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My child finally came out as trans at the age of 22
Lara Kilner
·Contributor, Yahoo Life UK
26 July 2022, 7:11 am ·9-min read
Hannah Watson (left) had gender confirmation surgery in her twenties, and is finally the real her. Pictured with her loving mother Caroline. (Supplied)
Caroline Watson's son had never been happy but she didn't understand why until, as a 22-year-old, the secret finally came out. Her son was trans – officially known as gender dysphoria – and was trapped in a body that wasn't theirs. The pair went through a long and emotional journey for her child to become Hannah, her true self.
I always knew something was wrong with my son as a child, but I could never put my finger on it. I'd constantly ask if he was ok, if he was happy, and he would say, 'I'm fine', but he wasn't fine, he wasn't happy.
In secret turmoil
He'd cry and scream about going to school. It terrified him but he couldn't explain what was going on in his head, and it was agonising. When you can't solve something, you think, 'What am I doing wrong? I'm not a good mother, I'm awful at this.'
It took until he was an adult for me to understand. He came into my room late one night in 2015, aged 22, and said he had something to tell me.
With a look of turmoil on his face, he said, ''I want to be a woman, I'm a woman inside and I have to do something to change the rest of my life."
I was so shocked I felt like I'd swallowed a bowling ball. He explained, "I'm trapped in a body that isn't mine" and that he had 'gender dysphoria'. He said that I may know it as 'transgender' and I thought, 'Well, I don't actually, no.'
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I'd never even heard those words before. My heart went out to him but I didn't know what to say. I asked if it was a phase, a stupid question really when he'd clearly been living with this for years.
But it gave me answers. I began to think, 'Well, that was why he was always terrified of school. That was why he never had any friends and was never comfortable going into the gents' toilet.'
It was a long and emotional journey, but Hannah Watson, who is trans, and mother Caroline now have a very happy and special relationship. (Supplied)
So many things started to make sense. My biggest guilt was, and still is, that I didn't know what was happening, that I didn't have the knowledge to say, "Do you think it could be this?" But I genuinely didn't know you could have a male body but be female inside, I just had no such concept.
Parental worries
I was frightened and full of fear. Will she be okay? When she walks down the street, are people going to attack her? Over the coming days, I cried a lot when no one was looking.
The loneliness was heartbreaking, but I wasn't ready to tell my husband Dave because I wanted to understand it first, to ease his worry.
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After the shock died down a little, I did some internet research which was terrifying. There were so many awful stories about transgender suicides and murders, but eventually I found organisations like the Beaumont Society and GIRES (Gender Identity Research and Education Society) that support gender-diverse people. I realised there were some good organisations and good people out there, who taught me to see there could be a bright future for my daughter.
Hannah Watson says her employers were extremely supportive of her being trans. (Supplied)
Two months later, we told my husband Dave, who was shocked and clearly had no idea. Despite this, he promised he'd always be there to help and trusted her to do what was right for her future. After that, Hannah, as she'd chosen to be called, lived a sort of half-life, where she'd go out dressed as a man with her male name, but be female at home.
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It took us 18 months to tell friends and family because how do people respond when you say, "Well, actually, my son wants to be my daughter"? But they were brilliant and eventually, we all agreed we needed to get Hannah out there.
Coming out at work
The next step was to talk to her employers at the nature reserve where she worked, who were fantastic. They promised to be supportive of her transition and the following day she went to work for the first time as her true self in female clothing.
Hannah became gradually more confident and we went Christmas shopping with her in new skinny jeans and boots. I was scared but she coped well and we didn't experience any of the finger pointing I thought we might encounter. She also looked fabulous!
The next hurdle, though, was being told it was going to be three years to get an appointment at a gender identity clinic on the NHS, which was very distressing for Hannah.
Going for surgery
We ended up deciding to go down the private route because of the long wait, which we know not everyone is lucky enough to be able to do.
She started taking the hormones, had her name changed by deed poll and, finally, after four years on her journey, had gender confirmation surgery.
I remember the anxiety, waiting on the phone until we got the message to say she'd had her surgery and it had gone well. We dashed in to see her, on morphine and looking awful but just beaming from ear to ear.
We'd spent a long time getting to that point, and it was incredibly emotional. My daughter was where she needed to be. There was still a lot to process mentally, but for her to be able to say, "I am now, finally, my true self" felt amazing.
Caroline Watson says her daughter Hannah, a trans woman, has enriched her own life in so many ways. (Supplied)
From thinking I was failing her as a parent, we've come a long way. It was always such a distant relationship when she was a boy, but we are so much closer now.
Gaining a daughter
Knowing that we can finally have a normal mother-daughter bond is lovely. She's also gained so much resilience, strength and confidence. Before, I'd constantly worry – every time she went to see a friend, every time she got on a train, it felt dreadful, in case she got verbally abused or was attacked. Now, she bolts off and she doesn't care.
As a boy, Hannah and her dad weren't very close but now they now have a great relationship, even working together.
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As well as gaining a beautiful daughter, I've gained so much more. I'd never been to a Pride event before, I didn't even know what one was, but I've never enjoyed myself so much in my life.
Pride Parade, London, 2022. (Reuters)
My eyes were like saucers watching all these amazing drag queens. You think you get to your 60s and it's going to be all just pottering around in the garden, but it's opened up so much for me and I wish other people would experience these things. It's brought so much to my life and I feel privileged that I can talk about having a trans daughter with such confidence.
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We're both incredibly proud of each other. There have been difficult times but, as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and we've come out the other side of it so much stronger. Hannah is finally happy and of course, that brings me great joy every day.
Until I was 18, I didn't live, I just existed. My body felt wrong, my mind was wrong, I felt like I wasn't really in the world. It was a very dark time. I was so isolated, so confused, I had no hope, I was just empty.
I oppressed everything about myself and was so deep in an abyss that I had suicidal thoughts. I had no friends and went to a very traditional school, so I didn't even know what being transgender was. I just knew I was different.
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At university, things began to change. I was exposed to the world outside the school bubble, and had space to really think about myself. The darkness lifted, I developed close friendships for the first time and gained the mental energy to look inside myself and ask: 'What is this? Do I want to be a woman?.' I realised, 'No, I don't want to be a woman, I already am one. The outside just doesn't match the inside.'
I'm not into labels as such, but I read up on gender dysphoria and I realised my brain wasn't wrong, there was a word for it and that was me. It was a life-changing revelation.
Hannah's mindset changed at university and she realised through opening up to her mum it would change her life for the better. (Supplied)
I didn't tell my mum until after university. I always knew my parents weren't going to throw me out on the street, but I knew it would scare my mum to hear something so powerful as, "Mum, I'm going to have to go through all of this, I'm going to have to fight the world. Are you with me?"
It's difficult to see someone you love going through that, and I'm so proud of my mum. There are a lot of trans people who have been cast out by their families, and some have been made homeless. You need to feel safe and have that backbone of parental support.
Not every trans person has surgery but, for me, I looked down and everything felt terrible, so it was important to me. After my operations, I won't mince my words… I looked down and everything was bloody and gnarly, but I still cried at the sight of it because it was done, that final weight on me was lifted.
Now, I'm living, not just existing. I'm no longer that insular person waiting for the next bad thing to happen. I've found peace.
It was only after I finally became the real me that I was able to look back to really see how it affected me. I've worked through a lot of that with the help of my parents and an amazing therapist. I've seen mum open herself up to such a lot of things I wouldn't have expected her to. She's an amazing woman.
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Portugal vs. Uruguay World Cup Live: Group H Table, Injury Report, Betting Odds, and More!
Matt Lerma
Portugal is looking to punch their ticket to the round of 16 in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Coming off an outstanding 3-2 win over Ghana, Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portuguese team are in a good position to advance if they can get a win against Uruguay. Earlier in the day Ghana and South Korea will face off, if there is a winner it will put pressure on the Uruguayan team to get a win so they can stay in the top two of the Group H rankings. Ronaldo got a penalty goal making him the first man to score in 5 World Cups, he'll be looking to continue to be a difference-maker against Uruguay. The two teams have only faced each other once before, in 2018 Uruguay got the best of Portugal 2-1. Can they do it again? Or will Portugal march forward to the knockout rounds?
Portugal vs. Uruguay World Cup: How To Watch
Location: Lusail Stadium. Lusail, Qatar.
Start Time: 1 PM CDT (10 PM Local)
Stream: Fubo, Sling TV
How many Goals will Ronaldo score? Can Uruguay beat Portugal again? This will be an exciting contest you won't want to miss. The match kicks off at 1 PM CDT from Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, on Fox in the United States. Streaming Options include Fubo and Sling TV.
Group H Table
For Uruguay, a lot will ride on the result of South Korea vs. Ghana. If they draw, Uruguay only needs to earn a draw against Portugal to still be in a good position to advance. While sometimes it comes down to that you have to expect Uruguay to come out strong in this match if they hope to win a third World Cup. The Portuguese haven't made it out of the round of 16 since 2006 in Ronaldo's debut, where they finished in 4th place. Knowing this in Ronaldo's last World Cup should motivate his team to get revenge for 2018's loss to Uruguay and clinch their spot in the Round of 16. Win or draw, they'll remain at the top of the Group H table.
Ranking of Group H of the FIFA World Cup #Qatar2022 pic.twitter.com/oEs3CogTsl
— Qatar World Cup 2022 (NFT) (@QatarWC2022NFT) November 24, 2022
Portugal vs. Uruguay World Cup: Injury Report
Portugal as suffered many injuries before the tournament even started. Diogo Jota, Pedro Neto, and Ricardo Pereria are missing from long-term injuries. Nuno Mendes was also injured in training before their first match. Portugal seems to be performing well without them but surely they'll be missed as the competition grows stronger in the knockout rounds.
Ronald Araujo may return for Uruguay. If he is match ready he'll be a welcomed addition to the Uruguayan defense.
Portugal vs. Uruguay World Cup: Betting Odds
Sportsbookwire is heavily favoring Portugal to win. But if you're a risk taker a winning bet on Uruguay has the potential to pay out handsomely.
Moneyline: Portugal +100 | Uruguay +310 | Draw +240
Over/Under: 2.5 (O: +130 | U: -150)
Who do you think is going to win this one? Comment below with your predictions.
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Anouk (Anouk Teeuwe, , () — нідерландська співачка. Виконує композиції в стилі поп-рок. Починаючи з 1997 року випустила 10 платівок (включаючи сингли, а також живі записи  з концертів).

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Анук Теуве народилася 8 квітня 1975 року, в місті Гаага, Нідерланди.

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До 1998 року Анук була у шлюбі зі своїм менеджером Едвіном Янсем.

16 березня 2004 року вийшла заміж за Ремона Стотійна (ака The Anonymous Mis, фронтмена реггі/реп-гурту Postmen) від якого в неї троє дітей, син Бенджамін Кінгслі (18 квітня 2002), син Ілля Джеремія (5 грудня 2003) і дочка Фенікс Рей (3 червня 2005). У травні 2008 року Анук і Ремон оголосили про «гармонійне» взаємне розлучення
У 2010 році вона народила 4-у дитину, сина на ім'я Джесія Докс. Батьком цієї дитини був її останній бойфренд, з який вона розлучилася.

Анук має оригінальний тембр голосу.

Інтерес Анук до музики виник під впливом матері, яка була співачкою блюзу. На початку кар'єри Анук співала на весіллях і вечірках з музичним гуртом Shotgun Wedding, до зустрічі з Баррі Геєм, солістом гурту Golden Earring і другом її колишнього чоловіка Едвіна Янсена. Він помітив талант Анук і запропонував написати для неї кілька пісень (одна з яких Mood Indigo). Пісня Mood Indigo була написана у співпраці з George Kooymans (теж учасник гурту Golden Earring).

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 Anouk's Urban Solitude Review at Spectrum Fm

Жіночий вокал у рок-музиці
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Q: Map orientation So I have got this map that can lead me to a underwater temple. That's nice, but I see only this:

The red lines and stuff are only for effect.
Is the map always orientated by the X and Z coordinates? if not, how can I locate the direction of the mapped area?

A: Maps are always orientated X left/right & Z up/down. Positive and Negative as assumed. No reason to change them and alter the standard for one particular map.
Also you can move around a bit and track where your dot is moving to tell what means what.

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Songs by Ashley Wright
Like a mellifluous gust of wind, Toronto-born recording artist NDAI (pronounced Ne-Day) carries you away on an orchestra of rousing vocals, ethereal tempos, and lyrics that echo the thoughts we often try and hide.
"Great art has a certain truth to it" she explains. "As artists we hold up a mirror to society and weave the words into songs that are simply too difficult to articulate otherwise. It's a combination of skill, inspiration, and vulnerability, which is the key to honesty. Honesty can only come from a vulnerable place where the ego cannot coexist, it is unpretentious, unadulterated and raw."
At the early age of 4 her mother discovered she was pitch perfect singing songs from her favorite movie Pocahontas. Coming from a pedigree of musicians and artists (Muttoo Brothers Calypso Orchestra, and her father Stephen Muttoo), it was almost no surprise music would be an important part of her life. Jumpstarting her music career in 2018, NDAI has already nabbed the attention of publications like EARLMILK, Urbanology, Elevator Magazine and Toronto radio station VIBE 105.5FM where she was interviewed by none other than DJ Mel Boogie.
Her single "Nobody's Ting" has amassed almost 60k streams and she's quickly gaining recognition in her hometown with consistent bookings that include a slot in Indie Week, Canadian Music Week and opening Toronto Beer Fest 2019 for Ashanti and Ja-Rule. In early 2020, the R&B singer and songwriter signed with Reign Music an imprint of Higher Reign Music Group with distribution through Sony Music.
Combining facets of old-school, new wave R&B, pop, and neo-soul, NDAI's music is designed in a way that can draw any listener by the ear and soothe them into a vibe that speaks to her genuine and unapologetic nature. Along with her self-composed verses, NDAI's very personal experiences come alive in the range of her vocals and the gentle caress of her delivery.
Aside from the music, NDAI has been tireless working on her artist development program start-up, ATLR IT. "Making the artist discovery process more gender-inclusive is a next step" says NDAI. "Our vision for ALTR IT is that one day it will be a comprehensive artist development program, but for now we are hosting a series of curated workshops to pilot the educational piece and the other components of the program."


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The Museum seeks donations of cars, money and unique automotive memorabilia.
And another street race; a 1984 one-off run between hundreds of portable concrete lane dividers that ended up as a test of how close drivers could come to heat stroke while driving a kart course. Curiously, the race was won by a Finish driver. Keke Rosberg took it, while Nigel Mansell passed out pushing his dead Lotus across the line. Knowledgeable observers wondered how any venue could be more foreign to Formula 1. A decade, or so, later, however, NHL hockey came to Dallas and met with quick success. The race organizers were probably not so crazy afterall, although they couldn't come up with enough money for an encore in '85. Like Las Vegas, Dallas was touted recently as a possible site for a U.S. GP in the future, but has recently dropped out of the running.


Come on man, surely it isn't that bad?
Probably the most fucked up thing you'll read about on the internet today.
This must have been absolutely terrifying for everyone involved but it makes a pretty unbelievably awesome video.


Cary, NC – Homes and businesses across Downtown Cary came to a halt on Monday, April 15, 2019 after a downed power line shut off electricity for much of the area.
At around 2:45 PM on Monday, April 15, a pole fell and knocked down power lines near the intersection of W Chatham Street and S Dixon Avenue. This took out electricity around Downtown Cary, including not just homes and businesses but also streetlights. Duke Progress Energy crews started working on the line at around 3:15 PM. Meghan Miles, corporate communications for Duke Energy, said while crews were working on the power lines, the outage was isolated and power was redirected to customers from other sources.
Around some key intersections, such as Chatham Street and Academy Street, the Town of Cary distributed generators to keep the lights working and some others had police officers directing traffic. For all other intersections where lights were out, they were to be treated as four-way stops, and while this reporter personally saw several close calls from drivers who went right through without stopping or looking, there were no traffic accidents reported at Downtown Cary intersections.
At around 5 PM, the Town of Cary distributed generators to all of the eight intersections that lost power. The line was repaired and electricity was restored at around 9 PM.
Some Cary residents may have also seen pockets of power outages in the town on Monday morning. These were the results of Sunday night's extreme weather when a tree fell onto a power line, and we are still looking into whether or not that storm also caused the pole to fall in Downtown Cary.
Yes, I know Duke's robot called me at 3:00 am and asked me to press a ton I button I could not see.


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Air Force achieves White Ribbon workplace accreditation
On 31 March the Air Force became an accredited White Ribbon workplace, and the process was undertaken for a number of important reasons.
The Chief of Air Force, AIMRSHL Leo Davies emphasised that White Ribbon accreditation is a clear message to the community that that family and domestic violence are incompatible with Air Force values.
"Air Force is a values based organisation, where we expect our members to lead by example. Achieving White Ribbon Accreditation identifies us as leaders of change for this important cause," AIRMSHL Davies said.
"We are committed to White Ribbon's campaign to stand up, speak out and act to stop men's violence against women. Data shows that the majority of family and domestic violence is perpetrated by a small minority of men against women.
"Violence against anyone is unacceptable in our workplaces, at home, and in our community. Our accreditation is a visible demonstration of our intent to end workplace and domestic violence," AIRMSHL Davies said.
The Warrant Officer of the Air Force, WOFF-AF Robert Swanwick, agrees that family and domestic violence poses a risk to capability.
"It's a shocking fact that there are some people that believe that domestic violence or abuse is acceptable or justified.
"Like all forms of unacceptable behaviour, we must call it out when we see or suspect it is occurring and then support those affected. Unacceptable behaviour and violence can cause victims physical, psychological and emotional trauma and besides it being abhorrent and intolerable, it eats away at the fibre of our people and that affects our ability to generate capability," he said.
Recently, the Defence Minister launched the Defence Family and Domestic Violence Strategy, which sets out principles and policies designed to support Defence personnel and their families who are affected by FDV. It is strongly recommended that all Air Force personnel read this strategy along with A Commanders and Managers Guide to Responding to Family and Domestic Violence.
Although White Ribbon's focus is on preventing violence against women, it is important to acknowledge family violence can affect both men and women. It is never acceptable for anyone to perpetrate violence.
Data shows that the majority of domestic violence is perpetrated by a small minority of men against women and children at all levels within communities across Australia. Unfortunately, the Air Force family is not immune to violence or its impacts.
For more information about the White Ribbon Australia Workplace Accreditation Program or White Ribbon Australia's campaign to prevent men's violence against women, visit www.whiteribbon.org.au/workplaces


The other day I was googling myself in a vain attempt at vanity and I found that an old guide I wrote about paladin blessings is still around. At the time it was fairly handy, or at least I thought so. With the help of the paladin forums I'd managed to explain their uses and nuances. I was damn proud of it.
Now it serves as a reminder of times past. A time when hands were blessings, when blessings lasted ten minutes (you thought I was going to say five, but this was BC). Let's look into these dark ages. Or maybe dim ages. This isn't vanilla we're talking about here. Oh man, the dresses. Don't ask.
Blessings are the primary form of buffing for paladins. There are three general categories of blessings: short, regular, and greater. The short blessings are sacrifice, protection, and freedom. The regular blessings are wisdom, might, light, salvation, sanctuary, and kings. Greater blessings are longer versions of regular blessings.
Despite my categorizing, blessings are all considered to be the same type of buff, so without exception you can only have one blessing on you per paladin. They are magic buffs so they can be removed by many spells including purge, dispel, devour magic, and arcane shot. Both spellsteal and death have an effect on blessings.
In other words, hand of freedom would remove blessing of kings. This was super-convenient.
In regard to Blessing of Might: "The ret talent Improved Blessing of Might increases the effect of this talent by 20%. For 5 talent points that gives 44 additional attack power"
44 AP wasn't a bit deal then either, though more than it sounds like now. But consider the implications of talents like this and improved Blessing of Wisdow (Might didn't always give mana/5) "The holy talent Improved Blessing of Wisdom increases the effect of this by 20% (8mana/5)." These were marginal gains, but expensive to get, so we often coordinated talents to maximize the effect. Blessing required coordination as well to ensure that everyone got the best blessing they could. Between kings, wisdom, might, light, and salvation, this got complex.
What was Blessing of Light? Well duh, it buffed Holy Light and Flash of Light. DUH! "Places a Blessing on the friendly target, increasing the effects of Holy Light spells used on the target by up to 580 and the effects of Flash of Light spells used on the target by up to 185. Lasts 10 min." What class doesn't have an entire buff slot taken up by a buff that only affects one third of their possible three roles and is of no help whatsoever to other classes?
If you've ever thought "how dumb is it that blessing of kings is so gret but only paladins and drudis can cast it", then I offer you this: "Ten points in protection are needed to get BoK." That's right, not only did druids not have kings, instead having a strange weaker than every other buff buff in the form of Mark of the Wild, not all paladins could even use Kings. It was a 10 point talent!
"Hunter pets, voidwalkers, and felguards are counted as warriors while buffing so do not make the mistake of buffing the tank with kings, then giving the hunters' pets might and overwriting the tank's blessing. Succubi, imps,and felhunters are counted as warlocks."
I'm sure you can't even believe it, that I, the most useless blogger ever, who once apologized for accidentally giving useful advance (I have standards), was once upon a time useful. But dammit, I was. Then Blizzard went and ruined it by streamlining everything. Can you imagine a blessing guide these days? It would be too simple! Too easy! Dammit, I like pointless inconvenience and arbitrary mechanical restrictions. They are what separate the awesome detail-obsessed weirdos from the people are are just weird for pretending to be owls. I'm saying druids are weirdos.
Whenever you join a raid you just get buffed according to the group constellation.
mmh. no we can do EVEN better.
Whenever you enter a raid your stats raise. Just like that. Also, you're not notified about it, to save you UI space for the action.
"I'm saying druids are weirdos."
Pfft, you didn't need to rant about Paladins and game changes to say that.
@Nils: Does the raid constitution matter? It would be pretty awkward if we needed any variation in classes just to get the full raid buff.
Does anyone have Thursday's post?
Time for another installment of Back In My Day!


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Events, Shows & Festivals
Tourism Blog
Rivers & Sand, Forests & Grasslands...
Lions Campground
Town of Leader
Located next door to the new Leader Swimming Pool and within walking distance of all amenities, the Lions Campground in Leader, Saskatchewan, offers road weary travellers a respite. Surrounded by the Lions Park, a new playground, and their gorgeous Millennium Gardens, it's a friendly stop along the road.
This municipal campground offers electrical, swere, water, bathrooms, and showers.
Wifi is available at the local library just a block away.
Town of Gull Lake Campground
Town of Gull Lake
A quiet "in town" campground perfectly situated at the intersection of Highways #1 and #37 within walking distance of local restaurants, museum and shopping. Campers have access to bathroom facilities, a brand new playground and free firewood.
Village of Val Marie Campground
Village of Val Marie
A quiet and lovely treed campground close to all the amenities of the Village of Val Marie, the Val Marie Bar and Café, Prairie Wind Silver Sage Eco-Museum and Café (with wifi), Grocery and Liquor Store, and the Grasslands National Park (West Block) Visitor Centre.
There are showers and washrooms that can also be booked to use during your time camping in Grasslands National Park.
15 Amp, 50 Amp, dump station, self registration or online booking, group friendly.
Town of Eastend Campground
Town of Eastend
Enjoy this spacious well-treed campground nestled along the Frenchman River and near a number of attractions including: the T.Rex Discovery Centre, Eastend Historical Museum, Streambank Golf Course, Swimming Pool & Splash Park, Wilkinson Memorial Observatory, Mini Golf, Pottery studios and more.
Eastend Campground offers power and water, full service, and no service sites. There are showers and washrooms, a ball diamond, playground, fire pits, and a camp kitchen.
Book online at https://bit.ly/3vm8XXz
Rock Creek Campground
Grasslands National Park
The Rock Creek Campground and Rock Creek Visitor Centre are located in the East Block of Grasslands National Park. –Enjoy the prairie elegance of amazing skies day and night, the leopard frogs' symphony at dusk, and the meadowlarks' serenading at dawn.
Frenchman Valley Campground - West Block
Located in the heart of the West Block, the Frenchman Valley Campground offers a peaceful prairie setting. With a view of the Frenchman River, rolling hills, incredible sunsets, and possibly bison, the Frenchman Valley Campground is the perfect destination for your front country camping experience. Enjoy the brilliant night sky with amenities nearby.
Willowbend Campground & Cabins
Camp in the heart of Canada's Greatest Western Town. Walking distance to Maple Creek's main street, and a host of summer-time events, this is the perfect place to do any number of daytrips from including: Cypress Hills Centre Block; Cypress Hills West Block and Fort Walsh National Historic Site; T.Rex Discovery Centre; Great Sandhills; the Town of Leader. It's also the perfect place to gather with family and friends in a group setting.
Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park
Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park - Saskatchewan
650 campsites ranging from unserviced to full-service await!
The Saskatchewan side of the Interprovincial Park is divided into two separate blocks: Centre Block (Core Area), and West Block (Wilderness Area). The Centre Block (south of Maple Creek on Highway #21) is where the majority of the campsites are located, as well as all the park's front country services and amenities. The Centre Block also offers day-use picnic sites with barbecue stands for charcoal briquettes as well as a day-use camp kitchen at the main beach. A reservable day-use camp kitchen is also available. The West Block Wilderness Area (near Fort Walsh on Highway #271) features limited unserviced campsites as well as the equestrian campground.
Cypress Hills is the highest point in Canada between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains, and the only place on the prairies in Canada where a lodge pole pine forest occurs naturally. Cypress Hills is also one of Canada's largest Dark Sky Preserves and features a Dark Sky Campground.
DID YOU KNOW? The Centre Block is open for camping year-round. From October 1st through to the end of April "winter camping" is available (no water, no electricity). Also during the winter months the park offers a snowmobile area, cross country ski trails, snowshoe trails, winter walking & biking, a toboggan hill, winter warm-up shacks, and a winter camp kitchen for winter picnics. Please join us for "Winter in the Hills!"
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St Teresa (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada) was born in Avila, Spain on 28th March 1515. Her parents were both pious Catholics and in some ways inspired their daughter to take up a life of prayer. As a young child, Teresa showed signs of a deeply religious nature; she would often retreat into silence for prayer and would enjoy giving alms to the poor. She was very close to her mother, who provided a warm counterbalance to the strictness of her father. However, in her teens, Teresa's mother passed away, leaving the young Teresa distraught at the void she felt. The young St Teresa tells of her despair and how she turned instinctively to the Virgin Mary for comfort.
During her later teen years Avila lost some of her early piety and religious zeal. She recounted how she became interested in worldly matters and enjoyed the company of a wide circle of friends. She had a natural charm and found it easy to make friends. In return, she enjoyed the compliments and friendships of others. However, she was not at peace, considering herself to be a miserable sinner; later she would look back in guilt at her early life. However this sense of being a "miserable sinner" was probably the result of a harsh self-judgement, encouraged by her father's exacting religious standards. At the age of 16, her father decided to send Teresa to a convent school to be educated.
This reignited in Teresa an interest in following a spiritual life and after some deliberation resolved to become a nun of the Carmelite Order. At the time the convent rules were not very strict; it was probably more relaxed than living with her father. The convent accepted many people into the order, often for financial reasons. The convent became overcrowded, and people were often judged not by spiritual intensity but on material possessions. In this climate, Teresa struggled to find time for quiet reflection, although she did start teaching people on the virtues of mental prayer.
When she was a little better, she resumed her prayers with renewed vigour. However, after telling others of her visions and spiritual experiences, she was dissuaded from pursuing them. Certain clergy felt they were delusions of the devil. As a result, for many years Teresa lost the confidence to practise her prayers, and her spiritual life was almost put on hold. However, when Teresa was 41, she met a priest who convinced her to go back to her prayers and implore God to come back. Initially, she had some difficulty sitting through prayers. She wryly remarked the end of the hour's prayer couldn't come soon enough. However, in the course of time, she became absorbed in deep contemplation in which she felt an ever-growing sense of oneness with God. At times she felt overwhelmed with divine love. The experiences were so transforming, she at times felt the illumining grace of God would wash her soul away. She was so filled with divine contemplation it is said at times her body would spontaneously levitate. Teresa, however, was not keen on these public displays of 'miracles'. When she felt it happening she would ask other nuns to sit on her to prevent her floating away.
Teresa was not a just a quiet, placid saint. She had an endearing, natural quality; her life energy attracted and inspired many who were close. They admired her for both her outer charm and inner serenity. But at the same time, her religious ecstasies also caused jealousy and suspicion. Unfortunately, she was born into the period of the Spanish Inquisition, during this time any deviation from the orthodox religious experience came under strict observation and scrutiny. On one occasion Teresa complained to God about her mistreatment from so many different people. God replied to her saying "That is how I always treat my friends." With good humour, St Teresa replied, "That must be why You have so few friends!" St Teresa struggled because there were few who could understand or appreciate her inner ecstasies. However, on the one hand, she felt these experiences to be more real than ordinary events.
In 1566 she wrote Camino de Perfeccion (Way of Perfection), to tell the nuns how to reach their goal.
In 1580 she wrote what is considered her greatest work: the Castillo Interior/ Las Moradas (Interior Castle/ The Mansions). This involved describing the various stages of spiritual evolution leading to full prayer; she wrote Las Fundaciones (Foundations) from 1573 to 1582, so they would remember the early history of their order.


My son was born in November, 2016 – and I've had the entire year to get to know little Noah. He's all of the best bits of me and more. Imogen also started school in September and continues to wow me. She's so clever but humble at the same time. I literally cannot put into words how blessed I feel to have 2 perfect loving wonderful children in my life. I have always said to my couples that "I document for the people that haven't been born yet" and I've felt that more than ever this year. It puts a new perspective on things. I can't wait to be around my 2 angels and there's no doubt that both Imogen and Noah have influenced and inspired my work. And then my gorgeous wife and best friend Lindsay. Everything I have is because of her – she is the glue that holds our family together especially when I've taken on too much work. To say I'm lucky to have her is an understatement. She is the kindest most caring person I know – and she influences and nurtures my creative soul.
On the morning of Thursday 30th March, I was informed that I had secured a place at the University of the Arts in London to study for an MA in photojournalism, a life long ambition. I was, and still am a little in shock about it all. My course leader is Paul Lowe, a hugely respected journalist that has covered many breaking stories around the world including the fall of the Berlin wall and Bosnian conflict. It's a privilege to learn from somebody of Paul's calibre and to study at one of the best institutions in the world. At the time of writing this I've almost finished my first term and things are going amazingly well. The feedback that I've had about my wedding photography has been immense. On my introductory tutorial I was told that my reportage style is some of the best in the world… When you receive phenomenal feedback from anybody it's always an honour, but to hear those words come from an award winning war photojournalist is almost beyond comprehension.
And of course, my wedding photography (after all that's why you're here right!) – What. A. Year.
I've documented intensively this season, selectively hand picking amazing weddings that fit with my ethos. I've had a blast. I've (literally) laughed and cried. It's been both exhausting and exhilarating! I've made even more friends and learned so much more about the world around me.
Don't get me wrong, I don't shoot for awards, however they seem to come – it's almost a natural consequence of how I do my job. I have picked up 2 Fearless awards, 7 ISPWP's (3 in the top 10, and 1 in the top 3!), 3 SLR Lounge awards (1 of them was a prestigious Apex award, only given to the top 1% of winners), 3 from the Wedding Photographer Society, 7 awards from Wedding Photography Select and a further 10 from Wedisson. And if that wasn't enough at the time of writing this I've bagged an eye watering 78 81 MyWed Editor's Choice commendations (5 of which have been short listed for the MyWed Awards of 2017).
UPDATE: As of 29th December, the ISPWP has me ranked as number 47 in the world! (or number 3 in the UK). You can read more about it here.
In addition to the above list of achievements I was nominated again for the Rangefinder Magazine 30 Rising Stars of Wedding Photography Award, and as of December – Fearless Photographers, Wedding Photography Select, GoHen, MyWed & Wedding Photographer Society have all ranked me either well inside the top 100 in the world or somewhere in the top 10 for the UK! Incredible!
You can check out all of my awards and commendations here.
I've travelled thousands of miles, shaken hundreds of hands and expanded my consciousness by seeing things from different perspectives.
And to my lovely couples that trusted in me to tell their story with honesty, love and devotion (and a large sprinkle of my unique action packed fun documentary style); thank you. I love each and every one of you and I am eternally grateful that I get to document memories of amazing things for amazing people.
Well, well, well. Has it really been a year? Stunning work Aaron, There is an art to taking excellent photos, genuinely - and you've nailed it this year. I just wish I could have you for my future wedding! Congratulations on your awards, they are every bit deserved.
Amazing set of images Aaron! Love the way you frame the photos and capture the emotions!
Great set bud, I wish there were more photos in this post!
You've had quite the year dude! Amazing collection of images....all the best with your MA bro!!! Smashing it!
What an amazing range of images. Wonderful emotion in each one and completely impossible to pick a favourite. Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year Aaron am sure next year will bring you even more success.
Well played Sir. Another year of rocking weddings with your style.
Love your composition and your colours. What a lovely set!
A really nice set! Congrats for the excellent year!
What amazing year you've had - I loved looking through these. Here's to your 2018!
Well done dude. GREAT stuff as per usual.
I've been waiting for some time to have the time to give this a proper view and OH.MY!!!! It was worth the wait. Every frame has emotion, moment or epic skill and beautiful editing throughout! Very natural but purposeful and in some cases thought-provoking (2 page boys with bridesmaid). Awesome year dude! Cannot wait to see more in 2018!
What a great year! That last image made me chuckle. Such cool colours and framing throughout. Good luck for 2018 Aaron!
Stunning range of images. Love the expression on the last photos haha.


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Greater Bay Area media summit to open in Guangzhou
More than 300 high-profile publicity and government officials and representatives of major media organizations will attend the first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Media Summit in Guangzhou on May 19.
They will hold in-depth exchanges on innovation and cooperation, media convergence and support for the building of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, said Liu Hongbing, director of the administrative committee of the Guangzhou-based Nanfang Media Group, a co-organizer of the summit, at a news conference on Monday.
Attendants will share their views in keynote speeches and three panels on the bay area and media convergence, humanism, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Jointly organized by the Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Meida Group and Macao Daily, the summit will serve as a platform for innovation in cooperative mechanisms among media, and cooperation in information exchange, joint reporting and programming, and personnel training, Liu said.
The bay area, which consists of nine cities in Guangdong province and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, encompasses an area of 56,000 square kilometers and had a population of 70 million in 2017, standing as one of the most open and dynamic regions in China.
The outline development plan for the bay area was released in February.
The plan positions the bay area as a vibrant, world-class city cluster; a globally influential international innovation and technology hub; an important support pillar for the Belt and Road Initiative; a showcase for in-depth cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao; and a quality destination for living, working and traveling.


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Yesterday's trading: Footsie resilient as markets steady
By Geoff Foster for MailOnline
Updated: 05:19 EST, 6 November 2007
When all is said and done, it could and probably should have been a lot worse. After the Hang Seng index collapsed 1,500 points, or 5% overnight, in Hong Kong following the resignation of Citigroup's chief executive Chuck Prince, as the world's largest bank prepared to reveal billions of pounds of additional sub-prime mortgage losses, dealers in London feared the worst.
But thankfully the Footsie displayed resilience, rallying from 110 points down to finish 69.2 points lower at 6,461.4. Wall Street's early recovery from 119 to 49 points down calmed frayed nerves towards the close.
Banks again bore the brunt of heavy institutional selling amid fears that the crisis will take months to evolve.
Veteran traders remember that the secondary banking crisis in 1973 dragged on for two years. Not only did Citigroup yesterday fail to assure the market that a potential £5.5bn writedown for sub-prime mortgages will not grow, but rumours were rife that mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester has had to go cap in hand to the Bank of England for funds.
A&L, which last year is said to have rejected a £12 a share cash bid from French bank Credit Agricole, was sold down to 663½p before closing 29p lower at 701½p.
Beleaguered Barclays crumbled to a threeyear low of 498¼p amid continuing speculation that it too has had to seek recent assistance from the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
It ended a further 16p lower at 521½p for a three-day collapse of 82½p, or 13.7%. The fact that Barclays has been slow (yet again) to comment on the rumours, especially when they are having such a drastic effect on its share price, has led the market to believe
they must be true. Chief executive John Varley has been in virtual hibernation since the bank failed to buy ABN Amro and really does need to come out fighting and put all the negativity to bed.
As basket case Northern Rock fell to 158p in a false market before closing only ½p easier at 170¾p, dealers said it was about time that chief executive Adam Applegarth fell on his sword.
Top bosses of Merrill Lynch and Citigroup have walked the plank after incurring heavy sub-prime losses, but Applegarth is still there despite racking up Bank of England loans of around £20bn - and rising.
Supermarket group Sainsbury unfortunately found itself a casualty of the credit crisis when the Qatar Investment Authority walked away from its £10.6bn or £6 a share bid. The shares crashed 115p to 440p leaving the Arabs and 10% shareholder Robert Tchenguiz sitting on massive losses.
Fears that the Iranian property entrepreneur, who holds a large percentage of his shareholdings in the form of contracts for differences (CFDs) will be forced to liquidate his other stakes left Mitchells & Butlers, where he is already sitting on a substantial loss, 28p lower at 631p. SCI Entertainment, in which Tchenguiz holds 15.5%, lost 33¼p to 318¾p.
Lower commodity prices mangled miners. Xstrata shed 136p to 3171p, Vedanta Resources 86p to 2100p and Rio Tinto 168p to 4197p.
Nervous offerings ahead of today's interim results left Marks & Spencer 12p lower at 632p. Clothing operators have had a rough time of it in recent weeks because of the great unseasonal weather and must be worried ahead of the critical Christmas trading period. 'Er indoors has only 49 shopping days left to buy your socks and pants.
Bullish comments from Collins Stewart and Dresdner Kleinwort ahead of Thursday's interim figures and Friday's launch of iPhone helped Carphone Warehouse buzz 8¼p higher to 353¼p. Vodafone added 4.2p to 188¼p as rumours that it will soon sell all, or part, of its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless continued to do the rounds.
Independent TV company DCD Media, which produces Bridezillas, the reality wedding series by September Films, the highest ever rated show on the Women's Entertainment channel in the US, jumped 5p to 59p following impressive annual results.
Turnover more-than-doubled to £26.8m and adjusted pre-tax profits came in at £1.36m, compared with a £300,000 loss last time.
Xchanging, which conducts back office outsourcing for banks, jumped 12½p to 282p. Citigroup and UBS placed 18.2m shares, or
8.5%, with institutional investors at 280p. General Atlantic was the seller but still owns 39m shares, or 18.2%.
• Dealers Cryo-Save to command a healthy premium when dealings get under way on Aim at 210p today. The Dutch company is the largest private umbilical cord blood stem cell bank in Europe with over 50,000 samples stored. It has raised £28m-plus in the flotation and plans to use most of the cash to go on an acquisition spree. It is after distribution partners in Spain, Hungary and Greece.


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Q: Flash AS3 Image effect I'm trying split an image into seperate blocks, which is kind of accomplished using the following tutorial/source (code here), but it is the wrong way round - how would I adjust the code in order to start on the full image and then break it into pieces?
Original code (courtesy of www.riacodes.com):
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;

const COLUMNS:uint=5;
const ROWS:uint=5;

var imagesGrid : Array = new Array();

var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader();
imageLoader.load(new URLRequest("image.jpg"));
imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onImageLoaded);

function onImageLoaded(e:Event):void {

    var originalBitmapData:BitmapData = e.target.content.bitmapData;

    var imageWidth : Number  = originalBitmapData.width / COLUMNS;
    var imageHeight : Number = originalBitmapData.height / ROWS;

    for (var i = 0; i < ROWS; i++) {

        for (var j = 0; j < COLUMNS; j++) {

            var imageHolder:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

            var image:Bitmap = new Bitmap();
            image.bitmapData=new BitmapData(imageWidth,imageHeight);
            image.bitmapData.copyPixels(
                                originalBitmapData,
                                new Rectangle(j * imageWidth, i * imageHeight,imageWidth, imageHeight),
                                new Point(0,0));

            imageHolder.addChild(image);

            imageHolder.x= j*imageWidth ;
            imageHolder.y= i*imageHeight ;

            imageHolder.alpha=0;

            imagesGrid.push(imageHolder);
            addChild(imageHolder);

        }
    }
    revealImage();
}

function revealImage():void {
    for (var i:int = 0; i <imagesGrid.length; i++){
        var imageGrid:MovieClip = imagesGrid[i] as MovieClip;
        imageGrid.alpha = 1;
        TweenLite.from(imageGrid,.8,{alpha:0,y:-200,delay:i*.1,ease:Back.easeOut});
    }
 }

A: You need to change revealImage().
onImageLoaded() takes care of breaking your loaded image into smaller parts. You can actually change the size of the parts by manipulating these:
const COLUMNS:uint=5;
const ROWS:uint=5;

As shanethehat points out, when the function is complete the images are not visible because
of the following line, that sets a zero value for the transparency ( max value = 1 )
imageHolder.alpha=0;

Practically you end up with an Array of Movie Clips , each containing a slice of the main image.
In revealImage() you can then loop thru this Array and assign random values to both the x & y of each Movie Clip in order to break the main image into pieces.
for( var i:int ; i <imagesGrid.length; i++)
{
    var imageGrid:MovieClip = imagesGrid[i];
    imageGrid.alpha = 1;

    // Calculate a random value for x , y
    // Tweak this according to the Fx you're looking for
    var randomX:Number  = Math.random() * stage.stageWidth;
    var randomY:Number  = Math.random() * stage.stageHeight;

    TweenLite.to(imageGrid, 1,
      {x:randomX, y:randomY, delay:i*.1,ease:Back.easeOut}});
}

A: First, change line 38 of the linked code to:
imageHolder.alpha=1;

This ensures that the parts of your image start off being visible.
Next, change line 52 to:
TweenLite.to(imageGrid,.8,{alpha:0,y:-200,delay:i*.1,ease:Back.easeOut});

This changes the TweenLite function from from() to to(), in other words it causes each element to animate to the values given in the object.


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RCC Launch An Edgy 2020 Program And Return To The University Of Adelaide
BroadwayWorld.com Dec. 10, 2019
RCC is back and is set to launch an exciting fully-curated 2020 program packed with international superstars, underground cult heroes and local legends, when they return for their second year at the University of Adelaide.
The 2020 program, curated by Artistic Director, David Sefton (former Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival, London's Meltdown Festival and UCLA Live) and Creative Director, Stuart Duckworth (RCC Founder), focuses on MUSIC, SHOWS, ART and CHOW.
Sefton, who is known for his uncompromising world-class programming, makes no exception in 2020 with strong themes of the New York underground, punk rock, feminist icons and contemporary queerness appearing throughout the program.
"After storming Adelaide last year, we head into year two playing to our strengths and maintaining the pace," says Artistic Director David Sefton.
"I'm delighted that RCC will play host to Laurie Anderson, Amanda Palmer, Lydia Lunch - globally important artists all at the peak of their powers. Music is the thing that links the whole program - from our stunning theatre program to our legendary parties, RCC is genuinely a festival in its own right."
This means RCC will host the likes of award-winning performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, original punk rock legend Lydia Lunch, unapologetic, attitudinal Amanda Palmer and art-pop pioneers Stereolab - who return to Adelaide for the first time in almost two decades.
Fresh from a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run is the 2019 runaway smash hit Frankenstein: How to Make A Monster which features a cast of mind-bogglingly skilled young beatboxers performing a reimagined version of Mary Shelley's original. Frankenstein will leave you asking: who are the monsters we fear? Who created them?
Architects of Air bring their latest Luminarium: Daedalum to Barr Smith Lawns. The inflatable art structure has labyrinthine tunnels and cavernous domes, where no two visits are alike as the atmosphere inside alters according to the changing weather and light outside.
Duckworth's program is one helluva party as he launches a new way of life - UTOPIA - a whole new world to explore. Bringing the likes of Cut Copy, Sampa The Great and Baker Boy to Dusk Till Dawn and with Neon returning every Friday and Saturday night, you won't want to miss it. It's a party within a party, a concert within a concert, a festival within a festival where visitors are invited to explore the new world. The full line-up will drop early next year.
Chow Town blows the standard festival food precinct out of the stratosphere for 2020 with a completely new look, feel and location. RCC will transform the Cloisters area of the University into an outdoor food hub with an electric atmosphere, tantalising menus from Adelaide's much-loved and exciting new food vendors, and an Instagram-worthy aesthetic. And yes, Roberta's is back as Roberta's Italian Disco Diner & Eatery! Dine, drink and dance the night away or sip sundowners on the new rooftop area overlooking the river. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 5pm, it's the new place to soak up the vibe this festival season.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Rathjen welcomed the return of RCC to the University of Adelaide for its second year on campus.
"We have been proud to host the event, which in its first year on our beautiful and iconic campus attracted 220,000 people, including many who had never before visited the University," says Professor Rathjen.
The RCC 2020 program can be found on our website with tickets are on sale now at theRCC.com.au and through FringeTIX. For more information and to keep up to date with new announcements, follow @thercccult or /thercccult.
BWW Blog: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Dr. Selina Busby on Applied Theatre
BWW Blog: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Martin Wylde on Commissioning New Work for Central Students
BWW Blog: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Amanda Brennan on Acting for the Screen
BWW Blog: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's Sylvan Baker on Applied Theatre and The Verbatim Formula
Winners Announced For 2019 BroadwayWorld Fort Wayne Awards
Voting Now Open For The 2019 BroadwayWorld Fort Wayne Awards, Presented by TodayTix!
Casting Announced For Three Rivers Music Theatre's Production Of THE WILD PARTY
Exclusive: Ben Rimalower's Broken Records with Special Guest, Faith Prince
Exclusive: Ben Rimalower's Broken Records with Special Guest, Drag Star Pixie Aventura
MOBY DICK is Coming to Adelaide Fringe
THE WIZARD OF OZ ARENA SPECTACULAR Embarks on an Australian Tour Beginning This Month
THE BALLAD OF MULAN Will Make its Australian Premiere at Adelaide Fringe
AUSTRALIA - ADELAIDE SHOWS More
The Living Room (2/27 - 3/13)
A Soap Opera
Nexus Arts (2/18 - 2/29)
Senior Moments 2
Dunstan Playhouse (2/4 - 2/8)
Do You Hear The People Sing?
Festival Theatre (6/12 - 6/13)
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre (12/29 - 1/19)
Australia - Adelaide Email Alerts


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Australia's Central Bank: Cryptos Will Not Receive Wide Acceptance in the Near Future
Cryptocurrencies will not receive wide acceptance in Australia as long as the local financial system is efficiently working, RBA said.
Cryptocurrencies will not receive wide use in Australia as long as the local financial system is efficiently working, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) stated in an official document issued on June 20.
According to the notice authored by analysts from RBA's payments policy department, there is "little likelihood of a material take-up of cryptocurrencies for retail payments in Australia in the foreseeable future" due to a number of reasons.
In the document, authors outlined the so-called "scalability trilemma," which means that crypto can at best solve only two out of the three basic features such as decentralization, scalability, and security. The paper states that cryptos will always lack some of the features in some way, which purportedly makes this type of asset less attractive. The document reads:
"In practice, these trade offs are incremental; increasing the scalability of a blockchain does not require it to become entirely centralised or insecure, but more centralised or less secure."
Another obstacle to the wide acceptance of crypto assets is increased volatility, the RBA said in the document. In this regard, the authors also cited the much-discussed crypto project by social media giant Facebook, which was officially unveiled on June 18. Built as a stablecoin backed by fiat currencies, Facebook's libra is expected to solve the volatility issue, the authors wrote, while still losing in terms of decentralization by relying on a central body to buy and manage the assets that back the stablecoin.
In the document, the RBA cited particular cases of attempted stablecoin launches in Australia, claiming that stablecoins' use for payments "has been very limited" as "has the supply of Australian dollar-linked stablecoins." The financial authority cited the first Australian dollar (AUD)-pegged stablecoin AUDRamp, which went live in September 2018 but completely lost its worth after 137 tokens were issued. The authors also cited the TrueAUD stablecoin, launched in April 2019 by TrustToken, claiming that "no tokens appear to have been issued" to date.
The RBA authors conclude that cryptocurrencies have not developed enough to represent a "compelling proposition that would lead to their widespread use in Australia" as long as the Australian dollar provides a "reliable, low-inflation store of value." They write:
"Developments to date have also not added sufficiently to the overall reliability, functionality and credibility of cryptocurrencies to make them an attractive alternative to established payment systems for everyday payments for the population at large."
Recently, Australia's securities regulator released new initial coin offering and cryptocurrency guidelines, considering cryptocurrency to be a financial product, which requires involved parties to get an Australian financial services license.
#Altcoin
#Payments
#Adoption
#Mainstream
Ousting the Greenback: USD Still King as BTC and CBDCs Mount Challenge
Stablecoins race ahead: Fiat-backed crypto booming amid uncertainty
Visa Makes Its Second Investment Into a Crypto Startup
Over 5 Million Merchants Throughout Thailand Now Accept Zcoin Payments


The best Italian food in Denver!
Founded in "2002" Venice Ristorante has brought a five-star Venetian dining experience right to Denver, Colorado. Each of our three Ristorantes; Venice Downtown, Venice DTC and Chianti DTC expresses the highest culinary expertise from the Owner Alessandro Carollo and Executive Chef, Christian Delle Fave. Venice invites you to be pampered by our monthly wine dinners, private dining for your next event (business or pleasure), complete catering services and our delectable five-course meals served tableside.
At Venice, we pride ourselves in the care we give to each of our guests. From our impeccable service to our exquisite authentic Italian cuisine, we guarantee you a wonderful dining experience. Make your reservation today.


Miami Heat star forward Chris Bosh will be examined by team doctors to determine whether a blood clot will end his season.
Chris Bosh missed the final 30 games of the 2014-2015 NBA season when a blood clot that had developed in his calf moved all the way up to his lungs and put the Miami Heat star in the hospital. Now, fears have risen that another blood clot has formed in that same calf, potentially putting not just Bosh's season, but his career, in jeopardy.
Bosh pulled out of both the 3-Point Contest and the All-Star Game over the weekend. The Vertical reports that Bosh will meet with team doctors Thursday in Miami to determine whether his season will come to an end, or whether taking blood thinners as he did last season can allow him to return at some point this season.
This is obviously a much larger problem for Bosh: dealing with a life-threatening condition two years in a row. In a recent article on ESPN about how the NBA's crazy schedule might contribute to player injuries, Bosh was quoted to the effect that all the flights he takes as a player could have contributed to the development of his blood clot last season.
"You sit so much," Bosh said. "You're like this for two hours. If you get kicked, blood just pools up somewhere and you don't move it, it just sits there."
We wish Bosh a speedy recovery, and we hope to see him back on the basketball court where he belongs as soon as possible.


Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Library Film & Culture Programs presents : Frederick Wiseman's film makes a case for the library as an urgent idea.
Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman, known for his spellbinding films about complex institutions such as the police, high school, and the Paris Opera Ballet, turns his attention to New York Public Library for his latest film, Ex Libris. In this fascinating long-form documentary, Wiseman exposes the myriad offerings and resources provided by NYPL, from our online archive of images to our author talks to our educational programs and more.
This is a compelling look at a library beyond the books. SUNDAY, JULY 15 at 1pm. With refreshments. All are welcome!
There's a segment on how much better it is to remove the books, move the main staircase, install a skylight, and build a performing arts center with no parking that would represent an incursion on public land and create an additional impervious surface in a flood zone. JUST KIDDING.


Dee contacted me through my blog asking if I would read her book. She had sent me the description of the book, and I was hooked!! I waited for almost a month and a half for this book, and it was the longest wait ever! But so worth the wait.
So at first the book comes out a little slow, it is to set up the story line. But once the two main characters meet for the first time, from that point I was hooked!! I had really lost the words to write this review, it was that good. She is a first time author and you can't tell.


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Q: swift How to cast from Int? to String In Swift, i cant cast Int to String by:
var iString:Int = 100
var strString = String(iString)

But my variable in Int? , there for error: Cant invoke 'init' with type '@Ivalue Int?'
Example
let myString : String = "42"
let x : Int? = myString.toInt()

if (x != null) {
    // Successfully converted String to Int
    //And how do can i convert x to string???
}

A: Optional Int -> Optional String:
If x: Int? (or Double? - doesn't matter)
var s = x.map({String($0)})

This will return String?
To get a String you can use :
var t = s ?? ""

A: You can use string interpolation.
let x = 100
let str = "\(x)"

if x is an optional you can use optional binding
var str = ""
if let v = x {
   str = "\(v)"
}
println(str)

if you are sure that x will never be nil, you can do a forced unwrapping on an optional value.
var str = "\(x!)"

In a single statement you can try this
let str = x != nil ? "\(x!)" : ""

Based on @RealMae's comment, you can further shorten this code using the nil coalescing operator (??)
let str = x ?? ""

A: I like to create small extensions for this:
extension Int {
    var stringValue:String {
        return "\(self)"
    }
}

This makes it possible to call optional ints, without having to unwrap and think about nil values:
var string = optionalInt?.stringValue

A: If you need a one-liner it can be achieved by:
let x: Int? = 10
x.flatMap { String($0) } // produces "10"
let y: Int? = nil
y.flatMap { String($0) } // produces nil

if you need a default value, you can simply go with
(y.flatMap { String($0) }) ?? ""

EDIT:
Even better without curly brackets:
y.flatMap(String.init)

Apple's flatMap(_:) Documentation

A: Hope this helps
var a = 50
var str = String(describing: a)

A: Crude perhaps, but you could just do:
let int100 = 100
println(int100.description) //Prints 100

A: Sonrobby, I believe that "Int?" means an optional int. Basically, by my understanding, needs to be unwrapped.
So doing the following works fine:
let y: Int? = 42
let c = String(y!)

That "!" unwraps the variable. Hope this helps!
As rakeshbs mentioned, make sure the variable won't be nill.

A: You need to "unwrap" your optional in order to get to the real value inside of it as described here. You unwrap an option with "!". So, in your example, the code would be:
let myString : String = "42"
let x : Int? = myString.toInt()

if (x != null) {
    // Successfully converted String to Int
    // Convert x (an optional) to string by unwrapping
    let myNewString = String(x!)
}

Or within that conditional, you could use string interpolation:
let myNewString = "\(x!)" // does the same thing as String(x!)

A: For preventing unsafe optional unwraps I use it like below as suggested by @AntiStrike12,
 if let theString = someVariableThatIsAnInt  {
    theStringValue = String(theString!))
 }

A: Swift 3:
var iString:Int = 100
var strString = String(iString)
extension String {
    init(_ value:Int){/*Brings back String() casting which was removed in swift 3*/
        self.init(describing:value)
    }
}

This avoids littering your code with the verbose: String(describing:iString)
Bonus: Add similar init methods for commonly used types such as: Bool, CGFloat etc.

A: You can try this to convert Int? to string
let myString : String = "42"
let x : Int? = myString.toInt()

let newString = "\(x ?? 0)"
print(newString)        // if x is nil then optional value will be "0"

A: If you want an empty string if it not set (nil)
extension Int? {
    var stringValue:String {
      return self == nil ? "" : "\(self!)"
    }
}


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Judge Tosses Out Bonus Deal
SEC Pact With BofA Over Merrill Is Slammed; New York Weighs Charges Against Lewis
By Kara Scannell, Liz Rappaport and Jess Bravin
A federal judge threw out the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed settlement with Bank of America over its disclosure of controversial bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch employees, in an unusual ruling that casts doubts about how the agency handles probes of major U.S. companies.
The order, by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, came as the New York State attorney general was weighing civil-fraud charges against Bank of America Corp. executives. Charges could be brought against the bank's chief executive, Kenneth Lewis, and Chief Financial Officer Joseph Price, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
The Rakoff ruling undermines one of the most high-profile cases against alleged corporate wrongdoing conducted under SEC chief Mary Schapiro, who took the job in January. It puts new pressure on the agency to show it is fighting for investors in the wake of the controversies over its policing of the financial industry during the Wall Street boom and its failure to catch Bernard Madoff's massive fraud despite several red flags.
In a rare scuttling of an SEC settlement, Judge Rakoff said the $33 million fine levied on Bank of America "does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality" because the company's shareholders -- the victims of the alleged misconduct -- are the same people being asked to pay the fine. He set a trial date for Feb. 1.
The furor originated after $3.6 billion in bonuses were paid to Merrill employees just before it was formally acquired by Bank of America in January. The bonuses stirred outrage among taxpayers and politicians, given Merrill's mammoth losses. The SEC found fault with Bank of America's disclosures, saying a November 2008 proxy misled shareholders into thinking no bonuses would be paid.
Judge Says BofA-SEC Settlement Suggests Collusion
WSJ's Jess Bravin discusses a judge's rejection of Bank of America's settlement with the SEC on Merrill Lynch bonuses.


If you're looking for a grand day out tomorrow (Saturday 29 March), look no further than Overbury Farms near Tewkesbury who are holding their lambing day. It's billed as a great family day out and you get to learn all about how the farm works and what goes on behind the scenes. You can also enjoy a tractor tour (the first one is at 10 am and the last at 3 pm) around the farm (ideal for dad and the kids) or a cookery demonstration (perfect for mum). The price of the lambing day is £5 for adults and children get in free. To find out more about what sounds like a great day out, for the whole family, check out the Overbury Farms web site.
We also have a big apology to make to Nicola at Pouch Bags. Nicola makes the vintage peg bags, which are one of many great new products in the Wiggly catalogue, and in the rush we slipped up and forget to mention her web site. Nicola makes these unique peg bags from vintage material so not only do they look fab they are also eco-friendly. In addition to making bags in all shapes and sizes, Nicola also finds time to write her own blog and has, amongst lots of great posts, reviewed the bokashi system.
Hannah's been busy with her paper potter and above you can see the leek seedlings coming along nicely.
March is a good time to lift and divide perennial plants.
Plant summer flower bulbs in pots in the greenhouse.
Prune last year's growth on summer flowering clematis.
Plant early varieties of seed potatoes.
You just have time to plant out bare-rooted trees over the next week or so.
Protect blossom on peach and nectarine trees from frost and, if in a greenhouse, hand-pollinate with a soft brush.
Mulch the base of trees with a layer of garden compost, but avoid the trunks as it could cause the bark to rot.
Tidy ponds by clearing up any plant debris on the margins, remove leaves from the water and plant marginals.
Sow celery seeds in pots this month and next in the greenhouse.
Tidy ponds by clearing up any plant debris on the margins and remove leaves from the water.
Welcome to the March 25, 2008 edition of the Wiggly Wigglers carnival of green gardening.
Tiffany Washko presents Now Is the Time to Pick a CSA posted at Natural Family Living Blog.
Margaret Mary presents William Robinson and the Wild Garden posted at Earthly Paradise, saying, "This article examines the work of William Robinson, who, along with Gertrude Jekyll, revived the notion of the "wild garden" and helped pave the way for the organic gardening movement."
Sagar presents GreenDev: 50 Environmentally Friendly Apps, Hosts and Resources posted at Virtual Hosting.
Louise Manning presents How much food do we throw away? posted at The Human Imprint.
Stephanie presents Garden Planning - Taking Inventory of My Pantry posted at Stop the Ride!.
Jessica Jones presents Lasagna Gardening posted at Practical Nourishment.
Lucynda Riley presents Tin Can Herb Pots posted at A Crafty Nature.
Lucynda Riley presents Terrariums posted at A Crafty Nature.
Dave Truman presents Avoiding Weeds In Your Vegetable Garden posted at Growing Vegetables.
Andy Boyd presents Top 20 Zen Gardens From Around The World posted at ProTraveller, saying, "Mostly in Japan (not surprising) but have included the Portland Japanese garden. :)"
Jason presents How to Build a Square Foot Garden posted at The Frugal Dad.
a carnival of green gardening, blog carnival.
Whilst potatoes have been eaten in Peru for about 6,000 years, here in the UK we have "only" been eating our favourite vegetable for nearly 500 years.
Potatoes are a great way to prepare soil for the planting of other crops and are easy to grow.
Seed potatoes are those selected as being blemish and disease free. Whilst not strictly necessary, you can leave potatoes to chit prior to planting to encourage sprouting.
Depending on the soil temperature, your potatoes should emerge from the ground after a couple of weeks.
When the plants are about 12 inches high you should bank up the soil along the row to ensure that the potatoes will grow deeply, away from the light, to prevent them going green.


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Office Park Nové Butovice je komplex kancelářských a administrativních budov na sídlišti Nové Butovice v okolí stejnojmenné stanice linky B pražského metra ve čtvrti Stodůlky městské části Praha 13.

Komplex moderních prosklených budov tvoří panorama této části města viditelné zdaleka.

Historie

Autorem architektonického návrhu bylo Studioacht. Projekt Office Park Nové Butovice byl dokončen v roce 2001 a v soutěži "Nejlepší z realit" získal první cenu v kategorii nových administrativních center. Projekt se zároveň stal "Nejlepším kancelářským projektem" časopisu Construction Journal.

Původní část Office Parku tvoří (první fáze dokončena roku 2001), který se skládá ze čtyř kancelářských budov
 Budova A (nejnižší)
 Budova B
 Budova C
 Budova D (nejvyšší, 18patrová budova - Accenture, výška 70 metrů)

V další fázi výstavby přibyly další budovyː
 Explora Business Center – Jupiter
 Metronom (dokončeno v květnu 2015)
 Aspira Business Centre (dokončeno v listopadu 2017)

Reference

Externí odkazy

 Portfolio - Studioacht
 Coral Office Park

Moderní architektura v Praze
Kancelářské budovy v Praze
Stodůlky (Praha 13)
Postaveno v Česku 2009


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Q: Ajax не работает у меня вроде простая задача, но не работает:
<script src="/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function (){
    $('#btnnavi').click(function () {
        $.ajax({
        url:"core/as.php",
        type: "POST",
        dataType:"json",
        data: {offer:document.getElementById("offer").value,
                type_ps:document.getElementById("type_ps").value,
                summa:document.getElementById("summa").value},
        success:function(data){
            if (data[0] === 0) { //check success querry
                alert( "ok: " + data )
            } //close if ~check success querry
            else { // check  error
                alert( "не ок: " + data )
            } // close else ~check  error
        }// close success
    }); // close ajax
}); //close click
}); //close window.onload
</script>

соответственно форма:
<form action="/" method="post" name="contact_form">
<input  type="text" id="offer" required>
<input type="hidden" id="type_ps" value="WebMoney">
<input  type="number"  id="summa"  >
<button  id="btnnavi">Получить выплату!</button>
</form>

core/as.php - отдаёт в json, или ноль или текст ошибки.
Но почему то не работает( .... помогите советом.

A: Не работает, потому-что параллельно с повешенным обработчиком у вас срабатывает стандартная отправка формы.
<button>, как и <input type="submit"> может отправить форму.
Как решить:
Можно выключить стандартную отправку по клику на button
    $('#btnnavi').click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault;

Целиком:
<script>
$(function (){
    $('#btnnavi').click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault;
        $.ajax({
        url:"core/as.php",
        type: "POST",
        dataType:"json",
        data: {offer:document.getElementById("offer").value,
                type_ps:document.getElementById("type_ps").value,
                summa:document.getElementById("summa").value},
        success:function(data){
            if (data[0] === 0) { //check success querry
                alert( "ok: " + data )
            } //close if ~check success querry
            else { // check  error
                alert( "не ок: " + data )
            } // close else ~check  error
        }// close success
    }); // close ajax
}); //close click
}); //close window.onload
</script>

Или как вариант:
Добавить к <button> атрибут type="button"
Или не использовать форму

A: достаточно поменять форму на
<form action="/" method="post" name="contact_form">
<input  type="text" id="offer" required>
<input type="hidden" id="type_ps" value="WebMoney">
<input  type="number"  id="summa"  >
<input type="button"  id="btnnavi" value="Получить выплату!">
</form>


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Q: In jest, how do I use "toHaveBeenCalledWith" and only match part of an object in an array argument? I'm using Typescript and Jest.  In Jest, if I want to check if my function was called I can run
expect(myMockFn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(arrayArgument);

I want to check if my function was called with an array argument that contains an object with some values.  For example,
expect(myMockFn).toHaveBeenCalledWith( [{x: 2, y: 3}] );

The actual call is made with a parameter that looks like
[{x: 2, y: 3, id: 'some-guid'}]

so my expect is failing because I don't have the id attribute in the first object of the array, but I would like to match and ignore the ID, since it will be different each time, even though the other arguments are the same.  How do I construct such an expect call with Jest?

A: You can use a combination of arrayContaining and objectContaining to make this work.
Reference:

*

*https://jestjs.io/docs/expect#expectarraycontainingarray

*https://jestjs.io/docs/expect#expectobjectcontainingobject
Here is some sample code for you:
function something(a, b, somefn) {
    somefn([{
        x: a,
        y: b,
        id: 'some-guid'
    }]);
}

test('Testing something', () => {
    const mockSomeFn = jest.fn();
    something(2, 3, mockSomeFn);
    expect(mockSomeFn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
        expect.arrayContaining([
            expect.objectContaining({
                x: 2,
                y: 3
            })
        ])
    );
});

Sample output:
$ jest
 PASS  ./something.test.js
  ✓ Testing something (3 ms)

Test Suites: 1 passed, 1 total
Tests:       1 passed, 1 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        0.257 s, estimated 1 s
Ran all test suites.
✨  Done in 0.84s.

Here is some explanation:

*

*toHaveBeenCalledWith is called with expect.arrayContaining which verifies if it was called with an array

*expect.arrayContaining has an array. The array has an object with objectContaining which does the partial match against the object.


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The Last Thing the Author Said: Writing by Nick Sweeney
A Blue Coast Mystery, Almost Solved
Out in 2021
Interview, June 2020
The Exploding Elephant
Out in Autumn - Winter 2017
Laikonik Express
Laikonik Express on Kindle
Laikonik Express: cultural baggage
Reviews of Lakonik Express
Laikonik Express - origins
Laikonik Express film
Laikonik Express on Resonance FM - soundscapes with Johny Brown and the Band of Holy Joy
Short stories and tall tales
The Boy at the Bus Stop
End-User of Ordinance
Fast in the Life Lane
Wojtek and the Commissar
Man Seeks Dog
Andabatae
The Place of the Dead
Out in 2015/2016
My works-in-progress
A gothic American tale
Angelika and the Forgers
Cleopatra's Script
Last Thing Blog
Post-It Mortem, a bit of flash
Any idea how difficult it is for a long-winded novelist like me to write a 100-word story? No? If you have an hour, I can tell you. Post-It Mortem is a piece of flash fiction about... well, it's a bit difficult to talk about a 100-word story without giving most of it away, so I won't, except to say that it's a domestic drama that doesn't end well for an impatient man.
It was shortlisted for the 2016 Rattle Tales Brighton Prize, and is out now in the competition's anthology, The Brighton Prize 2016, together with all the winning and shortlisted stories, soon available from Lulu for £8.
Famine Fingers
My short story Famine Fingers is now out in the great online, with quality magazine Literally Stories. You can read it here right now - before you reach for that cheeseburger.
A look at one young couple's skewed relationship with food, it first appeared in 2000, in an excellent but short-lived print-only magazine called Territories. I'm really glad it has seen the light of day again, and grateful to the editors at Literally Stories for accepting it.
A Memory from a Secret France
Ian Chung, editor of the splendid Eunoia Review, has published my story A Memory from a Secret France.
A bus dumps an old man into the square of a small French town. The rain drives him into a bar on the square, and he's soon in discussion with some of the town's elders. The town's history floats through their conversation - occupying Nazis, interloping lorry drivers and cow-burners - threatening to spill out into rancour at times, diffused, it seems, by the mention of the one time the town had a stage of the Tour de France, the country's famous bicycle race, when a Frenchman won the Tour - "Indeed," one of the old men said. "I mean, what do we have these days, with Americans winning the Tour?" He puffed cheeks out in a gesture of outrage. "Spaniards. Irishmen, even." Sport is universal, though paradoxically it also cleaves people apart and, sometimes, makes them very bitter.
With the 2017 race over, my Tour tale can be read in Eunoia Review, right here.
Paris, 1926: The Émigré Engineer
White Russian exiles, 1920s Paris
"They threw a party when Lenin died. "Things will change," they roared, in a collective euphoric hysteria. In the silences in between, some warned, "No. Trotsky will take over. He's a beast of a man." Others said, "No. It will be Stalin. And he is worse even than Trotsky." The Georgians among them begged to differ, violently. "Stalin is a Georgian," they reminded everybody. "And we Georgians love life." Stalin, they promised, would flood the Soviet Union with wine, song, cheese and cake. To a second of silence, followed quickly by thrown bottles, glasses, shoes and fists, the Georgians toasted the man with the mustache."
I'm so happy to be in the July-September issue of the Sentinel Literary Quarterly, with my tale Paris 1926, the Émigré Engineer. It's an extract from a longer, unpublished (possibly unpublishable) work focusing on the fortunes of the people of various parts of Europe displaced by the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the ensuing civil war. A young engineer finds himself in Paris, a reluctant part of the paranoid community of exiles and escapees from the burgeoning Soviet Union, feels 'with them, but not of them', and, spurred on by luck and murder, makes plans to distance himself from them for good.
The magazine is free to read here, and The Émigré Engineer is on pp82-87
Dzemila, an extract from my work-in-progress Cleopatra's Script, in Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts
Tbilisi, August 2011
Dzemila is about ten years old. She and members of her extended Roma family have fled their home in what was Yugoslavia since the fighting began there, and live in Rome. Her sister Marika has found a job as a caretaker in a block of posh flats in the historic part of the city, and for a while it seemed that their troubles were over.
It's in the current issue of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, and in the meantime you can read some more from Cleopatra's Script here.
Transaction, or, strictly speaking, Transakcja
A handbag? Warsaw, August 2013. Could have been a good night out, or a bad one.
My story Transaction is set in Białystok, eastern Poland, and looks at the relationship between legitimate and not-so-legitimate business. It tells a story-within-a-story of how one woman dealt with a modern form of slavery.
For the moment, it is only available in Polish - as Transakcja - on the sites Polski Noir and Prze Tłumacze. I'm grateful to Aleksandra Guzik for her excellent translation, and to Paul D Brazill and Marta Crickmar, for getting this into publication.
The English version has been accepted by Stoneboat Literary Journal, and will be published in its autumn issue.
Traffic, in Unthank Books' Unthology 9
Traffic is my short story set in contemporary Kiev, the capital city of a country beset by separatism, factionalism, schism and any other ism you can think of. In this scenario, is it right to bring up a baby? A young mother dreams of unburdening herself and leaving, and hits on a radical solution to help her on her way.
It came second in the 2015 V S Pritchett Short Story Award.
It has been published in Unthank Books' Unthology 9. Get a copy here.
There is a nice review of the stories in Unthology 9 on the TSS Publishing site. Reviewer Rupert Dastur said of Traffic:
'Svitlana and Yuri, a Ukrainian couple with a baby, fare little better in Nick Sweeney's short story 'Traffic'. Written in a deviously chirpy manner and with a plot twist that brings a wry (and appalled) smile, it's easy to overlook the darkness within which this domestic scene is cradled: 'Ukraine was imploding in the face of threats by outsiders, and by its own nationalists, gaping with shortages, hospitals no good, services gone to ruin, political life reduced to slogans shouted by stupid men with guns.' It's a world in which the word 'traffic' refers to people, not cars. It's an excellent read and Sweeney conjures the two personalities of mother and father, expertly pitching them against one another.'
Thank you - I think I like 'deviously chirpy'!
Another nice review of Traffic, by Anna Lewis at Litro Magazine:
"Traffic" by Nick Sweeney is another tight, surprisingly moving piece of writing. Set in the Ukraine, it follows Svitlana, a young woman exhausted by motherhood, boredom, and a country "imploding in the face of threats by outsiders, and by its own nationalists, gaping with shortages, hospitals no good, services gone to ruin, political life reduced to slogans shouted by stupid men with guns." Seeing no other way to pursue the life she feels she has been cheated of, Svitlana conceives a plan to begin again in Romania, a plan she will fund by selling her baby. The scheme is not brutal, Svitlana assures herself: her son will be adopted by a rich western couple, and so, "It was elegant because everybody ended up happy." The story is a true page-turner, its suspense generated as much by moral discomfort as by action.
Thank you, Anna - so glad you enjoyed it.
I talk about Traffic, how I wrote it and aimed it at the V S Pritchett Award, and how it met the approval of the judges, in a guest post on Chris Fielden's blog about writing.
Just Looking, in the collected edition of Mystery Weekly
Alex doesn't like his wife Elena walking round half-naked in the flat. There's a man out there, looking. So Alex says. But he's more worried about what the peeper does when he stops looking. Or so he says.
My creepy tale of high-rise peeping, Just Looking, is out in the current Mystery Weekly.


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