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Jené chatted with Bridget recently about authors who have inspired her, weird women, and not conquering anxiety.
How long have you been writing and what's the first thing you remember writing that left a significant impression on you?
As a kid, I was obsessive, pig-headed, passionate, inventive, and convinced I could do better than those garbage See Spot Run samplers they were making us read in school – so basically, I was born a writer. The first story I ever wrote was about unicorns that lived in the clouds and savagely attacked airplanes until all human passengers were killed. I wrote and illustrated all 10 pages, and I bound it myself using cardboard, yellow yarn, and Lisa Frank wrapping paper. I feel like maybe I haven't changed that much; my vocabulary's just gotten more impressive, and I use semicolons now.
Oh wow, that's great. I want to read that story!
Oh, I definitely kept it.
I think it's under my old Girl Scout uniform.
Who are some writers or artists who have inspired or helped inform your work in some way (besides Lisa Frank! also have you've seen Nihilsa Frank?)
Oh, Lisa Frank. She gave us 90s kids so much. Nihilisa Frank is one of my favorite things the internet has ever made.
It's hard for me to not give you a 50-page list of every artist and writer who has meant something to me. I'll try and be brief.
I didn't even realize until recently that this is weird, but when I was growing up I read a lot of young adult fiction about the Holocaust. Those books were often narrated by girl protagonists surviving a reality of horror, which, for personal reasons, I found important and necessary, and is a sentence that can also be applied to my work even now. My current reading list isn't terribly different: I like writers who deal in horror and erotica, and who enact careful intention with their language and construction. I found Shirley Jackson last year for the first time, which is ridiculous because we were made for each other. Kelly Link means a lot to me. Her story "Catskin" kept me from quitting writing, which is not a hyperbolic statement. The poet Aase Berg is another favorite – I bring her book With Deer around with me everywhere. Her work is just so haunting and quietly terrifying in a way I'm always trying to emulate. The Czech New Wave film Daisies is basically how I have felt on the inside since I was 13, so that's probably splattered all over my work, too. ALSO. (I promise I'll calm down after this one.) I read Katherine Dunn's Geek Love two years ago, which is beautiful and insane and sad and grotesque, and also it takes place in Portland, OR (where I grew up), and I kind of feel like part of my mission in life was to read it so that it could chemically alter my brain cells and change me as a person. Which it did. So if you're looking for that experience, that's my recommendation.
I'm familiar with these but haven't delved deep enough. Plenty of friends have also recommended them!
Yeah, dude, weird women is where it's at. I'm entrenched in Anais Nin's diaries right now, too. So good.
Probably the weirdest lady book I've read is Wetlands and it was adapted into a movie that I watched on Netflix.
The two stories I've read of yours ("Credo" and "Little Animal") both feature characters who are somewhat misunderstood, or are perceived as outsiders in some way. How does your experience inform a theme like this?
I mean, I was a weird, ugly, neurotic kid who didn't have much money and was always hiding in the bathroom having panic attacks, so it's not like my past isn't at least tangentially related to those two pieces. But I think my real interest lies in the moment when a person feels unsafe (perhaps because they've been misunderstood), and what they choose to do with that moment. Both of the children in those two stories you mentioned move from helpless to powerful. Sure, both make choices that have detrimental consequences for the people around them, and I think that's how real life works: when we first learn to acquire power, we break a lot of shit around us. I like the breaking. I like telling the story of the specificities of what they break, and how they break it.
What do you think are some of the most overused themes in fiction writing? Which themes/concepts/ideas do you wish you'd see explored more often in fiction?
I get more irritated by credit being ascribed to the same people over and over again when there are so many other incredible writers who get little attention for the work they're doing, for whatever reason – their age, their gender, their race, their nationality. I just want more people to read small presses, and to cultivate wider reading tendencies. I think a lot of people do, which is great, and I would also like that number to triple.
What do you hope people will take away from your work?
What's the word for that feeling you get when you see something small in the road, and you're grossed out and also kind of laughing, and then you take a second look and you feel like its eye reminds you of someone and suddenly the whole thing breaks your heart? I hope people get that word from my work.
How do you conquer self-doubt? What's your advice to other writers trying to overcome the voice telling us we totally suck and should never write anything ever again?
Yeah, I don't "conquer" self-doubt. I'm an anxiety train wreck. I rarely sleep well, or enough, and in the last month my panic attacks have been ceaseless. There's been a lot of hiding underneath my kitchen counter, eating a tube of raw cookie dough and telling myself I'm no good. Obviously some of that is actual anxiety I should get treated, but a lot of it is the self-loathing that comes with being an artist. I think my advice is just to ride it out. Agree with the voice. Give the voice what it wants. And then, when you've lulled the voice into a raw cookie dough coma, firmly say to it, "Van Gogh thought his paintings were such crap that he sold them for milk, and he still painted them anyway. So fucking chill out."
What's the most frustrating experience you've had as a writer? What about the most rewarding?
I am my own most frustrating experience. I assume the work is terrible, I don't trust my own ear, I worry myself in circles. The most rewarding experience, though, is getting up every day and writing anyway. It's such a comfort to have a forever companion, and to have an art form that directly correlates to the way I see the world. Like, "Oh, I see the world this way and I operate this way in public because I'm a writer, not because I'm a barely-functioning human being." When you can say that sentence to yourself, no experience becomes a couple of wasted hours. You have a tool to make things useful for yourself.
What's the biggest challenge you've faced as a writer?
The writing world is a challenging place for me sometimes. Not my own private writing nest; I mean the politics of the writing world, the goop of a community trying to function. A lot goes on that just makes me feel tired and angry and also like I will never understand anything. So many weird moments people try to justify as some kind of "experiment in publishing" or "edgy fiction" that are actually just hurtful for entire communities of people. If I as a white person am tired of those lazy, colonialist ploys, I can't imagine the weariness of the communities and voices they are directly violating. And being a woman in any space is challenging, and isn't any different in the writing world. There can be such a wide gap between the joy of making the work, and the difficulty of representing the work to the world/being represented in the ways you hope.
What's the work you are most proud of?
I refer the reader back to the first story I wrote about unicorns, etc.
Is there something (a tool, a beverage) you absolutely can't write without?
I have a friend who can't write without eating his boiled "writing eggs," which is one of my favorite things I've ever heard. I don't think I have anything that definitive. Recently, though, I bought a sample of Mitsouko perfume, which was Anais Nin's favorite, and I've been wearing it while I write. It kind of smells like a severe woman who cries a lot, which seems fitting.
What's the most recent work you've engaged with that totally blew you away?
I am so late to the game with this one, but I just read Yoko Tawada's novella, The Bath, which is truly one of the most wild and unique things I've ever read. The first sentence is, "Eighty percent of the human body is made of water, so it isn't surprising that one sees a different face in the mirror each morning." Goddamn amazing. Completely unpredictable, spins on its own symbology, works language in ways I haven't seen anywhere. She wrote a book a couple of years ago that's about three generations of polar bears, and I really hope it gets translated soon.
What are you working on now?
A bunch of little things and a bigger thing, and a zine I'm writing and illustrating about Catholic saint relics. It's a good, weird time.
See Bridget's work here.


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On 15 February 2019, the working meeting of the delegations of Baku International Sea Trade Port (BMMTP) and Azerbaijani Railways CJSC (ADY), on the one hand, and Euroterminal Sławków company, headed by Chairman of the Board Jakub Styczeń, on the other hand, took place in Sławków (Poland).
At the meeting, the parties reviewed the most important projects implemented in the field of maritime and railway transport.
The participants were informed in detail by the General Director of the BMMTP CJSC Talekh Ziyadov, who was head of the Azerbaijani delegation, about the work of the New Port of Baku located in the populated area of Alyat (Azerbaijan) and about the existing ferry terminal, general cargo berth, a Ro-Ro berth, a berth for loading and unloading goods onto/from railways, various administrative buildings, customs warehouse areas, open storage areas, warehouses, container yards, railway and road access ways to the berths, Ro-Ro ramps, as well as buildings for the delivery of heavy loads and spaces with facilities for cargo vehicles.
The new location of the port is connected with the existing highways and railway tracks, ensuring its reliable and fast connection to the land transport arteries.
In addition, the creation of the Free Economic Zone in the port has ensured its role as the main logistics center in the entire region.
During the meeting, a film was shown about the Azerbaijani Railways and about the international competitive transport corridors passing through the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan, including the ongoing reforms in the country to further develop the railway transport, which is one of the priorities in promoting the development of those sectors which are not associated with the extraction and processing of oil. Detailed information was also provided on the terminal complex in Astara near the Azerbaijani-Iranian border, the construction of which is carried out by the Azerbaijani Railways CJSC under a lease agreement for a period of 25 years. The terminal complex is located on the territory of Iran on 35 hectares of land at a distance of 1.4 km from the Azerbaijani- Iranian border. The complex consists of 4 terminals: general cargo, container, grain and oil.
Jakub Styczeń, in his turn, noted that in recent years, economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Poland has reached a new qualitative level, and therefore the need for the development of transport cooperation has increased. He spoke in detail about the role of Euroterminal in the development of container traffic along the route of the New Silk Road from China to Western Europe.
The meeting participants visited a container site furnished with two cranes, where they became more familiar with the process of handling and storing of containers, cell materials and technical oils, and visited the open sites for storing bulk cargo, such as coal, coke, salt, iron ore and other raw materials. The delegates also inspected the process of complex customs clearance of goods in the import and export modes, for which a special agency was established on the terminal territory.
At the end of the meeting, the participants discussed the prospects for further cooperation expansion and outlined concrete steps for their implementation.

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Since January, there is a new face at E-sites Caribbean. Maaike is replacing Sharon of the Online Marketing team during her maternity leave.
Maaike has been on Curacao since October 2017, when she moved with her partner for a Caribbean adventure of at least three years. In the Netherlands she worked at the Dutch Police as Project Leader Social Media and Communication Consultant. She has been involved in, among other things, development of the profession, innovation, and the digitalization of society.
Right after Hurricane Irma we (my partner and I) flew to Curacao to embark on a new adventure. I was actually planning to start a sabbatical, but I wanted to do something for the victims of Irma. That is how I ended up in the crisis team of the Representation of the Netherlands. We established a temporary flight connection between Curacao and Sint Maarten to transport relief workers and victims back and forth. We also transported many relief goods by plane and by boat. A month later, the Social Media Week took place on Curacao, where E-sites Caribbean presented their online communication project SXM Strong. Naturally, I was very interested so I attended the event! And that's how we met. When Sharon went on maternity leave, they contacted me and here I am!
My position at E-sites Caribbean is temporary. In these four months, of course, I would like to continue to serve our customers just as well as Sharon did with the team. At E-sites we love to gradually explore further Online Marketing possibilities for our customers. So, in 2018 we will continue to follow the latest trends and, of course, take action when this fits any online issues our customers are facing.
The Caribbean playing field is really different from the Dutch market. Needless to say, this requires a certain local flavor in all our approaches. Oh yes, we are also looking for another Online Marketeer to join our team. With so many nice existing and new customers and the great Curacao climate, I can't imagine a smart Online Marketer would pass up this opportunity! 😉


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Ripple Is Testing Major Resistance
Ripple is testing major resistance as it is now trading around $0.7400.
Key Highlights:
- There is a major bullish trend line forming over the past few hours
- Now, XRP is testing a major resistance of $0.7400
- Several support levels (such as $0.6600) have been tested
Ripple Now Recovering?
At the moment, it looks like there's a major bullish trend line forming for XRP. The coin was able to revert from today's low of $0.5900, now trading around $0.7400, which is its newly established major resistance. Investors will need to wait and see if Ripple breaks through this level within the next hours to see how far this bull run really goes.
Source: Tradingview
During today's trading session, XRP was able to fight off multiple supports — $0.6600, $0.6800, and $0.7200 — and is now testing the major resistance. MACD also shows XRP is in a bullish zone, as the signal line just crossed the MACD line in the last hour.
Looking at the Technical Indicators:
- Six-hour MACD — bullish signal
- Support Level — $0.7200
- New Resistance Level — $0.7400
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On August 25-26 we had a Certification Course in Aarhus, Denmark with participants from the business development centers and municipal growth centers. The course was organized in partnership with Business Development Centre Central Denmark.
At the course 7 business advisors were certified. We are happy to welcome them to our community. Also we had 10 already certified users who were re-certified.
The option of getting free re-certification is getting very popular among our Danish users. The last one and a half year more than 60 of our Danish users - or 1 out of 5 - have been re-certified.


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Latest News
Our Highlights of 2013
2013's been another great year for the NRTF, with some of our highlights listed below.
We've seen an increase in membership, with three new Touring Schemes joining the network – The Touring Network in the Highlands and Islands, The Theatre Orchard in Somerset and Performance Republic in South Yorkshire – and more companies and artists becoming members. We've also opened up membership to small venues and voluntary promoters this year, inviting more people to join the conversation on the development of rural and small scale touring.
Our conference and showcase in July saw us take over the Macrobert Centre in Stirling for three days of networking, workshops, lively discussions and fantastic showcase performances. With support from Creative Scotland, North East Arts Touring, Federation of Scottish Theatres and the Touring Network (previously Promoters Arts Network) the event attracted over 120 delegates from across the UK and further afield.
Our partnership working this year has seen us work with an exciting range of partners:
Following on from the successful Countryboy's Struggle tour, our partnership with Contact Theatre continues with a tour of The Novice Detective by Sophie Willan, winner of the 2012 Flying Solo commission. Supported by a grant from Arts Council England's Strategic Touring Fund, the 50-date tour kicked off this Autumn, working with rural touring schemes and local voluntary promoters to further develop the young promoters network established in 2012 as part of the Countryboy's Struggle tour. See our latest news for an update from producer Oliver Sykes.
Our successful partnership with Jazz Services continued, with the Jazz Services Rural Touring Support Scheme supporting high quality jazz artists to tour rural venues across the UK. Christine Tobin and Michael Janisch have both toured throughout 2013 and the winners of the awards for 2013/14 – Fumi Okiji's Old Time Jazz Band, Sue Richardson and Heads South - will hit the road in 2014. Feedback from artists, promoters and audiences has been universally positive.
We were delighted to join forces with PANDA (Performing Arts Network and Development Agency) this year on the further development of their pitching and mentoring scheme. The scheme offers companies and artists the chance to pitch ideas for rural touring to touring scheme representatives from across the North of England. All participating artists receive detailed feedback on their pitches and shows along with contacts in touring schemes to aid with the development of the work for rural touring.
We are also delighted to be working with Rasa theatre company to bring a tour of States of Verbal Undress to 15 rural and small-scale venues in Spring 2014. The tour will be supported by workshops exploring personal histories and themes of migration with different groups within villages (WI, young farmers, local history groups etc).
Our partnership with independent producers China Plate this year saw Paul Warwick and Ed Collier compile a list of recommended shows for our Edinburgh Village Hall project in August (see below). China Plate are also working with Alex Wright of York Theatre Royal on the curation of our New Directions showcase event, to be held at York Theatre Royal 15th-17th July next year. See our latest news for information on the showcase application process.
Our Edinburgh Village Hall project expanded this year with representatives from touring schemes across the UK receiving bursaries to attend the Edinburgh Fringe with one of their voluntary promoters. China Plate curated a list of recommended shows and an incredible 160 different shows were reviewed by the NRTF members who took part. 2013 also saw the further development of our Introduction to Rural Touring event, where around 100 companies and artists were given the opportunity to find out more about rural touring and meet representatives from touring schemes and voluntary promoters.
Finally, we've been continuing with the development of our website as a tool to support our members in networking; sharing news, information and resources; and collaborating on booking tours. Our discussion boards have proved a lively forum for sharing information and discussing all things rural touring, with weekly discussion updates going out to all NRTF members, and they've become another useful shop window for companies and artists creating work for rural and small venues.
With exciting plans in the pipeline for 2014 we're looking forward to another fantastic year for rural touring!
Jazz Services A Thousand Kisses Deep Tour the performers view!
Dave Whitford gave us a snapshot of "A Thousand Kisses Deep" rural tour so far:
We've been very lucky to work with and receive a lot of help and support from 'Jazz Services' in the past but this is our first time to work with the 'National Rural Touring Forum'. This tour is a result of the NRTF/Jazz Services scheme. Both organisations do great work supporting live music and the arts. For more information about the touring scheme and to find out more about these organisations, please visit. http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/ http://www.ruraltouring.org
We're just about half way through our NRTF/Jazz Services tour now. It's our first experience of rural touring and the 16 gigs we've done so far have taken us to Devon, Somerset, Cheshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, County Durham, Cumbria, Northumberland and Dorset.
It's been a great experience and we've found the audiences very warm and receptive. The local promoters have been extremely friendly, helpful and accommodating. They've provided us with plenty of good home cooked food along the way too. We've also been enjoying seeing parts of the country that none of us have visited before.
I think the thing that has struck us the most is the sense of community and the open mindedness towards live music. We've had people specifically coming to see our show because of the program we're performing, but there was also a sense of people coming to see the show simply because it was happening on their doorstep. Our shared musical background traditionally sees us playing mainly in clubs or theatres in large towns and cities, so its been a very different, but thoroughly rewarding and enjoyable experience playing in small towns and villages, sometimes where the population is only a hundred or so people.
I'd recommend Rural Touring to anyone as it's an informal and highly sociable way of bringing your music to people who wouldn't normally get to hear it. There's something wonderful about playing in a small and intimate space, almost like playing in a friend's living room. We've felt very welcome in the communities we've visited so far and are really looking forward to hitting the road again in 2014.
"Doing the Rural Touring circuit has taught me that community spirit is alive and well and thriving up and down the country. I've witnessed first hand that people are hungry for live music. These intimate performances provide the perfect catalyst for uniting people and reinforcing bonds. " Christine Tobin
None of us are particularly prolific photographers but a few of highlights include:
Christine made some new friends in Somerset and the next tour might be done in a traditional Gypsy caravan.
The village library in Great Budworth
NRTF writes:
Over the past few years NRTF has developed a partnership with Jazz Services to bring high quality jazz artists to perform in village and community venues across the country. We are currently in the middle of a 35 date tour by Christine Tobin with Dave Whitford and Phil Robson performing their version of Leonard Cohen songs - A Thousand Kisses Deep.
Feedback from touring schemes and audiences has been great and a recent Arts Council artistic assessment found that "Their opening piece was, despite the theme of the show, Joni Mitchell"s song The Priest, and set the tone for the evening with its clear acoustic sound, rich and perfectly-intoned vocals and assured instrumental playing. The trio conveyed a sense of enjoyment in each others playing, which also beamed itself onto the audience... Her skills show that she is amongst a small select group of virtuoso British vocal artists who are able to make genuine and excellent improvisatory contributions to jazz performance beyond the initial content and delivery of the melody and lyrics."
Looks like schemes, audiences and performers are enjoying this NRTF/Jazz Services project.
York Theatre Royal Tender for Two Rural Commissions announced
In July this year, Alex Wright came along to the NRTF conference in Stirling to talk about York Theatre Royal ON OUR TURF project and we are delighted to hear about the next steps.
York Theatre Royal announce two £15,000 commissions to create remarkable new work in rural communities.
On Our Turf is a big new idea. It's about lots of things, but it's mainly about how we start to make, create, imagine and share work between a wide group of people. It's about how we turn our audience in to makers, about how we give ownership over our artistic landscape to the communities we work in, and how us and our communities find new ways to imagine and create work together.
These are the first two commissions out of four between now and September 2015. We are looking for remarkable companies, directors, writers, designers, makers, animateurs, choreographers, composers or any other sort of artists who can work in a community to create a high impact piece of work on a local, regional and national level. On Our Turf is a partnership between York Theatre Royal and the arts or community centres in our market towns: Pocklington, Easingwold, Selby and Helmsley in Yorkshire. In 2014 Pocklington and Easingwold will create two high impact shows. These shows will:
- Be created and delivered by the community
- Be led / directed by a professional, imaginative and ground breaking artist or company
- Not be performed in a traditional performance space
- Will tour to the other three partner towns
There are no stipulations as to what form these pieces need to take. It could be a story for a five mile rural walk ending in a country pub; it could be a sound installation for the back of a Landrover. We anticipate performing to 300+ audience over a weekend, however this could be 2 performances to 150 audience or 60 performances to 5 audience. Each show/piece must be transferable/translatable to the other three towns, as such you wouldn't be able to devise a performance for the river in Selby without checking the waterways in Helmsley, Easingwold and Pocklington. These will be delivered as charged for events for audiences with good scope for free activities around the 'fringes' of the main piece.
Commission 1: Pocklington
The work will open to the public on the 5 & 6 April 2014 and tour to the other three towns on the subsequent three weekends.
Commission 2: Easingwold
The work will open to the public on the 28 & 29 June 2014 and tour to the other three towns on the subsequent three weekends.
We anticipate a 3 month making period with each of the communities. However this does not necessarily mean three solid months in that community. We will ask you for a draft schedule as part of the application, the level of work commensurate with the fee.
In September 2014 all four communities will produce a touring festival, #LittleFest, which should feature further bespoke made work from both Pocklington and Easingwold, made with and in response to the Commissioned Artist and the previously created work. Each commissioned artist will work and have contact with the communities until the end of September 2014.
What is key to us is the forward thinking and imaginative approach to creating truly groundbreaking work with rural communities. Our aim across On Our Turf is to investigate how communities can become a creative catalyst and occupy a vital place within the national arts sector, not as a 'community programming' aspect but rather as the passionate, animated and progressive heartbeat in each of our regions. The legacy of On Our Turf is incredibly important and these initial two years begin a considerable investigation in to how we make this type of work, method and community focus a sustainable and important feature in the future of modern British culture.
If you are interested in either of these commissions, please consider the following:
- What form or expression of work would you seek to create and realise within a community
- Some brief information about Pocklington and Easingwold is attached. From this, what strikes you as interesting stimulus
- How you would work with a wide community to create high quality, nationally important work
- How you would access, reach and maintain a creative relationship with various sectors of the community from business, schools, individuals, those already engaged and those harder to reach participants.
- What you as an artist or company would bring to this style of generating work
For more information and how to apply go to http://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/job/OOTcommission.php . Or download the attached document to the right of this piece.
Farnham Maltings - The Iranian Feast
NRTF Associate Member Farnham Maltings have been touring village halls and arts centres across the UK with The Iranian Feast – A play with food from the heart of Persia.
We invite you to join us to feast on traditionally Persian food prepared by Abbas, his wife and daughter with help from their friends and neighbours. Part thriller, part cookery lesson this is a story of a family working out how life will be in the future. One that is surprising, uplifting and a celebration of being alive. Going in the pot are fresh herbs, spices, sweet vegetables, and Eli's mother's secret ingredient.
The show is thought-provoking and topical, confronting political and social issues in Iran. This is an honest and moving story of a family in an oppressed society. And together with the 'feast' has given audiences the opportunity to enjoy this unique experience with their neighbours keeping alive a community spirit.
"This piece started four years ago when the writer Kevin Dyer and I visited Tehran to run a series of workshops at the Fadjr festival. That visit confounded and delighted both of us in equal measure. We saw an astonishing range of work in theatres brim full of audiences, with people sitting on every step and children hoisted onto laps. And what struck us was how alive these spaces are. In Iran making theatre is extremely challenging. The work has to first be sanctioned by the state and can only be presented in theatres owned and managed by the state, a government official sitting in on every rehearsal with the authority to censor or stop a particular performance. Men and women cannot touch or sing or dance. Despite all these challenges theatre makers manage, somehow, to say everything from the stage. Whilst in the UK, where we can say anything, much of the work on the stage says nothing.
So here we are four years later, making a contemporary Iranian play for village halls. Demonstrating, once again, that some of the most relevant, experimental and new work can arrive from the most surprising of places. Our hope is that by the time 'The Iranian Feast' is over you have spent time in the company of friends, that we might understand something new about the world and ourselves, and that we are reminded of our common humanity." Gavin Stride, Producer
We premiered the show here at Farnham Maltings before going to the North, then down to the South-West, then heading over to Wales and finally, the company was in Scotland for the last week of the two month tour. We have had an overwhelming amount of positive feedback in response to the show and here's a sample -
"This is the third time that we've had Farnham Maltings and every performance has been good but this one was outstanding. The play is innovative in its staging and the food, which was delicious. The play is topical, very funny at times but extremely thought provoking. […] Audience feedback was all very positive. […] This show wasn't just a performance it was an experience which moved me a great deal."
Promoter, Thomas Cranmer Centre, Aslockton
"The play was certainly a mixture of the bitter and the sweet. I think the sharing and caring that was established by the feast lulled us until we were woken up and reminded of the repressive regime that surrounded the storyline. A topical piece that invited us to think, but was entertainment all the same. Needless to say, we all delighted in the culinary offerings! […] We are very grateful to be able to receive quality professional productions, like yours, with the help of the Live & Local subsidised scheme." Chairman of Spring Bank Arts Centre, New Mills, High Peak
"[…] drew in the audience with its intimacy and good humour, ratcheted up the drama as we grew to care for its characters and delivered a powerful finale which had you thinking way after the performance was over. […] The writing was finely judged with its contrasting moods and totally compelling towards the end as the family wrestled with working out the right thing to do." Audience member, Anslow Village Hall
"Totally immersive, beautifully acted and truly engaging. Food for the body, mind and soul, opening a window onto another world from ours." Audience member, Whittingham Village Hall
For more information on The Iranian Feast tour, please visit our website. We will be re-touring the show in 2015.
In spring 2014, we will be re-touring In Praise of Elephants – a celebration of the greatest animal on the planet and a touching story of a quiet man turning 60 trying to make sense of the world. Like you, we are committed to reaching and developing relationships with a wider rural audience and with this in mind we would be keen to know if you'd like to be a part of the spring tour next year?
If you are interested in booking the show please contact Janice Brittain on firstname.lastname@example.com


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Contracting a sexually transmitted disease or infection (STD/STI) is possible through any type of sex (oral, anal and vaginal sex). The infection can live in the body without showing symptoms.
For information on how to receive STD/STI and HIV testing, contact your local health department.
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These infections can show symptoms, though many people may not experience them. Common symptoms include:
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Those that can't be cured yet:
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- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
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What else do I need to know about STD/STIs?
STDs/STIs can affect anyone, of any race, class, age or sexual orientation.
- Of the 20 million new cases every year, half are in the 15 – 24 age group.
- About one in four sexually active young people are carriers of an STD/STI; many of them have no idea they are infected.
- Although the U.S. has the highest rate of STDs/STIs in the world, 46% of teens reported they did not use protection during their last sexual experience.
- The best way for someone to protect themselves against an STD/STI is to not have sex.
- If a person engages in sexual activity, he or she should stay as safe as possible by using protection.
For more information, read about contraception.
What are the consequences of contracting an STD/STI?
Contracting an STD/STI can be a life-changing event, causing problems far into the future. When someone expose themselves to an STD/STI, they can potentially be exposing themselves to infertility, life-long relationship issues and even death.
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How do I know if I have a STD/STI?
The common symptoms of STD/STIs are things like rashes, bumps, or sores around the genital area, pelvic, abdominal, or back pain and an unusual discharge from the penis or vagina. However, lots of people with STD/STIs have no symptoms at all. The only way to know if you have an STD/STI is to get tested by a doctor.
How do I know if someone else has an STD/STI?
You can't. Although some STD/STIs cause observable symptoms in some affected people, many people with STD/STIs show no symptoms at all. Before you engage in sexual activity with someone, ask them to get tested by a doctor so can both be as safe as possible.
How do I get tested for STDs/STIs?
Family planning clinics offer reduced or no-cost STD/STI testing. Your county health department is also an excellent resource for finding affordable STD/STI testing.
If I get an STD/STI test, will my parents find out?
All states give minors some control over keeping their sexual health confidential, but the extent varies from state to state. Some states allow minors to confidentially access testing for all STD/STIs except for HIV, and some leave confidentiality completely up to the discretion of the minor's physician. Many offer access to confidential sexual health screening, while others restrict it by age.
How do I avoid getting an STD/STI?
The only 100% effective way to protect yourself against a STD/STI is to not have sex. However, if you do engage in sexual activity, it is important to use a condom or dental dam during sex, as they can both provide protection against certain STDs/STIs.
If I'm not gay, do I still need to worry about HIV?
Everyone who engages in sexual activity is at risk for contracting HIV, regardless of sexual orientation. The idea that HIV is a "gay disease" is a common misconception.
I heard that there's a vaccine that protects you against STD/STI's. Is this true?
There are two vaccines that offer protection against certain strains of HPV. HPV is a viral STD/STI that has many different strains, some of which can cause cancer and genital warts. Cervarex protects against the two most common cancer causing strains, and Guardasil protects against both the cancer causing strains and the genital warts causing strains. Most doctors now recommend that their patients receive an HPV vaccine before becoming sexually active and many schools now require it.


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The opening keynote at SES London was done by Jeff Hayzlett (who we interviewed last year). A very interesting and inspiring talk. Mel Carson of Microsoft Advertising sat down with Jeff right after his keynote. You can see the interview below. Be sure to also look at the Microsoft Advertising blog, they are also covering SES London.
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Bas van den Beld is an award winning Digital Marketing consultant, trainer and speaker. He is the founder of State of Digital and helps companies develop solid marketing strategies.
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There are a variety of ways that our society seeks happiness. Whether it's working out or snacking on tasty treats, we're all looking for that release of endorphins.
As the holiday season approaches, stores will be filled with people who're frantically trying to get the perfect gift for their loved ones. More than 68% of Americans said they were "happy" after completing their holiday shopping. The source of happiness isn't just the act of shopping. It also includes factors such as researching online, mapping out which stores to visit, and searching for the best deals.
When shopping, there are many other factors that contribute to a buyer's happiness. They include good retail service, saving money on items, completing shopping tasks off a list, and just the enjoyment of spending quality time with friends or family.
So, are more people buying for themselves or someone else? According to the Ipsos study, 57% of Americans said they were shopping for themselves and 61% said they were buying for someone else. Impulse purchases account for 2/3 of holiday shopping sales. The type of products that receive the most impulse purchases are electronics, toys/games, and apparel. According to the study, the average American spends $446 and 3.8 hours shopping while visiting almost 4 different stores during the holiday season.
So, after reading this study, do you still believe "it's better to give than to receive?" Statistically, it benefits a shopper to both give and receive. Shopping for the holidays should be a fun experience that can be shared with others. The sense of community and camaraderie with friends and family is really the greatest gift of all.
To learn more about the emotional effects of holiday shopping, see our Ipsos research study here!
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Welcome to the website of the Joanne Foundation.
This foundation was founded to continue the work that Joanne started in Uganda.
Joanne wanted to give the children she got to know in Uganda chances for a better future. After her passing away in 2008 family and friends have worked hard to realize her dream.
Through this website we would like to keep you informed about our activities.


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FusionOptics, the groundbreaking technology from Leica Microsystems, unites an enhanced depth of field with high resolution to create an unsurpassed view of the surgical field.
A larger area in full focus also means that there is less need to refocus the microscope which helps to streamline workflow:
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Way back in the mists of pop history – the early to mid noughties to be exact – the S Club franchise was is full swing with S Club 7 and S Club Juniors churning out stellar pop tune-age left, right and centre. Everyone knows what happened to former 'Junior' members Rochelle Humes and Frankie Bridge, who went on to join The Saturdays, but whatever happened to the others?
Well, it turns out our favourite member – the dreamy Calvin Goldspink – has been busy prepping his own solo pop career of late, and he's all grown up! Calvin has been working hard with producers across the pond crafting his debut EP 'The Lemon Tree' and it seems he's gone down a slightly rockier route for the new music. 'Superman' is a driving indie pop gem while 'Grown Up' is a slightly more Serious Face mid tempo number with shades of early Coldplay.
'The Lemon Tree' EP is due out on October 7th and if you want more things Calvin you can head on over to his official website for more info!


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One of my earlier memories as a little girl is of me taking endless amounts of photos on disposable cameras. There was something so fascinating about cameras that captivated me. I'm not going to lie... the photos I took were extremely subpar. But I couldn't keep my hands off. I would wander and photograph everything I saw, from my dogs, my backyard, blurry selfies.. The list goes on. It wasn't until my junior year of college (2016), that I realized photography had always been a constant in my life. Even if I wasn't aware of it as a child.
Photography has opened a can of interest in art, journalism, travel, tech, marketing and other forms of online media. Choosing a path in media has honestly been one of the easiest decisions I have ever made and I have never looked back.
Today, you can find me working on the social media team for Casamigos Spirits Co. in Malibu and frolicking up and down PCH.
If you'd like to learn more about me and my work don't hesitate to get in touch.
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People are convinced that whoever gets it will find it on Google. But, do you think a little bit while searching? What are we going to be searching for? Before you search on Google, you know what to search and what not to do.
Do not even search by mistake on Google These 5 things will be shocked to know the reason
People use Google to search the most. People are convinced that whoever gets it will find it on Google. But, do you think a little bit while searching? What are we going to be searching for? Before you search on Google, you know what to search and what not to do. It would be better if you do not search these five things on Google. Even if you search for these five things, you can get trapped in difficulties. Let us tell you what are 5 things …
1. Identity: Do not search for Google to search for your identity by forgetting while searching on Google. Because, Google has a complete database of your search history and it is risky to leak by searching again and again. Hackers keep waiting for what they get to hack easily.
2. Suspicious thing: Often on Google, people search for something that they do not make any sense but only for the sake of watching, do not search for suspicious or suspicious things. Because, cyber cell is often seen only on people who try to find something suspicious. In such a situation, you can get into trouble. In the cases of cyber cell, there is a provision for jail sentence.
3. E-mail: Avoid even searching personal email login on Google. If you do not do this, your account hack and password leak may be leaked. According to a study, the most hacking cases in the world are e-mails to be hacked. Several of its complaints are also registered in cyber cell.
4.Medicines: If you search on Google about illness and medicine then you should also avoid it. Because the search data is transferred to a third party. After that, you are constantly shown ads related to that illness and its treatment.
5. Advertising: Google should never detect any information related to insecurity. If you do this, then the related ads start coming to you. From which you can know that someone is following you on the Internet. If you do not want ads related to insecurity to disturb you, then avoid this search.


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Today seems like the perfect day to talk about body-image.
I've struggled on and off with body-image for as long as I can remember. I think most of us do.
I remember doing circuits with my cousin; running laps around my grandparents house and jumping on the trampoline, and then we would weigh ourselves --- we couldn't be older than ten. This is how young it affects our children.
We are constantly being manipulated through media, magazine and the like on what beauty looks like --- it's no secret.
Women are supposed to be thin everywhere, except our butts and breasts.
We are supposed to be hairless, except our eyelashes and eye brows and the hair on our head, that should be thick and dripping with fertility.
Our noses should be small but our eyes wide and lips luscious.
And we are all guilty of trying to fit this ideal, just look through your feeds, duck lips are running rampant in photos and I've seen people's children doing it.
It breaks my heart because we are feeding the monster.
But beauty is not limited to the definitive conditions of a consumer culture who profits from our insecurity.
Beauty is vibrational. It's fluid. It is completely unique.
There is not one type of beauty, there are infinite expressions of it and your beauty will not pass this way again so cherish it.
Nobody is perfect.
Your imperfection is your perfection.
Every cell of your being is radiant. Every inch of your body is beautiful. Every feature on your face is the canvas of creation.
You are the universe experiencing itself in form and your human form, in all of its complexities, is the most beautiful manifestation of this moment.
Cherish you.
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Let's start the conversation about sex, together.
There are no stupid questions. We all come from different backgrounds, cultures, societies.
This means that we've learned things about sex in many different ways.
Spread the Word
Tell your friends about Sexual Literacy. There's no better way to make an impact than to become an active advocate yourself.


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Framing a subject... naturally framing a focal point is a great way to anchor a photo. It gives an image a natural border and keeps the eyes on the subject.
This image uses the clock face at the Musee D'Orsay as the frame for the Sacre Coeur in the background. Both have interest, but the eye is naturally drawn to the Sacre Coeur.
The next time you are out taking photos, try to use elements to frame your image.
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Secret Admirer. It's someone that watches you from a distance and notices your every move and adores everything you do without showing you that they do. A secret admirer is someone that checks up on you if it's someone that you know {and can tolerate}. It can be a friend, a friend of a relative, a friend of a friend, your husband, your wife, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your fiancé, or even your ex-girlfriend or boyfriend. This person comes with no harm most of the time. Just simply waits for the chance to tell you how much they love you or much they miss you. Even how much they want you in their life. It's the people that never come out and say that they admire you, that feel stuck in that admirer purgatory.
Of course, as you see above there is two different types of admirers. I admire more than I am being admired. That's the truth from my POV. If your going to admirer someone at least have your own act together so that once that person knows or eventually finds out that you are their secret admirer, you can present yourself as someone who is worthy of being in their presence and vice versa. I feel that I have my shit together when it comes to whom I admire so when they catch me taking that longer glance over at them they know that I mean business with them, and that she is going home with me tonight.
Now, I am speaking in general speak here but I am simply stating that you must present yourself worthy of being with that person that you admire. I am still blown away by the men that have woman that make other men and even woman question: "what does she see in that guy?" or "what does he see in her?" It's not just looks but a good chunk of this is from the confidence factor.
A person can be super attractive if they are confident in themselves and are giving out a real charismatic positive vibe to the room. I have seen guys that otherwise were not very good looking from a guy {or girl}'s POV that ended up with very attractive girls. And vice versa. It was the confidence. It was the secret admirer in those people that told them that they could be with that woman or be with that man if they play their cards right.
I am a secret admirer now. If you are a secret admirer yourself, don't be afraid to tell that person that you have fallen for them. You will end up happy when you do, because at least you finally got it out that you are watching that person.
Win, lose or draw, you are going to be happy that you said something. It will give you a boost of confidence no matter the outcome of coming out and saying how you feel about the person that you have been admiring.
If that person is not interested then you have the confidence to continue your search. You never know, that person that you told your feelings to, or someone else may just come to you. They might just be, YOUR SECRET ADMIRER :)


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SDH 276: Overcoming Fear and Making the Big Leap with Natanya Bravo
Have you ever thought about leaving everything behind and start a new life? Not just a new career but to live in a different place where you're currently at? A big risk most of us might say but today our guest is here to share with us about the experience of doing just that!
In this episode, our guest, Natanya Bravo, is here to tell us what her journey was like when she finally decided to take the leap. Born in London and having lived in three countries by the age of six, Natanya Bravo's love affair with travel was instilled from birth. Natanya spent the first part of her career living bi-coastal between New York and Los Angeles while leading international brand marketing and event campaigns in the entertainment industry. No stranger to being on a plane weekly for work and personal trips around the world, of the over 100 cities Natanya has visited to-date, Paris captured her heart!
In February 2018, Natanya listened to that internal voice and leaped into the unknown, leaving behind her successful career, she booked a one -way ticket to Paris to live her best life. Crafted through the lens of travel, her own journey of personal development, and real-life experiences, she created The Bravo Life to inspire women around the world to realize and actualize their full potential, while living their best lives as their best selves.
She is currently six months in her entrepreneurial journey, let's hear more about her experience and how she decided to leave all behind and start new!
In this episode, you will...
Hear about Natanya's interesting background story
Understand why she left her corporate job to start her own
Know when you think you should take the shift in your current situation
Discover more about The Bravo Life
Learn about the importance of taking a break
"I really value experience over money."
"Live your best as life as your best self."
"Just go, you can always come back, you can't always go."
The Bravo Life


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SPOILER: This could be a little long and boring if you are not interested in knowing my background 🙂
I have always been a fan of XianXia, Wuxia, Sci-Fi, Games, VR etc related stories (mangas/manhwas, novels, films/movies) since I was a kid. And just lately I came across some translations of Chinese modern web/light novels, and have been hooked on since.
But to wait for the release of the next chapters can sometimes be quite frustrating, especially if there was a cliffhanger (I'm sure you all know what it feels like). So I tried to read the next chapters with the help of machine translators. If you have been doing the same thing, then you would know how painfully it can be.
I can only read very little Chinese, same for Pin Yin too (I know how to read them but never learn the intonations symbols). Since I myself am a third generation born Chinese, I can speak Chinese (Mandarin).
After doing it for a while, a thought crossed my mind. Instead of just waiting or read the bad translated text from the machine translator, why don't I try to translate it by myself? So that was the beginning of this path taken by me.
The novels that I was reading at that time was Coiling Dragon, Zhan Long, BTTH (Battle Through The Heaven) and Alchemist God. The first two novels was translated at a quite fast pace and BTTH somehow had just made a so so impression on me. But Alchemist God is interesting, and was translated at quite a slow pace. So I decided to translate Alchemist God.
But it turns out that translating is a tedious job, although I'm enjoying it. To translate quite accurately, I literally have to prepare the raw text, and use some online translation tools so I can read the PinYin, have the tools to read it out to me, and also often I need to use Chinese dictionaries for the words that I don't understand. And that is just the part of understanding the Chinese text.
My English used to be good (I'm not a native English speaker), but having not used it for years has made my English skill a bit dull. Even though I have the translated scene in my head, but writing it down with nice words turned out to be quite a problem.
So at the moment, my translation speed was at about 250-300 characters/hour. To translate a chapter (depending on the length) would take me 7 to 12 hours. Plus I'm using an old notebook with limited resources, which often really runs very slow. I also have a daily job, so the time I can spend on translating would only be about 2 hours daily.
(Updates 02.09.15 – currently my translation speed has improved to about 500 chars/hour, so for translating a chapter, I will need about 4 – 6 hours, including the proofing.)
It turned out that even the pace of the Alchemist God was slow, but every time I almost finished translating a chapter, they would have released the translation already. So I finally put a hold on Alchemist God translations.
But having experienced the translation process, I wanted to improve my skills and continue on translating. So I made a list of some popular novels, being already translated or not, and came to decide to do the current project: Virtual World: The Legendary Thief (as of the time of writing this), the first part of the Virtual World trilogy.
So people, I hope all of you would enjoy my translation. Your support will be my motivation to go on!


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Casualty units all around Britain are seeing an epidemic of injuries inflicted by loan sharks on their victims.
The problem is now so serious that doctors and nurses are getting specialist training to recognise victims who are too scared to report attacks for fear of further reprisals.
A Sunday Mirror investigation has revealed that thousands of people every year are turning up at casualty units with broken limbs and acid burns inflicted by debt collectors.
Others are being admitted following suicide attempts or with strokes, brain haemorrhages and depression brought on by the fear of not being to pay back loans at crippling interest rates.
Now, in a move to tackle the horrifying trend, one hospital has even created a dedicated area in its A&E department in a pilot scheme which campaigners say will be rolled out nationwide.
The 16-bed unit at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital has posters featuring pictures of sharks dressed in suits. They include the warning: "Don't get in with a loan shark, it will cost you an arm and a leg."
Yesterday one patient who has been treated there bravely revealed how she ended up in hospital after enduring "seven years of hell" at the hands of a loan shark and suffering a stroke.
Debbie Wilson borrowed £500 in 2000 but ended up paying back £88,000 – an increase of 17,500 per cent – and was forced to sell her home.
Another victim, who asked not be named, ended up at the hospital with a stress-induced heart attack at just 33 after he was threatened and intimidated by a violent loan shark for more than 20 years.
He said: "You wouldn't wish it on anybody. It affected my relationship with my wife. If I wasn't at work I was home arguing, and it affected the kids.
"The shark attacked me in front of them. Every Friday and Saturday he was sat outside my work – if I finished late he would text saying, 'It's payday, where are you?' It was a living nightmare."
These shocking testimonies come as figures reveal that the number of people using money lenders has almost doubled in the last four years.
Official figures show that 310,000 households are currently in debt to loan sharks, compared to 168,000 in 2008.
Campaigner Tony Quigley, of the Illegal Money Lending Team, said the frightening statistics had prompted his team to work with the NHS to educate frontline healthcare workers. He said: "We are now engaging with the NHS across the whole country on this issue to educate staff on how to deal with the dreadful effects of owing money to these people.
"As credit becomes even more difficult to get, more people will be tempted by loan sharks, and clearly if there is violence then individuals will go to A&E for treatment." The first wave of training took place six weeks ago at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and it will be repeated across Britain by the end of the year.
Staff are taught how loan sharks work and are educated about the injuries they inflict to force their victims to pay up. Workers are also given advice on how to gently ask whether someone is a loan shark victim and to know when to report injuries to police. The treatment of hand breakages and acid burns – common injuries inflicted by the sharks – will also be taught.
It is thought that thousands of people are being treated in A&Es around the country every year. Casualty nurse Becky Reid, one of 25 staff taking part in the training, said: "Loan sharks target vulnerable people who can't borrow in the normal way. Now at least I will be equipped to help them."
And nurse Margaret Garbett said: "Incidents appear to be increasing due to the economic climate.
"Once a patient has confided in a nurse, the patient can be given guidance on where to seek help."
"A £500 loan led to £88k debt and seven years of hell"
Debbie Wilson suffered so much stress at the hands ofone ruthless loan shark it gave her a stroke.
She borrowed just £500 in 2000, but ended up being fleeced out of £88,000 – that's 17,500 per cent more – and was forced to sell her home.
Debbie, 43, racked up thousands on credit cards and took out bank loans to pay back the debt, and it took its toll.
"It was the scariest time of my life," she said. "I was threatened with physical violence all the time if I failed to pay.
"I only borrowed the money to buy the kids a computer for Christmas and it ruined our lives. It nearly killed me."
Debbie was repeatedly threatened with having her legs broken if she didn't pay up. And, on one terrifying occasion, the loan shark even picked her children up from school.
When she was taken to A&E after her stroke no one spotted the signs that she might loan shark victim and she was too scared to tell them.
She is now backing the NHS plan, saying it will help lift thousands out of misery. She said: "When I went to hospital I could not bring myself to tell nurses because I was so scared. I wish they'd had the training they are getting now so I could have got help earlier."
In another horrifying case, Paul Whitehouse was treated in hospital after he was attacked with a machete and a baseball bat by a vicious loan shark. Paul, then 21, had borrowed £800 from an illegal lender who then claimed he owed him £2,000 in interest charges.
After getting behind with repayments, he was kidnapped by the loan shark and his son. During the ordeal, they slashed his face with a machete and threatened to sever his ear.
After recovering in hospital he went to the Illegal Money Lending team and they advised him to go to the police.
It resulted in the lender and his son being jailed. Paul, from Birmingham, said: "I hope it will give other victims the strength to come forward."