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Household charge will bankrupt local authorities – Stanley
13 December, 2011 - by Brian Stanley TD
Sinn Féin spokesperson on the Environment, Community & Local Government, Brian Stanley TD, has this evening warned that the controversial household charge will bankrupt many local authorities.
Deputy Stanley said councils are struggling to fund their services with reduced commercial rates and now the government has cut their funding by 84%, forcing ordinary households to pick up the tab.
Speaking during the debate on the household charges in the Dáil this evening Stanley said:
"Sinn Féin believes in local government. We believe in strong, democratic, accountable, local government. But this bill would be more appropriately entitled the Bank Bailout Bill. The bill has little to do with raising finance for local authorities and more to do with bailing out the banks and compensating bondholders. Money is being diverted form council services to the German banks.
"Councils are struggling to fund their services, in recent years councils, under pressure from the commercial sector, have had to reduce commercial rates. This naturally has a negative effect on fund raised. In fact here in Dublin the largest local authority in the country has been forced to sell off its domestic waste collection service. This is despite having no legislation to regulate this industry or to protect the public form unscrupulous waste collection companies.
"The sale was done so Dublin City Council could raise the money to keep functioning. This unilateral decision was made by Management despite the democratic wishes of the elected councillors. In fact three times a majority of Dublin City Councillors supported a Sinn Féin motion opposing the sell-off of this essential service. Ironically the motion received support from Labour party councillors. Yet here in this house the Labour party in government is involved in an unprecedented attack on local government.
"There is no attempt to conceal the government's contempt for ordinary people, nowhere in the bill does it allow for waivers for those on social welfare. Last Tuesday this heartless government cut €88 off disability allowance, reduced people's fuel allowance and this week it expects people to pay an extra €100 for local services. The bill will then attempt to criminalise you for not being able to pay. The bill states if you cannot afford the household charge, you will be brought to court and if found guilty you will have to pay court costs for the local authority that brought you to court.
"Now people are being asked to dig deeper and pay extra for the same services they have been receiving. In people's minds this doesn't add up. People know when they are being taken for a ride. Sinn Féin will campaign every step of the way to have this regressive charge overturned.
"We will use every opportunity during the debate this week and into next year to ensure this charge is reduced to the dustbin of history. People will simply not pay. The household charge will not be paid by people because they cannot afford it and because it is an unjust charge that should be withdrawn before it brings this government into conflict with our communities.
"People have already made their minds up. This is a line in the sand which they will not cross. Households will not be paying this charge. And the government can make every threat they want in this bill. They can threaten court, fines and court costs, people won't be paying. Yet the government is depending on 100% payment rate to compensate for the cut of 84% to local government."
In conclusion Deputy Stanley said, "At best this bill is ill thought out and a blunt instrument to punish households again. At worst it is an attempt to use the current economic crisis as a smoke screen to further bury local democracy in this state. Either way Sinn Féin will lead the charge in opposing it." ENDS


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Whenever Grandmother had some extra apricot marmalade, but little time on her hands since there was lots of work to do around the house, she would prepare tender pocket pies with apricot filling. She mixed yoghurt and sugar into the margarine and kneaded the mixture into tender dough. She used a glass to form circles out of the dough while she cooked vegetable soup with the other hand. Later she filled them with homemade apricot marmalade and immediately after setting down the spoons the best childhood treat was already served on the table.


It is currently set to tick over to a new day at the same time that the Drop timer resets, 1:40PM Pacific time I believe, though we will likely adjust that in the future.
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So, there's a poster for 1910 Brussels World Fair.
According to Wikipedia " There was a big fire on 14 and 15 August which gutted several pavilions. "
The first thing we are doing is providing a daily item bonus. Each day you play, you will receive a drop simply by logging in. Secondly, we are doubling the amount of timed drops that are given per week to 8, up from the previous 4. Along with the daily item bonus, players can now receive a total of 15 items per week, nearly 4 times the previous amount.
And finally, we have increased the frequency of elegants and other rare items in the drop table.
to get at least a single elegant drop each week.
But on the other hand waveable items can now drop aswell so not every item will be tradeable on Steam or the Trade Inn.
I don't know how I feel about daily drops, but seeing increased chance for high tier rarity is always welcome. And of course AMAZING short. It gave so much information about lore!
Those poor kids . . .
Because between 1910-1921 is the time when most of characters were took and put in the Constant.
Do I sense a puzzle hint in 0:38?
Logged in, got an elegant as a daily drop. Thanks guys.
What do you see there? I didn't spot anything special.
There are two scenes with the same background. One of them has a circle and "12"
ops thought the pic is related to my post.
Pretty nice, a ~ 29,5% chance to get at least one elegant per week.
Will those heirloom rarity skins ever drop from the system? or are they just obtainable by buying from other players?
How long will the skin package for Winona be purchasable?
Wagstaff built the portal that destroyed the factory to try and save someone?
1) Maxwell, because it is presumably he who shared with Wagstaff the occult knowledge contained in Codex Umbra.
2) Webber, because maybe it's his son, and it seems natural to me that a father wants to recover a child at all costs.
3) Wx-78, because perhaps it was his attempt to build a new body to "transfuse" his conscience to become immortal.
Wagstaff is the father of Charlie and Winona (that's why Winona worked right in the same factory) and he was also deceived by Charlie as his sister.
But also, why was Charlie kidnapping Winona instead of Maxwell? Perhaps he had already managed to escape the throne thanks to Wilson? Then Wagstaff entered only long after all the others in the Constant.
Why, if more than anyone should have had the knowledge to build a portal?
How come he would have waited so long? He was afraid? Was he afraid of what would he go to?
Will we ever have a final battle against Charlie to free her from "They" and finally get out of the Constant and go home?
Well, nice video anyway. Beautiful temperament Winona, before it seemed to me an anonymous and forgettable character, now has finally the dignity and the thickness it deserves!
so 8 drops each day a week a week is 7 days so ... how?
Я не думаю, что этот цветок принадлежит Венди. Это связано с картиной Чарли.
Абигейл - племянница Максвелла, и она не имеет ничего общего с Чарли.
That is actually an insane boost in odds, considering it was only a ~ 2% chance before the update!
You can get up to 8 gifts dropped like normal, and in addition to those you can get 7 daily gifts.
There was a picture of a terror beak in Wagstaffs office.
That short was sooo amazing!!! I can't wait to go home and absorb it all.
This is amazing! I've always liked Winona's voice and dialogue, but she wasn't that interesting to me in play style. Sooooo glad she got some new features, I'm eager to try it out asap.
Plus, new drop rates are great. I have found it a bit disappointing that after literally years and thousands of hours gameplay I only got two heads through gameplay. I think the improvements sound a lot more fair!
And this animation might be the best one yet! What a great day.


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A new biography of Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site.
Benjamin Leopold Farjeon was the second son of Jacob Farjeon, of a London Jewish family, and broughtup, principally by himself, in the purlieus of Whitechapel. He was a bird of passage as far as New Zealand was concerned, but he left an impression on the early literary scene in Otago. He was a printer's devil at 13, a budding poet at the same time, and an earnest seeker after knowledge and books in the night schools of London. At 16, religious differences with his parents sent him abroad and he arrived in Melbourne in 1854. He followed varied pursuits but always within the smell of printer's ink. He was responsible for a variety of short-lived newspaper publications in different parts of Victoria, but by 1861 he was on the move again, and turned up in Dunedin at the gold-rush era where he attached himself to the Otago Daily Times as manager and subeditor for Vogel, later Sir Julius Vogel. By 1864 he was in partnership with Vogel and had managed to collect a circle of artistic and literary friends who assisted him to introduce a Bohemian atmosphere into the staid and conservative Free Church settlement of Dunedin. He found a kindred spirit in Vogel at that time, and between them they built up a form of indigenous theatre that, surprisingly enough, flourished. He had several of his own plays produced and was instrumental in the formation of the Garrick Club in Dunedin. But his commercial journalism was always a kind of bread-and-butter business. He had a prolific pen, and a highly developed passion for Dickens. His first novels, Shadows on the Snow and Grif, were written with an eye on Dickens in London, and few of his friends were surprised when, having received some encouragement from Dickens, he decided to abandon newspaper management and return to London. He left Dunedin in 1867. Grif was published in 1870, and is credited with total sales of 300,000, which put it in the best-seller class. Whatever its actual success, it persuaded Farjeon that opportunity lay not in New Zealand but in London. He wrote a full score of novels, none of which ever achieved the popularity of Grif, and his plays included two or three that pleased the London critics. Actually most of them never saw London. Farjeon was a gregarious soul with a dramatic passion considerably in excess of his capabilities, but he was a keen observer of his times, and the best of his novels were faithful documentaries of the period with always a pungent flavour of the colonies.
In 1877 Farjeon married Margaret, daughter of Joseph Jefferson, the famous American comedian. Four of his children have also made names for thenselves in the London cultural world: Eleanor as a playwright; Herbert as a novelist; Joseph Jefferson as a writer of crime novels; and Harry (died 1948) as a composer. Farjeon died at 11 Lancaster Road, Belsize Park, Hampstead, on 23 July 1903.
The Times (London), 24 Jul 1903 (Obit).
How to cite this page: 'FARJEON, Benjamin Leopold', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966.


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August 1, 2014 February 15, 2015 By jnthowe
The New Zealand Children's Screen Trust is part of the Tick for Kids campaign (www.tick4kids.org.nz). Tick for Kids is working to make sure children are a central focus in the lead up to the 2014 election and into the next parliament with the call, "It takes a child to raise a country!"
The NZCST asks the NZ Screen Industry, media organisations and people working in media to support our call for more quality media for New Zealand kids. This means more diverse and quality local programmes for New Zealand kids: local drama, science, news, animation and other under-funded genres on all platforms specifically made for kids. The NZCST is advocating that new funding is provided for kids screen content (A Junior Platinum Fund) and that a dedicated accessible online platform is provided.
Children and youth are an important audience today and tomorrow. We tell great stories as an industry – why not more great stories and more diverse local content for our kids?
The NZCST argues that media stories, characters, stories about how the world works provide a toolbox for children. What they view and hear teaches children how (and if) they fit into the world, and what ways they may fit into the world later as 'grown-ups'.
"A strong sense of identity is a pre-requisite for creativity of the highest order. The relevance of stories to our own experiences enhances our sense of who we are. Our mental health depends on a belief that we have an identity and a place." – Dr Ian Hassall (NZCST Trustee)
The recent findings released by the Growing Up Study (Auckland University) showed that "Many two year olds are using technology with ease, and a majority are spending an average of 1.5 hours per day in front of television."
Worldwide apps and games and programmes are being made to target the youngest of our kids. "Get them early, the thinking is, and these viewers can be hooked for decades, shepherded through a media company's offerings, whether ad-dependent or subscription-driven, as the youngsters grow up."[1] (NY Times, 4/7/14)
Let's hook kids to New Zealand stories and content. The Danish Film Industry spends 25% of its budget on children and youth, with a positive impact on audience numbers. Countries such as Argentina have dedicated children's channels that treat their children as citizens not just consumers. We want to expand the imaginative horizons of kiwi kids by having more of their stories on screen.
You can help by supporting the NZ Children's Screen Trust, please follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@kidsonscreenz). You can also help by putting questions to your candidates about their policies for children and media; promoting Tick for Kids; enrolling to vote, and voting for the party who you think will do their best to put children first.
Your organisation can become a children's media champion and be kept up to date with the NZCST activities. Please contact info@kidsonscreen.com
The New Zealand Children's Screen Trust is a registered charity that advocates for more diverse local media for New Zealand children and youth.
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1. What are the most popular wheelchair sports?
Many sports have been adapted to be played by those in wheelchairs. Among the most popular are handcycling, basketball, tennis, softball, badminton and wheelchair racing.
2. What are handcycles used for? How can I try one?
Handcycles are used in place of regular wheelchairs for aerobic workouts, casual rides and distance racing. The best place to try out a new handcycle is at an Abilities Expo, an organized event, a race, or at a handcycle test center. Some organizations, such as Adapted Adventures, National Abilities Center, RAMP (Recreation Access Motivating People), BORP (Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program) and Achilles Track Club have fleets of handcycles available to test.
3. What types of handcycles are out there? Which kind is right for me?
Handcycles are typically divided into two categories: competitive and recreation styles. If you want to get an aerobic workout or ride for fun with others, you should start off with a recreational handcycle. These handcycles are low maintenance and usually less expensive, such as the Invacare® Top End® XLT Handcycle. If you want to compete or are thinking about eventually racing then the competitive models are best for you, such as the Invacare® Top End® Force™-3 Handcycle.
4. I want to try a 5K for fun. Is there any alternative to buying a specific racing wheelchair?
Yes—many options exist for those who want to compete in short or more casual races. Some wheelchairs offer adapters that fit onto your current sports chair. If you already have the Invacare® Top End® Pro™-2 All Sport Wheelchair, all you need is the Freewheel 5k Adapter and you're on your way to some 5K fun.
Sports experts at Top End are available to answer your questions, both via their website and also at events like the Abilities Expo.
5. How is wheelchair tennis different from traditional tennis? What type of wheelchair would be best suited to use for wheelchair tennis?
Wheelchair tennis is played essentially in the same way that able-bodied tennis is played, except wheelchair tennis allows for two bounces of the ball instead of one. Chairs especially made for tennis are recommended for serious athletes. Look for one which offers quick adjustments so you can tailor your chair to your needs between matches.
6. How is wheelchair softball played? Where can I join a team? Are there wheelchairs out there specifically for this sport?
Wheelchair softball is slow pitch and uses a 16″ softball. The 16″ ball is a little softer than the 12″ and is easier to catch bare-handed. Wheelchair softball is played on an asphalt or concrete surface to allow for easier movement. Gloves are typically only used by the first baseman and sometimes the pitcher to allow for maximum pushing ability.
Michael Gets Out & Enjoys Life with wheelchair softball. Photo courtesy of 2014 GOEL Campaign.
All the teams are listed on the National Wheelchair Softball Association's website, which is www.wheelchairsoftball.org. Chairs used in softball rely heavily on personal preference, however, an all-sport wheelchair not only lets you play softball, but other sports as well.
7. Is there a wheelchair available that "does it all" for playing more than one sport?
Yes—the Top End Pro -2 All Sport Wheelchair is a great chair not only for basketball but tennis, softball, badminton, floor hockey, or any other sports played on a hard surface. There is also an optional Freewheel 5K attachment that allows you to participate in a short road race.
Your link for the Freewheel 5k Adapter is broken and I've searched all over and can't find it on the web anywhere.


Your body mass index (BMI) is a computation of your body composition, based on your weight and height. This is a useful tool to estimate your healthy body weight.
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You can enter your height and weight in feet and inches and pounds respectively, and our BMI calculator will automatically make the appropriate conversions for your result.
The classification in the BMI calculator is in accordance with the World Health Organization's Global Database on Body Mass Index.
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Here are some helpful hints to make border crossing into Canada easy and convenient. Make sure you carry proper identification for yourself and any children travelling with you to assist in confirming your legal right or authorization to enter Canada upon your arrival. Click here for information about required border crossing identification including traveling with minors. Click here to apply for a Canadian Passport.
Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) is a Canadian visa entry requirement for travellers from countries that currently do not need a visa for entry (US citizens excluded). This requirement came into effect on November 9, 2016. Basic information and What You Need to Know.
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Review the Canadian Border Services Agency for further information about NEXUS passes.
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The importation of certain goods is restricted or prohibited in Canada. To avoid the possibility of penalties, including seizure or prosecution, make sure you have the information you require before attempting to import items into Canada.
Despite the fact that cannabis (marijuana) is legal and regulated in Canada, it remains illegal to take cannabis across Canada's national borders, whether you are entering or leaving Canada. For more information, consult cannabis (marijuana) legalization.
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When you return to Canada, you may qualify for a personal exemption. This allows you to bring goods of a certain value into the country without paying regular duty and taxes, except for a minimum duty that may apply to some tobacco products.
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Élisabeth Hesselblad, née le  dans le village de Faglavik, dans la commune de Herrljunga en Suède, et morte le , est une religieuse catholique, rénovatrice de la branche des Sœurs du Saint-Sauveur de Sainte-Brigitte. Elle est reconnue Juste parmi les nations en 2004 et vénérée comme sainte par l'Église catholique.

Biographie
Née dans l'ouest de la Suède au sein d'une famille luthérienne de treize enfants, elle est baptisée dans l'Église luthérienne de Suède. Elle travaille dès l'âge de seize ans pour aider sa famille, puis elle part, comme tant de paysans suédois de l'époque, chercher du travail aux États-Unis. Elle y devient infirmière, et entre en contact avec des Catholiques qui lui font connaître leur Église. Finalement elle se convertit au catholicisme en 1902. Elle souhaite alors « unir ce qui est divisé ». En visite à Rome, elle rejoint les religieuses brigittines, issues de l'Ordre fondé autrefois par sainte Brigitte de Suède.

Élisabeth Hesselblad, devenue religieuse, n'a de cesse de développer sa Congrégation approuvée par le Saint-Siège en 1940 et de redonner vie à l'œuvre de la sainte suédoise. Elle est ouverte au dialogue avec les autres confessions chrétiennes, dans le cadre de l'œcuménisme, et multiplie les missions en Europe du nord et de l'est. Elle est déclarée Juste parmi les nations en 2004 pour avoir sauvé des Juifs pendant la dernière guerre mondiale, à Rome.

Béatification et canonisation

Elle est béatifiée le  par Jean-Paul II. Depuis, un miracle supplémentaire est reconnu à son intercession ; le pape François en approuve la reconnaissance le , ce qui ouvre la voie à sa canonisation.

Sa canonisation est effective le , célébrée à Rome par le pape François.

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Elisabeth Hesselblad
Naissance en juin 1870
Décès en avril 1957
Religieux suédois
Ordre de Sainte-Brigitte
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Juste parmi les nations suédois
Récipiendaire de l'ordre pro Merito Melitensi
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Matt Scherocman
Microsoft has recently added to the Office 365 family – Messaging Encryption. This replaces Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE) and will be a great for many clients and is included as part of the E3/E4 suites. Below are the key facts and a link to the O365 Technology Blog article outlining the new feature.
Included with O365 E3 and E4 at no cost
$2 per user per month to add to other plans
Rolling out the first quarter of 2014
Receiver does not need to be on the service
Current Exchange Hosted Encryption customers will be automatically upgraded
http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/21/introducing-office-365-message-encryption-send-encrypted-emails-to-anyone.aspx
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Our co-op's number one priority is providing our consumer-members with safe, reliable and affordable electricity. But doing this job requires more than stringing and maintaining power lines throughout our service territory. It requires political engagement. That may seem far removed from our core mission, but it's essential to serving you, our consumer-members.
That's why we're participating in a national program of America's electric cooperatives called Co-ops Vote.
Co-ops Vote encourages all co-op members to participate in national, state and local elections while educating political candidates and elected officials about the important role played by electric cooperatives in their communities.
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the service organization representing the nation's electric co-ops, launched Co-ops Vote in 2016. Co-ops Vote started as a national non-partisan get-out-the-vote initiative that helped drive rural voter turnout in the 2016 presidential election.
Through this program, electric co-ops realized they had a unique advantage: As co-ops, the civic virtue of voting is in our DNA. We show concern for community—one of the seven cooperative principles—through participation in our democracy.
Co-ops have another advantage. Elected officials and decision-makers across the political spectrum trust us because of the work the electric cooperative family has put into political engagement. When we all get involved, we can make things happen politically and in our local communities.
Our participation in Co-ops Vote helps to ensure that rural issues remain part of the national discussion—and are supported by our elected officials. But Co-ops Vote isn't just for co-ops. It's for co-op members just like you.
You can participate by registering to vote and committing to cast your ballot on November 6. If you're interested in getting more involved, just give us a call or visit www.vote.coop to learn more about the upcoming elections and access online tools that can help you participate. We look forward to seeing you at the polls on Election Day!
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This is one of my favorite fruits crisp so far, mango mix with berries ( blueberry,raspberry and blackberry ) mixed with Asian spices fresh ginger,nutmeg and lemon zest and lemon juice.
Since the fruits have natural sweet taste in it, So I only add sugar on the crisp topping to adjust the sweetness.
This dessert can be served warm and served with a scoop vanilla or strawberry ice cream for a treat.
I made this dessert about two years ago as one of the menu for the event of foodbuzz 24x24, and I make it again yesterday for dinner with friends.
Into the oven bake for about 45-50 minutes.
Hi Ridwan, for a moment I thought it was MANGO BERRIES...actually thinking that mango berries existed, and I didn't even know about it...lol!
Your berry crisp looks so droolworthy delicious with all the combination of the berries, and the diced mangoes...yumm; so want to make it with the few remaining mangoes we have left over!
A fantastic crisp, Ridwan. I love the add of ginger there.
So delicious, I am having for a bedtime snack! Thanks, chef!
Just hand me a bowl and fork. :) Love the bright flavors of the berries and mango together.


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The past few months have been an exceptionally exciting time for the Warsaw office of the law firm White & Case LPP. After years of functioning in the cozy office building on Królewska Street, the firm began the next chapter in its history at a new address in the Q22 high rise located in the city's business district.
It is no accident that the 155-meter-tall Q22 office building, designed by one of the most outstanding Polish architects, Stefan Kuryłowicz, was selected to be the new location of the Warsaw office. The construction process and the architect's vision reflect ideas that are also shared by White & Case, such as respect for heritage and pursuit of new standards, and progressiveness. The skyscraper was erected on the former site of the Hotel Mercure Fryderyk Chopin, which was torn down and some of the material recycled to build a technologically advanced high rise. In addition, the clean outline resembling the structure of a crystal was intended to be a symbol of quality and a reference point for the new changes in the constant chaos of the city landscape.
White & Case has leased the top three floors in the building, which afford incredible views of the whole metropolis and its landmarks: the Za Żelazną Bramą housing development, the Old Town and the Palace of Culture and Science. Before commencing the preparation of the interior design, a special design group composed of partners and employees of the firm formulated an architectural brief. Its implementation was assigned to an experienced team created by the Mood Works workshop, the Arup studio and Kreativa architects. Using the space and design language, the designers were able to join and incorporate seemingly conflicting concepts. The new office expresses White & Case's long-term presence in Poland, its connection to tradition and its local context, while simultaneously showing the firm's position and the spirit of its international brand – deliberate, courageous and modern.
The employees and contractors of the Warsaw office of White & Case occupy the 37th and 38th floors. Both floors are perfectly connected by a spectacular internal glass staircase. The layout of the space on both floors is similar. Most of the space is divided into compact offices with floor-to-ceiling windows and glass facades facing the corridor. They are furnished with comfortable workstations – desks permitting seated and standing work, ergonomic chairs and two suspended and regulated monitors. Visually open rooms create a feeling of community. This is also enhanced by the open library connected to a relaxation area, a spacious kitchen with a large table intended to facilitate integration, small meeting rooms and cozy coffee corners.
Clients are welcomed on the 39th floor, the top floor of the building. Everything was organized here so that clients would experience the firm's hospitality and its exceptional quality from the moment they enter the reception area. On this glamorous floor are multifunctional, smaller and larger conference rooms furnished with a consistent platform permitting control of modern audiovisual equipment, air-conditioning, lighting and temperature, as well as separate outlets allowing guests to work on their personal equipment. The client floor is eclectically decorated with icons of design and original works created by local craftsmen. The noble and unusual impression is complemented by the finishing materials – native oak, Italian silk upholstery with modernistic designs (acoustic panels) and a marble parquet floor recalling "Biała Marianna", a high-quality kind of marble that was used, for example, to decorate the interior of the National Philharmonic, the Grand Theater and the walls of the Central Train Station.
"One of the key elements of our new office is the White & Case art collection, which is displayed on every floor. It includes maps, wood engravings and prints that the firm has collected over more than 20 years, as well as recently purchased photographs of Warsaw taken by masters and artists of the younger generation. The collection is complemented by neon lighting using the WASZ Warsaw font, made specially for White & Case by Fontarte, a typographic and graphic studio that handles publishing projects, as well as curatorial and research work in the scope of design and lettering," said White & Case.
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Murray State's new Clara Eagle Gallery Director Mike Martin kicks off his first semester curating the four campus galleries with works including 'Anthropogenic Landscapes' by Armin Muhsam, Paintings/Drawings/Sculptures depicting "Silver Linings" by Adrian Hatfield, 'AIR of UT' featuring works by professors and alumni at UT Knoxville and 'My Home' large-scale photos of interiors by Louis Chan. Martin brings artists Hatfield and Chan to Sounds Good to speak with Kate Lochte about their work.
Today is the last day of a two-artist show featuring artworks in wood and photographs in the Clara M. Eagle Gallery. There's a talk by photographer Noah Doely at 4 p.m. with a show-closing reception following. So there are only a few hours left to see the exhibitions. A couple weeks ago, we met Doely on Sounds Good. Today, we meet Murray State's new assistant professor in furniture design and woodworking, Sarah Martin. She and Kate Lochte take a walk through her exhibition, titled "Sites" in the Gallery on the sixth floor of Doyle Fine Arts.
Photographer Noah Doely's exhibition "Above and Below" shows in Murray State's Clara M. Eagle Gallery through November 7 along with works by Murray's new wood faculty person, Sarah Martin. On Sounds Good, we meet Doely, who teaches photography at the University of Northern Iowa. The images in Eagle Gallery create a scenes of peaceful quiet in its open space. Those which take the viewer into caverns, gazing at light streaming from above, convey timelessness.
Former U.S. Peace Corps rural AIDS educator, Tony D'Souza is tonight's presenter for the Murray State MFA Residency Reading Series that's open to all at 7:30 in Clara Eagle Gallery. His fictional works, like Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight grow from non-fictional stimuli, and have won him prestigious literary awards, national publication, and academic fellowships.
Two decades after his debut collection "Here We Are in Paradise" heralded Tony Earley as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, his latest work coming out in August re-affirms his story-telling prowess. We meet Mr. Earley on Sounds Good today, in advance of his 7:30 p.m. Sunday presentation for the Murray State MFA Reading Series.
Highly lauded poet, Boston native, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Alan Shapiro reads from his latest book at Murray State this Thursday (April 3) in the Clara M. Eagle Gallery. Shapiro has won numerous awards for his work including two from the National Arts Foundation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. On Sounds Good, Shapiro reads from his work and talks about how he became a poet after his high school basketball career ended.
Artist Bill Conger presents "Coming Dark - Selected Works 2004 through 2014" at Murray State's Clara Eagle Gallery, through March. Peoria-based artist Conger uses mixed media to craft minimalist and haunting work, recollecting themes of love, memory and time. Colin Nesbit, Executive Director of the Clara Eagle Gallery also joins the conversation about Conger's upcoming exhibit.
Essayist, journalist and translator Riley Hanick is Murray State's Watkins Chair in Creative Writing. Next Wednesday, January 8, he is among featured writers for the MSU/MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series. His work has appeared in The Sonora Review, Seneca Review, No Depression and other publications. Kate Lochte spoke with Hanick for Sounds Good to learn more about his first book.
The darkly comic novel King of Cuba is Cristina Garcia's latest work. Garcia is one of the writers featured at next week's Murray State MFA in Creative Writing January Reading Series. She reads Tuesday, January 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Clara Eagle Gallery, sixth floor, Doyle Fine Arts Building. Born in Havana, and raised in New York City, Garcia has written six novels; she's edited two anthologies; she's authored works for young readers; a collection of poetry, and a young adult novel.


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Whereas a flag state grants a vessel its nationality and therefore exercises sovereignty on board, a coastal state enjoys sovereignty in its territorial sea and jurisdiction in regard to pollution matters in the exclusive economic zone. During the last few decades, coastal states have become increasingly reluctant to accept common flag state jurisdiction and the consequent problems of enforcement and have sought more influence and control in pollution matters related to navigation, effective exercise of jurisdiction, and rights for prevention measures. The Convention therefore obliges shipping states to establish international rules and standards through competent organizations or diplomatic conferences. As far as agreements and standards have been established and practiced, they form the backbone of a legal framework for prevention of pollution. The Convention provisions in this Part contain the general principles, which the legal framework is to apply and according to which it will, if necessary, be re-examined from time to time.
The basic principles of the 1982 Convention concerning pollution matters provide that the primary responsibility for establishing measures for the prevention of pollution by vessels lies with the flag state. The flag state is to adopt laws and regulations for the prevention of pollution which are to have at least the same effect as generally accepted international rules and standards established through the competent organization (competent organization here means - International Maritime Organization - IMO -) and take measures to ensure to the fullest possible extent the safety of operations at sea, including the regulation of design, construction, equipment, operation and manning of vessels, prevention of accidents, and prevention of intentional and unintentional discharges, and is to provide emergency measures. As the coastal states which co�operate in regional pollution prevention agreements may require information from foreign vessels navigating in their territorial sea, the flag state is to ensure that the master of a vessel flying its flag furnishes information as to whether his destination is a port of that region and, if so, whether his ship complies with port entry requirements. There is further the obligation to render information required in order to determine if a violation has occurred.
In exercising sovereignty in the territorial sea, the coastal states can take measures in regard to accidents, emergencies, safety of operations and discharge, and so on, except with respect to design, construction, manning, or equipment of foreign vessels on innocent passage. National measures may not hamper the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea. Where a ship is exercising its right of transit passage through straits, the bordering states may adopt laws only in respect to discharge of oil and similar substances and can only in part apply the provisions of Part XII. Archipelagic states, on the other hand, can apply Part XII for vessels in archipelagic sea lane passage, but in adopting laws have to keep in mind that the regulations for sea lane passage refer only to discharge.
For its exclusive economic zone, a coastal state may adopt only laws which give effect to generally accepted international rules,  but may also tighten such rules for a particular, clearly defined area of the exclusive economic zone and in ice-covered areas.


Coenzyme Q10 is an indigenousenzyme in the body. However, sometimes although rare sufficient Coenzyme Q10 production in some people can not happen. in general, the amount of production become less by aging and the importance of taking nourishment increases. Co-Enzyme (Q10, CoQ10) is an organic, natural, soluble in fat, vitamin like agent. Basic activity of coenzyme Q10 in the energy production is to provide the energy needed by the cells by working together with enzymes.


Brushing aside any hype about coconuts and antioxidants, there is no one better to trim down to the facts than Australia's most trusted scientist, Dr Karl.
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David Hogg, stopping by Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show with his sister Lauren Hogg to promote their book #Never Again, had a $1.05 pricetag pinned to his lapel.
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May, 2020 will be...
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Every May
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#PraderWilliSyndromeAwarenessMonth
It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.
Like many syndromes and disorders, they're hard to prevent, difficult to diagnose at an early age, and generally have no cure. Prader-Willi Syndrome is one of those disorders. Because it can happen in any family, it affects about one in 12,000 to 15,000 people each year in the United States alone. Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month is a holiday dedicated to informing people about this condition to help families out there in need of answers.
History of Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Prader Willi Syndrome was discovered and first diagnosed in 1956 by Swiss doctors Andrea Prader, Alexis Labhart, and Heinrich Willi. After they observed nine children with common characteristics, such as small hands and feet, weak muscles from birth, intellectual disabilities, on-set childhood obesity, and constant hunger, they were able to determine that thee symptoms were caused by a disorder that wasn't named yet. Today, doctors can determine this syndrome through genetic testing, as they have now found that this syndrome is caused by an abnormality of chromosome 15, which results in the dysfunction of the hypothalamus, or the part of the brain that controls functions such as hunger, emotions, fertility, and body temperature.
Prader-Willi is part of a spectrum, similar to Autism and ADHD, which means infants and children could have a varying degree of symptoms and be misdiagnosed as a result. As more research became relevant, the holiday itself began to form. In 2009, representatives Ed Royce and Jane Harman introduced the holiday to the House of Representatives in the United States. From there, it passed as an official month-long holiday to be observed. Organizations such as the Foundation for Prader-Willi research and the Prader Willi Syndrome Association now sponsor the holiday as one of their main events for fundraisers and contests, where the money collected will go towards research to help families manage and treat the disorder.
How to celebrate Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
If you feel strongly about this cause, one of the best places to go for resources and information is to visit websites for organizations such as the Prader Willi Syndrome Association or the Foundation for Prader-Willi research and donate money towards their cause. Share this holiday on social media using the hashtag #praderwillisyndromeawarenessmonth and help inform people about what this syndrome is, how common is it, and how other people can help raise awareness.
May, 2020 is also...
Asian Pacific Heritage Month
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Leaving war torn Colombia and bringing the best of her culture to Maine - Adelaida Gaviria's recipe
First published on Immagrant Kitchens: A Good Soup to Know
Photo and story by Lindsay Sterling
I was in my state's capitol for the day, trying to get a better grip on how our government works. My representative in the Maine State Legislature, Sara Gideon, graciously introduced me to many people who work there. When she mentioned to the representative of a neighboring district that I write an online cookbook called Immigrant Kitchens, he encouraged me to connect with his wife. "She's from Colombia," he said, "and she loves to cook!" A month later, I found myself driving down their long driveway, past acres of gardens, wondering what would come of this this blind platonic cooking date.
A soft-spoken woman, Adelaida Gaviria, opened the door with a bright smile and waved me in. On the kitchen counter was a shallow basket filled with freshly picked cilantro from her garden. "I'm going to teach you a famous Colombian soup, called ajiaco (pronounced Ah hee AH Ko), because it's easy to make, and my family and friends love it – which isn't true for all the Colombian foods I have made."
She had already cooked two chicken breasts in salted water with cloves of garlic. As she peeled and sliced potatoes, she explained, "I slice the potato thinly to thicken the broth." In Colombia, she would use three kinds of potatoes, including a native variety called papa criolla that has deep yellow flesh and disintegrates easily. Because those don't grow well outside of Colombia, she prefers to use the Yukon Gold variety here.
As she blended cooked garlic cloves into the broth with an immersion blender making the broth slightly cloudy, I asked how she ended up in Maine. "I come from a very politically involved family," she explained, "We were threatened and had many bad things happen to us. I consider myself a refugee." Her family was victimized by a 5-decades-long civil war that ended up killing more than 220,000 people and causing over five million Colombians to flee their homes. When Adelaida was 14, her mother was kidnapped and held for ransom. She survived and returned, but Adelaida's first boyfriend, her oldest brother, and her best friend were killed in other embroilments.
When it came time for her to think about college, she chose to leave the violence in her home country and experience life in a safer place. She studied physics at Colorado School of Mines and went on to graduate school at Columbia University in New York. While she was there she fell in love with a fellow graduate student, Seth Berry. During a school break, when he was visiting Colombia, her sister-in-law made this soup for him. He loved it so much, that her sister-in-law said, "Adelaida, you have to learn how to make this soup!"
Adelaida and Seth eventually married and moved to his peaceful hometown in Maine. She recalled, "When Seth and I came to Maine, I was in love with the beautiful landscape. Winter didn't bother me." She has learned how to garden here, gathering knowledge and expertise from Seth's family, fellow gardeners, and experience. Four years ago she went "corn-crazy," as she described it, growing 10 varieties of corn. She used up their whole propane tank making another Colombian favorite: arepas. Over the years she has enjoyed living and raising a family here, teaching in the public schools, running a school garden, and cooking. In their town there is an annual community dinner in the dark of winter. "I have a standing request for this soup," Adelaida says, "People say they wait the whole year for it."
I can see why. Each bite is at once soothing and exciting. Ajiaco is a like chicken soup, but with thicker broth and the added excitement of corn, capers, potatoes, slices of avocado, chopped cilantro, and a splash of cream.
Colombian Chicken and Corn Soup
GLUTEN-FREE, MAIN COURSES, PEANUT FREE, SOUPS, SUGAR FREE
As Adelaida Gaviria from Medellin, Columbia (pronounced MedeGEENE) taught Lindsay Sterling in Bowdoinham, Maine.
Note: Adelaida said this dish (pronounced AH hee AH Ko), originated in Bogota, but has come to be a favorite across much of the country.
2 bone-in breasts
6 large potatoes (she prefers Yukon Gold variety)
2 Tbsp dried guascas, a Columbian herb available at latin markets or online
1/2 bunch cilantro
3 ears corn on the cob or frozen corn kernels
1/4 cup capers
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immersion blender or mortar and pestle
lettuce spinner (ideally)
small bowl for serving capers on the table
creamer for serving cream at the table
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1. Cover chicken with 2 inches of water in a large soup pot on high heat. Add 5 cloves sliced garlic, 2 tsp salt, and 1 tsp black pepper. Once water boils, turn heat down to keep the chicken simmering until it is cooked throughout. Wash hands and any utensils or surfaces that touched raw chicken.
2. While chicken is cooking, peel potatoes, slice them in half, and then into 1/4-inch slices. Wash and chop the cilantro. Put half of it in a small bowl for guests to garnish their soup at the table, and reserve the other half for use in a bit.
3. Once the chicken is cooked (opaque throughout), remove it from broth and put it in a shallow dish to cool.
4. Use an immersion blender to blend the garlic slices into the broth. If you don't have an immersion blender, scoop out the garlic with a slotted spoon, mash it in a mortar and pestle with a little broth, and whisk that mixture into the broth in the pot.
5. Add 4 cups of chicken stock to the broth. Rub 2 Tbsp guascas between your hands letting it fall into the pot. Add chopped cilantro. Bring to a simmer and add potato slices.
6. Once chicken is cool enough to the touch, rip it into bite-sized pieces. Discard the bones and add the pulled chicken back to the broth.
7. Once the potato slices are almost cooked, add corn to the soup and simmer another 8 minutes until corn is cooked. Taste the broth and add more salt and pepper if needed.
8. Serve soup in guests' bowls. Top each bowl with 2 quarters of ripe avocado. Invite guests to add capers, cream, and cilantro to their bowls at the table as desired.
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Memo: PG&E focused wildfire prevention on easy, not high-risk areas
by Lisa Ellwood October 23, 2020 March 4, 2021
UTILITIES: A memo from a court-appointed monitor says PG&E's wildfire prevention efforts prioritized work on the easiest stretches of power lines instead of those in the highest risk areas. (Courthouse News Service)
• A lawsuit faults PG&E for last month's deadly and destructive Zogg Fire, alleging the utility failed to maintain power lines. (KRCR)
• Two Southern California cities could join forces in a community choice energy program that would allow member municipalities to purchase and sell electricity. (Los Angeles Times)
CARBON: California has an opportunity to lead the development of carbon capture technologies if it takes the right policy actions, according to a new report. (S&P Global)
• A recently uncovered federal report from 2018 concluded that adding carbon sequestration technology to Montana's Colstrip Power Plant "may not be financially attractive" at a cost of $1.33 billion. (Billings Gazette)
• Wyoming is among the states operating coal-fired power plants in areas projected to face rising water stress due to climate change. (S&P Global)
• The second largest national coal producer in the U.S. is looking for an "appropriate buyer" as it cuts production in the Powder River Basin by 50% over the next two to three years. (Wyoming Public Media)
NUCLEAR: New Mexico lawmakers in a hearing discuss the future of a nuclear waste facility with federal and state officials. (Carlsbad Current-Argus)
OIL & GAS:
• California's attorney general wants a federal appeals court to reverse "hastily compiled rulemaking" that rolled back an Obama-era rule on fracking on public and tribal lands. (E&E News Daily, subscription)
• New Mexico regulatory agencies are developing what could be the strictest methane regulations in the U.S. for oil and gas operators. (Forbes)
RENEWABLE ENERGY: The University of California is building a solar array and biomethane plant to advance its goal of carbon neutrality by 2025. (Daily Californian)
SOLAR: A technology firm is set to transform the University of Wyoming into a major center for solar generation research and innovation. (Casper Star-Tribune)
GRID: A new study by two Colorado utilities finds that enabling more efficient and transparent transmission coordination across the state can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money, and create jobs. (news release)
Lisa Ellwood
Lisa is a Lenape and Nanticoke Native American freelance journalist, editor and writer currently based in the U.K. She has more than two decades' experience working in corporate communications and print and digital media. She compiles the Western Energy News daily email digest. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University; her specializations include data journalism and visualization. She is a member of the Native American Journalists Association, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, and the National Union of Journalists (U.K.).
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Reading the On-the-Nose Apocalypse
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It may not come as a surprise that I didn't read a whole lot of post-apocalyptic fiction in 2020.
Or did I? The endless doomscroll of my Twitter and news feeds, of spiking graphs and preposterous statements by politicians at every level, has been ten months (and counting) of life imitating art.
We've struck every cliché: the ominous foreshadowing over Wuhan; Chinese journalists, scientists, and medical professionals pleading for help, then suddenly vanished; lockdowns and morgue trucks and mass graves on Hart Island; leaders lying or obfuscating when they're not actively blocking relief efforts; civil unrest; denialists and ignorant contrarians of every ideological bent; opportunistic wingnuts derailing trains or concocting outlandish kidnap schemes; and all-around confusion "increased by a spate of new and conflicting regulations, and by the arbitrary way controls were imposed or lifted," to lift a quote straight from Anna Kavan's Ice.
And of course the deaths. 2020 was a year in which 3.2 million Americans died, the most in US history. In the past 12 months, one out of every 100 Americans dropped dead — 1 percent of the population — and of those deaths, 10 percent were from covid. Clearly none of us needed a V8 Interceptor to become Mad Max. To live the apocalypse we just had to wake up in the morning.
This year, rather than sticking to a theme, the books I read were randomly pulled off the shelf or my Kindle. I wasn't actively seeking plague stories. I was just looking for distraction.
My initial excitement at discovering a little-known 1960 post-apocalyptic novella called The Night of the Long Knives (free for Kindle) by Fritz Leiber, author of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories, was blunted by its banal premise.
Set in a post-nuclear irradiated American Midwest, the Deathlands are the haunt of solitary marauders and psychopaths exiled from the vestiges of civilization that still exist beyond its dust-bowl borders. The kill-or-be-killed ethos of these wastelanders prohibits them from forming lengthy bonds, so each aimlessly wanders the desert in a never-ending death stagger, briefly uniting for some common purpose before turning on each other.
Amazon is littered with self-published ebooks with this very same concept: survivalist porn written and consumed by white gun nuts who imagine themselves self-sufficient murder machines but who, in a true endtimes scenario, would keel over as soon as the insulin and Narcan ran out. Suspecting Long Knives was similar, I nearly DNFed early on.
But it's a testament to Leiber's plotting and fast pacing that I kept reading what turned out to be a decent story. Protagonist Ray is high-plains drifting when he encounters Alice in a very 2020 meeting —
She looked slim, dark topped, and on guard. Small like me and like me wearing a scarf loosely around the lower half of her face in the style of the old buckaroos.
— but before they go too stabby-stabby on each other, an oldtimer named Pop and a crashed pilot sweeps them into a conflict between the remaining civilized city-states. Pop is himself a reformed murderer who roams the Deathlands as an evangelist for nonviolence. He finds much opportunity for conversion in Ray and Alice, so the book's action is spliced with long dialogues about killing, justified and otherwise, both martial and personal.
One intuits that the author, like others from the World War II generation (Leiber was a pacifist who worked for Douglas Aircraft on their troop and supply transports), was trying to reconcile his actions with his beliefs to develop a kind of Cold War ethos. This probably resonated with readers of Amazing Stories, where the novella first appeared. While it never blooms larger than those midcentury roots, Long Knives is nevertheless a quick and fun read.
Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road (1997) epitomizes 1980s and 90s science fiction: a fat mass-market paperback 400 pages long, where nothing happens for the first 100.
We are introduced to an early industrial society rebuilding after a global pandemic centuries ago; we learn of a failed expedition to locate a repository of ancient Roadmaker knowledge in which everyone but a single survivor perished; we meet a cast of characters mumbling about embarking on a second attempt. It's even right there in the title and on the cover: this book is about a journey.
And yet readers must first slog through 30,000 words of watching the protagonists make sandwiches and fill their Thermoses. Much like the relics they search for, Eternity Road is in some sense an artifact from another era when books were sold by the pound.
The story entertains once the characters get off their asses and set out, and as I read, I kept stopping to check Google Maps to follow the group's progress based on the landmarks noted in the text. The America that collapsed was a more advanced version than our own, and many of the obstacles the party faces involve AIs and automation still purring among the ruined cities and towns. This, combined with the RPG collection of characters — a wizardly scholar, a woodsman tracker, a healer, etc. — strongly reminded me of the 80s game Gamma World minus all of the mutants and monsters, doubling down on the book's nostalgia factor.
Eternity Road is a throwback on another level, too: it's optimistic sci-fi. Commonly post-apoc ends with the protagonists adapted to their new world but rarely is the world itself changed. McDevitt instead returns to a rosier view of America and mankind in general, believing in science and rationality and technocracy — in his future, rediscovered technology will be accepted by people and put to beneficial use. While the past few years give me reason to doubt that's always the case, such idealism is a cozy campfire in the long dark wilderness of 2020.
It's hard not to read Anna Kavan's Ice (1967) as a parable of addiction and obsession, although who is the addict and who is the anthropomorphized drug is difficult to suss. One pursues and the other is pursued, begging the question of whether it's the junkie who chases or is chased. At the very least, the two may be interchangeable.
The slipstream plot, reminiscent of JG Ballard at his most New Wavey, features no proper nouns, no clear actors, and very indistinct geography. An anonymous narrator, recently returned to his homeland, goes to visit a young woman who rejected him for another man; when he arrives at the house he discovers the husband alone and abandoned. By chance the narrator discovers she is the prisoner of a petty foreign dictator known as the warden, whereupon the narrator schemes to liberate her, following the couple from place to place. Yet his goal is nothing more than to imprison her himself.
All of this is set against a backdrop of world war and impending glaciation: harbors freeze, snowstorms blanket roads and ruins, food and warmth becomes increasingly scarce. Whether the war precipitated the climate change — it's suggested some kind of nuclear attack or accident has affected the poles — or vice versa is never clarified. Further complicating things is the narrator's seamless launching into dreamlike fantasies of the girl's death or abuse, with him taking a savior's role, before returning to the point of divergence and continuing.
While not the most enjoyable book I've ever read, Kavan does a laudable job of fixing mental illness down on paper. Throughout, it's clear the story nothing to do with love. Kavan's fever-dream chronicle is a tale of possession: the narrator only wants to her so that no other man does; and the woman, who understands this, resents him for it. This in turn confounds him, too lacking in self-awareness to grasp his own blundering. Like a contemporary incel, he never realizes his problems are of his own manufacture or that his goals would be more accessible if only he shed a drop of his narcissism and self-importance.
As with all my post-apocalyptic reads, it's easy to draw parallels with current events, and with Ice, especially current leadership.
Bonus Track: I included this book last year when I read a bunch of UK post-apoc, but if one novel could summarize 2020, it's John Christopher's When the Tripods Came (1988).
Though ostensibly about an alien invasion, the otherworldly bad guys remain largely offstage for most of the book. Tripods is more precisely a novel about social contagion, about civilization dissolving from within. Employing a divide-and-conquer method, the aliens prefer to let humanity overthrow itself by inflating xenophobia and regional and national prejudices. People who come in contact with the pro-alien Trippies soon become Trippies themselves, and while not necessarily violent, their growing numbers make it increasingly more difficult to avoid or resist them. As borders are sealed and paranoia skyrockets among the noninfected, the protagonists find themselves clinched in ever-tightening bear traps.
With one fell swoop of a story Christopher managed to consolidate both the concepts of viral contamination with ideological estrangement. No issue is so small or simple that it can't be polarized into extremes, and it's precisely this splintering that prevents organized resistance to the Tripods or, for that matter, covid-19. If only everyone could meet in the middle — hey, let's all wear masks but agree that draconian regulations are counterproductive — then the enemy could be easily beaten.
But nope. It would take the humans of Christopher's Tripods series three more books to defeat their alien overlords. Meanwhile here I am ten months later, getting my brain swabbed just so I can drop my son at college, delivering meals-on-wheels to retirees because the senior center is shuttered indefinitely.
Often the problem isn't so much the problem. It's the people.
That's it for 2020. If you want more apocalyptic suggestions, I read a bunch of Brit books in 2019, some rando novels in 2018, and end-times fiction about the US in 2017. Until next year, stay safe, be kind to others, and wear a fucking mask.
A Season of Brook Farm
5 October 2020 12 November 2020 ~ Jackson	~ Leave a comment
The Hive was the communal heart of Brook Farm. During his stay, Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in the front right room.
On Thursday, my novel A Season of Whispers drops in print and ebook editions.
Season is set in 1844 in a fictional transcendentalist commune called Bonaventure, located in eastern Connecticut. Bonaventure was influenced by two real-life transcendentalist communities, one of which is Brook Farm, located in the outskirts of Boston.
Brook Farm was founded by George Ripley, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Sophia as an experiment in societal reform. Both had been inspired after visiting at least one intentional community founded by German immigrants (in Ohio, IIRC) and after spending the summer of 1840 on a farm in West Roxbury reading about the French socialist Charles Fourier.
The Ripleys sought to establish a communal arrangement that ensured "a more natural union between intellectual and manual labor," separate and apart from "the pressures of our competitive institutions." Their sense of socialism was much less rigid or ideological than what we may think of. Brook Farm was organized as a joint-stock company, in which members bought shares (at $500 a pop, equivalent to about $13,900 in today's money) in exchange for three hots and a cot and a dividend from the profits. Only a very few Brook Farmers actually paid that much, however, and it's doubtful anyone saw a penny in return. Brook Farm was also nondenominational, notable as most utopian settlements usually required subscribers to uphold a specific religion or creed.
For a few years, Brook Farm became a kind of sun around which the transcendentalists orbited. Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, editrix of The Dial (which was The Atlantic or New Yorker of the movement), declined to join but were frequent visitors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne joined in April 1841 after purchasing two shares, the other for his future wife Sophia. Hawthorne soon became disillusioned with farm work, particularly with all the manure, and found the labor left him too tired to write. After vacationing in Salem for a few weeks in September, he finally left the farm permanently in November — without ever receiving a refund of his shares. A decade later, Hawthorne fictionalized his Brook Farm experience in The Blithedale Romance, a comical novel I can't recommend highly enough.
One of the issues the Brook Farmers struggled with was how exactly society should be reformed. What would a perfect society look like? What did "reform" mean in practical everyday terms?
Although the farm grew crops with middling success, Brook Farm supported itself mainly through the day school run by the Ripleys. By 1844, the enterprise was successful enough for them to shift into a new phase, in which they leaned heavily into Fourierism, costing them several members as a result. Fourier was quite specific how people would live under his system, even down to the architecture; and so the Brook Farmers embraced austere poverty in order to build a Phalanstery on the property, a sort of communal dormitory constructed around a common green space. Construction continued until March 1846, when the nearly completed Phalanstery burned to the ground.
The disaster ruined Brook Farm, and while the Ripleys eventually recovered — George Ripley went on to become a successful journalist and editor of Harper's Magazine — it took them 13 years to pay off the debts accrued by their utopian experiment.
Today you can visit the Brook Farm Historic Site but you may be disappointed as nothing from the era remains (the oldest building is a print shop built in 1890 or so). Still, you can roam the area, which includes a cemetery, and get a feel for the land.
You can read more about Hawthorne's stay at Brook Farm here.
Short News, Reclusive Scriveners Edition
18 September 2020 19 September 2020 ~ Jackson	~ Leave a comment
Interior (Model Reading) by Edward Hopper, 1925
Don't Engage. At Litreactor, Cina Pelayo, author and editor of Gothic Blue Book, offered her advice to writers regarding social media.
There are some authors who only tweet about writing. There are some authors who tweet about writing, and just a little bit about themselves. Then, there are some authors who tweet about their work, themselves, and are very active in social and political causes online, engaging opponents, and being vocal overall. What image are you trying to present? Think about it and frame yourself as such.
Pelayo confines herself to Twitter and Instagram, which coincidentally are the only two platforms I use beyond this blog. I find Twitter helpful for learning and sharing news but impossible for any kind of meaningful communication unless I already know the person, so my hat's off to anyone who can build a following there.
Instagram is, I think, a better platform. I attended a social-media panel at StokerCon 2018 and Paul Tremblay offered some good advice: He suggested people may not want your links to buy stuff but they may be interested in your life as a writer, so consider showcasing that. This is my approach toward Instagram. Alas, 90 percent of my life is cooking meals for the fam, sitting at the keyboard, exercising, or working on household projects, and the internet doesn't need more food porn, gym selfies, or shelf blogs. So I don't post often.
Pelayo is a little more cautious than I am. I believe writing, whether it's journalism, novel writing, or whatever, is inherently a political act and thus writers shouldn't necessarily shy away from putting their opinions out there, assuming those opinions aren't superficial or impulsive. Our worldviews are already hardwired into what we do — it's just a matter of how on the nose we want to be in public.
In the last few years I've made an effort to be positive on Twitter, something I've been working on IRL as I strive to be more optimistic and grateful. But I also aim to avoid letting fear drive my interactions. As Philip K. Dick wrote, "If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely. Fear makes you always, always hold something back."
Piranesi. Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — which I consider to be the greatest fantasy novel written in my lifetime, if not ever — has a new book out, her first in 16 years. She discusses it in this terrific New Yorker interview.
Rest in Peace. Charles Saunders, author of the Imaro and Dossouye series of African-based sword-and-sorcery novels, passed away in May but his death was only announced this month. Saunders was a very prolific journalist and author, writing four nonfiction books in addition to his novels, as well as numerous essays, columns, and short stories. He was 73.
We All Live in Lovecraft Country
14 August 2020 13 August 2020 ~ Jackson	~ Leave a comment
This Sunday, Jordan Peele's series Lovecraft Country will debut on HBO, based on the novel by Matt Ruff. Here's a review of the book I wrote back in 2016.
Harper (384 pages, $26.99 hardback, $7.99 digital, February 2016)
Pam Noles grew up the daughter of a mother who was very active in the NAACP and a father who, because of his color, had to sue their city after being turned down eight times for a firefighting job. Noles also grew up loving all things science fiction — books and B movies — even though nobody on those book covers or in those movies resembled her family.
On Saturday nights Noles watched schlocky movies hosted by an Elvira knockoff called The Ghoul, backed by a cast of weirdos (every big market had something similar — in Philly we had Saturday Night Dead, hosted by Stella "The Maneater From Manayunk"). During breaks in the movie they performed skits.
Usually it would be just me in the basement sprawled on the floor surrounded by snacks, Legos and books to read during the commercials. If he was off shift, sometimes Dad would come down and join me in his leather recliner by the stairs. Every once in a while Mom called down from the kitchen Are you letting her watch those weird things? And we'd lie in unison, No. If she came down to check for herself, Dad would get in trouble.
Dad had his own names for the movies.
What's this? 'Escape to a White Planet?'
It's called 'When Worlds Collide.' I'm sure I sounded indignant.
'Mars Kills the White People.' I love this one.
Daaaaad. It says it right there. 'War of the Worlds'. I know I sighed heavily, but was careful to turn back to the tv before rolling my eyes.
Once he asked me which was more real, the movie or the skits between. I didn't get it, and told him that they were both stories, so they were both fake. He didn't bring it up again until a skit came on. I can't remember if it was a 'Soulman' skit or one of the caveman gags (the cavemen were multicultural — basic white, Polish, Italian, and black). But I remember Dad saying, how come you never see anybody like that in the stories you like? And I remember answering, maybe they didn't have black people back then. He said there's always been black people. I said but black people can't be wizards and space people and they can't fight evil, so they can't be in the story. When he didn't say anything back I turned around. He was in full recline mode in his chair and he was very still, looking at me. He didn't say anything else.
Matt Ruff credits Noles as inspiration in the acknowledgments of his latest novel, Lovecraft Country, and it's easy to see why: her father's acuity echoes throughout in the voice of the character Montrose Turner.
Much like Noles herself, Montrose's son Atticus has been raised on a steady diet of sci-fi — Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tom Swift, pulp magazines — and like Noles's dad, Montrose never stops pointing out the implicit racism of that media: on the covers Nordic he-men rescue blonde damsels from villains of darker complexion, while inside fair-skinned men save the world from ethnics and monsters.
When a young Atticus describes his newfound love of the writer H.P. Lovecraft, Montrose responds with a trip to the library. His voice has "the perverse mix of anger and glee" when he returns home with a certain infamous 1912 poem penned by Lovecraft to show his son. The doggerel ruins Lovecraft for him.
Nowadays Lovecraft's legacy is mixed nuts. The Library of America has published a thick collection of his work, the unpronounceable name of his most well-known creation is a Twitter hashtag, and there's a line of beers dedicated to him; and yet after 40 years the World Fantasy Convention remodeled their awards, shaped as a stylized bust of HPL, over complaints of his racism. All of this makes 2016 either the best or worst of times to release a novel set in 1950s America about Atticus and his African-American friends and relations caught in a Lovecraftian conspiracy.
Ruff addresses the chamber pachyderm in chapter one. When Atticus complains to his uncle about Montrose's constant harassment over his choice of reading materials, his uncle reminds him that "stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though."
With that mic dropped, Atticus and company depart for the wilds of Massachusetts in search of Montrose, who has been abducted by cultists for sinister purposes. What follows is a series of connected short stories and novellas, each featuring a different member of Atticus's circle as its protagonist, as the group struggles to extricate themselves from a war between dueling — and, more notably, Caucasian — sorcerers.
There's fewer tentacles and asylum incarcerations than Lovecraft fans might expect; with its haunted houses and devil dolls and weird science, it's more Trilogy of Terror than "Dunwich Horror." But as each chapter bled into the next, I found it increasingly unputdownable.
The real malevolence Atticus and the rest confront is the same shoggoth Montrose continuously stabs at with a yardstick, a gibbering Great Old One of police harassment and Brown v. Board of Education and this morning's news. Theirs is the landscape Lovecraft inhabited rather than the one he made up.
When two black boys try to buy a Coke from a machine outside a store called Perch's that advertises White Customers Only, Montrose pushes them away. "'This here?'" he says of the machine. "'This is a slap in the face. Every time you put in a nickel, you're telling Mr. Perch, 'Thank you, sir, may I have another?' A man who respects himself will never do that.'"
But the boys don't get it — they insult him and run away. Like Noles, they won't understand until much later.
I Got Some Groceries, Some Peanut Butter
11 March 2020 17 April 2020 ~ Jackson	~ Leave a comment
Have you suddenly found yourself at home with time on your hands? Are you looking for books to read about the end of the world while you wait out the end of the world?
Man, have you come to the right place. I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and sometimes I even write about what I've read.
In 2017, I read books set (mostly) in a post-apocalyptic USA. I strongly recommend JG Ballard's Hello America and Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow.
Last year I read post-apoc novels set in the UK, including some really great ones like When the Tripods Came, Fugue for a Darkening Island, and of course, The Day of the Triffids. All of those books were written by Brit authors.
And in 2018 I read some gonzo adventures featuring robots and mutants written by C. Robert Cargill, Margaret Atwood, Philip K. Dick, and others.
JG Ballard's The Drowned World is okay but I liked his collection Memories of the Space Age better, particularly his short story, "The Cage of Sand."
I'm also a huge fan of Jeffrey Barlough's Western Lights novels, which are Victorian gaslamp mystery adventures set in a post-apocalyptic alternate Ice Age. In 2013, I interviewed Barlough about the series.
The Unstrung Harp
6 March 2020 14 April 2020 ~ Jackson	~ Leave a comment
This week I completed the eighth draft of my fourth and latest book. It's not the final version by any means, but it's the version I'm comfortable showing to people while I consider improvements. There's never a final version to any book, even once it's sent to the printer; I keep a running list of corrections if a revised edition of Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer should ever be requested.
Often when I reach this milestone, I pull out my copy of Edward Gorey's Amphigorey, a collection of his first 15 books, and reread the The Unstrung Harp. The story details the process of CF Earbrass, renowned English novelist, as he writes and publishes his latest work. The Unstrung Harp spans the period just before he begins writing and concludes with his escape from the reactions and reviews by suddenly going on holiday.
Never before or since The Unstrung Harp has a better rendering of the authorial journey been set to paper. Having read it first as a teen, it's become a nostradamic document for me, a compilation of quatrains describing events and experiences that have come to pass.
In one panel Earbrass writes so long and hard that he skips lunch, whereupon he retreats to the kitchen to eat a jelly sandwich. That's practically my daily routine.
Upon finishing a chapter, Earbrass sits and ponders "where the plot is to go and what will happen to it on arrival." How else do you write a book?
Earbrass finds a presentation copy of an old novel in a second-hand bin but can't remember who Angus is. A friend of mine once found a presentation copy of Smedley at a used-book sale and apologized to me, as if he was the one who gave it away.
Earbrass is cornered by an irate reader, who believes a character in the novel is modeled on him. Not only has this happened with my fiction, I also have a Smedley stalker who shows up at places to argue with me.
What's amazing is that The Unstrung Harp was Gorey's first book, originally published in 1953, and yet reading it, you'd think it was written by an established author reflecting on his career by way of self-mockery. Nope. Instead Gorey wrote a prophetic parody of the writing life, a blueprint of absurdity. For me, the humor only grows with each re-read.


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Newsies is inspired by real life events: the newsboys' strike in the summer of 1899 lasted two-weeks and resulted in a considerable decline in circulation of the two most powerful papers in the country. The strike drew rallies of more than 5,000 as the young newsboys called on the public to boycott newspapers The World and The Journal. Shortly after the strike began the public showed their support and stopped buying the offending papers. Newspapers at that time were sold in bundles of 100 at a cost of 50-cents to the newsboys who would hawk them throughout the city. When the publishers raised the price to 60-cents and refused to buy back unsold papers it was a massive hardship on the group of poor orphans that largely comprised the child labor force of newsboys. In the end, Hearst and Pulitzer, though not lowering prices, did agree to buy back unsold papers as a compromise. The newsies' strike spawned similar actions in other parts of the country as well. The strikes would eventually lead to the introduction of laws protecting children in the workplace.


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Council bosses provoked outrage in August when they announced their intentions to evict Maite de la Calva and her young daughter after her son Daniel was charged over riots offences.
Local residents responded by mounting a strong campaign to oppose the eviction, including a 60-strong public meeting held in Battersea last month.
"This is a really important victory which sets a precedent for the rest of the country," John Clossick from Wandsworth Against Cuts told Socialist Worker.
Emma Norton is a solicitor from civil rights group Liberty who has been representing Maite. She told Socialist Worker, "Liberty welcomes the decision by Wandsworth council not go ahead with the eviction. But we remain very concerned over its decision to pursue the eviction in the first place.
Maite would like to thank everyone who has supported her.


2018 was an exciting time after the whirlwind of events that happened surrounding cannabis spurred the growth of the flourishing sector that people know today. For a quick summary, take a look at some of the most notable accomplishments, breakthroughs, and controversies of the recent year.
It was a successful time for the cannabis sector in spite of a rough start with the Attorney General Jeff Sessions' attempt to put a halt on the legalization plan in the United States. During that time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged at his campaign to legalize recreational use of cannabis in Canada.
After that, Thailand and the United Kingdom has followed suit and legalized medical marijuana, much to the world's surprise.
The cannabis legitimization has gained its rapid momentum as more and more traditional customers, as well as pharmaceutical companies, looked to invest or become partners with pot firms. Some of which include fortune 500 companies and corporations like Constellation Brands Inc., Novartis AG, Altria Group Inc., and Anheuser-Busch InBev SA.
The amount for listings of cannabis skyrocketed, consisting of at least 149 companies with a joint value of CAD$54.7 billion on January 2. Among the ranks include U.S. based firms that value at CAD$1 billion in the market.
Pot stock tradings were extremely volatile especially for Tilray Inc. who is the sole cannabis stock listed on the U.S. exchange. Some of the others are doing well in comparison to recent levels. The BI Global Cannabis Competitive Peers index sank to 54%.
Stocks closed at 315% from its initial offering for July at the end of 2018. However, it shows a major decline for investors when compared to their highest point of 1, 665% in September. Trades are now close to USD$70, and the stock peaked at USD$300. Their market values still remain at USD$6.6 billion, earning the second spot among the pot firms, just coming up next to Canopy Growth Corp.
A deserving start to 2019, Aphria Inc. has now become a target of a hostile takeover bid. The Canadian pot producer has also previously been attacked by short sellers. The Quintessential Capital Management and Hindenburg Research have claimed on a conference call that the company has paid for overpriced yet worthless assets in Latin America.
As a response, Aphria Inc. stated that they are just malicious and self-serving allegations. It is inevitable that more questions will be needed to answer after Aphria release their reports for the fiscal second quarter on the 11th of January.
When Aphria lost a quarter of their stock value in December, Green Growth Brands Inc. proposed a hostile bid which took place on the last week of the month. Their offer, which values USD$2.1 billion, has not yet been finalized. But it did bring up the issues regarding Aphria's associations with the relatively smaller Green Growth Brands, Inc.
The short seller Hindenburg Research is calling it an attempt to create an "appearance of demand" in the company's hopes of prompting others to make credible offers. This issue can affect the cannabis sector, and people have yet to see an outcome.
On the other hand, the U.S. has recently passed a bill legalizing hemp farming. Hopefully, this will spur legislators to legalize cannabis nationwide. This may be the year for the bigger U.S. market to seize the attention of investors. ArcView Market Research and BDS Analytics predict consumer purchase to go up to 20.9 billion USD from last year's USD$ 11 billion.
It is also a great year for the pot producers in Canada as they rake in their first earnings on recreational cannabis. A surge in sales can be anticipated, but only for some, as not everyone can succeed. Because of this, they expect a few will emerge as failures and a lot of consolidation. Ontario is soon to announce the first 25 retail cannabis stores to open in the province.
In their quest to make institutional investors feel more comfortable in investing, the U.S. is looking into legislation that will open banks and stock exchanges to cannabis companies. More countries are moving to legalize medical and recreational cannabis including France, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, and Lebanon.