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When Revolutions Comes Around: A Theater Phenomenon
By Josh Stuyvesant | Albuquerque, NM, US | January 20, 2015 | Comments: 0
September starring and directed by Laurel Butler and Ewen Wright.
My fascination with theater stems from a single moment. When I was in college, I had a good/bad habit of attending plays on my own. I was always thrilled, despite my being an amateur audience member. One season boasted a production of The Cherry Orchard, and I attended it with as much gusto as I attended every other production. (The delivery of such gusto is as follows: I smoke a cigarette, see the show, maybe shake hands with one of the performers and tell her how moved I was, exit.) The play swept along with Russian attitude. My breath tasted like coffee and cigarettes. I was comfortable, content and pleased.
Theater means the random luck and lack thereof.
Then, in a moment of unprecedented pride, the character Yermolai violently upset a table of drinkware. The kettle, like everything else, was sent laterally through the air and quickly hit the ground, adding its monkey-cymbal note to the rest of the cacophony. But that was not it. It should have been it, but the lid of the kettle landed on its edge and began to roll downstage! The luck! The lid that did! If the play was performed two thousand times, the lid of that kettle would not do as it did, let alone do what it did next. It stopped not six inches from the edge of the stage. It did what the quarter does when you spin it on the table. It spun as long as it could, creating that round, hollow sound, playing the crickets in the moments after the charged scene.
To me, theater means more than the actors and the story and the staging. Theater means the random luck and lack thereof. The odd beauty that comes in the making of something beautiful. Those wonderful didn't-mean-tos and the imperfections that declare perfection. Theater is painting in the rain.
To exist in the moment is to be subject to its effects—good or bad, lucky or unlucky—and no art does it better than theater.
Theater a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
Currently, Revolutions International Theater Festival is taking place in the up-and-coming city of Albuquerque. It's put on by Tricklock Company, Albuquerque's resident clowny clowns. Revolutions is this magical sort of fog that descends every year (it's in its 15th) and consumes the city in a theatery dew for three weeks. This year boasts 38 shows at nine venues.
The "International" aspect of the festival name is the special part; eight countries are being represented: Iran, Israel, Armenia, Ukraine, Mexico, Austria, the UK and the US. This is not a pay-to-play festival. Instead, Tricklock Company funds the entire ordeal, paying for plane tickets and visa processing fees and room and board and food and drink. The performers' only requirements are to perform and mingle, something that Juli Hendren, the festival curator, says is lacking from other theater festivals. "Everyone has galas after the show, but it's mostly just audience members standing around drinking wine and snacking. At Revolutions, we specifically ask that the performers come out and engage with the crowd."
"This is my protest. So to come on this side of the border is good because we're all the same," said the actors from Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro as I engaged with them after their show. Antígona en la Frontera is a repositioning of Greece's Antigone into a rabbit-hole, modern world that's a stone's throw away from the US/Mexican border. The show was a visceral experience for me because it was in Spanish; I was washed in the emotion of it, rather than obsessing over the words, something I do with vigor. It was beautiful.
The performers of Antígona en la Frontera by Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro.
Juli told me that they could have pushed for the company to have supertitles to accompany the show (for instance, Iran's Leev Theater will have supertitles for their retelling of Hamlet on Friday and Saturday, January 30-31), but there was something slightly exciting for Tricklock to let it happen how it was going to happen.
That's what I'm getting at. As amazingly organized and well-oiled as Tricklock Company is during this festival, as astounding a feat it is to pull off something of this scope on their unutterable budget, Tricklock is painting in the rain.
They are letting it happen how it's going to happen. Their willingness to forgo control when the train jumps the track is what keeps the festival apparently seamless. When a member of MIHR Theatre (Armenia) was denied a visa, MIHR said, "We're coming anyway; we'll just perform a different piece." No harm done. In my eyes, the ageless resilience of theater has never been more apparent than what I have seen take place in the first week of this festival. In Tricklock's hands, they've created a festival that to some degree creates itself, resulting in one of the most organic experiences my fair town has ever offered.
Hakim Bellamy sang it best on the opening night of performances, "There ain't a problem that I can't fix. We used to do it up in the mix."
Hakim Bellamy himself, and his shadow.
The event list runs the gamut. In the first week, I saw spoken word by the ever-effervescent Urban Verbs group; I saw remarkably poised dance by MIHR Theatre; I saw a play in a foreign language; I was presented with a visual and historical display of Chicano Park, a testament to the power of cultural resoluteness in San Diego's Barrio Logan; and I saw an stunningly orchestrated series of vignettes that simultaneously called out the impossibility and necessity of nostalgia in this device-ridden modern age (well done, Laurel and Ewen). And I didn't even see everything.
The next two weeks are bound to be no different, no less eclectic, and nothing like you've ever imagined theater could be.
"Shuga" Shane Montoya, Albuquerque's sweetest b-boy.
For those in the Albuquerque area, what you're doing by attending is conspiring against the impression that theater is some kind of highfalutin, starched-and-parched experience. Revolutions is very much alive, and Tricklock Company is holding on to the reins, enjoying the ride without any intention of trying to tame it.
Revolutions runs until February 1, 2015, with shows taking place all over Albuquerque. Check out the full calendar, and go buy your passports! Also, on the last weekend of the festival, Revolutions is uniting with Theatre Without Borders who ask, among other important questions, "What is the impact of our stories?"
Photos by JAK Media.
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Josh is a mover and shaker and doer and maker. He makes things with words, woods, metal and mettle. He cofounded Humbird NM in 2013 and is dedicated to giving Albuquerque artists the leg up they so deserve.
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Pandemic LEGACY Review (with spoilers)
1 februari 2016 7 januari 2019 Rowdy van Lieshout	0 reacties	Boardgame Review, Bordspel Recensie, Cooperative, LEGACY, Spoilers
Review with Spoilers
I assume you are here because you've already played Pandemic LEGACY or you just don't care (otherwise here's the review). I'm not going into every little detail of the game, but I will, in an unstructured way, highlight some parts of the game that I found very cool.
First of all let me talk about the character development in the game. I mentioned this briefly in the review and I like to elaborate on that. First of all I like the part where you can name your own character. It's just a small detail, but you can give it a personal touch. Secondly, I found the introduction of relationships very clever. The idea of having to give a character a relationship with another character, which basically means that you can do something special things if both of those characters are part of your crew, is really fun. Before, you only had two or more characters that could do something cool by themselves. Now you can create, if you make the right choices and everyone stays alive, a very good team.
I stated that I thought that this character development probably would work better with more than two players. That's because you just use fewer characters in the game. Plus, the game, at least the first half of the year, is easier with two players, so once you've created two or three characters you'll stick with them for a long time. You've upgraded them after all.
In our case the game really played like a Hollywood movie, the incurable virus turned out to be blue, Europe and North America in chaos, and later city Zero, the one where patient zero was found, was London. It's just a coincident, but it was a fun coincidence.
The addition of the second character type, military, and the associated bases was also really interesting. Both types, military and medical, have different abilities, different focus areas, and before every game you had to decide which type you would likely need more.
I also loved the moment when the game did a 180 on us. First you were building up a military system with bases all over the place and just like that it turned out that it was the worst thing you could have done, you'd helped the enemy, and you had to repair the damage. That was a fantastic twist.
There were two other mechanisms in the game that I found very interesting in a similar way. Those were the roadblocks and the search tracks. The roadblocks blocked the spread of diseases, but also blocked the way, because you had to pay a card to pass it. It made things easier, but, if you placed it on the wrong road, it slowed you down much when you wanted to cure diseases in that area.
Something similar happened with the search track. Once you'd found what you were looking for it gave you something good, but you had to spend a lot of cards to do so. About one card per spot on the track.
Both the search tracks and the roadblocks gave you something good, but at a high price. Sadly we made a wrong decision concerning a search track in October and it haunted us for the rest of the year.
Next up are the stickers on the cards. Later in the game you could add stickers to your cards and that added a new layer to the game. Now you could not only use them to cure diseases or to travel from one city to another, but also for their special ability. You now had to think twice or trice before playing and discarding a card. Plus, you had to think carefully about on which card you would stick those abilities.
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I stop here. Go get the game. It's great.
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About Last Weekend: Duke Weathers the Storm
by Spike Friedman
In case you were out getting back what's rightfully yours, here's what you missed in sports this weekend.
Duke avenged an earlier loss at Miami to beat the Hurricanes at Cameron Indoor Stadium, 79-76, behind 36 points from Ryan Kelly. Kelly, who had missed the previous two months with a foot injury, said after the game of Miami's NCAA title chances, "We have done far worse than killed them; we have hurt them. And I wish to go on hurting them. I shall leave them as they had left us: marooned, on the periphery of contention. Buried alive. Buried alive."
Revenge was also the order of the day in Ann Arbor as Trey Burke and the Michigan Wolverines topped Michigan State, 58-57. Michigan coach John Beilein, who was asked after the game if this made the two teams even after Michigan State's thrashing of the Wolverines on February 12, responded, "No, no, no, no, no. No, to get even, even-steven, I would have to dunk right on [Michigan State coach] Tom Izzo's head, go up to his daughter's room, dunk on her head, then wait for his wife, Lupe, to get home, and have Tim Hardaway Jr. dunk on her head. That would be even. That would be about square."
LeBron James shook off a scary-looking knee injury and got revenge for a pair of earlier defeats, scoring 29 points while leading the Miami Heat over the New York Knicks, 99-93, at Madison Square Garden. "Come at the King, you best not miss," James said after the game, before whistling a few bars of "The Farmer in the Dell."
The San Antonio Spurs overcame the absence of All-Star point guard Tony Parker, taking out their frustration by thrashing a hapless Detroit Pistons team at home, 114-75. Before the game, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, in a rare emotional moment, was seen looking at Parker's medical reports, while saying to himself, "Look how they massacred my boy." Popovich was then seen explaining to Tim Duncan, "I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life, I don't apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on the strings held by all of those big shots. That's my life, I don't apologize for that. But I always thought that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Duncan, Governor Duncan, something. I didn't think you'd still have to be playing basketball. There wasn't enough time."
Tottenham Hotspur held onto third place in the Premier League with a 2-1 win in the north London derby over Arsenal, avenging their 5-2 loss from earlier this season. Embattled Arsenal coach and noted Frenchman Arsene Wenger said after the match, "There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good; we made the most of it. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to play soccer in a city out in America, in some podunk stopover for commuters heading east. That kid's name was Thierry Henry. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost, or a statue of him in this town!" It was then pointed out to Wenger that there is, in fact, a statue of Henry outside of Emirates Stadium, and that he was mostly speaking nonsense. Wenger then lit a Gauloise and said, "I'm going in to take a nap. When I wake, if the money's on the table, I'll know I have a job next year. If it isn't, I'll know I don't."
The Chicago Blackhawks' point streak sits at 22 after defeating longtime rival the Detroit Red Wings in a shootout, 2-1. With the Blackhawks established in their ascendance, with a Stanley Cup title, and the hottest team in the NHL, and a win over the Red Wings a relatively ho-hum affair, longtime Blackhawks fan Ian Malone said, "We've been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life." When it was suggested to Malone that he consider piracy, Malone explained that he was not interested, as he was a lifelong Cubs fan.
The Los Angeles Angels surprised reigning AL Rookie of the Year Mike Trout by giving him a smaller than expected raise on his contract renewal. While Trout has remained calm publicly, apparently negotiations broke down when Trout delivered the following ultimatum to Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto: "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. But what I do know is that I have a very particular set of skills, skills I plan to maintain over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you sign me to an extension now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you; I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will tell you to your face that I'm going to wind up playing for the Dodgers."
The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Atlanta Hawks, 99-98, behind 34 points from Kobe Bryant. Bryant saved his best for last, scoring 11 points in the fourth quarter; he then told reporters after the game, "They know exactly why I did that to them. They know exactly what was up." However, no one on the Hawks has any idea why Bryant would seek revenge on them. There's no particular history of bad blood between the two teams, nor between Bryant and anyone on the current Hawks roster. "I think he's just a little crazy," Hawks forward Al Horford said after the game. "But don't tell him I said that. Is it too late? Damn, this is going to be a whole thing where I have to sleep with one eye open isn't it? Why does everyone need revenge for things? What happened to being cool and forgiving people?"
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Three quarters of Kiwi kids see streaming as a career, but parents aren't so keen - survey
Mike Kilpatrick
With the top earners making millions, it's not hard to understand the attraction. Photo credit: Getty Images
A new survey has found three quarters of New Zealand children see a potential to make a career in streaming, while also revealing news and politics barely engages them online.
The survey of 415 New Zealanders aged 10-18 and their parents was conducted for Logitech by independent research company Pureprofile, with a maximum margin of error of five percent.
It found 62 percent of those surveyed watched gamers and streamers online, while 54 percent viewed music videos. However news was only watched by 15 percent, with politics attracting the attention of a paltry five percent.
Given the numbers watching it's no surprise to see online streaming - which has exploded in popularity in recent years through the likes of YouTube, TikTok and Twitch - is seen by 75 percent as a viable career option.
However, their parents aren't necessarily on the same page.
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Logitech New Zealand's general manager Fabien Degueldre said that while parents might not see eye to eye with their kids, figures show the gap is not as wide as some may think.
"The fact that just over half of parents understood that you can make a career out of this is fantastic, I can only imagine how low that number would have been 15, 10 or even five years ago," Degueldre said.
All up, 32 percent of parents said they didn't know enough about streaming to comment, which Degueldre said shows there's still a gulf in understanding around what streaming can offer as a career.
This is despite many of today's parents coming from generations that are considered 'digital native'.
"The MySpace generation are the parents now, but they can be just as out of touch when it comes to what Gen Z are up to as their parents were with them," Degueldre said.
"Basement-dwelling caricatures are still in the zeitgeist and parents are bombarded with messages about reducing screen time - despite so much of our own lives taking place online. Keeping kids away from technology is unrealistic."
One successful Kiwi streamer who is backing the younger generation is 'Granny', who has built a community of over 80,000 Twitch followers as well as a steady income from their online activities.
"Career counsellors in schools will often tell students who are struggling to make decisions, that there is a chance your dream job just doesn't exist yet. We know now that streaming and content creation can be a wonderful option," Granny said.
"There's still a chance for anyone who is on the fence about becoming a content creator. Just remember, your type of content might not exist yet, not until you create it."
But it's not quite as easy as it sounds. According to website StreamerFacts.com, less than three percent of streamers who already make money on Twitch earn enough to make a living.
With a total of over 9.6 million active streamers, that means for the total number of streamers on the platform, less than 0.6 percent actually make enough to live on.
However, even that small dream might still be a little too expensive for some kids, with parents not necessarily wanting to foot the bill for the technology required to stream. Nearly half said their children would have to work to pay for the gear, with 12 percent willing to spend less than $100 on their streaming desires.
Given 87 percent of 10-18 year olds rely on grown-ups to buy their electronics, it means that some will likely miss out.
That's obviously something the hardware industry wants to see change.
"You can get them going for less than half the price of rugby camp and we don't expect every budding player to make the All Blacks," Degueldre said.


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I'm going to begin this with two apologies. Firstly, I'd like to say sorry to all those who've sent me books in the past few weeks and have yet to see a review materialise. Secondly, I'd like to apologise for breaking the one rule I've adhered to since creating this blog/site: that I'd keep my own life in the background and concentrate entirely on the funny books and other forms of fiction.
But hey, we make 'em to break 'em. And it's my bloody site after all.
Last week I lost my beloved companion and four-legged muse of the last ten years, Kez. Kez was a gentle, affectionate soul, a tiny black greyhound that won the hearts of all that met her. She wasn't a retired greyhound by definition, in that she'd never actually made it to the tracks, but had been born the runt of a racing litter and treated so cruelly by her breeders that she was covered in deep scars and had a broken tail, a warped spine and teeth so crooked that she couldn't fully close her mouth.
But this external ugliness didn't stop Kez from being the happiest being to have ever graced my life. Perhaps due to the horrendous conditions she suffered through her first year of life, she truly appreciated the affection we gave her, and would follow my every movement like a fuzzy four-legged shadow. She'd listen intently to every word I said and, presumably due to her brutal beginnings, was one of the craftiest, cheekiest scamps you could ever possibly meet. Keeping your place on the sofa often became a battle of wits. She bore no ill will to the species that had caused her such suffering and absolutely adored children, but her past had given her a fear of her own canine kind.
Last week Kez's breathing became erratic, and what should have been a standard trip to the vets ended her life when she reacted poorly to an antibiotic injection and suffered a severe seizure. I don't think I'll ever forget the look of trust in her aged, clouded eyes as she looked at up me and raised her front paw, expecting me to help her, when all I could do was sign away her life.
And I've been unable to write since. Or read. Or even eat with any degree of passion. Perhaps that's why I'm writing this, hoping that producing an epitaph for my beautiful brown-eyed girl will help me over at least one of the hurdles of grievance. Those who've never had dogs will likely scoff; those who have gone through the same thing will know my pain. Kez wasn't just a dog, or just a pet. She was a member of my family, a best friend and a unique personality, with her own habits, nuances and tastes (and I'm not just referring to her bizarre love for broccoli).
But while Kez's death continues to upset me, I can take console in the fact that I gave a dog who was once considered deposable livestock a loving home for much of her life. She was adored, she knew it, and she appreciated every bit of affection. It breaks my heart to think of the thousands of other greyhounds that aren't so lucky. Many animal charities believe that only one in every four or five greyhounds finds a home. The rest suffer all manner of heinous fates.
Kez the beautiful black greyhound… with lazer eyes!
I don't believe in an afterlife, or that life is anything but a series of random events, but I do know that Kez brightened up a portion of my own humble existence, and I'll never forget her. Several years back I planned out a children's novel that would deal with the darkest depths of greyhound racing, a sort of cross between Brave New World, Animal Farm and The Shawshank Redemption written entirely from a variety of greyhounds' perspectives; a book that children will not only cherish but look back upon during adulthood and hopefully take action against these atrocities. Now I know I have to go the distance with this idea.
I'm aware that sob story accounts about outstanding pooches in the Marley & Me mould are the literary fad of the moment, but I feel that this is a story that needs to be told, focusing on an area of dog breeding that is too often brushed aside in favour of feel-good tripe. I'm aware that Michael Morpurgo has already written something ostensibly similar, and I'm sure it's very good, but it still appears to follow those clichés a little too closely for my liking. And I know that my research will take me in horrifying directions – the main reason I abandoned the tale several years back – but I've always known that I'd eventually have to write this book.
Now for the shameless plug: any small publishers (or even big ones) willing to take up the challenge and publish my book? Three months is all it will take me. I'll even give my share to a small greyhound charity that will use it to home and feed more of these elegant, long-legged couch potatoes. Kez may no longer keep the foot of my bed warm, but she'll continue to inspire me for as long as I live.


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2012 1 oz New Zealand Silver $2 Fiji Taku Coin NGC MS69
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Ships in a protective slab to ensure the coins condition.
Bears a face value of $2 that is legal tender in the nation of Fiji.
Issued a Mint State 69 grade by the NGC.
Features the hawksbill turtle.
Hawksbill turtle coins were introduced as a silver bullion product for the nations of Niue and Fiji in 2010. The coins are issued under different names depending upon the country for which it is issued. The Niue coins are labeled Hawksbill Turtle Coins, while the Fiji coin is the Fiji Taku. The use of taku in place of hawksbill honors the local dialect of Fijians, and is the word they use for the hawksbill.
All 2012 1 oz New Zealand Silver $2 Fiji Taku coins in this JM Bullion listing have a near-perfect grade of MS69 from the NGC. Coins in this condition have their full, original luster from the mint, but may also feature a maximum of two minor detracting flaws.
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On the obverse youll find the right-profile portrait of Englands Queen Elizabeth II. Used on all New Zealand Mint coins, Her Majesty became the kingdoms longest reigning monarch in the summer of 2015, surpassing her grandmothers time on the throne.
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Helen Roggenbuck, 84
Helen Roggenbuck, 84, died February 29, 2012, from complications of Alzheimer's with her family by her side. She was born on July 5, 1927, in Stephen, Minnesota and raised in Badger where she attended Badger High School.
Helen was one of eight children born to the late Albert and Olga Heddan. She met and married Harvey Roggenbuck on August 4, 1947. The couple moved to Anchorage in July 1949 where they made Alaska their home and raised their three children. Harvey and Helen were blessed to share 64 years of marriage.
Helen loved gardening and sewing. She devoted much of her time and energy to her family, was a member of the Anchorage Homemakers, an organization that supported many community-oriented projects, and served as a Cub Scout den mother.
Mrs. Roggenbuck is survived by her husband, Harvey; sister Doris Van Raten; brothers, Myron and Milo Heddan; three children, Roxann, Mitchell and Karen Roggenbuck; and grandson, Stefan Roggenbuck. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers Earl, Alvin and Rudy Heddan; and sister, Irene Bolka.
A funeral service was held at Janssen's Evergreen Memorial Chapel, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 1 p.m. She was laid to rest at Fort Richardson National Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 1750 Abbott Road, Anchorage, AK 99518


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President: Turkmenistan combats drug addiction to preserve gene pool
Turkmenistan Materials 18 January 2012 13:12 (UTC +04:00)
Carrying out major work to ensure the safety of the nation's gene pool, you wage an uncompromising struggle against drug addiction which is evil and dangerous for all humanity, in the name of firmness of our independent state, said the address of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
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Carrying out major work to ensure the safety of the nation's gene pool, you wage an uncompromising struggle against drug addiction which is evil and dangerous for all humanity, in the name of firmness of our independent state, said the address of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Anti-Drug State Service.
The address was in context with the 'Working plan on combating illegal trafficking of drugs, psychoactive drugs and precursors as well as helping people addicted by drugs and psychoactive drugs for 2011-2015'. The country is taking effective measures aimed at combating illegal drug trafficking, prophylaxis, and the treatment of people addicted by drugs, helping the move towards a healthy life-style.
Turkmenistan actively participates in international agreements aimed at preventing spread of drugs in the region and the world.
Accordingly, Turkmenistan works in close cooperation with foreign states as well as with the United Nations, the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre where much work is being carried out under various programmes and projects.
"Turkmenistan's election as a member of the UN commission on drugs for 2012-2015 is clear evidence of the universal recognition of our state's policy in this direction which contributes greatly to a solution of pressing issues of modern times," the president's address noted.
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Nonprofits are obvious allies in the effort to secure a full, accurate, and complete census count because millions of Illinoisans already rely on nonprofits every day. When community members entrust their children to a nonprofit childcare center, get health care services at a local clinic, receive job skills training, or open the door to a Meals on Wheels volunteer, they are interacting with trusted messengers who speak the community's language and understand their needs. We believe that existing level of trust means people will listen when nonprofits speak to them about the benefits of participating in the Census.
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Build statewide partnerships between the Coalition Steering Committee, Forefront members, the larger coalition, and funders to coordinate Census 2020 outreach and advocacy.
Please join us on Thurs., 9/20 from 2-3:30pm for a kick-off webinar to learn more about the coalition, its goals, and how your organization can get involved so we can ensure a fair and accurate count here in Illinois. Our keynote speaker is Arturo Vargas, Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO). He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of NALEO Educational Fund, a national nonprofit organization that strengthens American democracy by promoting the full participation of Latinos in civic life. We will also be joined by Dr. Julie Dowling, the new Vice Chair of the National Advisory Council for the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Dowling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
To learn more about the Illinois Count Me In Coalition or to participate in a Working Group, please contact Anita Banerji, Director, Democracy Initiative, at abanerji@myforefront.org.


WALLEYE Good the walleye are scattered these fish can be found in water depth from four foot to twenty feet. Night crawlers, minnows and trolled baits are working well.
CATFISH Good the catfish are active all over out in the main lake and in the river. Good baits are shrimp, night crawlers and fresh shad.
CRAPPIE is being caught in the coves.
Large mouth Bass GOOD There are a good number of big Largemouth bass.


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Coppock is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Iowa, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Henry County, Jefferson County en Washington County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 57. In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 66, een stijging van 9 (15,8%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van 0,6 km², geheel bestaande uit land.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 16 km rond Coppock.

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Jimmy Kimmel enlisted Celine Dion and David Spade to help him crash a wedding in Las Vegas.
Kimmel on Friday topped off his week of broadcasts from the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood by interrupting the nuptials of Kate and Jason which were taking place in a nearby chapel.
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How to interpret an IR spectrum without any Knowledge of the structure
** IR spectroscopy is an incredibly powerful tool for functional group identification, as we have seen in the preceding subjects.
** To understand well, you should read this subjects in our site:
(1) Infrared Spectroscopy: An Instrumental Method for Detecting Functional Groups
(2) Interpreting IR Spectra
** However, in introducing this technique, we have explored IR spectra from the perspective of compounds of known structure, explaining the peaks observed in reference to each critical grouping of atoms that we know to be present.
** In the real world, one often encounters brand new materials of unknown structure. How IR can help in this scenario is something that a forensics scientist or natural products isolation chemist might need to worry about on a daily basis.
** We certainly cannot use IR spectroscopy by itself to determine complete structure, but an IR spectrum can often point toward the presence of certain functional groups if one pays particular attention to signals whose peak positions are distinct from other groups and is consistently strong enough to be observed.
** The latter is an important consideration as there can be variations in signal strength for certain groups dependent on what other groups are in the molecule, and some signals overlap with others, making a definitive assignment impossible.
For example, most organic molecules contain C-H bonds in one form or another, so peaks below 1450 cm-1 and signals in the range 2800–3000 cm-1 are not particularly definitive other than to indicate that the molecule is organic and contains C-H bonds.
Here are some examples of what one might consider in a first-pass assessment of any IR spectrum to generate what are likely to be correct answers about some of the functional groups that are present:
(1) Only carbonyl group (C=O) stretches tend to have a tight, strong absorbance in the 1630–1780 cm-1 range.
We may not be able to identify what kind of carbonyl group is present, but we can tell that there is at least one carbonyl group.
(2) Only the stretches of nitrile or alkyne bonds ( C≡N , C≡C ) tend to appear between 2000 and 2300 cm-1, so these can be fairly readily assigned.
(3) Only hydroxyl groups (OH) as in alcohols or carboxylic acids (COOH) tend to create a large and broad signal at about 3300 cm-1; these groups are easy to identify assuming the sample is not contaminated with water.
(4) Only amines tend to produce broad but smaller peaks than hydroxyl peaks around 3300 cm -1. The number of those peaks can sometimes tell if there is one or two hydrogens attached to that nitrogen atom.
The examples below allow us to put these general principles into practice.
Example (1): The IR spectrum of Unknown (1)
(a) IR spectrum of Unknown (1) has broad signals centered around 3300 cm-1 and a medium absorption at 2250 cm-1. Based on the information above, we can surmise that the molecule likely contains a hydroxyl group and a group with a triple bond.
(b) Most likely the triply-bonded group is a nitrile since nitriles tend to appear at about 2250 cm-1, whereas alkynes appear slightly lower at around 2000 cm-1.
(c) We cannot be strictly sure that it is a nitrile, but that would be a good hypothesis in the absence of any other chemical evidence. Indeed, this turns out to be correct, as the molecule is 3-hydroxypropionitrile in this case.
(a) There is a hydroxyl absorption once again centered around 3300 cm-1, as well as a carbonyl peak at 1705 cm-1.
(b) And, although we cannot always tell what kind of carbonyl is present, when the hydroxyl peak is extremely broad and has a ragged appearance (due to overlap of the C-H absorptions that extend below it, in contrast to the first spectrum where the hydroxyl was smooth, it is usually safe to assume that this hydroxyl group is attached to the carbonyl group; thus, these two groups are together part of a carboxylic acid functional group.
(c) Once again, we were able to identify the key functional group of the molecule since this is heptanoic acid.
Characteristic Infrared Absorptions of Groups
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It has been a seesaw year for interest rate derivatives. In late 2010 and early 2011 markets were relatively calm and predictable in Asia, although the Arab uprisings in the Middle East caused some market volatility. The first major shock came in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, which sparked dramatic interest rates movements, including a 15 basis point drop in the long end of the US rates curve during a 10-minute period on March 15.


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Listened to the musician. Watched the artist. Understood nothing
Nahuel Pennisi, singer, musician, composer, popular artist. He is blind. Does it matter? Not at all
This edition of UN Today aims to approach the issue of disability from a different angle. On this occasion, we intend to merge the challenge of having certain special abilities and apply them to the possibility of engaging and communicating good examples through art.
Meeting Nahuel was a powerful surprise. As I was once a musician myself, it was shocking to hear his voice and see how it flows in harmony with his perfect guitar playing. Discovering his popularity (with more than 200,000 followers on social media, winner of different national awards and Grammy Award nominations for Latin America), his barely 31 years and his touring all over the world only confirmed part of the experience. That he was blind, and that – as such – he used an incredible technique to play the instrument, literally knocked me off the chair.
As the guitar rests on his legs, his left hand sets the rhythm and tempo for the right hand, which travels a precise path over an ordinary fretboard – a combination of movements that are part of something extremely unusual. Anyone who plays a stringed instrument knows exactly what this is all about. It represents the reversal of all learned technique and the reformulation of everything from scratch. It was, therefore, opportune for me to contact him to hear the song of his life in the first person.
Who is he really?
Co-raised in Florencio Varela, Province of Buenos Aires, by his parents and grandparents, and as part of a team of four siblings, he was – according to him – "Happy to have had a very nice life, although difficult, always joyful", where music was always his 'flag', his foundation, while he lived a 'normal' life, much like the one he is still living. He is a family man, he enjoys drinking a 'mate' with friends, playing football and – he says -, he has never felt like a person with disability. Not being able to see did not make this an issue or a topic of conversation at home. On the contrary and – again -, he mentions: "I was always brought up in a 'normal' way."
His compositions and interpretations refer to what he senses, defining that "There are many images that I don't need to see." He likes to think in metaphors, learning to look at things differently, defining himself as "being grateful for simply being able to be and do what he loves", which represents not only a challenge for himself, but also for everyone who likes to sing.
© PITER ROMERO – Nahuel's incredible guitar technique
Keep trying and you will succeed
Learning an instrument takes time. Getting to perform such complex works can be part of a special and unique talent, but also part of never-ending perseverance. The version of "Ojalá" by author and composer Silvio Rodríguez, is a clear example. Nahuel re-emphasises that the concept of disability has to be left to one side, remarking that "All people have to have perseverance in whatever they do", and adds, "Thank God I was born with a virtue towards music but – like everything else – that virtue has to be polished with time."
Clearly, his inner strength has allowed him to stand up to life and crush that horrible word called 'disability', a word that segregates, that hurts, that frustrates – especially those who lack motivation and allow the system to allocate them in a place of constant vulnerability. "Family and environment are very important", Nahuel points out and adds, "I never grew up thinking that because of my blindness I wouldn't be able to do certain things. It's true, I won't be able to fly planes, but I will be happy doing what I like."
So what is the recipe? How do we motivate those who haven't had a family that integrates them, a family that shapes people with an attitude when facing life's challenges? According to Nahuel, "We have to think about the things that make us well, the things we do have and value. Not being able to see must – for many people -, be something difficult, something hard, but there is much more than seeing, let's try to learn from that place."
Cover of the latest album of Nahuel Pennisi.
His fourth and latest album, "Renacer", has become a very popular, very familiar and very versatile masterpiece. He sings to his mother, to his wife, and mainly to the social problems of kids living on the street. Have you listened to it?


By Sophie Uliano, Well Being Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4.
In the green cosmetics world, there has recently been a debate about the pros and cons of standard store-bought deodorant. Two terms have been linked to ostensibly toxic antiperspirants: breast cancer and Alzheimer's.
However, we must filter out the Internet rumors and get to the bottom of the matter. In short, there is currently a need for reliable evidence that supports a connection between deodorant and cancer or Alzheimer's. There are a lot of suspect ingredients lurking in drugstore deodorants. Many underarm products contain aluminum salts, propylene glycol, synthetic fragrance, and parabens—none of which I want in that delicate area extremely close to my lymph nodes.
But finding a natural deodorant that really works is difficult because the natural formulas don't contain the substance that blocks sweat glands: aluminum salts. These salts react with the water in sweat to create plugs that block sweat ducts, and sweat is one of the important ways in which the body excretes waste and toxins.
As their name implies, antiperspirant deodorants aim to prevent the body from sweating. They typically contain aluminum compounds, which are among the few substances that plug the ducts. Remember, the sweat itself is not what causes odor; the bacteria that breeds when sweat has been sitting in your armpits for a while is what stinks. If you absolutely don't want to sweat at all or if you have a nerve-wracking meeting or want to wear a silk blouse to a special event, you might want to use an antiperspirant to keep you as dry as possible.
Non-antiperspirant deodorant only deals with the odor and won't stop the sweating, which, in my opinion, is much healthier. Most truly natural deodorants fall into this category. I look for deodorants formulated with pure essential oils, aloe, and zinc oxide.
Underarm pastes are a type of deodorant that have become really popular. They come in a jar, so you scoop out the paste and rub it into your armpits. Most pastes are formulated with baking soda or arrowroot powder, which helps to minimize wetness, and a blend of essential oils that combat bacteria and provide a pleasant aroma. There are only a handful of companies that currently sell underarm deodorant paste, but it is relatively easy to make; the following recipe will help you get started.
Place the coconut oil and the shea butter in a double boiler over low heat and stir until it has all melted. Remove from heat and whisk in the baking soda and the arrowroot powder. Stir in the essential oil, then pour into the jar.
At room temperature, the deodorant will be soft; if you want it to be more solid, keep it in the refrigerator. Store in a cool, dark place and use within six months.
This article, originally titled "Deodorant: The Great Debate," is adapted for Well Being Journal from the book Gorgeous for Good: A Simple 30-Day Program for Lasting Beauty—Inside and Out, by Sophie Uliano, published by Hay House (2015) and available at all major bookstores.
Sophie Uliano is the author of Gorgeously Green, Do It Gorgeously, and The Gorgeously Green Diet. Her website, http://sophieuliano.com, brings together a community of like-minded women and provides in-depth articles, reviews, beauty picks, recipes, and more covering the latest beauty trends. More at http://facebook.com/gorgeouslygreen and http://twitter.com/sophieuliano.
This article originally appeared in Well Being Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 July/August 2015 (available in print or digital format).


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Winnersh landscaper who scammed a school appears in court
Ryan Paul Campion twice took money from customers and didn't do the work
Ryan Paul Campion was prosecuted at Reading Magistrates Court. Credit getreading
A landscaper from Winnersh has been fined after ripping off a school and a person in Wokingham.
Ryan Paul Campion, 26, of Rainbow Park, Winnersh, admitted the offences at Reading Magistrates Court on Friday, June 29.
First, Campion, who was trading as Landscape Creations, agreed to build a raised flower bed for a school in Wokingham, Berkshire in October 2016.
He took a £1,360 deposit, but by the end of January 2017 had no intention of starting the work or giving the cash back.
Pangbourne builder fined for shoddy work on Winnersh garage
He accepted he had mislead the school into thinking the work would be done quickly and that his behaviour was false and misleading.
A month later in November 2016, Campion agreed to do more work on the drive and side path of a home in Wokingham.
He was paid a deposit of £1,100 and started work.
However, after one day he failed to return and left a pile of rubble from the old drive in the front garden.
By January 2017, the work still hadn't been done and the pile of rubble was still there.
Wokingham builder in court for unsafe extension which caused gas leak
Campion accepted this work did not comply with the standard expected of tradesman in his field.
He was fined £500 for each offence and ordered to pay £2,460 in compensation back to the school and homeowner.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £1,182.70 and a victim surcharge of £50.
Cllr Iain McCracken, Chairman of the Joint Public Protection Committee said: "This is an all too familiar story with a trader not doing the work at all or only partially doing the work.
"This kind of offending that leaves people with damaged property or out of pocket is completely unacceptable."
First look inside Wokingham's new Peach Place development
Campion was prosecuted under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations act 2008.
His sentencing followed an investigation by the Public Protection Partnership (PPP) Trading Standards Service working with the PPP Joint Case Management Unit, following a complaint.
Anyone in Wokingham, West Berkshire or Bracknell with concerns about dodgy tradesman can call 01635 519 930 or email tsadvice@westberks.gov.uk.


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