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Francis Gaye in 'New Musical Express', 4 Nov 1967
Sketch of B.J. Wilson from 12/96 Whaling Stories - artist unknown.
Spotlight on two more Procol Harum ...
Robin Trower ...
Robin Trower has a face like a punchy boxer who stepped into the ring once too often. His friend Barrie Wilson doesn't like his nose! But Robin's is a good-humoured face and like Robin's career it's taken a few knocks in its time. Despite all Robin is a bright, interesting character whose voice is raw and unpolished belying the good sense he talks. He admits to being an introvert, is shy about pushing forward an opinion but welcomes the opportunity to talk for himself. For the first time in his life Robin is making good money regularly. But he doesn't, and never has worried about filthy lucre. "I've only worried about it if I haven't had enough to buy food. I've been pretty well off occasionally and generally fairly comfortable,. But I starved once or twice in the old days. That was due to bad managements, not giving us our money. I've been conned many many times and I'm even a little scared nowadays. When you've been conned a few times you get wary. Although we've got a good organization now, sometimes when things go a little wrong, the memory of the old days comes back and I worry. Once it's been done to you you never trust anybody completely again. It's a lesson you learn and you never forget." Cynical perhaps. Realistic certainly. But Robin's an old pro. He's never done or even considered anything but music. "The only time I did anything that wasn't in pop was when I did nothing after the Paramounts broke up. I just sat around getting myself together, trying to find where I was going.
Just wrong
"The set-up at the end of the Paramounts was just so wrong. I had to get out, then get away and think for a time. I've always known I would make it. If I didn't believe this I couldn't go on. Look, five and six years ago we were playing James Brown stuff and before the Beatles came out we were doing all that gear. It broke big and we just got left behind. I'm 22 and I've been playing since I was 14. I've been a full time musician since I left school." "Then I formed a 3 piece group to play the stuff I was writing. It was like Hendrix in format, but my music is nothing like his, and I thought that at last I was going to get somewhere." "I called Barrie Wilson and three days later Gary Brooker called me. Being a blues guitarist I didn't think I'd fit into Procol Harum but, like Barrie, as soon as I heard what they were putting down I knew we were right for each other." Obviously Robin was happy with the Procols. What do they think of him? Barrie Wilson, old friend and hyper-critical adviser, tends to see him less as a person than a musician and says "He's the finest guitarist in the country, in his own style. He's completely original, completely sincere in everything he plays." If this sounds like a rather sickening mutual admiration society, it wasn't intended that way. It's just an assessment built up from years of working together. "And as a person he's the same, completely honest, sincere."
Looks long
Robin is also a cool character. He doesn't get visibly upset, he looks hard and long before he makes up his mind about a situation or a person. He seldom blows his cool. If somebody upsets him he doesn't shout or scream, he mentally shrugs and figures that he'll probably never see the person again, so why bother getting involved? He doesn't go to people to make friends, if they want him they come to him. He doesn't have a lot of friends, nor does he make friends easily. He doesn't court popularity. Barrie and Robin are seen as a pair. They complement each other. "It's because he's the drummer and I'm the guitarist and we're doing much the same job in laying down the beat," says Robin. Almost everything he says that concerns people and relationships is translated into the context of the group. He gives the impression that all else is secondary to the group, its music and his role within that whole. "But Barrie and I don't have a lot to do with each other outside the group," he explained. "Once the gig, practice or interview has finished, the group go their separate ways." But Robin likes it that way, he reckons you can get too involved and that's bad. "We don't go out together. We have to be ourselves, as our private lives are getting smaller all the time. That's part of success. I enjoy success as I'm now in a position to play to people that I respect and that is what success means to me." Robin says something as a pure statement of fact which others would interpret as gross conceit. For instance "I always felt that I would be a great guitarist." Bald, matter of fact, but to him a self-evident truth. After all, it's what he's been working towards for so long and his own faith in himself has, he feels, been vindicated within the scope of Procol Harum. He'll feel that he's living up to his own high standards as long "as I blow our manager Keith Reid's mind every time I play! As long as he digs what I play I'll be happy." Occasionally he realizes that what he says could be misinterpreted. "I don't want to sound big-headed. Although I like a lot of people and what they do, I don't dig them, so they don't mean that much to me." In other words he acknowledges other people's work and its importance but he doesn't always follow the ecstatic eulogies bestowed on it by the Press, public and "business." He forms his own conclusions with reference to his work and tastes. Robin is a loner. He says: "I try not to meet people outside my own circle." And it's a small circle. One feels that he's got his own scene together, that he is intimately involved in it and that what others say, do or think doesn't concern him. He admits that he has a superiority complex, but he concedes it with a quiet grin. He says that he doesn't think about himself that much and that he only thinks about others when they affect him. A strange paradox! Robin Trower is one of the most difficult people I've ever interviewed. It's almost impossible to get under his skin. He doesn't laugh a lot, doesn't gag. He takes things seriously and he certainly takes Robin Trower seriously. But he is NOT a vain or conceited person. He's just very aware of what he's got to do and how he's got to do it. He's a challenge to talk to, he's diffident, disinterested in the wider scope of life outside what he's involved in and obstinately single-minded. An easy person to like for his honesty, a difficult person to know for his own protective shield. A musician's musician and a musician's person. Happiest in his own company or in the company of those he knows, likes and, as far as he'll let himself, trusts. Robin Trower is the enigmatic member of the Procol Harum.
... and Barrie Wilson
"I'm B.J. I'm a drummer. Twenty years old. I love playing music in any circumstances - in a studio, on stage, it makes no difference. I don't particularly love photo sessions and interviews because I never know what to say really. People just don't ask us the right sort of questions." Barrie J. Wilson, Procol's drummer, one of the latest additions to the group and, so far, an unmined source of interest, B.J., as he is known, has a humorous face that smiles easily, not an instantly handsome one, but attractive and mobile, worth taking a second look at. And B.J. is a person worth listening to, something that few have taken the trouble to discover. He has opinions and there are things he wants to say, misconceptions he wants to clear up. There has been some controversy about the fact that the two new Procols - Barrie and Robin - were part of Gary Brooker's old group The Paramounts. There have been denials of this fact in the Press. "I think we must tell the truth," Barrie admits wryly, "Both Robin and I were in the Paramounts but the fact that I was in the Paramounts has nothing to do with me joining Procol Harum. Nothing whatsoever. Nothing!" "Procol needed two new people - a guitarist and a drummer - and so we auditioned for it. Obviously Gary knew us because we'd worked with him for four years. But Gary would make no comment about us whatsoever and we were chosen out of all the people who auditioned by the other two in the group who had never known us. Gary didn't think it fair that he should make any comment upon our ability. It wasn't a case of our being Gary's friends," he stressed.
Barrie was with the Paramounts a long time and between leaving them and joining Procol Harum he played with three other groups, including Lulu's backing group, George Bean and the Runners. "Then I left the last group, Sands, and I was off to America. I didn't know what I was going to do. I just wanted to get away from England. There was nothing here for me. Because I couldn't be happy with what I was playing I kept changing groups." At which point Robin Trower, Procol's new guitarist, takes up the story. "I got a little band together and felt that I was really getting somewhere, except that the other two members weren't good enough. So I phoned up Barrie and told him This is it. We're going to go this time, and I wanted him with me because he's the only drummer as far as I'm concerned. And then three days later Gary called me." After that the two friends joined Procol Harum. And America lost Barrie Wilson. Barrie is a dedicated musician. "I've been playing since I was about 15. I've never considered another form of employment." But England was looking thin as far as he was concerned. He couldn't settle into the right scene and after five years of trying and getting nowhere you start doubting your own abilities, start wondering if you shouldn't chuck it all in and sweep roads. America looked promising and Barrie admits it was more than just the music business over there that attracted him. He has a girl friend in Los Angeles who "means a lot to me!" Then along came Gary Brooker's phone call out of the ether. "I must admit I had my doubts about me fitting in with Procol Harum. I had never heard what they were like apart from "Whiter Shade." I knew they'd be good because Gary would never do anything that wasn't good. My doubts were dispelled. I knew from the first number. The group have a great telepathy going, not a conscious one, but they can sit down and jam anything. A blues - anything! We were together and fitted into each other perfectly." As a musician he knows where he's at and where he's going. But has this young man - whose life has been so inextricably interwoven with music, gigging up and down the country, playing for peanuts and occasionally being conned out of them by crooks with flash smiles - come to any conclusions about himself? "We're all mixed up, trying to sort ourselves out and think about so many things. It's impossible to say about me. Anyway, who's interested in what I do or say? Nobody, surely?" And what about other people's opinion of him? Robin comments: "He's the backbone of the group being the drummer. He's the forceful drive. I couldn't play with anybody else. He knows exactly what I'm going to do, he can read me like a book." Barrie enjoys success "very very much." After all it's taken long enough to arrive. "I've seen the whole bit, all the crummy parts, everything. Now it's here and I never really thought we'd deserved it before. I always knew I'd make it one day."
Seeks respect
Barrie seeks respect from the other members of the group. What they say and think matters to him. Who does he respect? "The Beatles, that's the obvious one. Oh, it's too varied to say. I personally respect Ravi Shankar, B.B. King, Dionne Warwick....I could go on forever." What are his hopes and fears outside music. Is he scared of death? "No, not at all." Poverty? "No, I'm afraid of being disliked by anybody, I like to be liked and admired as a musician. I meet a lot of phony people who say 'Hello Barrie.' There was a guy the other day I met for about 2 minutes I think and he was slapping me on the back and calling me Barrie as if he'd known me for years. He was saying 'Give me your phone number Barrie and I'll give you a ring when I get back to town and we'll get together...' I just couldn't figure it out, I never met him in my life before, and he obviously didn't like me as he didn't know me at all. Therefore he must be impressed by what I am or what he thinks I am. I don't like it. You can suss them out the minute you meet them and then ignore them." What character traits does Barrie have that others don't like? Again Robin acts as an informed source. These 2 are like a serious Morecambe and Wise. "He's loose," Robin comments, "not like me - tight and together. He's more outward going." Barrie takes it up. "I try to be tolerant with people. I try to see the best in them. I don't like violence in people." Robin steps in again: "Yes but the thing with you Barrie is that you do tend to get a bit hung up if someone does you wrong. Like that time some guy pinched our cab in Paris you blew up in a moment." "Yes," Barrie agreed without malice or embarrassment. I lose my temper. Not very often. I'm not quick tempered but when I do lose it, wow! I get annoyed at myself because I think I'm not good enough, I'm a musical perfectionist. I think I could be better, which is a great thing I guess." A perfectionist, Mr. Wilson, and if he would admit it, a romantic. But a romantic with a tough steely streak, a cynical self-doubt, and an extreme caution born of years in a hard business trying hard to get to the top. Now he's there he's playing it very cool because B.J. is not one to let it all blow up in his face.


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Black History Month: "People of the Caribbean have a deep history with agriculture that is often overlooked."
We're celebrating Black History Month #ProudToBe with stories from Black people across Wales on the lessons Black history can teach us about the future.
Here, community educator, artist and beekeeper from Cardiff, Phillip Henry says his love for nature is inspired by past generations...
"I've always had a love for nature, and I gravitated towards it. Nature taught me what society wasn't willing to."
Image: Zaid Djerdi @zxidy
"I was a performing artist for 20 years, but I replaced hundreds of people with thousands of bees, worms and trees. My grandparents were born in Jamaica. They owned their own land where they cultivated crops and raised animals. People of the Caribbean have a deep history with agriculture that is often overlooked. Re-connecting with my roots and culture, the Windrush generation before me, meant returning to nature.
I'm a volunteer caretaker of land in Penarth and Cwmgors. I'm also the founder of The Honeycomb Cooperative, (soon to be rebranded as TigerBay Honeycomb Cooperative) based in Cardiff. We are a Pan-African and Welsh non-profit organisation of apiarists who strive for a healthy, bee-friendly future. I am a trained apiarist – I use my beekeeping skills to utilise the products of the hive to promote self-care and wellness. Human activity has caused a substantial decline in the bee population and our aim is to counteract the decline for the sake of the bees and for humanity. We run a National Hive Service to provide education in the community on bee welfare and supporting the ecosystems that our bees are dependent on.
I even keep some of the beehives on my roof, four floors up, looking out over Cardiff Bay. My plan is to create mutually supportive spaces where communities can come together to explore and foster a sense of collective responsibility. That's what The Honeycomb Cooperative is – the co-op stands for cultivating our own peace and prosperity. We encourage from the grassroots level collective responsibility and cooperative enterprises as illustrated in the lives of our sovereign hives.
We're at a pivotal time in humanity's existence. Everyone must play their part. There could be a great and greener relationship between all farmers, and we could develop more innovative solutions for the problems we all face today. Politicians could support this by seeking out individuals like me in agriculture, and giving practical support in areas such as sustainability, with nature apprenticeships for the under 25s. The opportunities are there, and they should be available to all.
We could learn a great deal about our sense of true community from the bees and how they strive to create a mutually beneficial environment.
The honeycomb is a perfect example of what we can strive for in our own communities – a safe space where we can grow harmoniously with our environment, and everyone can thrive.
I want to celebrate Black people's history with and connection to agriculture and nature and provide more opportunities for Welsh BAME people to develop sustainable life skills and green enterprises.
Black History is very valuable to humanity. It should be called World History."
As told to Emma Evans.
We believe Black history should be celebrated all year round. Wales' Well-being of Future Generations Act puts a legal obligation on Welsh Government and public bodies to take action to improve the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales and create a more equal Wales and a Wales that promotes and protects culture and heritage.
For information, resources and events, go to blackhistorymonth.org.uk and bhmwales.co.uk
You can read more Black History Month stories here all month and on our Twitter @futuregencymru and Instagram @futuregencymru.

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A BROKEN FRAME - A COVER ALBUM BY MARSHEAUX
A Broken Frame is generally viewed as one of the runts of the Depeche litter, sandwiched between the Vince Clarke helmed pop glory of Speak & Spell and the metal banging beauty of Construction Time Again, not quite representing any particular facet of Depeche Mode that anyone would readily be familiar with. I'm quite a fan of A Broken Frame (See review here http://almostpredictablealmost1.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/depeche-mode-broken-frame.html) ; ok it has some poor moments like A Photograph Of You our (shudder) The Meaning of Love but there's some dark loveliness in Leave In Silence and The Sun And The Rainfall, pure pop in See You and pointers to where the band were shortly headed in Satellite and Monument. It's not the horror show many fans make it out to be. Anyway, how could anyone not love the Brian Griffin artwork alone?
Marsheaux obviously agree with me. Long time Depeche fans and huge fans of A Broken Frame itself, the band comprising Marianthi Melitsi and Sophie Sarigiannidou have released a cover of the entire album which you can hear on Spotify right now. Overall, it's an interesting take on the album. Opener, Leave In Silence is fairly faithful to the original albeit with a bit more of an electro sheen. Their take on My Secret Garden changes the original mood of the song (creepy in places to be honest) making it seem more innocent almost but it doesn't quite match the original's atmosphere. Monument gets a makeover of sorts, a harder edge here replacing the song's original spooky pre Construction Time Again vibe, whilst the cover of the already instrumental Nothing To Fear is decent enough but doesn't have the same first days of synthpop feel that Depeche's does. What was side one in the old days ends with See You which, like Monument, is given a harder edge that maybe doesn't quite suit the song.
Side two of A Broken Frame in its original incarnation is challenging as it features the best (The Sun & The Rainfall) and the worst of the album (A Photograph Of You, The Meaning Of Love) and Marsheaux do a decent job of doing it justice. Satellite is a spookier electro version of DM's first and mercifully only commercial foray into quasi reggae, with whispered vocals and lots of cool noises. They darken down The Meaning Of Love as much as it perhaps possible to do and it's a good effort but no matter what's done to that song, you just can't get the video out of your head. That's not Marsheaux's fault though. Doing a cover of the full album means A Photograph Of You can't be avoided and, like their take on The Meaning Of Love, the band slow things down and try their best to improve the song which I think they ultimately do. The album's oddball penultimate Shouldn't Have Done That is treated fairly faithfully with the band matching the original's strange darkness in their own way but it does loss its way a little towards the end. Finally, we come to The Sun And The Rainfal. This is the great lost Depeche Mode track, tucked away at the end of an unloved album, but one that most fans still wish the band would recognise and hopefully one day, perhaps as a Martin solo slot, play live. Pleasingly, Marsheaux don't tamper with it; instead they update the sounds a little, add a couple of rather lovely backing "agh-ahhs" in the chorus and, overall, they do a really good job.
I enjoyed Marsheaux's take on A Broken Frame. It doesn't match the dark mood of the original's high points but cover versions rarely better the song they are taking on. Covering a whole album was a brave move no doubt and they're to be applauded for it. I think most Depeche Mode fans will enjoy listening to this so go and try it.
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BP to Divest Mature Oil Assets in Egypt to Dragon Oil
Source: www.gulfoilandgas.com 6/3/2019, Location: Africa
BP has agreed to sell its interests in Gulf of Suez oil concessions in Egypt to Dragon Oil, the Dubai-based oil and gas company. Under the terms of the agreement, Dragon Oil will purchase producing and exploration concessions, including BP's interest in the Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO). Dragon Oil is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC).
The deal, which is subject to the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources' approval, is expected to complete during the second half of 2019 and is part of BP's plan to divest more than $10 billion of assets globally over the next two years. Financial details are not being disclosed.
Bob Dudley, BP chief executive, said: "Egypt is a core growth and investment region for BP. In the past four years we have invested around $12 billion in Egypt – more than anywhere else in our portfolio – and we plan another $3 billion investment over the next two years. We look forward to continuing to broaden our business here, working closely with the government of Egypt as we develop the country's abundant resources."
"Egypt is a core growth and investment region for BP. In the past four years we have invested around $12 billion in Egypt – more than anywhere else in our portfolio – and we plan another $3 billion investment over the next two years." Bob Dudley, group chief executive.
Hesham Mekawi, regional president, BP North Africa, added: "We continue to bring on new developments and deliver important gas supplies for the country. We remain on track to triple our 2016 net production from Egypt by 2020. As we grow our business here, we also keep our portfolio under review. We believe Dragon Oil is well-placed to operate these mature assets, delivering further value for Egypt."
In the past two years, four new gas projects in Egypt have begun production for BP. In February, BP announced the start of production from the second stage of the West Nile Delta development – which includes five gas fields across the North Alexandria and West Mediterranean Deepwater offshore concession blocks – producing from the Giza and Fayoum fields. The first stage, producing from the Taurus and Libra fields, started up in 2017. The final stage, developing the Raven field, is expected to begin production late this year.
When fully onstream in 2019, combined West Nile Delta production is expected to reach up to 1.4 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d), equivalent to about 20% of Egypt's current gas production. All the gas produced will be fed into the national gas grid.
The BP-operated Atoll Phase One gas project began production in early 2018. The Eni-operated Zohr gas field, in which BP is a partner, began production late 2017.
BP currently produces, with its partners, close to 60% of Egypt's gas production through the joint ventures the Pharaonic Petroleum Company (PhPC) and Petrobel (IEOC JV) in the East Nile Delta as well as through BP's operated West Nile Delta fields.
BP has also expanded its investment portfolio in Egypt through its Castrol lubricants business. Castrol Egypt Lubricants, a joint venture between Castrol UK and TAQA Arabia, was launched in early 2019 to enhance the availability of Castrol products across the country and ensure service to customers and consumers.
BP is also playing an increasingly active role, helped by Lightsource BP's joint venture with construction and engineering group Hassam Allam, to unlock opportunities from solar in Egypt.
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Baseball Interlude: Monte Irvin
"Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all the professional patriots with their billions of cheap words." -- Monte Irvin, quoted by MLB historian, John Thorn
Monte Irvin died Monday, January 11, 2016. He was 96.
Irvin played in the Negro Leagues and the Mexican League before coming to the Major Leagues in 1949. He played alongside, and mentored Willie Mays, and was part of the New York Giant's 1951 World Series Championship team.
From the Giant's web site tribute to Irvin:
Monte Irvin was a mentor to Willie Mays and a friend to Ted Williams. He was in the Polo Grounds' home dugout when Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" and was visiting Havana when the Cubans ran out a hotshot pitching prospect named Fidel Castro.
Irvin's long, wonderful life was the stuff of dreams, a uniquely American story and an enduring testament to talent, perseverance, grace and dignity. Perhaps it is the greatest tribute to this remarkable man, who died Monday night in Houston of natural causes at age 96, that he'll forever be remembered as much for his decency and sense of humor as for his amazing skills.
Monte Irvin played his last year in professional baseball (as a player) with the Chicago Cubs. It was 1956 – my first year as a (8 year old) Cub fan.
Al Yellon, author of the Bleed Cubbie Blue blog, wrote of a milestone game in which Irvin particpated,
His one year with the Cubs was decent, as he hit .271/.346/.460 with 15 home runs in 111 games at age 37. Irvin's addition to the team in 1956 meant that in the first game Sam Jones started that year, April 20 against the Cardinals, the Cubs fielded a majority African-American lineup for the first time (Irvin, Jones, Ernie Banks, Gene Baker and Solly Drake). They were the second team to do so. (First was the Dodgers, July 17, 1954.)
Irvin was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973.
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SES Networks SATCOM Services Selected by Dream Cruises
Dream Cruises, a brand of Genting Cruise Lines, has selected SES Networks' Signature Cruise Solution to provide fiber-like service to its passenger ship fleet that is comprised of the vessels World Dream, Genting Dream and Explorer Dream, for the Asian luxury market.
Crew and guests of the newly-launched Explorer Dream will experience SES-powered guest connectivity onboard the 75,000-gross-ton, 2,000-passenger ship. The SES Networks' solution will also be introduced onboard Genting Dream in September this year, completing the fleet-wide implementation that follows the successful launch of SES Networks' managed service onboard World Dream, Dream Cruises' second cruise ship, which debuted in 2017.
The new Explorer Dream will have home ports in Shanghai and Tianjin, as well as Sydney and Auckland later in the year. This significantly enhanced connectivity will enable guests to chat with friends on WeChat, pick up a bargain on Taobao, or stream high-resolution video on YouKu without interruption or lag. Guests will also be able to share photos and videos from their trip in real-time across social media, or battle with their friends in League of Legends as easily as they can on land.
SES Networks' Signature Cruise Solution combines the low latency of the company's O3b MEO satellite constellation with a fully managed end-to-end service, backed up by the firm's highly reliable geostationary (GEO) fleet to ensure network resilience. The result is a seamless, high-performance broadband service delivered to everyone onboard the Dream Cruises fleet.
Thatcher Brown, President at Dream Cruises, noted that today's cruise passengers demand excellent connectivity even when they are traveling on the high seas. As part of the company's efforts to provide guests with the best possible services and amenities on board Dream Cruises' ships, the firm partnered with SES Networks because of their high-speed capability to deliver a terrestrial broadband-like internet experience in some of the most challenging of conditions.
Simon Maher, VP Global Sales, Cruise Maritime Services at SES Networks, added that a Dream Cruise has the ability to deliver inspirational voyages at sea that create memories to last a lifetime. A key part of that adventure nowadays is the digital experience. The company's Signature Cruise Solution ensures that passengers onboard Explorer Dream — along with World Dream and Genting Dream — will experience the new standard of enhanced guest connectivity. SES Networks and Dream Cruises have shared values around delivering transformational and inspirational experiences at sea.


While prenuptial agreements aren't one of the highlights of romance, the truth is that more and more couples are getting one before they marry. A prenuptial agreement – or prenup – protects both spouses financially and legally should the marriage end in divorce. Since nearly 50 percent of all marriages end with a separation, couples are increasingly opting to enter a prenup before marriage that delegates how assets will be divided in the event of divorce or death.
What Does Your Divorce Mean?
So you signed a prenuptial agreement and now you're getting divorced? As per the terms of the contract, property that you both owned before the marriage is likely going to be separate and untouchable. However, any property or wealth acquired during the marriage will be subject to distribution.
Even if the couple was married in another state but relocated to Colorado only to face divorce, Colorado will likely honor the out-of-state prenuptial agreement so long as it complies with the standards above.
It's important for couples to keep their prenup current. By reviewing and amending the agreement every 10 years, for instance, couples are softening the blow of a prenup and keeping the protection of their assets current. Remember, any changes must be made in writing and still meet the points of validation. If you didn't sign a prenup before your marriage, you can still protect your assets and property by looking into a post-nuptial agreement.
As difficult as it is to think about the end of the relationship, the prenuptial agreement can save you a lot of heartache and money at the end of a divorce. Without the legal benefits of a prenup, your most important assets might be legally delegated to your spouse or your spouse's children. Instead of a divorce court determining the fate of your assets, a prenup allows you to determine the terms before the marriage itself.
If you are facing a divorce and have a prenup, or are currently drafting an agreement, the family law attorneys at Mike Hulen, PC know how to resolve difficult family matters. Contact us for guidance and advice at (303) 932-8666.


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BUDGET 2019 is themed "Credible Malaysia, Dynamic Economy, Prosperous Rakyat". It focuses on implementing institutional reforms; ensuring the socio-economic wellbeing of Malaysians; and fostering an entrepreneurial economy with 12 key strategies.
Under Strategy 1: Strengthen Fiscal Administration is the introduction of a Government Procurement Act to govern procurement processes to ensure transparency and competition, while punishing abuse of power, negligence and corruption. The principles of integrity, transparency, accountability, fairness and efficiency in all decision making of public procurement will minimise corruption and maximise the economic, financial, social, technological, environmental and political benefits of government machinery.
No fewer than 62 countries have government procurement or public procurement laws. These countries have considered the World Bank Procurement Guidelines and the UN Commission on International Trade Law Model Law on procurement of goods, construction and services into their laws. Under the guidelines, bidders are required to provide integrity assurances and to disclose any convictions or investigations relating to corruption. Additional safeguard is to have an integrity pact signed. While the Model Law focuses on evaluation and modernised procurement laws and practices. Yet, there is another pluri-lateral General Procurement Agreement (GPA) of the World Trade Organisation which requires "transparency" of procurement. The efforts to prevent corruption in the public procurement must be seen as the responsibility of both government and the bidders.Both must come clean.
A Public Procurement Act will make ministers accountable for failure to comply with finance rules, management, high-priced procurement, "not value for money" and unachieved targets. It must be the duty of every minister to ensure his or her integrity and that of all others below them.
It is also important that before deliberating this Public Procurement Bill, the government must consult stakeholders and not be over-ruled by "the government knows best" mentality. There should be ample time for discussions to ensurethe Act encompasses all the best practices from these 62 countries.
The government should move towards Open Government Partnership and adopt the Open Data Policy for better governance, integrity, accountability and transparency.
To improve anti-corruption, transparency and accountability, the capacity building of key government institutions must be enhanced to tackle these issues. In parallel, there should also be improvements in the implementation of public policies.
To ensure the sustainability of both result areas, strengthening of inclusive decision-making processes should be considered an important cost cutting issue.


The second edition of this distinguished textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts, terminology and representations needed for an understanding of how English is pronounced around the world.
Assuming no prior knowledge, this textbook guides the reader through the vocal tract and explains how the sounds of speech are made, offering an accessible and expanded introduction to areas including transcription, vowels and acoustic analysis. As far as possible, it uses naturally-occurring conversational speech so that readers are familiar with the details of everyday talk (and not just the careful pronunciations presented in dictionaries.) The book also includes a new concluding chapter that works through a piece of spoken data to show the reader how a more complete phonetic analysis can be conducted.
Examples are taken from around the English-speaking world, including North America, Australia, New Zealand and varieties of British English. The book takes an open-minded approach to what sounds of English might be significant for making meaning, and highlights the significance of word meaning, morphology, sociolinguistics and conversational interaction in phonetic analysis.
Richard Ogden is a senior lecturer at the University of York, where he has taught phonetics since 1995.


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The truly inspiring story of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.
Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph. Born in the Bronx to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Sonia found out at age nine that she had diabetes, a serious illness now but an even more dangerous one fifty years ago. How did young Sonia handle the devastating news? She learned to give herself her daily insulin shots and became determined to make the most out of her life. It was the popular sixties TV show Perry Mason that made Sonia want to become a lawyer. Not only a lawyer, but a judge! Her remarkable career was capped in 2009 when President Barack Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court, only the third woman and first Hispanic justice in the court's history. Stories of Sotomayor's career are hardly dry legal stuff-she once hopped on a motorcycle to chase down counterfeiters and was the judge whose ruling ended the Major League baseball strike in 1995.


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By Parisa Qurban 05 Jul 2017
Nokia has signed a major contract deal with global smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi.
The contract involves both corporations signing patent agreements that will allow Nokia to provide Xiaomi with equipment to provide network infrastructure for transport solutions to better process information across data centre networks.
Xiaomi also aim to provide IP routing based on Nokia's new FP4 network processor, and a means to deliver resources to support data management on data fabric solution platforms.
The companies have also signed cross licenses which will allow them to access to one another's cellular standard patents.This will provide more opportunities to develop new products.
The deal is essential to both firms as they aim to work together to provide new innovative technology solutions, which requires licensing to comply with industry standards.
"Xiaomi is one of the world's leading smartphone manufacturers and we are delighted to have reached an agreement with them," said Rajeev Suri, President & CEO of Nokia.
"In addition to welcoming such a prominent global technology company to our family of patent licensees, we look forward to working together on a wide range of strategic projects."
As part of the agreement Nokia will work with Xiaomi to expand IoT services, with the companies also agreeing to explore developing areas of artificial technology and virtual reality for future products.
Xiaomi provides smartphones devices and new technology using its Mi IoT ecosystem, which has connected up to 60 million devices.
Lei Jun, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi said:"As a company seeking to deliver more exciting technological innovations to the world, we are excited at the opportunity to work more closely with Nokia in future,
"Xiaomi is committed to building sustainable, long-term partnerships with global technology leaders. Our collaboration with Nokia will enable us to tap on its leadership in building large, high performance networks and formidable strength in software and services, as we seek to create even more remarkable products and services that deliver the best user experience to our Mi fans worldwide."
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Thinking of booking a Costa Rica honeymoon vacation package but not sure yet where to? We can help you! Costa Rica has some of the most stunning as well as varied travel destinations to cater to every type of couple. Some of you would love the sound of all-inclusive resorts offering all-inclusive packages and stay at stunning, world-class resorts such as the Westin Playa Conchal or Nayara Springs. And others might prefer an adventure holiday that includes zip lining, lots of nature and hiking the many trails in the Costa Rican jungle. In this package, we will introduce you to some of the options we have available for a romantic getaway that includes both coastlines!
Welcome to San Jose! We will meet you at the airport with a welcome package in hand. We will direct you to the shuttle that will take you to stay at a hotel in San Jose for your honeymoon vacation. Enjoy!
Now get up bright and early as we transfer you to a gorgeous part of the country Manuel Antonio. Manuel Antonio is home of one of the most stunning Coastlines in Costa Rica as well as a rich variety of flora and fauna.
Today you will take a guided tour through Manuel Antonio National Park.This tour contains a unique combination of distinct habitats including rainforest, mangrove swamp, beaches and coral reefs. The beaches are considered by many to be the most beautiful in the country, lined with prolific forest, and have excellent snorkeling. In the tropical rainforest you'll find sloths, iguanas, rare monkeys (Squirrel, Howler), snakes, crabs and more! There are 109 species of mammals and 184 species of birds.
Observe coastal wildlife such as dolphins, migrating humpback whales, sea turtles, manta rays, and more on this Catamaran Island Adventure. After touring the coastline, you'll anchor in a protected cove for snorkeling. Enjoy the stunning ocean views during a romantic sunset and have a drink.
Today you will transfer up to the active volcano of Arenal. This area is stunning and amazing totally worth every part of your trip. Choose from one of the luxury hotels so you can thoroughly enjoy your stay. How about the Tabacon Resort & Spa? Guests can enjoy the Tabacon Grand Spa & Hot Springs and relax, spending the day in luxury. Arenal is famous for many other things including the La Fortuna Waterfall, the hanging bridges, white-water rafting and hiking.
Today's the day for two tours: Sky Trek & Tram. Both are a canopy tour with one focused on excitement and speed and the other one a quiet observation of Arenal's natural wonders. The Sky Trek is an unforgettable zip line and open-air gondola tour in La Fortuna and Monteverde. Your 2.5-hour tour starts riding in an open-air gondola from the ground up to the canopy where you'll be dropped off at an observation area for a chance to see the rainforest form above. You'll make your way back to the main building from there by zip line! This is the most thrilling zip line in the country. It has 7 zip lines, the longest cable in Costa Rica at nearly 2500 feet long and over 650 feet high.
The Sky Tram is a peaceful ride through the treetops via gondola. Bring your camera to capture incredible mountain views. This 1-hour tour is perfect for tourists who want to see the tropical rainforest from a more relaxed perspective. Witness the rainforest's extraordinary bounty with ease. A bilingual guide will point out different characteristics of the rich flora and fauna while the tram travels up the mountains to arrive on a wide observation platform.
Today is packed full of adventure as you will do the Pacuare River Rafting Tour! This is in the top ten of the best rapid in the world. You will have a refreshing adventure the whole way. After you have dried off and had lunch, you will be shuttled to your next destination in Puerto Viejo.
Today we are going to combine education with fun and take a tour through the Jaguar Rescue Center . You will see all kinds of different wildlife including toucans, monkeys and sloths. The rescue center has been built with a mission to conserve and protect its natural heritage by housing and rehabilitating wounded, orphaned and even confiscated animals. You will also go on a (delicious!) chocolate tour and take a refreshing dip in a gorgeous waterfall.
Day number 9 is here! Today we will take a tour in Cahuita. You will start in the community of Cahuita, cross beautiful beaches and observe various wildlife. Furthermore explore different medicinal plants, orchids, trees, ferns, vertebrates, invertebrates, sea and earth shellfish.
You will now head back to San Jose after a long trip and stay your last night in a beautiful hotel.
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Sarah Jane Pell: Re-defining engaging creative experiences from Sea, to Summit, to Space.
Sarah Jane Pell
Australian artist Dr. Sarah Jane Pell is an independent artist on Earth (since 1996), commercial diver (since 2001), Artist-Astronaut Candidate (since 2016), and an explorer and researcher of new worlds. She is on a mission to bring space to art, and art to space. She has exhibited since 1997: Themes of human-aquatic adaptation to other worlds and other extreme-performance interfaces are central to her work. She is best known for pioneering "aquabatics" that is performed underwater or shown in museums as films and artifacts. To be honest, the real work for Pell has been to push the boundaries of what defines research and extreme exploration performance in practice, prioritizing experimentation by design, and seeking practice-led research opportunities to demonstrate creative research impact pathways for that 15% in high-risk operational environments. By doing so she strives to build an international award-winning creative arts research practice in hard-to-access underwater technology and space-related environments.
"I "inspire" others by sharing what I do. People are inspired to be bold, to be ambitious, and to be curious, creative, experimental and adventurous. This is an outward appreciation for the complex and poetic work that is unlike anything they have heard before."
The Journey-- of Passion & Joy
Her career began with a 3-year investment in underwater performance by the Edith Cowan University (ECU) Pro ViceChancellor's Fund Innovation Advancement Enterprise Office. Pell established the Aquabatics Research Team initiative [ARTi] in 2002 for performing pneumatic acts; integrating advanced-life support systems with choreographic media; and designing and demonstrating prototype-breathing apparatus. From 2003, Pell also aligned herself with SymbioticA: the art and science laboratory at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology, UWA. She collaborated with pioneer bio-artists on the 'LifeBoat Project: a mobile performance and biotechnology lab' contained within a ship's lifeboat and home to the processes of life itself. By 2005, Dr. Pell was selected for the League of New World Explorer as Official Artist-Aquanaut of the subsea habitat Atlantica Expeditions citizen-led program towards permanent undersea human presence and zero-waste colony. The first artist to graduate from the International Space University, Dr. Pell led and co-authored the successful SSP06 team project 'Luna Gaia: a closed loop habitat for the Moon' under Co-Chair Gen. Dr. S. Pete Worden. NASA HQ approved and adopted outcomes and Popular Science 2007, animated the design and called it "a self-sustaining lunar habitat that would make Al Gore proud." She also participated in the 2006 NASA-SETI Haughton-Mars Project, HMP Lunar Medical Contingency Simulation; Non-tethered Neutral Buoyancy EVA SIMs in France 2006. In parallel, she devised 'SubCulture: a liminal Bio Sphere' with art and science producers The Arts Catalyst, London. Her own long-duration submersion-act, SubCulture proposed to examine the human experience on artificial worlds and the bio-political implications of the astrobiological condition. Her activities revealed that divergent human embodiment is indistinguishable from environmental interactions from sea, to summit, to space. Leonardo LABS, MIT, awarded her Ph.D. on Aquabatics as the "Best Ph.D. Art & Science" 2007.
Between 2008-2012, Pell logged over 500+ hours as an Occupational Diver contracted to perform repetitive black-water operations under extreme conditions in the remote, wilderness of Macquarie Harbour. She achieved operational and highly specialized diving mastery spanning the commercial, aquaculture, film-tv, and scientific research diving. By contributing embodied knowledge to research in diving operations, namely with unique insight from a zero-visibility black-water operations perspective, her design insights demonstrated significant impact in expanding human-factors research in remote and extreme environments, contributing to bounce-diving procedures and high-altitude diving standards. She continues to have extensive access to the latest diving technology and hyperbaric professionals, underwater laboratories and subsea explorer networks valuable to this research.
But it also came at a cost. This was the last time Pell had secure employment. Pell has lived in crew-housing, shared and temporary accommodation for well over a decade. Working in high-risk operational environments in remote locations such as the West Coast of Tasmanian places enormous restrictions on access to health services and amenities, and limited social, intellectual and cultural engagement. The cost has been commercial, professional, personal and psycho-social. Pell hasn't had a relationship: she remains a single self-reliant soul, and the chance of having a family of her own feels slim.
She has visited many space agencies and designed and exhibited a space-art payload that was launched into orbit with JAXA 2009. Valued as an orthogonal thinker, Pell received a priority-scholarship to the Singularity University in 2010 to conduct a NASA-commissioned technology impact report, predict exponential space technology trends, and map pathways to positively impact a billion people in ten years. Her team ignited startups including MadeInSpace and Escape Dynamics. Pell founded Bio-Enhancement Space Technologies [BEST], which failed to get traction. She also co-developed and led tethered-EVA SIM Workshops with Astronaut Dan Barry, NASA Ames Pool 2010; and participated in FMS and VMS Shuttle Pilot Simulations at NASA Ames 2010.
Since 2012, Pell has been a Research Associate: AEGIS Research Group (Arts, Ecology, Globalization & the Interpretation of Science) within the RMIT University, School of Art. Many technical and creative publications have resulted. A Visiting Research Fellow, RMIT University 2012-2015, Pell has hacked interaction design and digital systems for use underwater at the Exertion Games Lab and co-authored multiple papers and ARC Discovery submissions on 'Designing Aquatics Digital Play to Benefit Australian's Well-being'. As Visiting Faculty, International Space University Southern Hemisphere Pell led EVA Simulation Training Underwater with a remote Mission Control Workshop over 2 days with 40 students in 2013. In 2015, Pell led BENDING HORIZONS and reached Everest Base Camp intending to summit Mt. Everest and make art on-route. She reached Everest Base Camp 5364m and survived the 2015 Gorkha Earthquakes. She also penned 'Bodies in Extremis' for publication in Star Ark: a Living, Self-Sustaining Star Ship by Prof. Rachel Armstrong Eds. It also inspired a short film set on Mars "We are all Explorer Fish" which premiered at Meta. Morf 2016: Trondheim's Art & Technology Biennale.
Project PoSSUM (Polar Suborbital Science Upper Mesosphere), 2016
In 2016, Dr. Pell qualified as an Artist-Astronaut Candidate and became Australia's first female Scientist-Astronaut, for the suborbital spaceflight aeronomy experiment with Project PoSSUM [an acronym for Polar Suborbital Science Upper Mesosphere]. She then partnered Project MOONWALK as the Simulation Astronaut for the Human-Robotic Collaboration EVA Simulation Mission trials at the Comex Undersea Lunar Analogue site, Marseille FR. This 3-year cooperative Research & Development project was funded by the European Commission, while Pell's participation was supported by Skycorp Inc. She then joined The SeaSpace Society: Project POESIDON as Official Aquanaut 100-day Undersea Mission in 2017 (now re-branded as Untethered Exploration and looks forward to a Dubai 2020 Expo project). The same year, Pell was also identified as an Australia Council Arts Leader "on a mission" to create positive change for the sector and to actively promote and represent the interests of Australia. Pell was also internationally recognized as a global Gifted Citizen with an Honourable Mention in the prestigious $100,000 Prize for her outstanding impact and contribution to global innovation; and access, inclusion, and diversity in the field of Sea/Space exploration.
In 2018, Pell was COMMANDER of LunAresMoonMars Station SPECTRA Mission in Pila, Poland. She architected a high fidelity 15-day lunar analogue mission in total isolation and confinement of the Lunares Habitat with an enclosed darkened Crater simulating the far-side of the Moon, and with a remote Mission Command.
Pell recently returned to Nepal in March 2019 as CREW of the inaugural Mars Analogue Medical Unit Mission. This project benefited from her established collaborative research foundation and preliminary work, and it enabled great healing after the quakes.
Dr. Pell is also the first Australian TED Fellow. She delivers keynote lectures on the power of an arts framework for igniting technology transfer and new discovery across academic and technical domains to solve real-world problems. She serves on SeaSpace Boards and Committees including Co-Chair, European Space Agency (ESA) Topical Team Art & Science [ETTAS]; Senior Advisor of Space Art and Human Exploration Initiatives, Icarus Interstellar; Senior Advisor (Diving) The Maritime Union of Australia; and Australian Standards SF-017 Occupational Diving Committee.
So how did she do it all? "I know it sounds like "work", but this really is the blessing of doing what you love. It encompasses all the pleasures of hobbies and so much more," says Pell.
Professionally Pell is grappling with her audience/customer/partnerships in that she only peddles "Inspiration". "I "inspire" others by sharing what I do. People are inspired to be bold, to be ambitious, and to be curious, creative, experimental and adventurous. This is an outward appreciation for the complex and poetic work that is unlike anything they have heard before," says Pell. "I now aspire to be "Aspirational". This is an inward feeling that compels others to take action, to take on a mission, to join a cause, to emulate or imagine themselves playing a role in the success of a venture. I could achieve so much more if I was well supported by a nucleus." At the same time, Pell stresses on the importance of self-care to stay aligned. "Whatever I believe and conceive, I achieve," says Pell. "I flip-flop between approaching burn-out, and recovering from burn out, and time incremental progressions towards peak performance goals, and nourish myself with good stimuli, food, neuro-sonics, positive reinforcement, clear goals, and occasionally sleep." Pell also encourages others by suggesting that no challenge is big and there is always a way. At this point, Pell shares one of the leadership lessons she has learned saying "Breathe, always breathe. Find a way. There is always a way. Dream. Create. Share." And the advice that Pell followed — to turn her passion to purpose to action — that bought her where she is today: "Be prepared to lower your expectations but never your standards."
She advises women who want to achieve a more prominent role in their organizations to "Imagine it. Take a seat at the table. Speak. Act. Unapologetically," says Pell.
Vision for Future
Dr. Pell's work has a strong international and interdisciplinary advocacy and inspirational focus. She is passionate about diversity, inclusion and trans-disciplinary approaches to exploration including civilian access to SeaSpace domains, arts-led and culturally-informed solutions to environmental custodianship, and symbiotic exponential technologies solving grand challenges.
Optimistic about the future, her visions are bold, innovative and disruptive. She gravitates to entrepreneurial partners and game-changing individuals intent on making a difference. Her ambitions goals for the future are to build the World's first permanent undersea artist studio laboratory; design for commercial spaceflight and underwater creative experiences; develop training and tool kit testing for an artist in space residency and be instrumental in the implementation of an internationally ratified Space Arts Policy.
She is not done yet.


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Hilliard F. "Trey" Kelly has maintained a wide-ranging civil litigation practice in the New Orleans metropolitan area for the last 16 years. He is licensed to practice in both Louisiana and Texas and has experience in various insurance defense matters. He has defended product manufacturers, including Ford Motor Company, Nissan, Black & Decker, and Subaru, trying many product liability and redhibition cases in state and federal court.
Trey is well versed in the complexities of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), having represented several large insurers in a various life, health and disability matters. In addition, Trey has handled numerous trucking and transportation claims, maritime suits, family law disputes, and an array of business and transactional matters.
Growing up on the Northshore, Trey received his Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Southeastern Louisiana University, graduating with Honors in 1995. He received his Juris Doctorate from Louisiana State University Law School in 1998, and was a published Member of the Louisiana Law Review. Trey is a member of the Louisiana and Texas State Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in all Louisiana & Texas state courts, as well as the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana, the Southern and Western districts of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Trey is an active member of the International Claims Association's Disability Committee and has lectured on various topics in the field of ERISA litigation.
In addition to his legal work, Trey has also served as an Officer in both the Louisiana and Texas National Guard. In this capacity, he made two combat tours to Iraq as a combat helicopter pilot ('03 and '07). He is currently a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve and has accumulated more than 1200 flight hours, as well as qualifications in four army aircraft, including the AH-64 Attack Helicopter. While serving in combat, Trey was awarded two Bronze Star Medals, an Air Medal, a Combat Action Badge, two Army Commendation Medals, and an Army Achievement Medal.
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Manuel Graham was born on November 13, 1923 in Capps Florida to the late Tommie Graham and Emma Mickens. He departed this life on Saturday, February 9, 2019. His favorite pastime was watching soap operas. He leaves to cherish fond and loving memories with his children, Mildred L. Nixon, Deloris J. Simmons, Emanuel Graham (Francine) and Jerome Graham; 14 grandchildren; 31 great grandchildren; brother, Tommie Graham; sisters, Vernel Young and Ethel Pyron; a host of nieces, nephews and cousins; caregiver and goddaughter, Shirly Golden and a host of other relatives and friends.


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Q: Dual-homed vCenter 6.0 server appliance I've installed the VCSA 6.0.  Now, I'd like to add a second NIC to it and be able to access the vCenter Web UI from both networks.  I've followed the steps here to add a second NIC to the vCenter and configure the IP address.  http://easi123.4realit.nl/2015/12/add-a-second-nic-to-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-6-0/
However, I can't access the Web GUI or the Desktop client from the outside network using the second address.  I've also tried rebooting the appliance to make sure the web server sees that there are 2 networks.  Can someone point me to the configuration or the firewall that needs to be changed to allow access from 2 different networks?

A: In vSphere 6.0 we have the ability to have multiple TCP/IP stacks which means you can have multiple default gateways. This is an ESX host construct, though, so not sure how that relates to vCSA (or why TheCompWiz brought that up).
It is completely unsupported to add in a 2nd NIC to the vCSA. However, this is something we're looking at and could be added in the future. If you want this type of ability then please let your TAM, SE, or open an SR to let us know and it can be tracked.

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As well as witty words, the Wardrobe Ensemble uses a lot of movement, somewhat from their backgrounds in the ensemble-based Bristol Old Vic Young Company, but also because of 'our belief that words aren't always the best way to say what you want to say. The challenges of creating chaos are really exciting, and so are the constraints we put on ourselves. For example, there are two doors, two tables, and two chairs in this piece: if these are the props, what can we create with them?' A chaotic musical march through the school corridors, is what.
And what part did their own experiences play? 'A lot of our experiences made it into the show, especially for our teacher characters. Ben [Vardy], who plays the P.E. teacher, is very much based on his P.E. teacher – he didn't even change the name! The characteristics of these teachers represent the different sorts of teachers I think everybody probably had, so they're an amalgamation of real life teachers, but also that generic teacher.' Jesse's character is the holistic, ever-hopeful but hopeless helper, one is the disciplinarian deputy, and another is the toy-taking tutor: it's a cast of familiar faces, but none of them ever feel forced.
In order to reflect, familiarity needs a foreigner, and they felt like it would be 'a strong framing device for the audience to be lead by an outsider'. That outsider is a droll, German language assistant 'who really came about because Jimmy [Newton] decided to be his German assistant who he had at school' during the day in the life exercise. 'A lot of the themes we were talking about when we were making the show were about Britishness and our relationship with our history and what it really means to be British', but through the eyes of 'this German guy who had been brought closer to the UK through Blair's pro-EU politics', and 'the way we reflect on that from a post-Brexit world'.
'And they're really fun! We want the show to be just as entertaining as it is poignant. We think a lot about juxtaposing certain moments to make a particular point or to make something feel much more poignant, and we used the music to play around with that. We made the playlist for the show before we made anything else, and we made lots of scenes without the music, and then we would just put on some music and play around. We were really realising the impact of the music on an audience, and what that does for a scene.' And, of course, not forgetting those original Tamagotchi sound effects.
Politics and pop culture, united and untied, Cool Britannia and Brexit: Britain has been through a lot, but we, and the Wardrobe Ensemble, believe that 'Things Can Only Get Better', and it begins with – you guessed it – Education, Education, Education.
Original interview organised for and featured on TheReviewsHub. With thanks to Jesse for chatting to me and Niki for the opportunity!


A British diver swam over 4.5 miles to safety after becoming separated from his dive boat, with a tiger shark as his sole companion for part of the journey.
Sunderland-born John Craig, 34, was diving out of Shark Bay in Western Australia, when he surfaced to find his dive boat, which had suffered an engine failure, was nowhere to be seen. After five minutes of splashing in the water and shouting to attract attention, he decided to head for shore.
Although the tiger shark disappeared after around 15 minutes, Craig still endured a 4.5 mile swim to shore, eventually making landfall over three hours later, exhausted and barely able to stand.
Sighting the rescue boats in the distance, Craig desperately wanted to let his wife know he was okay, however, it was not until the search and rescue plane made it's last pass of the day that he was spotted, yelling and waving from the beach.


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Das Pflegamt Hirschau war eine mittelalterliche Verwaltungseinheit. Es lag im Viztumamt Lengenfeld in Bayern. Hauptort des Pflegamts war Hirschau im heutigen Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach in der Oberpfalz in Bayern.

Geschichte
Die Entstehungszeit des Pflegamts Hirschau lässt sich nicht mit Sicherheit festlegen. Herzog Otto II. teilte das gesamte herzogliche Gebiet in Ämter ein. Diese Neuordnung löste die Grafschaften, Herrschaften und Vogteien ab. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war Hirschau jedoch noch unter der Herrschaft der Grafen von Hirschberg. Erstmals erwähnt wurde das Pflegamt Hirschau in einem Urbar aus dem Jahr 1326.

Das Amt Hirschau bestand bis zum Jahre 1802. Am 24. März 1802 wurde es durch Verordnung dem Landgericht Amberg angeschlossen.

Gebiet des Pflegamts
Die Ausdehnung des Pflegamts beschreibt das Zins- und Gültbuch des Amtes aus dem Jahr 1605. Demnach gehörten zum Pflegamt Hirschau folgende Orte:
 Stadt Hirschau
 die Mühlen (obere Stadtmühle, die untere Stadtmühle, die Haidmühle, die Holzmühle, die Sorgmühle (Sargmühle), die Waldmühle sowie die Walkmühle im Braunshof bei der Stadt)
 Ehenfeld
 Massenricht
 Obersteinbach (seit 1563, in diesem Jahr von Pfalzgraf Friedrich gekauft und dem Amt Hirschau zugeschlagen)
 Rödles (Rödlas)
 Hoff of der Eben (Ebenhof)
 Drögleshof (Träglhof)
 Krüchlhof (Kricklhof)
 Untersteinbach
 Dörflein zum Khünles (Kindlas)
 Vorst (Forst, Ortsteil der heutigen Stadt Schnaittenbach)

Das Gebiet des Pflegamts grenzte im Norden und Nordosten an das Gemeinschaftsamt Parkstein-Weiden, im Westen und Süden an das Landrichteramt Amberg.

Die Pfleger
Sitz der Pfleger war das Pflegschloss Hirschau.

Einzelnachweise

Hirschau
Hirschau

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FLEAS are a serious problem I endured an infestation many years ago when one of my kids brought home a stray kitten….it was a memorable ordeal!
I have to admit that we flea bombed our apartment twice to rid our life of fleas, fleas are relentless; I understand why you do not want to use a bomb, the process is no easy and upsetting.
I am going to go through a series of steps that will help with the eradication of fleas.
First, fleas are a parasites, they feed off and need blood to multiple, so the action to keep them off your pet and out of your personal sleeping and resting space is the most important step!
Take care of your pets and spray yourself with personal insect control and get right to work on your home.
While working on your home remove your pets and bathe them or take them to a groomer and get a flea bath done, and invest in the best flea collar or flea treatment possible.
Strip your beds of all linens, and remove slipcovers and pillows on couches that can be washed, use hot water; wash essentially everything that you can including scatter rugs and dog beds. You can put linens into large trash bags until you was them, so not to contaminated freshly washed fabrics.
You did not write what kind of pets you have, but if it is a dog or cat and you have a beds for them, you can wash the bedding but I suggest you bag them and throw them away and get some new beds.
Once all fabrics, rugs, questionable flea, and egg hiding places are contained, vacuum everything: mattresses, bed frames, sofa chairs stairs, any creases or folds that eggs can be…then get rid of the vacuum bag, throw it outside into the trash barrel. Spray the carpets and rugs with Raid Carpet Flea Killer.
I suggest spraying the beds, mattresses and couches with Hot Shot Bed Bug and Flea spray, if you have heavy pleated drapes spray them as well.
Use Hot Shot Bed Bug and Fleas Spray to spray and crevices around the all the rooms perimeter.
Now start a prevention action, make sure your pet has a flea good collar, new bedding and set up some flea traps to capture any fleas that survived the cleaning, or to catch newly hatched fleas from eggs that may have been missed during the cleaning process.
Keep checking your pests for fleas, brush them often to check close to the skin for any live fleas. Your pets may be still scratching from flea bites that they already have, do not let that stop you from checking plus your pets are going through a lot, they need some reassurance that you are on the search to keep them well.
You need to be vigilant and keep searching for the signs of the presences of fleas, you do not want to start this process over and over. Keep a bottle of Bed Bug Flea and Killer handy from now on! Flea bites are terrible for you and your pets, you never want to go through this again!
Home Depot has many pet supply items for sale on line, check out this link to view the great selection.
See the next post from Travis, control fleas outside will also prevent fleas on the inside of your home...it is all very important!
Let us know how everything is going.
Flea control is serious business. Fleas have a multi-stage life cycle that involves a molting process for them to develop into adult insects. Egg, larvae, pupa and then adult.
Look for a product that contains an Insect Growth Regulator, or IGR that will kill insect larvae. This IGR is in addition to an insecticide that will kill adult fleas and many other insects. It's a one-two punch that will break the life cycle of fleas.
Where you apply this Flea Control is critical. You must apply the IGR indoors to every place the eggs will hatch. It should be applied to every square foot of carpet, rugs and cloth furniture. Apply it to the cracks and crevasses between sofa and chair cushions, as well as pet bedding and throw cushions.
Anywhere that a flea larvae can hide should be sprayed with a light mist of the flea control product. Use the aerosol on furniture and around bedding. The Ready to Use product is for the carpets and rugs. A garden sprayer can make the application easier on the carpets. If you wish, pour the gallon of spray into a pump sprayer and mist the carpets. It is ready to use, so don't dilute it.
For outdoors, use a Ready to Spray version that is equipped with a hose-end sprayer. Many outdoor insecticides will work, but the one that contains an IGR will work best.
Indoors, apply a fine mist to all of the surfaces that are conducive to larval development, such as upholstery, carpeting and rugs. These products do not stain and are safe to contact after they dry.
Insect Growth Regulators kill only the larvae, but the IGR will last for up to 7 months if the area remains dry. If "IGR" is not on the label, that product does not contain an Insect Growth Regulator and it will only kill adult insects, not their larvae.
Avoid contact while the product is wet from the application, including the outdoor spray in the yard.
Do not use these products on your animals. Consult your veterinarian for the safest products to use on your animals. Keep away from the sprayed areas until they have dried.


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Review | The Clean House: clean, but not clean-cut
Theatre Unbound, performing at the Gremlin, thru Nov 18
by Bronwen Chan • November 7, 2018 • 1 Comment
Theatre Unbound's production of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House (Theatre Unbound,performing at the Gremlin Theater until November 18) is only one of at least ten productions of this play in the country over the next four months. Some reasons why this play is well-loved, aside from its Pulitzer credentials: It's quirky, absurd, and poker-facedly funny.
The Clean House takes place in an all-white living room. The play opens with Matilde (played by Jasmine Porter who is very good at deadpan delivery) telling us a joke in Portuguese–untranslated. Matilde is a 27-year-old Brazilian woman who has been hired to be a live-in maid in the house of Lane (Lynda J. Dahl), a confident and successful doctor. The correct Brazilian pronunciation of "Matilde" is "Ma-chil-gee", but as usual, the Americans can't handle it, calling her "Matilda" (or some hilariously ignorant variations spun by Lane). Matilde doesn't like cleaning–she's more preoccupied with trying to think up the perfect joke. "A good joke cleans your insides out."
But there's Lane's sister, Virginia (Ellen Apel), who loves to clean–for the sake of "progress"–and scorns people like Lane who give up "the privilege of cleaning their own houses". Virginia easily persuades Matilde to let her clean Lane's house.
In Lane's home, a revelation is made about a new flame between Lane's surgeon husband, Charles (Craig Turino) and his patient, Ana (Laura Wiebers). The love between them is quite preposterous, even by our 21st-century Hollywood-influenced standards: it happens instantly; it prompts Charles to go to Alaska in search of a cancer-curing tree; it is deemed morally innocent according to Jewish law, even though none of them are Jewish.
It is among extremities such as these that Ruhl asks us to consider what limits we can and cannot exceed. Take Matilde's joke told in Portuguese, for example. It loses its humor in translation. The language barrier, then, seems impossible to overcome. However, there's some hope when Matilde and Ana, who is Argentinean, converse and laugh together in a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish. The beauty of this play exists at the verge of those limits.
TU's production also, interestingly, punctuates moments with a narrative voice-over, such as: "Lane and Virginia experience a primal moment during which they are seven and nine years old." This choice of director Carolyn Levy's is a helpful reminder that we don't need to take the world of this play too seriously. Example: did you know you could literally die laughing? Well, in the world that Ruhl has created, you can.
What also lends The Clean House its particular subconscious charm is that it passes the Bechdel test with flying colors. (Maybe that's partly why Theatre Unbound, whose tagline is "The Women's Theatre", chose to present this?) The women in the play, all four of them, rarely talk about men–they're talking about their aspirations, their motivations, and how they see themselves in the world. We actually enter the individual emotional psyches of these women, and that is a big part of what makes this play so enjoyable.
Over the course of the play, some characters get messy (kudos to Apel for performing a wonderful operatic mess), and The Clean House is not so clean in the end. Yes, the play makes us recognize that life is messy; however, in TU's production, the messiness of life seems conflated with the "messiness" of the play itself. The artists of TU do not appear to have surmounted the play's complexity: the actors deliver their rich monologues convincingly—however, without much supporting context around them to make the production a living and thinking piece of theatre. Nevertheless, it is a commendable attempt at presenting this play which surely deserves an audience.
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1 comment for "Review | The Clean House: clean, but not clean-cut"
Marion Wittenbreer
Loved this show when Mixed Blood did it about 10 (?) years ago. Made me respect Sarah Ruhl's touch with magical realism. Her "Eurydice" is on some ten best lists and is one of my favorite plays of the last 25 years.