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Young, restless, reckless? No, it's cool to be helpful
Young Singaporeans are adapting positively to circuit breaker measures with compassion, resilience and responsibility
Mr Owen Tan (above) has raised nearly $1,500 to buy hawker fare for the residents of Thong Teck Home for Senior Citizens. This photo was taken before the nationwide circuit breaker measures kicked in on April 7. PHOTO: OWEN TAN
Jeremy Theseira, SPH Content Studio
Apr 19, 2020, 4:00 am SGT
https://str.sg/JM3n
Young Singaporeans support circuit breaker measures and are adapting positively, says an online poll of 500 youths conducted by the National Youth Council on April 7 and 8.
The findings, from Singaporeans aged 16 to 34, suggest that most of the country's young are taking steps to be socially responsible — and are keen to help others in need.
Four out of five support the circuit breaker measures, which kicked in on April 7, and would adhere to them despite disruptions to their daily lives. Most, or more than seven in 10, said they believed in the measures because they want to stem the spread of the virus and protect their loved ones.
He celebrates birthday by helping elderly be happy
When Mr Owen Tan marks his 30th birthday tomorrow, he will do so with heart and a helping hand for the elderly at Thong Teck Home for Senior Citizens.
And instead of getting birthday presents, he will be giving. Mr Tan will use a portion of the $600 Solidarity Payment from the Government to pad up his efforts to help the folk at the nursing home.
The 178 residents there have become like family over the years. A volunteer at the Home since 2013, Mr Tan has been visiting the residents every two to three months to chat and bring them to nearby hawker centres for meals.
He finds satisfaction in their smiles. He enjoys learning about their past through the stories they share.
But he has had to stop such activities since early February when the nursing home took precautionary measures and suspended visits. And he is concerned because loneliness among older folk can have an impact on their well-being.
"We have to understand that loneliness can be fatal," explains Mr Tan, who is a division lead at the Agency for Integrated Care.
To help, he called for donations and has raised nearly $1,500 to buy and deliver hawker food to the residents and healthcare workers. Residents can ask for certain dishes to enjoy as occasional treats and to keep their spirits up.
Last month, Mr Tan and his friends bought and delivered 360 packets of chicken rice and nasi briyani to the Home. He stressed that the group took added measures to protect the community by wearing masks, taking their temperatures and disclosing their travel history before entering the nursing home.
Mr Tan will deliver more food to the Home tomorrow, but will leave the dishes by the gate in line with elevated safe distancing measures.
His wish for his big day? "I hope to bring some smiles to the seniors on my birthday."'
Moved by family of 7 in one-room flat
Ms Woon Siew Ching, a third-year student at Nanyang Polytechnic, has stepped forward to ease the shortage of volunteers faced by charities like Willing Hearts amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
PHOTO: WOON SIEW CHING
Delivering food to a needy family recently, Ms Woon Siew Ching was moved when she found a family of seven squeezed into a one-room rental flat.
It made her realise that "there's so much more we can do as individuals to give back to those in need". And it strengthened her resolve to help in this time of crisis.
Along with Ms Azeez Raasheeda Fathima, Ms Woon leapt into action when Singapore raised the coronavirus outbreak alert level to orange in February. Both are 19-year-old students.
The change in alert levels prompted Ms Raasheeda, a first-year student at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, to ask herself: "If not you, then who? If not now, then when?"
She decided to volunteer at the Wash-a-Dub-Dub outreach event, organised by Youth Corps Singapore, to teach seniors and the homeless proper handwashing techniques and give them hygiene products.
Launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth and the National Youth Council, Youth Corps Singapore is a national institution that supports youth keen to serve the community.
Ms Raasheeda has since expanded her outreach efforts by volunteering with Willing Hearts, a food charity founded in 2003 that prepares and distributes about 6,500 meals across the island daily.
Ms Azeez Raasheeda Fathima has volunteered at the Wash-a-Dub-Dub outreach event to teach seniors and the homeless proper handwashing techniques and give them hygiene products. PHOTO: AZEEZ RAASHEEDA FATHIMA
Ms Woon, a third-year student at Nanyang Polytechnic, has also stepped forward to ease the shortage of volunteers faced by charities amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
They are among young volunteers with organisations like Willing Hearts and Food from the Heart who help by distributing food packs to needy households.
Making a difference from home
Mr David Hoe created Project Stable Staples, an online platform that collects donations to buy and distribute grocery vouchers to low-income families. PHOTO: DAVID HOE
Instead of complaining about the impact of the circuit breaker measures on his daily life, Mr David Hoe wondered how families in rental flats would be able to manage in these difficult times.
The 33-year-old, who grew up in a one-room rental flat with his mother, knows firsthand the burden of income loss, especially among low-income families depending on part-time work for their livelihoods.
Determined to help, Mr Hoe created Project Stable Staples, an online platform that collects donations to buy and distribute grocery vouchers to low-income families.
Partnering non-profit organisation Bringing Love to Every Single Soul (Bless), they have raised more than $40,000 from about 300 donors over three weeks. The money has been used to buy grocery vouchers, which are mailed to a list of households that Bless has helped through other existing initiatives.
'Leave no one behind'
(From left): Ms Debra Lam and Mr Ryan Ng founded Society Staples in 2015 to support persons with disabilities. PHOTO: DEBRA LAM
Between finding ways to contribute and keeping updated on the latest Covid-19 measures, social entrepreneur Debra Lam felt the need for a centralised platform to raise awareness of the many relief initiatives during this period.
"Without this, I felt that certain communities would risk falling through the gaps," she says.
The 26-year-old is familiar with leveraging digital platforms. In 2015, she co-founded Society Staples, a social enterprise to help persons with disabilities and promote inclusiveness in the community.
The result is a website that collates various activities, initiatives and programmes that the community can tap to cope with the challenges posed by the circuit breaker measures.
On this website, users can access a timetable of fun, online activities, updates and information on Covid-19, home-based learning support, and get help in running errands. There is also a list of local food and beverage businesses that Singaporeans can support.
Society Staples is one of the organisations behind Good Food for Community, a new initiative that gathers various sector partners to supply meals to vulnerable communities affected by Covid-19. You can make a donation at sswithyou.sg
Together, Apart
As a doctor on the front line of the battle to contain the coronavirus outbreak, she is super busy.
Yet, Dr Cheryl Marise Tan still makes time to maintain a social life and keep in touch with her loved ones.
The 26-year-old junior doctor in Tan Tock Seng Hospital's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery has been reassigned to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and screens patients for Covid-19 daily, moving from regular work hours to shift work.
At times, these shifts can last for up to 10 hours a day.
As part of the Ministry of Health's precautionary measures, she has to be garbed in personal protective equipment for long periods of time.
Despite the stresses, life goes on for Dr Tan. She has maintained a balance between her career and personal life with video chat apps such as Skype, Houseparty and Google Hangouts.
These help to keep her in contact with her loved ones. The sporty junior doctor also stays active by organising at-home workouts, which her friends can join through such apps.
When asked about the attitudes of youths towards the circuit breaker measures, National Youth Council chief executive officer David Chua said: "It is heartening to see youth stepping up amidst Covid-19 to do their part in helping to spread positivity and encourage those around them."
Looking for more activities to do from the comfort of your home? Here's a list of websites to check out:
SG United
Families for Life
Advisory.sg
Sswithyou.sg
To help, check out:
The Courage Fund
Giving.sg
Willing Hearts
Project Stable Staples
NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL
COVID-19 - STAY HOME


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SY Komet
by president · September 16, 2015
In the September 2003 issue of Una Voce, Dick Doyle raised a question about the fate of the German gunboat, the Komet, hidden in the spectacular Johan Albrecht Harbour at Witu during the start of WW1. In addition to the following article by Neville Threlfall (published in the March 2004 issue of Una Voce), we received two other responses from Ken Humphreys and Robin Hide. They have described events in greater detail and Robin Hide's gives several websites where further information can be found. All three articles follow.
S.Y KOMET
Built by Bremer Vulcan in 1911 .She was built as a Governor's Yacht for the governor of German New Guinea where she was taken as a prize of war by the Australian Navy and used as a packet boat. She was armed with three 4in guns and renamed H.M.A.S.UNA
The capture of the Komet: Neville Threlfall
(Published in Una Voce, March 2004)
In the second of Dick Doyle's interesting articles about the Witu Islands (Una Voce, September 2003), he raises the subject of the German naval vessel SMS Komet (not Comet) and whether she was towed back to Germany during World War 1. The answer is No, as the vessel was captured by the Australians a few weeks after German New Guinea's Acting Governor surrendered to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force. The story of her movements after the outbreak of the war, and of her capture, are told in both volumes IX and X of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, The Royal Australian Navy by AW Jose and The Australians at Rabaul by SS Mackenzie.
The Komet was not built as a naval vessel, and was classed as a yacht of 977 tons displacement, serving as the administrative vessel within German New Guinea. When war broke out on 4 August 1914 Acting Governor Haber was using the Komet to visit settlements on the mainland of New Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelmsland). News of the war was received by the Komet's wireless; Haber hurried back to Rabaul and landed at Matupit on 14 August. Australian warships had already entered Simpson Harbour on a brief raid, so the Komet was sent away at once, to a bay she had used as an anchorage before, on the north coast of New Britain west of the Willaumez Peninsula. This bay her crew had unofficially named 'Komethafen'. For a few days she dodged about between Komethafen, the Witu Islands and points on the northwest coast of New Britain, then came back to Massawa Bay on the north coast of the Gazelle Peninsula and was commissioned into the German Navy. From there she went north to Angaur in the Palau Islands (part of Germany's Micronesian possessions), but later came south, calling at Durour Island and at Peterhaven in the Witu's before hiding again in Komethafen on 4 October.
Meanwhile the commander of the ANMEF, Colonel Holmes, was anxious to seize the Komet, as under the surrender terms of 17 September all property of the German administration was to come under his control. But Haber insisted that as the Komet had been commissioned into the German Navy, she was no longer the property of the colonial government, and he did not know where she was. A British trader, Stephen Whiteman, a long-term resident of German New Guinea, knew from his contacts with the New Guineans that the missing vessel often used Komethafen as an anchorage, and told Holmes that she would probably be found there. A smaller German government vessel, the Nusa, which had been seized at Kavieng, was hastily fitted with a naval 12-pounder gun and sent to Komethafen with a detachment of soldiers aboard. They took Whiteman as an interpreter, and a Japanese shipowner, Komine, who knew the area, also went with them.
By 10 October 1914 the Nusa was near Komethafen, and learned from local villagers that Komet was indeed at anchor there. At dawn next morning the Nusa steamed into the bay, taking the Komet's crew completely by surprise. Her captain was halfway through his morning shave when the leaders of the Australian expedition boarded his ship! So the Komet was captured without a shot being fired; escorted to Rabaul by the Nusa, she was there commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Una. After a refit at Garden Island naval Dockyard in Sydney Harbour, she served the Australian administrators of German New Guinea for the rest of the war.
The Komet story: Ken Humphreys
Dick Doyle mentioned the German gunboat Komet in his September 2003 article on Witu. Her history during and after 1914 is of some interest. The Komet was a 1438 ton (cf Bulolo 6267t) steam yacht delivered in August 1911 to the Governor of German New Guinea. She replaced the Seestern which had disappeared in June 1909 when returning to Herbertshohe after maintenance in Brisbane.
On 20 July 1914 Acting Governor Dr Haber departed Rabaul on the Komet for Morobe where a station inspection and a short patrol was planned. At the time the OIC Morobe was Hans Klink of Klinki Pine fame. Haber disembarked at Morobe on the 22nd and the Komet was sent to Madang calling at Finschhafen mission enroute to pick up any outward mail. At Madang the Komet would also collect mail for Finschhafen and Morobe that was expected off the Austral-Japan Line Coblenz which had departed Sydney on 25 July with ETA Madang of 4 August. The Coblenz duly arrived at 7am on the 4th. Then on the night of the 5th August prior to 8.50pm the Komet wireless watch started to pick up Morse fragments of telegrams being repeatedly broadcast from Nauru. There were two telegrams that came through loud and clear commencing at 9.10pm:
OK OK GOVERNMENT No. 1
PLANET RABAUL – NAURU – FOR GOVERNOR ENGLAND 4 AUGUST WAR DECLARED
DISTRICT OFFICE KBN (Nauru call sign)
The Planet was the Naval survey vessel working in Simpsonhafen but Nauru did not know that the New Guinea Bita Paka wireless had been receiving since mid July so was able to receive the telegrams. Bita Paka was not able to transmit until 8 August at a weak 8kw which caused Yap to instruct the operators to repeat all words three times. The second telegram was:
GOVERNMENT No. 2
FROM BERLIN NEWS NEWS FOR GOVERNOR RABAUL NAURU NAURU GOVERNMENT No. 2/14 WAR WAR WITH ENGLAND FRANCE RUSSIA CONFIRMED TELEGRAM END OF TELEGRAM
CENTRAL KBN
As it turned out Port Moresby VIG wireless did not learn of the war until 7 August. During the next few days while returning to Morobe the Komet ran long wireless watches monitoring the frantic coded messages between Yap and the East Asia Squadron commandeered by Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. However care was still taken to jot down Sydney copra prices broadcast to Port Moresby via Townsville VIT.
After collecting Dr Haber at Morobe the Komet arrived Matupit at 3.45am on the 14th where she loaded 15 tons of coal at Hernsheims, then headed for Komethafen which was not in the Witu/French Islands but in Eleonara Bay sited between Wilson and Rudiger Points, just west of the Willaumez Peninsula. Colonel Holmes of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF) which was to occupy Rabaul on 12 September thought Komethafen was Tawanakus Bay but that was well to the east of the Willaumez Peninsula near Open Bay. Having arrived at Komethafen on 15 August the Komet laid low until the 27th when she steamed for Witu then Augaur where she coaled the mailboat Prinz Eitel Frederick, now converted to an Auxiliary Cruiser. The Komet bunker had been topped up on the 19th with 250 tons off the Neu Guinea Kompagnie 450t Siar. Then the Komet went on to Palau, then down to Western Island west of Manus for some unknown reason, and home to Komethafen on 4 October.
At dawn on 11 October ANMEF troops on board the 64t steam pinnace Nusa captured the Komet without a shot being fired. It is recorded that the Komet crew were completely surprised, but surely the sound of the Nusa's wood fired engine would have been heard well before she came upon the Komet. The Komet crew consisted of Captain Moeller, five German officers and 52 New Guinea seamen. Moeller was married to the daughter of Lt-General Wylde of the British Army who was visiting Rabaul when war broke out: thus arguably the sole British General to attain the status of a paroled POW in WW1, though only for five weeks. Wouldn't he have some stories when he returned to the regimental mess!
The Komet departed Rabaul on 17 October for Sydney where she was refitted and armed then commissioned on 17 November as the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) sloop HMAS Una. Surprisingly her 280 ton bunker capacity was not enlarged in the refit. She served in the RAN until paid off on 23 August 1919, but was re-commissioned on 27 April 1920 to serve as the official yacht for the inspection of the Australian fleet in Port Philip Bay by the Prince of Wales. Paid off again on 30 June 1920 she was mothballed in Sydney. On 27 January 1925 she was sold to Captain Rose of the Williamstown Pilot Office and renamed Akuna. She remained in the pilot service until 1953: subsequent fate unknown.
A footnote to the Komet story is that on 12 May 1915 Colonel J. Paton of ANMEF HQ Staff was court-martialled in Sydney on a charge of looting cutlery from the Komet. He admitted taking the items in a belief he had a right to mementoes. The court found him not guilty and he was honourably acquitted, a verdict that displeased WM (Billy) Hughes, the Federal Attorney-General. The incident did not affect Paton's career as he ended the war as Major General Paton. One other footnote of interest is the fate of the German Kaiser's yacht Hohenzollern, illustrated on the colonial postage stamps from around 1900. The last information heard was that it was a gambling den in international waters off the American eastern seaboard around 1930?
The German Yacht Komet: Robin Hyde
Following up Dick Doyle's query in the last issue of Una Voce (Sept. 2003, No. 3, p. 33), Dick recounted that the German gunboat Comet (more usually, Komet) was hidden at Witu Island at the start of WW I, and that he had been told it was subsequently towed back to Germany during the War. He asked for further details as, he noted later, he found that hard to believe.
The wartime history of the small ship (977 tons) is partly told in Chapter 8, 'The capture of the Komet', in MacKenzie, S. S. (1934). The Australians at Rabaul: The Capture and Administration of the German Possessions in the Southern Pacific. Volume X Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, pp. 127-137. The Komet was in fact the German Governor's new administrative yacht that managed to evade the Australian fleet that headed to Rabaul in early August 1914. In September, from the Pelew Islands in Micronesia, the Komet headed for Peterhaven on Witu Island, where it remained between at least 29 September and 4 October 1914. (The Komet's movements between July-October 1914 are apparently described more fully in Vol. IX of the Official History, Chapter 4). It then crossed to the northern coast of West New Britain, and hid just west of Talasea.
After news of the Komet's presence reached Rabaul, the armed yacht Nusa (two guns, a 3-pounder, and a 12 pounder), under Commdr J.M.Jackson, with a small infantry force plus machine-gun under Lt-Col Paton, was directed to search for and capture the Komet. The Komet was taken by surprise and surrendered on 11 October near Talasea. An account on the Paton website describes Paton boarding "the Komet brandishing a revolver and took the ship by surprise, finding the captain shaving in his cabin. The entire crew of 57 then surrendered to Paton and the ship was taken to Rabaul and then Sydney as a prize." It also reports that Paton and other officers were subsequently court martialled, but acquitted, for souveniring items from the Komet!
MacKenzie cites Jackson's own account for the major role played by Komine (Isokichi), a leading Japanese businessman resident in Rabaul, in the search for and capture of the Komet. For a more detailed account, from Komine's perspective, readers should consult the most interesting paper by Hiromitsu Iwamoto (1996. "The impact of World War I on Japanese settlers in Papua New Guinea, 1914-1918". South Pacific Study, 16(2), 143-174). According to a note to the excellent photograph of the Komet included in MacKenzie's account (there is also a photograph of her in Frigates, Photofile No. 6), the ship was subsequently armed and commissioned as HMAS Una and stationed in New Guinea waters. At the end of 1918 the Una was sent to Darwin after a "rebellion" against Administrator Gilruth.
Following the war, the Una was apparently sold into service as the pilot boat for the Port Phillip pilot service (renamed as the Akuna), and gave long service at this position with a "legend for rolling on wet grass"(?): she was finally broken up in Melbourne in 1955. However the source of the latter information (which sells model kits of the original ship, and includes technical details), also includes some other undocumented information about possible periods in Sydney and England. This however seems unlikely since the anchor of the Komet is now a memorial on the lawn of the foreshore reserve, Weroona Parade, at Queenscliff, Barwon, in Victoria. According to the official description (Victorian Memorials Database, Region Barwon, Record 30):
The anchor of the German yacht Komet set at an angle in a concrete slab with a signboard attached which reads: 'Borough of Queenscliffe. This anchor was forged in Hamburg in 1911 for the German New Guinea Administrator's yacht Komet. The yacht was captured in New Guinea by Australian forces in 1914 to become H.M.A.S. Una – the Port Phillip Pilot Service acquired the vessel in 1925 and renamed her Akuna. She saw service in Victoria from 1925 to 1954. Her wheel is installed in Wyuna, donated by the Port Phillip Pilot Service'.
While this summary leaves a few loose ends, it doesn't appear that the Komet was towed back to Germany during the War.
And my thanks to Dick Doyle for hospitality at Witu in 1984!
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This is how John remembers...When I got back [from Toronto] there were a few meetings and Allen said, 'Cool it,' 'cause there was a lot to do [with The Beatles] business-wise, and it wouldn't have been suitable at the time. Then we were discussing something in the office with Paul and Paul was saying to do something, and I kept saying, 'No, no, no' to everything he said. So it came to a point that I had to say something. So I said, 'The group's over, I'm leaving.' Allen was there, and he was saying, 'Don't tell.' He didn't want me to tell Paul even. But I couldn't help it, I couldn't stop it, it came out. And Paul and Allen said they were glad that I wasn't going to announce it, like I was going to make an event out of it. I don't know whether Paul said, 'Don't tell anybody,' but he was damn pleased that I wasn't. He said, 'Oh well, that means nothing really happened if you're not going to say anything.' So that's what happened.
This is what Paul said....'I think we should go back to little gigs – I really think we're a great little band. We should find our basic roots, and then who knows what will happen? We may want to fold after that, or we may really think we've still got it.' John looked at me in the eye and said: 'Well, I think you're daft. I wasn't going to tell you till we signed the Capitol deal' – Klein was trying to get us to sign a new deal with the record company – 'but I'm leaving the group!' We paled visibly and our jaws slackened a bit.
I must admit we'd known it was coming at some point because of his intense involvement with Yoko. John needed to give space to his and Yoko's thing. Someone like John would want to end The Beatles period and start the Yoko period; and he wouldn't like either to interfere with the other. But what wasn't too clever was this idea of: 'I wasn't going to tell you till after we signed the new contract.' Good old John – he had to blurt it out. And that was it. There's not a lot you can say to, 'I'm leaving the group,' from a key member.
I didn't really know what to say. We had to react to him doing it; he had control of the situation. I remember him saying, 'It's weird this, telling you I'm leaving the group, but in a way it's very exciting.' It was like when he told Cynthia he was getting a divorce. He was quite buoyed up by it, so we couldn't really do anything: 'You mean leaving'? So that's the group, then...' It was later, as the fact set in, that it got really upsetting.
This is what Ringo said....After the Plastic Ono Band's debut in Toronto, we had a meeting in Savile Row where John finally brought it to its head. He said: 'Well, that's it, lads. Let's end it.' And we all said 'yes'. And though I said 'yes' because it was ending (and you can't keep it together anyway, if this is what the attitude is) I don't know if I would have said, 'End it.' I probably would have lingered another couple of years. But when we all met in the office, we knew it was good. It wasn't sulky and we weren't really fighting. It was like a thought came into the room, and everyone said what they said. John didn't think we should leave, just that we should break it up. It was not: 'I'm leaving, you're leaving.' It was: 'Well, that's it! I've had enough. I want to do this...'
If that had happened in 1965, or 1967 even, it would have been a mighty shock. Now it was just 'let's get the divorce over with', really. And John was always the most forward when it came to nailing anything.


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August Gottwald (* 8. August 1877 in Wien; † 8. Februar 1957 in Haag am Hausruck, Oberösterreich) war ein österreichischer Rechtsanwalt und Politiker.

Leben
Gottwald studierte an der Universität Wien Rechtswissenschaft. 1898 im  Corps Alemannia Wien recipiert, klammerte er dreimal die Erste und einmal die Dritte Charge. 1903 wurde er zum Dr. iur. promoviert. Bis 1910 wirkte er im richterlichen Dienst und eröffnete dann in Haag am Hausruck eine Rechtsanwaltspraxis. Nach dem Kriegsdienst an der serbischen und russischen Front übernahm er 1918 die Kanzleidirektion der örtlichen Sparkasse. 1924 wurde er zum Bürgermeister von Haag am Hausruck gewählt und blieb es bis 1938 und neuerlich von 1945 und 1951. Er war Mitglied im Deutschen Klub. 1934 wurde er Gauführer der Heimwehr und Mitglied der oberösterreichischen Landesleitung der Vaterländischen Front und schließlich zwischen 1934 und 1938 Mitglied des Staatsrates. Er bekleidete führende Positionen in der Wirtschaft. Eine Zeitlang war er im KZ Dachau. Er war mit der Tochter eines Rechtsanwaltes verheiratet und hatte zwei Töchter.

Ehrungen
 Orden der Eisernen Krone (Österreich) III. Klasse
 Militärverdienstkreuz (Österreich) III. Klasse
 Bandverleihung des Corps Vandalia Graz (1927)
 Österreichischer Verdienstorden (1934), Ritterkreuz
 Ehrenpräsident des oberösterreichischen Landesverbandes der Sparkassen

Literatur
 Harry Slapnicka: Oberösterreich – Die politische Führungsschicht 1918 bis 1938. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-163-X, S. 103.
 Gertrude Enderle-Burcel: Christlich – ständisch – autoritär. Mandatare im Ständestaat 1934–1938. Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2, S. 89–90.

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Einzelnachweise

Mitglied des Staatsrates (Österreich)
Bürgermeister (Haag am Hausruck)
Rechtsanwalt (Österreich)
Mitglied des Deutschen Klubs (Verein)
Corpsstudent (19. Jahrhundert)
VF-Mitglied
Häftling im KZ Dachau
Person im Ersten Weltkrieg (Österreich-Ungarn)
Träger des Ordens der Eisernen Krone (III. Klasse)
Träger des Österreichischen Militärverdienstkreuzes III. Klasse
Träger des Ritterkreuzes des österreichischen Verdienstordens (1934)
Absolvent der Universität Wien
Person (Haag am Hausruck)
Österreicher
Geboren 1877
Gestorben 1957
Mann


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In the Crocodile Gardens (Agape Editions, 2016). Poetry.
Limerence & Lux (Chax, 2016). Poetry. Limited run.
Of the Divining and the Dead (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Poetry.
—Carol Muske-Dukes, author of Twin Cities & Sparrow, former poet laureate of CA.
This collection is a lyric tour-de-force, with its pliant sonic imagination, finely knotting sensory and visceral illuminations with the otherworldly; the poet is an acrobat, steady yet tenuously balanced, on the edge of a world, delivered like a pearl, from the clutch of the inarticulate. Long after we have read them, these poems, their uncanny landscapes and acts of shadowy divination, will haunt, undoing and remaking us.
—Susan McCabe, author of Swirl and Descartes' Nightmare.
Saba Razvi's Of the Divining and the Dead is timeless, sensual, and spiritually charged. Razvi's words make haunting and riveting images come alive.
—Leah Maines, author of Beyond the River.


To encourage cycling in all its forms and to encourage the individual cyclist to reach their own unique cycling goals.
Limited Edition has been created as a result of a combination of issues.
Limited Edition hopes to tackle all these issues to create an all inclusive, friendly, welcoming club at all levels and for all reasons.
Occasionally rides will start at different venues, but this will be stated with the ride.
Ollie works full time as a Healthy Walks Coordinator and is also a Bikeability Instructor, a British Cycling Level 2 Coach with a specialism in Road and Time Trial, British Cycling Route Planner and Ride Leader and holds a City and Guilds qualification in Cycle Maintenance and Repair. Ollie used to cycle as a child, charging around the estate on her fold up Raleigh, complete with shopping basket! She returned to cycling when her daughter joined a Go-ride Club, accompanying her to coaching sessions before eventually buying a road bike and joining a club herself. Ollie likes riding through country lanes, the occassional time trial for fun and sharing her knowledge and experience to enthuse others. Ollie also likes cooking, walking and gardening.


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title: Using the LocalSourceDataProvider
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# Using the LocalSourceDataProvider

**LocalDataSourceProvider** is one of the data providers that can be used with **RadPivotGrid** and **RadPivotFieldList**. It provides data access to local source such as an IList of instances of user defined classes. In fact any collection that implements the IEnumerable interface can be used as a LocalDataSourceProvider.

## Defining LocalDataSourceProvider

You can create an object of type **LocalDataSourceProvider** and assign it to RadPivotGrid. The LocalDataSourceProvider has an **ItemSource** property and it is mandatory to set it if you want to display any data. The following code snippet demonstrates this:

#### Set ItemSource

{{source=..\SamplesCS\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.cs region=InitializeProvider}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.vb region=InitializeProvider}}

````C#
LocalDataSourceProvider dataProvider = new LocalDataSourceProvider();
dataProvider.ItemsSource = dataset.Orders;

````
````VB.NET
Dim dataProvider As New LocalDataSourceProvider()
dataProvider.ItemsSource = dataset.Orders

````

{{endregion}}

>note The **ItemSource** can be any collection that implements IEnumerable interface or even a DataTable.
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## Adding Group Descriptions Collections

>note When initializing the LocalDataSourceProvider it is a good idea to wrap all modifications in **BeginInit/EndInit** section. This will refresh the data provider only once when the EndInit is called. If you are applying only modifications (more than one) on already initialized **LocalDataSourceProvider** you need use the **DeferRefresh** method which will cause delay of the Refresh and this way all changes will be applied simultaneously.
>

The **LocalDataSourceProvider** is using four different collections for the data that it holds:

* __RowGroupDescription__: The data added to this description will be shown as rows headers in RadPivotGrid and RadPivotFieldList. The properties can be defined as **PropertyGroupDescription**, **DateTimeGroupDescription**, **DoubleGroupDescription** or you can create custom implementation of **PropertyGroupDescriptionBase** class. Here's how to define the row group descriptions in your application:

#### Add Row Descriptions

{{source=..\SamplesCS\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.cs region=RowGroupDescriptions}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.vb region=RowGroupDescriptions}}

````C#
dataProvider.BeginInit();
dataProvider.RowGroupDescriptions.Add(new DateTimeGroupDescription() { PropertyName = "OrderDate", Step = DateTimeStep.Year, GroupComparer = new GroupNameComparer() });
dataProvider.RowGroupDescriptions.Add(new DateTimeGroupDescription() { PropertyName = "OrderDate", Step = DateTimeStep.Quarter, GroupComparer = new GroupNameComparer() });
dataProvider.RowGroupDescriptions.Add(new DateTimeGroupDescription() { PropertyName = "OrderDate", Step = DateTimeStep.Month, GroupComparer = new GroupNameComparer() });
dataProvider.EndInit();

````
````VB.NET
dataProvider.BeginInit()
dataProvider.RowGroupDescriptions.Add(New DateTimeGroupDescription() With { _
 .PropertyName = "OrderDate", _
 .[Step] = DateTimeStep.Year, _
 .GroupComparer = New GroupNameComparer() _
})
dataProvider.RowGroupDescriptions.Add(New DateTimeGroupDescription() With { _
 .PropertyName = "OrderDate", _
 .[Step] = DateTimeStep.Quarter, _
 .GroupComparer = New GroupNameComparer() _
})
dataProvider.RowGroupDescriptions.Add(New DateTimeGroupDescription() With { _
 .PropertyName = "OrderDate", _
 .[Step] = DateTimeStep.Month, _
 .GroupComparer = New GroupNameComparer() _
})
dataProvider.EndInit()

````

{{endregion}}

* __ColumnGroupDescription__: The data added to this description will be shown as columns headers in RadPivotGrid and RadPivotFieldList. The properties can be defined as **PropertyGroupDescription**, **DateTimeGroupDescription**, **DoubleGroupDescription** or you can create custom implementation of **PropertyGroupDescriptionBase** class.Here's how to define the column group descriptions in your application:

#### Add Columns Descriptions

{{source=..\SamplesCS\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.cs region=ColumnGroupDescriptions}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.vb region=ColumnGroupDescriptions}}

````C#
dataProvider.ColumnGroupDescriptions.Add(new PropertyGroupDescription() { PropertyName = "EmployeeID", GroupComparer = new GrandTotalComparer() });

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````VB.NET
dataProvider.ColumnGroupDescriptions.Add(New PropertyGroupDescription() With { _
 .PropertyName = "EmployeeID", _
 .GroupComparer = New GrandTotalComparer() _
})

````

{{endregion}}

* __AggregateDescriptions__: The data added to this description will be aggregated and included in RadPivotGrid as cells. The properties can be defined as **PropertyAggregateDescription** or you can create custom implementation of **PropertyAggregateDescriptionBase** class.

>note The __PropertyAggregateDescriptionBase__ defines an __IgnoreNullValues__ property determining whether the aggregate function will ignore *null* values when calculating the result. The default value of the property is __false__.
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Here's how to define the aggregate descriptions in your application:

#### Add Aggregate Descriptions

{{source=..\SamplesCS\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.cs region=AggregateDescriptions}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.vb region=AggregateDescriptions}}

````C#
dataProvider.BeginInit();
dataProvider.AggregateDescriptions.Add(new PropertyAggregateDescription() { PropertyName = "Freight", AggregateFunction = AggregateFunctions.Sum });
dataProvider.AggregateDescriptions.Add(new PropertyAggregateDescription() { PropertyName = "Freight", AggregateFunction = AggregateFunctions.Average });
dataProvider.EndInit();

````
````VB.NET
dataProvider.BeginInit()
dataProvider.AggregateDescriptions.Add(New PropertyAggregateDescription() With { _
 .PropertyName = "Freight", _
 .AggregateFunction = AggregateFunctions.Sum _
})
dataProvider.AggregateDescriptions.Add(New PropertyAggregateDescription() With { _
 .PropertyName = "Freight", _
 .AggregateFunction = AggregateFunctions.Average _
})
dataProvider.EndInit()

````

{{endregion}}

* __FilterDescriptions__: The data added to this description will be filtered and after that included in RadPivotGrid. The properties can be defined as **PropertyFilterDescription** or you can create custom implementation of **PropertyFilterDescriptionBase** class.

#### Add Filter Descriptions

{{source=..\SamplesCS\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.cs region=FilterDescriptions}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.vb region=FilterDescriptions}}

````C#
dataProvider.FilterDescriptions.Add(new PropertyFilterDescription() { PropertyName = "ShipCountry", CustomName = "Country" });

````
````VB.NET
dataProvider.FilterDescriptions.Add(New PropertyFilterDescription() With { _
 .PropertyName = "ShipCountry", _
 .CustomName = "Country" _
})

````

{{endregion}}

## Adding Property Descriptors

All property description classes are inheriting the abstract class **DescriptionBase**. That's why all of them have the following properties:

* __PropertyName__: This is the most important property. It must be set to the property of the data that will be represented with this property description.

* __CustomName__: Sets the name that will be shown instead of the property name in RadPivotGrid and RadPivotFieldList.

Here is a list of the property descriptions that you can use:

* __PropertyGroupDescription__: Available for RowGroupDescriptions and ColumnGroupDescriptions.

* __DoubleGroupDescription__: Available for RowGroupDescriptions and ColumnGroupDescriptions. Used when the data is of type Double. One of the important properties is Step - it is used to define the size of the generated groups.

* __DateTimeGroupDescription__: Available for RowGroupDescriptions and ColumnGroupDescriptions. Used when the data is of type DateTime. Very useful is the Step property where you can set if the grouping should be on day, month or year.

* __PropertyFilterDescription__: Available for FilterDescriptions only. The important property here is Condition as the filtering is done based on it. You can use four conditions: ComparisonCondition, IntervalCondition, SetCondition, TextCondition.

* __PropertyAggregateDescription__: Available for AggregateDescriptions only. You have to define the AggregateFunction that will be used. You can choose between various predefined functions like Average, Sum, Min, Max etc.

## Applying the Data Provider to RadPivotGrid

To apply the already defined data provider, use the following property:

#### Set Data Provider

{{source=..\SamplesCS\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.cs region=ApplyingDataProvider}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.vb region=ApplyingDataProvider}}

````C#
this.radPivotGrid1.DataProvider = dataProvider;

````
````VB.NET
Me.RadPivotGrid1.DataProvider = dataProvider

````

{{endregion}}

## The Culture Property

The groups formed by the **DateTimeGroupDescription** as well as the number format of the values formed by the **DoubleGroupDescription** both depend on the current culture. For example, in some cultures weeks start on Saturday but in others they start on Monday which will result in different values when the grouping step is Week. To change the culture of the **LocalDataSourceProvider**, just set its Culture property.

#### Provider Culture

{{source=..\SamplesCS\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.cs region=culture}}
{{source=..\SamplesVB\PivotGrid\PopulatingWithData\PivotGridUsingTheLocalSourceDataProvider.vb region=culture}}

````C#
dataProvider.Culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE");

````
````VB.NET
dataProvider.Culture = New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE")

````

{{endregion}}

# See Also

* [Smart Tag]({%slug winforms/pivotgrid/design-time/property-builder%})
* [Design Time Data Binding]({%slug winforms/pivotgrid/populating-with-data/design-time-data-binding%})
* [Using the DataSource property]({%slug winforms/pivotgrid/populating-with-data/using-the-datasource-property%})


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Home | Search | Phrase Dictionary | By the skin of your teeth
The meaning and origin of the expression: By the skin of your teeth
By the skin of your teeth
What's the meaning of the phrase 'By the skin of your teeth'?
Narrowly; barely. Usually used in regard to a narrow escape from a disaster.
What's the origin of the phrase 'By the skin of your teeth'?
The phrase first appears in English in the Geneva Bible, 1560, in Job 19:20, which provides a literal translation of the original Hebrew:
"I haue escaped with the skinne of my tethe."
Teeth don't have skin, of course, so the writer may have been alluding to the teeth's surface or simply to a notional minute measure - something that might now be referred to, with less poetic imagery than the biblical version, as 'as small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock'.


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Employment for Adults with an Intellectual Disability
Tagged: disability
This essay is going to discuss the discrimination faced within all aspects of employment by adults with disabilities. Employment has been defined as the right to work 'on an equal basis with others, which includes the right to the opportunity to gain a living by work freely chosen or accepted in a labour market and work environment that is open, inclusive and accessible to disabled people' (United Nations 2007). While being a universal human right, gaining employment is also a rite of passage in the majority of people's lives and often marks the beginning of adulthood, however, living as an adult with an intellectual disability, this can prove immensely challenging. Employment holds a large influence on a person's social inclusion making it an important issue for people with disabilities, along with the economic benefit of holding employment. According to the National Disability Authority (NDA) if you have a disability, you are only half as likely than others to be employed by the time you reach the working age. From looking at previous research, it indicates a lower employment rate among people with a disability, also shows high instability of employment for those that hold a job (Holmes, 2007). This research essay will discuss the various barriers and discrimination that people with disabilities are faced with while gaining and retaining employment in Ireland including the prevalent employment process of sheltered workshops. Statistics will be discussed to get a view of where people with disabilities are placed in society. It will also look to relevant policy and legislation are in place regarding employment for people with a disability and how it affects them.
Enshrined in Article 23 of the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights is that everyone has the right to work with a free choice of employment and unfortunately this is not the case for everyone, a large number of people are not receiving this human right due to them having an intellectual disability. There is a considerable amount of ways people define a 'disability' resulting in skewed statistics, Census 2006 indicated approximately 400,000 people reported a disability, which is 9% of the population. While five years later, the census 2011 showed about 600,000 people reported having a disability, or about 13% of the population, these change in numbers was a result of what a disability was defined as. Participation in the labour market for disabled people remain lower than participation rates for the general population (Banks et al., 2018: p.2). Regardless of the type of employment, sheltered or paid, too few of adults with disabilities are experiencing it (Andrews & Rose 2010; Migliore et al. 2008).
In terms of the employment statistics for people with disabilities, 6.6% of the population were in real paid employment, 7.4% in perceived employment, 12% in sheltered employment and 73.5% were unemployed (McGlinchey et al., 2013). Perceived employment relates to individuals associating a certain place they go every day as their job or work, such as a day service they attend. The small percentage of people in real paid employment were receiving an average of 77 euro as their weekly wage, which is dismal, comparing this to the 12% in sheltered workshops the average weekly wage was 26 euro. These minuscule monetary amounts represent wages that would simply not be accepted by an individual without a disability, therefore people with disabilities are not being treated equally and receiving the right of employment they are entitled too.
In Ireland, a sheltered workshop is defined as 'work undertaken by people with disabilities in workshops specifically established for that purpose. It is known in Europe, it is the most broadly used employment method of people with intellectual disabilities (Mallender et al., 2015). A great disadvantage along with the low-income levels of sheltered work is the large segregation it creates from the community. An area that has been neglect by research is the effect of this segregation on the individuals working in these types of sheltered organisations, being separated from the wider community resulting in no level of social inclusion. Jobs that return low psychosocial rewards and also hold a poor-quality work environment have been reported to carry equal risk of depressive symptomatology as being unemployed (Butterworth et al. 2011). It is also suggested that those who source real paid employment have a higher quality of life than those without and also increased social incorporation (Kober & Eggleton 2005). Many reports have shown that individuals with an intellectual disability enjoy going to their 'job', giving them a routine and structure to their weeks. There has always been strong debate on the process of these workshops being effective or being a means of exploitation. While there are numerous negatives associated with aspects of sheltered workshops it is impossible to say it doesn't also hold some positive properties. One of the biggest arguments includes that without the facilities of the sheltered workshops, people with intellectual individuals would be completely isolated without anything to do. The workshops do provide an outlet for people to go to providing them with an opportunity to socialise and to meet other people with disabilities. In the case of people with disabilities being unable to provide substantial work of economic value, sheltered workshops adhere to it being possible for these individuals to work (Corley,2014). It is argued that the debate of the wage level is disputable as it is not an adult's single income, it acts as an added payment, as sheltered workshops pay is extra to money already being received in the form of social welfare disability benefits (May-Simera, 2018). However, despite the few positives that are seen from the process of sheltered workshops they are still viewed by disability experts in a negative light, claiming these workshops adhere to old fashioned expectations that people with IDs are unfit for work and as a result have no impact on society (May-Simera, 2018: p.4).
Smart (2004:25-29) believes that the models of disability serve a number of difference purposes, such as providing definitions of disability and shaping the identities of people who have disabilities. There are two models of disability that are relevant to this topic of employment, the charity model and the medical model. The charity model depicts people with a disability as people to be pitied and sufferers. The types of work that are the most widely available to people with disabilities include sheltered workshops. The settings of these sheltered workshops are usually run by non-governmental organisations, for-profit or charitable organizations, either privately or on behalf of the State relating to both the charity and medical model (Samoy and Waterplas 1992). An outcome of these workshops can be the lack of transition with people remaining in these for long periods of time result in more segregation (Gottlieb et al. 2010). Looking back to the past and earliest history of sheltered workshops, its shown that the settings have largely evolved from religious or medical institutions and were therefore run corresponding to an ethos of the charity and medical models of disability.
There have been few changes to policy and legislation in recent years in relation to employment for people with disabilities. A key policy that covers many aspects of disability, including employment is the National Disability Strategy (2017-2021). The most recent policy initiative being The Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with a Disability 2015–2024 (Department of Justice and Equality, 2015). This sets out a ten-year plan of action in being certain that people with disabilities, who can and want to work, are supported and enabled to do so. It is focusing on the importance of financial security and independence in employment, it aims to make sure people with disabilities who choose they want to work are enabled to do so.
From doing research on this topic, it is clear to see that discrimination towards people with disabilities is still prominent. High unemployment rates are a key reason for the strong link between disabilities and poverty. Both unemployment and poverty are likely to have a disproportionate effect on people with disabilities compared with other sectors of the population. Improved and renewed policies need to be put in place to ensure less exclusion and to get rid of the high chance of poverty on the person with a disability. To conclude, people with intellectual disabilities are not being treated fairly, facing high levels of discrimination in relation to their human right of employment. It would benefit the situation at hand to focus more on what the individuals are asking for, this may be done by more surveys, reports and in-depth research on the self-advocates. From working together with the self-advocates for this module, it was evident that some of them enjoyed when they previously attending a sheltered workshop, where they folded tea towels. I believe this may be the case due to their dependence on daily routine. Regarding the protection of people of individuals working in sheltered workshops, measures need to be implemented to introduce employment protection legislation to ensure the status of individuals is protected. Expenditure needs to be used on creating a maintainable way of creating an employment system for people with disabilities. What has been see is the Government Pilot Programme on Employment of People with Disabilities (PEP) has been a positive reaction from the government. This programme requires immediate and altered and improved as needed. I believe the quota in place regarding the percentage that ,must be employed in public service jobs but be increased as a matter of urgency, since being set at 3% in 1977, this quota target has only been hit for the first time in the last four years. In order for people with disabilities to gain more access to real paid jobs, managers and training staff of a business should be required to complete training to be more aware and educated on disabilities, this initiative could be done with the involvement of the individuals with disabilities.
As a future social care practitioner, with a keen interest in working with adults with disabilities, I believe there is a huge area available to create awareness and advocate for the individuals. From working with the self-advocates and having my own attitudes and perceptions changed within such a short time frame, I believe time needs to be taken with other people who hold negative perceptions of the abilities of people with disabilities.
Andrews A. & Rose J. L. (2010) A preliminary investigation of
factors affecting employment motivation in people with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 7, 239–244.
Banks (2018) study https://www.ihrec.ie/app/uploads/2018/09/Disability-and-Discrimination.pdf
Butterworth P., Leach L. S., Strazdins L., Olesen S. C.,Rodgers B. & Broom D. H. (2011) The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: results from a longitudinal national household panel survey. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 68, 806–812.
Corley, Cheryl. 2014. Subminimum Wages for the Disabled: Godsend or Exploitation? National Public Radio, Morning Edition, April 23.
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office bag transition. | escaped.
You know when people say as you grow older, your bag becomes bigger and full with stuffs you didn't imagine you'd need when you were younger.
HOW COME IT'S NOT IN MY CASE?!
Once, back in Japan, my bag used to be filled with make-ups, all sorts of keys, even perfume! (refer this post, if you remember) And you know what my bag looks like now?
Yes, I'm back to my Tokidoki phase :) And as you can see, currently my bag is filled with my purse, a compact powder, tissues, lip balm, keys and my apartment pass.
And that's it. When I used to carry all sorts of makeup with me back then.
I AM SUCH A GRANDMA NOWADAYS.
But to think of it, really, I don't need so many stuffs with me nowadays except the essentials; what more with the hectic schedule running around the office and home every single day. So glad I still keep my old Tokidoki bag; cause it's really convenient to carry my stuffs to office when I don't have to take a big heavy handbag.
The Tokidoki print is also becoming more popular among the colleagues now; I find it interesting that most of them didn't know about the brand. In Japan, LeSportsac is so popular especially among the older women that 70% of them actually owned at least ONE LeSportsac travel bag.
Now if only I had more small bags..
hello! thank you :) yea lets keep in touch!


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Los Angeles Premiere of Modern-Day Morality Play 'Everybody' by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins Boasts San Diego-Based Creative Team.
Currently Playing at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center Until October 17
Cast of Everybody. Photo by Jenny Graham
Life's greatest mystery: the meaning of living. Antaeus Theatre Company presents the Los Angeles premiere of Everybody, a funny, provocative and very modern riff on a 15th-century morality play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Jennifer Chang, who received her M.F.A. at the University of California, San Diego, directs. Performances take place at Glendale's Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center from September 16 through October 17, with low-priced previews beginning September 11.
Adapted from the medieval morality play Everyman (or The Summoning of Everyman), Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody is an allegorical journey through life in which the title character, "Everybody," searches for a companion—"Somebody"—who will accompany them to their appointment with "Death." Overseeing Everybody's quest are "God," "Time" and "Love." Representing the randomness of death, the roles of Everybody and the Somebodies, who number among them "Friendship," "Beauty" and "Stuff," are assigned by lottery at every performance — resulting in 120 possible combinations. Each of these actors must memorize the entire script and be prepared to play any role.
Antonio Jaramillo, who grew up in San Diego, and Gerard Joseph, recipient of an M.F.A. from UCSD, are two of the five actors whose role is determined by lottery at each performance. Scenic designer Nicholas Ponting and projections designer Yi-Chien Lee each earned their M.F.A. at UCSD, while lighting designer Brian Ealey and sound designer Salvador Zamora — also a San Diego native — are both currently enrolled as M.F.A. candidates.
Also in the cast are Anne Gee Byrd (recently seen in This Random World at San Diego's North Coast Repertory); Harry Groener (an associate artist at The Old Globe); Dawn Didawick (A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Old Globe); Alberto Isaac (Dogeaters at the La Jolla Playhouse); and Lisa Sanaye Dring, Cherish Monique Duke and Nicole Erb.
Lisa Sanaye Dring in Everybody. Photo by Jenny Graham
"I've always been a huge fan of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's writing and his playful approach to intense topics, such as, in this case, life and death," says Chang. "It's an important reminder to us all to appreciate life because we don't know how long we've got."
Everybody premiered off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in 2017 and was a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Huffington Post calls it "theater rather unlike anything you might have seen…unusual, unconventional and eye-opening… not only provocative and involving, it is also funny. Wildly funny, in fact."
Jennifer Chang is a multi-disciplinary artist whose recent directing credits include the opera On Gold Mountain by Nathan Wang and Lisa See with LA Opera at the Huntington and The Great Leap by Lauren Yee at Round House Theatre. Jennifer won the 2019 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her direction of the Los Angeles premiere of Vietgone by Qui Nguyen at East West Players. She was a 2018 Drama League New York Fellow, directing the world premiere of Mara Nelson-Greenberg's The Clitorish and serving as assistant director on the Broadway world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer. She is a founding member and co-artistic director of Chalk Repertory Theatre, where her work has been honored with an Ovation, an LA Weekly Award and a Stage Scene LA "Scenie" award. Other select directing credits include Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park at the Fountain Theatre in association with East West Players; Death and Cockroaches by Eric Reyes Loo for Chalk Rep; Animals Out of paper by Rajiv Joseph at East West Players (L.A. Times "Critics Pick"); Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them for Artists at Play (GLAAD Media Award, Stage Scene LA "Scenie" award for best director, Ovation nominated); and Our American Story and Residence Elsewhere (commissioned for the 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066) at the Japanese American National Museum.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who The New York Times calls "one of this country's most original and illuminating writers," is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose other credits include Girls (Yale Rep), War (world premiere, Yale Rep; LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Echo Theater Company in L.A.; Pulitzer Prize finalist), Appropriate (Signature Theatre; Mark Taper Forum; OBIE Award), An Octoroon (Soho Rep.; Fountain Theatre in L.A.; OBIE Award), and Neighbors (The Public Theater; Matrix Theatre Company in L.A.). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his most recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwriting, a MacArthur Fellowship (commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant"), the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Jacobs-Jenkins has taught at NYU, Juilliard, Hunter College, and the University of Texas-Austin, and he recently joined the faculty at Yale University.
Antaeus is an actor-driven theater company that explores and produces timely and timeless works, grounded in its passion for the classics. The company illuminates diverse human experiences through performance, training and outreach. It believes in the transformative power of live theater.
Nicole Erb, Gerard Joseph and Harry Groener. Photo-by-Jenny-Graham
The Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center complements Glendale's ongoing commitment to integrate vibrant arts space into the fabric of city life, ensuring the arts remain accessible to all. Located just a few blocks away from The Americana at Brand and the remodeled Glendale Central Library as well as the Alex Theatre, the center promises to build upon Glendale's growing reputation as an arts and entertainment destination. The center includes an 80-seat theater, a reconfigurable 36-seat performance/classroom space, and a theater classics library.
Performances of Everybody begin Friday, Sept. 16, with performances continuing on Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m.; and Mondays at 8 p.m. through October 17 (no matinee on Saturday, Sept. 17; dark Monday, Sept. 19).. There will be two additional performances on Thursday, Oct. 6 and Thursday, Oct. 13, each at 8 p.m. Four preview performances take place September 11 through September 15. Tickets to all performances are $40; tickets to previews are $20.
The Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center is located at 110 East Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205 (between N. Brand Blvd. and Artsakh Ave.). The first 90 minutes of parking is free, then $2 per hour, in Glendale Marketplace garage located at 120 Artsakh Ave. (between Broadway and Harvard). The theater is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible.
For reservations and information, call 818-506-1983 or go to www.antaeus.org.
en Thursday, September 15, 2022
Etiquetas: Antaeus Theatre Company, english, Los Angeles, press release, Theatre


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Leaving Holyhead Marina, we pass the longest breakwater in the UK. We head around the island of North Stack, with its old fog warning station built in 1851, and swing into Gogarth Bay. You get a unique view down into the caves and you can look up in wonder at some of the highest sea cliffs in Wales. The sea cliffs at Gogarth are over 100m in places and create a dramatic backdrop as they run ruggedly around the bay.
As we head to the island of South Stack, we will spot some star species that call this dramatic landscape their home, including Chough, Guillemot, Peregrine, Puffin and Razorbill at the RSPB South Stack Cliffs nature reserve. We will also see the spectacular South Stack lighthouse, built in 1809, before we return.
Very occasionally, in adverse weather conditions, we can't reach our trip destination and may need to change our route for safety reasons. We want to provide an adventure boat tour that is both safe and highly enjoyable.
You could get wet, so please dress appropriately.
This trip departs from Holyhead Marina, LL65 1YA and the experience is 1 hours in duration.
Trips start in May 2015, scheduled trips can viewed on our booking system 'book-boat-trip-online'.
Adult tickets from Holyhead Marina, a 1 hour adventure, are £34.
Sat Nav post code LL651YA.
Head towards Holyhead, look out for the signs to Holyhead Marina follow those until you arrive. When you turn into the marina, there are spaces for parking up on the left hand side. Once parked head towards the 'Marina Stores Cafe Bar', here you can buy a nice coffee from Penny and her team and watch the Explorer boat return from its previous trip.


What others say about chiropractic care can help you make the right health care choice. Review a selection of Smith Chiropractic Clinic patient testimonials below and please email me or contact the office if you have any questions.
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I have been a patient of Dr. Smith for over 15 years. I have Multiple Sclerosis and scoliosis. Dr. Smith is very skillful at identifying the cause of my pain and alleviating it. Also, I have neurological dysfunction which Dr. Smith's treatments have greatly improved. I would be totally wheelchair bound today without Dr. Smith's care and treatments. The staff at Smith Chiropractic are compassionate and easy to work with. I highly recommend Smith Chiropractic Clinic.
I originally went to Dr Andy Smith for pain in my back, neck, arm and hands. After a couple of months I have no lower back or hand pain, my arm and neck are much better and continuing to improve. And a couple of added benefits I didn't expect. One is that my blood pressure is significantly lower; I've been able to cut my BP Meds in half. The other is that my head has always tilted slightly to the right, I noticed in a new ID pic last week that it's no longer tilted. Chiropractic really does work!
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– Brian and Sandra C.
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I thank God everyday for Dr. Andy Smith and his Chiropractic practice. I have had chronic and acute pain in my back and knees for years now, and his expertise and positive reassuring approach have made a remarkable change to my pain and activity levels. He took a complete medical history, x-rays and blood work to establish my health needs, he asked what my goals were for treatment, and listened carefully. He outlined the treatment plan he would like to implement, but left it up to me to select the extent and pace that worked best for me and my goals. I have improved steadily over the last year and 4 months. I exercise regularly without pain and can perform my job without discomfort. I highly recommend Dr. Andy Smith and his wonderful staff.
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Deepika Padukone and Hrithik Roshan to star in Farah Khan's Satte Pe Satta remake
Pub: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 8:52 PM | Upd: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 8:52 PM
Looks like actors Hrthik Roshan and Deepika Padukone are set to reprise the roles originally played by Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini in the remake of much-loved comedy of the 1980s, Satte Pe Satta. According to a report in Pinkvilla, the two actors will star in the film, to be directed by Farah Khan. It will be a Rohit Shetty production.
In February this year, Rohit and Farah has announced that they would be collaborating on a project together. Rohit has posted a picture of the two together and written that she would direct a film produced by him. He wrote: "Farah Khan directs the biggest action comedy flick for Rohit Shetty Picturez. Welcome to the Family Farah. Let's fly together." Farah too have tweeted about it.
According to the report, a source that Deepika was a unanimous choice for both. The source said: "Both Farah and Rohit wanted Deepika Padukone in the movie because not only do they love her but she fits the role to the T. When DP debuted, everyone felt she had an uncanny resemblance to Hema ji in terms of her beauty as well. When Farah narrated the story to DP, she loved it and instantly gave her nod." Deepika has done the super hit film Chennai Express with Rohit before, while Farah was the one who launched Deepika into filmdom with Om Shanti Om and later worked with her in happy New Year too.
Deepika and Hrithik remain busy with their respective films — while Hrithik's Super 30 is set to hit the screens on July 12, Deepika has completed her commitments in Meghna Gulzar's Chhapaak and is shooting for a small role in Kabir Khan's 83. The latter stars her husband Ranveer Singh as former cricketer Kapil Dev, with Deepika playing his wife Romi Dev.
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      <text xml:space="preserve">Pears are [[tree]]s of the [[genus]] Pyrus and the edible [[fruit]] of that tree.
The pear is an important fruit in temperate regions. Like the [[apple]], the pear fruit is a [[pome]]. There are thousands of domesticated pear varieties.

There are many species of pears. The most important for fruit production are Pyrus communis (European pear or simply pear) and Pyrus pyrifolia (Asian pear or apple pear). Other species are used as rootstocks for European and Asian pears and as ornamental trees.

Unlike most fruits, European pears do not ripen on the tree. They must be picked and, sometimes, subjected to cold, before they will become sweet and soft. They store well in their mature but unripe state if kept cold. Asian pears are sweet on the tree and are eaten crisp.

Pears are consumed fresh, canned, and as juice. Fermented pear juice is called [[perry]].

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