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Blood, as Stoppard's tragedian says, is compulsory.
The auditorium at the Playhouse goes dark for a moment before the curtain shoots into the fly tower and two women wearing white are flooded with blinding white light in front of a white backdrop and a white stage. The audience gasps as their eyes react to the onslaught and giggle a little while they wait for something to happen…
The rest of this post is published on Australian Stage.
Posted by trevar on Wednesday, 14 March 2018 in Canberra Theatre, Canberra Theatre Centre, The Playhouse, Theatre
Tags: Canberra Theatre Centre, Harley Stumm, James Brown, Liam Kennedy, Mish Grigor, Natalie Rose, Oedipus, Oedipus Schmoedipus, Playhouse, POST, Shelly Lauman, Zoe Coombs
I was more than impressed by the set when I entered the Playhouse for tonight's performance of Talk. Two levels and three separate spaces fill the stage, and I anticipate a masterpiece, judging by this work of art.
By halfway through, I'm disappointed.
Jonathan Biggins' script deals with heady themes that are particularly pertinent in the current climate. News cycles, declining newspaper sales, irresponsible journalism and public broadcasters all come under scrutiny. And the resulting cacophony is as vague and impenetrable as the world it attempts to critique.
The complex set, while impressive, doesn't help matters. It is broken, really, into three 'panes', which don't interact with each other. Granted, the story takes place in three separate spheres that barely intersect, but the end result is a disjointed plot, and that's something I don't really find endearing.
Biggins' naturalistic and humorous dialogue, even when it was delivered so well by the talented cast, doesn't quite overcome the disjointed nature of the piece, and although I was engrossed enough to want to know what happens, I'm not sure I really cared that much about any of the characters.
Talk is a valiant attempt to critique this point in our history, and the journalistic forces that are shaping it, but it falls a long way short of a masterpiece.
Posted by trevar on Friday, 2 June 2017 in Canberra Theatre Centre, The Playhouse, Theatre
Tags: Andrew Tighe, Ben Wood, Canberra Theatre Centre, Hannah Waterman, Helen Christinson, John Waters, Jonathan Biggins, Kenneth Moraleda, Lucia Mastrantone, Mark Thompson, Paige Gardiner, Peter Kowitz, Playhouse, Steve Francis, Sydney Theatre Company, Talk, Trent Suidgeest, Valerie Bader
As the audience applauded outrageously, drawing the cast out for a well-earned third bow, I wondered whether it would be more appropriate, in this instance, for the cast to stand on stage as we all observed silence in honour of those who'd paid the ultimate price for their love. But of course, that would hardly work, given how deeply entrenched our social norms are.
And that, largely, is the point of Larry Kramer's play, very aptly titled The Normal Heart.
The 'normality' of the love portrayed is juxtaposed against the initial onset of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, where cultural norms prevented an expedient or even a compassionate response to research and prevention. The play portrays an increasing fear, and an increasing urgency to find a way to stop the as-yet unnamed disease, pitting allies against each other in their fight to arrest the disease's spread.
The play broadly centres on the efforts of Ned Weeks, a character based on the writer himself, to spur both the gay community and governments to action. After failing to gain traction with the media, he manages to get a group together to establish an organisation aimed at building awareness of and fighting the growing epidemic. He is also spurred by Doctor Emma Brookner, a character based on Doctor Linda Laubenstein, a pioneering researcher into the epidemic. Weeks finds himself pushed in one direction by Brookner, and held back by his organisation, who seek to use more diplomacy than Weeks thinks appropriate.
The resulting conflict drives the play forward, and would present Weeks in a very ineffectual light, were it not for the love story that underlies his trajectory. While seeking media attention, Weeks instead elicits the attention of Felix Turner, and they develop a rather conventional (or as the title suggests, normal) affection, that grounds Weeks, and is, perhaps, the only thing that truly humanises the character. Inasmuch as The Normal Heart veers precariously close to being a mere polemic, Felix is most certainly the play's salvation.
Will Huang honoured the role of Felix with a brilliant performance. His decline is measured, and his self-pity deeply empathic. I found myself often wishing the more polemic of scenes would zip by a little faster so Felix would come back. But then, in perhaps the most polemic scene, Michael Sparks delivers one of the most moving and convincing monologues I have ever heard, in the character of Mickey Marcus. This moment presented presents Weeks with his most articulate and encyclopædic challenge, and he is silenced. It is a truly remarkable monologue, if Weeks really is based on the author: moving and tragic, and so highly critical of its own writer that it stands out as distinctly un-American in its candour.
Indeed, the second act is awash with noteworthy speeches that cover the range of positions the characters took in response to the epidemic. Jordan Best brilliantly and emotively portrays the frustration of the medical fraternity. Christopher Zuber (as Bruce Niles) puts Weeks in his place without ever writing him off. And Jarrad West's Weeks, increasingly frustrated and ineffective in his purpose, demonstrates the centrality of the heart, the element that shows this play to be something other than a mere documentation of a sad and sorry moment in human history.
This is a tragedy of Sophoclean proportions, and it is a story Karen Vickery should take immense pride in having directed.
So as this brilliant cast took their bows, I applauded along with the rest of the audience, and began to process the remarkable piece of theatre I'd just witnessed. The irony of being unable to honour both the performance and the story was not lost on me, and though the deep tragedy of the story had cut me to the core, I nonetheless felt it was entirely appropriate for the cast to be honoured as they were.
Still, it would be nice, just once, to forego the applause at the end of as tragedy such as this. To instead stand and honour the dead with a cast that has done them such an honour in presenting their story, would be a cathartic experience I suspect.
Posted by trevar on Saturday, 29 October 2016 in Canberra Theatre, Canberra Theatre Centre, Courtyard Studio, Everyman Theatre, Theatre
Tags: AIDS, AIDS epidemic, Benjamin Trabinger, Canberra Theatre Centre, Christopher Carroll, Christopher Zuber, Courtyard, Dave McCarthy, Everyman Theatre, Fran Tapia, HIV/AIDS, Jarrad West, Jordan Best, Karen Vickery, Larry Kramer, Linda Laubenstein, Marie Donnell, Marion West, Marya Glyn-Daniel, Michael Sparks, New York, Nikki Fitzgerald, Riley Bell, Robert deFries, Roni Wilkinson, Teig Sadhana, The Courtyard Studio, The Normal Heart, Will Huang
Short+Sweet Canberra 2015 Week 1
After missing a year, it has been a great feeling being involved in Short+Sweet again this year. The competition, as always, is eclectic.
I think one of the highlights this week has been The Adventures of Captain Midnight, in which Captain Midnight, a widower, describes his experience of moving to a retirement village and finding himself the centre of all the ladies' attention. Don Smith as Captain Midnight strikes a very dignified presence with an air of David Attenborough examining the sex lives of the elderly.
I've also been enjoying The Truth About Mum and Dad, yet another great piece by Greg Gould with some snappy one-liners and very relatable adult siblings who enjoy making a scene while learning that their parents may not be quite as prudish as they thought.
Harriet Elvin's Untitled was in good company with these offerings, too. What seems to be an art critic being harangued by a less appreciative gallery visitor turns out to be something far more amusing.
I had the privilege of directing two very talented and committed performers in Robert Armstrong's zippy little piece, The Interview from Hell. Alison Bigg and Oliver Durbidge took the production very seriously, and made the whole process very enjoyable. I also think the result was spectacular, but I'm biased!
But the image that will stay with me after this year's festival will certainly be that of Alison McGregor's 'Sparkles', whose homage to love and chicken was simply gut-wrenching, especially the third time you see it! This one certainly deserved to take home People's Choice!
If this is the Top 20, there's no way of predicting what will be in the Wildcards!
Posted by trevar on Friday, 7 August 2015 in Canberra Theatre, Canberra Theatre Centre, Courtyard Studio, Festivals, Short+Sweet, Theatre
Tags: Alison Bigg, Alison McGregor, Canberra Theatre Centre, Don Smith, Greg Gould, Harriet Elvin, Oliver Durbidge, Short+Sweet
Short+Sweet Brisbane 2012
Hearing that my play The Commuter had been chosen for the Wildcards in the Brisbane Short+Sweet Festival, I made some changes to a work trip and tacked on a weekend in Brisbane. So you can imagine my disappointment when I sat down in the theatre with the program, and couldn't find my play listed!
I learned later that the cast had pulled the plug at the last minute, and there was nothing the organisers could do. So as disappointing as it was, all that was left for it was to enjoy the wild card entries that had made it. Not a particularly difficult task.
I was impressed with the calibre of these ten minute performances, most of which I'd have thought would have been worthy of the top 20.
Copstitutes told the story of twins who had inherited their mother's brothel only for their first client to drop dead, turning them into instant private detectives. The performances were impeccable, and the energy admirable, right up until that two-thirds-through point when the action seemed to get lost. It seemed to me that maybe someone had fluffed a line and the cast list their mojo.
But for me the pick of the Wildcards was Tagalong Theatre Company's It Came From the Couch, in which the cast's incredible energy and focus told of impeccable direction from Dee Dee Shi and a tightly wound script from Chris Kestrel.
The one that took the position mine lost was particularly good, too. In On The Shelf an enthusiastic carrot and disillusioned celeriac meet a young cauliflower who has just arrived on the supermarket shelf and eagerly anticipates a nice cheese sauce. This one boasted a great script and some very generous performances from Brea Robertson, Bek Groves and Chris Charteris.
It was interesting to be around the theatre before the Gala Final too. The number of people who arrived and greeted each other like old friends really demonstrated one of the best aspects of Short+Sweet; the way it develops a community around it and brings the whole experience to life.
So despite my disappointment, it was a great show, and I'm glad I got to see it. I'm more keen than ever to see how The Commuter goes in Canberra this week, and today I've got a first draft of another script ready to submit for Short+Sweet 2013.
Short+Sweet Canberra opens on Wednesday 22 August at the Canberra Theatre Centre, and The Commuter is in the first week of the Top 20.
Ten-minute theatre festival is to the point
Posted by trevar on Sunday, 19 August 2012 in Brisbane Theatre, Festivals, Short+Sweet, Theatre
Tags: Brisbane, Canberra, Canberra Theatre Centre, Short+Sweet, The Commuter, Theatre
The Imaginary Invalid
What a shame not to have made it to opening night for this fun little gem! The Wednesday night audience I joined was rather small and far too subdued for such a funny play so energetically brought to life by Centrepiece Theatre, but it was a lot of fun anyway.
I think this may be the third production of Moliere's work that I've seen from Centrepiece. The Miser, staged in 2005, remains one of my fondest memories of a night of comic theatre, and I think there was another in between. It has been some years, though, and too long to wait for another instalment.
This largely-forgotten and very old play rests on the even older plotline of marriages arranged by parents that don't meet the expectations of the betrothed, but its genius plot twist is that the central character, Argan, is the imaginary invalid of the title, a wealthy hypochondriac trying to marry his daughter to a doctor in order to save money on medical bills. It was Moliere's last play, and though he was playing the lead role in its premiere, he collapsed during the fourth performance and died shortly afterwards. Some say this is irony, but it seems Moliere's malady was apparently not adequately imaginary!
The cast deserves a medal for their magnificent performances. Erin Pugh would upstage the entire cast, were her over-the-top mannerisms not generous to a fault. Her ability to be so very expressive (and excessive) while still drawing attention to other performers is remarkable, and I am not trying to dismiss the high calibre of performance delivered by all members of the cast, but this production definitely belongs to Pugh!
I am not intimately acquainted with the script or story of The Imaginary Invalid, but it struck me that, in comparison to the performances of the rest of the cast, Tony Turner's Argon was rather subdued. Perhaps this is part of the text or a directorial choice, but it seemed to me a rather significant gulf. Not an entirely inappropriate one, though; just slightly unbalanced and maybe a little awkward.
The cast worked tirelessly to raise the energy levels, but it was a tough ask with such a small audience in such a large auditorium, and the performances fell short of their potential not through a lack of quality material in the script or technical difficulties or a lack of talent, but simply because the energy levels of the performers really need, in a production like this, to be matched by the energy levels of the audience. It really brings to the fore the difficulty of finding an appropriate venue in the capital. For this production, The Q was just too large. The Courtyard at Canberra Theatre Centre would probably have been better, but that's awfully picky. It would be better yet if Canberrans would simply turn off The Voice (that steaming pile of… nevermind), get off their lazy arses, and go see some performers with both talent and an eye for a good material. But we all know that's not going to happen, which is why I think we need more smaller venues. We have nothing really to match Sydney's Belvoir or Stables theatres, and that's a shame, as these theatres have just the right sort of atmosphere for our 'crowds'.
But I digress. This production is all about a little bit of silliness, and it is admirably carried by a spectacular cast whose generosity in engaging the audience is faultless.
Barefoot Review
Stage Whispers Review
A Minute With Max: Jordan Best
The Imaginary Invalid is a Joyful Romp (review of a different recent production of The Imaginary Invalid in boiseweekly.com)
ArtsBeat: Imagine That: Peter Dinklage to Star in All-Male 'Imaginary Invalid' (news of another upcoming production of The Imaginary Invalid artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)
Posted by trevar on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 in Canberra Theatre, Centrepiece Theatre, Pure Theatre, The Q, Theatre
Tags: Argon, Belvoir, Benjamin Russell, Cameron Samuell, Cameron Thomas, Canberra Theatre Centre, Cate Clelland, Courtyard, Emma Sekuless, Erin Pugh, Imaginary Invalid, Jim Adamik, John Lombard, Jordan Best, Kiki Skountzos, Miser, Molière, Riley Bell, Tegan Ricketts, The Q, The Stables, Tony Turner


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Now Reading 2017 University Games Athletes' Village Will Become Social Housing for Young Adults and Vulnerable Groups
2017 University Games Athletes' Village Will Become Social Housing for Young Adults and Vulnerable Groups
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New Taipei City Deputy Mayor Hou You-yi says that constructions in Linkou have been developing rapidly. Linkou is now the fastest growing city in Taiwan by population. After the public housing is initiated, it could provide living spaces for more than 10,000 people.
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Linkou public housing will be the athletes' village for the 2017 World Universiade (University Games).
Even though there have been disputes between the Taipei City Government and New Taipei City Government regarding household allocation, the construction expects to be completed by the end of next year.
On December 2, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said at the beam-raising ceremony that the Taipei City Government or New Taipei City Government would be the rental agent of the athletes' village, or return it back to the Construction and Planning Agency under the Ministry of the Interior. The city governments will never purchase the village.
Liberty Times reports, Linkou public housing, which includes 34 buildings (3,479 households in total) in four locations, was planned by the Ministry of the Interior and contracted out by the Taipei City Government. As an athletes' village, it will be handed over to the Organizing Committee of the World Universiade for a trial operation in June 2017. The village will officially open in mid August 2017. It is estimated that the athletes can drive to each stadium from the village within an hour.
Minister of the Interior, Chen Wei-zen, says that the costs of the land and construction for Linkou public housing was based on the housing investment funds and housing issues of the Greater Taipei need to be considered by the government. That's why after the 2017 World Universiade, the athletes' village will become social housing for young people in Taipei and social vulnerable groups.
China Times reports, there are recent rumors of the central government asking the Taipei City Government to purchase the 1,600 households back with NT$ 12 billion (approximately US$ 366.6 million), and requesting New Taipei City to be the rental agent. Ko says he believes the athletes' village in Linkou would not be inferior to the one he just visited in South Korea, but the city government will absolutely not purchase it back.
UDN reports, the Department of Urban Development of New Taipei City says construction for the athletes' village started in 2013. It is estimated to have houses with one to four rooms. When the village is transformed to social housing, its price will be 20% off the market price and only for rent. It will also guarantee 30% of the spaces for social vulnerable groups to achieve residential justice.
Ko says there are only two years left before the 2017 World Universiade. Roughly over 20,000 people will be visiting Taiwan then, including athletes, judges, administrative staffs and media. He says that the key of success is the athletes' village, and after completion of the hardware, software for the operating system will be finalized as soon as possible.
Tranlated by Wen-yee Lee
Edited by Olivia Yang
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Home Christian News With Beth Moore's Exit, More Evangelical Women Are Challenging Complementarianism
With Beth Moore's Exit, More Evangelical Women Are Challenging Complementarianism
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Beth Moore addresses attendees at the summit on sexual abuse and misconduct at Wheaton College on Dec. 13, 2018. RNS photo by Emily McFarlan Miller
(RNS) — Growing up in Southern Baptist churches, Courtney Moore assumed she would marry, have children and live a life circumscribed by the theology of biblical womanhood, i.e., faith, marriage, motherhood.
Her life unfolded roughly in that order. She met her husband at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, where they were both students; they married, and she took on the role of a pastor's wife and, eventually, the mother of three children.
"I really bought the story that a woman should be a homemaker, and your value is in the home," said Moore, 41. "I had zero career ambitions whatsoever except to be a homemaker and raise my children."
About four years ago she realized homemaking was not her strength. She was not a great cook, and keeping her home tidy and clean wasn't her thing.
So Moore decided to go to work — first on the communications team at her husband's former Mississippi church, and now as founder of a nonprofit, Women and Work, an organization that inspires women to lean in to their callings, whether in the Christian or secular spheres.
Moore, who calls herself a "soft complementarian," is part of a new generation of evangelical women following in the footsteps of Beth Moore, the popular women's Bible teacher who shook up the evangelical world by announcing last week she was quitting the Southern Baptist Convention.
Moore (no relation to Beth) still believes in submitting to her husband's leadership in the home. She also believes only men are called to serve as church pastors. But she no longer subscribes to the idea that women must limit themselves to motherhood and homemaking.
"I just don't want complementarianism to pigeon-hole women into one way to be a woman," she said. "There's been a lot of pressure to value motherhood and marriage as the ultimate for womanhood. I want women to know they are still free in Christ. If God gifted you in ways outside of that, you can be what God made you to be."
Complementarian theology is relatively new to the evangelical world, and it was not always a fixed doctrine in the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Though plenty of evangelicals believed in traditional gender roles, the notion that men and women are equal but have complementary or distinct roles was only incorporated into the Baptist Faith and Message, the denomination's confession, in 1998. It called for a husband "to love his wife as Christ loved the church" and to lead his family and for his wife to "submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband."
Two years later, it added a sentence that only men could be pastors.
It was Dorothy Patterson, the wife of fired SBC seminary President Paige Patterson, who fought against an amendment to the confession that would have allowed for "mutual submission" between husband and wife. She insisted only wives should submit.
"Women were key to the success of complementarianism and will be key to unmaking complementarianism," said Beth Allison Barr, a historian at Baylor University and author of "The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth," which publishes next month.
Over the past 20 years, Southern Baptists, along with other mostly white evangelical denominations, launched an industry of books, devotional literature, conferences and seminary programs celebrating the beauty and dignity of traditional gender roles.
Complementarianism became a "litmus test issue for the SBC brand," said Nancy Ammerman, professor emerita of sociology at Boston University.
In doing so, the SBC was following other evangelical groups who had earlier thrown down the gauntlet. In 1979, Theologian Stanley Gundry was forced to resign from Moody Bible Institute for supporting his wife's egalitarian views in her book, "Woman Be Free."
For years, Beth Moore toed that line. Early in her career as a Bible teacher at sold-out arenas and concert venues, she declared her husband Keith the authority in their home. She also modeled a kind of wholesome, ideal white Southern femininity, with her frosted blond hair, perfectly made-up face and a casual fashion sense, sometimes referred to as "rustic chic."
By 2019, however, Moore, too, was calling herself a "soft complementarian." The election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the pre-election debate over the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump boasted about groping women's genitals, awakened her to the "misogyny, objectification and astonishing disesteem of women" among Southern Baptist men, she tweeted. For Moore, the marginalization of women in the SBC appeared to be a major reason for her exit from the SBC.
Moore has not renounced complementarianism but now appears to favor a less-restrictive version. And other evangelical women may be following suit.
"Complementarianism doesn't mean one thing anymore," said Elizabeth Flowers, a professor of religion at Baylor. "There's been a softening and a diversity of opinion about it."
In the 1970s, Flowers said, the language of submission was tied to sin and obedience. A woman's suffering was viewed as replicating that of Jesus on the cross. That's no longer the case.
The rise of the #MeToo movement and the reports of sex abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention may all be propelling the shift, even as the top leadership of the SBC remains solidly conservative, she said.
To be sure, not all evangelical women are ready to shake off traditional gender roles.
Kolby Koloff, a 25-year-old Nashville resident who is engaged to be married in May, said she is wedded to complementarian theology.
"That's the structure where I will plant my feet, and that's how I will build my home," said Koloff, a member of Axis Church, part of the Calvinist Acts 29 network. Koloff said she plans to work outside the home only part time in some form of women's ministry. She and her fiancee have bought a home but are living separately until they marry.
No one expects a groundswell of women to follow Beth Moore out of the SBC. Those women who wanted to be ordained and lead churches have already left, scholars say.
But some evangelical women are finding more freedom to speak their mind.
Recently, Rachel Denhollander, an evangelical and abuse survivor whose testimony led to the conviction of former national gymnastics doctor and serial abuser Larry Nassar, has spoken out about the objectification of women in evangelical spaces. This week, she tweeted about the suspect in the killing of eight people at Atlanta-area massage parlors. The man, a white Southern Baptist male, reportedly said he killed the women because he was addicted to sex. Blaming women for men's temptations, Denhollander said, is a tried-and-true evangelical posture.
"This is happening in your pulpits, in your seminaries, in your counseling programs. It is in your marriage books, your books on womanhood and manhood, it is in your counseling sessions," she said.
Barr said women who embraced the complementarian system thinking it would grant them and their families safety and approval are now finding it has made them more vulnerable to sexism and misogyny.
Apart from sexual abuse, evangelical women are feeling freer to speaking out.
Courtney Moore, who was a Southern Baptist until she and her husband Brent moved to Texas a year and a half ago when he accepted the offer to lead Life Church, a non-denominational congregation in El Paso, Texas, is one.
She has found her calling encouraging women to pursue their talents outside the home. Her 11-member staff at Women and Work is busy producing a podcast, a book club and a blog about women — some serving the church, others in secular professions, but all ultimately serving God. She is now awaiting IRS approval for her nonprofit status.
Moore still believes men should lead churches. But she is critical of those like popular theologian Owen Strachan who attacked Beth Moore in 2019 for delivering a sermon at her church on Mother's Day. (Women do not preach on Sunday to the church," Strachan tweeted in response to Beth Moore.)
The way Courtney Moore sees it, Beth Moore was a member of a church that invited her to speak to a congregation that is at least 50% female on the one day of the year when society recognizes them.
"The senior leadership gave her that position for the morning," said Moore. "In my heart of hearts, I feel that's OK."
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We always like to think that we would all be better off if someone else paid the taxes that government needs to pay for the services it provides to its constituents.
At a recent summit convened by the governor on the issue of the shortage of affordable housing, attendees were asked to break up into three groups to look at various facets of how to increase the supply of affordable housing in the state. While there were a number of suggestions on how to make it easier to build more affordable housing, like getting rid of regulatory barriers and providing financial incentives, much of the discussion came back to finding a pot of gold to pay for or subsidize affordable housing.
While participants soundly rejected the idea of mandating affordable housing as part of the approval process for new housing, a failed edict of a previous administration which only created a larger gap group of potential homeowners, some groups toyed with the idea of dedicated funding. The primary focus was on increasing the current amount earmarked from the conveyance tax for the affordable rental housing trust fund. However, the governor's initial rejection of the idea in an impromptu news conference after the summit probably will mean that it is not one of the proposals that will be seriously considered.
The current earmarking for the affordable rental housing trust fund came about in the early 1990's when affordable housing advocates joined forces with the conservationists and pushed for a doubling of the tax rate.
The problem with using the conveyance tax is that it was never intended to be a revenue source for the state. The history of the conveyance tax dates back to 1966 when the legislature – after the repeal of the federal law requiring stamps for transfers of real property – adopted the tax as a means of tracking valuation of real property sold. It was enacted for the sole purpose of providing the department of taxation with additional data for the determination of market value of properties transferred. This information was also to assist the department in establishing real property assessed values. While the legislature was considering the proposal, the department stated that the conveyance tax was not intended to be a revenue raising device but a means of collecting information on value.
Prior to 1993, the conveyance tax was imposed at the rate of 5 cents per $100 of actual and full consideration paid for a transfer of property. The legislature, by Act 195, SLH 1993, increased the conveyance tax to 10 cents per $100 and earmarked 25% of the tax to the rental housing trust fund and another 25% to the natural area reserve fund.
As recently as this past legislative session, lawmakers continued to tinker with the conveyance tax rate for what seemed to be an attempt to put the burden on transfers representing large dollar amounts. Whether or not it was the intent, the perception appeared to be to want high-end housing to pay more into the pot perhaps with the belief that those who could afford multimillion dollar transfers should pay more.
The other point that should not be lost on taxpayers is that the conveyance tax is one of the least dependable sources upon which to rely for funding with collections rising and falling with the fortunes of the real estate market. Any amount collected under this tax will depend on activity in the real estate market. If the housing market slows down, revenues may not be sufficient to meet the expectations of the fund. Should the additional revenues not be sufficient or another "important" program need funding, will the conveyance tax be increased to generate even more revenue?
Finally, advocates chide that it is only another nickel. Well, actually it is 50 cents for every thousand dollars of value. So, doubling it to ten cents is like raising the property tax rate from 50 cents to one dollar per thousand dollars of value. While paid only when property is transferred, it is still money that adds to the cost of the sale.


A brand new and exciting event is coming to Myrtle Beach this summer and you don't want to miss it. The Carolina Country Music Fest will be held June 5 – June 7, 2015. It will be a three day country music extravaganza with a bonus KICKOFF concert on Thursday night June 4 featuring Sam Hunt.


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Connect Festival 2022 revels in its eclecticism
With the most recent edition taking place in 2008, it felt safe to assume that Connect Festival wouldn't be returning, so when DF Concerts announced its resurrection, fans were eager to find out if the event could live up to the lofty expectations set by the two previous events. With a keenly curated lineup and a nod to the more refined festival goer, the 2022 iteration went above and beyond what fans could have hoped for.
Joe Talbot of IDLES onstage at Connect 2022
With its resurrection, Connect moved 100 miles across Scotland, from the beautiful surrounds of Inverary Castle, on the banks of Loch Fyne, to the initially less picturesque Royal Highland Showground, on the very edge of Edinburgh Airport. However, once inside the festival grounds, the industrial exterior faded away, and the landscaping and above all the accessibility, of the venue provided a wonderful backdrop for three days of wonderful eclecticism.
The Unknown Pleasures dance stage at Connect 2022
With a focus on talent rather than trends, Connect has always been known for the diversity of its lineup. The 2022 cut featured stunning sets from Bristol punks IDLES, dance behemoths The Chemical Brothers, soundscape maestro Jon Hopkins, pop legend in the making Self Esteem, and the ambient / drone / punk stylings of Mogwai (who take the crown for the loudest act of the weekend, as well as one of the best). This truly was a festival for all tastes, and I doubt anyone left without a new genre or two to explore.
Self Esteem performs onstage at Connect 2022
As well as the headliners, Connect 2022 featured a host of superb emerging acts, with Walt Disco, Porij and TAAHLIAH in particular making us question just what it is they're putting in the water these days in Glasgow. The sheer number of promising new bands and artists coming out the city right now is off the charts, and if this is the standard on offer, long may it continue.
Porij onstage at Connect 2022
The final word must go to Sunday night headliners The National. Their closing set was a masterclass in the emotive, devastating and uplifting power of music. Coming on the back of their surprise appearance on the festival's smallest stage earlier in the day, Matt Berninger and company delivered the perfect end to an almost perfect weekend.
Matt Berninger of The National onstage at Connect 2022
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You may already know how not to lose friends and alienate people on trips, but what does it take to be the perfect travel companion? The one people want to sit next to on the bus, or bunk with at the hotel, or share zip-lipped secrets with after a few too many glasses of red?
Travelling is stressful. Unless you're a robot, everyone feels the tightness in their chest when your train's about to arrive – and depart – and one of your travel-mates is still in the kiosk stocking up on snacks in Japan, or your bus breaks down and you have to hitch a ride in the back of a peanut truck in Africa, or you recognise the tell-tale taste of E coli (and gurgle in your belly) after consuming a questionable stew in a small Siberian village. When you encounter bumps in the road while you're on the road, don't let them ruffle your feathers. Go with it. Catch the next train (and enjoy some seriously delicious/strange treats while you wait), perfect your getting-comfortable-on-a-bag-of-peanuts skills, and accept that going back for a second helping of whatever meat that was probably wasn't a great idea and move on (but only when it's safe to do so, if you catch my drift).


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Nintendo Power is a monthly magazine devoted to Nintendo consoles and games on Nintendo platforms. It is the longest-running US console game magazine still in existence, and at its peak in 1993 it was the largest kids' magazine in North America. Its hold on the Nintendo-owning gamer populace (and, for much of its existence, video gamers in general) is such that no publisher has ever tried launching a rival Nintendo-exclusive magazine in America.
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Nintendo's first in-house publication, the Nintendo Fun Club News, launched in early 1987 as a free 12-page black-and-white newsletter. It quickly grew into a full-color magazine with a subscriber base of over one million as NES mania swept the US in late 1987. With over half a dozen magazines covering video games in Japan by 1988, Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa decided early that year to get a leg up on its rivals and launch a full-sized magazine before any rival publisher could. Two decisions Arakawa made at this point had a huge influence on the magazine — he decided to not accept any outside advertising, and he invested $10 million to mail Issue 1 of the new magazine to the millions of gamers on Nintendo's Fun Club mailing list for free. (Sources disagree on how large this list was by summer 1988, but the number lies between 3.5 and 5 million addresses.)
Approximately 1.5 million readers sent $15 for a charter subscription, and Nintendo Power was instantly the biggest games mag in America.
Nintendo Power is unique for more than breaking circulation records — its international design scheme has also never been duplicated. Although Nintendo seeked to monopolize the game-mag marketplace in America, it teamed up with an outside Japanese publisher to come up with its mag's design. Tokuma Shoten, one of Japan's largest publishers, was the outfit behind Family Computer Magazine, Japan's first console-specific magazine and the largest in the country throughout the 1980s. Nintendo of America hired some of Tokuma's game editors to contribute to the visual design of Nintendo Power, and the result was a very Japan-like magazine, with lots of spot illustrations, colorful backdrops, and bits of text dotted everywhere, making each page worth poring over for gamers. This publishing agreement also granted Nintendo access to Tokuma's extensive stable of writers and artists, allowing them to enlist Shotaro Ishinomori (one of Japan's most famous and influential manga artists) to draw a Legend of Zelda comic for several issues in 1993. (This agreement with Tokuma continued until 1995, when Nintendo of America brought all magazine production in-house.)
In the early years, editorial coverage was decided upon by editor-in-chief Gail Tilden (a former NOA advertising manager) and Howard Phillips, contributing editor and "president" of Nintendo's Fun Club. The actual text was written by an in-house staff, most of which were plucked from NOA's stable of telephone support and game counselors. All coverage received final approval from Arakawa and vice-presidents Peter Main and Howard Lincoln.
The magazine was an immediate success, breaking 2 million readers in 1989 and having a total audience of over 6 million by the end of 1990. As David Sheff wrote in his 1993 book Game Over, "there was something bordering on the insidious" about the magazine — its editorial voice was a perfect match for the young gamer populace of the time, and Nintendo's unique control over the magazine made it an incredibly effective advertising tool, both for Nintendo themselves and for its assorted third parties.
Even as competition from other consoles encroached on Nintendo's business, Nintendo Power's status as the de-facto source of Nintendo information remained (and still remains) unchecked. Its circulation was still over a million before the launch of the Nintendo 64 in 1996, but readership has dropped extensively in recent years as its audience aged and its "kid-friendly" image came to backfire on them. The editorial team addressed this in 2005 with an extensive redesign that eliminated the last vestiges of the Tokuma-era design and turned Nintendo Power into a truly modern-looking game magazine.
On September 19, 2007, Nintendo officially announced that the large magazine publisher Future US would begin publishing Nintendo Power. The company's first official issue was released in October, as issue #222 (December 2007). It was also revealed that circulation would be increased to 13 issues a year, with the extra magazine being a holiday season bonus issue.
Nintendo Power's ABC-audited average circulation for 2009 was 179,450.
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D.C. Taylor Project Supervisor - Introducing Brian Goede | D. C. Taylor Co.
Brian Goede has worked for D. C. Taylor Co. since 2008, starting as a roofing technician and then promoted to Project Supervisor 6 years later. When asked if there is anyone in particular he likes roofing with most, Goede answered "everyone," which is probably why he's so well liked. He works for the Cedar Rapids Construction 1 field office and has undertaken many hours of training and certifications, including OSHA 10- and 30-hour, CPR, and Rough Terrain Forklift operation.
When he's not roofing, he's camping.
If he was a superhero, he'd be the Hulk.
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-{XXI}- Олимпијске игре су одржане 1976. године у Монтреалу, у Канади. МОК се одлучио са Монтреал међу конкурентима који су били Москва и Лос Анђелес, који су касније добили домаћинство Игара 1980. и 1984, редом.

Домаћин је имао тежак задатак. Игре су морале сигурносно бити на највишем нивоу, да би се спречили терористички напади какви су се догодили четири године раније на Играма у Минхену. Осим тога, велика већина афричких земаља је бојкотовала Игре, због тога што је МОК дозволио наступ на Играма представницима Новог Зеланда, чији је рагби тим током те године одржавао спортске сусрете са Јужноафричком Републиком у којој је на снази био апартхејд. То је био почетак политике масовних бојкота Игара, који ће се наставити и на Играма у Москви 1980 као и на Играма у Лос Анђелесу 1984.

Монтреал је због Игара запао и у финансијске проблеме, јер је скупо и амбициозно замишљени спортски парк каснио у изради и вишеструко премашио планиране трошкове. Због тога је следећих година нагло пао интерес градова да се кандидију за домаћина Олимпијских игара, јер је владало мишљење да се ради о скупом и неисплативом пројекту осуђеном на неуспех. Лос Анђелес је међутим осам година касније показао да се у спрези великих спонзора и коришћењем постојећих спортских објеката Игре могу и профитабилно организовати, па је данас бити домаћин Игара не само спортска част већ и профитабилни пословни подухват.

Олимпијски пламен је иницијално запаљен према обичају у Атини, а затим је пребачен у Отаву електронским путем: оригинални пламен је искоришћен као извор електричног импулса, који је пренесен електромагнетским путем у Канаду и тамо њиме упаљен нови пламен, који је касније преко штафете пренесен до Монтреала. Током Игара је једна кишна олуја угасила пламен на стадиону, а дежурна особа је брзо поновно упалила пламен својим упаљачем за цигарете. Организатор је брзо реаговао, угасио "нелегалну" ватру и из резервне ватре оригиналног пламена одмах поновно запалио бакљу на стадиону.

Уза све то, домаћин није имао превише успеха ни на спортском плану, освојивши само 5 сребрних и шест бронзаних медаља, те су постали први, и до данашњег дана једини, домаћини летњих Игара без и једног освојеног злата.

Најважнији детаљи са Олимпијаде

У такмичарском програму посебну су запажени били следећи наступи:
 14-годишња Нађа Команечи, гимнастичарка из Румуније је постигла у седам различитих вежби оцену 10 (максималну могућу оцену у том спорту) и освојила три златне медаље, укључујући ону из вишебоја. У гимнастици су се још истакнули Нели Ким са три злата и Николај Андрианов са четири злата (обоје из Совјетског Савеза).
 Виктор Санејев (СССР) је освојио трећу узастопну златну медаљу на ОИ у троскоку, док је Клаус Дибиаси (Италија) направио исти успех у скоковима у воду, дисциплина торањ.
 Алберто Хуанторена, атлетичар из Кубе је постао први тркач који је победио на 400 -{m}- и на 800 -{m}- на истим Играма. Финац Ласе Вирен је такође победио у две дисциплине, 5000 и 10.000 -{m}- и тиме поновио резултат кој је остварио на Играма у Минхену четири године раније.
 Борис Онишченко, члан тима Совјетског Савеза у модерном петобоју је ухваћен у варању: прерадио је ручку свога мача на начин да је систем бележио погодак чак и кад га у стварности није било. Након што је супарницима постало сумњиво да систем региструје поготке увек и само у његову корист, судијским прегледом опреме установљена је превара. Занимљиво је да се стручњаци слажу да је Онишченко и без варања био кандидат за победу, јер је сам био одличан мачевалац, па није јасно зашто се упустио у нечастан подухват.
 Пет боксера из Сједињених Државаа - Шугер Реј Леонард, Леон Спинкс, Мајкл Спинкс, Лео Рендолф и Хауард Дејвис Млађи су освојили златне медаље. Био је то најјачи боксерски тим из Сједињених Држава у историји, јер су од њих петорице четворица (сви осим Дејвиса) касније постала и професионални прваци света у боксу у својој категорији.
 Јапански гимнастичар Шун Фуџимото је извео вежбу на круговима сломљеног колена и то одлично, па је његов тим узело екипно злато. Фуџимото је колено сломио приликом вежбе на партеру, али је умањио озбиљност повреде пред колегама, конкуренцијом и судијама и одрадио и задњу вежбу, чиме је свом тиму донео пресудну предност.

Попис спортова

(Пливање, ватерполо и скокови у воду су сматрани различитим дисциплинама истог спорта)

Распоред такмичења

Списак поделе медаља
(медаље домаћина посебно истакнуте)

Земље које су бојкотовале Игре
Следећих 28 држава је бојкотовало Игре. Бојкот је био због тога што је било дозвољено учешће Новом Зеланду, јер је њихова рагби репрезентација наставила да игра утакмице са Јужном Африком.

Заир се није такмичио, али је наводио финансијске разлоге пре политичких. И Република Кина и Народна Република Кина су бојкотовале игре због питања легитимности друге земље.

Референце

Спољашње везе
Извештај са ОИ 1976.

Летње олимпијске игре
Спорт у Канади
Спорт у 1976.
Летње олимпијске игре 1976.

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This article is to help you better understand posture and how to recognize when you have bad posture. Gaining knowledge on posture helps you on the road to correcting bad posture. To understand "bad" posture you need to have a point of reference. In the field of posture there exists a model for what qualifies as "ideal" posture or what we refer to as "good" posture. Good posture is seen as a body that is symmetrical, has a balanced musculo-skeletal system whether it be still or moving(1). The result is a higher order of function for organs, glands and tissues.
The ideal posture can be seen from two perspectives. First, we see it from the side which if a perpendicular line is drawn from the ankle to the ear, the line will intersect four anatomical landmarks.
Second, we see an ideal posture from the front or back. A plumb line is drawn from a point equi-distant between the feet to the head. The drawing below illustrates an ideal posture seen from the side and back.
Naturally the degree in which your posture deviates from above the greater degree of dysfunction and risk of degeneration will be present. It translates into an unhealthy and undesired posture.
What does Bad Posture Feel Like?
Most people feel more pain and discomfort the worse their posture becomes. Pain from poor posture can present itself anywhere from head to toe. Poor posture can be felt not just physically but also emotionally. Research shows a strong association between body symmetry and higher sexual prowess, physical dominance, emotional stability, and fidelity(3). For example if you are angry, sad, confused, depressed you would see this person with their shoulders rolled forward and arms crossed. Their chin maybe dropped and their face shows negative feelings. Remember the saying "carrying the weight of the world on yours shoulders"?
Generally speaking those with bad posture feel less than themselves. Sometimes they don't even know it having been in bad posture for so long. At some point though as bad posture progresses the person feels as though they are falling apart, they have no energy or they can't do the things they use to be able to do. They feel frustrated with feeling that they are getting older.
It's important to know that lifestyle habits have much more influence on posture than age or genetics(4).
Natural healthy movement is based off a healthy static (non-moving) posture. If static posture is poor then movement will be poor. The result of faulty movement will most likely mean immediate pain and if left uncorrected negative long term effects will appear. Muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints will be abnormally stressed causing wear and tear. Degeneration of theses tissues will accelerate aging and produce pain that becomes chronic.
Correcting bad posture is possible.
First, start with analyzing your posture. Create a base line so you can monitor your progress and feel good you are moving in the right direction.
Second, change behaviors that are worsening your posture. The best place to start is where you spend most of your daily life, for example the computer. You can learn more about correcting you posture at the computer here.
Lastly, incorporate things that will assist in correcting bad habits, weak muscles and structural imbalances. Check out the various "posture correctors" below for ideas.
Posture Braces- Products you wear daily. From high tech to simple straps. Learn more about Posture Braces.
Secondary Posture Helpers- This category includes things that are known to help support primary posture correctors. A good example is blue-blocker glasses.
Bad Posture – Who Would Want It?
Bad posture is a body that is asymmetrical, has a unbalanced musculo-skeletal system still or moving. The result is a low order of function for organs, glands and tissues. Results of bad posture are diminished health, greater chance of emotional stress, physical pain and faulty movement resulting in premature aging of your body. In a nutshell, bad posture is a sign of wear and tear that will affect your overall health from head to toe. Bad posture affects how you look, feel and move and it's a reflection of how you interact with the world around you.
(1) Ideal Posture Model API.


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Q: GCC format string error oscillates between two 'format specifies ... but the argument has type ...' values, doesn't like either one I'm running into a strange compilation issue:
the code
typedef struct {
unsigned int         len;
unsigned char          value[1];
} __attribute__((packed)) value_t;
typedef struct {
unsigned int         len;
unsigned char          msg_type;
unsigned short         ret_val;
unsigned long long         timestamp;
value_t         working_val;
} __attribute__((packed)) resp_t;
...
logd("sizeof(resp_t) = %u", sizeof(resp_t));
// logd macro expands to __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG,LOG_TAG,__VA_ARGS__)

produces the error:
error: format specifies type 'unsigned int' but the argument has type 'unsigned long'

That seems odd since the packed struct compiled for arm64 Android should only be 28 bytes (I think), which easily fits in an unsigned integer so I would expect sizeof to return an unsigned integer type.  Even if they weren't packed I'd expect sizeof to return an unsigned integer type to contain them, since they're pretty minimal structs.  Anyway, I switched the code to be:
logd("sizeof(resp_t) = %lu", sizeof(resp_t));

and now I see the reverse error:
 error: format specifies type 'unsigned long' but the argument has type 'unsigned int'

Switching the code back produces the original error again. What's going on here?

A: You can use %z
logd("%zu\n", sizeof(x)); /* for size_t */
logd("%zd\n", sizeof(x)); /* for ssize_t */

%z was added in C99. In case you are using MSVC which doesn't support any of the later C standards the correct prefix for size_t the correct prefix is %Iu
Edit: As @Weather Vane correctly pointed MSVC now supports %Iu.
The subject was also treated here

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Business to Arts Awards Categories
There are eleven categories that are seeking nominations before Tuesday 26th April 2022. They are:
1. Best Large Sponsorship (> €25,000) supported by Arthur Cox
For a business or organisation that has worked with a not-for-profit or commercial arts organisation, venue or artist(s) in a sponsorship relationship with a value of €25,000 or over, whether made up of cash, in-kind support, or both.
2. Best Small Sponsorship (< €25,000)
For a business or organisation that has worked with a not-for-profit or commercial arts organisation, venue or artist(s) in a sponsorship relationship with a value under €25,000, whether made up of cash, in-kind support, or both.
3. Best Long Term Partnership (3 years or more) supported by The Irish Times
For a business or organisation that has partnered with a not-for-profit or commercial arts organisation, venue or artist(s) for three years or more, creating an event or programme that makes an impact or has consistently enhanced its activation or engagement strategies.
4. Best Use of Creativity in the Community supported by Irish Life
For a socially and culturally responsible project that results in engagement by a community in creativity (including the arts, craft & design, heritage etc.). This project may address issues of access (e.g. through technology), enable education and learning, help communicate the power of creativity or, quite simply, be fun!
5. Best Use of Creativity in the Workplace supported by ESB
For a business or organisation that has worked with an arts organisation or artist(s) in an innovative and mutually beneficial way, bringing creativity into the workplace or engaging staff in the arts or a creative process.
6. Jim McNaughton Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice
This perpetual award rewards excellence and best practice in the commissioning of artists and creatives by companies. The award recognises commissioning across all art forms. Nominations in this category must provide a comprehensive overview of the commissioning process involved.
7. Jim McNaughton / TileStyle €10,000 Bursary for Artists
A €10,000 Bursary will be awarded towards the evolution of a work / body of work or project by an emerging artist(s) in any art form. The bursary is designed to develop an artist's creative practice and help take an idea to realisation, whether that be in writing, composing, performing, or creating in a visual or other medium. Nominations must be made by a partnering business, arts or other organisation, and should include information on the artist(s), the partnership, and how the TileStyle bursary will be used.
8. Best Philanthropic Support to the Arts supported by the Arts Council
Artists, arts organisations and other non-profit organisations with established arts programmes/activities are invited to nominate an individual, corporate foundation, trust or other philanthropic organisation, that has shown a strong commitment to arts philanthropy and are deserving of winning this new award.
9. Judges' Special Recognition Award supported by Accenture
This category cannot be applied for specifically – all nominations are eligible to be shortlisted by the Judging Panel. The Judging Panel will be looking for a business or an arts organisation that have a diverse portfolio of partnerships which address a range of strategic objectives or demonstrate an outstanding to commitment to private sector investment in the arts through their scale of activity.
10. Accenture Digital Innovation in Art Bursary
The inaugural year of the 'Accenture Digital Innovation in Art' Bursary will offer €10,000 to an artist whose work is created digitally and showcases how harnessing the combination of technology and human ingenuity can produce new perspectives and approaches to art. The bursary was created to recognise artists that use technology to innovate within the art industry.
11. daa €5,000 Arts Award
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Support the Occupy Wall Street Movement!
Socialist Action welcomes the growing Occupy movement as a hopeful sign that the decades-overdue classwide fightback against the economic crisis may finally be taking off. We salute the bravery and persistence of the occupations in the face of police repression, media lies and politician slanders and/or attempts at cooptation.
Beginning, as was the case with similar mass encampments in the Arab world and in Europe, with unemployed and/or super exploited young workers, Occupy Wall Street, quickly forged ties with virtually the entire labor movement. Formal endorsement has come from almost every major union — even, we must note, those who are at this very moment giving up concessions to their employers, some grudgingly, some eagerly because of their mistaken belief in the need for "partnership" and "shared sacrifice" in this crisis.
It is just those notions that OWS is blowing apart, and as a result OWS is setting an example for militant workers looking to fight their own battles and to link up with others.
As a corollary of its rejection of "shared sacrifice," OWS insists on its political independence of both parties which are imposing drastic cutbacks and giving away trillions to the banks.
OWS has focused on the banks, on finance capital, partly because the economic crisis appeared to stem from bankers' theft, corruption, largesse from politicians, and overlending via mortgages to prop up their profits. Most participants are as of yet unfamiliar with the Marxist economic analysis, which SA has outlined in our newspaper, tracing these financial trends back to the longer-term crisis of capital, a crisis of profitability rooted in production of surplus value in manufacturing and service industries. It is this profitability crisis, an inability to make profits through the core industries of an advanced capitalist economy on a global scale, that created trillions of dollars that could not be invested elsewhere and so was channeled either into financial speculation, or into propping up consumer debt to artificially stimulate the economy.
This distinction is crucial for several reasons. One, to explain why OWS does NOT share common goals with the right-wing populists, who like past fascist movements use demagogic anti-bank rhetoric while denouncing unions and supporting the profit system. Two, because understanding the links between finance and other forms of capital makes clear that it is the economic system which is our enemy, not corrupt individual financiers or even entire banks (much less the Federal Reserve, a favorite hobby-horse of the right-wing).
This understanding of the system and its ruling class as a whole is crucial for making alliances with all their victims, from the homeowner threatened with foreclosure to the autoworker toiling away for lower wages in a shop to the farmworker risking her life every day in tomato fields.
The pro-labor, anticapitalist consciousness of the overwhelming majority of OWS participants is shown in the applause (and hand "twinkles") given to every announcement of labor support, and by the huge cheers for Egyptian revolutionary Mohammed Ezzeldin when he denounced capitalism and its markets, and got an especially big cheer for his call for revolution. It is also seen in the numerous points in the NYC General Assembly "Declaration" relating to labor's needs and to examples of antilabor policies which the GA denounced.
Spreading this understanding will be greatly facilitated by the openness of OWS and its sister sites. OWS prides itself on "direct democracy," on its use of "horizontal structures" and lack of "hierarchy." This method of functioning has brought tens of thousands into inspiring and empowering discussions. Union members coming to Occupy sites contrast favorably these discussions with the undemocratic practices of their union officials.
On the other hand — and OWS activists are openly and humbly grappling with this as the movement grows and evolves — direct democracy as conceived by some of its more strident partisans is not the same as the representative democracy embodied in the workers councils of revolutionary upsurges such as Russia in 1917, Spain in 1936-7, the shoras of Iran in 1979, etc. To win against ruling classes with their massive forces of repression requires structures that can unify and coordinate action in an efficient and timely manner, based on the wishes, needs and strengths of the broad working class and its allies.
OWS and other Occupy sites have reacted in general in a positive way to demands of people of color for more inclusion and outreach to their communities and issues. This must be strengthened. We note also that the majority of facilitators of OWS General Assemblies from the beginning have been people of color, as well as a positive gender balance.
The Occupy movement has also forged ties with other movements — antiwar, immigrant rights, antiracism, etc. — welcoming them to hold workshops on site, to raise their special concerns, mobilizing for their activities – and showing solidarity in the face of repression by cops and surveillance by the FBI.
OWS has been criticized from the start for an alleged lack of demands. Some of this criticism comes from those who wish it ill. But some of it comes from genuine concern for the movement. Historically movements have grown when they place demands on the powers that be which will mobilize large masses, masses who see in the winning of those demands the potential for gains, and see in the defeat of those demands tragic setbacks, all of which inspires them to do all they can for the movement's success. By the same token, ruling class resistance to such demands inspires workers to understand the need for getting rid of the system entirely.
OWS, by insisting on an open process, is creating a unique space for discussion of demands and program. Other Occupy sites formulated demands at the start. OWS is also making an important contribution to stimulating a critical discussion in the broad labor movement. This can serve to once again raise the question of which class shall rule society. The popular OWS-initiated statement, "We are the 99%," raises this question. When the 99%, beginning with a revitalized, democratic and fighting labor movement, takes to the streets to exercise its power, the hopes and aspirations of the OWS movement will have an ally and champion that can shake the world.
To adapt a phrase from the May-June 1968 movement in France, we believe workers will settle for nothing less than the impossible — i.e. what is impossible under this system. They will not rest until there are jobs for ALL, healthcare, childcare, education for ALL, renunciation of all consumer, housing and student loan debt for ALL, an end to ALL wars by the US and its client regimes.
OWS activists, and workers throughout the world, know that the banks have the money we need to achieve ALL this. Reformist solutions such as resurrecting Glass-Steagall (i.e. separating commercial from investment banking) will not solve the problem. Nor will tighter regulation of the banks (which Obama has no interest in in any case). The only solution is a LITERAL occupation of Wall Street: i.e. the taking over of the banks, their nationalization, the opening of their books to public inspection and on that basis to control by councils of working people.
Getting to that stage, however, requires a qualitative growth both in breadth and in militancy of the broad workers' movement. At the moment workers do not appear ready to adopt occupation of their workplaces as a common tactic. Three years ago the Republic Windows workers in Chicago occupied their plant in a successful action that drew the nation's attention, but did not inspire similar takeovers, despite labor militants' hopes that it would. In Madison earlier this year we saw the occupation by public sector workers of their state capitol. There was great hope that this would be extended to state capitols throughout the country, but such hopes were dashed by pro-Democratic Party union officials who ended the occupation and derailed it into a pointless recall campaign against Republican state legislators.
We can be sure that the DP and its friends among union officials will try the same against OWS. But the latter for now is so strong that officials are forced to say over and over "we are not trying to coopt you, we are here to support you." They are too scared even to speak out in earshot of OWS activists in favor of Obama"s "jobs" (i.e. tax break for businesses and cuts to social programs) bill!
But as the 2012 elections draw nearer, these same officials will move into action to coopt and if need be derail the Occupy movement — not to mention to stifle rank-and-file efforts to employ union power to challenge the bosses.
Only an empowered membership can stop these officials from betrayal. And that is why ties forged while supporting existing union struggles (in New York, for instance, for Teamsters at Sotheby's, laid-off AFSCME school aides, etc.) are so crucial.
There is a broad and dynamic Labor Support and Outreach Working Group. At the same time, rank-and-file members of the building trades set up on their own initiative a union table on site, and have collected contact info for hundreds of workers who have stopped by.
A phrase commonly heard at OWS General Assemblies is "Occupy Everything!" It stems from the understanding that the movement can only succeed if it is extended not only to centrally-located encampments in other cities, but to hundreds of workplaces and neighborhoods in each city. This ambitious strategic conception comes from a widely-shared if abstract sense that a new form of society needs to be forged and that mass action of the working class itself is critical to this objective.
It is too early to say how far the occupations will spread and how concrete their program will become before the inevitable attempt by the rulers to use police repression to end it. But in Europe and the Arab world as well we have seen successive waves of mass occupations and general strikes, so the ending of one wave does not mean the end of the movement.
However, workers and youth in each country, and globally, need to assimilate collectively the lessons of these successive waves: What sparks them, why they last (or don't), what demands will help revive, expand and unify them, and what it would take to turn a movement into a revolution.
To assess all the concerns raised above, i.e. the strategic and tactical considerations weighing on the spread of the movement and its potential program, a revolutionary party is essential. Not, as some who are leery of parties mistakenly think, to dictate to the movement. Quite the contrary. A party worthy of the name is in contrast the repository of the memory, and current experience, of movements past and present; a collection of its most militant and selfless fighters, a distillation of its people and ideas, which grows precisely by deepening its many ties to an expanding movement, and on that basis proposing alternatives for the movement's direction at each turn.
Socialist Action aims to build just such a party — and we see participation of our members in the Occupy movement as an essential task for party building. For only a party rooted in genuinely mass movements and of the working-class-based organizations at their heart can become the kind of party capable of leading the masses to power.
Two, three hundred Occupation Sites!
Take the Movement into Every Workplace and Neighborhood!
EVENT: March in Oakland Remembering Dr. King: Stop U.S. Wars! Sunday 1/22 @ 1pm
Join us this Sunday to march against U.S. imperialist wars!
Behind Sam Bankman-Fried's Cryptocurrency Crash
By JEFF MACKLER
FTX's plunge from $32 billion to bankruptcy and the collaping value of cryptocurrencies shows the speculative casino nature of the capitalist economy, where unimaginable wealth is driven by fictitious capital.
Obliterating Russia's Nord Stream Pipelines and Crimea Bridge: U.S. Imperialism's Trillion-Dollar Fossil Fuel Gambit
The US sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines as part of a plan to substitute US Liquified Natural Gas for cheaper Russian fossil fuels, eliminate Russia as the chief fossil fuel supplier to Germany and much of Europe, and prolong the highly profitable U.S.-instigated and financed war in Ukraine.


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Welcome to our 2017 Festival! With a special focus on Robert Schumann, our festival this year features a collection of beautiful newly manufactured fortepianos which will be played by some of the world's leading pianists.
We are delighted to welcome piano-manufacturer Paul McNulty and Viviana Sofronitsky to give a presentation, introducing the beautiful pianos they have provided for the Festival this year. Come and learn about these special instruments which you will be hearing over the weekend.


It's possible you've already run into a robot while out shopping. If not, it could very well happen to you soon as more robots are deployed into the environment.
Have you bumped into a robot in a store lately? If you don't buy all your produce and products online, then you may run into one while shopping at a brick-and-mortar store like Walmart (see figure).
A number of factors have hastened this invasion of cobots. They range from frameworks like the Robot Operating System (ROS) to machine-learning (ML) inferencing to a host of smaller, low-cost sensors. Robots that used to have a couple sensors and maybe a camera or expensive LiDAR are enveloped in a mesh of sophisticated sensors these days.
Walmart is only one of many companies with stores that will have robots roaming the aisles looking at inventory.
Higher-resolution video, infrared, and thermal cameras are now available as are compact radar and LiDAR systems, often courtesy of the push for self-driving cars. The sensor net feeds deep-neural-network (DNN) models that provide planning software with ever-more detailed information about the local environment, including those pesky humans that tend to take offense when bumping into self-directed robots.
Neural networks are playing a rapidly increasing role in robotic systems, but they're a far cry from Asimov's fictional positronic brain—his three laws of robotics are still a bit in the future. Hardware acceleration is helping the adoption of ML technology, which is crucial because many applications, including robotics, require multiple ML models to process the sensor data streams. ML models are also being used for planning.
Neural networks are being employed in many components within cooperative robots, also known as cobots. Peaceful coexistence between cobots and humans will depend on how well designers can employ these tools and hardware to create cobots that perform their tasks while interacting with us and the rest of the world.
Cobots wandering around stores performing chores like inventory are just the start. There are smart suitcases that will follow you through the airport. Small delivery robots are being tested now. Some are rolling while others fly through the air. Not all cobots will be successful, but they will continue to improve and become more functional as developers take advantage of the latest hardware and software.


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Odisha's first fashion rental company ready to lease style!
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By Flora	 On Jan 18, 2018 Last updated Jan 18, 2018
Bhubaneswar: Many people face the typical dilemma of running out of clothing options, despite an overflowing wardrobe. How many of you have been at your wits end trying not to repeat outfits at social gatherings? How many times have you looked at stunning outfits and let out a deep sigh seeing the price tags and feeling dejected at not being able to possess them?
Designer wear rentals, the solution to the I-have-nothing-to-wear woes, have been quite a rage in foreign countries and metropolitan cities of India for some years now. In Odisha, for the very first time, Kashvee, an apparel rental company is here to lend fashion to Bhubaneswarites!
Founded by two 22-year-old students, Kumudini Purty and Soumen Bhattacharya, this start-up rents out apparel and accessories at a nominal price to students, models and just about anyone who would like to borrow out of their wardrobe.
"I used to see my friends on the campus ask random strangers on where they bought those gorgeous earrings or got that elegant dress from. As students, it's difficult to spend so much on one particular outfit and not wear it often. So we thought why not start a business of our own that makes life easier for people who want to look amazing without spending a fortune," said Kumudini.
Rental price of lehenga Rs. 1599 and evening gown Rs. 1200
From party wear dresses to cocktail gowns, pre-bridal lehengas, formal wear, beach wear such as monokinis, outfits for vintage and retro looks, earrings and jewellery sets, Kashvee has an array of clothing line, including menswear, to cater to the style needs of the smart city denizens.
While the founders source jewellery from Surat, because of the wide variety of items available there, they rely mostly on local designers, boutiques, tailors and fashion schools for ensembles. Among labels, Manyavar and Blackberry are some of the higher-end brands they obtain costumes from.
Charges for kurta and chudidar Rs. 1199 and blazer from Blackberry Rs. 1999
While rental companies generally charge a security fee foreseeing potential loss or damage, Kashvee lets its customers hire outfits at highly reduced prices without any security fee for 24 hours. "In two months of being in business, we haven't had any case where the clothes have been ruined. But we shall of course fine customers a certain amount if there is loss of a piece or damage beyond repair. You can have all the fun while wearing the dresses, but just be a tad bit careful," informed Kumudini.
(Left) Rental cost Rs. 200;
(Right) Rental cost Rs. 150
Kashvee was the outfit sponsor of a local jewellery brand that was recently launched by Bollywood actor Urvashi Rautela a few days ago in Odisha capital, apart from lending clothes and accessories for various photoshoots and social events. The company is set to open an outlet in the near future and is currently cataloguing other accessories like handbags and sunglasses.
Though there is general aversion to wearing hand-me-downs or second-hand, Kumudini believes that Odisha is ready to accept this new trend, mostly because of the younger populace. "Hygiene is not an issue because every piece of clothing is dry cleaned to the last speck of dirt and is as good as new because of the maintenance. Moreover, not only is renting out clothes cheaper, but it also restricts impulse buying many a time. One can always have something new to wear for every occasion, while not burning a hole in the pocket every month," she added.
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Home ▸ How to Apply ▸ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the curriculum like?
The courses are carefully developed to provide you with knowledge in various disciplines of informatics and Bioinformatics. The courses are a combination of lectures and rely heavily on providing extensive hands-on experience.
Visit the MS Degree Requirements page and Dual Degree Requirements page for more information.
Are there research opportunities for the master's program?
Yes, completion of a Capstone project is part of the degree requirements. The director of the program takes a one-on-one approach by placing each student in a project that fits his or her future career goals. You can conduct your capstone at either Georgetown or NIH, FDA, Inova Fairfax hospital or any other industry in this area.
Program Fit
Why Georgetown University?
Georgetown University is centrally located on the banks of the Potomic River. You are close to everything practically and the reputation and ranking of the University are what attracts numbers. You get a quality education. In addition, Georgetown at this point is the only University in the Nation that offers a MS degree in Systems Medicine.
We are living in an era of "BIG DATA". Systems medicine is an emerging biomedical field that relies on systems biology approaches and tools in using the "BIG DATA" to solve biomedical problems. With the advances in molecular biology and the sequencing of the human genome, biomedicine is being transformed and is becoming an increasingly quantitative science requiring the understanding and use of complex computational tools.
Is Systems Medicine the same as Personalized and Precision Medicine?
Yes. The terms Systems Medicine, Personalized and Precision medicine are being used interchangeably. Most often, Personalized Medicine (new window) is used to mean developing specialized treatments for an individual rather than a group of individuals. According to the Precision Medicine Initiative, precision medicine is "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person." This approach will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in which groups of people. It is in contrast to a one-size- fits- all approach, in which disease treatment and prevention strategies are developed for the average person, with less consideration for the differences between individuals.
Who is this program the right fit for?
This program fits any individual who wants to pursue a career in biomedical sciences be it job or pursuing higher studies. This includes pursuing a Ph.D. going to Medical school, or becoming a Nurse or going to PA school or finding a job in academics or industry. The curriculum trains you to pursue many different paths.
Is there a Career service that will help and guide us during our job search?
Yes, the Office of Career Strategy and Professional Development (CSPD) (new window) at Biomedical Graduate Education dedicate their services to working with biomedical students individually and extend their help and advice on successfully meeting your goals.
Do students have a social life?
Absolutely! We do have student and faculty-led celebration of various festivities like DIWALI, Christmas, Chinese New Year to name a few. Visit our Life as a Systems Medicine Student page for more snapshots of our students in action.
What are the graduates doing?
The first batch of MS in Systems Medicine program graduated in May 2017. All the students are pursuing their dreams! After graduation, one graduate is pursuing her Ph.D., the other graduate is in PA school, and another graduate is working at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute.
The Director of the Systems Medicine Programs , Sona Vasudevan, has established collaborations with various institutions.
Fall Semester: May 15th
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A friend of mine recommended the book Christianity for Modern Pagans, a book on Pascal's Pensées, out lined and explained by Peter Kreeft. This friend, a pastor, has said he has read it over twenty times and could not stop saying how good it was. I bought the book, but was thinking it couldn't be that good. Forty-five pages in, I think it is that good. Pascal, a contemporary of Descartes, is considered the first apologist to the modern world, sitting on top of the Christian Middle Ages as the Enlightenment took root in Europe. The wisdom of this book is striking and compelling. Today, I am going to just share some excerpts from the book.
"[Concerning the above quote], these are the four fundamental truths, the data, about the human condition always and everywhere. No philosophy that ignores them is worth a first glance; no philosophy that has no explanation for them is worth a second. Ultimately, no philosophy except Christianity is worth a third glance and our belief, because only Christianity has a satisfactory explanation for these four facts. This is another way of summarizing Pascal's fundamental overall argument in the Pensées.
Truth (our head's food) and happiness (our heart's food) are the two things everyone wants, and not in crumbs but in great loaves; not in raindrops but in waves. Yet these are the two things no one gets except in little crumbs and droplets.
…Since no one can change human nature, no one can make us stop desiring truth and happiness; and no mere human being can give us truth or happiness. We may mediate these two things, but we cannot create them; we are aqueducts, not fountains.
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Love your thoughts on Pascal. This is now next on my list of good reads!