PRICE PER CASE: $216.00 (12) @ $18.00 per bottle.
Our only port to date but it is extremely popular. It is a blend of vintages and is delightfully soft and smooth. A wonderful way to end an evening meal.
I enjoy all of Settlers Ridge wines but it's been many years since I've tasted a $20 bottle of Tawny that is as smooth as this one. I would have to compare this only with to some others that cost upwards of $70 for an equivalent bottle.


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Bambutortyr är en form av tortyr som sägs ha brukats i Syd- och Östasien, t.ex. av japanska soldater under andra världskriget. Metoden går ut på att låta bambuskott växa genom offrets kropp. Mythbusters testade metoden i ett avsnitt 2008 och kom fram till att bambuskott kunde tränga igenom huden cirka 5 cm på tre dagar.

Externa länkar
Mythbusters test av bambutortyr

Tortyr

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Grow your own, make your own, save your own, do your own, all these things and more add up to an attempt to treat the planet well and learn more about it.
The range is broad from turtles to bees, vegetables to soap, green to blue. Hopefully the journey involves plenty of new things including friends and knowledge.
Living in The Netherlands gives this life journey another perspective too. It's been seventeen years and counting!
Here's a list of posts in categories if you'd like to find something specific.
Introduction	When Bio gas man decided to suggest that growing 'something useful' would be more inspiring than cutting the hedge, our allotment idea was born. We have been fairly conscientious 'pale green' people for a long time and this was our biggest step into more considerate living.
Thank you for visiting my humble little blog. It looks like you've embarked on an interesting lifestyle. I've enjoyed reading several of your posts so far and look forward to what you share in the future. Keep up the good work!
Hi there, I'm flattered but I got it yesterday at the same time you did from Lita 😃 thanks for enjoying my blog. Have a good weekend.
Brilliant! It was quite hard to find people. They were either already listed or obviously very well established. It's all good fun eh?
Oh goodness, I just noticed that Lita gave it to you, too! You've been doubly blessed! 🙂 Feel free to choose either set of questions to do. Have a great day!
Hi there!! TY for the follow. I hope you enjoy my musings and my information.
BTW thanks for dropping by at my place in this blogosphere and deciding to keep tabs on my 'experiments'.
Thanks Preeti. I'm really enjoying reading yours too.
Thank you so much! That's really exciting!
Thank you for the follow so I'd thought I'd 'follow' you back here and take a gander. Great idea you have here looking forward to receiving your posts. Nice to meet you. Jenni.
Thanks very much. The whole blog thing is so great for sharing!
Love your blog – nice philosophy for life! Thank you for following my blog Vohn's Vittles. You are most welcome!
Hi! I nominated your blog for a Liebster award. Come pick it up, it's at my page.
I really appreciate this award. I have already had the Liebster. Am I allowed to accept it twice?
certainly. It's good blog fodder.
I've nominated you for the Liebster Award, if you are interested just follow the link and it will explain the steps if you want to participate.
Thanks very much Jenni. I'm away just now but will get to this next week!
Thank you. It's an interesting thing blogging!
That's such a lovely welcome. A couple of posts a day eh? That's impressive. Mind I try hard not to overdo it sometimes as I get carried away!
I love scheduling mine too. But then I throw in a couple spontaneously.
Sorry just checked location. There's no link for your comments in the app for some reason. Turkey eh?
Most other comments have the bloggers site address. Yours is one that doesn't. Mind you I'm not sure where the setting would be. Maybe under 'public' I teach ict to seven year olds but can't find it. I really liked your about page. Great mix.
Hmm.. is there a setting I have missed?
No the link is there now! It wasn't for the first few comments! Weird.
Yey! Glad about that. I find wordpress good but there's times when it's hard to know what others see. I try to tell people if I can. I realised recently that the avatar thing wasn't giving my blog name so that was another dead end. I'm not fanatical about links but want to be able to find people again.
Hi Green Lizard, I was amazed someone from the Netherlands saw my blog! I only created it on Wednesday. I have written a new post and linked to your website. I would like to include a picture of your allotment (so very different from ours).
That's the joy if the blog. Welcome to the blogosphere! Go ahead with the links. Thanks for doing that!
We missed it. BBC 4 is a bit tricky for us in The Netherlands.
Hello! I have loved and continue to love following your journey and learning through your discoveries ways I can go greener! I admire your work ethic and ability to just go for it (whatever the weather)!
Wow Lita. Thank you. A great way to start Saturday. I really appreciate your comments and support and thank you for this award. That's tremendous!
Hi, thanks so much for visiting 'From Ethiopia, with love' we really appreciate it. Your blog looks so interesting I'm looking forward to exploring it in greater detail. Thanks again.
Hey there. Thanks to you too. Great to meet new people out here!
Hee wat leuk dat ik nu eens iemand uit Nederland tref!
Hartstikke Bedankt! I need to write more Dutch topics and will be trying too!
Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog today and leaving a LIKE! Appreciate it.
What a lively blog, i have tried to like two posts i rad tonight but sadly wordpress is playing yp tonight ! Thank you for sharing !
Aha, thanks for letting on, whereabouts – no I am not trying to track you down…..
Thanks for liking by 'almost hero blog' I will get around to visiting your site> Sounds like the way we were raised. But I'm in Florida,retired, and a beach Bum. So it may take a while. Continue to inspire others.
Thanks. It gets different actions and some people have suggested I change it!
What? Thay want bigger eyes? Now that's weird.
Very odd. Too space age they said!
Hello…..thank you so much for visiting my blog and the like!! I love gardening and though we dont have too much space, I try to grow my own herbs and a few veggies every now and then…..we must all do our bit. I loved your blog….please keep up the good work!!!
Thank you very much. Small things in small spaces have such a positive effect!
Thanks for the like! I'm glad you enjoyed my article about grief and social media. Cheers!
Thanks very much. Welcome aboard. It's great to meet new bloggers too. I only started six months ago myself. Enjoy!
Hello. Thank you for visiting my blog. It is nice to meet you.
I am LOVING your site! Thanks for following me so I could learn about you! I will definitely be diving into this treasure trove of ideas. It's absolutely brilliant!
Glad you like it! It's a bit crazy but you're very welcome!
Yes… and Yes!!! I love your thoughtful stance on our environment. I also love your quirky approach to life. Keep on bloggin'!
Thanks for visiting my blog, Creative Economy in the Kitchen, and for the follow. I'm thrilled to discover your blog, and will definitely be following!
We too are trying to Reduce, Recycle and Reuse as much as we possibly can.
If every person in the Western world did even a tiny amount every day, the results would be noticeable in no time.Too many people think we live in a throw-away society, but we only have one planet and we can't treat that as a throw away item.
Hi! I'm nominating you for the Versatile Blogger Award. You KNOW you personify versatility! Please feel free to accept or decline; I'll keep reading you whatever you do.
Good morning! have dropped by to see what you do – we evidently have a lot in common. I've had an allotment for over 30 years now, hens for about 22 years. I'd love to keep bees – one for my 'one day' list!
I really like your blog, will add it to the list of those I visit regularly. Tend not to 'follow' as I find my inbox gets too full up, and I prefer to drop in when I have some spare time.
Thanks again for reblogging my post on fungi.
Thanks very much. Inspirational to here you've bee doing this so long. Mind you our allotment journey is about eight years now. Time flies as they say. Have a great spring!
Great for me to see younger people (I'm assuming you're younger than me!) taking this on. You're the future, for all of us. Great delight for me that my son's are now also taking up growing and all the other things dear to me, and moving them on still further.
Glad to be younger. (Tend to be older than many people more often than not. ) it's a continuum I guess. Just found a photo of my grandad holding a chicken. Maybe it's in my family too.


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Magical Development
Lewis has won four national conjuring competitions and awards, three for his close-up magic (SAMS & Edinburgh Magic Circle) and one for the best overall magical effect (John Ramsay award). He entered the competitions after stepping down as President of the Edinburgh Magic Circle - the youngest President in its 60 year history.
Read on to find out more about how Lewis developed his skills as a close-up magician.
The Bunco Booth
Since the age of five, when he was taken to see Paul Daniels in his record-breaking magic show at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, Lewis has been fascinated by the art of conjuring. Even at that age, he was drawn towards the effects that clearly involved no trick props, smoke or mirrors, such as the famous Bunko Booth, where experts in card cheating demonstrated their sleight of hand artistry.
The One Handed Magician
Lewis' fascination with magic continued to develop, until in his early teens it took a leap forward through a chance meeting with a one-handed magician. The meeting occurred in a magic shop in London, where Lewis was taught many incredible effects, told fascinating stories of The Magic Circle, and encouraged to seek out more magicians and join the Edinburgh Magic Cicle (Lewis became the President of the Edinburgh Magic Circle only a few years later). Shortly after meeting this one-handed magician, who provided Lewis with his magical epiphany, Lewis attempted to contact him again. He found that the magician had vanished without a trace - with even the staff at the magic shop having no recollection of him at all.
Magical Aquaintances
Membership of the Edinburgh Magic Circle led to meeting many more magicians, including R. Paul Wilson, who in turn introduced Lewis to Jerry Sadowitz. Lewis would regularly write to Jerry with ideas for new effects, moves and routines, some of which were published in Jerry's magic magazine, The Crimp. Jerry's approach to developing incredible close-up magic continues to be a source of inspiration to Lewis to this day. Charles Cameron, world-renowned Godfather of 'Bizarre Magic' and mentor to Lewis, is continuing source of posthumous inspiration.
The Italian Jobs
As Lewis continued to develop his magic to best suit a range of environments in as pure a form as possible, his reputation for stunning close-up magic began to spread beyond the UK. This led to a series of shows across Italy, including in Florence, Trieste and Milan at some of the world's most exclusive hotels. These shows in turn led to many more across Europe until the present day, when Lewis regularly receives requests to perform across the world (he has had to turn down two requests to perform in Holywood in the last year due to prior engagements).
Lewis' study of the art of magic is unending, however with over twenty years of dedicated research and development into the purest forms of close-up magic, he is able to confidently provide the highest quality of conjuring to his clients. As to what will happen next? Watch this space...
"Lewis is one of the most proficient magicians I have ever met. As a close-up performer and international card expert he literally demonstrates miracles"
"An excellent magician and a great performer. I only hope he has a lousy agent!"
Jerry Sadowitz

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Spotify > YouTube as audio streaming surpasses music videos
Audio didn't quite kill the video star, but it's making a comeback. Americans are now on-demand streaming more songs as audio than they're consuming through music videos. The shift highlights the importance of music in the battle for mobile profits, plus it could help artists get paid more.
Analytics provider BuzzAngle Music tells TechCrunch that since the start of 2016, Americans purposefully played 114 billion audio streams on apps like Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music, versus watching 95 billion music video streams on apps like YouTube. This represents a big resurgence for pure listening since the rise of MTV.
On-demand Audio streaming was up 107.8 percent in the US compared to the first half of 2015, while video streaming grew 23 percent. On-demand streaming as a whole rose 58.3 percent, and these numbers don't count online radio streaming like Pandora.
A sizable amount of on-demand music streaming is coming from paid subscription services like Spotify and Apple Music than can charge $9.99 for unlimited access. While YouTube recently launched its own ad-free subscription service, most users watch for free but endure ads. Royalties from subscription music services pull in more revenue than ads on videos, earning musicians more per listen.
With royalties taking up so much of what Spotify earns, it's waging a tough war against a deep-pocketed opponent. Apple launched its on-demand streaming service in June 2015, bringing its enormous horde of cash earned from iPhone sales to the competition. This money helps it recruit new listeners through ads and secure exclusives like the early release of Drake's new album "Views", which BuzzAngle says was the year's top album.
If Apple can gain a loyal audience for its Music app, it might have better luck getting those people to buy more of its pricey hardware. Spotify meanwhile just raised $1 billion in debt with dirty terms to fuel the battle. It has to hope its free ad-supported tier can more effectively recruit listeners and convert them to paid subscribers than Apple Music's three-month free trial.
Music sales continue to decline, with digital song sales down 24.2 percent and album sales down 17.7 percent. Despite vinyl popularity amongst hipster increasing old-school record sales by 17 percent, physical CD sales dropped 9% pulling down all physical album sales down 7% from the first half of 2015.
Streaming Royalties still aren't replacing what artists made from records at the peak of the $16.99 CD era. But transitioning more fans to paid subscription services could lessen the gap.
The convenience and portability of audio streaming lets listeners immerse themselves in an artist's albums, not just their popular single that has a video. Rather than flitting from artist to artist watching music videos, streaming apps like Spotify make it easier to dive into a musician's whole catalog. That could make people more likely to spend money on a musician's merchandise and concert tickets.
The MTV age meant musicians couldn't just make music any more. They had to be actors too. Now media is undergoing another shift. Any artist solely focusing on their recorded music sales and streaming royalties isn't adapting.
To earn a good living, musicians must become merchandise designers, live performers, social networkers, TV commercial soundtrack composers, and more. Today, musicians don't sell music. They need to sell a connection between them and their fans by every method available.


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We accept submissions online through user-friendly Submittable.com as well as by mail. Poems must be uploaded by 11:59 pm PST on February 28, 2018 or postmarked by February 28, 2018. Maximum length is 31 lines, including title and spaces.
Johnson City Library's 10th Annual Writers Conference: "Let's Get Published"
The Saturday Evening Post will award $25 to the author of the winning limerick about this May 23, 1936, cover illustration by Albert W. Hampson.
The Texas Poetry Calendar has been an iconic staple of the poetry community in Texas since 1998, publishing Texas Poets Laureate and Pushcart winners alongside emerging poets from the vast cultural diaspora culminating in this great state. Submissions are accepted from December 1, 2017 through February 20, 2018.
The California State Poetry Society offers monthly poetry contests. This contest is open to all poets, whether or not they are members of the CSPS. Reading fees are $1.50 per poem with a $3.00 minimum for members and $3.00 per poem with a $6.00 minimum for non-members.
subject matter, length, source, etc.—if any?
The poem must deal with a transformation (physical, scientific, or societal) through an extended period of time.
The Fountain Essay Contest 2017: How to Face a Disaster?
Prizes range from $10 to $100. 19 categories for nonmembers to enter on a wide variety of themes and forms.
Entries should be emailed or postmarked by January 31, 2018.
We are hosting our Special Writing Contest from December 1, 2017 - January 31, 2018. Send your short fiction (1,000 - 6,000 words) or poetry collection (3 - 10 pages).
The grand prize is $350, with a second place prize of $100, and a third place prize of $75. Each of the three winners will have their work published in our website and/or print anthology.
Kat Crawford is in the process of compiling stories from men and women for her new book, Buckets of Hope. Her goal with this book is to help those struggling with forgiveness after loss. The subtitle and cover design are still in the refining process, but she is inviting you to share your stories.


Creating the yard or garden of your dreams is not all that difficult. You really just need some general information and tips to get started. This article will introduce you to some basic tips that can get you started in creating the yard of your dreams.
Consider native plants when creating a landscaping plan. It works best in any garden or plant bed to choose trees, flowers and other greenery that are native to your area. These native plants will flourish even in poor soil, they may not require as much water, and they are better able to survive in extreme weather conditions.
Use native plants in your yard. Native plants are require less effort on your part because they're accustomed to your soil and environment. This allows them to be easily maintained. Your local gardener probably has lots of great native plant information.
Many people don't think about online shopping regarding landscaping. Not only is it more convenient to shop online, but you can often find rare and unique plants for your landscaping designs that are not available locally.
Before you actually break ground, remember any structures in the area, and try not to harm anything. Make sure to know where cables, gutter, sprinklers and other systems are placed so you do not disturb them when you are doing your landscaping. Call the city or county before you dig to make sure you do not damage any underground lines.
You get what you pay for. Inexpensive materials will not always have the quality you are after. If you are new to landscaping, a specialty store, while a little more expensive, will provide you with the advice and guarantees that you may need.
Evergreen shrubs and foliage plants help give your landscaping a look of continuity. Many plants do not offer a long window for flowering and can leave your yard looking forlorn for much of the year. The use of foliage plants and evergreen shrubs keep your yard green between flower beds.
Choose locations wisely when setting your landscaping intentions. If you want your plants to survive, they need to be properly situated in your yard. Consider the light, shading, rain and other elements the plants will be exposed to on particular areas of your property.
Do not overlook the havoc that certain landscaping features can wreak on your home and lawn. Certain trees' root systems can damage your underground pipes. In addition, putting plants in some areas can affect the line of site for traffic or your driveway, creating a safety hazard. Carefully consider these things when you are creating your landscape plan and any others you can think of.
Add special aspects, like a water fountain. It is a good idea to spend a little more money on your supplies and materials for this project by purchasing them from a specialty store. The expertise of the sales associates and other staff can prove invaluable when designing your water garden.
Break your landscaping job down into smaller parts and tackle them one at a time. Instead of trying to do your entire your at once, try dividing it into sections and doing one part at a time. This will make your project more affordable. You can start with different plants and different areas.
If you have always wanted to get started on landscaping your yard, this article can help you get started. Pick a few tips to begin with, and start beautifying your garden today; in no time you will have the garden of your dreams!
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What! Surely I'm not encouraging you to fail am I?
Not at all, but there is something that you need to know about failure that can really change the way you look at your badminton.
I found it made me a much better player, able to keep going and improve a lot lot quicker than the way I regarded failure before ever let me.
I was always the kind of person who was good at most things, and not necessarily used to failure.
So when I tried something new, there was a good chance that I would have some modicum of success with it.
But if any kind of failure occurred, I would give up, saying it wasn't for me.
To relate this to badminton, I found that I would start the game in a very good state of mind, and this state of mind would continue until I made a mistake, whether in the first point or the fifteenth (that didn't happen very often!).
On the first mistake, my confidence would take a little battering, but I would continue.
And what I found when I started to analyse my game more was that each mistake, each shot that went out, or into the net, was eroding my play a little bit, because I was regarding them as failures.
It was as though I had a 'full tank' of ability at the start of the game, and each mistake drained that tank in my mind just a little, making me play a little bit worse.
It was only when I changed my attitude towards failure that I managed to keep that 100% play up all the way during a game (and that makes a REAL difference!).
"Failure is natural; failure is not evidence that you are no good, rather it is an excellent chance for you to learn from what is going wrong and move on. The more you fail, the more you succeed!"
Again, we go into this in much much more detail later on, but I will say this here.
Say you hit a smash into the net. Most of us would view that as bad, and move onto the next point in a worse state than before.
But if you can view that bad smash as a good thing, a chance for you to realise what is going wrong, you will go into the next point in a positive way, and keep that positive attitude throughout the game.
Can you see what a difference to your badminton THAT would make?


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Philippines: Traffic culture and climate issues highlighted with GPS-painting
December 8, 2013 Culture FuturesClean Air, Clean Air Asia, Manila, Philippines
'CAR-Manila – clean air ride' to be held in Manila, the Philippines, on 29 November 2013. A 'virtual painting performance' that combines art and technology, virtual reality and real life, environment and community.
On 29 November, as a way to shed new light on climate and clean air issues through the combination of art and technology, electric cars, bikes and various other green vehicles painted the three letters of the word AIR as they moved with their GPS-phones on a specified route through the streets of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
The Virtual Painting Performance in the streets of Manila was organised by Clean Air Asia, Partnership for Clean Air, CO2 Green Drive and Electric Vehicles Association of the Philippines (eVAP).
The 29 November 2013 version in Manila is the first version of a new collaboration between CO2 Green Drive and Clean Air Asia which will act as a sort of 'blueprint' for following events to occur in 2014 and 2015.
"The Clean Air Drive Manila project promotes the use of non-motorized transportation options and alternative fuels to reduce emissions from vehicles. It provides an opportunity to present the concept of electric vehicles and alternative fuels in a public discussion forum," wrote Clean Air Asia on their home page.
The Philippines are currently building an electric vehicle industry using a US$ 300 million ADB loan, reducing annual carbon dioxide emissions by 260,000 tons and doubling incomes for tricycle drivers.
CO2 Green Drive, a project under the umbrella of the Danish Cultural Institute in collaboration with Clean Air Asia, is currently in the process of planning six similar events in various Asian countries in the near future.
On Earth Day, 22 April 2014, the CO2 Green Drive Project becomes a global event with 'Green Drives' as well as runs and walks in numerous cities around the globe.
The completion of the route is tracked with the GPS tracking application and the ensuing painting can be visually traced live on a designated website.
» Read more: cleanairinitiative.org
Footings and Entanglements
December 7, 2013 ecoartscotlandDave Borthwick, James Caruth, Longbarrow, Longbarrow Press, Sheffield, Two Ravens Press
Dave Borthwick highlights two new books of poetry. Entanglements is an anthology for which Dave wrote the Introduction, and includes work by amongst others Alec Finlay, Gerry Loose, Em Strang and Jim Carruth. You can find out more and order from Two Ravens Press.
Footings is a new collection of specially commissioned poems focused on walking and comes from Longbarrow Press in Sheffield. Dave has kindly provided this review for ecoartscotland.
Longbarrow Press is a small publisher of a suite of experimental poets, producing a creative output whose eclecticism is its hallmark. Longbarrow believes that the poem should dictate the output, and has to date produced publications in the form of acetates, maps, and matchboxes. This commitment to formal and thematic experimentation is carried forward into its newly-published anthology The Footing, a collection of commissioned poems on the theme of walking and landscape.
This is not a walker's collection in the sense of exploring pleasing prospects or aesthetic epiphanies, though, but rather a series of often weary journeys where history and memory make uneasy fellow travellers, where 'Night settles over everything', 'the single row of shuttered shops. / 2.00am, deserted streets and cul-de-sacs' (James Caruth, 'Nocturne'). Less rooted in, but emanating from, Sheffield these are poems that move through edgelands and riparian zones, a hauntology of locations where the walker is perpetually disturbed, moved on, and so moving off. Andrew Hirst's 'Three Night Walks' has the poet 'scuttling along the curb's ledge / alone, unsettled, residual.'
Rob Hindle follows 'Flights and Traverses (5 itineraries)' including 'the supposed migration of Richard Marsden, an ancestor' in 1782, the sequence ending on 'a descent in the traces of the first of the Luftwaffe raids on Sheffield'. Chris Jones' 'Death and the Gallant' reimagines the Reformation—with its destruction of artwork and symbolism—as seen through the eyes of a traveller contracted to daub and destroy iconography: 'we're pilgrims too', he explains. Fay Musselwhite's excellent poems are the voices of the Rivelin's latter-day spirits 'tunnelling / under a low stone bridge' or trekking 'though woods' winter skeletons' by the riverside.
The Footing's seven poets each explore their territory with sensitivity, but without sentiment, their psychogeographical mappings manifesting the interconnections of territory, memory and experience in vivid, and wonderfully unsettling, terms.
Angelina Ayers, James Caruth, Mark Goodwin, Rob Hindle, Andrew Hirst, Christ Jones, Fay Musselwhite, The Footing (Sheffield: Longbarrow Press, 2013). pp. 95. £12. See also http://thefooting.wordpress.com/, with links to SoundCloud recordings of poems.
David Borthwick teaches literature and the environment at the University of Glasgow's School of Interdisciplinary Studies in Dumfries. His current research at the Solway Centre for Environment and Culture explores contemporary ecopoetry.
Canada: Sold-out theatre production on climate change
December 6, 2013 Culture FuturesDavid Suzuki
In Canada, the theatre production 'The Trial of David Suzuki' became a sold out event which intrigued an audience of all ages. To the Canadian scientist, broadcaster and author David Suzuki, it provided a way to discuss the threat of human-induced climate change without first having to "prove" it is happening.
Dr David Suzuki has won numerous awards and is world-famous for being an advocate for both humanity and the environment. On 6 November 2013, he staged an unusual and dramatic theatre production in Toronto: 'The Trial of David Suzuki' – a mock trial, held at the Royal Ontario Museum. He stood accused of seditious libel – spreading lies against the government – and the show was promoted as if it had been a real trial where Suzuki would have to defend his 'Carbon Manifesto' which had been published as an nine-minute video on youtube.com a month earlier.
Landslide consensus
Joanna Katchutas wrote in Freshprint Magazine:
"The Carbon Manifesto, in which he claims that climate change is a matter too urgent to keep delaying significant action, states that we need to work as a nation to end the exploration and production of oil by 2035 and begin to change the way we live now as the future of our youth and their children depend on it.
Created and produced by Laurie Brown – an advocate for the arts and a Canadian radio personality – 'The Trial of David Suzuki' argued and gathered public opinion on whether or not Dr. Suzuki's Manifesto is a plan that will save the world or destroy the Canadian economy as we know it.
The cast of the trial included actual lawyers (Linda Rothstein and Will McDowell), a judge, a jury, government of Canada Officials, artists and scientists, expert witnesses (business professor Michael Hlinka and Environmental Minister of Ontario Gord Miller) and of course, Dr. David Suzuki himself with Laurie Brown acting as the bailiff.
At the end of the performance the audience was encouraged to share their opinions by voting on whether or not they felt that Dr. Suzuki was guilty or innocent of sedition. The consensus of the trial was in favour of Dr. Suzuki by a landslide."
Provided a way to discuss the threat
The day after the event, David Suzuki explained on the theatre production's home pagetrialofsuzuki.ca:
"The mock trial provided a way to discuss the threat of human-induced climate change without first having to "prove" it is happening. The latest IPCC report provided the scientific heft and sense of urgency. I didn't know what to expect of the audience's final decision but was gratified with the result, of course. I hope we can conclude that the audience navigated through the arguments and claims to conclude that these were valid concerns and solutions.
I have to repeat a bit of what I said last night. In 1988, an international meeting of climatologists was held in Toronto where the scientists were so concerned with the threat of global warming that they issued a call for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gases in 15 years. Had we heeded that call which at that time was very achievable, we would have been well on our way to a path of sustainable energy. But in order to get U.S. President George HW Bush to attend the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, a much watered down target of stabilization of 1990 levels of emission by 2000 was signed, but then ignored.
In 1997, in Kyoto, delegates proposed a target of 5–6% reduction below 1990 levels by 2010. Canada ratified the Kyoto treaty in 2001 but did little to achieve the reduction and the current government withdrew from the treaty altogether as our emissions continued to rise. Unlike the prosecutor's claims last night, there are countries that are taking strong steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon manifesto was based on the need to move to non-carbon energy much faster.
That's why the mock trial was so timely. The warming is already upon us yet we still have time to hold off chaos and any further delay simply leaves an unprecedented future for our children and grandchildren. Thanks everyone who participated in what I hope will be a continuing call for action. Please click to take my Manifesto Pledge and then share it widely with your family and friends."
Video trailer for 'The Trial of David Suzuki'.
The Trial of David Suzuki: Act 1.
On 9 October 2013, David Suzuki unveiled his 'Carbon Manifesto' on the steps of Toronto's Courthouse.
» Home page: trialofsuzuki.ca
» Facebook page: facebook.com/trialofsuzuki
Freshprint Magazine – 11 November 2013:
The Trial of David Suzuki
Review by Joanna Katchutas: "I wonder where I'll be "when I'm sixty four" (got the Beatles lyrics going through my head). The Carbon Manifesto affects us, the youth of our nation. I suppose many others at the Trial agreed with me – I took the Manifesto Pledge and I think for the sake of our future (since we are the future), we all should."
The Star – 10 November 2013:
David Suzuki shows the ROM how we'll die: Mallick
Review by Heather Mallick: "In a new play, David Suzuki again shows us the price we'll all pay if we don't act now on climate change."
Financial Post – 7 November 2013:
'Trial of David Suzuki' a mockery of a mock trial
Review by Peter Foster: "The real lesson of this mockery of a mock trial was what it said about the objectivity and openness of Suzuki nation"
Fossil Fuel Free Future – 27 October 2013:
Carbon Manifesto
In from Canada comes this scientist and environmentalist with a 'Carbon Manifesto' and the kind of speech on youtube which makes him stand out as one of that kind of climate crisis leaders humanity as a whole has been missing in this last decade where politicians have allowed carbon emissions to escalate to this point where they threaten to destroy the planet as we know it.
David Suzuki's Carbon Manifesto
Published on youtube.com on 10 October 2013
What does culture have to do with climate change? Everything
December 5, 2013 Culture FuturesCape Farewell Foundation, Claire Sykes, Climate Change, Global Climate Change
Introduction to 'Carbon 14: Climate is Culture' by Claire Sykes, Curator and Programming Director, Cape Farewell Foundation
The scientific evidence tells us that the global climate system is changing at an unprecedented rate and in increasingly destructive, self-accelerating ways. But this alarming information alone can be bewildering without narratives and expressions that connect it to our lives and our communities, to our fears and our aspirations. Creating those connections is the work of culture.
A cultural response to the problem of climate change harnesses the powers of creative insight, human emotions, and understanding to effect change. Collaborating with scientists and confronting the facts around global climate change, the artists participating in Carbon 14: Climate is Culture are all responding to different aspects of this climate challenge in poignant, nuanced, subversive, often humorous, and always passionately human ways.
"We need to embrace change and unleash the power of our creativity, ingenuity, innovation, and ability to cooperate — in short, to demonstrate our humanity."
Claire Sykes
The exhibition features 13 art installations, including seven new commissions. Subjects include explorations of a changing Arctic; the health of the oceans; biodiversity and extinction; sustainability and new, clean technologies. Central are questions of politics, economics, and ethics.
Climate change is a difficult subject, open to misrepresentation, denial and confusion, yet it cannot be ignored. Nor can we talk about it in isolation as a purely scientific matter. While climate change presents as an environmental problem, it is — as this exhibition insists — fundamentally a cultural one.
Meaningful change must happen first at the level of culture — how we choose to live, and what we choose to do. The questions raised by the climate crisis are about innovation, economics, politics, and essentially, ethics—our responsibility to future generations and the common good—and these are all questions of culture.
A Cultural Shift
What we do now matters on a scale that previous generations could never imagine and will affect future generations in ways we are only beginning to understand. Mitigating climate change will require both the development and delivery of clean and renewable energy sources, and changes in our behaviours and patterns of consumption to reduce our dependence upon fossil fuels.
We need to embrace change and unleash the power of our creativity, ingenuity, innovation, and ability to cooperate — in short, to demonstrate our humanity. We have a unique opportunity to make all the difference. The time is now and together we can.
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More information about 'Carbon 14: Climate is Culture'
'Carbon 14: Climate is Culture' was produced by Cape Farewell Foundation in partnership with ROM: Contemporary Culture. It is the inaugural programming coming out of the North American office of Cape Farewell – the Cape Farewell Foundation – which is based in Toronto.
Carbon 14 is a two-year project that began with an intensive workshop on the shores of Lake Ontario in the fall of 2011 and continues with a wide range of programming activities, culminating in this exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM) Centre for Contemporary Culture, a performing arts festival with The Theatre Centre (Toronto), and a rich series of public programs and events.
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Galleries, Museums, and Climate Change l M&GQS | UQAM 2013 Seminar
December 4, 2013 newsEnvironmental Sustainability, environmentally sustainable, International Conservation Services, Judith Nesbitt, National and International Partnerships
Galleries, Museums & Climate Change was M&GSQ's 2014 seminar, an annual partnership with the University of Queensland Art Museum and the UQ Museum Studies Program.
On November 13th, the event featured:
+ Tour of University of Queensland's Global Change Institute building as an environmental sustainable showcase
• Judith Nesbitt, Head of National and International Partnerships, Tate, on Environmental Sustainability at the Tate.
• Emrah Baki Ulas, Associate, Steensen-Varming, and Julian Bickersteth, Managing Director, International Conservation Services and co-authors The Technical Industry Report on Museum and Gallery Lighting and Air Conditioning, on future options for economically and environmentally sustainable methods of display environments, preservation and storage of art and cultural material.
• Dr Laura Fisher, National Institute for Experimental Arts, CoFA, UNSW, on Curating Cities and how the arts can generate environmentally beneficial behaviour change and influence the development of green infrastructure in urban environments.
• Panel discussion with all speakers moderated by Sarah Kanowski, ABC RN Weekend Arts.
Following refreshments, 6pm- 7pm, Fiona Hall, Janet Laurence and Caroline Rothwell discussed their work on display in the UQ Art Museum: Contemporary art meets the environment. The artists spoke about how they make visible the interconnections between nature and culture, and elaborate the devastating impact of human action on the environment.
Judith Nesbitt, Head of National and International Partnerships
Judith Nesbitt leads Tate's national and international programmes delivered through partnerships and exchanges. Before taking up this post, Judith was Chief Curator at Tate Britain (2001 – 2010) where she led the curatorial team and played a key role in shaping all aspects of Tate Britain's programme of exhibitions and displays. She curated Michael Landy's Semi-detached commission in 2004, co-curated the 2003 Tate Triennial Days Like These, the Peter Doig exhibition in 2008 and the Chris Ofili exhibition in 2010. Judith also leads Tate's Sustainability Task Force, with the aim of reducing the organisation's carbon emissions and embedding environmental sustainability in policy and practice.
Educated at the University of York and the Courtauld Institute of Art, Judith began her career at Leeds City Art Gallery, 1986-91, joined Tate Liverpool as Exhibitions Curator, 1991-1995 and was Director of Chisenhale Gallery, 1995-1998. She was Head of Programming at Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1998-2000, and Head of UK Content at eyestorm, the art media company, 2000 – 2001. She is Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, is a member of the Advisory Panel for Art on the Underground, and on the Board of Film and Video Umbrella.
Environmental sustainability at Tate
For over five years, Tate has made a concerted effort to reduce its environmental impact and worked with colleagues in the museum sector to address the challenges specific to the sector.
This initiative has brought changes to how it cares for, presents and transports its collection, the operations across its varied estate, the design and engineering of its new buildings. Some of these changes are incremental; other changes require a greater shift, whether in practice or attitude. Staff, audiences, and artists all have a part to play in how we develop imaginative solutions to the environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Like many galleries, Tate has achieved reductions in the energy demand of heating and cooling its buildings, and taken the opportunity presented by capital projects, such as expansion of Tate Modern, to achieve energy efficient design through passive measures, maximising natural lighting and developing the use of LEDs. All aspects of gallery practice are systematically examined, from re-usable wall systems for exhibitions, waste to heat contracts, to sustainable catering and trading. Aiming to embed sustainable practices across the organisation, Tate's environmental strategy is championed by Green Reps, overseen by the Sustainability Task Force, regularly assessed by Trustees and detailed in its annual report.
The effort is not just an organisational one, since many of the most far-reaching changes require sector-wide agreement between lending institutions. Many international colleagues have indicated their readiness to adopt a smarter approach to running galleries and museums in the long-term public interest. Sharing experience and data is the first step towards well-founded changes of practice, which is why this seminar is a welcome opportunity.
Dr Laura Fisher, National institute for Experimental Arts
Based at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (COFA, UNSW), Laura Fisher is part of the research team behind the Australian Research Council funded Linkage project Curating Cities. Over the last year she has been involved in building the Curating Cities database of eco-sustainable public art, which is a resource for researchers, artists, commissioning agencies, government bodies and members of the public who are interested in how public art can generate beneficial social change with respect to environmental sustainability. She is also currently co-editing the conference proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Arts which was staged in Sydney in July 2013. Laura completed her doctoral thesis in the sociology of art at the University of NSW in 2012.
Curating Cities: public art and sustainability in urban environments
Led by researchers at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (COFA) in partnership with the City of Sydney, Carbon Arts, Object, and the University of Cincinnati, Curating Cities examines how the arts can generate environmentally beneficial behavior change and influence the development of green infrastructure in urban environments. The project rests on the conviction that public art can very effectively serve the sustainability agenda if it is integrated into the processes of reshaping urban infrastructure and managing the efficient use of resources in cities. This presentation will explain the aspirations that underpin Curating Cities, and discuss several exemplary public art projects that have been documented on the Curating Cities database of eco-sustainable art. It will also discuss the database's purpose as an informative and evaluative resource that documents the mix of aesthetic, civic and environmental concerns that each work seeks to address, and provides useful insights into the funding arrangements, multi-party negotiations and problem-solving processes that bring public art projects to fruition.
Curating Cities
Julian Bickersteth is the managing director of International Conservation Services and Vice President of the International Institute for Conservation. He chairs the AICCM taskforce on Environmental Guidelines, and is coordinating a joint IIC and ICOM CC working group to examine the international position on potential relaxation of environmental parameters in museums.
Managing environmental parameters in museums in the face of climate change
Relaxed environmental conditions for museums to reduce energy consumption, whilst not compromising the preservation of collections, have been on the table for consideration by the conservation community for at least the last five years. It is acknowledged that existing parameters are based on a blanket approach, and are unnecessarily tight for all but the most vulnerable of artworks. Major museums and galleries worldwide are recognising this and implementing relaxed parameters, such as the Tate, the Smithsonian and the V&A.
Two years ago it looked as though international agreement was close. However a significant proportion of the conservation profession are not convinced that the risks in relaxing these parameters can be safely managed. Accordingly consensus amongst conservators internationally is not going to be achieved and therefore there will be no new blanket environmental standards. This paper examines the current situation on this complex issue.
Emrah Baki Ulas, Associate, Steensen Varming , is a lighting designer, educator and researcher.
His career in lighting began working for the International Istanbul Biennale. He completed his studies in Germany and Turkey, and worked in Greece prior to joining Steensen Varming.
Emrah's work spans over iconic and high profile projects, including heritage sites, performing art venues, museums and galleries, research and education institutions, commercial developments, monuments, urban lighting and masterplanning.
Emrah is a co-leader of the Master of Lighting Design Postgraduate Studio and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney and is also a frequent contributor of international lighting forums. He was featured as one of the top 30 upcoming professionals by the UK based BS Journal in 2008 and as one of the top 25 upcoming lighting professionals in the USA based AL Journal in 2010.
Technical Industry Report Lighting Air Conditioning
Emrah Baki Ulas
Acknowledgements: The Energy Efficiency component of this activity received funding from the Department of Industry as part of the Energy Efficiency Information Grants Program.
Judith Nesbitt's visit to Australia is co-hosted by the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and the project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
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The Sustainability Review: Call for Submissions for Video Articles (SciVOs)
December 3, 2013 newsArizona State University, School of Sustainability, Submissions, sustainability, Tsr
The Sustainability Review (TSR) is seeking submissions for its Spring 2014 issue. TSR is an online, open-access journal edited and published by graduate students at Arizona State University and hosted by the School of Sustainability. TSR features original research, opinion, and art pieces on the topic of sustainability.
The Spring 2014 issue will feature publications in the journal's new video format: the "SciVO," a short (7-10 minute) video that is transparent and educational while adhering to standards of scientific rigor and academic excellence. Submissions should be in the format of a script for a SciVO, NOT a finished video. If your script is accepted for publication, the TSR editing staff will work with you to produce your SciVO. Please review the submission guidelines at http://www.thesustainabilityreview.org/submit/.
Submissions for this issue will be accepted until December 31, 2013 and will be published starting March 2014.
Exposure UNESCO-COAL Adapting to the Anthropocene
December 2, 2013 newsContemporary Art, Contemporary Artist, Contemporary Artists, Environmental Issues, Sustainable Development, UNESCO
EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY UNESCO, THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION COAL, COALITION FOR ART AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
Monday, November 25 to Friday, November 30 from 10am to 17:30 ●
Opening Tuesday, November 26, at 18h, in continuation of the roundtable Thinking Anthropocene from 4:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Room II
On the occasion of the World Day of Philosophy in 2013.
Fourteen projects by contemporary artists involved in environmental issues named in the various editions of the Prix COAL Art & Environment: Ackroyd & Harvey – Thierry Boutonnier and Ralph Mahfoud – Damien Chivialle – Olivier Darné – Nicolas Floc'h – Hanna Husberg, Laura McLean, Nabil Ahmed, Benedetta Panisson, Rosa Barba, Christopher Draeger & Heidrun Holzfeind Marian Tubbs and Drew Denny – Ivana Adaime Makac – Matthew Moore – Liliana Motta – Lucy + Jorge Orta – Zhao Renhui – Anna Katharina Scheidegger – Laurent Tixador – The Migrant Ecologies Project .
Entitled Adapting to the Anthropocene , this exhibition presented art projects nominated in the various editions of the Prix COAL Art & Environment, which all have in common understanding of the major environmental issues, societal and contemporary, participating in the emergence a new culture of nature and ecology. Each year, through the COAL Art & Environment Award, the association recognizes a contemporary artist involved in environmental issues. The winner is named among the ten selected by a jury of personalities from the world of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development artists, through an international call for projects.
The furnishing of this prize has now become a truly international event that attracts many renowned artists and pioneers in the art of ecology. Each year, the Coal Price Art and Environment is a theme of honor. The 2013 edition on the theme Adaptation received nearly three hundred entries from over 50 countries.
Established in 2010 by the COAL association, COAL Art and Environment Prize of EUR 10 000, is placed under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Ecology, Sustainable Development and the Energy, and the National Center for Visual Arts. It also receives support from private partners.
For UNESCO, this exhibition provided an exceptional opportunity to promote to the public the ethical principles and responsibilities for climate change adaptation that the Organization seeks to encourage each day through its activities, and in particular through the activities developed by the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST).
These principles and responsibilities that call for humanity to ensure the sustainability of the environment, encourage people to consider biodiversity and ecosystem integrity as the foundation of life on earth.
Beyond the analytical contributions of the social sciences that may help change human behavior, there is no doubt, for UNESCO, that art can not only be suitable emotional way to foster new attitudes towards nature and the environment, but it can also be their reflection. This is indeed provided by the example of the COAL association, founded in France in 2008 by professionals of contemporary art, sustainable development and research to foster the emergence of a culture of ecology.
Video credit: The glacier study group, 2013. Institute of critical zoologists
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I Became the Villainess in an Anticlimactic Novel Manga
December 1, 2022 December 11, 2022 Veronika Nicoladge Nicoladge
I became the villainess in an anticlimactic novel manga is based on the Isekai trope. This trope is used to build the tension and to generate suspense. The manga usually uses a very interesting character as the main villain. I became the villainess in an anticlimactic novel manga's character have their own unique style and are used to tell a story. They often have devious and devilish personalities.
I became the villainess in an anticlimactic novel manga is usually a major alien politician. They want to score antihuman PR points, and they are planning to attack a colony. During this time, the human government refuses to send any reinforcements. I became the villainess in an anticlimactic novel manga and her companions have to work together to avoid their fate. The villains are usually powerful enemies, such as the Homicidal brothers, vampire Nazis, and insane fanatical priests.
Interesting Storyline
The villains are very important to the plot, and they often have a great influence on the story. The fiance is extremely in love with the villainess, and they are very protective of her. However, there is an unknown force that is controlling her actions.
She is swept into a maelstrom, and the villain wants to kill her. This is an extremely interesting storyline. The anime version is very well-written and has excellent sound. The manga also has epic music, which makes it very enjoyable to watch.
I Became the Villainess in an Anticlimactic Novel Manga Chapter 1
Creating a villainess in I Became the Villainess in an Anticlimactic Novel Manga Chapter 1 is not a difficult task as long as you are willing to put in the necessary effort and creativity. With the following tips, you will be able to create a unique and captivating character.
Cool Character in Series
I became the villainess in an anticlimactic novel manga is a cool character. The storyline is usually based on the Isekai trope. The main character is reincarnated into a villain, which is usually a major politician from a different planet. The characters will have to work together to save the villain from their own fate.
Strong Character & Devious Personalities
I became the villainess in an anticlimactic novel manga usually has a strong character and devious personalities. The storyline often involves a world based on the main character's past life or on an existing Otome Game. The main character is often transmigrated into a different character, usually a mob character.
How to Create a Humorous Effect
There are many ways a manga can use the anticlimax to create a humorous effect. Many times, a story is written in a light and humorous style, allowing the audience to enjoy the story while not overshadowing the serious topics. Other times, a manga is written with an anticlimactic storyline in order to make the serious subjects more fun to read. These stories are often popular among readers. However, they can be difficult to read, because there are many details to be covered. This is why manga is sometimes written in a short format, such as a light novel.
Anticlimactic Stories Are Common in Anime & Manga
Anticlimactic stories are common in anime and manga . They often have devious characters, and there are often times when the villainess becomes the main character. These stories often involve a villain who is transmigrated into a heroine or mob character. The main character then has to save the villainess from her own fate.
I Became the Villainess in an Anticlimactic Novel Manga Might Not Be A Human
Probably the most common type of manga is the one with a sexy protagonist. The requisite romance is often tempered by the obligatory espionage oaths and the likes. A typical plot might feature a dastardly villain or two, and an oh-so-diaper-esque princess. The anti-hero is often a character who has been duped by his or her master, or the unwitting victim of his or her own pygmy.
The villain might not be entirely human, but a tad more human is not a bad idea. Thankfully, there is usually at least one saviour in the works, or at least a saviour to be found in a nearby dungeon. It is not a hard thing to find in the manga medium, especially when the protagonist is a demon spawn.
This Storyline Is Frustrating for Readers
This type of storyline can be particularly frustrating for readers, because it can result in a disappointing end to the novel. Typically, a climactic moment occurs when the main character meets with the main villain of the story and the villain agrees to a peace deal to save humanity. This happens too easily to be considered a climax, though it does offer a satisfying resolution.
In addition, some stories choose to intentionally end after a climactic moment to give the reader more shock value. Although this type of ending can be effective, it is important to avoid using it as a hook into a sequel. Rather, the reader should be encouraged to read the next novel in the series.
End of the Manga
I Became the Villainess in an Anticlimactic Novel Manga. Using an anticlimactic ending can be a great way to subvert the audience's expectations. It can also be used for humorous or serious purposes. However, an anticlimactic ending can often be disappointing if it doesn't work. Some long serials are a good example of an anticlimactic ending.
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Jobless UK flight attendants asked to work as medical staff
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Australia unlikely to open border in 2021: Health official
The National Health Service says easyJet and Virgin Atlantic are writing to thousands of staff - especially those with first aid training - asking them to work at hospitals being built inside convention centers in London, Birmingham and Manchester
Members of the Household Cavalry ride over an almost empty Westminster bridge as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain, March 26, 2020. Photo:Reuters
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments on Monday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus.
Repurposing staff
Britain's health service is asking airline cabin crew who have been laid off during the coronavirus pandemic to go to work in temporary new hospitals being built to treat COVID-19 patients.
The National Health Service says easyJet and Virgin Atlantic are writing to thousands of staff - especially those with first aid training - asking them to work at hospitals being built inside convention centers in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
It said those who sign up will perform support roles under the supervision of doctors and nurses.
European budget airline easyJet says it is grounding all of its 344 aircraft amid a collapse in demand. It said there was "no certainty of the date for restarting commercial flights."
The carrier based in Luton, England, had already canceled most of its flights and said it has reached an agreement with unions on furlough arrangements for its cabin crew.
Many airlines around the world are negotiating or calling for financial rescue packages from governments. Easyjet said it was in talks with financial liquidity providers.
Britain's government has so far demurred from creating a rescue package for aviation but has said it is ready for negotiations with individual firms once they had "exhausted other options." Scottish regional airline Loganair said it expects to ask for a government bailout.
South Korea will provide as much as 1 million won ($817) in gift certificates or electronic coupons to all but the richest 30% of households to help ease the financial shock of the coronavirus outbreak.
The country will spend around 9.1 trillion won ($7.4 billion) on the one-time giveaways, which will reach 14 million households. Officials are ruling out handouts of cash.
South Korea's has employed a variety of financial tools to support its economy in face of the global health crisis, such as cutting its policy rate to an all-time low, expanding short-term loans for financial institutions and introducing a rescue package for companies totaling 100 trillion won ($81.7 billion).
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Enlightenment is the fifth serial of the 20th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 1 to 9 March 1983. It was the 127th serial of the series, and was written by Barbara Clegg and directed by Fiona Cumming, making it the first serial to be both written and directed by women.

In the serial, the alien time traveller the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companions Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) and Vislor Turlough (Mark Strickson) encounter a group of god-like immortals who are racing historical sailing vessels from Earth through space, crewed by humans they had plucked out of time, in an attempt to win the prize of enlightenment. Turlough is under the control of the Black Guardian (Valentine Dyall), but struggles with the Guardian's orders to kill the Doctor. Enlightenment is the third of three loosely connected serials where the Black Guardian attempts to compel Turlough to kill the Doctor.

The serial's production was beset by problems caused by industrial action taken by electricians at the BBC during filming. It was eventually finished three months behind schedule, but the unavailability of several actors for new filming dates forced the production team to recast their parts at short notice. Enlightenment averaged 6.8 million viewers per episode on its first transmission and received generally positive reviews from critics.

Plot
Following interference from both the White and Black Guardians, the Fifth Doctor materialises the TARDIS in what appears to be the hold of an Edwardian yacht, though the Doctor senses something is amiss. The human crew have no idea how they got there nor where they are, but know they are taking part in a race. The Doctor and his companions, Tegan and Turlough, discover that the yacht and several other historical Earth ships are competing in a solar sail race through the Solar System. The ship's officers reveal themselves to be "Eternals", in contrast to the Doctor and the humans, whom they somewhat dismissively call "Ephemerals". The Eternals live in the "trackless wastes of eternity" and rely on Ephemerals for their thoughts and ideas. This race is being held by the Guardians and the prize is Enlightenment, the wisdom to know everything. The Doctor finds that the Eternals have made his TARDIS vanish, forcing him and his companions to stay until the race's conclusion.

As the race continues, several of the vessels are destroyed by explosions. The Doctor suspects that the crew aboard the Buccaneer, which is a 17th-century pirate ship, is responsible, as it was the closest vessel at the time of destruction. Turlough, while attempting to escape control of the Black Guardian, ends up aboard the Buccaneer, and meets the Eternal Captain Wrack, professing his desire to join her crew and learning she too is working for the Black Guardian. He finds equipment aboard her ship that appears to be the source of the device destroying the other ships and hears the Black Guardian's voice nearby. Later, Wrack offers the Edwardian officers a reception aboard her ship. During the reception, Turlough demonstrates the Wrack's advantage-providing equipment to the Doctor, while Wrack hypnotizes Tegan and implants Tegan's tiara (Tegan and Marriner attend Captain Wrack's reception in full Edwardian costume) with a red crystal. After the reception and continuation of the race, the Doctor sees the Buccaneer nearing the Edwardian ship, determines that the red crystal is used as a focal point of the weapon, and gets rid of the tiara before Wrack can destroy the ship.

Nearing the end of the race, the solar winds dissipate and the Buccaneer pulls ahead of the Edwardian ship. Not wishing to see Wrack win, the Eternals return the TARDIS to the Doctor, allowing him to travel to the Buccaneer. However, he is captured, and Wrack's first mate suggests that the Doctor be thrown overboard. From the Edwardian ship, Tegan and the others watch as two bodies are ejected from the Buccaneer just before it crosses the finish line.

The ships and their human crews are returned to Earth and the Guardians dismiss the other Eternals. It is revealed that the Doctor won the race, with Wrack and her first mate having suffered "an unfortunate accident". The Doctor refuses the prize, but as Turlough helped the Doctor, he is entitled to a portion of the prize. The Black Guardian reminds Turlough of their bargain, and says that he can give up the diamond, or sacrifice the Doctor to gain both Enlightenment and the TARDIS. Turlough hurls the diamond at the Black Guardian, who vanishes in screams and flames. The Doctor points out that Enlightenment was not the diamond, but the choice itself.

Continuity
To commemorate the show's anniversary, every story during Season 20 included the return of an enemy from the Doctor's past. During this trilogy (begun in the serial Mawdryn Undead, and concluding with Enlightenment), the enemy was the Black Guardian, who was last encountered by the fourth incarnation of the Doctor at the conclusion of The Key to Time saga in the 1979 serial The Armageddon Factor. The story also saw the return of the White Guardian, who had also not been seen since 1979.

Production

Conception and writing
After penning a number of radio and TV scripts, including episodes of Crossroads and Waggoner's Walk, Barbara Clegg submitted a story idea to Doctor Who script editor Eric Saward, an acquaintance from the BBC drama department. Interested in writing for the series, Clegg had been inspired when distant relatives had stayed with her and demanded constant entertainment during their visit, basing the character of the Eternals upon them. Initially titled The Enlighteners, her submission involved ships racing through space that, with the addition of the Black Guardian sub-plot, eventually evolved into the story as screened. Saward and series producer John Nathan-Turner liked Clegg's ideas, and they commissioned the script in September 1981.

The first episode was delivered by Clegg in October and the three following episodes arriving in January 1982. The serial was now scheduled to conclude a three-story trilogy featuring the Black Guardian, and Clegg duly wrote the recurring characters into her scripts. By May 1982 there were problems with a script by Pat Mills, Song of the Space Whale, which had been intended to open the Black Guardian trilogy. Mills' script was eventually dropped and the production team considered moving The Enlighteners forward in the season to replace it, necessitating considerable re-writes. Peter Grimwade was eventually commissioned to write Mawdryn Undead to replace The Song of the Space Whale, and The Enlighteners was confirmed as the fifth serial of the season.

The first draft of Part One did not contain any of the material concerning the Guardians, and Turlough was a peripheral figure, with the script focussing on the relationship between Marriner and Tegan. With pre-production underway, Saward changed the story title to Enlightenment in September 1982, a title he felt was more enigmatic. Saward also rewrote portions of the script pertaining to the story-arc, particularly the final confrontation scenes at the end of Part Four. Peter Moffatt had been originally scheduled as the serial's director, but following the problems with the Space Whale script he was asked to helm its replacement due to his experience, and so Fiona Cumming was asked to take over Enlightenment.

Once production began it became apparent that Part One and Part Two were under-running so more dialogue was written to fill in the time. It was originally intended that the character of Jackson would not reappear after the second episode, but during filming Saward became concerned that it appeared that he had been executed and so he and Clegg rewrote Part Three to include him. Part Three also looked to be under running so scenes from Part Four were brought forward and the final scenes with the Guardians were extended to compensate.

Casting
Cumming came up with the idea that the Eternals would not blink and cast actors who she believed could provide detached performances. Cumming recalled Peter Sallis had played a similarly detached character in the 1974 BBC drama The Pallisers, and she cast him in the role of Striker. Sallis was present during the rehearsals for the serial but when production was delayed he was unavailable for the new filming dates, being committed to filming Last of the Summer Wine, and was forced to drop out of the production, being replaced by Keith Barron.  Lynda Baron was cast as Captain Wrack, having previously participated in Doctor Who in the 1966 serial The Gunfighters as the voice that sings the "Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon" heard throughout that story. Tony Caunter, who had previously played Thatcher in The Crusade and Morgan in Colony in Space, was given the role of Jackson, with Christopher Brown and David Rhule being cast as Marriner and Wrack's sidekick Mansell respectively. Similarly to Sallis, David Rhule was unavailable for the revised filming dates in January, so singer Leee John replaced him at short notice, despite having no previous acting experience.

Valentine Dyall had originally played the Black Guardian in the 1979 serial The Armageddon Factor, the character's first appearance in the series, and reprised the role for season 20, appearing in Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment. Similarly, Cyril Luckham reprised the role of the White Guardian that he had previously played in the 1979 serial The Ribos Operation.

Design
The interior sets of the boats were not built specifically for the programme, but were pulled together from stock items from various prop warehouses. Cumming had originally hoped to simulate the rocking of the ships by mounting the sets on rollers but the idea was dropped due to costs, with the effect achieved by moving the cameras instead. The photo of Tegan's Aunt Vanessa, one of the items created by Marriner from the contents of her mind, was shot specifically for the filming, requiring Dolore Whiteman (who had played the character in Logopolis) to be contracted for a one-day photoshoot. The models of the boats, used in the racing sequences, were props sourced by visual effects designer Mike Kelt following extensive research at the National Maritime Museum. The ships were mounted on rods for filming, while the oars were battery operated. The model of Davey's ship remained intact, with its explosion being a filmed effect that was edited into the sequence. Kelt was shocked by the dilapidated state of the TARDIS console prop, and was worried about damaging it while filming the explosion from Part One, and asked producer John Nathan-Turner if he could replace it but was told there was no money available.

The anachronistic wetsuits on the Edwardian ship were actually heavy-duty overalls that had been painted black. Janet Fielding struggled with the low-cut ball gown she wore during filming as it threatened to expose her breasts on a number of occasions. The ball gown worn by Baron was made especially for the serial and was the most expensive costume on display. The newspaper found by the Doctor in Part One was a reprint of The Times from September 1901, while the food and drink served during the party scenes was all real.

Filming
The serial began principal filming in early November 1982, with filming divided into two main blocks. The first block was shot on film at Ealing Studios between 3–5 November and consisted of the deck scenes and a number of model shots. Actor Mark Strickson was injured while filming the scene of Turlough throwing himself overboard, when the Kirby wire he was suspended from broke, leaving him only able to walk with difficulty for several weeks. The studio work was scheduled to run from 6 November until mid December and consisted of all the interior scenes and those in the TARDIS. By mid-November however the electricians union the EEPTU, had begun strike action which disrupted the filming of a number of BBC productions including Enlightenment and potentially meaning the final three serials of the season would have to be abandoned. The electricians dispute was settled by December, but it had badly affected the series recording schedule. The crew were able to shoot the following serial The King's Demons on schedule, meaning that there was only one recording block left for the part-completed Enlightenment and Eric Saward's season finale; The Return.  With some filming already completed, and its importance in concluding the Black Guardian story-arc, it was decided that Enlightenment should take precedence and so it had its second production block moved to January 1983, while The Return was abandoned.  Due to the delays, the serial only finished filming around a month before its transmission date, meaning that composer Malcolm Clarke only received the first episode for scoring a week before broadcast, having to rely on musical cues he had recorded weeks earlier without having seen any footage.

Themes and interpretation
Writer Barbara Clegg based the Eternals on a wealthy group of her relatives who, upon visiting her, had demanded constant entertainment, treating other family members almost as "lesser beings". Clegg drew inspiration from the Bible's Book of Genesis, deriving the prize of enlightenment from The Tree of Knowledge within it; also, having read about Solar winds, she decided to use them as the basis of propulsion for space vessels. Clegg highlighted the nature of enlightenment, showing it not to be knowledge, as the Eternals believe, but wisdom, as demonstrated by Turlough's rejection of the Black Guardian.

The episode makes use of a regular science-fiction trope: bored, god-like beings playing with mortals' lives for amusement.  In their book About Time, Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood liken this to a prevalent strand of children's fiction, where magical worlds are held together by the rules of the children who visit them.  Miles and Wood also highlight the political elements of the story, likening the portrayal of the Eternals to the view of the upper classes as "effete parasites feeding off the labour (and in this case the imagination) of the proles."  The Doctor then acts as part of the class struggle, helping the workers gain freedom while the gentry get their comeuppance.

In his essay Love is a Stranger, published in the first volume of the Doctor Who Magazine — Special Edition, David Bailey highlights the central idea that "...the lives of little people are precious, special and worth fighting for... ...the Eternals may have unimaginable power at their fingertips but they lack, and are jealous of, one thing: the ability to live, and die." The hollowness of immortality was a thread that ran through Season 20, with the earlier story Mawdryn Undead showing Mawdryn trapped in an endless cycle of painful regeneration, while in The Five Doctors, Borusa's prize of immortality results in little more than a living death. The horror of eternal life is brought home when the Black Guardian threatens Turlough with immortality as a punishment for failure, something that drives him to try and commit suicide rather than face eternity.

Broadcast
Enlightenment was first broadcast in a twice-weekly slot on BBC One during the first two weeks of March 1983. The story episodes averaged 6.8 million viewers, with the highest viewing figures being 7.3 million for the final episode. The episodes averaged 67.5% on BARB's Appreciation Index, with Part Four once again achieving the highest figures.

Archive
The BBC holds all four episodes on D-3 tape, transferred from the original 2" videotapes.

Reception
Reviewing the story for Doctor Who Magazine's 200 Golden Moments special edition, Jeremy Bentham described it as being epic in scale, suggesting it played to the original strengths of the series; "performance, period set design and claustrophobic mood...". He likens Enlightenment to the work of Stanley Kubrick, saying "...it felt grand, it felt lonely, and yes, it felt epic." On reappraising the story for the same magazine following its release on DVD, Gary Gillatt was equally as effusive, calling it "...one of Doctor Who's finest serials."  He highlights the performance of Keith Barron as Captain Striker as being "a master class of under-stated menace" and "pitch perfect", juxtaposing this with the over-the-top pantomime villainy of Lynda Baron as Captain Wrack, with the two captains balancing each other out perfectly.

Writing for the Radio Times, Mark Braxton was less enamoured of some of the performances, suggesting that Baron and Valentine Dyall turn in 'hammy' interpretations of their characters, while Leee John "...makes heavy weather of the simplest activities: helming the ship seems to require the most bizarre posturing."  He had mixed views on the story as a whole, saying that "Enlightenment has promising components that come together and briefly create a little magic, then vanish again, like ships that pass in the night." DVD Talk's John Sinnott had similarly mixed views on the serial, although conceding that "...While it doesn't all succeed, they give it a good try and more things work than don't."  Sinnott also singled out the performance of Keith Barron for particular praise, along with the relationship between Marriner and Tegan.

In their book About Time, Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood have equally mixed feelings about the serial, praising the setting and the performances of Barron and Brown, and suggesting that it "...carries on the tradition of putting symbols from the world we know into disconcerting environments... ...(it) completes the grand illusion of making the history and the fantasy feel like part of the same continuum."  They are less complimentary about other elements however, citing the conclusion as feeling "rushed and tacked on" with too much emphasis on the Guardians and little on the fates of the Eternals. They also dismiss the reveal of enlightenment as being the nature of Turlough's choice, as coming "perilously close to tweeness" and accuse it of being "cod-mythologic moralising".

Enlightenment was placed in 72nd position in Doctor Who Magazine's Mighty 200 reader survey in 2009, which ranked every Doctor Who serial to that point in order of preference.

Commercial releases

In print

A novelisation of this serial, written by story author Barbara Clegg, was published by Target Books in May 1984, with a cover by Andrew Skilleter, and was numbered 85 in the ongoing range. It was the first Doctor Who novelisation to be penned by a woman. On its publication Doctor Who Magazine was underwhelmed by the book, claiming in their review that "In many ways, it falls into the familiar Terrance Dicks pitfalls, being a straightforward reworking of the script with "said" following all the speeches. For all its faults, Enlightenment remains a good read, simply because of the strength of the story..." The book was repackaged as part of The Sixth Doctor Who Gift Set later in 1984, along with three other Doctor Who novels; The Dominators, Mawdryn Undead and The Five Doctors.

Home media
Enlightenment was released on VHS in February 1993. It was subsequently released on DVD as part of the Black Guardian Trilogy, along with preceding stories Mawdryn Undead and Terminus on 10 August 2009. The second disc of the DVD includes a "Special Edition" version of the story; a movie-style edit featuring new CGI graphics throughout, with a newly recorded introduction by director Fiona Cumming.  Doctor Who Magazine was not enthusiastic about the new edit suggesting, that "...what is special about it is up for debate." The reviewer disparaged the new special effects, stating that "...this is ironic as there are few Doctor Who stories less in need of replacement effects than Enlightenment. The original model work is gorgeous, while this substitute material is crude and unsophisticated in comparison." Alongside the special edition, the DVD contained a number of extra features, including a Making of... documentary and extended interviews with director Fiona Cumming, writer Barbara Clegg and actor Mark Strickson, a documentary on the Guardians plus an excerpt from the Russell Harty Christmas Party TV special featuring Peter Davison. This serial was also released as part of the Doctor Who DVD Files in issue 57 on 9 March 2011.

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