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HASANZ Executive Director's Update to Members
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S UPDATE TO MEMBERS
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa
Time for strategic realignment – an opportunity for us to create a future workforce together
One of HASANZ's key focus areas is to build capability and capacity, and to increase the quality of health and safety advice in the system, which includes the number of competent and skilled people across all the health and safety disciplines.
We have several initiatives on the go and now have an opportunity to step-change health and safety outcomes for all New Zealanders. Demand for health and safety services is rising and, in some disciplines like occupational hygiene, already outstrips supply. Demographics in the profession suggest the risk of a mis-match between supply and demand could get worse in future, with an estimated half of health and safety professionals being aged 50 and over. At the same time, roughly half of the people working in health and safety do not have health and safety-related qualifications. People often fall into health and safety from other disciplines or pick up health and safety as part of a wider role.
We have several key workforce development initiatives underway including:
Addressing acute shortages
HASANZ is working with the NZ Occupational Hygiene Society and WorkSafe to deliver a three-year plan to increase the number of capable, competent and qualified occupational hygienists in New Zealand. We are about to embark on a similar project with the Hazardous Substances Professionals NZ to increase the supply of hazardous substance professionals.
HASANZ scholarships
The HASANZ Scholarships Programme is also building capability. In 2018, 19 inaugural scholarships were awarded for general, postgraduate and occupational hygiene tertiary study over the next 2 years. The 2019 scholarship round will open on 03 July. Two additional categories of scholarships have been added this year:
Poutama Scholarships for Māori applicants to grow the number of Māori health and safety professionals. In addition, we are wanting to build the evidence base in our sector.
Applied research You might have seen the attention that Clare George's PhD Thesis on Fatigue in the Transport has recently received. So, we will have a new category for Masters' and PhD students wishing to undertake applied research in topics relevant to our sector.
There has been strong support for the scholarship programme from within the profession, from our business sponsors and from the government. Workplace Relations and Safety Minister, Hon Iain Lee-Galloway launched the first round of scholarships last year and when we met with him in mid-June to update him on HASANZ's work, he agreed to support them again this year by sending out a press release announcing that the 2019 scholarships are open for applications. In addition, on 27 June we held a Field Day for the current scholarship recipients. The Minister hosted them at Parliament for part of the day.
Outcome of survey into Musculoskeletal injuries
In March, HASANZ commissioned research for ACC on how businesses manage Musculoskeletal injuries (sometimes called Bodystressing). The survey was sent to businesses and people across the health and safety disciplines. The key findings were that:
There is a lack of common terminology in businesses on musculoskeletal injuries. Often it is called OOS, RSI, strains and sprains, or discomfort, pain and injury (DPI).
Low priority maybe placed on these types of injuries businesses typically focus on managing risks that can result in acute injury.
There is a lack of clarity about the cost of these injuries and the value of prevention activity.
Larger businesses are more likely to see the potential productivity benefits of musculoskeletal injuries being effectively managed.
Broad awareness of solutions is low and is often piecemeal, and interventions are treatment-focused, given that ACC pays for treatment and rehabilitation.
There is a need to improve education on the causes, impact and the range of interventions available.
The survey found that the interventions most commonly in place were assessing and changing equipment or work practices, providing equipment like lifting aids, and induction training and education. The research found that interventions often had a limited long-term impact, addressed symptoms rather than root causes and often focused solely on the person. The survey findings will feed into the government's Harm Reduction Action Plan which aims to ensure that resources are well targeted.
Thank you to everyone who supported HASANZ in gaining these survey insights.
Applications for 2019 HASANZ Scholarships open on 3 July and close on 2 September.
The HASANZ CONFERENCE 2020 will be held from 09 to 11 September in Wellington at Te Papa.
HASANZ AGM
The HASANZ AGM will be held on Friday 26 July. We're using the occasion to launch the initial findings of our Health and Safety Workforce Stocktake and Pipeline report.
Health and Wellbeing Train the Trainer Workshop 23 July 2019
The Mental Health Foundation in conjunction with the Health and Safety Association of New Zealand is pleased to bring you two introductory workshops held on the same day to assist you to support members of your team who have responsibilities for the health and wellbeing of their employees.
Find more information here
NZOHNA
The NZ Occupational Health Nurses' Associations is having a multi-disciplinary conference on 19-20 September. See more.
OHPG
On 9-10 August the Occupational Health Physiotherapy Group (OHPG) is holding their bi-annual conference. The theme this year is around Mental Health and Wellbeing. See more
HFESNZ
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of New Zealand is pleased to announce there 21st Conference which will be held at the Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland Central on 19 and 20 September 2019. See more.
Call for Abstracts find more information here.
NZISM
New Zealand Institue of Safety Management would like to extend a special offer to our HASANZ partners and provide tickets to Todd Conklin at NZISM member rates. Simply go to the event promotion here and select a location.
You will then be taken to the ticket purchase page where we have set up a special ticket for HASANZ members. Please advise your members to enter the password: hasanz-tc
to be able to access tickets at this special rate.
We hope you enjoy the event, he is a fabulous speaker and we are all looking forward to seeing him shortly.
Nga mihi nui
Philip Aldridge
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In the southern part of the Bordeaux region, Barsac is famous for outstanding sweet wines such as Château Climens and Château Coutet. Barsac, along with its more famous neighbour of Sauternes, produces amongst the best botrytised wines in the world.
Wine growers in Barsac have the choice of marketing their wine under the Barsac AOC or Sauternes AOC. This means that all Barsac wines could also be Sauternes wines but Sauternes wines are forbidden from wearing Barsac on their label.
The total area is 830ha over gravel, red sand and a clayey-limestone base with approximately the same predominance of Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle planted.


PUBH 712 is the core Hauora Māori paper of the DPH. Students only have 6 weeks of face-to-face lecture time in this paper, therefore it is essential that the best use of this time is made. The use of Moodle to develop learning activities to enable preparation for lectures, or provide extra material following lectures will enhance students learning outcomes in this paper.
PUBH 712 Foundations of Hauora Māori is 15-point 700-level postgraduate paper which is a core compulsory paper in the Diploma of Public Health (DPH), taught over 6 weeks, with five 3-hour sessions and 1 block day. The paper attracts a range of students from different backgrounds with different levels of prior knowledge. The online learning software 'Moodle' is currently used by the lecturers, however its used could be expanded to enhance learning for students.
To evaluate the current PUBH 712 Moodle page.
Based on the evaluation findings, develop a Moodle page that is responsive to post-graduate student needs.
Rapid literature review of the use of online learning in post-graduate studies.
Redesign PUBH 712 Moodle page with support from University staff.
The student in consultation with Christina McKerchar and Assoc Prof Suzanne Pitama will carry out all aspects of the above study.


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When I got started house flipping, I was always so nervous after I got a property in contract. It would keep me up at night wondering how I was going to put the loan structure together. When you are working with only a little of your own money this is what the first few deals feels like. Well, even after you have completed several deals it seems to feel this way because you might have 2 or 3 projects going at once. I remember the many times scrambling to find a hard money lender that would lend the highest loan amount possible. After you got that, you were scrambling to find a lender or private money joint venture partner to put up the additional down payment and rehab money.
After my first few flips I started trying to build a list of private money partners because, after all, it was always easier getting the hard money 1st trust deed. The equity or 2nd trust deed was always the missing piece that kept me up so many sleepless nights. So I networked, went to REI clubs, had lunches with money partners, and started building my list. I had 10 potential money partners after the first 30 days, so I thought I was golden.
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This would have set me up in a big way.
I got the property in contract, did my comps, worked with my contractor, and had a detailed line item construction budget dialed in.
All I needed to do was get the rest of the down payment and the rehab money. I thought this was a done deal.
I had 10 days to close on this per the contract. Well, it was day 9 and I had gone to all of my money partners and they all turned me down. I had 30k in escrow and I had removed all my contingencies.
Not the smartest thing to do but I thought it was a done deal. Well I thought wrong!
It was closing day and I had no chance at this point to get the funding. I had exhausted every money partner I knew of.
I had one last chance to salvage the deal and get back my deposit. I did not want to do it but I was forced. I called another local flipper who was well capitalized and had to wholesale the deal to him. I did get my initial deposit back and a wholesale few of 15k but this homerun of a deal was gone for me.
Don't assume anything and always have a backup plan.
This was a deal with a ton of meat on the bone and I completely missed the boat. From the start I should have presented this deal to my potential money partners as a joint venture structure where I shared the profits. The money partners I approached were working with other flippers that offered a higher profit share arrangement.
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This is an interview with the Marketing Manager of LHJS Investments, hard money lender Beau Eckstein.
In the interview above, house flipping expert Beau Eckstein talks about the hard money lending that LHJS Investments does. There are various programs that the company offers.
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Beau Eckstein also gives advice on becoming a house flipper and real estate investor.
Beau is a perennial networker — he goes to many face-to-face events, as well as being active on social media.
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The key to successful house flipping is good project management. Listen in as expert house flipper Beau Eckstein tells us what it takes to manage house flipping projects flawlessly.
This is a great resource for learning about house flipping.
In order to get as many offers accepted as possible, you need to have your funding sources lined up before you make any offers. That means you need to have cash at the ready when you make a deal with a motivated seller, and that means you need to get your ducks in a row with respect to funding.
Nothing makes a motivated seller move faster than an all-cash deal. And you can do that if you play your cards right.
Watch as real estate pro and house flipping expert, Beau Eckstein, gives you the information you need to get your house flipping financing in order.
Obviously, you need to get good deals on borrowed money. But more importantly is getting your financing ready before you make that great offer. And most times, getting a better interest rate will not trump having an all-cash offer to seal the deal you've worked so hard to find.
Here's to your house flipping success! Stay tuned for the next installment, House Flipping Project Management.


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The Handmaid's Tale: Three Literary Perspectives
This week I got to attend another excellent talk hosted by One Book One Northwestern: a panel discussion on the history and ongoing importance of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The panelists:
Linda Bubon: co-founder of Women & Children First, the fantastic feminism-forward bookshop in Andersonville
Juan Martinez: fiction writer, literature & writing professor at Northwestern
Kasey Evans: critic, English professor at Northwestern
A very nice, insightful talk. Brief notes below:
Linda Bubon: gives some bookseller insight to the success and history of Handmaid's Tale.
35 years in print, translated into 40+ languages. Has been adapted into a movie, stage versions, opera, and the Hulu series, the last of which has re-launched the most recent wave of interest. There's also a graphic novel adaptation forthcoming.
Shares some Handmaid sales history from WCF, how sales have continued for 3 decades, with spikes due to university classes using the novel, jumping through the roof with the recent series.
Talks about meeting and working with Atwood for events, notes that she's an "exacting" person, and with a highly developed sense of humor.
Intriguing discussion about how the '70s & '80s SF (and nonfiction) that was tackling the patriarchy was kind of brushed under the rug by strains of "catch up feminism" that were more focused on increasing opportunities, tended to shift the conversation towards empowerment/personal responsibility, not structural bias. Nobody wanted to talk about male privilege.
Mention's Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology (1978), Andrea Dworkin's Women Hating (1974), and Gerda Lerner's The Creation of Patriarchy (1984) as books that laid the groundwork for a lot of discussions we're having today, but weren't focused on at the time.
This came out of the Reagan era, and then in the '90s, with the Clinton administration and popular works like Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Xena: Warrior Princess, it looked like this whole empowerment thing was really working for us. And then there was this backlash: still fighting for reproductive rights, Roe v. Wade could be overturned within a year.
Now sees young women wearing buttons that say things like "fuck the patriarchy", more awareness of the intersection of systemic racism, feminism, classism.
Because The Handmaid's Tale is set in a fantasy world, we can see the system.
Kasey Evans: mentions the recent NYT article on Dworkin's re-emergence as an important figure. Then talks about 3 different moments in popular and critical reception around Handmaid:
In 1985 with the novel's publication, largely very positive. NYT editor's pick, etc. Notes some mixed reviews, and a particularly negative review from author Mary McArthur. McArthur's dismissiveness and failure to recognize Gilead's satirical/warning exaggeration of Reagan or the "Moral Majority" is a particularly blatant blindspot.
There was a second wave of interest along with the 1990 film adaptation, written by Harold Pinter and starring Natasha Richardson. Evans notes that Sigourney Weaver was originally supposed to play Offred but couldn't due to her pregnancy. The film got very negative reviews, a lot perhaps due to director Volker Schlondorff's decision to cut the voice-over narration that was part of the original script and shooting process. Richardson played the role very "opaque", on the reasoning that, in Gilead, women would learn to keep it all inside, but that the voice-over would reveal what was really going on inside the character. Evans reads from Roger Eberts' panning review.
The most recent and ongoing wave of interest in Handmaid comes from both the Hulu series and the way that activists have rallied around it in an era of increased attacks on women's reproductive freedoms as part of the global lurch to the right. Handmaid costumes have been part of protests defending the ACA, Planned Parenthood, the "Time's Up" and #MeToo movements, and protests against Mike Pence's fundraisers and Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.
Finishes with part of Atwood's essay that now appears as an introduction to the new edition of the book, which addresses the increasing relevance of the book's concerns.
Juan Martinez approaches Handmaid from how Atwood works as a writer, how it works for a reader:
Was way too young when he first read it. Had already burned through the other big dystopias like 1984, Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange.
Talked about being new to the US and libraries, whereas in Colombia when he'd wanted to read in English, it was just whatever was available (including Nancy Drew). Right before reading Handmaid, had read a 700-page Cuban Soviet utopia. Also reading a lot of Golden Age SF like Asimov.
My 13-year old self was not interested in ideological consistency. I was in it for the robots.
I was interested in the ways stories amplified and intensified what felt like a pretty drab/boring life. I was in it for the fun, and I picked up The Handmaid's Tale for the same reason: I was expecting it to be fun.
And this is the part that gets a little weird, because...it was!
The novel is a lot of things, but when we talk about it we slide immediately into political/culture issues. We know why the novel matter, but we hardly pause to think about how Atwood does the work. The fundamental author's work of getting you reading, keeping you on the page.
Atwood delivers on the fundamental contract of speculative fiction.
The rules are almost always the same: you have a protagonist in peril, and then a world that is both recognizable and off-kilter.
SFF tends to lean on fairly broad exaggerations.
But we're in an extreme situation right now, and like the protagonist we notice we're in peril; the familiar has become monstrous.
Compares Atwood's work to classic SF like Poe, Verne, Doyle.
We're reading because it's fun, for pleasure, for greater understanding of the world.
The kind of adolescent side of speculative fiction is good. Teenagers=awesome. They have energy, enthusiasm. We want to dismiss YA stuff like Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner. But they're built with the same sturdy tools that Atwood uses.
Q&A:
KE: responding to Martinez's last comments, notes that Atwood chose the "Tale" title partially as a nod to Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales are solely about pleasure (some of them dark/brutal, like the anti-Semitic "Prioress"), even though the setting is supposed to be holy.
Audience Q: what were your first interactions with the novel like.
LB: first encountered it as a single mother with a conservative family, felt the moral majority breathing down her neck; the novel's control of women resonated.
KE: Encountered it at 14 in New Hampshire in an environment that was fairly conservative, at a high school women's literature class, something that people thought made you a lesbian.
LB: If only!
KE: Handmaid was an ingredient in her early sense of self as a political activist and feminist.
Audience Q: Atwood's reaction & interaction with the adaptions and continuing series.
KE: Was personally a little too traumatized by the series to keep up with it. But mentions that when Atwood was at Northwestern, talked about changes from book to series, such as the multiracial cast; had the general take that she's not possessive of the series: it's its own medium and own thing.
All panelists: Atwood had approval on the 1st season, but letting it go its own way from there. Only rule she kept in for 2nd season is the rule that "nothing can happen that hasn't happened somewhere in real life", so that can't be used as a critique against it. Talks about Atwood's hands-off but encouraging approach to adaptations, such as the Rivendell Theatre Alias Grace.
KE: Atwood wrote the later 2 MaddAdam books after Oryx & Crake as a response to readers asking why it only had a male perspective.
Audience Q: why do you think young people are connecting so much with it now?
Audience answers: Used to feel far-fetched, then prescient, now feels current. Young women today maybe more "in reality" about threats. Coming of age post 9/11.
LB: Plus global climate change, ongoing wars, it's a less innocent time. Fully half of popular YA is dystopian, you have a movement in Europe led by teenage girls to tackle climate change.
KE: Talks about "the humanities plunge", over the last couple decades humanities majors have declined by half: it takes too much debt to get a university degree now. (Northwestern yearly costs for undergrad start at $73k as of this writing.) There's a lot of value to humanities degrees, but hard to convince terrified parents of that. It's just another element of how this generation expects to do worse than their parents.
Audience Q: how do you feel about the sequel? Worries about things like Go Set a Watchman.
JM: Main feeling is that Atwood can do whatever she wants. Notes that Go Set a Watchman is a weird case. Sometimes much later sequels are a bad idea, like Heller's Closing Time (Catch-22 sequel). But Atwood's still going strong, many of her recent novels are great.
LB: Atwood's got the chops, she's never slowed down, her style and genre have wide range, we can expect a great book from her. It's going to be a deep dive into Gilead.
KE: Note on Atwood's style range, and things like the academic satire in the final bit of Handmaid.
JM: Atwood can be very funny, and it's great to run into that and have a counter-example to the "feminists aren't funny" trope.
Audience Q: how do you think Handmaid compares to Naomi Alderman's The Power?
KE: loves how unsentimental Alderman's gynocracy is.
LB: PBS's NewsHour/NYT book club has made it their next selection, so she'll be reading it!
JM: It's on his list!
And we're out of time. Great panel! Check out One Book One Northwestern for more upcoming events.
Labels: Atwood, Juan Martinez, One Book One Northwestern, recaps, Women & Children First
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Google may have asked it to hold back, but Sony is proudly showing off its Internet TVs at CES this year. Our impressions inside.
The TV becomes web and the web becomes a TV, Google TV is the service of the future that will be backed up more and more HDTV and 3DTV: Sony is taking the lead and can claim the distinction in the presentation of the first models on the market. Let's look at the features and costs. Sony unveils its line of Google TV, next-generation hybrids between TVs and PCs, running on Android and applications and exclusive services. Wifi, Blu Ray, network connectivity.
Sony Internet TV is officially on the corporate website (ice thanks for the tip) with prices starting at $ 599.99, around 430 € excluding taxes, for TVs and $ 399.99, around 286 € excluding taxes, for the Blu-ray Google built-in TV.
I purchased the 40" version of the Sony Google TV earlier this month. The picture and audio quality is impressive. I haven't owned a high-end TV in a while, but it looks just as good as anything I have seen. Google TV runs well.
Streaming media from a PC can be a challenge. This is something that will definitely require some preparation and reading. I also found that Google TV only supports FAT32 for attached storage devices. I purchased a Netflix account after I purchased the TV, and I'm impressed with the streaming content. The TV loads streaming HD content in seconds and looks great. I have Wireless-N, so I doubt Wireless-G would have the same result. The remote takes a while to get used to, and it would be nice to connect another device for browsing the web on Chrome.
There isn't a VGA / DVI connection either. That's a downfall for me, because my laptop doesn't have HDMI out.
It seems like Google TV is coming along well. To me, it feels like it still needs some work. The addition of the Android Market will be a major plus. Hopefully it comes out soon!
Thanks for your review and good luck with your new set! If you had a new laptop with a HDMI could you use it as your storage device?
Just making sure, they aren't releasing new Sony tvs are they? Like gt2's already?
Good question but Google TV2 is not available yet, so we will have to wait and see what develops. If it is successful at a much lower price it may become standard at no additional price on their TVs. Guess we will have to wait till spring to see what is built. Plan to report the first reviews here first, so keep checking back. I'm interested at to the fate of the present Logitech Revue. Will it be superior to any new GTV set-top or TV installed unit now sold or installed? Will our present GTV no longer be sold or factory installed in "Smart TVs"? Lots of unknowns @ the present. Around March maybe we will know some answers!
About the Logitech Revue, I was under the impression that it wasn't doing as hot, and Google told Logitech to stop production of them. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also... what in the world is the actual contrast ratio of the/my Sony GTV's?!
You are wrong...both Google and Logitech have denied that Logitech stopped production of the Revue.


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The First Electric Mini Will Aim To Perform Like A Cooper S: Report
Justin T. Westbrook
Mini is likely preparing to introduce its first electric model later this year for its 60th anniversary, and reports indicate the new EV will aim to be just as fun to drive as the current gas-powered Mini Cooper S, which is a very good thing.
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The first electric Mini will reportedly come outfitted with the battery and motor from parent-company BMW's i3 S city car, according to Autocar. As discouraging as that may sound, the i3's motor has 181 horsepower, which is only a few short of the current Cooper S and its 189 HP output, and Autocar claims range will be around 200 miles.
If it's not too heavy, the likely improved torque should make the little Cooper even more fun, and it seems like a clever move to go electric for a car that most people only ever drive in cities anyway. At least except for that big Mini road trip the automaker hosts every two years. Probably won't be very many of these completing that event.
Mini's been talking about going all or mostly electric for some time, and lately there's been talk of producing those cars with automaker Great Wall in China. Amid the SUV boom here in America, Mini's sales have not been great, but it remains quite popular in other markets including its home in the UK. So while a switch to becoming an EV city car brand may make sense, it's not likely to placate dealers in America unhappy with the car's sparse lineup, lack of SUVs and slow sales. After all, we know car dealers are historically bad at selling EVs, and tend to steer customers toward conventional cars instead.
From a recent Automotive News report:
It might also be a milestone in the struggling brand's saga. The marque, which expected annual sales of 100,000 cars by 2017, peaked at about 66,500 in 2013. Through the first 10 months of this year, sales totaled just 37,359. That is hardly enough to support the investments of retailers who opened 127 free-standing Mini stores since 2008 at the factory's request.
"As a dealer and a manufacturer you have a vision of where the brand is going, and you have to prepare for it," Jason Willis, a member of the Mini National Dealer Council, told Automotive News. "In this case, the vision now isn't what it was when some of these stores were built."
So if Mini's future is electric, it has a long way to go.
According to the Autocar report, the EV will be based on the three-door Cooper and start at around £30,000, or roughly $38,000 at current exchange rates.


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The 8-quart Instant Pot Duo is $79 ($60 off).
The Instant Pot Smart WiFi is $90 ($59 off).
We tested every Instant Pot model, and found the Duo was the most consistent when it came to making soft-boiled eggs, cooking long-grain rice, sauteeing onions, cooking chicken thighs, and pork shoulder. While it wasn't the best as a slow-cooker, it excelled at all its other tasks.
Instant Pots are perhaps the best-known brand of pressure cookers; these devices have lids that seal, which raises the internal pressure in the pot, allowing you to cook meals in less time than using traditional methods. Plus, they can also be used for such things as soft-boiling eggs, baking cakes, and even sterilizing things. Instant Pots have automatic settings for many of these activities, which helps to take the guesswork out for novice home cooks.


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Who Invented The Telescope?
January 25, 2020 by Abdullah Sam
About 400 years ago, stories from the Netherlands emerged describing the invention of a device that has twin objectives now commonly known as the telescope. However, the telescope began as a low-power telescope before rapidly evolving into a high-precision optical magnification instrument capable of displaying even the moons on the planet Jupiter. The telescope is one of the most important inventions made by man. Imagine what the world would be like if the telescope were not invented because most of what humanity knows about the universe has been seen through the lens of a telescope.
The telescope was not an idea that had just come out of the blues because the voices of both reflective and refractive optical devices that could see objects far away were already in circulation for hundreds of years. However, the voices of such devices were mostly in questionable magical contexts. The invention of the telescope is attributed to Hans Lippershey, who was the first to patent a telescope. Lippershey was a German-Dutch eyewear manufacturer born in 1570 in Wesel, Germany. Lippershey made the first known telescope appeared on 1608 after attempting to obtain a patent for a device with three times the magnification. The Lippershey telescope was equipped with a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective lens.
Was the Telescope invented by Galileo Galilei or Hans Lippershey?
There are many theories about how Hans Lippershey had the idea of designing his invention. Since Lippershey lived in the same city as Zachariah Jensen, who was also a glasses manufacturer, other people claimed he could have stolen Jansen's design. However, scholars argue that there was no concrete evidence that Lippershey stole Jansen's design, therefore, he is credited with the invention of the telescope mainly because of the patent application. Other people claim that after observing two kids lifting two lenses in his shop, Lippershey discovered that a distant weathervane had appeared near the lenses, giving him the idea of his invention. A few weeks later another eyewear manufacturer known as Jacob Metius of Alkmaar, in the Netherlands,
Galileo's contribution to the invention
The news of the "Dutch prospective glass" reached Galileo Galilei in June 1609, while he was in Venice. In a few days, Galileo had designed his telescope without even focusing it. After making improvements to his initial project, Galileo presented his device to the Venice Senate. Furthermore, it is believed that Galileo was the first human being to point a telescope at the sky, thus distinguishing craters and mountains on the moon and the Milky Way. Galileo also discovered that Jupiter had its moons and the sun has sunspots.
Further improvements on The Telescope
Nearly 60 years after Hans Lippershey invented the first documented telescope, Isaac Newton has further improved the design of the telescope by making some additions such as creating the first reflector usable on the device. Since its first invention, there have been many improvements to the telescope. These developments led to the creation of sophisticated instruments used today by astronomers. Arizona scientists have unveiled the most powerful telescope in the world in 2008, which was 400 years after Hans Lippershey's first invention.
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Once upon a time, Derek Smith wrote: "2017 was a year endured rather than lived." But all due respect to the past, because here we are creeping into this new 2019 and things are so much better than we thought they'd be!
A lot of people were told they weren't humans in 2018. This isn't a writerly evasion or poetic epithet designed to elicit righteous ire/compel you to read another year-end list. Because what else could you call the concentrated attempt by some humans to discourage the freedoms of other humans? Our narrative didn't turn science-fiction to let us off the hook: these non-humans weren't clones or replicants or estranged Atlantean denizens returning to claim their kingly right. They just weren't human enough (or the right kind of human) to matter in the eyes of louder, more powerful humans. All of our past's proposed images of our worst futures pale in comparison to this denial of basic humanity that we see out our windows.
It is unsurprising, then, that cinema, our most volatile cultural mirror, began to show the stretch and strain in its images of our species. But what is surprising is that cinema in 2018 retained nuance and compassion as it mediated the cruelties and depravities of its age. Unlike this slab of prose, movies in 2018 moved beyond mediating good and evil in simple, monolithic terms. They attempted to sketch the boundaries of real freedom in an unjust world ( BlaKkKlansman ). They investigated, more acutely than ever before, the responsibilities of what it meant to keep ( Shirkers ) and tell ( Madeline's Madeline ) another human's story ( If Beale Street Could Talk ), especially in remembrance ( Roma ). They presented distorted genealogies ( Hereditary ) and fisheye-lens histories ( The Favourite ) to track the human body's motion ( Suspiria ) in and out of comradeship ( Support the Girls ) and trauma ( Burning ). In 2018, we hurled our betrayed humanities up against foreign corpses ( Zama ), scorched country ( The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ), alien twins ( Annihilation ), and incongruent voices ( Sorry to Bother You ). We began to see, in everything, something like a way through the darkness. Why else keep watching the past ( The Other Side of the Wind ) if not to plot something we'd never imagined before ( The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl )?
Our moving images in 2018 proposed that real love ( Eighth Grade ) and genuine care ( Lazzaro Felice ) could stretch impossibly across time to add up to a life steeped in both nuance and compassion ( Won't You Be My Neighbor? ). Our love would not look the same ( Leave No Trace ) nor could it resound in strictly-feasible tones ( Mandy ), but we would recognize its absence; we could see that sometimes humanness looks like something we've never seen before ( Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ).


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Accept the Mystery or: You Just Can't Take the Effect and Make It the Cause
By Drew Morton | Film | March 6, 2010 |
After viewing the trailer for the Coen brothers' latest film A Serious Man (2009), I had slight reservations. The trailer provoked a response that was both tense and hilarious, nurtured by their eccentric tone. Yet, I was ambivalent about letting my hopes get the better of me. I had been burned by Burn After Reading (2008), a film whose trailer was infinitely more entertaining than the finished product and, frankly, a shaggy disappointment after the taut and dialed-in precision of their Academy Award winning adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men (2007). I wanted to get my hopes up for A Serious Man and, going into the screening, I felt that I had kept my subjective preference grounded in neutrality. By the time the lights came up two hours later with Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" fading through the speakers of the theater, I thought it was time to let my enthusiasm off the leash.
The Coens begin their film, allegedly based on their religious upbringing in a small Midwestern town in the late 1960s, with a folktale about a Jewish man who welcomes a neighbor into his house on a cold winter's night. The man's wife is convinced that the stranger is a dybbuk (a malicious spirit) and attempts to cast him from the house. Her husband feels the opposite, believing that the family has done nothing to deserve such a curse from God. This folktale serves as a summary for the bulk of the film: Regardless of whether you're righteous or not, sometimes bad things happen to good people and it would be foolish to expect a rational explanation.
Following this brief prologue, the Coens throw us in a time machine aimed for Minnesota in the summer of 1967. We find the film's protagonist, Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor, in a stable headspace. He's up for tenure and his son Danny's (Aaron Wolff) Bar Mitzvah is approaching. Nevertheless, as John Lennon once sang, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." By the time Larry arrives home after a favorable physical examination, he finds that one of his failing students is threatening to sue for defamation of character and that his wife (Sari Lennick) is planning to divorce him for another man (Fred Melamed). Then, there's that annoying salesman from the Columbia Record Company who keeps calling with the hope of trying to collect on past due notice that Larry knows nothing about. For a professor whose specialty includes documenting complex theorems with mathematics (not anecdotes!), Larry is confused by the path his life has taken. Finding no logical explanation for his strange twist of fate, he turns to his rabbis and God for a religious explanation.
That's the plot of the film in a nutshell. Of course, being a Coen brothers film, there are a lot of side plots and characters that enrich the milieu. Take, for instance, Larry's son Danny. Danny is a young boy en route to becoming a Jewish man. Yet, whatever ambitions he has towards the Jewish faith or his Hebrew school curriculum are derailed by episodes of "F Troop" (1965), a transistor radio constantly playing Jefferson Airplane, and a growing reliance on marijuana. Through Danny and one of the Gropnik's hippy neighbors, the Coens introduce the rise of American counterculture whose beliefs form a foil to Larry's own. If, as the counterculture proposes, the established order represented by religion and science that Larry so urgently wants to trust in is a dead end, what alternative is there?
Is the alternative to be found in "The Menaculus," a "probability map" that Larry's brother Arthur (Richard Kind) has been working so diligently on? Can this text disclose the truth of the universe? While Arthur believes it may have helped him win in a poker game, the text is unable to foresee his own legal misfortunes. The Coens propose that religion, science, and even their offspring "The Menaculus" are ultimately futile when it comes to setting out on a life plan that will stand on a firm foundation. Does that mean that man is ultimately powerless in the face of God? Probably, but that's assuming there is a God.
As Larry attempts to grapple with the mechanisms of fate and to wrestle back control of his destiny, he makes life decisions that appear to be both inconsequential and yet inspire consequences beyond logical comprehension. For instance, Larry gets in a car accident at the same time his wife's lover suffers from a separate collision. Was Larry's action somehow tied to the fate of his potential replacement? Do the results of a midterm examination cause an ominous phone call or are the two events unrelated? Those viewers looking for clear-cut answers in A Serious Man are likely to feel more confused than they did at the conclusion of No Country for Old Men. A Serious Man does not offer any definitive, absolute answers analogous with Larry's mathematical proofs. Instead, the film presents a series of events that stands for the zeitgeist of the late '60s in which, as one character tells Larry, one finds it fruitless to ask questions but must instead "accept the mystery."
The product of this 105-minute investigation into existentialism could be viewed as certain in its uncertainty and thus prove to be an utterly maddening exercise, perhaps comparable to one of my favorite films of last year, Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York (2008). Unlike Kaufman however, the Coens keep the tone from getting too heartbreaking and the form from being too impenetrable. I'm confused by some of the negative reviews of the film, most notably those by the Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern and The New Yorker's David Denby. Morgenstern writes that the characters in A Serious Man are "repellent people…. caricatures [which] range from dislikable through despicable, with not a smidgeon of humanity to redeem them." Denby's criticisms follow a similar line of argument as he writes that the Coens' tone is "bleak, black, [and] belittling."
I agree that A Serious Man is bleak and black, but I don't think that all of the characters in the film are "repellent" or that the Coens treat them all equally in a "belittling" fashion. Burn After Reading would be better described by Denby and Morgenstern in such a fashion whereas A Serious Man, particularly in the character of Larry (as played rather wonderfully by Stuhlbarg), would appear to be an example of the Coens at their most humane. Yes, the overall message is rather nihilistic. Sure, Larry might be cosmically screwed and there may be quite a bit of humor to take away from his situation, but we are also able to feel empathetic towards Larry. Sure, nihilism may push us to deny the absolutes proposed by science and religion, but does that conclusion render us utterly incapable of empathy? Like the Coens, I'm not so sure. However, my experience in their version of 1967 would seem to suggest that nihilism and emotional reciprocity are not necessarily incompatible.
Drew Morton is a Ph.D. student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. He has previously written for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and UWM Post and is the 2008 recipient of the Otis Ferguson Award for Critical Writing in Film Studies.
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Castle Rock City Council votes to develop old landfill
Posted: 6:42 PM, Apr 18, 2017
By: Mike Iliopoulos
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. -- The Castle Rock City Council is voting Tuesday night to move forward with a project that will be built on an old landfill.
The area is known to be a turnoff to developers because of the risks and costs to build on the land. The landfill was used up until the early 1980's. The city found a developer who is willing to pay to clean up the landfill. Miller's Landing will be a mixed-use development made up of a hotel, office and retail space.
"The site itself is very challenging," said Frank Gray, president and CEO of the Economic Development Corporation.
The city is voting on a finance agreement between the city and the developer.
"They've done their due diligence on the property. They've gone through the proper process with the state to make sure they've got a voluntary landfill cleanup plan that they've put together to make sure that it gets cleaned up according to the state regulations," said Gray.
The finance agreement would provide 100 percent of new property tax revenue and 60 percent of sales tax revenue generated by the development to be put back to the developer to cover the costs of removing the landfill. It is also earmarked for public improvements.
It is estimated the development will create between 3,000 and 4,000 jobs once the businesses are built.
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Backpacking in Africa
Advice and inspiration for travelling in Africa
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A gap year in Africa
Africa, in case you hadn't realised, is massive. It's the world's second largest continent, accounting for over 20% of our land area. There's a whopping 54 countries and 3 different surrounding oceans. As a result there's a huge amount to see and do in Africa, and many backpackers travel here for their entire gap year to make sure they don't miss a thing.
The most popular backpacking destination is South Africa, home to Cape Town and Johannesburg, incredible scenery, game reserves, extreme sports, and much besides. There's also Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, Seychelles, Madagascar, Botswana, and many, many more.
Travelling in Africa can be a mixed bag in terms of ease and cost. Many countries don't have established travel networks, and political turmoil can sometimes make some areas unsafe to visit. As a result it's definitely worth planning ahead. To make Africa feel a little less daunting, we've broken it up into a number of regions, so you can work out exactly what you want to see.
Best experiences in Africa right now
Exotic Morocco
Begin your Exotic Tour in the amazing city of Marrakesh. Enjoy a remarkable day in the Desert including an entire...
Jewels Of The Nile
Discover the gems that lie along the Nile in luxury and style. Embark on a comfortable journey along the Nile...
Fantastic Morocco, Spain & Portugal
From Marrakesh to Madrid this fantastic tour visits three countries over 14 days. From couscous to tapas and from desert...
South Africa and Lesotho Cape Town to Johannesburg
Witness first-hand all that is fantastic about South Africa - stunning beaches, dense forests and abundant marine and bush wildlife.
Gorillas & Gameparks
See awesome wildlife including Mountain Gorillas in their natural environment or if you want an adrenaline rush, try quad biking...
Nile Trans Nairobi to Cairo Overland
An expedition through the heart of Africa, crossing deserts, rivers and mountains and overcoming a multitude of challenges this continent...
Zebras and Zanzibar
The perfect combo of action and idyllic island relaxation! Go wild in Tanzania's top national parks before heading over to...
Egypt & Jordan Discovered By Land
Journey through Egypt and Jordan, visit some of the most astounding sites from the old world. Discover two of the...
Felucca Explorer
Take in the highlights of ancient Egypt, from the legendary Pyramids of Giza to the tomb-strewn Valley of the Kings,...
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Discover the Great Pyramid of Giza, Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, and Aswan's Philae Temple on this value-packed...
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Backpacking in Southern Africa
This is generally the most popular region of Africa for backpackers, largely as it boasts some of the best travel infrastructure, making it easier to take advantage of what the region has to offer. Compared to elsewhere in Africa the south is much more about having outrageous fun and going along for the wild ride offered to visitors.
Most people will start in South Africa, often in Johannesburg, a thoroughly modern city packed with shopping, restaurants, and vibrant nightlife, or Cape Town, which has all of those things alongside the beautiful coastline and Table Mountain.
In many ways South Africa is a microcosm of the continent: the massive Kruger National Park has zebras, elephants, and big cats galore, the coast is laden with beaches and resorts, and inland the scenery looks even better than the documentaries promise. You zip line, sample wine, fine dine, bungee jump on a piece of twine, and marvel at landscapes divine. South Africa kind of has it all.
From there you can travel to Botswana or Namibia, the latter particularly renowned for its ecotourism and must-see destinations like the Skeleton Coast Park, Caprivi Strip, and the Etosha Salt Pan. You could even try your hand at sandboarding the giant dunes of Namibia's Swakopmund. The region also includes Swaziland and Lesotho, although these countries are not particularly well-equipped for travellers.
You're likely to pay a little more in southern Africa than you might elsewhere on the continent, but it's bound to be worth it.
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Backpacking in Northern Africa
The north of Africa almost feels like a different continent entirely, and is incredibly popular with travellers and tourists alike. Like the south there is good travel infrastructure, making it reasonably easy (and often very affordable) to move around the region at will.
For many the main event will be Egypt, and for all the obvious reasons: pyramids, Valley of the Kings, the River Nile, and some relaxation time at Sharm el-Sheikh. Many can scratch off half their bucket list in Egypt alone.
From there you can travel to Morocco for its ancient walled cities, red-sand dunes, and bustling markets, to Algeria, the largest country in Africa and a fantastic place to venture (safely) into the Sahara Desert, or to Tunisia, famed for its golden beaches and the ancient ruins of Carthage. Prices in Northern Africa will vary depending on where you visit, but it is generally a very affordable gap year region.
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Backpacking in Western Africa
For a start, it played a vital role in the birth of humanity, it being here that sedentary farming began. You can read more about that in our A Brief Visual History of Travel feature. Although there's no stand out favourite country in this region of Africa for travellers, there's a bunch that deserve a place on any itinerary.
Many start with Nigeria for its national parks and game reserves, before moving on to the likes of Ghana for more of the same, as well as beautiful coastline, some rapidly developing cities, and a thriving cultural scene.
There's also the island of Cape Verde, where tourism is improving as people arrive to admire the volcanic coast, Ivory Coast, Togo, and Gambia. There isn't much travel infrastructure in much of western Africa, so it can be an ideal region to visit if you're after 'real' Africa, but it can also prove a difficult journey.
It should also be noted that some countries in western Africa are frequently unsafe to visit. Due to politics, extreme poverty, and social turmoil, countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone are not recommended for travellers, unless you are part of an official volunteer program.
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Backpacking in Eastern Africa
This is the place to go if you're after island paradises and drop dead gorgeous scenery. The two tallest peaks in Africa, Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro, are here. It's also one of the best regions to see the 'big five' wild animals: elephants, buffalos, lions, leopards, and the black rhinoceros. In many areas the heat is nowhere near as harsh as elsewhere on the continent.
The number one stop is Kenya, where tourism is a huge part of the economy thanks to attractive beaches and expansive national parks, as well as the snow-capped Mount Kenya attracting intrepid climbers and hikers. There's also Lake Victoria, the largest tropical lake in the world. From there you might find yourself spoiled for choice. Tanzania has the stunning volcanic cones of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world, as well as more beautiful national parks. Reunion is a scorching, charming French island, and Eritrea is a melting pot of cultures and histories.
If you're in the mood for relaxation, you can visit Mauritius and Seychelles, where you can hop between islands to make the most of the beaches, wildlife (including giant tortoises), and coral reefs. This can be a great to unwind after a long trek across the mainland of Africa.
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Africa volunteering placements
Africa is a brilliant destination to volunteer on your gap year, although it's not known for having many paid work opportunities. Even teaching, the mainstay of jobs abroad, isn't well-represented, as many schools simply can't afford to pay a foreign teacher. Instead the majority of these roles go to volunteers.
Africa is arguably the best continent there is for volunteer work, offering a huge array of projects that allow you to explore your interests at the same time as making a real difference.
If you're interested in humanitarian work, Africa provides opportunities to work with orphans, children stricken by poverty, disabled people and children, or generally offering support in medical facilities. There's also a huge range of volunteer teaching opportunities.
Many areas of Africa are developing rapidly, and the narrative of it being a universally poor continent is simply no longer accurate. But there is still severe poverty and disease in some regions, and volunteering there gives you the opportunity to really help people in need. It also gives you great experience to show employers when you return home.
Africa also provides incredible opportunities to volunteer with animals. You can bottle feed monkeys in Malawi, cuddle tiger kittens before they're old enough to maul you, dive deep into coral reefs as part of the conservation effort, and many, many more. After all, Africa has some of the best wildlife on the planet.
As with any volunteering project anywhere in the world you should think very carefully about your strengths, weaknesses and natural interests before committing to anything.
Whatever volunteering placement you choose, it's guaranteed to be an experience of a lifetime.
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Check out these volunteer opportunities in Africa:
Mental Health Volunteering in Ghana
PMGY in Ghana offers a 2-week to 3-month Mental Health volunteering project in the ancient capital of Kumasi.
Childcare Volunteer Projects in South Africa
PMGY offers 2-week to 6-month volunteering opportunities in the coastal town of Cape Town in South Africa.
Early Learning and Baby Weighing in Ghana
Help to create fun and educational activities with the children in the local nursery as well supporting vital baby-weighing sessions
Education and Community Support
Give back to those who are less fortunate by teaching English and other skills in a rural community of Tanzania....
Primate Conservation, Zimbabwe
from	£1
A truly unique wildlife experience, where you will work in Zimbabwe's only wildlife sanctuary dedicated to the rehabilitation and release...
Madagascar Marine Conservation
7	- 140	days
Dive in some of the least explored marine sites in the world, helping further the research and protection of these...
Teach English in South Africa
Medical Placements in Ghana
PMGY in Ghana offers a 2-week to 6-month Medical project in the ancient capital of Kumasi.
Veterinary experience in South Africa
Gain veterinary experience on a Big 5 game reserve in South Africa, closely shadowing the reserve experts and helping out...
Children's Kindergarten Project in South Africa
As a kindergarten volunteer in South Africa, you'll be helping out at a nursery or pre-school within a deprived area.
Budget accommodation in Africa
Africa accommodation
Accommodation in Africa can be hit or miss, in terms of availability, quality, and price, depending where you travel on the continent. In popular gap year destinations like South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco you'll find plenty of variety, whereas other countries with less developed backpacking infrastructure, like Chad, Lesotho, and Uganda can prove a little more limited. It's definitely worth researching and getting this sorted ahead of time.
Accommodation in Southern Africa
Like the north far above it, southern Africa is one of the easiest regions of the continent to find a place to stay. South Africa is incredibly well-equipped for all your gap year needs, and the growing popularity of neighbouring Botswana and Namibia, with their incredible natural attractions, means they're beginning to catch up, and finding accommodation here shouldn't be a problem.
Other nations like Zimbabwe and Zambia aren't quite as robust, but there's still a range of hotels, lodges, and safari camps that will suit most budgets. Outside of big cities the quality of accommodation can dip steeply.
Accommodation in Northern Africa
Accommodation in this region of Africa is generally good thanks to the popularity of Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. In these countries you should find everything from hostels to luxury hotels, guesthouses and beach huts. There are also luxury resorts all along the coast.
Further from the coast in countries like Niger and Chad, finding a place to stay can prove more difficult. Bigger cities have a handful of hotels, and these aren't usually too expensive by western standards. Outside of cities can prove a great deal more difficult – there might be some specialist accommodation around natural tourist attractions, but we certainly don't recommend trying to wing it.
Accommodation in Western Africa
This region can be a mixed bag for accommodation. Ghana is incredibly well-equipped for all price ranges, as is Senegal; Cape Verde has some wonderful accommodation to cater for its beaches, and the coastline of Gambia has a host of resorts, inland boasting fairly basic eco camps and lodges.
Elsewhere in this region can prove trickier. Countries like Nigeria, Benin, and Ivory Coast have cities that have some options for visitors, whereas other nations like Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Togo are not developed enough to really cater for visitors.
Accommodation in Eastern Africa
With exceptions, you shouldn't have too much difficulty finding a place to stay in eastern Africa. It's home to many popular visitor destinations like Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, and Mauritius, which means there's plenty of hotels, hostels, and guesthouses to cater to their numerous tourist attractions. You might end up paying a little more unless you can find somewhere a little more out of the way.
Other countries, like Rwanda and Djibouti have more limited options, and some, like Somalia, simply aren't safe for independent travellers at present.
Accommodation in Central Africa
Another mixed bag here, as despite being home to some of Africa's most stunning landscapes, many of the central countries are not as developed as elsewhere on the continent, which can make accommodation limited or occasionally unsafe.
Cameroon and Angola have some good hotels, though prices can be high and other options limited. Independent camping isn't recommended due to safety concerns. Other countries, like DR Congo and Gabon, are beginning to improve in larger cities, but are still not equipped for travellers.
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Best way to get around Africa
Transport in Africa
Although some transport networks in Africa are not as developed as elsewhere in the world, you can almost always find a way to get where you're going. It might not always be cheap, or comfortable, or quick, but you'll make it to your destination in one piece sooner or later.
If you're short on time, hopping on a plane to traverse this vast continent can be a great – if not terribly cheap – option. There are many airlines that will fly between African nations, usually to major cities, as well as domestic airlines that will take you from one end of a country to another.
Exercise caution when using smaller domestic carriers, especially in countries with dubious political stability, as they may not meet safety standards. These can be checked with the EU Commission on Air Safety.
Rail travel in Africa is still very much developing, improving year after year. Generally speaking, passenger railways in Africa stay within one country only, with some exceptions. There's an interconnected railway network between Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, and Rwanda, making it a good option for travelling between those countries.
Elsewhere the quality varies. Many countries like Morocco, South Africa, and Egypt have extensive networks for passengers between major cities. Even in countries like Kenya and Botswana, which have limited routes, trains can be worth getting as a means of wildlife spotting and to enjoy the scenery. But it's likely they'll be a link in a more complicated journey, rather than your soul source of travel.
If you're looking to travel extensively overland, buses will likely become your best friends. Almost every African country has a bus service that acts as the main form of transportation for tourists and locals alike. The price and quality of these vary from country to country, so it's definitely worth doing some research before you set off. In many countries missing a bus can mean a long wait until the next one.
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Hello from Olympia, WA – 1: Spider And The Webs band practice, Peter Stampfel live
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Hello from Olympia, WA the birthplace of Beat Happening, love rock, riot grrl, nature punk, Ladyfest, Bands Against Bush, New Direction Fest, Homo a Go-Go, Joey Casio, The Need, Jigsaw, Son Skull, HPP, Sex Vid, Weird TV and current home to K Records, Wolves In The Throne Room, Broken Water, Milk Music, The Maxines, Hysterics, Outlook, Perennial Records, Morgan And The Organ Donors, Hive Dwellers, Zargent, Nudity, Christian Mistress, Bicycle Records, Gardencore, The Helsing Junction Sleepover, Sham Pants, Nuts!, Gun Outfit, Crude Thought, Polly Darton, The Family Stoned, Dead Head, etc!
I'm reporting on our hyperactive small city/big town music scene and reviewing records for Collapse Board. I've been going to shows in Olympia since 1983 and started playing in bands a few years after that. The first issue of my fanzine Jigsaw came out in 1989 and lives on as a blog. I spent much of the past 20 years working at Kill Rock Stars, making records and going on tour with The Go Team, Bikini Kill, Frumpies, Spider And The Webs, The Old Haunts and more. I still do that stuff and write about it, except I don't work for KRS anymore. I actually spend a lot of time these days filling out job applications and hanging out at the unemployment office. See Denim Job Center for more on what this is like. I'm sure it's not too hard to imagine for many of you, due to the global economic downturn. The good side is that I get to hang out at more shows, write regularly and play music a lot, so lets focus on the positive.
How was your weekend? Mine was excellent.
Friday night was ruled by Spider And The Webs band practice. Our drummer, Chris Sutton, moved to Portland a few years ago and plays in 10 million other bands (Hornet Leg, Chain And The Gang, Dirtbombs, The Gossip, to name a few) and was in town to play a show with The Hooded Hags. James got off work at the record store and we met at Ben Moore's, our favorite old timey diner/watering hole. I told The Webs that local country/art-rock ensemble Lazer Zeppelin was playing a show across town with Brooklyn based comic-artist-turned-indie-folkster Jeffrey Lewis AND 60s legend Peter Stampfel (!!!) so we should try and at least catch the end of it.
Peter Stampfel is legendary for his work with Lower East Side hippy band The Holy Modal Rounders and was also in The Fugs, briefly. My enthusiasm about the show was met with skepticism, apparently some people think The Holy Modal Rounders are one of the "worst bands ever". I couldn't argue, I had never heard them, but The Fugs were undeniably great, right, like Flipper meets The Velvet Underground?!
To this James remarked "But you think beatniks are cool!" in a provocative, antagonistic tone.
Of course my reply was, "Wait, we're in a band together and you don't think beatniks are cool?!!???!!!" He answered that he didn't know but he knew FOR SURE that his girlfriend didn't think beatniks were cool.
Understanding he was honoring her perspective in favor of asserting his own, I was like, "OK, but what about Beatsploitation? Like, Maynard G. Krebbs or that movie, Bell, Book And Candle?"
"Bob Denver IS cool", he conceded, quickly adding that he thought that Fred Cole from Dead Moon/Pierced Arrows was very much into Bob's work in Gilligan's Island.
"Fred Cole & Gilligan???? Whoa," I replied, and left it at that.
Everyone was hungry and Ben Moore's wasn't serving food for some unknown reason but the clock was ticking so we headed off to a pre-Friday night practice without eating dinner to kick out the jams. This ended up working to my advantage as The Webs got super starving-to-death hungry right as my boyfriend was getting off work. They headed off to a "burger party" and I got a ride to the westbay to catch Peter Stampfel's set.
Walking up the driveway I had a flashback to another show 27 years earlier in what seemed like the same house and remembered this time when I was just 15 and had snuck out to go to a show only to discover that my parents were at the same party my friends and I were supposedly NOT going to, whoops! Fortunately my friends and I figured out we were in the wrong place – the punk show was a little further into the woods – and made our escape before getting busted. Realizing I am now at least 10 years older than my parents were back then I looked around to see if I saw any 15-year-olds, then I thought, "Wait, the age difference between me and the 25-year-olds in the room is the same as the age difference between me and my parents, wtf???" But then I saw Calvin Johnson and I was like, "Well, at least we aren't the oldest people here, cool".
When Peter Stampfel started playing he instantly put to rest my unease about maybe being too old to hang out at a college party. His hair was as white as a can of glow-in-the-dark spray paint but his singing was crystal clear and his mischievous spirit illuminated the room via the sheer sonic power of his voice. It was fragile and expressive but tonally clairvoyant, cutting through all the pot smoke and drunk talk and seemed to put all the years of my life into some new kind of order.
If you want to get technical, the first shows I went to were early 70s hippy parties in Olympia when my parents were young students at Evergreen and I was a toddler. I remember playing bongos for hours and crying when the adults tried to take them away. Instead of feeling nostalgic, by providing a connection from then-to-now, Peter Stampfel's performance made me feel that today's era is vital and alive by demonstrating how American folk music is the common trajectory that runs through all the different eras of underground music. Perhaps the 60s were just a stop along the way and not the defining moment of his life but just his media-designated "15 minutes".
Thinking about it now, with their use of washboard, fiddle, acoustic instruments and traditional arrangements, Peter Stampfel's band even took things back to the 30s, connecting the dots between the hillbilly music of my grandparent's generation in Oklahoma to today's Olympia music scene. This makes me conceptualize folk as more of a cultural practice than a genre. For some, like Peter Seeger or Calvin Johson, maybe it's a stance that challenges the notion that professional musicians are more valid than so-called amateurs. American garage punk from the 60s was very similar to 80s hardcore in that these were both times when teenagers played music together to entertain each other and participate in their own culture. 'Making it big' outside of your own scene wasn't really even thought about by most people. In that sense maybe all of it can be considered folk music.
Between songs Peter Stampfel giggled like a wide eyed four-year-old. This and the exuberant joy displayed through his pottymouth, smart-ass lyrics and hopeful, kind, between-song banter made him seem much, much younger than most of the kids in the room. Suffice to say I went home and discovered The Holy Modal Rounders via YouTube, who, contrary to what I was told, are totally awesome.
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Jenkins, Herbert
Published by Herbert Jenkins Limited, 3 Duke of York Street, London First edition 1918. 1918.
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Grenfell of Labrador [2]
Johnston, James
Published by S. W. Partridge & Co. Ltd., circa 1900 edition not stated.
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The Mystery in the Ritsmore
Johnston, William
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Jarrolds Ltd., London circa 1925 edition not stated. 1925.
Hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 283, 4 [pp]. Former message to the front end paper dated 1924, light foxing to end papers and page edges. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street, Strand, London Second edition 1901. 1901.
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Michael Forth
Published by Constable and Company Limited, 10-12 Orange Street, London First Edition 1920. 1920.
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After the War; Amaryllis and the King; Concerning Fishes, An Essay on Bird-Mind to The Cornhill Magazine No. 760
J. H. Hallard, J. M. Reid, Shelland Bradley, Julian Huxley Contribute [Edited by Leonard Huxley]
Published by John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street, London April 1923. London 1923.
Publisher's original light orange paper wrap covers, black lettering to the spine, upper and lower panels. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Monochrome illustrated advertisements to the end papers. Without any ownership markings and in Very Good clean and sound condition with small rubs to the spine tips, no dust wrapper as published. Contents flyer to the front cover. We currently hold in stock 14 other Cornhill Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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Jerome K. Jerome, W. W. Jacobs, J. M. Barrie, W. S. Gilbert, F. C. Burnand, F. Anstey, Bret Harte, Eden Phillpotts [Contribute to:]
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., Henrietta Street, London 1925. London 1925.
Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covers, black and red title lettering to the spine and the upper panel, scary bald-headed man to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 346 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrated advertisements for magic tricks and conjuring to the end papers. Couple of very tiny marks to the spine, without any ownership markings and in very near Fine condition, priced 2/-. Member of the P.B.F.A.
The House of Broken Dreams
Jope-Slade, Christine
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 22 Berners Street, London First Edition 1924. London 1924.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, pale yellow title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 320 printed pages of text. Ink ownership marking inside the front cover, marks to the covers, end papers missing and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Where the Apple Reddens
James, Arthur
Published by Francis Griffiths, 34 Maiden Lane, Strand, London First Edition 1908. London 1908.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 324 printed pages of text. Rubs to the softened spine ends and corners, slightly age darkened closed page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
The Passion For Souls
Jowett, J. H.
Published by James Clarke & Co., 13 & 14 Fleet Street, London circa 1930. London circa 1930.
Publisher's original soft green leather, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 6½'' x 4¼''. Contains 127 printed pages of text. Light rubbing to the high points of the covers, contents clean and sound. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Three Rascals
Jacberns, Raymond [Illustrations by Ella and Agnes Tomlinson]
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London 1904. London 1904.
Hard back binding in publisher's original blue and grey symmetrically designed cloth covers, blue title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [xvi] 208 printed pages of text with 7 [of 8] monochrome photographs. Spine slightly age tanned, small repaired fraying to the top of the lower spine edge, ink message inside and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Pollyooly
Jepson, Edgar
Published by George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., 39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London First UK Edition 1924. London 1924.
First UK edition hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 297 printed pages of text. Spine ends softened and turned in, pencilled marking to the front free end paper, age darkened closed page edges and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street, Strand, London First Edition 1901. London 1901.
Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, gilt and black lettering and black illustration to the spine and the front cover. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 295 [48 page catalogue dated July 1901] printed pages of text with twelve monochrome illustrations throughout. Whilst the covers are secure to the text, the end papers are cracked, small ink name inside, light rubbing to the covers, spine not faded and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Maid O' the Moors
Jackson, P. Hoole
Published by The C. W. Daniel Company, Graham House, Tudor Street, London First Edition April 1924. London 1924.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brown cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine, blind tooled border to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 176 printed pages of text. Slightly softened and rubbed spine ends, minimal rubs to the corners, age darkening and foxing to the closed page edges, ghosting to the end papers, foxing to some margins. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.


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