past and present. This is as true for comic Delores, as it is for the men and women interviewed in the documentary Tent boxers (1997).
'Malangi: a day in the life of a bark painter' 1991
'A passage through the aisles' 1994
'Dreamings: the art of Aboriginal Australia' 1988
Riley had the ability to engage with artists, quietly observing that creative space to see what emerged and then shaping it into a series of poignant and disturbing images.
'Boomalli: five Koorie artists' 1988
In 1988 Riley presented his first film, Boomalli: five Koorie artists, which he made for Film Australia. Riley was one of those people around whom different worlds revolved: he became an axis for many who, like him, had travelled to Sydney from other places to live and work. He was instrumental in establishing Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, working particularly closely with Avril Quaill, another founding member whom he had met in 1984 at Sydney College of the Arts. Boomalli was established in 1987 in Chippendale when he and other visual artists, including Bronwyn Bancroft, Euphemia Bostock, Brenda L Croft, Fiona Foley, Fernanda Martins, Arone Raymond Meeks, Tracey Moffatt, Avril Quaill and Jeffrey Samuels, decided to set up an Indigenous-operated artspace.
At the opening event of Boomalli, the room was crowded with Indigenous actors, dancers, writers, musicians, politicos, representatives from various sectors – such as health and education – and others from the Sydney community. It was an amazing time and place for Indigenous arts and culture. The collective debates raged about urban-based Indigenous art and culture, and this new wave of extraordinary artists articulated passionately and creatively that the renaissance of urban Indigenous culture had arrived. Riley captured all this in Boomalli: five Koorie artists.
This period was also notable for the collaborations between artists and there were many occasions when we all were involved in each other's creative works. It could be said that all Aboriginal art is autobiographical in the sense of linking people, land, environment, and history.
Riley communicated with ease and confidence from behind the lens in both film and photography. The line that runs between his duel practices is a key to understanding the significance of his poetic messages. This was his modus operandi, the conduit between him and the world. From this objective position, Riley's critical eye distilled images and created film and photography that were often in conceptual parallel. This can be seen in his portraiture and documentary work of the 1980s and 1990s, which include his discerning studio black-and-white photographs of the chic, avant-garde Sydney Aboriginal community, Michael's milieu. Complementing these 'urban' works are his onsite studio and open cast-call photographic documentation of his mother's and father's rural communities of Moree and Dubbo respectively. The films he made at this time, including Boomalli: five Koorie artists (1988) and Quest for country (1993), corresponded with these works. What significantly underpins this period of work is Riley's family and social networks, along with his unstated sense of belonging. These notions come forth to convey simple messages of the beauty, elegance and strength of the Aboriginal community.
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Depression, smoking programs available, Jan 19-20
Posted January 7, 2005; 12:13 a.m.
University Health Services is offering two health-related programs for Princeton employees this month.
A free confidential depression screening session is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, in the Goheen Library at McCosh Health Center. Employees can complete a written screening test, receive educational information and meet with a mental health professional. Appropriate referrals will be recommended. No appointments are necessary.
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Unless your dad was FDR, Harry S. Truman or Henry Stimson then his opinion wouldn't have counted for much (nor would my grandfather's; who also would have let fly on the Huns). Japan, not Germany, was the intended target for the in-development A-bombs as far back as '43. That intention was reiterated in late '44 in a meeting between FDR and Churchill.
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Secondly, there were indeed numerous Iraqi violations of the no fly zone by Iraq in 2001 and 2002. In well over 100 instances between 2001 and 2002 Iraq tried to shoot down coalition aircraft that were enforcing the no fly zone.
Be careful what you ask for...
I'll take the river down to still water and ride a pack of dogs.
That's never stopped Roger before, HEW....sometimes it's fun to just watch his posts flap in the wind. I love when he edits them to solicit more responses..
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BOONEVILLE – Northeast Mississippi Community College sophomore linebacker J.R. White of Tuscumbia, Alabama became the eighth member of the 2012 Tiger football team to continue their careers when he signed with the University of North Alabama on National Signing Day.
White joins Donnell Chapman, a tight end from Batesville who signed with Missouri Southern State University; Jonathan Harrison a punter from Belmont who signed with Central Arkansas; Lavon Hook, a defensive end from Atlanta who signed with the University of Mississippi as Tigers carrying on their football careers.
Tigers signing with four-year schools also included Jay Jones, a running back from Horn Lake, who signed with the University of South Alabama along with Nick Thomason, a linebacker from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, who signed with Louisiana Tech University; Johnathan Braddock, an offensive lineman from Ripley, who signed with Southeastern Louisiana and Logan Stokes, a tight end from Muscle Shoals, Alabama who ink with Lousiana State University.


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While passing through a TRU here in Atlanta, I was sifting through the dwindling 12" Star Wars figures and came upon something that seemed rather odd. They actually had the AT-ST Driver, Han Solo, and Lando Skiff outfit (SHOCK and Horror), but they also had a couple of Mace Windu from the Saga collection. What made the one that I found interesting was that it came with a Blue lightsaber blade, not the regular purple that should have been packed in. Has anyone else run across this before, or have I found something truly unique?
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