Member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and public Interest Analyst, Charles McCarthy has chided the Christian Council of Ghana for sitting aloof without making its voice heard on national issues.
According to him, the Council was quite vociferous until its former General Secretary, Rev. Kwabena Opuni Frimpong was given a government appointment, culminating in the current comatose state of the council.
Describing the council as hypocritical, he said current happenings in the country that has shaken the political foundations of the country have gone unnoticed to the Christian Council of Ghana, a situation he explained on Accra based Agoo Television and monitored by MyNewsGh.com as surprising.
"The Christian Council of Ghana was very loud and vociferous. Its former General Secretary, Kwabena Opuni Frimpong was one of the loudest clergymen in the country. But ever since he got a government appointment, he has gone quiet and the council sees nothing wrong in this government and the country" he argued.
He believes the time has come for the president and government to allow the clergy and civil society organizations to play their watchdog role by refraining from giving them appointments in government.
Immediate past General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev. Dr. Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, a week ago disclosed how he is helping Ghanaians, by agreeing to serve on some boards under the current NPP government.
The move according to the cleric is one that gives him the opportunity to offer advice to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Finance Minister of the country, Ken Ofori-Atta.
Taking his turn on '21 minutes with KKB', Rev. Opuni-Frimpong said he had taken the decision to help Ghana by serving on the advisory board of the Ministry of Finance.
"We're all Ghanaians and at any point in time we may be invited to help and so, yes, I serve on one or two government boards that provide some advice to the President and then some ministers of state," he told host Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng.


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Pure Evil: The Government Lost Around 1,500 Refugee Children Who Are Now Vulnerable to Trafficking and Worse
By Jacob Weindling | May 25, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Remember when Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, said that the refugee children we are separating from their parents will "be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever"? This is what he meant by "or whatever." Per the New York Times:
A top official with the Department of Health and Human Services told members of Congress on Thursday that the agency had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children it placed with sponsors in the United States, raising concerns they could end up in the hands of human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as relatives.
The official, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the agency's Administration for Children and Families, disclosed during testimony before a Senate homeland security subcommittee that the agency had learned of the missing children after placing calls to the people who took responsibility for them when they were released from government custody.
The children were taken into government care after they showed up alone at the Southwest border. Most of the children are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, and were fleeing drug cartels, gang violence and domestic abuse, government data shows.
What else is there to say anymore? ICE is conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign while we separate children from their parents and stick them on what can only be defined as concentration camps on our military bases, where we have been unable to protect these kids from sexual assault. We're not even making a concerted effort to reunite these children with their parents after deporting them, as the Houston Chronicle exposed:
Esteban Pastor hoped U.S. Border Patrol agents would free him and his 18-month-old son after they were arrested for crossing the southern border illegally last summer.
He had mortgaged his land in Guatemala to fund his sick toddler's hospital stay, and needed to work in the United States to pay off the loan.
Instead agents imprisoned the 28-year-old in July for coming back into the country after having been deported, a felony. They placed the toddler in a federal shelter, though where, Pastor didn't know. Three months later, in October, the father was deported — alone. His child, he said agents told him, was "somewhere in Texas."
Here's an extra gut-punch: this kind of negligence isn't new. Trump has dramatically escalated our federal government's attacks on the Hispanic community, but these same kinds of abuses occurred under Obama, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Per The Washington Post:
Unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during a historic wave of migration earlier this decade were repeatedly beaten, sexually abused, and deprived of food and medical care by federal border agents, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report released Wednesday.
About 30,000 pages of documents obtained by the ACLU through an open-records lawsuit depict a gantlet of alleged mistreatment for the tens of thousands of children who arrived mainly from Central America between 2009 and 2014, during the Obama administration. Many were seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing death threats and violence in their homelands.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents allegedly used stun guns on the minors for amusement or punishment, kicked them and threatened to either rape or kill them. The ACLU report — which is based on emails, complaint forms and investigative reports — says agents routinely kept minors in detention cells with frigid temperatures, forcing them to sleep on concrete floors.
In 2014, Frontline uncovered more unconscionable incompetence from President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services:
In 2014, at least 10 trafficking victims, including eight minors, were discovered during a raid by federal and local law enforcement in Portman's home state of Ohio. As FRONTLINE examined in the recent documentary Trafficked in America, HHS had released several minors to the traffickers. The committee said the case was due to policies and procedures that were "inadequate to protect the children in the agency's care."
This is America. If you ever wondered what you would have done during 1930s Germany, it's whatever you're doing right now.
Jacob Weindling is a staff writer for Paste politics. Follow him on Twitter at @Jakeweindling.
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This is a repeat of a previous post. I wasn't happy with the wording the last time, it seemed unclear and difficult to understand. Truth be told, scoring repetitions requires some individual judgment, but much of it, I think, can be standardized. So here's a second attempt at explaining how to score repetitions. Hopefully this time around things are clearer.
1 – Completely wrong. One big error or multiple small errors. You got the reading of one or more characters COMPLETELY wrong. Or, you got the reading of 2 or more characters slightly wrong. This goes against what I said previously, but, I think a tone error in Chinese should be graded as "completely wrong" rather than "slightly wrong". Tone matters that much.
5 – Perfect. It was a breeze. Like breathing. In. Out. Next!
I'm glad you re posted this. I felt that I've been going to easy on myself and just grading 5 anything that I could get through eventually and understand the meaning.
I 've also been wondering about the length of the sentences. Some of my senteces are fairly long e.g. 離婚する時家庭裁判所に養育権訴訟を起こす男の人が最近増えてきたそうだ. I understand this sentence but beacuse of it's length it is difficult to memorize in it's entirety. Do you think this is too long a sentence to put into mnemosyne?
No matter how many sentences, if you can pronounce and understand, then you're good to go.
>Do you think this is too long a sentence to put into mnemosyne?
I find this works best. It's good to have some long sentences in there because Japanese sentences can get long. But, as far as your brain is concerned, learning and sentence-building happen in small, manageable chunks. So that's why I enter the parts into the SRS, as well as the whole.
Hey Matt–what browser are you using?
It seems to be happening with IE (6 in my case), looks fine in Firefox.
Firefox treats them properly since that / should tell it to close the tag immediately… seems IE's not being so kind.
Lerris, Matt…you guys make me look good. Thank you very much!
I got a question I am still learning Kanji but I have been putting it into my SRS using copy paste. What program do I need to download in order to type Japanese Characters. I am on Windows XP.
It should be noted that Mnemosyne counts '2' as a "correct" grade, and will schedule the card for a day or two in the future. So if you're using Mnemosyne, '1' would be a better grade for a card that you got slightly wrong.
What about for Anki, which has only 4? Cut 5 and 2 on the list above, maybe?


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Q: On some finiteness properties for schemes Consider the following properties of scheme $X$:
A: $X$ is of finite type over $\mathbb{Z}$
B: $X$ is Noetherian
C: $X$ is of finite Krull dimension
What implications are there between these three? I believe that B and C are independent of each other (although I can't find a reference right now), and it follows from EGA I, 6.3.7 that A implies B. But does A imply C?
(Apologies if this question is "trivial", but I'm not an expert in algebraic geometry.)
As an aside, I would also be interested if any of these properties can be related to some notion of cohomological dimension (not sure what kind of topologies would be relevant for this).

A: A implies B. True, as you said, because a finitely generated ring is Noetherian, and $X$ is glued from finitely many spectra of such.
A implies C. True (argument as above).
B implies A. False, e.g. $X = \mathrm{Spec }\ \mathbb{Q}$.
B implies C. False (I believe). There are rings $R$ whose spectrum is homeomorphic to the topological space $\{1, 2, \ldots \}$ with open sets $\{n, n+1, \ldots\}$, which is Noetherian but of infinite Krull dimension. I think something like $\mathrm{Spec }\ k[x_1, x_1 x_2, x_1 x_2 x_3, \ldots]$ should work, but I didn't check the details. EDIT. This is nonsense - see the comments below and Fred Rohrer's answer.
C implies A. False, e.g. $X= \mathrm{Spec }\ \mathbb{Q}$.
C implies B. False, e.g. $X = \mathrm{Spec}\ k[x, x^{1/2}, x^{1/3}, \ldots]$.

A: An example of a noetherian ring of infinite dimension can be found in Nagata's Local Rings, Appendix A1, Example 1.
Edit: An interesting generalisation of Nagata's construction yielding noetherian rings of infinite dimension whose maximal ideals have prescribed heights was given by Fujita in his article Infinite dimensional Noetherian Hilbert domains, Hiroshima Math. J. 5 (1975), 181–185.

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How to manage contractual risks in cloud computing
There will be practical and commercial risks when choosing a cloud service, but these can be mitigated through due diligence by focusing on the service contract.
Firstly, according to Rob Bratby, managing partner at law firm Olswang Asia, the business must understand what it needs and what it will get from the cloud service. Depending on the complexity and value of the services, businesses may prepare their own service description or start with the vendor's version.
Ultimately the service description should comprehensively set out the business needs. "If it doesn't, it must be challenged and any inadequacies should be dealt with. If this isn't done, the risk is that the service contract for cloud services that may prove to be lacking later down the line. The same goes for pricing, service levels and service credits, rights to exit, rights to change the services, security plans and standards, disaster recovery arrangements and governance arrangements," added Bratby.
At this stage, subject matter experts, commercial leaders and lawyers should be roped in to help with the review, he advised.
Second, the service contract must enable the business to comply with its own obligations, be they contractual, regulatory and legal, according to the lawyer.
Bratby points to two prongs of attack which can help:
The service contract should include rights to reports, review, monitor and audit. This way, issues should be spotted at the early stages. Businesses should also ensure control rights so that issues can be resolved by making changes to any of the details set out in the service contract.
Obligations that businesses are subject to in contracts with third parties (including customers, employees and counterparties) and under regulations and laws should be passed down to the vendor in the service contract.
A third area of risk to cover in the service contract is to make sure that the business is not locked into a service contract and that switching vendors or products can be a smooth exercise.
"This is a legal and a practical issue. The service contract should include sufficient termination rights for the business (e.g. for default, change of control, insolvency, service deterioration, security/confidentiality breach, regulatory requirements) and, in any event, the service contract should not be evergreen; it should be for a fixed period of time to force the business to take stock of affairs," said Bratby.
Clause for exit useful
According to Matthew Hunter, associate at Olswang Asia, including a right for the business to exit at will is also useful but may come at a cost. "Although, an advantage of cloud may be that pay-as-you-go services allow for flexibility here," he noted.
On the practical side, the service contract should include a plan detailing the steps to be taken on exit, the assistance the vendor must provide and how data will be extracted from the vendor, added Hunter. "This last point is imperative so that businesses comply with their confidentiality, privacy and security obligations. Regulators would often expect businesses to ensure that data is returned or destroyed upon request at the end of a contract's life," said the Olswang associate.
One final area is intellectual property risk, as cloud services may involve the use of software and other intellectual property rights under a licence, noted Hunter. The business could be dragged into a legal dispute in the event of third party claims of infringement against the cloud service provider.
"Vendors should be expected to protect businesses from this risk by providing an intellectual property indemnity in the service contract in favor of the business," said Hunter.
tags : Cloud, Legal


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Call for Papers: 2014 The National Pastime
October 7, 2013 /in /by jpomrenke
The 2014 SABR national convention will take place July 30-August 3, 2014, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston, Texas.
To coincide with the convention, the summer 2014 issue of The National Pastime will focus on Houston-area baseball. In particular, we will be focusing on 1962-present to avoid overlap with the special book on pre-Astros baseball that the Houston chapter is concurrently producing. We expect most of the articles will center on the Astros, but we are open to other topics that fit the time frame (Women's baseball? Little league? Fan studies? College baseball? You tell us.) Articles may be historical, biographical, or analytical, but please avoid personal narrative.
This issue of The National Pastime will be edited by publications director Cecilia Tan. She will be taking queries and abstracts until November 15, 2013, and will make assignments no later than December 1. First drafts of articles will be due by March 1, 2014, and rewrites (if needed) will be due by April 15.
Queries should include 1-2 paragraphs of brief but detailed encapsulation of the article idea, as well as a description of why you are interested in it or qualified to research it. Be specific about the sources you plan to use and what of your research is original. If you can estimate the length of the finished article, that is good, too. Typical articles tend to run 2,000 to 5,000 words — the size of a midterm paper, not a masters thesis. The upper limit on papers for the TNP is around 6,500 words.
To query, email to ctan@sabr.org with the subject line "TNP Query:" and a key word or two on your subject. For example: "TNP Query: Bagwell/Biggio Comparison."
Some possible subjects that could be included:
invention of Astroturf/uniqueness of the Astrodome
the April 15, 1968 marathon 24-inning game
1963 all-rookie game
Colt Stadium's contribution to the establishment of Sunday night baseball
the lone game in Astrodome history that was rained out
Leo Durocher's over-the-hill misfit time as Houston's manager;
analysis of the blockbuster trade of 1971
the so-called Astrodome Indian Burial Grounds Curse
Astros pitchers dying young (Don Wilson, Jim Umbricht, possibly Darryl Kile)
1986 All Star Game
Astros postseason performance analysis
The Killer Bs
Remember that every article must include proper citation of sources and present a clear thesis, and to be published in a SABR journal your SABR membership must be current. For full writers guidelines, submit a query to ctan@sabr.org and you will receive the full guidelines in reply.
For more information on the SABR 44 convention in Houston, visit SABR.org/convention.
Originally published: October 7, 2013. Last Updated: October 7, 2013.
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Generally, mental health is considered a pre-existing medical condition. We're supportive of all types of conditions, so this doesn't necessarily mean you can't get travel insurance, but you do need to disclose your condition when you're booking your travel insurance.
With mental health conditions, all grades need to be disclosed, even if you're not taking medication. This means we're aware of your circumstances and you'll know exactly what you're covered for.
Please note, there's a possibility we might not be able to cover you at all, but we will tell you this after you have disclosed your condition and we have made an assessment.
How do I let you know about my mental health condition?
You'll be asked about pre-existing conditions during your online purchase and if you select 'yes", you'll fill out the questionnaire. This is where we'll ask you everything we need to know about your mental health condition.
What is a mental health condition/illness?
About one in five Australians experience symptoms of a mental illness every year. Mental illness includes a range of conditions including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic disorders, stress, prenatal depression and PTSD.
Depression - Clinical depression expresses itself in many psychological and physical symptoms, including extreme sadness or feeling completely numb.
Anxiety - Feeling anxious at times is common. Someone who experiences an anxiety disorder struggles with anxiousness during day to day activities.
Bipolar disorder - This is a type of mood disorder in which people have episodes of low mood and mania 'high' mood.
Prenatal and postnatal depression - Many new or expecting parents experience anxiety and depression related to either or all of the stages of pregnancy.
Travelling means being away from your routine, so you should make sure you've taken all the necessary steps to keep yourself safe and healthy on your trip. Please note, the below is general advice only is not intended to replace the advice or information from a registered body or your doctor.
Speak to your health professional/s about your travel plans. Book an appointment with your doctor before you go to inform them about your travel plans. Your doctor will be able to advise you on a range of travel tips from medication and coping strategies. They'll also be able to provide you with a letter in case you are queried about your medication or anything else during airport security.
Make sure family and friends at home are in the loop. Informing loved ones of your travel schedule can help maintain healthy stress levels during your holiday.
Do your research. Talk to your doctor about coping with common travel issues such as motion sickness and jet lag. Understanding what to expect and how to deal with common travel issues might alleviate symptoms.
Align your body with new time zones. Sleep is important to everyone, and lack of sleep can be very noticeable when trying to manage your mental health. Talk to your doctor about strategies to overcome jet-lag.
Think about your alcohol intake. Drinking alcohol is common on holiday, but if you are on regular medication it is important that you stay well-hydrated and have your doctor's advice.
Massage, stretch and move around regularly. This is especially important on a long flight. During a long journey, get up and walk around every 45 minutes. Be sure to massage your muscles with something like a tennis ball to promote circulation.
Maintain healthy habits. When you're in new surroundings, it's easy overindulge and not eat or drink as you normally would. Try to maintain consistent habits as you would at home to take care of your body and mind.
Take note of experiences. A long awaited holiday can be very excited however travel can also introduce various stresses and anxieties. These can derive from simply leaving familiar places to navigating around with a foreign language. After your trip, follow up with your doctor if you experienced a mental health event during your trip.
Do you cover bipolar disorder?
We're supportive of mental health, and offer cover for a different range of conditions. What we do is assess your individual circumstances when you disclose your condition.
Do you cover depression and anxiety?
Depression and anxiety are very common conditions. That's why we assess your individual circumstances when you disclose your condition.
Do you cover Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
PTSD is difficult to go through and is a highly individual condition. We're here to support your travel, and we may be able to offer cover once we know the full details of your condition.
Do you cover pre and post natal depression?
Pre and post-natal depression affect a wide range of women. After you give birth, you may need to travel to be close to loved ones or for other reasons. When you let us know about your individual circumstances so we can make an accurate assessment about your insurance options.
See here for more information about pregnancy and travel insurance.
What should I do if I have a panic attack during my trip?
If you are prone to panic attacks, you might need to speak to your doctor before you leave to figure out a strategy for this situation.
If you are overseas and your panic attack is severe, you or someone you're travelling with might need to call our medical assistance team for advice.
If I'm not covered for mental health condition, is there any point in travel insurance?
If we are unable to provide cover for your mental health condition, you could still obtain a policy that covers other events that aren't related to your condition, including medical cover for other unforeseen injuries or illnesses, cancellation fees, lost deposits, lost luggage, theft, and more.
What if the person i'm travelling with has a mental health condition?
I think my mental health condition is covered automatically. Do i still have to disclose my condition?
We are unable to provide cover for mental health conditions automatically, but we provide you with an instant outcome once you have complete your assessment either online or over the phone.
Why is mental health condition considered a pre-existing medical condition?
what if i have a mental health condition, but i don't get travel insurance?
Travel insurance provides cover for a wide range of benefits. Although in some cases we may not be able to provide cover for your condition we may still offer cover things like unforeseen injury or illness (not related to your mental health), personal effects, cancellation fees & lost deposits, and family emergency.
If you don't take out travel insurance you will be liable to pay all expenses that you incur if something happens while you're away.
If your total cost of treatment will exceed $1,000 you MUST contact our medical assistance team as soon as possible. If you are still uncertain about what to do in relation to an injury or illness, please contact our medical assistance team for further advice.
How does a mental health condition affect my Frequent Traveller policy?
Cover for mental health conditions on a Frequent Traveller policy works in the same way as single trip policies. You will need to complete a medical assessment to determine if we can offer the cover for your mental health condition when you apply for a quote.
If you're diagnosed with a mental health condition part way through your Frequent Traveller policy, your new condition will be considering a pre-existing condition for the remainder of your policy.
This means you'll need to disclose your condition before you go on any further trips.
What if i have a mental health condition as well as other pre-existing medical conditions?
If you have other pre-existing medical conditions that are not on our automatically covered list or they do not meet auto-criteria you will need to disclose them by completing a medical assessment.
What if i forgot to tell you about my mental health condition?
Are the first episodes of a mental health condition covered?
You may have a provision to claim for travel events related to the first episodes of a mental health condition, if the condition was completely unforeseen, and you had no signs, symptoms or investigations being done. Additionally, you would have had to have been deemed fit to travel by your doctor.
After these initial episodes, however, the condition becomes a pre-existing condition for all future policies.
Repatriation is the process of returning a person home after a medical emergency or at worst case death. Being covered for repatriation is important so read the ins and outs.
Mental Health Australia is the peak, national non-government organisation representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector. If you have specific questions about travelling with your condition, they may be able to help.
Millions of Australians are living with anxiety or depression. Beyondblue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live.
Mental illness is real. But you're not alone. There is much that can be done, and SANE helps you figure out what that is. A useful resource before you travel and are away from your routine.


Woods began selling and writing music for Celtic harps in the 1970s, when the instrument was not widely known in the United States, she owns and runs the "Sylvia Woods Harp Center" in Glendale, California, the largest harp store in the world, as well as a harp mail order catalog, Facebook page and website.
Woods toured with the famous scottish poet and musician Robin Williamson and His Merry Ban d in the 1970s and was featured on the group's three albums. Celtic harps were not readily available at the time, so Woods was often approached after concerts by people who were intrigued by her instrument, which she had purchased in Ireland.
In response to their multiple requests, Woods started selling harps and also began developing collaborative relationships with several instrument makers, encouraging them to build harps, and providing feedback on technical issues and user-friendly features. Noting a lack of repertoire and resources for the folk harp, Woods began writing and arranging music specifically for folk (or lever) harp in 1978. Woods' first book, "Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp", is perhaps the best-known tutor for lever harp, and has been the introduction to harp playing for thousands of musicians.
In 1980 Sylvia won the prestigious All-Ireland Harp Championship in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland. And in 2003 she appeared with the legendary Irish band, The Chieftains, on their California tour.
She was featured on the soundtrack of Dead Poets Society and Prancer, as well as other movie and TV soundtracks. She was also a guest performer on A Prairie Home Companion radio show three years in a row. In the December 1999 Harp Column magazine, Sylvia, along with Harpo Marx and other luminaries, was named one of the 45 "Most Influential Harp Forces of the 20th Century".
In January 2003 Woods performed with the legendary Irish band The Chieftains for their five California concerts. Woods has performed on the soundtracks of several major motion pictures, including Dead Poets Society, Prancer, and Only the Lonely, under the direction of Academy Award winning composer Maurice Jarre.
In addition, Woods has performed on soundtracks for several PBS and commercial television shows.
On the year 1982 she launches her first solo album: "The Harp of Brandiswhiere" , Sylvia Woods' highly acclaimed "Suite for Celtic Harp." Her beautiful compositions musically present the story of Brandiswhiere, a legendary magical harper written along with her husband. Sylvia plays both nylon-strung and wire-strung Celtic harps, and is accompanied by acoustic instruments such as trumpets, flutes, cimbalom, celeste, bass and percussion. The music is all instrumental, with no singing or narration, allowing the instruments to weave a fine and intricate aural tapestry to illustrate the legend.
Sylvia Woods also has 2 CDs of Christmas music: "Three Harps for Christmas" Volumes 1 (1985) and 2 (1989) Please feel free to visit her official site at : The Sylvia Woods Harp Center or join the Facebook page for special offers!
The ash tree was one of the sacred Druid trees. On the Celtic calendar, the month of Ash begins on Feb. 18 and goes through March 17. This is a great time to do magic that is associated with the inner self, ocean rituals, prophetic dreams and spiritual journeys.
The Ash tree represented growth, expansion, and higher perspective, to the Celts. Ash was often used for making both mundane and magical tools like wands, brooms or spears.In ancient Celtic Ireland, the Ash tree was so sacred, that people refused to cut them down even when wood was scarce. The ash also gives its name to the letter N in the ogham alphabet. Together with the oak and thorn trees, the ash is part of a magical trilogy of sacred trees to the Druids. It is also said that if you place Ash berries in a cradle, it protects the child from being taken away by mischevious Faeries.
To celebrate the Celtic tree month of Ash, do a ritual or meditation to the Ash full moon which falls on Feb 28.
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They are a Gaeltacht-based company and publish books in Irish including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, biography, history, music, literary criticism, material for those learning Irish, teenage fiction and children's books.
They are also a traditional Irish music label and have an extensive catalogue of albums, including a large number of sean-nós recordings.
J. – Do you think it's a case of the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence etc.? That people always prefer something that's more exotic than what's at home? They fail to realise the worth in their own Culture?
A. – Yes, but also we were educated to feel ashamed of our own Culture, and to imitate another, this conditioning is at work in France. Even back to the Roman times, the French were ashamed to be Gauls, and they always tried to claim to be, andimitate, the Romans; and this inferiority complex has been behind French history. Of course the French have been very much against the Bretons , because the Bretons have been reminding them that they were a Keltic people.
J. – A probletn we face in Scotland is that a lot of our early history is written from a Classical viewpoint and some people feel we need to re-write a true account of history from our Keltic viewpoint. Do you think that is important, or do you think that's too much in the past?
A. – I think it is important for us to recover everything from the past, everything we may have lost. I think most everyday Scots or Bretons are still more influenced by Homer and other Classical authors than by the Tuatha De Danann for example. I think people nowadays who want to be more free within the Keltic Nations have to re-educate themselves as to all the things that have been imposed on them in all the different fields.
J. – Do you feel that if you try to put over that Keltic viewpoint of your own history and especially if you do it in connection with Spirituality and Religion? That there is a definite filter system in T.V. , press and radio? Does that obtain in Brittany as well?
A. – It is not only any kind of alternative view, it is any kind of Breton Culture which is rejected because of French Control. Although we have a little more freedom these days , I was banned for about two years on all major T.V. or radio channels in Brittany after songs on the 'Dublin' album which were more political.
J. – So do you think things are getting worse in Brittany or do you think they are improving slowly?
A. – Improving slowly, but we are afraid that now we have a very tenuous hold. Five years ago we came very close to succeeding, in setting people on fire, in giving something very strong to this Breton Culture with all the young people learning the language etc. But now in ten years the situation has changed, for although we have a little more freedom, our Breton language has gone down, it is now only a language of second status, as Gaelic in Scotland or Eire.
J. – What about using the médium of fijjns positively to promote our Keltic Art and Imagination?
A. – We have an opportunity to go forward now if instead of the superficial mix of S.F. , Romance and Keltic themes on certain films, we could create films employing real Keltic spirituality, if they could portray a lot deeper beliefs. To find someone to make such a film, to create such a film is one of my dreams. For example, on my new album just released in Brittany (Terre des Vivants), it features a theme from Keltic Mythology on the 2nd side, the music of which I would like to be the basis for a film. I'm sure that it would be a very strong film, because the descriptions we find of the Keltic Otherworlds are more fantastic than anything we find in films at present.
Even'Excalibur'only took the usual images of the Middle Ages, but if we were to take the images straight from the Mythology of Tir na Nog for example, it would be a very powerful image for everybody, not just Keltic People, but for everybody in the Western World and even for some people in the Eastern World. I think these symbolical ways of description are important, because I think I myself have gone into this way of experiencing the Keltic Universe. Not by being 'educated' in it, but by feeling my way into it personally, I have constructed a parallel World as compared to how the ancient Kelts described it.
J. – Do you believe then that Keltic Mythology, Keltic Spirituality, has a relevance for young people today?
A. – Relevant, yes, very much so. In Brittany recently we had perhaps one of the biggest revolutions in Europe for more than 50/5 of the young people to go to Breton dances, music etc. and now it is going into even deeper things.
J. – So do you think that a Philosophy and Spirituality actually gives a strength to a Culture?
A. – I think it is not only a question of strength, Keltic Spirituality will help us shake off the Catholic Church, which has repressed the people for a very long time. Although there are positive elements in Christianity, there is a lot in the Church we should reject. People need to be more personally conscious. I think the evils in the world are bringing more people to think about their own inner life.
EDWARD (O'Donnelly) (staff member)- What we've been speaking about is evident in Scotland, many people are moved for example by the music of Run Rig, but if you were to try to speak to them they would be incredibly suspicious about the cultural or spiritual foundation for that emotion, We have a long way to go before we can influence the vast majority of the people with the spirituality of the Keltic countries.
A. – I think it is good to let people try and feel what is in the music, there are sometimes many things in the music.
J. – You said you thought there was value in Keltic Spirituality. If we are going to reject aspects of the Christian Church, have you anything coherent to replace that by?
A. – I would like a kind of Druidism; at present this does not quite exist in Brittany yet, although there are people trying to create it. I think soon it will fuse, between the different forras of Druidism in Brittany, and when it has fused right, I will join with it.
J. – I think a lot of the Druidical Organisations in Scotland, England and Wales are too old fashioned. They deal too much with old texts and not enough with modern life.
A. – Yes, and at the same time they are influenced by aristocratic and bourgois ideáis, although the ancient Kelts had their Classes, origin-ally they had a much better arrangement of things. But those people today who wish an aristocratic society focus on that form of Druidism which was class-based. I think that the Kelts now can go back to the attitude where everyone in a society is potentially equal, or at least show consideration for each other.
J. – So it's almost Keltic Spirituality for the People at the grass roots level?
A. – Yes, yes. We should not take the last few centuries of the ancient Keltic Civilization as a kind of model. I think we should re-evaluate it for today, in the last stages there was an Indo-European Patriarchy which was a bad evolution. I think we should try and get back to a more balanced approach.
E. – Do you think there is enough within the remnants of the Keltic Tradition to put a coherent system together, or do we have to look more generally to the Western Esoteric Tradition?
A. – I think there are different fields of influence we can draw from. Firstly Keltic, then Indo-European, other Nations, and finally Cosmic. Classical music is not close to Keltic as it has its ethnic roots in central Europe, similarly with Rock 'n' Roll, blending them with Keltic is good as experiments, but not as the mainstream of Keltic music. We should stay with our Music and accept influences from many other forms of music.
J. – The overall picture you are giving there is that you should retain a centredness. Almost a rootedness in your own tradition and work and accept things from outside.
A. – Yes, I think we should accept, and digest influences from elsp-where. For all through history cultures have been exchanging, it in the only way for them to grow, to evolve.
J. – I think to assimilate what you take in (to transform it) throtiRh your own Culture. I know you have done several tours of the States in these last few years. How important or useful do you think peopl in America are in helping Keltic Culture to survive?
A. – I think in a big way the Americans will help our Keltic Culture to survive for now we are weak in Europe, our young people look to the American Music Scene, whilst if they only knew that many of the Americans are looking to our Music for inspiration, they are very fond of Keltic themes. We are educated to turn to things outside, especially we were educated to follow things from Paris, as we are now from New York. I think sometime we must turn back to our own.
I had the chance to get an approach to this magnificent magazine through Wendy Newton from Green Linnet Records who kindly send me some volumes as a present by the 80's. Thus I got acquainted of the outstanding work of J.A.Johnston (also known by his druidic name Kaledon Naddair ) who was it's editor and reviewer.Besides several articles each volume contained amazing interviews like this one published on Inner Keltia 5 issued on Nov '83 , and I thought worthy to post. If you wish to purchase more of Kaledon books and works please feel free to visit the official website of Keltia Publications.For someone who has done more for Keltic Muaic than anyone else in the world Alan Stivell remains a very warm and amiable gentleman, with not the slightest trace of any ego-mania problems. After patiently waiting whilst I attempted (in vain) to eviot some gremlins from a borrowed tape recorder, the interview got under way in Alan's dressingroom (after his Edinburgh Gig and whilst Rían Rig were power-ing away on stage above us).
For some deep dialogue read on:-JOHN – Some people felt that on your album "Terre des Vivants" there were some apocalyptic overtones. Is this reflected in Brittany at present? Do you think that there will be some very dramatic changes in Brittany, or will they be very slow and gradual?
ALAN – Yes, I think we are in a very dramatic period, I think the people in Brittany will have to give out a very strong cry, a shout for survival, if we are going to pass through this era. We were disparing one or two years ago, we felt we had to put as much energy as possible into the struggle, without knowing the result. I felt that although it was not the end of Keltic Civilization it was a time for 'shouting' (affirming your right to be). And now we must 'explode', to pass through into the New Age.
J. – Do yon think it's a case of either we will pour enough energy into Keltic Culture and take it through that transition point or, if ve don't put enough energy into it, it will die?
A. – Whilst committin'g ourselves, I think we must choose to save those things which bind us together, I mean those Keltic traits that we hold in common, that make us stronger. I think we need to take our distinctiveness, and show it to the other Nations of the World. We need to search out what is in common to the Keltic Peoples and push it through, on to the next century.
J. – Obviously Society is changing becoming more modern, more technological. Do you think our Keltic Culture will have to transform itself at the same time, to become more modern, more sophisticated, to pass through to the "New Age"?
A. – The Keltic Peoples haven't spoken for a long while, but now in this crucial time we are beginning to speak. I think that is good. We have experienced the worst of the old technology, and now there is a new technology developing, a non-polluting technology connected with the Sun, Wind and Waves. I think the Keltic Soul is more with this type of technology. I think the Kelts have something to say in this field.
J. – Some people would say that linking up Keltic Nations is an ideological dream. Do you think it is actually feasable to link them as independent Nations?
A. – I don't see any other way of surviving as Kelts, if we haven't the right to our own Political Federation. I think it is Eutopic, but possible.
J. – In attempting to set this up some people place a lot of emphasis on the political approach, others on language, others on Art, Music and Poetry. What is your personal view?
A. – What I consider is that people are choosing their way too much, some political militants think that music is only something to bring people to Political meetings. What I think is that all of these things should be worked in common, there should be more conciousness between how we use political action and more intemporal inner philosophy.
J. – I think this is something quite noticeable in the Breton people, which is sadly lacking in the Scottish People, and that is, you personally and other people in Brittany seem to be able to blend a Spirituality with a practical grass roots politics.
A, – I think this is very new, even in Brittany people are not very involved with Spiritual things, maybe they were too much under the French rationalistic view. I think, now with the new generation, a more Spiritual view is growing.


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Resources for Experiencing Theatre Online
Posted on March 19, 2020 by Sheila Cowley
USF Theatre Department, "Measure for Measure"
Resources for Experiencing
Theatre Online
Last Easter is a "feelgood death drama" streaming July 22-25
Streaming July 22-25 – Last Easter is "a lovable drama about life, death and theatre… celebrates friendship with truths, humour and good punchlines" says London's Guardian newspaper. Written by the acclaimed Bryony Lavery and produced by Orange Tree Theatre, this "feelgood death drama… performs its own miracle in its warmth, gusto and celebration of life and friendship." More here.
Explore the potent work of Theatre of War Productions, boldly facing crucial human issues including grief, gun violence, violence against women and PTSD through the lens of amazingly current ancient Greek tragedy. Find excerpts of their recent rendition of Oedipus the King performed by Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright and more to address the climate crisis here. You can find upcoming livestream productions with facilitated online conversations at theaterofwar.com.
Swamp Motel blurs the borders between theatre, film and gaming, creating thrilling immersive theatre made for the internet and recommended by the New York Times. More here.. . . .
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London's acclaimed National Theatre is offering filmed classic and contemporary plays with diverse casting and bold themes, and even plays for children. Available for rent or by subscription. Audio description and captions available. More here. .
La Jolla Playhouse commissioned San Diego Poet Alyce Smith Cooper and Los Angeles-based DJ Shammy Dee to create Spittin' Truth to Power While Light Leaping for the People – a free three-part service connecting nature, poetry and music. Find ten minutes in your day to spring forward in a leap of light with these two incredible artists. Break bread digitally with friends and family to inspire conversation and gratitude. More here.
Broadway HD streams Allegiance, a moving and uplifting story of love, war and heroism during WWII and inspired by the childhood of George Takei. "Telling the story of the Japanese American internment, which my family and I experienced first hand, has been my life's work." More here.
Chicago's Goodman Theatre shares Until the Flood, written and performed by Dael Orlandersmith. Based on extensive interviews and awarded a Critic's Pick by The New York Times, this theatrical event gives voice to a community grappling with injustice and yearning for change. More here.
Play Reading Book Club
Stageworks Theatre invites you to join the Virtual Play Reading Book Club – the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. beginning in August.
Participants read each month's selected title before lively discussions are held on Zoom.
You can join the Book Club here.
The event is free and donations are welcome.
Cutting Edge Audio-Video-Immersive Performance
La Jolla Playhouse's acclaimed Without Walls Festival offers free cutting-edge online experiences – immersive storytelling through video and audio.
lajollaplayhouse.org/wow-goes-digital
Digital Theatre How To
Howlround shares detailed resources and techniques on How to Produce a Livestream. Watch Part 1 and Part 2.
More than a decade ago, Whit MacLaughlin, the Obie-winning artistic director of Philadelphia's New Paradise Laboratories, began "slamming theatre in to the internet." Find a transcript of his HowlRound conversation with full of practical tips and inspiration at
howlround.com/lessons-online-theatremaking-new-paradise-laboratories-whit-maclaughlin.
Scotland's Imaginate Theatre shares a panel discussion with artists who have found creative ways to go digital while keeping an element of live performance. More here.
Zoom Tools for Theatremakers – HowlRound explores reverse-engineering Zoom to create site-specific internet performances, using digital technology to enhance traditional storytelling. More here. .
Read New Short Plays
American Blues Theatre shares short plays available as PDFs by a diverse array of cutting-edge playwrights from around the country including Caridad Svich (OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement), Kristoffer Diaz (The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity) and Larissa FastHorse (PEN/USA Literary Award for Drama) from the 2020 Ripped Festival of plots based on current events.
americanbluestheater.com
Frantic Create
The UK's cutting-edge physical theatre company Frantic Assembly is sharing creative prompts and warm-ups for theatre artists to use at home.
franticassembly.co.uk/frantic-digital
Physical Comedy Training Online
Maine's famed Celebration Barn, the center for immersive physical theatre, is offering online classes with physical comedy artists on clowning, juggling, creating viral videos and staging social justice.
celebrationbarn.com
Stage Shows to Watch Online
Cheers to WhatsOnStage UK, for a long list of stage shows you can watch online for free – including improv, mime, serious drama, cutting-edge comedy and all-out musicals.
NYC's amazing Ma-Yi Theatre shares REST, a free audio meditation inspired by the work of scientists around the world who measure the sounds and movement of the Earth. "From the surface of the planet to the depths of its core, and from the very human to the global, what does the Earth sound like during this pandemic? More here.
Berkeley Rep offers Place/Settings: Berkeley – short audio works by playwrights including Sarah Ruhl and Itamar Moses. "Stories surround us everywhere, whether we can see them or not. Ten writers, inspired by events in their own personal histories, take us on an aural adventure to specific locations around Berkeley. You will receive a map illustrated by a New Yorker cartoonist, lifting you out of the virtual realm and inviting you to explore the past hidden beneath the present." Details here.
The New York Times recommends a new audio theatre podcast – "In the delightful new eight-part audio series 'Live From Mount Olympus,' a classic Greek myth is translated into a story for teens — and for adults who fancy a lively reimagining of the tales they learned in English class." Tony Award-winning actor André De Shields is the narrator. Free and on-demand. More here. . .. . .
Radio Know offers audio versions of exciting new plays, created by Know Theatre in Cincinnati at knowtheatre.com.
Miami New Drama shares Master Classes
Miami New Drama is offering MASTERmind, a free online master class series created with artists in mind – in English and in Spanish.
These classes explore acting, directing and playwriting techniques, presented by an array of professionals.
Find the schedule at
colonymb.org/mastermind
Latinx Superfriends Playwriting Hour
Latinx Superfriends Playwriting Hour is a Latinx-led playwriting series featuring writers/theatremakers from across the U.S. to share writing practices, experiences, and insightful anecdotes of practice, process, and inspiration. Hosted by Brian Quijada.
Each week one playwright brings their own views on how to write dramatic texts, offering tips and prompts via their own particular social consciousness, approaches to theatrical style and form, and how to communicate to your intended audiences. The series is intended for aspiring writers, students of dramatic writing, or for anyone interested creating thoughtful, visceral, and unique blueprints for performance, whether for the stage, screen or other media.
Find the Videos Here
Anti-Racist Theatre
Thank you to Howlround Theatre Commons for sharing a selection of content that calls out systemic racism in theatre and points toward anti-racist practices. Explore these thoughtful conversations at howlround.com/anti-racist-theatre.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London offers free behind-the-scenes videos — and paid-for recordings of many of the theatre's Shakespeare adaptations – including Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry in Twelfth Night, Jonathan Pryce as the Merchant of Venice, Emma Rice's naughty telling of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Adetomiwa Edun and Ellie Kendrick in the 2009 production of Romeo and Juliet and Lucy Bailey's bloodthirsty Titus Andronicus.
globeplayer.tv
Impossible Stage Directions Brought to Life
Washington DC's imaginative Rorschach Theatre "has always had a love affair with what we call 'impossible stage directions.' We are drawn to moments in which playwrights invite us to create theatre magic and to embody something abstract in a tangible way. Find skillful stage designers interpreting actual stage directions through photography, video and audio here.
The amazing Young Jean Lee is offering an online stream of her life-affirming concert play We're Gonna Die at youngjeanlee.org/work/were-gonna-die. Embrace the title, as the playwright and performer does — with a heartfelt and defiant piece of storytelling-with-a-groovy-band that recognizes that no one's immune from pain. And while affirming that, Young Jean Lee — and the band — begin to dance. . .
Young Jean Lee is also offering a free online playwriting class, sharing the techniques she uses to start a new play. Find it here.
On the Boards offers a diverse range of experimental theatre and dance online — and master classes. On the Boards makes access to artists like Austin's famed Rude Mechs up close and affordable.
ontheboards.tv
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Jewel Quest est un jeu vidéo de puzzle, de type tile-matching créé et publié par iWin. D'abord sorti pour Windows, il a été redéveloppé pour Symbian S60, la Nintendo DS (sous le nom de Jewel Quest : Expeditions), le Xbox Live Arcade de la Xbox 360 et d'autres plateformes. iWin a également publié une série de suites et de jeux dérivés. Toutefois, aucune traduction française n'est disponible pour ces jeux.

Gameplay
Jewel Quest est un jeu-vidéo de puzzle "match 3" joué sur une grille remplie de divers jetons, tels que des diamants, des pépites d'or, des pièces de monnaie et des crânes. Le joueur peut échanger deux tuiles adjacentes, tant que l'échange résulte en une ligne horizontale ou verticale de trois jetons correspondants ou plus. L'ensemble apparié disparaît, permettant aux jetons de tomber dans les espaces d'en haut ; si d'autres ensembles appariés se forment en conséquence, ils disparaissent également.

Chaque fois que les tuiles disparaissent, les cases de la grille deviennent dorées. Le joueur doit transformer chaque case du plateau en or pour terminer le niveau. Ne pas finir dans le délai imparti, ou atteindre une situation dans laquelle plus aucun échange n'est possible, coûte une vie et renvoie le joueur au début de ce niveau.

Au fur et à mesure que le jeu progresse, de nouvelles variantes sont introduites pour rendre le jeu de plus en plus difficile : grilles de forme irrégulière, cases dans des endroits difficiles d'accès, jetons qui doivent être associés plusieurs fois pour les effacer du plateau, etc.

Jewel Quest
Jewel Quest possède 180 niveaux et se déroule dans la culture maya. Il y a 36 grilles et elles sont jouées successivement, cinq fois, chaque partie ajoutant un nouveau niveau de difficulté. Au cours du premier parcours, "Explorer", le joueur reçoit des morceaux de scénario sous la forme "d'un journal de bord" à lire après avoir terminé chaque grille, avec un extrait supplémentaire avant le début de chaque niveau. Après avoir joué la 36ème grille, le totem "parle" en plus d'avoir un texte de présentation écrit. Après le niveau "Explorer", les nouvelles informations ne sont données qu'à la fin du 36ème niveau, et une fois après avoir joué la grille 1-2 lors du deuxième parcours. Tous les autres "Journaux de bord" sont des citations ou des dictons pour encourager le joueur. De même, si le joueur ne parvient pas à terminer un niveau dans le délai imparti, des citations encourageantes seront utilisées.

Jewel Quest II
Jewel Quest II a 180 niveaux. Après chaque niveau, le joueur avance le long d'une carte représentant un voyage en Afrique. Des Joyaux supplémentaires sont ajoutés. Encore une fois, il y a 36 tableaux à compléter, chaque partie augmentant en difficulté. Pour Jewel Quest II, les plateaux ne sont pas forcément les mêmes que dans les parties précédentes. De plus, dans Jewel Quest, les cases vides étaient des obstacles, alors que dans Jewel Quest II, le joueur est autorisé à déplacer des joyaux dans des cases vides de la grille, introduisant une nouvelle stratégie. Le personnage (qui est le joueur) se révèle être nommé Rupert Pack, et l'histoire tourne autour de la recherche d'un "Plateau de joyaux légendaires" en Afrique, ainsi que d'une intrigue secondaire romantique avec une femme nommée "Emma Swimmingly" et un antagoniste nommé "Sebastian Grenard". Emma et Sebastian possèdent chacun leur propre journal de bord pour une partie entière, bien que la partie finale soit donnée par Rupert. L'arrière-plan reflète l'emplacement des personnages dans l'histoire.

Jewel Quest III
Les niveaux de Jewel Quest III se déroulent dans le monde entier. La nouvelle interface du globe permet au joueur de choisir parmi différentes régions pour jouer. Le Mexique, l'Islande, l'Europe, l'Afrique, l'Amérique du Sud, l'Australie, la Chine, l'Alaska, l'Asie de l'Est et Hawaï sont les régions jouables. Dans chaque région, vous avez le choix entre plusieurs emplacements et chaque niveau dispose de plusieurs passages. La nouveauté de Jewel Quest III est que certains des joyaux ont des propriétés spéciales.

Score et vies
Lorsqu'un ensemble de tuiles est aligné, des points sont gagnés en fonction du nombre de tuiles alignées et du nombre de combo qui se sont produites. Les joyaux noirs "maudits" apparaissent dans les niveaux ultérieurs, si ces joyaux sont alignés, des points sont déduits au score et ils effacent la couleur des cases si les cases où ils ont été alignés étaient dorées (ou argentées). Cependant, les joyaux maudits peuvent être retirés sans effets négatifs grâce à un combo ou si ils se trouvent sur la dernière ligne d'une grille (puisqu'ils tombent directement du tableau).

Si le joueur ne fini pas un niveau dans le temps imparti ou s'il n'y a plus aucun mouvement possible, il perd une vie et doit recommencer le niveau.

Une vie supplémentaire est accordée pour chaque tranche de 50 000 points gagnés.

Jeux
La série Jewel Quest a évolué depuis ses débuts en commençant par des jeux Match-3, et plus tard en incluant des jeux de cartes et des jeux d'objets cachés, en commençant sur PC puis en les portant sur des consoles et des appareils mobiles.

Windows

Match 3

Carte à jouer

Objets cachés

Consoles

Mobile

Notes et références

Liens externes
 Revue VGT de la version Nintendo DS de Jewel Quest : Expéditions
 "Jewel Quest Heritage sur Google Play". Archivé à partir de l'original le 27/03/2014.
 JewelQuest.com

Jeu vidéo développé aux États-Unis
Jeu Xbox Live Arcade
Jeu Windows
Jeu Nintendo DS
Jeu mobile
Jeu vidéo sorti en 2004

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CANNES CLASSICS - Costa Gavras : "Z was filmed as a mark of protest"
Prix du Jury in 1969, Z, which tells the story of an Examining Magistrate's investigation following a Deputy's assassination, was the beginning of a serious reflection on power for Costa Gavras. The director looks back on what was the first act of a trilogy, before The Confession (L'Aveu) (1970) and State of Siege (État de siège) (1973).
What was the triggering factor for Z?
The event of the coup d'état of the colonels in Greece, in 1967. It immediately seemed important to me to make a film about this military coup, which I linked to the framework of Vassilis Vassilikos's novel. I talked to the co-writer of the screenplay for the film, Jorge Semprún, who immediately agreed and became part of the adventure.
Was it hard to fund?
We were hoping that the Productions Artistes Associés would give us some money, but they didn't like the screenplay. Meanwhile, actors such as Yves Montant and Jean-Louis Trintignant had agreed to do the film, but that didn't change anything. Eventually, we got an advance which was decisive.
What do you remember about planning and shooting the film?
We had to stop preparation due to the events of May 1968. The other problem was the shooting location. The South of France was impossible, and Italy refused to accommodate us. We'd been to Algiers and the town suited us perfectly. When we were there, the Minister for Information promised to help us with the facilities for the film, including technicians.
What did you hope to show through this film?
The film was a way of shouting "Down with the Colonels!". Z was filmed as a mark of protest. All the actors who took part in the film did so within that frame of mind.
Can you comment on the film's restoration?
We worked for a long time to find the film's original colours and tones, which had been sculpted, and that's the right word for it, by Raoul Coutard, who is a great Director of Photography. It took about two months in total.


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In support of rescued and abandoned farm animals, Platinum Events invites you to an elegant Mardi Gras Fundraising Gala!
Platinum Events will be hosting an elegant Mardi Gras Fundraising Gala at Hotel Grand Pacific with all proceeds going to an animal sanctuary that offers a forever home for rescued and abandoned farm animals.
A Home For Hooves , a nonprofit organization based in Duncan, BC is currently home to pot belly pigs, guinea hogs, goats, chickens, dogs and cats. A Home for Hooves is also home to a recent local celebrity named Theo, a 946 pound Yorkshire pig that has recently made headlines. Theo has made quite the name for himself along with his friend Lillian, a Berkshire pig who was also recently surrendered.
The gala will raise funds to help with food, bedding and shelter for each and every animal in their care. It will also help create more space where even more animals can finally find their forever home.
The Mardi Gras Gala will be an evening of elegance so dress to impress and be sure to include hints of the Mardi Gras theme colours of gold, emerald green and royal purple. The doors to this fabulous event will open at 6:00pm with a cocktail reception, a 3-course dinner at 7:00pm, silent auction and live entertainment with dancing until 12:30am.
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Rakuten, Japan's largest and one of the world's largest digital marketplaces, together with Flying Lynx and Posti, provided information and a chance for Finnish online shopping for quick and easy access to the Japanese consumer market.
The Rakuten listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is a digital marketplace similar to Alibaba and Amazon, with nearly 90 million users. Rakuten has developed a unique ecosystem in which over 70 internet services such as ecommerce and financial services attract various users and nurture loyal customers by offering common points which can be saved and used in Rakuten services.
Rakuten Incorporation Mr. Katsuhiko Kayama is delighted and satisfied with the cooperation with the Finns. Japanese consumers are very interested in Finnish products, especially Finnish design, pure food and fashion.
- Japanese people love Finnish products and Finland's country picture is very positive for us. I am very happy that Rakuten has the chance to offer Finnish traders access to the Japanese market, and that the Japanese will get a chance to buy Finnish products. I believe that through our cooperation, Finland and Finland will gain a new boost in Japan.
Kayama's goal is to offer all Japanese the opportunity to buy all the world's products they want. The Rakuten Marketplace offers its users an entertaining shopping area, the aim being to create a basaric atmosphere in online shopping. In 2016, Forbes chose Rakuten as Japan's most innovative company.
- The products sold through our marketplaces are for Japanese consumers a tax-free tariff of up to 135 euros. For this reason, the products are competitive in price to Japanese consumers.
Marko Kangaskolkka, Managing Director of Flying Lynx has been involved in designing and implementing the Rakuten Finland Mall website. The company that sells the site through a marketplace will get a page for its products under the company's own brand. According to the fabric case, Japan has a well-developed e-commerce market.
- There are no major risks or obstacles to resolving trading in Finland for Japanese consumers. Companies can sell their products without own e-commerce investment in Japan's largest sales channel.
Kangaskolkka notes that Finnish companies' products can be marketed in their own stock in Finland, from which they are delivered to Japanese consumers according to orders. This avoids the traditional bureaucracy and costs of exports and imports.
- Through Rakuten, Finnish e-commerce products are available to nearly 90 million buyers. Our partnership with Rakuten is a major opportunity for Finnish consumer product manufacturers and online stores to expand expeditiously into Japan. The products are shipped to the consumer in Japan quickly, 3-4 days as a Post EMS parcel service, says Ranja Pasivirta, Business Manager of International partnerships at Posti's Parcel Services.


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Lynn man tried getting cash for his Warhols, which were stolen, feds say
By adamg on Fri, 11/02/2018 - 4:00pm
A federal grand jury this week indicted a Lynn man on charges he stole two Warhols from a former college classmate in South Korea and put them up for sale on eBay, only when he got a buyer he sent him fakes.
Brian R. Walshe, 43, was indicted on one count each of wire fraud, interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud, possession of converted goods, and unlawful monetary transaction. Walshe was actually arrested in May in connection with the case.
The paintings were two of Warhol's "Shadows," a series of abstract paintings done in1978.
The US Attorney's office reports that Walshe and the real owner of the two Warhols met as students at Carnegie Mellon in the 1990s. On a visit to the owner's home in South Korea, officials say, he convinced the man to give him several Warhols, saying he could sell them at a good profit, but then went silent.
In 2016, officials say, Walshe offered the paintings for sale on eBay:
It is alleged that the buyer believed the paintings were authentic and between Nov. 3 and 5, 2016, arranged with Walshe – the seller – to purchase the artwork outside of eBay for $80,000. Walshe and the buyer signed a contract which specified that the buyer had three days to terminate the contract and get a full refund if the buyer did not accept the artwork. On Nov. 7, 2016, the buyer's assistant flew to Boston and met Walshe to retrieve the paintings, providing him with a cashier's check for $80,000. According to bank records, the cashier's check was deposited that day into an account that Walshe controlled, and $33,400 was subsequently withdrawn in the following 14 days. On Nov. 8, 2016, the buyer removed the paintings' frames and found no Warhol Foundation authentication stamps and also noticed that the canvasses and staples looked new. When he compared the paintings to the photographs from the eBay listing, they did not look identical. The buyer concluded that the paintings he purchased from Walshe were not authentic. The buyer then repeatedly attempted to contact Walshe, who initially did not respond, and then made excuses for the delay in refunding the buyer's money.
Walshe faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Innocent, etc.
By Melissa on Fri, 11/02/2018 - 5:11pm.
And the reason why anyone in their right mind would buy valuable art on eBay is ...?
They did the transaction off
They did the transaction off eBay.
By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 11/03/2018 - 9:49am.
Again, why would anyone expecting actual original works to turn up in decent condition do this? To have something authenticated that they could sell later?
Auction houses are more expensive for a reason.
easy answer
By Refugee on Fri, 11/02/2018 - 8:54pm.
Fake Warhols
By SamWack on Sat, 11/03/2018 - 1:29am.
Shouldn't fake Warhols be worth more than real ones? Now with extra irony!
Engineering smarts vs. real world smarts
By Parkwayne on Sat, 11/03/2018 - 6:56am.
Carnegie Mellon isn't the easiest school to get into yet this guy though this was a good plan.
Kind of like how Shiva has graduate degrees from MIT but comes off like a total nitwit.
In other Lynn news
Fabled Revere Beach pizza place could re-open in Lynn
Five alleged MS-13 members charged with teen's murder in a Lynn park
Lynn, Lynn, city of machetes, don't break into a man's house, he might carve you into spaghettis
Sunset, sunrise
How do you get salt water out of your phone?
It only seemed like the ocean was on fire


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Location. Maison Souvannaphoum Hotel is located in Luang Prabang, close to Wat Mai, Phu Si, and Royal Palace. Hotel Features. Maison Souvannaphoum Hotel features a restaurant. Room service is available during limited hours. Recreational amenities include an outdoor pool. The property's full service health spa has massage/treatment rooms. The property offers an airport shuttle surcharge. Additional property amenities include multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and laundry facilities. Guestrooms. There are 20 guestrooms at Maison Souvannaphoum Hotel. Guestrooms have balconies. Bathrooms feature showers and complimentary toiletries. Guestrooms offer in room safes. Air conditioned rooms also include minibars and complimentary bottled water. Housekeeping is offered daily and guests may request irons/ironing boards. Cribs infant beds are available on request. Notifications:There are no room charges for children 12 years old and younger who occupy the same room as their parents or guardians, using existing bedding.


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The World Happiness Report 2013 is a study conducted by Columbia University's Earth Institute and published in September 2013 by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). It reveals trends in the data judging just how happy countries really are on a scale running from 0 to 10. The report uses data from people in over 150 countries, surveyed by Gallup over the period 2010-12. Six key variables explain three-quarters of the variation in annual national average scores over time and among countries. These six factors include: real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, having someone to count on, perceived freedom to make life choices, freedom from corruption, and generosity. Note: datapoints for 2012 and 2007 refer to national averages in 2010-12 and 2005-07 correspondingly; changes from 2005-07 to 2010-12 are presented for the 130 countries with data in both periods; positive affect in 2005-07 does not include happiness (yesterday) since happiness data were not collected in the period.
Reference: World Happiness Report 2013, Appendix material for Chapter 2 "World Happiness: Trends, Explanations and Distribution", John F. Helliwell & Shun Wang.


Every year on Veterans Day we, as a nation, honor those members of the armed forces who have put their lives on the line to defend the civil liberties we enjoy.
These women and men have all made tremendous sacrifices in service to the ideals of this country; that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with the right to live in freedom and pursue their dreams.
While season outcomes that determine success are not yet in the books, Robertson High fall varsity sports programs once again quietly kept the bar high.
Football finished second in its district, boys soccer ends up with a playoff seed that was well within its capability, volleyball is ready for another deep postseason run and both cross country teams are headed to state.
NOTE: This editorial was corrected to correct Kim Delgado serving on a committee to review applicants for the city attorney position, rather than the police chief committee. A correction will be published in a November 2018 print edition of the Optic.
To say Mayor Tonita Gurulé-Giron could have handled the hiring of Jerry Delgado differently would be a vast understatement.
The proposed amendment would authorize the Legislature to adjust or streamline the appeals process by enacting a statute — passing a bill and having it signed by the governor — rather than changing the state constitution.
Someone at Rotary of Las Vegas had a solid idea for a local chef's competition as a fundraiser. Not only did advance tickets to the event sell out days in advance of last Friday's cook-off, but getting the competitive juices flowing in such a positive, healthy way is a solid means to promote local business.
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THUMBS UP: THE NEXT DANCING QUEEN?
With all that's going on this fall, it's never too early for young women in our area to be thinking about the next Reina de Las Vegas competition, and whether to enter in the late spring. While participation in the event has waned in recent years, there is still a longstanding tradition of ladies who have been able to represent their community by winning La Reina crown or triumphing in another similar smaller competition.


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Machinery Capital Invested on the Farm
Bradley Zwilling, Brandy Krapf, and Dwight Raab
Illinois FBFM Association and Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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Recommended citation format: Zwilling, B., B. Krapf and D. Raab. "Machinery Capital Invested on the Farm." farmdoc daily (5):217, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 20, 2015. Permalink
The value of machinery on farms changes considerably over time. Data from a group of grain farm operators who are members of the Illinois FBFM Association details this aggregated data as seen in Chart 1 for 2014. One would expect that as acreage increases, the value of the complement of machinery needed to till, plant, and harvest those acres to increase as well. Review Chart 1 using the scale on the left side to see that as farm size in acres increases so does the total machinery value as measured by market value. For example, a 2,500 acre farm has a corresponding machinery value of near $1,500,000 while a 1,000 acre farm operation has a corresponding machinery value of near $1,000,000.
When viewed on a 'per acre' basis (use the right side scale) the 2014 data reveals that farms operating fewer acres range have a higher per acre machinery cost as one would suspect. A 1,500 acre farm has a machinery value per acre of approximately $675 while a 2,500 acre farm shows an approximate $600 machinery value per acre. Even for a smaller farm, there is a basic complement of machinery needed to operate that farm.
While farm size in acres is obviously a factor other factors involved as well. The price of new machinery has increased markedly pressuring the value of used machinery upward as well. The present period of lower margins has in many cases provided a pause in the upward trend of the value of used machinery. Both of these factors in addition to farmer-friendly tax policy in the form of Bonus Depreciation and the IRS Code Section 179 Expense Election have likely accelerated the level of capital purchases on the farm in the past. Bonus Depreciation was set in place in 2001 at a 30% rate; at the present Bonus Depreciation at a 50% rate expired on 12/31/2014. The 2000 Section 179 Expense Election limit was $20,000; by 2010 the limit has increased by 25 times the 2000 level and was $500,000. The IRS Code Section 179 Expense Election expired on 12/31/2014. Many of us anxiously await action from our legislators that will extend both the Bonus Depreciation and the IRS Code Section 179 Expense Election. It was mid-December 2014 when both provisions were extended for 2014 leaving only a two-week window of opportunity.
The authors would like to acknowledge that data used in this study comes from the local Farm Business Farm Management (FBFM) Associations across the State of Illinois. Without their cooperation, information as comprehensive and accurate as this would not be available for educational purposes. FBFM, which consists of 5,500 plus farmers and 60 professional field staff, is a not-for-profit organization available to all farm operators in Illinois. FBFM field staff provide on-farm counsel along with recordkeeping, farm financial management, business entity planning and income tax management. For more information, please contact the State FBFM Office located at the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at 217-333-5511 or visit the FBFM website at www.fbfm.org.
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On this route, you'll see what the heart of the lakes area of Minnesota is all about. Winding turning roads on State highway 84 from Pine River to Longville keeps you on your toes and also gives you many lakes to look at along the way.
As you travel along State Highway 84, you'll pass many lakes and trees everywhere. A couple of good watering holes along the way in Emily, and along state highway 6 at the Bridge Tavern. Take a second to stop at the Crosby Mine Pits for an excellent photo opportunity with amazing water clarity and impressive scenery.
Many twists and turns along the route from pine River to Longville. Emily to Crosby is flat and straight for the most part but make sure to stop at the Bridge Tavern for some refreshments.
Crosby Mine pits, Bridge Tavern and any one of the lakes along the way are excellent photo opportunities.
on September 20, 2011 2 out of 2 members found this review useful.
Original member poster has it right, this is an exceptionally beautiful ride with just the right mix of sweepers, twisties, and country road riding. One change I would make is it start the ride just east of Pine River at the Co Rd 1 and 84 intersection. This cuts off about a dozen or more miles on Hwy 371 and puts you into the Minnesota woods along 84 instead. Nothing to see on the highway except highway.
on May 9, 2015 1 out of 1 members found this review useful.
I take Hwy 84 right out of Pine River instead of using Hwy 371 north of Pine River. Highway 84 is also the main street in downtown Pine River. It leads you up to Longville along a winding, scenic ride past Lake Ada, Ponto Lake and others. Twenty-four miles from Pine River to Longville on this route. Sharp corners, curves and some straight-aways present. Narrow to no shoulders, so take care. Busy on weekends! Plenty of eateries, saloons along the way starting in Pine River.
on July 6, 2014 1 out of 1 members found this review useful.
This area is basically my back yard. There are several modifications you can take from this route depending on how long you want to ride that day. Always beautiful scenery, nice curvy roads. One of my favorite routes.
on July 23, 2016 0 out of 0 members found this review useful.
This route was alright, but most of it was pretty dull. The best part of the ride was the 87 to 84 stretch. If that was the entire route I would have given it 4 stars. Careful when taking this stretch though, there were a lot of loose gravels on the road due to all of the unpaved roads that connect to it. However, that stretch is beautiful and worth it. The rest of the ride was no different than riding on the highway.
on July 23, 2016 0 out of 1 members found this review useful.


Establishing a clear naming structure or hierarchy makes managing layers in your files much easier. This becomes especially important when using Figma's Team Library and/or Styles features.
When it comes to tidying things up in Figma, we've got you covered. The Rename Layers function will allow you to quickly rename multiple layers at once.
This comes in handy when you want to quickly switch between related components in your Team Library.
Open the Rename Layers Modal.
Rename part of the layer's name.
You can access the Rename Layers Modal a number of different ways.
If you're wanting to simply update the selected layers to the same name, you can add the desired name to the Rename to field and click Rename.
However, it's more likely that you will want to update each layer to have a slightly different name, allowing you to better distinguish objects in the layers panel.
Below the Rename to field you will see some buttons. When clicked, these buttons will add a special code to the Rename to field that allows you to generate slightly different names for each layer.
The Current name button represents the layer's current name.
The Number ↑ button inserts a number into each layer's name, in an ascending order.
The Number ↓ button inserts a number into each layer's name, in an descending order.
To better explain how this works, we'll show you some examples.
Select the layers you want to update.
Enter the new name into the Rename to field.
Click the Rename button to apply.
The selected layers will be updated to that name.
If you have a bunch of similar layers that you want to have the same name, but still be distinguishable, you can add a number to the end (or beginning) of the layer's name (e.g. Icon_1).
Select the layers you want to rename.
Right-click on the layers and select Rename layers.
Enter the name you want to call the layers in the Rename to field.
Click the Number ↑ or Number ↓ button. This adds a code to the name, that tells Figma to add a different number to the end of each layer's name.
If you like, you can set the Start ascending from / Stop descending at field.
You will see a Preview of the updated names on the left. Click the Rename button to apply.
The selected layers will be updated to the new name, with a unique number at the end.
If you already have a unique name for each layer, but would like to group them for faster editing, you can add a prefix to the existing name (e.g. Icon_Home).
Right-click on the layers in the layers panel and select Rename layers.
Enter the prefix you'd like to add to the layer name.
Click the Current Name button to add the current layer name after the prefix.
While you were using the modal, you may have noticed a " Match" field. This allows you to identify which part of the layer's name you want to update.
By leaving this blank you can update the entire name, but you can also use this field to remove or update part of the layer's name (e.g. change the " Icon/" part in the name "Icon/Home" to "Image/").
In the Match field, enter the part of the name you'd like to update.
Enter what you'd like to replace that part of the name with. This will only replace the part of the layer's name identified in the Match field.
If you're familiar with, or confident using regular expressions, then you can also use these in the Rename Layers Modal. This is particularly handy if you want to change the syntax of the name (e.g. change "Icon_003" to "003_Icon").
Type"([a-zA-Z]+)_(\d+)" in the Match field.
Type"$2_$1" in the Replace field.
You will see a Preview of the updated names on the left.
New to Regular Expressions or need a refresh? Mozilla have a handy reference guide on their website.
$1, $2, etc – the first, second, etc., match marked by parentheses.
$& – the entire thing that was matched.
$` – everything before the thing that was matched.
$' – everything after the thing that was matched.
$n – an increasing counter. (nonstandard).