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Wicked is an international youth film festival based in Denbighshire. The festival aims to engage filmmakers under 25 from Wales and across Europe.
The first festival was held in 2016 in Denbighshire and Flintshire. Screenings included features Ambulance and Moon Dogs; Roald Dahl on Film showings of Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda; short films from young filmmakers across Europe; and conference discussions with international film festival curators.
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Chapman U's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts has picked Trigger as the first project for its microbudget production shingle Chapman Filmed Entertainment, reports Variety.
Wooly Boys scribe Max Enscoe will pen the script while Chapman alumnus Basel Owies will direct.
"The pic follows two men fixated with what causes evil: A father who destroys his own life in pursuit of a monster and his son's attempt to unravel his father's obsession."
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Lone Star's James Wolk (far right) saddles up alongside Happy Endings' scene-stealing Adam Pally, whose Max is at long last getting some love from Cupid in a February episode of the ABC comedy.
"We finally meet one of Max's ex-boyfriends," says executive producer David Caspe of Wolk's three-episode arc. "They broke up on Valentine's Day and run into each on Valentine's Day this year."
Given the candles, carriage and crew of friends on the sidewalk, is the duo headed for a do-over? "They do start dating again," confirms Caspe, who says he isn't sure if Max is ready for romance. "He is such a weird character, it doesn't seem like he could function normally in a serious situation at all."
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No, that is a good question. I wanted one button on the panel that gave me a list of hosts. The panel would only let me add a button for a top-level menu and the menu editor would not allow me to create a new top-level menu (perhaps because I'm not root?). I could have done it using the favorites menu but it would have been at least one menu down.
Of course another (possibly more accurate) answer is that I enjoy re-inventing wheels in Perl:-) I also wanted to take Perl-Gtk for a spin. The result is something that fits my requirement better than a generic menu would have. And it allows me to edit the menu with gvim - the one true editor.
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Dr. Wyatt is a clinical psychologist, sex therapist and professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She was an NIMH Research Scientist Career Development Awardee for 17 years. She has conducted national and international research since 1980, funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, state and private foundations.
Dr. Wyatt is Director of the UCLA Sexual Health Program, an Associate Director of the UCLA AIDS Institute and coordinates a core of behavioral scientists who consult with other researchers to recruit underserved populations and conduct research that effectively incorporates socio-cultural factors into HIV/AIDS research. Dr. Wyatt has received numerous awards and honors for her scientific accomplishments, mentoring, and teaching. She has also testified before the United States Congress eight times on issues related to health policy. She was the first African-American woman to be licensed as a psychologist in the state of California.
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Thames April D, Moizel Jennifer, Panos Stella E, Patel Sapna M, Byrd Desiree A, Myers Hector F, Wyatt Gail E, Hinkin Charles H Differential predictors of medication adherence in HIV: findings from a sample of African American and Caucasian HIV-positive drug-using adults AIDS patient care and STDs, 2012; 26(10): 621-30.
Wyatt Gail E, Williams John K, Gupta Arpana, Malebranche Dominique Are cultural values and beliefs included in U.S. based HIV interventions? Preventive medicine, 2011; 15(7): .
Loeb Tamra B, Gaines Tommi, Wyatt Gail E, Zhang Muyu, Liu Honghu Associations between child sexual abuse and negative sexual experiences and revictimization among women: does measuring severity matter? Child abuse & neglect, 2011; 35(11): 946-55.
Sciolla Andres, Glover Dorothy A, Loeb Tamra B, Zhang Muyu, Myers Hector F, Wyatt Gail E Childhood sexual abuse severity and disclosure as predictors of depression among adult African-American and Latina women The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 2011; 199(7): 471-7.
El-Bassel Nabila, Jemmott John B, Landis J Richard, Pequegnat Willo, Wingood Gina M, Wyatt Gail Elizabeth, Bellamy Scarlett L, Bellamy Scarlett L Intervention to influence behaviors linked to risk of chronic diseases: a multisite randomized controlled trial with African-American HIV-serodiscordant heterosexual couples Archives of internal medicine, 2011; 171(8): 728-36.
Idemudia Erhabor Sunday, Williams John K, Wyatt Gail E Migration challenges among Zimbabwean refugees before, during and post arrival in South Africa Journal of injury & violence research, 2011; 5(1): .
Sumner Lekeisha A, Valentine Jeanette, Eisenman David, Ahmed Sawsann, Myers Hector, Wyatt Gail, Liu Honghu, Zhang Muyu, Rodriguez Michael A The influence of prenatal trauma, stress, social support, and years of residency in the US on postpartum maternal health status among low-income Latinas Maternal and child health journal, 2011; 15(7): 1046-54.
Wyatt Gail E, Hamilton Alison B, Myers Hector F, Ullman Jodie B, Chin Dorothy, Sumner Lekeisha A, Loeb Tamra B, Carmona Jennifer V, Zhang Muyu, Liu Honghu Violence prevention among HIV-positive women with histories of violence: healing women in their communities Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, 2011; 21(6 Suppl): S255-60.
Glover Dorie A, Loeb Tamra Burns, Carmona Jennifer Vargas, Sciolla Andres, Zhang Muyu, Myers Hector F, Wyatt Gail E Childhood sexual abuse severity and disclosure predict posttraumatic stress symptoms and biomarkers in ethnic minority women Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD), 2010; 11(2): 152-73.
El-Bassel Nabila, Jemmott John B, Landis J Richard, Pequegnat Willo, Wingood Gina M, Wyatt Gail E, Bellamy Scarlett L, Bellamy Scarlett L National Institute of Mental Health Multisite Eban HIV/STD Prevention Intervention for African American HIV Serodiscordant Couples: a cluster randomized trial Archives of internal medicine, 2010; 170(17): 1594-601.
King William Douglas, Wyatt Gail E, Liu Honghu, Williams John K, DiNardo Anthony D, Mitsuyasu Ronald T Pilot assessment of HIV gene therapy-hematopoietic stem cell clinical trial acceptability among minority patients and their advisors Journal of the National Medical Association, 2010; 102(12): 1123-8.
Williams John K, Wyatt Gail E, Wingood Gina The four Cs of HIV prevention with African Americans: crisis, condoms, culture, and community Current HIV/AIDS reports, 2010; 7(4): 185-93.
Wyatt Gail E Enhancing cultural and contextual intervention strategies to reduce HIV/AIDS among African Americans American journal of public health, 2009; 99(11): 1941-5.
Wyatt Gail E, Williams John K, Henderson Tina, Sumner LeKeisha On the outside looking in: promoting HIV/AIDS research initiated by African American investigators American journal of public health, 2009; 99 Suppl 1(11): S48-53.
Wyatt Gail E, Williams John K, Myers Hector F African-American sexuality and HIV/AIDS: recommendations for future research Journal of the National Medical Association, 2008; 100(1): 44-8, 50-1.
Gupta R N, Wyatt Gail E, Swaminathan Soumya, Rewari B B, Locke Thomas F, Ranganath Vijayalakshmi, Sumner Lekeisha A, Liu Honghu Correlates of relationship, psychological, and sexual behavioral factors for HIV risk among Indian women Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 2008; 14(3): 256-65.
Williams Honghu, Wyatt Honghu, Rivkin Honghu, Ramamurthi Honghu, Li Honghu, Liu Honghu Risk Reduction for HIV-Positive African American and Latino Men with Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse Archives of sexual behavior, 2008; 14(3): .
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Myers Hector F, Wyatt Gail E, Loeb Tamra Burns, Carmona Jennifer Vargas, Warda Umme, Longshore Douglas, Rivkin Inna, Chin Dorothy, Liu Honghu Severity of child sexual abuse, post- traumatic stress and risky sexual behaviors among HIV-positive women AIDS and behavior, 2006; 10(2): 191-9.
Liu Honghu, Longshore Doug, Williams John K, Rivkin Inna, Loeb Tamra, Warda Umme S, Carmona Jennifer, Wyatt Gail Substance abuse and medication adherence among HIV-positive women with histories of child sexual abuse AIDS and behavior, 2006; 10(3): 279-86.
Wyatt Gail E, Loeb Tamra Burns, Desmond Katherine A, Ganz Patricia A Does a history of childhood sexual abuse affect sexual outcomes in breast cancer survivors? Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2005; 23(6): 1261-9.
Wyatt Gail E, Carmona Jennifer Vargas, Loeb Tamra Burns, Williams John K HIV-positive black women with histories of childhood sexual abuse: patterns of substance use and barriers to health care Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 2005; 16(4 Suppl B): 9-23.
Williams John K, Wyatt Gail E, Resell Judith, Peterson John, Asuan-O'Brien Agnes Psychosocial issues among gay- and non-gay-identifying HIV-seropositive African American and Latino MSM Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 2004; 10(3): 268-86.
Wyatt Gail E, Longshore Douglas, Chin Dorothy, Carmona Jennifer Vargas, Loeb Tamra Burns, Myers Hector F, Warda Umme, Liu Honghu, Rivkin Inna The efficacy of an integrated risk reduction intervention for HIV-positive women with child sexual abuse histories AIDS and behavior, 2004; 8(4): 453-62.
Wyatt Gail E, Myers Hector F, Loeb Tamra B Women, Trauma, and HIV: an overview AIDS and behavior, 2004; 8(4): 401-3.
Eisenberger Naomi I, Kemeny Margaret E, Wyatt Gail E Psychological inhibition and CD4 T-cell levels in HIV-seropositive women Journal of psychosomatic research, 2003; 54(3): 213-24.
Loeb Tamra Burns, Williams John K, Carmona Jennifer Vargas, Rivkin Inna, Wyatt Gail E, Chin Dorothy, Asuan-O'Brien Agnes Child sexual abuse: associations with the sexual functioning of adolescents and adults Annual review of sex research, 2002; 13(4): 307-45.
Wyatt Gail E, Myers Hector F, Williams John K, Kitchen Christina Ramirez, Loeb Tamra, Carmona Jennifer Vargas, Wyatt Lacey E, Chin Dorothy, Presley Nicole Does a history of trauma contribute to HIV risk for women of color? Implications for prevention and policy American journal of public health, 2002; 92(4): 660-5.
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Catherine Bergeron: Voice lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque (New Cultural History of Music) 1st edition
Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine Bergeron's new history of music in the Belle Epoque. Voice Lessons examines the modern musical art known as la mélodie française and its rise to prominence in the years around 1900-a period when France was pouring resources into national literacy and French scholars were beginning to grasp the nuances of the spoken tongue. Bergeron explores the relationship between the free, secular, and compulsory school system of the Third Republic, and the experimental sciences of language that grew alongside it, to observe the ways in which both science and school redefined the verbal arts in France at century's end.
Graham Johnson: Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs
This three-volume boxed set is the definitive work on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. A richly illustrated encyclopedia, these substantial volumes contain more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations (by Richard Wigmore), detailed annotations on the songs' poetic sources, and biographies of one hundred and twenty poets, as well as general articles on accompaniment, tonality, transcriptions, singers, and more. Written by Graham Johnson—celebrated accompanist, author, and the first pianist ever to record all of Schubert's songs and part-songs—this sumptuous work is a must for performers, scholars, and all lovers of Schubert lieder.
Susan Youens: Retracing a Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"
In Retracing a Winter's Journey, Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Müller, who once wrote in his diary, "perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!"
Youens maintains that Müller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced simplicity as part of its meaning. In her view, Müller used the ruder folk forms to give his verse greater immediacy, to convey more powerfully the wanderer's complex inner state. Youens addresses many different aspects of Winterreise: the cultural milieu to which it belonged, the genesis of both the poetry and the music, Schubert's transformation of poetic cycle into music, the philosophical dimension of the work, and its musical structure.
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Definition of Night blindness
1. Noun. Inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder.
Generic synonyms: Avitaminosis, Hypovitaminosis, Vision Defect, Visual Defect, Visual Disorder, Visual Impairment
Definition of Night blindness
1. Noun. The optic condition nyctalopia, the inability to see clearly in faint light, as at night ¹
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Medical Definition of Night blindness
1. Failure or imperfection of vision at night or in dim light, with good vision only on bright days. (12 Dec 1998)
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Literary usage of Night blindness
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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"In migraine, an attack may be ushered in by the so-called fortification scotoma—a jagged glimmering, followed by a darkening. iv. Test for Night-blindness ..."
2. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"It has already been pointed out that night-blindness is one of the early ... Nettleship has published a history of stationary night-blindness in nine ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"... (Night-blindness) in Soldiers.—WEEKERS (Arch. d. Ophth., March-April, 1916, p. 73) calls attention to this condition as a novel phenomenon of war. ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Night-blindness* Indistinct vision, recurring regularly at night, is sometimes met with as a congenital and habitual infirmity ; there are instances of its ..."
5. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"85) the characteristic, r— 1^1 throughout the family, was an increasing dimness of vision accompanied by night blindness; but later the degeneration was ..."
6. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"night blindness AMONG THE SOLDIERS the resultant, not of a single cause but of the ... The principal cause of night blindness ig nervous exhaustion, ..."
7. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1886)
"I have never, however, seen the night-blindness so pronounced in this inflammation as ... A certain degree of night-blindness, often sufficient to be rather ..."


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By Mike Dunn
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – South Philly residents who've been worried about the possible demolition of a much-loved 19th century firehouse are breathing a bit easier, though only a bit.
City Councilman Mark Squilla says after days of trying, he was finally be able to speak by phone with the head of the company that owns the Engine 46 firehouse at Reed and Water Streets.
A mysterious demolition permit had been slapped on the building which prompted fears of an imminent wrecking ball.
But Squilla says the CEO told him there's no tenant yet and therefore no immediate plans to demolish and the councilman said he received promises of community outreach before any demolition.
"He's willing to come down to meet with us to discuss that site to see if maybe it's possible to save the firehouse at this point," Squilla explains.
The CEO with whom Squilla spoke did not return our phone calls. The firehouse dates from 1894 and is currently vacant.
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Skip to comments.Stolen Valor Act stalls in House (Shame on House Republicans)
Posted on 11/16/2006 7:43:32 AM PST by pabianice
(This is just plain wrong -- Louis)
The House Judiciary Committee failed to take action on the Stolen Valor Act during its first meeting after the midterm elections and is not scheduled to send the bill to the floor before the current congressional session concludes at the end of the year, according to committee spokesman Terry Shawn.
The Stolen Valor Act which has been bottled up in the House subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security since the Senate unanimously passed its version of the bill Sept. 7 would close a loophole in current law that allows fraudulent veterans to claim they rate military decorations they didnt earn as long as they dont physically wear them.
Currently, people who didnt earn such awards as the Silver Star, Navy Cross and Medal of Honor can put them on their résumés and vehicle license plates without violating the law. The new legislation prescribes hefty fines and up to a year in jail for posers who try to pass themselves off as war heroes.
The bill has attracted more than 100 co-sponsors in the House including five Judiciary Committee members since it was introduced in the summer of 2005 by Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., who pushed unsuccessfully to get the bill passed before Congress adjourned for the midterm elections Oct. 1.
Co-sponsor Rep. Bob Beauprez, R-Colo., called the committees failure to act on the bill before adjournment enormously frustrating. Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he was disappointed by the lack of traction the bill has gained in committee.
The committee is scheduled to meet again during the first two weeks of December. If the bill does not make it to the floor for a vote then, it must be reintroduced in the House and Senate during the next congressional session.
Covering for themselves.
No doubt about it, anymore.
...we get the government we deserve.
But if you're just bragging to your buddies at the bar,or even at your American Legion post I have trouble with such bragging getting you a year in the slammer.
Go ahead....flame away.But I see this as being the conservative answer to "hate crimes".
"I was a SP5 who got a Good Conduct Medal..."
Braggert? I can assure you,my friend,that it ain't too difficult to achieve either of those lofty goals.It least it wasn't 35 years ago.
Sorry...meant as a joke...
I kinda figured that it was a joke.That's why I answered in a rather lighthearted way.I guess I should have included a smiley face.
I am certain that Murtha will put this high on his things to do list when he gets the new job. Not!
I got the joke.
Did 21 years and should have 7.
Only have 4, Hmmmmmm. I wonder what happened?
"Only have 4, Hmmmmmm. I wonder what happened?"
I'll choose Article 15 for $100, Alex....
Damn I thought it was pelled curry???
Had 5, lost 2, got back 2, lost 1, got back 1.....
Oh, forget it.
When I was in the Army, I got three Army Achievement Medals (and the assorted Good Conduct, Overseas Service, and something else), but when doing the paper work upon leaving, my final orders said that I'd only gotten two. I was getting out on a Friday afternoon. The "fix" suggested was to come back on Monday and get the paperwork corrected.
Nope. My official orders still say I have only two. ;-)
One would think that you could straighten out your problem...perhaps even by e-mail.It would probably be a pain in the hindquaters,but....
As for me,my military "career" was decidedly ordinary.No heroism or cowardice.No Article 15's...nothin'.I followed orders (well,most of them at least) and kept my mouth shut.That,combined with the fact that I was never ordered overseas meant that my Class A's were very uncluttered by medals,overseas stripes,Purple Hearts or anything else.
Hmmm... Sure, claiming medals that were not actually awarded is a pretty lowlife thing to do, but I'm not sure it needs to be against the law.
If you asy you are a cop, and you are not, anywhere, anytime, it is illegal.
Folks who claim medals they did not win should face mandatory jail time. One year, minimum.
Especially because they are mostly liberals.
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Looking Healthy Again, He Beat Roberto Bautista Agut on Tuesday
It's easy to see what's different about Roger Federer in recent months, and especially at this year's U.S. Open. He's healthy and moving well again. He's attacking more often, even mixing in serve-and-volley and chip-and-charge serve returns. At times at this tournament, he has looked both brilliant—no singles player in tennis today can knife a stretch volley quite like Federer—and five years younger than his advanced tennis age of 33.
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Today in the Daily Sports Roundup: David Wright and the Mets take on the Rays, the Cardinals battle the Royals, and the U.S. Open continues at Bethpage Black.
Meeting up on the diamond . . .
Mets ace Johan Santana (8-4, 3.29 ERA) will be looking to bounce back from an awful outing when he takes to the mound at home against the Rays and James Shields (5-5, 3.52 ERA) on Saturday afternoon. Lefthander Santana was pounded for nine earned runs on nine hits over just three innings of work by the Yankees last time out. Righthander Shields picked up a no-decision against the Nationals in his last outing, surrendering four earned runs over his 6 1-3 innings.
Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter (4-1, 1.59 ERA) will face the Royals' Brian Bannister (5-3, 4.10 ERA) in their matchup in Kansas City on Saturday afternoon. Righthander Carpenter was tagged with his first loss of the season in his last trip to the mound, giving up three earned runs over seven innings against the Indians. Righthander Bannister pitched a gem last time out against the Reds, surrendering just a single unearned run on four hits over eight innings of work.
As well, the Los Angeles teams will pit brother vs. brother on Saturday night, with the Dodgers' Jeff Weaver (3-1, 3.72 ERA) taking on the Angels' Jered Weaver (7-2, 2.08 ERA) in Anaheim. Righthander Jeff Weaver has bounced between the bullpen and the rotation for the Dodgers this season; in his last outing against the Padres he tossed 2 1-3 scoreless innings. Righthander Jered Weaver has won four straight games, tossing a shutout against the Padres in his start last Sunday.
Also on the MLB schedule for Saturday: Cleveland at the Cubs, Milwaukee at Detroit, Baltimore at Philadelphia, Toronto at Washington, Atlanta at Boston, the Yankees at Florida, Houston at Minnesota, the White Sox at Cincinnati, Texas at San Francisco, Oakland at San Diego, and Arizona at Seattle. The non-interleague matchup for Saturday has Pittsburgh continuing their set in Colorado.
Rounding out the Roundup . . .
The first round of the U.S. Open was finally completed on Friday, with Mike Weir shooting a 6-under 64 to take the early lead. Tiger Woods finished his opening round at 4-over. The second round began late on Friday and continues Saturday.
Finally, there's just one WNBA game on the schedule for Saturday night, with Chicago at Washington. Both of those teams also played on Friday night (Chicago was at Connecticut, Washington was at Atlanta) as they jostle for position at the top of the Eastern Conference standings. Mystics forward Marissa Coleman is expected to miss the next four to six weeks with a high ankle sprain.


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Whether a Fair Trade Organization works directly with a producer group; supports the group through capacity building and skills training; links a producer group to local, national, regional or international markets; or if they trade directly with the producer group, it is good to have a clear contract outlining the specifics. Not just a contract for a particular order or period of time, but a contract regarding the code of business conduct.
Over the past few weeks I have been in Hanoi, Vietnam, to do just that - I have been contributing to improve and to simplify the Code of Business and the questionnaire of Helvetas Fair Trade Shop. The contract between Helvetas, a Fair Trade buyer, and their producers is a simple 1 1/2 pages and the language not so complex to be easily translated. The core of the contract is in the annex which breaks down the principles to practices. As I have exposed in past blog posts and to paraphrase Paul Hawken, a principle is something you can betray, but a practice is something you can always improve. Along with the Code of Business Conduct, I also designed a training program introducing Fair Trade principles based on their experiences with Helvetas. I and Ms. Nguyen Bao Thoa, the General Director of the Vietnam Handicraft Research and Promotion Center, will conduct the training program the end of this week. Afterwards we will make our recommendations and from there, Helvetas has plans to implement the business contract and training program globally with their existing trade partners.
It is an exciting time to be involved in Fair Trade. The world is becoming more aware of the multifaceted movement that addresses global trade injustices and at the same time presents local, realistic and direct approaches connecting producers to markets.
More importantly, there is a shift within Fair Trade as well. Fair Trade was originally set up along the lines of being charitable, but this has been fading to the background as the movement has evolved and begun to integrate Rights-Based Approaches in their work with producer groups. Stated succinctly, Fair Trade is opportunity for empowering disadvantaged and marginalized producers.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
But in Fair Trade,This is just the beginning!
When Fair Trade Organizations speak about utilizing a Rights-Based Approach it is about empowerment. Empowerment includes the capacity to sustainably manage the proverbial fishing grounds by not overfishing or using techniques that inadvertently kill or harm other marine life and life support systems; protecting the environment in and around the fishing grounds; ensuring that women have equal access to the same opportunities as men for the same pay by overcoming artificial gender barriers that have traditionally prohibited women's access to training and fishing; ensuring that their children are in school and receiving a basic education; ensuring access to local and area markets cutting out the middlemen who have often reaped the benefits of the fisher's labors; and that the community as a whole is benefiting in the fishing venture through the creation of cooperatives, unions or community associations.
The Basic Question I sought to answer in creating a contract between Helvetas and their producers was:
How to break down principles to practices while maintaining a fair disposition that equalizes the traditional imbalances between producers and buyer?
To do this I first reflected on my experiences with what I would say is an existing system that has much to improve upon.
When I was in Aceh, I wrote a blog post noting how a FLO-Cert audit pushed the cooperatives far outside their comfort zone. Why an audit has this effect was due to the scrutiny involved in the 4-5 day assessment which included detailing practices derived from principles. Although this is important for the consumer to be assured that their purchase is genuinely accountable, the FLO system as it is remains terribly unbalanced. The focus is all on the producer group. The producer is held accountable to the buyer, but the buyer is not accountable to the producer. In a system that refuses to hold buyers equally accountable, there is room for the exploitation (read: Coffee Part I - "You can Betray a Principle")
In Coffee Part II - "It's not my Problem" I reveal what occurs when there is a lack of accountability of a Fair Trade certified buyer from the USA. It exposed a systematic failure in keeping Fair Trade fair. Much to their credit and a very positive reflection of Fairtrade International, Communications Officer, Reykia Fick did reply to that blog post stating:
"Thanks for your commitment. You'll be happy to know Fairtrade has initiatives in place to deal with the issues brought up in this blog:
In March Fairtrade International (FLO) announced new trade standards for coffee to encourage fairer negotiations, clarify the role of price fixing, and reduce speculation. We are also facilitating training for producers and traders on contracts, price fixation and risk management strategies. We have set up a new mediation process in case a producer and trader have a contract dispute. (For details: http://www.fairtrade.net/latest_news1.0.html?&cHash=015da3e485&tx_ttnews[pointer]=1)
Fairtrade International's Global Producer Finance Unit was set up two years ago to facilitate financing opportunities for producers. They are working to secure more and better opportunities for all types of financing including pre-financing, credit, insurance, etc.
The Fairtrade certifier FLO-CERT conducts detailed audits for traders against all requirements in the Fairtrade Generic Trade Standard. The standard says Fairtrade traders must provide pre-financing when producers request it. It has a complaints procedure for specific grievances (for details: http://www.flo-cert.net/flo-cert/main.php?id=17). Some traders are audited by the national labelling initiative for their country instead of FLO-CERT."
Although it is good to hear of the advances in Fairtrade International, my concern is that what is stated here is well intentioned, but may be inadequate. Firstly, it largely puts the onus on producer groups when the onus really belongs on the certifying organization to ensure Fair Trade throughout the process to include standardized procedures for dealing with buyers. In the April blog post I provided specific recommendations to do exactly that.
|Meeting the growers of Organic Fair Trade Arabica coffee
in Aceh, Indonesia in April, 2011
Secondly, there is a strong sense that we are once again hiding behind principles when citing "The standard says Fairtrade traders must provide pre-financing when producers request it." Much to the contrary, my findings have shown that a prepayment is not a common practice when requested, and in actuality it is rarely provided. Again, the onus wrongly placed on the producers when the onus of providing a prepayment needs to be on the buyer as a standard operating procedure.
Thirdly, with the onus on producer groups as it is set up now, there is even greater potential for failure. Let's peel back a few of the running assumptions which contribute to systematic failures:
Thirdly, with the onus on producer groups as it is set up now, there is even greater potential for failure. Let's peel back a few of the running assumptions which contribute to systematic failures:
To have access to the complaint process there needs to be a) an existing infrastructure providing electricity to a rural community where the cooperative exists, or in a nearby location where they can access it; b) an existing infrastructure providing dependable internet access for the cooperative; c) a computer to access the internet with someone knowledgeable on how to operate a computer and utilize the internet; d) a cooperative that is knowledge of the complaints procedure for specific grievances; and e) sufficient knowledge of a foreign language such as English to fill out forms. If any one of these five components are missing there is a systematic failure leaving the most vulnerable Fair Trade producers subject to the whims of an unscrupulous importer of the likes of Mr. "It's not my Problem".
Another area that needs to be addressed in it's current system is Fairtrade International's inability to seriously address "culturally sensitive issues" such as gender, thus leaving the farmer cooperatives unaccountable to 50% of the population in their communities. Yes, the gender imbalance and inequality was noted in the FLO-Cert audits, but the cooperatives could hide behind their definition of local "culture" thus prohibiting women from advancement such as "realizing political or social ambitions". However, that can be remedied (Read Gender and Cultural Relativity). When I conducted a meeting with the management of three cooperatives in Aceh (Read Coffee Part III - Empowering Communities through Action), I broke the ice and approached the existing gender imbalance from the very start. I was encouraged by their openness to the topic and found the management was very receptive. It is HOW you approach these sensitive issues that matters most.
So when I say the system I reviewed is imbalanced, firstly it means that the buyer is not accountable to the producer which leads to systematic failures as I discussed in previous posts. Secondly, the cooperatives themselves were not being held accountable to 50% of the local community. This was due to the tendency of declaring gender a "sensitive issue" only addressed in audits, thus perpetuating existing inequalities rather than addressed with training programs on gender and women's rights which includes local men followed by establishing Gender Mainstreaming Action Plans with time tables.
These issues can be addressed. Future posts will examine the importance of contracting with producers; how to keep both buyers and producers accountable to one another; and examine ways to introduce Fair Trade principles to producer groups.
I would like to add a special thanks to Helvetas Vietnam (www.helvetas.org.vn) for permitting me to write of our work together to make the world a better place. Also, I would like to add a note on my partner Chou, who is currently in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), patiently awaiting my return where we can begin working on the book of our Journey for Fair Trade.
Thank you for joining me and Chou on this journey. If you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, I welcome all and invite you to comment below or catch me on facebook.
Mitch Teberg, MA
These issues can be addressed. Future posts will examine the importance of contracting with producers; how to keep both buyers and producers accountable to one another; and examine ways to introduce Fair Trade principles to producer groups.
I would like to add a special thanks to Helvetas Vietnam (www.helvetas.org.vn) for permitting me to write of our work together to make the world a better place. Also, I would like to add a note on my partner Chou, who is currently in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), patiently awaiting my return where we can begin working on the book of our Journey for Fair Trade.
|Chou and I at Mt. Bromo, Java, Indonesia
Thank you for joining me and Chou on this journey. If you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, I welcome all and invite you to comment below or catch me on facebook.
Mitch Teberg, MA


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EU quiz - or, how big is your deficit?Continue reading the main story
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The UK debate about EU membership is in full swing, with the balance of powers under intense scrutiny. Would you recognise an acquis or passerelle in Brussels? Don't worry, we won't test you on your French. Now see if you can hold your own with the EU diplomats!
1.) Multiple Choice Question
Which country apart from the UK has a treaty opt-out from the euro?
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Lithuania
- Malta
2.) Multiple Choice Question
Which well-known European politician said: "We all know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected after we've done it"?
- Herman Van Rompuy
- Silvio Berlusconi
- Jean-Claude Juncker
- Francois Hollande
3.) Multiple Choice Question
How much of the EU budget is spent on agriculture and rural development?
- 52%
- 41%
- 69%
- 25%
4.) Multiple Choice Question
What name has the EU given to its new system for scrutinising national budgets?
- European Semester
- European Stability Mechanism
- European Cohesion
5.) Multiple Choice Question
Which country is next in line to join the EU?
- Iceland
- Montenegro
- Croatia
- Norway
6.) Multiple Choice Question
How many official languages are there in the EU?
- Three
- 12
- 23
7.) Multiple Choice Question
How many MEPs sit in the European Parliament?
- 536
- 754
- 620
8.) Multiple Choice Question
Which country's playful art installation caused a furore at the EU summit venue in Brussels in 2009?
- Republic of Ireland
- Czech Republic
- Italy
- Slovenia
- It's Denmark. Like the UK, it negotiated an opt-out under the treaty on monetary union. That remains even if the Danish economy meets the eurozone criteria. But Denmark can still join the euro if it wishes in future.
- It was Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, who chairs the grouping of eurozone finance ministers (the Eurogroup). Probably his most famous quote, he uttered it in 2005, before the euro crisis. But it now stands for the tough and unpopular austerity imposed by politicians across the EU.
- It's 41%. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been reformed since the days of wine lakes and butter mountains. In 1970 the CAP gobbled up 87% of the budget. Farm payments have shifted away from subsidies for production - but there is pressure for deeper reforms.
- European Semester. All 27 member states - not just the eurozone - submit their annual budget plans to the European Commission for inspection in April. The Commission later makes recommendations and can withhold some EU funds if governments accumulate too much debt.
- It's Croatia. The plan is for it to join in July this year, becoming the second ex-Yugoslav country after Slovenia to join. The accession process takes years, as countries have to fulfil a long list of requirements - economic, social and judicial.
- It's 23. There are 27 member states, but a few countries have common languages, such as German, French and Dutch. In 2011 the EU translated more than two million pages - 12.3% of them into English.
- It's 754. They hold sessions in Brussels and Strasbourg. After the next elections in 2014 there will be 751 MEPs. The assembly has grown considerably because of EU enlargement. The number of seats per country depends on population size.
- It was the Czech Republic. Artist David Cerny poked fun at European stereotypes, but Bulgaria protested, as it was portrayed as a toilet. Cerny later admitted misleading officials about his intentions. The Bulgaria portion was covered up with a black cloth.
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4 - 7 : Strasbourg slicker
8 - 8 : Brussels muscles
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Updates: LitLong 2.0 launched at the 2017 Embra BookFest (article), now with paths…at Being Human 2017 (Wikipedia editathon | residency)…the ace Books from Scotland (@scottishbooks) tells a tale of Edinburgh and Reykjavik, two cities of literature…Message from the skies (pics), part of @edhogmanay, looks great but keeps throwing me oot…Walk with me, ten micro-tales/trails developed by creatives for Message locations…Edinburgh fiction map…
Edinburgh has just celebrated its 10th anniversary as UNESCO city of literature (FB | Twitter). The original city of literature, here's Edinburgh's literary story and details of tours and trails (guided | self guided | virtual – a bit lacking in the maps department, mind).
Edinburgh is also home to the Scottish Poetry Library (FB | Twitter), the world's first purpose built institution of its kind, it says here (vs eg the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre), the Scottish Storytelling Centre (FB | Twitter), ditto, adjacent to John Knox House, and the Writers' Museum (Burns, Scott and RLS, but also Rebus30). Not forgetting the Book Festival (FB | Twitter), the "largest festival of its kind in the world", Booked!, the book festival on the road, and the Book Fringe. Here's a quick shout-out to Edinburgh Spy Week (@SpyWeek) and Glasgow's AyeWrite.
Other literary institutions include the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (@scotlit), Literature Alliance Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust (book lists | Book Week Scotland) and Scottish PEN (@ScottishPEN). Poetry Atlas and Umbrellas of Edinburgh have details of Embra-related poems and prose. For residences etc see Moniack Mhor (nr Inverness). And not entirely literary, but certainly of interest, is the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, and director Norman Bissell.
The UK has one other city of literature, Norwich (see City of stories), and further literary cities include Dublin (great writers museum), Iowa City (aka LitCity; double connection: my cousin lives there) and, pleasingly, Dunedin (about).
Update: Nottingham has a bid in! If But I know this city! (tweets | David Belbin | report) is anything to go by, it should be successful. See literary tours and walking with writers for more. And then there's Literary Dundee (@literarydundee) and Literary Odessa. Nov 2017: Manchester becomes a city of literature, with Bristol a city of film, yay!
I suspect not entirely coincidentally, 30 March saw the launch of LitLong (@litlong), the latest output from the AHRC funded Palimpsest project (@LitPalimpsest) at the University of Edinburgh (see Nicola Osborne's liveblog and #litlonglaunch, esp @sixfootdestiny, and James Loxley's write-up). An "interactive resource of Edinburgh literature" currently based around a website with an app
to come launched for iOS, LitLong grew out of the prototype Palimpsest app developed three years ago, taking a multidisciplinary team 15 months to build – geolocating the literature around a city is no trivial matter! See about LitLong for some of the issues.
550 works set in Edinburgh have been mined for placenames from the Edinburgh Gazetteer, with snippets selected for "interestingness" and added to the database, resulting in more than 47,000 mentions of over 1,600 different places. The data can be searched by keyword, location or author, opening up lots of possibilities, such as why is Irvine Welsh's Embra further north than Walter Scott's Edinburgh? Do memoir writers focus on different areas than crime writers? See too Mapping the Canongate.
Part of the point of Palimpsest is to allow us to explore and compare the cityscapes of individual writers, as well as the way in which literary works cultivate the personality of the city as a whole.
On the down side, while there is a handful of contemporary writers in the mix, the majority of the content necessarily comes from copyright free material available in a digitised corpus, ie old stuff they made you read at school. Plus search results can be rather overwhelming (339 hits for the Grassmarket) – filters for genre, time period, might be an idea. However the data is to be made available enabling interested parties to play around as they wish, with open source code and data resources on GitHub.
I've had a look at the data around Muriel Spark, who would surely be delighted to be considered contemporary. The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) has a section set in Cramond, near where I grew up. Drilling down using the location visualiser quickly brings us to:
"I shouldn't have thought there was much to explore at Cramond," said Mr. Lloyd, smiling at her with his golden forelock falling into his eye.
Searching the database brings up three pages of Cramond results to explore, including 17 Brodie snippets. Note that here you can filter by decade or source.
A search for Cammo, even closer to home, brought up a quote from Irvine Welsh's Skagboys, although the map shown was different depending on which tool I used:
Edinburgh is a city of trees and woods; from the magnificence of the natural woodlands at Corstorphine Hill or Cammo, to the huge variety of splendid specimens in our parks and streets, Alexander argued, a pleasing flourish to his rhetoric. — Trees and woodlands have an inherent biodiversity value, whilst providing opportunities for recreation and environmental education.
At the other end of the scale a search for 'Bobby' brings up 72 snippets from Eleanor Atkinson's book, that's a lot to handle…TBH I don't really want them, I want a nice map of locations mentioned in the book, or at least a list, to create my own Greyfriars Bobby trail. At the moment it's not possible to switch between the text and the map from the location visualiser, although you can do this snippet by snippet from the database search.
As things stand LitLong feels like an academic project rather than a user friendly tool – some use cases might be an idea.Hopefully the same approach will be applied to other cities in due course.
Just leaving this here…
- Ben Jonson's Walk (Twitter | Facebook | map): in 1618 Ben Jonson walked from London to Edinburgh on the Great North Road; an account by an anonymous companion (5ft 5!) offers a record of what happened which can be recreated today using digital resources with additional materials such as archives, biographical information and literary texts; unlike Boswell's account of his and Samuel Johnson's walk this account is made up of small data (lists of places, people, food, times, distances, speed etc) rather than the classical dimensions of a literary scholar, but is a 'quantifiable' text – for example it is possible to work out how fast Ben walked; a virtual recreation of the journey, with blog posts, geomapping and Ben tweeting in real time, ran from 8 July to 5 October 2013 (the performative aspect)


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A plan to upgrade 56th Avenue West and other streets in the Town Center District with wider sidewalks, underground utilities and new roadway surfaces hit another bump in the road last week, but Mountlake Terrace City Manager Arlene Fisher is still optimistic the project will get done.
The Main Street Revitalization project has been touted by city officials as a catalyst that would spur economic development along 56th Avenue West, 236th Street Southwest and a number of other downtown city blocks. Originally pegged at costing $10.5 million, latest estimates put the work at $12 million; the City of Mountlake Terrace has only secured about $8.7 million for the project.
The city was counting on federal funds to help with paying for the plan, but U.S. Representative Rick Larsen said last week that his effort to change a policy that makes in more difficult for cities the size of Mountlake Terrace to obtain federal transportation dollars has failed.
This blow to Mountlake Terrace City Hall follows a 2014 Washington State Legislative session that failed to produce state money that city officials had also been hoping would come.
"We're not going to give up," said Fisher when asked if the Main Street Revitalization plan was losing momentum. "We're still on track."
Back in Washington D.C., the House of Representatives passed the FY2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill by a vote of 229-192 last week. But Larsen voted no on the bill, due in part to his belief that the $100 million for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants was not enough. Also, the bill did not include a provision to specify 20 percent of the spending go to cities the size of Mountlake Terrace.
"The bill cuts opportunities for communities to fund new transportation projects through TIGER grants while ignoring the small and mid-sized cities my TIGER CUBS bill would support," Larsen said.
Mountlake Terrace officials were hoping to secure at least $1 million through a TIGER grant from the federal government for its Main Street Revitalization project.
During the state legislative session that ended on March 13, city officials were lobbying in Olympia for a portion of a proposed $8 billion supplemental transportation package to go towards the Main Street plan. The city had been hoping for as much as $3.3 million of that money, but the legislation never passed.
Fisher acknowledges that the lack of federal and state money this year has hurt, but funds from both sources may still happen.
Fisher was ready to welcome Larsen to city hall last Friday for a meeting to discuss federal funding for the Main Street Revitalization project, but the congressman's schedule got changed at the last minute. Fisher thinks that Larsen will be back in town soon though.
"They wanted to reaffirm what our needs were for the next appropriation session," Fisher said of the Friday meeting that was abruptly cancelled. "The discussion was going to center around that. I'm sure it will happen again, probably later this summer."
As for state money, Fisher recently talked with State Rep. Derek Stanford. "He knows that from the state side there is three million dollars that we need," she said.
"All of our needs are definitely out there – they're definitely aware of that," she continued. "It's just getting everyone in the legislature back into session and back at the table."
The $8 billion transportation package was to be paid for with a gas tax increase of up to 11.5 cents per gallon phased in over three years, something that may have scared off legislators during an election year, Fisher noted.
"The thing with the state is that any representative will tell you that the gas tax package, where a lot of this – not only our money but several cities fundings were tied up – we were right in the middle of filing for elections. There were so many folks that were up for re-election, and they really didn't want to step out there with their name going up on the ballot."
Fisher shared that one legislator told her more of her colleagues would have voted for the gas tax hike if they had known that they would have been running unopposed for re-election this fall.
"We're hopeful that the next legislative session that they're going to have enough momentum to get this going again," Fisher said. Unless Gov. Jay Inslee calls the Legislature back to Olympia for a special session – unlikely this election year – lawmakers won't be back to work until January, 2015.
Although the city hasn't secured all the money it needs for construction to start on the street revitalization, it does have enough to start some preliminary elements of the project. The city has hired KPG design firm of Seattle to submit initial designs, and a contractor has been hired to underground utilities for the Vineyard Park senior living project currently being constructed at 231st Street Southwest and 56th Avenue West.
Fisher points to the undergrounding of utilities being done at Vineyard Park as an important step in showing the public what the Town Center District of Mountlake Terrace will look like in the future. "I told Chad (Schulhauser, MLT Engineering Services Director), 'Let's start putting this stuff underground. Let's start building that vision so people can see when the wires are underground. Let's start it; get it going,' Fisher said. "Because we're going to have Vineyard (Park) fill up, just like Arbor Village did, and why not start that vision, why not start that undergrounding."
Fisher calls the work being done to put power, phone and cable wires underground at the Vineyard Park project a "phase in" of improvements to be completed in the Main Street Revitalization project. She also said it's an example of how the city can make Town Center District improvements utilizing existing funds collected.
Schulhauser told the City Council last week that major work on street and sidewalk amenities couldn't be started until early 2017, giving time for city officials to line up the remaining $3.3 million required for the project.
The Mountlake Terrace City Council is scheduled to receive an update on the Main Street Revitalization project at its July 3 work/study session.
Main Street Revitalization costs (April, 2014)
- Design and survey work $ 1.5 million
- Undergrounding utilities $ 1.9 million
- Energy district (tentative) $ 1.1 million
- Street and pedestrian lighting $ .5 million
- Water, stormwater and sewer improvements $ 1.0 million
- Trees and tree grates $ .3 million
- Construction and inspection $ 5.7 million
TOTAL $12.0 million
Main Street Revitalization funding secured
- Transportation Benefit District $20 license tab fee collections $ 5.7 million
- Washington State Capital Budget appropriation $ 2.0 million
- Washington State grant $ .65 million
- City of Mountlake Terrace funds $ .35 million
TOTAL: $ 8.7 million
— By Doug Petrowski


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Full Gigantour 2013 Lineup And Schedule Announced
Fans of Megadeth can look forward to seeing the band this summer on this year's Gigantour. Support for the thrash metal legends will come from Black Label Society. Also on the tour will be Device, which features Disturbed singer David Draiman, Hellyeah, Newsted, and Death Division. All bands were personally picked by Megadeth's Dave Mustaine.
"This year's power-packed lineup is probably the best Gigantour yet, and we've had some pretty massive Gigantours over the years. Gigantour 2013 brings four of my favorite bands, each centered around a superstar. With Zakk, David, Vinnie, and Jason there are going to be fans from Ozzy to Disturbed to Pantera to Metallica and everything that's metal in-between! Don't miss the metal festival of the summer!"
Head on below for the full touring schedule.
07/03 Gilford, NH – Meadowbrook
07/05 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
07/06 Canandaigua, NY – Marvin Sands PAC
07/08 Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
07/09 Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena
07/10 Youngstown, OH – Covelli Center
07/12 Dallas, TX – TBA
07/13 Lubbock, TX – Lonestar Amphitheatre
07/14 Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete Street Amphitheatre
07/16 Oklahoma City, OK – Zoo Amphitheatre
07/18 Bloomington, IL – US Cellular Coliseum
07/19 Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom
07/20 Cadott, WI – Chippewa Valley Music Festival
07/22 Winnipeg, MB – MTS Center
07/23 Calgary, AB – Stampede Corral
07/26 Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place
07/27 Dawson Creek, BC – EnCana Events Centre
07/29 Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Entertainment Center
07/30 Everett, WA – Comcast Arena
08/01 West Valley City, UT – Maverik Center
08/02 Denver, CO – 1st Bank Center
08/04 Fargo, ND – Scheels Arena
08/07 New York, NY – TBA
08/09 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
08/10 Montreal, QC – Heavy MTL
08/11 Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Got any thoughts/questions/concerns for Jonathan Barkan? Shoot him a message on Twitter or on Bloody-Disgusting!


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A small space should be designed with the elegance of a Swiss Army knife.
How so? It should be convenient and pleasant to use. It should anticipate every daily task you do, providing all manner of wonderful accoutrements that open, neatly serve one purpose, then fold, swivel, and pop into another configuration, allowing you to do something altogether different. What's more, the room and its furnishings should do all this while looking as sleek and beautiful as – well, a Swiss Army knife!
Although I own three of those canny little knives, it wasn't until I began researching this blog that I learned that the Swiss Army knife's design has been included in the New York Museum of Modern Art and Munich's State Museum of Applied Art. So I'm not alone in finding design inspiration in this humble implement.
This post will be devoted to handsome and fiendishly functional pieces of furniture that, like Swiss Army knives, sleekly serve multiple purposes. Here's what I have found:
- the Bada multi-tasking table that turns into a love seat,
- Murphy beds that disappear behind bookshelves,
- a Study Bed that transforms into a desk,
- an XPand table that stretches to welcome company without adding leaves,
- Silla Garda chairs that divide and multiply,
- children's furniture that grows, flexes, and offers fun places to play,
- a couch that turns into a bunk bed, and
- storage that banishes clutter.
Furniture like this is what you need to live large in a small space!
Small is Beautiful
Small dwellings offer environmental advantages. A small house costs less to heat and cool. It requires fewer resources to build, and at the end of its usefulness, there's less to bury in a landfill. A gentleman in Texas by the name of Brad Kittel builds charming, milk-truck-sized houses from 99% salvaged materials to make that very point. Jay Shaffer has put together his Tumbleweed Tiny Houses for similar reasons. While their houses are bit too small for my taste, I do subscribe to Susan Susanka's "Not So Big" house philosophy. Susanka encourages her readers to invest in good design and detailing, making a smaller house truly livable. (She's not an advocate of economy or frugality, but favors quality over quantity.)
In this age of super-sizing, my love of small spaces may sound contrarian. But among all the interior design tasks I perform, I get the most joy from solving the three-dimensional puzzle of the perfectly planned small house. I get a thrill when a piece of furniture that I have measured and chosen drops perfectly into its allotted spot, wasting no space and looking as though it was created to be there. I enjoy designing original cabinets and window seats that add balance, convenience, and function to an odd dogleg in a floor plan. I get a charge out of finding a bit of wasted or forgotten interior real estate and recovering it in the form of a closet or a china hutch.
It's even better when I can work this magic using things that are already at hand, local, or re-purposed to some clever end. In my fantasies, I'm the McGyver of interior design, whipping out my Swiss Army Knife and transforming a dozen left-over thread spools, an abandoned automobile hood, and a broken dresser drawer into an incredibly cool coffee table.
In reality, I'm not that inventive, but Ecosystems Bada table, shown above, is! It's made from reclaimed walnut, and with a flick of the wrist, it changes into love seat.
The Guarda Silla chairs shown at right are equally clever. Designed by Alberto Villareal, they are like Russian nesting dolls. The chair's outer shell is made from smooth white Corian. That shell, seen empty on the far left, slips over the redwood core at the center of the photo. Together, the shell and core make up the two-tone chair shown on the right side of the photo. When you need more seating, you can pull the wooden chair out of the Corian shell to form two chairs, both equally functional.
Strive for Simplicity
In a small room, you should strive for a visual harmony. Monochromatic color schemes and neutrals tend to make rooms seem larger, and coordinated furniture and wall colors will also make the space seem roomier. Another good trick is to use see-through surfaces, such as Lucite and glass. Reflective metal surfaces and large mirrors will reflect light and visually open the space as well.
A kaleidoscope of colors, dizzying detail, or a backwash of books, papers, remote controls, wires, or tools is to be avoided. Visual complication will make a small room feel cramped. That's why it's important to be able tuck things away or close a closet door on clutter.
In a small living room, a coffee table like the BoConcept "Functional Table" shown here will give you a convenient spot to store small objects such as books or remote controls. Its separate table tops will provide flat, raised and stable surfaces for dining or working, so it accommodates two of the most common activities that take place in living rooms and dens.
Planning is Crucial
Frankly, I think that designing for a small space is far more challenging than designing for a large one. It requires far more planning because you need to effectively use every bit of the floorplan while being sure to leave enough room to circulate around the furniture. It requires more shopping because the difference between a 62 inch long love seat and a 65 inch love seat may mean the difference between being able to open the door and having it wedged shut! Small spaces also call for a lot of attention to storage, and that, in turn, often means designing and installing built-in shelving and closet hardware.
What's more, in a small dwelling, you don't have the option of devoting one room to single purpose. Today's McMansions can come with multiple bedrooms, an office, a dining room, a family room, a kitchen, a mud room, a guest room, a library, an exercise room, a laundry room – and one heck of a big heating bill. In a small space, however, you're far more likely to wind up with multipurpose spaces. Here are some common ones:
- a kitchen/laundry room,
- a bedroom/study,
- a library/guest room, and
- a dining room/office.
The Doc sofa shown at right would be a good choice for an older couple whose library needed to also be able to serve as a guest room for grandchildren who visited every now and again.
Another fascinatingly flexible bed – one that a teenager would love – is the Study Bed. It's hard to find the words to describe how the Study Bed folds and rotates a double-sized bed into the wall to reveal a good-sized desk. It's even hard to show in a series of photos, so if you're curious about, I encourage you to head on over to YouTube to watch the video of the Study Bed in motion.
Grouping Functions
The trade-offs of using spaces for multiple functions complicate both furnishing and storage, and the answers about which functions to group together aren't always obvious. For example, what if there's just one unallocated room, and you need a yoga retreat, a mud room and a children's play area? How are you going to make sure your downward facing doggie pose doesn't wind up with its nose in mud left over from the kids' galoshes? Will you need to rout the Space Invaders before you can achieve yogic repose?
Combining these functions would require superb storage and a lot of attention to flooring. If you had a comfortable rug that could be rolled out just for yoga, and then easily stored out of sight, this combination might work.
However, it's better to group noisy activities in one area of the house and quiet functions in another. Doing that also involves thinking about the chronology of the family's day. If the kids are going to home playing at the same time you want to do yoga, perhaps your yoga retreat should be designed into the bedroom, the living room, or the kitchen?
The redesign of one room in a small dwelling frequently causes a domino effect. I find that accommodating a change in one room often requires moving functions or furnishing in another room as well. In the case of the yoga retreat, while there may not be enough floor space for a self-respecting cobra to stretch out in the living room right now, there could be.
The answer might be to use the spare room for a play and mud room only. You could practice yoga in the living room if you replaced your bulky coffee table and that seldom-used armchair with something like the Tagei table at left. (Tagei means versatility in Japanese.) This table/bench combo would free up the floor space you need for daily exercise, and it will easily open into seating for the occasional buffet or cocktail party.
Provide Lots of Storage
My final tip on furnishing small spaces is to provide plenty of storage, particularly units that do not protrude into the room. Your storage might be built in – like the closet I discussed in last week's blog – or it might be a wall system. (If you like Asian-inspired design, there's a firm called Green Tea Design that creates some very handsome wardrobes and wall systems using wood recycled from old Korean barns.) It's often effective (if counter-intuitive) to shrink the room's footprint slightly by creating a full-width wall for a closet or wall system. When the view is uninterrupted by edges, it appears less busy. Visually, a whole-wall system intrudes into the room less than a dresser or breakfront would.
Modern Murphy beds take the same approach, and they often include options for shelving and closets. Some include desks and drop-down tables that really make them more like wall systems than beds. Hardwood Artisans has a nice selection of Library Wall beds. The Wallbed Factory, which has an active green initiative, offers library and wallbeds with plenty of storage features, and prices ranging from $2,100 to around $5,000. Flying Beds offers a Murphy bunk bed, a library bed and also a computer bed.
Who You Gonna Call?
So there you have it, a whole passel of solutions for shaping up your small spaces. The links below will help you explore all of your options save one.
If it turns out you don't care for measuring, drawing floor plans on quadrille paper and cutting out little chunks of paper to represent your furniture, you can call for help. There are odd souls around who actually enjoy wrestling with the three-dimensional puzzles of space planning. I'm one of them. Like my fellow interior designers, I'd be happy to help!
- Bada table on Inhabitat
- BoConcept Functional Coffee Table
- BoConcept Sofa Bed
- Cayman leather sofa/table/bed/chair
- Comfort and Joy Interior Design (Nicolette's firm)
- Crib/Bed by Oeuf on Inhabitat
- Doc Sofa/Bunk Beds from Bon Bon Trading
- Green Tea furniture's website
- Flying Beds
- Futaba folding couch on Inhabitat website
- Hardwood Artisans Library Wall Bed
- More transformable furniture from Urbanist blog
- Pikolino Child's Chair-Bed Combo
- Pikolino Play Ottoman and Storage
- Pikolino Wave Seating for children
- Reversica TV and bookshelves
- Silla Guarda chairs
- Storage benches online
- Tiny House blog on Murphy beds
- Tiny Texas houses
- Tagei Bench/Table: Inhabitat website
- The Study Bed
- Trix Armchair or Lounge Chair
- Xpand bamboo lattice table: Inhabitat website


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O'Neill impressed with Ireland attitude in Poland
Martin O'Neill was impressed with the attitude of his Republic of Ireland side during their 0-0 draw against Poland in Poznan.
A resilient defensive performance frustrated the hosts and earned a second clean sheet in as many games for O'Neill's men since he took charge earlier this month.
Ireland beat Latvia 3-0 on Friday night in O'Neill's first game at the helm, but he knew this would be a much sterner test.
And the former Sunderland boss was encouraged by the way his players stood up to the challenge.
O'Neill said: "It was not the best game for the fans to watch, but overall I'm satisfied. First of all, because in the second meeting, we kept a clean sheet.
"The pitch was not the best today, but there is nothing to explain. The pitch was the same for both teams.
"To draw away with such a demanding team as Poland is a really good result that will help us build some confidence."
O'Neill and his assistant Roy Keane have plenty of time to plan for their next game against Serbia on March 5.


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Don't get me wrong. I love this subject matter. The lawyer's "absent" has been driving me crazy for years, and I love almost any sort of discussion of the OED. My iPod Shuffle contains Simon Winchester's unabridged reading of "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary." So I'm completely on board with the nerdiness Sasha brings to his reemergence as a VConspirator.
Anyway, Sasha came up with some info on the prepositional use of "absent," which he puts in OED style:
1888 South Western Reporter VIII. 898 If the deed had been made by a stranger to the wife, then a separate estate in her would not have been created, absent the necessary words; but, being made to the wife by the husband, a separate estate, as against him, was the result. 1893 South Western Reporter XII. 629 Absent any evidence to the contrary, a proper and legitimate purpose will be presumed. 1898 South Western Reporter XLV. 303 Absent any one of these ingredients, there is no contract. 1906 South Western Reporter XCIV. 591 Absent one of these ingredients, there is no contract. 1914 South Western Reporter CLXXII. 17 A mere barren and abandoned conspiracy sounding in words, but jejune of acts or results, is not actionable, absent a statute so declaring. 1929 South Western Reporter (2d series) XVIII. 490 Absent a tender of an instruction properly defining said words, it was not error for the court to fail to do so. 1938 Federal Suppl. XXV. 861-62 The design, absent the color and display thereby created, is not more ornamental than many types of similar shoes.This doesn't refute the blog commenter, of course. It demonstrates the ugly lawyer's use of the word. Is it limited to lawyers? It's so often used by lawyers that it's hard to believe it hasn't infected nonlegal writing, but it's still ugly and feels abnormal. I'd recommend avoiding it even in legal writing, precisely because it sounds like legalese.


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The Scottsboro Boys
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb spent 40 years redefining our understanding of what a musical could be. Decadence and national socialism in 'Cabaret'; grisly real-life murders in 'Chicago': almost every one of their shows has combined hard-hitting subject matter with a search for new musical and theatrical forms.
Their final musical, 'The Scottsboro Boys', is no exception. This production – the first in the UK, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman – packed out the Young Vic last year, and has now transferred to the West End.
It tells the true story of the nine young African-American men (one aged just 12) who were wrongfully accused, in 1931, of raping two white women on an Alabama freight train. This would be fascinating enough in a conventional musical, but Kander and Ebb's masterstroke is to set the production as a minstrel show: a form of light entertainment popularised in the nineteenth century in which both white and black performers in blackface used comedy, slapstick and dance to peddle stereotypes about African-American culture.
To those unfamiliar with minstrelsy, its lexicon is tricky to comprehend: every gesture is exaggerated, every action commanded by a white Interlocutor (Julian Glover). 'The Scottsboro Boys' is not an easy watch, but then neither should it be – and a number of quieter, more emotive musical numbers work to leaven the tone.
Arguably we should learn more about the men's individual stories: only a couple of them, including the dignified, John Proctor-like Haywood Patterson (the astonishingly good Brandon Victor Dixon), really assume three dimensions. But this beautifully-performed, thoughtfully-staged show remains a triumph – not only in keeping alive the memory of a terrible miscarriage of justice, but in taking minstrelsy as a cultural form, and turning it definitively on its head.
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A truly subversive musical. The anticipation of the usual musical theatre goers before the curtain rose was in a stark contrast to the almost "springtime for Hitler" type response to the opening number; jaws could be heard clanking to the floor. This really is what theatre should be about. With a brilliant cast the show is thought-provoking, thrilling, entertaining - Brecht would be proud
Went to this show knowing nothing of the story at the Garrick Theatre. Just to fill a night on a London visit, brilliant joy and pain at the same time. I found myself enjoying the show whils't feeling pain and anger. This shows the power of the theatre and the importance of telling stories that everone should know.
Excellent production of Scottsboro Boys. Very sad but also very funny. Fantastic performances of great songs and brilliant dance routines with a truly shocking real life story of prejudice and injustice.
Wow, what an amazing show. Kander and Ebb have succeeded in making the audience feel both uplifted and extremely uncomfortable. The songs are excellent, catchy performed with amazing energy and excellent choreography, but at the end of each number you feel awkward applauding. The story is sad and shocking, the songs, dance routines and performances are outstanding. Highly recommended and hopefully this new production will see it get the recognition it deserves (having lost out on the Tony awards to Mormon).
Wow! What an AMAZING show and story!!
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A considered and compelling review. Has tempted my husband & I to come down from Scotland to share the experience. Perviz


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53, fiftythree.com
comfortable and easy to use
function limited to Paper app
When the iPad was first released, one of the criticisms levelled by some experts was that the lack of a dedicated stylus made input difficult and would limit the device's appeal. Well, millions of units later, after defining a completely new product category, Apple proved those experts wrong – kind of. In response to those criticisms, the developer and accessory ecosystem that developed around the iPad created styli that could be used with the iPad.
The trouble is, they were little more than dumb sticks with a piece of rubber on the end.
The app development gurus at 53 created Paper. This app was recognised by Apple as the iPad App of the Year. Paper makes it easy to capture ideas, text, diagrams and all sorts of titbits of information – the sort of thing you'd use a paper and pencil to capture. Or perhaps to doodle with while you're bored in a meeting.
53 has developed its own stylus to complement paper. Dubbed 'Pencil', this stylus looks and feels like a carpenter's pencil in the hand. Rather than being a long cylinder like the 2B you always forget to take to art class, it's a long rectangular prism that fits comfortably in your hand.
The Pencil is linked to your iPad via Bluetooth. Once Bluetooth is enabled on your iPad – we tested the pencil on an iPad Air 2 running beta 5 of iOS 9 – you simply hold the tip of the Pencil on an icon on the pen and colour palette in Paper. The process took just a few seconds.
The tip of the Pencil can be pulled out. This is how the device is charged. The end of the tip, which is usually hidden inside the Pencil's housing, has a USB connector that you simply connect to a USB port. A full charge takes about 90 minutes and will keep the Pencil running for about a month according to 53. There's no battery indicator, so we'd suggest making a habit of charging it every couple of weeks unless you fancy a game of battery Russian roulette.
Unlike the carpenter's tool, the Pencil's top end is an eraser. So, while we were drawing and scribbling in Paper, we could easily clean up our somewhat dodgy drawing. There's a spare drawing and erasing tip in the package in case you wear one out.
For artists, the Pencil can be a great tool. When drawing in Paper – many of the Pencil's functions are limited to Paper – you can use the pencil to draw in different colours. The software is smart enough to know when you're using your finger as well. So, you can draw lines in different colours using the Pencil and then smear them into each other with your finger to create some great effects.
We liked using the fountain pen tool with the Pencil. As we used different edges of the pencil we were able to change the thickness of the line as we wrote like a calligrapher's pen – nifty!
One of our concerns was losing the Pencil. Given our track record for leaving pens lying around the office or at home, we were impressed at the seemingly minor, but useful, fact that the casing on our Pencil was magnetic. So we were able to stick it to the edge of our iPad's Smart Cover so the two devices stayed together.
The Pencil's drawing and erasing functions are closely paired to the Paper app. So although you can use the Pencil to tap on icons, most of the drawing and erasing functions won't work outside Paper.


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Watch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Remove the stems from 24 large cremini mushrooms.
Wipe the caps clean with a damp paper towel, then toss with 2 tablespoons olive oil and season with salt. Arrange on a baking sheet.
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add 2 thinly sliced onions and 2 teaspoons chopped thyme; season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring, until the onions are caramelized, about 20 minutes. Add 1/4 cup red wine; cook until evaporated, 1 minute. Add 1/2 cup beef broth; simmer until the onions are glazed, 3 minutes. Sprinkle breadcrumbs inside the mushroom caps; fill with the onion mixture, then sprinkle with 1 cup shredded gruyere and 2 tablespoons grated parmesan.
Bake until the mushrooms are tender and the filling is golden, 15 to 17 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes, then remove from the baking sheet. Top with parsley.
Photograph by Ryan Dausch
Recipe courtesy of Food Network Magazine
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