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Navy Sails Into Supply Chain with Metal 3D Printing
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It is a beginning. The U.S. Navy builds and sails some of the world's largest and most powerful vessels and those vessels depend on a wide range of advanced systems and machinery to operate. Now, the Navy is moving toward advanced manufacturing of some of the smallest parts of the biggest ships, approving 3D printing of a drain strainer for a steam line on the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman.
Shipbuilders say it is the first step – one that was six years in the making - toward integrating additive manufacturing into the supply chain.
"The technology is disruptive, it is new, and it is growing quickly," said John Ralls, an engineering manager focusing on additive manufacturing for Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. "This is the first approval, the first domino to fall." ASME.org's Editor's Pick: Fight Climate Change, Build the Wall! Top Story: Using the Eyes of Killer Shrimp to Design a Super Camera Naval Sea Systems Commandlast year approved 3D printing of the part after a five- to six-year effort by HII to fully test and establish technical standards for fabrication. The strainer will be installed for a one-year test period. Ralls, while excited about the technology, said filling the knowledge gaps in the absence or limited development of 3D printing standards was a necessary building block in adoption of the technology.
"We took about five years to address the knowledge gaps," he said. "There was very little information. Which are the right standards to apply? There was a strong focus on technological rigor."
Navy and Marine Corps engineers are exploring new ways of integrating 3D printing into their day-to-day operations. Image: Navy.mil
HII worked with and later partnered with printer manufacturer 3D Systems to produce the part and develop appropriate standards. 3D Systems installed its ProX DMP 320 high-performance metal additive manufacturing system at the Newport News shipyard. It is capable of printing 3D metal, marine-based alloy parts for fabrication or castings.
Neal Orringer, 3D Systems vice president, says NAVSEA has lagged other services in instituting advanced manufacturing but it also presents different obstacles.
"We had to learn about our own unique maritime requirements," he said. "Shipbuilding has a host of different standards. One of the key challenges was to demonstrate repeatability and quality control while printing a part."
To do that, the developers relied on sensors developed by 3D Systems that can be placed directly into each layer of the printed object.
"We can track exactly how the part is being built, archive it and report every detail," Orringer said. "We can conduct inspections on each layer while it is being built."
While the strainer may be small, "It represents the first step in the process toward broader application," Ralls said. "Technical standards are not yet in place. We laid that foundation for future work."
There's a lot of future work at Newport News. Ralls notes the shipyard has some of the "most complex machinery on the planet" and the list of manufacturers and suppliers is long. One of the goals is to provide leadership to suppliers and accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing.
"Right now this is the tip of the iceberg in our industry," Ralls said. "We want to make sure they have the right level of rigor in their design and product."
The Navy has been using additive manufacturing for several years, but the use of 3D printed metal parts is a newer concept. The test articles passed functional and environmental testing, which included material, welding, shock, vibration, hydrostatic, and operational steam. They will continue to be evaluated while installed within a low-temperature and low-pressure saturated steam system. The prototype assembly will be removed for analysis and inspection after the test and evaluation period.
The Naval Air Systems Command already is moving toward greater implantation of 3D printed parts. In 2016, it successfully tested a 3D printed titanium engine nacelle link and attachment on a MV-22B Osprey. More recently, it used a 3D printed flip-top valve on a T-45 Goshawk breathing mask. The command said 300 valves were printed within one month, critical to a training program. It estimates some 1,000 parts have been approved for use across the fleet by the end of 2018.
Orringer notes that meeting marine standards required reworking some of the tools for parts fabrication. "Our machines result in close to zero oxygen content," he said. "Oxidation is a problem, and important when fighting corrosion."
As the partnership between Newport News Shipbuilding and 3D Systems continues, Ralls and Orringer are looking at a variety of metals and alloys.
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India's Vice Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Sarath Chand, a top Army general, argued that Pakistan had a better military industrial base and exports more defence equipment than India, as he came down heavily on ordnance factories which manufacture weapons for the forces. This came as a rare acknowledgement and praise from across the border; something rarely observed.
Lt. Gen. Sarath Chand also said the ordnance factories have not been able to keep pace with changing technology while "there is no competition whatsoever" and it is "an unsuccessful method of supporting our defence requirements", hinting towards a number of military defense deals that India had to make overseas.
Commenting on Pakistan, he said, "I would even go to the extent of saying that Pakistan probably has a better industrial base, as far as defence production is concerned, than our country. In fact they export defence equipment abroad, definitely more than what we are doing,".
He further argued, "It is very hard to see ordnance factories changing in the present state. Overall it has become an unsuccessful method of supporting our defence requirements," he said. Chand was speaking at the inaugural session of AMICON 2017, a two-day conference organised by the Army and the CII.
We have to say that such compliments would do a lot of good in the current tensions faced by both the countries, especially on the Line of Control.
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Parli Release #03: "Cultural Unity" (8/19/2019)
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LAS VEGAS -- Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a California man charged with sexually assaulting and strangling a Las Vegas woman at her home in January.
The Clark County district attorney's office made the announcement Wednesday. Derrick Valentine is charged with a count of murder and two counts of sexual assault in the Jan. 22 death of 35-year-old Melodie Walker. The 37-year-old Valentine has pleaded not guilty. A hearing in the case is set for April 7.
Valentine is from Pasadena, Calif. He's accused of killing Walker after she tripped a burglar alarm trying to escape during what Valentine allegedly told police was forced sexual contact. The coroner ruled Walker was strangled. Valentine is being held at the Clark County jail.


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Red Cross Red Crescent welcomes Paris climate agreement, urges focus on 'most exposed, at risk, vulnerable'
12/12/2015 - by the IFRC
(This story is an IFRC press release issued this evening shortly after the historic climate agreement at COP 21 in Paris.)
As states taking part in the 'COP 21' climate talks adopted an agreement in Paris, the IFRC urged governments and partners to place communities already affected by climate change and those most at risk from it at the centre of implementation.
"The Paris agreement is a critical milestone that shows an appropriate balance between climate change mitigation and adaptation," said Garry Conille, IFRC Under-Secretary General for Programmes and Operations.
"We commend the decision-makers who overcame divisions to reach an outcome people in the world have been looking for and expecting as an absolute must."
COP 21 eventually recognized that climate risks are rising with potential unmanageable consequences for the planet, and with more and more people unable to gain or sustain decent and dignified living.
'Deep cuts'
"Our volunteers are standing on the front line and are witnessing how climate risks are disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable communities in in the world," said Mr Conille.
In 2014, 87 per cent of disasters were related to climate. Climate-related displacement affected more than 22 million people in 2013 and could potentially impact 250 million people by 2050.
"This agreement will need to be implemented with a view to placing the interests of the most vulnerable at its core," said Mr Conille.
"We need to invest in their resilience, help them to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change, and forestall future crises by promoting ambitious emissions reductions."
The final agreement aims at pursuing efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C and will hold it to well below 2°C.
"Deep cuts in emissions are needed to ensure we do not reach a point where adaptation to climate is not an option any more due to uncontrollable effects of rising temperatures," added Mr Conille.
'Resilience'
The Red Cross Red Crescent, operating through 190 National Societies and 160,000 local branches, commits to do its part to implement Paris agreement, building on the trusted presence in communities worldwide of some 17 million volunteers.
Mr Conille said: "The Red Cross and Red Crescent will always be there to assist affected people in times of crises – including in those communities that are most vulnerable, hardest to reach, or in conflict zones. But we much prefer to help prevent such crises from occurring in the first place.
"The Red Cross Red Crescent welcomes the emphasis on resilience as a central element of the agreement, notably of vulnerable groups and communities.
"This week we launched our One Billion Coalition for Resilience, which captures this ambition of scaling up partnerships to enable 1 billion people to take active steps towards reducing the risks that affect their lives and their vulnerability in the face of adversity, including climate change."
As COP 21 reaches agreement in Paris, President Hollande of France embraces Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, looks on. Ms Figueres tweeted: "Thank you President @fhollande for believing in, guiding & setting a high bar for the #ParisAgreement #COP21". (Photo: UNFCCC via Twitter)


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House of Lords Member: Drivers Like Hamilton May Have to Consider Boycotting F1 Race in Bahrain in Protest against Najah Yousif's Arrest
Bahrain Mirror: Formula One bosses have been accused of turning a "blind eye" to the plight of a woman jailed after protesting against the Bahrain Grand Prix, the American Sky News website said.
Najah Yousif's case escalated after refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi has urged Formula One fans to boycott this year's Grand Prix in Bahrain if she is not released.
Al-Araibi has changed into an international icon for the rights of refugees and intersection between sport and human rights, after being arrested in Thailand at the request of the Bahraini authorities. His arrest caused an international outcry, which ended after nearly 70 days of imprisonment by being released by the Thai authorities after being under severe pressure and in coordination with Bahrain that said it retracted from his pursuit there.
Najah Yousif was sentenced to 3 years in jail after protesting against the 2017 race on her Facebook page. Najah said she was beaten and sexually abused while in custody.
Lord Scriven, who was involved in the Al-Araibi case, said he will meet with Formula One bosses next week.
Scriven told the Sky News that drivers like Britain's five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton may have to consider boycotting the race. "The first port of call is the Formula One organizers itself but if they continue to hold the race there, drivers like Lewis Hamilton may have to consider a boycott," he said,
The Guardian newspaper revealed in November that Formula One admitted to having "concerns" about Yusuf's case. However, in a letter to Human Rights Watch and the Bahraini Institute of Rights and Democracy (Bird) on Monday, F1 said it had been assured Yusuf's conviction "had nothing to do with peaceful protest around the Bahrain grand prix".
Bahrain was widely criticized for its pursuit of refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi, who had previously criticized the regime. He spent two months in a Thailand jail after Bahrain issued a red notice through Interpol for his extradition before they eventually relented under huge political pressure.
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import android.content.Context;
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import android.util.Log;
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Over half a million fans logged on to the Web to watch the thrilling final game of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, according to CBS—which enjoyed another record setting year for its live video March Madness on Demand platform.
Monday's (Apr. 5) game, which saw Duke squeak by Cinderella Butler, drew a total of 575,000 unique users to MMOD, a surge of 70 percent versus last year. A record total of 8.3 million uniques streamed at least part of the 2010 tournament, as hoops fans streamed over 11.7 million total hours of live audio and video footage—an increase of 36 percent.
In addition, the newly enhanced MMOD "Boss Button"—which allowed users at work to hide their workday viewing of the tournament—generated 3.94 million clicks (42 percent more than the 2009 tournament).
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It's been so very long since I have written, so very, very, long.
I never stopped writing, observing, and learning. It was not captured by tapping the keys on a keyboard but rather by making mental notes from analyzing the last nine years, all that lead to my fall, and allowing, sometimes kicking and screaming, myself to look into my soul, see myself for exactly who I am, a flawed human that erratically ran from deeply embedded traumas and in doing so gravely damaged those I love most.
Did I do it intentionally? Of course not, I would never intentionally hurt the ones whose hearts mean the world to me but hurt them I did. The wounds run deep and will hopefully heal allowing the restoration and reconciliation of all involved.
I told my husband over and over, when I began to fracture, that I was not running from him, or our children, but how could any of them believe what I said when they were the ones incinerated as they witnessed the unspeakable actions of the one they looked to for stability?
At that time I didn't know from what I was running. I only knew I felt as though I was drowning, and my world was imploding. I sought distractions from the pain within my core but the flames only intensified and the disarray of my thoughts and actions worsened.
After the flames destroyed me, and all I held, and still hold, dear, I found myself in a pile of ash, scared, alone, and broken. I found myself in exactly the place, I believe, God needed me to be so He could build me back into be the woman, the mother, and the wife, He had intended for me to be all along.
After my destruction I was able to step back and go through madness to find myself and what was torturing my soul. These past few years have allowed me to walk out of the flames that were burning in the depths of my being and face the immense fear of acknowledging, feeling, and dealing with, the multiple traumas, purposely hidden events of times long past, and haunting flashbacks, that at the time, I couldn't piece together.
Bit by bit, day by day, sometimes minute by minute I fought to survive. I, with the help of intense therapy and the loss of all I held dear, forced myself to relive, face, and feel, the intense pain I had buried so long ago. I realized that each event I buried, each event I blocked, each event I refused to acknowledge because of fear, never went away. What it did was build, and intensify, until I was too weak to continue on and it took me down without me realizing what, or why, the fall that destroyed my world occurred.
I now know, by the Grace of God, the fact that events I had once blocked from my memory, things I chose to bury, that I allowed Satan's greatest tool, fear, to take, not only me, but my family as well, into the pits of hell.
Today I can honestly say that I fought back, not always by myself, but I did the one thing Satan didn't want me to do, I faced my fears, my shortcomings, my failures, my mistakes, my bad choices, and by doing so, by facing my fears and admitting them, I have allowed my Creator to take the pile of ash I found myself in and mold me into the person He wants me to be.
By my choice of ignoring my fears, by not confronting my failures, or admitting how very flawed I am, I allowed the downfall of my family to occur. Yes, there were other things that were involved in the mix, but I am taking responsibility of all I allowed to happen, I am taking responsibility for the destruction of my family.
Do I regret what happened? Most certainly I do. I regret, and mourn for, what happened to those I love so very much. For me, what I went through, what I lost, what I learned, I regret nothing, for it taught me more than I could have ever have learned had it not happened and I am okay with that.
I am peaceful, I am confident, I am joyful, and I am so very thankful to serve a God that loves me so much that He alone brought me through those times. He provided what I needed most at the very times I needed it. He placed people in my life that He used to shape me. He brought me home. Should I regain what I lost the glory will be His, should I not, I can truthfully say I, even though saddened, I am at peace for the first time in many years, and that alone is a great testimony to His healing powers.
The days of running from my fears are gone. The ability to face them head on is a feeling that is not one easily described but it is amazing.
Where I stand today, being able to admit, to see, to face my fear, is only by the Grace of God and to Him be the glory.


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RefuAid: A practical response to forced migration.
On Thursday 11th January, as part of our 14th series of Evening Talks, Anna Jones & Tamsyn Brewster, co-founders of RefuAid, came to the bank. They shared the remarkable story of how they empower refugees in Greece and the UK to regain their lost independence. The current refugee response creates aid dependency, is expensive and unsustainable; $803 million dollars has already been injected into Greece, and yet the situation has seen no improvement. Anna and Tamsyn realised that a different approach was needed. RefuAid focuses on long-term, sustainable solutions based around four channels: housing, education, language and employment.
They shared their experiences from Lesbos, an island at the heart of the current refugee crisis. At the moment, any new arrivals to Greek shores are kept in refugee camps which greatly hinder their chance of regaining independence and stability. Shockingly, one third of all refugees had skilled employment in their home countries, but 82% of refugees remain unemployed in Europe. RefuAid offers language classes and interest-free equal-access loans which give skilled refugees the chance to take re-qualification exams. This enables them to continue their previous professions while here in Europe, when this would otherwise be unobtainable for financial reasons. Re-qualified doctors, lawyers, auditors and neurosurgeons are just some of the refugee success stories shared. The continued work of RefuAid allows refugees to take back agency over their lives and integrate into European society.


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Mei Mei's grandpa is practicing tai chi in the garden, and Mei Mei is eager to join in. As Gong Gong tries to teach her the slow, graceful movements, Mei Mei enthusiastically does them with her own flair. Then Mei Mei takes a turn, trying to teach Gong Gong the yoga she learned in school. Will Gong Gong be able to master the stretchy, bendy poses?
Winner of Lee & Low's New Voices Award, A Morning with Grandpa celebrates, with lively spirit and humor, the special bond between grandparent and grandchild and the joy of learning new things together. Readers of all ages will want to try out some tai chi and yoga too!
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was inspired to write this story by the playful and loving relationship between her children and their Gong Gong. Before devoting herself to writing and illustrating children's books, she worked as an environmental lawyer at the US Department of Justice and the nonprofit group Oceana. She lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with her husband and their two daughters. This is Sylvia's debut picture book.
is a full-time illustrator known for her colorful images and joyous style. Born and raised in sunny California, She was inspired to become an illustrator by her many visits to Disneyland and by watching hours of cartoons as a child. Today she still watches cartoons for inspiration for her illustrations! Christina lives with her husband, son, daughter, and two dogs in California.


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An Analysis of 'Stairway to Heaven', Part 1: Overview
Earlier, I blogged about organic development in 'Good Times Bad Times'. It's an extremely sophisticated song, at least from a structural standpoint. There's no way they could top that, right?
WRONG – They were just getting started! If you thought the organic development and structure of 'Good Times Bad Times' was sophisticated, then the expanded and elaborated use of both in 'Stairway to Heaven' will blow your mind.
Now, many people before me have analyzed 'Stairway', and the vast majority of them strike me as deeply problematic.
Most analyses oversimplify by differentiating sections that are clearly and strongly related. This robs the music of its organic development.
Others try to over-complexify (I'm might be making up that word), as if their spectacularly arcane analysis will somehow make the music better. Yes, this is an extremely sophisticated (and to my knowledge unique) design for a song, and so it absolutely requires analysis that does justice to its nuances. But I have major problems when analyses are more complicated than the subject being analyzed. The point of analysis is to better understand that which is being analyzed. And if the analysis is more thorny than the subject, then that analysis only inhibits rather than facilitates understanding.
The trick, then, is balance – don't make the analysis so simple that it misses the musical sophistication, but don't make it unnecessarily complicated, either. With that caveat in mind, here's my take on 'Stairway to Heaven'.
0:00-0:54 (A) Introduction (16 measures)
0:00 (a) |a E/g# |C/g D/f# | FM7 |a | [instrumental]
0:27 (b) |C D |FM7 a |C G |D | [instrumental]
0:40 (b') |C D |FM7 a |C D |FM7 | [instrumental]
0:54-1:48 (A) Verse 1 (16 measures)
0:54 (a) |a E/g# |C/g D/f# | FM7 |a | "There's a lady..."
1:07 (a) |a E/g# |C/g D/f# | FM7 |a | "When she gets..."
1:21 (b) |C D |FM7 a |C G |D | "Ooo..."
1:34 (a & b') |C D |FM7 a |C D |FM7 | "There's a sign..."
1:48-2:40 (A') Verse 2 (8 measures)
1:48 (a) |a E/g# |C/g D/f# | FM7 |a | "In the tree..."
2:15-2:40 Transition A 1 (8 measures)
2:15 (c) |a |D | "Makes me wonder..."
2:21 (c) |a |D | [instrumental]
2:27 (c) |a |D | "Makes me wonder..."
2:40-3:31 (B) Verse 3 (17 measures)
2:40 (a & d) |C G |a |C G |a | "There's a feeling..."
2:52 (a & d') |C G |a |C G |a |C G | "In my thoughts..."
3:31-3:55 (B) Verse 4 (9 measures)
3:31 (a & d) |C G |a |C G |a | "And it's whispered..."
3:42 (a & d') |C G |a |C G |a |C G | "And a new day..."
4:20-4:45 (C) Verse 5 (9 measures)
4:20 (d & e) |C G |a |C G |a | "If there's a bustle..."
4:31 (d & e') |C G |a |C G |a |C G | "Yes, there are two paths..."
5:08 (d & e) |C G |a |C G |a | "Your head.."
5:19 (d & e') |C G |a |C G |a |C G | "Dear lady..."
5:35-5:56 Transition B 1 (8 measures)
5:35 (f) |Dsus4 | D |C | | [instrumental]
5:46 (f') |Dsus4 | D |C |G/b | [instrumental]
5:56-6:45 (D) Solo (20 measures)
(g) |a G |F | x10
6:45-7:47 (D) Verse 7 (18 measures)
6:45 (g) |a G |F | "As we wind..."
6:50 (g) |a G |F | "Our shadows..."
6:54 (g) |a G |F | "There walks..."
6:59 (g) |a G |F | "Who shines..."
7:04 (g) |a G |F | "How everything..."
7:08 (g) |a G |F | "And if you listen..."
7:13 (g) |a G |F | "The tune will come..."
7:18 (g) |a G |F | "When all are..."
7:22 (g) |a G |F | "To be a rock..."
7:47-8:02 Coda "And she's buying..."
With the overview complete, it's time for a detailed look at each of the individual component parts that comprise the song. I plan to dedicate one blog to each section over the next week or two.
Aaron Krerowicz, pop music scholar
An informal but highly analytic study of popular music.
AABA Form
Asymmetric Rhymes
Augmented Sixths
Beck's Bolero
Brian Hebert
Bring It On Home
Chordal Accretion
Christopher Doll
Functional Harmony
Good Times Bad Times
Half-diminished Sevenths
Hexatonic Pole
Houses Of The Holy (song)
Howlin Wolf
How Many More Years
Led Zeppelin (album)
Led Zeppelin (band)
Led Zeppelin II (album)
Led Zeppelin III (album)
Led Zeppelin IV (album)
Multifunctional Harmony
Organic Development
Physical Graffiti
Rhythmic Displacement
Rock N Roll Animal
Smokestack Lightning
Sour Girl
The Small Faces
The T-Bones
Welcome To The Machine
When The Levee Breaks
Whole Lotta Love


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Silent shame killing tradies
HALT founder Jeremy Forbes wants to tackle the massive and unspoken issue of suicide in the construction industry.
by Shannon Molloy
12th Oct 2018 12:13 PM
THE last time Jeremy Forbes saw his fellow tradie mate Pete alive in 2013, the normally quiet metal worker was uncharacteristically bubbly.
Two weeks later, Pete was dead after taking his own life at his home in Castlemaine in country Victoria.
At the wake a few days later, a shell-shocked Mr Forbes was standing with a few mates, looking around the room packed full of construction workers, when someone uttered two words that shook him to his core.
"Who's next?"
Suicide rates among young tradies are 2.3 times higher than for other men, and a construction worker is around 10 times more likely to take their own life than die in a workplace accident.
Those in the industry know it happens but no one talks about it, Mr Forbes explained, let alone express their own feelings if they're struggling.
"I looked around the room that day and I could see guys who I knew were struggling," he recalled.
"But because of that culture of 'be stoic, be strong and suck it up', no one ever says anything. You just watch them go into that tunnel. And even if someone did admit they were struggling, what do you say? I didn't know."
News.com.au is highlighting men's mental health issues as part of our campaign The silent killer: Let's make some noise in support of Gotcha4Life and the Movember Foundation.
Gotcha4Life is dedicated to an in-school program which helps educate young men about resilience and the importance of friendships and a scholarship program with Lifeline, which aims to train more male counsellors - better appealing to men in crisis.
Suicide rates among young tradies are 2.3 times higher than other men. Picture: Jack Tran
Mr Forbes said he had an "epiphany" at the wake, from which HALT was born - his charity Hope Assistance Local Tradies.
If blokes find it tough to talk about their feelings or ask for help when the darkest of dark clouds descend, Mr Forbes said tradies find it damn near impossible.
"You don't sit around a building site and mention that you're depressed or anxious or in a rough patch," he said.
"The masculine, macho tradie culture makes blokes afraid to talk about anything for fear of being judged or seen as being weak, and so you push it down and down."
The physical demands of the job, coupled with a general instability of work and finances, means those in construction juggle a lot of potentially negative forces.
"Not dealing with things often manifests itself in gambling, alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, relationship breakdowns, bad financial choices … so many awful things.
"For many men, one day the dam wall bursts. It's kind of a perfect storm of factors."
The focus of HALT is to bring tradies together at a grassroots, community level to have a yarn, enjoy some free food and then, subtly and without too much fuss, give them a bag full of pamphlets for support services.
Mr Forbes held his first event shortly after his mate Pete's death in the timber yard of a local hardware store.
"We called it the 'save your bacon breakfast' and put on bacon and egg rolls and had blokes come along. There was a bit of a social vibe so there was no pressure. Then everyone went away with a goodie bag."
Jeremy Forbes held his first HALT event in 2013 and since then has thrown 220 more across five states.
Some five years on, HALT has held more than 220 events across five states at hardware shops, TAFE colleges and sporting clubs.
They target apprentices just starting out through to industry veterans with decades of experience under their tool belts.
Events are held at the crack of dawn to catch people before work, in the evenings to get them on the way home, in classrooms between training and down at the oval at the end of footy training.
"Every event we've had, at least one tradie has come up to me after and told me about their suicide attempt. They've never felt empowered or supported before to talk about it. They feel huge shame. But then they see they're not the only one - that's an incredible impact.
"We were at a footy club recently and this young bloke came up and said he was struggling, really struggling, but he was going to book in with his doctor first thing the next day.
"It almost brought tears to my eyes."
HALT founder Jeremy Forbes says the impact of his events has been enormous, giving blokes a comfortable space to find out how to get help.
Mr Forbes has recognised that most men aren't aware of the plethora of support services available to help in times of crisis.
Or they simply need a bit of encouragement to be able to reach out - to know that they're not alone and that it's "OK to put your hand up".
"What we need to really help men is a connection in the community, in the spaces where men are and feel comfortable, to those support services. That's what HALT is trying to do - build a bridge between them."
HALT holding an event at Bendigo TAFE talking to apprentice tradies.
HALT operates without any state or federal funding, but Mr Forbes was the recipient of a Westpac Social Change Fellowship in 2016 that took him to the UK to work with not-for-profit experts and refine his organisation's goals.
"I was able to build stronger connections and learn a lot about how to keep things going," he said.
"And then I got a Westpac Community Grant this year for $10,000, which was a huge help."
It also gave HALT some major prominence and led to Mr Forbes being invited to give a TED talk about suicide in the construction industry.
His emotive presentation has been viewed online more than 1.1 million times.
"That's out of control. It's awesome. I hope people watch that and then go out and have conversations."
Construction workers are 10 times more likely to take their own lives than die in a workplace accident.
Mr Forbes still doesn't know why his mate Pete was so happy that day he saw him. That final 10-minute conversation - much longer than they normally spoke - still rings in his ears.
It's the same sort of questions he and other friends had at that wake back in 2013, for which there were few answers.
And it's those unanswered questions that continue to inspire Mr Forbes to do his bit for other men, even if it's an incredibly hard slog running a national charity.
"The pain of regret is far greater than the pain of hard work," he said.
If you or someone you know needs help, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au .
Find out more about the work of Gotcha4Life by visiting gotcha4life.org.
Graphic for news.com.au campaign The Silent Killer
editors picks men's health mental health tradies


TIP! Before any home improvement, consider the overall character of your neighborhood. A Victorian-styled home amongst a row of small, cute saltbox cottages stands out, and not in a good way.
Some people say home improvement is hard, but that's only true if you don't know the right way to do it. Home improvement is much simpler if you know how.The article contains some great information you get started.
TIP! If you have small holes in your wall from hanging paintings or pictures, use spackle and paint to make your walls look new again. You can buy spackle at any home improvement store.
Think about what room you want to work on first.Plan ahead of time and keep an eye out for deals.Planning ahead is an excellent way for you to save money in your home.
TIP! The addition of a bathroom to the home can increase the value of your home. Two bathrooms can be very useful if they are connected to different bedrooms, for instance.
Think about your improvments before you do it.A plan is essential for a designated time scale. Contractors will also be happier if you know what you want before construction starts.
TIP! When you get started on any home improvement project, do not be too quick to start demolition. It is important to make sure the walls are intact when taking down a cabinet.
Cover electrical outlets using aluminum foil before you paint the walls. It's less time intensive to use aluminum foil to protect outlet covers from spills and splatters. And it makes cleaning up a snap! Just remember to give the paint time to dry before you remove and recycle the foil off for recycling.
Try using something different rather than a simple pre-made coffee table. You could even want to add a tablecloth couple with teacups for a more country look.
If you are thinking about replacing a lock, you can just change out the cylinder if you want. The is the lock is what actually locks the door. If your key has been lost and you would like to change out the lock to ensure you're protected, you can replace the cylinder instead.
TIP! A beautifully crafted entrance door can potentially increase a home's value up to 10 percent. New hardware and a fresh coat of paint allow you to update your front door inexpensively.
TIP! When you are considering any major home improvements, look for "age-in-place" projects you can use in your home. Age-in-place is simply a design philosophy which takes into account how homeowners age while they own the house.
Focus on your entryway or porch if you are thinking about home improvements. Your porch makes the very first impression on when coming to your home. This helps add property value to your home.
Invest in a drain snake for your drains.It will save you from having to spend your money on expensive and toxic drain cleaners. Drain snakes aren't for people who are inexperienced, so you may want to have a plumber show you how to use it the first time. Snakes come in different sizes and lengths so measure your pipe.
TIP! Give the windows in your home a quick makeover by replacing those old, worn-out blinds. Blinds fade over time from the sun, or get damaged.
Stain basement floors in order to achieve a better look. Staining a less expensive way to greatly improve the look of your concrete floor is very cheap and stylish.Adding a stain also makes your floors more durable and improves their durability too. Choose one that add a shiny finish. Your floors will look like they cost more than ever.
TIP! Make sure that all safety precautions are followed while improving your home. Your home might feel too safe to do something like putting on a hardhat, but your opinion would soon change if you were to get hit by a loose hunk of plaster.
Most home improvement projects can be easy with the proper knowledge. Knowing what to do makes any project go more smoothly. Use this advice to start completing home improvement jobs.
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Arcana DVD
1972 ITALY Giulio Questi, Tina Aumont, Lucia Bosé, Renato Paracchi, Maurizio Degli Esposti
Directed by Giulio Questi
Starring Lucia Bosé, Maurizio Degli Esposti, Tina Aumont, Renato Paracchi
Written by Franco Arcalli, Giulio Questi
Arcana (1972) -- A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. His son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.
Unfortunately this is the CUT for TV version. The full uncut version is near impossible to find and to date I have not seen anyone who does have an uncut version. Even the director himself doesnt have an uncut version. If you have an uncut version of this I would love the opportunity to see it!
Arcana DVD is offered as a compact edition. This transfer is manufactured on demand and is presented on premium DVD-R with thermal disc print in a clear plastic wallet. Important: This title has been manufactured from the best-quality video master (rated 8/10) currently available and has not been remastered or restored.


Rick Miller was interviewed on our 27th episode of the Kyle Malnati Show on Wednesday, April 27, 2016! Rick is a Commercial Account Manager at Land Title Guarantee Co., Boulder Colorado branch. Rick holds more than two decades of experience in business development with a strong background in growing new business opportunities into successful, profitable revenue streams.
In the late 80's, Rick purchased his first investment property in Washington D.C., with his brother. "This was a disaster," said Rick. He had no strategy, no mentors and a below average management company. From this experience Rick learned quickly to seek out mentors and intentionally associate with successful real estate investors. "You have to learn to overcome challenges…learn from the $10,000 mistakes and not the $1 million mistakes," he said.
Rick is originally from Louisiana and is a father of three. He resides in Boulder with his wife Aimee and family. He owns 36 rental units and is the Commercial Account Manager at Land Title in Boulder.
– How crucial it is to have a mentor or team of advisers in this business?
– How do you handle failure through the real estate market's ups and downs?
– How do you leave a legacy by giving your kids hands-on involvement with real estate investing?
– You should always pay attention to the detail and know your limits.


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Category Archives: 2016
A year in bullshit
Another year of bad news, by which I mean news that was bad, and news that was conveyed badly, or with bad intentions, aimed at our lowest common denominators (fear, prejudice, envy). It's sweet that the Daily Mail began the year calling the New Year's Honours "TAINTED" because the Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, Jacqueline Gold, was given a CBE, and ended it with a bannered opinion by attack-columnist Sarah Vine in which the Honours were once again "tainted" by a successful woman being given an OBE, this time Victoria Beckham. It's good to know that some things never change.
I won't annotate all of these covers – I prefer to present them as a kind of "mood board" of the year, as viewed through the rheumy eyes of hate and business interests. When the Mail calls Tony Blair, after his chilling Chilcott testimony, "A MONSTER OF DELUSION," the paper's views coincide with my own; but on points, I generally feel nothing but revulsion for what the CAPITAL LETTERS spell out in the right-wing national press. Warning: even scrolling down this blog entry at speed and only glancing at the words might make you feel a bit sick in your mouth.
I tend to "collect" my favourite covers during the year, and it seems apt to hang them out to dry, not necessarily in any chronological order, just as they fall. Refrains will emerge, especially at the Express and Mail, which, on paper (which newspapers still are, for now), had a good year, with their preferred result on the EU and a rightwing president elected in the US. But still they wring their hands and clutch their pearls, oh, and hate women (especially the women).
Let's begin with my nomination for the worst front page of 2016. It has it all: ideological self-interest, overstatement, a slogan that's also an egregious pun ("BeLEAVE in Britain"), and a built-in full-page advert for itself, as the film Independence Day: Resurgence was released that very day and happens to be a 20th Century Fox Film Corporation production (whose parent company is 21st Century Fox, founded by Rupert Murdoch, who is it Executive Co-Chairman, as well as Executive Chairman of News Corp, which publishes the Sun). Talk about taking back control.
The rest is wallpaper. They used to call it chip paper, but I suspect health and safety have put paid to that tradition. Maybe when we actually leave the EU sometime this century, we can repeal it and take back control of whether or not we can eat our chips out of newsprint.
Let's start with a few damning indictments of Blair, one subject that seems to unite our entire printed media, and see where the capital letters take us.
To finish, two delectable examples of the Sun failing to grasp the gravity of death, knocking out a truly pathetic and insulting vandalism of his own verse to mark the sad passing of Muhammad Ali, and hoping its "ordinary" readers would despise the hereditarily blameless son of the Duke of Westminster enough to treat him as a source of class-war entertainment while at the same time advertising his eligibility ("Good news, girls, he's single!"), at a time when he will have still been grieving the death of his father.
And finally … a rare instance of a national newspaper adjusting its prejudices in the full glare of publicity: when the Times was "advised" before its second print run that to completely ignore the victory of the Hillsborough inquest on its cover in favour of the paper of record's "ultimate guide" to "status handbags" might be misconstrued as forgetful at best, and at worst, a subliminal editorial line on the verdict.
I fancy some chips.
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So, 2016 then. Everybody begins everything they say now with the prefix "So …", as if perhaps what they're about to say is a continuation of a previous statement, but actually isn't. I can't be the only person to have noticed this. You hear correspondents doing it when asked to comment on the news. You hear contestants doing it when they're asked to describe the dish they're about to prepare on Masterchef. Young people seem unable to start a sentence without it. It's a tick; more like a punctuation mark than a word – a deep breath if you like. Like "like" it has crept into common verbal usage (you'll note that nobody uses it in written text) and it means literally nothing, as with so much in contemporary dialogue.
So … it was way back in that prelapsarian age that was the second week in January when Squeeze, a band whose original members are around 60 years old, used a performance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show to protest against fellow guest, then-Prime Minister David Cameron.
They changed the lyrics of hit Cradle to the Grave to sing the line: "There are some here who are hell bent on the destruction of the welfare state," with that preening waste of space Cameron watching. Glenn Tilbrook also slipped in the line: "I grew up in council houses, part of what made Britain great."
It did not bring down the venal Tory government. In fact, the Tory government continued to destroy the welfare state, along with much else when it held a referendum without at any point thinking through what might happen if the British public voted "Non!" to staying in the European Union. Cameron did way more than kill the welfare state, he sleepwalked the electorate into an abyss, and then resigned five minutes after the votes had been counted so that he could spend more time with his money. The political picture has largely been dominated by quitting, and not quitting in the case of Jeremy Corbyn, who is Westminster's mystery man. They seek him here, they seek him there. I stuck with him for way longer than he deserved, if only to disavow his fellow Labour MPs who sought only to stab him in the back while Rome burned all around them. It has been a shoddy display from them all.
You'll note that 10 January, the day Squeeze made their valiant protest, is also the day David Bowie died, and with him, the universe. This year has been fucking awful. From Brexit to Trump, via Brietbart, post-truth, alt-right, fake news, black lives not mattering, saying that ice cream is gay, and acts of terror that almost became business as usual amid more unexpected deaths of the supremely talented than any other in living memory, the only response to the passing of 2016 is to say, "Fuck you!"
So, here are my books of the year.
What was once a refrain has hardened into a truth. Most of my reading happens between the covers of the New Yorker magazine, which has the temerity to arrive on a weekly basis on my doormat (and which feels even more vital since Trump was voted in). However, a nice man at the Mail on Sunday called Neil took it upon himself to send me three books to review in 2016, all of which I enjoyed. They are almost half the books I read. Of the other four, two are by people I know, but both stimulating in their particular fields. And the sixth and seventh are by people who write for the New Yorker, with roots in work they did for the New Yorker: Jeffrey Toobin and Clive James (one of the chapters in the delightful Play All is reprinted verbatim from the New Yorker).
I almost wrote a cover story for Radio Times, but – typically for 2016 – it was rightly superseded by a last-minute tribute to Victoria Wood, who had died. Interestingly, they left Peaky Blinders on the cover in the Midlands, and here it is.
Which takes us to the best telly. With Telly Addict cancelled by the Guardian in April, and revived by UKTV in June, I have spent a lot of the year watching television professionally. And these have been my personal TV shows of the year. Firstly, in pictures.
And here they are, in pointless list form.
1. The Crown, Netflix
2. Fleabag, BBC3/BBC Two
3. Versailles, BBC Two
4. Westworld, Sky Atlantic/HBO
5. The Young Pope, Sky Atlantic/HBO
6. Masterchef: The Professionals/Celebrity Masterchef, BBC Two
7. Line of Duty, BBC Two
8. Dickensian, BBC One (cancelled by idiots)
9. Happy Valley, BBC Two
10. The Missing, BBC Two
11. The People Vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, FX/Fox
12. Peaky Blinders, BBC Two
13. Trapped, BBC Four
14. The Great British Bake Off, BBC One
15. Gogglebox/Gogglesprogs, Channel 4
16. The Code, BBC Four/ABC
17. National Treasure, Channel 4
18. First Dates, Channel 4
19. Modern Life is Goodish, Dave
20. The Night Of, Sky Atlantic/HBO
Oh, come on. It's self-evident from here that these brilliant shows could be in any order:
Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic/HBO
Thirteen, BBC3/BBC Two
The A Word, BBC Two
The Knick, Sky Atlantic/Cinemax (season two aired at the end of 2015, but early 2016 here)
Deutschland 83, Channel 4
Mr Robot, Universal/Amazon Prime
Planet Earth II, BBC One
Taskmaster, Dave
Grayson Perry: All Man, Channel 4
Billions, Showtime, Sky Atlantic
Ballers, Sky Atlantic/HBO
Hypernormalisation, BBC iPlayer
The Durrells, ITV
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Sky Atlantic/HBO
Hillsborough: The Truth, BBC Two (updated after the inquest verdicts)
Brief Encounters, ITV (cancelled by idiots)
Rillington Place, BBC One
Parks & Recreation, Dave (ended in 2015 in the States, but this year, here)
Victoria, ITV
NW, BBC Two
Ripper Street, Amazon Prime/BBC Two
And a special nod to Escape to The Country (BBC One/BBC Two), the show whose 15 series exist forever on a loop, providing harmless dreams to people in towns and cities. Also, Top of the Pops (BBC Four), whose interrupted loop continues apace, racing through 1981 and 1982 this year, and giving constant pleasure to the musically disillusioned.
So … from music on TV to the best LPs. Like books, a finite field.
It's been a slow year for albums. Once again I've relied on 6 Music and Later for information and inspiration, with the added input this year of subscriptions to both Mojo and Uncut, whose compilations have been a source of joy, and helped create this Top 12 in no order. No single album put all the others in the shade, but without C Duncan's A Midnight Sun (and his previous album Architect, which we only cottoned on to this year; likewise Julia Holter's Have You In My Wilderness), Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool and Black Star by David Bowie, a few car journeys would have been less enjoyable. Nick Cave's beautiful, personal, dissonant dirge Skeleton Tree was hard to listen to, and hard to stop listening to. The Kills did it again. And Kate Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos has proven impossible to listen to on headphones while simultaneously reading, as it demands your full attention. I like that about it. Dickensian was my favourite TV score LP of the year (the show sadly cancelled), and A Tribe Called Quest's We Got It From Here … comeback the only hip-hop record I've listened to from one end to the other.
For self-evident reasons, I spent much of my waking life listening to film scores, old and new, and doing so has brought peace to my soul. If you're interested in my Top 10 Film Soundtracks of 2016, and my Top 10 Videogame Soundtracks of 2016, click on these Classic FM links.
Now, my other day job: films.
I'm always torn as to whether or not to put my favourite films in a numbered list. It always seems so arbitrary. My ongoing system is this: I put an asterisk next to every film I see that's in some way exceptional, and of the 223 films I've seen for the first time in 2016 (not all of them films released in 2016), around 80 are starred, although my Top 10 was easy enough to cordon off. The bulk of the films I see as a rule are in English, but the ones that often stand out and stay with me are not. Six out of the Top 10 are English-language (one of them, The Witch, in 17th century English); the others are not. It's good to see so many unfamiliar names of directors so high up; I don't believe I had ever typed Grímur Hákonarson, László Nemes or Robert Eggers in previous years, and they made my Top 3 films – and two of those are debuts! Pete Middleton and James Spinney, who co-directed the unique Notes on Blindness, a stunning film, don't have Wikipedia entries, and neither does their film. I have to say, without Curzon cinemas and, more pertinently, Curzon Home Cinema, this list would be considerably less colourful and varied.
1. Rams | Grímur Hákonarson (Iceland/Denmark)
2. Son of Saul | László Nemes (Hungary)
3. The Witch | Robert Eggers (US/Canada)
4. Spotlight | Tom McCarthy (US)
5. I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach (UK/France/Belgium)
6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Gareth Edwards (US)
7. Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Turkey)
8. Embrace of the Serpent | Ciro Guerra (Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina)
9. The Clan | Pablo Trapero (Argentina)
10. Notes on Blindness | Pete Middleton, James Spinney (UK)
11. The Childhood of a Leader | Brady Corbet (UK/France)
12. Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi (Italy)
13. Life, Animated | Roger Ross Williams (US)
14. Hail Caesar! | Joel Cohen, Ethan Coen (US)
15. The Survivalist | Stephen Fingleton (UK)
16. Victoria | Sebastian Schipper (Germany)
17. Arrival | Denis Villeneuve (US)
18. I Am Not a Serial Killer | Billy O'Brien (Ireland/UK)
19. Paterson | Jim Jarmusch (US)
20. Chi-Raq | Spike Lee (US)
21. The Revenant | Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu (US)
22. The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino (US)
23. I Am Belfast | Mark Cousins (UK)
24. Wiener-Dog | Todd Solondz (US)
25. Cemetery of Splendour | Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
26. Sully | Clint Eastwood (US)
27. Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
28. Green Room | Jeremy Saulnier (US)
29. Things to Come | Mia Hansen-Love (France/Germany)
30. Room | Lenny Abrahamson (Ireland/Canada)
Thanks to my continuing tenure at the helm of Saturday Night at the Movies on Classic FM once again I was lucky enough to speak at length to these people about film music this year.
It has been a terribly busy year, and I did not get out to art exhibitions. Which makes Georgia O'Keeffe at Tate Modern a rare and thrilling treat. In the perfect pairing below, you can see O'Keeffe's painting of the same Manhattan view captured in a photograph by her then-husband Alfred Stieglitz, one of the many illuminations in the way the exhibition was laid out.
I went to the theatre twice and loved both productions I saw.
Hangmen at the Wyndhams in London's shittering West End by Martin McDonagh (whose film In Bruges I loved), a terrific black comedy about the last days of hanging, with David Morrissey as Britain's last hangman, now running a boozer. The cast was further ennobled by Craig Parkinson, Andy Nyman, Johnny Flynn and Sally Rogers, and newcomers Bronwyn James and Josef Davies – not to mention the ingenious set. Because I know David and Craig, I met them for a drink afterwards in a theatre hangout and bathed in the cast's glow. It must be tough doing the same thing at the same level of intensity every night. Mind you, they may not have any lines to learn, but we must give thanks to the dancers from Matthew Bourne's company who threw themselves hither and thither in the name of bringing that beloved Powell and Pressburger film-about-a-ballet The Red Shoes to Sadlers Wells and turning it back into a ballet-about-a-ballet. This was our Christmas treat. It may not have been Christmassy – in fact, as you may know, it's a tragedy – but it lit advent up all the same. I love watching dance. It's not just the sight, it's the sound of their physical exertion that makes it so special. Watching it on telly just doesn't capture it.
In terms of live entertainment, I was privileged to see Billy Bragg and Joe Henry premiere their Shine A Light album at St Pancras Church in London in August. It's a fine item to own, but seeing and hearing it essayed up close and personal was a rare pleasure. I've hosted a number of panels and Q&As, which means I was lucky to meet a whole host of interesting people in the arts: James Buckley, Paul Kaye, Louise Emerick and Ken Collard from the Dave sitcom Zapped; Maxine Peake and the original stars of The Comic Strip Peter Richardson and Nigel Planer for their latest escapade Red Top, also featuring Stephen Mangan and Eleanor Matsura; plus, the entire cast and crew of Peaky Blinders on two occasions: at the press launch and at the BFI (greedy!), an association with an ongoing show that I've loved being an ephemeral part of.
It was a hell of a year. Enough to turn your hair grey. George Michael, Liz Smith and Carrie Fisher finished off the year in the manner in which it began. I was glancing down the UK "trending" topics late on Christmas Day and felt warm inside when I double-checked that all ten were related to telly programmes, on the telly. No capital cities, no celebrity names, no hashtags that began with #PrayFor. I went to sleep before 11pm satisfied that we'd made it through one day at least without the death knell tolling. I woke up on Boxing Day to the news that George Michael had been found dead, alone, at his home, the previous afternoon.
Feast, if you can, on all the amazing art and culture that was produced by the still-alive in 2016. It has to give us hope that perhaps the human race en masse isn't hellbent on self-destruction, just a toxic few.
I am slightly fearful of pressing the "PUBLISH" key with three days left to go. But nobody ever won Masterchef that way.
Inevitable Postscript: Debbie Reynolds, died a day after her daughter, on December 28, aged 84.
Posted in 2016 | Tagged . Sky Atlantic, art, BBC One, BBC Two, BBC1, BBC3, Books, Channel 4, comedy, David Bowie, documentary, drama, film, ITV, LPs, music, painting, Politics, records, sitcom, TV, TV shows | 17 Replies
Your country needs EU
Posted on June 3, 2016 by Andrew Collins
Nigel Farage, a man who is not even an MP, and whose party only has one MP in the House of Commons, is the most influential politician in Britain. Farage need only sit in a snug bar somewhere on the Kent coast, telling stories of his days as a commodities broker to other members of his golf club over a succession of pints, between now and the EU referendum vote on June 23 and his supreme power will be unabated. He did this.
Welcome to Europe: The Final Countdown. Our dearly beleaguered Prime Minister, David Cameron, sort of accidentally made a manifesto pledge before the general election to hold an EU referendum in this parliament, solely to stop those on the right of the Tory vote from emigrating to UKIP, whose leader continues to be the kind of bloke you'd like to have a pint with, something no Tory can claim to imitate. If ever a man can congratulate himself on undue national and international influence from a position of relative electoral obscurity, it's Nigel Farage, without even being electable in South Thanet in 2015, where the oast houses have spikes mounted on them to repel parachuting foreign invaders. Farage has forced the Conservatives to hold a referendum that their leader, their chancellor, and 25 members of their 30-member cabinet did not want to hold. Well done, Nigel. Mine's an imported European lager.
And yet opinion across the country – crucially among the tiny percentage of the electorate who will bother to drag their arses out of bed on June 23 to place their democratic cross in one of two boxes and change the future of the country forever – still seems evenly split. In which case, there is a very real chance that this country will vote to leave the European Union after 43 years of membership, in a couple of weeks' time because of one powerful, elected politician's fear of another one, whose only mandate is to be a member of the European Parliament he wants not to be a member of with every fibre of his being . The whole thing is a giant pisstake. And the joke's on us.
We have the sitting government, "officially" neutral but no such thing, with its electoral mandate, desperately trying to get the voters of Great Britain and Gibraltar to vote "remain". (I am a big fan of lettuce, and I wish to vote "Romaine".) But some rather noisy and famous members of the Tory bloc – including one of the noisiest men in Britain, Boris Johnson; the ghoulish IDS; the one who can't stop laughing, Michael Gove; the man with a cardboard box full of his belongings ready on his desk, John Whittingdale; grey Chris Grayling; entitled Zac Goldsmith (who has gone mysteriously quiet since throwing the London Mayoral election away by pretending to like Bollywood films when he hasn't seen one); Liam Fox; Priti Patel; and assorted former Chancellors now in the Lords – are currently, and persuasively, filling their compliant parish magazines ie. the Eurosceptic news media (specifically: the Times, the Telegraph, the Sun, but most pantingly the Mail, the Express) with stories of "CRISIS", "HARM", "INVASION" and "EU KILLERS AND RAPISTS", which work on a very primal level, and have little to do with the "leave" campaign's refrain, "We want to make our own laws, and not have them made for us by a coterie of cheese-eaters in Brussels." They have largely to do with fear. Fear of foreigners, specifically Turks and Albanians currently. Fear of invasion. Fear of our "way of life" being threatened by boatloads of Bulgarian pickpockets.
A sensible debate needs to occur on immigration, and our role in the current global displacement crisis. But there's no time to do this properly between now and June 23, which is under three weeks away. And while Cameron fairly sensibly but never passionately states the case, as he did over and over again on Sky's EU Debate last night to an audience who wouldn't stop shouting out before the roving mic arrived, that leaving the single market would damage the UK economy (something most economists pretty much agree on in principle), it's not getting through to those in zero-hours jobs or less-than-zero-hours no-jobs, or indeed those in actual jobs that don't cover the cost of living ("the working poor" is a phrase that should strike fear into the hearts of all of us). Or people who live on the south coast. One photo of a row of tents battered by the coastal winds on a clifftop in Calais, each one containing at least one Albanian with an eye on the coffee shops of Dymchurch, beats a hundred statements from the Treasury or letters in the Telegraph signed by a slimy coterie of CEOs.
Personally, I'd stay in, if only for the employment rights enshrined into European law that the Johnson regime would rip up within days of entering Parliament. I have nothing personal to gain from the EU, but it feels better to be in it than not in it. This country is small-minded and insular enough already, without literally becoming an island. (It was during the dangerous George W Bush years that I really started to believe in Europe as a necessary political counterweight to US neocon insanity – which hasn't exactly gone away, has it?) I have no love of the financial services industry, or of "big business", and I certainly have no love of David Cameron and his chums, and as such it feels weird to agree with them on anything, but that's how I feel in my bones. I despise the Tories. But I actually fear Boris and the "leavers". And if there's one thing that seems to be driving this debate, it's fear.
Posted in 2016, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged bullshit, Daily Express, Daily Mail, democracy, EU, EU Referendum, Europe, fear, Leave, Remain, Tories, vote | 2 Replies
The king is dead
Posted on May 31, 2016 by Andrew Collins
Here are the facts. While his parents weren't looking, a small boy accidentally fell into the moat of a gorilla enclosure at a zoo. The gorilla showed great interest in the boy, who was conscious. He made as if to protect and guard the boy. Keepers and a member of an ambulance crew entered the enclosure and removed the boy. The gorilla kept its distance. No animals were harmed in the making of this new story.
It happened in 1986, at Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of the same name, these days rebranded Durrell Wildlife Park after its famous founder, conservationist Gerald Durrell (whose early life was recently dramatised on ITV in The Durrells). I happened to be in Jersey that summer, working on a bursary art project and capturing the holiday island in drawings, photographs and collages. I wasn't at the zoo on that day – although had been in the course of my research – but it was big news, nationally and internationally. To me it all felt very local, and I painted a picture of the 25-year-old male gorilla Jambo protecting the five-year-old male human, Levan Merritt, which I wish I had access to. With YouTube, social media, citizen journalism and mobile phones still years into the next century, it's amazing that this potentially dangerous event was captured at all, but it was, thanks to an American with a camcorder from the future. (An American news report has been loaded to YouTube here. It's quite distressing to watch, as the spectators are powerless to help and the poor boy is clearly in pain and distress from the fall, but Jambo behaves impeccably. A simian babysitter.
I don't know if it's just health-and-safety culture, or American fear of litigation or bad publicity in the iPhone age, but things played out very differently at Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday when the exact same thing happened. This time, it was a four-year-old, who also slipped into the moat while his parents weren't looking and was immediately attended to by Harambe, a 17-year-old silverback gorilla. It's interesting to compare the Cincinnati phone footage to the Jersey film. In both cases, the ape reacts the same way, with curiosity and an apparent protectiveness. In Cincinnati, onlookers squeal and overreact, as if they're on America's Got Talent. In Jersey, in the mid-80s, they remain stoic and calm, and it's only when the boy starts to cry that his mother becomes hysterical in her helplessness – ironically, the boy's cries send the gorillas away, leaving the paramedic and keepers to step in. In Cincinnati, of course, the endangered silverback was shot dead.
I was captivated by animals as a boy. As such, I was captivated by zoos, where I could see those animals face to face. I was taken to Whipsnade, Woburn Abbey and London Zoo. I loved seeing big cats, elephants and other large African and Indian mammals, especially rhinos and hippos. Their size sent shivers down the spine. I respected the animals, and was in awe of them, and my tiny brain was not sophisticated enough to spot the irony of my awe: I was seeing these beautiful creatures hundreds of miles away from where they lived. They had been caught, kidnapped, incarcerated, imprisoned, enslaved. David Attenborough recently bookended some unearthed colour footage from three 1950s episodes of Zoo Quest, in which he travelled the wild tracking tasty-looking exotica to take back to London Zoo; he described what he was doing as "kidnapping" and felt some shame. I feel the same way about my willing participation as a visitor to zoos.
I understand that zoos now operate fully under the banner of "conservation" and have put their exploitative Victorian pasts behind them, working with charities and other selfless organisations to improve their image. Zoos no longer seem to want to be called zoos; they're "parks" and "gardens" and "experiences" that "conserve" endangered species. But in doing so, however noble a cause that may seem, they must also put them on display for public pleasure and as gift-shop bait. They breed wild animals in captivity because it keeps the numbers up in a less hospitable natural world. But you'll never convince me that animals bred away from their natural habitat is a good thing. I was thrilled to see a hippo, close up, in a stinky looking pond at Whipsnade Zoo as a schoolboy. But a hippo shouldn't have been in Dunstable.
I suspect that everyone who works in a zoo loves animals. You'd have to. I cast no aspersions on the people who work with animals, or even the administrators of zoos. And I make a moral exception for sanctuaries for rescued, orphaned or injured creatures that are sited in the home country of the animals themselves. I just think we ought to move on from zoos as animal theatre. No more dolphin displays, please. No more feeding time. Cincinnati Zoo's YouTube channel is currently hyping a future attraction, which is a massive enclosure for two hippos. Hippos shouldn't be in Ohio either. I saw a massive polar bear in the tiny zoo in New York's Central Park. I could barely believe what I was seeing. "Wrong" doesn't describe it. Leave them be.
The silverback is an endangered species. As are the eastern gorilla, the mountain gorilla and the western gorilla, threatened by human destruction of their natural habitat, and human commerce around bushmeat. (The Ebola virus also kills gorillas in central Africa.) They face extinction from many quarters. Some might argue that giving them a safe home in a zoo is better than leaving them to the poachers. I say go the source. We're endangering them. Let's stop doing that.
Because shooting a blameless gorilla dead in a zoo designed to conserve it may be the saddest irony I have ever heard.
Posted in 2016, news, Uncategorized | Tagged animals, apes, Daily Mirror, gorillas, guns, zoos | 4 Replies


If you find a good utility, it's always a good idea to find a back up in case the startup goes belly up. I've posted in the past about SimilarSites. But, what if that tool suddenly disappears? That's when you might want to look at the search engine Moreofit. Basically, you type in the website that you'd like to find more of (hence the name) and Moreofit will return websites that serve a similar purpose. Quick and simple - just the way I like it.


Having Haunter at his side, Ash returns to Saffron City with Misty and Brock. Brock is a little wary of the Ghost Pokémon, however, and keeps his distance. Misty tells him that she thinks Haunter is cute, and Haunter licks her. This however, paralyzes her, and Ash scolds him, making him sob in sorrow. Ash comforts him, then asks him if he'll help him beat Sabrina. Haunter agrees, and they all rush to Saffron City.
They reach the gym, and Ash remembers how badly he was beaten last time. He looks around, and notices that he and Haunter are alone. He looks around, and sees Misty, Brock, and Pikachu standing at the side of the road, cheering. Ash yells at them, asking them if they'll at least come with him. Misty reminds them of how they were shrunk, but Ash reassures them, saying that Haunter will beat Sabrina. Ash sends out Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur, and they all go inside.
Sabrina's doll warns Ash that they'll all have to play with her if he loses, and sends out Kadabra. Ash sends out Haunter, but he has disappeared. Ash looks around, but can't find Haunter anywhere. Brock wonders if Haunter ran away, and Misty notes that the Ghost didn't seem to be exactly trustworthy. Sabrina orders Ash to send out a Pokémon, but none are willing to battle. Ash says he quits, and runs out of the arena, with everyone else running after him. The exit closes, however, and the doll approaches from behind. The doll changes Brock and Misty into dolls, and Ash is about to meet the same fate, when the man from before appears. He teleports Ash and his Pokémon away. Sabrina walks up to the two dolls and mumbles, "He's back."
Back outside, Ash's Pokémon play, while he and the man talk. The man tells Ash that Sabrina wasn't always the way she is now, and he tells a story of how Sabrina as a little girl never played with anyone and spent all her time developing her Psychic powers. He then pulls out a picture, and tells Ash that Sabrina split into two personalities. One was the hardened trainer Ash saw, and the other was a girl who wanted friends, symbolized by the doll. Ash remembers that Sabrina had the same picture the man gave to him in her room, and struggles to make sense out of it all. The man looks worried, and wonders if he has figured out that her is Sabrina's father. Unfortunately, Ash, being the rather thick person that he is, concludes that the man is a photographer.
"Don't you get it?!" the man yells, but Ash doesn't. He tells the man about how Misty and Brock were turned into dolls, but the man hangs his head in sorrow, saying that there is nothing he can do, since the only way he can change them back is for Ash to defeat Sabrina. He asks Ash if he caught a Ghost Pokémon, but he says that Haunter disappeared. The man tells Ash that he must find Haunter before he can fight Sabrina again, and Ash sets off. He looks all over the city, but can't find Haunter. All the while, however, he is being watched by Team Rocket in a window washer cart. Meowth asks them what they're going to use to try to capture Pikachu, and James pulls out a fishing net. Meowth yells at them, saying that that's too plain. Suddenly, Haunter appears, frightening them so that they fall out of the cart. Jessie holds on for dear life, with James and Meowth clinging to her. Haunter floats down to her, and starts to make faces at her. Jessie tries hard not to laugh, but eventually cracks, letting go. Team Rocket falls down several stories, and hits the sidewalk, creating a huge crater. Ash sees Haunter, and thanks him for foiling Team Rocket's plan to capture Pikachu. After a little convincing, Ash and Haunter head back to the gym.
Back at the gym, Misty and Brock are in one of Sabrina's dollhouses. Even though they're dolls, they can still talk, and ask each other if they'll be dolls forever. Much to their surprise, another doll, sitting nearby, answers them. She introduces herself as Sabrina's mother, and asks them not to think badly of her daughter, as she really is a good kid. The roof is pulled off, and there stands Sabrina and her doll. Brock and Misty plead with her to change them back, but the doll tells them that if she does, they'll just run away again. At this time, Ash comes into the arena again. Sabrina asks him if he hasn't figured out that he'll never win, and sends out Kadabra. Ash sends out Haunter, but he has disappeared again. Ash rushes around looking, but Pikachu decides to go out again. Ash tells him that he wont be able to beat Kadabra, but Pikachu tells him that he doesn't want him to become a doll. Ash has Pikachu use Thundershock, but Kadabra keeps teleporting out of the way. Kadabra then uses Psybeam, which knocks Pikachu over. Pikachu then uses Thunderbolt, and actually connects. Unfortunately, Kadabra's health is fully restored using his Recover attack. Sabrina repeats the fact that Ash cannot win, and Haunter finally reappears in front of her. Her doll says that its not fair to have two against one, but the man appears in the room, telling her that Haunter is playing, not battling. Haunter makes several faces at Sabrina, then pulls out a bomb, which explodes. Suddenly, Sabrina smiles and starts to laugh. The man starts to cry, saying that he's never seen Sabrina laugh. Ash asks him if he took her baby pictures. Geez, Ash, how dense can you be?
The man tells Ash that Haunter has helped Sabrina come back to herself. Ash tells him that Haunter was supposed to beat Kadabra, but the man points to the Psychic Pokémon, who is rolling around on the floor laughing. Since he can't fight, Ash is the winner. Sabrina's doll disappears, and Misty and Brock are changed back to real people. Later, Ash says farewell to the changed Sabrina, and leaves holding the Marsh Badge. Ash wonders aloud if he really deserved the badge, but Misty and Brock reassure them. They pass by the hole Team Rocket is in which is being filled with cement. Ash dashes towards the path to Celadon City and his next challenge.


The Certificate in Community Development is offered through the Division of Sociology and Family Studies at Brescia University College. This program is comprised of required courses, including a practicum course, equivalent to three courses.
Completion of Sociology 1020 or Sociology 1021E, with an average of at least 60% in the course.
To be admitted into the Certificate in Community Development, the student is required to complete and submit a Community Development application form by April 15 before the beginning of the program. Enrolment in this program is limited. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee that applicants will be admitted.
This certificate is not available to students who have a major in Community Development or an Honor's Specialization in Community Development in a Global Context. If a course in the Certificate program is waived by the department on the basis of prior course work, another Community Development course will have to be taken (chosen in consultation with Community Development faculty) so that the total number of course credits is 3.0.
3.0 courses: tỷ lệ cá độ bóng đáSociology 2215A/B, Sociology 3322A/B or Sociology 3307F/G, Sociology 3330F/G, Sociology 3331F/G, Sociology 3333F/G or Sociology 3335A/B, Sociology 3334A/B.
Students must obtain an average of 70% in the required courses, with no course under 60%.


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New Canaan Country School is pleased to congratulate alumna and Williams College sophomore, Meghan Halloran, who was named the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Women's Ice Hockey Player of the Year for the 2018-19 season —only the third sophomore to receive the distinction in the history of the award. It was also announced that Halloran has been named to the 2019 NESCAC Winter All-Academic Team, having earned above a 3.50 cumulative grade point average.
Halloran helped the Ephs claim the 2019 NESCAC Championship (notably scoring the game-winning goal in Sunday's final) and earn a record-tying 20 wins for the season, the most since 2001. Also an All-NESCAC Women's Ice Hockey First Team selection, she leads the league in points (36), goals (18), and assists (18).
Founded in 1971, the NESCAC league consists of 11 liberal arts colleges and has consistently reflected its commitment to the values of athletics and academic achievement. The member colleges of the conference are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Trinity College, Tufts University, Wesleyan University, and Williams College.
Raised in Darien, Meghan attended New Canaan Country School from 2003-2013 where she is widely remembered as hard-working and a leader on campus, in the classroom, and in her various athletic pursuits which also include lacrosse.
"Meghan was a terrific player and teammate while she was at Country School. She led by example on and off the ice, and we are thrilled for her continued success and this well-deserved honor," said Scott Lilley, New Canaan Country School teacher and varsity girls' ice hockey coach.
Following graduation, Halloran attended Deerfield Academy where she was the varsity ice hockey captain in both her junior and senior years and the varsity lacrosse captain, her senior year. During this time, Halloran received numerous distinctions including varsity ice hockey Most Valuable Player (2016-17), varsity lacrosse Coaches' Award (2017) and U.S. Lacrosse High School Academic All-American (2017). She also received the William B. Jaffe Award for the student who exhibited courage, leadership and sportsmanship on the athletic field.
Having secured the NESCAC league tournament, the Ephs are now in the NCAA DIII tournament and will play in the quarter-finals March 9.
New Canaan Country School is a co-ed, independent day school for students in Pre-K (ages 3 & 4) through Grade 9. Located in New Canaan, the school serves families living throughout Westchester and Fairfield counties. For more information about the school, please visit www.countryschool.net.


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