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Noise Pollution in the Alpine Paradise
2,5 Millionen Transit-Lkw donnern jedes Jahr durchs Inntal. Und sogar auf idyllischen Bergstraßen wird es von Jahr zu Jahr lauter. Hier fallen an Schönwettertagen regelmäßig Scharen von Motorradfahrern ein. Ein Teil der Einheimischen leidet, bei anderen klingelt die Kassa. Etliche Hotels haben sich schon auf die neue Zielgruppe spezialisiert. Sogar eigene "Bikerhotels"« werben mit dem »Kurvenparadies« Tirol. Das Transitforum Austria-Tirol hat dem Lärm den Kampf angesagt. Obmann Fritz Gurgiser und seine Mitstreiter fordern die Einhaltung der bestehenden Gesetze, sowohl von der Lkw-Wirtschaft als auch von den Touristen.
Newton - The Sun is Free of Charge
The lowest energy rates are found in sub-Saharan Africa, just where the sun shines more than anywhere else. So, the time has come for photovoltaic panels.
Economics without the Growth Diktat
In the globalized market, what counts is raising the nation's competitiveness at all costs. Failure results in reduced growth, lost jobs and the risk of escalating social conflict. Since the financial crisis in 2008, a new, active movement of growth-critical activists and scholars has emerged, who question the growth paradigm in a variety of ways. The globally networked degrowth movement deals with academic questions as well as very concrete life scripts for how life in a post-growth society can work in practice.
Urban Mining
Our demand for raw materials is enormous and the mineral and ore mines can hardly keep up with the growing demand. Weirdly, we're surrounded by raw materials! They're in our cars, in the underground tunnels we use to travel to work, in the pavement that leads to our houses, in the bridges we cross, and they're in our homes. In European cities, there are approx. 4.500 kg of iron, 340 kg of aluminum, 200 kg of copper, 40 kg of zinc and 210 kg of lead attributed to each inhabitant. Today, a 100-square-metre flat contains around 7,500 kilograms of metal. In urban mining, these raw materials are recovered at the end of their life cycle. This can cover about one third of the demand - or more, if attention is paid to this in the construction and design of products.
When the Water Rises - Escape from the Great Flood
The year 2100: Millions of people are forced from their homes in Mumbai, Tokyo, Guangzhou, and Bangladesh. The United States are not spared either: Miami, New Orleans and New York have been evacuated. Large parts of the cities are under water. Today 700 million people living in coastal areas are affected by the rising sea levels. Climate change is now irreversible, the polar caps are melting, sea levels are rising relentlessly. Island states such as the Maldives have disappeared under water. Will the sea itself be our future habitat?
Fair Trade Fashion
Every European buys an average of 15 kg of textiles per year. Only 1 % of the turnover comes from fairly produced fashion items. More and more companies are moving their factories back to Europe, producing and processing fabrics locally
Vegetable Waste - From the Field to Garbage
The numbers are terrifying: experts estimate that only a third of every 100 kg of vegetables cultivated in Austria ends up on a plate. The rest ends up in the bin. Dozens of tons of vegetables therefore end up in domestic biogas plants week after week. And sometimes, vegetables aren't even harvested because the price is not right, or the market is currently saturated.
How Dangerous is our Packaging?
From organic cucumbers to gluten-free bread - today, everything we buy is packaged and shrink-wrapped. Hardly any foods or beverages are available that don't come in some form of plastic packaging. But there is a danger that these packaging materials, with their artificial plasticisers, will seep into the food they wrap and find their way into our bodies. Each of us has a certain detectable plastic level in our blood. Consumer interest bodies have long demanded that packaging be listed in the product's ingredients. However, today, no one knows exactly what all the packaging is made of, and manufacturers keep silent about it. In addition to health issues, there are also environmental concerns.
The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat
Am Schauplatz-Reporter Klaus Dutzler und Beate Haselmayer zeigen Alternativen zum klimaschädlichen Fleischkonsum. In der Steiermark treffen sie die Landwirte Bernhard Monschein und Johann Hebenstreit. Ihre Soja-Toastanlage verarbeitet die Ernte von den umliegenden Feldern zu klimafreundlichem Futter für ihre Legehennen. Ein paar Kilometer weiter betreibt Schokoladehersteller Josef Zotter einen "essbaren Tiergarten". Er will vermitteln, dass Tiere Lebewesen sind und keine Produkte. "Schau Deinem Essen in die Augen und entscheide dann, wie groß Dein Schnitzel ist", lautet sein Aufruf zu bewussterem Fleischkonsum. Dem Schnitzel Konkurrenz machen könnten bald Pilze und Insekten. Im CO2-Test schneiden sie jedenfalls eindeutig besser ab.
Newton - Glacier Research
Scientists are measuring the biggest glacier in Austria and examining the state of it.
Newton - Creating a Modest Society
Experts who deal with economics and neurology give insights into the importance of cooperation and moderate economic development instead of competition and unlimited growth.
Newton - Electricity on the Road
The practice test shows the handling of the e-car from the first road tests to charging at a public charging station.
A Glass of Milk a Day
Farmers currently receive 30 cents for a liter of milk, mineral water is often more expensive in supermarkets. The fresh milk pack is often squandered by 60 cents. Never before has milk been so cheap and never had the farmers got so little money for your work. However, the true effects of the often emotionally led milk price debts are mainly felt by the cows. The annual milk yield of the animals has risen rapidly. From about 2000 liters in 1960, to today well over 10,000 liters.
And while the large trading chains and dairies are still applying their products with an alpine pasture-cow idyll, the reality of the animals is a completely different one. Scarcely a dairy cow can graze in a meadow, hardly a dairy cow keep their horns.
To give one liter of milk, high-breed races must pump nearly 400 liters of blood through their udders. Walter Obritzhauser, a Styrian cattle expert, says: "It is an incredible physical performance that provides a dairy cow, which is permanent high-performance sport."
With grass and hay, as dictated by nature for millennia, the dairy cow can not achieve any special benefits. Today, elaborate concoctions from the research departments of international corporations provide for the daily food.
The modern cow eats grain, rapeseed, soy, protein, amino acids and not infrequently even coconut, or palm fat. And because even the highly cultured dairy cow does not readily tolerate this kind of food, the animals are almost permanently in danger and are regularly treated with antibiotics.
Almost one third of all dairy cows land in a slaughterhouse annually because they have become ill and thus uneconomical. Klaus Dutzler went on a search through the whole of Austria to explore how the high-performance cow really is.
Österreich: Das gedämmte Land
Wärmedämmung gilt als selbstverständliche Maßnahme zum Schutz des Klimas. Doch Zweifel daran rühren sich, ob die wahre Klimabilanz der verpackten Häuser wirklich so positiv ist. Denn jedes Jahr werden Millionen Kubikmeter Plastik verbaut - ein riesiger Kunststoffberg, der in rund zwanzig Jahren wieder entfernt, vernichtet und erneuert werden muss. Die Bauindustrie hat den Trend zur Dämmung ebenso für sich entdeckt wie so mancher Zinshausbesitzer: in gedämmten Häusern kann man höhere Mieten verlangen. Schimmelbildung und Feueranfälligkeit sind allerdings Punkte, die manchem Haus-Dämmer zu denken geben. Regisseur Karo Wolm geht in seiner Dokumentation der Frage nach, welche Probleme die Hausdämmung löst - und welche sie erzeugt.
Newton - Smart Cities
What should the cities of the future look like? Urban planners are broadly in agreement that they should
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts lebten gerade einmal zehn Prozent der Weltbevölkerung in Städten, heute sind es bereits 50 Prozent. Ende dieses Jahrhunderts wird die Menschheit eine überwiegend urbane Spezies sein. Das »Urban Age«, das Zeitalter der Städte, hat begonnen. Doch wie sollen sie nun aussehen, die Städte der Zukunft, wie funktionieren? Grün, effizient, technologisch fortschrittlich und vor allem nachhaltig sollen sie werden, so weit sind die Stadtplaner einig und konzipieren die Smart Cities der Zukunft.
Romania - The Scramble for Land
Austrian investors secure access to important resources in Romania. As early as 2002, Andreas Bardeau acquired 9,000 hectares of farmland in the Banat. Today he farms about 18,000 hectares with his son, making him one of the biggest foreign agriculture investors. With only 160 employees he produces 7,000 litres of milk a day and thousands of tons of grain per year. In addition to the amount realised, he annually collects 3 million Euros from Brussels agricultural funding coffers. Small farmers, however, who practise biological, sustainable agriculture on 20 hectares and raise traditional cow breeds, get no agricultural subsidies. That fate is shared by 70% of Romanian businesses. The dominant position of the Austrian is now bringing more and more critics to the scene.
Kenya - Call for Action
$500 billion of development aid has been pumped into the African continent since 1960. In several regions, nonetheless, the standard of living has fallen even further since then. Now, a growing group of African thinkers has been calling for the West to stop sending development aid. "It leads to dependency, lethargy, corruption and exploitation", they say. "Only economic relationships on equal footing with the West can help Africa to advance."
Voices Of Transition
Voices of Transition allows the most important movers and shakers of the shift to biological agriculture to speak in their own words. French, British and Cuban farmers and scientists, 'Permaculture' activists and pioneers of the 'Transition Town' movement show how we can face the challenges of climate change, resource scarcity and imminent famine with radical new methods. These approaches all have one main feature in common - the possibility of building not just a more future-proof society, but also of happier, more liveable local communities.
Climate Crimes
Climate change is considered to be the biggest risk to nature and mankind. The battle against it is the dominant topic of our times. The environmental organisations have elevated it to the number one priority, and the international community of nations is hoping to halt climate change by spending 100 billion dollars per year. But what is happening to this money? Do the projects actually protect people and nature? In «Climate Crimes» the film makers investigate climate protection and discover some distressing facts: away from global conferences and fine words, destructive mega projects are masqueraded as climate protection. Farmers who no longer produce any food, but instead grow gigantic monocultures with maize, great apes in Indonesia, whose basic of existence, the rain forest, is being destroyed by palm oil plantations ... A film that runs contrary to the zeitgeist of climate protection.
Energy Regions of the Future
Gradually it turns out that our current energy resources are fi nite. Interest in alternative methods of energy supply keeps growing. Today, some regions already seek energy independence, including major areas in Central Europe. While in Lower Austria wind provides the required energy, Salzburg bets on smart power supply systems, so-called smart grids. Others, however, rely on hydroelectric power and biomass. But these new paths alone are not yet suffi cient. At the same time, accompanying measures are taken to reduce energy consumption for «energy guzzlers» and mobility. This fi lm shows the various paths regions take to reduce their dependence on major energy companies.
Before the Flood Comes - Civil Protection in Northern India
Every year during the rainy season, floods inundatewhole regions in north-eastern India. Hardesthit are the people on the lowest rung ofIndian society, the so-called «untouchables». Theylive in primitive villages of mud and straw huts. When the great flood comes, they have no way tofight it and are at its mercy. The development aidagencies ADRA (Adventist Development and ReliefAgency) and Malteser International, which aresupported by the European Community HumanitarianAid Office (ECHO), have been active in themost affected states of Bihar and Uttar Pradeshsince 2007.
Urban Mining - The City as an Everlasting Source of Raw Materials
While the rubbish mountain is growing, raw materials are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive all over the world. For decades, natural resources have been shipped to the industrialised countries and used among other things in tower blocks, mobile phones and cars. Thus, cities contain enormous amounts of raw materials. Researchers and companies are now starting to prospect for urban mines. Precious metals and minerals are to be extracted there. So far, they are stuck in the walls of condemned buildings, long forgotten landfills and disused everyday electronic devices. Those huge and growing urban mines must be explored at great cost and put to use systematically in order to ensure reliable long-term access to raw materials in resource-poor countries.
Farewell Convent
The Annunziata Convent in the Lower Austrian town of Eichgraben was founded in 1898 as the first Austrian branch of the order of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. This convent is now for sale - bad news for the 22 sisters who still live here and have spent the majority of their lives in this community property. But the convent is suffering from a lack of money, and above all from a shortage of new blood. By the end of April a new home needs to be found for the aged sisters. It seems clear that they will no longer be able to live under one roof. Their entry to the order was accompanied by vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
Forgiven and Forgotten?
Almost a million people - above all Tutsis - were massacred by their Hutu neighbours during the genocide of 1994. The events of the past are still part of everyday life today and retain an enormous significance. Today Hutus and Tutsis often live alongside one another - not only next door to one another, but in many cases with one another. Given the past, how can it be possible to live together? How do people deal with their guilt? How can forgiveness be possible? Ruanda, 2011: Seventeen years have passed since the devastating genocide, to which around 1 million people fell victim. The external traces of this civil war are hardly visible still - but in the hearts and minds of Rwandans, the genocide is far from being over and done with. To the present day everyday life in this small African nation is marked by the after-effects of genocide.
The Mystery of the Mother of God
Every year, the places where Mary appears - Lourdes and Medjugorje - draw millions of pilgrims, fascinated by the mysterious phenomenon in these places of deep piety. The official church seems to be divided when it comes to the phenomenon of Marian apparitions. Whilst the apparitions in Lourdes are officially recognised, there are doubts as to the authenticity of those in Medjugorje. Against which criteria are such apparitions judged? What is the interrelationship between Marian miracles and political, economic and ideological conditions? And what is the fascination that causes believers to repeatedly visit such places?
Life on a Volcano
In the wake of the international financial crisis, Iceland was the first European country to teeter on the brink of national insolvency at the end of 2008. The country's three largest banks collapsed, and the government was brought down by the people's «cooking pot revolution». In the meantime, the economy has started to grow again, and the International Monetary Fund attests to Iceland's remarkable progress. The country owes its comeback not only to financial help from other countries, but also to a rigorous programme of savings. The political system has been renewed by unconventional means. Ordinary citizens are tasked with giving the country a new constitution and in the capital city, Reykjavik, a humour-based party is in charge. The dispute over the repayment of billions-worth of British and Dutch savings deposits may not yet be over, but the people are again looking to the future with confidence.
Gas Monopoly
We are dependent on gas. Gas heats our homes. Gas powers our heavy industry. In the near future, we won't have any alternatives to this limited resource. In Europe, the demand for natural gas will increase significantly until 2030 yet and at the same time its domestic production will decrease. Who will supply us with gas in the future? Whatever we may think of it as an energy source - we need to know the answer. Gas Monopoly is the first feature-length documentary dealing with this hot topic and shows the business in big, strong and spectacular pictures: unknown landscapes, impressing facilities on- and offshore and key players in beautiful and unique rooms.
Small is Beautiful - Leopold Kohr
Globalisation seems to have reached its limits. An economic crisis, crashing financial empires and the consequences of climate change threaten the globalised world. But does this automatically mean we're doomed to collapse? Shouldn't we question the dogma of constant growth? Couldn't a new modesty in lifestyle also offer us new perspectives? Questions like the ones above where asked already 50 years ago by an Austrian-born economistand political scientist, originating from Oberndorf in Salzburg: Professor Leopold Kohr.
The challenges the world is facing today make Kohrs ideas more topical than ever. Discussions about smaller entities, regionality and a new sense of humility as alternatives to globalisation in economics, politics and society are in the air. Does mankind find the way back to human measure after years of gigantism?
The documentation shows how the ideas of Kohr took their journey round the world, left their mark on many countries and regions and finally arrived back in Salzburg in the form of the cultural association Tauriska and the Leopold-Kohr-Academy.
The Collapse of the Golden Calf
In the light of the ever worsening global financial crisis, our belief in the invisible hand of the market has been severely shaken. Security has disappeared. The intransparent mystery of money no longer provides a sense of meaning identity.
This documentary investigates, using the promotional machinery of advertising as an example, how the religion of capitalism has, up until this point, functioned so successfully. However the dark side of the financial system is also highlighted. Well known business people and researches, including Wolfgang Joop and Stephan Schulmeister, take up the question of wether other systems exist, that could present an alternative to capitalism.
World in a Ball
This documentary shows the very contradictory consequences of globalization in a single, remote setting: in the secret world capital of soccer in northeast Pakistan, Sialkot. According to a Pakistani legend, the ball is not only round, but also a "Golden Ball," a "Gola Zareen." In Sialkot, 50,000 workers sew about forty million handmade balls per year. That's seventy percent of the hand-stitched soccer balls on the world market. It takes about three hours to finish a ball. The business, which began more than 100 years ago with the manufacture of balls, hockey sticks, and cricket bats for their British colonial masters, kept booming for decades and is economically important for all Pakistan. Now burgeoning competition is posing a threat: el cheapo balls from China are becoming better and better, and high-tech products from Thailand are becoming cheaper and cheaper.
Mission: Zero Emissions - The Factory of Tomorrow
Over the course of several months they observe fascinating pilot projects as particularly innovative production processes are designed and implemented.The film documents the history of how these projects came about, reports on research progress and setbacks, and shows the hopes of the researchers and the potential of the new technologies. Numerous examples demonstrate how the factory of the future is already working today.How can fossil fuels be replaced by renewable sources in future?How might an industrial and working environment where production is sustainable look in around 50 years' time?What do the factory of the future's eco-intelligent products - products that are produced and used in an eco-friendly way, yet which are still competitive - look like?
Fair Trade or Greed - The Route to a Fair Global Economy
The worldwide economic crisis in the financial markets has not only created losers. Michael Zellner, for example, has reason to be satisfied. His company, Merit, has grown tremendously in the last two years by speculating at the right time on falling share prices. This documentary looks into the question of what conclusions players in the international financial markets have drawn from the crisis. For the representatives of sustainability funds, the crisis has clearly demonstrated that financial investments must take ethical criteria into account too if they wish to prevail in the future. Indeed there are ways, when manufacturing and trading consumer goods, of ensuring that responsibility for mankind and nature can be combined with economic interests. For example, the international «fairtrade» organisation now offers a means of doing this, not only in the foods sector, but also in textiles.
Rice - The Golden Grain
In this film, the Filipino case forms the backdrop for a documentary describing the situation of rice farmers today: Did the golden grain lead to their freedom - or who, in fact, earned "gold" from it?
One Kilogram of Wheat
Three farmers - three countries - one product. How much work goes into the harvesting and selling of one kilogram of wheat for a farmer in Austria, a farmer in Russia and a farmer in the US? What kind of compensation do they get in return? Although they are located in completely different cultural areas, the farms are comparable in size, income and social structure. Making investmentdecisions, coping with new agricultural regulations and dealing with everyday life on the farm - they all act alike but ever so different at the same time.
Fronteira Brazil - The Struggle for Land in Mato Grosso
Globalisation has also been long under way in Brazil: powerful concerns buy up entire rain forests and deforest them in order to plant fields of Soya. This documentary focuses on this vast and invasive reclamation process and its social and ecological ramifications. The starting point is the newly paved tarmac road, the BR163, which runs right through the rain forests of the Amazon. Once upon a time it was natural rubber and gold that drove people into the Amazon looking for wealth or a better life: Today it is the Soya boom. As a result land prices along the BR163 constantly rise and it is often only through illegal land grabbing, that people can secure a spot.
Heat from the Sun
Thermal solar plants are profitable both from the ecological and economic points of view. The film shows smart solutions for self-made as well as communal supply systems based on residual heat which are highly practical, intelligible and geared to people's needs.
La Mattanza - The Tuna Hunt in Sicily
Every year between April and May enormous swarms of tuna pass by the Sicilian coast. The fishermen of Favignana prepare for their biggest catch in an appropriate way. Under the direction of the experienced "Capo Rais," they build the biggest underwater trap in the world, the "tonnara," from which there is no escape. More than 100 fishermen work round the clock for months on the complicated trap 40 kilometers long. It has to work properly when the big moment comes. The Mattanza is a battle for life and death for the fish, and even for the fishermen themselves. Convoys of tourists from many countries come to witness this spectacle of death from the first row of boats. 90% of the tuna catch on Favignana goes to Tokyo as fresh fish. Japanese chefs come to Favignana to select the best fish. The rest is processed for the Italian market in cans. Nature conservationists are not heard on Favignana, since this is a matter of survival for the fishermen and their families.
Total Market Power: The New Religion
Based on these provocative theses by Carl Amery, this documentary essay analyses whether religions can restrain the market.In a rather controversial debate, the floor among others is given to fashion designer Wolfgang Joop, Catholic theologian Jozef Niewiadomski and writer Ernesto Cardenal.
Coffee, Milk and Sugar
For breakfast or with a slice of cake in the afternoon; at work but also in private - for many people their daily life would be unimaginable without coffee. Many drink it black, others in turn with milk and sugar. However, when making a cup of coffee, hardly anybody thinks about the complex commodity-cycle. But globalization could not be made more transparent than with the aid of these three ingredients. This documentary sets out on a journey along the entire chain of distribution and value creation culminating with the consumer, portrays the people behind abstract market mechanisms and, using these three products, attempts to highlight (world) economic structures as well as the alternatives to a seemingly impenetrable globalization.
The Jungle is Calling
A third of the forests here have already been irreparably destroyed; 66 per cent of the clearing is illegal and the people that need the forest for hunting and fishing are being forced out. "Here, war is being waged for land, wood and profits," says Thomas Schweiger, a Greenpeace activist. He was on board the Greenpeace ship "Arctic Sunrise" with a group of activists from 16 nations to battle the illegal activities of the timber companies. And the ORF camera team was there to witness it all.
Making Billions - Between Greed and Ethics
The repercussions are grave: The violent swings in stock prices are being exacerbated by speculation and the enormous rise in food prices is causing the first ever worldwide food catastrophe that has not been caused by droughts, wars or natural catastrophes. This documentary shows how speculation on the world's largest commodities market in Chicago is having an effect on the lives of people around the globe and gives an insight into the function and impact of complex economic systems. The film accompanies the coffee growers and inhabitants of Nicaragua in times of economic crisis, managers of a Hedge Fund on their shopping trip in London and portrays two financial managers who, with their Ethic Fund, have taken a fairer but also highly successful path.
Alpine Meltdown - Just a Few Degrees More
The climate is changing, global temperatures are rising. The impact is already apparent, especially in the mountains - but also in the lowlands. The permafrost zone is movng higher, and the masses of snowmelt sweeping down from the glaciers are increasing year by year. Rivers roar into powerful floods and dwindle to a trickle within minutes. «Alpine Meltdown» takes us to a future world, incorporating the changes that have already occurred and pursuing the question: how will alpine landscapes look - and what animals will they still protect - at the end of the 21st Century?
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Aston Villa take on Neil Warnock's Cardiff City on Saturday looking to extend their unbeaten run under new manager Steve Bruce to seven matches.
Both teams have experienced similar runs of form of late and it promises to be an intriguing encounter between two sides who had lofty ambitions at the beginning of the season.
While Villa still hope to make a play-off bid, Cardiff are just eager to breakaway from the relegation zone, which they sit agonisingly above at present.
Football editor Mat Kendrick and Alex Dicken will be covering the match on Saturday and have attempted to second guess Bruce's selection...
Mat Kendrick
The draw at Brighton & Hove Albion was arguably the best Villa have played in the Championship this season, particularly in the second half.
So on that basis, the XI which finished the match at the Amex Stadium are worthy of starting Saturday's home clash against Cardiff City.
That would mean the settled back five of Pierluigi Gollini behind Alan Hutton, James Chester, Nathan Baker and Jordan Amavi.
In terms of the midfield, Mile Jedinak and Ashley Westwood would form a holding pairing.
This would mean sacrificing Gary Gardner from the first XI, which is a little harsh on the Bodymoor graduate who has shown fine spirit to battle his way back into form, and it is a close call between him and Ashley Westwood.
But with the onus on Villa to attack at Villa Park, there is an embarrassment of attacking riches for Steve Bruce to call upon - and there were strong hints at Brighton that they are threatening to click.
Jack Grealish sparkled against the Seagulls, so for me, would form part of a support strikeforce, alongside Albert Adomah and Jordan Ayew, behind the main man of Jonathan Kodjia.
Alex Dicken
Aston Villa claimed a point against high-flying Brighton but, in all honesty, it could have been three.
Villa's second-half showing was terrific with substitutes Jack Grealish and Jordan Ayew sending the Albion defence into panic stations.
Villa played with three in midfield on the South Coast, as they have done in the majority of Bruce's matches so far, but I think the manager might change it up to break down what will be a resilient and reserved Cardiff team.
The back five picks itself at the moment, while I expect local lad Gary Gardner to keep his place alongside midfield enforcer Mile Jedinak.
I'd bring Grealish into the side to add creativity in the middle with Ayew coming into the team on the left hand side.
That just leaves Albert Adomah, who has been in inspired form of late, and man of the moment Jonathan Kodjia to fill the remaining two spots.
It was difficult to leave Ross McCormack out, who returns from suspension to face his former employers, but Grealish and Ayew just edge it for me.


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With Thembani Dube
uMthwakazi Review.com's Agenda4Action programme this week interacts with Thompson Mkhwananzi, the Chairman for the Matebeleland Liberation Organization (MLO), an emerging and vibrant organization that is agitating for the independence of Matebeleland. MLO is fast becoming a political shaker and mover in beating the political drums for Matebeleland's independence from Zimbabwe. There are increasing and growing calls for the restoration of Matebeleland as a state in the southern western parts of Zimbabwe from a number of organizations based in the Diaspora and in Zimbabwe itself. Those in the restorationist camp believe that Matebeleland is colonized by Zimbabwe and therefore she should break her colonial chains and free herself from colonialist Zimbabwe. I had the opportunity to put a number of questions to Mr Mkhwananzi regarding his organization's agitation for the independence of Matebeleland and the arguments for such a political move.
Thembani Dube: Mr Mkhwananzi would you say that Matebeleland is currently under occupation in Zimbabwe?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: Thank you for affording me the opportunity to appear on Agenda4Action on behalf of our organization, the Matebeleland Liberation Organization. Let me address your question Thembani from a historical perspective. The British occupied Matabeleland, which our founding fathers called Mthwakazi, to celebrate the diversity of its people, after imfazo yakuqala (the first Anglo-Matabele war) of 1893. Matabeleland became a captive, occupied country since then, it has not been restored to its people. In 1980, the British handed the occupation to the Zimbabwe government. The people of Matabeleland formed Matabeleland Liberation Organization to regain their independence and full sovereignty. Matabeleland here refers to Matabeleland north and south, Midlands and a part of Mashonaland west of the Kariba district.
Thembani Dube: Thank you Mkhwananzi. But what really is MLO's vision for the liberation of Matabeleland?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: MLO envisions a free, independent, separate and sovereign country, where its citizens will have equal access as individuals and as ethnic groups to opportunities privileges and rights in Matebeleland. We envision a country under an MLO government that will far exceed the expectations of its people. We envision a country where all citizens and ethnic groups will be equal, free from discrimination of any kind. We do envision a country that will enter the Global Village and play its part in developing the global village and ensuring peace and prosperity for all in the global village.
Thembani Dube: In your first article published with uMthwakazi Review.com, MLO calls upon people to join the organization for the campaign for the restoration of Matabeleland as a state. There are now many groups and parties in Matabeleland (MNP, MPC, uMhlahlo, UMRF) agitating for the restoration of Matabeleland as a state. What makes MLO's message, in your view; resonate with the people of Matebeleland regarding their liberation from Zimbabwe?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: MLO is an Organization of the people of Matabeleland for the people of Matebeleland; its leadership has extensively consulted the people, and is familiar with their aspirations, wants and fears. From that, MLO has set realistic and achievable goals and set in motion strategies that will expeditiously, deliver independence with minimum pain and suffering to the people.
Thembani Dube: Some have made accusations that those calling for the restoration of the state of Matebeleland are calling for the restoration of a tribal state. Are all races, ethnic groups and those of different religious orientation welcome to join MLO?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: In every revolution there will always be detractors Thembani. Such baseless claims are common in revolutions. MLO is a multi-ethnic and multi-racial liberation Movement, as such all are welcome to join MLO as long as they subscribe to its values of tolerance, respect, transparency, meritocracy, ubuntu and selfless service.
Thembani Dube: There seems to be a plethora of groups and movements that are emerging in Matebeleland agitating for her independence at the moment. Is MLO prepared to form an alliance with other groups championing the same cause for the independence of Matebeleland?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: MLO is prepared to work with all genuine Liberation Formations in Matabeleland. Let me at this point address the question of multiplicity of formations. Others view it as a weakness, which impedes progress, which could be true, if the formations spend time fighting each other. It is also a strength if the formations will co-operate towards the goal of achieving independence, as there are formations that are good at certain tasks. The formations would also be able to confuse, confound and frustrate the enemy, ensuring the perpetuity of the campaign for independence. A football team has many players playing at different positions; these formations are players in the liberation team. Let me further illustrate the advantages of many formations; imagine a game reserve with a single lion and one buffalo. It is certain that one day the buffalo will be the lion's meal so extinction the buffalo in that Game reserve. Now imagine there are many buffaloes and one lion, the lion may eat some but definitely, the buffaloes will survive the lion, to increase and prosper.
Thembani Dube: There are elections coming up in Zimbabwe next year. Some of the groups that are championing the cause for the independence of Matebeleland are participating in the coming Zimbabwe elections. What is MLO's position on the issue of participating in the elections in Zimbabwe?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: MLO was formed to liberate Matabeleland, not to entrench its occupation by the Zimbabwe regime. Participating in the elections legitimizes the present colonialist Zimbabwean state and consents to be governed by the resultant government. Therefore, MLO will not participate in Zimbabwe's elections. MLO will soon announce major political positions and strategies that will change the political landscape in Matabeleland forever and create conditions that will deliver independence expeditiously. These have been formed and built over the years and now are ready to be effected.
Thembani Dube: That is an interesting revelation you are making. In the interim, there are serious and immediate needs that are faced by the people of Matebeleland 32 years after the marginalization of Matebeleland in all sectors of life by the government of Robert Gabriel Mugabe and Zanu PF. There is a requirement for these to be addressed as a matter of urgency before the realization of a state of Matebeleland. How is MLO going to respond to these immediate and urgent needs of the people of Matebeleland using its political positions and strategies that you have alluded to above?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: It is true that Matabeleland and its diverse people have immediate issues, because of this foreign occupation. MLO will do all that is necessary to mitigate the situation, but will meet with very little success, as the occupiers will not allow it. Case in point is the Zambezi water project, which was an initiative of the people of Matabeleland, they collected money and other resources to build the pipeline, to pipe water to Bulawayo. The occupation regime stepped in and destroyed this initiative. This sets the priority as the independence of Matabeleland. MLO views this to be the most urgent, as its attainment will pave the way for the resolution of other issues. The priority of people in a burning house is to get out of the house and be safe, not cleaning the house or seeking comfort in a burning house. MLO is saying let us separate ourselves from Zimbabwe the source of our problems.
Thembani Dube: The MDC President, Professor Welshman Ncube has been badly treated by Mugabe and Tsvangirai in their support for Mutambara who lost the leadership of the MDC party sometime ago. They are propping him up and helping him to masquerade as a legitimate leader of MDC long after SADC have recognized Welshman as the leader of MDC and a principal of his party. What does this political saga mean to MLO in the context of the organization's liberation politics?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: Thank you for bringing up this issue Thembani. It is a very important issue and it sends a strong message to the people of Matebeleland. It is a clear case of tribal discrimination and persecution that Welshman is being subjected to. It demonstrates what a lot of peoples from Matabeleland go through under this foreign regime and occupation force, and vindicates the MLO's quest for complete independence and separation of Matebeleland from Zimbabwe so that Matabeleland and its people should not be subjected to such degrading treatment ever again. MLO calls on all people of Matabeleland in their diversity to pursue one objective that is pursuance and agitation for an INDEPENDENT, SEPARATE and SOVEREIGN state of MATABELELAND. Nothing short of the independent state of Matebeleland will improve our lot. In that regard, the revolution has long begun.
Thembani Dube: Let us come to the land issue and the land reform programme of Zimbabwe. The land reform programme has been declared a success by Zanu PF and President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. In Matebeleland, has the land reform programme been a success? Has the vast numbers of the people from Matebeleland benefited from this important resource beneath their feet?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: When the British accomplished the destruction and subjugation of Matabeleland during the colonial era, they announced the colonialist exercise "a success," our present circumstances are a result of that "success", so it is in like manner that Zimbabwe declares a "success" a program that dispossess us. The people of Matabeleland have been robbed of their land, foreigners are benefiting from Matabeleland resources and land, because over the years we have legitimized this plunder by our participation in the affairs of Zimbabwe and regarding ourselves as Zimbabweans, hence the Francis Nhemas of this world have the temerity to publicly declare and say to our people, "we will exploit your resources and if you protest we will arrest you". Francis Nhema is a colonialist functionary of Zimbabwe and what he has said is what is happening on the ground in Matebeleland. MLO will correct the situation when it attains independence.
Thembani Dube: Land is a very important resource to people. According to what you are saying there is a big problem in Matebeleland. If this is the situation on the ground and people are being dispossessed of their land in Matebeland, how is MLO hoping to address the issue of this alleged land grab?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: MLO will respect the property rights of those who owned land prior to the land grab, meaning that all those whose land was stolen from them will have their land restored to them. MLO has a land policy whose main features are:
1.) Respect for private property
2.) Compensation for what land the state has need to take at market value,
3.) One farmer one farm,
4.) A maximum size of farm in each ecological region,
5.) A high tax for land owned in excess of the maximum size and
6.) A re-organization and capitalization of the traditional lands (communal lands), so that they have more than one harvest, so increasing productivity.
Thembani Dube: The truth and Justice for Gukurahundi victims remains a big issue that is seriously causing a political logjam in the current politics of Zimbabwe. It is an issue that cuts across the divide of political and human rights groups in Matebeleland. Is MLO prepared to work with all political and human rights groups in Matebeleland on the Gukurahundi issue to seek justice for the victims of this Genocide?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: As already said MLO will co-operate with all genuine Liberation and Human rights formations in Matabeleland to seek and secure justice for the Gukurahundi victims, their offspring and the nation of Matabeleland. MLO recognizes the role played by other groups and the groups gone before it. MLO recognizes that all genuine groups have a role to play in the pursuit of justice and compensation for Matabeleland and its people, therefore we will work with these other groups.
Thembani Dube: There are others in Matebeleland who support Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC-T party and are of the opinion that he is going to liberate Matebeleland from Zanu PF's inspired tribal hegemonist and segregationist policy against Matebeleland. Is MDC-T and its leader any different from Zanu PF and Mugabe in its treatment of Matebeleland and her issues of concern?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: Morgan Tsvangirai and his party came into being in 1999, almost 20 years after the Matabeleland problem has been inexistence and he gave as reason for his political career and his party as the white farm grab and the economic meltdown. At no time did he give the problems of Matabeleland as the reason for his party and his entering politics. He even showered Mugabe with praise for Gukurahundi and exclusionary politics, by stating that Mugabe was "a great leader from 1980-2000," a period that includes Gukurahundi, tribal discrimination and destruction of all infrastructure health, educational social and agricultural in Matabeleland, not once but twice and always because he has never repudiated it, first in 2003 and again in 2010. How much more clearly should the man be for the people of Matabeleland to avoid him like the plague?
It is sad, mischievous, and selfish that people who should know better go on preaching to the people this fallacy that Tsvangirai is the solution. How many Matabele people work in his party offices? How many does he take on foreign trips? Matabele people must know that Zanu PF is a Zezuru-Korekore party and MDC-T is a Karanga party, the people of Matabeleland have no stake in both Zanu PF and MDC-T. There is no difference between Zanu PF and MDC-T they are the flipside of the same coin. Matabeleland does not need Tsvangirai and his party, to free it from Zanu PF, but Matebeleland Liberation Organization and other genuine liberation formations in Matabeleland to free it from Zimbabwe. MLO is ready and is equal to the task of our independence; it needs our people's support to deliver freedom.
Thembani Dube: Finally, does MLO support current efforts that are being made to revive the monarch in Matebeleland?
Thompson Mkhwananzi: The monarch is an important institution of Matabeleland its revival will go a long way in helping the people of Matabeleland rediscover themselves as a nation of nations. MLO fully supports its revival. We are glad to note that a lot has gone into that, and that that there is unity of purpose among the players. All must be aware that the monarch in the modern world does not play the same role as it used to, but has important functions to preserve the culture and cohesiveness of the nations concerned.
Thembani Dube: Mkhwananzi it has been a pleasure to have you on uMthwakazi review.com's Agenda4Action programme. It has really been a fascinating interview. We hope to have you in this programme in the future. God bless!
Thompson Mkhwananzi: You are welcome Thembani. It has been a privilege to be on this programme. Our independence is coming tomorrow.
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Self employed people need help!
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November 30, 2017 at 4:35 pm #245
My boyfriend is a self employed professional musician. He works a fairly even split of performing and teaching. Teaching is split between contracts at schools and private individual clients.
However he has what I call 'The Fear'. He went self employed about 10 years ago and is now very busy and successful.
He suffers anxiety and depression anyway and following a return from holiday has crashed badly.
He is super busy and often works 9am-8pm almost non stop for 6 days a week- later if he has a gig. He is getting down because he is so exhausted (understandably) and has no time/energy for the things he enjoys such as swimming or doing things like paperwork or seeing family. He is scared of losing work and how the music scene is dying down and that it may not be a sustainable long term career when he loves what he does and would struggle to adapt to employed work (including having to start at the bottom and work up). Hence working crazy hours to stash money away now. (Until he met me he was perhaps not too organised, had a bit of debt, resigned to not owning a house (where we are is virtually unaffordable for first time buyers) he has now cleared th debt and got himself into a good position financially and wanting to save for a house etc)
I'm really worried about him. I totally understand his viewpoint and can see his concerns are valid. I don't know how I can help him or if there's anything we can do to help him feel more secure. I'm worried for his health – physically and mentally- if he continues working the hours he does.
Anyone who is either self employed or a partner to someone who is got any advice?
November 30, 2017 at 4:35 pm #246
Other than telling him to get another career – it's difficult. My ex-husbandwas a self employed musician, reasonably successful, but buying a house and not living hand to mouth was only achieved by my work.
Best advice is for him to get health insurance – if he can't work due to illness he can't earn. Get good advice from an accountant to see what he can claim on expenses, that will reduce his tax burden. Make sure he keeps up his NI payments, so he can claim a pension when he is older. Make sure his accounts are up to date and accurate.
Good luck – it's a tough life xx
November 30, 2017 at 4:36 pm #247
hi Chaps,
I totally totally understand where your boyfriend is coming from, not only have i experienced the same thing but i believe its not that uncommon in the self employed.
My best friend has also been down the same route. It feels like the whole world is on your shoulders and no matter what you do it is never enough. I would liken it to a solid brick wall that there is no getting over, or around.
I felt so unhappy that i have now sold my business and i have a factory job. A lot of folk dont understand what i have done but my god the relief is unreal. At work there is a bell at the end of shift and everyone is out of there like rats deserting a sinking ship…i love that bit.
Leading up to the point where i decided to sell there was a few periods of peaks and troughs where one minute i could nt imagine what else i would do with my life and the next i felt so trapped. like your lucky husband i have a very supportive other half it made all the difference ,but keep your eye on him..and dont let him carry on too long if its making him so unhappy . life really is too short.
November 30, 2017 at 4:37 pm #248
My daughter is self employed and I have been, but had another job. My best suggestion if he can bare it is to get a part time job working for someone else, which seem counter intuitive. Just 12-16 hours, something perhaps less stress full in a big supermarket, if will give him a basic wage, cut out the feast and famine syndrome, pay some NI and pension. When he is not worried about money he can take less or higher paid other jobs and enjoy them more.
I know someone who did this just to add to his pension, and loved it. My daughter worked for a high street retailer and did her own work part time and I think she wouldn't think twice about doing it again, but you have to accept not being in control.
Men often see themselves as being defined by their jobs, so you he has to see change as a positive step.
November 30, 2017 at 4:38 pm #249
A lot of people don't realise how stressful being self employed is. I'm self employed as are Mr EM and our son and we have to be in a position to bouy up each other if one of us get down. It's especially a worry as Mr EM and I get older and don't have the energy we used to. I would definitely recommend having an income protection policy that would cover some income were he to become ill, even if it just covered any regular payments going out eg car payments etc.
However with many self employed jobs there is the advantage that you can decide on when you are available to work, it takes confidence to say "sorry I'm not working that day" and offer an alternative, however surprisingly, if you have that confidence many clients will actually value you more. Both Mr EM and our son (joiner and EDT respectively) get people phoning wanting an appointment in a couple of days time and although they seem surprised there's no availability they will usually accept an appointment in a couple of weeks time or so, being busy is usually a good recommendation (obviously they will try and attend emergencies). The clients that won't accept you are busy and in demand probably won't be loyal clients anyway. It's hard in the begining but as you go on confidence grows – our son still works crazy hours but has now got to the point where he will block days off in his diary at times so he can have some downtime and he doesn't get upset if a client tries to be too demanding.
November 30, 2017 at 4:39 pm #250
I was self employed for years but once that retail business was sold I've diversified… Now an a partner with my husband in a small franchise business, help my husband with his other business which is really booming, and I also have two 'employed' jobs, one standardised hours in a health centre and the other as a Parish Clerk, 10 hours a week from home. the Parish Clerk job is awesome!
November 30, 2017 at 4:40 pm #251
I am self employed, but also have another job. At first the other job was full time, so I could be really picky on clients. Strangely enough that seemed to make me more popular, not less.
I now work part time and my self employed job. I also blank out days that are days off. I think it is the regular wage that gives me peace of mind to do that. Otherwise, I would be concerned that if I turned down a client then they would not book me again.
November 30, 2017 at 4:41 pm #252
Going for 3rd time lucky responding to this.
He is very fussy about what work he accepts – as he has a good reputation he is always recommended by people and so acquires business that way usually. It also means he can and does turn away clients who are bad payers or that don't fit into a suitable slot or even that he just doesn't like. It also means that if he doesn't work his students/schools/bands don't generally bog off and it doesn't cost him beyond that particular amount of time off usually.
He genuinely loves what he does, it's the instability and long term that worries him and stresses him. I think he'd struggle to cut down on what he does to do p/t employed work but it's certainly an idea and when he is more stable and the time is right I think I'll bring it up. The issue with going into employed work or re-training is both the enjoyment aspect and financial – as much as I'd love to be able to financially support the pair of us I just physically can't (he hasn't asked me to either)
I do get a good benefits package at work so may see about what I can add him into. I agree income protection is a good idea and one I'd not thought about.
His depression has come and hit him hard (as it always does – but it's been a few months so as much as I was expecting it it's also a shock) so he's in a bad way right now so just trying to sit tight and keep everything together for now.
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The book by the former head of the community Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Rasūl on the two centuries of the scholarly and religious service provided by his family is a valuable record of how the family moved from Tabrīz to Karbalā and then to al-Aḥsāʾ and Kuwait and the centres, mosques and ḥawzāt they established. At his death, his son Mīrzā ʿAbdullāh succeeded but was not declared the full head of the community but now certainly seems to be. He is given titles such as 'al-ḥakīm al-ilāhī', 'rūḥ al-šarīʿa' and even the title of a marǧaʿ (which they now use for him) 'āyatullāh al-ʿuẓmā'. His visits to Kuwait are major events most recently a few months ago. The difficulty is to figure out how large the community is. It seems fairly small confined to parts of al-Šarq and Bneid al-Gār in Kuwait, some pockets in the eastern province in al-Aḥsāʾ and al-Hufūf and a very small community of students in al-Sayyida Zaynab in the southern suburbs of Damascus where they have a Muʾassasat al-fikr al-awḥad (although most of the books are published in Beirut). The works of their scholars are published in the following places:
· Kuwait: Maktabat al-ʿAḏrāʾ is a wonderful little Šayḫī bookshop in Bneid al-Gār run by devotees originally from Iran (the whole area is very much a Šīʿī Iranian area) and they publish many of the works at their press – simple and fairly cheap paperbacks (at least for Kuwaiti standards where 1-2KD is hardly anything for a paperback). Their risāla ʿamalīya is available there – one in two thick volumes with a long introduction on doctrine and belief by Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Rasūl, and another more recent entitled Aḥkām al-šarīʿa by Šayḫ Muḥammad al-Ǧadī.
· Kuwait: Ǧāmiʿ al-Imām al-Ṣādiq in al-Šarq (the Imam there is Šayḫ ʿAbdullāh al-Mazīdī) is their main centre with the Ḥusaynīya Ǧaʿfarīya next door which act jointly as headquarters for publishing, dissemination and services – there are two laǧna-s for publication – one for the works of Šayḫ Aḥmad and the tradition and another for the works of Sayyid Kāẓim al-Raštī. Rather odd that they prefer to published the many risāla-s separately and do not publish the complete Ǧawāmiʿ al-kalim as the Kirmānī branch has.
· Beirut: the Damascus based Muʾassasat al-fikr al-awḥad publishes usually through one of the major Šīʿī presses like al-Maḥaǧǧa al-bayḍāʾ; the Kuwaiti laǧna-s also use Muʾassasat al-balāġ


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We almost went with the title, "Vlad to Answer Question – How Would Juan Gone Play at 35?" But it wasn't that good, but it's good enough for the post content… You guys get the best! So Vladimir Guerrero signed with Texas hoping to get some oil for his knees. We'll see, those knees are woefully low on viscosity and there have been murmurs about a thermal breakdown. The Rangers are probably the best place for Vlad. He's historically been a beast in that stadium — .394 with 14 homers in 193 ABs. Then again, that was against the Rangers pitching staff and 6 of those homers came in 2004 *cough* Chan Ho *cough*. Vlad's knees have had a tougher last few years then Amy Winehouse's face. I think he's capable of a 25 homer, .300 season, but steals are no longer a part of his game and he has Utility-only eligibility, which really kills any value he might have. So he's that same old fart with that new fart smell. Here's another signing and what it means for fantasy baseball:
Aroldis Chapman – He fired the agent that smuggled him out of Cuba and went with an agent that told him it was a good idea to sign with a Dusty Baker-led pitching staff. Now would be a good time for Chapman's family to step in and make sure he doesn't buy a million dollar stamp of an upside airplane and postmark it. I went over Aroldis Chapman when he first defected. It's a fun read. I counted only three typos. His stuff is wicked awesome and his control is wicked awful. But he wouldn't be the first guy to struggle there. Hello, Randy Johnson. That's a tall order, literally. But he's someone I'm excited about in keepers and deep leagues. He should be owned in keepers from the jump. In one year leagues, I'd take a flier on him in the final rounds to see if he breaks camp. If he doesn't, then you drop him. No harm, no foul. If he does break camp, then you're looking at a Volquez-type season. Not great WHIP, decent ERA and great Ks. Think 3.75/1.37 and a strikeout/inning. I'm guessing we won't see him until midseason at the earliest. His value will be predicated on how quickly the Reds want Dusty to ruin his arm.


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We are offering translation service in more aboriginal languages now, thanks to Melanie Malo, our recruitment intern. She has successfully completed her practicum placement at wintranslation last week. Melanie is a French into English translation student from the University of Ottawa's School of Translation. Melanie took on the task of recruiting specialized translators during her placement. She was very resourceful and diligent in her recruitment. During her time with wintranslation, she recruited translators in Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga and Seneca, Cree and Oji-Cree. She also had a very successful recruitment campaign for English into French legal translators.
wintranslation's Ottawa team went out for lunch at Ten Sushi to say goodbye to Melanie and thank her for the wonderful work she did for us.
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Tempest Storm (born February 29, 1928) is an American stripper, burlesque star, and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best known burlesque performers of the 1950s and 1960s. She is regarded as having one of the longest careers as a burlesque performer, spanning more than 50 years. She still regularly performs as of the 2000s.
Storm was a regular performer for many years at a burlesque theater in Oakland, California, as well as at clubs around the United States, including in Las Vegas. She was famous for her physical measurements (44DD-25-35) and her naturally red hair. She was featured in numerous men's magazines and burlesque movies, including Russ Meyer's French Peep Show (1950), Paris After Midnight (1951), Striptease Girl (1952), Irving Klaw's Teaserama, (1955) (which also featured Bettie Page) and his Buxom Beautease (1956). She traveled extensively and did many performances in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. In the late 1950s, her breasts – her "moneymakers" as she called them – were insured by Lloyds of London for one million dollars. She acted in several motion pictures both as herself and in a character role.
French Peep Show, 1950
Paris After Midnight, 1951
Striptease Girl, 1952
Teaserama, 1955
Buxom Beautease, 1956


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Patterson Riegel Advertising wins Gold Addy
and four Silver at annual Addy Awards Show
FORT WAYNE, IN – February 21, 2013 – Patterson Riegel Advertising captured a Gold Addy award for an ad campaign developed for ProFed Credit Union at the 2013 Addy Awards presentation held Saturday, February 16. The agency also won two Silver Addys outright and two Silver Addys in the individual awards category.
The Gold Addy was received for creating and producing ProFed's "Rite of Passage" ad campaign. The award specifically recognizes campaigns that integrate television, radio and newspaper advertising. The two Silver Addys were received for ProFed's "Extra Auto Loan" :30 second TV commercial and for the Allergy & Asthma Center's "Kids" :30 second TV commercial.
The ProFed "Rite of Passage" and "Extra Auto Loan" campaigns also won Silver Addys in individual competition for cinematography and music, respectively.
"We are proud of our creative team for its stellar work on the ProFed and Allergy and Asthma Center ad campaigns," says Matt Henry, Patterson Riegel's president and CEO. "And, needless to say, we are grateful to ProFed and the Allergy and Asthma Center for giving us the opportunity to work on such great projects."
Patterson Riegel Advertising is a local full service advertising agency, specializing in all facets of advertising, including consumer-based retail, business-to–business marketing, public relations, promotional services, social media marketing and more.


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A Rough Attempt.
Nuances of the unprecedented claims
still, they shake, before me smeared
in prayers, the voices turn bleak.
Ostentatious impatient,
Incongruous becomes the wayworn teach
forever still, for such they seek.
Underscore this, at costs unbelievable.
My mankind comes to this.
In pockets, not roses
but blades are keeps.
At midnight, he and she,
drain eyes, drowning pillows in weeps.
O! Human! Can not you see this?
Five empty chairs and none to sit.
-Manvendra Vidyarthi
(The Stories beneath the eyes.)


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Mandate of the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and the Sacraments - English Sector
The National Liturgy Office serves the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. The responsibilities of the Office are to assist the English Sector Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and the Sacraments in carrying out its mandate.
The Commission meets four times a year:
- Providing ritual and liturgical books for use in Canada;
- Promoting the observance of the Guidelines for Liturgical Publications;
- Overseeing the preparation of liturgical educational materials for publication;
- Recommending to the CCCB and the Bishops of Canada pastoral liturgical action and promoting studies and necessary experiments whenever there is a question of adaptation to be proposed to the Apostolic See (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 44);
- Assisting the President of the CCCB in maintaining relations with the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) and other national and international groups;
- Maintaining relations with the Commission épiscopale de liturgie et des sacrements;
- Meeting on a regular basis with the Director of the National Liturgy Office (NLO) and the members of the National Council on Liturgy for ongoing consultation, discussion and collaboration concerning liturgical matters;
- Consulting on a regular basis the National Council for Liturgical Music in the process of reviewing music1 and approving hymns for liturgical use in Canada.
The current members of the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and the Sacraments are:
1 See: Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction Musicam sacram on Music in the Liturgy (March 5, 1967) no. 69.


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Well, sorta. I am really proud though! Check out this link!
Month: December 2008
Let's Pretend
Let's pretend for awhile. Let's pretend that France decides it doesn't like how the US is run. And so, meaning well, it decides that we should have an election. Another one. So we hold the elections under the watchful eye of France. Then we elect Obama, fair and square. But this France doesn't like Obama. So France doesn't allow Obama to be the president, and decides that even though we elected him, they are going to choose, because we don't actually know what we want. They may even imply that we are too stupid to know what is best for us, even though what we have been doing was working OK for us. They then send in their military to enforce the person that we didn't elect.
Years go by, the US gets increasingly difficult to live in. The government gets increasingly corrupt and France is pulling all the strings. As civilians it is increasingly difficult to ensure safety for your family. Civilians don't like this corruption and are trying to get the US back to normal as best they can, but the only option they have left is to strike out against the corruption. And those strikes are quelled quickly. Meanwhile homes are being lost, lives are being lost, and everyone is affected by this.
So what is left to do? Maybe you decide to move. You and your family, or maybe just you while leaving your family behind for a time, move. You don't just move to Canada as many USians love to claim they will do, because Canada has been dealt the same hand. So you have to move somewhere completely different. Somewhere where everything is different from what you are familiar with. Say….Japan. The culture is different. The language is different. The characters used in writing are different. The foods are different (you love sushi, but it only goes so far). The major religion is different. You are so out of your element it hurts. And you have to live there for years. You can't get the foods that are familiar to you. You can't speak the language that is familiar to you. There is nothing that is within your comfort zone, you can't even express yourself properly because there are pieces of the language that will always be foreign to you no matter how hard you try to learn them. You try to integrate as best as possible but as much of a home as you have made it, it is not home. It is not the home of your youth and familiarity.
But the alternative is no good either. Going home doesn't work, because even the US is not home. Home is not what you are familiar with either. It has been bombed, and your home may not be there, you've lost people who are dear to you, your livelihood is not even an option anymore. France has militarized it and corrupted it and made it unsafe. People all around your home are also trying to leave. There are some who stay, deciding to become accustomed to this new reality rather than flee it.
What do you think your greatest desire would be? Would it not be to have the US revert back to the way it was before all the insanity began? The way you remember it to be? A way that was safe and not just "safe?" After all, you have not really chosen to leave, you were forced to do so.
And then someone from France comes along and says "Most American Japanese think anyone who willingly stays in the US is an idiot!" Would this not be the HEIGHT of hubris? Would this not be the most bold and uneducated statement you have ever heard? Wouldn't it make you want to cry?
Happy New Year everyone, please give some thought and prayers to all the displaced people in the world.
Bug and Her Bike
She did get that coveted bike for Christmas, and despite my hurt that I wasn't the one to get it for her, I was grateful to her grandparents for doing it. She got a bike with training wheels, and it lacked the "princess" theme that I can't tolerate a whole lot of. She also got a helmet and elbow and knee pads.
The few days she was at her dads were spent riding the bike around the house. She apparently was on it all the time. He deemed it too cold to be outside riding in, but by the time I got home it was in the 40's so I thought we could be outside. Plus, my old small house is not conducive to bike riding.
We took the bike out and she rode it around our driveway for a bit. But of course this isn't really enough! So I promised to walk behind her while she rode. That kid rode all over our neighborhood with the happiest look on her face! She rode until we were both tired, she rode until our hands were too numb to feel, she rode until she shivered. And then we went in. The next day, directly after school, we had to repeat the process.
I started out immediately teaching her the things she needs to know while riding around the neighborhood. First I taught her how to use her brakes, because no one had done so yet. Then I taught her how to break at the streets, get off the bike, look both ways, and push the bike across. Now she does it on her own with my supervision only. Teach her the correct way FIRST and then I don't have to fix bad habits. It is the rule of motorcycle riding and I figure it applies to bike riding and kids too.
I suspect that her bike riding will be good for my health. I don't seem to have much choice but to take a walk in the evenings now. I DO hope that she will be willing to ride to school sometimes with me walking, in the spring. That would be good for both of us!
New page #1
Up under my title you will see a new page. Stash Bust 2009.
Seeing as I start January 1, 2009, all totals are 0 right now.
Central Park Hoodie in Dream in Color classy will be the first project of 2009. I've managed to get my WIP's so under control that I only have 4 WIP's left. I will not be listing yarn that is currently in use on my stash bust 2009 page. I will list yarn on 2008 WIP's in which that particular ball of yarn was begun and finished in 2009. I still have to figure out what to do about partial skeins.
Do you want to know a secret? I am not entirely sure I will cast on my central park hoodie right on January 1. Why you might ask? We all know I am a sucker for knit alongs. But I am having such fun working on long term WIP's that I just am not even sure I want to start something new!
Now, if you read that statement correctly you will realize that this shows real growth. Seriously! Over the past year it has been my goal to bring down my WIP list to a reasonable level. It has been tough, I've fallen down, but I have finally done it and it is satisfying.
That can only mean one thing. Surely 2009 can be the year I get my stash under control! I've proven that I CAN do it, now I have to put it into practice.
Lace Surgery
I've been working on the icarus shawl for quite some time now. On and off, since I cast on way back in May. One of the reasons it is going slow is because the section I am working on is rather repetative and does not fulfill my lace knitting needs. So in order to fix that little problem, I decided to take it to a knit night with the girls. Being that we meet for wine and knitting, it is a bit dark and I am usually somewhat distracted. So on one of those nights, I managed to make a jig where I should have jogged, and then jogged back when I should have jigged, and the resulting mess was not pleasing to the eye. You see, when you look at the shawl, the long lines (or bones as I call them) need to be perfect. And I had a broken bone. It needed surgery. I knew I couldn't just leave it be, so of course I put the shawl into a long time out.
Since the holidays were quiet this year, and I was attempting to avoid casting on any new projects until January 1, I decided now was a good time to perform lace surgery.
Below is a picture of the problem, though I am not sure how easy it is to see it.
Right above my middle knuckles is the jig where there should have been a jog. At the tips of my fingers is the jog back. Not ok! I just didn't want to see a broken bone in this shawl.
So, I thought I could document the lace surgery in case it would help someone else in the future. Early in the morning, when it was quiet, I armed myself with my surgical instruments.
A nice cup of coffee and two dpn's just a bit smaller than the needles I am using to knit the shawl.
I then locate the problem stitches and drop them off the working needles. I push the stitches I am not working with WAY BACK on the working needles so that they aren't going anywhere.
And then I do something which strikes fear in every knitters heart. I purposely drop the problem stitches back down to where I no longer have a problem.
You can see that I have indicated where I need to stop, because I know I don't want to work any further down than I have to.
I picked up the problem stitches again, taking note of where I was within my pattern. Have I picked up on a right or wrong side row? This is critical information. I started with a right side row, and you can see the yarn overs on either side of the "bone" stitch.
Now I have a bunch of threads that need to be worked back into the project one by one. I start with the one closest to the dpn, making sure that I haven't mixed them up.
I then begin to knit that thread into the pattern. I started with a pattern row, so my next row is a wrong side row, or a row that I would have purled if I was working back and forth. Seeing as I am working the entire surgery from the front of the project, I need to knit all the stitches in the next row.
Once I have incorporated that thread, I move the stitches to the right hand side of the dpn they are now on, and start the next row, a pattern row. I keep working each row until all the loose threads are worked back into the knitting.
I then put the surgery stitches back on the project needles and continue with the lace.
This is a picture of a set lace bone
You can see at some points there are still a few loose lace stitches, which is perfectly normal. Remember, surgery requires healing. It isn't something that happens over night. These stitches will be stretched during blocking and will most likely be unnoticeable. If they are noticeable, I can then take a small needle and even out the stitches.
My first…
Pair of socks made out of the coveted and hunted Wollmeise.
Red hot firestarters, the pattern is firestarter by yarnissima.
This is my 20th pair of socks knit this year. I am going to try for 24 in 2009. Actually, I have a few fun projects in store. Stay tuned for a stash down page (in an attempt to keep me honest) which will chronicle just how much yarn I used in 2009. We have a central park hoodie knit along starting on January 1, and a month of sock knitting starting February 15.
I've been asked to share
And since I cannot show you that I have completed another clue on my mystic waters shawl, the one that has been on the needles since November 2007, because it is FAR too large, I will indeed share my doofy moment. By the way, I have only 4 clues left.
Now, to begin, we must realize that I drive a car that is 10 yrs old. It has about 113K miles on it. 4wd subaru. I've had the car forever, it was my first "real" car since the little ford aspire I bought before that counts as a golf cart not a car. Anyhow, my subie has been with me through thick and thin for the last 9 years and has really done me well. Now that she is getting a bit older, I worry about her. Almost constantly. I am in a state worry that she will die before September 2009 which is the earliest I could possibly afford to get a new car.
Now, as you probably already know, this year has been tough weather wise already. It has been pretty consistently below 0 F for weeks on end. And when I lived on the east coast there was a saying "too cold to snow" which the midwest did not get the memo about. Out here, it snows at -11F with no trouble at all.
Last Thursday night (the night of the bat) we were getting a nasty ice/snow storm. We got about 2 inches of freezing rain/sleet stuff and then got an inch of snow on top of that. Everything was frozen solid. The only way I could get the ice chipped off my car was to leave it running and heating up for half an hour before I started to chip away at it. It took until Sunday for me to get the 3 inches of ice off the hood of the car and off of the wipers. Even then, I couldn't get the ice out of the tensioning system. Chipping the ice off the car had to be done in shifts, as the wind chill was -26F so I'd go out, chip at the ice, and 3 minutes later have to go in to warm my hands up as I couldn't feel anything at all. So this tells you how miserable this year has been thus far weatherwise.
THE STORY (for those of you who want to skip).
The ice/snow storm put a sheet of ice in my driveway which I then had to chip away at on Friday. Luckily, as I mentioned, my neighbor came by with his snowblower and helped out. Then at about 10 PM the plow FINALLY made it past our house, dumping another load of ice back into my driveway. Saturday found me chipping away at a mound of ice at the end of my driveway during yet another snowstorm. I was miserable, and cold, and annoyed. That ice was not budging! So I manage to scrape enough off the top of the mound that I think I can get my 4wd subaru over it and I call it a morning.
Later that day, Bug is supposed to go to a friends house for a sleepover. She has been really looking forward to it, so I know that not going would have pretty dire consequences. I get her in the car, and attempt to pull out over the mound of ice at the end of the driveway. First try I can't get the back wheels over the mound. Second try, wheels go over and then SSCCRRAAAAPE. Ugh, that sounded bad. So I pull forward into the driveway again and see what damage I've done to my car. I go look at the mound I have scraped, and right in the middle of it I see a splatter of yellow liquid. Crap, I've managed to do some real damage to the underside of the car and I am leaking. I look under the car, I can't see anything dripping. I look under the front of the car. Nope, no dripping. What the heck was that all about?
I grab the shovel and scrape away at the ice some more in order to attempt to get the car out without scraping the bottom again. I am worried about the car and I am sure it will die at any moment, but somehow Bug's desire to go to her friends wins out. I get the car out with no further damage. Now, it is -4F out and I am cold! I know that if the car dies we are going to be suffering. So I am concerned. I get the car to her friends house and deliver her there. I worry that the car won't start when I get out. It does. I go pick up the buttons for the tangled yoke cardi, and worry that the car won't start. It does. I begin to drive home.
This is when it occurs to me that I had not backed the car up far enough to scrape the bottom of the engine. Therefore I cannot see how I would have damaged something to make the car drip. I think about it a little more. Hm….that spray of yellow liquid…Um….have I just been in a panic over dog pee?
Happy Holidays everyone!


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Quality Policy
JFPPL is one of the largest corrugated board and box manufacturer and exporter in India. We at JFPPL are committed to achieve Customer Delight by delivering best value through:
- Use of best quality materials.
- Implementation of efficient manufacturing practices.
- Well trained work force by continuous skill development.
- Thoroughly checked quality assured output.
JFPPL is accredited with ISO 9001:2008 for it systems. The fully equipped in-house testing facility checks quality of all incoming raw materials and ensures quality of in-process materials and finished products.
Our testing facility is equipped with thefollowing equipment to test quality of materials at various stages:
- Paper GSM Sample Cutter
- Paper / Board GSM Tester
- Paper Tear Resistance Tester
- Paper / Board BS Tester
- Paper / Board COBB Tester
- Paper / Board Calliper Tester
- Paper Moisture Tester
- Board Moisture Tester
- Paper RCT Specimen Cutter
- Paper RCT / FCT Tester
- Board ECT Specimen Cutter
- Board ECT Tester
- Board Puncture Resistance Tester
- Box BCT Tester of 5MT Capacity
- Adhesive Viscosity Tester
- Adhesive Gel point Tester
- Test Specimen Conditioning chamber
Sustainability Policy
We at JFPPL highly value our commitment towards a better tomorrow. In our given capacity we ensure maximum responsibility towards our society, environment, health & safety of our stakeholders. Our accreditations to prestigious certifications of ISO 14001:2004 & OHSAS 18001:2007 is a testimony to our above commitment.
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Social Responsibility
- Provide work environment conducive of trust, motivation and openness, where everyone can realize their full potential
- Comply to ethical standards of 'No forced / compulsory / child labor'
- Skills Development of our staff through continuous training
Economic Responsibility
- Achieve better quality and productivity through incremental innovation and automation.
- Optimize utilization of available resources and minimization of waste.
- Adopt lean manufacturing practices
Environmental Responsibility
Paper Corrugated material is one of the sustainable packaging materials as it comes from renewable raw materials like wood pulp. Also it is 100% recyclable, which makes it environment friendly. At Jayaraj Fortune Packaging, we constantly promote corrugated packaging and try to replace other non-environment friendly materials of packaging with corrugated packaging through continual innovation.
Health & Safety Policy
- Work place cleanliness and hygiene
- Employee attentiveness towards day to day operations on the shop floor
- Accident free work place
- Adopt / develop, implement and maintain effective systems and procedures
Recycling Policy
Recycling corrugated helps decrease solid waste disposal in landfills. It also provides fibre that is reused to make new corrugated, so we can use less new, raw material. Recycling orrugated even earns revenue for the end-user, because that recovered material (called "OCC," for "old corrugated containers") is valuable to paper mills and manufacturers of new corrugated.


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New Mexico AG warns against coyote killing contests
ALBUQUERQUE - New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas says coyote killing contests are illegal and anyone caught organizing one or participating could face a misdemeanor.
The warning came Friday, after authorities learned through a social media post that a contest was planned Saturday in Curry County.
Balderas' office and the State Land Office sent letters to the sheriff, requesting an investigation. State police and local prosecutors also were notified.
Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill outlawing the contests earlier this year.
Many ranchers and outfitters say the contests are a tool for managing packs of coyotes that threaten livestock.
Balderas said he supports ranchers' rights to protect their livestock but said the law doesn't allow for unlimited killing through contests for cash prizes.
Read more related New Mexico news:
- Keep dogs on leashes and other tips for recreating in BLM's most popular areas
- New Mexico proposes ban on wildlife trapping near cities
- Proposal to lift Las Cruces UTV ban likely won't be addressed until new council convenes


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Spring 2012 Service Program
Feed My Starving Children
On Wednesday, March 7th, 2012, Yan Yan Teague, the Jay Phillips Center Student Leadership Coordinator, led thirty-seven St. Thomas students in an effort to pack food with Feed My Starving Children in Eagan. They were able to prepare enough meals to feed two children for one year. Yan Yan anticipates coordinating future opportunities to serve with Feed My Starving Children.