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Gamechanger Films Officially Launches, Aims to Fund Female Directors
Data surfaced earlier this year that revealed that only 4.4% of the directors across the top 100 box office films were women, which left many in the industry wondering how to get that number closer to 50. Aiming to help balance the gender incongruity, a new film fund, Gamechanger Films, which targets narrative feature films directed by women exclusively, launched yesterday. Founded by a group of independent producers, Gamechanger plans on financing these films in hopes that it will turn the tide of film culture by changing perceptions of women in film, hopefully causing long-term change in the industry.
Gamechanger Films, based in New York, was founded by producers Julie Parker Benello, Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous and Wendy Ettinger, and is led by producers Mynette Louie and Mary Jane Skalski. According to an article in the LA Times, the idea of forming a company that caters to female filmmakers came about after results from studies by UN Women and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media found the percentage of female directors in Hollywood to be paltry.
According to their findings, women have made up only 7% of directors on the top 250-grossing Hollywood and independent films over the last several years, even though, as the studies show, roughly 50% of film school graduates are women. And still the same question pervades: Why?
Skalski and Louie offer explanations. Skalski says that low numbers perpetuate low numbers, in that if there aren't many women making films, then fewer female names show up on lists of possible directors for a project. Louie adds that oftentimes films helmed by women are (mistakenly) seen as financially unviable in a financing structure led by mostly men. So, Gamechanger's method of solving this misconception is to speak the same language as Hollywood: money. Cogan tells Filmmaker Magazine:
The best way to get more women in the director's chair is to demonstrate to the industry that women directors can be just as financially successful as men. With Gamechanger, we will be providing capital to gifted women directors, enabling them to be successful and to demonstrate their ability to make a return for investors.
Gamechanger Films says it will focus completely on scripted features directed or co-directed by women, that range in subject matter and genre. However, according to Filmmaker Magazine, the company shows a particular affinity for science fiction and horror -- probably because they believe those genres will get the best return for the investment, which will hopefully convince other investors and financiers that women can make marketable and financially successful films, too (just look at the box office receipts of Nicole Holofcener's film Enough Said, which was "one of the best limited debuts of the year." )
What do you think of the launch of Gamechanger Films? Do you think this will help female filmmakers get more involved in the industry?
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Part of me is happy and the other part is kind of put off by this. It's a good thing in my mind, but I also feel that the films should speak for themselves. Majority of the movie goers don't really go see movies because of the director. The movie itself intrigues them. Therefore, success would seem to come from the movie you direct and how interested people are in it. Not because the director is male or female. This is the same reason why I find things given to people just because they happen to be black or Latino kind of strange (at least when it comes to film). I know their intentions are good and I'm not saying this is wrong. I simply have these internal debates when I hear about things like this.
September 28, 2013 at 8:30AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Is there a way to calculate the numbers of female directors who try and are rejected financing? What if the number of women who try to find financing is only 9% total, compared to whatever the percentage is for men who try?
September 28, 2013 at 5:08PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I don't think that would change anything. If women aren't seeking funding, it's more likely because they know they won't find it than it is that they don't want to.
September 30, 2013 at 7:24AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I don't understand this craze to get more women directors as if boosting score points for ones gender. Women are doing very well in the independent circle and are very relevant in Hollowood. In this day and age, the road blocks prohibiting someone of race and gender from making a film can be avoided by navigating the indie circuit.
Brit Marling is a great example of someone making her way in the film industry by writing better roles for herself instead of waiting for fortune to find her; while Michelle Rodriguez and professional complainers like her only do just that.
September 28, 2013 at 9:16AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
No way am I satisfied with low numbers. I'm just not a fan of fighting sexism with sexism. Exclusive; no boys allowed clubs do not seem progressive to me.
September 28, 2013 at 5:01PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
You got caught Renee. I'm a girl and even I know it is horrible to promote sexism and "women" only agendas. Nothing could be.more damaging to children who view such such crap.
September 28, 2013 at 9:04PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Continue to celebrate the achievements of female accomplishments in film. Not only directors but also those behind the scenes as well. Let their involvement grow naturally as they work side by side with male directors and producers.
Those who harp on numbers may not see their 50/50 contributions to film in their life time, but rest assured they'll be on their way. Look at the numbers for women getting degrees. Last I heard it outnumbers men. Was that based on some form of affirmative action?
On a side note. Do women find it patronizing they always get introduced or labeled strong? Whenever I watch a talk show, or listen to radio, the host, male or female introduces his next guest, who is a woman with education/professional experience; they almost always include the description of "strong," before saying their name.
I mostly involve myself with people who have strengths over weaknesses, but hearing it over and over seems a bit standard issue now, or patronizing. Thoughts?
September 29, 2013 at 12:26PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Some of the best directors working today are women (e.g. Lucrecia Martel, Samira Makhmalbaf, Claire Denis, Agnes Varda, etc), they're just not part of the Hollywood English-language commercial mainstream.
Make of that what you will.
September 28, 2013 at 9:52AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I also don't understand this constant battle for 50/50 gender congruency. The genders are different, deal with it. There are very evolutionary explanations for males having higher innate skills in the fields involved with film directing... just like women, on average, being more evolutionarily adapt for writing and literature. It doesn't mean that women shouldn't try or be allowed, because ANY PERSON could be great at it, and some women are really good. But it doesn't mean there is some "problem" just because there are so few women in the field. We're so messed up from our generation's "education" (i.e. indoctrination) that people honestly can't see reality any more. "Everyone and everything MUST BE 100% EQUAL or there is a PROBLEM!!!" Well guess what? This is not how nature or biology works. The idea that everyone is equal, and only different because of "social-constructs" is DIRECTLY opposed to evolution. It's more of a religion than anything.
September 28, 2013 at 10:09AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Sigh. I remember you making these ridiculous and unfounded claims in a post some months ago. You couldn't show any evidence to support your pseudoscientific claims then and you can't now.
What are these "very evolutionary explanations"? If you make a claim based on science the burden of proof is on you to provide evidence.
You don't understand evolution and I've never seen you display anything more than a philistinic grasp of evolutionary psychology (a very complex and often misused branch of evolutionary studies).
Stop trying to use science to support your bigoted views.
September 28, 2013 at 11:09AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I understand what he's trying to say and I disagree, just like you, but I think there are a few valid points he's making here.
I'm a woman and a feminist and am frequently fighting for equality. Unfortunately, this is still a sneered-at movement, so many times people view it as overstepping or trying too hard. You're right, bwhitz, things don't have to be or even should be 100% the same- that would be madly boring- but I don't think there's any reason to put down an idea or company that is offering a way to attain that standing.
Some men are very direct and commanding- these skills are excellent as a director. But some women are too. At the same time, some men aren't and some women aren't. So I get your point that you were trying to say not all of one gender is not going to be amazing at one particular thing.
But the 100% equal thing you claimed is our goal? That's never going to happen. We have years and years of this "evolution" you talked about beaten into us, into our genes, where history has frequently said this and been skeptical on women having certain talents. I know you're not a bigot and that you're not saying women can't handle the director's side of things. But it kind of bugs me you're not really rooting for a company that's promoting opportunity FOR them to show their stuff. This company is not going to bump the women to men directors ratio up to 50/50. It's just not. But there is very good reason to want to raise the number of women directors if that 7% statistic is true. We're trying to level the ground, not level the human race.
P.S. - You really should look into these social constructs you refuse to believe in. Don't tell me they don't exist when stay-at-home men are still frowned upon and people still assume women are the better fit for cleaning and cooking and the men are better suited to bringing home the bacon. That's not just something we make up as feminists. That's not in the past. That's a social construct.
September 28, 2013 at 3:30PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Actually I would like to see more female crew members, talk about strong women there. But that's often tough job and no hot flashes. Like at all.
September 28, 2013 at 5:42PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Well I'm a female director and I have an all female production team. It jus happened like that. Im not worried about being accept. I just want to be able to get my point across visually. Check out our current project. Indegogo campaign coming soon: www.fb.com/Standpoint
October 7, 2013 at 5:38AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I'd prefer fewer films by great women directors who set new standards on good storytelling, instead of some unimportant, 50/50, feel good by filling the gaps with mediocre cattle-call talent.
September 28, 2013 at 10:28AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
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September 28, 2013 at 3:31PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
For people concerned about crunching numbers instead of content; a very real possibility.
September 28, 2013 at 4:52PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
See, that's just it. I don't think they're just "crunching numbers". They're using those numbers to support their point - which is that female directors don't get enough representation because in many ways the film industry is still something of a boys club (for example 77% of Oscar voters, Academy members, are male). Gamechanger Films isn't trying to shut out male directors, thats not its intention. From what I've read I gather that their goal is to provide funding for female directors that are just as talented and qualified as their male counterparts but were maybe passed over in mainstream Hollywood because they were women. Something which obviously happens or Hollywood wouldn't have a paltry 4.4% of female directors.
December 3, 2013 at 10:16PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
This is a fantastic idea. Look forward to seeing the films!
September 28, 2013 at 3:43PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Fighting sexism with sexism. This is no different than scholarships exclusively geared for a certain race, which in turn is racism. The only thing a filmmaker should be judged by is their films. If you are truly against sexism and being treated differently for having a penis or not, why support a company that does exactly that?
September 28, 2013 at 3:56PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
You make a good point- I'm just finding it difficult to find another way to bump these numbers up from where they are. We need something, whether that be workshops against gender stereotyping in film or something along the likes if that. These numbers are far too low and we need to do something about them.
Also, on a side note, I'm pleased to see one of the producers and founders for this company is a man. I suppose some might assume he just got reeled in by friends, but it's entirely possible he just felt it was a good way to promote and support future female directors.
September 29, 2013 at 6:35AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Les blame men for the fact here are fewer female directors than male. Then let's afford women preferential opportunities.
Then let's remind ourselves that women can do the most amazing thing in life that men can't - bring life in to the world. Then let men step aside so women can take a percentage of opportunities away from them in the name of 'equality'.
"Can have your cake and eat it too"
Maybe V (insert pretentious name here) Renee can direct a film instead of blogging on NFS every day.
September 28, 2013 at 4:51PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
>Maybe V (insert pretentious name here) Renee can direct a film instead of blogging on NFS every day.
Sick burn, high five, you totally #rekt her xDDDDDD
September 28, 2013 at 5:47PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
You sensor and delete posts that you don't agree with. It just means you're deluded and in denial. The creme, male or female rises to the top. Thus, Kathryn Bigelow is a director and the bitter women here, are not.
September 29, 2013 at 12:56PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
WHAT? Just... where in this article or in these comments did it say, "These numbers are so low because guys are horrible and only want to be at the top."? It didn't say one word about men being the reason. It DID, however, site social opinions and statistics for women in this industry. That's not blaming men, genius, that's called comparison.
Also, before you keep bashing Renee, send us a link to your film so we know you're not just accusing her of the same thing you do.
September 29, 2013 at 7:13AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
In terms of economics, if women - or any other group deemed underrepresented in any field - are indeed discriminated against, then this venture has a decent chance be profitable. In this regard, this will be like finding an undervalued stock on Wall Street or a good player in the lower rounds of the draft in a US pro sports league. If, on the other hand, the original premise is incorrect, then the investment may go to those with less potential/commercial appeal. For whatever reasons. If they're doing it with private funds, then they're putting their money where their mouths are at the very least.
PS. I remember once Buddy Ryan - coach, general manager, father of Rex and Rob - was given full powers of a GM with Arizona Cardinals. After his first draft as a GM, he said referring to his competition brethren, ~ "The league must be really dumb to let these great prospects to fall to us in the later rounds". Unfortunately for Buddy, the league was smarter than he was. His draft choices did not perform to the league standards and neither did he, lasting only two seasons as Arizona's coach/GM.
September 28, 2013 at 6:36PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
So where are all those guys from the "misogynist" RED DRAGON post joining in support of women as equals, not just sex objects? Seems like when anyone goes out of their way to make a point to support female filmmakers, it falls on deaf ears except for the guys who think it's unfair, and when something seems like women are being used as objects, all the feminists come out.
Don't understand it at all.
September 28, 2013 at 9:03PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
There will be a difference for as long as people make a difference, the gamechanger films approach is therefore clearly a step in the wrong direction...
September 28, 2013 at 9:37PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I'm glad to see young filmmakers are no more enlightened than other internet users. /sarcasm.
We need A LOT more women in the industry, and its great to see a groundswell of female writers, directors and DOPs here in LA. We just have to make sure they get equal opportunities at bigger projects, i.e someone writes the check.
We also need more women in film media: if I read one more book/bio of a male auteur that makes him seem like an all conquering demi-god I may puke. The excellent profile of Kimberly Pierce in the NYT was a step in the right direction.
We need fresh voices of all kinds in film, and in English language film in particular. And we need funding mechanisms aimed directly at supporting those voices.
September 28, 2013 at 11:22PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I'm going to make an organization to fund people with dwarfism, americans who are missing limbs, and are native american. I mean don't they deserve an equal opportunity too, I'm pretty sure their numbers are lower. Why are feminist pushing sexism to the point that it just seems like they want all the benefits with no negatives. Film industry is a struggle for everyone, they know that no one holds your hand. As a hispanic american, I don't see many hispanics in the industry, and you know what no one gives a damn.
September 29, 2013 at 3:23AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I just.... your reply really bugs me. It's like saying "don't fight for the underdog" because they're not the only one's struggling. Duh. Excuse us for trying to level the playing field. That doesn't mean we aren't going to take the negatives. We know with more advantages and more opportunities comes more risks and struggles.
I understand what most people are trying to say in these comments about it reflecting sexism that a program specifically for one gender, women or not, exists, but you could say this about every cause worth fighting. This isn't going to HURT men's chances. There will still be just as many men directing and producing films- this just offers similar opportunities to women.
September 29, 2013 at 6:59AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
But this sexist/misogynist attitude, if it exists, comes from Hollywood, the most notoriously self-avowed anti-sexist/misogynist part of the globe. Wouldn't it be the last place one finds such disgraceful behavior?
Could there be other reasons why women are underrepresented in this particular field? And wouldn't an any similar investment fund - of which I remain wary on principle - try to find causes for such disparity? For example, while women make less than men in the open market place, there are solid reasons beside the purported "glass ceiling" why that is so (fewer hours worked, fewer technical degrees, etc.) For once, I would like someone to say, "Sure, women in general don't make stupid high budget action movies or juvenile comedies but we think there are other commercial venues for them to show their skills". In that regard, at least, they'd be admitting that they are not angling for jobs that go to Michael Bay, JJ Abrams or Shave Black and that some wage disparity in this instance is to be tolerated. The question is how much and where.
September 30, 2013 at 12:01PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
There are a lot of comments here asking why we should be funding female directors when most consumers don't care who a film's director is, and why women should be getting special treatment for funding Hollywood projects when they are doing better on the indie circuit. The point of Gamechanger is to give EVERYONE an equal opportunity to make the films they want, because currently about half of the pool of potential directors for large scale projects is being overlooked. Opening up opportunities for female directors to create films that can be marketed to a wide audience will mean that there will be a wider selection of films and ideas for everyone. As a young female film student, it is amazing that I might actually have the opportunity to create the SciFi film of my dreams, where as previously it would have been impossible for me to get support and funding for that kind of project.
September 29, 2013 at 8:47AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Statistic is misleading. Not just anyone gets to direct a film at the level they are talking about. Are there that many women starting at the bottom as there are men? From my experience not even close. The entry level jobs, long hours, are mostly taken by men. This is one path to direct. What are the statistics here?
September 29, 2013 at 10:37AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
"from my experience" you said, despite the statistics and many others' experiences that about half of film school graduates are females. I personally know more women than men trying to make it into the entertainment business. Don't use anecdote as evidence.
December 3, 2013 at 10:21PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Exactly. Is there a way to calculate the numbers of female directors who try and are rejected financing? What if the number of women who try to find financing is only 9% total, compared to whatever the percentage is for men who try?
September 29, 2013 at 12:14PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
This company is focusing on a "niche" underfunded market by targeting women directors. It's not about equality or the consumers. It's about dollars and sense. If 50% of film grads are women and only 7% have directed a top 250-grossing film, then advertising to women to finance their films may be a viable marketing tactic. They are hoping to find and fund the next Kathryn Bigelow or Sofia Coppola, so they can be rich and live happily ever after, lol. I wish them luck with that (even though I'm not a fan of horror or sci-fi).
The only problem that I see is that the women that they are targeting may have wanted to go in a different career path like television. I wonder what the stats are for tv directors.
September 29, 2013 at 12:53PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Why no outrage over the lack of prominent Papua New Guinean directors?
September 29, 2013 at 1:04PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
You're welcome to start your own cause for that. I think the lack of outrage comes from the fact that there are 7 million people in that country and about 3.4 BILLION women on Earth.
September 29, 2013 at 1:37PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
But even given that, they are still even more underrepresented than women. A woman still has a higher statistical probability of being a film director than does a New Guinean. Feminism presumes falsely that men and women are exactly identical in every capacity, and thus any disparity in outcome must be due to discrimination.
September 30, 2013 at 5:29AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
Yes, I think this is great! Very glad someone is doing something about these appaling numbers!
I feel maybe the harsh, political way people have to be/act, to get films funded, plus being 'out of the running' when having babies, might have something to do with why the numbers are so. At least I'm finding this an important part of it myself, and in the lives of female directors I know. I don't think giving us an extra option, or at least, one more in tune with how a lot of women work, is sexist. I think it is smart, and kind.
So thanks.
(Wish horror or Sci Fi was my genre...)
September 30, 2013 at 8:27AM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
those comments are just sad
if there's an organization that support female directors - that's great
if there's one for homosexuals - good for them
if there's one for people with large ear lobes - let it be
why not?
October 1, 2013 at 3:29PM, Edited September 4, 8:21AM
I'm sitting here, in oil Russia, and it's rediculious. Nobody care if worker (director is worker too) have Y-chromosome or not. Women who sharp sexism is not a worker. It's attention whore behavior. Why I like, f.e. LOST IN TRANSLATION? Movie about feelings and shoot by women. Because it's good movie. Why I puke from IN THE DARK? Because it's feminine-in-bad-sense-cinematography. Talent > gender. Forsed equality simply not fair. Thanks God we have Mr. Putin to stop this libertarianish trend. Watch some norwegian and sweden videos about feminism. It's plague. Do your buisiness good and no one will be Y on U.
p.s. My team is 66% female, so yours arguments is invalid.
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Once Geoff McGeary reveals his Viking ancestry, the world-conquering career suddenly makes sense. The boy from Brighton has turned his APT Group into a global travel empire spanning cruising and touring operations in more than 70 countries and on every continent. The wanderlust extends from river cruising in Portugal and camping at private lodges in the Kimberley to riding trains in Russia, and Antarctic expeditions. A single suburban bus has become the biggest travel company in Australia and New Zealand.
APT celebrates its 90th anniversary next year, and we've met in one of McGeary's offices in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Hampton to talk about the company's pioneering past and future. I ask him to take me back to 1927, when his father, Bill, fixed a bus body to atruck tray and used it to transport commuters from Northcote to Clifton Hill during a lengthy tram strike. But McGeary prefers to take me a little further back, to the very beginning.
Young Geoff McGeary with his parents.
"I've started getting an interest in the family heritage," he explains. "We went back to about the time of the Vikings, when they raided the top part of the United Kingdom." That was when he discovered his Scottish forebears had Scandinavian bloodlines. Jonas was one of the family names.
McGeary has an insatiable curiosity about the world, so he embarked on an expedition cruise to the Isle of Skye and his ancestral homelands. He was shocked by what he found. "They came from a place called Glen Clova, which sounds lovely, but it's terrible!" he says, almost shuddering at the memory of its bleakness. "No wonder they all left to come here."
His forebears emigrated to Australia - "a land of opportunity" - in 1854. McGeary's grandfather had a horse and dray business in Fitzroy, but his father saw the future in motorised transport. He became a mechanic, built his own bus, and founded a suburban transport business known as McGeary's Parlor Coaches.
The McGeary's Parlor Coaches fleet in 1950.
When Bill became ill, his 19-year-old son sat for an underage bus driver's licence and took the wheel of the business in 1961. McGeary junior swiftly launched coach and camping trips to Central Australia and Queensland. When the risqué musical Hair opened in Sydney in 1969, he cashed in on its popularity by running weekend bus tours to the show. He served chicken and Champagne on the way out of Melbourne and added visits to the Les Girls cabaret and Pink Panther strip club for extra thrills. The trips were marketed as "swinging weekends" and customers couldn't get enough of them. "It was really very successful," McGeary recalls.
His wife, Anne, was not so enthusiastic. When he invited her to Sydney to visit the Pink Panther she was mortified. "She said, 'I can't believe you are doing something as terrible as this'," he says.
The camping holidays, too, became a huge success. "We became king of the campers," McGeary smiles. "At its peak we were running something like 40 coaches at once on these trips."
Geoff McGeary at his Brighton office in 1971.
The tours expanded to New Zealand and Tasmania, then later to Europe, Canada and Alaska. In 1967, McGeary renamed the company Australian Pacific Coaches, the precursor to today's Australian Pacific Touring. Fifty years later, APT remains the number-one tour operator in Australia and New Zealand.
Anne was much happier when her husband moved into river cruising. At the urging of his friend pioneering US travel agent Jimmy Murphy the couple joined a cruise along the Danube in 2000. They enjoyed it so much that McGeary launched European river cruises for Australians the following year. "This was better than taking her to the Pink Panther," McGeary says of this new direction. "She was much happier and thought I had redeemed myself."
Adventurers on an Australian Pacific Coaches tour in the 1970s.
In 2005 he went into partnership with Murphy's AmaWaterways, operating tourist vessels on the great rivers of Europe. A year later their first purpose-built river cruiser, AmaDagio, made her maiden voyage on the Danube. Cruising is now a major slice of the group's business; with AmaWaterways, APT operates 18 luxury ships on the rivers of Europe and Asia.
"Investing in river cruising was the biggest risk of my career," McGeary admits. "Committing to charter ships was a huge step to take. But the benefits of the travel style and the calibre of the product that APT could create were obvious to me. I knew it would be a travel style that Aussies would fall in love with. And that's what has happened."
In the past decade APT has stayed ahead of the growing fleet of European river-cruise operators by "continuing to invest and innovate to ensure we stay ahead", says McGeary. In the past year alone the company has launched new vessels in Myanmar and Europe, and upgraded its Mekong ship.
A 1984 European tour brochure.
The AmaWaterways deal is one of several strategic partnerships and shareholdings McGeary has negotiated with specialist operators so he can expand confidently into new markets and modes of travel. AP Holdings is a shareholder in the expedition company Noble Caledonia, which sails three ships under the APT shingle, and works closely with Golden Eagle Luxury Trains, which operates private trains in Russia, Mongolia, China, Tibet, India, Canada and Africa. As well, AP Holdings is a major shareholder in Captain's Choice, the private-charter touring operator pitched at rich retirees. (Captain's Choice was founded by fellow Melbourne entrepreneur Phil Asker, who McGeary met when they were both running coach tours to Hair.) Initially the company bought 50 per cent of Captain's Choice, but now owns about 75 per cent - McGeary is vague on specifics. The APT Group remains privately owned so he's under no obligation to publicise details of its turnover and profits.
The secret to the company's success? "Delivering an exceptional experience, each and every time," says McGeary. "We're always focused on exceeding expectations. That has been APT's mantra from the very outset."
Perhaps a good measure of his success lies in the fact that McGeary has always played to his passions, selling the sort of active, experiential travel that he enjoys himself. "The people that go on our trips are there for the learning experience. That's what people are seeking now," McGeary says of the APT approach. "We're not specialists in lying on your back in the sun or sitting at a resort."
His personal travel style is "adventure seeking", he says. His heart lies in the Australian outback - the Northern Territory, the Kimberley and Central Australia - "the regions where my travel adventures began". He has a 1967 Holden HR rally car that he races, and a LandCruiser for more leisurely exploration. He and Anne have always had their own boat, too, which he often uses to reconnoitre potential new APT destinations.
An Australian Pacific Coach in central Australia.
McGeary thinks he might finally get to Antarctica during the company's anniversary year. "It's still on my travel list, so I might head there next year, either on one of our cruises or aboard an Antarctica flight," he says.
His children, Rob McGeary and Lou Tandy, have both taken leading roles in APT Group but, at 75, McGeary remains as active as ever.
Perhaps it's the Viking blood. That would explain his lifelong desire to see the world, to conquer it in a modern sense. McGeary says only, "One thing you learn (from delving into the family history) is that we are all a product of where we have come from, and the people who have been before us."


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Gallipoli Underpass
The Gallipoli Underpass is the State Governments first step to transform South Road into a continuous non-stop route.
The South Road Upgrade / ANZAC Highway Underpass project focused on improving the operational efficiency of South Road to meet the freight transport accessibility needs of industry and freight terminals, depots and warehouses along the industrial north-south spine to the west of the city (including the Airport) and the industrial area to the north.
Project time frame
July 2007 - March 2009
Project cost
$118 million


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VAMPIRE HUNTER D is a prime example of old-school cult-classic 80's Japanimation, and a title that has been requested by Rio Theatre fans for years. Now… On the big screen! This mythical anime is set in a post-nuclear holocaust dystopia of 12,090 A.D., when the Earth is ruled by the supernatural and vampires, mutants and demons, "slither through a world of darkness" (in the words of the film's opening introduction).
The film follows the story of a young lady after she is bitten by an evil vampire in medieval Romania, and asks for the help of a mysterious stranger known only as "D" to kill the vampire, thus sparing her a similar fate. Battling gothic creatures along the way, the mystery of who "D" really is soon becomes apparent, to himself and the viewer.
"This is the D that your body craves. This is the D that takes place in a far-flung, post-nuclear hellscape where vampires, werewolves, and all manner of things that go bump in the night reign supreme." (Nerdist)
Tuesday, May 7
Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:30 pm
Advance tickets $10.50 HERE | $12.50 at the door
Thursday, May 9
Doors 7:40 pm | Movie 8:00 pm *Apx. start time.
Advance tickets $10.50 HERE | $12.50 at the door.
Catch PERFECT BLUE, NINJA SCROLL, and VAMPIRE HUNTER D as part of a Japanimation Triple Bill on Thursday, May 9!
Triple Bill Ticket $22 advance HERE | $25 at the door
*Minors permitted in the balcony. (18A) Must be 19+ w/ID for bar service and main floor seating.
**Rio Theatre Groupons and passes OK for any single film only. Please redeem at the door.
VAMPIRE HUNTER D (Toyoo Ashida, 1985 / 80 mins / 18A / Japanese with English subtitles) A young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her, and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.


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Carolyn – CH2M Top Carpooler 2015
Carolyn was named CH2M Top Carpooler for 2015 this past Smart Commute Week. Here she is telling us why carpooling makes the most sense for her. How long have you been carpooling for?
I've been carpooling for about a year.
What made you switch to carpooling from your previous mode of transport?
Well, when I changed moved about a year ago, it just made the most sense.
What is your favourite part of your commute?
My favourite part is having time to chat with my carpool buddy, who's also a friend.
What would you say to someone who is considering carpooling?
I'd tell them that for the driver, the benefits include having company on the ride to work, and someone to send texts and emails for you while you drive.
For the passenger, it's that you can get picked up from your door. No need to wait outside when it's cold.
What do you think is the biggest misconception about carpooling?
Many people think that it's inconvenient, but it's really not!


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- SSMs can start there on January 1, 2010
- Local anti-gay and anti-marriage equality folk will do the quixotic non-binding, per-town referenda thing
- National anti-gay and anti-marriage equality folk have already targeted Gov. John Lynch
Kevin Stone of the conservative Cornerstone Policy Research-Action, said Lynch once said he opposed gay marriage. "The governor evidently has no problem misleading the voters of this state ... We are confident that the voters will not soon forget." Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, said, "If Gov. Lynch decides to seek another term, you can be certain that he will have to answer to voters."The referendum on whether voters like SSM in place is oddly hollow. Even assuming a solid majority opposed to SSM (unlikely), any action would fall to the legislature. By the bye, its final vote on the last of the three bills required to enable SSM was 198 to 176 in favor.
In his statement on signing the legislation, Lynch said, "Today is a day to celebrate in New Hampshire...Today should not be considered a victory for some and a loss for others." Good luck with that, Johnny. He added that the feds still don't recognize SSM — "And that should change." We won't take any bets on that happening soon either.
Down in New Jersey, the NOM folk are beside themselves with tropes. The N.H. law "ripped a significant hole in the fabric" the state. It sends N.H. "into dangerous waters. It will not be long before young children are taught in New Hampshire schools that they can marry someone of the same sex if they wish — that gay marriage is just as good as marriage."
It's fair to say that the real message is that homosexuals are as good as heterosexuals. Hear. Hear.
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Built between 1885 and 1902, it was at that time the largest parliamentary building in the world. The Parliament house contains more than 12 miles (20 kilometers) of staircase, and over 690 rooms. The main style of the building is Neo-Gothic with Renaissance influences, but the base ground plan is Baroque. A strong Byzantine influence is noticeable in the interior of the building, especially in the marvelously decorated staircase hall.
4 hoursStart time
Pick up from your hotel. (Please mention your hotel name and address at the time of booking. If you do not have this information now, our customer service executives will get in touch and confirm the details)
The tour ends outside the Parliament Building in Budapest
You will be picked up from your hotel and travel in a mini bus to see some of the major landmarks in the city.
The highlights of this tour are:
• Opera House: Designed and built in Renaissance style, it is a richly-decorated building and is considered one of the best opera houses in the world.
• Hero's Square: One of the major squares of Budapest with two important buildings, Museum of Fine Arts on the left and Palace of Art (or Art Exhibition Museum) on the right.
• Millennium Memorial: There will be a short photo stop here. The central site of Hero's square, the Millennium Memorial has statues of the leaders of the seven tribes that founded Hungary in the 9th century.
• Downtown
• Elizabeth Bridge: Connects Buda and Pest across the River Danube.
• Panorama to the Danube Bank with the famous public buildings
• View from Gellért Hill: There will be a short photo stop here. Rising steeply above the capital, Gellért Hill (Gellért- hegy) seems like a huge cliff, even though it is only 140 metres (430 feet) above the level of the river. Due to its height, it offers a peerless panorama of the entire city.
• Walk in the castle district
• Matthias Church: Which you will see from outside. This Gothic-style church was constructed between the 13th and the 15th centuries. Named after the greatest Hungarian king, Matthias Corvinus, many coronations have taken place here.
• Fishermen's Bastion: It was built as a viewing platform in 1905.
• Margaret Bridge: Connecting Buda and Pest across the Danube. It is the second northernmost and second oldest public bridge in Budapest.
• Parliament: First you will go around the building on the bus, then enter the building to see the magnificent Neo-Gothic chambers and staircases. This building is home to the Holy Crown of Hungary. (Please note: Parliament reserves the right to stop visitors without notice during special events).
The tour ends in front of the Parliament.
Please call the tour operator at least 24 hours prior to start of the tour for reconfirming the departure details.
Parliament reserve the right to stop entry without notice during special events.
01 Apr - 31 Oct: Hotel pick up in a cabriolet
01 Nov - 31 Mar: Hotel pick-up in a closed bus
EU nationals booking an EU ticket must carry your respective identity proof along, the same would be checked at the time of entrance. The entry to the attraction can be denied by authorities incase ticket booked and ID proof do not match.
Our guide showed us around Budapest andtold us the history of Budapest. He made our entry into Parliament House easy and then picked us up after. The tour of Parliament House was...MRS MAUREEN J. JAGO, Australia
Delightful tour guide,which made the tour interesting and fun....Diana P Llewellin, Australia
From our first telephone contact we were impressed. Friendly, efficient staff who spoke excellent English. The tour was excellent and our guide Peter was very knowledgeable...Mr George Elwood, United Kingdom
Wonderful experience, a recommended tour
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The September shipment of the 7 Ancient Wonders Club by The Unique Sheep is winging its way to club members all over the world, and I'm going to give you a little peek at what's inside! It's my new pattern, Khufu Mitts, inspired by the Great Pyramid at Giza. I have long been obsessed with all things Egypt, so when I was approached about designing for the club, I was more than excited to be assigned The Great Pyramid! At first I was a little stumped at how to make a mitten correlate to a desert region, but in the end I'm really happy with the symbolism here!
Cabled cuffs suggest the waves of the Nile River
Bricklike patterning and a pointed mitten top represent the pyramid itself
Sand stitch across the hand evokes the vast deserts of Egypt
These mitts are worked in the amazing Green Sheep Sport, an organic merino wool truly unmatched by anything else in its class. Only 250 yards knits up the pair of mitts, which are worked upwards in one piece from the cabled cuffs. Instructions are included for a full and partial thumb, and a nifty convertible mitten top means the wearer may choose between a full mitten and a fingerless glove.
This pattern is exclusive to club members until March of 2011, but if you are interested in knowing when the pattern is available for sale, please leave a comment on the pattern page, and I'll be sure to let you know! In the meantime, why not look into joining another of The Unique Sheep's clubs?


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At it's most basic, blogging is simply publishing your opinion online by adding content to a website regularly. If you want a blog of your own, be prepared to devote at least a little time to learning which writing a blog techniques are considered the most effective. This way, you can get the most out of your blog. This article has further tips, so read on!
Check to be certain you have not overused keywords, Adsense postings, images or plug-ins. These things cause search engines to lower your ranking, making your site useless. Your want to ensure that your style of writing is easy to follow and comes across as natural.
Post content on your blog often. If you want to attract new traffic and keep people returning to read your blog, you must continually offer new content. If your blog hasn't been updated in a long time, visitors will stop checking back. Generally speaking, a posting should be made on a daily basis.
It can be helpful to have a domain name of your own rather than creating a blog through a free blog service. Though there will be some initial expense involved, your blog will have a professional appearance. That will also be simpler for people to keep in mind; this is especially true if you use relevant wording for your title, or use your company's name.
Reach out to successful bloggers in your niche, and see if they will post guest pots on your blog. These guest posts will mean better content for you and your readers. You should have additional traffic if they notify their visitors of the appearance. This can be done with several guest bloggers in order to assist you in creating a blog that has a greater amount of quality content.
Blogging can fit into any schedule. You can blog only once a month or every other day; whatever works best for you. If your goal is to get a lot of traffic, you will need to post frequently. Keep what you've learned in this article in mind, and your blog will be successful in no time!


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Tribute for Charlie Hebdo
A tribute and a response to the attack on French publication Charlie Hebdo. As an artist, I believe it's important for us to show that violence will not stop our work. If violence against artists proves anything at all, it proves that art does have a profound influence on the way people think and feel about things in the world.
External Link: Tribute for Charlie Hebdo


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Vermont's skiing and riding season is underway.
Thursday, Killington Resort opened very limited mountaintop terrain to the general public, after giving season pass holders an early preview Wednesday.
"The first day's always fun," said snowboarder Anna Valentine of Ludlow. "Whatever snow I can get on, I want to get on!"
In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area.
Skier Cork Nester of North Creek, New York, said he is already starting his tally of days spent on the mountain.
"The goal is always at least a hundred," Nester told necn. "Last year it was 131, hopefully this year it will be more. It's all about what Mother Nature wants to give us!"
Two other Vermont resorts announced openings this weekend.
The Okemo Mountain Resort in Ludlow announced it will open Saturday, saying in a tweet that its snowmaking operations surged this week with the arrival of low temperatures.
Thanks in large part to a $30-million expansion of its snowmaking infrastructure, Mount Snow in West Dover also announced it will open Saturday.
A Mount Snow spokesman called the opening "historically early" for the southern Vermont destination, and boasted of the quality and coverage of its open terrain and terrain park.
But perhaps no place else in the industry is this week's cool-down in temperatures as critical as it is at Killington.
That's because the resort needed to ramp up its snowmaking operations as it prepares to host the Audi FIS Women's Ski World Cup on Nov. 25 and 26, for a second year.
The races are televised throughout the world and serve as something of a preview of the Winter Olympics.
"I don't think I've ever seen us put this much horsepower behind one hill," Killington's Rob Megnin said of the snowmaking plan that is now creating the snow depths and coverage needed for the arrival of the world's fastest female racers in Vermont.
The sound of snow guns is welcome at Killington, following a much-warmer-than-normal October.
"We tried to get going, but the weather wasn't conducive," Megnin said of efforts to start making significant amounts of snow in October. "But as soon as we got [the cold weather] this week, and we had extended cold—and now we're getting again into some really cold [temperatures] tonight and the next couple of days—we can turn it around quite quickly."
Megnin said Killington's snowmaking teams will keep working to perfect the course, right up until those World Cup showdowns the weekend after Thanksgiving.
The trade group Ski Vermont provided a list of resorts' tentative opening dates, noting they may change depending on weather conditions.


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Delivery fees start at $4.99 when ordering from a restaurant within your zone. Restaurants outside your immediate area have a slightly higher rate. Minimum food order and minimum driver gratuity may apply based on your area.
The delivery time varies depending on the time of day and the number of orders. For dinner deliveries, we usually quote between forty-five minutes and one hour. During the lunch period, we offer scheduled deliveries, especially for our catering orders. Deliveries are scheduled on the quarter hour and our window for delivery is within fifteen minutes of the scheduled time.
Corporate: Credit Card, Company Check (address on check must match delivery address), House Account and Gift Certificates. Credit Card must be present upon delivery.
Residential/Hotel: Credit Card, and Gift Certificates.
We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover credit cards. We do not accept personal checks. Credit card must be present upon delivery.
We specialize in group lunch deliveries and drop off catering! We recommend that catering orders be placed at least one day in advance.


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Instruction as follows: 1. Invert speed control. 2. Bottle entering, Auto unscrambling bottle, Pushing bottle, Heat sealing-Saw cutting, Pressing PE, Shrink, Cooling. 3. This machine applies air-stirring mechanism in pushing bottle and hot sealing-cool cutting. It uses flat silk pulse seal, the saw tooth knife cuts, The unique heat seal-cool cut mechanism, has guaranteed the packing agglutination, reliable, and artistic. 4. Automatic unscrambling bottle's appliance makes bottle changing more quickly and conveniently. 5. Delivering film mechanism and the tensity voluntarily adjusts. 6. PLC programmable procedure control system. 7. Double air blowers, guarantees the temperature balance in the shrink stove with PAD temperature controller, that apparently saves energy. 8. It applies wing shape stainless steel heating system, which is durable for long time use. 9. The heatproof Bolivian filament special fluorine dragon transportation net belt is used in shrink part to ensure the steady of transportation and high strengthen wear proof. 10. This machine applies invert speed control net belt conveying mechanism. 11. The height of the conveyer shall be made towards client's demand. 12. The direction of bottle entering can be adjusted according to client's demand 13, according customer request, can make the stainless steel belt inside the shrink tunnel instead of plastic belt Technical Parameters:
Installation service
When you finish the Preparation conditions,our fast and professional aftersales service engineer team will go to your factory to install the machine,give you the operating manual,and train your employee until they can operate the machine well.
The sample service
1.We can send you the video of the running machine.
2.You are welcome to come to visit our factory,and see the machine running.
Customized service
1.We can design the machines according your requirements(materil,power,filling type,the kinds of the bottles,and so on),at the same time we will give you our professional suggestion,as you know,we have been in this industry for many years.
After-sales service
1.We will delivery the machine and provide the bill of load on time to make sure you can get the machine quickly
2.When you finish the Preparation conditions,our fast and professional aftersales service engineer team will go to your factory to install the machine,give you the operating manual,and train your employee until they can operate the machine well.
3. We often ask feedback and offer help to our customer whose machine have been used in their factory for some time.
4.We provide one year warranty
5.Well-trained & experienced staff are to answer all your inquiries in English and Chinese
6 .24 hours for engineer response (all services part 5days in customer hand by Intl' courier).
7 .12 Months guarantee and life-long technical support.
8.Your business relationship with us will be confidential to any third party.
9. Good after-sale service offered, please get back to us if you got any questions.
Quality Control
We have the single quality department,that make sure the material of the raw materials is good,and ensure the machine running smoothly.
If you want to know more information about the product,You can send an inquiry, we will solve any of your problems and send you running vedio.
Zhangjiagang King Machine Co., Ltd,is a direct manufacturer and exporter specializing in water treatment plants, beverage filling machine, packing machine, bottle blowing machine, injection moulding machine and spare parts of filling line.
Our factory was established in the year of 1995, with the long history of accumulated experience in filling machine industry in south Jiangsu. There are many development engineer of filling machine in our company. We devote ourselves to the development, research and production of liquid food and beverage packing and filling industry.
King Machine cooperated with many customers in recent years, we win the trust of customers from our high-quality products. And we are looking forward to the future cooperation with you if our products can impress you deeply.
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A1: We are a manufactory, we supply the factory price with good quality, welcome to visit !
Q2: What's your guarantee or the warranty of the quality if we buy your machines?
A2: We offer you high quality machines with 1 year guarantee and supply life-long technical support.
Q3: When can I get my machine after I paid?
A3: The delivet time is based on the exact machine you confirmed.
Q4: How can I install my machine when it arrives?
A4: We will send our engineers to your factory to install the machines and train your staff how to operate the machines.
Q5: How about the spare parts?
A5: After we deal down all the things , we will offer you a spare parts list for your reference.


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From the Pastor's Desk
Greetings First Met,
Grace and peace to you and your family this Christmas season! Lady O and I want to express our sincere appreciation for your love, leadership and continued membership here at First Met. Your commitment to serve, promote and attend worship services/events throughout the year has made First Met a strong light in this community. We've experienced many mountain top moments this year, along with a few valleys. Through it all God has sustained us and caused all things to work together for our good. With his grace and favor we are finishing strong! We give all Glory to God!
As we prepare for 2016, I see God moving us towards something "Big", so I want to challenge you to get ready. In reviewing the blessings God has given to us personally and as a church family, I have had to look at our giving and realize it has been a challenge for many of our members. We have a very strong core group of members who are committed tithers, but the majority of our members are non-tithers and a good group are not even good givers. With God's favor and wisdom, we have remained strong! I don't believe our giving for 2015 is an accurate reflection of how great God has been to us. While I am not one to ask for money, nor do I believe in strong tactics to get members to give, I do believe it is my responsibility as your Pastor to make you aware of your giving, teach you biblical truths and compel you to change your ways and honor God. God is going to do Big things, but we must do Big things with what He gives us.
So as we close this year and prepare for 2016 there are a few things I must ask of you: 1. Reflect on your giving last year and compare what you gave to what you should have given. This is easy. If you make 60, 000 dollars a year, your giving should be at least 6,000.00 by the end of December. 2. Pray and give God what is due Him. So simply put, give a gift to your church that reflects God's blessings to you. If you are a tither, Lady O and I sincerely thank you for your steadfast support. We could have not made it without you! I am asking that you pray and give a gift that honors God. First Met, we must end the year strong and honorably. In 2016, We want God to bless us, bless our families, and bless our church. We cannot rob God and expect Him to bless us, so let's honor God with our time, talent and treasure. Something Big is coming our way so we must Get Ready!
We have had a wonderful year, but the truth is we faced some giving challenges such as low giving and two months of stormy weather which caused extremely low attendance on those Sundays. When the majority of members are absent and forget to send in their tithes and offerings, the budget is not met. This process places the church in a position of trying to make up and catch up with the budget. Just like your household, the church needs a set amount of funds to function and meet the budgeted monthly expenses. When you are absent or when you forget to give, the bills still have to be paid. I am asking you to commit to giving a set amount every month to your church home. We create the budget based on expected funds from our members, therefore I am asking each of you to put God first in your giving by setting up automatic bill pay online: so when you are absent your church's budget will be met. We must make sure God's House is always taken care of. This honors God! "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you. Close the year with a steadfast giving attitude. Finish Strong"!
During the year, some of you became relaxed in your financial commitment to the kingdom of God. Sometimes distractions or devastation's happen in our lives. Whatever the case, the past cannot be relived. Even though you missed some months in your giving, you still have December to make up and catch up, so Finish strong! In the next few weeks give in a manner that pleases the Lord. 'Don't give it all to the mall! Finish strong!
Christmas is all about giving. God saw the great need of mankind and gave His only begotten Son to us. "For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son…" (John 3:16) On the 25th of December, we celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ. Why not bring a special gift to the Lord this season? After, all it's His birthday. Bring Him a gift worthy of who He is to you and all mankind. "And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh." (Matthew 2:11)
December is going to be an exciting month at First Met. Our young people with present a special Christmas worship on the 13th at both services. On Wednesday the 16th at 7:30 pm, we have our Annual Church Conference. The theme for the meeting is: God's Up to Something Big! You'll want to be present to hear and see what we expect God to do in 2016 with Discipleship, Evangelism, Youth, Marriages, Vision 2020, Facilities, Budget and Leadership. Don't miss the Church Conference!
First Met has always been a giving church to others. This year, we sent Peanut Butter and built four homes for Haiti, we gave to Single Mothers, College Students, teachers, peace officers, back to school supplies, … Oh, don't forget our big outreach to the community giving toys to needy families and: "Snow on the Beltway." I know you will continue to give again this year. Finish Strong!
We are excited to bring to our campus again the Ensemble Theater's production of "What Child is This?" on the 20th at 7 pm. So get here early and be in your seats for a night to remember. On Christmas Day at 10 am,, let's gather to worship our savior on His Big Day. Each year our Christmas worship is so mystical and magnificent. It is a tradition you'll want to make and keep. Your family will be so blessed!
December will close the year with our "Watchnight" Service, preceded by our Chili and Gumbo cook off/feast. Eating starts at 8 pm and worship at 10. See you in church this December.
Finishing Strong!
Pastor O
Mission of Yahweh Worship
First Met,
The 1st Sunday Worship Service at Mission of Yahweh is progressing well. The effort is being led by Elder Louis Robinson & Deaconess Gloria Robinson. Thus far, Minister Dwayne McGary, Deaconess Gloria and Elder Robinson have conducted the service on Sunday night.
The worship services are held in the Chapel by the Community Garden. We have an average of 24 adults and 5 children that attend the service. There is good participation from the group, as 2 women sang songs and several gave testimonies on how God is Blessing their lives and families.
Minister McGary "Spoken Word" came from Psalms 1: 1-6, titled "Staying Focus". The women appear to be inspired, appreciative and excited about First Meth's being involved and providing spiritual worship service at the Mission.
Deaconess Gloria and Elder Robinson have been invited to attend "The Mission of Yahweh's First Annual Volunteer Celebration" on September 24, 2015 and plan to attend.
Bethy Excells in Miss Caribbean Houston Pageant 2015
Sunday, June 28th, First Met Member Sister Bethy Pierre placed as 2nd Runner-Up in the Miss Caribbean Houston Pagent. The pageant feature many talented women from Houston Texas, with Caribbean roots.
Bethy,a native of The Republic of Haiti, was well decorated this night, also winning Miss Photogenic and Miss Amity. Member, Sister Genevive Brent (who's photographs are featured) said of Sister Pierre, "You WOWED ALL of us last night with your amazing talents, beauty, grace, confidence, and sophistication." She continued, "You looked AMAZING in everything that you did!! You exhibited EXCELLENCE…."
Bethy has the honor of being the first of her family to graduate from High School. She continued her education at the University of Florida, where she obtained an undergraduate degree in Public Relations, and a graduate degree in Entrepreneurship.
At First Met, Sister Pierre has been a amazing addition to the young adult ministry, serving with the praise team, leadership of young adults, Hebrew's Cafe' and Mentoring the Teens. We are proud to call her a sister in Christ, and excited about her representation of not only her country, but the Kingdom of God! Way to go Bethy!


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When accidents happen, there's a hesitation before the impact, like a syncopation in music. The heart hesitates, the pulse is disturbed, something moves in to take the place of the ordinary downbeat, and then—crash. On a late afternoon in early May, Sylvia was driving south on Mullen Street. On her right was the Cathedral of the Blessed Ascension. On her left, a large wooden house that had been painted the color of poppies and canaries like something out of a carnival. She had just arrived at a four-way intersection, and her mind leapt forward to Whitney Avenue where she was headed, and the second story apartment where her three year old son played. It was her day off. She could have been with Jeremy the whole afternoon except she'd felt the pull of her mother and father at the Cold Springs Nursing Home.
Sylvia arrives at the intersection, with the cathedral behind her. She presses the brake pedal, and the car comes to an almost full stop. The wheels are still revolving slightly before she takes her foot off the brake and slides it to the accelerator. She's in a hurry to see her son.
She starts across the intersection.
This afternoon, she's been at the nursing home trying to mediate what appears to be her parents' final battle. Mr. and Ms. Naugler had moved into the home just after Christmas, taken a double room, and seemed at first relieved to have contracted themselves down to this one space where they could keep an eye on each other. All his life, Sylvia's father had been a wanderer, traveling from coast to coast on business, his eye straying in lonesome cities; but this had all come to an end when a stroke severed his ability to speak and left him prone to fall. Around the same time, Sylvia's mother had begun to straggle into the wilderness of her own mind.
The two of them had lived at the home peacefully enough until Ms. Naugler had taken to bed-hopping. The social worker called it nymphomania. In a plaintive, indignant note to his daughter, Mr. N. called it monstrous. Each morning after breakfast, according to index cards collected on the floor around her father's chair, Sylvia's mother put on powder and bright red lipstick, and took off down the hall. She was still a physically strong woman at eighty-two. Indefatigable, it was appearing. She visited a bouquet of older gentlemen every day. Her favorite was Mr. Linscetti, a diminutive elder with wispy swirls of white hair, warm, childlike eyes, and his mind shot full of holes.
Sylvia had found her mother that afternoon in his room, tipped off by her father who'd been sitting alone by the window of his room in a pool of rage. When Sylvia appeared in the doorway, her mother and Mr. Linscetti were snuggling in bed. Her mother looked up and said, Hello darling. Have you ever been introduced to my boyfriend?
She told her mother they'd met. She noticed a smear of lipstick on Mr. Linscetti's temple and another on his chin. If she accomplished nothing else this afternoon, she hoped to make off with the tubes of lipstick. The social worker traced her mother's movements through the facility the way a hiker follows trail blazes.
Ma, I need to talk to you, she said. Can you come with me to the lounge?
Not now, sweetheart. I'm busy.
I need to talk to you. I came all the way out here to talk with you.
Not now! her mother barked. Mr. Linscetti winced and held his white hands up to his face. Look what you've done, her mother said.
Sylvia returned to her father, who was scribbling on paper. You have no idea, the words said, what it's like watching your mother make a fool of herself day after day. His chin, never unshaven that Sylvia could remember, was raspy with white stubble. I don't care if we've been married for sixty-one years, he wrote. If she won't stop, I want a separation and you can transfer me to another place.
I'm sorry, Dad, it's a bitch.
Don't call your mother that, he scrawled.
Not her, the situation. I'll come back tomorrow night after work, and we can talk again. She picked up a few of the cards he'd scattered on the floor and stuffed them into her purse. He nodded gloomily and lifted his face for a kiss, a face which bore no trace of lipstick.
Sylvia is now at the intersection. Quickly looking both ways, she begins across. To her right, traveling westbound, a car is coming toward her. It will stop. Cars always do. But it doesn't. It keeps on, and this is when she feels that disturbance. To Sylvia, the color of the car appears gunmetal grey, but she has no time to look at it directly. It seems that the car is filled with men, that chest hair is rolling out the necks of their shirts. It keeps coming. She knows she'll be hit no matter what she does. She waits for the crash, and then it comes.
The car had appeared to be traveling quite slowly, but the crash was hefty, cool, indifferent to her, almost casual in its ugliness. Sylvia almost never cried, but she felt an immediate urge to let loose. She moved her neck and realized it was wrenched. The whole of her felt singed, as though she could lift a hand to her head and feel shreds of black carbon where her hair had been.
She wanted to feel searing anger, to get out of her car and walk toward the other car—which was low-slung, olive green, lizard-like, rust on its underbelly and creeping up the sides—and yell at the driver with her hands on her hips, her feet planted wide, and tell him just how goddamn stupid he was. But as a child, Sylvia had never heard spirited cursing, and what would have come out of her mouth were names like dodo-brain or poo-poo head, things her three year old would say. And she wasn't even angry, only filled with a sense of her own immense breakability and an unexpected feeling of shame.
Sylvia opened her door and walked toward the other car. She saw no chest hair, and only two men. The passenger had a baseball cap lettered in green. It might have said Celtics. It could have said Hooligan for all she cared. The driver was hatless, and his hair was thin and uncombed. He was still hanging onto the steering wheel, all knuckles. Commotion was coming from the open windows, from the passenger yelling at the driver. You fucker, he said, I told you, you're a fuckin' lousy driver, and now look at this fuckin' mess. You're going to lose your fuckin' license. The passenger opened his door, got out of the car, and slammed it behind him. Adjusting his cap, he said, See you around, fuckface. The former passenger, that snake, edged around a fire escape and disappeared between two brick buildings.
You had to wonder about a man who'd need to keep a friend like that. Sylvia searched out the face of the driver, who looked like thousands of others—the chin small and starved, the eyes stale with what life had dished out. He reached toward the passenger's door and opened it for Sylvia. There was something almost ceremonial in his gesture.
You okay? she asked, leaning in.
He nodded.
I think we're supposed to exchange information, she said. Wasn't that what you were supposed to do? She dug around in her purse for paper, pulled out one of her father's index cards, and read, 8:25 Westbound. It referred to her mother, traveling in the direction of the setting sun. She turned the card over, wrote down her name and phone number, and laid it on the ripped seat.
The driver gestured vaguely with his right hand while he gripped the steering wheel with the left. Have a seat, the motion said. Sylvia imagined him gesturing like this to a girlfriend. He'd idle at a curb in front of her apartment building, rev the pathetic old engine under the hood, blow the excess noise out the exhaust, honk two, three bleats, and finally lay his elbow over the horn and lean long and insistent until she came out muttering, Jeez hold your fucking pants on. He'd let her open the door, and then he'd make that same quick, almost hopeless gesture that said, Sid-down.
Sylvia sat down in the passenger's seat, and he glanced quickly toward her and said he was sorry he'd hit her car. Shit, he mumbled, staring at his hands on the wheel, I don't know. I saw you all right. I just didn't stop. Sylvia was about to say it was o.k., but it wasn't.
Then, as though the driver had two tracks in his brain, one repentant, the other anything but, he revved the engine, jerked ahead through the intersection, and careened left. Sylvia grabbed the door shut before it hit a mailbox.
What the hell are you doing? she asked.
Checkin' out the car. See if it still works. I gotta get to work tonight. He turned up the radio, and the bass guitar pumped through the dashboard. A male singer shrieked falsetto. YAAAAAH! Right now! I want you! Baby! I need you! Baby Baby!
They shot past the cathedral and the carnival-colored house up the hill to Congress Street, then rocketed left past the Longfellow Laundromat, and back down the hill toward the interstate. If they got that far, he could take her anywhere.
Look, she said, I don't care about pressing charges. Just let me out, and that will be the end of it. I have to pick up my little boy.
His fingers were wrapped tight around the wheel. He wove through red lights, traveling fast but with a certain dignity.
Listen, she said again, not expecting him to.
Anything could happen. She'd known someone who'd worked at the American Embassy in Paris, a well-mannered man with close-cropped blond hair and a stunning flash of a smile—like a flare, it was that quick and bright—who drank too much. He was a big, powerful man, and when he was drunk, he tried to hurl himself through walls. After Sylvia left France, an acquaintance told her that he'd come back for a vacation in the States and taken his wife for a camping trip in the Adirondacks. The two of them were a beautiful, physically attractive couple. And then he'd axed her to death in the middle of the night. Sylvia had seen her once at an Embassy party. Wearing silk, smiling. Anything could happen. Listen, Sylvia said gently, just let me out, and I'll never press charges.
He drove intently now, looking dead ahead. At the bottom of the hill was a traffic light. If it was green, he could get onto the interstate and take her wherever he wanted. Red, and she might be able to jump out. He slowed down to about twenty-five, slow enough that he'd catch the green light without stopping, fast enough that she couldn't get out.
But just before he came to the light, he plunged down a street to the left, accelerated through the parking lot of the junior high school, stormed over the grass that scraggled toward the concrete foundation, and then he was back onto the street, left again past the School for the Blind (please, dear god, keep them out of his way) and then a screaming right back up Mullen Street toward the cathedral. A police car flashed at the intersection, and the driver slowed and crept back toward the scene of the collision.
For the first time, Sylvia looked at the damage on her own car. A big punch in the door like the mark of a fist. And there was the driver meekly heading toward the police cruiser like a large primate she'd read about who'd rampaged out of his cage and gone hiding in Palo Alto for a day and a half. When he was tired of running, this young ape had walked back into the arms of his keeper, nuzzling the familiar-smelling neck and picking through his jailer's hair for nits.
The driver slid to a stop. The name's Jimmy, he said to Sylvia, sticking out his hand. A shy smile. Jimmy Doherty. She took the hand he offered, warm and calloused, thinking she was expected to say, Glad to meet you, but instead just saying, Yes. As though she'd known his name all along. The policeman was already yelling when they got out of the car. Didn't they know they weren't supposed to leave the scene of an accident?
All her life, Sylvia had had a reflexive urge to lie when people yelled at her. I'm sorry, she said. I needed to call my son's babysitter, and I was too shaken to drive. I left my phone home today by mistake, so Mr. Doherty took me to find a phone in his own car. Jimmy Doherty poked his shoe at the pavement and jingled the change in his pocket. With men who are to be reckoned with, this sound says power. The sound of Jimmy's money was just pathetic.
There's a phone right over there, said the policeman in a tone that said, You dummy. Sergeant Phelps, the badge said. In that little variety store right there, gesturing with his head while his hand was hooked in the belt loop above his holster.
I'm sorry, said Sylvia again. I wasn't thinking. Now, because she'd lied, she wouldn't be able to get word to her sitter at all; but suddenly remembering the phone could have been busy, she told the officer that she hadn't gotten through the first time. Do you suppose I could go and try again? I'll be right back.
Jimmy, who'd been looking at his feet, pulled his hand out of his pocket, and with it a half-eaten pack of butterscotch lifesavers. Want one? he asked, pushing it toward Sylvia.
Sure, she said. Thanks a lot. She smiled into his face and took the lifesaver off the top of the pack. It was sticky and warm from Jimmy's pocket and had lint on it. She put it in her own pocket and left Sergeant Phelps talking with Jimmy.
Jimmy, that dinosaur of a man who'd given her a lifesaver from his pocket. He wasn't a carnivore but one of the small dinosaurs that were always getting drowned in bogs or dying off. When she returned, things had gone pretty far. Jimmy was sitting in the back of the police cruiser. She imagined that on top of everything he probably had no insurance. Maybe not even a current license, although his faithless friend had said he'd lose it. It was clear from the way the officer treated her when she came back—solicitous, kind—that she was entirely blameless in his mind.
Only she wasn't. She'd lied. She hadn't come to a full stop. She'd been distracted at the intersection, her mind whirling past the four-way stop to her mother and father and son. She hadn't given any thought at all to her driving. Yes, her seat belt happened to have been on, but her mind had been rushing backwards and forwards across town.
Sergeant Phelps gave her a map of an intersection marked north, south, east, west and asked her to draw what had happened. Jimmy Doherty, barreling in from the east, had hit her with that wreck of an olive green car. She'd have to draw that. Would she mention the fact that there'd been a passenger? No, let it go.
Shaky, Sylvia left the intersection with Jimmy still sitting in the back of the flashing police cruiser. Misera me, the curve of his back said. I've gone and done it now.
Driving toward the babysitter's, she felt trajectories of cars fly at her from every direction. Sylvia hadn't known until she set out how jumpy she was. She crawled along the right curb. Anything could happen. This river of cars that normally flowed smoothly, seemed full of rocks, snags, hidden debris. She turned onto Whitney Avenue, stopped in front of the house and pulled up the emergency brake. Was it her imagination, or was the car rolling? She pulled a little harder and turned the wheel in toward the curb.
Upstairs on the second floor, her son Jeremy was beginning a snack, his chin already covered with graham cracker crumbs. He saw his mother and rushed to her. He smelled good. Sylvia scooped him up, put on his jacket, and headed home.
Everywhere, cars were still trying to plow through her. Her knuckles tightened around the steering wheel. At home, she'd find Larry, her husband, a labor organizer, who wouldn't know how to calm her.
Jonathan's a poo-poo head, said Jeremy from the back seat.
Why, what did he do? And while she asked, she was thinking about the reckless courage of her mother's lipstick, colliding here and there with the cheeks, temples, lips, ears, the god-knows-what-else's of old men who were living out their rust bucket days with her as their final pleasure.
He hit my head with a block, said Jeremy.
What did you do?
Hit him with my sandwich.
Sylvia imagined the scene—the block, the peanut butter sandwich—and glanced in his direction. I'm sorry you had all that trouble, she said.
It's o.k., Mom.
There was this truth about matter striking matter that reduced everything to its essence. Once, on an upper floor of an office building where she worked, framed in the center of three huge windows, Sylvia had seen the imprint of a large bird. The beak, the eye sockets, the tilt of the upturned wings, the feet like landing gear, the suggestion of hollow bone under feather. All there in grease and dust. A grave rubbing. Horrifying, that remnant of a collision, but at the same time, she'd never seen anything more beautiful. The most perfect essence of bird, all air and feathers.
She pulled into the driveway. Looks as though Daddy's home already, she said.
Yep, home already.
Larry was in the kitchen chopping tomatoes by one dim light. It was typical of him that he hadn't noticed that the sun had gone down. He was already surrounded by tomatoes: he cooked in large quantities the way he organized labor. For Sylvia's birthday two weeks ago, He'd made three sour cherry pies, and lit one with brandy. It turned out he'd never pitted the cherries though. All that glitz and hoopla and the pits baked into the pies, ready to break a hundred teeth.
Sylvia set Jeremy on the floor, gave him a banana, and told Larry she'd been in an accident. She said it almost casually as though it had happened to someone else. He didn't seem to have heard her, but she couldn't blame him because she was telling it so it would sound unimportant. She didn't know why. Larry took the wooden cutting board in his left hand and swept the cut tomatoes into a glass bowl with his right. He was getting lettuce out of the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator when she said, I'm o.k., though. My neck's wrenched, and there'a bruise on my knee. My ankle doesn't feel quite right, either.
He stopped. What happened? Who hit you? He crossed the kitchen to her.
And then she was telling him. Mullen Street. The olive green car. The crash. The passenger with the baseball cap. You fucker. You're going to lose your fuckin' license. The slam of the door, the passenger's retreating back. She felt an urge to cry. The driver's in a lot of trouble, I think.
The bastard, said Larry. Serve him right.
Why did Larry have to say that? Serve him right. His anger silted over everything—ambiguity, fear, pity, the soft centers of things. Jimmy Doherty didn't know why he'd hit her. Shit, I don't know, he'd mumbled, looking at his knuckles. I saw you all right. Sylvia thought of the lifesaver and reached into her pocket. There it was, butter-colored, warm, covered with lint. She went to the sink, washed it off, and put it in her mouth, where the sweetness spread from the hole in the center.
I was on my way back from seeing Mom and Dad when it all happened, she told Larry. Mom's still cruising the halls. I don't know what to do. Dad's beside himself. They can't go on like that. She glanced at Larry, wondering, How will we end up?
You're right, Larry said, you can't let her go on like that. Don't they have restraints?
Restraints? You're not suggesting my mother should be tied to a chair all day. Tell me you're not saying that.
I don't know, he said, looking embarrassed. I didn't know what else to suggest. He started shredding the lettuce. Of course he was just trying to be helpful. Trying to save her from her parents' sorrows and infirmities. Sylvia thought of a time she'd come home from junior high school and called, Mom? Mom? The house had echoed with emptiness, and finally there'd been a small, barely audible sound from the kitchen, dim and terrifying, like steam escaping from a fissure in a rock. Sylvia had thought of running over to a neighbor's house to call the police, but how could she admit to being frightened of such a tiny noise? She hung around the front door, listening. And then there was something stifled, guttural, human. She went to the kitchen, and found her mother sitting on the floor of the pantry, her fist in her mouth, trying to hold her crying in.
I guess I'm a little blue today, she said, as she pulled herself together and hugged Sylvia. A little blue. Sylvia had never asked what had made her a little blue—her father's indiscretions, chasms of loneliness? It never happened again.
She saw her mother's face as she'd seen it today, turned fondly toward the door, and imagined how Mr. Linscetti, his face blank and breakable as a window, had lifted his chin to receive her mother's imprint. A red kiss: life's blood.
For years, her mother had washed dishes in a round aluminum dishpan, her hands hidden under the suds of Joy. Sylvia recalled the clank of metal silverware against the sides of the pan. One night, she'd heard her mother say to the dishwater, I've been here too long. She tipped the gray water into the sink, walked out the door and down the street. It was a good idea then, and her mother had the right idea now. All they needed to do was stand back and let her go. Let her go as kindly as a pale yellow lifesaver dissolves on the tongue.


text: Welders and Filters in Omadino Community, Warri South Local Government Area in Delta State, under the aegis of Omadino Welders & Filters' Association, OWFA, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over "neglect and abandonment of Omadino Community youths as regards employment by International Oil Companies, IOCs, operating in the community in contravention" of the Nigerian Content Act. The petition made available to Fresh Angle International Friday February 8 by President and Assistant Secretary of OWFA, Comrade Kennedy Ugbameta and Omasanjuwa Ogharandukun respectively, named the defaulting companies to include Nigerian Gas Company, NGC, Nest Oil Nigeria Limited, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, Lee Engineering Construction Limited, Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, FENOG Nigeria Limited, Neconde Energy Limited and Conoil Nigeria Limited. OWFA, a body under the umbrella of Nigerian Welders Association, stressed that the affected companies, "have arrogantly turned down requests" to address the alleged marginalization of Omadino youths in terms of job opportunities. While calling on the companies to establish welding and fitting skill acquisition center in Omadino to have more of their indigenes trained for possible employment, the Omadino Welders & Filters' Association, warned that its members may be forced to take the law into their hands, since all legitimate means to address the situation have been rebuffed by management of the companies. Copyright: Fresh Angle International (www.freshangleng.com) Previous Story About 50 percentage of registered voters in Kogi are women, INEC reveals Next Story DESOPADEC Board have diverted derivation funds for politicking, contractors allege Tonebsky Nesta Tonebsky Nesta is the pen name for Metsese Anthony Ebule, Co-Publisher/Editor-In-Chief Read other stories by Tonebsky Nesta ×


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To replace the fuel pump in me pickup, I had to lift the goddamn bed.
Took several hours.
Much gender-coded swearing*, which makes me a Bad Feminist (TM).
Bed is lifted.
Muscles are sore.
This is what feminism looks like.
*Mostly, I said "son-of-a-whore" a lot. I feel bad about this, because I don't want to offend sex workers in any way.
ETA: Replaced the fuel pump. (NICE!)
Then, of course, the goddamn battery is dead. Jumping it now. : /
ETA: Charged the battery. Still wouldn't start. Orcim tells me, "yeah, you might want to reattach that ground wire, dummass." I comply and the thing is now idling in my driveway.


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