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Camo & Krooked detail pivoting to singles, upcoming Red Bull Vienna shows, and working with Jeru The Damaja [Interview]
Festival January 11, 2020 0 Comments
For veterans holding more than 12 years of music-making, Camo & Krooked continue to ignite the drum 'n' bass scene with the fresh energy of newcomers. The Austrian duo consisting of Reinhard Reitsch and Markus Wagner have proved an indomitable force since their formation in 2007—signing to mammoth Hospital Records and winning the Drum&BassArena's Best Newcomers DJs Award just three years after their debut. After captivating listeners with their explosive debut album, Above & Beyond, Camo & Krooked went on to assert themselves as ambassadors of multi-genre productions in their colorful exploration of d'n'b and its relationship to electronic music as a whole.
If d'n'b were a canvas, the color palette would be sub-genres and the painters: Camo & Krooked. Fundamentally loyal to their d'n'b roots while welcoming intuitive influences from dubstep, house, techno, grime, electro-house, and more, the d'n'b influencers have made it their standard to challenge the boundaries of genre-centric lines and push the sonic expectations exceedingly further.
They have embraced dubstep in their hit single "All Fall Down," emulated disco in Zeitgeist, played off hip-hop in their 2019 single, "Set It Off" featuring Jeru The Damaja, and recreated their d'n'b sound with ever-cinematic expressions in their latest UKF10's "Atlas" VIP remix. Now, with two massive orchestral Vienna shows locked in, a highly anticipated Rampage performance, and a pipeline of new music, Camo & Krooked are poised to take on 2020.
Dancing Astronaut sat down to catch up with Camo & Krooked on their pivot to single releases, insights into their Red Bull Vienna show, and the creative process behind "Set It Off."
For a while, you were quiet on the music front, but 2019 was a massive year of releases with "Atlas," "Sidewinder," and recently "Set It Off" among other tracks. Will 2020 be a music-centric year as well or focus more on the tour side?
We are completely back on track musically so 2020 will continue along the lines of 2019 with lots of new music, trying to evolve in music production skills and find new directions. Really loving writing music at the moment!
You mentioned that the two of you went into studio hibernation to concentrate on new music. Do we have a new album in store?
We are planning on working single-based, as it leaves us more freedom of creativity and we can fully concentrate on one track at a time. Writing an album of 12 tracks you have to apply new learned techniques on each of the tracks while writing over and over again, it takes lots of power and we really like the ease of releasing one tune after another at the moment, feels more up to date.
What inspiration came first for "Set It Off"—wanting to produce a hip-hop/funk-infused track or wanting to collaborate with Jeru The Damaja?
As always, we tried to make a drop that is different to what everybody is doing at the moment, because that is basically what excites us when producing music, reinventing ourselves over and over again. After nailing it we thought that adding hip-hop flavor would give the tune more character than just your usual DJ tune. After nailing the halfstep part we approached some '90s hip-hop legends and Jeru got back to us, being totally excited about the project!
Coming up on 12 years since you started releasing music, how has your respective approaches to the creative process evolved?
When you start making music you imitate and recreate your favorite producers, learning all the techniques needed to find you own niche to explore. Now we feel like being in a position where, with every tune we make, we want to learn something or use new techniques, what makes the tune feel more special and valuable for us. Making simple sounds sound as pristine and big as possible and including new influences in each track.
Speaking of milestones, UKF's decade anniversary saw your track "Atlas" on UKF10 and the release of its VIP counterpart. What elements did you want to add in remixing the cinematic aspects of the original?
The VIP got even more cinematic actually and been influenced by the techniques we learned for the Red Bull Symphonic Show, C&K orchestra shows in Vienna beginning of February, at which we perform our biggest tunes with a 70-person symphony orchestra.
We're just a few weeks away from the Vienna orchestra shows. How did this collaborative concept come alive and what type of experience would you like attendees to take away?
Red Bull approached us with this project and we loved the idea from the very first second. We have been working hard on it for the last three months and its going to be a really special event that no one really can say how exactly it will turn out in the end. We reworked most of our tunes to make space for the orchestral elements, so it's not just the original tune with another layer, it's a melting pot for both genres creating something completely unique.
Learn more about the Feb. 1 and 2 Vienna shows here.
What can we expect of your first ever back-to-back with Mefjus at Rampage 2020?
This back-to-back was on our minds for very long already and what better platform than Rampage could you ask for as Introduction of Camo & Krooked b2b Mefjus. We will have lots of exclusive material and looking forward how the set will turn out, will start preparing soon!
Rampage 2020 has locked in an incredible program including you all. Who are you excited to see?
Lots of our friends are there and its going to be good times! Special acts are the Noisia farewell tour and the Pendulum Trinity Show!
You've mentioned that Tame Impala and Flume are musical influences for you, respectively (Krooked the former, Camo the latter). They both had returned this year with some pivotal releases. What did you think?
We are huge fans from all their recent output and took some influences from Flume especially as his sound is always changing and very exciting!
Any resolutions for the new year?
Make new music, be healthy, be happy!
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Good Morning Mix: Close out a great year of drum 'n' bass with Maduk's 'Liquidcity Yearmix'
Festival December 29, 2019 0 Comments
As the year comes to a close, people everywhere come together to celebrate a yearly tradition. While opening presents and watching the ball drop in Times Square is nice, drum 'n' bass fans have a better end-of-year treat to look forward to. Maduk is back with his "Yearmix" for Liquicity to wrap up the best of 2019 DnB.
Since 2012, the Dutch drum 'n' bass producer has crafted an annual mix celebrating the finest offerings of the genre. The mix focuses more on the liquid side of drum 'n' bass, but overall the current state of the genre is well represented. From L Plus' massive remix of Rameses B's track "Open Your Eyes" to WHATEVA's plucky remix of Mura Masa's hit "Love$ick," there's a little something for everybody in 2019's Yearmix. Of course, a handful of Maduk tracks deservedly make the cut as well.
Stream the mix on SoundCloud below, or download it here.
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Turning it up a notch with RAM Records founder Andy C [Interview]
Festival November 25, 2019 0 Comments
Decades ago, the electronic music scene was nigh unrecognizable from its worldwide integration and popularity today. Andrew John Clarke was younger then, attending illegal raves with his friends in the English countryside. One such party came to mind when someone sent him a photo from many years over social media, reminding him of years past.
"It was one of those parties where somebody put out a phone number to call, and you met up at a service station on the road. Then this big convoy of cars made its way through the countryside to this back garden [in Kent] and we had a rave," he recalls. "That's how we used to do it. But now look at the kind of stages we do at EDC Las Vegas."
It would be years before Andrew John Clarke would become known to most as Andy C, and he never would've guessed he would be where he is today. But his love of music and what would become drum 'n' bass led him down an unexpected pathway.
He helped create what many view as one of the most influential drum 'n' bass tracks of the 1990s—"Valley of the Shadows" under his Origin Unknown moniker with Ant Miles—and began to make a name for himself through his energetic DJ sets. Around the same time in 1992, he created RAM Records with Ant Miles, not knowing the influence the label would have over the next 27 years.
"Things are doing awesome [at RAM]," Clarke says enthusiastically. "We have an absolute steady stream of releases coming out every week. It's relentless, but that's how we like it. We make up one part of this beautiful scene of ours, and we've been there for everything. It's a beautiful thing to still be at the forefront, you know?"
RAM had incredibly humble beginnings, starting out with Clarke picking up records in the trunk of his dad's car and stamping the labels in his bedroom.
"Now, we're streaming millions of streams all over these new mediums and touring the world," he says. "It's unfathomable, really."
Though things have changed drastically since 1992 for RAM Records, Clarke maintains an optimistic viewpoint.
"I always think change is for the good," he says. "I like to look forward. I appreciate the past because it invokes so many beautiful memories for me, but I love to look to the future. That's what keeps the excitement there for me."
Clarke is as excited about today's drum 'n' bass scene as he was years ago. He says he's "seeing a resurgence" in the United Kingdom, where the scene has "gone up to another level" in recent years. He's also enjoying seeing the genre's boom in the United States, where it's been steadily getting more recognition and gaining traction.
"We seem to be seeing a lot of social media talk from people [in the States] who play drum 'n' bass tunes in their sets or are wanting to make dnb," he says. "It seems to me we're turning it up a notch."
But Clarke would love to see even more drum 'n' bass coming out of the States. In fact, he encourages it.
"I know the United States is full of sick producers and people who want to smash the sound," he invites. "Bring it to us."
To those pursuing production, he offers advice that rings true for many aspects of life:
"If you want longevity, you've got to be true to yourself. If you're pushing a sound and you're passionate about it and love it, then you should stick at it and somewhere, hopefully, the crowd will get on your wave."
When it comes to the style of music, Clarke notes he's noticed today's drum 'n' bass returning to "rawer sounds," which delights the producer since that's background he comes from.
"It's been great to see the younger generations sort of battling it out week in and out to see who can make the sickest drop," he says. "That's what I'm feeling right now."
But trends in music are unpredictable, and many producers scramble to figure out how to ride the current wave while staying true to their own sounds. For Andy C, though, the capricious nature of electronic music is a huge part of what makes it fun.
"I have no clue what drum 'n' bass will sound like in five years or even six months, and that's part of the excitement" he says. "It just takes someone to come along and do a genre-defying song or create the next big bassline or take on a beat, and then it goes off on a tangent. That's the beauty of it. Time goes pretty fast, but I know [drum 'n' bass is] going to be in an even healthier position than it is now."
Clarke's passion for drum 'n' bass and the scene surrounding it is driven by "the energy, the people, and the sense of community." He calls the genre unique and says that "when you feel it, you really get it, and it becomes a strong passion within you."
Those who have embraced this strong passion span generations—something that's truly special to Clarke when he performs.
"At the events I do, there can be people spanning a 25-year age gap, and everybody will be raving together. It's all ages, but that passion is always there. There's a real beauty to a passion that never leaves for a style of music."
When asked if he thinks the scene has changed for the better over the past few decades, Clarke's answer is instantaneous.
"Of course! As much as I like raging in the back garden with 12 people, I definitely love being able to play all over the world to thousands of people. I'm such a lucky guy. It's humbling and beautiful."
Catch Andy C at one of this remaining 2019 shows. Learn more and get tickets here.
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Flite re-doses RL Grime's 'Core' with drum 'n' bass magic
In spite of his young age, Flite has navigated the drum 'n' bass scene with the prowess and maturity of an experienced artist. Producing as early as 16 years old and breaking onto the scene at 19 years old in 2014 with debut single "Featherfall," the Texas-based talent has gained rapid momentum in recent years—following through with 14 releases in 2017 and garnering support from drum n' bass giants like Andy C, High Contrast, Netsky, and more. With diversity ingrained in his artistic pursuits, Flite and his sound fluctuate in its exploration of the drum 'n' bass spectrum. Now, the rising star reworks an RL Grime classic, "Core," with his latest UKF release.
In his flip of "Core," Flite transforms the original trap soundscape into a massive drum 'n' bass track. Energizing the quintessential drop with flesh-crawling synthesizers and rolling breakbeats, the remix kicks the tempo up while maintaining the dark essence of the original. Deliciously sinister with potent pace, Flite's remix delivers the drum 'n' bass makeover without straying from the skeleton of the beloved RL Grime original.
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Mat Zo chills with galvanizing intricacy on 'Emotion Sickness'
Festival October 14, 2019 0 Comments
Undeniably one of the most dynamic producers to mark his lasting influence on the scene, Mat Zo returns to his drum 'n' bass roots with his latest release, "Emotion Sickness." Although the Mad Zoo label head has kept relatively quiet under his beloved drum 'n' bass moniker MRSA—most recently resurfacing with a VIP of 2017 single, "Bio Weapon" via Noisia's Invisible imprint—the newest track arrives under his main pseudonym. pointing to an expanding experimental palette. Effectively exploring diverging branches of genres and mastering the complex sound designs that accompany each, Zo links with Bassrush Records to deliver an auditory whirlwind for the senses on "Emotion Sickness".
Perforated by relentless drum lines and texturized with shape-shifting synth pads, the track brings forth a mind-melting amalgamation in the form of warped soundscapes and synapse-firing energy. Haunting harmonic progressions ease into reverberating bass-induced layers that gradually trickle into a metronomic chaos of percussion and syncopated top lines. In the spaces left unmarked by frenzy, Zo fills the interludes with enchanting melodies of equally galvanizing energy and succeeds in proliferating the 7:23 minute-track with intoxicating momentum.
Order a copy of "Emotion Sickness" here
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Hospital Records works toward gender equality with first Women in Drum & Bass London Workshop
Festival September 18, 2019 0 Comments
"At Hospital Records, Med School and Hospitalitydnb we recognise the gender imbalance within drum & bass. We want to be at the forefront of pushing through a positive change for the scene and music that we all love, towards a more representative community that creates equal opportunities for everyone."
Being the change that you want to see in the world is often easier said than done—unless you're Hospital Records, that is. On Sept. 17, the south London drum 'n' bass co-op took a massive stride forward in remedying the gender inequality found both within their genre and the wider music industry by hosting their very first Women In Drum & Bass London Workshop.
The Shoreditch event featured an industry-wide panel of tastemakers that evaluated gender issues facing the underground bass scene and brought in Hospital's Head of Business & Sync Megan Bean to host a workshop on getting demos heard and eventually signed.
The Women In Drum & Bass London Workshop follows a pledge from Hospital Records earlier this year to increase their efforts to sign more women to the label roster and host more female DJs at their flagship Hospitality events. While there is no doubt that the industry is still male-heavy, it's ultimately refreshing to see record labels and brands alike using their amplified voice in the industry not just to sell the next release, but to bring attention to the social issues that they resonate with.
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Dexter's Beat Laboratory Vol. 100: The Ultimate Drum 'n' Bass Playlist
Festival July 19, 2019 0 Comments
Dexter's Beat Laboratory is a weekly collection of songs from DA managing editor Robyn Dexter. With a taste that can only be described as eclectic — to say nothing of a name that lends itself to punnery — DA is happy to present a selection of tracks personally curated by Dexter for your listening pleasure.
There's just something about drum 'n' bass that's always spoken to my soul. I remember hearing my first Pendulum song a decade ago and thinking "what on earth is this, and where can I get more?"
The genre began making its way into the electronic music sphere in the early 1990s, right around the time I was born. Its rapid breakbeats took over London and Bristol, ramping up the jungle and rave scene to 160-180 BPM. While still more widespread in the UK to this day, the genre has slowly trickled into the United States EDM scene. We still have a long way to go before drum 'n' bass artists are regularly installed as main stage performers at major US festivals, but there's so much to discover and embrace in the US drum 'n' bass scene (I see you, Flite and Boxplot). There's also an endless stream of quality dnb being churned out overseas, with imprints like RAM Records, Hospital Records, and Liquicity Records as strong as ever in their supporters and fan base.
I regularly tell people that have never really gotten into drum 'n' bass to just try. It's a diverse and ever-evolving genre, full of sub-genres and offshoots. I guarantee you'll find something you like in some format. Dig through the 100-song playlist I've compiled to celebrate 100 installments of this series to see if there's something there for you!
Thank you, drum 'n' bass, for your tireless energy, emotive vocals, and the ability you always have to yank me out of a bad mood and reignite my love for electronic music in today's day and age. Here's to you, and the brilliant artists who create you.
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First Listen: Culture Shock wows in fiery new single, 'Take Control'
London drum & bass mastermind Culture Shock is at it again.
He's closing out the first month of 2019 with his first release of the year: "Take Control." The single marks the fifth entry in his Sequence Series on Andy C's RAM Records, trademarked with colorful geometric artwork. Clocking in at just under five minutes, "Take Control" kicks off at a cautious pace, leading in with vibrant female vocals. As the song progresses, it becomes clear that it's building into something formidable, as computerized beeps and a gnawing wobble usher in a grinding drum & bass rhythm. "Take Control" fits in snugly with the rest of Culture Shock's discography, kicking off what can only be another successful year.
2018 proved to be massive for the UK producer. He released a slew of exceptional originals and remixes, including an acclaimed remix of Camo & Krooked in March. In May, Culture Shock celebrated the release of FABRICLIVE 98 by teaming up with Dimension, Friction, and 1991 for an insane two-hour back-to-back set. His emotive June release, "There For You," was dubbed Annie Mac's hottest record on BBC Radio 1 and later went on to soundtrack the London Fireworks on New Year's Eve.
"Take Control" is out RAM Records on Feb. 8.
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Zeds Dead and Delta Heavy keep it retro and energetic in new DnB release, 'Lift You Up'
Zeds Dead and Delta Heavy have teamed up for their first and hotly anticipated collaboration, "Lift You Up." The DnB release showcases the best from each group, and "Lift You Up" is out now simultaneously on Deadbeats and Ram Records.
The listener is transported back in time to a retro arcade with vintage electronic synths and vocal synthesizers coming together to blend in a burst of 80s video game nostalgia. The electric combination of production techniques is brought together by a throbbing DnB foundation, keeping the energy high and the song radio-ready. "Life You Up" proves that both groups are off to a big start in the new year with Zeds Dead going particularly outside the box, and this quality output will certainly be a fitting addition to their live performances as well.
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Feint revels in lofty drum 'n' bass disorder with 'Defiant' EP
Feint's lengthy love affair with ubiquitous drum 'n' bass domain, Liquicity, lives on. His myriad of releases with the legendary, YouTube-oriented label housing stretches into 2018 with the three-track Defiant EP, which includes an auspicious instrumental cut of his capstone Liquicity collaboration with Koven, "Take It In."
The EP serves to satiate listeners who recognize Feint's "Whatever I Do" remix (originally released by Cartoon) which he debuted inside his fiercely streamed, 99-track UFK Podcast circa 2016. In this rendition, Feint revs up the Amen breaks and blasts the bass line from a subdued echo to a rogue wave of euphoric urgency. Pushing the deliciously delirious tone onward, Laura Brehm's seasoned Liquicity lungs breathe a chimerical cloud atop the EP's title track, serving as the pinnacle of the collection's nuanced lifeblood by offering a rushing dissonance paired with wistful guitar interludes. The work as a whole illustrates Feint's inexorable ability to thrust listeners through a number of halcyon soundscapes in a matter of mere minutes.
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'The Hive' wins its third prize of the year at national awards ceremony
A national entrepreneurship award has been won by The Hive at Nottingham Trent University.
The Hive is NTU's centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise
A national entrepreneurship award has been won by The Hive at Nottingham Trent University. The Hive – the University's centre for entrepreneurship and enterprise – scooped the Award for Entrepreneurship at the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) Awards for Excellence.
It is the third award won by The Hive this year.
The AGCAS awards, presented at their annual conference, aim to encourage, reward and share good practice amongst HE careers and employability practitioners, and their partner organisations.
The entrepreneurship award recognises the provision of enterprise and entrepreneurship education, including engaging students with business start-ups, and improving the entrepreneurial development of students or graduates.
Judges were looking for evidence of effectiveness and impact, positive feedback from beneficiaries and stakeholders, and evidence of creativity and an innovative approach.
"We have now won three awards this year, but this is the first 'team' award, recognising the contribution of everyone at The Hive in providing effective support for both students and graduates," said The Hive's Business Adviser Phil Clarke.
In May, Phil Clarke was presented with the Enactus UK University Adviser of the Year award (South) and the following month The Hive's Enterprise Adviser, Sean Macaskill, won the UnLtd / HEFCE Social Entrepreneurship Champion of the Year Award.
The AGCAS judges said: "The sheer scale of activity at Nottingham Trent University was really impressive, along with some bold and creative approaches to embedding really practical entrepreneurial learning into a diverse array of subjects.
"The grandeur of the vision and the degree to which it is already being achieved really stand out here."
The AGCAS annual conference was held at the University of Warwick from September 1-3.
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The idea of a "fad" diet doesn't really sound healthy, when you think about it. Shouldn't a diet be something that you do for the long term, and not some fleeting pop culture idea? Being able to stay consistent with your eating habits, along with making sure you can enjoy yourself from time to time, is the key to staying in shape and looking great. So, let's take a look at some of the most dangerous diets to avoid.
Salmon: has fat, but the good kind!
The purpose here is to eliminate fat from your diet so that you can lose weight. The reality is that some fat is actually good for you, especially the kind of fat in olive oil, fish and avocadoes. A better approach would be to reduce things like trans fat instead of quitting fat altogether. By eliminating all fats, your body will crave them, which often leads to a binge cycle that does you no good.
The "Sweet Diet," and its variations, is made for those who cannot live without eating sugary substances. They are put on a regimen of hard candies or other low-calorie sweets, which is supposed to kill off any type of appetite (presumably because your mouth is already busy). The problem is that candy isn't exactly nutritious for you, plus the fact that too much sugar has a host of health side effects, especially for those who already consume a large amount. A better alternative is snacking on lots of sweet fruits such as apples, grapes, and melon.
This diet consists of eating the same thing in an unlimited quantity for every meal, which usually is one of the following: buckwheat, tomatoes, grapefruits, buttermilk, or watermelons. Not to mention that any diet consisting of one food will most certainly cause you to have deficiencies in other nutrients, it's also a pretty miserable way to eat. Dieting is hard enough without unnecessarily limiting yourself to one food.
This diet involves the use of heavy sedation to keep you from having an appetite. Not only will you burn fewer calories by sleeping all day, but it's terrible on your body — there really is no medical reason to sedate yourself for the purpose of taking off a few pounds. Try regular exercise instead — it's better for your body, your health, and your state of mind.
Many low carb diets expect you to replace most of your carbohydrate intake with protein, and often that involves consuming protein from meat that can be high in fat. Also, reducing your carbohydrates means less energy – meaning you'll tire easier. You may not even realize why you're tired and you might eat more. Instead of switching out carbohydrates, just opt for more complex ones like wheat and multi-grain.
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What I began as a review of Cynthia Kaufman's Getting Past Capitalism has transformed into something both intellectually thrilling and personally significant. In this regard, Professor Kaufman's text is a fantastic success. For anyone, like myself, with limited background knowledge of economic theory, Getting Past Capitalism will reveal the world, anew. Through her thoughtful yet accessible treatment of the titled subject, she explores the history of capitalism in tandem with practical solutions to be carried out in the anticapitalist struggle. But before we begin to question capitalism, Kaufman advises, we must understand what capitalism is; furthermore, we must know what it means to be and to act as an anticapitalist while living within the capitalist structure. Kaufman's work immediately and aggressively condemns capitalism as an unnecessary evil masquerading as the final solution to a world full of seemingly contiguous economic and political challenges. Herein lies the text's central charge—become familiar with the many pro-capitalist mythologies or memes to which we have been exposed throughout our lives and identify how we can personally come to rely less on capitalism and motivate others to do the same.
In Kaufman's view, those that seek to unseat capitalism though violent revolution and ousting of the ruling class have and will continue to be unsuccessful in the achievement of their vision. When government itself is the problem, it is "easily" overthrown. There is a distinct external enemy, which can be destroyed as quickly as the destructive decision-makers are removed. Capitalism—an economic system, rather than a government entity—is a far more sinister creature, existing not as a singular external body, but as a complex set of ideas and ideals woven into the social fabric and claiming dominion over not only our relationships with others or with property, but over our minds themselves. For that reason, Kaufman informs that freedom from capitalism can only be achieved by "unt[ying] the knots that bind us to it[,]" rather than by bringing down the house.
Capitalism enables consumerism, which we have learned to associate with pleasure—the pleasure of earning a wage to purchase products for their monetary value, rather than utility. We display our brands as a peacock displays his feathers. We believe we will be perceived as socially relevant or sophisticated by making the right choice between one brand of cell phone or another, one t-shirt or another, by a particular handbag or pair of shoes. We accept the discord between "what we want as consumers and what we want as citizens of the world[.]" We justify a purchase based on desire of the product without regard to the inhumane working conditions and or other exploitation of labor that made its production possible.
All of this rings true, and yet numerous studies prove that wealth—or the ability to buy things—and happiness are not related. The pleasure provided by consumerism is largely artificial, formed as a desperate reaction to our otherwise colorless lives, wherein opportunities for artistic and intellectual expression are repressed and the concepts of "free time" or "work-life balance" are looked upon as childish, or even delinquent. Consumerism, an obvious "good" in any capitalist discourse, is likely more similar to a sugar addiction than it is a manifestation of public health and happiness. Professor Kaufman acknowledges that one of the greatest obstacles to overthrowing capitalism is its ostensible success as a short-term solution: when capitalists are making profits, jobs are available, and thus the worker has a means of survival. This prison of logic is precisely the kind of space the specter of capitalism prefers to haunt. The dependency of the working class on wages requires them to seek out and hold employment under the capitalist system that at once feeds and oppresses them. Coming to identify oneself as a victim or casualty of capitalism, rather than a beneficiary, forces us to look beyond earned wages for a measure of our personal wellbeing.
The historically inaccurate perception that there is no possible alternative to capitalism is among the chief memes Kaufman sets out to rebuff. She describes existing non-capitalistic solutions carried out via Community Development Corporations (CDCs) that organize around community needs, as well as worker-owned cooperatives like the Mondragón network in Spain, which follow principles of self-management and social transformation described by Rick Owen, the utopian socialist, and practiced by mid 17th century model, the British Rochale cooperative. Kaufman also discusses examples of reform through the Zapatista movement of the 1990s and the Bolivian Movement for Socialism following the presidential election of Evo Morales in 2005.
Kaufman suggests that another deceptive and powerful meme, the perceived relationship between democracy and capitalism, is illusory. She explains the connection to be smoke and mirrors, as an accident of their contemporaneous rise in the West, reinforced by the writings of John Locke and his successors, who conflated liberation and freedom of choice with the ability of owners and workers to "freely" contract for labor. Locke's reasoning is riddled with assumptions about the equality of bargaining power between owners and labors. The false perception of a natural and rationally consistent partnership between democracy and capitalism can be refuted simply by listing some of the places wherein the two did not arise together, such as Iran, Chile, or Russia at different periods during the twentieth century. Kaufman proffers that the meme of democracy and capitalism as the doting parents of happy, healthy societies is similarly misguided. She poses the notion that from the tribes of the indigenous to the industrialized governments around the globe, healthy economies vary according to how individual communities are situated. Although Kaufman argues the merits of democratic franchise, she leaves open-ended the possibility that in some limited circumstances, people could thrive under non-capitalist economies, despite non-democratic forms of government. One of Kaufman's primary themes is that the involvement or overthrow of the state is not necessary at the beginnings of anticapitalist action. She writes an extensive critique of Lenin's adoption of totalizing views expressed by philosophers Karl Marx and G.W.F. Hegel. Instead she endorses lessened consumption, putting consumer or shareholder pressure on corporations to become environmentally accountable, local organizing around wage and hour requirements that improve quality of life, and other grassroots efforts. All of these projects pursue anticapitalism in ways that will be directly experienced with limited upheaval. The propagators of these anticapitalist movements, however small, must be sensitive to the possibility that people may look to their successes as examples that capitalism is working, since the overall system remains capitalistic. While being understanding of others' emotional need to reproduce capitalism, the distinction of one's work from mere reform is somewhat nuanced and best described by Kaufman, herself.
Analysis of the effects of capitalism provides added clarity of the existence of human suffering, which is most often articulated exclusively through non-economic forms of tyranny, such as patriarchy or white supremacy. At its most transcendent moments, Getting Past Capitalism brings the problem that is capitalism to the doorstep of its readers, describing the intersectionality between capitalism and the other "isms" we discuss in formal settings (like conferences) and informal settings (over coffee). The pronouncement that the societal diseases of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism and sometimes nationalism can be better understood through an anticapitalist framing is key. The dependency on the wage, the reduction of the worker to a source of labor, and the alienation of the worker from his or her labor—these are the byproducts of a capitalist system that use the more visible forms of marginalization as subordination mechanisms through which cheap labor is made available and individuals are made justifiably expendable due to market fluctuation or when they become pregnant or disabled and are no longer "profitable" workers. Under capitalism, it makes sense to have a mass incarceration policy that strips rights and freedoms from an entire class of persons and puts them to work for what would otherwise be considered a slave wage. Under capitalism, it makes sense to deny maternity or paternity leave benefits, since capitalism does not consider family health or happiness, only the quantity of production.
I recommend a careful reading of Getting Beyond Capitalism, but also continued reading and continued engagement in the work. Capitalism is not a "poor man's" problem, as evinced by the text. Capitalism is everyone's problem. Kaufman describes the lengths to which capitalism's supporters will go to quash its opponents. Those who identify as anticapitalists or merely believe that certain anticapitalist projects could improve lives or enhance joy must therefore be prepared to delegitimize capitalism as it attempts to delegitimize all else.
 All concepts and quotes herein are attributable to or inspired by Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vison, Hope.
 Cynthia Kaufman, Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope (2013).
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The Portsmouth Historical Society converted the former city library into Discover Portsmouth, a "one-stop" central gateway to the historical, cultural and artistic venues of greater Portsmouth and a new exhibition site displaying the art and history of the region.
The building includes seven four-color, 4-by-8-foot information panels on each of Portsmouth's historic houses, museums, landmarks and performance venues. The side galleries are filled with rotating exhibits, and the center's theater hosts continuous showings of "Welcome to Historic Portsmouth," a film on Portsmouth's 400-year history.
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"About an hour and a half of walking with an experienced, knowledgeable, friendly, and enthusiastic guide brought to life the history and details of the place that you would otherwise miss. It was fascinating." — Louis L., via TripAdvisor
Learn why Portsmouth is the hub of the New Hampshire Seacoast! Our downtown is filled with hidden treasures. Our knowledgeable walking tour guides will introduce you to the city's rich past and lively present – a unique mix of architecture, specialty shops, and bustling streets nestled in a village-like setting. This 90-minute guided walking tour is sure to bring the history of Portsmouth alive!
Portsmouth Historical Society presents 2019 Tour Offerings
Tour space is limited. Reservations strongly encouraged. Walk-ins welcome. Member discounts apply.
All tours depart from Discover Portsmouth, 10 Middle Street. Tour guests invited to arrive 30 minutes prior for a free 12 minute film on the history of Portsmouth NH.
Private tours are available upon request for a fee. Please call (603) 436-8433 for more information. Tours are $12 for members and $15 for non-members.
Historic Downtown Walking Tour: Daily, 10:30 a.m., 75 minutes
Starting mid-May! Daily 75-minute walking tour covering the streets, stories, buildings and architecture of historic downtown.
Portsmouth Women Tour: 4th Wednesday of the month at 4:30pm. (May 22, June 26, July 24, August 28, Sept. 25 & Oct. 23); 3rd Friday of the month at 4:30pm. (May 17, June 21, July 19, Aug. 16, Sept. 20 & Oct. 18
Learn about the many women who undertook non-traditional roles to become leaders in commerce, the arts, and on the seas.
Historic Preservation Tours with Richard M. Candee, author of Building Portsmouth: Select Saturdays, 10:30am, 75 min.
Portsmouth Advocates presents a series of eight guided architectural walking tours showcasing Portsmouth's famous neighborhoods, led by local historian, and Portsmouth treasure, Richard Candee. Historic Preservation tours provide an excellent opportunity to dive into the details and stories that make Portsmouth and its neighborhoods unique.
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PDC Premier League Darts: A Bit Embarrassing?
February 15, 2015 Simon Allen News, Opinion 0
As you will have read earlier in the week, the PDC Premier League of Darts came to Bournemouth on Thursday, and I was 'lucky' enough to have tickets to go, and so it seemed, did quite a few knobheads!
Now I've been to the Premier League darts in Bournemouth about six times, so I knew what to expect, but this year the dick-to-fan ratio was definitely higher than previous visits. Darts is a working mans sport and working men drink, but some of the behaviour on Thursday was an embarrassment to darts.
I think the crowd at the BIC on Thursday probably fell into three categories: Dart Fans, Experience Lovers and Knobheads!
There were plenty of genuine darts fans who were there to follow top quality matches, and who appreciated the skill on show and the opportunity to experience first-hand world-class darts on their doorsteps.
Experience Lovers
Then there are those who came along for the experience – and it is quite an experience. These people choose to support a player because of the character they bring to the stage (Peter Wright) or through a sense of loyalty because of nationality (Gary Anderson) or maybe just because they've heard of someone (Phil Taylor) – but at the end of the day, they're there because they want to experience the atmosphere, and I get that. Perfectly exceptable, and darts may pick up a few players/fans as a result.
Knobheads
For drinking, not throwing, knobhead!
And then there are those who turn up to be total bell-ends! They drink to excess, barrack the players and throw full pints of beer into the crowd! The BIC are so aware of what's going to happen, that the drinks are sold in plastic cups. These people should be banned from ever coming again. It's not acceptable at any other sporting event, so why should it be at darts? I'm not a snob or unrealistic, but these people are tainting darts and putting it in danger of being tarred with an unwanted brush – that of thugs and anti-social behaviour.
Elliott Cornish hit the nail on the head when he published his article on the PDC having created a monster in December – please have a read – it's the most successful article I've had on this site so far and well worth a read.
Please let me know below what you think, or Tweet me @my_darting_life.
Cheers, Simon.
Jarlath
been to Belfasts PLD last few years but won't be back because of the same craic
Been to Cardiff a few times and it's been great so hoping for the same this year, wouldn't want to go to a lot of the venues though from what I've seen on tv and know from blogs that it's actually worse at the venue SAD
180simon
It's a shame and I feel the same way about next year in Bournemouth.
Went to Belfast a couple of years ago and have never been back and won't be back the scum bags were going to the toilet and urinating in to plastic pint containers and throwing it in to the crowd nothing done because it is still happening
annoymous
Spent many years and a lot of money watching the darts. Never again at least 75% PDC supporters don't go for the darts. What a shame another sport ruined by sky
A friend of mine said a good thing. Why don't they offer darts leagues in uk and Ireland first refusel ? ,there are plenty of true dart player who would fill the venues and the players would be respected more
That is a great idea.
I said this idea in an email to the powers that be 3 yrs ago. More so for the Worlds. Got back a "We have received your e-mail yada yada…"
They are making shit loads of cash so they won't change. Sad
They won't change until maybe something tragic happens.


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As of 2016, Riyadh contributed 23% of Saudi Arabia's total GDP. It is the capital of Saudi Arabia as well as the country's legislative, financial, diplomatic and commercial centre. Against the backdrop of oil-abundant Saudi Arabia, Riyadh's well-developed infrastructure boosts the city's labour productivity to 16% above the average in the rest of the country in 2016.
In terms of disposable income per household, Riyadh (USD58,700) lags behind major metropolises in the Middle East, such as Abu Dhabi, Manama and Dubai. However, at the country level, greater labour productivity and a larger labour force participation rate (59% vs 55% elsewhere in Saudi Arabia in 2016) ensure that Riyadh's average household income exceeds the rest of the country's by 27%, as of 2016.
In 2016, consumer expenditure (transport and housing excluded) per household was 20% higher in Riyadh than in the rest of Saudi Arabia. As a result of the greater income level, the city's households allocate a smaller proportion of their budgets to food and non-alcoholic beverages than their counterparts elsewhere in Saudi Arabia. However, among the Gulf cities, Riyadh's households spent the most on this budget category (23%) in 2016.
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March 19, 2019 | By Brian Hanson, Steven Pifer
Deep Dish: What Ukraine's Election Reveals, Five Years after Crimea
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Comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky, who has no political experience but has played the Ukrainian president on television, is leading in the polls ahead of Ukraine's presidential election on March 31. At the same time, last weekend marked five years since Russia annexed Crimea, and fighting in eastern Ukraine, which has killed thousands, continues to this day. Steven Pifer, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, joins Deep Dish to explain the latest developments and what to expect next.
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Brian Hanson: This is Deep Dish on Global Affairs, going beyond the headlines on critical global issues. I'm Brian Hanson, and today we're talking about Ukraine, five years after Russia's annexation of Crimea and on the eve of an important presidential election. On March 31st, Ukrainians will vote for the next president, and among the candidates are some familiar faces, such as current president Petro Poroshenko, but there's also a surprising leader in the poll who is a newcomer, Volodymyr Zelensky. He is a 41 year old comedian with no political experience other than, and I'm not making this up, playing the Ukrainian president on a popular Ukrainian TV show. At the same time, this past weekend marked five years since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, an occasion Russian president Putin observed in Crimea this week. Neither Crimea nor the conflict in Donbass, which has killed thousands, seems any closer to resolution. Joining me to help us understand what's going on in Ukraine today is Steven Pifer. He served more than 25 years with the State Department, where he focused on US relations with the former Soviet Union and Europe. He also was the US ambassador to Ukraine between 1998 and 2000. He just came out with a book, "The Eagle and the Trident, US-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times." Welcome, Steve. It's great to have you on Deep Dish.
Steven Pifer: Thank you. I'm happy to be here.
Brian Hanson: I want to start off with the upcoming election. Help us understand why the polls show so much support for this comedian Zelensky. What does this tell us about what the Ukrainian voters are thinking about and caring about?
Steven Pifer: I would see two factors behind Mr. Zelensky's popularity in the polls. First of all, he's a new face. Second, it reflects, I believe, a significant degree of frustration on the part of a significant segment of the Ukrainian electorate that more progress has not been made since 2014 and the Maidan Revolution. Particularly coming to terms with corruption and the oligarchic culture in the Ukraine.
Brian Hanson: Talk to us about corruption, because this was a big issue in 2014, as people may remember. What are the current frustrations? Has it gotten better or worse? Why is there so much concern?
Steven Pifer: To its credit, Ukraine has accomplished a lot in the last five years, particularly from 2014 to 2016, but many Ukrainians still feel that the corruption picture hasn't changed. You still have lots of reporting about senior officials who owned houses, who own cars that are far beyond the reach of their incomes. But also, it's the question of Ukraine's oligarchs, people of great wealth who wield political influence. That really has a huge impact on the system. For example, they use that to work with the government to keep potential competitors out. It's held Ukraine back. I believe that this has been a big factor behind the polls for Mr. Zelensky, who now polls between 20% and 25% in most polls. I think almost every poll now has him as the leading candidate for the March 31st election.
Brian Hanson: I understand that in Ukraine they have a two round process for the presidential election. It's actually a lot like the mayoral election in Chicago, whereas there's the poll that will take place at the end of March, here on the 31st, and then if no candidate receives an absolute majority, there is a run-off election at that time. Is some of the support that we see for Zelensky likely to stand up through that second round or is this primarily a signifier of protest against the current regime, but once it comes time to maybe that second round, voters are going to go in a different direction? Do we have any sense of that?
Steven Pifer: That is really the big question. Under Ukrainian law, in order to win the election outright you have to get 50 percent of the vote plus one. No one's going to get that on March 31st. So, the question is, who gets into the second round? I think Mr. Zelensky's going to make it and then either the current incumbent Petro Poroshenko, the president, gets in or Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister gets in. But, bear in mind, there are almost 40 candidates on the ballot. So, there are a large number of people who are getting single digits. The big question will be is that when you get Zelensky and either Poroshenko or Zelensky and Tymoshenko in that second round, where do all of those votes go? At this point, that's really hard to predict. If I could add, this is actually one really good thing about Ukrainian democracy, is we are less than two weeks from the election, less than five weeks from the runoff, and nobody can really predict who's going to be the president. You can contrast that with Ukraine's neighbor Russia, where in 2013 we all knew who was going to be the president in the 2018 election. So, this is a good thing that we don't know this, but it really does leave things open and it makes predictions very difficult.
Brian Hanson: You were talking about the protest or pushback against the incumbents, against the oligarchy. I was wondering, do you see parallels between the politics in the current election in Ukraine and some of the populist movements that have been identified in Western Europe as well as in the United States? Is there any parallel or is that a false way to think about the politics in Ukraine?
Steven Pifer: There's a little bit of that I think in Ukraine. For example, Mr. Zelensky himself, he really is running on the basis of being a new face and the fact that for three years now he's portrayed a Mr. Common Man as president of Ukraine on television. But, he hasn't really outlined much in the way of policy and he seems to be someone who has a lot of confidence but also may be inclined to go with his instincts. It's not yet clear who he has in mind for his team were he to be elected, so there's a blank slate there. On the other hand, another candidate, Yulia Tymoshenko, has adopted a program that many folks have called populist. For example, she's called for lowering the price of energy that's provided to households and utilities. That's a tricky question, because raising those prices to at least cover the cost of producing electricity and household heating was a big demand of the International Monetary Fund. She's adopted an approach that's trying to say look, we can walk back some of the reforms the last several years to make it easier for people. That would put her though, if she were to be president, immediately in a difficult situation vis-a-vis the International Monetary Fund. So, you do see some of these trends as candidates are trying to identify the best path to receiving a winning majority in the election.
Brian Hanson: Let's just pause on her for just another moment, because she's a long time figure in Ukrainian politics. Has she adapted her positions in order to move in this more populist direction or are these things that she has long advocated for?
Steven Pifer: Her party was part of the pro-government coalition in 2014, but they've separated themselves over the last three years and been critical of things, including some of the reforms that the government has adopted, some of which were in compliance with agreements and commitments they made to the International Monetary Fund in order to secure low interest credits. Miss Tymoshenko in some ways may be the smartest political actor in Ukraine, but she also probably labors under the fact that she has been in Ukrainian politics now for some 20 years and many of the voters may see her as part of the old guard. So, if they're looking for new faces, that works against her.
Brian Hanson: One of my favorite parts in preparing for this conversation was that I noted that there is someone with her same name that has been put on the ballot as well in order to divide the vote even further. Dirty tricks throughout the world.
Steven Pifer: Exactly. The same name, and it shows up. Obviously, it's on the ballot. It'll be right next to hers. It's an effort to have people make mistakes and take votes away from her. This is one of the things where Ukrainian democracy, at this point, is not yet close to perfect.
Brian Hanson: One of the big dividing issues back in 2014 was Ukraine's orientation in the world. Fundamentally, to over simplify, whether Ukraine was going to align more closely with the EU and Brussels or more closely with Russia and Putin. Where does that debate lie today? Is that a settled issue or is that still being contested in, for example, this presidential election?
Steven Pifer: For most of the country, I believe it's a settled issue. What you saw in the Maidan Revolution back in 2014 was people basically, what drew them out in the streets originally, was a protest when then President Yanukovych decided he was not going to sign an association agreement with the European Union. You saw people basically said no, we want European values. We want a normal European lifestyle. That feeling has only intensified in the last five years as the result of Russia's seizure of Crimea and in the war that Russia has conducted against Ukraine and the eastern region of the Donbass. Over the last several years, you've seen polls now showing pluralities, and in some cases even majorities of those asked saying not only should Ukraine seek to join the European Union, but Ukraine should seek to join NATO. In fact, last month, Ukraine's parliament, by a huge majority, adopted a constitutional amendment that makes membership in both the European Union and NATO strategic goals for Ukraine. Prior to 2014, you never saw that kind of sentiment to go West. And I think this has really been a direct result of the conflict that Vladimir Putin has conducted against Ukraine over the last five years, including 13,000 dead in the Donbass region.
Brian Hanson: Russia of course has, and under Putin's leadership, has been interfering with elections throughout the world. Is there an expectation that Russia will be or has been meddling in the Ukrainian elections?
Steven Pifer: There's certainly a lot of attention being paid to that whether Russia uses social media or cyberattakcs, there's concern in Ukraine for example about the ability to protect their electronic voting systems from a cyber attack. But it's also a difficult question for Russia because, believe me, no candidate running for President on March 31st wants to be seen as Moscow's favorite. That's the kiss of death. And what the Russians have done is they've made very clear they don't wanna see Mr. Poroshenko be reelected, but they've also been careful not to do anything that would look like endorsing someone because they know that would be a huge blow to that person's prospects.
Brian Hanson: It will be very interesting to see how things come out. I'm here with Steven Pifer, the former Ambassador to Ukraine and now at Stanford University. And I wanna shift our conversation to look at Crimea. As I'd mentioned up top, this is five years after Russian annexation of the peninsula. I wanna ask you a question that was suggested by Deep Dish listener Yuriy Makar, who asked on our Facebook group, and you'll see it's a pretty sophisticated question. Is there any hope that the US and the EU can stop Russian occupation of Crimea when Georgia's areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been occupied by Russian troops since 2008 and Moldova's area of Transinistria has been occupied by Russian troops since 1992?
Steven Pifer: Analytically, it's very difficult to see. It's hard to see how Ukraine musters the political, the economic, the military leverage to draw Crimea back. I think the one option I could see would be if Ukraine really did fully embrace the new economic reforms, pushed back against corruption, drew in foreign investment and had a booming economy and all of a sudden people in Crimea begin to say, "Hey, our economic lot in life would be better back as a part of Ukraine," but absent that it's hard to see how Crimea does that. Or how Ukraine develops that leverage. But having said that, I still think it's important that the West maintain the policy of nonrecognition of Crimea's illegal annexation, and it's important to maintain the sanctions, if for no other reason than to signal to Russia that these kinds of land grabs are not acceptable in 21st century Europe.
Brian Hanson: And I wanna get back to that question of sanctions in just a moment. Before I go there, another Deep Dish listener, Christina Irene Collins asked on our Facebook group something I think a lot of folks would probably admit to. She says, "I'm wondering whether there is still a way underway in eastern Ukraine. I'm a bit embarrassed that I don't know." What is the state of affairs out in eastern Ukraine and the Donbass region?
Steven Pifer: I use the term simmering conflict. It's not a frozen conflict because virtually every day the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, it's monitors report firing across the land of contact. And every week the Ukraines report one or two soldiers killed and a number injured. The fighting is going on, albeit at a low intensity, and what you're seeing, I believe, is an effort by the Kremlin to keep that conflict simmering as a mechanism to put pressure on Kiev to distract it, to destabilize it, to make it harder for the Ukrainian government to pursue both needed domestic reforms, but also to make it harder for the Ukrainians to draw closer to Europe.
Brian Hanson: And in terms of the reaction in Russia, this was of course a war that Putin first tried to deny even existed, including to his own people. What is the level of domestic support in Russia for the continuing simmering conflict as you put it?
Steven Pifer: There's a huge difference between Crimea and the simmering conflict in Donbass. Crimea was hugely popular, or the seizure of Crimea was hugely popular with the Russian people, in part because Russia had a historical claim to Crimea, but it was also relatively quick, it was relatively bloodless. You're not seeing that level of support for the quagmire that's now going on in Donbass and the Russian government does things like, it hides the fact that Russian soldiers are dying in Donbass. You see stories, for example, about being soldiers' bodies returned to families and told that your son was killed in a training accident and then the family talks to some of his fellow soldiers who say, "Well, no actually he died in Ukraine." The Russians are trying to keep their level of involvement as low as possible. They say that there are volunteers in Ukraine, but they continually deny that there's any part of the Russian army there, although most analysts say at least at the command levels, it's a Russian military operation.
Brian Hanson: Is there any sense that popular opinion in Russia could cause a change in policy? Or is Putin pretty well free to continue on this path?
Steven Pifer: I'm not sure that Donbass is going to be the issue that pushes things over the edge. You have seen, over the course of the last year, an erosion in Putin's popularity that reflects I believe a number of factors. One was the government's decision last year to raise the pension age. So for example, for men it went from 60 to 65. For women, it went from 55 to 60. That was very unpopular. But I think it also reflects unhappiness that the economy is not doing better. For the last several years you've seen stagnant growth at one to one-and-a-half percent. Part of that, a big part of that is the result of Western economic sanctions. There are things that are eroding Putin's popularity. The Donbass and then sanctions that are a result of Russian involvement in Donbass are a part of that. But it's a combination of factors, and I'm not sure that the fighting in Donbass itself is going to push Putin over the edge. The question though does become, and this is where I would argue Western sanctions are important is, can we find a way to change the cost benefit analysis in the Kremlin? You get the Russians to the point where they really are trying to find a way to get out of Donbass. At least end that conflict, end the fighting there.
Brian Hanson: That's a perfect transition for where I wanted to go, which was to the question of sanctions. Or course, the United States is imposing sanctions on Russia, not only for the Crimea annexation but also back in November, the recent Russian attack on Ukrainian ships. Could you remind us what the nature of these sanctions are and is there any fundamental change in the way the Trump Administration is approaching the challenges over Ukraine versus what had come before?
Steven Pifer: The United States, the European Union and other countries, for example Australia, have applied a range of sanctions on Russia that are related both to the seizure of Crimea, but the heavier sanctions really are related to Donbass. They involve sanctions, visa sanctions and financial sanctions on Russian individuals, but they also involve sanctions on Russian entities and on certain areas of the Russian economy. For example, high tech, the financial sector, the energy sector. They have had an impact. Most economists assess that the effect of the sanctions is probably somewhere between three-quarters and one percent of Russian gross domestic product. In an economy that's only growing about one-and-a-half percent a year, that's a fairly sizable impact. Those sanctions have not yet pushed Russia to either end the war it's conducting in Donbass or to give back Crimea. But I would argue that the sanctions probably have kept the Russians from doing other things. There was for example, in 2015 a lot of concern that Russian and Russian proxy forces might move to seize the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, which is the logical export port for Donbass. And it didn't happen, and my guess is that one factor was the Russians understood that that kind of operation, which would have required direct Russian military participation, would have provoked much heavier sanctions. For all the sanctions that have been imposed over five years, on a scale of one to 10, we're probably somewhere just around three or four. There's a lot more the West could do if it wanted to do so.
Brian Hanson: How interested has the Trump Administration been in confronting Russia? One of the things that you advocated for with Ivo Daalder back in response to the Russian aggression was to provide defensive arms to Ukrainian troops, which my understanding is this administration had done in a way that the Obama administration had not done. Is the Trump administration actually taking a harder line here?
Steven Pifer: The Trump administration has continued the sanctions and as you said, they took a step that the Obama administration was not prepared to do, which is they have provided lethal military assistance in the form of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. When I look at the administration policy overall, I think what you've seen over the last two years is really a continuation of the toughening policy that you saw in the last couple of years of the Obama administration. It's very much what one might expect from a mainstream Republican approach. It's supportive of Ukraine and it's very worried and skeptical about Russia. The only asterisk I would attach to that assessment is I'm not sure that the President believes in this whole approach. You've seen, for example, efforts by Congress really to have to lock the president in on additional sanctions. I'm not sure, if left to his own devices, he would have pursued the policy that we've seen over the last two years.
Brian Hanson: Yeah, and turning to cooperation with Europe, some have been concerned with increasing discord between Europe and the United States and Trump administration's words and attitudes toward Europe, that cooperation could be more difficult on areas where there's potential shared interests. To what extent have the Europeans been partners on the sanctions issue? As you point out, there's been a tightening of sanctions in the Trump administration. Has there been good cooperation, or have the tensions between the US and Europe showed up in terms of creating challenges for coordinating around things like sanctions?
Steven Pifer: There seems to be pretty good coordination between Washington and Brussels on continuing the sanctions. I guess I'd make a couple of points about Europe and sanctions. First of all, we in America have to remember that when we adopt sanctions, Europe probably had 10 times as much trade with Russia as the United States did. So these sanctions are having a heavier impact on European companies than on American companies. The second point I would make is that, had you asked analysts back in 2014 where Europe would be on sanctions five years down the road, that is today in 2019, my guess is not many would have predicted that Europe would have held steady on the sanctions. I give credit to this to German Chancellor Merkel. She really has steered the European Union on this path of maintaining sanctions, even though you can see in countries such as Hungary and in Italy a desire maybe to move past sanctions and get back to something like business as usual with Russia. But so far the Europeans have stayed committed on the sanctions question.
Brian Hanson: What do you see for the future? Is that likely to continue? Chancellor Merkel's political future has an end date on it. Is there the requisite leadership to continue that level of sanctioning?
Steven Pifer: That's a really good question, and I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the answer because you are beginning to see more, as I said in places like Hungary, in Italy, I'd put Greece in that same category, saying these sanctions haven't worked. I would disagree with that, but they say maybe it's time to get back to a different approach. It seems to me that if the sanctions fall away, then the message to the Kremlin is that you can do something like Crimea, the most blatant land grab in Europe since the end of World War II. You can conduct a war in Europe with now 13,000 dead, and the price for it is not that high. That's not a calculation we want the Kremlin to make, and I hope that the Europeans will continue to see that.
Brian Hanson: So on the other side of this, you've made the point that sanctions are to put pressure on Russia in order to stop its actions in eastern Ukraine, in particular. Do you see prospects for some sort of resolution or moving that conflict to a different place than it is now?
Steven Pifer: Perhaps. My guess is that in Moscow they're going to wait and see what happens in the presidential election, and then Ukraine also has parliamentary elections at the end of October. There may well be a hope in Moscow that as a result of these elections there's a political alignment and Kiev that somehow becomes more amenable to what the Russians would like to work out. My own sense is that's wishful thinking, but I don't think you're going to see real movement or a readiness in Russia to consider a change in policy course until the end of the year. At that point, if the Russians are still confronted with a Ukrainian government that is prepared to resist Russia, that continues to focus on moving towards the West, perhaps there is a reassessment in the Kremlin about whether this policy is working or not. There have been some ideas out there that might offer a path; for example, the introduction of a United Nations peacekeeping force. But we won't know that until the end of the year at the earliest.
Brian Hanson: So, Steve, as we close, I want to ask you to do something that's incredibly hard, which is look into the future. If you look back at where things are for Ukraine in, say, five years, and if you look at politically, economically, in terms of the country's security, are you optimistic or pessimistic about what things will be like in five years and why?
Steven Pifer: A little bit of both. I'm optimistic in that I think Ukraine has the potential to change, but it requires that in the elections or at these elections there's a leadership that really is prepared to do the critical mass of reforms. That means coming to full terms with the corruption problem and reducing the outsized political influence of oligarchs. They have to do that, and that opens up the potential, I think, of the economy, which is growing at maybe 2 1/2 to 3 percent a year now, but for a country in Ukraine's place should be growing at, say, 5 to 6 percent a year. So there's that question. Then there's the very difficult issue where are the Russians going to go. Russia would like to bring Ukraine back into Moscow's orbit. I don't see that happening. But Russia then seems to be determined that if it can't have Ukraine in its orbit, to hold the country back, to basically try to destabilize it and disrupt it. That's going to be the main foreign challenge that Ukraine faces. The question to my mind is that at some point does the Kremlin conclude that this policy is not working, that the costs exceed the benefits? At least, can you move to end the bloodshed and try to restore some measure of normalcy in the Donbass, although Crimea is going to be a burden to both the Ukraine-Russia relationship and the West-Russia relationships for years, if not decades, to come.
Brian Hanson: Well, that's to keep our eye on there. Steven Pifer, the former US ambassador to Ukraine and the author of the new book "The Eagle and the Trident: U.S.-Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times," thanks so much for being on Deep Dish and giving us a sense for what's going on in Ukraine, a place that many folks have kind of lost touch with, as was indicated by our Facebook listeners. Thanks for helping bring us up to date and understand the dynamics in play there now.
Steven Pifer: Thanks very much.
Brian Hanson: And thank you for tuning into this episode of Deep Dish. If you like the show, join us at the Council on Thursday, March 28th, for a special event on Russia. Former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and Angela Stent of Georgetown University will be here discussing what is behind Putin's foreign policy. Register to attend or watch the livestream on our website, thechicagocouncil.org. I'd also invite you to join our Facebook group, Deep Dish and Global Affairs. There you can ask our guests follow-up questions on anything you've heard today or submit questions for upcoming guests. That's Deep Dish on Global Affairs on Facebook. As a reminder, the opinions you heard today belong to the people who expressed them and not the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. This episode of Deep Dish was produced by Evan Fazio. Our audio engineer is Andy Czarnecki. I'm Brian Hanson, and we'll be back soon with another slice of Deep Dish.
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Germany Accelerates Change in Its "Rust Belt"
Both the United States and Germany are seeing evolving economies in their respective "rust belts," formerly robust engines of the industrial era. Both are developing strategies to address these challenges but, unlike President Trump's approach, Germany is focused on accelerating change so the region will thrive in the future.
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By Trystan L. Bass on December 22, 2020 in Nineteenth Century
I do often enjoy a backstory or side-story to a well-known standard tale. So the premise of Come Away (2020) was appealing, given that it's about Alice and Peter "setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland." Even better, it features David Oyelowo and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in historical costume, although it turns out that they're just some of the adults, and this movie focuses on the kids.
But it's not really a kid's movie, the PG rating is well earned due to dark themes throughout. Of course, the best fairy tales have dark sides, and this movie explores them along with addressing the blatant classism of the Victorian era and coded racism of then and now. Oyelowo discussed the film's look at class / race in an interview with SyFy Wire:
"One of the wonderful things about the script was how it looked at class in British society. Living in the U.K. for well over 20 years of my life, I have found that in many ways, class has been an excuse for racism. You know, the idea that it has less to do with the color of your skin and more to do with the hierarchical way that society is set up. What is often in denial is that by virtue of the color of your skin, you are instantaneously of a lower class. But like I say, class is often used as the excuse, when it's about race: 'Forgive us for being so British, having our class system.'"
This is a subtle theme in the film, but important. Apparently before the movie's release, internet trolls review bombed Come Away on IMDB.com with nasty comments because, oh noes, how dare Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland be Black? Way to prove racism is alive and kicking, internet.
The frame of the movie is of an adult Alice (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) telling a bedtime story to her three children. With phrases of W. B. Yeats' "The Stolen Child," she introduces 8-year-old Alice and her two older brothers, Peter and David. Their mother (Angelina Jolie) and father (David Oyelowo) are kind and indulgent, but the family seems to be struggling. Aunt Eleanor (Anna Chancellor) snootily offers financial assistance, further disturbing the peace. The children have an active and wild imagination that they retreat into, which comes alive on screen and contrasts with the realities that keep threatening to break up their cozy family.
Some of the plot is predictable, some is curiously not, perhaps due to leaps into metaphor. This isn't Hook (1991) or Finding Neverland (2004), neither a full excursion into fantasy nor a realistic look at the history behind the books. The story is like a poetic parable for a complicated, sometimes tragic, childhood, as imagined by an adult woman looking back. I found it to be a lyrical 90 minutes that left me wanting more, somewhat unsatisfying but not unpleasant.
No year is stated but the art direction and costumes suggest later half of the 19th century. Only Aunt Eleanor is fashionably dressed in bustle gown, so I'd guess the period is 1870s-80s. The framing story shows adult Alice in an evening gown from about the turn of the 20th century, which seems reasonable that 20-30 years have passed. Costume designer Louise Stjernsward didn't seem to do press for this film, and I don't think she's done other historical productions (but plenty of contemporary films). There aren't a lot of costume changes in Come Away, but some details are worth noting to me.
Here's adult Alice, c. 1900-10s.
The parents, Rose & Jack, dress for dinner in one scene, & this is the fanciest they get.
David Oyelowo looking dapper in a velvet jacket.
Keira Chansa is very good as young Alice. But lookit that bunny!
How fabulous is this 18th-century-style embroidered coat on the rabbit? And note the sloppy stitches on the watch pocket — those were done by Alice.
Of course, there's the obligatory blue & white "Alice" outfit on Alice.
One costume thing I particularly noted was a subtle theme around hats. Most of the movie takes place at the family's rather rustic home, so they aren't wearing hats. But Aunt Eleanor does when she visits, and in the few scenes in London, we meet the Mad Hatter, who is a key character. And finally, the mother Rose spends a chunk of the film making a felt blocked hat from scratch!
Aunt Eleanor in a smart chapeau.
Another view at tea.
The Mad Hatter's scenes are dark, so it was hard to get good screencaps. But he has a huge top hat & a stylish suit.
Note the cluster of hat pins in his hat band.
Just a few of the hats made by the Hatter.
Here's the whole process of Rose making a felt hat. She carries on with it through several scenes, while others are talking to her. It's a nicely accurate portrayal of the process, as it could have been done at home in the 19th century. As a dabbler in the millinery arts, I'm super impressed! There's no credits for milliner or even historian, but IMDB lists Vicki Banks as "instructor: felting" so props to her if she's the one who advised the film on the tools and process and showed Angelina Jolie how to make it look right.
Heating wool fibers.
Fulling the felt.
Unrolling the pressed felt.
Molding the felt over a form to create the hat shape.
The finished hat.
Will you be watching Come Away?
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A self-described ElderGoth, Trystan has been haunting the internet since the early 1990s. Always passionate about costume, from everyday office wear to outrageous twisted historical creations, she has maintained some of the earliest online costuming-focused resources on the web. Her costuming adventures are chronicled on her website, TrystanCraft. She also ran a popular fashion blog, This Is CorpGoth, dedicated to her "office drag."
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Saraquill December 22nd, 2020
Seeing a happy mixed family fills my heart with squee. Where can I find this?
Trystan L. Bass December 22nd, 2020
It's had a brief theatrical run in November & is now available as a video on-demand rental/purchase thru various places. I got it on Amazon for $5.99.
Addie December 22nd, 2020
I will watch it and whimper with glee whenever I see that bunny rabbit and his oh-so-dapper coat.
I also think that the clothes are well done, especially for a costumer who apparently hasn't done historical stuff before. Not super particular to a decade as far as I can tell but the felting shows some definite research.
Boxermom December 22nd, 2020
Love to see a man in a velvet jacket. Rowr!
M.E. Lawrence December 22nd, 2020
Oh, gosh, this looks delicious; thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Elise December 24th, 2020
My thoughts, exactly! Perfect for the holiday downtime.
Ticia December 26th, 2020
If it had been available to watch anywhere locally I would have already seen this. Right now I'm waiting for it to be available for purchase. I'm always up for a good Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland story.


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SUCCESS FOR E-SPORTS PLAYER LIAM AT INSOMNIA GAMING FESTIVAL
Two tournament wins for Liam over the Easter weekend
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Northampton Town's very own e-sports player, Liam Merry (@NTFC_REAPERZz) had a successful Easter weekend at the recent Insomnia Gaming Festival i62.
Representing the club, Liam took part in the event held at the NEC in Birmingham. On the Friday and Saturday, he came a respectable third out of 64 competitors, before winning both the Sunday and Monday events.
Liam had to work his way out of a group stage before playing a 'best of 3' in the semi-final and final. He received a cash prize for his success and it stands him in good stead for upcoming tournaments.
"In terms of organisation and enjoyment, it's definitely the best tournament that I've been involved with," said Liam.
"All in all it was a good weekend. It took me a couple of days to adapt to the PlayStation as I normally play on the XBOX, but by Sunday and Monday I was hitting my stride and was delighted to win the tournament on both days.
"The hours spent practising feel worthwhile and I now can't wait to get ready for the next one.
"Attention now turns to the FIFA Soccer School at Sixfields this week. It's been a huge success so far and it's been great to meet so many young supporters."