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I cannot believe that This Old House is not on DVD, in season sets. They would certainly sell well amongst us fans!
I would love to see the UNCUT episodes, from the very first season up until the newest.
Who's with me????
I cannot believe that This Old House is not on DVD, in season sets. They would certainly sell well amongst us fans!
I would love to see the UNCUT episodes, from the very first season up until the newest.
Who's with me????
I'm with you! I would love to have full seasons to go back to and enjoy.
I would love to have all of the seasons on DVD. I would purchase them all in a second. Please release them or if they are already out, let me know where I can buy them.
Count me in on that. I would buy or request as birthday/christmas present every season.
I came to the site to see how much it would be for the season with the Carlysle House and it's nowhere to be found.
This, to me, is a no brainer, and TOH could easily find 10 distributors to make this happen. DIY shows would be a suitable substitute, but they keep showing the same two shows over and over. What a waste! If TOH is insecure about making extra profit, then give it to PBS, they are always pimping for money. We may have to wait until the Old Guard steps down before the Next Generation comes along and saves us from syndication hell.
I agree, they should make the sets available again. PBS used to have them available on vhs up until around 2000 or was it 2001), but they were regular vhs (not even svhs) and a dvd these days would make more sense. Also because the local pbs channels (at least where I'm at) seem to go into fundraising overdrive more often than they show the episodes, sometimes for a month at a time, causing gaps in the shows. I guess you could argue you can watch anything missed on a re-run, but for the past few years now, pbs only reruns the same year once or twice whereas before one used to be able to see complete seasons from 2 or 3 years back. So with increased advertising/fund raising it just makes sense to have them available on dvd's (same with new yankee workshop too). It's just more convenient and it's easier to pause or freeze frame and re-play certain segments over again if the need to review something or techniques, etc. Also diy just shows the classic ones I believe, and a seasons is now considered a "classic" even if it's only a year old--making it harder to watch something from the 80's or 90's. So dvd's would be a great idea.
I registered so I could add some fuel to this fire. I would love to have both This Old House and Ask This Old House available on DVD!
However, they should also be reasonably priced. I just ordered Season 1 of Ask This Old House from a private party on Amazon for $13 shipped. I then discovered that it was available from the PBS store, but it was $50. I would imagine slow sales at a high price point resulted in them choosing to not continue releasing more content.
Either way, I'd love to have access to TOH content. My wife and I are in the process of buying our first home, a 2 story 1931 house in MN, and we plan to do a lot of work restoring it. The more info we can get the better job we can do. Get to it PBS! Oh, and start shooting the show in HD already!
Oh this is a fabulous idea. I missed a lot of last year and the last project. I only happened to be lucky to see the tribute to Joe Ferrante last week. I guess we're supposed to TiVo instead?
I really hope that "the powers that be" will read this thread of comments and issue an historical set of DVDs. We have been looking for something like this for a long time.
We would especially like to see the old original episodes when people did the work themselves.
Glad to see we are not the only ones looking for TOH DVD sets!
I too am eagerly waiting for the day when I can get these shows on DVD so I can watch them when ever I want. I already got myself season one of Ask This Old House and I love it. It's a great idea :cool:


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Members minibus seats must be booked from Lockerbie station. Contact Winifred.
12.45ish Meet up at Mill on the Fleet Café, 65 High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 2HS. We will have lunch here. (There is also a picnic area if you wish to bring sandwiches)
14.00 hours. Gather at Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve Car Park
Dromore Farm Visitor Centre, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2BP
To prepare to 'make a desperate dash to the summit' (Titty – SD)
Actually more of a gentle ascent, taking the path – whatever Nancy would say!If you wish to remain below and wave to intrepid explorers, that's good.
There is a very interesting Visitor Centre too and toilets. Follow the tracks of Five Red Herrings and the 1935 Hitchcock 39 Steps film.
From Creetown take the B796 for 7 miles turning left onto the minor road after Gatehouse Station to Visitor Centre. From Gatehouse of Fleet take the B796 after 6 miles turn right onto minor road to Visitor Centre and car park.
Friends and relatives welcome.
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The Literary Day is on 29th September in Perth at the AK Bell Library, 2 – 8 York Place PH2 8EP in the Sandiman Room. 10 am Tea & Coffe. 10:30 Welcome & Introduction. 10.45 – 11. 45 First Speaker.
12.00 Lunch will be on sale in the venue or bring a packed lunch.
1.15 – 2.15 Oliver Eade. 2.30 – 3.30 Third Speaker. Conclusion Vacate Room 4pm.
The cost will be around £20 including teas and coffees but not lunch. Booking is essential. The library is near the train and bus stations.

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I am a sucker for quick yet nutritious recipes that need just a handful of ingredients and minimum prep. My Tomato Dal is a great example of the kinds of foods I tend to cook pretty often in my hurried kitchen.
Tomato Dal is one of those ubiquitous Indian dishes and there are, perhaps, as many recipes for it out there as there are cooks. My own version is something that's evolved over years of modifying the basic recipe to suit the tastes of my family.
I used tuvar dal in my recipe, although masoor or moong would substitute quite well, I think, in a pinch. I also add sambar powder to the dal for a bit of a kick.
I like using fresh tomatoes here, although you could substitute with canned. Keep in mind that canned tomatoes would contribute a higher degree of acidity to the dal.
Served with brown or plain rice, and a subzi, this dal is a total winner for any weekday evening.
Looking for more vegan dal recipes?
Spicy Urad Dal (Black Lentil Dal)
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Tomato Dal Recipe
Tomato Dal
- 1 cup toor dal (also called tuvar dal, cooked until tender with a pinch of turmeric and some salt)
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- A pinch asafetida (hing)
- 1 medium onion (diced)
- 1 spring curry leaves
- 1 tbsp ginger (grated)
- 2-3 serrano peppers (or jalapeno peppers, deseeded and chopped. Use more or fewer depending on your preference)
- 2 large tomatoes (diced)
- 1 tbsp sambar powder
- Heat the oil in a saucepan.
- Add the asafetida and cumin seeds. When the cumin sputters, add the curry leaves and onion and saute on a medium flame until the onions turn translucent.
- Add the green chilies and ginger and stir for a minute.
- Add the tomatoes and the sambar powder and cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes turn mushy and start breaking down.
- Now add the tuvar dal and salt to taste. Bring to a boil and then let it simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes until the flavors have merged. Add water if the dal gets too thick.
- Garnish with cilantro, if desired, and serve piping hot!
This Tomato Dal is super healthy, but if you want to make it even healthier, try this fat-free version.
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OROVILLE — A Butte Creek Canyon man charged with allegedly killing three people and then burning their bodies will not face the death penalty.
Supervising deputy district attorney Michael Sanderson told Butte County Superior Court Judge Tamara Mosbarger on Wednesday that the District Attorney's Office will not pursue the death penalty against defendant Donald George Clark, 73.
After setting a Feb. 24 trial date last week, Mosbarger set Wednesday's hearing to hear from the District Attorney's Office about a determination on the death penalty.
Clark is charged with felony arson and three counts of murder for the June 12 deaths of Sacramento residents Roland Lowe, 15, his mother Colleen Lowe, 46, and Richard Jones Jr., 17.
Clark allegedly fired on the group with a 12-gauge pump shotgun during an argument outside his residence on the 14000 block of Centerville Road. He then allegedly placed their bodies in the group's reportedly stolen 2000 Acura TL and set it ablaze on the Skyway near Powellton Road between DeSabla and Stirling City. Firefighters responded to the fire after 12:15 a.m. June 13.
The defendant also faces the special circumstance of multiple murder. Until the prosecution's announcement, Clark had faced the possibility of death or life in prison without the possibility of parole, if convicted as charged.
The defendant still faces life without parole.
After the hearing, Sanderson said Clark's age made it kind of futile for the prosecution to seek death. The defendant would likely perish before appeals would be completed.
The prosecutor also noted the decision would preserve county government resources. Had the prosecution continued seeking the death penalty, Clark would be allowed a second, court-appointed attorney and an investigator to join defense attorney Leo Battle.
The decision also makes it more likely the trial will proceed as scheduled. Any new attorney would have likely required additional time to prepare.
The defendant remains in custody without bail.
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ALTOONA, Iowa — And so it begins again.
Thirty-eight months before the next presidential vote is cast, Marco Rubio on Saturday night became the first of the potential 2016 contestants to swoop in to this first caucus state and test the GOP's new rallying cry to broaden its appeal.
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Seven hundred people turned out to see the Florida senator at the annual birthday fundraiser bash for GOP Gov. Terry Branstad. Rubio had the spotlight all to himself — he said he was merely here to help the governor mark his 66th birthday, but no one believed it for a minute.
The appearance of the Republican Party's most prominent Latino face in Iowa — a state President Barack Obama won by six points on Election Day — was no casual drop-by after the drubbing Mitt Romney took among Hispanics nationally.
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Republicans are looking to Rubio to help guide the party out of the past in which its base is aging, white men and into the future when it can appeal to young, female and more diverse voters, most crucially Latinos. And the first-term Florida senator is happy to help light the way.
Taking a page out of the Democrats' playbook on Saturday, the Florida senator wove his personal story into direct appeal to the middle class. "Our workers are not making as much as they made in the same jobs 25 years ago," he said. "My father was a bartender. My mother was a maid at hotel. They were able to provide for us a standard of living. …"
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To jump-start the country, he spoke of lower taxes, fewer government regulations on businesses, job training and a stronger nuclear family.
Without acknowledging Rubio is laying the groundwork for a 2016 run, his advisers say the charismatic senator wants to craft a message to Latinos and the middle-class demonstrating that the Republican Party represents their conservative values of family, faith and the American dream.
Before he spoke, Rubio told reporters that he has been circulating drafts of his own immigration reform bill to his congressional colleagues, and has been getting good feedback. "People understand that we need to do something to address these issues, and we need to do it in a reasonable and responsible way," Rubio said.
In his speech at Branstad's party, Rubio said he understood Republicans' frustrations over their electoral loss, but insisted that the country needed to return to its traditional principles to remain a power and global role model.
"If America declines, there is nothing to take our place," he said. "What country is going to serve as an inspiration?"
And in a clear swipe at President Barack Obama's commitment to raise taxes on the nation's wealthiest, he said: "The way[s] to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, but make poor people richer."
Iowa Republican strategist Ed Failor said Rubio's message indicated that "[the GOP is] still salable. That's what we believe can appeal to the middle class."
Since Romney's defeat, Republicans have been sounding a clarion call to reach beyond rich, white America. The party establishment has high hopes that Rubio, a Cuban American, can help lift them out of the hole the party has dug with Hispanic voters, and play a leading role on immigration reform in Congress.


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Hey all! The moving truck is headed our way first thing in the morning. They will pack us up tomorrow and then load us up on Sunday. I'm pooped already and it really hasn't even started. We've been running since early this morning getting all the last minute stuff done. It's been crazy. I've only got a million more things I need to do. But I figured if I didn't do this now, I would probably not have another chance. I hope you all have a great week and I'll be in touch ASAP.....
Friday, July 27, 2007
We're Outta Here.....
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Can you believe it???
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Moving Sale Done!!!
We had a Moving Sale over the weekend and Thank goodness it's done. We did well though. We sold most everything we wanted to. Just had some piddle stuff left over. Hailey set up a Lemonade stand. I think she sold a few dollars worth. She really enjoyed doing it though. It was so stinking hot, and so everyone ejoyed that too. I'm just glad it's over. Now, I don't have quite as much junk to take with me. ha ha ha.....
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
My little helper...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Look who's sitting up.....
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Bryan's 6th Birthday
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Monday, July 16, 2007
Allen Update....
Hey All! Wanted to let you know that we saw the ENT Surgeon today and she said his nose is NOT broken. However, it is fractured and he broke the very tip off of the bone in his nose. The radiology report read, "possible non-displacement fracture." Which she said meant that he has a slight fracture but nothing is out of place. She looked and said there were no blockages and she moved it all around and pushed on it and he never even batted an eye. She said that if it had been broken he would have come unglued when touched and he would have been in bad pain. She said probably what happened was number one they should have done a cat scan rather than X-ray because they are just much easier to read and number two children's are very hard to read because their bones are just not developed yet. So she said the ER doctor just read it and didn't know what he was looking at. So we've worried all we for nothing but that's okay, I'm just so glad we didn't have to do any kind of surgery. I'm sure this won't be our last scare with him. He's always into something. he's just a rough and tough little boy. Thanks for all your concerns and prayers though, we appreciated them all. Best run have a ton to do.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Water Park....
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
We're back....
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
July 4th... Fireworks
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
We have a contract....
YEAH!!!! :) We have a contract as of last night. Of course, nothing is set in stone until we get signatures and their money. But we are excited anyways. It should work out just fine. We also still have another couple interested so they might give one today as well. So we'll see. But at least we have this one. Thanks for all your prayers and all for us. We really appreciate it. The kids and I are going back with William on Thursday, we'll be back the following week. I'll try to get over to our new home and get some pictures of it for you all. We close on it July 30th. So it's all working out perfectly, as we knew it would. It was so hard to be patient, though. Thanks again! Hope you all have a great day!
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Monday, July 02, 2007
Quick update....
Well, no official bid yet. They are supposedly coming today and tomorrow for second looks. We also had another interest over the weekend. So we now have three interested and supposedly going to an offer. So please, say an extra prayer for us. We really appreciate it. I'll let you know. Love you all!!!!
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|Blast on mule track kills three in Bara
|[Dawn] Three persons were killed when a bomb went
kaboom!on a mule track in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Sunday, sources said.
They said that the incident occurred in Sheen Qamar area of Zakhakhel. They said that Janzeb, Sheenai and Saifur Rehman were killed in the blast.
The dear departed were bringing food supplies on mules from Baz Garha Kamarkhel to Sheen Qamar when one of the mules stepped on the bomb, planted along the track. All the three persons and mules, loaded with edibles, were killed on the spot. Nobody
grabbed credit for the blast.
In Sipah area of Bara, three children were maimed critically when a mortar shell fired from an unknown direction hit the house of Said Wali.
The injured children, who were playing at the courtyard of their house at the time of incident, included two sons and a daughter of Said Wali.
In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, a watchman was injured when unidentified persons fired two rockets at the provincial metropolis on Sunday evening.
One of the rockets hit the office of International Medical Corps, an NGO, in University Town, injuring a watchman identified as Naik Mohammad.
The other rocket landed in the fields of Pawaki village near University Town in the limits of Town cop shoppe. However,
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it didn't cause any casualty.
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
four coppers sustained injuries when unidentified armed persons attacked them near Kagawala Bus Stop on Kohat Road in the limits of Badhber cop shoppe on Sunday morning.
The law enforcers were patrolling the area in a police van when armed persons attacked them. According to an official, the
attackers opened indiscriminate firing when they saw the coppers.
Sub-inspector Shujat Ali Khan, constables Iqbal and Asif and driver Hukam Khan sustained injured in the attack. The attackers managed to escape.
Badhber police registered FIR against unidentified persons and started investigations.
Also, cut-throats attacked Riaz Shaheed Checkpost on Sunday evening but coppers, manning the post, repulsed the attack. No casualty was reported.
The attackers fled to Khyber Agency as the checkpost is located near the border between Peshawar district and the tribal region.
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There were some rumours about a new solo album by Marie Fredriksson and on this interview she confirmed that there is indeed something going on.
You can read my interview on my other website RoxetteBlog.
There were some rumours about a new solo album by Marie Fredriksson and on this interview she confirmed that there is indeed something going on.
You can read my interview on my other website RoxetteBlog.
Marie Fredriksson and her husband Mikael Bolyos performed "Ännu doftar kärlek" at the wedding of Princess Madeleine and Chris O'Neill last June 8th in Stockholm
The whole performance was very beautiful and touching. See by yourself!
You can see the performance on SVT Play as well.
There is also short interview with Marie on SVT about her performing "Ännu doftar kärlek" at the wedding.
Our sweet Marie turns 55 this year.
Happy birthday!
And to celebrate, RoxetteBlog has put together some backstage videos from the Roxette tour featuring Marie.
Roxette is currently on a world tour which will take Per and Marie and the band to (as per today) 28 countries.
They are currently playing in Baltic countries. You can see the full plan and can stay up-to-date regarding additional dates on Roxetteblog.com
Roxette, formed by Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson, will release a new album, "Charm School", on February 11, 2011. The first single out of this album will be "She's got nothing on (but the radio)", which will be released on January 10th.
After the Night of the Proms tour in 2009, Roxette went back to the studio to work on a new album. After a short tour with Roxette this past Summer, which took the band to play live in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Russia, the band went back to the studio to finalize the album. A world tour was also announced in November.
If you want to keep yourself up to date with everything what has to do with Roxette, please visit our sister website Roxetteblog.com.
Marie Fredriksson performed yesterday together with her husband Mikael Bolyos at the inauguration ceremony of Citytunneln, a 17-kilometer rail link between Malmö Central Station and the Öresund Bridge. As the grand finale, HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden officially opened the tunnel for traffic.
The ceremony was held next to the Malmö Central Station free to the public. Other artists who performed at the ceremony included Wilmer-X, Timbuktu, and Ola Salo.
You can find pictures of the event on Expressen and Sydsvenskan.
Stina from Denmark also recorded the performance and uploaded it to YouTube.
Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, or what's the same, Roxette, are touring with Night of the Proms in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. The tour started in Antwerp on October 23 and will go on until December 2oth in Dortmund.
You can follow all about Night of the Proms and what's happening around Roxette on our sister websites Roxetteblog and The Daily Roxette.
Marie Fredriksson turns 51 today. We wish her a fantastic birthday with her family and friends.
SwedishRradio P4 broadcasts a special on Marie Fredriksson. The special will be split in two dates:
You will find more details about it on Roxetteblog.com
Update May 30th: on Roxetteblog you will find links to listen to the radio special if you missed it on the 24th. Don't forget to listen to the 2nd part tomorrow!
You will find everything related to Marie with Roxette on the new Roxette site www.roxetteblog.com. This blog is a sister website to Marie Fredriksson Online, so please check it out if you are interested in news about Roxette (of course, incl. Marie).
So the rumours about Night of the Proms and Marie in Amsterdam seem to be real. Go on reading at The Daily Roxette or Roxetteblog.com
During the past days, a lot of rumours about Roxette's comeback have been heard on the Roxette online community, below you'll find a summary:
– Not a rumour, but already confirmed by Per at Twitter: Roxette albums will be remastered and re-released in Autumn. Open is: which albums are we talking about? Which bonuses?
– Roxette to play at "New Wave" event in Latvia in July from The Daily Roxette. Even though this was reported by an important Latvian newspaper, the management hasn't confirmed the news yet (but hasn't denied it either). Wait and see.
– Roxette at Night of the Proms 2009:
Last week some fans from the German forum found a hidden Html code on the NOTP German fanpage which announced Roxette as one of the main acts at NOTP 2009 edition. Tour promoters didn't confirm this (but didn't deny it either), since all artists will be announced at a press conference on the 5th of May, 17:00 CET.
TDR User Remco found following text on the NOTP website:
"In the beginning of May we will announce another big artist. I am quite sure that this will be "hot news" for whoever loves true pop music. … We expect ticket sales to go super fast after this announcement", according to organiser Jan Vereecke."
Which again, makes everybody think Roxette is one of the artists participating in the event, true pop music…
And then, after I read that there will be a big press conference to announce the artists, I started to think, **IF** Roxette are performing, would they have time to attend the press conference? A quick check at Per Gessle's current tour plan showed me that he has a show on the day before, May 4th, in London, and on the day after, 6th May, in Amsterdam. The press conference is in Antwerpen, which is not at all far away from these cities, so IF they are part of NOTP attending the press conference shouldn't be a problem.
– Marie to perform with Per, where?
Per already commented Marie would join him on the stage during the tour. The big question is, where? Most people guessed Stockholm would be the best logical choice. But I started to think, in connection to NOTP press conference and that there seems to be something happening with Roxette this year, that maybe London (or Amsterdam) would also be an option.
These are only speculations on the rumours. There is nothing confirmed, so we'll have to wait at least until the 5th of May to know what happens with NOTP, and regarding Marie's performance with Per: just be surprised.
Written by Lars-Erik_Olson for The Daily Roxette
Marie Fredriksson will be one of the celebrity guests attending a June 18 gala at Stadshuset (Stockholm City Hall) where Crown Princess Victoria will be handing out this year's prizes from the Marianne and Sigvard Bernadotte Artist Fund. The gala is even more special this year as Marianne Bernadotte, who is Victoria's great aunt, is celebrating her 85th birthday.
Marie is expected to perform during the event, along with Marianne Bernadotte's close friend Lill Lindfors, opera singer Barbara Hendricks with Staffan Scheja, and violinist Christian Svarfvar. Other special guests announced at this morning's press event, held at the Grand Hôtel, include ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog, but it is uncertain for now whether she too will perform.
Per Gessle, who is going on a tour this month with his latest album The Party Crasher, has started to communicate with his fans through Twitter. He has been answering questions from his fans from his @PartyPleaser Twitter account for a couple of days and has revealed some nice information about his tour.
The most interesting piece of information for all Marie and Roxette fans is the fact that Marie and Per have discussed about performing with him on the tour: "Yes, she might pop up somewhere, we've talked about it," Per wrote in his tweet. In addition to that, the two shows in Stockholm on May 9th and 10th will be filmed for a possible live DVD.
According to a press release sent out today by the Göteborg Opera, Marie Fredriksson will perform in a gala for the World Childhood Foundation on May 18th.
The foundation was founded by H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden in 1999 and in order to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Göteborg Opera has organised this gala, which will be attended by the Royal Family. Other artists such as Peter Jöback, German violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter and mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus will participate in the gala as well.
World Childhood Foundation's work is aimed at the most marginalised children. "The goal is to promote the right of every child to its childhood and to work for better living conditions for children in danger. We must fight against the extreme material, social and emotional poverty in which they livea," writes H.M. Queen Silvia on the foundation's homepage. Currently the foundation supports more than 100 projects in 14 countries.
All revenue from the gala will be donated to World Childhood Foundation.


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'The blokes were pissing on my boots': MTR launches new book exposing workplace harassment of rural women
Most gendered harm is not reported in the bush
I had to ask for access to a bathroom once a month because I had my period! So eventually instead of access to a bathroom, they got me access to a Toyota so that I could drive away to a toilet. So the entire crew knew exactly when I was cycling every single month. And … they used to piss in the connecting pipes for me to discover when I got back from the drive. And looking back on it now I also realise that the blokes were also pissing on my boots when I was gone – I see now but at the time I was just so confused and baffled by it all. – Female miner, aged 21
A week ago I had the honor of speaking at the launch of Whispers from the Bush, a new book by ANU academic Dr Syke Saunders (from which the quote above is taken). Publisher Federation Press describes the book as follows:
Australian women are enduring a cultural epidemic of workplace sexual harassment in remote and rural workplaces – the experience is rife, rampant and as hard to contain as any infectious disease. Whispers from the Bush – The Workplace Sexual Harassment of Australian Rural Women is the first book to focus upon the nature, pervasiveness and reporting of sexual harassment in rural Australian workplaces. Drawing upon 107 interviews conducted with rurally located employees and employers about their experiences and observations of sexual harassment at work, it shines a light upon a phenomenon largely hidden or minimised by silence, distance and an atmosphere of 'saturated masculinity'. The book seeks to give voice to the 'whispers from the bush' by exploring themes such as:
• the impact of male dominance and mateship on the nature and prevalence of sexual harassment within the rural workplace;
• the complex survival behaviours adopted by many rural women in response to sexual harassment as it occurs – most surprisingly, extending to women blaming women;
• rural employee and employer attitudes towards the disclosure of sexual harassment; and
• the limited reach and effectiveness of laws against sexual harassment in rural Australia.
The Women Lawyers Association of the ACT, together with the Women's Legal Centre and Legal Aid Commission (ACT) hosted the launch as which I, Syke Saunders and Deputy ACT Discrimination Commissioner, Belinda Barnard, spoke.
Reading Skye's book was an intensely personal experience. I had to re-visit my experiences and those of other women I knew, which I'm only beginning to process decades later. A literary journal has expressed interest in a contribution based on the whole speech, so I'll let you know when that is published. For now, here's an extract from my launch address.
When Skye first asked me to write an endorsement for this, her new book Whispers from the Bush, my first thoughts were: at last.
This book fills a gap. It gives voice to women we rarely hear from.
Beyond the romantic notions held about life in the rural frontier – the 'bush imaginings', 'the imagined embodiment of the iconic rural ideal,' there are stereotypical patterns of male dominance and 'rampant maleness' in the rural heart of blokeland – identified in Whispers from the Bush as 'the dominant male bush construct' and the 'masculine architecture of rural life'. This pattern of dominance contributes to female inferiority and submission, discrimination, marginalization, histories of violence and – as this book attests – sexual harassment as a cultural norm.
The highest rates of violent crime such as sexual assault have consistently been in rural Australia. As Skye writes: "The further from the metropolitan capital the higher the per capita rate becomes for violent crimes, such as assault, domestic assault and sexual assault. Numerous other reports have concluded that the rate of crime and abuse in rural and remote Australia are much higher than any set of data has suggested, primarily because of the growing levels of under-reporting." Recent studies also reveal a "consistent pattern of higher rates of alcohol consumption and consequent harm within regional and rural Australia than in urban areas."
95 percent of gendered harm is not reported in the bush.
Reading Skye's book has forced me to confront aspects of what happened to me growing up in a country town.
I am the daughter of a farming family in rural Victoria…
It is only fully now, decades later, that I look back and see the entrenched sexism that, being young and lacking the language to describe, I didn't know how to deal with.
The editor in chief's hand on my leg in his car and comments about my breasts (taking me 'under his wing' as a work experience student – how do you make a complaint when the perpertrator is the man in charge?), the sexually loaded jokes about my body, descriptions of sex acts I didn't understand (especially when a male radio announcer and close friend dropped by – he was gay, but that didn't matter), the male bonding over assessing the bodies of any woman passing through the building, the porny calendars on the walls of the print room (I was so pleased to see Skye include pornography as an expression of sexual harassment in the workplace).
A male editor used a piece about cancer caused by sun exposure as an excuse to publish an image of a topless woman.
Possibly the worst incident was the metal ruler up my skirt. I was made to feel I'd asked for it and told to stay out of the 'lay out' room where the man worked night shift, though I had to walk through that room to get to the ladies' toilet (After the incident I had to walk around the building and climb rough cement steps to access the toilet). When I read Chapter 5 'When the boys come out to play' I saw myself there – a paragraph on the humiliation of women in the workforce included: "rulers are thrust under skirts".
…To be both young, unformed in feminist thinking and not knowing I had any rights, made speaking out almost impossible
One of the first pieces I wrote as a cadet journalist was about the opening of a women's refuge in my town. These experiences were the seedlings of my later feminist activism….
I commend Skye for giving voice to women in rural and regional areas whose lives have been harmed by sexual harassment.
May Whispers from the Bush break the silence of rural women.
May it empower and strengthen them to speak out and no longer put up with mistreatment. May it contribute to solidarity among our sisters in dusty, remote places.
All of us who live or lived in these places – and have parts of our heart remaining there even when we have moved on – owe Syke a debt of gratitude.


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