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Building defence capability: The vital role of collaboration
key enablers | 10 March 2017 | Mike Kalms
By: Mike Kalms
The importance of collaboration cannot be understated during this time of change. In fact, KMPG believe that it is the foundation for success. As the scale and complexity of problems increase, collaboration between organisations is increasingly recognised as an effective response. By working in deeper partnership with others, organisations can solve problems that alone would be too difficult while also driving innovation, efficiency, growth and shared value.
How to kick-start collaboration
There's a clear understanding in the defence sector of the benefits of collaboration and a willingness to do it better. The question is how.
Frameworks, standards and models are an important part of any answer. They guide the design of organisational structures and processes, inform goals and governance and set benchmarks for evaluation and continuous improvement.
Important as these are, our experience tells us that it is the culture of the organisation that makes or breaks collaboration. By this we mean the style of leadership, the language used, the unspoken attitudes and norms of practice, the organisation's openness to change or to the new, and the incentives and deterrents that shape the behaviour and interactions of staff.
Effective collaboration emerges from an intelligent balance of both 'hard' and 'soft' skills and should be seen as an evolving, dynamic relationship.
Checklist for successful collaboration
Is there a shared vision and purpose?
What about the end user: how is customer-centricity embedded in the partnership?
What form of collaboration will best achieve the desired goals?
How well do you know each other: what research and planning needs to be done before entering the partnership?
Is the organisational culture ready to make the collaboration successful?
What are the ground rules: what governance, knowledge, intellectual property sharing and learning frameworks need to be set up?
What's the exit strategy to end the collaboration when needed?
The many forms of collaboration
Collaboration can take many forms, from joint ventures to peer networks and informal interaction.
Whether they use formal frameworks or best practice guidelines, organisations that deliberately deploy standards and procedures for inter-organisational collaboration tend to collaborate better.
Joint research
Joint development, prototyping and evaluation of solutions
Special purpose teams
Shared data and information for the purpose of design, operations and service delivery
Joint production, construction and maintenance
Mentoring and organisational development
Integrated supply networks and value chains geared to building capability
Peer networks and formal interaction
Common governance
Sharing assets and resources
A strong and resilient framework
For a large organisation looking to put its whole enterprise on a collaborative footing, a formal framework of standards may be the way to go.
An accredited framework such as ISO 11000 Collaborative Business Relationships is one of those options and there are others. This formal framework sets standards on partner selection, knowledge management and value creation along with several other dimensions of collaboration, and can be integrated into operations, processes and collaboration between organisations.
In the UK, the Ministry of Defence, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and others adopted this standard's predecessor, the BSI 11000, in 2010 to help guide their many collaborative partnerships.
In the US, the Department of Defence has also recently acknowledged the value of the framework as a guide to sustaining public-private partnerships.
8 characteristics of effective collaboration
Eight lessons learned to facilitate successful collaboration
Nourishing a culture of collaboration
Culture is often seen as a 'soft' attribute with, at best, a loose connection to the performance of an organisation or partnership, while 'hard' factors like contracts and regulations are given disproportionate attention. In a recent survey, nearly half of respondents to the survey – 48 per cent – cited culture as the single biggest barrier to collaboration, making the issue simply too big an issue to ignore.
Organisational culture emerges from a range of factors including language, unspoken attitudes and norms, openness to change and the incentives that shape behaviour and interactions of staff. It is these organisational qualities and competencies that make or break collaboration. After all, people motivated to achieve the best will address gaps or failures of practice or strategy and seek out opportunities to improve. Those that aren't, won't and they will also not use the tools of collaboration effectively.
A major barrier
Excessive regard for legacy practices, red tape or simply 'the way things are done' obstruct work and create bad will. Teams with domineering voices and a lack of diversity in skills and backgrounds run the risk of group-think. If an organisation allows cultures like this to grow then it will put its own effectiveness, sustainability and growth at risk.
Collaborating with others requires and ability to understand their cultures and a willingness to adapt working styles accordingly. Effective collaboration also requires a realistic evaluation of the expertise and capacities of your own team members as well as those of your partner. Attitudes that 'point the finger' at others will hinder collaboration.
Cultivating leadership
With leadership ranked as the second largest obstacle to effective collaboration, a new model of leadership is needed – one that rewards those who are open, adaptive, communicative, respectful of difference and always ready to learn. Leadership practised in this way is mindful of the interdependence of people in a partnership and wider networks and removes barriers to the flow of information. It encourages shared decision-making and a controlled experimentation with ideas and options with the aim of achieving the best outcome for all parties.
By rewarding a practice of leadership in this way rather than the position, we can start to see its potential in a collaborative partnership. We can see that these qualities and attitudes are essentially collaborative in nature, which suggests that people in all positions must be empowered to perform within the context in which they work. A widely exercised practice of leadership can open up the full bandwidth of skills, knowledge and talent in a partnership, leading to innovation and a wiser use of resources in an intelligent search or optimal solutions.
How essential is collaboration to Defence's new Capability Life Cycle?
In the 2016 Defence White Paper, Defence bought together the key elements of investment needed to deliver and sustain Australia's defence capabilities. The Integrated Investment Program is intended to facilitate the whole-of capability and whole-of-life approach to investment. High levels of collaboration between industry and Defence's capability managers will be required to prioritise proposals and retain agility in investment decisions.
Defence's new Capability Life Cycle (CLC) requires industry involvement earlier in the process, with engagement expected to commence routinely before Gate 0 for most projects. This new approach requires capability developers to be flexible and fast, and requires a change in behaviour from all involved.
Not since the Tange Review in 1973 has there been a plan for such a fundamental change to Defence. There is strong alignment about the need to improve and do things differently. Defence acknowledges that such a significant reform agenda makes it likely that some mistakes will be made as new approaches are bedded down, but with new behaviours people should quickly learn – making the new CLC a success.
We need to stress that frameworks, standards and models are important but our experience shows that it is the culture of the organisation that makes or breaks collaboration. People at all levels need both 'hard' and 'soft' skills as relationships evolve over time during the capability and acquisition life cycle and in response to new information.
Leadership will be essential. All staff will need to look for ways to model openness and trust and demonstrate a willingness to embrace difference and diversity. Timely and honest communication, a learning mindset, and agile and adaptive behaviours will be essential.
The challenges are great, both organisationally, culturally and in the wider policy and strategic context. Only collaboration can give Defence and its partners the resilience and agility to anticipate and respond effectively in this environment.
Mike Kalms
Mike has more than 20 years' experience in a variety of private and public sectors roles in Australia, Europe and Asia. He has worked in capability development, political, advisory, strategy, mergers and acquisitions and general profit and loss leadership roles. He has a strong general management and consulting resume in defence and defence adjacent sectors. His particular passion is working collaboratively with clients and stakeholders to deliver rapid performance improvement in the business and battlespace.
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After the player places his bets, the dealer spins the roulette wheel and drops the ball on the ball's drop off point, then the game is considered to have started. The ball is spinning in the opposite direction of the roulette wheel until it lands on a sector of the wheel. The bets on are being done by placing coloured chips on the roulette table, and each player has unique colour chips. When a player decides to stop playing, then he exchanges his colour chips for cash chips which have their equal value in the relevant currency on their face. The players may place bets on the table until the moment when the dealer announces the end of the time for placing bets (No more bets, thank you). When the ball lands on one of the sectors, the dealer announces the number, marks the sector on the roulette table, collects the lost bets and then pays out the winnings. Three people are needed for the operation of the roulette, – dealer, floor person and a pitboss.
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What is the Presidential Physical Fitness Award?
The Presidential Physical Fitness Award – which recognizes students who achieve an outstanding level of physical fitness (> 85th percentile). The National Physical Fitness Award – for students who demonstrating a basic level of physical fitness (> 50th percentile).
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The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council is investigating after a Quebec mayor and talk show host said on the air that Israel doesn't deserve to exist.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council is investigating after a Quebec mayor called Israel an apartheid regime and a country that doesn't deserve to exist on his French-language talk show.
Stéphane Gendron, host of Face à Face on V Television Network and mayor of Huntingdon, a small town 75 kilometres southwest of Montreal, made the comments on his show last month. He also said he supports a boycott of a store in Montreal that sells Israeli-made shoes.
Gendron declined to comment when contacted by the CBC, directing all questions to the network.
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He said if the council does find a problem with Gendron's comments, it would be up to the host's employers to rectify the situation.
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"He's been given a responsible position as a television host of a morning show in Quebec, so people look to him as someone who has a certain amount of authority … and knowledge," she said.
Her group is calling for Gendron to be fired and for the network to apologize.


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MU Police Department arrested Park who allegedly posted on the anonymous social media platform two threats which sparked widespread panic on MU's campus.
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Hunter Park, the 19-year-old charged with making a terroristic threat, entered a plea of not guilty at Boone County Circuit Court on Tuesday, according to the Columbia Missourian.
Park's attorney, Jeff Lee Hilbrenner, entered his client's plea in Hunter's absence, according to the article. Hilbrenner also requested that Parks formal arraignment be waived.
Park, a former student at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has a second hearing scheduled for Feb. 1 for the racially charged threats made Nov. 11, 2015.
MU Police Department arrested Park who allegedly posted on the anonymous social media platform two threats that sparked widespread panic on MU's campus.
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La pieve di San Romolo è un edificio religioso situato a Gaville, frazione del comune di Figline e Incisa Valdarno, nella città metropolitana di Firenze.

Storia
Il luogo dove sorge la chiesa era abitato già in epoca romana, come attestano i numerosi frammenti di laterizi scoperti nel piazzale antistante l'edificio religioso durante dei lavori di restauro, ed è stato sede di una curtis altomedievale come dimostrerebbe l'appellativo in Curtule usato per la chiesa nei documenti medievali. Il campanile potrebbe essere stata proprio una torre di avvistamento. Accanto ad esso la chiesa fu iniziata nel 1007 per volere della famiglia Ubertini, feudatari della zona che possedevano il vicino castello di Gaville, e del vescovo di Fiesole Raimondo. Nel 1030 la costruzione della chiesa era giunta all'altezza dei pilastri sopra i quali furono aggiunti i capitelli scolpiti e nel 1070 risulta completata e viene dedicata a San Romolo primo vescovo di Fiesole. Le più antiche testimonianze però risalgono al 12 marzo 1078 e sono contenute in documenti della Abbazia di Montescalari.

Il borgo posto su un'altura distante circa 600 metri dalla chiesa, dove tuttora permane un nucleo abitativo chiamato "Gavillaccio", fu distrutto alla fine del XIII secolo per vendetta per l'uccisione di Francesco de' Cavalcanti: i suoi familiari lo assaltarono e ne sterminarono la popolazione e la Pieve rimase quindi solitaria. La vicenda è ricordata da Dante nel canto XXV dell'Inferno«l'altr'era quel che tu Gaville piagni»

(Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia)Nel Settecento tutto l'edificio era stato rinnovato in senso barocco per volere del patrizio fiorentino Pietro de' Mozzi. La chiesa è stata poi riportata all'aspetto medievale dall'intervento del 1957-1962 che ha comportato anche la distruzione di tutti gli altari, compreso quello maggiore.

Descrizione

Esterno
La facciata presenta al centro il portale con architrave e arco rinforzato. Sopra ad esso si trova una lunetta che un tempo recava un affresco oggi all'interno. Sopra si trova una bifora, riaperta nel XX secolo dopo che era stata tamponata nel Settecento.
La tribuna presenta il volume dell'abside e sotto il displuvio si trova una finestrella a forma di croce, finestra che si ripete nella facciata. Sul fianco sinistro, leggermente staccato, si trova il campanile. Il campanile è distinto in due parti: la parte inferiore, dalla base fino a circa metà altezza è molto più antica, addirittura più antica della chiesa stessa mentre la parte superiore è stata realizzata nel XVIII secolo. Al culmine il campanile è aperto da quattro finestre. All'interno della cella campanaria si trovano le campane che risalgono rispettivamente al 1215, 1620 e 1954. Una quarta campana realizzata nel 1404 si trova collocata nel chiostro della canonica ed è stata tolta perché molto lesionata.

Interno
L'impianto basilicale è diviso in tre navate da pilastri quadrilateri e da colonne con sei archi per parte. I pilastri più prossimi al presbiterio sono realizzati con bozze ben squadrate mentre gli altri tre presentano colonne monolitiche con capitelli scolpiti. Nel primo capitello di destra si trova scolpito un ippogrifo, nel secondo e nel terzo la decorazione è fatta con volute e fogliami. Nel primo capitello di sinistra si trova rappresentato un cane, un ippogrifo e atri animali, nel secondo di sinistra ancora volute e fogliami mentre il terzo presenta teste di animali e mostri alati. Sempre sulla sinistra il secondo e il terzo pilastro presentano decorazioni con fregi romanici. Nella parte inferiore della terza colonna si trova l'epitaffio di un parroco deceduto nel 1691 e lo stemma della famiglia Mazzi.

In chiesa è presente un curioso cippo con un reticolo inciso sulla superficie, forse pertinente ad un altare altomedioevale o precristiano.

La chiesa conserva importanti opere d'arte: a metà della parete destra è la lunetta affrescata staccata dalla facciata e rappresentante la Madonna col Bambino tra i Santi Pietro e Romolo, opera attribuibile forse a Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, detto lo Scheggia. Alla parete sinistra è invece un'Annunciazione da riferirsi ad un pittore ghirlandaiesco, eseguita tra 1494 e 1495 e proveniente dall'altare della Compagnia dell'Annunziata presso la pieve oggi non più in situ. In chiesa si trova anche un Crocifisso di alta qualità, ritrovato qualche anno fa nella canonica e restaurato nel 2013, databile tra la fine del Quattrocento e i primi anni del Cinquecento ed attribuito ad Antonfrancesco Bugiardini, fratello del pittore Giuliano, con il quale pare condividesse la bottega fiorentina. Nella stessa canonica fu ritrovata un'altra notevole scultura questa volta di terracotta dipinta, un San Sebastiano restaurato nello stesso periodo, databile al secondo o terzo decennio del Cinquecento ma rimasto anonimo, seppur messo in rapporto con l'ambiente culturale ruotante intorno alle botteghe di Giovan Francesco Rustici e di Jacopo Sansovino.

Il Crocifisso moderno è opera di Rodolfo Margheri.

Antico piviere di San Romolo a Gaville
L'antico piviere di San Romolo si estendeva a cavallo delle attuali province di Firenze ed Arezzo e comprendeva la chiesa di San Clemente a Gaville, la chiesa di Sant'Andrea a Campiglia nel comune di Figline insieme alle chiese della zona di Avane come quella di San Donato, luoghi oggi scomparsi; la chiesa di Santa Cristina a Meleto e la chiesa di San Martino a Pian Franzese, oggi nel comune di Cavriglia; la chiesa di Santo Stefano a Lucolena, la chiesa di San Gaudenzio a Torsoli, entrambe nel comune di Greve in Chianti.

Note

Bibliografia

Alfio Scarini, Pievi romaniche del Valdarno superiore, Cortona, 1994.
Arte a Figline. Dal Maestro della Maddalena a Masaccio, Catalogo della Mostra a cura di Angelo Tartuferi, Firenze, 2010
Arte a Figline. Da Paolo Uccello a Vasari, catalogo mostra a cura di Nicoletta Pons, Firenze, 2013.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Romolo a Gaville
Pievi della città metropolitana di Firenze

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The Artist and the Chef, Mike and Anne Mikkelsen from Take Charge of Parkinson's Disease conclude their 30-year journey with Parkinson's. Having recognized a new and powerful tenderness, Mike prepares for his ultimate adventure with the same creativity he demonstrated all his life. To Anne's surprise Mike knows exactly what he's doing. He generously shares his obsessions, his hallucinations, his earthly desires and mostly his gratitude. She enters his world of dying to discover that the most profound lessons in life can be found at death's door. Taking charge of anything requires immersing yourself in that thing. The rewards of knowing the path of dying and death are abundantly clear in Love's Last Measure, a story nourished by humor and tears, love and light. With Anne as his witness, Mike takes charge again and masters the fine art of dying.
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On a train that never stops, the last human beings alive reside in a world of their own. The train is divided into classes, where the lower class lives in squalor while the upper class takes pleasure in the very best life has to offer. When Curtis, a member of the lower class, finds out of a plot to overthrow the elite and take control of the train on their own, he needs to choose whether to take part. With the aid of his buddies and an unlikely ally, Curtis will have to battle his way to the front of the train if he wants any chance at conserving humanity.
Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs star alongside Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Susan Park, Katie McGuinness, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Mike O'Malley, Annalise Basso, Jaylin Fletcher, Lena Hall and Roberto Urbina. Steven Ogg, Rowan Blanchard, and Sean Bean signed up with the main cast in the 2nd season and both Chelsea Harris and Archie Panjabi joined the main cast in the third season.
Rowan Blanchard is a young starlet who is quickly increasing to popularity. She is best understood for her function as Riley Matthews on the Disney Channel show Woman Satisfies World. Rowan has been applauded for her performing abilities and her ability to inspire other young girls. She is likewise associated with social advocacy and speaks up about crucial issues like feminism and racial diversity. The first season of the show was launched on Netflix on Might 26, 2015. It was produced by ABC Studios and stars Rowan Blanchard, Ben Savage, Sabrina Carpenter, Vincent Martella, Peyton Meyer and Mitchell Hope.
Jennifer Connelly is an Academy Acclaimed starlet who began her career as a teen in modeling and commercials. She made her movie launching in 1984's "Maze" and continued to work steadily in movies throughout the '90s and '80s. Connelly gathered vital honor for her efficiencies in "A Stunning Mind" (2001 ), for which she won an Oscar, and "Requiem for a Dream" (2000 ). In the last few years, she has actually starred in such movies as "He's Just Not That Into You" (2009) and "Rage of the Titans" (2012 ).
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Snowpiercer is a 2013 American science fiction action movie based upon the French graphic unique Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho, and written by Kelly Masterson. It stars Chris Evans, Tune Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, John Hurt and Ed Harris. Embed in a future where a stopped working climate-change experiment has killed all life in the world other than for those aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that circumnavigates the globe, the movie follows its travelers as they defend their survival. Can I Watch Snowpiercer On Hulu
Chris Evans leads an all-star cast in this epic post-apocalyptic thriller set aboard a train powered by a perpetual movement engine.
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A brand-new post-apocalyptic society has actually been developed, where the only way to survive is by riding the tracks of an enormous train that circles the world. The travelers of this train are divided into classes: the wealthy elites, who live in luxury on the upper levels; and the rest of the travelers, who live on floors listed below in squalor.
On a train that never stops, the last people alive live in a world of their own. The train is divided into classes, where the lower class lives in squalor while the upper class takes pleasure in the finest life has to use. When Curtis, a member of the lower class, learns of a plot to take and overthrow the elite control of the train for themselves, he needs to decide whether or not to join in. Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment has actually eliminated all life on the world other than for those aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that takes a trip around the world, the movie follows its passengers as they combat for their survival.
The travelers of this train are divided into classes: the rich elites, who live in luxury on the upper levels; and the rest of the passengers, who live on floorings below in squalor.
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How Annihilation broke the rules
Alex Garland's hallucinogenic film is smart, beautiful and has great female characters without making it A Thing. Shouldn't this be the future of sci-fi?
What do movie audiences want? Listen to the critical establishment, or fan websites, and an easy list resolves itself in front of you: fewer superhero franchises, smarter science fiction, more complex protagonists, less reliance on the tired tropes of the Hero's Journey, better roles for women and ethnic minorities.
The story of Annihilation – Alex Garland's new film, released today on Netflix – is the story of why it's dangerous to believe people when they tell you what they want.
"What did you eat? You had rations for two weeks. You were inside for nearly four months."
Annihilation begins with an interrogation. Lena Kerans, played by Natalie Portman, sits in a blank room, facing an unnamed scientist in a hazmat suit. She isn't wearing make-up. Her hair is limp. She scratches idly at a looped snake tattoo on her forearm. "I don't remember eating."
More than that, Kerans doesn't know the fate of two of her team members. She knows the other two are dead.
This opening was added to the film during production; in the script, the first words belonged to Lena, teaching a biology class at Johns Hopkins University. "This is a cell," she said, as a delicate blob divided in front of us. "Like all cells, it derived from an existing cell. . . One became two. Two became four. Then eight. Sixteen. Thirty two. The rhythm of the dividing pair, which becomes the structure of every microbe, blade of grass, sea creature, land creature, and human. The structure of everything that lives," – a cut to reveal Lena's face – "and everything that dies".
Everything that lives, and everything that dies - because you cannot have one without the other. In both tellings, we quickly learn that Lena has spent a year waiting for the return of her missing husband Kane, a soldier sent on an expedition he wasn't allowed to discuss with her. He left one day, and never came back.
It's only when she finally tries to move on, picking up a paintbrush to redecorate the house, that Kane arrives unexpectedly, walking silently and ploddingly up the stairs. We can already see that something is wrong. Kane is back, and not back. He cannot tell her where he's been. Sitting at their kitchen table, he is somehow too still. When he begins to bleed from the mouth into the glass of water Lena gives him, she calls an ambulance - only to have it hijacked by a SWAT team. Taken to a secret military facility, Lena learns that her husband – if that's who the blank-eyed and rapidly deteriorating figure really is – has become the first person ever to emerge from a phenomenon called The Shimmer, which hangs like a soap bubble over an ever-expanding area in north America. It blocks radio waves and all other communication coming from inside. No one - until Kane - has come back out. Within a decade, if it keeps growing, the Shimmer will have swallowed the entire planet.
So Lena goes in, in a team led by a psychologist called Dr Ventress (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh) alongside three other female team members: Radek the physicist, Sheppard the geomorphologist and Thorensen the paramedic. There is only a brief acknowledgement of their gender in the film's dialogue.
"All women?" asks Lena. "Scientists," replies Sheppard. "The previous teams have been military."
When I first spoke to producer Andrew Macdonald about Annihilation in 2014, he called the project "ambitiously insane". Sure, it soon had a star attached – Natalie Portman – and, in Garland, a writer/director with a solid track record: The Beach, 28 Days Later, Never Let Me Go, Sunshine, Dredd. But it was still a risk – not least because its budget was three times that Macdonald's previous collaboration with Garland, Ex Machina, a taut three-hander mostly filmed in a single location in Norway.
Ex Machina explored our attitude to artificial intelligence, by telling the story of a Silicon Valley tech bro, Nathan, who creates a beautiful android called Ava. He invites Caleb, one of his employees, to his remote house to subject her to a Turing test to see if she can pass as human. Between explaining thought experiments such as the Chinese room, the film smartly compares our attitude to AI with our attitudes to gender. Neither man can see Ava for what she is – an independent consciousness – because they are too busy living out versions of a male power fantasy. Nathan is half-Pygmalion, half-pimp, presuming that his creation will always obey him; Caleb sees himself as a white knight rescuing a princess in a castle. These are fatal mistakes.
Alex Garland's films often have unexpected third acts: Macdonald once told me that the team never really came up with a proper ending for their "Ken Loach zombie film" 28 Days Later. (The DVD offers several alternate resolutions to the story.) In Ex Machina, both male characters imagine themselves to be the hero – but the final sequence makes clear that it's Ava who has been in control throughout.
In Annihilation, the third act (spoilers!) finally shows us the alien which has created The Shimmer by refracting everything inside it, including living DNA: essentially, the landscape has cancer. Nature has begun to mutate and reproduce uncontrollably.
In the first book of the original trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, this led to unforgettably surreal images, such as dolphins with human eyes. In the film, there is a mutated bear with a half-human scream, identical ethereal fawns, and plants which grow in human shapes like living Antony Gormley sculptures. There's also a house covered in flowers of every possible type, like a New England wedding, which somehow spring from the same root stock.
These images are beautiful and discomforting at the same time, a fitting backdrop for a quest by five women who all turn out to be self-destructive. "One of the reasons the film works so well is that the story's outward signs are linked to the psychology of the characters," says the writer Andrew O'Hagan, who has known Garland for several years. "Nature is subverted in the scenes – those twin fawns, the trees that take the shape of people, the menacing flora – in a way that makes you dwell on what is ethically askew in the lives of the characters . . it's pure cinema."
So Area X is, literally, the Uncanny Valley: everything is somehow off. How do you top that in the third act? Garland has described Annihilation as a journey from "suburbia to psychedelia" and the finale is unlike anything I'd ever expect from an action film. The climax comes in a long, wordless scene, where Lena Kerans finally kills the alien not merely with violence but kindness; a fatal gift rather than a simple hail of gunfire. "He'll hate me for saying this, but the film it most closely resembles is [Stanley Kubrick's] 2001: A Space Odyssey," says Adam Rutherford, who worked as a science advisor on both Ex Machina and Annihilation. "I've worked on films with aliens in them before, and the joke is that the studio say – give me an alien we've never seen before. And that's hard because we've been doing aliens in cinema since 1918. What you see in Annihilation, you have genuinely never seen before: not just the conception of it, but the power of the special effects."
On set in 2016, Alex Garland showed me a video on his phone: a Mandelbulb, a three-dimensional fractal shape, which looked like an otherworldly coral, or sea anemone. This was the inspiration for the alien's revealed form, which Rutherford likens to standing in front of a Mark Rothko painting, with "the sense you might be being sucked into hell".
The Mandelbulb was typical Alex Garland: we had stayed in touch after I interviewed him about Ex Machina, and we talked about the strangeness of evolution. I showed him a video of scientists pouring liquid aluminium into an ants' nest. The result was a spectacular silvery filigree of branches, which would normally be hidden, buried in soil. Nature, we'd agreed, was almost infinitely weird.
It was also typical Garland to be interested in random YouTube clips. The 47-year-old circulates script drafts and ideas among a wide circle of friends, and pays flattering attention to their feedback. He doesn't act like a man given control of $40m by some of America's most cut-throat business dealers. "He talks about not being an auteur," says Rutherford. "The irony is that being on set that one day, there was a great deference towards him without him being a bossy wanker."
It's central to Alex Garland's self-conception that he isn't academically gifted: he was a poor pupil, and a lacklustre undergraduate, studying art history at Manchester University. In practice, that just means he hasn't acquired the dinner-party-glibness with big ideas that an Oxbridge education can provide. He doesn't "wing it", in the way that leading politicians who stumbled through undergraduate tutorials with a terrible hangover are prone to do. Intense research lies behind even simple lines of dialogue. His science fiction makes the science feel as exciting as the fiction. Annihilation includes mentions of Hox genes – which give living organisms "maps" to create their bodies – and the concept of autophagy, where cells eat themselves. ("As with all the scientific details in Ex Machina, he put that in the script. I didn't put that in," says Rutherford.) Garland's next project, Devs, is set in Silicon Valley and involves quantum computing. Yeah.
This is what makes his fans – and friends – so protective of him. I rolled my eyes when the first wave of pre-release blogs about "whitewashing" in the film came along: in the second and third books of VanderMeer's trilogy, the Biologist is revealed to have Asian heritage, and the Psychologist is half-Native-American. Yet both Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh are white. Somehow, I felt, the fact that two of the film's five key female characters were played by women of colour - Gina Rodriguez as the hardbitten paramedic and Tessa Thompson as the dreamy physicist - would be forgotten. So would the performance of Sonoya Mizuno, who was also in Ex Machina, playing the alien (although she's unrecognisable under the special effects) and Oscar Isaac - birth name Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada - as the Biologist's husband.
Vulture was one of the places which looked at this majority non-white main cast and was still unimpressed. The casting of Rodriguez and Thompson, it said, "creates a familiar dynamic in cases of whitewashing, where people of color are pitted against each other. There's no reason why Garland couldn't have cast Thompson and Rodriguez as well as cast the other characters true to their ethnic descriptions in the book." This seems like an oddly box-ticking approach to diversity, and one which lumps together Annihilation with something like Ghost in the Shell, which took a specifically Japanese story and cast a white American - Scarlett Johansson - in the lead. This attitude also seems to expect a simple yes/no answer to "is this film feminist?" or "is this film riddled with systemic racism?" based on a quick accounting exercise. Isn't that a joyless and reductive way to approach a piece of art?
Then again, I'm biased. There are few directors making intelligent science fiction out there, and even fewer trying to do so within the Hollywood studio system. The fate of Annihilation might suggest why: late last year, its worldwide cinema release was cancelled and the film was sold to Netflix for half its budget. It had become the focus of a tussle between producer Scott Rudin and David Ellison of Skydance Productions, which co-financed the film. Early test screenings had audiences demanding more explanation of the plot – and questioning why all the main cast were women. Garland's political statement of not making a political statement – to have flawed, complicated, intriguing characters who just happened to be women – had baffled them.
David Ellison was also worried the film was "too intellectual", according to the Hollywood Reporter, and he wanted Portman's character to be made more sympathetic. Rudin and Garland weren't totally inflexible – there were reshoots to include more scenes showing Lena Kerans and her comatose husband together – but ultimately, Paramount decided to limit the film's cinema release to the US, Canada and China, with a Netflix deal picking up the slack elsewhere.
In an age where critics and fans barrack creators endlessly for their lack of ambition in casting women and minorities, and complain that films offer pat solutions and uncomplicated heroes, this was infinitely depressing. Maybe we're only getting the films we deserve. It didn't help that Paramount's previous big female-led supernatural thriller, Darren Aronofsky's mother!, sharply divided critics but united audiences: they didn't want to see it. It made just $7.5 million on its opening weekend.
In the end, Annihilation had a respectable opening in the US, where it was up against the behemoth of Black Panther. Taking $11 million on its first weekend, it should at least break even once the Netflix deal is taken into account.
I went on to the set of Annihilation in July 2016 – my first attempt at a visit had been postponed thanks to the unexpected Leave vote in the EU referendum. It was being filmed just north of London, in a hangar big enough to hold an aircraft (and sure enough, the space next door held one, left over from the new Star Wars films shooting there).
The set designers had created two backdrops: the first was the interior of a lighthouse, complete with whitewashed tendrils of . . . something, snaking over every surface. The shadow of a charred corpse scarred one of the walls. The other set was black, its corrugated surface reminiscent of an ants' nest, as drawn by HR Giger. That echo might have been intentional, because this was the lair of the film's antagonist, the alien which has generated all the strange effects seen in Area X.
In adapting VanderMeer's work for the screen, Garland had focused on the first book of the trilogy, and stripped back several of its elements. In the book, the search party do not have names, and the psychologist drugs the team to prevent them seeing what's really there as they first explore the area. The book's Crawler - a being of light - becomes the film's alien. In the movie, there is no fungus growing into living words on a wall (although Garland experimented, in an early draft, with a poem by James Fenton).
Most crucially, he also added a new motivation for Vandermeer's Biologist – now given the name Lena – to go after her husband into Area X. She doesn't just want him back; she wants his forgiveness. And she also doesn't care too much if she destroys herself in the attempt. Why? Because, we discover, Kane left to go on the original mission into The Shimmer because he learned that Lena was having an affair.
Giving this backstory to the lead character feels a more radical act even than writing five lead female roles: the idea that protagonists should be likeable is screenwriting 101, and a guilty, cheating wife is a hard sell. There is even a shorthand for the moment of kindness which screenwriters are told to include to win us over: early on, protagonists should "save the cat". Shagging a colleague is pretty much the opposite of saving a cat.
And while audiences might be lightly willing to accept bastardry in a leading man, provided it is camouflaged under enough charm - think Han Solo or James Bond - to see a lead woman as unsympathetic as Lena, as clever as Lena, shot like a male action hero in functional military clothing rather than camo hotpants? That still feels daring. And Lena's unsympathetic choice is the engine for the whole narrative. She broke their marriage; Kane volunteered for the mission, knowing that he would not come back. When he did, she risked death for the small chance of saving him. A chain of annihilation.
"Natalie Portman's character is guilty, we discover that, but how is her guilt manifested? Not by confessions to a therapist. Not by wild drinking or excessive shouting at the children or a new turn towards religion," says O'Hagan, who sees the film's landscape as echoing the unconscious. "Rather, is it suggested by the monsters she manifests in her quest to save her husband, a series of monsters that prey on other women before testing her own essence to destruction."
Why would my husband volunteer for a suicide mission?
VENTRESS
You're confusing suicide with self-destruction. Almost none of us commit suicide. Almost all of us self-destruct. In some way, in some part of our lives . . . Isn't self-destruction coded into us? Programmed into every cell?
As this dialogue suggests, the film shows ambivalence towards the idea of self-destruction – because it is an inevitable part of life, and therefore death. Everything that lives, everything that dies. Tessa Thompson's physicist, who has the scars of self-harm snaking up her arm, chooses death in Area X - blissfully wandering off into the forest like an inverse Captain Oates. And in an early scene, Natalie Portman's Lena reads The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a 2010 non-fiction book by Rebecca Skloot. It's about the "HeLa" cells used by laboratories throughout the world, and which were vital to the development of the polio vaccine and other breakthroughs.
The cells came from Lacks's cervix, and were the first ones grown in a lab to be "immortal" – not subject to senescence, the process by which cells degrade over multiple reproductions and eventually die. The trouble was that they did not die in Henrietta Lacks's body, either: the HeLa cells are cancerous, meaning the normal controls which put the brakes on cell division are broken. And that cancer killed Henrietta Lacks on October 4, 1951. Inside the human body, there is no escape from self-destruction.
In Annihilation, Alex Garland gives film critics and science fiction fans what they say they want: a smart script, beautifully shot, with a cast of women who look, and act, like real people, with all their unsympathetic failings on full display. "I think Alex is like no other film-maker today, especially in his understanding of the ways we invent the terms of our destruction, then quest against them, or fight them, or secretly nurture them," says O'Hagan. "In every story of his, the quest can look like freedom or moral crusade or capitulation to a new certainty or a basic desire - Never Let Me Go, Ex Machina - but in every case there is the danger that the whole enterprise is being powered by anxiety. At the close of every one of his films, I expect a main character to wake and say, 'Thank God.'"
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"I WOULD REMEMBER HIM FOREVER AS MY IMAGE OF A MAN"
FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, (1962). Octavo, original brown paper boards with silver-gilt, red endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
First edition of Fleming's tenth Bond thriller—the author's unusual examination of his super-spy "from the other end of the gun barrel."
"A significant departure from usual," The Spy Who Loved Me, in which 007 appears only toward the end of the book, proved to be "the easiest thing [Fleming] had ever done" (Lycett, 381). As he had while composing From Russia, With Love (1957) and Thunderball (1961), the author again toyed with the idea of killing off his phenomenally popular super spy. Although the title page lists the book as being written by Ian Fleming with Vivienne Michel, the "coauthorship credit is a hoax: Vivienne Michel was the name of the wife of one of Fleming's golfing companions in Jamaica" (Biondi & Pickard, 47). Fleming "had become alarmed that his earlier thrillers, designed for an adult audience, were increasingly read in schools… where young people made a hero out of James Bond… He did not regard Bond as a heroic figure 'but only as an efficient professional in his job.' Therefore he had sought to write a 'cautionary tale' to put the record straight, particularly for his younger readers. Unable to do this in his usual narrative style, he had invented a heroine 'through whom I could examine Bond from the other end of the gun barrel, so to speak'" (Lycett, 401-02). Without quad mark between "E" and "M" of "Fleming" on title page (no priority established). Made into the 1977 film of the same title, starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach. Gilbert A10a (1.1).
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Gilt Edges The three exposed edges of a book have been smoothed and gilded.
Half Title Leaf preceding the title page that bears the book's title, originally used to identify the unbound text block. The book's binder would often remove and discard the half title at the time of binding. Remaining half-titles are therefore of interest to collectors.
Illuminated Decorated by hand. Typically early printed books and especially manuscripts.
Imprint Satement of place, publisher and date of publication on a book's title page.
Incunable From the cradle of printing, i.e., any book printed before 1501.
Issue A group of books issued by the publisher as a discrete unit. At times, issue refers to timing, such as the "first issue" being offered to the public at an earlier date than the "second issue." At other times, it refers to specially planned different batches, such as the "trade issue" (widely available) in opposition to a "signed limited issue" (limited to a small amount of copies differing somehow from the trade issue and not widely available).
Japanese Vellum Expensive handmade paper often used in deluxe editions.
Lithograph Illustration produced by transferring an image drawn on a carefully prepared stone to paper. The process allowed illustrations to more closely resemble the original drawings, paintings or sketches, as it gave the lithographer a freedom of line impossible to achieve in earlier intaglio and relief processes. It does not require the same sort of pressure as an engraving to transfer the image, but still has to be printed on separate stock from the text
Marginalia Handwritten notes made in the margins by a previous owner.
Mispaginated Printer's error in pagination, typically skipping, transposing or repeating page numbers. Not uncommon in older, larger books, it is not considered a defect, so long as all integral leaves are present.
Modern Recently accomplished, when used to describe a book's binding that is not the original casing. Some books bound recently are bound using techniques, tools and styles of the period of the book's original issue; when done well this is called a period-style binding, a term that implies "modern" as well.
Morocco Binding material made from goatskin—versatile, durable, with a distinctive pebbled texture and visible grain. Readily stretched ("straight-grain"), crushed (flattened smooth), tooled in gilt or blind, inlaid with leathers of different colors. So-called because much of the raw material originally came from the tanneries of North Africa (other types of goatskin bindings denoting regions of origin include levant, turkey, niger).
Offset The unintended transfer of ink from one printed page to an adjacent page.
Period-Style binding executed with materials, tools and techniques to approximate the look of a contemporary binding from the period of the book's publication. The term implies that the binding is modern, or recent, unless otherwise specified.
Plate Full-page illustration printed separately from but bound with the text.
Point Variation in text, illustration, design or format that allows a bibliographer to distinguish between different editions and different printings of the same edition, or between different states or issues of the same printing.
Presentation Copy Book given as a gift by its author, illustrator or publisher. Sometimes refers to a volume given by a notable donor.
Provenance History of a particular copy of a book.
Raised Bands Horizontal protruding strips found on the spine of a book.
Reback To supply a worn binding with a new spine, usually made of the same material as the rest of the binding and decorated to match. When feasible the binder may preserve the original spine and affix it to the new material, described as "rebacked with the original spine laid down."
Recase To reattach a text block to its binding when it has become loose from its covers.
Recto The front side of a leaf. The back side is known as the "verso."
Trade Edition Printing or printings of a book made available for purchase by the general public on publication day (as opposed to a limited edition, often available only by subscription).
Uncut When the edges of the text block (most apparent at the fore and lower edges) have not been trimmed to a uniform size, and are therefore characterized by a ragged or deckle edge. A book may be uncut but opened—i.e., with a paper-knife—but all unopened books (see below) are by nature uncut as well.
Unopened When the folds of the sheets of paper making up the text block have not been trimmed away or opened with a paper-knife. While this makes it impossible to read all of the pages, it also indicates a probability that the text block has not been altered since leaving the printer.
Vellum Binding material made from specially treated calfskin—durable, with a distinctive ivory color and smooth appearance. Can be tooled in gilt or blind. So-called Japan vellum (or Japon) is a type of thick paper that has been polished smooth and given a glossy finish to resemble vellum.
Verso The back or reverse side of a leaf or page. (See "recto.")
Woodcut Illustration or textual decoration made by cutting away from the surface of a block of wood until the reverse of the image is left in relief; this is then inked and pressed to the paper to leave the image. The woodblock, or multiple blocks, can be fit into the page along with the type, allowing text and illustrations to be printed in the same print run and share the same page (not possible with engravings, which require thicker, damp paper and much more force; nor with lithographs, which require a different printing process altogether). Woodcuts preceded moveable type and are the earliest known printing technology.
Wood-Engraving Engraving made with the graver or burin on the cross-section of a piece of boxwood; the harder wood and finer tools allow for more delicate, finely detailed images, while the block can still be set in the page alongside text and printed on the same stock as the text. While much older, wood engravings enjoyed an important renaissance in the late eighteenth century through Thomas Bewick and continued in popularity thorugh the nineteenth century.
Wormhole Tiny pinhole-sized trails left by bookworms as they eat through a text block. Much more common in older books printed on handmade papers with a high rag content than in books printed on manufactured papers made from wood pulp with a higher acidic content.
Wrappers Paper coverings—plain, marbled or printed—attached by stitches, staples or glue to a text block to identify it and afford it some protection (though much more fragile than a binding in plain, cloth or leather-covered boards). More typical of slim and/or inexpensive volumes such as pamphlets. "Self wrappers" are leaves, blank or printed, that are integral to the text block, conjugate with other leaves and from the same stock. "Original wrappers," those attached at the time of issue, are scarce and extremely desirable to most collectors.


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Third of employers hiring graduates select those from law and business discipline
By Brían Donnelly | Jan 24 2019
79 per cent of employers based in Dublin have reported hiring Higher Education (HE) or Further Education and Training (FET) graduates in the last 24 months, according to the National Employer Survey 2018, while 86 per cent of companies with 10 employees or more nationally reported the same.
The National Employer Survey 2018 was launched yesterday by Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD. The survey, which was completed earlier this year, indicates that Irish employers are satisfied with the quality of HE and FET graduates they have hired.
The survey also reveals that a significant proportion of Irish employers, 31 per cent, are involved in work placement collaborations with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). 44 per cent of employers indicate that they are not involved in any collaborations with HEIs.
The survey was designed by the Higher Education Authority, the Department of Education and Skills and SOLAS, the Further Education and Training Authority. For the purposes of the survey, a graduate is someone who has graduated in the last 24 months and who has been recruited in the last 24 months.
While graduates of business and law are most popular among graduate-employers (34 per cent), those who studied engineering are also favoured among employers who hire graduates, at 21 per cent. Employers who hired graduates in the last 24 months selected 18 per cent of graduates from computing and 18 per cent from humanities and the arts.
Most employers surveyed indicated that the main reason for not recruiting HE graduates in the last 24 months include a lack of vacancies available at graduate level (42 per cent) and a lack of vacancies within the organisation (46 per cent). Only 8 per cent reported a lack of suitable graduates while 5 per cent stated that HE graduates' salary expectations were a barrier to recruitment.
The survey has also indicated that more than a fifth of Irish employers believe that there is a skills gap in HE graduates (22 per cent) while a similar proportion (23 per cent) believed the same could be said of FET graduates.
The vast majority of Irish employers have indicated that they are satisfied with the quality of HE graduates they hired, at 86 per cent. 84 per cent of FET employers were happy with the quality of graduates.
In a press release sent out on Wednesday, Minister McHugh is quoted saying, "I am delighted to note the high level of satisfaction that employers express in graduates. First and foremost what this survey shows is that we have a very high calibre of graduate coming out of third level.
"Employers clearly see the value that graduates from Ireland's education and training sectors are adding to their business. And this is improving all the time.
"Graduates are fulfilling the needs of all parts of the economy and their positive impact is being felt in all companies, regardless how big or small, the sector or where they are headquartered."


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Last weekend the Sacrebleu team was invited to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Ecole Ritz Escoffier. This Ritz cooking school has pioneered classes based on French know-how, for people at different skill levels. Whether you are a professional trying to improve your skills or a young enthusiastic Chef, there is something to be learned.
The event took place in the newly renovated Garden and had a "marketplace" theme. On arrival we were given a woven basket that had a jar of Hazelnut spread inside, and were told to fill our baskets as we walked through the market.
With about 10 stalls, every food group was covered. The first and most popular stall was all about fresh produce, that was similarly in season. These included carrots of all colors and pumpkins! Pastries were another popular stall. Personally handled by Ritz, it had a lot of crowd pleasers from Lemon tart, to sugar glazed madeleines, and marshmallow gingerbread men. Each stall offered the upmost perfection and hospitality.
Us at Sacrebleu had three top favorites, starting with the cheese from La Ferme d'Alexandre. The gorgonzola with a touch of honey was delightful. Their wide selection made it possible for everyone to find something they would personally enjoy. Another place that stole our hearts was Lalos. They had beautifully crafted bread and the softest pain de mie! Finally, Ritz makes their own jam and Pêche Divine had us wanting more!
This marketplace was only a mere representation of the types of products used and taught in the Ritz Cooking school. The experience is very immersive, so much so you will carry the knowledge with you forever.
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World News -- CajNewsAfrica.com: What on earth is Djibouti doing?
CajNewsAfrica.com: What on earth is Djibouti doing?
Djibouti has a population of less than 1 million people and a GDP of only $1.8 billion, as well as having no natural strategic resources. The reason China is interested in it is because Djibouti is located at the southern tip of the Red Sea. The Bad al-Mandab strait on which it sits sees around 4.8 million barrels of oil pass through it every day and between 10 and 20% of global trade every year. Situated opposite Yemen and Somalia, it is also a nerve centre for Western and regional anti-terror operations.
Djibouti is paying a high price for China's assistance – literally. In 2014, Djibouti's debt was roughly 50% of GDP, by 2018 that had jumped to over 105%, with much of it owed to China. If the African country thinks the East is any more forgiving than the West, then it needs to think again. When Sri Lanka was unable to pay back Chinese loans, it was forced to give China a 99-year lease and 70% stake in the Hambantota port that Beijing had built for them. There is no such thing as free money.
Blinded by dollar signs, Djibouti has also been unwilling to see that the price it will pay is not just financial. China's "corrupting influence" on the small African country is already being reported on in world media.
One international case exemplifies this perfectly. In 2004, a deal between the UAE and Djibouti effectively meant that the former would run all the latter's ports for a 30-year period. Djibouti's Doraleh port was built under this agreement, only for the host country to nationalise it in February 2008. This was a strident breach of international business norms.
The UAE then took the state-backed China Merchants Port Holdings to court – accusing China of turning Djibouti against it. Djibouti had broken the deal by selling shares in ports to China Merchants, and agreeing to build and develop other ports with Chinese help. Both Djibouti and China have simply ignored the court order and carried on business as usual. If Djibouti thinks anyone other than China will want to do business with it after this affair, then it is sorely mistaken.
Houmed has had links since with China since at least 2007 when he minister of transport and oversaw the $4 billion deal for the Djibouti-Ethiopia electric railway – a Chinese venture. He helped China Merchants' subsidiary company acquire the controversial stake in the Doraleh port.
On 1 August 2017 China opened its first-ever foreign military base in Djibouti. It calls it a support base, but within two months of its opening China was conducting live fire exercises. The heavily fortified Chinese base was accused by the US of firing lasers at US military planes, injuring US pilots. China says the naval base has four functions: intelligence collection, non-combat evacuations, peacekeeping support, and counter-terrorism. It is widely seen however as a testing ground for future naval and military bases to protect OBOR.
Djibouti's infidelity has not gone unnoticed in the West. European news websites have raised alarm bells, with one saying: "China's overseas military expansion will eventually manifest in the contest between the new world order that China advocates and the liberal international order that Europe both cherishes and wishes to advance." US defence websites have also called for "a much more aggressive plant to beat China" and US senators have sent letters to their secretaries of state and defence about how China might squeeze US troops' supply lines there. Israel has asked the US to deploy more troops to Djibouti to counter China.
The Council on Foreign Relations has said that China's strategy in Djibouti was to mix commercial and military interests. What this means is that Djibouti is playing a geopolitical game much larger than itself, and placed itself in the crosshairs. There is simply no way it will come out on top in the event of a political, let alone military, escalation.
China is intent on eating Djibouti "like groceries." Djibouti needs to stop chewing khat, and start smelling the coffee.


People with Alzheimer's have a tendency to wander. Left alone for a while, they may get up and walk around aimlessly, creating headaches for caregivers who have to keep up with them.
Shinozuka, who is 15 years old, came up with something to help: A thin pressure-sensor that attaches to the heel and alerts his aunt when his grandfather gets out of bed.
Shinozuka, who lives in the Bronx, is currently staying in Southern California with his grandfather. He plans to beta test the device at three residential care homes, and, after that, bring a product to market.
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It's just a shame Shinozuka's grandfather can't appreciate his achievements, though his aunt is definitely happier.


This winter Powderlife has collaborated with Niseko's local craft brewery to create our very own beer flavour!
Powderlife Pale Ale has just hit the taps and is receiving awesome reviews.
We absolutely love it and are blown away with how well Niseko Brewing's master brewer Shigeru Sakurai interpreted our ideas and turned it into liquid amber-gold.
Over summer we had an idea to create a special edition beer for international skiers to Niseko this winter.
As part of a sophisticated, middle aged community of beer drinkers here in Niseko – with a half a finger on the pulse of what the cool younger crowd are into – we wanted to make a craft beer that would appeal to both young and old.
A cross between Sakurai-san's Pale Ale and Beligian Ale, the Powderlife Pale Ale has a pinch more malt to warm the belly, and a touch less hops to take the edge off a session and hopefully appeal to more conservative beer drinkers who don't like overly-hopped brews.
He's also added orange peel and coriander seed adding a signature Niseko Brewing touch to the character and depth of flavour.
And of course, all Niseko Brewing's beer is brewed with Mt Yotei spring water – essentially melted snow and rain that's been percolated through the volcanic layers of the mountain over decades before being released from springs around its base. It's officially among the purest water sources in Japan.
The overall result is nothing short of magnificent for our taste buds, and Sakurai-san's wife even said it's her new favourite flavour!
Enough chat – you just want to know where you can get it, right?
Fantastic food to go along with your ales at both venues!
Please try a drop and leave your review in the comments below.
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It will be a big score for students who did not qualify to join university this year, after the government move to sponsor learners in technical institutions.
The move will see students with grades as low as D and E join tertiary institutions, government partly paying their fees and just like their university counterparts they will access loans to cater for the remaining fees.
Ministry of education estimates this to cost about Sh20 billion seeks to put an end to discrimination in transition to higher education.
This means, those headed to TVET institutions will access higher education at absolutely free cost.
The school fees in TVET institutions currently stands at Sh56,420.
This is how it will work, the government will provide Sh30,000 capitation for each TVET trainee.
The learners in technical and vocational institutions will receive as much as Sh40,000 loans annually from HELB enough to pay all your fees and and have some extra coins to cater for their upkeep.
Higher education in Kenya has traditionally, been like a sieve only favoring good performers to move to university and leaving the future of million of children in a limbo.
This has led to lack of skills among many youths consequently leading to high unemployment levels in the country.
Education CS Amina Mohamed yesterday urged youths to take up the positions in TVET institutions so as to get skills.
She said the decision of the Government to recognise skills achieved outside formal education and training in technical and training institutions had opened many avenues for anybody who fails to be admitted to university to continue learning to the highest qualification.
"We are reforming the sector to make it relevant as it is crucial for the Big Four agenda," said the CS.
With about 130 functional technical and vocational training institutions, education ministry data reveals that the institutions have an enrollment capacity of 300,000 students.
If only last year's KCSE candidates benefited it means transition rate to tertiary education will stand at 60 percent an all time highest and double those who proceeded to tertiary institutions.
651,189 students who received KCSE exams qualified for placement in tertiary institutions this year.
Out of that number, 121,288 scored between C plain and C– and are eligible for diploma courses in TVET institutions. Some 244,436, scored D and D+ and are eligible for craft certificate courses.
This means, over 560,445 candidates who sat last year's exam will have to scramble for limited places in colleges and TVET institutions.
The limited capacity in colleges and institutions threatens the ministry ambition to realise the huge transition to tertiary institutions.
Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) institutes have been urged to take advantage of the Big Four Agenda to produce competent graduates who will drive realisation of the Government's agenda.
Principal Secretary, State Department of Vocational and Technical Training, Dr Kevit Desai, said no country had developed without skills acquired in such institutions.


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