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Tiago Casanova: Breaking Ground
The forces that shape a society are, in themselves, largely intangible; they cannot readily be seen and neither are they fully understood, even by those who would presume to wield them. So how can a medium like photography, which is most often stubbornly literal, be used to visualise this evolving present without resorting to the familiar tactics of photojournalism? This question, among others, is what Tiago Casanova confronts in his series Madeira, describing the complex new social topography of the island, which reads like a case-study of the changes that have also redefined the landscape of mainland Europe. Here, it is especially visible as a study in contrasts between the native terrain and the anonymous – one might almost say, corporate – style of recent developments; the images are often framed in such a way as to emphasize this telling difference. This is not to suggest, of course, that a 'state of nature' is somehow preferable, or that the particular character of this new architecture spoils the otherwise pristine, indeed, often forbidding landscape. Rather, at stake is the issue of how deeper changes in social structures (such as the movement of capital and populations) are articulated as surface conditions that determine the way people live. The material expression of these changes as seen in various forms of habitation and infrastructure, which Casanova is obviously very attentive to, should not be understood as simply a matter of style, but of how a particular moment in history makes that social order possible.
The fact that Madeira is a sheltered island community at somewhat of a remove from European centres of power, did not protect it from those same conditions that precipitated near disaster elsewhere as the markets plunged and our financial systems seemed on the verge of unravelling. Understood as being both a symptom and an outcome, the shift to an unsustainable economy of speculation, as well as other, even more elusive forms of production is evidenced by Casanova's remarkably precise images. It is hard not to see the blank concrete pillars of a motorway overpass towering over an older road as being a sort of bridge to nowhere, marking a decisive break with a now unreachable past – not because those forms of social organization were necessarily inferior, but rather because they were less profitable, less in thrall to the hollow promise of development for its own sake. The reserved, austere style of the work might appear to be at odds with what is ultimately a polemical statement about how the character of a certain place has been transformed, but it is precisely this quality that allows the work to function in the way it does, without reducing these complex issues to mere illustrations. Instead, he is able to locate them in the experience of the place itself and how it is seen, as a continuum of spatial and social orders. If the real forces of political change are not always readable in the landscape, then we must at least try, as Casanova does here, to discern their effects.
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Written by Darren Campion / Published 24 March 2014


We're not ashamed to say that the slow cooker is our best friend in the kitchen, but we typically only use it for dinnertime meals. Well that's about to change with this amazingly delicious breakfast casserole! Packed with morning staples like hash browns, eggs, sausage, and cheese, our whole family loves this dish on the weekend (especially if somehow there are leftovers to start Monday morning with), and we love being able to prep it the night before…waking up to the smell of breakfast and knowing our work is already done is pretty much the best way to start the weekend!
Lightly grease your slow cooker with non-stick spray.
Spread half of hash browns out on the bottom of slow cooker and top with half of browned sausage, onion and peppers.
Sprinkle 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese and 1/2 cup cheddar cheese on top of the veggies, then repeat with another layer of potatoes, sausage, onions and peppers.
Evenly sprinkle remaining cheese over everything.
Whisk eggs and milk together in a large bowl, then add in Italian seasoning, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
Pour mixture over everything in the slow cooker, then cover and cook on high for 4-5 hours, or low for 8-9 hours.


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Hockey: Indian women's team beat Ireland, Navjot Kaur completes 150 caps
Indian women's hockey team midfielder Navjot Kaur, who mounted the ranks in the national team with notable performances, concluded the milestone of playing 150 international matches.
The Kurukshetra-born player won the feat during her side's match against Ireland in India's tour of Spain.
Navjot Kaur made her international debut in 2012 in a series against New Zealand in Napier after presenting her talent in junior tournaments such as the Junior Asia Cup and International U-21 tournament in the Netherlands, where India had completed third.
She was part of the team that transcended at the Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2015 taking India to the stairs of the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Hockey India Secretary General Rajinder Singh applauded Kaur, saying: "Navjot has shown India that her experience is vital for the team, time and again with her improved performances over the years. I congratulate her on completing her 150 international matches for India today. She is an inspiration for young, budding players who are aspiring to take up hockey professionally. I wish her the very best for future matches, especially in India's attempt to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics."
The Indian midfielder too featured in the 17th Asian Games, 2016 Rio Olympics, fourth Women's Asian Champions Trophy and was part of India's silver medal feat at the 2018 Asian Games.
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She has also been a constant member of the Indian team that has risen the world ranking charts to number nine.
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Chichester Faculty Students Rejoice Outstanding Achievement – Education Sussex
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It meant he was capable of qualify for petrostearin (Highly recommended Site) a bursary to check international catastrophe management at Coventry University. He mentioned: "I couldn't be any happier! I did the perfect I might and i can't believe I obtained these outcomes. Charlie Treasure-Coates was also celebrating incredible outcomes – receiving triple distinction star in her Artwork & Design prolonged diploma. She's heading to Swansea Faculty of Art to study for her degree in surface sample design.
The Chichester Faculty Group is the biggest supplier of additional training in Sussex. The faculty educates and trains round 25,000 full and half-time students every year by its campuses in Chichester, Brinsbury and Crawley. The college works to improve studying opportunities for college kids across the region by combining inclusion and excellence to meet native and group needs.
Non-league Chichester City – the bottom ranked club in the FA Cup – obtained a bye to the second spherical following Bury's removal from the competitors. Chichester, seventh within the eighth-tier Isthmian League South East Division, had been the final club left in the pot at the end of Monday's first-round draw and receive £36,000 in prize money. National League Harrogate Town will host two-time winners Portsmouth.
The first town planning technical assist apprenticeships in the nation have been accomplished at Chichester College. And to celebrate the occasion, the faculty introduced collectively all its town planning apprentices for a particular afternoon to recognise their accomplishments. This entry stage apprenticeship programme was first introduced on the faculty in 2015, with 5 apprentices embarking on the scheme which was developed by the Royal City Planning Institute (RTPI) and the development Business Council. Jamie Alley, Nicholas Whittington, Greg Anderson, Alex Carruthers and Andrew Pommells had been the primary five to enroll, and completed their course in 2017, adopted by twenty additional apprentices completing their studies this year.
Explore the stories of the buildings via audio-visual shows and programmes, artwork and mosaics. Outside you possibly can stroll around an authentic Roman backyard with its personal potting shed and antique gardening tools! Continue opening the door to historical past at the Novium, which is a museum built across the remains of a Roman bathhouse.


It was a second straight great night of NHL hockey yesterday with 5 of the 9 games featuring 6 goals or more and several exciting comebacks.
We weren't on the Jets/Hurricanes game but we caught the tail end of the third period and the overtime. Winnipeg rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third, tied the game with 1:29 left in regulation and won it on a beautiful goal by Scheifele in OT.
Our bets had a 1-1 split for the second straight evening, this time turning us a small profit as both our wagers were at plus money. The winner was on the Bruins/Blue Jackets Over 5.5, and the teams combined for 9 goals. Our loss was on the Wild, who was outplayed badly in the first period by the Blues and fell 3-2 in St. Louis.
Only 3 games on the NHL betting board tonight, and we're going with 1 pick. Buckle up for tomorrow night as there's a 13-game slate to enjoy.
Unfortunately this line has moved quite a bit since we posted this pick to our site earlier this afternoon, but even at the current -140 price we think there's still value on the Flames. We love the spot for Calgary, returning home 2 days after opening the season with a 7-4 loss in Edmonton to the rival Oilers and getting a chance to avenge that loss tonight.
Even though this is a fierce rivalry and just the second game of the season, this also looks like a possible letdown spot for the Oilers. Edmonton's players obviously sensed the importance of winning the first game in Rogers Place Wednesday, especially with Gretzky and Messier and a lot of the other former Oiler greats in the building. They could be a bit fat and happy coming into this one, and we expect the Flames to come out with a lot more intensity early. Hopefully, that's enough to get Calgary on its way in this one.
If you don't want to lay -140 on the Flames here, you could also play them -1 on the puck line (Pinnacle is a sportsbook that offers these types of lines, or you could split your bet between the moneyline and -1.5 puck line), take them to win in regulation or play them over their team total of 2.5.


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Kip Moore: Drinking and Thinking
Charlie Worsham Earns His Applause and Then Some
by Alison Bonaguro 8/23/2018
It's good to have a guy like Kip Moore in your corner; especially when he's had a couple drinks.
Moore took in a show at Nashville's Station Inn — the tiny-but-mighty bluegrass proving ground — this week, and after filming the part of Charlie Worsham's acoustic show when everyone in the room applauded, he decided to speak his mind after lowering his inhibitions the old-fashioned way.
Had just enough to drink to say I just don't get it sometimes. Maybe we're too distracted to focus, maybe the vanity has stripped our true senses, or maybe we're just slippin intellectually…i don't know, but it's tough to watch someone this talented get passed over for auto-tune, tracks, & songs w no meat on the bone. Keep chugging Charlie. There will always be a crowd that loves & appreciates the craft! @charlieworsham
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"Had just enough to drink to say I just don't get it sometimes," Moore wrote on social media on Wednesday (Aug. 22).
"Maybe we're too distracted to focus, maybe the vanity has stripped our true senses, or maybe we're just slipping intellectually," he added. "I don't know, but it's tough to watch someone this talented get passed over for auto-tune, tracks, & songs w no meat on the bone."
It's not the first time Moore has opined on the state of country music today. But he's good about balancing that commentary with good vibes about the music he does love, the progress he's made, and the fans who have backed him every step of the way.
First time we played summerfest back in 2010, there were 15 people at our show. I remember because I counted while we played. And if that wasn't enough of a blow, there was a couple playing cards front and center.. I remember wanting to kick that deck of cards among other things. Milwaukee was killer last night & gave us the feeling you always search for while playing a show. Much love as always Wisco. @lifeinrewindfilms
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"Keep chugging Charlie," he said. "There will always be a crowd that loves & appreciates the craft."
Worsham and Moore have toured together a handful of times. Once as part of the CMT on Tour line-up in 2014 (see this year's CMT on Tour: Here Tonight schedule featuring Brett Young, Rachel Wammack and Tyler Rich), and earlier this year in Australia. After their run Down Under, Moore posted a message to Worsham: "Your time is comin' bud. Keep fighting the good fight & the universe will work it's magic in your favor."
Good times pre-show with @charlieworsham in OZ. Your time is comin bud. Keep fighting the good fight & the universe will work it's magic in your favor. #cutyourgroove
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Alison Bonaguro
Alison makes her living loving country music. She's based in Chicago, but she's always leaving her heart in Nashville.
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Concept: NMDA receptor
Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis in the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Knut
Knut the polar bear of the Berlin Zoological Garden drowned in 2011 following seizures and was diagnosed as having suffered encephalitis of unknown etiology after exhaustive pathogen screening. Using the diagnostic criteria applied to human patients, we demonstrate that Knut's encephalitis is almost identical to anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis which is a severe autoimmune disease representing the most common non-infectious encephalitis in humans. High concentrations of antibodies specific against the NR1 subunit of the NMDA receptor were detected in Knut's cerebrospinal fluid. Histological examination demonstrated very similar patterns of plasma cell infiltration and minimal neuronal loss in affected brain areas. We conclude that Knut suffered anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis making his the first reported non-human case of this treatable disease. The results suggest that anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis may be a disease of broad relevance to mammals that until now has remained undiagnosed.
Concepts: Medicine, Human, Medical terms, Greek loanwords, Mammal, NMDA receptor, Bear, Polar bear
Divergence in problem-solving skills is associated with differential expression of glutamate receptors in wild finches
Problem solving and innovation are key components of intelligence. We compare wild-caught individuals from two species that are close relatives of Darwin's finches, the innovativeLoxigilla barbadensis, and its most closely related species in Barbados, the conservativeTiaris bicolor. We found an all-or-none difference in the problem-solving capacity of the two species. Brain RNA sequencing analyses revealed interspecific differences in genes related to neuronal and synaptic plasticity in the intrapallial neural populations (mesopallium and nidopallium), especially in the nidopallium caudolaterale, a structure functionally analogous to the mammalian prefrontal cortex. At a finer scale, we discovered robust differences in glutamate receptor expression between the species. In particular, the GRIN2B/GRIN2A ratio, known to correlate with synaptic plasticity, was higher in the innovativeL. barbadensis. These findings suggest that divergence in avian intelligence is associated with similar neuronal mechanisms to that of mammals, including humans.
Concepts: Brain, Species, Cerebrum, Mammal, NMDA receptor, Intelligence, Problem solving, Finch
Protons Potentiate GluN1/GluN3A Currents by Attenuating Their Desensitisation
N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are glutamate- and glycine-gated channels composed of two GluN1 and two GluN2 or/and GluN3 subunits. GluN3A expression is developmentally regulated, and changes in this normal pattern of expression, which occur in several brain disorders, alter synaptic maturation and function by unknown mechanisms. Uniquely within the NMDA receptor family, GluN1/GluN3 receptors produce glycine-gated deeply desensitising currents that are insensitive to glutamate and NMDA; these currents remain poorly characterised and their cellular functions are unknown. Here, we show that extracellular acidification strongly potentiated glycine-gated currents from recombinant GluN1/GluN3A receptors, with half-maximal effect in the physiologic pH range. This was largely due to slower current desensitisation and faster current recovery from desensitisation, and was mediated by residues facing the heterodimer interface of the ligand-binding domain. Consistent with the observed changes in desensitisation kinetics, acidic shifts increased the GluN1/GluN3A equilibrium current and depolarized the membrane in a glycine concentration-dependent manner. These results reveal novel modulatory mechanisms for GluN1/GluN3A receptors that further differentiate them from the canonical glutamatergic GluN1/GluN2 receptors and provide a new and potent pharmacologic tool to assist the detection, identification, and the further study of GluN1/GluN3A currents in native preparations.
Concepts: Amino acid, Hormone, Cell signaling, Proteinogenic amino acid, PH, NMDA receptor, Glutamic acid, Excitotoxicity
Nonhuman primate model of schizophrenia using a noninvasive EEG method
There is growing evidence that impaired sensory-processing significantly contributes to the cognitive deficits found in schizophrenia. For example, the mismatch negativity (MMN) and P3a event-related potentials (ERPs), neurophysiological indices of sensory and cognitive function, are reduced in schizophrenia patients and may be used as biomarkers of the disease. In agreement with glutamatergic theories of schizophrenia, NMDA antagonists, such as ketamine, elicit many symptoms of schizophrenia when administered to normal subjects, including reductions in the MMN and the P3a. We sought to develop a nonhuman primate (NHP) model of schizophrenia based on NMDA-receptor blockade using subanesthetic administration of ketamine. This provided neurophysiological measures of sensory and cognitive function that were directly comparable to those recorded from humans. We first developed methods that allowed recording of ERPs from humans and rhesus macaques and found homologous MMN and P3a ERPs during an auditory oddball paradigm. We then investigated the effect of ketamine on these ERPs in macaques. As found in humans with schizophrenia, as well as in normal subjects given ketamine, we observed a significant decrease in amplitude of both ERPs. Our findings suggest the potential of a pharmacologically induced model of schizophrenia in NHPs that can pave the way for EEG-guided investigations into cellular mechanisms and therapies. Furthermore, given the established link between these ERPs, the glutamatergic system, and deficits in other neuropsychiatric disorders, our model can be used to investigate a wide range of pathologies.
Concepts: Electroencephalography, Macaque, Primate, NMDA receptor, Rhesus Macaque, Excitotoxicity, Ketamine, Phencyclidine
Involvement of TrkB- and p75(NTR)-signaling pathways in two contrasting forms of long-lasting synaptic plasticity
The repetition of experience is often necessary to establish long-lasting memory. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying this repetition-dependent consolidation of memory remain unclear. We previously observed in organotypic slice cultures of the rodent hippocampus that repeated inductions of long-term potentiation (LTP) led to a slowly developing long-lasting synaptic enhancement coupled with synaptogenesis. We also reported that repeated inductions of long-term depression (LTD) produced a long-lasting synaptic suppression coupled with synapse elimination. We proposed these phenomena as useful in vitro models for analyzing repetition-dependent consolidation. Here, we hypothesized that the enhancement and suppression are mediated by the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-TrkB signaling pathway and the proBDNF-p75(NTR) pathway, respectively. When we masked the respective pathways, reversals of the enhancement and suppression resulted. These results suggest the alternative activation of the p75(NTR) pathway by BDNF under TrkB-masking conditions and of the TrkB pathway by proBDNF under p75(NTR)-masking conditions, thus supporting the aforementioned hypothesis.
Concepts: Scientific method, Synaptic plasticity, Memory, Observation, NMDA receptor, Long-term potentiation, Neurotrophin, Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
NMDA receptor activation upstream of methyl farnesoate signaling for short day-induced male offspring production in the water flea, Daphnia pulex
The cladoceran crustacean Daphnia pulex produces female offspring by parthenogenesis under favorable conditions, but in response to various unfavorable external stimuli, it produces male offspring (environmental sex determination: ESD). We recently established an innovative system for ESD studies using D. pulex WTN6 strain, in which the sex of the offspring can be controlled simply by changes in the photoperiod: the long-day and short-day conditions can induce female and male offspring, respectively. Taking advantage of this system, we demonstrated that de novo methyl farnesoate (MF) synthesis is necessary for male offspring production. These results indicate the key role of innate MF signaling as a conductor between external environmental stimuli and the endogenous male developmental pathway. Despite these findings, the molecular mechanisms underlying up- and downstream signaling of MF have not yet been well elucidated in D. pulex.
Concepts: Male, Reproduction, Sex, NMDA receptor, Sex-determination system, Branchiopoda, Daphnia, Temperature-dependent sex determination
Sharp-Wave Ripples Orchestrate the Induction of Synaptic Plasticity during Reactivation of Place Cell Firing Patterns in the Hippocampus
Cell reports
Place cell firing patterns reactivated during hippocampal sharp-wave ripples (SWRs) in rest or sleep are thought to induce synaptic plasticity and thereby promote the consolidation of recently encoded information. However, the capacity of reactivated spike trains to induce plasticity has not been directly tested. Here, we show that reactivated place cell firing patterns simultaneously recorded from CA3 and CA1 of rat dorsal hippocampus are able to induce long-term potentiation (LTP) at synapses between CA3 and CA1 cells but only if accompanied by SWR-associated synaptic activity and resulting dendritic depolarization. In addition, we show that the precise timing of coincident CA3 and CA1 place cell spikes in relation to SWR onset is critical for the induction of LTP and predictive of plasticity generated by reactivation. Our findings confirm an important role for SWRs in triggering and tuning plasticity processes that underlie memory consolidation in the hippocampus during rest or sleep.
Concepts: Amygdala, Synaptic plasticity, Memory, Hippocampus, NMDA receptor, Long-term potentiation, Episodic memory, Long-term memory
Early dysfunction and progressive degeneration of the subthalamic nucleus in mouse models of Huntington's disease
The subthalamic nucleus (STN) is an element of cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical circuitry critical for action suppression. In Huntington's disease (HD) action suppression is impaired, resembling the effects of STN lesioning or inactivation. To explore this potential linkage, the STN was studied in BAC transgenic and Q175 knock-in mouse models of HD. At < 2 and 6 months of age autonomous STN activity was impaired due to activation of KATP channels. STN neurons exhibited prolonged NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents, caused by a deficit in glutamate uptake, and elevated mitochondrial oxidant stress, which was ameliorated by NMDA receptor antagonism. STN activity was rescued by NMDA receptor antagonism or breakdown of hydrogen peroxide. At 12 months of age approximately 30% of STN neurons were lost, as in HD. Together these data argue that dysfunction within the STN is an early feature of HD that may contribute to its expression and course.
Concepts: Nervous system, Oxygen, Reactive oxygen species, Chemical element, Hydrogen peroxide, NMDA receptor, Excitotoxicity, Huntington's disease
Life Extension Factor Klotho Enhances Cognition
Aging is the primary risk factor for cognitive decline, an emerging health threat to aging societies worldwide. Whether anti-aging factors such as klotho can counteract cognitive decline is unknown. We show that a lifespan-extending variant of the human KLOTHO gene, KL-VS, is associated with enhanced cognition in heterozygous carriers. Because this allele increased klotho levels in serum, we analyzed transgenic mice with systemic overexpression of klotho. They performed better than controls in multiple tests of learning and memory. Elevating klotho in mice also enhanced long-term potentiation, a form of synaptic plasticity, and enriched synaptic GluN2B, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) subunit with key functions in learning and memory. Blockade of GluN2B abolished klotho-mediated effects. Surprisingly, klotho effects were evident also in young mice and did not correlate with age in humans, suggesting independence from the aging process. Augmenting klotho or its effects may enhance cognition and counteract cognitive deficits at different life stages.
Concepts: Death, Senescence, Synaptic plasticity, Long-term depression, Memory, Gerontology, NMDA receptor, Long-term potentiation
Neurotransmitter Funneling Optimizes Glutamate Receptor Kinetics
Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) mediate neurotransmission at the majority of excitatory synapses in the brain. Little is known, however, about how glutamate reaches the recessed binding pocket in iGluR ligand-binding domains (LBDs). Here we report the process of glutamate binding to a prototypical iGluR, GluA2, in atomistic detail using unbiased molecular simulations. Charged residues on the LBD surface form pathways that facilitate glutamate binding by effectively reducing a three-dimensional diffusion process to a spatially constrained, two-dimensional one. Free energy calculations identify residues that metastably bind glutamate and help guide it into the binding pocket. These simulations also reveal that glutamate can bind in an inverted conformation and also reorient while in its pocket. Electrophysiological recordings demonstrate that eliminating these transient binding sites slows activation and deactivation, consistent with slower glutamate binding and unbinding. These results suggest that binding pathways have evolved to optimize rapid responses of AMPA-type iGluRs at synapses.
Concepts: Action potential, Neuroscience, Ligand, NMDA receptor, Metabotropic glutamate receptor, Glutamate receptor, Ligand-gated ion channel, Neuropsychopharmacology


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Our health in brief - part two: What are municipalities doing?
This street in Kariega, Eastern Cape is in an appalling condition. Municipalities have several important health functions, such as collecting refuse, fixing sewerage and providing clean water, but many are failing dismally. Archive photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane
This is the second of four short articles on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. This article considers the impact of local government on health.
Four functions assigned to local government in Sections 4 and 5 of the Constitution affect the health of residents: air pollution, cleansing, municipal health services, and water and sanitation services limited to potable water supply systems and domestic wastewater and sewage disposal systems. Table 1 indicates the available information about each in 2019.
Table 1: Available information on local government health functions, 2019
Refuse removal from General Household Survey 2019
Municipal health services
Transfers from provinces 2019 Budgets
Water services from General Household Survey 2019
Department of Water and Sanitation Water Services Knowledge System
Afriforum Blue Drop Report 2019
Sanitation services from General Household Survey 2019
Afriforum Green Drop Report 2019
Transfers from provinces to municipalities for health services were made only in Gauteng (R 637 million), KwaZulu-Natal (R 225 million) and Western Cape (R 593 million), making up a total of R 1 415 million. Virtually all of these transfers were to the five largest metros. It is not known how much was allocated to health services from municipal own revenue sources.
Municipal services which have a greater, but indirect, impact on health are refuse removal, potable water and sanitation. They are considered in turn.
Refuse removal
Table 2 compares the distribution of households across refuse removal categories between 2002 and 2019. Not a lot has changed in the intervening seventeen years, with a marginal increase in removals at least once per week and a corresponding decrease in dumping refuse anywhere.
The lack of regular removal of refuse poses a risk to health which rises with population density, so the low levels of weekly removal in metropolitan and non-metropolitan urban informal areas is cause for particular concern. So is the very low level in traditional areas, which now have the greater part of their population living in formally laid out townships or dense informal settlements (see Human settlements and urban land reform).
Table 2: Refuse removal frequency)
2002 (%)
Removed at least once per week
Removed less than once per week
Communal refuse dump
Own refuse dump
Dump or leave refuse anywhere
Other removed at least once per week
Metro - formal
Metro - informal
Urban - formal
Urban - informal
Piped water is defined as water delivered to dwellings, yards, neighbours' taps or communal taps.
Table 3 indicates that the percentage of households receiving piped water rose from 82.3% in 2002 to 88.1% in 2019. It has not all been forward movement. While access to piped water increased substantially in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal over the period, the percentage of households with access decreased in five provinces: Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Free State, North West and (marginally) Western Cape. Moreover, 2.9% of all households (half a million) in 2019 reported that they once had piped water but lost it because supply systems broke down.
Table 3: Main source of drinking water (source: GHS)
Piped water in dwelling
Piped water in yard
Neighbour's or communal tap
Stopped using piped water
Piped water
Interruptions
Some piped water is supplied by agents other than municipalities. 80.7% of households reported that they had access to municipal water in 2019. This is slightly lower than the percentage reported in the General Household Survey 2019. The data on municipal supply had to be cleaned up a bit to avoid incongruities.
Interruptions to municipal water supply services are common. Households are regarded as having an unreliable municipal supply if interruptions that lasted more than two days at a time, or more than 15 days in total, occurred during the year before the survey. Table 3 reports that just over a quarter of households had an unreliable supply in 2018/19. Unreliability was experienced by about one-eighth of metro households, one-quarter of non-metro households, a third of rural households, and a staggering two-thirds of households in traditional areas.
The results of water quality tests for each of 144 water services authorities under six headings are assembled by the Department of Water and Sanitation's Water Services Knowledge System (WSKS). (A water services authority can be a metro, a district municipality or a local municipality. It bears responsibility for the supply of municipal water in the area of its jurisdiction.) Table 4 sets out the outcomes for 2020.
Table 4: Water service authorities test results 2020 (Source: Department Water and Sanitation's Water Services Knowledge System)
Chemical: acute
Chemical: chronic
Noteworthy are the large numbers of water service authorities for which no reports are available, either because tests were not done or because they were not submitted to the WSKS. Widespread defects in the use of disinfectants, in operating standards and microbiological tests are apparent in Table 4.
Improved sanitation facilities are defined as flush toilets connected to a public sewerage system or a septic tank, or a pit toilet with a ventilation pipe. Nationally, the percentage of households with access to improved sanitation increased from 61.7% in 2002 to 82.1% in 2019. Progress was made in every province in the intervening period, and was strongest in Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal.
Table 5 sets out the percentages of households with flush toilets connected to municipal sewerage. This is the appropriate form of sanitation in densely populated areas, so it can be seen that there is a considerable distance to go in metro and urban informal areas, as well as in formal townships and dese settlements in traditional areas.
In May and June 2019, AfriForum tested the sewage systems of 124 towns. There were 65 Sewage Treatment Works that did not comply with South African national water quality standards, in terms of which treated sewage may not contain more than 1,000 units of E. coli per 100 ml of treated sewage. This is a highly unsatisfactory state of affairs and risks microbiological contamination of drinking water.
Table 5: Flush toilets connected to municipal sewerage (Source: General Household Survey)
The poor quality of local government outside Western Cape and Gauteng has been a problem ever since the introduction of the current system twenty years ago. As indicated in the gray box below, the problem has been getting worse in recent years. One initiative after another has failed to make a significant dent in the mess. The jury is out on the latest programme – the District Development model.
As a result, most local governments are doing less than they should to promote healthy conditions, and some are seriously deleterious to the wellbeing of their inhabitants. Turning the situation around will not be easy, especially in a period of fiscal stress.
Summary comments on local government finance from the Auditor-General's Municipal Finance Management Act Report 2018/19
A widespread lack of financial controls and project monitoring, an ongoing culture of a lack of accountability as well as a tolerance of transgressions resulted in a further regression in audit outcomes in the province – improvements were rare and the general trend over the past three years remained negative. Eight municipalities were unable to adequately support the information reported in their financial statements and received disclaimed opinions.
The audit outcomes in the province continued to regress for the third consecutive year. Ten municipalities did not submit financial statements on time – even more than in prior years, which resulted in eight audits not having been completed by the time of this report. Additionally, three municipalities received disclaimed opinions. This means that almost half of the municipalities in the Free State have not yet accounted for the manner in which they used taxpayers' money in 2018-19 or did it so poorly that their financial statements cannot be trusted.
The picture in Gauteng held steady with all municipalities again maintaining their good audit outcomes for completed audits. This was the only province in which all the municipalities had unqualified audit opinions, but as in prior years only Midvaal obtained a clean audit opinion. This continued to elude the other municipalities as we observed good financial accounting but inadequate monitoring of the preventative controls necessary to ensure compliance with legislation and accurate reporting on service delivery achievements.
There was little change in the audit outcomes of the province, accountability was not adequately practised and enforced by leadership, and the failure of key controls continued.
Six municipalities in the province improved their audit outcomes and three regressed. The improvements were mostly consultant-driven, but despite the province having spent R122 million on consultants for financial reporting purposes, many municipalities continued to receive qualified opinions. There was a high reliance on consultants, skills were not transferred, and some officials became complacent when consultants were appointed and did not perform the jobs they were appointed to do, raising questions about municipalities paying for officials and consultants to do the same job. Millions were spent to improve the outcomes, but there were no consequences for poor performance.
Deteriorating accountability and financial management coupled with weakened oversight is at the centre of the significant regressions in audit outcomes in the province – six municipalities regressed and only two improved. There was a breakdown in internal control across various municipalities, which included basic financial disciplines such as record keeping, reconciliations and verifications.
The province is in a prolonged state of undesirable audit outcomes, with yet another overall regression – six municipalities regressed and only three improved. As in prior years, not all the audits were completed on time for inclusion in this report, as the financial statements were submitted late.
The regression in audit outcomes completes a three-year downward trajectory in the province: nine municipalities received disclaimed opinions and eight received qualified opinions. The availability of documents or evidence to support financial activities remained a vast challenge across the municipalities, as evidenced by the number of repeat disclaimed opinions. The inability of the province to reverse the trend of negative audit outcomes points to a culture that is not proactive in dealing with control weaknesses flagged in prior years.
The largest concentration of clean audits remained in the Western Cape (45%), with 93% of the province's municipalities receiving unqualified opinions on their financial statements. Eight municipalities retained their clean audit status – six of which have maintained this status for the past five years or longer.
This was the last report signed by the late Kimi Makwetu, a highly competent and committed Auditor-General. We mourn his passing, and we look forward to the maintenance of the standards he set.


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'Sons of Anarchy' Season 5 Set Photos Reveal Joel McHale and Ashley Tisdale
Sons of Anarchy Season 5 Set Photos Reveal Joel McHale and Ashley Tisdale
FX has unveiled a group of new photo's from the set of the fifth season of their hit biker drama Sons of Anarchy, which debuts with the season premiere Sovereign September 11th. Get a glimpse at the newly added Joel McHale and Ashley Tisdale in these behind-the-scenes photos.


1st Place (Championship Section) at the Festival of Brass contest at Queen's University - 22nd November 2014. Also Best March prize for "Blaze Away".
4th Place (Championship Section) at the Annual BBL 'Spring Festival' contest held at Strabane in April (performing Edward Gregson's "of Distant Memories"
.2nd Place (Championship Section) at the BBL Entertainment Contest in Fivemiletown. Prize for the most entertaining band.
3rd Place (Championship Section) at the BBL Entertainment Contest in Fivemiletown. Also awarded prize for best soloist - Brendan Coyle.
Champions (Championship Section) at the inaugural BBL 'Festival of Brass' contest at Queen's University, Belfast. Also Best March prize for Castell Coch.
3rd Place (2nd Section) at the BBL Entertainment Contest in Fivemiletown. Also awarded prize for best soloist - Brendan Coyle - Feeling Good.
Champions (2nd Section) at the NIBA Championship of Ireland at Market Place Theatre, Armagh. Also awarded the Jean Savage Memorial Trophy for Best Cornet Section and the Herron Memorial Trophy for Winning Conductor.
Third Place (1st Section) at Land O Burns contest in Troon, Scotland (Ranked 9th Overall). Bass Trombonist Paul Wilson awarded Best Instrumentalist Prize.
Runners-Up (2nd Section) at the BBL Entertainment Contest in Fivemiletown. Also awarded prize for best march - The New Colonial.
Third Place (2nd Section) at the NIBA Championship of Ireland at Market Place Theatre, Armagh.
Paul Wilson awarded Best Instrumentalist Prize. Band also awarded prize for Dress and Deportment.
Runners-up (2nd Section) at the NIBA Championship of Ireland at Market Place Theatre, Armagh.
Champions (3rd Section) at the Land O Burns contest in Troon, Scotland. Ranked 6th Overall. Also highly commended for dress and deportment.
Champions (2nd Section) at the 90th NIBA Championship of Ireland in October at Market Place Theatre, Armagh. This included the Jean Savage Memorial Trophy for Best Cornet Section and the John Beckett Memorial Trophy for Best Bass Section and the Herron Memorial Trophy for Winning Conductor.
Runners-up (2nd Section) at the 89th NIBA Championship of Ireland at Upper Bann Institute, Portadown in October. This included the Jean Savage Memorial Trophy for Best Cornet Section.
Champions (2nd Section) at the NIBA Entertainments Contest at Queen's Hall, Newtownards in December. This included the Best March prize.
Champions (2nd Section) at the 88th NIBA Championship of Ireland at Upper Bann Institute, Portadown in October. This included the Jean Savage Memorial Trophy for Best Cornet Section and the Herron Memorial Trophy for Winning Conductor.
Champions (2nd Section) at the 87th NIBA Championship of Ireland in October at Ulster Hall, Belfast. This included the Jean Savage Memorial Trophy for Best Cornet Section and the Herron Memorial Trophy for Winning Conductor.
Runners-up (2nd Section) at the Annual BBL 'Spring Festival' contest held at Ballygowan in April.
Champions (2nd Section) at the "Brass In Concert" Contest at the 6 Mile Leisure Centre, Ballyclare in February. (This included Best March and the Soloist Prize).
Champions (2nd Section) at the Annual BBL 'Spring Festival' contest in Glengormley High School in April.
Runners-up (2nd Section) in the Annual NIBA Contest at Ulster Hall, Belfast in October.
3rd Place (2nd Section) in the BBL Entertainment Contest at Park Avenue Hotel, Belfast in December.
Champions (2nd Section) at the NIBA Contest at Ulster Hall, Belfast in October.
Jointly awarded the Haughton Cup for Band Of The Year along with The Laganvale Band.
Contested in the North of England Brass Band Contest in Buxton in May and although not being placed, nevertheless this was found to be a very rewarding experience.
Awarded the Haughton Cup for Band Of The Year for the1994/5 contesting period. This was based on the successes in the NIBA and BBL Contests together with those results achieved at the Annual Solos & Quartets Competitions across all Brass Sections within the Northern Ireland Bands scene. This achievement was due in no small way to the efforts of the Junior Band.
4th Place (2nd Section) in the Annual NIBA Contest at Ulster Hall, Belfast in October.


Inside & Outside - The Home Bazaar is an ongoing event at Nature Bazaar. The bazaar started on Thursday, August 23 and is on till Monday, September 3. As you enter Nature Bazaar your eyes are deluged with a spectrum of colours so vivid and intense, it's like a kaleidoscope bursting and covering every conceivable space with colours. Absolutely stunning crafts and handlooms from every part of India add a touch of festive fervour to this rustic place. Over 70 crafts groups, NGOs, artisans, and designers are showcasing a multitude of products synonymous with the arts and crafts of our country. They range from home decor, lifestyle accessories and furnishings to plants and planters. I could start listing the amazing range of products exhibited here but it's better if you just hop across to Nature Bazaar, Andheria Modh, Delhi and see it for yourself. You won't regret it, let me assure you.


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Anne Carly Abad (Philippines) #25, #44
S.M. Abeles (USA) #21, #22, #25, #27, #32
Beverly Acuff Momoi (USA) #36
Barnabas Adeleke (Nigeria) #37
Kujtim Agalliu (Albania) #18
Dritëro Agolli (Albania) #18
Sara Aguzzoni (Italy) #10
Ivan Akhmetiev (Russia) #1
Odd Gurre Aksnes (Norway) #2
Félix Alcántara Llarenas (Spain) #13
Kate Alsbury (USA) #42
Alonso Alvarez (Portugal) #3
Ivy Alvarez (Australia) #2
Dimitar Anakiev (Slovenia) #12
Ramesh Anand (Malaysia) #17, #18, #21, #22, #24, #25, #28
Angelo Ancheta (Philippines) #29
Cynthia Anderson (USA) #44
Michael Andrew (Ireland) #6, #7, #21, #31
Bett Angel-Stawarz (Australia) #4
Romalyn Ante (England) #29
Zoran Antonic (Serbia) #7
D. I. Antoniou (Greece) #17
Jean Antonini (France) #5
an'ya (USA) #11
Natalie Arkins (Ireland) #10, #14
David Ash (USA) #17
Hifsa Ashraf (Pakistan) #41
Joanna Ashwell (England) #43
Michael Augustin (Germany) #14
Gavin Austin (Australia) #16, #17, #19, #22, #24, #27, No 30, #32, #34, #36, #38, #40, #42, #44
Szilvia Auth (Hungary) #16
Linnea Axelsson (Sweden) #15
Adjei Agyei Baah (Ghana) #19, #25, #33, #35, #37, #39
Enrico Bagnatto (Italy) #10
Raquel D. Bailey (Jamaica) #3, #8
Tony Bailie (Ireland) #10, #16
Károlyiné Baka Gyöngyi (Hungary) #16
Stewart C. Baker (USA) #27
Ferenc Bakos (Hungary) #16
Ludmila Balabanova (Bulgaria) #4
József Balogh (Hungary) #16
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Poland) #9
Collin Barber (USA) #15
John Barlow (England) #2, #4, #7, #8, #9, #12, #15, No 16, #18, #20, #21, #24
Stuart Bartow (USA) #36, #39, #44 (haibun)
Francisco Basallote (Spain) #13
Nexhip Bashllari (Albania) #18
Daria Batalina (Russia) #1
Anick Baulard (France) #5
Martin Baumann (Germany) #14
Sigrid Baurmann (Germany) #14
Chris Bays (USA) #17
Roberta Beach Jacobson (USA) #44
Roberta Beary (USA) #5, #6 (haibun)
Dirk Becker (Germany) #14
Anica Bedic (Slovenia) #12
Christa Beau (Germany) #14
Rajna Begovic (Serbia) #7
Amanda Bell (Ireland) #30, #32
Janick Belleau (Canada) #5
Anita Beloiu (Romania) #8
Susana Benet (Spain) #13, #13 (essay)
Felipe Benítez Reyes (Spain) #13
Brad Bennett (USA) #32, #35, #37, #39, #41
Adri van den Berg (the Netherlands) #11
Johan Bergstad (Sweden) #15
Martin Berner (Germany) #14
Ernest Berry (New Zealand) #4, #8, #12, #16, #21, #24
Silvia Berti (Italy) #10
Maurice Betz (France) #5
Ginka Biliarska (Bulgaria) #4
Tomislav Marjan Bilosnic (Croatia) #6
Bill Bilquin (Belgium) #11
Leonie Bingham (Australia) #8, #12, #16, #18, #33
Sergey Biryukov (Russia) #5, #21
Bisshie (Switzerland) #43
Zvonka Bizjak (Slovenia) #12
Priyanka Bhowmick (India) #15
Johannes Bjerg (Denmark) #16
Patrick Blanche (France) #5
Mike Blottenberger (USA) #24
Christof Blumentrath (Germany) #38
Dejan Bogojevic (Serbia) #7
Zlata Bogovic (Croatia) #6
Jan Bontje (the Netherlands) #11, #15
Marshall Bood (Canada) #25, #26, #28, #35, #40
Pat Boran (Ireland) #6, #21
Mark E. Brager (USA) #27, #28, #30, #32, #34
Carlo Bramanti (Italy) #10
Alex Bramwell (England) #31
Paul Bregazzi (Ireland) #30, #32, #38
Philippe Bréham (France) #5
Richard Breitner (France) #5
Alan S. Bridges (USA) #20, #24, #25
Yves Brillon (Canada) #5
Bouwe Brouwer (the Netherlands) #13, #15, #18, #21, #23, No 28, #34, #43
Irene Brown (Scotland) #10, #11, #17, #20
Jeroen de Bruin (the Netherlands) #11
Dawn Bruce (Australia) #7, #9, #12, #15, #16, #18, #19, #22, #24, #26
Branislav Brzakovic (Serbia) #7
Buachallán Buí(Ireland) #25, #28, #37, #43
Helen Buckingham (England) #2, #3, #5, #6, #9, #10, #13, #14, #17, #18, #21, #22
Nathalie Buckland (Australia) #2, #3, #5, #6, #10, #12, No 13, #15, #17, #18, #21, #25
Borivoj Bukva (Croatia) #6
Owen Bullock (New Zealand) #16, #24
Tony Burfield (USA) #40
Amada Burgard (USA) #29
Alanna C. Burke (USA) #31, #36, #39 (haibun), #41, #43
James Burke (Ireland) #23, #31, #37
Patrick Gerard Burke (Ireland) #22, #27, #31
Sharon Burrell (Ireland) #6, #7, #7 (review), #8 (review), No 10, #12, #16, #17, #18 (review), #20
Paddy Bushe (Ireland) #2
John Oliver Byrne (Ireland) #17, #18, #19
Lerys Byrnes (Australia) #15
Steve Calamars (USA) #19
Alessandro Calamia (Italy) #10
Andrew Caldicott (Ireland) #10
Theresa C. Cancro (USA) #27, #30, #32, #34, #36, #39, #44
Ashley Capes (Australia) #26
Philippe Caquant (France) #5
Valentín Carcelén Ballesteros (Spain) #13
Lucia Cardillo (Italy) #40
Iréne Carlsson (Sweden) #15
Bob Carlton (USA) #34
Jared Carter (USA) #7
Steven Carter (USA) #18 (haibun), #20, #20 (haibun), #21, #21 (haibun), #22, #23 (haibun), #24, #24 (haibun), #26, #26 (haibun)
Paul Casey (Ireland) #29, #31
Anna Cates (USA) #25, #32, #34, #36, #38 (haibun), #40 (haibun), #42 (haibun)
André Cayrel (France) #5
Andrea Cecon (Italy) #10
Marijan Cekolj (Croatia) #6
José Cereijo (Spain) #13
Jean-Claude Cesar (France) #5
Livia Cesarin (Italy) #10
Metod Cešk (Slovenia) #28
Srinjay Chakravarti (India) #3
Seshu Chamarti (India) #12
Paul Chambers (Wales) #24, #26, #29, #31, #34
Ernestina de Champourcin (Spain) #13
Patrick Chapman (Ireland) #10, #21
Marius Chelaru (Romania) #8
Hemapriya Chellappan (India) #43
Henri Chevignard (France) #5
Sonam Chhoki (Bhutan) #23, #24, #26, #32, #32 (haibun), #42 , #42 (haibun)
Dominique Chipot (France) #5
Victoria Chipoveanu (Romania) #8
Thomas Chockley (USA) #22, #24, #25, #27, #29 (haibun), #33 (haibun)
Anna Chromova (Israel) #33
John Tiong Chunghoo (Malaysia) #6
Alex Cigale (USA) #13, #15 (translations)
Cezar Ciobîcã (Romania) #39
Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland) #18, #20, #21, #22, #25, No 27, #32
Mary Jo Claus (France) #5
Glenn G. Coats (USA) #4, #5, #10, #13, #15, #17, #22, No 27, #30 (haibun), #43
Ion Codrescu (Romania) #8
Meagan Collins (USA) #37
Martin Gottlieb Cohen (USA) #27, #34, #37
Susan Constable (Canada) #3, #5, #10, #13, #15
Vera Constantineau (Canada) #21, #22, #24
Bill Cooper (USA) #13, #14, #17, #18, #20, #21, #23, No 25, #26, #28, #30, #32, #34, #37, #40, #42, #44
Luis Corrales (Spain) #13
L. Costa (Brazil) #16
Evan Costigan (Ireland) #10
Marie Coveney (Ireland) #23
Aubrey Cox (USA) #19
Gillena Cox (Trinidad and Tobago) #7, #26
Kara Craig (Ireland) #22, #23, #25, #31
Kyle Craig (USA) #31
Elizabeth Crocket (Canada) #10, #12, #22, #25 (haibun), #29, #32, #35, #39, #42, #44
Philip Cruden (Northern Ireland) #11
Zoltán Csíkzsögödi Szabó (Hungary) #16
János Csokits (Hungary) #16
Giacomo Cucinotta (Italy) #10
William Cullen Jr (USA) #9, #10, #13
Martin Culverwell (England) #11 (translation)
Anne Curran (New Zealand) #25, #26, #28, #30, #32, #34
Jerm Curtin (Ireland) #11
Nicolae Dabija (Moldova) #34
Neelam Dadhwal (India) #27
Slavka Dakovic (Montenegro) #41
Magdalena Dale (Romania) #8
Andrea D'Alessandro (Germany) #14
Paul Dalton (Ireland) #15
Loredana Florentina Dănilă (Romania) #8
Robert Davey (England) #22, #24, #27, #43
Tracy Davidson (England) #21, #22, #24
Lee-Anne Davie (Australia) #18
Jim Davis (USA) #23
Helen Davison (Australia) #18
Cheryl Daytec-Yangot (Phillipines) #9
Casimiro de Brito (Portugal) #3
Raffael de Gruttola (USA) #9, #13, #14, #21, #22
Roisin de Faoite (Ireland) #5 (translation)
Sharon Dean (Australia) #8
Tatjana Debeljacki (Serbia) #7, #17
Vladimir Devidé (Croatia) #6
Konstandin Dhamo (Albania) #18
Charlotte Digregorio (USA) #6, #14
Mike Dillon (USA) #25, #30
Nikola Djuretic (Croatia) #19
Ljiljana Djuricic (Serbia) #7
Jan Dobb (Australia) #20, #21, #23, #24, #27, #31, #34, #36, #44
Jordi Doce (Spain) #13
Ana Doicheva (Bulgaria) #4
Ivelina Doicheva (Bulgaria) #4
Alessandro Domian (Italy) #10
Marcell Domonkos (Hungary) #16
Sean Donegan (Ireland) #6
Juan José Domenchina (Spain) #13
Monserrat Doucet (Spain) #13
June Rose Dowis (USA) #33, #43
Nan Dozier (USA) #25
Daniel Dölschner (Germany) #14
Ljubomir Dragovic (Bosnia) #3
Cathy Drinkwater Better (USA) #12, #12 (haibun), #13, #16, No 17, #21, #24
Germain Droogenbroodt (Belgium) #11, #33
Patrick Druart (France) #11, #13, #18
Noel Duffy (Ireland) #16
André Duhaime (Canada) #5
Olivia Dunne (Ireland) #30
Sally Dunne (Ireland) #30, #35
Riccardo Duranti (Italy) #10
Elie Duvivier (Belgium) #11
Aoife Dwyer (Ireland) #30
Allan Dystrup (Denmark) #2
Garry Eaton (Canada) #33, #35, #37
Ann Egan (Ireland) #21, #25
Andres Ehin (Estonia) #3
Nexhip Ejupi (Albania) #18
Amýl Engin (Turkey) #23
Gerald England (England) #19
Sixten Eriksson (Sweden) #15
Carol Ermakova (England) #39, #43
Sian Evans (England) #2
Claire Everett (England) #23
Donna K. Everhart (USA) #11, #14
Gilles Fabre (France) #5, #5 (essay)
Kai Falkman (Sweden) #15, #15 (essay)
Moussia Fantoli (Italy) #10
Seren Fargo (USA) #30, #40, #43
Stephen Farren (Ireland) #4
Ignatius Fay (Canada) #18, #20 (haibun), #25, #25 (haibun), No 31, #31 (haibun), #38 (haibun)
Orla Fay (Ireland) #22
Mariza Fazio (Australia) #12
Csaba Fecske (Hungary) #16
Michael Fenlin (Sweden) #15
Agnieszka Filipek (Poland/Ireland) #39
Chase Fire (USA) #24, #27, #28, #30
Curtis Fisher (USA) #5
Diarmuid Fitzgerald (Ireland) #19, #35
Ryan Fitzpatrick (Ireland) #11
Mike Flanagan (USA) #36, #39, #42
Dan Florică (Romania) #8
Anton Floyd (Ireland) #30, #31, #33, #35, #37, #39, #41, #44
Susan Flynn (Ireland) #16
Al Fogel (USA) #21
Seánan Forbes (USA) #18
Lorin Ford (Australia) #3, #5, #7, #9, #11, #14, #16, No 17, #19, #22, #26, #28, #38, #40, #42
Sylvia Forges-Ryan (USA) #1
Laura Forgnone (Italy) #10
Bojan Forscek (Slovenia) #12
William Gibb Forsyth (Ireland) #5, #31
William Fox (Ireland) #41
Dina Franin (Croatia) #6
Laryalee Fraser (Canada) #3, #5
Nana Fredua-Agyeman (Ghana) #8, #9, #16
Terry L. French (USA) #44
Jay Friedenberg (USA) #15, #20, #23, #30, #32, #35, #36, #38, #40, #42, #44
Georges Friedenkraft (France) #5
Miklós Fucskó (Hungary) #16
Željko Funda (Croatia) #6
Gabbiano (Italy) #10
Damien Gabriels (France) #5
Ion Gabudean (Romania) #8
Joshua Gage (USA) #29, #36, #41
Andriy Gagin (Ukraine) #32
Daniel Gahnertz (Sweden) #15
Franko Galato (Italy) #10
Elena Galinovskaya (Russia) #11
Katherine Gallagher (Australia) #1, #3, #8
Michael Gallagher (Ireland) #5, #11, #31
Grace Galton (England) #32
Rajandeep Garg (India) #32, #34, #36
Muharrem Gazioni #18
Anton Gerits (the Netherlands) #11
Giorgio Gazzolo (Italy) #10
Anica Gecic (Croatia) #6
Arturas Gelusevicius (Lithuania) #3
Vladimir Gertsik (Russian) #21, #33
Bernard Gieske (USA) #9, #14, #18
Maurice Gilliams (Belgium) #11
Ria Giskes-Pieters (the Netherlands) #11
Irene Golas (Canada) #18
Mel Goldberg (Mexico/USA) #15, #19, #23, #26
Sonja Golec (Slovenia) #12
David González (Spain) #13
Brent Goodman (USA) #26, #28, #30, #32
Ruslan Goondakov (Ukraine) #3
Nina Gorlanova (Russia) #21
Dawn Gorman (England) #36 (review)
Ida Gorter (the Netherlands) #11
Warren Gossett (USA) #41
Caroline Gourlay (England) #1
Christine Gradl (Germany) #14
Nikolay Grankin (Russia) #28, #40
Lars Granström (Sweden) #15
Arthur Griesel (France) #13 (translation)
Niamh Denise Griffith (Ireland) #30
Dmitri Grigoriev (Russia) #33
Anna Grogan (Ireland) #19
Patricia Groves (Ireland) #30
Stefani Grotti (Italy) #10
Guillevic (France) #5
Mary Gunn (Ireland) #22, #25
Melisa Gürpinar (Turkey) #23
Igor Gusev (Ukraine) #32
Karin Gustafsson (Sweden) #15
Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden) #15
Jennifer Hambrick (USA) #36, #38, #40, #42
Hanne Hansen (Denmark) #2
Simon Hanson (Australia) #24, #26, #27, #29, #31, #33, No 35, #37, #39, #41, #43
Charles Hansmann (USA) #4 (haibun)
Mariko Hara (Japan) #33
Katalin Harcos (Hungary) #16
Devin Harrison (USA) #30, #32, #37
William Hart (USA) #16
Mila Haugová (Slovakia) #3
John Hawkhead (England) #31, #35, #38, #40, #43
David He (China) #33
Kevin Heaton (USA) #32
Marc Hendrickx (Belgium) #11
Arno Herrmann (Germany) #14
Plilipp Herrmann (Ireland) #30
J.D. Heskin (USA) #2, #4, #10, #12, #20, #27
Matt Hetherington (Australia) #2, #17
Graham High (England) #25
Alicia Hilton (USA) #21, #22, #24
Gary Hittmeyer (USA) #41
Adam Hlobus (Belarus) #30, #33
Jeanine Hoedemakers (the Netherlands) #16
Nick Hoffmann (USA – Ireland) #37
Judit Katalin Hollos (Hungary) #28
D.M. Holmes (USA) #9
Ruth Holzer (USA) #35, #40 (haibun), #42, #44
Frank Hooven (USA) #38, #40, #42, #44
Louise Hopewell (Australia) #40, #44
Gregory Hopkins (USA) #19, #21
Patrick Hopkins (Ireland) #11
Kim Horne (Canada) #5
Ödön Horváth (Hungary) #16
Louisa Howerow (Canada) #26, #27, #30, #32, #34, #37
Franjo Hrg (Croatia) #6
Edward Huddleston (USA) #29, #35, #40, #44
Marko Hudnik (Slovenia) #12
Bru Hulin (France) #5
Marleen Hulst (the Netherlands) #16 (haibun), #20
Rose Hunter (Canada) #3, #4, #8
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde (Australia) #27
Nureni Ibrahim (Nigeria) #37, #40
Clelia Ifrim (Romania) #8
Ryuta Iida (Japan) #36
Mercy Ikuri (Kenia) #36
Iliana Ilieva (Bulgaria) #4
Tzetzka Ilieva (Bulgaria - USA) #20, #22
Anatoly Ilts (Belarus) #28
Nicholae Ionel (Romania) #8
Lewis Ireland (England) #4
Ivan I. Ivancan (Croatia) #6
Julija Ivic (Croatia) #6
Helen Ivory (England) #41
Emmanuel Jakpa (Nigeria/Ireland) #15
Tatjana Jamnik (Slovenia) #12
Béla Jánky (Hungary) #16
Valdis Jansons (Latvia) #3
Peter Jastermsky (USA) #37 (haibun)
Jana F. Jelen (Slovenia) #12
Arne Jerx (Denmark) #15
Jörgen Johansson (Sweden) #15
Judith Johnson (Australia) #9
Tiggy Johnson (Australia) #21, #23
Frances Jones (USA) #17, #20
Carol Jordan (Ireland) #30
B.T. Joy (Scotland) #18, #19
Cara Joy (Ireland) #16
Lex Joy (USA) #9, #19
Jim Kacian (USA) #1
Millianov Kallupi (Albania) #18
R.J. Kalpana (India) #22
János Kurszán Kántor (Hungary) #3, #16
Mark Kaplon (USA) #24
Dionyssis Kapsalis (Greece) #17
Sophia Karipidis (Greece) #17
János Karsai (Hungary) #16
Elena Katsuba (Russia) #1
David Kavanaugh (USA) #26
Grazyna Kazmierczak (Poland) #9
William Keckler (USA) #41
Konstantin Kedrov (Russia) #1
Elias Kefalas (Greece) #17
David J. Kelly (Ireland) #27, #30, #32, #34
Susan Kelly (Ireland) #6
Judy Kendall (England) #1
Cindy Keong (Australia) #18
Hristo ke Pella (Bulgaria) #4
Alain Kervern (France) #5
Clyde Kessler (USA) #27 (haibun)
Michael Ketcheck (USA) #17, #20, #22, #30
Asim Khan (England) #12
Marianne Kiauta (the Netherlands) #11
Noel King (Ireland) #11, #12, #16, #17, #19, #20, #21, No 22, #24, #26, #28, #30, #32, #34, #37, #44, #44 (book review)
Matt Kirkham (Northern Ireland) #13
Ivanka Glogovic Klaric (Croatia) #6
Anna Klacsanzky (Ukraine) #31
Nicholas Klacsanzky (USA/Ukraine) #31, #33, #37, #40
Darja Kocjancic (Slovenia) #12
Ivan Kolaric (Serbia) #7
Marica Kolcheva (Bulgaria) #4
Deborah P Kolodji (USA) #44
Anise Koltz (Luxembourg) #11
Els Kooyman (the Netherlands) #11
Dubravko Korbus (Croatia) #6
Tassos Korfis (Greece) #17
Marinko Kovacevic (Croatia) #6
András Ferenc Kovács (Hungary) #16
Maria Kowal (Poland) #9
Richard Krawiec (USA) #9 (haibun), #24
Paul Kreetz (the Netherlands) #11
Ilya Krieger (Russia) #15
Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy (India/England) #30, #33, #37
Padmini Krishnan (Singapore) #25, #27, #34, #35 (haibun), #37, #40, #41 (haibun)
Ivan Krotov (Russia) #22
Ella Krylova (Russia) #26
Yulia Kudryavitskaya (Germany) #14
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (Ireland) #1 (essay), #2 (essay), #3, #4, #6 (review), #7, #7 (review), #8 (review), #9 (review), No 10, #10 (review), #11 (review), #12 (haibun), #12 (review), No 16, #16 (essay), #16 (review), #18 (review), #19 (reviews), No 21 (review), #22, #22 (reviews), #23 (reviews), #24 (review), #25 (essay), #26 (essay), #28 (review), #31, #34, #34 (review), #40, #42 (essay), #43
Zdravko Kurnik (Croatia) #6
Joseph M. Kusmiss (USA) #17, #19, #21, #23, #24, #26, No 27, #29, #43
Vesna Kurs (Croatia) #6
Nikos Ladas (Greece) #17
Maryléne Lallemand (France) #5
Werner Lambercy (Belgium) #11
Sean Lause (USA) #19
G.R. LeBlanc (Canada) #21
Catherine J.S. Lee (USA) #11, #14, #16
Rafal Leniar (Poland) #9
Natasha Levi (Russia) #1
Zlatka Levstek (Slovenia) #12
Artur Lewandowski (Poland) #9, #11, #18
Dave Lewis (Wales) #19
Kristen Lindquist (USA) #44
Erik Linzbach (USA) #26
Chen-ou Liu (Canada) #14, #15, #18, #19, #21, #23, #24, #26, #27, #29, #31, #33, #35, #37, #40, #42, #44
Earl Livings (Australia) #17, #29, #35, #44
Cyndi Lloyd (USA) #31, #34, #39, #43
Wim Lofvers (the Netherlands) #11
Olga Logosh (Russia) #19, #44
Mark Lonergan (Ireland) #11, #13, #14, #15 (essay), #17, No 18 (essay), #21, #23
Gregory Longenecker (USA) #27, #32
Guillermo López Gallego (Spain) #13
Joyce Joslin Lorenson (USA) #35
Zissimos Lorentzatos (Greece) #17
Antonietta Losito (Italy) #42
Spela Loviscek (Slovenia) #12
Tonka Lovric (Croatia) #21
Martin Lucas (England) #2
Robert Lucky (USA) #2, #4, #6, #8, #10, #12, #14, #18, #20, #25, #26
Vincze Lucskai (Hungary) #16
Horst Ludwig (Germany) #14, #15
Tatiana Lugovskaya (Ukraine) #3
Oscar Luparia (Italy) #10
Sean Lysaght (Ireland) #4
Peggy Willis Lyles (USA) #2
Maya Lyubenova (Bulgaria) #4
Aine MacAodha (Ireland) #3
Andrew Shattuck McBride (USA) #19, #22 (haibun), #28
Sharon McCormack (Ireland) #33
Clare McCotter (Nothern Ireland) #12, #13, #16, #21
Sinéad McDevitt (Ireland) #10, #11
Connor McDonald (USA) #39
Clare McDonnell (Ireland) #21
Beth McFarland (Northern Ireland/Germany) #19, #21, #23
Iggy McGovern (Ireland) #17
Marietta Jane McGregor (Australia) #33, #35, #42
Walter Daniel McGuire (Ireland) #17
Jo McInerney (Australia) #2, #19, #20, #33
John McManus (England) #17, #20, #23, #27, #30, #41, #43
Peter Macrow (Australia) #18, #22, #26
Nikola Madzirov (Macedonia) #3
Martha Magenta (England) #37, #40
Ann Magyar (USA) #29, #31, #33, #35, #37, #41, #44
Walter Daniel Maguire (Ireland) #8
Timjana Mahecic (Croatia) #6
Hannah Mahoney (USA) #40, #42
Vjera Majstrovic (Croatia) #6
Alexander Makarov-Krotkov (Russia) #1
Iain Maloney (Scotland) #16
Antonio Manilla (Spain) #13
Gabriela Marcian (Romania) #8
Tomislav Maretic (Croatia) #6
Damian Margolak (Poland) #9
Jacek Margolak (Poland) #9
Anna Maris (Sweden) #30
Georgy Marinov (Bulgaria) #4
Ed Markowski (USA) #2
Carlos Martins (Brazil) #44
Alexander Martusenko (Russia) #21
Scott Mason (USA) #12, #16, #24
Michale Massey (Ireland) #10
Duško Mataš (Croatia) #6
Sys Matthiessen (Denmark) #2
dl mattila (USA) #40
Marijan Mauko (Slovenia) #12
Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah (Ghana) #11, #12
Jenni Meredith (England) #2
Pat Metcalfe (England) #9
Bart Mesotten (Belgium) #11
Arvo Mets (Estonia) #3
Michael Meyerhofer (USA) #35
Aneta Michelucci (Poland) #9
Conrad Miesen (Germany) #14
Dusan Mijajlovic Adski (Serbia) #7
Axinya Mikhailova (Bulgaria) #4
Malvina Mileta (Croatia) #20
Vitomir Miletic-Witata (Serbia) #7
Allison Millcock (Australia) #5, #7
Mark Miller (Australia) #31, #35, #37, #39, #41, #43
Philip Miller (USA) #2, #6, #9, #12, #14
Marija Marela Mimica (Croatia) #6
Tom Miniter (Ireland) #22
Denjo Mirsad (Bosnia) #3
J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden (USA) #18
Silva Mizerit (Slovenia) #12
Ben Moeller-Gaa (USA) #18, #19, #20, #21, #23, #25, #26, #28, #30, #32, #34, #36, #38, #40, #42, #44
Ružica Mokos (Croatia) #6
Vasile Moldovan (Romania) #8, #8 (essay)
Tom Moloney (Ireland) #19
Dave Moore (USA) #11, #15
Michael Morell (USA) #16
Anne Morgan (Ireland) #7
Michael Morical (USA) #5, #7
Maire Morrisey-Cummins (Ireland) #16, #17, #21
Barbara Morton (Northern Ireland) #32
Elizabeth Moura (USA) #20, #26
Janez Mrdavsic (Slovenia) #12
Betim Muço (Albania) #18
Aju Mukhopadhyay (India) #5, #12, #19
Jesús Munárriz (Spain) #13
Lone Munksgaard Nielsen (Denmark) #2
Katherine J. Munro (Canada) #35
Flavia Muntean (Romania) #8
Tim Murphy (Ireland/Spain) #38, #41
Philipp Murrell (England) #24
Alla Mutelika (Ukraine) #3
Caleb Mutua (Kenia) #18
Gene Myers (USA) #15
Robert Naczas (Poland/Ireland) #6, #9
Jasminka Nadaškic-Djordjevic (Serbia) #7
Ivan Nadilo (Croatia) #6
Gautam Nadkarni (India) #4, #6, #10, #12
Boris Nazansky (Croatia) #6
Elena Shuvaeva-Petrosian (Armenia) #25
Dustin Neal (USA) #2
Aleksandar Nejgebauer (Serbia) #7
Peter Newton (USA) #14, #16, #21, #31
Ayaz Daryl Nielsen (USA) #6, #16, #17, #19, #20, #22, No 23, #26, #27, #29, #34, #36, #37, #41, #43
Nika (Canada) #16
Antoaneta Nikolova (Bulgaria) #4
Christer Nilsson (Sweden) #15
Shyqri Nimani (Albania) #18, #18 (essay)
Nancy Nitrio (USA) #16, #19
Dan Norea (Romania) #8
Paulius Normantas (Lithuania) #3
Doug Norris (USA) #26
Jim Norton (Ireland) #14, #14 (haibun)
Ira Novitskaya (Russia) #1
Graham Nunn (Australia) #5, #18, #20
Ymer Nurka (Albania) #18
David Oates (USA) #36
Nola Obee (Canada) #29, #31, #35, #37, #40, #42, #44
Magnus Oberg (Sweden) #15
Polona Oblak (Slovenia) #12
Sean O'Connor (Ireland) #9, #10
Terry O'Connor (Ireland) #3, #7, #9, #11, #21, #25
Vincent O'Connor (Ireland) #27, #31
Rita Odeh (Israel) #27
Hugh O'Donnell (Ireland) #3, #4, #6, #7, #10, #12, #16, #18, #21, #22, #24, #26, #29, #31, #33, #34, #36, #37, #44
Mary O'Donnell (Ireland) #4
Siofra O'Donovan (Ireland) #7, #32
Nora O'Dwyer (Ireland) #30
Padraig O'Horgain (Ireland) #21
Evin Okçuoglu (Turkey) #23
Mary O'Keeffe (Ireland) #12, #13, #15, #21, #31
Padraig O'Morain (Ireland) #35
Conor O'Neill (Ireland/Chile) #19
Eamonn T. O'Neill (Ireland) #34
Teresa O'Neill (Ireland) #33, #36, #44
Mariusz Ogryzko (Poland) #9
Sabih Uddin Omar (Bangladesh) #9
Teresa O'Neill (Ireland) #31
Dana-Maria Onica (Romania) #8
Zdenko Orec (Croatia) #6
Sergio Ortiz (Puerto Rico) #10, #24
Al Ortolani (USA) #10, #12, #32 (haibun), #34 (haibun)
Kate O'Shea (Ireland) #19
Catherine O'Sullivan (Ireland) #11
Maeve O'Sullivan (Ireland) #1
Scott Owens (USA) #15, #16, #18, #23, #24, #26
Roland Packer (Canada) #8, #12, #16, #21
P. K. Padhy (India) #20, #27, #30, #32
Ivan Pahernik (Croatia) #6
Marko Pak (Slovenia) #12
Lubov Pakhomova (Russia) #28
Margareta Palmquist (Sweden) #15
Anton Papleka (Albania) #18
Ciarán Parkes (Ireland) #12, #21, #24
Zane Parks (USA) #4 (haibun), #44 (haibun)
John Parsons (England) #19
John Patilis (Greece) #17
Matthiew Paul (England) #2, #3, #5, #7, #9, #10, #13, No 16, #19, #22
Yorgis Pavlopoulos (Greece) #17
Polina Pecherskaya (Russia) #31
Marcel Peltier (Belgium) #11
Stephen A. Peters (USA) #28
Sanja Petrov (Croatia) #6
Zvonko Petrovic (Croatia) #6
Darrell Petska (USA) #31
Stane Pevec (Slovenia) #12
Dunja Pezelj (Croatia) #6
Vuong Pham (Australia) #22, #23, #25
Toni Piccini (Italy) #10
Stella Pierides (Greece) #18, #23
Dottie Piet (USA) #38
Patrick M. Pilarski (Canada) #9, #22
Antonis Pillas (Greece) #17
Rositza Pironska (Bulgaria) #4
Ali Podrimja (Albania) #18
Marija Pogorilic (Croatia) #20
Keith Polette (USA) #40, #42, #44
Victoria Porras (Spain) #13
Terence Portelli (Malta) #20
Ivo Posavec (Croatia) #6
Ljerka Postek Jalaca (Croatia) #6
Robert Henry Poulin (USA) #26
Perry Powell (USA) #32, #40, #42
Thomas Powell (Northern Ireland) #15, #16, #18, #19, #21, No 24, #25, #27, #30, #32, #35, #38, #40, #43
Yurko Pozayak (UKraine) #29
Jasminka Predojevic (Croatia) #6
Katarzyna Predota (Poland) #9
Joan Prefontain (USA) #27, #29
Vera Primorac (Croatia) #14
Zivko Prodanovic (Croatia) #6
Tyler Pruett (USA) #19, #32
Maureen Purcell (Ireland) #7, #16
Vida Pust-Škrgulja (Croatia) #6
Daniel Py (France) #5
Dorota Pyra (Poland) #9
Nu Quang (USA) #24
Solveig Rabb (Finland) #19
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan (India) #28 (haibun), #31 (haibun)
Jörg Rakowski (Germany) #14
Zoran Raonic (Montenegro) #3
Kala Ramesh (India) #3, #20
K. Ramesh (India) #13, #16
Ales Razanav (Belarus) #3, #35
Hans Reddinguis (the Netherlands) #11
Lynne Rees (England) #3
Jane Reichhold (USA) #14 (essay)
Vladka Rejc (Slovenia) #12
Primoz Repar (Slovenia) #12
Polina Reprintseva (Russia/Ireland) #40
Kate Richards (Ireland) #15
Duncan Richardson (Australia) #25, #34
Bryan Rickert (USA) #36, #38, #40, #42, #44
Edward J. Rielly (USA) #26
Petraq Risto (Albania) #18
John Brian Robertson (Canada) #35
Rudi Robic (Slovenia) #12
Chad Lee Robinson (USA) #13, #19, #37, #40
Vjekoslav Romich (Croatia) #6
Herman van Rompuy (Belgium) #20
Mark Roper (Ireland) #7
Luc Rose (France) #5
David Rosen (Sweden) #20
Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland) #12 (review)
Bruce Ross (USA) #2, #8, #12, #20, #24, #28 (haibun), #30
Derek Ross (Scotland) #36 (haibun), #38 (haibun)
Sheila M. Ross (Canada) #10 (haibun)
Maddalena Rossi (Germany) #8
Rita Rossilahti (Finland) #2
Aron Rothstein (USA) #24, #34, #36, #39
Rosie Roumeliotis (Greece) #17
Cynthia Rowe (Australia) #7, #9, #10 (haibun), #12, #15, No 16, #18, #21, #24, #28
Rena Rowe (Ireland) #11
Stjepan Rožic (Croatia) #6
Katerina Rudcenková (The Czech Republic) #3
Adam Rudden (Ireland) #24
Natalia L. Rudychev (USA) #40
Helen Ruggieri (USA) #12
Sofia Russinova (Russia) #1
Liam Ryan (Ireland) #21
Tom Sacramona (USA) #33, #35, #37, #42
Liv Saint James (USA) #40
Claudia Sandroni (Italy) #10
Hajnalka Sánta (Hungary) #16
Ernesto P. Santiago (Philippines – Greece) #26
Janak Sapkota (Nepal) #20
Edin Saracevic (Slovenia) #12
László Sárközi (Hungary) #16
Kelly Sauvage Angel (USA) #37 (haibun)
Zoe Savina (Greece) #17
Slavica Savli (Slovenia) #12
Leon Scevenels (the Netherlands) #11
Debbie Scheving (USA) #43
Albert Schlaht (USA) #10, #13, #24, #27, #30, #41, #44
Greg Schwartz (USA) #4, #6, #38
Uladzimer Sciapan (Belarus) #30
Michael Scott (Northern Ireland) #31
Giorgos Seferis (Greece) #17
Gabriel Segovia (Spain) #13
Carl Seguiban (Canada) #30
William Seltzer (USA) #27, #30
Galina Sen (Ukraine) #29
David Serjeant (England) #5, #8, #11, #13, #16, #31
Di Sessa (Italy) #10
Henk van Setten (the Netherlands) #11
Aleksandar Ševo (Serbia) #7
John W. Sexton (Ireland) #7, #31
Adelaide B. Shaw (USA) #3, #5 (haibun), #14, #16, #21, #25, #28, #31, #33 (haibun), #36 (haibun), #38, #40, #42
Tatyana Shcherbina (Russia) #1
John Sheahan (Ireland) #5
Eileen Sheehan (Ireland) #7, #8, #31
Nick Sherwood (England) #17
Leidi Shquipanja (Albania) #18
Miraslav Shyback (Belarus) #3
Bronislawa Sibiga (Poland) #9
Breid Sibley (Ireland) #7, #9, #15, #20
William Seltzer (USA) #25
Maria Serena Siena (Italy) #10
Klára Siklósi Horváth (Hungary) #16
Ola Sigvardsson (Sweden) #15
Arturas Šilanskas (Lithuania) #3
Helen Simcox (Ireland) #17
Monk Simeon (Greece) #17
Keith A. Simmonds (Trinidad and Tobago) #12, #13, #23, #26
Sylvia Simonet (Uruguay) #13
Valeria Simonova (Russia) #1
Madhu Singh (India) #43 (haibun)
R.K.Singh (India) #11
Grzegorz Sionkowski (Poland) #9
Mateusz Sionkowski (Poland) #9
d w skrivseth (USA) #41
Noel Sloboda (USA) #7, #13, #21, #40
Ostap Slyvynsky (Ukraine) #31
Florentin Smaradache (Romania) #38
Marcel Smets (Belgium) #11
Bee Smith (Ireland) #22
Mark Smith (USA) #27
Christina Sng (Singapore) #34
Frutos Soria (Spain) #13
Xhevahir Spahiu (Albania) #18
Gerhard A. Spiller (Germany) #40
Li Spiteri (Malta) #20
Richard St. Clair (USA) #26, #28
Drago Štambuk (Croatia) #22
Abel Staring (the Netherlands) #11
Craig Steele (USA) #16, #19, #22, #24, #35, #37
Dimitar Stefanov (Bulgaria) #4
Tanja Stefanovic (Serbia) #7
Gerhard Stein (Germany) #14
Lucas Stensland (USA) #15, #17 (haibun), #18
Aoife Stephens (Ireland) #16
John Stevenson (USA) #1
Richard Stevenson (Canada) #2, #7, #15, #23
Patricia Stewart (Ireland) #30
Rudi Stopar (Slovenia) #12
Debbie Strange (Canada) #31, #34, #36, #40, #42, #44
Jeff Streeby (USA) #29 (haibun)
Polina Strizhova (Russia) #1
Solveig Ström (Sweden) #15
Edvin Sugarev (Bulgaria) #4
Iliriana Sulkuqi (Albania) #18
Alan Summers (England) #1, #1 (haibun)
Marie Summers (USA) #4
Julia Sundblom (Sweden) #15
Andre Surridge (New Zealand) #12
Rachel Sutcliffe (England) #21, #23, #24, #27, #28, #30, No 32, #34
Jari Sutinen (Finland) #2
Tore Sverredal (Sweden) #15
Patrick Sweeney (USA) #16
Sándor Szúnyogh (Hungary) #16
Marek Szyryk (Poland) #9
Elisabeta Tafa (Albania) #18
Massih Talebian (Iran) #32
Felix Tammi (Estonia) #3
Emilio Paolo Taormina (Italy) #10
Eduard Tara (Romania) #8, #16
Charles Tarlton (USA) #18
Rick Tarquinio (USA) #34
Dietmar Tauchner (Austria) #1, #14, #16, #22, #24, #29
Barbara A. Taylor (Australia) #2, #2 (haibun), #11 (haibun), No 13 (haibun), #16, #18, #33, #42
Christine Taylor (USA) #39
Petar Tchouhov (Bulgaria) #4, #4 (essay)
Diana Teneva (Bulgaria) #24
Frans Terryn (Belgium) #11
Charles Thompson (England) #22 (review)
Scott Thouard (Australia) #7
CarrieAnn Thunell (USA) #44
Joar Tiberg (Sweden) #15
Serge Tomé (Belgium) #11
Elisabetta Tonazzi (Italy) #10
Attila Török (Hungary) #16
Christos Toumanidis (Greece) #17, #17 (essay)
Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden) #2
Kent Travis (USA) #31
Smiljan Trobis (Slovenia) #12
Jean Tubridy (Ireland) #12
Francis Tugayé (France) #5
Ian Turner (England/France) #12, #40, #42, #44
Richard J. Turner (England) #6, #15, #30, #32
Turgay Uçeren (Turkey) #23
Maria Ulyanova (Russia) #8
Almudena Urbina (Spain) #13
József Utassy (Hungary) #16
Kevin Valentine (USA) #30, #32, #34
Mindaugas Valiukas (Lithuania) #3
Priscilla Van Valkenburgh (USA) #21
Diego Valverde Villena (Spain) #13
László Valyon (Hungary) #16
Luc Vanderhaeghen (Belgium) #12
Mirko Varga (Croatia) #6
Lars Vargö (Sweden) #6, #15
Saša Vašic (Serbia) #7, #7 (essay)
Carla Vasio (Italy) #10 (essay)
Martin Vaughan (Ireland) #3, #7, #18, #19 (haibun), #22, No 27, #27 (review), #35
François Vaydour (France) #5
Annelies Verbeke (Belgium) #19
Max Verhart (the Netherlands) #11, #11 (essay)
Herwig Verleyen (Belgium) #18
August Vermeylen (Belgium) #16
Sharon Verrall (Ireland) #38
Mirko Vidovic (Croatia) #6
Judith Vihar (Hungary) #3, #16, #16 (essay)
Jocelyne Villeneuve (Canada) #5
Fabrizio Virgili (Italy) #10
Steliana Cristina Voicu (Romania) #31
Tad Vojnicki (USA) #19
Branka Vojinovic Jegdic (Montenegro) #41
Joze Volaric (Slovenia) #12
Mykola Vorobyov (Ukraine) #33
Julia Voronkova (Russia) #1
Christine Vovakes (USA) #3, #18
Jadranka Vucak (Croatia) #19
Vid Vukasovic (Serbia (#7)
Djurdja Vukelic Rožic (Croatia) #6, #6 (essay), #14 (translation), #19
William Ward (USA) #30
Julie Warther (USA) #24, #41, #43
Gerrit Wassing (the Netherlands) #11
Melissa Watkins Starr (USA) #29, #32, #38
Diana Webb (England) #3, #4, #6, #7 (haibun), #9, #10, No 14, #15, #17
Stephen Wegmann (USA) #4
Michael Dylan Welch (USA) #30, #30 (haibun), #36, #38, #40
Kim Welliver (USA) #31
Don Wentworth (USA) #33
Sándor Weöres (Hungary) #16
Klaus Werthmann (Germany) #14
Joanna M. Weston (Canada) #9, #12, #14, #17, #21, #25, No 28, #38, #42
Dagmar Westphal (Germany) #14
Aisling White (Ireland) #3, #5, #5 (translations), #10, #11 (translations), #17, #22
Mary White (Ireland) #33
Angelika Wienert (Germany) #14
Paul Wigelius (Sweden) #15
Josh Wikoff (USA) #3
Geoffrey Wilkinson (Wales) #40 (essay)
Ian Willey (USA – Japan), #32, #34
Jane Williams (Australia) #15 (haibun)
Lolly Williams (USA) #26, #31
Rodney Williams (Australia) #9, #14, #17, #25
Juliet Wilson (Scotland) #7, #9, #23, #31
Kath Abela Wilson (USA) #23
Robert D. Wilson (USA) #1, #4
Jeffrey Winke (USA) #8 (haibun)
Klaus-Dieter Wirth (Germany) #14, #19
Ernest Wit (Poland) #27, #28, #31, #33, #39
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Juliusz Wnorowski (Poland) #9
Lynn Wohlwend (USA) #35 (haibun)
Stefan Wolfschütz (Germany) #14
Jeffrey Woodward (USA) #2, #3 (haibun), #14 (haibun), #22
Doina Bogdan Wurm (Romania) #8
Rositsa Yakimova (Bulgaria) #4
Anima Yamamoto (Japan) #3, #10
Andrena Yeats (England) #12
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Bethlehem Karate Expert Changes With Times
TSMMA Bethlehem
To Everything There Is A Season! Whether you are listening The Byrds hit 1965 song or reading from Ecclesiastes there has never been a truer statement.
Simply look what your kids are playing with these days compared to when you were a child.
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Disicpline is the hallmark of Tiger Schulmann's MMA training for kids!
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Villafane is the owner and head instructor of Tiger Schulmann's in Bethlehem, a position he has held for twenty years.
In fact when the concept of MMA was first introduced by the UFC in 1993, Villafane was already a high level Karate Black Belt.
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Villafane has been building confidence in young students for two decades.
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Villafane says it is important to prove what you are doing works. He says traditional Karate competitions are hardly different than a dance competition as far as it relates to self-defense.
"Many traditional Karate schools let commercial success change how they prepared students for real self-defense. Their competitions stopped reflecting what would really happen if a child was attacked by a bully and steered much more towards dance and gymnastics."
Villafane says MMA concentrates only on what is most important to his students well being, at the same time retaining all the traditional values and self-discipline he instilled in students even as a Karate instructor twenty years ago.
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28-story office/hotel tower w/ 586-space parking garage proposed for the corner of Garland Ave. & South St. This replaces the 15-story Hyatt Place proposal that was previously slated for this site.
7-floors of office totaling 200,000 sq. ft.
I'm a huge fan of this proposal. The scale and design is just right for this area, it fills in the skyline nicely, eliminates a surface parking lot on a prominent corner, improves the SunRail experience at Church St., provides more parking for the arena, brings in more hotel rooms and office space, looks sleek and different from the typical Orlando vernacular, and should look great from I-4.
Nice height, location is excellent.
Now it makes sense why Hyatt had not started conatruction yet.
I certainly hope this goes forward.
Yes please! Love the style, its my favorite type of design!
I don't like it. Three driveways on a tiny parcel in an area as urban as this is a joke. The Hyatt Place proposal only included two driveways (zero on South Street). If these guys remove the South Street driveway then I guess it would look alright.
I don't like it. Remember how the old bank building in downtown Winter Park was such an eyesore to the rest of Park Ave. It just didn't fit in. It was a cold glassy building. About 8 years ago they spent a millions redoing the exterior, giving it a warmer brick and stone look. Now it's a warm, people friendly exterior. So why, in the midst of what gives Orlando downtown a warm and unique charm (the CNL cluster, incl city hall, and sun) would you put a cold, reflective exterior?
I don't mind the increased height, meh, but at least the Hyatt design made efforts to fit in with the rest of the downtown cluster. This beast is out of place, just like the old bank in Winter Park used to be.
Hehe. Just kidding. I like it, especially for what it replaces.
The Plaza/Solaire is virtually the same style in that cluster. Arena has that same type of material as well.
I like it a lot. Sleek design, and good mix of hotel and office space. And the additional parking makes sense, too. Seems like a well thought out business plan. Hope it moves forward. The hotel will be shot in the arm for businesses on Church Street. Great for restaurants to have hungry hotel guests right next door.
A significant improvement over the Hyatt plan. Finally a proposal with decent height and a small footprint.
It seems to blend in the many elements of the location -- mass transit, mixed-use, pedestrian activity, and a tip-of-the hat the arena on the other side of the highway.
This could very quickly jump to the top of my list of favorites for downtown development.
The RIDA folks up the street could learn a thing or two from this proposal.
So I think it is very interesting that Tremont Capital owns that lot yet Lincoln Properties is all over the renderings. Don't be surprised if a prominent tenant is already lined up for the office portion. This is somewhat this booms version of a Dynetech Tower. I take back what I said earlier about being as tall as the Vue though; it's base is at 100' elevation and the 426' is really 326' in height from the ground.
Lincoln is the developer and would be the owner.
Tremont is a fund and asset manager.
Genuine question: why such a concern with the driveways? It's a hotel. Looks like valet + self parking + service entry / dock? Seems logical to separate those things to me.
Pedestrians have it tough with more driveways. Also, service driveways tend to remain blocked. A good example is the service driveway for the Sanctuary which is often blocked by mobile car wash guys. Two driveways along Garland are necessary for the type of use and that's just how it has to be for a hotel. The service driveway on South is only there so they can avoid making room for it on the ground level from one of the Garland driveways like Hyatt did. Walking from Orange to Garland already has a ton of obstacles for pedestrians and this would add another obstacle for them, literally feet away from the platform of our main downtown train station.
They included a Sunrail platform and a Pedestrian Plaza connecting directly to Garland. Why do you need to walk around the driveways?
Good points, thanks for clarifying.
I like it. Dynetech's cousin.
It will look great. I get the concerns about CSS and the CNL "look" etc, but, it won't matter much. Take Chicago; the Daley Center is next door to the Courthouse; you can't get more contrast than that. Same with the Federal Center to, well, every old bldg in the Loop.
It's actually going to be the tallest downtown hotel bldg.
What I also like about this proposal is that the developer has a) a proven track record (in Orlando) and b) a vested interest in CSS as an overall interconnected pedestrian experience, as they own the block.
I am quite optimistic about this one.
A Hyatt brand is still in the running as the flag for the hotel portion of this project.
Thought the same thing. Liking this proposal.
Looks like the crappy South Street driveway has been removed. I hope I'm seeing that correctly.
Beautiful Building. They definitely need to have an exit on South street.


Following the theme of things that I love created by the last post, it's time to talk Halloween.
I grew up in a house where Halloween was the be all and end all of holidays - we're talking a Halloween tree (a black spray-painted fake Christmas tree), a 6 foot Frankenstein monster complete with all the appropriate moans and groans, and even a Halloween village. It's been so ingrained in me that the first sign of pumpkins instantly lifts my spirits and the plethora of Yankee Candle Halloween scents sends me into a dizzying spell of bliss.
So it's no surprise that I've decided to continue my family's tradition by buying as much Halloween crap each year as is humanly possible. It's gotten to the point where Seth has decided to limit my spending to "one Halloween item a year, dear" (at least that he knows about). This year he's been particularly generous and I'll admit to buying a lot of the newest Yankee Candle Halloween creations (Have you seen how awesome they are this year? I mean how could I resist!), but he was being rather stingy about when I could put our decorations up and my patience was running out!
And thus began the process of taking all of our decorations out of boxes.
So with pumpkins on the brain, the mood was right to try to veganize a Pumpkin Cream Rigatoni recipe I had seen earlier on pinterest!
Cook the pasta according to the directions on the package, drain and set aside making sure to keep it warm.
Drain and rinse the tomatoes and set aside.
Whip up one batch of Allison's Alfredo. Set aside and keep warm.
Melt the margarine in a large skillet over medium heat.
Add the non dairy milk, marjoram, thyme, and black pepper and stir until mixed. Continue cooking until the mixture is heated throughout, about 2-3 minutes.
Stir in the tomato soup and continue cooking for 2-3 more minutes until all the ingredients are heated through.
Remove from heat and add the diced tomatoes, stirring just until mixed.
Spoon sauce onto pasta, only adding enough to coat the pasta lightly not smother it!
Serve garnished with freshly cracked black pepper and nutritional yeast to taste. Enjoy!
And because we had some homemade pumpkin puree left, we whipped up some pumpkin walnut bread from Hell Yeah It's Vegan.
And because sometimes I love spoiling Seth, I took one of our freshly picked honeycrisp apples and made an apple topping with margarine, brown sugar, and cinnamon that we put over some So Delicious Purely Decadent vanilla ice cream with a graham cracker crumb sprinkle!
It's nice because it's not overwhelmingly pumpkin-y but it has a subtle hint of autumn! And yes, I miss our dinners and you're welcome to come back to Boston anytime!


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