With the continuous expansion of influences such as WeChat and Weibo, consumers regard it as the platform of choice for complaints and continue to ferment, which causes enterprise crisis of network public opinion. The paper takes the S mobile phone explosion as a case. First, it reviews the whole process from initiation to quelling. Secondly, through emotional analysis and keyword analysis, it studies the emotional attitudes and causes of the Internet at various stages of S company, and then gets the emotional time series. Graphs can visually show emotional changes. Finally, regression models are used to construct models to analyze the factors that influence the changes in network public opinion. Case analysis shows that S company did not deal with the S mobile phone explosion crisis, which led to the network public opinion that has been not conducive to S company, affecting its development in the Chinese market.
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Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 10th edition (Paperback)
By Benjamin Spock, M.D., Robert Needlman, M.D.
From the pediatrician whose advice has shaped parenting practices for more than half a century comes the essential parenting book—fully revised and updated with the latest research and written in clear, accessible prose for parents of all backgrounds.
Generations of parents have relied on the influential bestseller Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care as the most authoritative and reliable guide for child care. This timeless yet up-to-date edition has been revised and expanded by Dr. Robert Needlman, a top-notch pediatrician who shares Dr. Spock's philosophy and has applied his research in his career.
In this tenth edition, you can gain the latest information on child development from birth through adolescence—including cutting-edge research on topics as crucial as immunizations, screen-time, childhood obesity, environmental health, and more. With a revised glossary of the newest and most common medications and a guide to reliable online resources, this vital handbook will help you become the best parent you can be.
Dr. Benjamin Spock was the most trusted and most famous pediatrician worldwide; his reassuring and commonsense advice shaped parenting practices for half a century. The author of eleven books, he was a political activist for causes that vitally affect children: disarmament, day care, schooling, housing, and medical care for all. Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care has been translated into thirty-nine languages and has sold more than fifty million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1946. Please visit DrSpock.com for more information.
Robert Needlman, MD, is professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and director of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. The author of Dr. Spock's Baby Basics, he also coauthored the 8th and 9th editions of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. Dr. Needlman is cofounder of Reach Out and Read, a child literacy program that has received the UNESCO Confucius Prize and the David M. Rubenstein Prize from the Library of Congress, among other honors.
Publication Date: October 2nd, 2018
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'Historic' ceremony celebrates Haitian culture
Mort Mazor, Special Correspondent
Delray Beach recently celebrated the area's Haitian population.
The Haitian Heritage Festival, staged at the Delray Beach Tennis Center, featured cultural music, entertainment and food vendors. It was preceded by a Haitian flag-raising ceremony at City Hall.
"This is a historic moment as the Haitian flag is raised for the first time in this city, celebrating the significant contribution made by the Haitian people to the quality of life [here]," said Joseph Bernadel, co-founder of Toussaint L'Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice in Delray and the event's master of ceremony.
Before the flag was raised, Paulette Seide sang the Haitian national anthem, and Gina Lasseur sang the U.S. anthem.
Stecy Seraphin, one of the school's students, sang the Haitian anthem again after the flag was raised.
"This was one of the best moments of my whole life," she said. "The emotion I felt when I was singing was so strong, and it made me so proud of what I was a part of and proud of myself. … I felt proud to be Haitian."
The event drew many local dignitaries. State Sen. Maria Sachs spoke of her mother coming to America as a young immigrant not knowing a word of English, but she always "stressed the importance of education, education, education" to her children.
"This is the key for all Haitians to become active, productive citizens. A state of Florida law exists stating the Creole language can be taught in schools, so young people can learn the language of their heritage," she said.
"The raising of the flag speaks to the many who fought and died for the freedoms that you have come to enjoy," said County Commissioner Priscilla Taylor. "In order to continue to enjoy those freedoms, you must not become complacent with the progress made. You must continue to fight for justice, for education, and the pursuit of the American dream."
Delray Vice Mayor Al Jacquet said the event was a "historical moment" for the city.
"This is a prideful moment for the community, seeing the Haitian flag being raised," he said. "It is especially important for the children to see the community coming together for racial equality and cooperation."


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1. INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person's liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.
To act ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships and to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our own business or in any of our supply chains.
To ensure transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains, consistent with our disclosure obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We expect the same high standards from all our contractors, suppliers and other business partners, and as part of our contracting processes, we include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour, or anyone held in slavery or servitude, whether adults or children, and we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same standards.
To improve our practices to combat slavery and human trafficking. KellyDeli Company Limited, as the holding company of the 'KellyDeli Group' (defined below), is taking steps to ensure compliance with legislation relating to Anti-Slavery and Human trafficking, as well as doing our utmost to go above and beyond these requirements. Although we are in our infancy as a company and in our efforts to combat these unfortunate trends, we have taken, and continue to take, these positive actions.
2. OUR STRUCTURE
We are a global food retail and restaurant company. We are the parent company of the KellyDeli subsidiaries throughout Europe, including: France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands Sweden, Denmark and Portugal ("KellyDeli Group"). The Group has over 400 employees throughout Europe, with a global annual turnover of 359.3m euros as of 2018.
3. OUR BUSINESS
Our business is organised into numerous business units such as partnership management, quality and supply chain.
4. OUR SUPPLY CHAINS
Our supply chains include an estimated 45 suppliers throughout Europe who supply products to each of our kiosks. These suppliers range from large scale cross-country suppliers to local small-scale suppliers.
5. OUR POLICIES ON SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Our Human Rights Policy and supplier questionnaire reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity all our business relationships and to implementing and promoting effective systems and controls. In 2020, we will review and update our sourcing policies to improve further our requirements.
6. DUE DILIGENCE PROCESSES FOR SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk we are in the process of implementing within our entire organisation both whistleblowing and due diligence service providers. We aim to:
Identify and assess potential risk areas in our supply chains.
Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in our supply chains.
Monitor potential risk areas in our supply chains; and
Protect whistle blowers.
To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, we will be providing training to our employees from 2020 through Thomson Reuters.
We are committed to respecting and protecting human rights of all who come into contact with our operations, including employees, partners and supply chain workers. We accept our responsibility to support transparency, to find and resolve problems; to regularly review our business practices; and to collaborate with others to protect the rights of workers, particularly those who are most vulnerable to abuses such as modern slavery.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes KellyDeli Group's slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending December 2018. It was approved by the board on 13/12/2019.
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The CISPA cybersecurity bill will allow any company to share your private information with the U.S Government. Please join us in contacting Congress and then recaptioning some CISPA Cats to feel better about life on this planet.
Call, email, or send carrier pigeons to your local representatives and tell them NO.
And this is a problem because…? What, you actually expect anything you do on a global network of millions of computers to be… PRIVATE?!?
Oh, god. You're so stupid.
Here's an idea… If ICHC is so concerned about our right to privacy… stop forcing us to use Facebook to comment on lols. How about actually practicing what you're trying to preach here?
I had not hear about CISPA til I saw this and when I looked it up it sounds like the various cyber security initiatives are all piling up in the Senate. I find it interesting the MS and FB both view this as beneficial from a corporate standpoint and would be willing to trade individual rights to privacy.


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São João da Serra es una freguesia portuguesa del concelho de Oliveira de Frades, con 12,21 km² de superficie y 643 habitantes (2001). Su densidad de población es de 52,7 hab/km².

Galería

Enlaces externos

 São João da Serra en freguesiasdeportugal.com (en portugués)
 Gobierno civil e información administrativa del Distrito de Viseu (en portugués)

Freguesias de Oliveira de Frades

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Q: Loopback getting only one Object from property Array of Object I'm use loopback and mongodb. Right now I have a Model and one of its property type is array of object. The document in mongo will look like this
{
    "_id" : "sgG6G9XTvvjj7uxwQ",
    "name" : "test",
    subscription: [
        {
             "id":3324,
             "state":"Currently",
             "type": "A",
             "startDate": "Date"

        },
        {
             "id":5465,
             "state":"Futuristic",
             "type": "A",
             "startDate": "Date"
        },
        {
             "id":6575,
             "state":"Futuristic",
             "type": "A",
             "startDate": "Date"
        }
    ]
}

I have already tried
 await this.clientsRepository.find({ where: { _id:'5d07ee4515741e0fbcfdbad1',
'subscription.state': 'Currently' },fields: { 'subscription.$': true } } })

I do expect only one object like this
{
   "id":3324,
    "state":"Currently",
    "type": "A",
    "startDate": "Date"
}

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One necklace, featuring an organic shaped hand cut faceted labradorite stone with golden flash in a bezel setting, hanging from a gunmetal plated brass chain.
You will receive one of the items from the photos or similar from the same batch.
Absolutely love this piece! It's exactly as advertised in the picture. I couldn't be happier with it!
This is my third necklace like this one but each is a different stone. This one is my favorite because of the extender chain! I still keep it on the smallest size but since the extender chain hangs it keeps the necklace in the perfect spot that I want it! I'm always adjusting the other ones. The labradorite is beautiful. Thank You!
A cute dainty necklace and it shines in the light! Shipping was fast and came with careful packaging.


How do I use Custom Tags?
Custom tags allows you for the first time to associate custom data with a page view on your website beyond what StatCounter records as standard, to help give you new insights into your traffic. For example your website may have a user login system, and you may want to tag a page view with the username of the visitor loading the page. Or you may want to have custom variables associated with a page view to help with split testing. Effectively you can now tag and segment your traffic in whatever way you wish!
Note: The above is just a sample - the tags object can contain any name/value pairs you like!
That's it! Complete these edits and upload them to your website.
When viewing various StatCounter reports, including Recent Pageload Activity, Recent Visitor Activity or when magnifying users, you should now see an extra column for 'tags', showing you any tags associated with the page views.
In the case of Recent Visitor Activity, tags that have a consistent value across all page views in a visit will be associated with the visitor. For example, if all page views made by a particular visitor were tagged with the same user ID, the user ID will be shown as a tag for that visitor.
You will also find your custom tags added to the filter options on several StatCounter reports alongside the standard filter options. This will give you the flexibility to filter and segment your log based on custom tag values.
The new Custom Tag report gives you a summary of tag data recorded in your log. For each tag type, it will show you a breakdown of the values recorded for that tag, and the percentage of page views in your log tagged with each value. You can click a value to get a further breakdown of the top 5 URLs recording that tag value.
This report is designed to give you an easy way to see how your traffic is divided between different tag values. For example, if you record a 'logged-in' tag, that is true if the visitor is signed in and false otherwise, you could quickly see the percentage of traffic on your site generated by logged in users vs anonymous users. And you could see which pages on your site are most popular with signed-in users alone. Or if you're trying to optimise your site with split testing, you could tag a goal page with variables describing the content seen by that visitor, allowing you to easily segment converting traffic by whatever criteria you need.


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Home » Blog » Gearbest website is DOWN, leaves customers stranded
Gearbest website is DOWN, leaves customers stranded
Earlier this year, we had a report about some irregularities with a Chinese e-commerce store, Gearbest. If you are a regular buyer of Chinese goods but resides outside China, you will probably know Gearbest. This store used to be one of very few Chinese online stores that ships globally. This allows users to buy some Chinese products which otherwise may not be available outside China. To beat the competition, Gearbest had pretty cheap shipping and its prices were quite good. Well, that was back in the days, we can not say the same of Gearbest now. Since the beginning of last year, this online store has been struggling to survive.
Message from any Gearbest link
The first sign of trouble was when its products suddenly became the most expensive online. At the time, only very regular users of Gearbest noticed that its goods are now very expensive which could spell trouble. Subsequently, the company modified its policies which made business very difficult for affiliate marketers. At this point, we knew that Gearbest was struggling to pay off its marketers. However, there were hopes that the company will somehow manage to stay afloat.
However, this did not happen as the sinking continued. Early last year, the once e-commerce giant now had very terrible customer support, refund procedure, and other financial issues. At this point, it was struggling with orders and in some cases did not ship orders. Also, the store barely had any product in stock, whenever you check, it's always "out of stock". Furthermore, its once-vibrant customer service became lukewarm and it was overly difficult to get a response. Even when you get one, you can be sure that it wouldn't make you happy.
Gearbest's fall is not sudden
After receiving multiple emails, we put up a post warning potential Gearbest customers of what is going on at the company. We also sent a couple of emails to Gearbest and didn't get any response. Now, the worse we feared has happened, Gearbest's website on all facets is finally down. The online store website is completely inactive as of the time of this report. The home page, products link, special sales, promotion, EVERYTHING is gone. This has been going on for many days now.
Active Gearbest affiliate account
A customer confirmed to us that after ordering a smartwatch a few months ago, he no longer have access to the website. This is really sad for customers that have active orders with the company.
We tried a lot of options to get the Gearbest website to work but to no avail. We cleared browser cache, cookies and even changed the IP address of the computer. However, the result remains the same. In addition, we deactivated all antivirus and cleared DNS cache but Gearbest's website is still inaccessible.
However, I just tried to log into an affiliate account that I have abandoned for over two years and found out that it's still active. However, when you click on the product adverts on the affiliate page, it is completely inactive.
Gearbest Latest News on its affiliate page
Apparently, the company did not even inform its affiliate marketers of the collapse of the store. The affiliate page has a "latest news" sub-section. There is no mention of the collapse of the website and all its product links.
In any case, we're still trying to get in touch with the store officials and try to find out what's really happening.
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Q: frame add doesn't work to another java file test.java
import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setSize(600, 600);

    }

}

My Other java File test2.java
import javax.swing.JButton;

public class test2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JButton Button = new JButton();
        frame.add(Button);

    }

}

am trying to call frame to test2.java

A: The reason you are getting this problem:
When you run a java application, the application's main function will be called. Therefore you should really only have one main function per application.
In your scenario you had 2 main functions. Think of this as 2 different applications. The following scenarios were happening:

*

*When you run the Test class, your application was creating a new JFrame object. That's pretty much it, it ended there. It had no idea that the Test2 class existed.

*When you run the Test2 class, your application was creating a new JButton object. Although, your Test2 class had no reference to the frame variable (that is why you were getting an error). It didn't even know there was a Test class.

In order to fix this in your situation, try this:
Test.java
public class Test
{
     public static void main(String[] args)
     {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setSize(600, 600);

        // By passing the frame as a reference, the function
        // will be able to add the button to this frame.
        Test2.addButton(frame);
    }
}

Test2.java
public class Test2
{
    public static void addButton(JFrame frame)
    {
        JButton button = new JButton();
        frame.add(button);
    }
}

A more OOP approach:
Here, I made a Driver class that would connect the Test2 and MyFrame classes together.
Driver.java
public class Driver
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        MyFrame frame = new MyFrame();
        Test2.addButton(frame);
    }
}

MyFrame.java
public class MyFrame extends JFrame
{
    public MyFrame()
    {
        this.setSize(600, 600);
        this.setVisible(true);
    }
}

Test2.java
public class Test2
{
    public static void addButton(JFrame frame)
    {
        JButton button = new JButton();
        frame.add(button);
    }
}

A: I assume you're trying to add Button to the JFrame frame you created in test To do this, you'll need to make frame visible to what is essentially the global scope, as such:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class test {
    public static JFrame frame;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        frame = new JFrame();
        frame.setVisible(true);
        frame.setSize(600, 600);
        test2.main(args)
    }
}

and then, to add the button in test2, you need to access test by name
import javax.swing.JButton;
public class test2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JButton Button = new JButton();
        test.frame.add(Button);
    }
}


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Q: how to group jQuery plugins together? In css you can import a stylesheet in another stylesheet. How do you do this for javascript files? most specialy jquery plugins?
I searched first and found different similar questions but I'm not sure about the answer provided. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618351/loading-js-files-dynamically-via-another-js-file)
I'm just looking for a way to limit http requests.

A: You can just append them one after another in a single file, or better, minify them alltogether, with either the YUI Compressor or Google Closure compiler....both will combine all files passed in and minify them as well.  Then, you just serve that one file to your users that contains all your file you want to combine.

A: You can look at google's javascript compiler, closure.
I've been using it in my Rails projects for some time now, through a tool called Jammit, and it does do wonders compressing JS to ridiculous sizes.


The Day of the Dead is a historically significant holiday in Mexico. Wearing this costume exploited elements of that culture without actually acknowledging its history and its rich meaning. This costume reduces a complex tradition into a flimsy outfit for one-time use.
I switched over to Mac this year and had to purchase the applications I use to run my business. This has really improved over the years. It appears to offer pretty much the same functionality as the Windows version. Go Mac!
I love this filament and I love IC3D! These guys stand by their product and have amazing customer service! And Made in the USA!


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Doctor Who And The Visitation
Written By: Eric Saward
Narrated By: Matthew Waterhouse
Tegan, the young air hostess who quite unintentionally became a member of the TARDIS's crew, wants to return to her own time, but when the Doctor tries to take her back to Heathrow Airport in the twentieth century the TARDIS lands instead on the outskirts of seventeenth-century London. The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly unfriendly welcome - but it soon becomes clear that the sinister activities of other visitors from time and space have made the villagers extremely suspicious of outsiders. And as a result of the aliens' evil schemes, the Doctor finds himself on the point of playing a key role in a gruesome historical event... Matthew Waterhouse, who played the Doctor's companion Adric in the original BBC TV serial, reads Eric Saward's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1982.
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by Eric Saward
This title is due for release on October 1, 2012.
This title is due for release on October 1, 2012


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Q: query confusion create query without create view Here is the question
we have 3 database variable(Person, event,invited)
Person(pid,passwd,fname,lname),
Event(eid, start_time,duration,description,pid)
Invited(pid,eid,response,visibility)

I want to make a query witch will do
show all people each event user X create.
For example Person David create the event  with eid=  1 and 3. (2events)
and if Jany and Will invited to the eid =1 , and Mike invited to event 3
it should show
EID PID
1   Jany
1   will
3   mike

The part I confused is  Person and Event 's PID is a creater of the event
and invited's PID is for person who invited. so its different PID value.
so i can not just natural join them
I can solve this problem with create view mysql command but I'm writing this code
on PHP form so I want to finish this command in one command.
what i tried is this
select *
from invited
where  eid
in (SELECT eid
from person natural join event
where pid = 'DD')

But it does not give what I expected.
How to write the code in One command without 'create view' command for this problem?

A: Are you looking for this?
SELECT e.eid, i.pid, p.fname
  FROM event e JOIN invited i
    ON e.eid = i.eid JOIN person p
    ON i.pid = p.pid
 WHERE e.pid = ?

Sample output:

| EID | PID | FNAME |
|-----|-----|-------|
|   1 |   2 |  Jany |
|   1 |   3 |  Will |
|   3 |   4 |  Mike |

Here is SQLFiddle demo
Recommended reading

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*A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins


Showplace inset cabinetry adds dignity and understated elegance to this remodel of a distinctive home. There's certainly no shortage of space in this inviting kitchen centered on an immense wood-topped island. The raised-panel Chesapeake Inset door style creates a look of substance and balance while the near-white Soft Cream paint keeps the setting bright and clean. Adjacent to the kitchen, the family room's tall wet bar introduces a new set of tones and textures, courtesy of distressed rustic alder in the deep Coffee stain.


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What happens when a qualitative/theoretical scholar of gender/sexuality and cultural studies and a quantitative behavioral scientist step outside the boundaries of our respective disciplines, risking disruptions to our normal procedures and cherished political and theoretical commitments? Our unlikely collaboration allowed each of us to explore and challenge the possibilities, limitations, and consequences of our approaches to the study of gender and finance and, ultimately, to make new knowledge. The occasion for this collaboration is the Arizona Pathways to Life Success (APLUS) study, a longitudinal study of a group of young adults to understand how financial practices develop and the factors that shape those practices. We begin by presenting our respective research agendas and our concerns about "engaging the opposition." We then narrate the sequence of our efforts: to talk and think together, generate analyses and interpretations, and then interrupt ourselves—only to begin again. Ultimately, despite (or perhaps because of) our divergent backgrounds, our final set of findings, which reveals the changeability of participation in gendered constellations of financial attitudes and behaviors over time, challenges dominant scientific and popular understandings of the relation of gender to financial behavior and attitudes, with implications across many domains of research, policy, and educational practice.


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Victoria, please don't aerial-bait dingoes
Here's a submission to Victoria's proposed renewal of special permission from the Commonwealth to poison dingoes:
Honourable Lily D'Ambrosio MP
Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change
Level 16, 8 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne, VIC 3002
lily.dambrosio@parliament.vic.gov.au
The Hon Jaclyn Symes, Minister for Agriculture, Victoria
(jaclyn.symes@parliament.vic.gov.au)
Dr Sally Box, Threatened Species Commissioner
(ThreatenedSpeciesCommissioner@environment.gov.au)
The Hon Sussan Ley MP, Minister for Environment, Australia
(Farrer@aph.gov.au)
RE: RENEWAL OF AERIAL BAITING EXEMPTION IN VICTORIA FOR WILD DOG CONTROL USING 1080
The undersigned welcome the opportunity to comment on the proposed renewal of special permission from the Commonwealth under Sections 18 and 18A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Commonwealth) to undertake aerial 1080 baiting in six Victorian locations for the management of 'wild dogs'. This raises serious concerns for two species listed as threatened and protected in Victoria: (1) dingoes and (2) spot-tailed quolls (Dasyurus maculatus).
First, we must clarify that the terminology 'wild dog' is not appropriate when discussing wild canids in Australia. One of the main discussion points at the recent Royal Zoological Society of NSW symposium 'Dingo Dilemma: Cull, Contain or Conserve' was that the continued use of the terminology 'wild dog' is not justified because wild canids in Australia are predominantly dingoes and dingo hybrids, and not, in fact, feral domestic dogs. In Victoria, Stephens et al. (2015) observed that only 5 out of 623 wild canids (0.008%) sampled were feral domestic dogs with no evidence of dingo ancestry. This same study determined that 17.2% of wild canids in Victoria were pure or likely pure dingoes and 64.4% were hybrids with greater than 60% dingo ancestry. Additionally, comparative studies by Jones (1988, 1990 and 2009) observed that dingoes maintained a strong phenotypic identity in the Victorian highlands over time, and perceptively 'wild dog' like animals were more dingo than domestic dog.
As prominent researchers in predator ecology, biology, archaeology, cultural heritage, social science, humanities, animal behaviour and genetics, we emphasise the importance of dingoes in Australian, and particularly Victorian, ecosystems. Dingoes are the sole non-human, land-based, top predator on the Australian mainland. Their importance to the ecological health and resilience of Australian ecosystems cannot be overstated, from regulating wild herbivore abundance (e.g., various kangaroo species), to reducing the impacts of feral mesopredators (cats, foxes) on native marsupials (Johnson & VanDerWal 2009; Wallach et al. 2010; Letnic et al. 2012, 2013; Newsome et al. 2015; Morris & Letnic 2017). Their iconic status is important to First Nations people and to the cultural heritage of all Australians. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 1080, 1080 poison, cat, dingo, environment, environmental policy, fox, policy, quoll, Victoria
Categories : alien species, Australia, biodiversity, cat, community ecology, conservation, decline, demography, dingo, ecology, ecosystem, ecosystem function, environmental policy, extinction, fox, genetics, harvest, human-wildlife conflict, introgression, invasive species, mammal, management, meso-predator release, predation, predator, science, southern Australia, threatened species, top-down ecology, trophic cascades
The Great Dying
Here's a presentation I gave earlier in the year for the Flinders University BRAVE Research and Innovation series:
There is No Plan(et) B — What you can do about Earth's extinction emergency
Earth is currently experiencing a mass extinction brought about by, … well, … us. Species are being lost at a rate similar to when the dinosaurs disappeared. But this time, it's not due to a massive asteroid hitting the Earth; species are being removed from the planet now because of human consumption of natural resources. Is a societal collapse imminent, and do we need to prepare for a post-collapse society rather than attempt to avoid one? Or, can we limit the severity and onset of a collapse by introducing a few changes such as removing political donations, becoming vegetarians, or by reducing the number of children one has?
Tags: Anthropocene, climate change, climate emergency, collapse, extinction, extinction emergency, food supply, human-caused global warming, sustainability, The Great Dying
Categories : Australia, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, climate change, conservation, conservation biology, corruption, decline, deforestation, development, drought, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, education, environmental economics, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental policy, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, extinction debt, Flinders University, flood, food, fragmentation, function, governance, habitat loss, harvest, health, human overpopulation, impact, invasive species, livestock, logging, management, modelling, palaeo-ecology, pollination, pollution, poverty, recovery, reforestation, research, restoration, science, sustainability, synergies, threatened species, trophic cascades, video
Penguins cheated by ecosystem change
Jorge Drexler sings "… I was committed not to see what I saw, but sometimes life is more complex than what it looks like …"*. This excerpt by the Oscar-winning Uruguayan singer seems to foretell the theme of this blog: how the ecological complexity of marine ecosystems can elicit false signals to their predators. Indeed, the fidelity of marine predators to certain feeding areas can turn demographically detrimental to themselves when the amount of available food shrinks. A study of jackass penguins illustrates the phenomenon in a context of overfishing and ocean warming.
Adult of jackass penguin (Spheniscus demersus) from Robben Island (South Africa) — in the inset, one of the first juveniles released with a satellite transmitter on its back. The species is 'Endangered' under IUCN's criteria (28), following a recent halving of the total population currently estimated at ~ 80,000 adults. Jackass penguins are the only penguins living in Africa, and owe their common name to their vocalisations (you can hear their braying sounds here); adults are ~ 50 cm tall and weigh ~ 3 kg. Photos courtesy of Richard Sherley.
Surface temperature, dissolved oxygen, acidity and primary productivity are, by and large, the top four environmental factors driving the functionality of marine ecosystems (1). Growing scientific evidence supports the idea that anthropogenic warming of the atmosphere and the oceans correlates with this quartet (2). For instance, marine primary productivity is enhanced by increased temperatures (3), but a warmer sea surface intensifies stratification, i.e., stacked layers of seawater with contrasting physical and chemical properties.
In coastal areas experiencing 'upwelling' (where winds displace surface water, allowing deep water laden with nutrients to reach the euphotic zone where plankton communities feast), stratification weakens upwelling currents and, in turn, limits the growth of plankton (4) that fuels the entire trophic web, including our fisheries. The study of these complex trophic cascades is particularly cumbersome from the perspective of large marine predators because of their capacity to move long distances, from hundreds to thousands of kilometres (5), with strong implications for their conservation (6).
With those caveats in mind, Richard Sherley and colleagues satellite-tracked the movement of 54 post-fledged, juvenile jackass penguins (Spheniscus demersus) for 2-3 years (7). All individuals had been hatched in eight colonies (accounting for 80% of the global population), and were equipped with platform terminal transmitters. Jackass penguins currently nest in 28 island and mainland locations between South Africa and Namibia. Juveniles swim up to 2000 km in search of food and, when approaching adulthood, return to their native colonies where they reproduce and reside for the remainder of their lives (watch individuals swimming here).
The natural history of this species is linked to the Southern Hemisphere's trade winds ('alisios' for Spanish speakers), which blow from the southeast to the tropics. In the South Atlantic, trade winds sustain the Benguela Current, the waters of which surface from some 300 m of depth and fertilise the marine ecosystems stretching from the Western coasts of South Africa to Angola (8). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: anchovy, Benguela, climate change, fisheries, food web, Global warming, jellies, jellyfication, Namibia, Overfishing, penguin, penguins, pilchard, South Africa, upwelling
Categories : Africa, behaviour, birds, climate change, climate shift, coasts, decline, ecology, ecosystem, ecosystem function, fish, fisheries, food, function, harvest, impact, research, science, trophic cascades
Our global system-of-systems
I've just read an excellent paper that succinctly, eloquently, and wisely summarised the current predicament of our highly interconnected, global, complex adaptive system (i.e., our environment).
If you are new to the discussions around state shifts, hysteresis, tipping points, and system collapse, there might be a lot in the new paper by Philip Garnett of the University of York that you could find intimidating (and not just because of the complexity of the concepts he discusses). If you are more up-to-date on these discussions, I highly recommend reading this paper for distilling some of the more pertinent questions.
The essence of the paper is that our global environment (Earth) is one giant, complex system made up of interacting sub-systems. We can think of these as a giant, interconnected network of nodes and connections (often called 'edges') between them. If you do ecological network theory, then you know what I'm talking about.
What's particularly fascinating to me is that Philip Garnett is not an environmental scientist; in fact, he's a a lecturer in Operations Management and Business Analytics (although he does have a background in genetics and biology) who specialises in complex systems theory. In fact, much of his paper uses socio-economic examples of system complexity and collapse, yet the applications to environmentalism in general, and to ecological integrity in particular, are spot on.
Tags: alternative stable states, Anthropocene, collapse, Complex systems, complex systems theory, ecological networks, hysteresis, quasi-stability, systems theory, tipping points
Categories : biodiversity, climate change, connectivity, conservation, ecology, ecosystem function, extinction, extinction debt, human overpopulation, sustainability, trophic cascades
Microclimates: thermal shields against global warming for small herps
Thermal microhabitats are often uncoupled from above-ground air temperatures. A study focused on small frogs and lizards from the Philippines demonstrates that the structural complexity of tropical forests hosts a diversity of microhabitats that can reduce the exposure of many cold-blooded animals to anthropogenic climate warming.
Reproductive pair of the Luzon forest frogs Platymantis luzonensis (upper left), a IUCN near-threatened species restricted to < 5000 km2 of habitat. Lower left: the yellow-stripped slender tree lizard Lipinia pulchella, a IUCN least-concerned species. Both species have body lengths < 6 cm, and are native to the tropical forests of the Philippines. Right panels, top to bottom: four microhabitats monitored by Scheffers et al. (2), namely ground vegetation, bird's nest ferns, phytotelmata, and fallen leaves above ground level. Photos courtesy of Becca Brunner (Platymantis), Gernot Kunz (Lipinia), Stephen Zozaya (ground vegetation) and Brett Scheffers (remaining habitats).
If you have ever entered a cave or an old church, you will be familiar with its coolness even in the dog days of summer. At much finer scales, from centimetres to millimetres, this 'cooling effect' occurs in complex ecosystems such as those embodied by tropical forests. The fact is that the life cycle of many plant and animal species depends on the network of microhabitats (e.g., small crevices, burrows, holes) interwoven by vegetation structures, such as the leaves and roots of an orchid epiphyte hanging from a tree branch or the umbrella of leaves and branches of a thick bush.
Much modern biogeographical research addressing the effects of climate change on biodiversity is based on macroclimatic data of temperature and precipitation. Such approaches mostly ignore that microhabitats can warm up or cool down in a fashion different from that of local or regional climates, and so determine how species, particularly ectotherms, thermoregulate (1). To illustrate this phenomenon, Brett Scheffers et al. (2) measured the upper thermal limits (typically known as 'critical thermal maxima' or CTmax) of 15 species of frogs and lizards native to the tropical forest of Mount Banahaw, an active volcano on Luzon (The Philippines). The > 7000 islands of this archipelago harbour > 300 species of amphibians and reptiles (see video here), with > 100 occurring in Luzon (3).
Tags: amphibious, climate change, frogs, Global warming, herpetology, microclimates, thermal shield
Categories : amphibian, behaviour, biodiversity, carbon, climate change, climate shift, conservation biology, decline, ecology, extinction, frog, function, research, science, threatened species, trophic cascades, tropical
To feed or to perish in an iceless world
Emaciated female polar bear on drift ice in Hinlopen Strait (Svalbard, Norway), in July 2015 – courtesy of Kerstin Langenberger (www.arctic-dreams.com)
Evolution has designed polar bears to move, hunt and reproduce on a frozen and dynamic habitat that wanes and grows in thickness seasonally. But the modification of the annual cycle of Arctic ice due to global warming is triggering a trophic cascade, which already links polar bears to marine birds.
Popular and epicurean gastronomy claims that the best recipes should use seasonal veggies and fruits. Once upon a time, when there were no greenhouses, international trade routes, or as much frozen and canned food, our grandparents enjoyed what was available at the time. So in some years we had plenty of cherries, while during others we might have feasted on plums. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Arctic, climate change, extinction, Global warming, polar bear
Categories : birds, climate change, decline, evolution, extinction, food, mammal, predation, predator, trophic cascades
Transition from the Anthropocene to the Minicene
Going, going … © CJA Bradshaw
I've just returned from a life-changing trip to South Africa, not just because it was my first time to the continent, but also because it has redefined my perspective on the megafauna extinctions of the late Quaternary. I was there primarily to attend the University of Pretoria's Mammal Research Institute 50thAnniversary Celebration conference.
As I reported in my last post, the poaching rates in one of the larger, best-funded national parks in southern Africa (the Kruger) are inconceivably high, such that for at least the two species of rhino there (black and white), their future persistence probability is dwindling with each passing week. African elephants are probably not far behind.
As one who has studied the megafauna extinctions in the Holarctic, Australia and South America over the last 50,000 years, the trip to Kruger was like stepping back into the Pleistocene. I've always dreamed of walking up to a grazing herd of mammoths, woolly rhinos or Diprotodon, but of course, that's impossible. What is entirely possible though is driving up to a herd of 6-tonne elephants and watching them behave naturally. In the Kruger anyway, you become almost blasé about seeing yet another group of these impressive beasts as you try to get that rare glimpse of a leopard, wild dogs or sable antelope (missed the two former, but saw the latter). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Africa, Anthropocene, elephant, extinction, Holocene, megafauna, persistence, Pleistocene, poaching, rhino, rhinoceros
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The GPLI is the outgrowth of conversations that have been occurring throughout the county since 2012 about protecting public lands in and around the Gunnison Basin. At that time, Senator Bennet heard from the Gunnison community on proposals to protect local public lands and said, "any conversation about managing Gunnison County public lands must begin with the voices of the local community—those who live here, who know the land, and whose economic future depends on these areas".
The GPLI originated as a collaborative among the Crested Butte Mountain Biking Association, Gunnison Trails, High Country Conservation Advocates, the International Mountain Biking Association, and The Wilderness Society. Soon after, in 2014, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and Trout Unlimited submitted proposals for potential public lands protections to Senator Bennet's office. The Gunnison County Sno Trackers and the Gunnison O.H.V. Alliance of Trailriders (GOATs) submitted feedback on the GPLI proposal in 2014.
In light of the diverse interests expressed by these groups, the Gunnison Board of County Commissioners and US Senator Bennet's Office encouraged the community to further work together to create a single proposal that would be representative of the community's vision for the future of public lands in and around Gunnison County.
Recognizing the need for a collaborative conversation about public lands protection, the Gunnison Board of County Commissioners in support with Senator Bennet's office convened the Gunnison Working Group for Public Lands ("the Working Group") in early 2016.
To deepen and broaden the community conversation, the Working Group formed and was tasked with creating a single, consensus proposal encompassing aspects of the three original proposals and associated comments. The initial recommendations released in June 2017 were the result of that work to find consensus on a unified community proposal. The Working Group met monthly through February 2016 to June 2017 to craft a public lands proposal - based on consensus - that would protect community values, take into account the various needs of user groups, and provide long-lasting stability to important public lands in and around the Gunnison Basin.
The initial report was released in June of 2017 as the product of that work. The Working Group also agreed that, moving forward, all organizations would collaborate and together be a coalition under the name of Gunnison Public Lands Initiative.
Since the initial proposal was released, the GPLI has been engaging the community and diverse stakeholders in conversations about the initial proposal and what it would mean for the future of our local public lands. Most of the proposed land designations were met with support when the initial proposal was released. Some areas of improvement and suggested changes were identified through community feedback, and the GPLI has refined the proposal based on that input.
With that input, the GPLI is proud to recommend 452,221 acres of public lands based on consensus for protection in and around the Gunnison Basin, and looks forward to seeing these recommendations drafted into federal legislation.
The revised January 2019 report can be found HERE.


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Zac Brown, Natalie Grant and Bernie Herms, Lisa Loeb, Ledisi, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jimmy Jam are among those presenting the first Grammy Awards of the day in nearly 70 categories. Performers during the Premiere Ceremony include Body Count, India.Arie, Jazzmeia Horn, Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo', and Stile Antico. Singer, composer, and instrumentalist Paul Shaffer will host the ceremony and will serve as musical director while his World's Most Dangerous Band will serve as the house band.
Meanwhile, the Recording Academy has also extended its partnership with Westwood One, with Westwood One continuing to be the Recording Academy's official radio broadcast partner.
Westwood One will also create a two-hour GRAMMYs 60th Anniversary Nomination Special and distribute the broadcast across three key music formats airing Jan. 20 and 21, each hosted by New York City on-air talent. The Top 40/Rhythmic, Hot AC, and AC versions will be hosted by Jayde Donovan from Todd & Jayde Mornings on WPLJ-FM/New York and the Urban/Urban AC version will be hosted by La Loca from WNBM-FM/New York.
Westwood One will also air a week-long series of musical performances and interviews, live from Hackensack Meridian Health Stage 17, at Penn Plaza. Pop station 95.5 WPLJ and New York's only country station, NASH FM 94.7, will be hosting private performances all week by Bleachers, Marshmello, and this year's GRAMMY-nominated artist Midland, among others. A complete list of performances will be announced soon.
The 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live following the Premiere Ceremony on the CBS Television Network from 7:30–11 p.m. ET/4:30–8 p.m. PT.


It's a vertical free-verse poem on the mountain. It's the ultimate expression of all that is fun and liberating about sliding on snow in wintertime. What? You haven't heard about it? It's called freeride and it's arguably the most exciting snowsport competition of the 21st century.
Forget placing slalom poles down the mountain. Forget building artificial jumps and hips and halfpipes and tabletops. Forget grooming the slopes even. Freeride contests are 100% natural, 100% clean. Indeed, the event is all about celebrating the god-given terrain features found on any mountainside in the most exciting and elemental format possible. There's a start gate at the summit and a finish gate at the bottom. That's it. Best run down wins.
It truly is that simple. Think skiers and snowboarders choosing impossible-looking lines through cornices and cliff-faces and nasty couloirs. Think progressive: big jumps, mach-speed turns and full-on attack. Think entertaining.


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ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR
ANGELA LEONG ON KEI
Sociedade De Jogos De Macau, SA (SJM)
CAO Office, 2/F, Hotel Lisboa, Macau
www.sjmholdings.com
Angela Leong On Kei was raised by a family in which her mother was the breadwinner, her father having passed away during her childhood years. Inspired to start her own business to improve the living standards of her family, Leong had to work three to four part-time jobs back-to-back when she first arrived in Macao to sustain both herself and support in no small measure her family members. She recalls that as busy and hectic as life was in those days it was nevertheless fulfilling despite the painstaking efforts she had to make to progress. Not having received much education, Leong always believed that she had to work much harder than anybody else as she firmly subscribed then, as she does now, to the idiom that 'diligence can make up for the lack of talent'.
The real turning point of her life, however, was undeniably when she met Dr. Stanley Ho Hung Sun – respected far and wide for his business acumen as well as philanthropy – brought together by their common interests and hobbies. From the outset, it was obvious that Dr. Ho appreciated her genuine aspiration of starting a business of her own, which, given her evident studiousness, fortitude and diligence, was the perfect foil for his erudition and rich business experience. Consequently, Dr. Ho gave her periodic counsel, revealing to her the path of entrepreneurialism, during which process he became not only her mentor but partner in life, with the best tacit understanding of each other.
Given her passion and burgeoning talent for business, Leong soon created a new world in the business sector, entering the mainstream management of Sociedade de Jogos de Macau S.A. (SJM) with people's valued and appreciated recognition of her efforts, since when she has participated in expanding and innovating the company's business, ascending over time to her current position as Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer, demanding roles in which she supervises the company's daily operations. Having overcome numerous difficulties and challenges along the way – such as partaking in and witnessing the listing of SJM Holdings and the construction of the Grand Lisboa Palace project, among other milestone events – she can finally heave a sigh of relief that all the hard work has finally paid off, although by no means is it finished.
Meanwhile, Leong has continuously followed the philosophy of 'repaying society for one's gain from it' as espoused by Dr. Ho, leading the company in taking the initiative to fulfil its corporate social responsibilities and keeping a close eye on social and livelihood issues in the course of seeking a breakthrough in the company's development. It will come as no surprise, then, that she is proactively involved in many associations and groups that seek to make society a more level playing field, taking the long view that we all have a responsibility to venerate those who have gone before and those generations currently emerging.
Leong has continuously followed the philosophy of 'repaying society for one's gain from it' as espoused by Dr. Ho, leading the company in taking the initiative to fulfil its corporate social responsibilities and keeping a close eye on social and livelihood issues in the course of seeking a breakthrough in the company's development.
Bearing this philosophy in mind, SJM has made fruitful achievements – gaining wide public recognition in the process – in just a few years in areas such as the development of the company's non-gaming elements, the promotion of responsible gaming, ongoing and evolving staff training, and supporting schemes in practical ways for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), a priority for the MSAR Government in its declared objective of the territory transforming itself into a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, among many other initiatives.
Leong is fully aware of how difficult life can be for grassroots workers, having been one of them and gone through similar trials and tribulations of her own. When she delved further into corporate management, therefore, she recognised the need to bridge the communication gap between staff and the company in order to balance the rights and interests of both parties. This notion encouraged her, in turn, to establish the SJM Staff Welfare Consultative Committee, on which she serves as chairperson, to fight for employees' benefits, earning her much admiration from the staff. She always recalls what Dr. Ho has continually stressed: "When one drinks water, one must not forget where it comes from", which means one must put oneself in others' shoes for 'harmony' and a 'win-win' situation. The saying also transpires to be her life motto as well as the vision of the company's development.
SJM, which continues to prosper under Leong's stewardship, now operates over 50% of the casinos in Macao and employs around 20,000 members of the community. These employees have not only made outstanding contributions to the government's tax coffers but provided ample employment opportunities for society. They have also won wide recognition from Macao residents and various sectors of the community for their achievements in aspects as diverse as public welfare and charity, responsible gaming, and urban construction.
Given her outstanding achievements in the gaming industry, Leong was awarded the Medal of Merit – Industry and Commerce in 2009 by the Macao SAR Government and has been crowned 'Successful Female Entrepreneur' by several organisations, for which she has expressed her gratitude for the recognition of government and commerce with typical humility. In addition, she was also awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (B.B.S.) in 2015 by the Hong Kong SAR Government. She believes that she still has a lot to learn in managing an enterprise – in particular in a business and social environment that is changing at a faster pace in Macau than possibly in any other part of the world – and is adamant that she will continue to look to Dr. Ho as a role model in her further contributions to industry and society.
In conclusion, she often advises young people – in whom she has invested much time and effort over the years through scholarships and educational 'love your country' fieldtrips – that when they first enter society they have to bear hardships, be level-headed and prepare themselves for a career they are passionate about. There is no such thing as luck or copying the path to success, she admonishes – only relentless diligence can pave the way for youngsters eager to create a bright future of their own.


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Interview: The Creative Team Behind "Bonedive Scrounger" on Dive Bars, Burial Grounds, and 'Writing Nothing for Nobody'
Bonedive Scrounger is a play set in a dive bar built on an ancient burial ground in which Jimmy's always talking, Bronco writes nothing for nobody, Clementina can't find her blind date, Annie's capturing souls, and Bull's claiming hats to mount on the wall. The show has reunited the creative team from Warm Enough for Swimming, Fred Backus and Maggie Cino, who are together again as playwright and director.
You've worked together in the past, specifically on Warm Enough for Swimming in the Fringe Festival in 2014, how does that experience compare to this one?
Fred: Well, we switched roles so that was interesting, now I get to hand my play off to Maggie in the same way she handed off her play to me.
Maggie: It's definitely been an interesting process because both directing a play and writing a play are both really involved and creatively challenging but they're very, very different. I think definitely when you're producing your own works there's a lot of letting go that you have to do. Even if you have a really great collaborator and a really strong process there's a lot to be able to just step back and support the work that's happening; and even if you're able to have a strong voice there's a lot that you just have to trust will happen in front of you. One of the beautiful things about directing a play is that you get to dive into a world that's not your own and really make it come alive but at the same time you are much in service to the other artist in the process. I definitely found it interesting how different the experiences at each end were.
Fred: It's watching someone else do something amazing with the work that you didn't expect.
Maggie Cino
Is there one role (directing or writing) that you enjoy doing more than the other? Or that you feel more akin to?
Maggie: I think that we both have come to these art forms a little late. I started as an actor and was an actor for many, many, many years and probably about, I don't know, about seven years ago started to explore playwriting as a primary art form; I've done a little bit of directing through the course of experience, it wasn't something I ever pursued as a primary means of expression. I have found that writing is something I have gotten more and more committed to as the years go on and the opportunity to direct was a little intimidating, but I have found it to be a really wonderful time doing it and am grateful for the opportunity to realize how much I dig it.
Fred: We both started out as actors. We were both in the same writing group and both these plays were written around the same time and were sort of shelved for a while, and we were kind of like, 'How about you direct my play and I'll direct your play?" And it just sort of come together this past year and it's really great.
What's the transition from actor to playwright/director been like for you? Do you miss acting?
Fred: Well, I don't miss acting in either of these two shows; I really enjoyed the cast we have and had and I enjoyed my job in the shows. But I certainly take all my acting experience into my jobs. When I directed Warm Enough for Swimming I was definitely an actor's director I think. That was definitely where my strength was, was with the actors and that's where my focus was on. And in writing this play I certainly wrote a play that would be actable as opposed to writing a treatise or a poetic or whatever; I really had in mind how it would be staged and how it would be acted. I feel that whatever my acting experience has brought has been poured into both of these projects.
Maggie: I think a lot of the most important playwrights through history have started out as actors; I think that acting is really the foundation discipline of all of theater. Standing on the stage and learning how to work through a story and getting it on its feet and knowing what it's like to stand up there and put yourself out there is really important and having experience of that form and really helps with any other discipline you might practice, and the more I look around I realize that that path is well trod. It definitely makes you aware of the actors, it makes you talk to them, and it makes you think about storytelling in a different way. I couldn't imagine playwriting without it although I know people do.
Fred: It's good to be on the sidelines before you lead the troops I think.
That's a great way of putting it. Onto the play itself: one of my favorite things about a show is to already have an actor in the space when you arrive. At the beginning of the show you've placed the character Jimmy in the bar space walking around and interacting with the objects on stage -- including the people who aren't yet there. There's already a question of if he's crazy and who this guy is. Can you elaborate on this idea and where the concept came from?
Maggie: It came from really a lot of places. One is the text itself: this play is really about realities that exist on top of each other. It's about the bar where Bronco has this experience, it's about the bar where Bronco comes back years later to get his notebook back, it's about the bar that was built on an ancient burial ground, the bar that was built around Jimmy, and so the play itself is about so many levels of reality existing upon itself.
We had a really unique and awesome opportunity to take full control of the theater and use it however we want, a lot of time. With the Fringe Festival, as awesome as it is, you're sharing the space with other shows and have to pack everything up really tight, and this was such a cool opportunity to make the space our own. One of the things I felt really conscious of because I wanted to keep the concept of multiple realities all going at once, so you're in a theater we are not pretending that, Jimmy gives the curtain speech, like this is a play. We aren't creating an experience where you're supposed to believe you're just in the bar it's a theater and a bar that exist at one time, at least that's the experience I was hoping to communicate. And Brian was so on board, immediately after reading the play he came up to me and said Jimmy starts on stage right, like Jimmy has to start on stage and I said yes Jimmy has to start on stage. It was just a great collaborative process and we had so many artists who are passionate and want to grow themselves within the idea.
One of the things I was really interested in is this idea of "writing nothing for nobody" that the character Bronco talks about. Is there a certain place that the idea came from?
Fred: The idea of the play is that people are sharing experiences and I think one of the things that Bronco learns in this play is that he can't just keep; you have to give back a little bit. You can't write for nobody, you have to write for somebody in order to be a whole person. You have to give back, you have to share.
If you could hope for the audience to take away anything from this show what would it be and why?
Maggie: We had a lot of really intense conversations about the subject matter of the play and something I'm sensitive to ever since I agreed to work on this project is that what happens with Bronco and the pictures is something that is so devastating these days that it has ruined so many people's lives that this impulse and action and it's so serious. Even in the play and the setting it doesn't have the same ramifications that it does today and it was something that as the director I was really struggling to wrap my head around like what is this about? Is it just this action without the consequences? But it really gave the opportunity to explore what the impulse is and even if you strip away the huge consequences that exist today in 2015 the impulse is just as damaging and there is so much about these pictures that are made public and there's much less a conversation about how it's not right to do this in the first place. The one thing I like about this is that we are talking about that and if people walk around thinking about that. I would love people to walk away with the experience of being transported and having multiple levels of reality and just having enjoyed it because I really enjoyed the time I spent in it.
Fred: Jumping off of that. I guess the mediation I'd like people to think about is when your experiences are solely for you and when they are a true interaction that is shared. That goes into when you go into a strange place and are you trying to mask things for your own book, edification or self, or are you trying to interact with the people who are already there and have a true relationship. That was sort of my launching into this play and what I'd like people to think about I guess.
Bonedive Scrounger is playing from January 22nd-January 31st at the Brick. To purchase tickets or for more information go to www.bricktheater.com.
Written by: Kelli Kardell
Kelli Kardell is an intern at StageBuddy while attending school to earn her degree in theater and journalism. Among her writing interest she also pursues photography and a theatrical life. For more information please see www.kardelltheatrics.com.
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Die Kathedrale der göttlichen Vorsehung (rumän. Catedrala Providenţa Divină) ist die Bischofskirche des römisch-katholischen Bistums Chișinău in der moldauischen Hauptstadt Chișinău (Kischinau). Sie wurde von 1840 bis 1843 im klassizistischen Stil erbaut. Als Schöpfer des Entwurfs gilt der Petersburger Architekt Iossif Iwanowitsch Charlemagne (1782–1861). Die Kathedrale steht auf der Liste der nationalen Geschichts- und Kulturdenkmäler.

Geschichte

In den 1820er Jahren baute die kleine, vorwiegend polnischstämmige katholische Gemeinde an der Stelle der heutigen Kathedrale eine Kapelle mit dem Patrozinium Vorsehung Gottes. Sie reichte bereits in den 1830er Jahren nicht mehr aus. Ein Baukostenzuschuss Zar Nikolaus' I. ermöglichte die Errichtung der heutigen Kirche.

1964 wurde die Vorsehungskirche durch die sowjetische Administration enteignet und später in ein Ton- und Filmstudio umgewandelt. Die Kirchengemeinde durfte sich in einer Friedhofskapelle weiter zum Gottesdienst versammeln. 1989 wurde die Kirche, nach Intervention u. a. des Roten Kreuzes und der Vereinten Nationen, an die katholische Pfarrei zurückgegeben und anschließend wiederhergestellt. 1993 wurde sie Sitz der Apostolischen Administratur Moldau, 2001 Kathedrale des neu errichteten Bistums Chișinău.

Architektur und Ausstattung
Die Kathedrale ist nach Südwesten orientiert und hat einen rechteckigen Grundriss mit halbrunder Apsis. Das Langhaus umfasst fünf Joche. Daran schließt sich nordöstlich eine Schaufassade mit dem in ein großes Rundbogenfenster eingefügten Portal und zwei quadratischen Glockentürmen an.

Den Innenraum gliedern zwei Reihen korinthischer Säulen in ein breites Mittelschiff mit Tonnengewölbe und zwei schmalere Seitenschiffe mit Kassettendecken.

Die originale bilderreiche Ausstattung ging nach der Schließung in den 1960er Jahren verloren. Die heutige Ausstattung wurde in den 1990er Jahren mit Blick auf die Erhebung zur Kathedrale geschaffen.

Weblinks
 Geschichte und Architektur (Netzpräsenz der Diözese, rumänisch)
 Geschichte und Architektur (Historisches Zentrum Chișinău, rumänisch)

Kathedrale der gottlichen Vorsehung
Chisinau
Römisch-katholische Kathedrale
Providenzkirche
Kirchengebäude in der Republik Moldau
Erbaut in den 1840er Jahren
Chisinau
Klassizistisches Bauwerk in der Republik Moldau
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