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Q: Random white space at the right side of the scrollview I have a problem and I can't find it on the internet. I am making an app for circus in Rome and at the following picture, I did a screenshot of the ScrollView displaying the 3 circus. But there's a strange white space at the right and when I open it on my phone I can't scroll. How can I resolve it?

And here is the code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fillViewport="true"
    android:focusable="false"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
    android:contextClickable="false"
    android:background="#dcda60"
    android:scrollIndicators="right"
    android:touchscreenBlocksFocus="false">

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="#dcda60"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:scrollIndicators="right"
    app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
    tools:context="joenio.circiinrome.circi_lijst"
    tools:showIn="@layout/activity_circi_lijst"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <ImageButton

        android:id="@+id/imageButton1"
        android:layout_width="225dp"
        android:layout_height="140dp"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:background="#dcda60"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"
        android:src="@mipmap/maximus" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/imageButton1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="55dp"
        android:background="#edeb67"
        android:text="@string/maximus" />

    <ImageButton
        android:id="@+id/imageButton"
        android:layout_width="225dp"
        android:layout_height="110dp"
        android:background="#dcda60"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"
        android:src="@mipmap/maxentius" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="50dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="0dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="17dp"
        android:background="#edeb67"
        android:text="@string/maxentius" />

    <ImageButton
        android:id="@+id/imageButton2"
        android:layout_width="225dp"
        android:layout_height="140dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:background="#dcda60"
        android:src="@mipmap/agionalis"
        android:scaleType="fitXY" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button4"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:text="@string/agonalis"
        android:background="#edeb67" />

</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

A: It seems that your android:layout_width is incorrect, you must declare on your ScrollView, and on your LinearLayout:
android:layout_width="match_parent"

instead of:
android:layout_width="wrap_content"

could it resolve your question?

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CEMETERIES A-B
Information on Vernon County's more than 100 cemeteries and family graveyards.
Introduction to Vernon County, Missouri Cemetery Directory 2010
Vernon County Cemetery Directory 2007 news story
An ALL-NEW cemetery directory is being created and will be published in 2023! It will include full names and dates from obituaries and death certificates plus names of parents and spouses for many of the more than 72,000 deaths/burials in Vernon Co. Additionally, a brief source citation for burials will be included.
A - B C - D E - H J - L M - N O - T U - W
Academy Cemetery - see Montevallo Cemetery
Amos Cemetery - Henry Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Earliest known recorded burial is 1857. Only a couple of stones were located in 2006. The small community of Amos was located on the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The Amos post office was in operation from approx. 1893-1931. Nothing remains of the town except a few scattered homes and the old school building.
Legal: Section 8, Township 37N, Range 33W.
Coordinates: 38.014960, -94.581122
Directions: From Stotesbury, 3 1/2 miles north on Hwy. V, 1/2 mile west on Caton Road. Burial area is on private property in the woods on the south side of the road.
Antioch Cemetery - Washington Township
Description: Active; Maintained; Earliest known recorded burial is 1871. Land given by Thomas Fry and Samuel Bush.
Legal: Section 16, Township 36N, Range 31W.
Directions: North of Nevada, exit U.S. 71 west at the junction with Hwy. M, south on 1558 Road about 1/2 mile, west on Jayhawker Road about 1/2 mile. Cemetery in on the north side of the road next to the Antioch Christian Church.
Layout: Listing begins in the southwest corner and rows snake.
Arbor Grove Cemetery - Montevallo Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Earliest known recorded burial is 1886 and last is 1944. At one time the Arbor Grove Church sat at the north side of the cemetery.
Directions: At the junction of 2625 and Ulysses Roads, proceed north on 2625 Road just a few yards and the cemetery lane is on the east side of the road.
Arnold Cemetery - see Bethany Cemetery
Avola Cemetery - Drywood Township
Description: Active; Maintained; Earliest known recorded burial is 1872. The Avola community was settled in 1859-60 and had a post office from about 1869-1885. Nothing remains of the town except a few scattered homes and the cemetery.
Directions: From Sheldon, MO, 4 1/4 miles west on Hwy N; 1/4 mile east on Wooden Road. Cemetery is about 100 yards north in the pasture.
Layout: The listing of burials begins in the southwest corner and is listed by row, from south to north. Each row is designated a Section.
Baker Cemetery - Drywood Township
Description: Seldom used; Semi-maintained; Earliest recorded burial is 1853.
Legal: SESE Section 31, Township 34N, Range 31W.
Coordinates: 37.6497661, -94.3693948
Directions: From the U.S. 71 exit at Sheldon, MO, west on Hwy N a few yards and south 1 mile on 1825 Road (outer road), 3 1/8 miles west on Zodiac, 1/8 mile north on a lane to the cemetery.
(This cemetery was incorrectly previously listed as Oak Grove Cemetery.)
Baker Cemetery - see Oak Grove Cemetery
Ball Cemetery (aka Robinson Cemetery) - Virgil Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Earliest known recorded burial is 1862.
Legal: SW Section 10, Township 35, Range 29.
Directions: From U.S. 54 at Dederick, MO, 2 1/2 miles south on 2750 Road, 3/4 mile east on Overland Road. A lane leads south to the cemetery on private land.
Balltown Cemetery (properly Little Osage Cemetery)
- Osage Township
Description: Active; Maintained; Little Osage Cemetery (now commonly known as Balltown Cemetery) is the oldest cemetery in Vernon County. Earliest recorded burial is that of Nathaniel B. Dodge, Jr., March 23, 1838, who died of wounds from a skirmish with Indians. The town of Little Osage was the location of the first post office in Vernon Co. The Balltown mill and covered bridge were burned by Union troops during the Civil War, and Balltown was then occupied by Union forces. Nothing remains of the town except the cemetery.
Legal: NE Section 19, Township 37, Range 31W.
Directions: From Nevada, 8 miles north on U.S. 71 to the Horton exit; 1 mile west on Earp Road. Cemetery is on the north side of the road.
Layout: Listing in each sections begins at the "x," and rows snake. Section 2 has the first 2 rows combined.
Additional cemetery information is at this link.
Bankson Cemetery - Montevallo Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Family graveyard; earliest known recorded burial is 1868.
Coordinates: 37.45.194, 094.06.507
Directions: From Montevallo, 2 miles north on Road 2900; on private property in timber.
Barton County, MO Cemeteries
Many Vernon County residents are buried in neighboring counties. A link to the Barton Co cemetery map is provided for researchers.
Batts Cemetery - see Maddox Cemetery
Beard Cemetery - see Jewell Cemetery
Beckmon Cemetery - Harrison Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Earliest known recorded burial is 1877, last is 1934.
Directions: From Moundville, MO, 3 1/2 miles west on Hwy F. Cemetery is located 3/4 miles south in a pasture on private land.
Belvoir Cemetery - Blue Mound Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; From 1979 Cemetery Directory: "Belvoir was a fairly thriving settlement from 1839 until the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy RR) was built through Schell City in 1871. The gravestones from the Belvoir Cemetery were gathered up by and are in the possession of Emmett Applegate, to prevent further loss or damage. He said other stones had been thrown in a ditch north of the cemetery but at last investigation he could not find any others." Reported by Jim Daily.
Legal: SE Section 25, Township 38N, Range 30W.
Directions: From Schell City, 2 1/4 miles west on Hwy C, 1 1/4 mile north on 2500 Road, 1/4 mile west on Allen Road, north on 2475 Road.
Berea Cemetery - Blue Mound Township
Description: Active; Maintained; Established 1882 on land given by Michael and Ellen Ketterman. Some graves were moved here from the old community cemetery 1/2 mile west and 1 1/2 mile north of the old Ketterman store; thus some dates are before 1882. Additional information previously furnished by Vernon and Mary Balk. Earliest recorded burial is 1879.
Legal: NW Section 30, Township 37N, Range 30W.
Directions: From U.S. 71 north of Nevada, 6 miles east on Hwy M. The cemetery in on the north side of the road at the Berea Christian Church.
Bethany Cemetery (aka Arnold Cemetery) - Blue Mound Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Earliest recorded burial is 1885 and the last is 1948. David Arnold settled here in 1866.
Legal: NENE Section 33, Township 37N, Range 30W.
Directions: From Walker, 3 miles due north in a field on private property.
Bicket Cemetery (aka Longacre Cemetery) - Drywood Township
Description: Seldom used; Maintained; Earliest recorded burial is 1874.
Legal: NWNW Section 9, Township 34, Range 31W.
Directions: From U.S. 71 2 mile south of Milo, MO, 2 miles west on Hwy. BB. Cemetery is on the south side of the road at the junction of Hwy. BB (Veteran Rd.) and 1625 Road.
Layout: Listing begins in the northwest corner and rows snakes.
Bicket Cemetery Lot Owners List
Blakey Cemetery - see Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
Brandt Cemetery - Walker Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Earliest recorded burial is 1858 and last is before 1910.
Directions: From Nevada, MO, 8 miles east on U.S. 54, 1/2 mile south on 2500 Road, 3/4 mile southwest on private property.
Butler Cemetery - Badger Township
Description: Inactive; Unmaintained; Earliest recorded burial is 1872 and last is 1894.
Legal: SESW Section 1, Township 35N, Range 30W.
Directions: From Nevada, MO, east on U.S. 54, south on 2400 Rd., east on Old Town Rd. about 250 yards. Cemetery is in the tree line about 200 yards north on private property.
If you have information regarding any Vernon County, Missouri burial site not listed here, please contact me.

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Problems with your internet after upgrading to Windows 10? Here are a few possible solutions that have helped others.
Specifically, your motherboard and ethernet drivers. Head over to the manufacturer's website for your brand of motherboard and search for your specific model, download and install the drivers. Making sure to have the ethernet drivers correct for your motherboard installed is incredibly important. You'll usually find them under Support or Drivers on the manufacturer's website.
Go to Device Manager by right-clicking on the Windows icon and selecting it. Right-click and uninstall the network adapter for your ethernet found under "Network Adapters". Now, select Action>Scan for hardware changes, and let Windows find your updated ethernet driver and install it.
Right-click the Windows icon, select Network Connections. It will display a list of your adapters. Right-click the one you've been having issues with. Select "Properties". Make sure that Internet Protocol Version 6 and Internet Protocol Version 4 are checked. If they aren't, do so.
If you use a VPN, uninstall the adapter and software and reinstall it. Part of upgrading to a new OS is making sure you've got the latest versions of a great number of integral applications, and VPNs can be rather particular about how virtual adapters are set up.
If you have antivirus software, or have third-party firewall software, do the same. An uninstall and clean-install of AV/firewall software can address some of the issues with restoring internet connectivity after an OS upgrade.
You could accomplish roughly the same effect by running the network troubleshooter, but let's walk through the more in-depth for releasing and renewing your IP address, as this may also help as a quick fix.
1. Press Windows Key + X and select "Command Prompt (admin)".
2. Type ipconfig /release and hit Enter.
3. Then type ipconfig /renew and hit Enter.
4. Type Exit and hit Enter.


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Gopsi Pharma Private Limited Is In Plan For Expansion Of Its Existing Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing Unit At Bharuch, Gujarat.
M/S. Gopsi Pharma Private Limited Proposed Expansion Of Existing Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing Unit Plot No. 2309/10-11, Gidc Industrial Estate, Panoli- 394 116, Taluka: Ankleshwar, Dist. Bharuch, Gujarat, India. Total 4500.0 Sq. Meter Land Area Is Available At Site. Company Wants To Reach From 30 Mtpm To 200 Mtpm Of Chemical Production.


No Sunday is a proper Sunday without some baking! I have got so much rosemary in my garden that I've decided to make something sweet using rosemary as an ingredient!
I can tell you they are delicious and go sooooo well with a nice cup of tea!
1 Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/gas mark 2. Lightly grease a baking tray.
2 Put the sugar and rosemary in a food processor. Whizz until the rosemary is very finely chopped, then add the butter and orange zest and whizz until pale and creamy. Transfer to a large bowl. Beat in the flour until it forms a stiff dough.
3 Place the dough on a sheet of baking paper and cover with another sheet. Gently press down with a rolling pin and roll out to 3-5mm thick. Lift off the top sheet of paper and stamp out the biscuits with a 7cm-diameter pastry cutter. Using a palette knife, lift them off the paper and carefully transfer to the baking sheet. Lightly combine the remaining dough pieces together and repeat the process.
4 Prick the biscuits with a fork and bake for 12 minutes or until tinged a very pale brown. Using a palette knife (they will still be soft), transfer to a wire rack and liberally dust with caster sugar. Serve once cool and crisp.


Opening tomorrow (17th Sept 2012) a lovely B and B on the Moray Firth. Please check out Beach Cottage where you will be well looked after by Brad. Stunning , Stunning views!
"Thought you might like to know that the Trafford Bank was featured in Remodelista blog - it's the daily bread for all the design darlings!"


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Librarian Message re: Update to the Special Collections Access Procedures
Published by HKUL TSS at 2:00 pm under Breaking News
On 1st June 2022 the HKU Libraries issued an announcement regarding the procedural enhancements of using the space and materials of Special Collections, which include Chinese and Western Rare Books Collections, limited editions of publications, historic photographs and materials relating to Hong Kong, namely Hong Kong Collection.
Librarian Message re: Special Collections Access Procedure
Due to instances of users' mishandling, damages and loss of the HKU Libraries' rare materials within our Special Collections Area in the past, the arrangement is considered to be necessary to protect and preserve our unique, valuable, rare and irreplaceable materials which form our complete collections.
The international best practices of registration for access to special materials are adopted in our libraries. We referenced our Special Collections access procedures to international standards and best practice amongst international peers including The British Library, Library of Congress, Bodleian Libraries of Oxford, Cambridge Libraries, University of Sydney, Harvard University, American Library Association and numerous renowned institutions.
The new booking procedure also ensures priority is given to those who have genuine needs to use the Special Collections. Since the implementation of the booking procedure, the preservation of our materials is improved, less damages are found, and no loss has been reported despite high number of visitors.
We comply with the guidelines of Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) and follow strictly the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and Copyright Ordinance to ensure no personal data are compromised and copyrights are infringed. Photoduplication of copyrighted materials at Special Collections is allowed for private study but declaration of reproduction needs signing by users who shall be obliged to the Copyright Ordinance.
We have been actively consulting, acquiring and providing access to materials recommended by faculties and students to support their teaching, learning and academic development through physical and digital means. We have also been collecting feedback and suggestions from HKU Libraries users and refining the access procedures to enhance our users' experience. Please contact us at libspeco@hku.hk to help us improve.
Thank you for your continued support.
Flora Ng
Chief Information Officer and
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41 people test positive for Coronavirus after New Orleans swingers convention
(Source: WVUE)
By Nicole Mumphrey | December 1, 2020 at 12:29 PM CST - Updated December 2 at 7:12 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -At least 41 people who attended a swingers convention in November tested positive for COVID-19, according to the event organizer.
Bob Hannaford, owner of Naughty Events, wrote in a blog post Nov. 27 that "5 people tested positive on Monday."
On Tuesday that number climbed to 14, and by Wednesday positive cases jumped to 29 cases and "by our last count, we have 41 positive tests, out of 300 people."
The 'Naughty in N'awlins' convention typically attracts a few thousand people, but due to the pandemic, only a few hundred attended.
One of the attendees was hospitalized in serious condition after contracting the virus.
"If I could go back in time, I would not produce this event again. Even though most of the 41 positive cases have mostly been asymptomatic or very mild cases. The reason I wouldn't is that I know of two people who had a tougher time and they were suffering. One of them, a good friend of mine, was hospitalized in serious condition," Hannaford said.
READ THE FULL BLOG POST
Hannaford says extraordinary measures were put in place for check-in with required temperature checks, social distancing in line, and sanitizing.
"We issued wristbands in one color to indicate who had antibodies and therefore was not contagious. We issued a second color to those that showed us a very recent negative COVID-19 test. The wristbands even had each person's date of their test circled.
Over 50% of our attendees had the antibodies and many of the rest got tested right before the event. We were feeling better and better about the risk potential as the event was about to kick off.
We required masks in all public places and told them they would have to wear them in elevators and even in our parties and while up on the rooftop pool."
The convention was originally set to take place over the Summer.
"At first, we re-scheduled our event for August and later, because of a July spike, we moved it one more time to November. If we couldn't have an event in November, we would skip this year and hope to make it until our next big event. As November neared, the numbers in New Orleans kept trending down, way down. By mid-October, New Orleans was one of the safest big cities in the US. The restrictions got lighter and lighter, more restaurants and bars reopened."
As of Dec. 1, the positivity rate in New Orleans is just above two percent with more than 15,000 cases of COVID-19.
Copyright 2020 WVUE. All rights reserved.
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South Jackson residents and volunteers clean up the community, looking to revitalize the area
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Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Facebook that the state has vaccinated over 100,000 Mississippians within the past 11 days, surpassing over 10 states.
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'HARD CASES make bad law." So goes the hoary aphorism taught to generations of law students and invoked by lawyers and judges tempted to do what the heart implores but the rational mind warns - or should warn - against. The debate on whether to prosecute intelligence agents who inflicted what civilized citizens reasonably deem "torture," but what Department of Justice legal memoranda advised was nonetheless lawful, exemplifies the occasional "hard case."
But it would make very "bad law," and would create a legal precedent that would haunt our criminal justice system for generations, if we cede to the demands of those calling for torture prosecutions. The primary objection to such prosecutions is that they would deal a body blow to civil liberties.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, where I am a board member, argues that if we do not prosecute the agents, we would be implicitly accepting "the so-called superior orders defense" correctly rejected by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. Indeed, the "torture memos" have a touch of the style of history's more infamous Nazi operatives, where evil niceties of human abuse were discussed with a chilling precision that only bureaucratese could supply. Still, however disturbing the DOJ torture memos are, they are far from anything seen in the Nazi and Soviet eras. They approve the infliction of terror and pain, but not disfigurement and death.
What is the importance of this distinction? A CIA agent, operating in good faith, could readily consider such DOJ advice to be a binding legal opinion that he could safely follow. And in our legal system, based on an ancient Anglo-Saxon moral and legal tenet incorporated into our own criminal codes, a wrongdoer may be punished only if he knowingly and intentionally committed an act that he believed to be illegal. Given the facts and circumstances - the nation had just withstood the worst terrorist attack in its history and was being led by a president who suddenly declared a full-scale "war on terror" - it is inconceivable that any criminal jury in any American jurisdiction could, would, or even should agree unanimously (which is what it takes to convict) that an agent, acting in accord with DOJ legal advice, is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt (another prerequisite for conviction). These are legal realities often missed by those outside the practice of trial law.
Unless we are prepared to allow the war on terror to inflict further damage on our legal system, we need to step back and ask if perhaps better sense, and cooler heads, should prevail in the face of righteous outrage at our government's conduct. Steps might be taken short of prosecution. Ethics investigations could be (and indeed are being) conducted of the Department of Justice lawyers who drafted the memos - among them current Berkley law professor John Yoo and sitting federal appellate judge Jay Bybee. Discipline could include disbarment as well as judicial impeachment. But prosecutions could, and likely would, wreak havoc on principles that civil libertarians should seek to protect, not evade.
In his memorable play "A Man for All Seasons," Robert Bolt depicts a fictional but profoundly truthful discussion between Sir Thomas More, the cleric who followed his conscience during the tyrannical reign of King Henry VIII, and William Roper, who undertakes to warn More to take preemptive action against the ambitious Richard Rich. "Arrest him," Roper advises. "For what?" queries More, ever the student of law. "That man's bad," chimes in a courtier. "There is no law against" being bad, counters More. Roper protests that if the laws of England are analogous to trees in a forest, and if the devil were hiding behind a tree, "I'd cut down every law in England" to get him. More responds with one of western literature's most profound explanations of the rule of law in safeguarding liberty. "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"
More's conclusion rings true today: "Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"
Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, is the author of the forthcoming "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent."


I feel privileged to have worked for the most prestigious food magazines and publishing houses for the last 2 decades.
I was always destined to work in some kind of creative career that involved food it seems as I grew up in an artistic family that loved good food. My father and paternal grandfather were talented painters and photographers.. my maternal "diedouchka" created the most amazing wood work.. and my grandmothers and mother were fabulous cooks.
For me it was the norm to live in a home filled with artwork, to sit down everyday to a great meal, to have the tiniest amount of wine every Sunday.
For me it was the norm to try my hand at anything from a very early age, be it painting, drawing, building, sewing or cooking. I would have been 3 when I started making my own little tartlets after kindergarten.
I couldn't reach the top of the stove but the oven was well within my reach.
Yes, becoming a food stylist was a natural path..
But as a creative person I need to keep exploring my own creativity. When I could sense a return/trend for handmade vessels and couldn't find what I wanted for photoshoots, I decided to make my own ..
Ceramics had been one of my subjects at Art School so it didn't take me long to feel comfortable with clay again and find my own style.
I wanted my ceramics to be simple, organic, yet stylish. They had to be tactile and catch the light beautifully, they had to look good in real life but also have that magical " je ne sais quoi " when photographed. They finally had to provide a beautiful frame for food, the food stylist in me was going to make sure of that.
Making ceramics has become a very personal way to express my creativity where all the things I love seem to merge.
They bring me joy and I hope they will do the same for you.
My creations have appeared on the covers of Elle Decoration UK, Gourmet Traveller, Home Beautiful Australia, Delicious magazine Australia and UK, Donna Hay, House & Garden Australia, Women's Weekly magazine and cookbooks, Marie Claire, Mind Food, SBS Feast Magazine, Country Style Magazine, Inside Out, Cooking Light USA, and numerous cookbooks.
They are available by direct purchase, and for hire in professional prop-hire places in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Toronto and USA.


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Ce que savait Maisie () est un roman américain de Henry James, paru en 1896 en feuilleton et en 1897 en volume.

Une première version de ce texte qualifié de novelette est parue dans The Chap-Book à la fin de l'année 1896, puis repris et modifié pour paraître dans The New Review (1897) avant d'être publié sous forme de volume la même année, d'abord chez William Heinemann à Londres en septembre puis chez Herbert S. Stone, éditeur à Chicago, en octobre.

Le roman est traduit en français par Marguerite Yourcenar en 1947.

Résumé
La petite Maisie naît dans une famille désunie. Beale et Ida Farange ne s'aiment pas, chacun établissant des relations adultères avec plus ou moins de sans-gêne. Bientôt, le divorce devient inévitable. Le jugement de la cour établit le partage de la garde de l'enfant qui devient d'abord un enjeu que le père et la mère revendiquent tour à tour de façon opiniâtre.

Mais quand Beale Farange épouse Miss Overmore, longtemps gouvernante de Maisie, et que Ida séduit Sir Claude, un homme séduisant, mais d'une faiblesse morale affligeante, l'enfant devient une charge dont chacun cherche à se prémunir. Parmi tous ces êtres égoïstes, une gouvernante de Maisie, Mrs. Wix  devient le seul espoir pour l'enfant de connaître une existence plus stable, une fois Maisie en âge de prendre des décisions.

Commentaire
Toute l'action du livre est perçue au travers des yeux de la petite Maisie, qui va devenir instrument de ses parents et des adultes qui l'entourent. La petite Maisie grandit, ballotée d'un parent à l'autre, d'une situation à l'autre. Tantôt instrument, tantôt gêne, elle devient spectatrice des égoïstes passions humaines.

Adaptations
Au cinéma
2012 : What Maisie Knew, film américain de Scott McGehee et David Siegel, avec Julianne Moore

À la télévision
1995 : Ce que savait Maisie, téléfilm français d'Édouard Molinaro, avec Evelyne Bouix, Stéphane Freiss et Catherine Samie

Roman d'Henry James adapté au cinéma
Roman américain paru en 1897
Roman d'Henry James adapté à la télévision

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I only became acquainted with the South rather late in life; other than, of course, books and movies. Our cozy little family-owned software company headquartered in Northern California and my place of work for nearly ten years; was acquired by a large holding company in England, who had acquired several other such companies. Our "new" company headquartered was to be located at one of these other software company's offices in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It then became inevitable that I would be making quite a few visits to the South.
Well, many other items have come up in discussions and those won't be recorded here. Our jaws drop when we hear about fathers and grandpas who were in the KKK, great grandparents who were the last slaveholders in the country but whose slaves "weren't at all unhappy since they were taken good care of and treated like family". Or as I drive down the freeway, and the vehicle I see approaching in the rear view mirror has a Confederate flag as its front license plate. At those moments, I know I'm a "damn Yankee"; whose great great grandfather marched down to Alabama from Grand Rapids, Michigan with the 13th Michigan Infantry, Company C and fought in about 25 of the major battles of the Civil War; oldest man to volunteer for his unit at age 44. Who lived and then after the end of the Civil War moved he and his family by wagon, out to California; where his son founded the ranch I grew up on. I know this is not a good thing to mention during dinner conversation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and bite my tongue.


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Jacobs, Hino partner for engine brake on 2020 Hino XL Series trucks
By The Trucker News Staff - February 11, 2019
Home > Equipment & Tech > Jacobs, Hino partner for engine brake on 2020 Hino XL Series trucks
BLOOMFIELD, Conn. — Jacobs Vehicle Systems,a manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engine retarding systems and valve actuation mechanisms, has launched a compression release engine brake for the all-new 2020 Hino XL Series truck.
Over the past two decades, Hino Motors' and Jacobs Vehicle Systems' engineers have collaborated to provide engine brakes to the Japanese market.
Today, the relationship continues with the introduction of the A09 engine to the U.S. market. The two companies partnered to design a high-performing compression release engine brake for Hino's first Class 7 and Class 8 commercial vehicle in North America.
"Hino is well respected globally for its reliability and performance, and we are honored to be part of Hino's first Class 7/8 launch in the U.S.," said Dennis Gallagher, President, Jacobs Vehicle Systems. "Jacobs' expertise in engine braking coupled with Hino's ability to drive excellence in quality will create a great customer experience."
The Jacobs Engine Brake is currently available on Hino's A09 engine and comes factory installed on all class XL7 and XL8 Series trucks.
"The engine brake for the A09 engine provides optimal braking performance which drivers have come to depend on," Gallagher said. "Some benefits include being fully integrated with the engine electronic control system and ABS, a two-stage brake operation of medium and high, and cruise control compatibility for greater driver control."
To learn more about the newly launched XL Series and the Jacobs Engine Brake performance, visit hino.com/hino-trucks-xl-series.html or jacobsvehiclesystems.com.
Jacobs Vehicle Systems is headquartered in Bloomfield, Conn., where it has a 25,000 square meter design, testing and manufacturing facility, with support sites in Europe, Japan, and India as well as manufacturing facilities in Suzhou, China and, from 2019, Brno, Czech Republic.
Hino Motors, Ltd., headquartered in Hinodai, Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the leading heavy-duty truck manufacturers in Japan.
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Taxonomic Comments: Often placed in monotypic genus Crocethia (AOU 1983).
Reasons: Global populations are estimated to over 600,000 birds (Birdlife International, 2014).
Range Extent Comments: BREEDS: circumpolar; in North America, northern Alaska, and from Prince Patrick, Lougheed, and northern Ellesmere islands south to northern Mackenzie, western Victoria Island, northern Keewatin, northwestern coast of Hudson Bay, and Southampton and northern Baffin islands; northern Palearctic. Some spend breeding season in nonbreeding range. NORTHERN WINTER: southern Alaska, Massachusetts, and Gulf Coast south through Middle America, West Indies, and South America to southern Argentina (by far the largest number on the west coast of South America in Peru and Chile, Morrison and Ross 1989); also Pacific islands, Old World. Delaware Bay is the most important spring stopover in the eastern U.S. (Clark et al. 1993).
Area of Occupancy Comments: There is little data about home range size. Home ranges of non-territorial wintering birds averaged 1500 square meters (Macwhirter, et. cal. 2002). Using that number with 600,000 individuals gives an estimate of 900 square kilometers.
Number of Occurrences Comments: Based on a population size estimate for just North America of 300,000 (Morrison, et. al. 2006), there should be 80 or more EOs. In addition, this species breeds in the high Arctic in the old world as well.
Population Size Comments: Birdlife International (2014) estimates the globalpopulation at 620,000 to700,000 individuals. The global population has been estimated at 643,000, with about 300,000 in North America (Morrison et al. 2001).
Viability/Integrity Comments: Based on estimated population numbers and its circumpolar distribution, there should be at least 41 "good" element occurrences.
Overall Threat Impact Comments: Like many shorebirds, this species relies heavily upon a few migratory stopover points where they congregate in high numbers. In addition, they are quite vulnerable to climate change with breeding in the high Arctic (National Audubon Society, 2014).
Short-term Trend Comments: Global population trends are unknown (Macwhirter, et. al. 2002). In spring at Delaware Bay, counts declined from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s (Clark et al. 1993). Morrison (193/1994) categorized the population trend in Canada as "stable?/decreasing?" Counts of fall migrants in southeastern Canada significantly declined from 1974 to 1979, significantly increased from 1980 to 1985, and showed no significant trend from 1986 to 1991 (Morrison et al. 1994).
Long-term Trend Comments: According to National Audubon (2014), this species has declined by as much as 80% worldwide. However, others say the trend is unknown or uncertain (Macwhirter, et. al. 2002; Birdlife International, 2014).
Intrinsic Vulnerability Comments: They are vulnerable because this species utilizes just a handful of important migratory stopover sites, making them quite vulnerable at those spots (National Audubon Society, 2014).
Inventory Needs: More population data from South America and the Atlantic coast wintering populations are needed (Macwhirter, et. al. 2002).
Global Range: (>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)) BREEDS: circumpolar; in North America, northern Alaska, and from Prince Patrick, Lougheed, and northern Ellesmere islands south to northern Mackenzie, western Victoria Island, northern Keewatin, northwestern coast of Hudson Bay, and Southampton and northern Baffin islands; northern Palearctic. Some spend breeding season in nonbreeding range. NORTHERN WINTER: southern Alaska, Massachusetts, and Gulf Coast south through Middle America, West Indies, and South America to southern Argentina (by far the largest number on the west coast of South America in Peru and Chile, Morrison and Ross 1989); also Pacific islands, Old World. Delaware Bay is the most important spring stopover in the eastern U.S. (Clark et al. 1993).
Reproduction Comments: Breeding begins mid-June to July (may be delayed by snow). Female usually lays 4 eggs; incubation lasts about 24-31 days. Male sometimes incubates first clutch while female lays a second. Nestlings are precocial and downy. Young can fly 17 days after hatching.
Ecology Comments: Seen singly, or in small (usually) or large flocks. May defend nonbreeding feeding territory, chasing away other birds.
Mobility and Migration Comments: Those migrating north to the Arctic from Chile and Peru travel mainly through the central corridor (Texas and northward) of the U.S. and Canada; smaller numbers follow the Pacific coast; a few migrate along U.S. Atlantic coast. Southbound from the Arctic to coastal Chile and Peru, many switch eastward to stopovers on U.S. Atlantic coast, including birds that migrated north along U.S. Pacific coast. Those in Brazil during nonbreeding season apparently appear only on U.S. Atlantic coast in migration. No single migratory route connects breeding with nonbreeding regions. (Myers et al. 1990).
Some migrate annually from central Chile to northeastern Greenland, about 12,800 km (Terres 1980), whereas others migrate only 3000 km between arctic and coastal northeastern U.S.; individuals exhibit strong fidelity to specific wintering areas. Typically large flocks fly long distances between favored stop-overs.
Begins migrating northward in March, main flight through U.S. in May, arrives in nesting areas late May-early June. Adults depart breeding areas mid-July to mid-August, juveniles late August-early September (Hayman et al. 1986). Migrates through Costa Rica mid-August through October and mid-March to early May (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Habitat Comments: Nonbreeding: primarily sandy beaches, less frequently on mud flats and shores of lakes or rivers (AOU 1983) also on exposed reefs (Pratt et al. 1987). Sleeps/loafs on upper beach or on salt pond dike. Nests on dry tundra, in stony locations or areas with low vegetation, within a few hundred meters of wet tundra. Nests on the ground in a shallow depression lined with mosses, leaves, or other plant material.
Food Comments: During the nesting season feeds on adult insects and their larvae. On coastal beaches feeds on tiny crustaceans, small mollusks, and marine worms. Horseshoe crab eggs are an important source of food for north-bound migrants at Delaware Bay (Botton et al. 1994). Forages at edge of water probing wet sand with bill.
Phenology Comments: In winter, forages all day, with peaks in the early morning and late afternoon; forages at night as well (Burger and Gochfeld 1991).
Bent, A.C. 1927. Life histories of North American shorebirds (Part I). U.S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 142, Washington, D.C.
Burger, J., and M. Gochfeld. 1991. Human activity influence and diurnal and nocturnal foraging of sanderlings (CALIDRIS ALBA). Condor 93:259-265.
Castro, G., J. P. Myers, and R. E. Ricklefs. 1992. Ecology and energetics of sanderlings migrating to four latitudes. Ecology 73:833-844.
Lyra-Neves, R.M. de, S.M. de Azevedo Jr., and W.R. Telino-Júnior. 2004. Monitoramento do maçarico-branco, Calidris alba (Pallas) (Aves, Scolopacidae), através de recuperações de anilhas coloridas, na Coroa do Avião, Igarassu, Pernambuco, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 21:319-324.
Macwhirter Bruce, Peter Austin-Smith, Jr., and Donald Kroodsma. 2002. Sanderling (Calidris alba). The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu.bnaproxy.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/653/doi:10.2173/bna.653.
Macwhirter, B., P. Austin-Smith, Jr., and D. Kroodsma. 2002. Sanderling (Calidris alba). The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, ed.). Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca. Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu.bnaproxy.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/653/doi:10.2173/bna.653.
Myers, J. P., et al. 1990. Migration routes of New World sanderlings (CALIDRIS ALBA). Auk 107:172-180.


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87% of Guido Readers Oppose May's Brexit Deal
Over 14,000 Guido readers have voted in our Twitter poll over the last 24 hours. A resounding 87% of them have delivered a crushing verdict rejecting Theresa May's Brexit deal. Just 13% voted in support. It is clear that readers of this website, many of whom will be the sorts of Leave voters that Tory MPs need to keep their seats, think it's a turd…
A survey by ConservativeHome of 1,225 Tory members has found that 61% of them, three in five, think the government's proposal would be a bad deal for Britain. Just 31% think it is a good deal. Guido cannot help but wonder if Michael Gove and Sajid Javid, in selling out and backing the deal, have sealed their fates in terms of their leadership ambitions.
The Tories have lost their overall poll lead with YouGov this week. They are now level with Corbyn's Labour on 39%. 14% say May's plan is good for Britain, 33% say it is bad. More people think it does not respect the referendum result than think it does. 18% think the government is doing well at negotiating Brexit, 66% think it is doing badly.
Guido readers, Tory members and voters all agree – May's deal is bad for Britain…
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Q: How do I fix the Spring XML validation in IntelliJ I am getting a "false positive" error in a Spring XML file....
Expected behavior: The inbound channel adapter element with header-mapper of DefaultAmqpHeaderMapper validates properly in IntelliJ
Actual behavior: IntelliJ reports that the header-mapper is not of type HeaderMapper
There was an issue that was fixed in 3.0 but it seems like my IntelliJ is validating the below applicationContext.xml against an old version of the amqp schema. How do I refresh it?

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:int-amqp="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/amqp"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:rabbit="http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/amqp http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/amqp/spring-integration-amqp-4.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit http://www.springframework.org/schema/rabbit/spring-rabbit.xsd">

   <int-amqp:inbound-channel-adapter
           channel="ch1" queue-names="queue"
           connection-factory="amqpConnectionFactory" error-channel="errorChannel"
           header-mapper="allHeadersMapper" concurrent-consumers="1" />

Edit: Was found in 14.1.5. Upgraded to 2016.3.4 on Linux and reproduced.
Reproduced with simple code at https://github.com/dcw312/intellij-validation-error. IntelliJ issue created: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-167842


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Police to probe corruption claims made by union against Quebec Liberals
The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, May 2, 2017 11:57PM EDT
QUEBEC - The Crown prosecutor's office in Quebec called Tuesday for a criminal inquiry into corruption allegations made by the head of Montreal's police union against the Quebec Liberal party.
Union head Yves Francoeur claimed last Thursday on a Montreal radio station that the Crown cut short a fraud investigation into one former and one sitting Liberal party member of the legislature due to political interference.
He alleged the Crown was ready to press charges but was blocked by someone high up in the government.
Francoeur said the investigation included wiretap and surveillance, but he did not reveal any names.
Annick Murphy, director of the Crown prosecutor's office, said she formally asked the deputy minister of the Public Security Department to investigate Francoeur's claims.
Quebec provincial police will head the investigation, with help from Quebec City and Montreal police.
"The allegations are serious and we have to shed light on this affair," said Crown spokesman, Jean-Pascal Boucher.
Murphy said Francoeur hadn't spoken with her office or the province's anti-corruption unit since he dropped the bombshell accusations five days ago.
Francoeur said he had contacted anti-corruption investigators and will meet with them.
In a brief statement, Francoeur said he stood by what he said in the radio interview.
Murphy said she hadn't come across any file in her office related to Francoeur's allegations.
The government was also forced to address reports Tuesday that Francoeur had been approached in January to run for the Liberal party.
Sylain Langis, the party's chief organizer, vigorously denied anyone in a position to do so made an offer to Francoeur regarding the riding of Marguerite-Bourgeoys.
Francoeur said he was approached by the party earlier this year and "on the spot, strongly and unequivocally rejected the offer of the Liberal Party of Quebec."
The Montreal riding is currently held by former Liberal transport minister Robert Poeti, also a former police officer.
Members of the Liberal government, left, applaud after winning a non-confidence vote presented by the Opposition, right, at the legislature in Quebec City on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (Mathieu Belanger / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
PQ wants Jean Charest to appear before committee amid corruption report
Montreal mayor backs plan he says calls for structural reforms to police force


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Every city has its perks; it depends entirely upon what you and your love enjoy doing together. There is a certain amount of romance and excitement that comes when exploring a new city, whether you're on a daring adventure or relaxing on a beach with a margarita in hand.
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Summerfield, Wootton Road in 2008
© David Clark 2008
Summerfield 1909
Courtesy of Stephen Skurray
Summerfield (demolished 2012)
Summerfield was a large house on the west side of Wootton Road, built in 1902 and designed by Abingdon-born Arts-and-Crafts architect Harry Redfern. The client was Thomas Skurray, a dynamic and influential director of the local brewery, Morlands. It was demolished in 2012.
The house consisted of a long east-west range from which two wings projected to the north. The north elevation contained all the architectural panache. Here was the front door, behind a timber porch, then a four-light stone mullioned casement window to the ground floor and some (false) close-studded timber above. The right hand (west) wing contained a stair tower.
Front entrance (© D Clark 2008)
To the west, a hacienda-like wing extended across the property with a central low carriage-arch. This may have been a service wing or a coach-house/store.
By 2008 the interior was compromised by the later uses of the house, and as a result the then English Heritage refused to recommend Summerfield for Listing. However, a number of original features did survive. It was also possible to ignore the modern partitions and see that once inside the front door, an inner porch led to a wide sitting area lit by the stone window. The staircase was a striking feature, open-well to the first floor, closed string above, all in a workmanlike Arts-and-Crafts fashion.
Main staircase (© D Clark 2008)
The main reception rooms seem to have been in the eastern part, the best room being that facing the garden to the rear. It had a bay window overlooking the garden, and a feature fireplace – a sort of open inglenook, with a balustrade at one side and an unusual tiled surround to the fireplace.
Enclosed fireplace in main reception room (© D Clark 2008)
Also on the ground floor the dining room had a further fine fireplace, timbered with a carved frieze. The service rooms were devoid of identifying features, and in particular there was no obvious kitchen, but it must have been close to the cellar area to the rear.
Detail of panelling (© D Clark 2008)
The rooms on all floors faced the garden – the circulation was by a corridor to the rear – also a feature of Mackintosh's Hill House (Helensburgh, 1902-4). In the bedrooms were some good turn-of-the-century iron fire surrounds with scallop shell decoration, and painted white.
Harry Redfern's architectural career is described elsewhere. Summerfield seems to be one of his more eclectic works. It contained motifs from a number of periods and regions – the close studding a southern medieval status symbol, the stone mullioned window a late medieval Cotswold feature, while from the seventeenth century were the stair turret and an oriel window. The render on the house echoed Voysey and Mackintosh, while the latter's influence could also be seen in the floor plan. Baillie Scott was also influential, as at Redfern's work at Lacies Court nearby, although here it is mainly external – we have no internal double height hall – but the inglenook fireplace has echoes of Blackwell. The sitting area near the front door is packed with Arts-and-Crafts features – the stone mullioned window, the timber framing of the staircase, and a space for meeting, speaking or waiting, doubtless very useful and innovative. One feature which was not present before demolition was a window illustrating Noah's Ark by Sir Laurence Weaver. No record has been found of when this was removed, or where it is now.
The possible original layout is shown below:
Conjectural ground floor plan (© D Clark 2008)
Criticised by the locals when built as 'modern, art nouveau, and Cotswold' – a comment that today would be regarded as praise – Summerfield was a house which probably emerged from a close interaction between client and architect, resulting in an appealing blend of styles, none of which jarred, and the result was one of Redfern's best domestic buildings. A number of original internal features remained, and, with modern partitions stripped out, it could relatively easily have been returned to the grand family home it once was. Sadly this was not to be. Skurray died in 1938 and after lying empty for a couple of years, Summerfield was acquired by Berkshire County Council as an Evacuee Clinic – for children who were unable to settle into their new environment. It remained a clinic throughout the 1950s, with a resident Matron, Miss E L Walker. When the Vale of White Horse became part of Oxfordshire in 1974, Summerfield was transferred to the County Council, as an outpost of their Social Services department. Before demolition it was occupied by Champion Employment, and there is now a block of sheltered apartments on the site. The name, 'Summerfield' lives on, however, at the offices that the County Council built on its garden.
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Born in Faringdon in 1868, Thomas Skurray was educated at King Alfred's School in Wantage and Reading School, going on to read chemistry at...
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Posted on January 12, 2014 by deborahjones2012
I AM not a great fan of audience participation – certainly not for myself, and rarely when I see others roped in. Frequently it involves people making spectacles of themselves or being put in an awkward position they can't wriggle out of. It almost invariably feels like a power trip on the part of the performers. Alternatively, getting up on stage can go to the non-professional's head and embarrassment ensues. So no, not a great fan. In fact, I loathe it.
True, I managed to survive a spot of participatory action at The Rabble's 2013 Melbourne Festival show, Room of Regret, but happily it was in an extremely benign form – the actor, me, and an otherwise empty space in which we gazed wordlessly at each other. I could manage that.
Full marks, then, to Sydney company My Darling Patricia and its latest theatre work, The Piper, which premiered at the Sydney Festival last week. The involvement of a section of the audience is a crucial part of the performance. In fact, The Piper couldn't take place without these people, who play townsfolk and their children in a version of the Pied Piper story.
And get this. Not only does My Darling Patricia get a substantial workforce for free, the participating audience members pay just as much for their tickets as do those who sit back, relax and enjoy the performance. Respect.
I really do mean that. My Darling Patricia has found a way of involving even very young children in a non-threatening, creative way. The participants do nothing that would require expertise and are guided at all times via headsets. Their freshness and wonder are a delightful part of the experience for those who are only watching.
The Piper is a fun version of the old German legend, filtered through stories by poet Ted Hughes. There's an over-developed city, countryside despoiled, a shonky mayor whose pronouncements could come straight from today's media and, of course, a plague of rats that needs to be dealt with. Narration, puppetry, projection and live action combine to make a strong, clear, memorable story. I would have liked to take part and should have commandeered a child to make that possible.
A more recognisable take on audience participation was seen at Empire, the circus production that's back in Sydney after a very successful outing at the beginning of last year. Empire positions itself at the raunchy end of the spectrum and to this end treats the audience a bit roughly, although why telling audience members to "sit the fuck down" might be considered witty escaped me.
But on to the participation bit. It's common in shows such as Empire – the family includes La Clique, which morphed into La Soiree – for performers to interact with audience members in a way that might be considered, ahem, rather familiar. Drinks are stolen, laps sat on, heads fondled and so on. On the night I saw Empire a man was brought to the stage and touched up pretty comprehensively. True, he was laughing, as was everyone else (although not old sourpuss me). But what if he'd felt the performers were going beyond what he felt comfortable with? My first thought was that he had to be a plant for the performers to be sure the situation was containable and the act wouldn't fall in a heap, but my date, highly experienced in this form of theatre, reckoned not.
Which brings us to control. Just as in stand-up comedy, the atmosphere in contemporary circus shows can be a little volatile. People are drinking and they are revved up. Shows such as Empire and La Soiree give people licence to drop their inhibitions; they encourage it. It's a huge part of the allure. Most audience members know the game and how to play it. The boundaries may be a bit more flexible than those outside the tent, but people tend to be able to judge quite finely what level of abandon is acceptable.
But if they do overstep that invisible line the performers have to tidy things up, just as stand-up comedians have to deal with hecklers in a way that asserts their primacy over the heckler without losing the rest of the room. Indeed, in a way that wins over the room. It's a quite delicate balance, even if it may not appear to be at the time. It requires a great deal of skill.
At Empire one of the comperes, Anne Goldmann, dealt abruptly with a young man who was making too insistent a noise and she came off as petulant and graceless. Those of us who were near him could see his companion trying to quieten him, and it looked very much as if he had some mild form of impairment. Goldmann, trying to perform, wouldn't have been able to catch that, but when the two young men left and she shouted "Good riddance" at them, she was the one who came across badly. The put-down was schoolyard quality.
As I say, this is tricky territory. These shows invite raucous interaction with patrons and then have to deal with the consequences in a way that doesn't rip the fabric of the show's tone and fits in with the temperature and mood of the audience. Cabaret artist Meow Meow is extraordinarily adept at controlling her audience while acting in an extremely passive-aggressive manner, but then she is a goddess.
There is extensive audience participation in magic show The Illusionists 2.0, playing at the Sydney Opera House – all of it done extremely well and entered into most eagerly by patrons. I was impressed by the skilful handling of volunteers for the hypnotism section, a section of the show that is now, of course, absent due to the death on Saturday of hypnotist Scott Lewis.
I haven't yet seen Oedipus Schmoedipus, the new show by small company Post in association with Belvoir and the Sydney Festival, but will mid-week and will be watching the non-professionals closely. Like The Piper, Oedipus is highly dependent on volunteers, a crew that changes with each performance. Unlike with The Piper, I gather the Oedipus volunteers don't have to pay anything, but then they do have to turn up to a rehearsal. And there are 24 needed for each show. Phew!
Tim Crouch's I, Malvolio, part of the About an Hour mini-fest within the Sydney Festival, is another theatre work that enlists audience members during the course of the show, but it needs only a few. Given that he's performed the piece several hundred times it's reasonable to assume Crouch doesn't have much trouble getting the help he needs. But then none of the shows seem to have the slightest problem getting people up on stage. Everyone may be critic. Just about everyone also seems to harbour a hankering to be a performer.
La Soiree, Sydney Opera House, January 15-March 16
The Illusionists 2.0, Sydney Opera House, ends January 16
I, Malvolio, Sydney Festival, Carriageworks, January 16-19.
The Piper, Sydney Festival, Carriageworks, ends January 19
Oedipus Schmoedipus, Belvoir St Theatre, ends February 2
Empire, the Showring, Entertainment Quarter, Sydney, ends February 16
Posted in People & Ideas, Sydney Festival 2014	| Tagged Anne Goldmann, Belvoir, Carriageworks, I Malvolio, La Soiree, Meow Meow, My Darling Patricia, Oedipus Schmoedipus, Room of Regret, Scott Lewis, Sydney Festival, The Illusionists 2.0, The Rabble, Tim Crouch	| Leave a reply
Room of Regret, Life and Times: Episodes 1-4
Posted on October 29, 2013 by deborahjones2012
Room of Regret, Theatre Works, St Kilda, October 27
Life and Times: Episodes 1-4, Melbourne Arts Centre, October 26
THE Rabble's Room of Regret could have been expressly ordered by the Melbourne Festival to illustrate the essential unknowability of the critical process. As part of the festival's investigation into the art of the critic I took part in a forum on criticism in the digital age and, predictably, at the end someone asked how could one trust reviews when there is such lack of agreement. It's easy to laugh at the apparent naivety of the question but in fact it encapsulates the situation beautifully. Yes, there is glorious lack of agreement and no, you can't trust opinion if you equate it with fact. We all have our own perceptions, influences, experiences and knowledge to bring to our reception of a performance, and by all, I mean all audience members, including critics.
Emily Milledge in The Rabble's Room of Regret. Photo: David Paterson
Room of Regret got a one-star review from Byron Bache in The Herald-Sun ("There are actors in it, but to name them would be to shame them…") and one and a half stars from Cameron Woodhead in The Age ("… Emma Valente's direction doesn't rise to the occasion, leaving the actors running around shrieking …"). Artshub's Mileta Rien ("haunting, thought-provoking, daring") gave it five out of five and on The Guardian's website Jane Howard went for four stars ("… an endlessly complex and intoxicating production…").
On the ABC's arts site Alison Croggon described the theatre-making as "bold, confident and often surreally striking". All praise to the ABC for not succumbing to the idiotic star-rating system (The Age and The Guardian should be ashamed of themselves), although I must admit those glib little pronouncements help illustrate my point here. From one star to five: now that's a reason all by itself to go to a show.
Room of Regret is a fractured version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey, created by The Rabble's founders Emma Valente and Kate Davis. The novel is so highly perfumed as to be exceptionally hard-going these days. Even so, its ideas of transgression, performance, transformation, possession of body and soul and the elevation of beauty to an object of worship time-travel with ease to the 21st century. I can understand why Valente and Davis find the work so fascinating and admire the way in which they go about seeking theatrical images and language to capture its spirit. They are by no means entirely successful, but there is gallantry and purpose in their attempt and moments of great pleasure.
On entering the small foyer at Theatre Works in St Kilda the audience member is given a ticket with a coloured sticker to indicate which of four groups she or he must join. Take note of the "must". It's often suggested that traditional theatre, with its "stage here, audience there and fourth wall separation between the two", imposes a strict and old-fashioned level of control over the passive audience. It's certainly a tenacious model. American iconoclasts the Living Theatre were trying to smash through the boundaries as long ago as the 1960s and on occasion, if the stories are to be believed, actors had sex with members of the audience. Now that's immersive theatre. (The Living Theatre closed its doors in New York in February this year, its founder Judith Malina heading to a retirement home.)
There is a strong level of control at Room of Regret too (some simulated sex between actors but none with the audience, I believe I can safely say, simulated or otherwise). You go with the group you are given, you accept the veil placed on your head, you sit where indicated, you go with a performer when beckoned (if you are one of those chosen, as I was) and sit down again when your private experience is over. Unless you are extremely confident, Room of Regret would not be an easy show to leave. I hasten to say I had no desire to leave. I merely suggest that theatre such as Room of Regret quite understandably has its organisational structure, and it's not terribly different to the old one but with the actors much closer than usual.
Speaking of control, I have never felt more oppressed in this regard than at a New York performance of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, a response to Macbeth with which Room of Regret has some similarities, albeit on a much smaller scale. There is the occupation of multiple spaces, the requirement that faces be covered, the impossibility for an audience member to see the whole piece from one perspective although a repeat visit may show an alternative perspective, the physical closeness of the performers and the suggestion that the performance space may also be regarded as an art installation. The Rabble, however, handles its audience in a far more respectful fashion than does Punchdrunk, or at least in my experience. There was a gentleness in their approach and touch that I found very sweet. Is that Melbourne versus New York? Perhaps.
The 90 minutes of Room of Regret unfold in a multi-roomed set (by Davis) delightfully strewn with golden petals; many of the production's images are very striking indeed. The walls are flimsy plywood against which the audience sits, their backs sometimes pummelled by the action taking place on the other side. The walls make reasonable enough screens on which that action is transmitted via video to those unable to see it directly; text is often spoken into microphones to carry it around the whole space, although I found the sound system muddy, leading more to incomprehension than intrigue.
The actors dash from space to space, occasionally plucking a person from the audience for some quiet time or a dance. Key moments from The Picture of Dorian Grey are enacted, interpreted and often repeated. Text is taken from the novel and from other sources: Gertrude Stein, Amanda McBroom (she wrote the song The Rose, which gets an airing). Dorian is played by two actors (Pier Carthew and Alex McQueen) and Lord Henry Wotton by a woman (Mary Ellen Sassman).
As you can see, Valente, who directs, has plenty of ideas to offer, but unfortunately not quite the resources to make them into an experience that transcends its surface attractions. I found myself projecting on to the performance what Valente may be searching for rather than feeling a sense of intense communion with it. Partly that's because technically Room of Regret is a bit rough while depending on technology to speak to the whole audience; partly it's because the text is at times less poetically resonant than it aspires to be; a lot of it is because the five actors – the others are David Harrison as the artist Basil Hallward and Emily Milledge doubling as Sibyl Vane and a boy – have varying degrees of command. The men come out of it much better than the women.
There are critics who above all appreciated the drive, ambition and purpose of Valente and Davis's vision. There are others for whom shortcomings obscured all else. I'm right there in the middle.
A PIECE of theatre you could leave without too much fuss was Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times, and some people did exercise their right. How funny people are, and how bewildering. You'd think, wouldn't you, that you'd do a bit of homework if you'd put down your money (or accepted an invitation) for a theatre marathon that got you seated at 2pm and finally released you out at 12.15am. You'd want to know a bit about what you were in for, no?
Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times. Photo: Anna Stocher Pressebild
You'd discover that Life and Times is verbatim theatre based on telephone calls with a member of the company, Kristin Worrall. She was asked just one thing: to talk about her life. Which she did, starting with first consciousness and digressing wherever and whenever, as we all do when trying to remember stuff. And the most cursory research would reveal that the verbatim text, delivered in performance by all members of the group, includes all the ums, all the ahs, all the likes, all the whatevers, all those little locutions that give us a moment to think or to prevaricate or to backtrack or change track or zone out for a bit, or to just give a sentence the right shape. Worrall, by the way, is in the core group of performers, playing flute and glockenspiel and occasionally jumping up to sing. How mind-blowing must it be for her?
Well, as I said earlier, we all see things differently so perhaps the walkouts did know a bit about Life and Times but it didn't work out for them in the flesh. It certainly did for me. Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 was one of the great and glorious theatrical experiences of my very lengthy theatre-going life. In the hands of Nature Theater of Oklahoma the quotidian details of a life are made thrilling and important – made into a musical, in fact, in parts 1 and 2; an Agatha Christie-style thriller in parts 3 and 4 – as they describe discoveries, joys, humiliations and embarrassments common to us all. The triggers for one's own memory are powerful and deeply, deeply affecting.
On one level this is an incredibly simple idea and yet it requires a high level of virtuosity in performance. The text is far from linear, there are all those interpolated sounds that are vital to the rhythm of the piece and the dance, while not difficult in itself, is extremely repetitive, until it is not. No wonder that, opera-style, sections have a prompter. Surprisingly no choreographer is credited, so presumably the movement is the work of cast and co-directors Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, Nature Theater of Oklahoma's founders. The moves are from eurythmics, rhythmic gymnastics and chorus line formations with a touch of marching band vibe and there's also quite a lot of bobbing up and down. (In Part 2 the main performers, 10 in number, were augmented by a chorus of eight, found and rehearsed locally. They were great.)
I must acknowledge I didn't quite understand the late appearance in Episode 4 of two creatures from outer space, but I was very tired by this point. I'd be so very happy to have another go at this delightfully mad, intensely absorbing and unique (how often can one assert that?) piece of theatre.
In September The New York Times reported seeing episodes 4.5 and 5 of Life and Times. The former is a half-hour animated film and episode 5 is a book given to each audience member. "The ideal time frame in which to peruse the book, we were told, was 44 minutes and 27 seconds," wrote the NYT's Charles Isherwood. And why these radical departures from earlier form? Apparently most of the telephone conversation that was to form the basis of the next instalments was lost in a technical glitch. But for Nature Theater of Oklahoma, another door simply opened.
Room of Regret ends on November 3.
Posted in Melbourne Festival 2013, Theatre	| Tagged Alex McQueen, Alison Croggon, Byron Bache, Cameron Woodhead, Charles Isherwood, David Harrison, Emily Milledge, Emma Valente, Jane Howard, Judith Malina, Kate Davis, Kelly Copper, Kristin Worrall, Mary Helen Sassman, Melbourne Festival, Mileta Rien, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Pavol Liska, Pier Carthew, The Living Theater, The Rabble, Theatre Works	| Leave a reply