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Josh (right) and Trent on Lego Masters Series 2
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Behind the scenes with Lego Master Josh
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It was the perfect time to launch Season 2 of Channel Nine's epic reality TV show Lego Masters – on April 19, in the middle of the coronavirus epidemic.
This much-loved show is providing just the entertainment that confined kids and adults are seeking, both on and off the screen.
"I'll chat to kids one-on-one or in small groups and build Lego at the same time … It's a really helpful tool to be able to minister to kids." – Josh Taylor
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And ratings are soaring for the family-friendly program – which is no mere child's play, thanks to $100,000 in prize money being up for grabs.
Five episodes in, Lego Masters Season 2 is attracting a national audience of more than 2.2 million each episode. That is slightly up on last season's average audience of 2.1 million (and placing it well above the current season of MasterChef ).
While this is generally good news for the show, one of its much-loved "stars", 27-year-old Josh Taylor acknowledges that the timing also makes it a tad disappointing for competitors.
"The downside is we don't get to have all the exciting opportunities that we probably would have had if [Coronavirus] didn't happen – like doing publicity, going into schools to teach kids or doing media stuff … But I think it'll come in time, which will be yet another exciting part of the journey," he tells Eternity.
For now, the only people buzzing about his new "celebrity status" are the kids Taylor teaches in his jobs as primary school chaplain at Cedar College and children's ministry assistant at CityReach Oakden Church, in Adelaide.
It's just as well that Taylor – whose modest love of Lego began in his childhood years and was rekindled by Lego Masters Season 1 – is not interested in fame. Instead, he is just looking forward to continuing to build connections and Lego with kids.
"A lot of the classrooms [at the college] have boxes of Lego and sometimes I'll chat to kids one-on-one or in small groups and build Lego at the same time. It's a good way to interact with them in a non-threatening environment."
"It's also super-fun and kids love it – even more so now that they feel like they're doing it with a Lego Master!
"It's a really helpful tool to be able to minister to kids."
"I've already had some really good opportunities to share with other contestants what it means to be a Christian and what I believe." – Josh Taylor
Taylor is also hoping that being a Lego Master will – someday soon – present further opportunities to connect with people and share his Christian faith.
"God was definitely involved in the whole situation," Taylor says about being selected as a contestant. "Obviously God knows what's going to happen and he plans everything according to his purpose, so I think the whole experience is a gift from God.
"I'm very thankful that he granted me this opportunity and I think from that, will probably come lots of other opportunities to share with other people about who Christ is to me and who he could be for them as well.
"I've already had some really good opportunities to share with other contestants what it means to be a Christian and what I believe."
Taylor is, reportedly, not the only Christian contestant on the current season, and Season 1 of Lego Masters also featured fan favourite, and fellow believer, 71-year-old Lyn and her grandson Matt.
When asked if he felt pressure to act "Christianly" on the program, Taylor answers: "I'm putting myself out there for all the country, if not the whole world, to see."
"So you don't want to do anything that could reflect badly or that could be twisted in a way that looks like you are not acting in a way that would be Christian-like.
"I was very conscious of it and had to be very careful to make sure that everything I was doing was above [reproach]."
Josh "Lego Master" Taylor Channel 9
This was made much easier by the fact that the show itself, in Taylor's words, is "super-wholesome" and the other contestants are "honestly so, so lovely".
"I can't imagine that can be said about many other TV shows," he adds. "Everyone was so helpful and really kind to one another. There was no backstabbing or wanting to see anyone else fail …
"I think that's why [Lego Masters] is so popular; it's especially refreshing to see this on TV.
"If someone dropped some [of their Lego build], you see people running in to help each other out – and that's exactly how it happened. It's not staged or anything. Everyone just was so nice to one another.
"Even the crew and the people behind the scenes were absolutely amazing people who loved their job and also made it super-fun for us as well."
"It's very stressful, for sure, being in that pressure-cooker environment, but we never took it out on each other, which is really good." – Josh Taylor
But, with many stressful moments, surely there was some tension between Taylor and his Lego Masters teammate Trent?
"Funnily enough, no. We are both really easy going, so nothing really fazed us."
"We would encourage each other to do our best each time we were doing builds, and we worked really well as a team.
"It's very stressful, for sure, being in that pressure-cooker environment, but we never took it out on each other, which is really good."
It's surprising to discover that – while both are from Adelaide – Josh and Trent didn't know each other before the show. Their first time building Lego together was, in fact, on episode one. (Josh had originally applied with another school teacher who had to bow out after they were selected.)
"It took a while to figure out what each of our different strengths and weaknesses were, and how we could use them to complement each other," says Taylor about his partnership with Trent.
But the most important lesson – apart from loads of technical building skills – that Taylor says he learned during his Lego Masters experience is about relationships. It's a fitting lesson for us all during this COVID season: how to work with each other and be caring, while under unusual pressure.
"How supportive everyone was [showed me] that you can be on a competitive TV show, but it doesn't mean you have to throw other teams under the bus."
"Just how caring you can actually be in that environment was a really good life lesson [for me and] also for lots of people watching at home."
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Four teams play a round robin series at the Fuji Cricket Grounds.
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The Japan Cricket League is the top one-day league in Japan. Played over two divisions, teams from around Kanto compete in 40 over matches on Saturdays and Sundays from April to September. The final is held on the first weekend of October. Past Winners Link for Captains and Umpires Disciplinary Panel Decisions Division 1 Division 2 …
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The highest level of domestic cricket in Japan, the Japan Premier League features representative teams from East, West, South and North Kanto.
The Japan Cricket League is the top one-day league in Japan. Played over two divisions, teams from around Kanto compete in 40 over matches on Saturdays and Sundays from April to September. The final is held on the first weekend of October. Past Winners Link for Captains and Umpires Disciplinary Panel Decisions Division 1 Division 2…
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Akshay Karnewar: The Indian ambidextrous bowler
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Nowadays there is a lot of buzz about a Yasir Jan, fast bowler residing in Pakistan, due to his ability to ball equally well and with the equal speed with both his hands. His bowling video is making rounds in social media; thousands of people are talking about him and sharing his video. He has a special ability resembling that of great ones like Graham Gooch, Hanif Mohammad. Both the veterans could also bowl with both the hands but Yasir Jan, in the current scenario is not the only bowler who possess this special ability. Kamindu Mendis, the Sri Lanka U19 spinner showed this skill at the biggest stage at Under 19 World cup played in Bangladesh earlier during this year.
Very few know that there is one Indian bowler on this list too.
The Vidarbha's left arm spinner err Right arm spinner, both arm spinner Akshay Karnewar hold the same capability of bowling equally well with both the hands. He showed his skills during the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy 2015/16. In a contest against Baroda, Karnewar in the 15th over of the game stunned everyone by bowling with both his hands. He bowled 3 balls with his right hands and 3 balls with left hand. The match was televised on T.V. and everyone who saw him was dumbfounded with his extraordinary skills. Karnewar's bowling video went viral and received millions of views.
https://youtu.be/0jZrK5lOsnk
Soon after this, he was purchased by IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL auction held in the month of February though he did not get a game this season. Probably an IPL game will help to get limelight and attention as it is the best stage where he can show the world his unique ability and capability as IPL is the most watched and celebrated tournament of Indian cricket. The glamour and action associated with the tournament lure public and it is the best stage for a player to shot to fame in no time.
The 23 years old both arm spinner made his List A last year followed by T20 debut. He is yet to play a first-class game. In 7 List A matches Karnewar has 16 wickets to his name. He has affected 7 wickets in 9 T20's played by him so far. He is basically an all rounder who provides captain with an extra option but still needs to work on his batting to have a long career. Surely, the upcoming domestic season is the best opportunity for him to tell people about his rare talent and extraordinary skills.
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On Being an Autistic Person
March 4, 2018 March 12, 2018 The Remixologist
I can't tell you the number of times people on the internet have tried to correct autistic people about the way we refer to ourselves.
Y'all need to stop.
As you may or may not know, I'm autistic.
I don't make a secret of it, but I don't often go around trying to explain what it's like, so I'm taking this opportunity to put it in words. And to explain something that really annoys me, while I'm at it.
Autism is a whole a spectrum of neurodiversity, so it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For me it means a little trouble with "seeing the forest for the trees" (details overwhelming generalities); as well as trouble with dry sarcasm (I'm okay with the kind of sarcasm that you sing); more subtle facial expressions (loud ones get through); and properly communicating what I mean through my body language (yours is usually fine, if I remember to pay attention). I have some mild sensory issues, too: touching cotton balls, paper napkins, and dry crystal glasses makes me intensely nauseated; I don't have the auditory filtering that lets you neurotypicals navigate cocktail parties; and my body doesn't give my brain great feedback (which has made exercise a little… fraught… on a couple of occasions, and makes me more comfortable when moving, including swaying and rocking). When I was a kid I threw a lot of "temper tantrums," and when I got older, I had "anger management" issues. Except they weren't tantrums or a bad temper, they were meltdowns, and they've almost entirely evaporated post-diagnosis, because hey, it's amazing how knowing what's wrong makes things easier to fix.
I am an autistic person.
Now here's the thing: I can't tell you the number of times people on the internet have tried to correct autistic people about the way we refer to ourselves. You can't so much as whisper "I'm an austistic person" on Twitter Dot Com without some "autism parent" popping up to tell us we're not "autistic people" we're "people with autism."
Austim is, as best we can tell, a difference in brain architecture. It looks like there are a number of genes involved, and that there may be environmental factors affecting the expression of those genes. It's not contagious. It's emphatically not a disease. While many of us would be very happy to have some of the "comorbidities" mitigated (or done away with entirely), under no circumstance does autism itself need a cure. It's a variant organizational structure specific to our brains, not a disease.
It's like our brains run Linux, instead of Windows or OSX. They work, just not the same way.
A truly shocking amount of who you are is a function of the shape and design of your brain. The ways you think about things are, in my opinion, one of the most defining features of your identity. Autism is a defining characteristic of my identity. I don't "have autism" so much as I "am autistic." It's who I am.
Think about it like race or gender: people don't "have Blackness," "have womanness," or "have queerness." Someone is Black, they are a Black person. They are a woman. They are queer.
"Person-first" language—"person with/of X" formulae—were invented to foreground the personhood of groups that were traditionally denied personhood by other (usually white, male) people. Some of them are even still used by the people who identify as such. For example, if I'm not mistaken, "people of colour" is still in use, but it's complicated.
It's important to remember that the people who came up with it, and who use it, often mean well. I appreciate that. But.
You would never come up to someone who said "I'm a Black person" and try to correct them. You would never say to a gay person "don't let your gayness define you!" (And if you would, ew, go away.) (And let's not forget that there are people with multiple overlapping identities, like (say) queer black people, who probably get twice this crap.) But people with truly stunning regularity tell me and other autistic people that we're not "autistic people," but rather "people with autism." That we shouldn't "let our autism define us."
Do. Not. Do. This.
As someone who's studied the development of languages at the graduate level for longer than many people even attend post-secondary school, I will be the first to admit that language is a slippery beast that rejects all attempts to corner it and make it obey rules.
But as a matter of basic humility, you do not tell people how to interact with their own identities.
The vast majority of autistic people prefer to be called "autistic people." Use that as your starting point. If they want to be called a "person with autism," call them that.
I'm an autistic person. You can call me that.
Signed: The Remixologist.
A final note before I go: under no circumstances should you ever tell an autistic person that they are not "autistic enough" to offer insights regarding your child—your child who uniformly "has more severe autism" than we do. I'm an autistic adult. Your autistic kid's still a kid. They're going to change as they get older, but I promise you, they will never be less autistic. That's all I'm going to say about that for now, because it's a whole other post and more.]
post-postscript: I've come to realize that one of my comments above may have been harmful in its lack of intersectionality, and I've added to them to point out that identities are not either/or, and that there are plenty of people who are, for example, black, queer, and autistic, who probably have to deal with a whole dogpile of garbage at once. (12/3/2018)
Photo source: Neil Conway, CC BY 2.0
Categories: Autism
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Well said. Perfect analogies too!
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Keep in mind, you'll have to find these in order to make the next one appear.
- The first body (#1) will lead you (#2/#3) to the first person of interest (#4).
- The second body (#5) won't lead you anywhere.
- The third body (#6) will lead you (#7/#8) to the last person of interest (#9).
- The final location is the serial killer's house (#10).


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Lecturer in Ancient Vegetables, Saxon Rout, addressed the assembled throng.
"And that is why the turnip is responsible for the Colossus of Rhodes," he said, finishing his lecture, and the crowd erupted into a mass of ecstatic applause, several patrons fainting at the immensity of his revelations.
Art allowed himself a wry smile. His field – vegetable based antique divination – was a small one, but he was the expert in his discipline. Just then his red phone rang.
"Come to the British Museum at once," implored the strange voice on the other end. "It is of earth-shattering portent!"
Saxon stared down at the dead body of the old man on the floor as Reginald Crawl hovered worriedly by his side.
"When we found him he was holding nothing but this," said Reginald, showing Saxon a dirt covered spoon.
Suddenly police sirens pealed.
"They must not discover you with the body!" panicked Reginald. "Come with me! "
From the back of the van Saxon turned the dirty spoon over in his hands as he contemplated it. From the markings on the crechante – or tip of the handle – he could tell it was of ancient stock, possibly pre-Sumerian but more probably from ancient Greece, around the time of the Cretan architect Chersiphron. However, a small indentation, possibly carrot shaped, spoke of a history more applicable to the time of Christ, as everything seemed to be these days.
Saxon was just contemplating the possibility that the smudge marks on the faffan – or tip of the spoon – may have been caused by some act of arson, possibly on one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, when the van juddered to a halt.
The door opened to reveal Reginald with a Luger in one hand and a spade in the other.
"I'm afraid I've uncharacteristically changed my mind," he weasled. "The reputation of the British Museum is more important than your life, which is why I have driven you to Turkey where I shall kill you and dispose of your body." Reginald coughed, dropping the spade onto the threshold of the door. "Any last words?"
"May I adjust my tie?" asked Saxon, and then suddenly dropped the spoon which clattered onto the metal surface of the van floor.
Reginald gasped and leapt for the spoon, allowing Saxon enough time to pick up the spade and artfully thump him over the back of the head, knocking him out cold.
Saxon was now stuck in Turkey, with no idea what to do next, and then noticed something which would not be revealed until the next chapter.
A secret map, squirrelled away in the pocket of Reginald Crawl, revealed a cryptic statement. "For whom the Temple holds dear, let Lydia lead the way." As far as Saxon knew there was only one historical artefact in Turkey known as 'Lydia', and that was the ancient kingdom of Lydia where it's population once spoke the Anatolian language of Lydian, and where the first satrap – or governor – was Tabulus, who was appointed by Cyrus the Great.
Saxon closed down Wikipedia and set off on his destination.
Saxon made his way through the Byzantine ruins, searching for a clue. Although his field was mainly vegetable based he had some precursive knowledge of other ancient artefacts, and it was this knowledge which allowed him to catch sight of the etching in the side of the ruins. It was the shape of a man with long hair who bore a striking similarity to Robert Powell. One hand pointed off to the left, and Saxon turned his head to judge what the outstretched finger was pointing at.
Of course, Saxon erupted internally. It all fell into place.
The ancient Temple of Artemis – one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Once a large palace filled with life and laughter, and now a ruined wasteland of pillars and stone.
As Saxon walked through the rubble he pondered what stories the ancient stone could tell him. Stories of love, hate, intrigue and other things.
Now the word count was reaching its maximum potential Saxon suddenly noticed an etching of an ancient Brussel sprout in the base of one of the pillars, with an arrow pointing upwards. Above him, around the top of the pillar, unfurled a story, one which held some earth shattering secrets for mankind, and one which, luckily, no one else had noticed yet, lacking the ancient vegetable based knowledge Saxon had.
Saxon burst into the underground inner chamber in the British Museum to find Reginald Crawl, the chief of police, both the front bench and the shadow front bench, and several members of the royal family all sharing a cup of tea.
"Your secret is no longer safe!" Saxon cried. "The man who built the Temple of Artemis was also the artisan who created the first cup of tea Jesus ever drank! And furthermore, it was a divine Brussel Sprout which led the Magi to his crib! Soon the world shall know!"
Reginald collapsed to his knees, weeping. "Do not approach the media with this news of earth shattering importance. If the world knew the truth society as we know it would crumble at the seams, for some unspecified reason. For I am the descendant of the Brewer of Jesus' Tea, and the fame would kill me, again for some unspecified reason."
"Why did you kill the man with the spoon?" investigated Saxon.
"He died of natural causes, taking the secret of how many sugars Jesus had with the tea," expositioned Reginald. "We thought you could find out the truth! I only pretended to try to kill you in Turkey so you wouldn't connect me with the amount of sugars required!"
"And that secret will stay with me."
"Tell us!" shrieked Reginald as Saxon turned his back on them and left the building, a wry smile on his face. After all, he knew the secret. The answer was no sugars.
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My Name Is... is a play by Sudha Bhuchar, currently on a short tour with the Tamasha Theatre Group.
It is based on the true story of a twelve year old Scottish/Pakistani girl who disappeared from her home on the Isle of Lewis.
When the story first exploded onto the front pages of British tabloid newspapers in 2006, it seemed like a classic tug-of-love, clash-of-cultures story – a young girl 'kidnapped' by her father and taken to Pakistan to undergo a forced marriage with an older man.
The true story was far more nuanced, as Sudha Buchar's script, drawn from many hours of interviews, reveals.
At the Platform Theatre at Central St Martins in London, a tiny stage encompasses two sitting rooms, one in Pakistan and one on the Isle of Lewis. At the back of the stage, half obscured by a gauze curtain, are the newspaper headlines that sought to force them into one or another stereotypical box. More newspaper cuttings litter the floor.
The picture that emerges is complex and layered. By allowing us to see each family member as a true individual, by allowing their stories to unfold over time, we see how the free and easy mixing of communities in the 1980s was slowly warped by events happening in the wider world. How a damaged young woman's need to belong drove her to create a version of herself as a perfect Muslim wife until, in her own words 'Suzy was gone, well and truly gone.' This is a pressure cooker created, not by the clash of cultures, but by these families and these individuals.
Bhuchar has resisted the temptation to fictionalise the story (apart from altering the names) and instead stays with the authentic voices of the three family members - father, mother and daughter – as they tell their story from different sides of the world. And those voices have extraordinary directness.
But this is not strictly 'verbatim' writing either. Bhuchar has shaped the script, interweaving the stories and letting the voices cut across each other, so that we hear two versions of the parents' first meeting, two versions of family's hajj to Mecca. At times the actors cross the invisible divide to take part in a remembered scene or speak words attributed to them by one another. At times, too, they break through a kind of 'third wall,' to address, not the audience in the theatre, but the original audience of Bhuchar and her tape recorder.
Afterwards, playwright and actors took part in a New Writing Platform discussion with the audience, looking the process of creating My Name Is... and the challenges of verbatim theatre This was first in a new series of events presented by the MA Dramatic Writing course run by University of the Arts London, to explore, discuss and share new ideas.
Bhuchar began by explaining how she was drawn to the story by an article in the Guardian, the first that attempted to reach beyond stereotypes and accusations, and how she approached the family and asked to interview them. She flew to Pakistan and spent several days with father and daughter. The daughter then persuaded the mother to see her, and she spent several more days on Lewis with her. The result was 120 pages of interview transcripts which took eight years to shape into this play.
"The technique came in layers," Bhuchar explained. "I'd never worked like this in my life! To begin with I thought that I would fictionalise the story, but nothing I wrote had the power of the original words. In the end the promise I made was that, however I shaped it, I must not make up any words"
Asked about her interview technique, Bhuchar spoke of not having her own agenda, about having empathy, about being interested in simply 'overhearing.' One of the ways she got the mother to open up was to go back to the very beginning of the story, to when the two of them met, when they had been happy together. "Usually people don't ask me that," she was told.
Of the three actors, only Kiran Sonia Sawar who plays 'Gaby/Ghazala' wanted to listen to the interview tapes to catch the nuances of the original voices. Umar Ahmed, who plays 'Farhan', grew up in Pollokshields and actually knew the father by sight. Karen Bartke who is from Glasgow but from a different background to 'Suzy', didn't want her performance to descend into mere imitation and found it easier to connect with the emotion through the scripts – something she did with incredible power.
Early this year, the cast had the chance to perform the play with mother and daughter (now back living in Scotland) in the audience – something that was terrifying but also profoundly gratifying. Seeing their parents' early lives together played out, in their own words, was particularly moving for the daughter. She told the actors afterwards that, as the youngest child, she had almost no memory of her parents being happy together.
At the end of the discussion, one of the audience members commented that he had been waiting all through it for the author to come down on one 'side' or another. Yet that never happens. By allowing each of the characters their own authentic voice, she manages to preserve a balance, so that your heart reaches out to each of them in turn.
You can read the Guardian article the first inspired Bhuchar to write the play here.
And you can read my interview with Sudha Bhuchar about her time as Artistic Director of Tamasha here.
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Sudha Buchar: Making a Commotion with Tamasha
Tamasha is a Hindi word meaning a commotion or creating a stir. And for the last 25 years, the Tamasha Theatre Group, founded by Sudha Buchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, has been creating a stir, first as a voice for the South Asia diaspora in Britain, and more recently as a voice for a whole range of rarely represented cultures.
Sudha Bhuchar - photo by Robert Workman
Now, a few months before she hands over the reins of the company to her successor, Bhuchar talks to Catriona Troth about Tamasha's past, present and future.
"I began working with Jatinder Verma at Tara Arts. At that time it was just a community group, and I
wasn't a professional actor. I was a chronically shy teenager and it would never have occurred to me to be an actor. But I became involved because I was hungry to engage like-minded people," Bhuchar begins.
Her long-term partner at Tamasha, Kristine Landon-Smith, was already a professional actor when she joined Tara a few years later, playing a male part in Broken Thigh, a play based on a story from the Mahabarat. In the course of that tour, the two became close friends.
It was on one of her occasional trips home to see her family in India that Landon-Smith became involved in promenade performance of the modern Indian classic novel Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand. She brought a video of the production back to show Bhuchar, and the two realised there were no equivalent contemporary stories of the Asian diaspora on the British stage. It was to fill that gap that the two women set up the Tamasha Theatre Company in 1989.
"We had some seed funding from Tara and they hosted a reading of Untouchable. Then we got some Arts Council funding to do a tour and got into Riverside Studios. But we were incredibly naive. We didn't realise that we had effectively underwritten the show. If the production had failed, we would have been £60k in debt. Fortunately it didn't fail."
Some of their casting challenges were extraordinary. "Untouchable was a cast of 10 or 11, mostly young boys, and we had this crazy idea to perform it one night in English and one night in Hindi. So we were looking for a cast of bilingual boys! But we have always searched for new talent – not necessarily on the radar, not necessarily from drama schools.
"Back then, there was a real hunger among Asian audiences. Phillip Headley at Stratford East wanted to engage with the audience on his doorstep, so he asked us what we could do. Our first couple of shows – like House of the Sun which was set in a block of flats in Bombay – were adaptations of novels. Back then, there was still subsidy available, so one show led to another.
"That went on for several years. We didn't think about this 'company' per se – we just thought about the next show. Then in 1993, Oxfam approached us to do something connected with their work for their 50th Anniversary. Out of that came, Women of the Dust, a play inspired by Sunil Gupta's photographs of the women labouring on construction sites in India."
But it was the success of Ayub Khan Din's celebrated play, East is East, which Tamasha first brought to the stage in 1996, that proved the real turning point.
"That play went mad and at that point we decided to accept that Tamasha was a company and not just a successions of projects."
At this point, for the first time, they applied for fixed term funding from the Arts Council. Landon-Smith was becoming serious about the directing side of things, and also about teaching. So Tamasha began to develop a training side, which has now grown into Tamasha Developing Artists (TDA).
TDA, which was formally launched in 2004, is an artist-led professional development programme for emerging and established talent. It offers training courses, workshops, masterclasses, bursaries and ongoing professional support, and aims to 'train and nurture the artistic individuality of the theatre voices of tomorrow, and to take positive action to encourage greater diversity in British theatre.' It now represents fifty percent of Tamasha's business.
Bhuchar has worked as actor, playwright and artistic director. Does her heart lay with one of those roles, or does she see them as interconnected?
"It has all come out of being young and Asian in this country. When we were growing up, we thought what we were experiencing, only we were going through it. Then my sister and I went to a Diwali function at Tara. They were doing sketches about the generation gap and questioning religion and our parents and racism.
"It was all those things that led you to hang out with people like yourself, which somehow led to acting. And then the writing came out of a lack of opportunities as an actor. And the need is still there.
"But I never woke up one day and thought 'I'm going to be a pioneer."
Does she think it would it be harder to start something like Tara now?
"It is harder, because the funding it not there. On the other hand, nowadays there are unpaid opportunities like development and scratch nights.
"In the 80s, if you went to the National Film Theatre to see a Satyajit Ray film, everyone you knew would be there. Now there is a lot more going, yet it is still on the margins. It is hard to see proper change, proper shaking up of the mainstream.
"For a while, there a wave both in theatre and in television. I was in an all-Asian programme on Central television that went out at seven thirty in the evening. Yes it was a niche programme with a niche audience. But now there is an assumption that we are all integrated. You have your Asian family on Eastenders and Emmerdale and sure, fine. But the community has grown enormously and the representation is abysmal. So people like me go, 'Oh, my god, where is the tangible difference?'
"If Tamasha has branched out over the years, it is not because the need to represent South Asian voices has diminished. Rather, we have branched out because we recognised that need was shared by many other groups too. We used to have courses for British Asian writers only, and then we would have others knocking on our doors, saying 'there is no other place for us – can we be British Asian for the day?' So we started to ask ourselves why we were creating these barriers.
"Now, someone has said to us that being in a Tamasha rehearsal room is like being on the top of a London bus and actually there are no other places like that."
Landon-Smith went back to Australia in 2013, and now Bhuchar herself is looking to move on too. So why now?
"We used to say Tamasha was Kristine and me and if we didn't want to carry on, we would fold up and someone else could start something new. But with the growth of TDA, we realised Tamasha had grown beyond the two of us. And once you acknowledge something has outgrown you, then you start thinking how and when you will be succeeded.
"We had talked about 25 years being the right time to move on. Then she was headhunted for a wonderful job in Australia. [Landon Smith is now a lecturer in acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, in Sydney.] We were in the first year of a three year plan for Tamasha, and it made sense for me to stay on. It was very important for us to pass on the identity of the company, its legacy, its history, to someone who had time to be embedded. Finn Kennedy was appointed through a huge open process. And now he and I are coming towards the end of an eighteen month process of working together."
So what does the future hold for Tamasha?
"Finn talks about 'making work along cultural fault lines' - whether that is race or class or religion. He has had ten years as writer-in-residence at Mulberry School for girls in Tower Hamlets. He has changed the culture of that school, from a time when girls were not allowed to be in a drama group, to taking an all Muslim cast in a play written by him to the Edinburgh Festival.
"Finn was also behind 'In Battalions,' a report into the effect of Arts Council cuts on theatres' capacity to develop new plays and playwrights. That came about in response to a conversation with Culture Minister, Ed Vaisey, in which he claimed the cuts were having 'no effect.' That has been like a call to arms.
"So he is someone very passionate. Quite political. And he is a writer. So maybe things will become a little more writer-focused."
And what lies in the future for Sudha Bhuchar?
"That is hard to answer, because I don't have a new job to go to.
"My job has been about nurturing other artists, about administration, about fundraising. I want to catch my breath, think about myself. I am not a teacher in the way that Kris and Finn are. I want to be creating work.
"Part of our work over the last three years has been under the umbrella of Small Lives, Global Ties. I guess I will always be interested in ordinary people leading extraordinary lives. So I will be exploring new collaborations to tell those stories.
"I do have a couple of projects in mind. One is called Golden Hearts, which is about the fact that Asian men are particularly vulnerable to heart disease. That began as a Scratch Night and then I realised I needed to do something more with it. I am hoping to work with the British Heart Foundation on that.
"The other is an adaptation of White Mughals by William Dalrymple (the true story of a love affair between a British army officer and a Muslim woman in 18th Century India). I am trying to get that off the ground with a company called Dash Arts, who did a version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in eight different Indian languages!
"But the whole thing is predicated on getting partners and getting money. So we will see. Maybe I will just decide to go and do yoga and recharge my batteries for a while!
"As one of the TDA artists told me, 'Jump off a cliff and the universe will be there to catch you.'"
East is East is being revived in the West End this autumn. Read more here.
And you can read about the development of Sudha Bhuchar's play My Name Is... here.
We hope to have an interview with Finn Kennedy, Tamasha's incoming Artistic Director, in a future issue of Words with Jam.
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A Shower of Golden Rules – or How to make social media work for you by Derek Duggan
There are a lot of pressures on writers these days. Not only do you have to write books and stuff but now, with the demands of an ever present public, you have to write about other things across several platforms.
This can seem a little daunting to the novice, but there are some simple rules and once you follow them you'll be laughing all the way to the bank (and then, as a writer, crying all the way home again). First, and most conspicuously, you will have to make regular posts on social media sites. This can be a little bit tricky as you have to show people that you, as a writer, are better than everyone else while making yourself seem like a regular Joe Soap at the same time. It doesn't matter which platform you choose, the rules are the same.
1. Wine/alcoholic beverages. You have to mention wine in at least every other post or people will think you're not an alcoholic and therefore not a real writer. It doesn't matter if you're really a teetotaler, you still have to post things like – Hey, is it wine o' clock yet? – or – It must be beer thirty – or – It must be time to down a bottle of whiskey and shit the bed by now! Nobody will buy your work if you don't do this. In a recent study at the British University of Made up Studies it was found that the amount of times wine was mentioned on a writer's time line was directly proportional to the amount of sales achieved. And that's a fact. If you can't think of any wine related thing to say why not simply post a link to some online article that says drinking lots of wine makes you really good at doing everything and makes you really healthy and people who live under bridges and shout at traffic are just doing it wrong. This will help you to connect with regular alcoholics and convince them to buy your stuff.
2. Work in progress. You have to mention this from time to time or people might forget that you're not just someone who lives under a bridge and shouts at traffic. Don't go into details – just say something about drafts and word counts and that should keep everyone happy. In this way you can connect with regular people by pretending that you do some work too and don't actually spend the whole day farting about on the internet.
3. Stuff about dogs/cats. It's a well-known fact that people who are interested in buying books are much more interested in photos of your dog than they are in your reviews. Think about it - How many times have you come across a novel that has all five star reviews on Amazon only to be put off buying the book when, on inspection of the author's Facebook page, it turns out they haven't posted twenty five pictures of their dog sitting on the couch in the last half an hour? I think you can see the logic in this. It will help to show that you have as little in your life as ordinary people and thus connect with them.
4. Wine. See number 1.
5. Links to grammar tests. You need to post one of these a month to show how good you are at doing English and to remind other people that they are shit at it. This will show people that you're dead clever and that because you got ten out of ten on this online test your book is obviously a work of genius and is definitely worth reading. People don't want to think that the book they're reading is stupid as they feel it might reflect badly on them and people will think they're a thicko. Dan Brown probably got ten out of ten on several online grammar tests. I rest my case.
6. Food stuff. In case all the animal pictures haven't convinced the general readers out there that you are at least as boring as them there is always room for the occasional food post. Just stick up a photo of your dinner and watch your book sales soar. Everyone loves a good picture of someone else's dinner. A recent study done by a University somewhere found that when normal people sit down with their families at night after being at work all day all they want to do is pick up their tablets and look at pictures of other people's dinner. They can't get enough of it. And the study found that when people see a picture of some potatoes and random meat and boiled-to-fuck vegetables on Facebook, the first thing they do is to go to Amazon and buy a book. It's in a scientific study so it must be absolutely true.
7. Links to a good review you just got. There's nothing that excites common people more than knowing that a writer they know has just received a five star review on Amazon or somewhere. Most ordinary folk can't wait to read how LoveCats169 couldn't put your book down and they'll be delighted that she's managed to spell most of the words correctly in her review. This shows how normal people, just like the other people you know on Facebook, would like your book if they read it.
And that's it for social media. See? It's nothing to be worried about.
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Cacho Island (, ) is the conspicuous 250 m long in east-west direction and 100 m wide rocky island separated by a 160 m wide passage from Aktinia Beach on the southwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area 1.63 ha. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after the Spanish physicist, polar explorer and author Javier Cacho Gómez, participant in the 1986/87 Spanish Antarctic expedition and base commander at Juan Carlos I base in subsequent seasons, for his contribution to the promotion of Antarctica and support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.

Location
Cacho Island is located at , which is 315 m south of Rebrovo Point and 2.5 km west-northwest of Cape Conway. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps
 South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968
 L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.  (First edition 2009. )
 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

See also
 List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

Notes

References
 Cacho Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
 Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links
 Cacho Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

Islands of the South Shetland Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic

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The president was largely shielded from any sign of dissent, and scattered protests were small, peaceful and far from the parade route — nothing like the violent demonstrations last weekend in Hamburg, where anti-capitalist protesters attempted to make a grand statement at the meeting of the world's 20 largest economies. There were small protests Thursday night in the symbolic Place de la Republique, where piñatas of the U.S. president were on full display, and in the Place des Etats-Unis, where Democrats Abroad staged a protest.
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But their anger was not directed solely at Trump. Workers collectives picketed Macron, who plans a drastic overhaul of France's labor market this fall.
There were red emergency response vehicles and a brass band riding horses as they played.
And there was a military band featuring players from several French military branches who played the anthem of the town of Nice, which is mourning the first anniversary of a terrorist attack that killed 86 following Bastille Day festivities. Macron planned to travel to Nice on Friday afternoon to remember those who were killed.
The musicians also played a medley of songs by the French electronic group Daft Punk, which was especially popular with younger people in the crowd — including the 39-year-old Macron, who smiled and slightly bobbed his head, while Trump, 71, looked a little confused.
Soon the event was over, and Macron walked Trump to the motorcade that would take him to the airport for a flight to New Jersey.
The two men shook hands, as their shoulders touched, and Trump patted their clasped hands. They continued holding hands as Trump leaned over to kiss the cheek of Macron's wife, Brigitte Macron, then held her hand while continuing to hold her husband's hand. He finally released their hands but patted Macron's shoulder one more time.
Throughout the whole goodbye, the president broadly smiled.


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Al Casey
There are two guitarists called Al Casey: #1 A jazz guitarist from Kentucky known mostly for his work with Fats Waller. #2 A rock & roll guitarist from the 60s known mostly for his work with Duane Eddy and Sandford Clark. #1 - Albert Aloysius Casey (September 15, 1915 – September 11, 2005) known professionally as Al Casey, was an African-American swing guitarist who played with Fats Waller on some of his famous recordings. Casey composed the well-known tune "Buck Jumpin", which was recorded...
There are two guitarists called Al Casey:
#1 A jazz guitarist from Kentucky known mostly for his work with Fats Waller.
#2 A rock & roll guitarist from the 60s known mostly for his work with Duane Eddy and Sandford Clark.
#1 - Albert Aloysius Casey (September 15, 1915 – September 11, 2005) known professionally as Al Casey, was an African-American swing guitarist who played with Fats Waller on some of his famous recordings. Casey composed the well-known tune "Buck Jumpin", which was recorded by Waller.
Casey was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Joseph and Maggie B. Johnson Casey. He grew up in New York City and attended DeWitt Clinton High School. He joined Thomas Fats Waller's band in the early 1930s and can be heard on hundreds of recordings, working with him until Waller died in 1943. In 1944, Casey briefly recorded with Louis Armstrong. He also worked with Clarence Profit's band that same year. In 1959 he contributed to an album called Paul Curry Presents The Friends Of Fats on the Golden Crest label.[citation needed]
Between stints with Waller, Casey worked with Teddy Wilson from 1939 to 1940. He recorded with Billie Holiday, Frankie Newton, and Chuck Berry, and even led his own a trio for a short time. Remembering his time, years later, working with Holiday, Casey commented that he was in love with her.
Casey freelanced over decades working with King Curtis from 1957 to 1961, where he played rhythm and blues. He continued playing into his late eighties with The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band, which he joined in 1981.
He died four days before his ninetieth birthday of colon cancer at the Dewitt Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in New York.
#2 - Alvin W. Casey (October 26, 1936 – September 17, 2006) was an American guitarist. He was mainly noted for his work as a session musician, but also released his own records and scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in the United States. His contribution to the rockabilly genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Al is mainly known for his studio backup work, but also released records and had minor chart success under his own name. His guitar is prominent on the Sanford Clark hit The Fool, featuring a lick Al borrowed from the song, "Smokestack Lightning". He was part of the backup for Duane Eddy's recordings, playing bass, piano, and rhythm guitar.
Al and Lee Hazlewood worked together in 1963, recording Surfin Hootenanny, which was a chart success. (The backup vocal group was even named The K-C-Ettes.) Recorded in the style of Duane Eddy's Dance with the Guitar Man, "Surfin Hootenanny" featured Al mimicking the styles of Dick Dale, The Ventures, and Duane Eddy. The Surfin Hootenanny album is somewhat of a classic among surf and rock and roll fans. Later he was a featured guitarist on the Exotic Guitars series of albums, and he continued recording until a few years before his death. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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book: "Chaparral," Richard Falconer and Doug Nye (Contributor), Motorbooks Intl., 1992.
The Chaparral transmission was "actually a two-speed manual gearbox with a high performance lockup torque converter instead of a conventional clutch."
Jim Hall's 2A design was perhaps influenced by the Chevrolet Corvair Monza GT and SS prototypes (1962). However, he was certainly involved in the 1963 era with the Corvette Grand Sport II(b) and the Chevrolet CERV II prototypes.
In 1966 Ford GTs finished first, second, and third at Daytona, first and second at Sebring, and first, second, and third at Le Mans.
In 1994, Gulf sponsored a Kremer CK8 Spyder, which ran sixth at Le Mans. Then in 1994 and 1995, Gulf sponsored GTC McLaren F1 GTR cars, which ran fourth at Le Mans '95 and fifth at Le Mans '96.
book: "The Certain Sound: Thirty Years of Motor Racing," John Wyer, Haynes, 1981 [now out of print].
book: "Blue & Orange: The History of Gulf in Motorsport," Michael Cotton and Martin Allerton, Coterie Press, 2004 [do not have; covers 1937 to 2001].
drivers: Klaus Ludwig, Doc Bundy, Lyn St. James, Scott Pruett, Pete Halsmer, Ari Luyendyk, Tom Gloy, Chip Robinson.
See John Krill's excellent site on Can-Am.
book: "CAN-AM", Pete Lyons, Motorbooks Intl., 1995.
Started by John Bishop in 1969 (with help from Bill France). Bishop started Can-Am and Trans-Am when president of SCCA in 1960s, and is now the commissioner of Grand American Road Racing Association.
cars: porsche 962s, gtp corvettes, jag xjr-7s, ford probe, nissan gtp, toyota, etc.
See also: Preston Lerner, "Flying on the Ground," Automobile, July 2004, pp. 100-103.


1954: Radio soap The Road of Life made its TV debut.
My Children's Adam and Erica married for the second time.
2010: One Life to Live's Natalie accepted John's proposal.
1954: Procter & Gamble's popular radio soap opera The Road of Life, created by Irna Phillips in 1937, made its television debut on CBS in the 1:15-1:30 p.m. ET time slot.
Because many CBS affiliates chose to run local news and talk shows during this time, the program never achieved the popularity it might have and aired its last TV episode on July 1, 1955. The radio version of the show continued into the 1959 season when the golden age of the radio soap opera began to wind down.
Written by Charles Gussman, who brought wit and cleverness to his soaps, the story centered on handsome doctor Jim Brent and his wife Jocelyn in the small town of Merrimac. The heroine of a medical drama, Jocelyn would suffer from a number of ailments. A large factor in the story was the relationships between three generations of Brent's and Jocelyn's well to do but highly dysfunctional family, the Overtons.
Donald McLaughlin starred as Dr Brent, and Virginia Dwyer as Jocelyn on both radio and TV. Both would move on to other soap roles: McLaughlin as Chris Hughes on As the World Turns, and Dwyer as matriarch Mary Matthews on Another World.
1957: On The Edge of Night, Hester (Helen Shields) worried Martin wanted a stay-at-home wife and about his jealousy of her male co-worker, Henry Muller.
1965: On Peyton Place, Russ Gehring (David Canary) phoned Marian Fowler's sister looking for her.
1976: On Another World, stalwart Michael Randolph (Lionel Johnston) married scheming Molly Ordway (Rolanda Mendels) at the White Gate hotel in Ogden. Willis Frame (Leon Russom) was the best man, while Angie Perrini (Toni Kalem) served as maid of honor.
1979: On As the World Turns, Carol Stallings (Rita Walter) pleaded with Ralph Mitchell (Keith Charles) not to take legal action against her husband, Jay (Dennis Cooney).
1979: On General Hospital, as Lesley Webber (Denise Alexander) struggled to help Monica Quartermaine (Leslie Charleson) give birth to Alan James "A.J." Quartermaine Jr. at home, Monica blurted out that Rick Webber (Chris Robinson) was the father of her baby.
1979: On Guiding Light, Mike Bauer (Don Stewart) informed his daughter, Hope (Elvera Roussel), that he believed her fiance, Alan Spaulding (Christopher Bernau), was involved in serious criminal activity.
1983: Actress Leora Dana, who played Sylvie Kosloff on Another World in 1978-79, died at age 60.
1984: On Search for Tomorrow, Lloyd (Peter Haskell) obtained a copy of Rebecca's birth certificate and fingerprints.
1984: The Edge of Night cast and crew taped the show's final episode, which aired on December 28.
1985: Actress Ann Williams died at age 49 after a battle with cancer. Her daytime credits included stints on The Doctors as the first Dr. Maggie Fielding, and on The Edge of Night as television station owner, Margo Huntington Dorn. Her most memorable character was Eunice Gardner Wyatt on Search for Tomorrow (1966–1976), famously shot by Morgan Fairchild's Jennifer.
Her final soap roles were alcoholic June Slater on Loving and Lucy in Guiding Light, a blind woman that befriended Beth Raines (Judi Evans) in the clip below.
Williams left behind four kids in her real life who had a story as fascinating as their mother's characters. Read it here.
1985: On Dallas, J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) convinced his ex-wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), to move back to Southfork, which meant she gave up her custody of their son, John Ross. Note: This story ended up being a dream after Bobby turned up alive in Pam's shower in the season finale.
1991: On All My Children, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) and Adam Chandler (David Canary) were married, again.
1993: Former One Life to Live and Loving casting director Bobby Hoffman died at age 71.
1996: On Another World, Ghost Ryan (Paul Michael Valley) tried to warn Bobby (Robert Kelker-Kelly) about Grant.
2001: On The Bold and the Beautiful, Rick (Justin Torkildsen) promised Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) she was not going to regret letting letting him move in with Amber.
2007: On Guiding Light, Doris Wolfe (Orlagh Cassidy) was down after losing the Springfield mayoral election to Buzz Cooper.
2008: British soap actress Kathy Staff (Doris Luke, Crossroads; Vera Hopkins, Coronation Street; Winnie Purvis, Emmerdale Farm) died at age 80.
2010: On One Life to Live, Natalie Buchanan (Melissa Archer) accepted John McBain's (Michael Easton) marriage proposal.


1. A deep ditch or channel cut in the earth by running water after a prolonged downpour.
2. A channel in the side of a mountain, especially one forming a path for avalanches or rockfall.
To wear a deep ditch or channel in.
To form a deep ditch or channel.
1. a small valley or ravine orig. worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains; gulch.
2. a ditch or gutter.
3. to make gullies in.
4. to form (channels) by the action of water.
A narrow channel worn in a hillside by running water. Gullies abound in land prone to soil erosion.
noun ravine, canyon, gorge, chasm, channel, fissure, defile, watercourse The bodies of the three climbers were located at the bottom of a steep gully.
From the softness of these materials it was worn into many gulleys.
National officer Justin Bowden said: "Councils are now making cuts to services they offer the general public like bin collections every three weeks or ending cleaning gulleys, as well as severe cuts to services for the elderly and for children.
Alison Gulleys well-presented volume assesses AElfric's body of work on female virgin martyrs.
Later in the evening with the prospect of another high tide the gulley emptier came and ensured that any blocked gulleys were clear so as to minimise any more incursions by the sea.
They blame the Prologis Park development for exacerbating the problem and Coventry City Council for failing to clear gulleys and drains.
The covers are being taken from manholes and gulleys on roads and pavements and often leave a hole of up to four metres deep exposed.
Priorities include anti-social behaviour associated with the gulleys on Tweedsmuir Road.
She said, "The Welsh Liberal Democrat-led council in Cardiff has invested significantly in closing and gating alleyways and gulleys across the city since 2004 and appointed the city's first ever alley-gating officer to deal specifically with this issue.
This has included reboarding all doors and windows, repairing the fire damaged roof, replacement of rainwater gulleys and removal of damaged railings and redundant fixtures and fittings.
Replacing the road has enabled the city council to introduce a drainage system in which seven cleansing devices will replace 150 gulleys and remove more than 80% of pollutants, such as silt and oils, compared with the 35% removed by traditional gulleys.