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A country boy survives.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, Can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
I think it is wise to pay the piper in advance. So here is my gothic playlist (audio only) from my You Tube channel (not monetized). Note you can navigate through different songs using the playlist icon in upper right corner of the video plug to choose what you want.
Greetings. Please, call me Tree. It's the nickname I'm most comfortable with. I'm a rather tall guy at 6'8", 240lbs., hazel eyes, brown/silver hair and spend a lot of quality time communing with nature where I'm most comfortable. I'm also an American of British and French heritage.
I tend to be a private person and keep to myself for the most part. But I have found a social network a great place to write out my thoughts clearly where in real life I'd be more taciturn in the heat of a moment relying on force of habit. Then there is that least part that actually does socialize as a pack animal and this accounts for my presence. Found all things I consider it helps me orient myself in the cosmos well.
Unfortunately, the internet hosts all manner of personalities that use the anonymity to act however they choose. Then if they spoil things just push reset and start again armed with new knowledge and don't take responsibility for their actions. I'm a ritual magician so deal with what I face with magick and preferably with surgical precision as I'm not a fan of collateral damage. My focus in identifying with the vampire is quite different than others I've met in the V.C. even in this site's dynamics that I've studied there is things I can't get behind so will just create my own dynamic by using Upiori to separate like a society would. There's that: "...the Prince rules all covens" that just doesn't set too well with me also. In my reckoning it creates eddies or stagnation in a power dynamic. Perhaps after I gather some resources here, I'll create an "outer court" society.
From my vantage as a vampire it is referral points that trump the prince's favor points anytime and he put a cap on it in bonuses. WTF??! Anyhow, I've often wondered what Cancer intended by the word Rave in Vampire Rave because it seems more like a rant and rave bitch session rather than something you'd see in the movie: "Blade" which seems more up my alley.
I constantly am overwhelmed in spiritual forces and accounts for what influences my creativity rather than building off of what others express. Most of the rewards I seek are in them also that dwarfs what others seem to care about in life like those who have tasted of the Fae fruits in legend that once tasted spoil earthly delights. You should keep that in mind when dealing with me.
I grew up as an only child and Army brat in many places around bases stateside and in Europe. Originally, I'm from a rural area in the Appalachian Mountains in coal mining country. An essential element to who I am in my unique character is attributed to being Hypersensitive. My father also suffering the same sensitivity but grew up quite different than me as the oldest in a large family and thus forged with different experiences that developed his character has been the biggest influence in my life; A government agent that carried the wounds of the Vietnam war and transferred quite a bit to me his only child as those with similar focus and sensitivity can express well to the same.
You see after WW2 and Korea the U.S. was experimenting with new training techniques in the Vietnam era. Movies like Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" expressed this sentiment well to me. But breaking someone down (Brainwashing) and building them up as a fighting force trained to kill on command without question at the young age of 17 is something quite different to deal with with a heightened focus your entire childhood with a vet that suffers PTSD. It's taken me a while to reach a balance and have had quite a colorful life.
Besides competing in martial arts I wasn't into sports unless you think hunting, fishing and trapping are. I don't. I think it's a big part of who we are as a species, and it was a means for our ancestors to survive. Now we need some catharsis in the society we live in in modern times to become whole in this department. Thus, to my understanding we have all the spiritual dynamics that develop to those that look deeper in themselves and the cosmos for wholeness. So, the subcultures of a kindred community form in nocturnal mysteries apart from the majority in society that find a catharsis in the popular religions, arts and sports.
I'm kind of a DIY jack of all trades master of none. To name a few: served a bit in the military as a paratrooper, did some security work for a crew as a career criminal; Spent the 90's incarcerated worked there as: Teacher's aide, Librarian, and in Landscaping/Horticulture; Then after released with the work ethic that was instilled in me in my youth built myself up to a foreman in the steel industry. I'm retired now. I think it's great to take pride in your work as many do when comparing themselves to others but think you should take equal pride in any endeavor you apply yourself in or you'll be broken in retirement.
As far as education goes, I have a H.S. diploma and vocational degrees in Electronics, Horticulture, and Business. Besides that, I'm self-taught in many things. Chiefly in knowing myself which I think is very important.
I have studied many traditions with empirical results, but they never seemed to fit me very well. It's something about the scrutiny that was instilled in me via my strict youth and attention to detail. So relative to my unique life's experiences I found my own spirituality. I think I'm best understood as a human occultist. The word spirit comes from the Greek word breath which I think conveys the meaning of something invisible that can be felt, heard or seen as a subtle mist in the cold. Likewise, the ethereal spiritual things are subtle and usually invisible to most unless they have their minds trained to perceive it. So, it is there is the capacity for the human mind to create tools and the imagination can really run wild with the different spiritualties that develop and can be experienced with those attuned to it. I believe in the power of belief. Though most of it seems to be false like a child believing in Santa Clause or the tooth fairy it still can be experienced if that's how your mind is trained. Kind of like how if one were to wear glasses that flip their vision upside-down their brains would correct it eventually flipping it right-side up until you take them off in which case you'd see upside down again.
Now to my understanding most that you would identify with being real vampires are those that follow teachings by the occult movement that gained popularity in the 90's and created a subculture like from occult authors Father Sebastiaan or Michelle Belanger. I have only recently studied their works to better understand what I'm dealing with in this subculture-the vampire community. For me it is just techniques that one learns in the course of their life naturally or through others they believe and then the state of mind and power develops.
In a nutshell: I don't think a vampire has a deficiency in energy that they seek in others but rather I just see it as a natural polarity that develops in how one's psyche forms and is just like a pole in a magnet that creates a reception area for things caught in the field and can develop in many different ways pending the many unique personalities; The drinking of blood to me is just a rite not much different than communion in Catholicism with the actual bite or blood covenant as the important aspect of it much like a man taking a virgin in marriage-it's actually a lot like grounding a circuit. I don't need it to survive like a vampire bat but think such concepts sprang from how the ancients thought about the humors and alchemy when it comes to blood. I make it very evident that it's a spirituality rather than deceiving people with theatrics of physical things. Thus, fangs and talons that I have are just ritual tools and displayed as such being silver. Some may think it's obviously a costume and comfortably wear fake fangs, FX contact lenses or photoshopping their photos as part of the identity but there are those that do think such things are real. As I'm big on truth and clarity to deceive people in this way sets a bad precedent so I try to make things very clear leaving little room for misunderstandings. When it comes to being undead i.e. coming back from the dead it's just superstition to me created by mass hysteria for the most part as often seen in defining vampires in legend. Such physical miracles require a lot of power and thus lots of blood sacrifice like in certain religions that still practice blood rites that empowers them. But there is a state of mind one can acquire that is likened to coming back from the dead. Not just an abstract concept held in the mind but actually through spiritual dynamics things can gain quite an empirical dimension to experience. A dismal journey through the valley of death as sung by Theatres Des Vampires in Suicide Vampire. Certainly like in anything it has it's perks and you try to find what happiness you can but equally there is a suffering to it that one longs for the sweet embrace and mercy of true death to set you free.
I had a significant experience back in 1993 with a terrifying holy occult being (strigoi divinity) that changed my life. I don't anthropomorphize and believe in objective divine beings but still they do obviously impact our lives. I think they are just subjective creations of the mind that form in the dynamic of the brain's inner workings to give form to the cosmos in the astral plane aka Maya(illusion). They may take form outside of ourselves especially in shared belief structures as much as one can astrally project outside their body and travel beyond space and time. This is where ghosts come from to my understanding. Not disembodied beings after death but just power of their physical brains when they are alive. If one is a medium and they are conscious ghosts as opposed to unconscious like in normal dream state it may be wise to ask them what date they think it is like a doctor asks when determining mental health.
As an occultist one may use divine beings to empower more of their will as they correspond to human experience especially as a social creature. Like in text from Emerald Tablet: "As above so below" some see how there are magistrates like judges that govern us with the power to determine our fate in society so it is given form in spiritual beings. There are servants to command and or just fellow spirits to find aid from pending your outlook. Much like a toddler goes through a stage where they think everything is theirs so it seems there was a stage in humanity as a species to think likewise. So many things revolved around the human ego much like at one time the ancients thought the astral bodies revolved around the earth. Hence the divine beings and creators were conceived and given spiritual forms. The patriarchal ones as much as the male is dominant in the paradigm of sexuality in nature so it seems to be the "norm" by the law of averages in the archetypal spirit forms that develop in the minds of people. But beyond that veil I do believe there is an absolute truth best understood through the proper understanding of the Elements of the wise and the polarities that form between their dynamic. At this time my outlook is attuned to such forces rather than other consciousnesses' in spirit though I've had experience with them in the past as spirits are primarily amorphous aspects that project a person's and or a society's naivety and or ignorance.
I believe in fate. Everything is fated to be a certain way. It's only the naive or ignorant that think they are in control of their destiny and it's usually those who have ego problems that believe such that blinds them. There is only an appearance the cosmos is random in its complex nature perceived by a limited mind to conceive it. Once this is realized and exponentially so with spiritual influences that makes abstract thought a very incomplete thing, you really don't need to feel guilty or take pride in anything. If you commune with nature on my level, you'd understand. Same goes for karma which is just bullshit to me. Good and bad shit happens to everyone indiscriminately. It's more about ones focus and most have it on the decisions they appear to make and if it's favorable relative to environment they develop egos' thinking they are doing it when it's more about sacrifices made in other lives in the turning of eternity. People see what they have their focus on. Like when you buy a new car and then you start seeing it often. Same goes for Karma people have their minds on it and will see it not looking at the bigger picture. In my understanding of cosmic laws all power comes through sacrifice now that can carry on to other incarnations and accounts for why different people are in such different states. I believe from my perception of nature and its cycles that our eternal spirits just go through different seasons or waxing and waning cycles like moon phases.
For me it is just a beginning to compare something in a dualism (good/evil, positive/negative, male/female etc.) to give it definition in contrast but then you should continue the comparison. Thus, there is an honorable and dishonorable aspect to both the light and dark and a refinement that continues in each new permutation from each. In my understanding neither has dominance over the other that is another permutation and the night and day both have dominating aspects to the subjugated aspects of their opposites. Like there are strong dominant females as much as there are weak males or how the sunlight hitting the atmosphere in the day obscures the distant astral bodies seen at night much like people's pride blinds them to greater truths. Besides that, I think the source of "so called" demonic activity has its root in repression. I don't consider myself Satanic though after suffering oppression under Patriarchy I find invocation rites cathartic and I prefer working with Chthonic energy, but I do know exclusive religions will put me in that category.
I think it's best to also think in three dimensions for a more complete understanding of reality so outside of linear thinking like a dualism you get a vortex which incorporates both linear and cyclical and then it's not just a line perceived from a viewer like the passage of time but also a dynamic of moving around and in a curve up/down and in/out. I created my own composite symbol (Like: Pentagram-Freemasons/Tree of life-Kabbalah/Chaos Sphere-Chaos magick/Yang-Yin in Taoism etc. that illustrate the dynamics of different symbols working in polarities.) that works best from my understanding of the cosmos to orient myself correctly.
I associate the vampire as a nocturnal hunter usually like the vampire bat. There is honor in the night for those creatures that perceive well in it. I have been taught from my occult sources to orient myself through understanding the true nature of the elements in the cosmos. However, nature can be quite cold and harsh when viewed from an absolute vantage and requires a tested state of mind able to conceive it likewise. So much goes unnoticed by creatures with habits forged by a stereoscopic focus.
I consider myself heterosexual as only females turn me on unless you think being attracted to some T-Girls and Trans Women to be queer then I'll accept that. I have been taught to respect a person's gender choice and sexuality. Yes, some are of a degenerative nature but that doesn't make them any less important-especially in the modern overpopulated world. Also, as an occultist I have really attuned myself to tantric energies that I constantly am overwhelmed with. Having this really distinguishes my state of mind and center and has both pros and cons to it. Like I've crossed some thresholds where I was terrified by feeling too much pleasure.
Besides flirting I don't engage in sexting It's just inappropriate even if your identity is confirmed as it sets a bad example to youth or sexual predators that use this site. There are more appropriate adult sites for this if you want to indulge in it.
Beyond friendship I am not looking for any relationship but of the vampiric kind. I've been in love in my past and know it is quite different than what a vampiric state of mind has like in song Vampyrica by Theatres Des Vampire. To me that's not a love relationship though it has its own intimacy and may involve sexual dynamics. Now in this regard I don't distinguish between male and female preference but only willing donors.
I am a DIY (Do It Yourselfer) and try to do anything I can myself. Right here and now it extends to expressing myself on the internet by my standards. Chiefly, I try to do this with good SEO that to me is the true measure of any work's worth on the internet.
I like to hike in the woods and park districts-especially at night with few people around. I associate quadcopter drones as my gargoyles to serve as aerial scouts. Not too big on loud guns but sure do like my quiet crossbows, fishing tackle and survival gear as a prepper when the need arises.
I like to wear black and use red light for its tactical advantages rather than the Celtic female mysteries but when it comes to ceremonial robes, I wear white that glows well in black light in Celtic male mysteries. I believe I was a Druid in another life though it's hard to put a frame of reference with our experiences of other lives with what we have now, so it usually sounds hokey when people describe other lives because they use experiences and imagination in this life to draw on intuition. I break things down to their elemental components and then build them up so can get an aspect of clarity that others don't, but it has a price.
I like music especially from the Metal, Rock, Witch House and Dark Ambient genres and collect albums on Bandcamp platform where you can show your appreciation for an artist by paying what you choose for their work.
In a blue moon I play video games. My all-time favorite is Skyrim. Here's my game avatar "Grog the Greedy" from my last playthrough. I prefer playing on legendary difficulty. He is a vampire lord and a necro-mage thief likes dual wielding a dagger and a war axe for melee after summoning a couple dremora lords for tanks and Ariel's bow for ranged which he uses to eclipse the sun.
I used to play tabletop RPG's too and was usually the Dungeon Master as I fit that role well and play through my NPC's letting the dice rolls make things fun. I later learned it was a way to feed off of others too after raising energy levels not unlike how all the drama on this site happens that so many complain about. Been my experience with the vampire that they create obsession which brings in all kinds of emotional turmoil. I'm not given to play head games like many when it comes to real life and things that impact it. Though I do know I may trigger others just for being me and is a good aspect of being subtle and only subjecting others to me if it's their choice.
I used to read a lot, but any media doesn't really appeal to me, and I find myself rewriting how I would have things turn out in my own imagination that fits me better. But if I had to choose a vampire favorite then it would be the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris which was what the HBO True Blood series was based on. However, I would have ended it with her getting with Eric instead of Sam ultimately reaching reign as a vampire queen herself giving her life in service to her state. With what was instilled in me there is no greater honor than laying down your life in service to others weather on the battlefield or a life of service.
It can be hard choosing an actual favorite as I find I like and dislike different things for many reasons but overall If I were to choose a favorite vampire movie it would be the comedy SUCK. Though I'm actually not into sucking but rather some tongue action after a bite or from sources I favor.
I like the campy style of the movie set with many musicians starring in it. It covers the adventures of a band as it tours the U.S. and Canada and their relationship with the vampire. In fashion of Lestat a vampire musician just seems to go well with the curse of the undead to me as they motivate and raise energy then just feed. It's a movie I can watch again and again over the years and still enjoy.
V.R. Navigation
I have quite a personal way of navigating through this site. I have to be true to myself. I am in a state of change both with adding new things as well in decay. I do tend to take my time so once I do add something new it tends to remain for a while being appreciated. Only working with one profile I'm forced to only share my favorites of something, and I think a profile should be relatively brief. But I'm often updating it so there will be subtle changes.
So one of the chief problems I've found on the internet is lack of responsibility with those that abuse the anonymity. Too many just hide behind fake profiles like a bandit wearing a mask they create; Or trade from others that depreciates the value of the site as its a man's business. But apart from that I do identify as a vampire and this site is like a place to express your identity and compare or compete with others as such.
As an occultist one of my greatest tools in using this site is the journal. I call it my hoard. Want to know more about me read my journal...if you earn the keys by taking the time to get to know me. I think many just delude themselves in their interactions here, so I put obstacles up to separate the real from the fake ones. I encrypt my journal and reserve keys for those that take the time to build relations properly. Apart from that I may post an entry openly to public but if it has a video embedded then I'll encrypt when I post another video if no one comments. Having too many videos posted on the same page especially toward the end of the month is a waste of energy to me as your computer has to load it all in the cache during every page view. But if it's encrypted then it will only load it at that time it's decrypted. Sometimes I come on mobile and wasting my soft data cap for the month is not economical to me. Since you have taken the time to read through my profile, I'll give you an encryption key to many of my journal entries: Video Key = Videodrome. Inspired by the movie.
So many favor journals or add as friend which is an easy click of a button but then don't spend the time it takes to build a friendship. I don't give a fuck about the score I want real relationships and would rather have none than fakes. So, my adds and journal favoring are in a state of flux for those that I interact with constantly. Works not unlike how society and stream bonus works for those who are active. So, if you are actively on V.R. my only social network interacting with me you'll maintain that status with me as being a friend and favoring your journal if you have one and use often. I don't do tit for tat on anything. Some come and rate you a 10, add you as a friend then favor your journal all to get the like in return to increase their score. I do things only because I choose to not out of obligation to return the favor. I treat the add as a friend as a like button and only means you are merely above tolerable so don't read too much into it. I tend to see a lot in a person with my scrutiny and when interacting will see all the dirty secrets you wish not to be seen as well as many other things you can't even face in yourself. As long as you maintain a measure of humility and a relative constant presence it won't be a problem. But if you need to save face and hide things then we won't get along. I hate dealing with egos that are so proud it blinds them then they need to hide their faults and is reason they are unbalanced; Or those that are hardly on the site might be someone I find I like but if you are not here then you aren't a friend to me just a mere acquaintance. I understand real life takes precedence so if you find yourself removed after taking a break from the site just let me know and you'll just be readded. Everyone has their issues. It's just a matter of are they worthy of being tolerated for the sake of their better characteristics or are they compatible with your personality as some just don't mix well.
I personally don't block. I understand some use it as a tool to deal with harassment but in the grand scheme I think it makes you weak. Its abused more than something to help someone. One of the most important aspects to society is being able to work things out in a dialog which can't happen then. I suppose it's easy to use to the simple sadistic fucktards on this site to fuck with people or downrate a profile to a one just out of spite but really there are far better occult tools to develop as well to deliver the power if one wants to really torture souls. If someone wants to express themselves, I let them. I don't need to censor and control the narrative of what people see myself included. Part of being goth to me is embracing death and elements of decay to be whole. Those who are fooled by such nonsense aren't people I want to know anyhow. They are more useful tools to the vain attention whores that need to fool themselves that they are something they are not by surrounding themselves by such opinions like "yes-men". Besides some are more like pesky little gnats in what they express which are only mildly irritating even when in swarms that such need for courage. I don't need to block a person to snub them.
I have a high and brutal standard when it comes to rating. I really don't think I should subject anyone to that unless they are deemed my responsibility or ask for it. Beyond that my opinion of my profile rating is all that really matters, and I try to improve on it without taking away from what I find exceptional about it. So, if you are not under my authority and you want a rating from me you have to ask for it. You probably won't like it unless we reach an accord, and my opinion becomes valuable to you for your improvement by my standards. For the most part rating profiles has become obsolete. Most just seem to rate for one purpose-to advertise their stamp with a ten given to everyone unless they get something then give the same in return. That's just immature to me.
My messages are kept private. I don't share them with anyone which is a despicable tactic many use on this site. Taking a screenshot then revealing something private just really shows you are not trustworthy and whatever dirt one wants to expose pales in comparison to me. Those that do it are really just people that have some influence and are abusing it in this case to justify themselves or hurt another. Trust is one of the most valuable things to earn in life in tandem with the virtue of discretion. If there is truly something problematic with a message, then just report it to an admin and if it's really bad then to the appropriate authorities that do govern the web in their jurisdiction.
Many seem to level their base score and ratings bonus by rating the Dark Network Databases. I have to have experience with something in the database in order to rate it with an informed decision rather than as a power levelling tool. If I make an entry, then it has to be something I likewise have experience with, and the entry would come from my input rather than copy and pasting some promoter on Amazon or the product to sell it as many seem to plagiarize others work and are rewarded for it on this site.
I used to have a decent portfolio set up but I'm a subtle person and not given to drawing attention to myself and every time you add something to it you end up on front street in the portfolio section open to public. Just not my thing the way that's set up. Besides, as you can see I know enough about coding to place graphics wherever I choose.
In my spirituality and identity as a vampire the chief aspect is hunting and tapping what millions of years have hardwired into my body's DNA. As far as this site goes well that's how many one lures in referrals to it. So, getting sites set up to place banners and links on other ones is the priority and not just to create good search engine optimization that's crucial for a website's traffic rather than just sponging off of what Cancer created. It also is what defines being a good sponsor in business which this site seems to be. Fresh meat and those who can perform activity seems the most important resource. But I do tend to take my time like a patient hunter so you might be in for a wait.
Societies on vampire rave is an element to the site that doesn't suit me at this time. I prefer maintaining my individuality like a "wolfwalker". But if you come here and are between the levels 20 to 100 you are going to be pulled into one because they earn favor from active members. That said if you are coming in new it's best to find one that suits you till you reach sire status. Just aspect of site as freedom is earned. The heart of any society is its forum so you have to look at which ones are active in choosing wisely what fits you best. Just go to the society and click on its members and see who posts and their frequency. Lots of members with many alternate profiles so keep that in mind too. Any community will try to control their environment, so you have those that have established themselves on this site and try to control it the way that suits them, but this has really caused a lot of problems for it and the site now suffers because of it. The only vampire clan that interested me was Sabertooth Omega which you'd want to contact Nikki and get in one of her covens to see what I mean. She has a full plate and isn't on site like she once was but maybe that can change. Why am I not there? In accord with Black Veils, I'm not at liberty to say.
As I've already mentioned Vampire Rave was my first social network and has remained my only one. I'll remain loyal until I die or am removed in accord with TOS. I do what I can to help support V.R. as I like what Cancer created and has a lot of potential to me. It is a service for many to use with interests in the vampire subculture and gothic fiction. There are many different kinds of people that use it their own way. I mainly just want to express what being a vampire means to me as an occultist in my unique mortal life. It is quite evident after spending years off and on this site that what being a vampire means is quite different than others here, so I just want to express this in a way suitable to dynamics of the site. In my understanding it is mortality that makes something priceless with a limited life and being one of a kind. If it lasted forever and was shared by others it would lose value relatively. I just have an awakened state of consciousness for now in the waxing and waning cycles of nature. I think everyone is bound by the same eternal spirit but not all are aware of it. That is all one gains when awakened is a certainty in that regard. So, I've done the calling in the ether now like a hunter that mimicked an animal mating call I need only wait till they arrive so I can embrace them as fate intended.
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film programme
paradoks – at the edges of documentary
27 October — 9 November 2019
Exhibition & Panel discussion
Petersbogen (near Cinestar)
Petersstraße 36-44
open daily 10:00 — 20:00
Cinémathèque Leipzig in der naTo
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 46
parasound:
Lagerhofstr 2
paradoks brings together video installations, short films and fiction films of local and international artists who work on the intersections of film, art and activism and whose approaches and aesthetics operate at the edges of documentary filmmaking. In their works, facts are modified by fictionalised, journalistic and investigative techniques like image processing methods and re-enactments.
The exhibition consists of a selection of multichannel video installations which are grouped into two thematic areas. While 'Arrival' deals with the different realities of migration and (non)arrival in German society, 'Precarious Bodies' explores the working conditions of contemporary artistic production.
There will be a panel discussion on the 27th of October, inviting artists and curators to discuss the activist potential inherent in these constantly shifting boundaries. Which approaches and methods can provide adequate counter-images in view of political conditions in the age of fake news and increasing right-wing populism?
On the 2nd of November, parasound will open its gates at mjut to explore the acoustic dimensions of documentary inspired art forms through a combination of short films and performances which will conclude in a club night.
The Cinémathèque Leipzig will probe into these semi-factual border zones by taking fiction films as a starting point. With a series of eight feature films, we are invited to embark on a journey in which the different types of interplay between fiction and reality become visible. The program is accompanied by introductory talks and film discussions.
GEGENkino
Filmische Initiative Leipzig FILZ
Cinémathèque Leipzig
Partner: mjut
2.11. 22:00
parasound (mjut)
Opening: 26th October 2019, 7pm - Drinks and art in the shopping mall!
Finissage 9th November 2019, 7pm
40H, MAX. 2 MONTHS
Stefanie Schroeder 2017 45 min 2-channel video installation German with English subtitles
To speed up my developing career as a full-time freelance artist and end my reliance on state benefits, I was urged to take part in a programme called "Business Optimisation – a needs and situation-oriented skills training course for employable, eligible freelancers." The group seminar, which lasted several weeks, was designed and delivered by a business consultancy firm.
My request to document the programme in a film was rejected. Using notes of our conversations,
handouts, my dream diary and my F5.5 form, I turned my "efforts of becoming an artistic entrepreneurial personality" into a script. In this script the roles of being an artist, entrepreneur and benefit seeker collide and I am the sole actor. What is optimisation? Which type of language is used? How does it describe, adjust and, if necessary, distort my actions and personality? What can we learn about our self-image from online Photoshop tutorials?
DIARIOS DE TRABAJOS
Paula Ábalos 2019 30 min 2-channel video installation Spanish with German and English subtitles
WORK DIARIES consists of a compilation of video diaries that Paula Ábalos has created during the last five years. She documents her time in different service jobs she has performed (in Chile and Germany) parallel to her artistic work to cover her costs of living.
In these autobiographical videos, which she first shot with her cell phone and later with hidden cameras, Ábalos appears working as a supermarket promoter, a kitchen assistant, preparing sausages in a stadium, cleaning in a fitness studio and working in a package distribution center. These videos emphasize the different times and rhythms of each work and describe - by voice over and texts - her tasks, the places of work and her perspective on her work and the workplace. Thus, it shows the contrast between the impersonal appearance of the locations and her personal view after remaining in them for hours.
This video diaries are a way of recovering the lost time in which the author rents her body to companies, trying to reappropriate those hours, so they don't vanish.
The project originates from the situation of not having time to develop her artistic work after having worked for a long time in a supermarket. Thus, the author decided to transform the space of her job into her studio, trying to materialize her observations in videos and notes. Methods she keeps up in current jobs.
WORK DIARIES remains in continuous development depending on new jobs that Ábalos performs, attaching new chapters to it.
Emerson Culurgioni & Jonas Matauschek 2019 50 min 4-channel video installation German and English subtitles (alternating)
After the end of the GDR, Geiseltal, a former open pit mine, was renaturised and flooded and became the largest artificial lake in Germany. Standing in his community garden, Reinhard Hirsch looks out that spot in the lake where his grandparents' house once stood. His home village of Zöbigker had to make way for mining. Bee-eaters, colorful migratory birds with an unmistakable call, nest in the deserted dumps. Christine Lattke is standing in the middle of the industrial ruins and waits with her camera for the return of the birds from their winter home in Africa. On the shores of a small cove, Ganiyou Idriss from Niger spends his monotonous days while he waits for his asylum application to be decided upon. The Kurdish poet Farhan Kalasch lives on "Glück-Auf-Straße"– literally "Good Luck Street" – in a former mining town. After receiving asylum in Germany, he is now trying to bring his wife and children to join him in the country. In each episode, the video installation carefully evolves around and explores the topic of "migration."
AGAIN - NOCH EINMAL
Mario Pfeifer 2018 42 min 2-channel video installation German with English and Arabic subtitles
In Mario Pfeifer's two-channel video installation AGAIN – NOCH EINMAL, a case of vigilant justice is re-examined and turned into a painstakingly elaborate re-enactment. The starting point is a true story: in the small town of Arnsdorf in Eastern Germany, four random strangers join forces in an ad hoc militia and attack a refugee they witness complaining at a local supermarket. The men drag him to a nearby parking lot, tie him to a tree and restrain him using zip ties.
Pfeifer reconstructs this case and the biography of the victim, Schabas Saleh Al-Aziz by combining genuine CCTV footage and methods of investigative journalism with re-enactments and elements of parody on the role played by mass media. In a manner that takes advantage of the power of clickbait, two presenters guide the audience through AGAIN – NOCH EINMAL and showcase the public outcry that ensued and that was not so much concerned with Al-Aziz's personal health but with the question of where to draw the line between civil courage and vigilant justice. Parts of public debate also centred on the fact that the case was never tried in court. When Al-Aziz's life came to a tragic end, the court no longer saw a public interest in prosecuting the four men and subsequently closed the case. Acting on an additional narrative plane, ten members of an audience with different experiences as migrants and refugees, among them a Russian immigrant and a GDR refugee, express their views on this incident and report on their own personal experiences.
STRANGERS' DIARIES
Amel Alzakout & Khaled Abdulwahed 2019 35 min 8-channel video installation
The video installation follows the memories of two lovers in their journey from home to a bizarre new world. Years ago, a woman, a man and a cat met in one of the war zones that started to spread all over the world. They manage to live together in temporary safe zones. As these safe zones vanish one after another, their only chance to survive is to leave the planet. They are eager to escape the Earth. But only the man receives an approval to travel on a spacecraft to a planet far away. The two lovers promise each other to reunite as fast as possible. The man leaves. Time is passing by and the two lovers are desperately longing and dreaming of their reunion. But how?
Both are too far away from each other, lonely and stuck. He's locked in an abandoned district, and she lives in a rapidly collapsing world. He doesn't know what to do, and she can't wait anymore. Eventually she decides to jump into space to travel to her lover. From a woman wearing a gas mask while standing next to her wardrobe and a man staring at a TV channel projected on a wall to the lovers laying on a door before their farewell – seemingly absurd and photographic scenes, bizarre spaces and soundscapes gradually reconstruct the memory of the lovers' journey. Set in a poetic, almost dream like Sci-Fi, the work is a curious mixture of autobiography and fantasy.
Panel: counter fake news. Activism and subversive strategies of the documentary
Panel will be held in German, English translation available
The authority of the documentary regulates and controls the production of knowledge and defines collective and individual processes of appropriating reality. With the claim of contemporary art to mediate and process this reality, documentary forms have become enormously relevant at least since the 1990s.
Against the backdrop of the current discourse on truth, this has increased further and is formulated in the claim to have an effect on concrete social and political constellations, but also to want to articulate its own rhetoric of truth.
Among other things, with the thesis that documentary works do not have to be questioned in terms of their representation of reality, but rather in terms of precisely this rhetoric of truth, we want to get into conversation with artists. Not as accurate or correct, but in what political way do their works relate to reality?
The video artists and filmmakers Amel Alzakout and Clemens von Wedemeyer as well as the artist Mischa Leinkauf – considering examples of their concrete works - reflect on their aesthetic techniques, such as alienation, imagination or counter-information and activism. The panel will be moderated by Inga Brantin (GEGENkino) and Jonas Matauschek (FILZ).
In Stranger's Diaries, Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed tell of an escape in form of a diary in which documentary elements can hardly be discerned, and with an enormously stylised visual language. Autofiction in the guise of an interstellar SciFi love story that renounce using circulating footages of individual migration experiences. Using modern imaging techniques, Clemens von Wedemeyer has recently dedicated himself to real events such as the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, but also to other phenomena inscribed in the global image archive in which masses of people form. At the centre of the works currently on display in the GfzK is the question of how political will is formed and expressed under conditions of digitality.
In Mischa Leinkauf's latest work "Fiction of a Non-Invitation", the absurdity of politically motivated border barriers is revealed. In one performance he crossed the border between Israel and Egypt under the sea surface. In another work "White American Flags", the artist duo Wermcke/Leinkauf exchanged in a dawn raid, the flags on the Brooklyn Bridge for discolored, almost white US flags. The enormous media echo reveals which social scope art can have today.
Petersbogen, Petersstraße 36-44
Fiction film on the edge of documentary
28.10 to 2.11.
Documentary and fiction films both draw on reality - even if their realities may differ and are approached from different angles. The former aims to carefully avoid or disguise any traces of intentional staging. In fiction films, it is precisely this mise-en-scène and the creation of an artificial space which forms a prerequisite for creating an authentic cinematic experience for the audience.
But what happens if the instruments and conditions of documentary filmmaking are transposed onto a fiction film?
What happens if a fiction film not only shares but hands over control over its staging processes? And what happens if it incorporates documentary images to create a fictional narrative?
curated by Sven Wörner and Sarina Lacaf
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46
www.cinematheque-leipzig.de
6,50 € / reduced 5 €
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+1 € over 130 min film length
Peter Watkins USA 1970 88 min English OV with German subs
with Carmen Argenziano, Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman
Peter Watkin's pseudo documentary is set in a fictional America of the 1970s. Convicted dissidents fight for their lives in Punishment Park, where they are chased by National Guard soldiers. Within the fictitious frame, the performers express their personal views in improvised dialogues.
with introduction and director's statement
KILLER OF SHEEP
Charles Burnett USA 1977 81 min English OV with German subs
with Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Jack Drummond
In a melancholic version of neorealistic aesthetic, KILLER OF SHEEP depicts life of urban African-Americans in Los Angeles' Watts district, in the mid-1970s. The camera follows Stan – exhausted and blunted by his work at the slaughterhouse, he is nevertheless a sensitive dreamer – through a simple everyday life.
with introduction
DRAGONFLY EYES
Bing Xu CHN 2017 81 min Chinese OV with English subs
A fictional plot, exclusively composed of real footage from various surveillance cameras. With his formal experiment Chinese artist Xu Bing reflects on the terror of surveillance in the public space and at the same time shows that there is a lot of room for interpretation in each document.
IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY
Tamer El Said EGY, D, UK, AE 2016 118 min ARABIC OV with German subs
with Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef, Maryam Saleh, Hayder Helo, Basim Hajar, Bassem Fayad, Ali Sobhi
The snapshot of a city on the eve of an upheaval: Cairo 2009, two years before the Egyptian Revolution. Tamer El Said's alter ego Khalid desperately struggles to capture the soul of his hometown in a documentary before it changes forever. The protagonists of this film seem to drift into a secondary role in the face of the immense reality that takes its course on Cairo's streets.
SOLEIL Ô
Med Hondo MRT, FR 1969 98 min French OV with English subs
We Live in Silence
Kudzanai Chiurai ZW 2017 37 min English OV
"The original idea was to show tourist spots packed with blacks only. All of a sudden you would see Sacré-Cœur, and you would see only blacks. It would have had a powerful cinematographic impact. But the idea remained on paper and wasn't translated into images." (Med Hondo, Jeune Cinéma, 1970)
SOLEIL Ô tells the story of a Mauritanian migrant in Paris. As a formally advanced cinematic manifesto it denounces a modern form of slavery against "second-class" residents.
Kudzanai Chiurai takes Hondo's film as a starting point to juxtapose dominant colonial narratives with counter-memory.
with talk
OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST
Miguel Gomes PRT, FR 2008 147 min 35mm Portuguese OV with English subs
It's high summer in the mountain region around Arganil in the heart of Portugal. Starting from documentary sequences which portray life in the village community, the film gradually drifts towards fiction while centering around an incestuous love story.
BESCHREIBUNG EINER INSEL
Rudolf Thome, Cynthia Beatt DE 1979 192 min German OV
Five European researchers reach the remote volcanic island of Ureparapara in the north of the New Hebrides to study the geographical conditions of the island and the customs of its inhabitants. So much fort he story. In reality, it is Rudolf Thome, a handful of actresses and the film crew who set out on an expedition for six months.
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An evening that traces the acoustic dimensions of documentary films in a multifaceted programme.
In MONUMENTAL, viewers become visitors to the ghost town "New Ordos". Built for a million people, it was to be China's Dubai, but remains uninhabited to this day. The musical soundtrack makes the deserted monuments and squares almost seem like the backdrop of a dystopian science fiction film.
In IMPERIAL VALLEY, the artificially irrigated agricultural landscapes of the Sonora Desert in California are scanned from a bird's eye view. Underlined by a haunting electronic score, the drone increasingly loses its orientation. A young skier swirls past and an old man is knocked over by a wave. PEOPLE PEEBLE describes a steep coast in the North of France in fragmented, analogue images. The artificial soundtrack creates an alienating atmosphere of disconcerting tension. UMBRA finally leads back to the remaining nature and investigates rare optical phenomena like the Brocken spectre. A cinematic-auditive meditation on the presence and absence of things. In TESTIMONIUM, Jacob Kirkegaard uses hydrophones and contact microphones to create a sonic journey through devastated sites of human waste industries. A symphony of burnt soil.
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Anna Baranowski Deutschland 2019
In the middle of the Mongolian steppe, in a region without water, without trees, a city for at least one million people was built within 10 years. "New Ordos" was supposed to be the Dubai of China, but no one came to settle it. Like the film backdrop of a sci-fi dystopia, monuments and glowing skyscrapers tower above the earth, telling the story of the Earth's origins right up to Genghis Khan's warlike conquest. Wide streets are lined with sculptures that transport past messages and tell of a culture that a 10-year-old city cannot tell. People who could admire and inhabit those monumental buildings seem to have been erased or perhaps have never been there. Fully automated and without any human intervention, the staging of a historical legacy seems to be digitally programmed into the surface of the city. Fountains dance, videos flicker on facades, music echoes across wide squares. Nature is bounded by concrete. Anna Baranowski scans this deserted place cinematically and shows a post-apocalyptic-like scenery in which only monuments report human history. The viewer is thus not only the last survivor of a lost society, but also the first visitor to a place that is waiting for the start of its future.
www.annabaranowski.de
IMPERIAL VALLEY
Lukas Marxt Austria, Germany 2018 14 min
The Imperial Valley represents one of California´s most important regions of industrial agriculture. Corporate agricultural production interests have been able to successfully cultivate and exploit this geological part of the Sonora desert through a gigantic irrigation system fed by the Colorado River, as well as the All-American Canal specifically engineered for this purpose and which attained sad notoriety through the Mexican migration movement. The system´s run-off flows through pipes, pumps and canals leading to the Salton Sea, an artificial lake that is approaching ecological as well as economic disaster, just as bordering regions of Mexico.
With Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off )Lukas Marxt approaches this problem in a very ingenious way. He begins with a bird´s eye view of an irrigation canal coursing through a desert landscape. A drone camera flies the length of the canal, subsequently flying over Imperial Valley landscapes from the same perspective. Initially appearing as nothing more than spectacular documents of agricultural monocultures, the shots become increasingly abstract – additionally heightened through the accompaniment of an electronic score. Is this an actual or artificially simulated landscape? This ambiguity is precisely the point: The Imperial Valley is becoming the "Uncanny Valley", a place that is not yet or no longer natural and thereby appears eerie. A landscape post landscape (or its medial representation) is a geometric concept of lines, surfaces, points and color spots, regardless whether of an animate or lifeless nature. Although manmade, it is not a place for people anymore, neither ontologically nor in reality. The post-apocalypse is not a matter of the future, we are already in the thick of it. (Claudia Slanar)
PEOPLE PEBBLE
Jivko Darakchiev, Perrine Gamot France, UK 2017 19 min
Stones form the landscape, they crunch underfoot as we walk, and children use them in their games.In this experimental film by the directing duo of Darakchiev and Gamot, the fascination with one particular object reaches its peak. The associative images, brought together by the lens of a 16mm camera, create a loosely related series of stream-of-consciousness ideas: Monumental shots of the cliffs of Dover, stone houses, people walking on a stone beach, and a metronome in the shape of a hammer. Ordinary images accompanied by cacophonous sounds and excerpts from unrelated interviews create new associations among familiar aspects of human existence. "People Pebble figuratively associates two disparate patrimonial identities, inciting a new dialogue through and beyond the traces of the human hand, all encompassed by the impermanence of nature." J. Darakchiev, P. Gamot
Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell Germany 2019 20 min
A shimmering light, the rustle of the leaves, round spots of light in the shade of a tree. The sun reflects on the water. It is an element and counterpart. Can nature observe itself? A cinematic reflection on the presence and absence of things.
The film UMBRA is dedicated to the usual as well as the rare optical phenomena that occur in nature. These phenomena produce familiar images such as shadows or reflections on the surface of the water. However, it even makes unusual phenomena like the so-called "Brocken spectre" or the pinhole effect during a solar eclipse. These ancient and natural projections can be regarded as images independent of culture and apparatus that were already present before human evolution. They are all united by their elusive, fleeting presence. In their immateriality and fragility, they are precursors of the cinematic image. A visual dialogue arises between phenomenon and apparatus, archetype and image, self and self-perception.
https://www.rosenpictures.com/Projekte/Umbra
Jacob Kirkegaard Denmark 2019 25 min LIVE-PERFORMANCE
TESTIMONIUMis an audio-visual composition created from recordings from waste, recycling and wastewater facilities in Denmark and Latvia as well as from one of the world's largest landfills; the Dandora dumpingsite in Nairobi, Kenya
With vibration sensors placed inside endless piles of organic waste and on massive incinerators, hydrophones lowered in wastewater and heavily contaminated rivers, and acoustic microphones pointed at metal, glass and plastic sorted by hand or machine, TESTIMONIUM listens beyond the immediate stench from discarded matter and into its physical core and industrialised journey. An acoustically detailed powerful and bittersweet homage to the midden of civilisation and a testimonium for the future.
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7.1.1 Ministerial declarations
7.1.2 Participating defunct institutions
7.1.3 Participating lone institutions
Home » National Redress Guide » 7 Institutions » 7.1 Participating institutions
For a person to be eligible for redress, at least 1 participating institution must be responsible for the sexual abuse (and if applicable, related non-sexual abuse) of that person. That is, the abuse occurred in circumstances where an institution that is participating in the Scheme is primarily or equally responsible for the abuse.
What is a participating institution?
For the purposes of the Scheme, a participating institution includes any of the following:
a Commonwealth institution
a participating State institution, where the state responsible for the institution has agreed to participate in the Scheme
a participating Territory institution
a participating non-government institution, which has voluntarily agreed to participate in the Scheme.
What if an institution has not joined the Scheme?
If an institution has not joined the Scheme they are not a participating institution. However, this will not prevent a person from applying for redress. Although, a person's application cannot be assessed until the relevant institution/s has joined the Scheme. The Scheme will contact the person to inform them of their options to either withdraw or place their application on hold.
Institutions are able to join the Scheme within the first 2 years of its commencement. This means that institutions can join the Scheme up to and including 30 June 2020 (the second anniversary date). The Minister for Families and Social Services may also provide an extension to this period to allow an institution to join the Scheme.
The Scheme will encourage and enable institutions to join the Scheme, and will work closely with participating institutions to take responsibility for applicable defunct institutions (either as a representative, or as a funder of last resort).
If an institution no longer exists (defunct government or defunct non-government institution), the Scheme may:
undertake research on the named institution, and
investigate if another participating institution will agree to be its representative, or
provide advice that a Commonwealth, state or territory government is likely to be equally responsible and therefore is able to provide redress as the funder of last resort on behalf of the institution.
Declarations of participating institutions are available from the Federal Register of Legislation. A list of institutions covered by the Scheme is also available from nationalredress.gov.au. The Scheme's online list is not exhaustive and is subject to change.
How do institutions join the Scheme?
To join the Scheme, the Minister must be satisfied the institution agrees to join the Scheme and is able to meet its liabilities and obligations required by the Scheme. The Minister must then declare in writing, by way of notifiable instrument, that the institution is a participating institution.
An institution is participating in the Scheme from the date the relevant notifiable instrument commences on the Federal Register of Legislation, following the Minister's declaration. Declarations must not be made after the second anniversary of the Scheme's commencement, unless the institution no longer exists.
Declarations made by the Minister are not subject to disallowance and therefore cannot be overturned through a motion moved in the Australian Parliament.
The Minister does not need to make declarations for Commonwealth institutions because they are automatically included in the Scheme.
What are the requirements for institutions to join the scheme?
There are certain steps that need to be completed by institutions (or groups of institutions) before being declared as participating in the Scheme.
Each State, Territory or non-government institution will need to:
agree in writing that they will join the Scheme, and
provide assurance to the Commonwealth that they can meet their financial liabilities and direct personal response obligations as required by the Scheme and it is reasonably likely they can do so for the duration of the Scheme.
In addition to the points above, for non-government institutions that are also forming a participating group when joining the Scheme, all proposed members of a participating group, and the proposed representative for the group, must agree to the group arrangement in writing.
When joining the Scheme, there are limits on who can be a representative, to prevent there being multiple different representatives with powers, functions, duties, or other responsibilities, relating to a particular institution. For example, it is not possible for a representative of a lone institution to itself have a representative through a participating group arrangement.
How does a participating institution leave the Scheme?
A participating institution may exit the Scheme by writing to the Minister requesting that the declaration to participate in the Scheme is revoked.
As soon as practicable, the Minister must revoke the declaration, by notifiable instrument, where the request is made by a:
participating State
participating Territory, or
participating non-government institution (other than a defunct institution).
Revocations made by the Minister are not subject to disallowance and therefore cannot be overturned through a motion moved in the Australian Parliament.
When a revocation is made by the Minister for an institution, the institution will continue to be a participating institution for the purpose of any applications in progress before the revocation declaration came into effect. This means that people applying for redress who are found eligible under the Scheme can access redress and the institution is still liable for the funding of redress and to provide a direct personal response if requested.
Act reference: NRSAct Part 5-1 Participating institutions, Part 5-2 Groups of institutions participating in the scheme
Legislation Act 2003 section 42 Disallowance of legislative instruments
Policy reference: Redress Guide 1.1.D.20 Defunct institution, 1.1.F.20 Funder of last resort, 1.1.I.20 Institution


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MLK events put on hold after storms push through
By The Merced County Times On Jan 12, 2023
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. march in Merced is held on Jan. 16, but it was unclear (as of the County Times' press deadline earlier this week) if the event was going to go on as scheduled. Recent storms and flooding has disrupted life across the Merced County region.
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. march in Merced may not happen this coming Monday, Jan. 16, and a planned celebration at the Merced Theatre has been postponed, according to organizers who spoke to the Times on Tuesday after rainstorms hit the city and caused serious flooding in some areas.
As of Wednesday morning before the Times weekly press deadline, it was unclear the "Peace and Unity" march would go on as planned. Rain was still in the forecast while members of the MLK organizing committee were seeking guidance from the city which handles the street closure necessary for the event.
Event chairperson Tamara Cobb told the Times that the MLK Jr. Day program at the Merced Theatre could possibly be held at a later date during Black History Month in February. The event would have to be coordinated with several other programs from community groups going on during the same period of time.
The speeches and performances planned for the Merced Theatre on MLK Jr. Day were expected to focus on the civil rights leader's vision for unity in the face of difficult social problems. Community awards were also set to be handed out to local civil rights advocates.
This year marks the 26th anniversary of the march in Merced. Billed as the largest multicultural event in the county, Cobb said the parade usually attracts between 700 to 1,000 participants.
The honor of grandmaster of ceremonies this year went to Dr. Maria Martin, a UC Merced assistant professor of African History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. In 2020, she founded the Black Alliance, a group of UCM students, faculty and staff that supports the Black community.
Pastor Robert Morris of Harvest Church in Atwater was named keynote speaker for the event. Community volunteer Loretta Spence was set to receive the Spirit Award for her 40 year history of service to Merced. Other community awards and guest speakers were listed in the program.
The parade was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at the fairgrounds, and marchers were to head down Martin Luther King Jr. Way to the Merced Theatre for the program.
Stay tuned to website: MercedCountyTimes.com, or the newspaper's Facebook page, for any updates later on in the week before the holiday.
Multiple service opportunities were being offered for Jan. 16 holiday before the storms and flooding took their toll earlier in the week. A Downtown Merced Cleanup with Mayor Matthew Serratto was planned between 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. At the same time, a cleanup was planned for the Lake Road Bike Path that approaches the UC Merced campus. Also, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., volunteers were to cook and serve dinner at the D Street Shelter.
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Cincinnatians Caty McNally and J.J. Wolf compete for the hometown crowd at the Western & Southern Open.
Allison Kiehl
The Western & Southern Open is among the nation's largest tennis championships, so Cincinnatians are able to watch some of the best and brightest tennis stars compete annually.
This year, players Caty McNally and J.J. Wolf will have the home court advantage as they compete in the very tournament they grew up watching in their hometown.
Photograph courtesy Western & Southern Open/Jeff Houchin
McNally, who went pro in 2019, travels internationally to compete on the world tennis stage, but she still calls Cincinnati home. "Madeira is a pretty special place to me," she says. "Once I'm on the road for so long, nothing feels better than going back there."
She continues to train at the tennis club where she first found her love for tennis, The Club at Harper's Point, with her mom, Lynn Nabors McNally, as her coach.
"I just fell in love with the game there," McNally notes. "Whenever I was at the club, I was always trying to find time to hit on the wall or ask someone if they would go out on the court with me and play with me."
Wolf's journey was a little different. "I just started playing [tennis] on vacation as a family activity," says the Loveland native. "Getting to play against my sister really got me excited in the sport."
Photograph courtesy Western & Southern Open/Tony Wagner
After a successful three-year collegiate tennis career at Ohio State University, where he finished his junior year with a 35-2 singles record, Wolf turned pro in 2019. He's currently coached by David Kass and Patrick Thompson.
With the Western & Southern Open practically in their backyards, both players attended the tournament when they were young.
"It was really big for me to see up close the level of the pros competing in the event," Wolf says. "It allowed me to get a sense of the level of skill I would need to reach in order to compete against the best."
McNally attended the open each year with her mom, where she collected autographs and pictures with the players.
"I can still remember just how excited I was on the drives to the courts and just getting to be around all those players knowing that one day I wanted to be exactly like them," she adds. "It's pretty cool to actually be around some of those players that I once saw when I was a little girl."
This year, McNally and Wolf are among the strong competitors at the Western & Southern Open, the kind of players they witnessed at the open as they grew up. McNally will compete in doubles matches with her partner, Cori "Coco" Gauff. Wolf, currently ranked No. 151 in the Association of Tennis Professionals (APT), is set to compete in the singles tournament.
Their performances on the court will be under the watchful eye of their community, where both players feel the warm embrace of support from their Cincinnati fans, family, and friends.
While some athletes may feel the pressure of competing in front of their hometown crowd, McNally and Wolf look forward to the upcoming performance in their Cincinnati tournament.
"I think every single athlete reacts differently to playing at home," McNally says. "When I was younger, I probably felt a little bit more pressure because all eyes were on me. But over the years, I've realized the pressure is a privilege to have, it's a good thing."
Wolf agrees. "It's the tournament I look forward to the most every year," he notes. "Win or lose, it's the best place to compete. It's my favorite thing to do in the world."
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Hama, Idleb - The Syrian Arab Army destroyed dens and fortified points of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists and terrorist groups affiliated to it in southern Idleb and northern Hama in response to their repeated violations of de-escalation zone agreement.
SANA said that army units on Saturday destroyed with artillery bombardments vehicles and hideouts of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the towns of al-Nashama and Mourek in Hama Province.
SANA added that the army units broadened scale of operations encircling tunnels and barricades of the terrorists at the eastern outskirts of Morik town in the Province.
Many of the terrorists were either killed or injured during the operation, according to SANA.
In Idleb, SANA said that army units destroyed a vehicle and dens of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the vicinity of Tra'a village in the province southeastern countryside.


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LeBron James rookie Cavaliers jersey up for auction and could set record
A Cleveland Cavaliers rookie jersey worn by Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James in 2003 has hit the auction and could sell for a record price.
As reported by TMZ Sports, the jersey, which is being auctioned by Goldin Auctions, "was worn during King James' 5th and 8th games of his rookie season with the Cleveland Cavaliers."
He first wore this jersey on November 7, 2003, against the Indiana Pacers, and then again wore it on November 12 in his first pro game ever against Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat.
"LeBron James memorabilia is some of the most sought-after memorabilia currently," Ken Goldin told TMZ Sports, who noted "we are hoping this jersey will set the record for the highest price paid for a basketball jersey which is $630,300.00."
Earlier this year, a LeBron James basketball card broke a record by selling for $900,000 — clearly his memorabilia is hot right now.


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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical @ The Pleasance Courtyard (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015) Review
The queue begins forming for the Pleasance Upstairs nearly 40 minutes before Showstoppers is due to start, with an exciting buzz of theatregoers old and young, tall and short, quirky and… normal. We enter to a tuneful entourage of a three piece band, musically directed by the more-than-capable hands of Duncan Walsh Atkins, whilst our soon-to-be narrator Sean McCann meanders around the modernistic red framed scenery, taking in his surroundings, commanding both the stage and the auditorium from the minute we enters.
The show begins with a phone call from Cameron Mackintosh demanding we create a new musical in the space of 70 minutes. Mission accepted! McCann, comedically and with ease, plucks ideas from the willing audience for the setting, the title and the musical genre. He returns Mr Mackintosh's call before announcing the start of our new show, "Let's get Battered", a musical based in a late night Fast Food Joint. At which point the six incredibly talented Showstoppers open with a huge musical number, in the style of Sweeney Todd, set in Guiseppe's late night Fish & Chip shop.
The six actors take us on a romantic, Pygmalion-themed journey of unrequited love between Chippy Girl 'Gloria' (played by the hilarious Pippa Evans) and city worker 'Henry' (played by the hysterical Adam Meggido) with the the help of their 'Posh Pals' and 'Fish Frying Friends' (equally funny Ruth Bratt, Justin Brett, & Nell Mooney) with occasional interceptions from the Narrator adding a comedic plot twist or a new musical genre.
The show moves seamlessly from scene to scene, as if it has already done a six month run at the Savoy!
The tunes are phenomenally catchy, to the point that when exiting the venue, you can hear pockets of audience members singing the side splitting ditties – my favourite being "It's Just A Little Bit Of Fun Henry". The cast and musicians are so in tune with each other (excuse the pun), one would be excused for thinking the whole thing has been pre-written and rehearsed for weeks, but this is just a compliment to their improvisational skill and accuracy, as all plot lines and suggestions are 100% audience driven!
I find this show faultless. I praise the cast for their singing ability; I commend them for their poetic excellence and I doff my hat for their absolute commitment to comedy and improvisation. I wish them the best for their West End run – a show not to be missed! 5/5
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World Bank loans the type of support PNG should seek: Ling-Stuckey
Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey said yesterday that his recent trip to Washington DC was focused on getting more World Bank assistance for PNG.
He said World Bank loans were good, cheap finance, the type of assistance PNG should be seeking rather than expensive borrowings from private banks.
The trip from October 17 to 19 linked in with the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF of which he is by ex-officio, PNG's Governor.
"Sometimes one must travel overseas to talk to the very senior people, who in reality, simply do not come to Port Moresby that often," Mr Ling-Stuckey said.
"Let me give you three specific, successful outcomes from this visit. First, in our discussion with very senior people, it became clear that without some urgent action from the Marape-Steven government, we had three major projects worth over K350 million at risk. If we don't take urgent action, this K350 million will be given to other countries.
"We would have lost vital assistance in the agriculture, health and employment areas. By talking directly to senior World Bank management, we now have a path forward to stop these funds being given away to other countries. This is good assistance available at very cheap rates, essentially zero per cent interest with repayment terms of up to 30 years.
"Second, there was the second part of a budget support loan worth K224 million that is also at risk. We talked through the reform processes that we have commenced with our Due Diligence/IMF process and the Supplementary Budget.
"Frankly, they were pretty impressed. We outlined the next steps we are taking heading towards the 2020 Budget and securing these funds is now much more likely.
"Third, we found some new possibilities for increased funding. I can't go into specifics, but some of these options could include concessional funds of close to one billion kina. Access to these will require more honesty.
"Our meetings in Washington indicated that there is friendly foreign support that is willing to assist us to take these steps. Subject to meeting PNG's priorities and our national interests, and qualifying as good cheap loans, we should accept such assistance.
"I will also be heading to the Asian Development Bank to pursue other options for securing good cheap assistance. This is all part of a coordinated program of better economic policies so we can start increasing incomes and creating more jobs."
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TREASURER Ian Ling-Stuckey said PNG has fallen into what economists call the "resource curse" and it was now time for balanced policies to chart the way forward over the next decade.
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Some musicians are reporting that airline carriers are still requiring them to check instruments regardless if they comply with carry-on measurement requirements.
And given the airline industry's record of mistreating instruments, who would blame them? Last summer, musician Dave Carroll made national headlines when he released a video for his song United Breaks Guitars, which chronicles his ordeal with United Airlines after they broke his $3,500 guitar. Those inside the business know Carroll's saga all too well and even before increased security measures, the airline industry did a fine job at building a reputation of prescribed indifference toward complaints resulting from lackadaisical baggage handling procedures.
Unfortunately, musicians don't have many options. For example, train service is slow and expensive while driving has a limited practical range. The result is increased costs for everyone in the business; presenters, orchestras, artist agencies, ticket buyers, and last but certainly not least, the actual musicians. Consequently, individual musicians and the field as a whole do not have the resources to combat measures that blindly apply rules and regulations intended for public safety regardless of the impact.
Throughout this week, everyone in the business will be waiting with bated breath to see if the airline industry continues to enforce the restrictive rules, they resort to previous measures, or if the Federal Government will enact provisions that require airline carriers to allow musicians to bring instruments with them as carry-on baggage. In the meantime, musicians flying home from holiday jobs or after vacations and those with upcoming engagements will need to hope for the best but plan for the worst.
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Very timely article. I fear that it's not going to get any easier for anyone who needs to carry on fragile and expensive items.


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"Seienchin", also named as "Chai-yen-chin", one of the katas from the Naha-te, which is a style of Karatedo created by Master Kanryo Higaona.
In Seienchin, apart from certain basic attacking and blocking techniques, some difficult and complicated techniques are arranged in different consecutive combinations. It is important that students should equip themselves with strong foundation of basic attacking and blocking techniques, as well as a good understanding of the subject matter of Kata-performance, before learning this kata. Hence, in general, only Karatedo practitioners who have achieved brown-belt level would be eligible to learn Seienchin.
As one of the eight Shitei (compulsory) Katas selected by the World Karate Federation, Seienchin of Shitoryu is strictly standardized in terms of its postures, movements, power, tempo and rhythm. In addition, Seienchin is also listed in the Shitoryu Karatedo syllabi of black-belt upgrading examinations. In view of its high status in Shitoryu Karatedo, when learning Seienchin, Karatedo practitioners should pay great attention to the details of this kata.
In Seienchin, the combinations of different movements are designed in symmetrical patterns; contrasting and well-defined tempos can also be found. Seienchin is characterized by its frequent adoptions of Shiko-Dachi – a stance of strong essence in its stableness: when Shiko-Dachi is interpreted as a slow movement, it is used to complement the massiveness and weightiness discharged by other techniques applied; when apprehended as a fast action, it is used to eject an explosion of instant power-release and vitality. In any case, these are all skilful masteries of Shiko-Dachi. Apart from these intrinsic forces delivered by Shiko-Dachi, appropriate breathing rhythm should also be incorporated to achieve a natural demonstration of combating gallantry and vigorous spirit. As a matter of fact, the very essence and spirit of Naha-te katas can be most vividly manifested in Seienchin. As such, Seienchin is an ideal kata for kata competition.
"Bassai" is also named as "Ba-choi", which means demolishing the fortress of the enemy. Bassai katas can be divided into Bassai-Dai and Bassai-Sho, both belong to Shuri-te, which is a style of Karatedo created by Master Ankoh Itosu.
Apart from certain basic attacking and blocking techniques, Bassai-Dai is composed by some difficult and complicated techniques arranged in different consecutive combinations. It is important that Karatedo practitioners should equip themselves with strong foundation of basic attacking and blocking techniques, as well as a good understanding of the subject matter of kata-performance, before learning this kata. Hence, in general, only students who have achieved brown-belt level would be eligible to learn Bassai-Dai.
As one of the eight Shitei (compulsory) Katas selected by the World Karate Federation, Bassai-Dai of Shitoryu is strictly standardized in terms of its postures, movements, power, tempo and rhythm. In addition, Bassai-Dai is also listed in the Shitoryu Karatedo syllabi of black-belt upgrading examinations. In view of its high status in Shitoryu Karatedo, when learning Bassai-Dai, Karatedo practitioners should pay great attention to the details of this kata.
In Bassai-Dai, transitions of movements are well-defined and distinct, movements of stances are swift and rapid, sense of rhythm is strong and explicit. Naturally, instances of spontaneous dynamic power-explosion, avalanche of spirit are frequently demonstrated in this kata. Moreover, a variety of prescribed movement-combinations are closely linked in this kata, giving it an extra value of continuity and the sense of one-flow. As a matter of fact, this is an essential quality of Shuri-te; and this makes Bassai-Dai an ideal kata for competition.


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MLK was largely responsible for the nonviolent protest and civil disobedience used in successfully establishing the civil rights movement. This social movement had the goal to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and pushed the enforcement of constitutional voting rights.
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