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Lechi Museum
Bergomi Museum
Pasinetti Art Gallery
Historical Museum of Risorgimento
Palace of Archaeology and History
The museum, located in the Centro Fiera of Montichiari and opened in 2004, displays and preserves the finds of ethnographic interest from the Brescia area belonging to a collection created, in over thirty years of assiduous researches, by the painter Giacomo Bergomi (1923-2003) and donated in 1999 to the Municipality of Montichiari. The collection includes about six thousand objects from the Alpine and pre-Alpine valleys and from the plain and represents the most important nucleus of these museum assets in the province of Brescia, capable of documenting the historical reality of the local rural world over the last two centuries. The permanent exhibition houses about 800 objects and is divided into two sections: the first section intends to offer visitors an extensive reconstruction of the traditional cycles of the year and of human life, captured in their mutual intertwining as well as in their links with agricultural, forestry and animal husbandry activities; the second section presents metal and woodworking techniques with a look at the ancient crafts of the carpenter, carver, basket-maker, shoemaker, blacksmith and coppersmith. The collection includes about six thousand objects from the Alpine and pre-alpine valleys and from the plain and represents the most important nucleus of such assets in the province of Brescia, documenting the historical reality of the local agricultural world over the last two centuries. The permanent exhibition contains about 800 exhibits and is divided into two sections: the first section offers visitors a broad reconstruction of the traditional cycles of the year and of human life, seen in their reciprocal interweaving as well as in their connections with agricultural and forestry activities; the second section presents metal and woodworking techniques with a look at the ancient crafts of the carpenter, the carver, the basket maker, the shoemaker, the blacksmith and the coppersmith. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Cradle arch embellished with carving decorations (Valle Camonica, 1930)
In order to illustrate the environmental contexts from which the objects come from, some significant old images from the archives of the photographers Piero Vistali, Simone Magnolini, Giovanni Negri and the Swiss ethnographer Paul Scheuermeier accompany the exposition. Over the years, the Museum has also welcomed other donations of ethnographic finds: among them, the one that belonged to Italo Branca (pharmacist from Montichiari who worked in Bergamo's Scalve Valley, where the objects were collected), and that of wooden toys made in the first half of the twentieth century at the Poli's factory in Montichiari. A portion of the museum is dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The video and conference room with 50 seats hosts cineforums, concerts, meetings, handicraft courses for young and adult people. A large pupils' area welcomes kindergarten and primary school classes to carry out specific hands-on workshops. Over the years, the museum has also received other donations of ethnographic finds: among these are the one belonging to Italo Branca (a pharmacist from Monteclaren who worked in the Val di Scalve in the Bergamo area, from which the donated objects come), and the one of wooden toys made in the first half of the 20th century at the Poli factory in Montichiari. A portion of the museum is dedicated to temporary exhibitions. The 50-seat video and conference room hosts film forums, concerts, lectures, and courses in handicrafts for adults and children. A large didactic room welcomes kindergartens and primary schools for thematic didactic workshops. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
From October till the end of May
Friday and Saturday 10-13 and 14.30-18
Sunday 14.30-19
In June, July and September
Friday 10-13 and 14.30-18
Last entry 30 minutes before closing
On other days of the week (from Monday to Friday) open on bookings:
Closed on the 25 and 26 December, 1 January, Easter Sunday, 1 May. Seasonal closing period is in August
Throughout the Museum
Via Brescia, 129
25018 Centro Fiera BS
Giacomo Bergomi (1923-2003) was a painter of marked realistic formation, inspired by his genuine experience of rural country life: his family found origin in the Adrara Valley, north of Bergamo, where they had worked as cow and sheep farmers and subsequently moved, as tenants, to a farm in the Bassa Bresciana, the flat farmland south of Brescia. The initial items of his vast collection of ethnographic finds from the Brescia area were old-time household goods and ancient farm tools, that the artist used to reproduce in his paintings. Bergomi improved his art formation in Brescia and in Milan where he attended the Cimabue and Brera Academies of Fine Arts. Then he travelled to various places in Southern Italy and other Mediterranean countries, he visited the Balkans and crossed over to South America several times. Everywhere he went he strived to capture the human condition of the poor farm labourers whom he represented with heart-felt sympathy and with remarkable etnographic care. The first pieces that became part of his vast collection of ethnographic goods from Brescia were traditional household objects and old work tools used by the artist as subjects for his paintings. Bergomi refined his education in Brescia and Milan, where he attended the Cimabue and Brera academies. He then travelled extensively in southern Italy and other Mediterranean countries, visited the Balkans and went to South America several times. In each place he always represented the human condition of the poorest agricultural workers, whom he portrayed with sincere participation and remarkable ethnographic scruple.
In 2002 the Municipality of Montichiari started cataloguing the Museum's exhibits on a BDM – S.I.R.Be.C. computer system according to the standards laid down by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Lombardy Region. The cataloguing is carried out by Michela Capra, the Museum's Curator. Each object, which has been assigned an inventory number, is digitally photographed and a catalogue sheet is compiled to illustrate its characteristics. In the course of the work, during a series of meetings with the collector Bergomi himself, the testimonies and memories of the discovery of most of the objects were recorded, and, where possible, the place of origin, the author, the user and the function of use. Particular importance is given to local dialect terminology, both in terms of the name of the object and in relation to how it was made. A special critical apparatus provides specific bibliographic information and comparisons. The cataloguing data of each object can be viewed on the web portal Lombardia Beni Culturali at the link below:
Catalog data
Giacomo Bergomi
Lo specchio e gli altri
Since 2006, Bergomi Museum has been organizing an annual festival of ethnographic films and documentaries entitled "Lo specchio e gli altri" (i.e. "The mirror and the others"), carried out in the Video and conference room. The name of the initiative is inspired by the saying "Others are the mirror of ourselves": the relationships between the observer and the observed, for instance, determines the choice of the films of the festival. The ethno-videos do not just record what they show us in an immediate form (habits and customs, traditions and local knowledge, evidence of material and immaterial culture, peculiarities of the territories), but also, and perhaps above all, they represent the call to human contact, the working method, the cultural and scientific interests of those who made them. In this sense the others, for the anthropologist-filmmaker, are truly the mirror of the one who was able to film them with his videocamera. Alongside famous Italian directors such as Ermanno Olmi and Giorgio Diritti, the festival gives also space to the recent ethno-anthropological videofilm productions of young authors. Their works are mostly made in marginal places of a "minor" Italy, hanging between the persistence of ancestral traditions and the standardizing action of modernity. They offer interpretations that go beyond a nostalgic memory and invite to a critical and sometimes ironic reflection on the investigated realities. The name of the initiative is inspired by the saying "The others are the mirrors of ourselves": the relationships between the observer and the observed, in fact, are at the basis of the choice of films in the review. The ethno-videos do not merely document what they show us in immediate form (customs and traditions, local traditions and knowledge, testimonies of material and immaterial culture, peculiarities of the territories), but also represent, and perhaps above all, the vocation for human contact, the working method, the cultural and scientific interests of those who shot them. In this sense, for the anthropologist-filmmaker, the others are really the mirror of the person who shot them with his video camera. Alongside renowned Italian directors such as Ermanno Olmi and Giorgio Diritti, the exhibition also and above all gives space to the recent production of young authors of ethno-anthropological video films. Most of their works are made in marginal places in a "minor" Italy, poised between the persistence of atavistic traditions and the standardising action of modernity. They offer keys to interpretation that go beyond a nostalgic memory and invite a critical and sometimes ironic reflection on the realities investigated.
The Rebèl Network
Since its foundation, the Giacomo Bergomi Museum has been a member of the Lombard Museums and Ethnographic Heritage Network (Rebèl). It was created to share common objectives in the scientific, promotional and didactic fields. It started from the observation that the Lombard ethnographic museums own a documentary heritage of great scientific value and of considerable social significance, by virtue of the collection, conservation, research, study and communication work that these institutes have been carrying out over the years. To see all the activities and publications edited by the Network, visit the website
The Network was established with the aim of implementing common objectives in the scientific, promotional and educational fields. It started from the observation that Lombardy's ethnographic museums possess a documentary heritage of great scientific value and social significance, by virtue of the work of collection, conservation, research, study and dissemination that these institutions have carried out over the years and continue to do so. To consult all the activities and publications edited by the Network, visit the website:
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For circular crowns you will just need to tuck the final bunch under and carefully wire or tape it down to hide the join.
Voila, you're all done! Crown your little model as king or queen of the flowers.


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A geológia (a szűkebb értelemben vett földtan) a Föld felépítésével, szerkezetével, és történetével foglalkozó természettudomány. A szó a görög γη- (geo, "föld") és λογος (logosz, "szó", "tudás") szavak összetételéből jött létre.

A geológia a Földről, a Földet alkotó kőzetekről és a Földet alakító folyamatokról szóló  ismeretek tudománya. Bizonyítja a lemeztektonika működését, az élet evolúciójának és a klíma alakulásának a történetét.
Korunkban a geológia lehetővé teszi az ásvány- és szénhidrogén-kincsek feltárását, a vízkészletek felbecsülését,  természeti katasztrófák előrejelzését, környezeti katasztrófák következményeinek felszámolását és a múltbeli klímaváltozások megismerését. A geológia természettudományos diszciplína. A geológiát sok kőzet-, ásvány- és kövületgyűjtő hobbiként űzi.

Két fő ága az elméleti és az alkalmazott földtan. Elvileg mindkettőben megkülönböztetjük a leíró (-gráfia végű)és az oknyomozó (-lógia végű) résztudományokat, de ez a felosztás nem konzekvens: egyes résztudományok (például üledékföldtan, azaz szedimentológia) leíró részei nem különültek el önálló szakterületté.

Az elméleti geológia néhány fontosabb tudományterülete:
 általános földtan,
 történeti földtan,
 regionális földtan,
 kőzettan (petrológia, petrográfia, szedimentológia),
 ásványtan (mineralógia),
 tektonika,
 őslénytan (paleontológia, dögészet, ősdögészet).

Az alkalmazott geológia néhány fontosabb tudományterülete:
 építésföldtan,
 vízföldtan,
 teleptan:
 bauxitföldtan,
 kőszénföldtan,
 szénhidrogénföldtan,
 ércteleptan,
 nem érces ásványi nyersanyagok teleptana stb.

Kialakulása, fejlődése

Az első összefoglaló bányászati és kohászati kézikönyv (Tizenkét könyv a bányászatról és kohászatról) Georgius Agricola német tudós és író munkája (posztumusz, 1556).

A geológia első, a szó mai értelmében is tudományosnak nevezhető elméletét Nicolaus Steno dán fizikus alkotta meg, amikor felismerte, hogy az üledékes kőzetek rétegeiből következtethetünk a Föld múltjára, és megalkotta az úgynevezett települési törvényeket.

A "geológia atyjának" többnyire James Hutton skót természettudóst tartják. Ő fogalmazta meg az uniformitarizmus elvét, aminek lényege, hogy az azonos okok azonos eredményre vezetnek, tehát az ugyanolyan földtani folyamatok mindig ugyanolyan kőzeteket hoznak létre. Elképzelését Charles Lyell angol geológus fejlesztette tovább, megalkotva az aktualizmus (maiság) elvét, aminek lényege, hogy a Föld múltjában keletkezett kőzeteket ugyanolyan folyamatok hozták létre, mint amilyeneket ma is megfigyelhetünk.

A paleontológia és ezzel a biosztratigráfia (a rétegtannak a rétegeket a bennük található ősmaradványok alapján koroló ága) alapjait Charles Darwin vetette meg az evolúció elméletének kidolgozásával. A fosszíliák egyúttal az elmélet bizonyításában is döntő szerepet kaptak.

A 20. század nagy, átfogó eredménye a lemeztektonika elméletének kidolgozása. Ennek alapjait Alfred Wegener német meteorológus (1880–1930) vetette meg, amikor megfogalmazta a kontinensvándorlás elméletét. A lemezek mozgásának okait és folyamatát Harry Hess (1906–1969) foglalta össze, ezért őt tekintjük a lemeztektonika megalkotójának.

A földtudományok híres tudósai

A Föld szerkezete

Külső szférák

 Atmoszféra
 Hidroszféra
 Bioszféra

Belső szférák
 Földkéreg
 Földköpeny
 Földmag

Földtörténeti korok

Prekambrium (Ősidő)
 Hadaikum
 Archaikum
 Proterozoikum

A 2000-es évek elején legnépszerűbb elképzelés szerint 4,6 milliárd – 590 millió éve, miután a Föld már kialakult, felszínébe sok meteorit csapódott be. A becsapódások hőenergiája több helyen megolvasztotta a kérget és az alatta lévő köpeny egy részét. A megolvadt anyagok vulkáni tevékenységet indítottak el. A vulkánok sok szén-dioxidot, vízgőzt és ammóniát juttattak a felszín fölé, így alakult ki az őslégkör. A meteoritok becsapódásával, a hőmérséklet csökkenésével kéregdarabok szilárdultak meg, a légkör lehűlt, a lecsapódott vízből kialakult az ősóceán. Több hegyképződési folyamat eredményeként keletkeztek a kontinentális kéreg aljának vas-, illetve nikkelérceket tartalmazó, ősi kőzetei. Az élet nyomai mintegy 3 milliárd éve jelentek meg az óceánokban. Első nyomai azok a 2,9 milliárd éves, gömbhéjas szerkezetű kőzetgumók, amelyekben Cianobaktériumok (kékmoszatok) nyomaira bukkantak.

Paleozoikum (Óidő)
 Kambrium
 Ordovícium
 Szilúr
 Devon
 Karbon
 Perm

590–235 millió év között A moszatok oxigént termeltek, és kialakult az ózonburok. A legfontosabb esemény, hogy a kambrium elején a ma ismert összes állattörzs képviselője hirtelen megjelent, és fajok tömege alakult ki.

A levegő oxigéntartalmának növekedése lehetővé tette a szárazföldi növényi életet, majd a devontól a szárazföldi állati formák is megjelentek, benépesültek az édesvizek és környékük.
Az óidőben két hegységképződési folyamat is lezajlott, a szilúrban a kaledóniai hegységképződés folyamán összekapcsolódott Ős-Európa, és Ős-Észak-Amerika. Ezt követően a karbonban a variszkuszi hegységképződés során hozzájuk csatolódtak a déli őskontinens részei, s felgyűrődtek a mai francia, német, cseh, lengyel, bolgár röghegységek, valamint a paleozoikum végére az Urál és a Nagy-Vízválasztó-hegység (Ausztrália). Ezen időszakok között jelentős üledékképződés zajlott le. A kontinensek az óidő végére egy ősföldbe, a Pangaeába tömörültek, amit az ősóceán, a Panthalassza vett körül. A Pangea testébe később a Tethys-ősóceán öble mélyült. Megjelentek és elterjedtek a szárazföldi növények, páfrányok, zsurlók, korpafüvek, fenyőfélék ősei. A későbbiekben belőlük nagy mennyiségű feketekőszén képződött. Innen is kapta a nevét (karbonium-kő) ez az időszak. Az állatvilágot az ízeltlábúak és a halszerű ősgerincesek képviselték. A paleozoikum végén máig ismeretlen okból a tengeri életformák közel 90%-a kihalt, a szárazföldön a hüllők jutottak szerephez.

Mezozoikum (Középidő)

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235-65 millió év a középidő kezdetét a tenger térhódítása, és az üledékképződés jellemezte. A Pangea két részre tagolódik, egyes része lesüllyed,  és a Panthalassza helyét a Tethys-óceán foglalja el. Ennek fokozatos szétnyílásával Laurázsia északra, Gondvana délebbre tolódott. Kialakult az Atlanti-óceán. Ebben az időszakban az állat és növényvilág igen gazdag volt. Ősgyíkok és ősmadarak éltek, a növények közül pedig a nyitvatermők és a zárvatermők.

Kainozoikum (Újidő)
Harmadidőszak (65-től 2 millió évig)
 Paleocén
 Eocén
 Oligocén
 Miocén
 Pliocén

Negyedidőszak (2 millió évtől napjainkig)
 Pleisztocén
 Holocén

A kontinensek elnyerik mai formájukat. Az utolsó jégkorszaktól, ami 10 000 éve fejeződött be, számítjuk a jelenkort. Rövid idő alatt erőteljes felmelegedés következett be. Kialakult a mai élővilág.

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 Vadász Elemér: A geológus munkája (MEK)
 Mi történt az egyes földtörténeti korokban
 A Föld geológiai térképe (Cikk erről az Indexen)
 Molnár Béla, 1990: A Föld és az élet fejlődése. Harmadik, átdolgozott kiadás. Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 360 old.
 Hartai Éva, 2003: A változó Föld. Miskolci Egyetemi Kiadó – Well-PRess Kiadó.

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LGBTQ+ young people and their families
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Provision in Portsmouth for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Intersex young people
This page gives you advice about what support is available for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQ+) young people and their families.
What support is available?
The Early Help and Prevention Service's LGBTQ Team support young people who are exploring their gender identity/sexuality and their families. This team:
Offer support and guidance for professionals through the 'Team Around the Worker' model
Liaise with schools and other agencies to ensure support for young people is effective
Offer short one-to-one interventions for young people
Offer young people access to weekly specialist youth groups (4U, 4Me, and 4Us).
Will run short interventions to support families with exploring issues alongside their young person
For further information, contact us on LGBTYoungPeople@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
We are proud to have been awarded the prestigious Gold award by Stonewall 2021 CYPS Award for our commitment to inclusivity among children and young people's services (CYPS). Learn more about the award in our news story.
The 4U, 4Me and 4Us Youth Groups exist in the city to support children and young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender variant or who are questioning their gender identity or sexuality.
An experienced, skilled youth team offers a weekly youth group in a safe, secure and supportive environment. There are activities each week designed to help to improve self-esteem, give young people a social outlet in which to make new friends and to provide information to support them as they move into adulthood.
To access the groups, the child, young person or family member will first need to have a conversation with our Specialist Support Worker to establish if the group is right for them, or whether alternative support would be more suitable. To arrange time to speak with the team, email lgbtyoungpeople@portsmouthcc.gov.uk with the appropriate contact details of the young person, parent or their support worker.
For 13-19 year-olds: There is 4U Youth Group. Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm
For 18-25 year-olds: There is the 4Me Youth Group. Thursdays 7pm – 9pm.
For Under 13s & Parents & Carers: There is the 4Us Group. Alternate Mondays 5pm -7.30pm. This is an alternated learning and peer support group, with a facilitated youth group for under 13s once a month.
The Youth Group space has step-free access and an accessible toilet, although some of the hallways are quite narrow. If you have any questions about access, please contact us for more information and we will be happy to help.
The following links are useful for young people, parents and professionals:
Allsorts – Allsorts Youth Project produces a wide range of publications for young people and professionals, organisations & groups working with LGBT+ Youth.
Beyond Reflections (formerly Chrysalis)– Beyond Reflections support trans, non-binary and questioning adults, their families and friends. They run support groups in Portsmouth and also offer training services for businesses and organisations.
The Gender Identity Development service – The only clinic in the country for children and young people aged under 18 who are trans, gender variant or exploring their gender identity.
Gendered Intelligence – Work with trans / gender variant young people nationally through professional and educational services, youth & communities services, and public engagement to improve knowledge and understanding around gender identity.
Kooth – a free online counselling and wellbeing support service available to all 11-25-year-olds in Portsmouth. There are no waiting lists or referrals, and young people can access a variety of support including discussion boards with other members and advice from trained staff.
Social, emotional and mental health guidance – Designed for families and professionals, there is clear information and advice to help children and young people access the right mental health support at the right time. There is also information for children and young people to read themselves.
Y Services – Support for LGBT young people in Havant, Fareham and Gosport.
Young Stonewall – An LGBT rights charity, working with policy-makers and organisations to improve equality and the lives of LGBT people in the UK and abroad.
Equality and human rights – Information on protections for LGB and Trans people under the Equality Act 2010.
Changing your name – Government advice on changing your name legally
LGBT youth in care – Information for professionals and carers on how to support LGBT young people in care.
Stonewall have produced a range of lesson packs and resources for primary, secondary, mainstream and specialist settings
The LGBT+ History website has resources such as teaching packs and toolkits that cover lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity across the curriculum.
Young Stonewall – 10 events from LGBT history
Stonewall have created an updated list of LGBTQ+ inclusive books for children and young people
TED – Love is love – seven personal stories of love and commitment in the LGBTQ community
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AC Cooper 360 McCance "I will resign" Arkansas citizens will make sure he will at least honor this promise
Little Rock AR Center For Artistic Revolution (CAR) "After a few days of intense organizing working to secure Mr. McCance's resignation, CAR went to Pleasant Plain, Arkansas. Our purpose was to put more pressure on the school board and Mr. McCance to ensure that he resigned. We conducted a vigil at the Midland High School commemorating the lives of the 11 teenagers who took their lives in September as well as all those who have killed themselves because of being tormented by remarks much the same as those of Mr. McCance."
"Cooper asked exactly what are you appoligizing for?" McCance "It was over the top"
Cooper "Do you understand the pain you have caused with those words to bullied gay children if there is any in your school district and to those who aren't gay but are bullied anyways?" MaCance "Well that's a big what if"
"If" meaning he doesn't seriously beleive there are really and gay children in Pleseant Plains. That response is worthy of Iran's Ahmadinejad who also believes there are no gay people in his care.
He said he would resign (submit a letter in 3 to 7 days) from the school board to spare the district the bad press and distractions of dealing with the fallout from his comments.
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As of Friday there has been no letter of resignation received according to the Arkasas Times blog.
CAR's Facebook's response? "...if he reneges we will go back until he does!"
So will we.
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Hollywood Transgender Attackers Caught on Video Have you seen this man?
Scene outside the bar before the beating.
October 3rd these five people were taped running out of the Plaza a latino drag bar after a "transgender woman dressed as a man", probably a drag performer.
The main suspect is a Latino man, approx. 25 years old, white shoes, orange sweat, closely cropped hair and possiable wearing a gold medallion.
He was seen leaving the scene in a white late model suburban.
Please call the police at 213-922-9234 or 213-922-8268.
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The day kicked off with a keynote speech from Dr Jo Dixon, who recently gained her PhD from Nottingham Trent University and is now a Research Assistant for the English, Media and Creative Cultures department. Students then presented their work in one of four ways: a presentation, a short Educational Resource suitable for a museum website, a video or a poster. This interactive method of presenting research was inspired by investigation into the Freud Museum London website, which contains informative videos, photographs and learning points on the various themes.
The cohort have been investigating the subject of Literature and Psychoanalysis for the last term. They have explored ideas about the human psyche and analysed how different writers might have used these in various periods throughout history. Rather than using psychoanalysis to diagnose an author or character's illness, the students talked about the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis and what they can tell us about each other. Reading literary, theoretical and clinical material, students explored ideas including madness, sexuality, and trauma.
The students enjoyed being able to pick a specific theme that interests them and found the experience an interesting way to present their research. Amy Latham told us: "I enjoyed the symposium because I had the freedom to choose what I found most interesting on the module to present about, and it was really interesting to listen to other peoples' chosen topics too."


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The album S is released!
S is now released. A selection of my songs chosen for a charity project!
Takesomecrime dances to my song "Piercing the Sky" from Adventure!
Out now: Pulsen features a song pack with me!
Souleye - Adventure is released!
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Jury's motivation*: "With an uncanny sense of drama, infusing emotions into lifeless objects, these images carry forth the intense brutality of nature, while preserving a comedic touch to lighten the mood. None of us in the jury would want to be on the receiving end of that hammer. What a theme!"
Alex got a CD of Adventure in the mail!
This is a chiptune cover I did featuring exciting moves stemming from the hips of the lovely rdhotcalipepr, of the song "Jag kommer", originally with Veronica Maggio. Not for download!
Preliminary album release & I'm attending GDC in SF!
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In other news, I will be attending GDC (Global Developer Conference) in San Francisco this year. If you're going, be sure to find me and say hi!
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Social Issues | Housing/Homelessness News
Report Reveals Growing Divide Between Ohio Wages and Rent
After Fire, Advocates Say Philly Must Address Affordable-Housing Crisis
Colorado to Invest $400 Million in Affordable Housing
Around 249,000 Ohio households were behind on the rent in June, according to the census. (Aaron/AdobeStock)
In 2020, the cost of a two-bedroom apartment in New Hampshire rose 5% over the previous year. (sewcream/Adobe Stock)
An estimated 529,000 Philadelphians spend 30% or more of their income on housing costs, including rent and utilities, according to data from Pew Charitable Trusts. (Adobe Stock)
People experiencing homelessness are at increased risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes and have an average life expectancy of 30 years less than the housed population. (Adobe Stock)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The gap between rent and wages continues to widen in Ohio, according to new research.
The annual Out of Reach report showed the fair-market rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Ohio is $865.
In order to afford that level of rent, as well as utilities, a household must earn at least $16.64 cents per hour. That's nearly $2 an hour more than the average renter earns per hour.
Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, noted it is more than what workers in six of the ten most common occupations in Ohio earn.
"Salespeople, cashiers, restaurant workers, hotel workers... those are also the jobs that were hit hardest by the pandemic, so their situation may be even worse," Faith emphasized. "There's many people struggling just to keep a roof over their head in these times."
Faith added the costs of rent are being driven higher by the increase in home prices. In April, home prices in Central Ohio were almost 17% higher year-over-year.
Faith explained the situation is likely worse, as the data was collected prior to COVID-19 and doesn't reflect the economic challenges spurred by the pandemic.
"A lot of people aren't getting full-time work, and they're not working all the time, so it doesn't really account for people in those situations," Faith asserted. "So the problems for many people are actually worse than appears in the report."
Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, pointed out the federal government has taken steps to ease the burden for renters, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's eviction moratorium and $47 million in Emergency Rental Assistance to states.
"That emergency rental assistance has to be spent before the eviction moratorium expires," Yentel stressed. "Hopefully we'll have at least another extension, otherwise we're going to see a historic wave of evictions across the country."
The current moratorium ends July 31. Ohio has reportedly allocated more than $1.5 million to renters who are behind.
Reporting by Ohio News Connection in association with Media in the Public Interest and funded in part by the George Gund Foundation.
Rental report National Low Income Housing Coalition July 2021
Housing data Columbus Underground 05/26/2021
Household Pulse Survey data Census Bureau 07/14/2021
Eviction moratorium CDC 06/24/2021
As many Granite Staters struggle to pay ever-increasing rent prices, the New Hampshire court system is offering mediation for landlords and their tenants who may be facing eviction.
The median price to rent a two-bedroom apartment in New Hampshire is more than $1,400 a month, slightly higher than the national average.
Margaret Huang, alternative dispute resolution coordinator in the New Hampshire Judicial Branch's Office of Mediation and Arbitration, said the program is aimed at supporting both landlords and renters to come to a resolution, short of filing an eviction case.
"And by doing this," she said, "it will help save landlords time and money, it helps the tenant avoid a black mark on their record, and we're hoping to help take cases off the court docket."
In some areas, Huang said, there also is post-filing mediation, and legal aid and rental assistance also are available. In Manchester and Nashua, the agency Southern New Hampshire Services is working to help people apply for rental assistance at the courthouse.
If you're a landlord preparing to file an eviction or a renter at risk of being evicted, Huang said, you can call 603-271-6418 or email evictiondiversion@courts.state.nh.us to start an intake process. Then, the Mediation and Arbitration Office contacts the other party to start working toward a solution.
"Once we have both parties' consent, we refer the case to a mediator who can help parties talk through the dispute," she said, "and then, if appropriate, come to an agreement, which we will then write up for the parties through this program."
She noted that rental-housing disputes often are complicated, and sometimes folks need a helping hand from a neutral party. She said she hopes the program can offer a more positive alternative to eviction.
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A devastating fire in a Philadelphia public-housing rowhome last week killed 12 people, eight of them children.
In the aftermath, advocates say government leaders need to address the city's affordable-housing crisis to ensure the tragedy doesn't happen again.
According to officials, 26 people were living in the duplex apartment at the time of the fire. The Philadelphia Housing Authority does not limit the number of people who can live in a single unit.
Jenna Collins, staff attorney for Community Legal Services, pointed out there are very few large affordable-housing units for multigenerational families. She said it is a symptom of inadequate funding for subsidized housing.
"If you look at the HUD budget for public housing today adjusted for inflation, it has gone down significantly since 30 years ago," Collins observed. "As families do grow, there's nowhere to transfer them and allow them to keep that subsidy that is often the difference between them affording rent and becoming homeless."
An investigation by Philadelphia Fire, the city's police department and federal support from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is under way. The property, which is owned and operated by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, last received an inspection last April and May.
The Philadelphia Housing Authority said the cost of repairs to its buildings exceeds one billion dollars. It could receive some increased funding if Congress passes the Build Back Better Act. Collins said PHA struggles to keep up with repairs that do not appear immediately life-threatening.
"The housing authority is trying to respond to things that feel emergent in the moment like three inches of sewer water in a basement," Collins explained. "So they do not have the funds to update the really old housing stock, so we really are seeing the result of that lack of funds to improve infrastructure."
Some solutions PHA could implement to make older units safer include hard-wiring smoke detectors, which new public housing units in Philadelphia already have. All six smoke alarms in the building were inoperable at the time of the fire, officials said.
Housing study Pew Charitable Trusts 09/10/2020
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A task force charged with addressing homelessness and affordable housing across Colorado is expected to release recommendations on how to invest some $400 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds later this month.
Cathy Alderman, chief communications and public policy officer at the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, serves as vice-chair for the task force's sub-panel, made up of non-governmental housing experts.
She said most people agree expanding housing capacity should be a top priority, and not just in the state's urban areas.
"One way to help resolve the housing crisis is to make sure there is more affordable housing available to people at all different income levels across the state," Alderman asserted. "Creating new units of housing, as well as preserving existing affordable housing. "
Lawmakers passed House Bill 1329 last session to create a roadmap for using $500 million in federal rescue dollars to assist Coloradans impacted by the COVID-19 public health emergency. The first hundred million went directly to current Division of Housing programs.
The Affordable Housing Transformational Task Force must deliver a final report on its recommendations on investing the remaining funds to the General Assembly and Gov. Jared Polis by Jan. 21.
Alderman pointed out because ARPA money represents a one-time-only cash infusion, much of the funding may be released as revolving loans, so money can be reinvested in housing as loans are paid off. She noted legislators made it clear the funds must be invested to address the needs of communities disproportionately impacted by COVID.
"Those communities are often the same communities that have traditionally had huge barriers to accessing housing: communities of color, tribal communities, and the communities of people experiencing homelessness," Alderman outlined.
She added investments in wrap-around services are especially critical for helping people exiting homelessness, and people with mental or physical disabilities. Supports can include help to access medical and behavioral care, and with basic life skills like identifying bus routes to the local grocery store.
"Vocational services, connecting people with employment," Alderman suggested. "There are a full range of supportive services, and they have shown time after time to be very successful in maintaining peoples' housing stability."
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The Swedish Environmental Court is to rule on the proposed spent fuel repository in Forsmark
by Johan Swahn, director of MKG and member of the Management Board of NTW
On January 23rd, 2018, the Swedish Land and Environmental Court plans to give its opinion to the government on whether to allow the final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark. This is an important, but not the last, decision in the review of the license application that was submitted by the nuclear waste company SKB (Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co) in 2011. The ruling will come after 20 days of competent and eventful deliberations in the main meeting of the court during 5 weeks from the beginning of September until the end of October. The main meeting of the court, this is the official translation of the Swedish word "Huvudförhandling", is the final, open and very democratic deliberation that takes place before the court takes a decision on a license application, and where all parties summarise their views legally and on issues. Anyone can attend and speak their view.
The decision of the court, that has been postponed from the original plan of December 20th due to the huge volume of information that the court has to take into due account, will be very important for the future of the repository. The court has many difficult issues to manage as it writes its opinion and it remains a clearly open question whether it will say yes or no to the spent fuel repository.
The planned repository for the final estimated 11 000 tons of Swedish high level radioactive waste in the form of spent nuclear fuel is to be constructed 120 km north of Stockholm on the Baltic coast, immediately South of the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Östhammar Community. A copper canister encapsulation plant is to be constructed at the present intermediate storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, Clab, at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant on the Southeast coast. The application for a license for the repository according to the Environmental Act was submitted to the court in March 2011 after a long consultation process from 2003-2010 and the choice of Forsmark for the site in 2009.
The license application to the environmental court is being reviewed in parallel with a similar application to the Swedish regulator SSM (Swedish Radiation Safety Authority) according to the Nuclear Activities Act. From 2011 until the end of 2015 SSM has been asking SKB for additional information to make the application complete. SSM will give its opinion on the license to the government before or after the time of the court's opinion. The government will use the two opinions to make its own decision whether to allow the repository or not.
During the main meeting of the court that started on September 5thand was concluded on October 26th there were a number of issues that were under deliberation. The most important one was to what degree uncertainties regarding the long-term safety of the repository can remain after the court opinion and the government decision. This issue became especially important, as there was a highly competent input at the hearings by researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm that claimed that the integrity of the copper canister could be questioned. They claimed that many of the copper canisters encapsulating the spent fuel, and therefore vital for the long-term safety case, could start to leak before a thousand years have passed. The nuclear waste company SKB claims that only one canister will start to leak in a million years. But if a few hundred of the total six thousand copper canisters start leaking relatively soon, the dose limits of the regulator SSM (Swedish Radiation Safety Authority) will be exceeded and the repository should not be given a license.
There were also other issues at stake during the main hearing; discussions of whether a deep borehole repository would be safer; whether the site is suitable due to geological and other issues; the very high ecological values at the Forsmark site; and many other issues were covered. And there was also, most importantly, an intense legal discussion regarding the implementation of the Environmental Act that governs the work and decisions of the environmental court and the connections with the implementation of the Nuclear Activities Act, which governs the decision-making of the regulator SSM.
To understand the discussion a little background is needed. The Swedish Environmental Act dates from the late 1990s and requires that all activities that can harm the environment must have a license. The environmental court rules on and gives conditions for the license. The environmental courts have been working for over 25 years so by this time precedents exists for many types of activities. The Swedish Nuclear Activities Act is from 1983 and all nuclear activities also must have a license according to this law. This means that a final repository for spent fuel has to have a license according to both legislations. In both cases the repository has also to be approved by the government. According to the Environmental Act this is true only for a small list of activities that for instance also includes major infrastructure projects. But this means that at this stage in the decision-making process the court and the regulator SSM will only give their opinions to the government. Licenses are issued afterwards if the government says gives its approval.
The parallel decision-making processes could be problematic if the court and the regulator SSM did not have the same basis for license review. In order for this to be the case the Nuclear Activities Act was immediately changed to have Chapter 2 of the Environmental Act with the "General rules of consideration" incorporated to be used for decisions. In addition when the new legal framework was set up it was foreseen that the decision-making according to the two legislations was to be parallel and coordinated.
The "General rules of consideration" of the Environmental Act are very important for environmental decision-making and praxis has been established what has to be shown, how to consider the precautionary principle and how to define and evaluate the use of best possible technology and site. In its evaluation of the license application according to the Nuclear Activities Act the regulator SSM is to use the same evaluation criteria.
At the main hearing of the court it became evident that something was amiss regarding SSM's decision-making in relation to the Environmental Act. SSM had already in June 2015 told the court that the application was complete with regards to the Environmental Act. One year later SSM told the court that it was plausible that it could be shown that the repository would have a sufficient radiation safety in the long term. Some issues remained, amongst them issues regarding the integrity of the copper canister, but these could be resolved in the step-wise decision-making that SSM foresaw after the government's decision. SSM will give a license for construction first and then later a license for trial operation and finally for operation.
During the main hearing the environmental court was indirectly very critical of SSM by asking the regulator a number of questions. This started already on the third day of the proceedings and the questions from the court grew in number and complexity throughout the main meeting. The court wanted to know how SSM saw its role in the decision-making according to the Environmental Act. The court wanted to know why SSM stated that it was "plausible to show" only and not that "it is shown" as is required according to the "General rules of consideration". Also it became apparent that the definition of best available technology that SSM was using is less strict than that used by the environmental courts.
It would appear as though the court will have a problem with the actions of the regulator when deciding what to say to the government. It appears as though SSM has not put in enough effort to ensure they have the information they need to say that it is shown that the repository is safe. Instead SSM wants the court to let it deal with issues later. But the court cannot deal with issues later and would expect the SSM to follow its own legislation. Towards the end of the main meeting SSM boldly stated that the environmental court should not deal with issues where it had stated that it is "plausible to show". The court can do this. It is not legally obliged to take on issues that other authorities can handle, i.e., the radiation safety issues that SSM examines. In the case of a spent fuel repository the long-term radiation safety is of course a central environmental issue, and it can be questioned if the court should follow the wishes of SSM, and the nuclear waste company SKB, to stay away from radiation safety issues. But, legally it is up to the court to decide.
If the court were to leave the radiation safety issues to SSM for the government's decision and for the future decision-making process, it would have to trust the integrity and independence of the regulator. During the main hearing the court SSM in its various statements agreed entirely and without any reservations with what the nuclear waste company SKB was stating regarding long-term safety, as well as choice of site and method. This despite the on-going controversies in the room. Towards the end of the proceedings leaked documents from SSM were published in Swedish media showing that there was no consensus within the regulator about going ahead and saying that long term safety was plausible. Instead, it was revealed that several of SSM's experts, including the materials and corrosion expert, were opposed to giving the go-ahead. This behaviour of SSM has generally weakened the trust of the regulator, but to what extent it has influenced the court remains to be seen.
The court will give its opinion to the government on January 23rd. SSM has said it will give its opinion to the government around the new year. The government then has to ask the two communities involved in the project, Östhammar and Oskarshamn if they approve or not. Östhammar community is planning a referendum on the issue for March 4th. The government will prepare for a decision during the spring but it is uncertain whether a decision will be taken before the next elections in September. After the elections it will take time to form a new government, so a likely timeframe for a government decision on the spent fuel repository is in the spring of 2019.
If the government says yes, there is still a long legal procedure ahead until the licenses to start construction will be ready. The government's decision according to the Environmental Act can be appealed. The court has then to decide on the license and conditions, likely with a new hearing beforehand, and the court's decision can be appealed. The government's decision according to the Nuclear Activities Act can be appealed. SSM has to review a new safety analysis report before deciding to give a license to start construction.
Finally, it will take at least seven years to build the repository and the regulator has to give licenses both for a trial operation and a full operation. If everything goes as the nuclear waste company SKB hopes there could be an operational Swedish repository for spent nuclear fuel in the mid-2030s.
If the environmental court says no on January 23rd the repository may still get a go-ahead from the government. If Östhammar community says yes despite a no from the court the Government can overrule the court, but it cannot contradict the Environmental Act doing it. If Östhammar community says no, the veto of the community is not absolute. The government under certain conditions can override the veto. However, the nuclear waste company SKB has said it will not go ahead with the repository against the will of Östhammar community.
It is not an understatement to say that what the court says on January 23rd, 2017, will be of utmost importance for the future of the Swedish nuclear industry's plans for disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
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Women are excluded from global coronavirus coverage, experts say
1 Marginalized voices
2 Exacerbating sexism
"NEVER tell a woman (professional or otherwise) that she cannot speak with authority," she wrote later on Twitter. "NEVER tell us we aren't educated enough, experts enough, or good enough. We have every bit as much authority to speak."
The exchange underscored a broader concern over the lack of female voices in media coverage of and policy debates on the coronavirus pandemic.
In coverage of the coronavirus, female scientists and doctors are cited far less frequently than their male counterparts, according to multiple multicountry studies. And when women are vocal, as with other policy debates and key areas of coverage, they often face online harassment and second-guessing of their expertise, several female scientists told The Washington Post.
The consequences are far-reaching. The marginalization of female experience and expertise colors the information available to policymakers forming coronavirus responses — which means interests and issues important to women may get underprioritized. This dynamic has, according to a recent study commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, perpetuated a "war framing" around the virus, reinforcing the gendered stereotype that men are more reliable in emergencies and as decision-makers.
Since reports of the novel coronavirus began circulating in January, the world has been inundated with news and perspectives. Male scientists and physicians have played an outsize role in global efforts to make sense of the virus.
"The pandemic exacerbated the lack of women's voices," said Muge Cevik, who works on infectious diseases and medical virology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. "It just reinforced the prevailing gender norm in which men continue to be allocated to leadership roles, speaking to media."
Last month's Gates Foundation report, written by audience researcher Luba Kassova, analyzed coronavirus coverage published in mainstream publications online in the United Kingdom, the United States, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and India. The study focused on articles identified by Google's news search engine as highly ranked between March 1 and April 15. It found that women are "worryingly marginalized." On average, every female voice in a coronavirus story was "drowned out" by at least three male interviewees, the study concluded.
"Women were four times less likely to feature as experts and commentators" in stories on the coronavirus, the study found. When cited, "women are more likely to be used as sources sharing subjective views than experts sharing authoritative expertise," according to the report. Women constituted 19 percent of experts quoted overall and were less likely to feature as protagonists in coronavirus stories.
The trend has been documented elsewhere. A report published last month by the French Ministry of Culture and the ministry responsible for gender equality found that during the country's coronavirus lockdown this spring, "newspapers devote[d] a predominant place to male personalities in their content." More than 83 percent of the people pictured on the front page of major newspapers during this period were men, who also wrote a majority of opinion pieces.
A recent University of Zurich study calculated that women made up two of the 30 scientists most frequently cited by the Swiss media in coronavirus coverage during the first half of the year.
The experiences of female scientists and medical experts echo across sectors. Statistically, few women are part of national-level decision-making processes on the coronavirus, although 69 percent of health professionals around the globe are women. For working mothers and women from minority and marginalized communities, many disparities are growing even deeper amid school and economic disruptions.
"There are lots of women who are working really hard [on coronaviruses-related research] and they don't make it into the media or policy advisories," said Emma Hodcroft, one of the two female scientists among the group most widely cited in Switzerland, who studies and tracks viruses at the University of Basel.
Exacerbating sexism
In May, 35 female scientists from across North America and Europe co-authored a piece in the Times Higher Education, a London-based magazine, arguing that the pandemic had worsened sexism and racism in their fields. "Women in science are battling both covid-19 and the patriarchy," they wrote.
Despite their efforts, signatories of the letter told The Post nearly half a year later that little had changed.
Within the sciences, this dynamic threatens decades of work to close the gender gap, said Saskia Popescu, an infectious-disease epidemiologist and infection preventionist at the University of Arizona, as women may struggle after the pandemic to compete for jobs and grants with male colleagues who have accrued more professional visibility.
The gender disparity is additionally dangerous for public health overall, argued Popescu, who is also an external expert advising the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
"Male physicians with zero experience in infectious diseases and epidemiology receive more attention than females with expertise," Popescu said. "We are losing so much critical insight and knowledge."
Scientists interviewed said female colleagues are more likely to turn down speaking opportunities than male counterparts, a tendency they attributed to women being socialized to doubt their expertise more than men do, in addition to extra child-care burdens during the pandemic.
"Women tend to think that we need more years behind us to consider ourselves as an expert, whereas some men who don't even have experience working directly with these viruses suddenly become the go-to face of it for the media," said Amrit Boese, a research biologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada focused on coronaviruses.
The flip side, Popescu said, is that when she points out incorrect information she finds in interviews or social media posts, she often receives intense blowback online.
"The amount of harassment we've gotten when we have criticized publicly someone that has continually presented bad information and sensationalism without expertise is really heartbreaking," she said. "It's exhausting."
Social media platforms including Twitter are critical resources for scientists to engage with and inform the public — and toxic places where tweets by female experts on covid-19 can quickly elicit personal and sexualized responses, Hodcroft said.
Joanna Maycock, secretary general of the European Women's Lobby, compared the pandemic's coverage gap to the one that pervaded during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, which she described as "overwhelmingly a boys' club of commentary."
"The real basis for all of this is that there are still fundamental systemic inequities based on gender in the world," said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University.
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Q: Java can't find file after I've exported as a jar In order to load up a world in my game, my program reads off of a text file. Everything works fine in Eclipse but after exporting as a runnable jar, it can no longer find the text file.
This calls the function to read from the text file.
LevelHandler.loadLevel("res/levels/level.txt");

and this is the function itself
    public static void loadLevel(String file){
    String level = LevelLoader.loadFileAsString(file);

and this is the loadFileAsString() function
public static String loadFileAsString(String file){
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    try {
        @SuppressWarnings("resource")
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
        String line;
        while((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null){
            builder.append(line + "\n");
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return builder.toString();
}

Also, its probably worth noting that the res folder never appears in the jar but the levels folder inside does. Maybe that is what is making the file not able to be found. I  tried exporting with this but the same error came up.
LevelHandler.loadLevel("levels/level.txt");

A: You are asking the file system for something inside your exported jar.
If the levels folder is in the exported jar file, you should use getResourceAsStream provided by Class or ClassLoader to read them.
For example:
InputStream in = LevelLoader.class.getResourceAsStream("/levels/level.txt");

Then construct a BufferedReader on top:
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

A: Have a try like this (assuming levels/level.txt is in the jar file):
InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("levels/level.txt");
BufferedReader reader= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String line = null;
while((line = reader.readLine()) != null){
   builder.append(line + "\n");
}

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El Campionat Mundial de Ciclisme en Pista de 1992 es va celebrar a València (País Valencià) a l'agost de 1992. Les competicions es van celebrar al Palau Velòdrom Lluís Puig de València. En total només es va competir en 8 disciplines, 7 de masculines i 1 de femenines, a causa de coincidir amb els Jocs Olímpics de Barcelona.

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Enllaços externs
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Sahaja Yoga Radio Blog
Elizabeth Henshaw - Zephyr
Although the Australian music group produced their first album Zephyr 7 years ago, it still belongs to my favourite ones. I bought the album in Australia, thanks to the internet, but first I had heard it on a cassette from my sahaja friends. This album is really unusual – you can feel gentleness, love, creativity, spirituality and respect to the Divine Power. Why do I come back to this album after years?
Because nowadays the internet is such a mass medium that a lot of new sahaja yogis can hear the music which was created a few years ago. And Zephyr is still worth of attention. Not only for nice songs by Elizabeth Henshaw and members of her band but also for the singing of Kate Henshaw which gives the album inimitable atmosphere. Elizabeth lives in London these days and she answers my questions this way:
VH: What was your first experience with Sahaja yoga and self-realization?
EH: In 1986 when I was 15 my parents, John and Judy Dobbie, came to Sahaja Yoga and my brother and I made friends with the other kids in Sydney. These friendships were very strong and definitely helped to keep me committed to SY at that age. There was no 'moment' of self-realisation, but I believe that SY kept me grounded and on the straight path during tricky teenage years.
VH: The record has got two wrappings. The first one was perhaps for Sahaja yogis and I have known it was being sold at Ganesha puja in 2001. The second one is for selling all over the world and it was also put into the category of the world music. Why that change of wrappings?
EH: Zephyr is essentially a studio-based project which I started in 2000, when I decided that all the music I was writing for fun should really be recorded, produced and put out there. So I taught myself production, and evolved from being a classically trained pianist to becoming a composer, lyricist, arranger, producer, piano/keyboard player and programmer. I found talented vocalists and instrumentalists from a variety of musical backgrounds to come and record the parts I wrote out for them, as well as other lyricists to contribute. These were mainly all Sahaja Yogi professional musicians. With the first (self-titled) album 'Zephyr' finished and mastered, we had 1000 copies manufactured, which is what you bought at the puja originally.
I then sent these out to music publishers and record companies, and I was offered a music publishing contract in 2001 with Origin, who released the album commercially. It was the same recording, but we had to design a new cover and booklet. I then went on to write and record 'Flame' which Origin released in 2005. The combination of having a deadline but also total creative freedom works very well for me.
VH: I would like to pay attention on these songs:
Destiny – maybe the most played song on the Australian Sahaja radio. What is it about?
EH: 'Destiny' is essentially a 'seeking' song. The words came straight out of my subconscious - I didn't think about them! Luckily it works OK! For me the music always has priority over the lyrics. I think the music can transmit even more vibrations than the words sometimes. I wrote the music under a tree with a sheet of manuscript paper and pencil, out of my head: three vocal parts (in harmony) and the oboe part (expertly played by Jeff Lyons). Then I added all the other instruments (samples) in the studio.
VH: Sunrise – unusual and nice composition with Indian vocalizing and tables – mixture of western and eastern music. Really great example. How was that created?
EH: Yes, this is a fusion of some interesting elements; Baroque harpsichord, Indian classical vocals and tabla, rhythmic pop synth and bass. Kate's vocals were laid over the strings, bass and harpsichord, then Bobby Singh and Sumathi Krishnan came into the studio to put down tabla and indian-style vocals separately. We recorded a lot of Sumathi improvising, then I cut it up, chose the best bits and moved them around where they sounded best!
VH: Spiritus Sanctus – music text Hildegard von Bingen. Why did you use this topic?
EH: Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th Century female 'saint' who wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs and poems. I used this text as it is about the Holy Spirit, and I like the sound of Latin! I wrote the double bass part first in a difficult time signature (played by jazz bassist Jonathan Zwartz). There are 10 beats in the bar, divided into different rhythms in different sections. The tambourine and harp add a medieval touch. This song has been recorded by a successful vocal group with my permission, and has always received a lot of national airplay on ABC radio in Australia, probably more than any other Zephyr track.
VH: The Comforter – I know the version which is simpler and shorter and is placed on the selection IPO. It is interesting how the song can be improved and recorded differently. Do you think musicians should record their pieces in different ways after some time?
EH: Every song can be produced differently, even so it can cross genres. The producer's job is therefore a very significant and rewarding one. I felt this song needed to be 'refreshed', and the recording standard needed to match the rest of the album.
VH: Red Earth – my heart is always vibrating when I am listening the sound of Australian didgeridoo. It symbolizes Mooladhara, the connection to Mother Earth, the base, the root. I consider it as the top of the album. The author is Michelle Shete and Kate Henshaw together with you. How can such a wonderful idea of celebration Mother Earth come?
EH: Red Earth directly represents Australia and its wonderful, vibrating natural beauty. This track was recorded in 1996 for a Sahaj film made by the Australians (that's why it's 11 minutes long!) and I love the inspiring lyrics written by my friends Michelle and Kate. Robert Webber does a fantastic job on the didjeridoo. My other friend Sarah Labade plays the cello part. Interestingly, at the recording session there were three girls: Kate, Sarah and I, and ALL of us were heavily pregnant! It was quite funny.
VH: What is new with your third album? When can we expect it?
EH: For the third album I would like to work more collaboratively with a variety of artists. The albums should evolve so that new musicians and their aspirations are featured as well. Everything I write is owned by the music publisher/record company, so basically I can't distribute my own music. When they decide to finance a third album, I will start recording!
VH: Elizabeth, thank you for this album, it is really fantastic…
EH: Thank you, Vlada for your time in spreading so much great music around the world. We all appreciate it very much!
LINK: http://www.zephyrlife.co.uk/
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You know, it's interesting how often we allow ourselves to be victims of a situation. Self-defeating talk and excuses hinder our ability to do what we are actually capable of.
It's sad really, because we all have done it, some of us may recognize that we do it, but too much of the time we give in to the "I can't do anything to change it" mentality. It's not that you can't, you just don't feel like it.
Blunt? Yeah, a little. But, true. The sooner we stop lying to ourselves that we can't do something and acknowledge that we are actually allowing ourselves to be a victim or bystander of a situation, the sooner we can do something to change it.
You can't change the cards you're dealt, just how the hand is played. And yes, sometimes you have to know when to fold them, and sometimes you need to be brave and take the risk.
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