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Hollywood Books: 'Tarzan The Centennial Celebration' is wild for him
Grossett and Dunlap hardback dust-jacket art by Paul Stahr (1927), adapted from Arting's McClurg cover.
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By Susan King, Los Angeles Times
Even at 100, Tarzan, the Lord of the Jungle, is still the ultimate swinger. Since Edgar Rice Burroughs' first tale, "Tarzan of the Apes," appeared in the popular All-Story magazine a century ago, the world's infatuation has never abated for the athletic, buff and educated man who lives in the jungles of Africa. Now Tarzan is the subject of a lavish coffee-table book, "Tarzan The Centennial Celebration," by Scott Tracy Griffin. The well-researched look at Burroughs and his creation features a forward by Ron Ely, who played Tarzan in the 1966-68 NBC series. Griffin will be signing copies of his book at a screening Saturday afternoon at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica of "John Carter," the sci-fi fantasy that is based on Burroughs' novel "A Princess of Mars." We talked with Griffin about the character's enduring appeal.
Why has Tarzan captured our imaginations for the past century?
Tarzan represents sort of a freedom — a primal freedom where we can return to nature and not worry about the mortgage payment or the traffic cop or the stoplight. I think that is universal. Around the world, people want to fantasize about mastering their own environment.
Was that the reason why Burroughs created the character?
He was very canny about his inspirations and his influences. He said he was inspired by Romulus and Remus. He had a very firm grounding in the classics. I think that is one reason his works are like the tales of Hercules and the heroes of old. He studied Greek and Latin through his school years. He was a very well-read man. He did research in the Chicago Public Library.
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He would today be a cubicle jockey. When he wrote "Tarzan," he was writing for a business magazine and giving business advice. I think, probably sitting there [at his desk], he was staring out the window wishing he was somewhere else.
Was the first story, "Tarzan of the Apes," an immediate success?
Yes. Burroughs had written "A Princess of Mars" [titled "Under the Moon of Mars" when serialized in All-Story magazine in 1912] before under a pseudonym. So from the time "Princess of Mars" appeared, there was a clamor for more of his writing. When he sent the manuscript of "Tarzan of the Apes" to Thomas Newell Metcalf, who was the editor of All-Story magazine, the editor wrote back and said he read it in one sitting. He wasn't going to serialize this one, but put it all in one issue. It immediately began to be serialized in the newspapers, which printed fiction back in those days.
Why did he first write under a pseudonym?
He was shy. He felt that writing was a silly profession for a big, vigorous outdoorsman, as he fancied himself to be, having been in the cavalry, a cowboy and a railroad cop. He was always a very modest man. He thought writing was sort of a lark — "let me see if I can do this." He didn't want to be known for that unless he was successful. He wanted to be known as Normal Bean for "A Princess of Mars." But the copy editor messed up [his byline] and it said Norman Bean. Burroughs told the editor when Tarzan was coming out, "You messed up the pseudonym, so just run this one under my name."
Tarzan movies began in 1918 with Elmo Lincoln and then became a huge franchise in the 1930s and '40s when Johnny Weissmuller played the role for MGM and then RKO. But his Tarzan is far removed from the erudite, educated hero of the Burroughs' stories. What did he think of these movies?
I think creatively he was dissatisfied and unhappy about some things they did. But he realized that the films brought his character to a much larger audience. The movies boosted book sales, just as the comic strips and other marketing did. So I think he sort of recognized that the movies were a necessary evil.
Burroughs continued to write Tarzan stories until 1944. Did he ever grow tired of his creation?
He'd get tired of Tarzan at times, but he would always come back to them because he realized there was a demand and market.
"Paris by Hollywood," edited by Antoine De Baecque.
This lavish coffee-table book examines Hollywood's love affair with the City of Light. Some 800 Hollywood films either have been shot in Paris or have re-created parts of the city on a sound stage. The book covers productions from the silent film era to Woody Allen's 2011 valentine, "Midnight in Paris."
"Twitch Upon a Star," by Herbie J Pilato.
The author of "The Bewitched Book" and "Bewitched Forever" penned this biography on the series' star, Elizabeth Montgomery, based on interviews he did with the actress before her death in 1995.
susan.king@latimes.com


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Watch this Aussie comedian hilariously cover all Sydney stereotypes!
An Aussie comedian has absolutely nailed his take on Sydney stereotypes from all walks of life including a not too subtle dig at your typical Kings Cross character…. if you visited the area before lockouts!
You might recognise Australian comedian Neel Kolhatkar from the past few years with some comedy gold including 'westie c*nt', an uptown funk parody and 'Bogan Aussie Anaconda' parody as well as his very original and definitely not ripped off Australia in 2 minutes series.
While this one goes for 3 minutes mixing it up from his previous 2 minute endeavours, it gives a good little focus on nightlife pre and post lockouts in a crude yet comical way as well as taking digs at the state government, public transport and even housing prices.
Check out the full video below to see him lay into Sydney's stereotypes and skip to 1:08 for his demolition of our nightlife and tell us if you think he nailed it!


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Billie Paul Piper (born Leian Paul Piper; 22 September 1982) is an English actress and former singer. She initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at age 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one; her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also entered at number one. In 1998, Piper released her debut studio album, Honey to the B, which was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Her second studio album, Walk of Life, was released in 2000 and spawned her third number one single, "Day & Night". In 2003, Piper announced that she had ended her music career to focus on acting.

Piper appeared in the BBC One sci-fi series Doctor Who as Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor as a regular between 2005 and 2006, and additionally in 2008, 2010, and 2013. She starred as Belle de Jour in the drama series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2011), as Brona Croft/Lily in the Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), and as Karen Mars in Netflix Original series Collateral (2018), for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Piper co-created and starred in the Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie (2020–present), for which she earned a BAFTA nomination for a Best Actress in 2021.

Piper has starred in five plays since 2007 and won the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her performance in Yerma, described as a "generation's best". She went on to win a total of six Best Actress awards for that one performance, including the Olivier Award, making Piper the only actor to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards for a single performance.

Early life
Piper was born in Swindon, Wiltshire on 22 September 1982. Her first name, Leian, was legally changed to Billie on 25 April 1983 by her parents, Mandy Kent and Paul Piper. She has one younger brother, Charley, and two younger sisters, Harley, and Elle. She started dance classes at age five. Two years later, she started off in soft-drink commercials for American TV before appearing as an extra in the 1996 film Evita, starring Madonna. She attended Bradon Forest School in Purton, near Swindon, but left at around the age of 12 after winning a scholarship to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.

Career

Music career
Piper's career began when she was selected to appear on the Saturday-morning children's television show Scratchy & Co. She later landed a role in a television commercial promoting the pop magazine Smash Hits. She was offered a record deal at the age of 15, and in 1998, became the youngest artist to debut at number one in the UK Singles Chart with "Because We Want To", released under the stage mononym "Billie". Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also debuted at number one.

Piper's debut album Honey to the B was released immediately afterwards, and entered and peaked at number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone along with a platinum certification, and a double-platinum certification in New Zealand, where it peaked at number three on the New Zealand Albums Chart. However, Honey to the B found limited success in other territories, such as Australia, where it entered and peaked at number 31 on the ARIA Albums Chart despite the success of "Honey to the Bee", and in the US it went almost completely unnoticed, peaking at number 17 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.

At the 1998 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, Piper was nominated for Best New Act (for which she came second, it being won by B*Witched) and won Princess of Pop (she was the first to win this award). She then released "She Wants You" as the third single from the album. The song reached number three. "Honey to the Bee" was released as the fourth single from the album; like the previous single, it reached number three. At the same time, "She Wants You" was released in the US, reaching number 9 on the "Hot Club Dance Play" chart.

In 1999, Piper was nominated for two BRIT Awards and won two awards at the 1999 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, although she was reduced to tears at the latter ceremony after being booed by fans of Ritchie Neville, whom she was dating at the time. She then started to tour and release in Asia. The singles and the album were released during mid-to-late 1999. In August of that year, the follow-up to "Because We Want To" was released in Japan, a single comprising "Girlfriend" and "She Wants You" combined. She recorded a song for Pokémon: The First Movie titled "Makin' My Way (Any Way That I Can)".

During that time, Piper recorded her second album. She decided to release further records under her full name of Billie Piper. She returned to the Singles Chart in May 2000 with her third number-one single "Day & Night". She waited until September to release "Something Deep Inside", which reached number four, but her success waned. In October 2000, Piper released her second album, Walk of Life, which reached No. 14 in the UK Album Chart, but quickly fell off the charts and was certified silver in the UK. The album charted in two other countries: New Zealand, where it reached No. 17, and Australia, where it peaked at No. 23. In Piper's autobiography, she states that the album was a "commercial bomb". The song "Walk of Life", the final single off the album, was released in December 2000 and reached No. 25 in the UK Singles Chart.

In February 2001, Piper appeared in court to testify against a woman named Juliet Peters. Peters was charged with, and eventually convicted of, stalking as well as making numerous threats against Piper and members of her family. Peters received psychiatric treatment as part of her sentence. According to her autobiography, Piper was reluctant about the court case, but was pushed by her parents and her label. She also stated in the book that this was why "The Tide Is High" was not released as a single, writing: "The court case succeeded in doing what I alone could not  cutting the ties. Without it I might have been tempted back."

In January 2007, BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles started a campaign to get "Honey to the Bee" back into the top 100 on download sales as a way of testing out new chart rules that favour download sales. The campaign was successful, with "Honey to the Bee" re-entering the official UK singles chart at No. 17, eight years after it was first released.

Film and television performances
In 2004, Piper appeared in the films The Calcium Kid and Things to Do Before You're 30. Shortly before starting work on Doctor Who, she had a starring role in the horror film Spirit Trap, released in August 2005 to poor reviews. In November 2005, she starred as Hero in a BBC adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, updated for the modern-day in a similar manner to the Canterbury Tales (2003) series in which she featured, with Hero now being a weather presenter in a television station.

In 2005, Doctor Who was resurrected after a sixteen-year absence from TV. Piper was cast as Rose Tyler, a travelling companion to the ninth incarnation of The Doctor (played by Christopher Eccleston). Piper won the Most Popular Actress category at the 2005 and 2006 National Television Awards for her work on Doctor Who. BBC News named her one of its "Faces of the Year" for 2005, primarily due to her success in Doctor Who. At The South Bank Show Awards in January 2006, she was awarded The Times Breakthrough Award for her successful transition from singing to acting. In March, the Television and Radio Industries Club named her as the best new TV talent at their annual awards ceremony. In September, she was named Best Actress at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.

After the completion of the very successful first series of the revamped Doctor Who, the British media regularly released conflicting reports about how long Piper would be staying with the show. In March 2006, she claimed that she would continue on Doctor Who into its third series in 2007. In May, however, she was reported to be considering quitting the series, although she did express an interest in playing a female version of the Doctor in the future (possibly related to a proposed Doctor Who spin-off series about Rose, which was later dropped). In June, the BBC announced that she was to depart in "Doomsday" (2006), the final episode of the second series. Her decision to leave had been made a year previously, but had not yet been made public. Although Piper was absent in the 2007 series, her character Rose was mentioned several times and seen in archive footage in The Runaway Bride.

Piper starred as Hannah Baxter in Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2012), an ITV2 adaptation of Brooke Magnanti's The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, a memoir detailing the life of a high-class prostitute who adopted "Belle de Jour" as her pseudonym, which aired from September 2007. As part of her preparation for the role, Piper met the memoir's author two years before her identity as a research scientist was revealed in a Sunday newspaper: "I absolutely had to meet the person behind the words to be able to take the part... people did ask me about her and I just had to smile, to avoid giving anything away."In November 2007, the BBC confirmed that she would reprise her role as Rose Tyler in the fourth series of Doctor Who for three episodes. Later, it was confirmed by Russell T. Davies in Doctor Who Magazine that this return had been planned since she left. The series began in April 2008, and after several cameos, Piper made her official return as Rose in the series four final episodes "Turn Left", "The Stolen Earth", and "Journey's End". She did not initially state whether she would be reprising the role again. Interviewed on Doctor Who Confidential, she commented that "it's never really the end for the Doctor and Rose, but it's certainly the end for the foreseeable future".

Piper completed work on two stand-alone television productions. In the first, a BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's historical novel The Ruby in the Smoke which was broadcast in December 2006, she played protagonist Sally Lockhart, a Victorian orphan. The BBC planned to film all four of Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels, with Piper continuing in the role in The Shadow in the North, which was shown in December 2007. Piper also appeared as Fanny Price in an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, screened on ITV1 in March 2007. This was her first acting role on television for a broadcaster other than the BBC. She then provided voice-overs for various television commercials, including one for Comfort fabric-softener airing in June 2007.

The second series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, with Piper again in the starring role, started filming in May 2008, during which a body double was hired to hide Piper's pregnancy during the sex scenes. Piper was also quoted during this time as worrying that she may have "ruined her future career" due to the nature of the topless scenes and other sexual scenes required. The third series began airing in January 2010. For the third and fourth series Piper was credited as executive producer. In January 2010, tying in with the broadcast of the third series and following on from the real Belle de Jour confirming her real identity, ITV2 broadcast an interview special, Billie and the Real Belle Bare All, which saw Piper meeting with Dr Brooke Magnanti on camera for the first time.

She reprised her role as Rose Tyler in "The End of Time", the last of the 2008–2010 Doctor Who specials, as a younger version of Rose Tyler (specifically 3 months before her initial meeting with the Ninth Doctor in 2005 episode "Rose"). She also shared the role of Betty with Sue Johnston in the two-part TV adaptation of A Passionate Woman, screened on BBC 1 in April 2010. In May 2011, it was announced that Piper would join the cast of a romance-comedy film directed by Robin Sheppard titled Truth about Lies. In January 2013, Piper stated on The Graham Norton Show that she had not been asked to return for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, however, the BBC announced in the following March that she would be returning in the special, titled "The Day of the Doctor", which was broadcast in November 2013. Despite being credited as Rose Tyler, Piper's actual role in the episode is the consciousness of "The Moment", a sentient weapon which takes on the form of Rose's "Bad Wolf" personality.

On 11 May 2014, Showtime aired a new horror series called Penny Dreadful in which Piper plays Brona Croft, a poor Irish immigrant who is trying to escape a dark past. In the show's second series, Brona is resurrected by Victor Frankenstein as "Lily". She was nominated for Best TV Supporting Actress at the 2015 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. The show was renewed for a third and final series, which she began filming on 17 September 2015.

Piper returned to the role of Rose Tyler alongside David Tennant in three stories that form the second volume of The Tenth Doctor Adventures audio drama series from Big Finish Productions. One story also featured Camille Coduri reprising her role as Rose's mother Jackie Tyler. The set was released in November 2017. It was later announced that Piper would be headlining her own audio drama titled Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon. The box set featured four stories with Rose Tyler alongside her parents Jackie (Coduri) and Pete Tyler (Shaun Dingwall) as well as featuring Clive from the episode "Rose", played by his original actor Mark Benton. The first volume was released in September 2019 with two more expected in October 2022 and September 2023.

In 2019, Piper wrote, starred in and made her directorial debut with the "anti-romcom" Rare Beasts, before appearing alongside Sally Hawkins, Alice Lowe, and David Thewlis in Eternal Beauty, directed by Craig Roberts. The following year, in August 2020, Piper co-created and starred in the critically acclaimed Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie. The series was also co-created and written by Secret Diary of a Call Girl creator Lucy Prebble. Piper portrays the titular Suzie Pickles, a former child screen star whose life and career are turned upside down by a compromising phone hack. Critics noted her own experience of having been a prodigious young singer-turned-actress who becomes famous at a young age will no doubt have informed her new role as Pickles. The Guardian gave it a five-star review, describing Piper's character as "nude, lewd and joyously off the rails" in "this scabrously funny drama". In March 2021, it was announced that Piper would appear in the film adaptation of a children's book called Catherine Called Birdy.

Stage work
Piper made her stage debut in a touring production of Christopher Hampton's play Treats, which opened in early 2007 in Windsor, Berkshire. Treats was to have ended its tour in the West End, at the Garrick Theatre, starting in February 2007 with previews. The play officially closed in May.

Piper played Carly in the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's play Reasons to Be Pretty at the Almeida Theatre, running from November 2011 to January 2012. It received critical acclaim from The Guardian, The Observer, London Evening Standard, Metro, The Times, The Telegraph, Time Out, The Arts Desk, Daily Express and The Financial Times, all of which rated the production with a minimum of four stars. BBC Radio 4 described Piper as "fantastic, completely brilliant. Her performance is so convincing and moving, an absolutely terrific performance". The Jewish Chronicle hailed Piper's performance as second to none, being the best of the night, and stating that "no actor can cry more convincingly than Piper", giving the show four stars.

Piper made her National Theatre debut in The Effect by Lucy Prebble, which ran from November 2012 to February 2013. The play went on to become the most critically acclaimed show of the season and Piper was nominated for the WhatsOnStage Best Actress award for her work in The Effect. The play was also nominated for Best New Play and Best Set Designer. Due to success and demand, the show was extended for a further month and an online petition was started for the show to be added to the National Theatre's Live Programming. In 2013, Piper was nominated for Best Actress at the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards for The Effect. Piper also starred in Great Britain at the Royal National Theatre in 2014. On 29 May 2014, Piper appeared alongside Ben Whishaw in the Playhouse Presents television special Foxtrot.

In 2016, Piper starred in an adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 1934 play Yerma at the Young Vic, written and directed by Simon Stone. Upon opening, the play received critical acclaim, mainly for Piper's performance. She was described as "earth-quaking" by The Guardian and "a generation's greatest performance" by The Stage. The Independent described her as "shattering" with the reviewer admitting he found himself "still visibly shaking from its effects on the Tube home afterwards." The Jewish Chronicle proclaimed, "This is the performance to which [Piper's] previous excellent appearances on stage have been leading. She's one of those rare actresses who can be monumentally tragic and almost casually realistic at the same time." Conversely, The Arts Desk warned its readers that her performance was "an utterly grueling, almost unbearable 100 minutes." Piper won all six of the available Best Actress awards for that one performance, making it one of the most acclaimed and awarded stage performances in British theatre history, and making her the only actor to have picked up all six Best Actress awards for a single performance, including the coveted Olivier Award.

On 31 August 2017, Yerma streamed live into more than 700 cinemas across the UK. Whilst ticket sales are yet to be confirmed, more than 100 cinemas confirmed they had sold out to capacity with many requesting encore copies. In an unprecedented event, after the live screening had finished, '#Yerma' trended on Twitter at number three, with some writers claiming Twitter had 'gone into complete meltdown' over Piper's performance. The play was streamed across the world from 21 September.

Piper reprised the performance in a limited run at New York's Park Avenue Armory during March and April 2018, her New York stage debut. She once again received unanimous critical praise. The New York Times said Piper's performance was "an unconditional victory" and "blisteringly powerful" awarding it five stars, whilst Hollywood Reporter found her "simply staggering" adding; "When the actress appears at the curtain call, looking emotionally and physical exhausted, you find yourself relieved that she's OK and concerned that she'll have to do it all over again the next night." Time Out likened Piper to an "angry beast" warning that her "astonishing" performance inflicted psychological-like emotions on the audience. NBC's Katie Englehart said, "Piper is so devastating I almost vomited in my seat – that doesn't sound like an endorsement but it is." Vogue hailed Piper as "one of the great talents of her generation" and described her performance as "astonishing, raw, feral and terrifying." The AM New York critic claimed to be left "gasping for air"  whilst the New York Stage Review found Piper's "downward spiral into abyss utterly harrowing and blazingly remarkable."

Personal life
Piper married television presenter Chris Evans in a secret ceremony at the Little Church of the West in Paradise, Nevada near Las Vegas on 6 May 2001 after six months of dating. Their marriage attracted much comment because Piper was 18 and Evans was 35. The couple separated in 2004, and divorced in May 2007.

Piper married actor Laurence Fox on 31 December 2007, at St Mary's Church in Easebourne, West Sussex. They have two sons: Winston James was born on 21 October 2008, and Eugene Pip was born on 5 April 2012. By 24 March 2016, the pair had separated after eight years of marriage. No third party was involved in the separation. On 12 May 2016, Piper and Fox divorced.

Piper began dating Johnny Lloyd, the frontman of Tribes, in 2016. Their daughter, Tallulah, was born on 2 January 2019.

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

Theatre

Discography

 Honey to the B (1998)
 Walk of Life (2000)

Accolades
Piper has won and been nominated for more than 70 recognised awards. During her musical career, she was nominated for two BRIT Awards in 1999. In 2005 and 2006, she won two National Television Awards for Best Actress for her acting work in Doctor Who. She has also been nominated for two British Academy Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress for her performances in the television dramas Collateral (2018) and I Hate Suzie (2020–present), respectively.

For her role in the 2016 production of Federico García Lorca's Yerma, Piper has won a total of six Best Actress awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award, and is now the only actor to have earned all of the currently available UK theatre Best Actress awards for a single performance.

See also
List of British actors

References

Further reading
 Piper, Billie (2007). Growing Pains. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

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Mine are up! Thank you!
Watching :: A Yankee Game.
Stems :: Long, with Roses on top.
A couple days "late" but here they are!
These were a little harder to me for some reason…I guess I wasn't creative today.
I am up and muttering with three of your prompts. Thank you!


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Colleton County Fire-Rescue Deputy Chief David Greene explains that those at work at the Emergency Operations Center, or who are out in the community handling the emergency, have been assigned to teams based on their emergency support function.
Emergency Support Function One is transportation. The Colleton County School District is the lead agency, joined by the Lowcountry Community Action Agency and Fire-Rescue. Green said the area's public transportation agency, Palmetto Breeze, offered its assistance if buses were needed to move a large number of people.
Emergency Support Function Two is communications, managed by the sheriff's office, which operates the county's 911 emergency dispatch center located on the floor above the Emergency Management Division offices. They also work with the state's radio system, Palmetto 800.
Emergency Support Function Three is public works: the South Carolina Department of Transportation, Colleton County Public Works Department and the municipal public works offices for Walterboro and Edisto Beach.
Emergency Support Function Four is fire service, involving Colleton County Fire-Rescue, Edisto Beach Fire Department and Walterboro Fire Department.
The three fire departments also team up to cover Emergency Support Function Nine, which is search and rescue, and Emergency Support Function Ten, which involves hazardous materials.
Emergency Support Function Five is planning, handled by the county's Incident Management Team.
Emergency Support Function Six is mass care, handled by the Red Cross and the Colleton County Department of Social Services Office.
Emergency Support Function Seven is logistics, handled by the South Carolina Emergency Management Division regional manager assigned to the Colleton Emergency Management Division and a member of the county's Incident Management Team.
Emergency Support Function Eight is medical, represented by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and Colleton Medical Center.
Emergency Support Function 11 is mass feeding. The Colleton County School District's Food Service Director Ellen Fitch handles that function. She is rarely in the emergency operation center, as her duties require her to be elsewhere.
Emergency Support Function 12 is utilities: representatives of Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative, Coastal Electric Cooperative and South Carolina Electric and Gas. They are out coordinating their company's efforts, but are in contact with the Emergency Management Center on a regular basis.
Emergency Support Function 13 is law enforcement, managed by the sheriff's office, which has a representative at the Emergency Operations Center most of the time. Also working on the law enforcement function are the police departments of Edisto Beach and Walterboro.
Emergency Support Function 14 is damage assessment by the Colleton County Assessors Office.
Emergency Support Function 15 is public information. That function is managed by Fire-Rescue Chief Barry McRoy, working in coordination with Walterboro and Edisto Beach officials. "They get the information out when things change and they change a lot," Greene said.
Emergency Support Function 16 is emergency traffic management headed by the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Patrol officials are in and out of the Emergency Operations Center often, providing real-time information on traffic issues.
Emergency Support Function 17 is animal services, headed by Colleton County Animal and Environmental Control Director Reggie McNeil. His role is to provide shelter for pets when the pet owners have to relocate to an emergency shelter.
Emergency Support Function 18 is donated goods and volunteer services. Colleton County Recreation Director Chris Myers is involved in the donated goods portion of the function, in case the county's Recreation Center is needed to serve as a distribution point or staging area. The volunteer services are the responsibility of Emergency Management Division's CERT team. The CERT volunteers staff the phone lines and work at the emergency shelter.
Emergency Support Function 19 is military support. The National Guard had two officers stationed at the EOC. If a military vehicle or equipment is needed, they can determine what type of vehicle or piece of equipment will suit the county's needs and start the process of getting it deployed.
Emergency Support Function 24 is business and industry. Its purpose is to work with businesses and manufacturers in the county to assist them in making sure that the facility is secure.


Canberrans! I bring you good tidings of great joy! Canberra FINALLY has a charcoal chicken place that's run by a bunch of Arabs. Yes, it's Halal.
Thanks to a good friend of mine, I found out about this new El-Jannah-like place this afternoon. Of course, I had to check it out for myself.
Tonight, my tired, weary fasting body sought its bountiful glory – and good God was it bountiful and glorious. The place is run by former EJs staff, meaning you get the real stuff.
Of course, I went for the quarter chicken + chips + pickles + drink meal. Total cost? $11.50.
The chicken was fresh… tender… and deliciously charcoaly. I told the owners I was there to compare it to EJs, so they bought out a complimentary side of tabouli that tantalised the taste buds with its lemony goodness, and some complementary falafel that had the right crunch and the right fluffiness; just like maama makes.
And yes, for those of you asking, the toum (garlic sauce) was garlicy and creamy and brought the meal together in the most beautiful way.
The owners were so generous and sweet. One of them insisted that he would carry this older woman's family meal to her car for her. How beautiful is that?
Since I entered the realm of Canberra almost three years ago, I have yearned for a charcoal chicken place. I missed it so much that I held my first birthday gathering after moving to Canberra at a charcoal chicken place in Sydney.
I have missed that feeling of knowing that I'm going to get a good, cheap meal every time.
Today, I am finally at peace with Canberra. I am home.
But seriously. Go and check this place out. The food was delicious and the service was amazing. If you go there now, you get to be part of the group that says 'oh my God, a proper charcoal chicken place has opened up!'. That makes you cool.
Oh – and here's the menu (click to enlarge).
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• Naoki Ito, who assumed the position as Consul General of Japan in Chicago late February, has been a career diplomat since 1984. Born in November 1960 in Tokyo, Ito joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs upon graduation from the prestigious Tokyo University's Department of Law.
• Q: Why did you choose a career with the Foreign Ministry?
• Ito: While in college, I traveled overseas for the first time in my life; I went to Singapore, took the train and bus to Malaysia and Thailand, and then stopped in Hong Kong before coming home. It was 1980, and Southeast Asia back then wasn't like what it is today at all – World War II was still casting its shadow on its relationship with Japan. As I saw with my own eyes how Japan was viewed by the people there, I started to think that it would be interesting to have a career in foreign relations, specifically with Asia. That's one of the reasons why I chose to work for the Foreign Ministry.
• Q: You also studied at Cambridge University.
• Ito: The Ministry sent me there, to study international law and international relations for two years. After that, I was assigned to the Japanese Embassy in London for almost two years.
• During that time, I witnessed Prime Minister Thatcher's speech to the British Parliament to commemorate the 10th anniversary of her premiership. That was quite impressive and a good learning opportunity for me. Then I returned to Tokyo in May 1989.
• Q: Then you went back to the Japanese Embassy in London again from 2011 to 2014, this time as the Minister. How did things change?
• Ito: Unfortunately, relatively speaking, I think the U.K.'s international standing has gone down. I think that the U.K. government still maintains the belief that the country's international presence is enhanced by getting along well with the United States.
• Then, they saw a surge of parliament members who are skeptical of the EU, and the Cameron administration was forced to resort to a national referendum [on Brexit]. That brought an unexpected result of getting out of the EU. I think that was the transitional period for the British diplomacy.
• While I was there, the Emperor and Empress of Japan came to visit for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. There were coincidentally the Olympic Games. It was interesting to observe the British diplomacy at work, using the Games as "soft power," as well as the way the Games were carried out as collaborative events by the government and citizen volunteers.
• In 2013, we had a G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland. It was an opportunity for the U.K. to show that Northern Ireland, which had seen much political turmoil and terrorism, was now politically stabilized and a safe place to host international meetings like the G-8 summit.
• The summit made me consider a plan to establish a new economic tie with Northern Ireland, so I solicited cooperation from Japanese business people in London. There were about five Japanese companies that had invested in Northern Ireland then, but not many business people were visiting there. So I asked people from the Japan Chamber of Commerce in London to visit Northern Ireland, along with the Japanese Ambassador, to evaluate the investment potential. That didn't immediately lead to any new investment, but after that the prime minister of Northern Ireland visited Japan.
• Q: What do you think of the Japan-U.K. relationship today?
• Ito: I think it's a very mature relationship. The current focus is on national security. The so-called "2 plus 2" talks, between the foreign minister and the defense minister from each side, have begun, so the mutual cooperation structure is being constructed rapidly.
• Another point is Japanese direct investment in the U.K. While I was over there, Britain was Japan's second largest investment destination after the United States, with large-scale projects such as Hitachi's railway car plant construction and Dentsu's PR company purchase.
• British expectation on Japanese corporations has been high. Prime Minister Cameron once invited some top executives of the Japanese corporations in London to his official residence. Such meeting is rare in the U.K., so that shows how important the country thinks Japanese investment is for them and such investment is seen to have a great potential to grow further.
• Also, I think the food over there has improved a lot in the past 30 years. They might want to be out of the EU because they believe that immigrants are taking away jobs from them, the fact is that the British cuisine has gained a great variety thanks to the immigrants. The choice used to be either fish and chips that you could get from street vendors, or Indian food or Chinese food. Now there's more variety, more competition, and the food has become much tastier overall. The number of Japanese restaurants also increased. When a country is open to immigrants, it gains diversity, and that enriches one's life. I feel it's a shame to throw that away by getting out of the EU.
• Q: Let me go back to 1999 - you were working at the Embassy in Myanmar then.
• Ito: That's a wonderful country with a lot of growth potential. Back then it was more "closed" under the military regime and there were a lot of restrictions. The average per capita income was around $100, and not many countries were providing aid – perhaps Japan was the only country that was engaged in bilateral assistance at that time.
• People in Myanmar are very diligent, and quite friendly to Japan. A lot of Japanese who visit Myanmar fall in love with it.
• Myanmar is a country that makes foreign visitors – be they may company expatriates or diplomats – want to do something, to try hard, to make it wealthier, better, with its countrymen. Naturally there were limits to what you could do under the military regime, but still, people from the Japanese companies were doing their best. Today, they have more business chances in that country, and there is more competition.
• I was previously with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Now that the military regime is gone, that agency is involved in building industrial parks, infrastructure, etc. in Myanmar. When I was over there, things weren't moving that far, so the people who worked there back then still share the sense of camaraderie, I believe.
• Q: Then, in 2001, you were assigned to the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York.
• Ito: Yes, I arrived there at the end of August 2001. When I was looking for a place to live, the 9-11 terrorist attacks struck. I hurried to my office and there I was informed that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center building.
• That was the opening day of the UN General Assembly. During the opening ceremony, they usually ring the "Peace Bell," a gift from Japan. There were the Japanese ambassador and guests from Japan, along with the UN Secretary General, for the ceremony.
• The terrorist attacks occurred just when the opening ceremony was to begin, and that cancelled everything. It was November that year when the General Assembly was finally able to reconvene to discuss matters as previously scheduled.
• Q: What did you do after that?
• Ito: I assisted in overall operation of the UN General Assembly. The counter terrorism measures and how to coordinate a broad international cooperation were the heavily discussed topic. At the opening of the new century, people were thinking a lot about international cooperation and multilateralism. We also discussed the issues of reforming the UN to keep itself up to date and boosting the UN finance as well.
• One of the tasks I focused on was the issue of "human security." Following the proposal of Ms. Sadako Ogata, Japan initiated the creation of the Commission of Human Security in the UN. I also assisted in allocating the UN Trust Fund for Human Security to various international organizations.
• Q: In June 2003, you assumed the position of Director, Second Southeast Asia Division of the Foreign Ministry, and then Director, Northeast Asia Division (Korean Peninsula) in December that year. Shortly after that, in May 2004, Prime Minister Koizumi made a visit to North Korea, which made a big push in the abduction [of Japanese citizens by North Korea] issue. What can you tell us about it?
• Ito: I accompanied Mr. Koizumi on his second North Korea visit (in 2004). This visit resulted in the return of some of the Japanese abductees, including the children of the Chimura family and the Hasuike family. Normally, when a prime minister travels abroad, the party uses two planes, the second one being an extra for contingencies. After the visit, we brought the released abductees with us back home, using the extra plane. We were pretty nervous.
• Following that, I assisted the reunion of former abductee, Hitomi Soga, with her American husband, Charles Jenkins, who was allowed to leave North Korea and traveled to Jakarta.
• Q: Did you directly negotiate with the North Korean government?
• Ito: They are such a difficult negotiation counterpart. At that time, the Six-Party Talks [among South Korea, North Korea, Japan, the U.S., China and Russia] were being held; Mr. Koizumi visited North Korea while those talks were going on. That meant that we could directly talk to North Korea in the talks and move things step by step.
• Recently, they have launched missiles, while it's said that they are preparing for another nuclear test. So we must seek further cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the U.S. for safety and peace in East Asia, as well as more involvement and contribution from China.
• Q: Can the abduction issue be solved?
• Ito: The Japanese government must move with determination for the release of all the surviving abductees. That is a highly critical issue to clear in our relationship with North Korea. It is absolutely necessary for us to work for a comprehensive solution for the abduction issue, nuclear weapons issue, and missile issue.
• Q: You were with the Foreign Ministry's International Cooperation Bureau in 2006 as Director of the Strategic Planning Division. What were you responsible for?
• Ito: The International Cooperation Bureau is charged with formulating international aid policies. Then the JICA will carry them out. I was responsible for proposing ODA (Official Development Assistance) policies and strategies. I was also involved in the 2008 G-8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, as well as the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.
• Q: Is Japan actively supporting the developing countries?
• Ito: Well, we were once the world's top aid provider. Now we are No. 4 or No. 5 in the world.
• Japan quickly grew since the Meiji Restoration, adopting the open market system, and there are a lot of countries that view Japan as a model for their economic development and growth. So, it's critical to assist those countries, as well as to cultivate an environment for Japanese business operation and cooperation.
• Specifically, I think Japanese assistance played an important role in the advancement of the Southeast Asian nations, where the infrastructure and human resources development have been working hand in hand.
• The Japanese government's foreign aid practice consists of three focal points: infrastructure development; achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN; and promotion of peace through projects based on the policy of "Proactive Contribution to Peace." The JICA follows these principles in conducting its foreign aid activities.
• Q: You were the Minister at the Embassy of Japan in India from 2008 to 2011. How did you like it there?
• Ito: The living environment in India is not easy, and its people and religions are so diverse.
• In India, it seems to us that things don't move fast, but it doesn't mean they don't move at all. You have to prepare, coordinate, negotiate and so on in order to have things done there.
• Japanese companies have had a hard time in India – particularly in the '90s. In the late 2000s, more companies began taking up a challenge to do business in India. The Japanese government is increasing the level of support accordingly. Currently, projects such as infrastructure development and a bullet train plan are underway in India with the help from the JICA.
• Infrastructure in India has yet to be improved further. In the residential area in Delhi where I lived, we had tap water available only for two hours in the morning and afternoon each. So we had to save water in the tank in the basement, and when it ran short, we would buy water from the water truck that would come around. So water supply, road conditions, and the power supply – those were an issue.
• Human behaviors and habits are quite different from one nation to another, and the differences affect our way of social interaction. It's important that we understand cultural differences, particularly when we are to live in that country and do business there. Such understanding also helps us enjoy our living in that country.
• Speaking of enjoying living in a foreign country, I believe that it makes a huge difference whether or not you can find any local food that you really love.
• When I was in India, my favorite was a dish called masala dosa - curry-flavored potatoes wrapped with a kind of wheat pancake. When I visited Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of Gujarat at that time) with other diplomats, he served us masala dosa for lunch, and I loved it.
• Q: The East Japan Great Earthquake hit Japan while you were assigned to India.
• Ito: I was in Christchurch, New Zealand when that happened – helping the staff there after the earthquake hit the city in February that year (28 Japanese citizens were among the victims).
• People in India showed us a heartfelt display of their sympathy immediately after the 3-11 disaster, sending us numerous mails of condolences, and holding a large-scale vigil in front of the Japanese Embassy and so on. I really appreciated their quick display of compassion.
• Q: I understand that you are fluent in English. What is your method of English learning?
• Ito: Nothing special – perhaps studying at a British university was a big help. And I have always read the newspaper sports page in order to learn new vocabulary.
• When I was in Britain, while reading the sports page, I would often run into unfamiliar phrases and expressions, sometimes headlines taken from famous Shakespeare lines, and that's a great way to learn new words. Watching TV helps, too.
• Q: Do you have hobbies?
• Ito: I played soccer and football when I was in college. I also play golf on my overseas assignment, wherever I can.
• The Chicago Bears were doing pretty well when I was playing football; they won the 1985 Super Bowl. So I would love to go watch them play here. As for baseball, I've been a Yomiuri Giants' fan for the past 50 years. I'm excited that Koji Uehara has joined the Chicago Cubs.
• I'm also a music fan. I visited the Metropolitan Opera when I was in New York; while at Cambridge, I went to Riccardo Muti's London concert for three days in a row. I heard that Mr. Takaoki Onishi sings at Lyric Opera and I am looking forward to seeing his performance.
• I have a wife and two children, but at this time I'm here alone.
• Q: Lastly, please tell us what you'd hope to achieve while you are in Chicago.
• Ito: I believe it's my utmost duty to do my best to serve the approximately 33,000 Japanese residents within the 10 states in our jurisdiction, to assure their safety and security.
• In addition, I'd like to participate in as many local events and festivals as possible, and visit the 10 states at an earliest opportunity to see Japanese investors, governors, state officials and other local people face to face.
• With the new Trump administration and its impact on the Midwest in mind, I would keep a close eye on any changes in and impacts on the Japanese residents in the region, so that I would be able to provide information quickly to assist Japanese businesses and investment interest.
• I have a strong respect for the Japanese Americans in the Midwest, many of whom, I understand, have been successful in business and social services. Through communication with them, I'd like to think what we could do to help them make stronger presence in the American society.
• This year is the Consulate General in Chicago's 120th anniversary. I believe it's a pivotal year for us to strengthen our relationship with all the Japanese residents and Japanese Americans in the region.
• Q: Thank you very much.


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College du Leman – International School
CoEducational ()
Boarding, Day School
http://www.cdl.ch
Route de Sauverny 74, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
Preschool, Primary, Secondary, Sixth Form
CIS, ECIS, IBO, NESA, NEASC, SGIS
Pauline Nord
CHF 34'500 for day students and CHF 92,500 for boarding students
Collège du Léman is a Private, Day & Boarding, International school located in Geneva, Switzerland and offers individual growth, academic excellence and life-long learning to students from Pre-K through Grade 12. Collège du Léman opened its doors in May 1960, on the site of a former school. Its philosophy and objectives were educating and teaching in a spirit of openness and tolerance so that students may become the citizens and leaders of a world respectful of differences.
The schools location in the beautiful Swiss countryside, yet close to Geneva, offered a quiet, serious and serene atmosphere particularly suited to learning. Collège du Léman received its first bilingual accreditation from the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in 1978. Since 1998, Collège du Léman has been accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges as well. These accreditations were renewed in 2007, attesting to the quality of teaching offered at the school, which now boasts over 1900 students including over 200 boarders and over 100 different nationalities. Collège du Léman's founding principles remain at the core of the schools values 60 years later, and today they are carried by some 20,000 alumni across the globe.
International Baccalaureate (IB Diploma Programme and Career Programme), American High School Diploma with Advanced Placement options, Swiss Maturité, French Baccalaureate, IGCSE
German, French, Italian, Russian
Les Meilleures Écoles Internationales à Valence
Les meilleures écoles internationales en Roumanie
Les Meilleurs Internats en Belgique
Les Meilleurs Internats en Europe
Les meilleures écoles britanniques en Lettonie
Les meilleures écoles américaines à Bangkok


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A study on the vulnerable white shark has shown that approximately 206 to 252 sharks breed on Australia's east coast each year.
The joint study involving The University of Queensland, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Stellenbosch University in South Africa has used genomics to estimate the yearly number of "effective breeders" in the white shark population.
UQ PhD candidate in the Molecular Fisheries Laboratory, Dani Davenport, said "effective breeders" contributed offspring to the population each year.
"Effective breeders are like the 'genetic vault' that carry the genes of the population and pass them down to the next generation," Ms Davenport said.
Ms Davenport said it is difficult to determine if protections applied to the white shark in Australia have been working, as monitoring populations of animals underwater is challenging, and particularly so for white shark, which are difficult to find, catch and handle.
"However, the 'SMART' drumline established by NSW DPI as part of the NSW Government's 'Shark Management Strategy' provided a valuable source of material for genomic analyses from sharks caught as part of the program."
When sharks are caught on SMART-drumlines they are measured, sampled for DNA and then tagged with a tracking device before being released back, alive, to their ocean environment.
Ms Davenport said that monitoring the "effective breeding population size" can help early detection of population declines or increases over decadal time-spans.
"While this study showed stable numbers of effective breeders over the years 2010 to 2013, the white shark has a slow life history and is long lived.
"For example, female white sharks do not mature until, on average, they are five metres in length, or 16-years of age," Ms Davenport said.
"Any possible recovery of the population after the declines of the 20th century may not be detected unless we continue monitoring."
To achieve continued monitoring, sharks will be caught on drumlines and genomic analyses will contribute to future estimates of the effective number of breeders.
Ms Davenport is working on shark genomics, in partnership with NSW DPI and co-supervisor Dr Paul Butcher, as part of her PhD thesis with UQ Associate Professor Jennifer Ovenden from the School of Biomedical Sciences, along with Dr Andrew Jones, formerly of UQ, and experts from South Africa including Professor Conrad Matthee and white shark researcher Dr Sara Andreotti.
The study results are published in Ecology and Evolution (DOI 10.1002/ece3.7007).
Source: UQ
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Q: How to properly move jQuery from index page, into separate javascript file? How can I move my initialization code i.e.
  <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {
            var t; // This will be a timeout
            $('.navHover').mouseover(function() {
                if (t)
                {
                    clearTimeout(t);
                }

                $('.navigation').slideDown(400);
            }).mouseout(function() {
                t = setTimeout(function() {
                    $('.navigation').slideUp(400);
                }, 800); // .8 second delay before hiding
            });

            $('.navigation').mouseover(function() {
                if (t)
                {
                    clearTimeout(t);
                }
            }).mouseout(function() {
                t = setTimeout(function() {
                    $('.navigation').slideUp(400);
                }, 800); // .8 second delay before hiding
            });
        });
    </script>

Into a separate file? main.js?
Thanks

A: Simply create a text file, paste that code into it (minus the script tags) and add :
<script type="text/javascript" src="path-to\main.js"></script>

Into the <head> of your page.

A: What do you mean properly? Because it's in a document ready handler, you can safely just paste that code into a separate file and include it in the head of your page.

A: This may seem too easy of a solution but can't you just copy from $(document) through to the closing tags '});' and paste that into a separate js file?  Then load that file the way you would normally by using
<script type="text/javascript" src="main.js"></script>

A: Put it in a JS file and include that JS file the same way you include your jQuery file.  Main will work fine.

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Access to yard/parks for potty and exercise.
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Must take puppy classes before puppy hits the 12 week mark, and an additional set of higher level general training class that is not specifically for puppies.
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Spay/Neuter: I place all of my dogs on conditional contracts and some puppies will be required to be kept intact until physical maturity to determine suitability for breeding. This is a preservation effort and my breedings are geared towards that, so some homes I give greater preference too if they are willing to co-own and make their dog available to me later on for breeding if it's determined that pet is of good physical and mental quality to assist in preservation.
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Teddy is a certified office dog and lives in a townhouse in Seattle with his best human pal. They walk to work together and he has a pretty decent range of tricks by all accounts. He's a very good boy! Teddy had preliminary hip X-rays and OFAs about 1 year ago and they indicated possibly mild hip dysplagia. He has everything else I want for Miki but it will depend on how her hips turn out later this year.
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Master class in Michael Klien's "Dancing States of Mind" class, Monday April 17th from 1:25 – 4:25pm in the Hull Dance Studio. This class is open to all Duke students with all levels of performance interests.
Teach / lead discussion in Tyler Walters' Advanced-Intermediate Ballet class, Tuesday April 18th from 11:45am – 1:15pm in the Ark Dance Studio.
Teach / lead a discussion in Barbara Dickinson's Dance Composition I class, Tuesday April 18th from 3:05 – 4:20pm in Ark Dance Studio.
Teach / lead a discussion in Julie Janus Walter's Advanced Ballet class, Wednesday April 19th from 10:05 – 11:20am in the Ark Dance Studio.
For twelve years (1992-2004), he was Head Dramaturge and creative collaborator for William Forsythe and Ballett Frankfurt. During this period his groundbreaking visual, installational and performative dramaturgy informed Forsythe`s seminal choreographic works. From 1998 to 2004 Valk`s dramaturgical focus on trans-disciplinary networking led to the development of new participatory situations for the institution of contemporary dance. The resulting large-scale projects "Schmalclub" (1999-2002) and "New Meaningful Public Space" (2003-2004) are now recognized as seminal works in the emerging field of Social Choreography.
In 2007 he founded the international dramaturgical and social choreographic design agency "r.i.c.e." (radical institute of cybernetic epistemology) with headquarters in Limerick, Ireland, Helsinki Finland and Frankfurt Germany.
From 2004-2011 Valk became Head Dramaturge and artistic collaborator of Ireland`s Daghdha Dance Company (Artistic Director – Michael Kliën). Through rigorously reexamining the core principles of contemporary cultural practice, Daghdha became one of Europe's most progressive arts organizations, "a complex and living ecology, one which conceptually transcended and extended far beyond the boundaries of its formally prescribed institutional structures".
During this same period Valk founded the social choreographic design agency "r.i.c.e." (radical institute of cybernetic epistemology) in Frankfurt. Over the course of nearly 100 projects r.i.c.e collaborated with Frankfurter Verein für soziale Heimstaätten, the city`s largest social service provider. The objective was to develop new cultural formats, which would deliberately blur the lines between the mainstream and marginalized citizenry. The cultural strategy at the heart of this 7-year project was to establish a permanent interactive "terrain" between the design and performing arts and the larger citywide network of Social Service providers. r.i.c.e focused on fostering sustainable infrastructures and modes of creative and cultural practice (understanding) between Art and Design Colleges and Universities (through permanent changes in curriculum) and the Frankfurt Social Services.
In December 2012, in collaboration with a network of local, regional, and international trans-disciplinary theorists, cultural practitioners, civic partners, and friends, Steve Valk founded the first Institute of Social Choreography in Frankfurt Germany.
The Institute of Social Choreography specialises in deep dramaturgical research, the development of new cultural formats and collaborative networks and the practice of social choreography as a set of methods for discovering and manifesting alternative patterns in the ecology of our collective experience.
Project partners range from social service organisations of all kinds, religious institutions, schools, foundations and universities to creative agencies, the Occupy movement, local and international cultural initiatives, museums, dance departments and government agencies. Its aim is to integrate experiential knowledge attained in the arts into all aspects of civic and cultural life. The Institute of Social Choreography aims to open new political dimensions of aesthetic practice, not through the representation of ideologies, but by creating the conditions for original social relations to arise directly out of choreographic practice. Performative experimentation is its central methodological principle.


We were careful not to wake Sleeping Beauty. Or the ghostly piper.
The 7th Laird of Gight threw his jewels in there when the castle was sacked by the // ]]> Covenanters. The poor diver who was sent down to retrieve them floated back up to the top in four pieces. There is a more involved version of this story here, featuring the devil. We did not go in.
The walk back along the river was pleasant, if a bit boggy, with glimpses of the Castle up on the hill.
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Great photos. Sounds like they know how to weave a story or two.
Yes, great stories associated with this castle!
Looks a beautiful ruin. Thanks for sharing. I need to see more of Aberdeenshire.
It is a nice one to visit, might get a bit overgrown in summer.
I am so in love with your blog, your photos and your country. Must return soon!
So pleased that you 'entered at your own risk' – fantastic post!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Those signs always feel like a challenge!
Thank you for the photos and stories. Wonderful links, too!
Thanks, Ailish. Lovely to see Gight Castle. You and your quines are more intrepid than me! This is my mother's country, she was born near Barthol Chapel and her parents are buried at Methlick.
PS: Predictive text corrected quines to quinces. It's a lovely image.
BTW: finding your book on the Jacobite women very useful and informative just now.
Amazing pics – especially loved the one of the 'brave little tree'. First time hearing about quines – interesting!
Lived vicariously through your words and photos. What a spectacular place.
They are full of stories!


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I honestly feel like life keeps throwing me challenges especially when it comes to time management. I have been working on a number of projects and the past two weeks all my hard work has paid off. Only problem is it happened all at once. This meant juggling jobs, hosting events, babysitters… well you get the picture. I'm happy to say I managed most of it but I'm shattered and run down. I'm lucky though as I'm now in Spain for 10 days. Yesterday morning after I arrived I parked in a shopping centre and spent a half hour looking for my car keys in a cafe only to discover I had left them in the car and it was still running over an hour later!!
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