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Kargil is a word known to us; only for the war that broke between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and along the line of control. Both Pakistan and India have been doing heavy military spending detrimental to their poor performance in trade and industry. So, people in these countries can't think of Cargill, Inc. which is an American privately held global corporation.
The company, founded in 1865, is the largest privately owned food industry of the United States. Employing 140,000 employees in 66 countries, it is holding 25% of all United States grain exports, 22% of the US domestic meat market and is the largest poultry producer in the Thailand. All over the world, McDonald's restaurants only use those eggs that pass through Cargill's plants. The company is also the only producer of Alberger process salt which is used in the fast-food and prepared food industries.
Pakistan and the Global Food Industry
Pakistan stands at 5th place in the Muslim world and is the 20th largest farm output country in the overall world today. We have a splendid global positioning in food production including Chickpea(2nd), Mango(3rd), Apricot(4th), Sugarcane(4th), Milk (5th), Onion(5th), Date Palm(6th), Rice(8th), Wheat(9th) and Oranges(10th). In livestock population, its buffalos, goats, sheep, and cattle are occupying the 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 13th place in the world.
Although the country has an abundance of able land and water, only 25% of its total land area is under cultivation
However, this 25% is still enough to position its irrigation system as one of the largest in the world. So huge that today our country irrigates three times more acres than Russia. Comparing ourselves to Russia means comparing 7 lac Km Square total area of Pakistan with the 7.1 million Km Square of Russia.
44% of our labor force is employed in the food/agriculture industry and it accounts for 23% of our GDP as well. Food and allied products industry are one of the largest in Pakistan as it accounts for 27% value-added production and 16% of total employment in the manufacturing sector.
As per a recent estimation by the Pakistan Economic Survey, there are approximately 80,000 small businesses and more than 2 million micro-enterprises in the country, most of which are food manufacturers. But more than 80% of these fall into the rural setting and their production and its quality depends on the available raw material and poorly skilled non-professional labor. 40% of these are a part of milling sub-sector (wheat and rice).
Our food exports have a minuscule 0.22 percent share in the global food market of nearly two trillion dollars
Low productivity, post-harvest losses, a high cost of doing business and shortage of gas and electricity have jointly managed to keep us at no place in the world food business. All we can smile upon is the fact that food still is a better performing sector in our exports which stands at 0.22% compared to 0.14% of our share in overall global trade. In the last fiscal year, Pakistan exported food items of $3.4 billion compared to total global food exports of $1.486 trillion.
Reasons for the Devastating State of Local Food Industry
This is because of the fact that the none of our governments have ever treated food as an industry and hence, no efforts have been made to avail the latest technology, plants, and means of food processing necessary to produce a quality that can be exported with confidence. Unskilled, illiterate labor and low wages bar the industry from any value addition.
Integration between farmer and consumer is absent, shaky supply chain and distribution systems make our food producers uncompetitive globally. Most of our food industry is unregulated and is unknown to the words like financial skills, knowledge, and management. Production hygiene is completely absent and laws and regulations toothless to do any favor.
Due to this, 70% of this rural industry is in a condition that no bank is ready to finance their needs. Commercial banks have no trust and confidence in the industry's business procedures and the possible ROI.
Mr. Kabir Ali Raja, Manager of an Agricultural Development Bank's branch in a rural setting explained the situation to MORE in these words, "Banks are here for a profit, our funds are not for free. These SMEs have no storage capacity and the commodity prices touch rapid slumps, there is no functional market economy and the return on investment (ROI) is below 30%. Which bank do you think would be willing to invest in so much deficit of the financial interest?"
Farhan Anees is the Project Director of Food Technology Asia, an International Exhibition being held in Pakistan since last 11 years. In an exclusive discussion with the MORE, he said that the largest hurdle to our meat export is Halal Certification. Billions of consumers in the world buy meat that is stamped "Halal" and only 20% of our meat producers have these certifications in hand. Rest of them have neither tried nor interested in meeting the standards required for the export of Halal meat to Europe, US and the Middle-East. Non-Muslim countries have acquired these global certifications and are exporting meat to the Muslim countries, but we are far behind in the race.
There is no governmental facilitation and support for the purpose and it seems that no one is serious about it. PSQCA is producing production standards, so does the ISO, but no one is interested in their certification and implementation. The world is not blind; thankfully they have missed the mega scandals of haram meat and contaminated food that emerged here in the past couple of years. If they didn't, our food exports would have been banned by now.
"As far as the food technology is concerned, we are disappointed by the pace of its adoption in the food industry. Hardly 10% of our production facilities are using the latest equipment; rest are relying on medium to obsolete technology that cannot help the sector in any way. Our production rates in the land and industry are pathetic, and packaging is substandard. We have been showcasing European and Chinese machinery side by side to give our industry an option to buy what suits them the most, but we are dissatisfied with the response so far. There is no exhibition on the governmental level to show their interest in the industry nor do they bother to partner with us meaningfully. We don't want money from them, but at least a few letters and official partnerships to drive the interest of public sector departments into the new technology. That even is not on their agenda", Anees added.
Biotechnology- Last Hope for Survival
With 200 million people in its borders, Pakistan will have 100 million more until 2030. This is going to pose serious demographic challenges including food insecurity in a country where over 60 percent of the population is living below the absolute poverty line which is spending 70-80 percent of their income on food only. This is a threat as well as an opportunity. Biotechnology can offer a reliable solution to this as the world today is fast moving towards the biotech crops that are capable of ending food shortage and enhancing its quality in a minimal span of time.
Pakistan can only gain its due share in the world food markets if it shifts itself from no-value products to value-added processing. We are not bad in processing cereal grains (rice, maize, wheat, and barley), sugarcane, various fruits and vegetables, marine and freshwater seafood, meat, and dairy products. But our product range is still too short, lacks quality and the production is petite. Traditional farming practices are not adding into the raw material supplies and the middle man is leaving nothing for a farmer to invest in the seed, pesticides and fertilizers for better production.
The global face of Pakistan's food industry is being well maintained by some leading national and international companies operating within our borders. These include Clover Pakistan, Engro Foods Limited (EFL), National Foods Limited, Unilever Foods Pakistan, Nestle, Dalda, Mair Foods, Mitchell's Fruit Farms, Murree Brewery, OMore, Shan Food, Shezan International, United Industries, K&Ns and others. The growth and financial statistics of these companies show that the future of food industry in Pakistan is bright. Rice, meat, chicken, noodles, crackers, corn flakes, potato chips, wheat and barley porridge, canned cooked food are now being packaged and produced on a large scale but we need to expand this production line.
Public-private partnership can be a vital support to the industry growth as well. For example, Chilli crop is mainly based in the province of Sindh. Very left behind, but when Engro Foods in collaboration with the Muslim Commercial Bank provided loans and assistance to the farmers, National Foods, provided farmers with geotextile sheets and DuPont covering sheets to ensure better and faster drying cycle, Bayer, Novartis and ICI Chemicals provided training to the farmers regarding fungicides and pesticides, our Chilli production met the historical heights.
Pakistan's meat export industry is growing at a rate of 30% every year. There is an urgent need that educational institutions like the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) must come forward to train the meat industry on the technical skills and scientific methodologies that challenge their product globally.
Our Sindhri, Chaunsa and Langra mangoes need hot water and vapor treatment plants. These are not expensive but are absent from the mango producing areas of the country. Food processing companies have installed such plants in Karachi but are useless for a common farmer who finds it more feasible to sell the production in his own town than to transport for Karachi.
Mango pulp, chutneys, jams, dried mangoes, and pickles are what we can flood the world with. The only problem is the governmental negligence on the subject. According to an estimate by the Agriculture Research Institute of Pakistan, improper handling of produced items and the magnitude of post-harvest losses in vegetables and fruits is 40 percent while in the case of grains, 20 percent.
14 research institutions and laboratories of the PCSIR, employing 850 scientists, technologists and engineers are doing nothing to help our food industry
Help aside, the federation and provinces are even not interested in surveying the size and depth of our food industry, classifying its key sub-sectors and developing a data baseline to monitor it properly.
Food, in Pakistan, is sailing under false colors.


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23 Million Concert Goers Use Bandsintown
We've grown a lot in the last year. Eight million more new fans are using Bandsintown to track the live performances of their favorite artists, bringing our total up to 23 million registered users. Our friends over at Music Ally have taken notice as well, including the news of our growth in today's daily Music Ally Bulletin.
Fans aren't the only ones installing the app either as 50,000 more artists have dates being promoted on Bandsintown than in July of 2015. That's approximately 65% of artists on tour in the US at any given time and 83% of Billboard's Top 100 artists.
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Henry Picard: Bringing Prestige to the Hershey Country Club
On April 27, 1930 Milton Hershey launched the Hershey Country Club with a dinner party held at his home, High Point, for one hundred of his friends and associates. Mr. Hershey offered High Point for the clubhouse. The new club's golf course was designed by noted golf architect, Maurice McCarthy. The course received high praise from golfers for its challenging fairways and holes.
In 1933 the club established the "Hershey Open," an invitational professional tournament. This tournament brought national attention and prestige to Hershey as a golf destination while the club had had a local golf pro since its opening, after the start of the "Hershey Open," Hershey Country Club needed a more prestigious golfer to come serve as pro.
Henry Picard, who would win the 1939 Masters and 1939 PGA Championship, became the club's head professional on November 1, 1934. Hershey Country Club held a dinner dance to introduce him to the Club on April 27, 1935 (which then was the opening date for the golf season). Picard had played representing the Hershey Country Club through the 1934-1935 winter PGA tour season, but didn't start teaching and living in Hershey until April 1935.
Because of Picard's success, Hershey was considered by some to be the "Golf Capital of America." Picard served as the pro for all of Hershey's courses: the Hershey Country Club, Hershey Park Golf Club, Hotel Hershey Course, and the Juvenile Country Club (the only course at that time specifically for children). At the four golf courses, which were made up of 54 holes, Picard gave golf lessons to youth and adult amateur golfers in between tours. Nicknamed the Hershey "Hurricane," Picard, a 26-time PGA Tour winner, served as pro until 1941, winning 22 of his 26 titles while in Hershey.
In the Spring of 1941 Henry Picard was advised by his doctor to live in a better climate for his health and he moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To fill his position at Hershey he recommended the up and coming golfer, Ben Hogan, as his successor.
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text: I think my attempt July 14, 2001, 7:19 AM EDT I think my attempt at subtlety in my last post left me a bit misunderstood. So let me try to clarify. I'm still trying to sort out what I think of the in-house lie detector test that Abbe Lowell arranged for his client Gary Condit. Opinion on that point seems to have evolved pretty quickly, even over the half-dozen hours or so since Lowell's press conference. But for the moment let's take the answers to these three questions wholly at face value and assume their veracity. If you boil down the three questions they asked of Condit they basically come down to this: a) were you involved in, or did you cause, Levy's disappearance? and b) do you know the current whereabouts of her or her remains? Those two questions leave some pretty obvious questions unasked. Like, Do you know what happened to Chandra? Do you know who harmed her / is responsible for her disappearance? In any case, for now, suffice it to say that even if you completely buy that this was a legit test, it leaves a pretty big and obvious question unanswered, especially because it's not too difficult to speculate about who some potential other suspects might be. Now, on to other matters. There seems to be some anti-Talking Points mojo in the air tonight because I'm being called on the carpet by fellow me-ziners Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan -- for two entirely different things. Kaus says I'm going soft because I criticized the Washington Post's story on Condit's alleged affair with the then-18 year old woman from back home in Modesto. Sullivan is on my case or, perhaps better to say, putting me on the spot for not providing the name of the ABC News reporter discussed in this article I wrote yesterday in Salon. I'm going to come back to the matter of the unnamed reporter. But first let's deal with Kaus. I went back and read the July 12th Washington Post article about the minister and his daughter and I think I was in part wrong to question its relevance. Now this will get kind of complicated so bear with me (it's also four o'clock in the morning so incoherence is a real possibility as well). My initial concern was the combination of how distant this affair seemed from anything to do with the Levy case and the fact that the alleged paramour herself denied the affair took place. Hardly a small matter. The combination, I thought, made it not ready to publish. However, what's really key is not the relationship itself but Susan Levy's alleged phone call in mid-April confronting Chandra with news of the earlier relationship, and Chandra's alleged subsequent discussion of that relationship with Condit. This chain of events seems quite relevant to what was happening in Chandra's life in the last two weeks before her disappearance -- even if you allow the possibility that the other affair didn't happen. For the purposes of understanding what was up with Chandra, what matters is that she and her mother believed it was true and that she discussed it with Condit. This is all a roundabout way of saying that I think I was at least partly incorrect on the question of relevance -- though I still have misgivings about the fact that they went with the story while the woman herself denied that the affair had even taken place. Perhaps it would have been better to front the combustible conversations between Susan and Chandra Levy, and Chandra and Condit, rather than the alleged affair itself. Though this probably wouldn't have made for such a charged headline. Make sense? I'll get to Sullivan's very legitimate point (and challenge) tomorrow.


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Fight to Protect Florida's Undocumented Injured Workers
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida is supposed to provide workers' compensation benefits to all workers despite their legal status, but some employers and insurance companies have found a way to beat the system.
An investigation by NPR and ProPublica found that, of the 800 undocumented people charged with workers' compensation fraud for using fake Social Security numbers, more than 560 of them didn't even apply for workers compensation benefits.
Rich Templin, legislative and political director for the Florida AFL-CIO, says employers and insurance companies are taking advantage of a technicality in Florida's law.
"The insurance companies are using the law to not pay out any benefits," he states. "That's a great system for an insurance company to be able to collect premiums and never have to pay anything out when insurance benefits are needed. And that is how these undocumented workers are being victimized."
The Florida workers' compensation law was amended in 2003 with sweeping changes – among them, making it a felony to use false identification to get a job.
Republican State Sen. Anitere Flores, the second highest-ranking member in the Senate, is continuing her call for changes to the law. She says legitimate injury claims shouldn't be denied just because a person is undocumented.
Templin says some companies hire undocumented workers and purposely hold the threat of prosecution or deportation over their heads to keep them from filing legitimate claims.
"The legislature needs to review the entire statute," he stresses. "This problem that NPR and ProPublica have identified is only one. It's one of a myriad of terrible, unintended consequences that came from that law."
Lawmakers tried and failed to amend the Florida workers compensation law this year, but Templin says the AFL-CIO hopes to see a comprehensive rewrite of the law next year.


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Preventing Problems
From Ice Dams
Technical Bulletin #10
Current as of August 2016
Roof systems will sometimes leak due to the formation of ice dams. Ice dams are formed by the continuous melting and freezing of snow due to heat escaping from the house or by the backing up of frozen slush from the gutters. The melted water flows under the snow and freezes as it reaches the unheated soffit, thus creating the ice dam. When this occurs, water can be forced under the shingles and into the attic, causing damage to the home's ceilings, walls, insulation, gutters, eave and roof.
To reduce ice dam formation and prevent ice dam problems:
1. Keep the attic space cold by insulating it from the warm house interior, thus reducing or eliminating snow melt.
2. Use high heel trusses, insulate to the outside of the plates, and install baffles to ensure ventilation at the eaves.
3. Ensure that the outer edges of the gutters or eaves trough are lower than the slope line to allow snow and ice to slide clear. Also ensure gutters are free of debris.
Eave Protection requirements (NBC 18.104.22.168):
Materials for Eave Protection: (NBC 126.96.36.199)
No. 15 asphalt-saturated felt laid in two plies lapped 480 mm and cemented together with lap cement
Type M or S roll roofing laid with not less than 100 mm head and end laps cemented together with lap cement
Glass fibre or polyester fibre coated base sheets, or
Self-sealing composite membrane consisting of modified bituminous coated material
For proper application of the eave material, consult the eave protection material manufacturer's recommendations.
NOTE: Although the Building Code only requires the eave protection material to extend a minimum of 300 mm (12 in.) beyond the interior wall, a minimum of 600 mm (24 in.) is recommended for best ice dam protection. Where icing conditions are severe, extending eave protection 1 m (40 in.) beyond the interior wall is recommended.
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The information contained in this bulletin is for general education and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified contractor or direction on usage/installation from the manufacturer. Consumers should be aware of the safety hazards associated with work on roofs and, before doing so themselves, should consider following CASMA s advice of using qualified contractors. This bulletin may be reproduced with permission on condition that it be reproduced in whole, unedited, with attribution of copyright to CASMA.
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Software-defined networking (SDN) is changing how companies think about security, and forcing them to reconsider their approach on how to best protect users and their data. Intel is following the trend with its Intel Security Controller, announced in late August.
Made to specifically to support VMware NSX (with plans for OpenStack and OpenDaylight support in 2015), the Intel Security Controller allows for automated security provisioning, policy synchronization, and remediation for software-defined infrastructure (SDI). It aims to use SDN to broker security seamlessly between cloud orchestrators, SDN controllers, McAfee Security Connected products, and the applications that manage them.
Intel says a controller-based approach virtualizes commonplace security tasks like antivirus, sandboxing, firewalling, and data loss prevention. Intel claims use of its Security Controller will offer users a more secured infrastructure, and also a more adaptive, cost effective, and software-defined security system.
The goal is to address the needs of data centers that are struggling with the incessant evolution of IT teams moving toward virtualization and SDN. Traditional application and hardware-based security methods depend on static formations of the network, where each source, destination, and route is made clear. Usually perimeter-minded, these products can leave the virtual infrastructure vulnerable. It's a theme that's appeared in recent security pitches from companies such as Guardicore and vArmour.
"When we try to apply [older] security solutions to, for example, a software-defined network, that changes all of these elements dynamically, the security solutions are unaware of the changes," says Monika Goldberg, director of product marketing for Intel's Security Solutions Division. "This results in either gaps in security protection, or the security administrator having to manually reconfigure every appliance, every time there is a change. Most humans can't keep pace with automation."
Intel's Goals and NSX
It makes sense that Intel would want to work with NSX, writes IDC analyst Brad Casemore in an email to SDxCentral.
"If you consider Intel's goals in the data center, where it wants its servers to encompass an ever-increasing proportion of compute, storage, networking (including Layer 4-7 network and security services), you can see how Intel would view network-virtualization overlays, such as VMware's NSX, very favorably," Casemore writes. "As network and storage virtualization grow alongside server virtualization, the Intel x86 platform becomes an integral workforce for not only application workloads, but also for the network and security services that deliver and defend those workloads."
Deployed as a virtual machine, the Intel Security Controller brokers between security products and the virtual infrastructure. It uses NSX APIs to automatically sync up the network infrastructure, ensuring security services are correctly provisioned based on security policies, groups, and tags as defined within NSX.
The controller can be deployed in the data path automatically as attacks are detected; it then works with NSX and security management applications to perform remediation.
Other companies are using microsegmentation for security, but they are looking at point products, says Rishi Bhargava, general manager and vice president of the Intel Security Solutions Division. He stressed the need for a security platform, as a point-by-point approach can become difficult to manage. Intel claims that with its Security Controller, microsegmentation enables users to operate at a very granular level and gives them the ability to place security at several integration points.
Microsegmentation and the Intel Security Controller
Data centers are in need of better security, and security vendors need to transition from endpoint protection to data center protection, 451 Research analyst Peter Christy says.
"At VMworld, VMware talked a lot about how NSX can be used to 'microsegment' the network so that it can be secured much better," said Christy. "I think this is true — virtual networking will have a profound impact on security."
Christy also noted that while SDN makes it much easier to install partner protection, the key addition to security is microsegmentation.
"This kind of IPS protection is less needed in an environment like NSX, because the microsegmentation NSX provides is an improved and simplified way of limiting the traffic that can get to a protected entity."
In general, as SDN and network virtualization turn into real products, security will become a more present issue.
"Obviously, a number of other vendors, large and small, see security as a burgeoning market opportunity within the context of SDN and SDDC [the software-defined data center]," Casemore writes. "Intel, for its part, will and does have similar partnerships with other players who are building virtualized network and security services, including NFV-related initiatives on its servers. This space is sure to be intensely competitive and tremendously innovative."


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How many times does Baha'u'llah use the the term 'being' in the Hidden Words?
I think it is about 22 times, but the really important use is 'O Son of Being'.
To address humans in this way emphasise three levels of reality.
LEVEL !: Ultimate Being is God. God is Ultimate being – another name is Mystery.
Mystery is the primary fact of life & our primary relationship.
Unity & peace can only come as we stand with others in the face of Mystery, a stance that admits, as Socrates/Plato did that the chief thing we know is that we don't know.
Unity & Peace can never come via words and names and theology. Ask any true mystic.
LEVEL 2: The sons & daughters of God have the challenge to reflect in their being, their selves, Godlike qualities.
Between Level 1 & 2 there is;
LEVEL 3: Since finite humans cannot embrace the Infinite we can most surely develop our reflecting of the names & attributes of God through turning to the Perfect Mirror, the Messenger of God.
Our aspiration is to mirror the Perfect Mirror.
3 levels cf 2 is the difference between Baha'i understanding and that of (some) Sufis & Gnostics.


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Happy Monday! I'm up on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today sharing my Happy Valentine's Day Home Decor Piece. Valentine's Day is only 10 days away, so why not make a decor piece to decorate an area in your home. To create my home decor piece I used some dies from Joset Designs and Els van de Burgt Studio.
You'll want to make sure your way over to Elizabeth Crafts Designs Blog to read all about how I created my Happy Valentine's Day Home Decor Piece, so that you're able to recreate it for your home.
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Remembering Thomas Zvi Wilson
by Jim Lullie
It's never easy to define the essence of a person, and that is certainly the case with Thomas Zvi Wilson, the acclaimed Kansas City poet who passed away in 2012. I sat down with his widow, Jeanie, to try and get a feel for the man and his love of writing. She is soft spoken -- a writer and poet in her own right -- and speaks glowingly of the man she loved so dearly.
Tom retired as a Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer with Fry Wagner Moving and Storage in 2000. Although his career was in finance, Tom's true passions were writing, painting and sculpting.
Born in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in 1931, Tom was raised in the Orthodox Jewish faith and never lost his pride in his heritage. According to Jeanie, as a young man Tom was "very curious and wanted to explore the outside world. He was intense in his beliefs, had the ability to examine and to debate and he wanted to bring a point down to the finest particle."
He served in the Korean War and when he returned took a Gentile name, "Thomas Wilson." But he always used "Zvi" in his art, poetry and short stories.
Tom met Jeanie in a creative writing class taught by Dan Jaffe at UMKC and the couple became lifelong friends with Jaffe. Tom credited Jaffe with having a strong influence on his writing. Tom also studied at the University of Arkansas with Miller Williams, the award-winning poet best remembered as having read at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Jeanie and Tom shared their love for writing together and eventually fell in love and married in 1991.
Tom was a supporter, board member and one-time treasurer of The Writers Place, an organization that he was passionate about. He was remembered as a mentor to many aspiring writers in the area and always made himself available to talk about the craft of writing, even to the extent of neglecting his own work.
His career as a sculptor and painter resulted in nine one-man exhibits in New York City, as well as in exhibits in such galleries as Miami Museum of Modern Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Georgia Museum of Art, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and Rockhurst University.
Tom's paintings could best be described as Cubist, an abstract style developed by Pablo Picasso. Jeanie explains that she still has to "find a home for many archival pieces of his art." But Thomas Zvi and Jeanie Wilson's poetry archives were donated to the University of Kansas. Stored in a temperature-controlled room at the Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection, "The Wilson Papers" are now accessible to the public.
Tom's first book, Deliberate and Accidental Act, was published by UMKC's BkMk Press in 1996 and was a runner-up for the 1997 Thorpe Menn Award. Together the couple collaborated on a book of poetry, The Door into the Dream, published by Mid-America Press and named one of the one hundred Most Noteworthy Books for 2006 by the Kansas City Star.
One of Tom's favorite poems is titled "Each Trip," a love poem written to Jeanie expressing his anticipation of her return home after one of her many trips around the country in the course of her career (see below). "He read that poem many times at the end of his reading series presentations," Jeanie explains.
"Thomas was passionate about The Writer's Place and believed that it served an urban community and it would benefit from having another venue," Jeanie says. With that thought in mind, he contacted the Johnson County Central Resource Library in Overland Park and convinced them to establish a reading series with The Writer's Place as co-sponsor in 2001.
In 2006 when he could barely speak, he stood at the podium at the reading series and said, "I can't do it anymore. I could always defeat everything in my life, but I can't defeat this." Looking at Jeanie, he said, "Will you do it?" Jeanie lovingly carried on his beloved reading series and re-named it the "Thomas Zvi Wilson Reading Series," which is still offered on the third Tuesday of every month.
Although Tom suffered from a heart condition, it was a rare form of dementia called primary progressive aphasia that claimed his life in March 2012. The irony of his illness became clear when the disease affected the very motor skills that made up the core of his life's work: speech, writing, and reading.
In the end I learned of a man who questioned everything and yearned to learn more. Thomas Zvi Wilson's poems often expressed his inner search for truth and understanding of life and even his own religious beliefs. He was a man who eloquently expressed his thoughts in words, which flowed flawlessly from his heart.
Currently Jeanie Wilson is working on a manuscript of new and selected poems that focus on Kansas regions.
for JW
I invent longing
as if it were new,
watch the sky
for her plane to fall
into my pitted glove.
I dream the soles of her feet,.
the down tracing her lower spine,
the way she sings my name
in morning's frost,
evening's fire.
The Thomas Zvi Wilson Poetry Series at the Johnson County Library takes place at 7 p.m. every third Tuesday except in November and December. Each reading typically features two poets, and podcasts are available on the library website. Readings are free and include light refreshments. The series is curated by Jeanie Wilson.


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Study the bidding and play of this deal from a pairs event, then decide who, if anyone, is to blame for reaching four spades, down one.
There are several bidding agreements involved. North's one no trump range was 15-17; East's overcall showed hearts and a minor suit, and South's three spades was invitational, not forcing. Despite a minimum one no trump, North elected to bid on to game.
Declarer won the opening lead in dummy and drew all the trumps, leaving just one trump in the closed hand. The ace and king of diamonds were cashed but, when East showed out on the second round, the contract was a goner. Declarer needed two entries to hand to concede a diamond and cash the long diamond but had only one — the trump. Down one.
It might seem that with only 15 points, North should have been content with a partscore. However, the queen of trumps must be upgraded and, with all prime values on the side, the hand clearly rated some action.
The play, however, did leave something to be desired. When East shows out on the second round of trumps, declarer should abandon the suit in favor of cashing the ace and king of diamonds. If both defenders follow suit, declarer draws the remaining trumps, cashes the queen of diamonds and returns to hand with a heart ruff to score the long diamonds and 11 tricks in all — five spades, one heart and five diamonds.
When East shows out on the second diamond, declarer continues with the queen of diamonds, extracts the outstanding trumps and concedes a diamond. Declarer's remaining trump is the entry to cash the long diamond for the fulfilling trick.
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Halloween brings out the scary in me.And, no, I'm not talking about a scary costume. What's scary is that I morph into someone I don't even recognize.
Allow me to explain. For the rest of the year I (mostly) avoid sugar. I don't put sugar in my cappuccino or my tea. I don't eat sugary cereals. I am careful with desserts.But on Halloween … I go all out.
I have to try one of everything. And sometimes two, or three. I am not joking. I once wrote a Halloween blog post entitled "What not to eat on Halloween", which basically listed every piece of candy I ate that night. The title of the post was a joke (ha, ha) … What not to eat on Halloween? The candy wrappers. That was my lesson.Then there was the one year we bought two huge bags of candy (for a total of 10 pounds) and hid them high on a shelf in the laundry room until Halloween night. Except that on Halloween night ... Where's the Candy? Only 5 pounds left, and this was before trick-or-treating. Now, in my defense I didn't eat all that candy, and there were other guilty parties involved, but still.
And last year was the tootsie roll year. I don't know what-in-the-heck was wrong with me, but I think I ate ... well, I won't tell you how many tootsie rolls I ate, and I wasn't picky: the big fat ones, the long skinny ones, and the small bite-sized ones all called my name. According to Google it takes a 1/4 mile run or 550 steps to burn off one small Tootsie Roll, and I'm still trying to burn off that tootsie roll binge.This year, however, I did something smart. Well, brilliant, if you ask me. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I have a dental appointment. Yes, you heard that right. I scheduled my six month cleaning and checkup on Halloween morning. Why? Let me tell you. After cleaning, scraping, buffing, and flossing I'm not letting anything near these pearly whites.
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Barry Long
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"Had my mother not talked me into going to Wake Tech, I don't know where I'd be today."
— Barry Long
When Barry Long graduated from Sanderson High School in Raleigh in 1978, continuing his education was the last thing on his mind. "I had no interest," he says – but his mother did. "She wanted me to go to college and talked me into it."
Barry enrolled in the Business Technologies program at Wake Tech, and it turned out to be the best move he could have made. He got involved in the Student Government Association and was elected SGA president in his second year. He had a great experience. After graduating in 1980, he was inspired to continue his education at Appalachian State, where he earned a bachelor's degree. Barry went on to have a very successful career in the printing business, eventually opening his own company.
With more than 20 years in the business, Barry now serves as a trustee for the Printing Industry of the Carolinas, and he gives back to Wake Tech as a member of the Wake Tech Foundation Board of Directors. He credits Wake Tech with changing his mind about higher education – and his mother with giving him some great advice. "Had my mother not talked me into going to Wake Tech, I don't know where I'd be today," Barry says. "It was the best thing I ever did."
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Its no wonder that so many film and TV show producers have chosen to use the beautiful north Wales landscape and unspoiled villages as backdrops to their stories and series.
Penbryn beach in Ceredigion served as a stand-in for a beach in North Korea in the 2010 James Bond Film 'Die Another Day'. I wonder if Kim Jong-in has ever watched it?
Who knew that the dramatic Dinorwic Slate Quarry was used to film parts of the 2010 film 'Clash of the Titans'?
More recently Hinterland on BBC 4 was filmed around the hauntingly beautiful landscape around Aberystwyth.
Even more recently the unspoiled small market town of Dolgellau was chosen to represent the fictional village of Penllynith in the BBC TV series Requiem.
Everyone of course remembers that Portmeirion , just south of Porthmadog , was the setting for the 1960s cult TV series 'The Prisoner'. The Italianate- style village designed and built by Sir Clough Williams Ellis is now the venue for Festival No 6, so named after the main character in the series.
The final scenes of the 1980 film 'Highlander' were filmed in the Sychnant Pass near Conwy.
It's been common knowledge for years that The Watkin Path on Snowdon played a starring role in the 1968 film 'Carry on up the Khyber' , as it was deemed to look like the real Khyber Pass in Afghanistan. I'm sure the cast were more than happy to stay in Beddgelert rather than Afghanistan!
I wonder if Angelina Jolie enjoyed staying in Beddgelert when she was filming part of 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'? Apparently a mock Chinese village was created at Llyn Gwynant , near Beddgelert in the creation of this film.
And of course we couldn't finish without including the wonderful Julie Walter's Coastal Journeys TV series. In Episode 4 she travelled from Aberystwyth to Liverpool, stopping along the way to enjoy a trip on the Talyllyn Railway and a walk round Llwyngwril to admire the amazing yarnbombing. Not a bad showcase for our village!


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Red Bull came to me with an interesting idea. "We would like you to photograph NBA star Anthony Davis dunking the sun." To which I said, "Can we also have him dunk the moon?"
My mind started racing with ideas on how to capture this properly because as most people know the sun is a very bright object that is about 93 million miles away (I totally knew that off the top of my head) not to mention, its also very hard to look at for more than a brief moment. Which brings me to my first hurdle.
How to make the sun small…and not so bright
Yes, the sun. That glowing ball of exploding fire that keeps our planet from freezing over. Again, super bright and very large so we needed it to be the opposite. An object as small as say...a basketball.
To figure this out, I set out on my first (of a few) scouting missions with my Nikon D810 and a few lenses in my arsenal. My first test shots were around ISO 31, shutter speed 1/1600th, and aperture F/11. This varied some depending on which lens I was using and at what focal length It was at. Sometimes my shutter was all the way up at 1/8000th sec and aperture as high as F/22. But after deciding that smaller apertures (higher number) gave to much of a "starburst" effect I knew that I had to bring down the exposure to something a little more manageable. (ISO 31, shutter speed 1/250th, aperture F/6.3.) To do this, I added an 8 stop ND filter.
Pre-light and timing
Once I dialed in the exposure, my next site visit was a pre-light day. This is where I would test the lighting on an actual person before we brought Anthony into the game. This is also where we nailed down our timing for the shoot. The sun is constantly changing positions so this was very important to note the flow of the photoshoot and to decide which moves Anthony would be performing at each minute so we could get the most out of the sun before it rose completely. We made a minute by minute shot list and religiously stuck by it.
Light it up!
Next comes the fun part, how to "illuminate" Anthony after just turning down the light in the sky. I knew I had to bring in some very powerful lights to help out with our situation. QUE the Broncolor Scoro S 3200 and Move 1200L packs. 7 total packs at more than 10,000 watts of power flowing through 7 different heads with highly reflective and directional dishes on them.
My set up was, 5 broncolor heads, 3 packs to camera left hitting the front of Anthony and filling in some light on the court and 2 lights coming from camera right hitting the back of Anthony and the hoop. The power on the packs where set at 9 out of a possible 10 so we only had 1 shot each time Anthony jumped to dunk the sun. Resulting in a few not so perfect shots.
Anthony had to have the perfect placement each time. If either of us were off by an inch, it would either put his hand too far behind the sun or too far forward and the sun's intense brightness would engulf his hand leaving only parts of it breaking through. Not so good when your trying to make it look like he's holding the brightest object in our solar system.
Don't try this at home kids! (or adults)
Don't try this at home kids! (or adults) - I know how tempting it is to look at the sun. (so shiny!) But I can definitely say it is not wise to stare at it for any amount of time. (turns out my profession as a photographer relies heavily on me being able to see well). Even though I wore dark sunglasses, had an 8 stop ND filter, (and squinted a lot) I still walk away after the shoot with my eyes being a tad extra sensitive than normal.
This couldn't have happened with out the hustle and commitment that Anthony brought to the table. He showed up a little under the weather but that didn't stop him from going above and beyond what we were expecting from him.
I also want to thank our awesome crew for their support. Thanks to everyone on the Red Bull team, Broncolor, my assistants, the video crew and all the extra support from security staff to that random little dog that kept running on to our set.
I hope everyone enjoys these photos as much as I did in helping to create them.
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I don't really know of anything I'm truly passionate about. Mostly because I feel that in order to reach a level of passion, you actually have to know a lot about the subject. So, why argue about something when I don't know everything about it?
I don't value my opinion enough to put myself out there most of the time. That's just how I am.
Despite how much I don't like to argue, I did it yesterday. It wasn't really an argument as much as it was me trying to understand someone else's feelings. I'm not insensitive. I just try not to let my past dictate my future. Which is what the argument was all about. Therefore, being sensitive to the subject was not something I was doing. I took offense to it.
Last night we went to small group. We are currently finding our Niche. It's a wonderful personality profile unlike any I've ever done before.
We took assessments last night. We checked off our strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes I was stumped at which choice to choose. How do you label strengths without seeming too cocky? Same with weaknesses. Do you really want to admit you are a brassy person, or that you're overly negative?
Once we were all done we found out what our choices said about each of us.
And here's the shocker.
My selections revealed my personality as outgoing and demanding. Kevin's selections revealed he was reserved and shy and organized!
It was funny, because we both believe ourselves to be complete opposite of what this test showed us. And we are complete opposite of one another.
But, I love that about us. It's about balance. We balance each other out.
And while we did have an argument yesterday, it was resolved. Resolved with good news. With good outcome. As are most of our
We're opposites that compliment one another. Even when I do feel the need to show my outgoing, bossy side to get my point across.


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Peabody Energy BTU +3.19% and ArcelorMittal MT +3.36% today announced they have received clearance from the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) to proceed with the A$16.00 per share cash offer for all outstanding shares of Macarthur Coal Ltd (asx:MCC).
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$5B deal for Australian coal company long awaited
The deal for Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private-sector coal company, and a partner to buy Australia's Macarthur Coal for more than $5 billion concludes more than a year of pursuit and continues widespread consolidation in that energy sector.
Australian takeover target Macarthur Coal almost doubles annual profit to $253 million
Macarthur Coal Ltd. has nearly doubled its full year profit and repeated its advice to shareholders to reject a takeover offer from U.S energy giant Peabody Energy Corp. and Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal. The company's 241 million Australian dollars ($253 million) profit for the fiscal year through June announced Wednesday was up 93 per cent from AU$125 million in the previous year despite reduced production due to record rainfall.
Macarthur Coal lures bidders as Peabody rouses China
Peabody Energy Corp. is leaving the door open for a rival bidder to step in for Macarthur Coal Ltd. by offering less for the Australian mining company than it did last year, even as profit is projected to double.
Macarthur Coal cuts sales forecast because of floods
The Australian miner said annual sales could fall by around a fifth as a result of the heavy flooding that in the country that affected some of its collieries Australian miner Macarthur Coal's annual sales could fall by around a fifth


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An adequately planned and properly executed estate plan can ensure that your assets will pass directly to your intended heirs with the least amount of cost and hassle. Here are 7 essential elements when establishing a sound estate plan:
Have a current and properly executed will. Unfortunately, many Americans do not have a will. For those who die intestate (without a will) the decedent's state of residence has laws that dictate how assets should be distributed. In addition to asset distribution, intestacy laws and the courts help determine who would be the most suitable guardian for minor children. For most families, a court appointed solution for the assignment of guardians and the distribution of assets is not the ideal situation, especially in a time of grief.
Properly title assets. There are many alternatives when it comes to the titling of property and other financial assets. Common alternatives include individual or joint registration, tenants in common, or limited liability corporations (LLCs) among others. Property can also be registered in the name of a trust. It is important that the titling of your assets coincides with your estate distribution wishes.
Avoid probate when possible. While the probate process of transferring estate property is not an entirely burdensome process, it is a public and potentially costly process that can be limited with proper planning. Appropriate titling of assets, the use of trusts and designating beneficiaries are all effective tools that can be utilized to help avoid or minimize probate.
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Periodically review and update beneficiary designations. Once retirement accounts and life insurance policies are established, many people never reconsider their beneficiary designations again. It is important to periodically confirm that beneficiary designations coordinate with the disposition of assets that are addressed in other estate documents.
Take a proactive approach with estate planning. Simplify your finances by consolidating brokerage and other investment accounts, as well as, bank accounts. Being organized can remove some of the administrative hassle away from your family and reduce advisor and attorney fees at your death.
Review and occasionally update your estate plan. All estate planning decisions and strategies need to be periodically reassessed. Not only do estate laws change, but often times changes within a family unit may also necessitate revisions to an estate plan. Deaths, births, and marriages can alter the family dynamics in a way that will require modifications to wills, trusts, powers of attorney, or health care powers. Periodically reviewing these documents can ensure an effective estate plan that reflects your wishes.
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The role of Local Authorities in the Hub is to ensure that the differing localities that make up Berkshire are represented and supported. The local authorities also have a statutory obligation to ensure that any child in the care of the local authority is able to learn to play a musical instrument free of charge if they ask to do so.
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It's Wear Purple for Peace Day. You'd think that this day originated in protest of a particular war or conflict. Or, perhaps it should have been conceived by the UN, or another peacemaking or peace keeping group. Our extensive research found no evidence supporting the origin of this holiday stemming from these sources.
Rather, we found this day to be a stellar event. It seems some of you out there fear that aliens from outer space consider earthlings to be too hostile (you've got that right). As a result, they have yet to visit or make contact with us. So, some of you (originators unknown) decided to promote world peace by establishing Wear Purple for Peace Day.
The goal of Wear Purple for Peace Day is to make the world a peaceful place and, of course, encourage alien species to make contact with earth.
Do you want to meet aliens for another planet? Me, too! So, lets all wear purple for peace today.
"I wonder if these earthlings are peaceful!?"
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Freaky Deaky | Directed by Charles Matthau | R | English | He used to be on the bomb squad, but its not until he transfers out that Chris Mankowski really begins juggling with dynamite. Rape and revenge are just the tip of the iceberg in a twisty tale that brings Detroit denizens to life and occasional death in all their seedy glory, circa 1974.
Directed by Charlie, this feature film was released in 2012.
The Grass Harp | Fine Line Features| PG | 107 min | English | For his work on The Grass Harp, Charlie won Director of the Year from the Academy of Family Films and Television. The film is based on a Truman Capote novella.
Baby O | First Take Motion Picture Group | Not Rated | English | Directed by Charlie, this feature film was released in 2009. The film was shot on location in Vegas.


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HANIWA – Helleven
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HANIWA come from Florentine, Italy and I think that this is their first studio album. As a band they might be a new one, but the three musicians that are part of HANIWA have a long experience with other bands that were moving in the wide spectrum of metal and rock music. I think that all these experiences led them to create the sound of HANIWA.
It is easy to tag the band under the genre of groove/modern metal, but I think that these three words can't describe exactly the music they create. In my opinion their sound is full of energy and grooves. The band combines elements from both the traditional and modern sound. I can say that the band has a lot of grooves in its sound and when they become more aggressive they definitely flirt with thrash metal. But that is not all, since there are times that HANIWA move to melodic fields, without ever losing their energy, and blend their sound with some traditional metal elements.
"Helleven" is an album that has variety and never tires the listener. I think that people who love groove metal will enjoy HANIWA.
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Longtime NFL offensive lineman and Jaguars assistant coach George Yarno has been diagnosed with cancer, but will continue to work during his treatment.
According to Ryan O'Halloran of the Florida Times-Union, Jags coach Gus Bradley informed the team yesterday, but didn't disclose any details of his condition. Assistant line coach Luke Butkus will work with the group when he needs days off, but Yarno is expected to be with the team throughout the process.
"When he told us, we knew something was wrong because George is usually the funniest guy in the room and super-outgoing," center Mike Brewster said. "But it was good to know everything afterward was positive with where it's going and how it's going to be taken care of."
Yarno's in his second season coaching with the Jaguars. He played 10 years in the NFL, mostly with the Buccaneers, though he had stints with the Falcons and Oilers along with two years in the USFL.


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How far along? 22 Weeks
Baby's size? Hudson is the size of a papaya :)
Weight Gain? Well I finally faced the scale after being out of town and I have gained about 2 pounds in the last two weeks for a total of 14ish pounds…holy cow this better slow down!
Maternity clothes? Totally, although I have been finding some cute dresses that are non-maternity and work really well. I am still on the search for more shirts (maternity or non).
Stretch marks? none yet
Belly button in or out? It is starting to get a little shallow but no where near out.
Sleep? Not fun. My hips are getting really sore from having to only lay on my sides.
Foods I am loving? Grapes, watermelon, steak and I have been obsessed with the Japanese place in the mall..veggies and rice yum! And again, the sugar tooth is in full swing. I am really trying hard not give in (especially with this most resent weight gain). It usually ends up where I do give in and then get mad at myself after…oh well.
Foods I am hating? Nothing really.
Best moment this week? Having the Hubs return from his 3 week trip and be so surprised at how much Hudson (meaning me) have grown.
Movement? It is still pretty inconsistent but I am feeling him move and kick.
Symptoms? About two days ago I started getting acid reflux and my back hurts if I stand for too long. I have noticed that with this extra weight my legs and ankles get tired easier when I run, but that isn't stopping until it absolutely has too (the running).
Gender? Hudson (a boy)
What I miss? Laying/sleeping on my back. Diet coke and coffee (though I do have the occasional one). My old body. Enough said.
What I'm looking forward to? Feeling Hudson kicking more and having the Hubs be able to feel him too.
Milestone: We bought the paint for Hudson's room and I finished some of the pictures for the walls (don't worry I will give a picture tour when it's done). We are getting semi-closer to having the nursery done :)
Emotions: I am feeling pretty good. I am starting to feel more "pregnant" which is nice. I think it is more noticeable now and I don't just look big. I really just can't wait till He gets here. It still feels like forever but the last 5 months have gone pretty quick and I know it's only going to speed up. I got spray tanned for a wedding I went to last week and it really helped me feel better. I know that may sound vain but since I have no say in the expanding body part at least I can be tan :) The hubs said I can go more often which really lifts my mood! I have also started taking some different fitness classes at the gym and that has helped my mood too. They are a good workout and a lot of fun and since it is getting hotter it is nice to workout in doors.


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We at East Coast Coaches will be running coaches to George Ezra at the Malahide Castle, Dublin on 21st June 2019.
Coaches Depart From:
BELFAST 2.30pm - Jurys Hotel Great Victoria Street Belfast.
LISBURN 2.50pm - Sprucefield Bus Stop @ Roundabout at M&S.
BANBRIDGE 3.10pm - Bus Stop Opposite Home Bargains in Outlet Park.
NEWRY 3.30pm - Fiveways Roundabout, Bus Stop layby at Side of Fiveways Shop
www.eastcoastcoaches.com for info / call 028 3020 3020
Return is 30 Mins after Concert from Coach Park.
Price is for bus travel only & does not include entry to event.
Price is for Coach travel only & does not include entry to event. Not all coaches will stop at every pickup above, please be aware of this if your travel partners are at a different pickup to you. Call for details.Coaches may have toilet facilites, however we cannot guarantee this. Comfort breaks are provided enroute. Tickets must be purchased online or over the phone, if you turn up without a ticket you may be refused entry. Alcohol is not permitted on board coaches.


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Brainwave based interactive performance 2017
by Réka Harsanyi, Dóra Ida Szűcs and Bálint Bolcsó
Connected Bodies Team tries to retrieval invisible signals from the human body – but is it possible in an opposite way? With what kind of effects, sounds, colours, pictures can influence the feelings, thoughts of a person? What if that person functions as an interface between the outer and the inner world? In the CONNECTED FEELINGS performance the dancer's feelings – through measured brainwave, face expression, sweating, heartbeats – are becoming visible thereby she is at the mercy of the audience. This experiment focuses the contextual behaviour, live and intimate interaction, physical contact and manipulation between people. It is provocative, because the participants /audience must secede from their usual passive observer state by touching and manipulating the dancer through real physical contact. The aim of this performance is to lay emphasis on self-consciousness (which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being) and to give a framework and time to the audience to deal with the question how the human organism functioning. Hopefully the spectators make real this knowledge later in their life and also improve their communication skills or feel more empathy for each other.
By the beginning and the end of the performance details from Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation by Peter Handke are audible. Handke's play is a downright attack on the way language is used to depersonalise the individual – what contradistinguish between the individual (acting on the stage or observe her/himself at the space) and the mass during the end of the performance. Suddenly the audience become aware of their-self, because they focus on their reaction in accordance with the quotation.
The story contains short scenes what flows insensible into one another: breaking walnut – nonsense verses – animal piano piece – childhood memories – eating walnut/brain – chaos came to be – presence and consciousness.
Each 'scene' has it's own sound design. Some parameters of the predesigned compositions are controlled by the changing brainwaves, excluding the 'chaos' in which both the dancer and the composer improvise.
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Knight reportedly put his car in reverse and ran over a bystander on the scene. Witnesses claim the bystander was killed but cops have yet to confirm a suspect or death yet. We'll update with more details as they become available.
UPDATE: TMZ is reporting that the victim, a friend of Suge's named Terry Carter, has passed away. Sources say he was walking toward the passenger side of the vehicle and was struck when Suge fled the scene. An actor named Cle "Bone" Sloane was also hit but does not have life threatening injuries. Suge's lawyer is reportedly arranging for his client's surrender and it is unclear as of now if he will be charged with manslaughter or hit and run. The Sheriff's Dept. has issued a bulletin to all officers that Suge Knight is wanted for questioning for murder, according to TMZ.
UPDATE 1/30/15: Suge Knight has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the fatal hit-and-run yesterday. TMZ is reporting that police have now formally charged Suge Knight and his bail is currently set at $2 million. Suge reportedly made the trip to the set to make amends with Dr. Dre, but he ended up getting into a shoving matches with Dre's security and left. Once Suge left the set, he was then contacted by Carter to meet up at a separate location, where Suge says he got jumped, according to TMZ. The fatal hit-and-run, which resulted in Carter's death, then took place at the second location, according to the report.
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Title The Magician King: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy)
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Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller and literary phenomenon, "The Magicians" Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory--a fictional utopia--was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring.Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off--only to somehow wind up back in the real world and not in Fillory, as they'd hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia's illicitly-learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth.
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Charlie and Saffia have joined the house officially after passing a task of walking over broken glass.
After Big Brother's special forces, the SBBS, stormed the house and rounded up the non-housemates, Charlie and Saffia were singled out and forced into the garden task.
One of the forces's members told the pair to remove their footwear and step onto lanes of broken glass: "In front of you lies 150 smashed wine bottles. This is real glass. Look forward, don't look down. This is real glass. It will cut you if you do not pay attention."
"Put your foot down on the glass. If it feels sharp, move your foot. It is not a race," he told Saffia as she shuffled across.
Both she and Charlie completed the task and became official housemates, joining Kris, Lisa, Noirin and Rodrigo who completed tasks last night.