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When Jerry Seinfeld started criticizing political correctness in comedy a few years ago, some nodded their heads and others rolled their eyes, but nearly everyone was baffled. Why would the squeaky clean, rigorously inoffensive comic even care?
The reason, I suspect, is that Mr. Seinfeld pays close attention to his audiences, both what they laugh at and how their tastes change. While few think of him as a radical innovator, he has been ahead of the times — or at least someone who catches up fast. Besides helping pioneer observational humor and the vogue for film and television shows about stand-up comics, Mr. Seinfeld, 63, anticipated our culture's obsession with the process of comedy with his 2002 documentary, "Comedian." While keeping a busy performing schedule, he dabbles in other forms, like web series ("Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee").
So it's not a surprise that Mr. Seinfeld is joining comedy's Netflix moment, following his peers in signing a deal, in his case for two specials, which essentially matches his output for the last several decades (he made cable specials in 1987 and 1998). This represents a shift in his focus, from stand-up as an evolving performance to the dominant model today, with elite comics regularly putting out new specials. The first show in the deal, "Jerry Before Seinfeld," which starts streaming Tuesday, is deeply nostalgic, with footage from his childhood and a pocket history of his early material. But aesthetically, it inches closer to current fashion, a subtle move away from impersonal, immaculately polished comedy. It's still quintessential Seinfeld, poking fun at cereal and air travel and prepositions, but his set is looser, intimate and more biographical, a rebrand for the podcast age.
Taking place at the Comic Strip, an Upper East Side club that was redesigned for the special to look more like it did in the 1970s when Mr. Seinfeld was just starting out, this special is organized as an explanation of his roots. What's different from his previous work is the shrinking of critical distance ("What's the deal with") as he builds many premises on his own experiences. He still has a gift for deconstructing language, in phrases like "losing your appetite" or in the quirks of modern marketing (he marvels at the chutzpah of naming a cereal Life). But his route to these riffs is filled with slightly unexpected details from his life.
Mr. Seinfeld, who earned $69 million last year, putting him at the top of Forbes's list of the highest paid comics, has long seemed thoroughly middle of the road in his style and taste, a jeans-and-Superman-action-figure kind of guy. In recent years, he transitioned to suits, but in this special, he emphasizes his blue-collar beginnings. Without a trace of complaint or hardship, he describes happily living in cramped apartments, earning nothing doing comedy and sledgehammering walls for $25 a day.
His jokes here have more of a class context, even if it's one that seems blissfully unexamined. At the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, comics went on strike for the right to get paid. When Mr. Seinfeld says in his special that he worked for free during the same period, he doesn't seem bothered by it. In one of his first jokes ever, he discusses the building of the Roosevelt Island tramway in the late 1970s, marveling that New York was building a ride after nearly going bankrupt. "Next thing you know they will have a roller coaster in the South Bronx," he said, adding it will be "the first roller coaster where people scream on the flat part of the ride." (In an early version of the joke from the '70s, he used "ghetto" instead of "South Bronx.")
Not only is Mr. Seinfeld playing a smaller room than he usually does on tour, which benefits his conversational style, but he's also giving a rougher-around-the-edges performance. Given that he's such a supremely confident stage presence, it's clearly a calculated choice, an effort to look casual and offhanded. He involves audience members and responds to their questions even if it doesn't lead anywhere that funny. There are even hints of his own social anxiety, which he describes elegantly: "I can talk to all of you, but I can't talk to any of you."
Mr. Seinfeld is known as a gifted joke writer, and he emphasizes his commitment with a shot of him sitting down surrounded by pages of his jokes. But the backbone of his stand-up was always his distinctive attitude — the gently sarcastic, benignly neurotic skepticism that merges Jewish cadence with WASP restraint. Listen to how he gets a laugh poking fun at La Guardia Airport just by saying it's nice, and you notice a light touch that has more in common with Robert Benchley than Lenny Bruce.
As much as Mr. Seinfeld nods to revelatory comedy in the new special, he's not introspective enough to really pull it off. The best he can to do is navel-glance. The passion he has that overrides all others is for comedy itself, a strong theme of this special and nearly every substantive interview he has ever done. The motto of his sitcom was "No hugging, no learning," but that's only because you can't hug a joke.
The Comic Strip wasn't the first club he worked — that would be the defunct Catch a Rising Star, where he first talked to his fellow "Seinfeld"creator, Larry David. "Catch was the cool place; the Comic Strip was lame," Mr. Seinfeld told Richard Zoglin in his book "Comedy at the Edge." Being cool was never Mr. Seinfeld's primary goal. He didn't court cult fandom and avoided the inside joke. His brand of stand-up always seemed as if it was aimed to appeal to everyone, even though none could. (A scene from the FX series about the O.J. Simpson trial where the black and white jurors argue about whether to watch "Seinfeld" or "Martin" helps illustrate the point.)
Every once in a while, critics (myself included) praise a young comic as the next Jerry Seinfeld. But what's become clear is that there will never be another, in part because the entertainment landscape means star comedians can no longer make sitcoms with finales watched by 76 million viewers. Now that the culture has broken apart into a collection of niches, being mainstream is just another one. Jerry Seinfeld may signify its apex and end.


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This post is one that Sue wrote from Madagascar eight years ago; it's a fantastic example of the complexities of language and translation:
What could be simpler than asking someone to close the door you might think? But whenever you try and translate something from one language to another you come across the phenomenon of language and culture beingso closely bound together that they are almost impossible to separate. Let me give you an example. Here in Madagascar, someone from one area simply asked a colleague from another area to close the door; a reasonable request, since it was early evening and the mosquitoes were coming inside! However the request didn't produce the desired result.
What was happening? The first man had made the request according to hislanguage and culture which was, literally: 'Please wall the road!' The second, however, hadn't reacted because in his own culture and language the way to make that request is to say: 'Please make-closed the door' and hadn't associated the talk of 'blocking the road', as he had understood it, with the idea of closing the door! But for the first man, this is just the normal expression used in his language for closing the door: you 'wall-up the entrance/path' or as we might say in Yorkshire: 'Put wood in t'hole!'
What has this got to do with Bible Translation you might ask? Well, if a simple request to close the door was met with such confusion here, among related languages in the same country, imagine how the scope for misunderstanding is magnified when we come to translate ideas written down a couple of thousand years ago in the Middle East into a language with a very different culture and context in the 21st century! Whenever we communicate, the words we use embody the culture of that language – whether we are talking about doors, cricket, Pancake Tuesday or olive branches or in the Biblical context: vineyards, priests or Samaritans – because they are part of the culture and always have the connotations of that particular culture. Therefore when we translate ideas like these from one language to another, we have to find a way of communicating them accurately and clearly in the translated text, whilst avoiding undesirable connotations in that culture.
Following our discussions about cultural differences in closing doors in different Malagasy languages here at our translation workshop in Antananarivo, we then asked the translation teams to look at how they might go about translating Revelation Chapter 3 verse 20 in which Jesus says: "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me." What if there is no word for door? And do people knock or do they call out to those in the house when they want to enter? Is Jesus a stranger that he needs to knock? Or in some contexts would Jesus knocking at the door make him a thief, since the custom is for everyone to call out – only a thief would knock to check that the house is empty! There are no easy answers because words cannot help but bring their culture with them! What's more there are also theological implications from many of these questions which influence the way we translate, but I'll leave those discussions for another day……

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Joseph Banowetz, Pianist
Described as "a giant among keyboard artists of our time" (Fanfare Record Review), Joseph Banowetz continues to create excitement and receive accolades wherever he performs. With an extensive career taking him to over 35 countries worldwide, he has appeared on stages for audiences both large and small alike. Often referred to as one of the "Three Bs" for his performances of Liszt (the other two being Jorge Bolet and Alfred Brendel), this incredibly gifted and imaginative pianist's career has spanned over forty years. In 2010 he was honored with his second GRAMMY® nomination for his latest recording. That CD featured the piano works of composer Paul Kletzki, with Thomas Sanderling conducting and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos label). "A superb job all around, and strongly recommended." (Jerry Dubins, Fanfare Record Review)
A graduate with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Joseph Banowetz studied with the renowned Carl Friedberg (who was himself a pupil of Clara Schumann) and also with György Sándor (a pupil of Béla Bartók). In 1992, this exceptional artist was awarded the prestigious Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in Budapest, in recognition of his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.
Equally skilled with both orchestral and recital repertoire, Banowetz has graced countless stages across five continents performing with many prestigious institutions including the St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Philharmonic, the Moscow State Symphony, the Prague and Bratislava Radio Orchestras, the Budapest Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony (on a twelve-concert national tour), the Beijing Central Philharmonic, Barcelona Concert Society Orchestra, and the Shanghai Symphony. Publications from some of those countries have honored him with wonderful praise as "a magnificent virtuoso, who amazed the public by his deep understanding of the composer's spirit" (Russia's News – Moscow) and as "a virtuoso in the noblest sense of the word." (Ruch Muzyczny - Warsaw)
Recent U.S. performances have included a number of notable organizations and festivals where he was the featured soloist. And this past summer 2012, he was invited to Singapore where he gave a solo recital in addition to offering master classes and was an adjudicator for the 1st Ars Nova International Piano Competition. His engagement was so successful that he was invited to return in April 2013 for a series of concerts in both Singapore and Malaysia. Other festivals have included the International Piano Festival, hosted by Catholic University in Washington DC and the Chatham Festival (Manchester England) where he has been a regular for many seasons. In the summer of 2013, he was invited to the prestigious Lancaster International Piano Festival.
Because he is so highly respected as an adjudicator of many prestigious piano competitions, Joseph Banowetz has also made a number of guest appearances at those as well. In November 2012, he judged the Liszt International Piano Competition in Los Angeles. During the summer of 2012, he was featured in recitals and master classes in China. The previous summer, he was presented in a recital in Taipei Taiwan and played the Rubinstein 4th Concerto with orchestras in both Taipei and in Taichung.
Joseph Banowetz has maintained a long-standing relationship with a number of performing ensembles and institutions in Poland, including the Chopin Academy and Warsaw's Paderewski Museum and returns regularly to give concerts and master classes.
Banowetz discography is extensive with over forty compact discs recorded for various labels. In 2016, he has 3 CDs that will be released, the first one in March 2016 of piano works of Ignaz Friedman, with the 2nd one for a release date in June 2016. He also has the Carl Cherny piano four-hand concerto that will also be released in 2016, but the date has not been announced yet.
The Complete Piano works of Karl Weigl, was released in June 2012 for the Naxos label. Other recordings include Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1, the Liszt Concerti and Totentanz and the d'Albert Concerti. He has also been a forerunner with numerous world-premiere recordings of many, heretofore, under-recorded works from the piano repertoire including Taneyev's Piano Concerto, the Balakirev Fantasy on Russian Folk Songs, the Kletzki Piano Concerto, and the Huang Piano Concerto No. 1, and eight discs of the entire works of the Anton Rubinstein for piano and orchestra. Of the solo repertory for piano, his discs include works of J. S. Bach, Balakirev, Busoni, Chopin, Debussy, Godowsky, Kletzki, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Schumann, Stevenson, and Taneyev. Fanfare Record Review named one of the Rubinstein orchestra and piano series recordings as "an outstanding international release for 1993". The German Music Critics Association gave a similar citation in 1987 for his world-premiere recording of works by Balakirev. Banowetz is currently a recording artist for the HNH International Naxos label.
Starting in 1983, Joseph Banowetz has been invited to perform numerous times with orchestras and institutions in the People's Republic of China. Not only has he made solo appearances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Beijing Central Philharmonic, the Beijing Central Opera Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony, and the Guangzhou Philharmonic, he has also been at the forefront of giving master classes in piano pedagogy at China's national conservatories in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In 1984, ground breaking news was made when Joseph Banowetz was bestowed the honor of the world premiere performances with the Central Opera Orchestra of Beijing and the Hong Kong Philharmonic performing Concerto No. 1 by noted Chinese composer Huang An-Lun. This was a momentous occasion in that it marked the first time a foreign artist had ever been officially invited to give both the world-premiere performances and record a concerto by a composer from the People's Republic of China. The recording was released on the China Records and HK Records labels.
As if a concert and recording career is not already daunting, Joseph Banowetz is also a recognized author and editor on an international scale. His book, The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling (Indiana University Press, US) has been printed in six languages, including Chinese. He has published numerous editions of piano works for several distinguished publishing companies and is considered preeminent in this arena. And, his much-awaited book, The Pianist's Guide to Fingering (Indiana University Press, U. S.) is due to be released in early 2013.
Joseph Banowetz has adjudicated many major piano competitions: Arthur Rubinstein Master Piano Competition (Israel), the Scottish International Piano Competition (Glasgow), the Belarussian International Piano Competition (Minsk), the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (U. S.), the 2001 World Piano Competition (U. S.), the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (U. S.), the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and the Antonín Dvořák International Piano Competition (Czech Republik). He has lectured at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the Juilliard School, London's Royal College and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Artmúsic Escola de Música I Dansa of Barcelona, the Chopin Academy of Warsaw and Hong Kong's Academy for the Performing Arts.
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Paul Mason – economics editor of the BBC's Newsnight – and a former colleague of mine (we worked together at Computer Weekly, gives his views on the future role of the journalist in a recession. Aside from the blogging quip (they wera pyjamas don't you know), he makes some good points.
The way the media is changing poses huge problems for the National Union of Journalists. Not sure the union – and I am a member – is on message with these changes. It would be good for the union to review its training programme to include some basics on audience engagement and the role of the journalist in a digital world.
He talks of deskilling – 16 year olds who can use video cameras as well as journalists, for example. So what does this mean for trained journalists? He talks of quality, authority, accuracy – all the things journos are paid to provide. BUT, non-paid, non-trained journos also provide this.


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Efforts intensify for partial truce in Syria as violence rages on near Aleppo
Push for Syria ceasefire after deadliest jihadist attack
BEIRUT - Efforts intensified for a partial truce in Syria as fighting raged near Aleppo on Monday and after the country suffered its bloodiest jihadist attack in nearly five years of war.
US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak in the coming days after Washington announced a provisional agreement had been reached on an imminent "cessation of hostilities".
US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the deal on Sunday, as a string of suicide bombings in areas near a Shiite shrine outside Damascus and in the city of Homs killed at least 184 people.
The Islamic State group claimed responsiblity for both attacks in regime-held areas, which a monitor said killed 120 people near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab and at least 64 in the Al-Zahraa district of Homs.
The bombings near the shrine marked the deadliest jihadist attack since Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group.
Kerry said the US and Russian leaders were to speak "in the next days or so" on the terms of implementing the agreement, which would apply to fighting between non-jihadist rebel forces and regime troops but not to IS and other extremists.
Announced by top diplomats in Munich earlier this month, the ceasefire failed to take hold by last Friday as initially planned.
Part of a plan that also included expanded humanitarian access, the proposal aims to pave the way for a resumption of peace talks that collapsed earlier this month in Geneva.
The talks had been scheduled to resume on February 25, but the UN Syria envoy has acknowledged that date is no longer realistic.
Syria's main opposition umbrella group, the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), was meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Monday for talks on the ceasefire and peace talks efforts.
Spokesman Monzer Makhous said the meeting was expected to continue for two or three days.
The HNC has said any ceasefire must include provisions for Russia, Iran and foreign militia forces backing the regime to stop fighting.
Russia launched air strikes in Syria last September against what it said were "terrorists" but has been accused of bombing non-jihadist rebel forces in support of President Bashar al-Assad, a longtime ally.
Iran has sent military advisors to Syria and the Tehran-backed Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has deployed at least 6,000 militants to fight with Assad.
Iran would have to be on board for any ceasefire to work and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu made a surprise visit to Tehran on Sunday, saying he was delivering a "special message" from Putin to President Hassan Rouhani.
Efforts have been intensifying to resolve Syria's war -- which has left more than 260,000 dead, forced millions from their homes and devastated the country -- as the conflict approaches the five-year mark.
The rise of ISIS, which has seized large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq and become the preeminent global jihadist group, has focused attention on the need for a solution.
On Monday, top military commanders from 30 nations fighting ISIS as part of a US-led coalition gathered in Kuwait to discuss ways to defeat the jihadists.
"As military leaders, it is our responsibility to double efforts and urgently work out suitable plans to eliminate all terrorist groups threatening many countries in the world," said Kuwaiti chief of staff General Mohammad al-Khader.
ISIS's attacks on Sunday drew sharp criticism from Moscow, which said the blasts were aimed at undermining peace efforts.
"The atrocious crimes of extremists are aimed at scaring the peaceful population, subverting attempts to reach a long-term political settlement to the Syrian crisis," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Moscow's air strikes have helped regime forces make important gains, particularly in recent weeks around the second city of Aleppo.
But their efforts to take Aleppo city -- long divided into regime- and rebel-held areas -- were dealt a setback on Monday.
ISIS and other jihadists cut a vital supply route linking the west of Aleppo with other government-held territory, the Observatory said.
The road between Aleppo and the town of Khanasser to the southeast was the only way regime forces and civilians living in government-controlled neighbourhoods of the city could travel to surrounding provinces.
If government forces are unable to recapture the road, it could slow their offensive in the area.


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27 June 2018
Welsh Bridges: 9. Elan Village Suspension Bridge
The previous two structures I covered are bridges on dams in the Elan Valley. Continuing down the valley, this next bridge can be found not far beyond the lowest of the valley's dams.
According to the Welsh National Monuments Record website Coflein, this is a "cast iron suspension bridge built 1904 by David Rowell and Co", citing the source as J. Groucott's "Industrial Monuments of Powys - bridges" (1980). Coflein also states that the bridge has been replaced twice. I can find no other evidence regarding the bridge's history, but the construction date, if correct, would indicate that it was built as part of the Elan Valley reservoir project.
With its distinctive latticework towers topped by pointed finials, it certainly looks like a David Rowell and Co bridge. I've visited one previously and will get to two more later in this series of posts. They generally have a consistent style. The width of the towers below deck level is the only feature which makes this one especially different.
Clearly, Coflein is wrong about it being "cast iron" but never mind - it's very probably early steel.
The towers support the deck using two suspension cables on each side, which is more than normal on a Rowell bridge.
The cables are carried across the towers over little saddles clearly visible under the tower caps. These are often hidden on similar bridges. At the end anchorages, the cables are anchored into a twin-bar fitting, with a U-bend looped around a triple-plate anchorage detail. This is not something I've seen on this type of bridge before, so either it is an unusual detail, or it's a standard detail which would normally be buried out of sight.
This bridge is not in good shape, indeed it has been closed off since 1988, bypassed by a "temporary" Bailey Bridge immediately to one side. It is rusty and seems to have received little or no maintenance in recent times.
In 2004, it was reported that the bridge would not be taken down, which is nice, given that it is historic and all. Sadly, it is not under kind of heritage designation, which is a shame, as there are not many surviving Rowell bridges built to carry vehicles, most were footbridges.
in discussion with the bridge owner, Elan Valley Trust, about how it might be restored. Discussions were reported to be ongoing, but unsurprisingly, there is little further news. The money simply isn't there to take on this kind of project in the current political climate.
The problem for this bridge, of course, is that the longer it is left without any kind of maintenance, the more expensive any eventual refurbishment becomes, with greater loss of steel section to corrosion likely to require difficult strengthening work. If money were available, it would be better to carry out a minimal refurbishment earlier, to at least arrest further deterioration.
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ARC Resource Pack: A capacity-building tool for child protection in and after emergencies
This resource is a collection of training materials to help ensure effective child protection programming and protection systems. Primarily intended for facilitators and trainers, programmers who work on child rights or child protection, and members of child protection clusters, this resource pack includes a user guide, training manual, and facilitator's toolkit. Foundation modules include topics such as participation and inclusion, advocacy, community mobilization, and psychosocial support. Also included are seven critical issue modules, with module 7 on children associated with armed forces or armed groups.
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It is the magical story of the green girl and her popular college roomie and how they grow up to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good, characters from the famous film The Wizard Of Oz; Wicked has been a pretty popular show in the West End since it flew in from Broadway last year, and on 7 September it celebrated its first birthday.
Happily munching on the cake was Oliver Tompsett, for whom the last year has been, excuse the pun, wicked. As part of the original ensemble cast and understudy to Adam Garcia's Fiyero, the 26-year-old actor proved his worth so much that in July this year he was promoted to the role of Fiyero full time. Caroline Bishop spoke to him about swinging on ropes, making music and giggling with the girls.
You have been in Wicked since the beginning – are you still enjoying it?
OT: Yeah it's great fun. A lot of musicals can be quite serious and very much about getting across some kind of tragic story, but being in a musical comedy with great pop songs in it is so much fun. It's a complete fantasy land, falling in love with a girl who has a green face, and getting to do all sorts of fun things – jumping around on statues and swinging on ropes. It's very hard not to have fun in Wicked.
Did the cast do anything special to celebrate the show's first birthday?
OT: Yeah we had some drinks and nibbles front of house and there was a big cake. The icing was about two inches thick, but I didn't mind that too much!
How did it feel to take over the role of Fiyero after being in the ensemble?
OT: Last year was good fun because I was understudying Adam Garcia who is a guy who I looked up to; when I was a teenager I remember seeing him in a show. I had an opportunity when I was on for about eight weeks when Adam went off to do a film, and over that period they asked me if I would take over from Adam. So I had a nice long run at it before I officially had the pressure of filling Adam's boots. It couldn't have gone better for me.
It's lovely to be playing it this year. It's my first lead role as an actor in a major West End show and it's a different experience. You don't see the rest of the company as much, whereas when I was in the ensemble you have such a blast sub-stage and in the wings. But the Fiyero character, whenever he seems to run on stage everyone seems to run off stage! I miss that quite a lot. But at the same time I wouldn't change anything, because playing the part is great fun. You have to think a lot more and make sure you're getting the story across, but at the same time you're keeping it fresh in your own mind. And of course the feedback you get from the audience is much more personal than when you're in the ensemble. The ensemble are the unsung heroes really – the ones who work the hardest but probably get the least praise and feedback. I know what that's like.
What is your favourite moment in the show?
OT: For me personally, I think it has to be either swinging in on the ropes, when Fiyero swings in to save the day – because it's just like being a little kid again, playing pirates – or the duet that I get to sing with Kerry Ellis [who plays Elphaba] in the second act; it's a fantastic piece of music and singing opposite such great singers such as Kerry and Dianne [Pilkington, who plays Glinda] is a great gift.
How do you keep yourself in good shape to be able to perform daily?
OT: The stage is on what we call a rake, which is slightly tilted so the audience can see a bit more of the action. It takes its toll on your back at first and obviously as soon as your back starts going out of alignment your knees can start hurting a little bit. But I haven't really suffered that much because I had all last year to prepare for it. Vocally, as long as you're sensible, you drink a lot of water, and you've had the correct training in your voice, it shouldn't go too drastically wrong.
A lot of people who leave college, if they get thrown into a lead role straight away, may find that the eight shows a week is a tough thing to do. Working your way up, there's a lot to be said for that, because you're learning your trade, seeing all different aspects of it and you're constantly progressing. As long as you've got that experience then the stamina thing is easy. Personally my voice gets stronger and stronger every year. I feel like I could do more shows, more singing.
The best thing you can do though, if ever it's not coming out, just never push it. Especially when you're young, do not push your voice if it's tired. I know from my experience when I was at college, when you're trying to get agents in to come and see you, you want to practise more and more, but in actual fact you burn yourself out and when it comes to crunch time and you've got to show it off, you've tired your voice out.
Has anything embarrassing ever happened to you on stage?
OT: Yes! I think when you have a company that gets on so well – me, Kerry and Dianne have such fun, we really get on well off stage – that all it takes is for someone to have forgotten a line or something and it just throws you a little bit and you can find yourself slightly snapping out of it. It's very hard not to [burst out laughing] at each other. The girls are worse that I am. They giggle at every little mistake. I think I'm always more worried that people are going to think I'm being an idiot, because the character I play is a bit more of a buffoon.
Kerry, once, in the opening of the duet, forgot to sing her first line, she forgot her words. I tried to help her; I sang her first line for her, but I sang in her key which is really high and so I sounded like a big girl! But we managed to get it up and running after that.
Were you a fan of The Wizard Of Oz growing up?
OT: I do remember seeing it quite a lot when I was a kid. When I was very young, about seven, I remember, you know, the school nativities where your parents come and watch it and no one knows their lines and it's very slow moving. I played the scarecrow in that! Little did I know.
How old were you when you decided you wanted to become a musical theatre actor?
OT: I don't remember. Me and my mother disagree on this, I don't remember thinking about it until I was 16 or 17. I think my mum thought that she knew I was going to do something when I was very young. I needed to be the centre of attention. But I'm making myself sound like a really annoying brat!
I was into a lot of sport when I was a kid. I didn't go to stage school or anything, I didn't do any school productions when I was at secondary school.
So why did you swap sport for acting?
OT: I think it was because I was kind of a jack of all trades, master of none, in the sporting world. I was good at all sports but not good enough at any of them to pursue it professionally. I remember thinking I'd quite like my own leisure centre. And then I think I remember singing and people saying you've got a really good voice. I fundamentally wanted to go into music and the recording side of it, and started doing bits… I went for some auditions for colleges, and I think if you ever get told you're good at something it makes you want to do it more…
It's important to encourage kids to pursue what they're good at, but at the same time I think it's just as important to tell children that maybe it's not what they were built to do. Because it's a very, very tough business coming into performing. I say, chase your dream at whatever cost but be completely aware of your weaknesses and your strengths.
Was it always musical theatre or did drama/television/film interest you too?
OT: When I went to college I thought I wanted to do it all. I think you soon learn in this country that you get pigeon-holed. Being in musical theatre can be hard if you want to go and do more television or straight plays.
Music is a big part of what I want to do, and I'll pursue that at the moment, I'm recording my own album [with saxophonist-songwriter brother Ben]. It's just a little adventure for us, we are doing it for ourselves. I like to think that someday I'll start pursuing more television and straight acting, which I know I can do, it's just a matter of putting your energy into it. If it doesn't go that way and I don't get the breaks in the music or the straight acting, then I'm very lucky to be in theatre. It's a lot of hard work but I have no complaints. I'm very grateful for where I am.
I have to keep doing things – so for me to be recording an album and working on music and writing in the day time and doing a show in the evening, is my ideal.
If you were a wizard, what would you use your magic powers to do?
OT: Clean all the waters in the world. Or, turn myself into an international footballer! If I'd been brilliant at football, I would much rather be a football star and get paid a lot of money to play a fantastic sport. So, either clean all the waters in the world, or, selfishly, be the next big football star!
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Ariana Grande is tired of being cyberbullied
Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are "tired of being attacked" on social media following news of their engagement.
Both the 'No Tears Left To Cry' hitmaker and the 24-year-old comedian have taken a step back from social media this week, with Pete branding the Internet as an "evil" place, and sources have now revealed the pair have become fed up with the criticism that has been circling them since their whirlwind engagement.
An insider told People magazine: "They're just tired of being attacked. They don't get why there's backlash when it's supposed to be a really happy time for them. Pete especially has been getting a lot of hate from fans. It's been hurtful, and he's actually pretty sensitive."
The couple got engaged last month after just a few weeks of dating, and have been constantly posting loved up updates on their social media accounts ever since.
But earlier this week, 'Saturday Night Live' star Pete caused fans to speculate that something had happened between him and Ariana, 25, after he deleted every picture from his Instagram account, including the sweet snaps of them together.
Pete later took to his Instagram Story to reveal that he and Ariana are still going strong, but that he needed to take a break from the Internet.
He wrote: "no there's nothing wrong. no nothing happened. no there's nothing cryptic about anything. i just don't wanna be on instagram anymore. or on any social media platform. the internet is an evil place and it doesn't make me feel good. why should i spend any time on negative energy when my real life is f***ing lit. the fact that i even have to say this proves my point. i love you all and i'm sure i'll be back at some point :)
"your neighborhood goon, pete (sic)"
Ariana later confirmed she would be withdrawing from Instagram and Twitter "for a little while" in order to focus on Snapchat, noting that it seems less "negative" than other social media platforms.
She explained: "Yeh! I'm prolly gonna post on der for a little while and take a breather from Twitter and [Instagram] for a little.
"Just sometimes can't help but bump into some negative sh*t that really can bum u out and it's not worth it honestly. Promised I'd always tell you. I love u sm! Be well and happy. (sic)"


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The attorneys at FC fight to protect tenant rights in habitability cases. The FC team is staffed with case coordinators, administrative and secretarial assistants, a paralegal, and attorneys are bilingual in Spanish and Khmer. The team works to provide the best service for their clients and to successfully complete their actions against their landlords. We have represented thousands of tenants who lived (or are living) in large residential complexes in substandard conditions.
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Two Summers
What a pig of a summer! Cold, wind and rain. The worst New Zealand summer I can remember. It won't give me my worst memory of summer weather, though. That still belongs to 1950.
That year, my parents, my younger sister and I went on holiday to Lee-On-Solent in the south of England. We stayed in a rented caravan in a caravan park. It rained. My father, who was managing a small building firm in north west London, kept having to go back to the city to on business. The rest of us huddled in the caravan. At least, my mother and sister huddled. After a while, I decided to do what I usually did on holiday. I went off wandering by myself. My mother was probably glad to get at least one of her kids from under her feet and let me go.
My usual holiday explorations were in search of railway engines or butterflies but the railway was too far off and the butterflies were all tucked away somewhere safe like everyone else so I made my way down to sea. There was a roadway with a row of houses on one side and a strip of grass on the other. Beyond the grass was the beach – not sand exactly, more like fine pieces of gravel or crushed shell, white and yellow with a few specks of dark brown. It crunched underfoot and was hard to walk through.
In the middle of July, even on a beach like that, you would have expected deckchairs and towels and people lying around or fooling about but there was no one. The whole beach, from end to end, was empty and windswept, except for me, a lone, shivering figure, huddled in my gabardine raincoat. Every few yards, spaced out along the line of the mid-tide mark, were big blocks of weathered concrete half buried in the gravel at odd angles. I knew them as 'tank traps' – part of some wartime defence system against a Nazi invasion.
The sea was grey-blue-green, lumpy and cold. The waves turned over with a dull, scraping sound, surging white up the shingle and swirling round the tank traps, where they sucked and bubbled at the rough edges of the concrete. I stood and watched, shivering in the wind, with the salt-spray whipping into my face. I had my bucket and spade with me, of course, but there was little incentive to do anything with them. I wonder now what I must have looked like to anyone brave enough to take a stroll along the esplanade – a small, dark, lonely, figure on an otherwise empty beach, gazing at the sea beside a mouldering lump of concrete, a juvenile parody of Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer, perhaps. There was only one consolation. I found a crab and a good one, too – about as big as the palm of my hand. I took it back to the caravan in my bucket. No doubt to my mother's delight.
My father died about nine months after this holiday and the family was suddenly short of money. Despite the financial difficulties, my mother insisted that we should continue going away each year. We went once to Blackpool and a couple of other times to Hi-de-Hi type holiday camps, one in Prestatyn in North Wales and another near Lowestoft. The best, though, was our trip to the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1952.
We stayed at East Dene, a house near the village of Bonchurch, which had once been the boyhood home of the poet Swinburne. The building itself was delicate rather than imposing, with narrow pointed gables that gave it the feel of a Gothic church. In front there was a wide, rolling lawn which opened out into a view of the sea. Inside the rooms had been divided up with modern, strictly functional panelling to accommodate the holiday makers. It was all cream walls and brown linoleum, except that now and again you would find part of an ornate plaster ceiling or a toilet bowel decorated with flowers, inside and out.
That year the weather was warm. I soon found the flower gardens down the side of the building. There was a greenhouse and two or three long, raised beds full of lavender and other blooms. These attracted a riot of insects – butterflies and day-flying moths, in particular. As always, the sight of them filled me with wonder. The variety and the richness of the colours and the patterns on their wings were the first things to which I ever had an aesthetic response. When I first became interested I used to want to catch them and keep them but I had lost interest in that. All they did was flutter themselves to death in the jars. These days I was happy to just stand and watch and identify what was there.
There were the usual species – peacocks, tortoiseshells and red admirals, large and small whites – as well as some that were less common: blues and coppers from the downs and a fritillary or two. The ones that interested me most, though, were the hummingbird hawk moths, which I had read about but never seen before. They were orange-brown with a wingspan of two or three inches and they got there name from their habit of hovering while they fed. A furious blur of wings kept them airborne while they sucked at the flowers with a long, curving black proboscis. I tried to catch one in my hands but they were too quick, zooming away with a speed and a directness that was more like a bee or a fly than any other butterfly or moth I knew.
A few days into the holiday, I made my daily visit to the flower garden and found I had company, a girl of about my age. She was slim and serious looking, with straight brown hair and a pale blue dress dotted with little flowers. Her name was Dawn. We got to talking and found we liked one another – two introverted souls, perhaps, sharing the warmth of a summer day. I identified the butterflies and moths for her. Maybe she was interested. Maybe she was impressed by my knowledge. Maybe she was just already adept at the female trick of letting the bloke rattle on about his enthusiasms. Something clicked, though. We were in love.
We spent a lot of time together over that holiday. I don't remember what we did or what we said to one another. All that comes back to me now is the strength of that emotion – innocent as perhaps all love is in some sense innocent at its core because it is simple and unqualified. Dawn introduced me to her family – her parents and her terrifyingly attractive older sister, who was probably about thirteen. They met my mother and my sister, too. What the adults said to one another, I can't recall, but their conversation had an air that, looking back, seems surprisingly respectful of the feelings Dawn and I had for one another. Or perhaps I just missed the irony.
At the end of the holiday, Dawn and I exchanged addresses. We promised to write. Of course, we never did.


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Cannes Film Festival 2009 – The Dawn of a $70 Zombie Movie Called Colin
While Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and world premieres of multi-million dollar films like Up and Inglourious Basterds generated headlines at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the surprise story from the 62nd annual fest just might be the "no-budget" British zombie movie Colin made for about $70.
That's right — not $70 million, but 70 bucks. Less than the cost of an iPod Shuffle.
Written and directed by 30-year old Marc Price, Colin flips the usual zombie pic M.O. by telling its story not from the point of view of humans trying to fight zombies, but from the point of view of a zombie (Colin) who's trying to understand what has happened to him as he "wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse." Check out the trailer.
The 97-minute feature screened during Cannes at the Marche du Film (Film Market) — a conference center located below the famous Palais — where filmmakers, studio reps and distributors meet to buy and sell films. Normally it's
- Photo GalleryMovie stills of this year's lineup, including Inglourious Basterds and Up
- Martin Scorsese PollDid Scorsese peak with Goodfellas or was The Departed his best yet?
- Movie TrailersGet a sneak peek at the movies showing at this year's festival
- Cannes Official SiteView a breakdown of the festival's daily events
"I was told that Cannes market screenings can be quite brutal, that people stay for 10 minutes then leave because they hate it. I didn't want to see that so I went and sat in a bar near McDonald's. The worst thing would be to spend nearly two years making a film, only for people to walk out. But the screening was full and everyone stayed until the end and was enthusiastic afterwards. I was thrilled."
Negotiations are currently under way with several distribution companies to bring the Colin to Japan as well as four American distributors for release in the U.S. According to Helen Grace, the sales rep for the picture, "We appreciate the interest we've had so far, and are very much looking forward to the further journey of Colin."
Buzz about it is certainly building. Journalists from CNN, The Hollywood Reporter and U.K.'s ITN have written about the movie (and its miniscule budget). Scars Magazine, a monthly independent horror magazine, proclaimed, "This film will revolutionize zombie cinema," while website Horror Talk says, "Colin is one of those rare gems of independent cinema…"
All the press is pretty amazing considering how the movie was made. Price, originally from Wales, harnessed the social networking power of Facebook and MySpace to find his zombie actors by simply posting 'Who wants to be a zombie?' He had a cast of around 100 who all worked for free.
Makeup artists, using supplies from previous movies they worked on, also worked for free creating zombie makeup and gore as a way to build their portfolios. "We told the makeup people to bring down their own equipment," Price said, which included the pro-bono services of his makeup department head Michelle Webb who was previously an assistant makeup artist on X-Men: The Last Stand.
Filming in both Wales and London took a year and a half of shooting three to four days a week while Marc was working the night shift for a private hire car company. He shot everything on a 10-year-old camcorder (seriously!).
Price, who works for a courier firm in London, edited the film himself during shooting so that he would know what pickup shots to get for his scenes. He also composed some of the score himself. He relied on many of his friends (and friends of friends) for help with all aspects of the production. Check out a clip.
So what did he spend the $70 on? According to Price, he spent it on a crowbar, a few packs of tapes and some tea and coffee for the cast and crew. "It was more about what we had than what we spent money on," he says.
Now that the festival has ended Price and his Nowhere Fast Productions partner Justin Hayles are building buzz through the film's website and their social networking accounts on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
In an email to AMC News, Price reflected on his Cannes experience by saying, "Strangely enough I'm kind of doing what I thought I'd be doing in relation to Colin after Cannes… back at my day job, taking phone calls! But I'm much happier than I thought I would be. I genuinely didn't expect much to come from Cannes. All of the attention has come as a result of the press reacting to the news of the £45 ($70) budget, which is quite scary because that fact only came out by accident!"
Price and Hayles hope to use the building buzz and possible release of Colin to raise $100,000 for their next picture tentatively titled Thunderchild, a cross-genre war/horror movie set on-board a WWI bomber.Read More


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What's the Future for Mobile Devices in the Classroom? Mobile devices are more prevalent in K–12 classrooms than ever. A new survey on mobile learning from Project Tomorrow shows that today's schools are relying increasingly on students having experience with devices like smartphones and tablets to engage in modern curriculum. Project Tomorrow's 12th annual Speak Up Research Project surveyed teachers and students at more than 8,000 schools and 2,600 school districts to gain insight on how these devices are affecting education.
Finding your voice - making your writing sound like YOU Finding your voice by Christopher Meeks Developing a voice in your writing is a notion that passes over me every now and then like the "thung" sound of an error message on my computer. "I should develop a voice," I think. "My voice is off today," I think. Knowledge sharing with Slinkset widgets A few months back I wrote an article about creating your broadcast network to feed information to your PLN. In the article I included a section on a tool called Slinkset which I used to create my Technogogy news portal, which I use to share information and links to informative articles about education, technology and ELT. Recently, I have discovered a new feature of Slinkset that automatically creates a widget that other blog or website managers can add to their site to aggregate and share the content of your portal. I think this is a great feature and one that can really extend the reach of the information you are sharing beyond your immediate network.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: "hlizifikh," a wild but powerful strike; "hrakkarikh,"a quick and accurate strike; and "gezrikh," a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won't find these words in George R. R. Using Gaming Principles to Engage Students Game designers understand how to make games memorable and "sticky" in the sense that, even when you aren't playing the game, you're still thinking about solving its problems and puzzles. As teachers, how might we make our projects and content as sticky as games? How can we engage kids in thoughtful learning even after they leave the classroom? Here are game designers' top five secrets and some tips on using these same game dynamics to make learning in your classroom as addictive as gaming.
The 14 best blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today. Which one is for you? Want the latest recommendations? Read our 2015 guide to The 18 best blogging and publishing platforms on the internet today. Updated June 2014 Reading the signs a couple of years ago it was easy to assume that the art of blogging was set to die a painful death at the hands of social networks like Facebook and Twitter and others. Johnson - Creating a Writing Course Utilizing Class and Student The Internet TESL Journal Andrew Johnsonchompjp [at] mac.comRitsumeikan University (Tokyo, Japan) Weblogs, or blogs for short, were created as a tool for people to create online journals without the need of any programming experience or knowledge. Although not originally intended for use in EFL classes, blogs have immense potential as an extremely valuable tool for the teaching of second language writing. By utilizing free blogging services on the Internet, teachers are capable of creating and storing online supplemental materials for students, post class notes for student review, and give general feedback to the class as a whole and individually. Additionally, students are able to submit assignments online. Taught in a computer room with Internet access, a writing class utilizing blogs that allows students to actually write in class on a computer can be created.
Free All-in-One Graphic Design Starter Kit Graphic design has an amazing community. Comprised of both the vets from the pre-computer era to the newbies who were raised on the internet and computer-editing applications, there is a huge gamut of people sharing their work and expertise online. I know when I was starting out in design, I found tons of inspiration and information from sites like JustCreativeDesign, DesignNewz, and more. If there's one issue, however, it's that there's almost too much great information out there.
27 Ways to Inspire Students to Innovate (Infographic) via MindShift Educator Mia MacMeekin made this infographic about ways to inspire students to think more deeply about how innovation applies to them. It's a helpful way to begin a conversation about what it means to innovate, a word that sometimes seems to belong in the adult domain of business and is estranged from how students think about living their lives. This article appeared on Mindshift on November 29 2013 and was written by Katrina Schwartz. The infographic was produced by Mia MacMeekin. Like what you see?
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In a boost for health innovation, APR.Intern and the recently established ARC Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies (ARC CPTT) have partnered to place 24 of the Centre's skilled PhDs into short-term 3-5 month research projects over four years.
APR.Intern is supported by the Australian Government Department of Education, through the 'Supporting more women in STEM careers: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) – National Research Internships Program'. An Australian Government 50% rebate is available to all small-to-medium and large enterprises, and government agencies across all industry sectors.
10 new internships announced under a continuing partnership between APR.Intern and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will accelerate engagement of women in statistical research innovation. Following the previous placement of seven PhDs, the new internships will roll out over 2019.
A new partnership with APR.Intern will see NSW's Defence Innovation Network (DIN) invest $230,000 to place 30 specialist PhDs in defence over three years. Co-funded under APR.Intern's National Research Internship Program (NRIP), the internships match PhDs to NSW defence companies to develop skills and deliver innovative technology.
A $230,000 partnership between APR.Intern and the Defence Science Centre (DSC) Western Australia will accelerate STEM PhDs into defence innovation. With a focus on engaging small business in Western Australian defence innovation, eligible industry partners will receive a $10,000 DSC subsidy.
A partnership between APR.Intern and the Defence Science Institute (DSI) will provide financial support to businesses servicing the defence sector, delivering a cost effective solution for tackling research challenges. Businesses can access high-end quantitative and analytical expertise from Australia's leading universities to benefit the defence industry.
A four-year partnership with Defence Science and Technology Group (DST) will see APR.Intern place up to 100 PhD interns with Defence. From late 2017, some of Australia's brightest PhDs will undertake 3-5 month projects to build essential industry research skills at the frontline of national security innovation.
A $40,000 partnership between APR.Intern and Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL) will accelerate STEM PhD research talent into Australian food and agriculture businesses. Under the agreement, FIAL will provide food and beverage businesses with a subsidy of up to $4,000 on the cost of a PhD student research placement.
A funding partnership between APR.Intern and the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) will put new technologies, business models and digitalisation in reach of Australian manufacturing industry. Under the agreement, 23 skilled PhDs will be matched to manufacturing SMEs and larger companies to apply their specialist expertise to drive advanced and digital manufacturing and optimisation solutions.
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I'm happy to say that my new job is now confirmed and awaits April 16 to start. With that in stone, the remaining weeks will be fine.
Yes, I am very pleased.
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I'm happy to say that my new job is now confirmed and awaits April 16 to start. With that in stone, the remaining weeks will be fine.
Yes, I am very pleased.
Thank you, Angeliki! Yes it is good news indeed! :):):):yes:
w00t! :hat: Congratulations!! yes, this is great news!I am delighted Richard , good for you for not loosing any valuable time focusing on the job hunting and go for it! *hugs*I am a very happy Opera friend 🙂
Congratulation Sir Richard :hat: :up: :yes:
Great news! Gives me more confidence to quit my job in June….:eyes: Scary, but it's time to move on. The universe provides!
Thanks, too, San!! It's a great feeling, I'll tell you. :):):):wizard:
Congrats, Richard!I'm very glad for you.:up:
Congratulations. Do they need a librarian? 😆
Thank you, Lea! :):):):hat:
Thanks, Stardancer & Matt. Not a librarian in this lab, alas!
Hahah. No worries. I am glad you have certainty. 🙂
Well done! I once quit a horrible job and knew I had done the right thing when I dreamed I was flying through beautiful trees filled with lavendar flowers. The heart always knows!
It does, Frankie, it does. What a lovely dream!
Hey, congrats and good for you. Sorry for coming in late 🙂
This is good Richard. Nothing like a bit of stress relief.
Indeed, yes! 🙂
Thanks Allan!! No need to be sorry! 🙂
Thanks, Edward. I'm still tweaking it, but, yes, I like it too. Taken at Rose's book signing last night.
I also join in the congrats.And BTW, that's a cool new banner. :up: 🙂
Thanks for sharing your good news.Fantastic, good luck with your new JOB!
Good news indeed! :hat: :yes: :cheers: :up: – Congrats Richard :happy:
:yes::drunk: :sing: 😆 :yes:
Thank you, Mallory & Loku! I can't wait for the next weeks to pass! 🙂
:yes: :up:I feel a partayyy coming on! :hat: :drunk: :wine: :beer: :cheers: :yes: 😆
🙂 :sing: ⭐ :up: :yes: 😀 :lol::idea::hat::D NICE!!!! I'll start baking the cake for the party :):sing::star: :up: :yes::D 😆 :idea::):jester:
:sing: :up: :hat: 😆 I'm on my way now to the cake 😆
😆 Let's not forget the wine and beer!:wine: :beer: :wine: :beer: :wine: :beer: :wine: :beer: :wine: :beer: :wine: :beer: :hat: :sing: :drunk: :drunk: :wizard: :coffee: :coffee: :coffee: :coffee: :cheers:
Richard,Bring on the cakeand let us celebrateyour new jobin it's new estate.Bring on the wine and coke – I mean the drink – :por pop the corkfrom Moet's champagne drink.Soon, is the change,and then to seethe moment of yourperpiscacious glee! :yes:S.C. Ribbler :up:
Ok you guys are in charge of the wine and beer.:wine::beer::wine: :beer::wine::beer::drunk:I can make the party hats if you want?:hat: :drunk: :hat: :drunk: :hat: :drunk::hat::drunk::hat::queen::wizard::jester::wizard::king::drunk: (unless of course you have lampshades?):cheers:
yayyyyy! :headbang: :jester: :drunk: :wizard: :bandit: :beer: :wine: :sing: :up: :yes: :coffee: :hat: 😆 🙂 😀 😉 :p 😎 :happy: :sing:
Congratulation! :hat::hat: It's nice to have a job with that crisis.
:up: :hat:
Splendid, splendid – do check out the link above to Loku's poem!!:yes: :yes:


text: What happened is that I was so broke and went there to work. It ended up as a costly trip. Coz the work was such a bull shit and I chose to quit on the very first day. (at least I had got a chance to see beautiful Russian girls there. hee hee ) now I'm soooooo broke.


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Like thousands of others in the Lower Mainland, my ISP is Shaw, and I have generally been quite content with the service I get from them. However, I have had an issue this week that has really made me wonder.
I send a lot of emails and I am used to getting most of them answered pretty quickly. So it was a surprise earlier this week when I seemed to get no replies from anything I had sent for a couple of days. For a while I put it down to people being busy or being mad at me for something. However, I happened to speak to one of my correspondents by phone early yesterday afternoon and I mentioned one of the more important emails I had sent him a couple of days before. He checked and found he had not received anything from me.
I checked with a few other people and they said the same thing. So I called Shaw.
At first, the helpful service technician was bemused, not seeing any reason why my emails were not getting through (even though, as I should say, I was still receiving emails normally). Eventually they discovered that the Shaw system had decided on Monday evening that my email signature (that I have used for quite a while) was spam and had refused to send any of my emails.
They did this without informing me and so for nearly three days I was blithely unaware that nothing I wrote was going anywhere. And, moreover, the system had destroyed my emails and so they couldn't just flip a switch and release from a cache somewhere. Again without telling me.
I was left to scramble about and try to recreate as best I could the important emails I had sent for the last few days. Annoying and, I think, an intolerable imposition on someone who has been a Shaw client for well over a decade. Why the hell couldn't they have let me know what they were doing so that I could have deleted my signature (or whatever was needed)? I am righteously pissed about this.


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"God Slayer" is a popular title given to a class of enchanted weapons. Besides being perfect examples of weapon craftsmanship, God Slayer weapons bear magical powers far beyond that of even the most experianced enchanters. Such is the potency of this magic that even the avatars of gods can be harmed by them. Such weapons are extremely rare, and no enchanter in centuries has been known to craft such arms.
Known God Slayer Weapons
The following are the only known "God Slayer" class weapons in the valley.
- The Blood of the Gods
- Breath of Shar
- Eldars End
- The Envious Claws (destroyed)
- The Dagger of Jutmund (destroyed)
- Iren Claensyndes
- The Sword of Chu Ling
- The Sickel of Slaughtering (destroyed)
- The Shattering Swords
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Goodnight Mister TomDVD - 2005
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I agree with milinersmuse: Too many disturbing scenes for children. Good story, good acting. Definitely worthwhile. But not for children. Contains scenes of child abuse, extreme neglect/endangerment, very scary abusive mother.
I loved this movie. Heart-wrenching at times and heartwarming at other times. Definitely recommend this one
Simple story well told, this has some good reminders that first impressions can be false, the aged have value, it takes a village to raise a child and other values.
It was a LOT of story to fit into 90 minutes, so it seemed a little rushed and simplified, but hey, it's BBC, so even then the story and acting are superb.
Too many disturbing scenes to be watched with children under the age of 12.
Goodnight Mr. Tom - such a lovely movie which shows how true love overcomes all.
If Alistair Sim's Scrooge at Xmas doesn't move you, then Goodnight Mr. Tom won't either.
This is a movie that bring tears to a glass eye. WWII and a grumpy old man. Superb !
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It's rare that I walk down the alleyways of Revelstoke. There really isn't much to them – always some dumpsters, maybe some parking, that's about it.
That's why it caught my ears when at the Columbia Basin Trust Community Initiatives Funding meeting last week, Garry Pendergast talked about a Bygone Era Entertainment Society project to paint a mural on the alley-side of the Nickelodeon Museum on First Street West.
"We were looking for ideas we could do to commemorate it and the idea of a mural came up," Pendergast told me later. "I think it's a great way of a local artist showcasing their talent as well as us showing what the building has to offer."
And, he added, it would help spruce up the alleyway, which otherwise has little going for it unless you're a garbage collector or using employee parking.
Revelstoke's alleys are neglected, other than a worn down mural of the SS Revelstoke adorning the wall of Energy Matters on First Street West. In my research, it seemed clear that revitalizing alleyways is seen by planners as a key to improving an area. A Google search for small town alleyway revitalization turned up a number of community enhancement plans that recommended making creative use of alley space. Big cities have also taken to sprucing up alleyways to encourage cultural, commercial and social use.
Not that Revelstoke's downtown needs tremendous improving, but the alleys are one area that have been ignored.
"I go to other towns, even Nelson for example, and they're utilizing the alleyways," said councillor Chris Johnston. "They're cleaned up, you can walk in them. There are store backs that are storefronts in them. It adds a whole degree of life."
Johnston, who sits on the city's enhancement committee, said he's seen lots of great alleys in his travels – Quebec City, cities in Asia – where the alleys are just as lively as the streets. He sees opportunities that they could be brought up and made better.
"They're not just places to collect garbage," he said.
In Quebec City, the Rue du Tresor is an alley that was turned into an open-air art gallery in the 1960s. It quickly turned into a major tourist attraction. In Toronto, many downtown are covered in graffiti – some of it is beautiful, some is ugly, but it makes a walk through them worthwhile. Belden Place, an alley in San Francisco, is one of that city's most vibrant dining locations.
Of course, those are major cities with millions of people and even more tourists flocking through. Even small towns seem to be getting in on the alleyway bandwagon. Blackfalds, a town of 6,300 people in central Alberta produced a downtown revitalization plan that recommended improving alleyways to make them "more usable, safe and pedestrian friendly. It makes suggestions like encouraging shops to have high quality signage and an additional entrance at the rear of their buildings, makeing sure garbage containers are screened, and maintaining vegetation in alleyways.
A painting of the SS Revelstoke, and some terrible graffiti, adorns the wall of Energy Matters in the alley from First Street West to Victoria Road.
Likewise, the revitalization plan for Duncan, BC, recommends the city "should continue to ensure that the alleyways are protected and enhanced to promote outdoor spaces and more pedestrian linkages."
What could be done to improve Revelstoke's alleyways? Pendergast, who is also on the enhancement committee, said it could be a topic the committee picks up.
"I'm not speaking for them, but it could be the type of thing we can look at to see if we can identify buildings and help the owners to actually do something for it," he said. He suggested the possibility of working with the public art committee to create more murals. "It really is something we can get to grips with and, if we make the process for doing them fairly easy, and make sure the murals or whatever someone else suggests are good enough, it would be a really good way of lifting those alleyways."
John Guenther, the city's director of planning, said the alleyway from First to Second Street West next to the Nickelodeon, next to the Regent, and behind the Pharmasave, have all been looked at for improvement. He said they could be used for "double-loading."
"Street access and alley access that would allow for more pedestrian mobility rather than just cars," he said.
The one he's looked at the most is the one between the Regent Inn and the stores fronting Mackenzie. The alleyway could be improved to allow entrance to the rear of Skookum Cycle & Ski and Ginger and Spice Restaraunt, and he said he's talked to Fred Beruschi, the owner of the Regent, about having the hotel make greater use of the alley.
"It could be a second Mackenzie on the back, though not to that scale," Guenther said. "Our enhancement committee is the ones to help to drive this and it would be on their agenda."
Aside from the proposed mural on the Nickelodeon (which is contingent on the Bygone Era Entertainment Society receiving CBT funding), any improvements to alleyway would likely be costly. It is not an issue in city hall right now, but councillor Johnston said its something he'd like to move forward, though action is likely at least five years off.
"I think you'll see them cleaned up and walkable, which they really aren't now," he said.


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Former Chicago Bear found dead in Milwaukee motel
Bryan Robinson was 41
Bryan Robinson, a former defensive lineman for the Chicago Bears, was found dead in a Milwaukee motel room on Saturday.
He was 41.
An autopsy performed Monday indicated no signs of trauma. A determination on the cause of death is pending the results of toxicology testing, a statement from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office said.
According to a medical report, Robinson was pronounced dead at 10:17 p.m. at the Midpoint Motel on the 10100 block of West Appleton Avenue.
An employee of the motel said Robinson was a regular of the hotel and checked in at 9 a.m. with another male. The male was seen leaving between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., but Robinson, who the employee said normally checks out at 6 p.m., failed to do so. Staff checked on the room at 8:30 p.m. and found Robinson face down on the bed wearing nothing but a T-shirt.
The report said alcohol, marijuana and "Jungle Juice Plus," a drug often used to enhance sex, were found inside the room.
Robinson, with listed addresses in Gurnee, Illinois, spent six of his 14 years in the NFL with the Bears, from 1998 to 2003.
He was a part of the team when they played their first game after the death of Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton. He blocked a 28-yard field goal attempt by Green Bay's Ryan Longwell, breaking the Bears' 10-game losing streak.
"We are saddened to hear of the loss of Bryan Robinson. He will be remembered for the determination and work ethic he displayed on the field over his six years in Chicago," the team said in a written statement. "The Bears and our fans will always be indebted to him for his game-saving blocked field goal in Green Bay six days after Walter Payton's passing. Our prayers are with Bryan and his family."
Robinson also played for the Rams, Dolphins, Bengals and Cardinals. He is survived by his wife, Angela Robinson.


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I heard the sound track of my childhood petering away.
The lyrics of my laughter fading into age,
The innocence of my thoughts
Sounding back like tracks of acapella.
My joy like, sea waves in the night. NO.
No, it isn't me. I am lost.
This place grew me.
before I started to play in your head like a ringtone,
before u crammed me like lyrics of that unending song.
I will always be his love song.
Well, now that I am you song,
Besides placing me on replay,
May I be those notes on your bass
That each time you strum, I smile.
Holiness isn't for wimps,
So is love. Wear your Amour of courage
The cross isn't negotiable, so am I
I was bought at a price even when am priceless.
it was a straw bed,
a thatched house,
But the love song forever was on replay.
do you hear that?
That's the love song that raised me.


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Rim light, back light, hair light… whatever you want to call it, can add that extra sparkle to your photography. I don't use it all the time, but sometimes it really makes my subject pop.
Creating a rim light can be achieved by using natural light, like the sun, or an off camera flash. Below I've posted an example of a rim light that I created using a 580EX II flash(strobe). I mounted the strobe to a light stand and placed it directly behind the subjects head. It's easiest if you have your strobe on manual mode so you can control the brightness. You don't want it to be too bright, so adjust it to a medium brightness that will draw attention to your subject and not to the flash behind them.
If you don't have access to off camera flash then you can use the sun. The bottom picture was taken in the evening, I used on camera flash to light up her face and the sun served as the rim light.
Good luck and practice with this a bit. It might take you a few tries to get it just right.
(left) No rim light | (right) Rim light added with strobe
(below) Natural rim light provided by the sun
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks at talks with Foreign Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Dinesh Gunawardena, Colombo, January 14, 2020
Mr Minister, colleagues,
I am delighted to make your acquaintance. Thank you for your hospitality.
I would like to use this opportunity to once again congratulate you, this time personally, on your appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka.
Our countries are long-standing partners. Russia has always had warm feelings towards Sri Lanka and has supported its striving to uphold its national interests by means of an independent policy based on international law. Our relations have been traditionally developing on the principles of trust, respect and equality.
We maintain a very good, intensive and stable dialogue, including at the top level. Our presidents met four times over the past 20 years, the last time on the sidelines of the fifth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) held in Tajikistan in June 2019.
Our foreign ministries have good relations as well. I am honoured to invite you to make a visit to Russia.
We are also satisfied with the work of the Russian-Lankan Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
Regular contacts between our parliaments and ministries, including defence ministries, serve to promote our relations in the interests of our nations.


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Is Midwest Express Poised for a Rebirth?
Airlines & Airports Patrick Clarke August 11, 2017
Plans are currently in the works to bring back Milwaukee, Wisconsin's beloved Midwest Express Airlines.
"We weren't ready to make a public announcement of any kind yet, and we still are not. But, yes, we are trying to bring Midwest back to Milwaukee," Curt Drumm, an aviation consultant and one of two business partners behind the project, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"We are in the process of fundraising and are trying to lock in our key investors."
Drumm's business partner is Greg Aretakis, a former Midwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines executive.
"We're working hard to bring back Midwest Express. With convenient destinations for business travelers, roomy seats, WiFi and friendly people who care about you, it's going to help you plan your travel more efficiently," states FlyMidwestExpress.com. "Flights to many of our destinations will allow you to travel out and back on the same day, getting you back home at night, instead of being away."
The website encourages interested parties to reach out via an online contact form.
"We are currently finalizing our plans. If you'd like to be part of it, either as an investor or a member of our team, let us know," it states.
As recently as 10 years ago, Midwest and its feeder airline Midwest Connect accounted for more than half of passenger traffic at Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport, statistics show.
However, soaring jet fuel prices and a downturn in business travel brought on by the recession at the end of the 2000s put clamps on the airline. It was eventually acquired by Republic Airways Holdings and merged with Frontier Airlines.
If the airline is to make a triumphant return, it could find space to operate once more at Mitchell Airport.
"We believe there is still plenty of opportunity at the airport and will always consider new partners and development, but aren't in any specific discussions with potential airlines," Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele said in a statement to the Journal Sentinel.
READ MORE: Southwest is Travel Industry's Favorite Airline
Despite the interest and buzz surrounding the project—Drumm said "it's crazy" how fast the emails are coming in—it's clear Midwest Express faces an uphill battle in returning to the sky. Citing airline industry experts, the Journal Sentinel reports launching an airline requires a minimum of $100 million.
"You really either have to have a niche that nobody else is going near or you have to have a ton of money and be willing to lose quite a bit of it before you, if ever, latch onto a sustainable network," the president of airline industry consulting firm R.W. Mann & Co. Inc., Robert Mann, told the publication.
By putting unparalleled service, comfortable seating and convenience above low fares, the new Midwest Express perhaps has that potential to fill an untapped niche.
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Duration : 5 Nights / 6 Days
Destinations : Kathmandu - Pokhara - Muktinath
Tour Cost : Indians : INR 27,400
INR 26,600* Per person
Call Us : +91 9654438840, +91 9953153575
Detailed ItineraryDay 01 : Kathmandu Arrival – Overnight at Kathmandu
Airport pickup and transfer to hotel. Welcome drink and check inn.
6:00 PM – Short briefing about your tour program. If you are arriving late (after 4PM) then we will have briefing next morning at 9:00AM. If any payment is due, then it will be collected during briefing time.
After Breakfast visit Pashupatinath Temple and
Baudhanath Stupa (World Heritage Site, Spend 1 Hrs. )
11:00 AM - Drive to Pokhara (200KM – 6 hrs. drive).
Evening – You are free for boating & relax at Lakeside of Pokhara on your own.
Morning Fly to Jomsom (30 Min) ; 10 Min. walk to Hotel ( Luggage will be carry by hotel staff ) after refresh in the Hotel 15 Min walk to taxi stand and drive to Muktinath (20 Km /2 Hours).; Arrival at Ranipauwa (3710 m) and walk/bike ride(own expense) to Muktinath temple (60 min by walk). Take holy bath.
Darshan and Pooja at Muktinath Temple. After Darshan drive back to Jomsom.
Morning fly to Pokhara. Transfer to hotel. Later, Half day sightseeing. Includes; lake side, Davi's fall, Gupteshwor cave.Day 05 : Drive back to Kathmandu
8:00AM – After breakfast, drive back to Kathmandu. on the way visit Manokamna temple ( Caber car ticket your own ).Day 06 : Transfer to Airport
You will be free till your flight time. Transfer to the airport on time to board outbound flight.(30 mins drive).
Optional: Everest Mountain Flight at 06:00 AM @INR 8000/- per person.