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GEORGE MICHAEL AND QUEEN – Five Live EP
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#688, 1st May 1993
Britain has a Pop Establishment as surely as it has a political one, and the charity tribute gig is its equivalent of a State Funeral. The line-up for the Freddie Mercury celebration at Wembley Arena is a curious thing, reflecting not just how much of a fixture Queen had become but how awkward it was to actually place them. On the one hand a bunch of hard rock and metal acts influenced by Queen, on the other a roll-call of British pop's great and good, queueing up to try on Freddie's stack heels.
George Michael's turn is preserved here: he ringleads the remaining Queen members through "Somebody To Love" and "These Were The Days Of Our Lives", and you also get three Queen-less cover versions from a recent tour. So it makes sense to look at this more as a George Michael record than anything much to do with Queen. This stuff dates from the zenith of the Respectable George phase, a public burial of the Wham! teenpop star. Michael's need to be taken seriously could sometimes come off as chippy, but at the scale of international fame he was operating at grand gestures (calling your album Listen Without Prejudice) were probably needed. Even so this is the least exciting George Michael release yet.
Soulful singers who hit the arena tour level of success end up having to walk a tightrope between nuance and reach – the sound has to be big enough to fill the space, and that has implications for its intimacy. On this EP you can see Michael trying a few approaches to the problem. "Somebody To Love" enjoys the bigness, borrowing its phrasing from the original and trying to get the crowd involved. "Those Were The Days Of Our Lives" – pointlessly recast as a duet – tries to exploit the emotional power of stilling a huge audience. "Calling You" – very much a singer's song, since it's little but a repeated, agonised phrase – simply treats the space as empty: Michael's projection of loneliness here gets deeper into me than anything else on the EP. As for the "Killer"/"Papa Was A Rolling Stone" mash-up, on paper it's intriguing but in reality it's mainly a recognition game, with progressively louder cheers as more people in the arena notice what's going on. Michael doesn't get the songs to talk to one another in any very resonant way, and he's not helped by how plonking the "Killer" riff sounds, released from its claustrophobic studio home.
In fact, I'm left thinking this might have been a decent studio EP. The song choice – concealed loneliness, paranoia, regret, bittersweet reminiscence, and then loneliness again, naked this time – could have made it an interesting snapshot of George Michael at his most self-conscious and brooding. Instead it's a picture of a good singer doing his best with the logistics of high-level stardom: what results is the very definition of worthy but dull.
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Cumbrian on 9 Mar 2012 #
I take the remaining members of Queen's intentions at face value in setting up a concert ostensibly to honour the memory of their friend but also to encourage awareness and understanding of AIDS, raising some money for the cause. I suspect that there was an unstated intention too though. It seemed pretty clear why the majority of the crowd were present and I am not totally convinced it was to listen to the awareness part of the message. A supposed final chance to see Queen (of sorts) on stage and give Freddie Mercury a send off was more obviously the aim and in this, I guess the crowd's aim was more in tune with the unstated one from the surviving members of Queen: to get the band on stage and feel a football stadium respond to their songs one last time.
The opening bits of the gig took this well away from Live Aid territory, inasmuch as the acts that kicked the gig off were pretty far from the heritage scene (Metallica, Extreme – who did a quasi Queen at Live Aid medley, Def Leppard, Guns N Roses – though Bob Geldof turned up too, as well as Spinal Tap). Then it veered back into that territory by getting a bunch of mostly heritage singers in to sub on Queen's songs. It was, I have to say, underwhelming at the time – and rather underwhelming when revisited.
The received wisdom on this is that Freddie Mercury was a unique talent and no one could hope to replicate him. I'm not convinced that is exactly right. I think it is more that it's very difficult to bring something new or interesting to the party in this situation, especially when these particular songs played to his particular strengths and changing stuff around for new interpretations is not what it's all about. I'm unsure that a similar concert in the memory of, for instance, Whitney Houston or Robert Plant, wouldn't descend into a bunch of facsimiles as well and, as such, it's more probably a format problem than anything inherently superior about Mercury. Of the acts who performed early on, only James Hetfield managed to do much with his song– but then Metallica had been covering Stone Cold Crazy for years and he knew what he was going to do with it well in advance (i.e. growl it out like the proto-thrash metal that it is).
And then, there was George Michael. By this point, my expectations were pretty low. He actually started with a truncated 39 and followed with the version of TATDOOL with Lisa Stansfield which also made it onto the Five Live EP; I don't think it's all that great – too soporific. To finish, there was Somebody To Love and, finally, after a night of being disappointed, here was something worth watching. He wasn't channelling Freddie Mercury – this was his own performance – but his vocal is tremendous and energised the crowd to an extent no one had yet managed that day. By the time he's punching the air above his head, "yeah yeah yeah"ing, he's put the entire gig on his back. The orchestration of the crowd in the gospel section brings them along and then handing them the mike for the descending vocal line at the end* – this is the sort of thing that regularly gets derided but, fuck it, pulling 80,000 people together behind one song is a powerful thing, just as powerful as getting a warehouse or club full of people dancing to your tunes. George Michael did it and did it bloody well; something no one else managed on that stage that night (not Plant, Daltrey or Axl Rose, never mind those on the stage who never were bare chested "Rock Gods").
* A planned move. There is a rehearsal clip on Youtube where George never even attempts this descending line, he was always going to drag in the audience here. You've still got to sell it though and he definitely managed that.
The following look on Brian May's face says it all – a shocked grin across his face, it says, this is what I needed when I got up here, someone to make me feel like that just one more time. It certainly blew everything away on that night and is about the only real reason to watch the concert anymore. I don't remember the rest of the EP getting much of an airing, to be honest (though am willing to be told I am wrong by those with better memories), so I'd mark on the basis of the lead track, which at the time, I'd have given a 9 but that could just have been because of the other readings of Queen songs that surrounded it. I'd still give it a 6 or 7 now though.
Got to be honest – didn't know the rest of the EP before listening to it a couple of weeks ago. Sounds like George had fun singing Papa Was A Rolling Stone. Calling You sounds like a vocal exercise to me – well done but, as Tom says, might have been better in a studio setting rather than in front of a crowd, in an attempt to make it more intimate.
JonnyB † on 9 Mar 2012 #
#1 *also, the difficult bit.
And I'd agree with all of that, although I've not seen the show since first time round. I seem to recall thinking that 'Under Pressure' was good also. But the rest – even as the grieving uberfan – I found a bit underwhelming. Probably because the songs are so tied to their original production and performance.
I was dimly aware that this was an EP, although I only ever heard the two Queen songs so had it more in my mind as a double-A. He handles Somebody To Love beautifully and seems to lift the band – it works. Those Were The Days… well, it's no more cloying than the original, which is faint praise I know. So agreed with the 4.
thefatgit † on 9 Mar 2012 #
Norman Whitfield gets his first #1 since IHITTG, I think. Not much to add to what's been said already.
swanstep † on 9 Mar 2012 #
I don't know the EP as such, but watched the original show, and like Cumbrian regard Someone to Love as the meat of things here. I watched the concert off and on live on MTV in the US on a Monday afternoon on which I was supposed to be grading final exams and reading final essays…. But it was hot as hell – summer had come early to the East Coast (nearly 30 C and 90% humidity where I was in mid April!), and I had visitors in town from Australia….so work would wait, beer was drunk, music was blared, all the while underwhelmed people made snarky comments about the various acts. Metallica's James Hetfield is the cowardly lion, Bowie's not going to do the Lord's prayer is he? and so on.
And then this happened. George Michael just killed it, and more or less as Cumbrian described in #1, everything came together. It truly felt like Live Aid redux: just as Queen w/ Freddie had owned that day, blowing everyone else off the stage, GM and Queen were better than everyone that preceded them and then completely bossed it on STL. Suddenly the sound felt balanced and huge, the editing/shot selection felt sharpened up (even helicopter shots now felt well-judged), all 70K+ people in the stadium in synch. This was it: one of the greatest live performances. Moving and stunning, it was easy to imagine Freddie smiling down, *that's* how you do it lads.
From a Popular perspective, STL getting to the top of the charts now helps makes up for the original single being kept off the top of the charts by (the to me unfathomable) Showaddywaddy. A good day in other words:
chelovek na lune † on 9 Mar 2012 #
Apologies for the mild digression so early in the thread, but….at the time, one story I recall hearing about the Concert, was that the Pet Shop Boys, having been invited to perform, expressed the intention of presenting their cover version of "We Will Rock You", but were forbidden from so doing, on the grounds presumably that….well, it wouldn't have matched the bombast of the (dreadful) version of Killer on this record, I suppose, in part.
Does anyone better connected that I know if this is true? I'm afraid I can't recall where I read or heard this. Might have been the NME, but equally might have been Chris Morris's breathtakingly brilliant (still, in 1992) GLR Sunday morning radio programme….
Tom † on 9 Mar 2012 #
I'm getting a "you had to be there" vibe at this point – I didn't watch the concert, and while I'll take your word that "Somebody To Love" was a massive highlight, I'm not sure that comes across on record – where it's good but not special. Of course its impact is going to be different salvaging 3 hours of mediocrity rather than introducing 20 minutes of it, though.
punctum on 9 Mar 2012 #
As the title suggests, five cover versions, recorded live, and mainly George; two, the lead track "Somebody To Love" and "These Are The Days Of Our Lives," come from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley about a year earlier and see him backed by the three surviving members of Queen, while the other three are taken from various of the previously mentioned "covers tour" performances – all stemming from a time when George was publicly continuing to work himself (and his you're-getting-none-of-my-royalties record company) out.
His reading of "Somebody To Love" is so earnest as to qualify as anti-camp; none of Mercury's raised right eyebrow here as he offers another slice of his tormented autobiography. "Each morning I get up, I die a little/Can barely stand on my feet," "I try and I try and I try/But everybody puts me down/They say I'm going crazy," "I have spent all my years in believing you/But I just can't get no relief" – all easy to ascribe to his own state of mind. There is, however, something in the region of masochism about his wish to plead his loneliness in front of a huge gospel choir and an audience of 72,000, especially when he turns to the latter and cries: "I wanna hear every SINGLE person! See every SINGLE pair of hands!" with the accent determinedly on the "single," demanding that they sing back to him, "Find me somebody to love" as though engaged in a mass ritual chant to liberate his soul – or maybe he was simply doing a live lonely hearts advert. Either way, it is a pretty disturbing performance.
"These Are The Days" is performed as a courtly duet with Lisa, and George sounds as excited introducing her as he did Elton on his previous number one – "Straight back from Rochdale! Would you please welcome MISS LISA STANSFIELD!!!!" – even if Stansfield's yearning Northern Soul diva strains aren't quite what this model song of contented restraint requires. Of the other three songs, we have his well-timed join-the-dots linkage of "Killer" and "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" – two dignified pleas from different generations against solipsistic, alienating individualism and for a true and warm sense of community and belonging, although with a combined running time of eleven minutes, more or less the same length as the uncut Temptations original of the latter song, he labours the point a trifle too much, though note his emphasis on the final "all alone, yeah" of "Rolling Stone."
The fifth track is his interpretation of "Calling You," the song from the film Bagdad Café – and his taste certainly inclines me to think that we could swap mixtapes any time – a song which at the moment possibly means more to me than any other. The original film was, literally, dreamlike; a German's idea of an American road movie, more Caspar David Friedrich than Edward Hopper, with the slightly unreal figures of Marianne Sagebrecht, CC Pounder, and Jack Palance looking as though newly brought back from the dead (and if you check his film credits over the two preceding decades, that wasn't far from the truth). And the song, as sung by Jevetta Steele, has continued to resonate in the intervening twenty years; an unearthly yet patient union of small detail ("A desert road from Vegas to nowhere," "A coffee machine that needs some fixing") and holy transcendence ("Someplace better than where you've been," "But we both know a change is coming/Coming closer…sweet relief") interspersed with Steele's stunning and perfectly pitched elongated cries of "I am calling you."
Well, you can understand that. George does the song due credit, and his own projected isolation is easily graspable, but he can't resist extending the cry into melisma, and at over six minutes the point has long since been made. So, another postcard – perhaps even another proto-blog post – to tell us where he is, where he's been and what, or whom, he's grasping for. A few more years will elapse before we meet George again here, but when he reappears, he will make his presence gently, if grievously, known.
Rory on 9 Mar 2012 #
So many good lengthy comments already that I'll keep this one short. I can see Tom's point @6 about how this might come across on record, but my only exposure to this EP is through the video of "Somebody to Love", which does come across as suitably epic, even to this particular somebody who wasn't in the audience or watching on TV on the day.
The original is one of the definitive Queen songs, so would rate very highly from me; but although this is a good performance from George Michael & Fredless, I wouldn't go much higher than 6 – live recordings don't get many repeat listens from me. Scoring EPs as a whole does mess up the game a bit, so I think I'll treat this as a single with multiple b-sides and give it that score rather than water it down.
(Bah, not allowed to edit. I should have changed that before posting to "my only previous exposure", because I have listened to the rest on YouTube now.)
lonepilgrim on 9 Mar 2012 #
although I'm not a fan of stadium rock I'm pretty impressed with George's performance on the lead track of this EP – his own solo work can often be too studied and airless for my taste, so it's refreshing to hear him cut loose.
I wasn't aware of the other covers – but the Bagdad Cafe one sounds intriguing. I loved that film.
wichita lineman † on 9 Mar 2012 #
Re 5: It's true, but I don't think they were entirely serious. I've used Neil Tennant's pomp-popping quote as the conclusion to a particularly testing chapter in my forthcoming book (April 2012, don't hold your breath):
"When they had that Freddie Mercury tribute concert we were going to offer our services to do We Will Rock You. We were going to come onstage with one of those old drum boxes with a little pitter-patter beat and make We Will Rock You into this tiny little fey statement. It would have been great if we'd done it wearing dunces' hats, waving our heads from side to side."
As a comparison piece…
http://youtu.be/XP_eHGYzYtc
Thanks, Wichita, I knew somebody here would know the answer! April's not far away… I spose at least the dunces caps got an outing in the video of "Can You Forgive Her?" the following year….
23 Daves on 9 Mar 2012 #
Not only was George Michael's performance with Queen the highlight of the concert, it's also the only bit of it I can actually still remember. Until reading the comments above, it had utterly slipped my mind that Metallica and Guns 'n' Roses were even there, yet my Mum is a huge Freddie Mercury fan, so there's no doubt at all in my mind that it was on in our household for the duration. The only thing I can still remember is the fact that John Deacon seemed to be getting terribly sore fingers from the demands of hours of bass playing, and seemed to keep licking them for relief. Or perhaps he'd eaten a particularly tasty pack of pickled onion flavoured Hula Hoops earlier that day. Who knows? But when these are the things you actually notice and remember, it says nothing terribly good about the quality of the rest of the gig.
I seem to remember rumours began circulating the very next day that Queen were going to stay together as a band with George Michael as their new frontperson, which gives some idea of just how impressive his performance was. It seems utterly fitting too, since in my mind Freddie was always more of a pop star than a rock star – flamboyant rather than fist punching and militant.
The single itself is merely OK, and the only noteworthy thing I can think of to say about it is that it's the only Parlophone 7″ single in history to actually have "33 1/3 rpm" swirled alongside the centre rather than the famous "45rpm" logo. Again, an unimpressive minor detail in lieu of anything more interesting to say.
Mark G † on 10 Mar 2012 #
Didn't Papa/rolling stone get a 12″ 'remix' also? No mean feat for a live performance!
anto on 10 Mar 2012 #
This is the eigth or ninth encounter Popular has had with George Michael in just under 10 years. For someone with a rather bitty output compared to the workaholic types like Elton and McCartney he's certainly had a lot of number ones so inevitably you forget 1 or 2 and this was the single I had forgotten about.
His delivery of Somebody to Love in particular epitomises how he came across at this time well-groomed and oh-so-professional a bit prematurely middle-aged even. This man was born the same year as Jarvis Cocker and Ian Brown. Actually Georges pop persona seems to have worked out in reverse. He was already was a self-parody at 21 then he went through the proper artiste phase then big venue entertainer in a pink jacket and in recent times hard-partying loose cannon.
I remember the line-up at the Freddie Mercury concert seeming odd – Axl Rose and Liza Minelli on the same bill? For all its heartfelt meaning it was all rather tacky. A lot of the performers didn't seem aware just how strange and randonm it all appeared.
swanstep † on 11 Mar 2012 #
@12, thefatgit. Thanks for that link. Buckley man,… I know his noodly guitar accompaniments aren't everyone's cup o' tea, but they work for me. Michael's track has that horrible synth-piano all over it, but you kind of put up with it if that's the only version you know… Listening to Buckley's willowy guitar version then feels like being let out of prison. I wonder whether Michael still does Calling You live, and if so whether he's adopted any of Buckley's arrangement?
MBI † on 22 Mar 2012 #
As an American, I am kind of shocked that almost none of the songs (minus a couple Wham! songs) I associate with George Michael have popped up. Where's Faith? Monkey? Freedom '90? One More Try? I Want Your Sex? Father Figure? I feel like what's going on with George Michael is the same thing you described with Michael Jackson — tons of #1s, but they don't describe the artist that well.
lonepilgrim on 4 Apr 2012 #
all that we wants (is another entry)
Erithian † on 4 Apr 2012 #
I don't know whether others had more efficient ways of seeking out new music back in the late 70s, but for me those autumn days are redolent of waiting to hear the new Queen single. You'd read about the impending release of the new single and album in Record Mirror, and for a few days you'd wonder what a song called "Somebody To Love" or "We Are The Champions" might sound like. Then one morning Noel Edmonds would say he was about to play the new Queen single in two songs' time, and you'd make a quick calculation as to how late you could get out of the door and still make it to school for registration.
That was the feverish state that "Bohemian Rhapsody" had got you into. And it has to be said that, since nothing could quite live up to that level of anticipation, both STL and WATC disappointed me at first before I came to terms with them. ("Bicycle Race" disappointed me and still sounds a dud, whereas "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", described by the RM reviewer as "three years out-of-date Manhattan Transfer" was an immediate winner.)
It's fair to suppose that fellow pop fan George Michael, a year younger than me, might have had something of the same experience, and that once he'd listened a couple of times he'd have realised that it swung like a good 'un. It crashed straight in at number 4 and looked a cert to depose Chicago from number one – but then stopped! in the same position! while the clearly vastly inferior Showaddywaddy climbed to the top. Nevertheless, it was a song he no doubt absorbed as part of his pop education, and just over 16 years later, in circumstances no-one could have foreseen in 1976, he got to sing it to a stadium-full of people and take it to its rightful place.
And yes, what a job he does with it. He goes into it off the back of the duet with Lisa Stansfield, during which he sways along to Brian May's guitar solo while Lisa stands still. In between the two songs (I'd forgotten this before YouTubing just now), there's a heartfelt plea to the crowd – "it's estimated that by the year 2000, 40 million people will be infected with HIV: and if you think they'll all be gay people or drug addicts, then you're pretty much lining up to be one of them". And perhaps that plea was on his mind as "Somebody To Love" kicked in. The concert was on 20 April 1992; Anselmo Feleppa, his partner since the previous year's Rock in Rio festival, would be diagnosed with AIDS later that year and die on 26 March 1993 – his death inspired "Jesus To A Child" – and shortly afterwards this EP was released.
As for me, no such poignant associations with this record. On 2 May 1993, while it was number one, Aston Villa's surprise home defeat to Oldham handed Manchester United their first league title for 26 years. Truly, those were the days of our lives.
Baztech † on 5 Apr 2012 #
lonepilgram….haha brillant post ISWYDT…
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08/30/2011 Elizabeth B – Gibson Air, did a very good job! They were prompt and thorough on installation. Left nothing undone, stayed here the entire day to make sure everything was completed. Wasn't like they forgot something and had to come back the next day (wasn't anything like that going on). Had a sufficient crew to ensure that the job was completed in one day. Made sure they had a complete list of parts when they came. Inventoried to make sure everything was there, before they started the job. Stuck to the original quote price, didn't try to revise anything on it. There was a number of months between the quote and the installation, because I had gotten several quotes over a period of 2 months.
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8/16/2011: Richard B. – Craig and Leonard were very professional and did a very good job. I am pleased with what they have done.
7/28/2011: Lynn N. – Thank you for correcting the problem with the return air restriction. Last week Troy and Aaron installed a new collar on the unit. Immediately we felt more air flow in the house. Over the past week we have noticed that the temperature consistency throughout the house is more even. We also noticed that you can hear the air movement into the air return now. We are so appreciative that our concern was taken seriously. Thank you for you assistance.
07/25/2011 Cathy B – David arrived quickly after I called on a late Sun. night, and quickly diagnosed the problem. He was kind and patient and explained it in detail, and answered my questions. Everything went fine. He had a great helpful attitude.
7/13/2011: Joe L. – Your guys did a good job with this store. The store has not looked this good in a while. I appreciate it Thanks!
07/08/2011 CAROL H – GIBSON AIR repaired my air conditioning unit for me. GIBSON AIR was great. They deserve a B for all categories. They are pretty good compared to everyone else.
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05/19/2011: Stephen H – All went very well. Made the appointment and they came out within a week. Conner arrived at our door at the earliest part of the time window we expected. He went to work and found no problems with our equipment. He was at our home for about 30 minutes. Conner was a very nice young man, answered all my questions, as he went about his various tasks. I do plan to have Gibson back in the fall to check the furnace function. Overall, a very good experience! With all the heating and air companies in the Las Vegas area competing for business I can recommend Gibson over all others that we have used in the past.
04/01/2009: Tricia H – Needed to have routine service on the A/C. The service tech was very knowledgeable and honest. He showed us parts that were wearing out and let us know approx. how long it would be before they needed replacing rather than trying to get us to replace things now. I have had them out several times since to check on a thermostat issue, which turned out to be the problem of a recently joined power share program. The service tech arrived on time, happy, friendly and very knowledgeable. Performed the work with explanations of everything that he was doing and why. Explained in detail what repairs might be needed in the future and why.
07/30/2008: James D – When I called to make the apt. for A/C service, I was also told about the combination service they had which would service my A/C now, and my heater in the winter. This combination service saved me a lot of money! When the service tech came out, he was polite and honest. He explained what he did to each unit, what needed to be replaced soon, and what needed to be replaced at some point in the future (a season or two). I had the same tech come out to do the added repair and he was again very prompt, honest and polite. He said that they would send me a reminder card when it was time to schedule the apt. to have the heater serviced.
06/19/2008 James D – The installation of the A/C was great but with part of that we were supposed to get an energy efficient rebate. It has been almost a year to get this done. We called them monthly and got continues excuses for why they could not come out.
05/18/2007: CATHY S – Gibson Air removed a bad switch on my existing central heating and air conditioning unit and installed a new one. This unit is my main source of heating and air conditioning in my 3 bedroom 2 bathrooms home. I was satisfied with the service of Gibson Air. This company was quick to respond to my needs and cleaned up behind themselves very well leaving no mess. It is uncommon to have service as good as Gibson Air offered.
08/02/2006 SARAH L – Company responded very quickly. Service was great, and price was reasonable. I would highly recommend them!
05/18/2006 RAY S – I have been doing business with Gibson for about two years and I have a contract that I pay which includes two inspections per year. I find the people at Gibson to be professional and clean with their work. They do not try to up-sell me on anything. After the work is done, I receive a report as to the condition of the unit. I am very satisfied with Gibson and will continue to use their services.
05/16/2006 ROY P – Gibson Air responded to my call in a timely manner. During the heat wave here, they managed to get my new unit installed very fast. They were hard workers and they knew what they were doing. I have had no problems whatsoever with the new unit.
9/13/2013 J. Hanes – Aaron was my home this morning to diagnose what was wrong with my A/C unit. He was professional, efficient and a very nice gentleman. He is a very good technician.


World leaders pay respect to late Cuban former President Fidel Castro as tens of thousands of people filled Revolution Square for a rally in honour of the revolutionary leader.
Greece's left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was among those who addressed the crowd.
The presidents of Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Panama, South Africa and Zimbabwe also attended.
The left-wing presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela, Evo Morales and Nicolas Maduro, were among those who signed a book of condolences earlier on Tuesday at the Jose Marti memorial where a photograph flanked by an honour guard had been on display since Monday.
Another admirer of Fidel Castro, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, is joining the two presidents at the commemoration.
But many Western leaders are not attending the event in person.
President Raul Castro closed the rally, referring to his brother Fidel as the leader of a revolution "for the humble, and by the humble".
Revolution Square is where Cubans once gathered to listen to Fidel Castro's fiery speeches.
The crowd chanted "long live the revolution!" and "Fidel! Fidel!" as the rally got under way.


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Results of a Randomized Hail Suppression Experiment in Northeast Colorado. Part IV: Analysis of Radar Data for Seeding Effect and Correlation with Hailfall
G. Brant Foote
G. Brant FooteNational Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80307
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Edwin L. CrowNational Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80307
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https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1979)018<1569:ROARHS>2.0.CO;2
Radar data collected during the seeding experiment of the National Hail Research Experiment are used in a search for possible effects of seeding. Two types of variables, denoted by P and Q, are defined as daily integrals of reflectivity and areas of reflectivity above a given threshold. These and other radar variables are examined for correlation with hailfall at the ground and for seeding effect. Though several variables are closely associated with the occurrence of hail in the network, according to the present sample, none is highly correlated with the amount of hail. A method for measuring hailfall by radar recently used in Switzerland with apparently good results was not successful when applied to the Colorado area.
Ten radar variables were tested for seeding effect by comparing their values on seed and control days. Both the Student's t-test and the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test were employed and gave comparable results. No variables tested showed a difference between seed and control days that was significant at the 10% level. An examination of regressions developed between two adjacent areas (one of which was expected to be much more strongly affected by seeding than the other) also failed to detect a statistically significant difference between seed and control days.
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1) Story Statement In August 2020, a 27 year old woman followed through on a plan five years in the making. Running away from the San Francisco tech world, the Crypto Castle, her broken heart, her shame, and who she had become, she sold everything she owned and booked a one way plane ticket. Nothing could stop her from escaping, not even a pandemic. 2) Antagonistic Force The San Francisco tech mindset, the antagonistic force, is unavoidable the moment you enter the tech world. It promises a type of power that you desire more of, no matter who you were before tasting it. Nothing is good enough and everything must be hacked and changed for your own good. If you don't obey the mindset, you are losing the game and getting ripped off. It hides its darkness behind the idea of greatness and success...who wouldn't want those things? It's more powerful than you are and is incredibly difficult to escape. It appears at the start of my travels in the goals I outline for myself (unknowingly presenting very "tech mindset" goals), it presents itself in fellow travelers who remind me of my roommates at the Crypto Castle and coworkers at the self-driving car startup. And when I'm finally making headway away from it, it tries to pull me back with conversations from two dear friends: a recent "classic Silicon Valley success story" and an old coworker. The essence of the conversations are both "stop wasting your time traveling, you're going crazy. Come back and start a company." 3) Breakout Title EMPTY WORLD 360 DAYS, 24 COUNTRIES, 37 COVID TESTS, 1 PANDEMIC COVID TEST, MEET VIV AND GET ACQUAINTED 4) Comparables To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins (Convergent Books 2018) - in this New York Times Bestseller, Jedidiah Jenkins shares his cycling adventure over the course of sixteen months from Oregon to Patagonia. While we both include stories about the people we meet along the way and what it is to grapple with our sexual identities, Jenkins travels with a friend through an open world. Strangers aren't afraid he is going to be bringing covid into their home. Much of his trip, too, is about his relationship to God. Along my trip, I meet people who think similarly to Jenkins, but I look at God through very different lenses than he does. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener (MCD 2020) - Although Anna Wiener and I both find ourselves in the middle of the Silicon Valley bubble and mindset, she had left New York to find meaning in San Francisco and I left San Francisco to find meaning anywhere that wasn't San Francisco. Wiener's memoir is much more of a cautionary tale about Silicon Valley, and all the troubles that come with the reckless startup culture. While she discusses Silicon Valley in depth while still in Silicon Valley, I discuss desperately trying to escape the Silicon Valley mindset while out in the world. 5) Hook Line A worn out 27 year old tech exec follows through on a plan to travel as far as possible from the tech world only to be blocked by covid; she pursues the dream anyway and learns that no matter how hard you try, you can't escape yourself when you travel through an empty world. 6) Conflict Like most women in their late 20s, throughout the memoir I am consistently grappling with where I want to be in the world. Not physically, not even mentally, but if I'm lucky enough to choose, then where, in the playing field of the world, do I want to exist? This presents itself in different ways, starting with me trying to unlearn the San Francisco tech bro that I had trained my mind to become. It evolves into a complete meltdown after walking miles on end every day, convinced that it was the only way I could stay productive if I wasn't in a classic job. Eventually, the internal conflict completely derails after experiencing the death of a mentor on the road and learning about the lies of a best travel friend. Secondary Conflict: I am not heartbroken, I convince myself over and over. I don't want to process the brief and tumultuous relationship I had experienced in California to a woman in an open marriage. I always wanted to identify as strictly straight, but this heartache is making that more difficult to do. A lot of the people I volunteer with in exchange for food and housing are homophobic or deeply religious. I don't want to be excluded from any group because of a potential partner, man or woman. Would the Evangelical Christians still invite me to stay with them if they knew more about me? Or the extreme right-winged Italian family on the Canary Islands? I have to grapple with these thoughts while I sleep under their roofs. 7) Settings San Francisco: In 2015, the city was alive and magical. The air felt like it was freshly pumped with new ideas that you could inhale at any given time. No one hated Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram wasn't the devil, and Bitcoin hadn't garnered too much attention. Over the course of five years, everything changed very drastically for the city and for its inhabitants. I moved into the Crypto Castle in 2015 and saw the slow decline as well. The three story, light blue hacker home was in the middle of the Potrero Hill neighborhood. From the outside, nothing gave away its secrets except for a small Bitcoin sticker on the window next to the dark blue front door. Inside was a different story. Bitcoin magazines littered the dining table, a hookah was a permanent fixture of the coffee table, a stripper pole held up by statistics books graced the presence of the Master Tenant's master bedroom. Price predictions for Bitcoin hitting $1000 in December 2015 were written on the windows. A massive glass dining table had remnants of ketamine and cocaine, and thankfully a fire extinguisher found its home next to the stairs. Although the wallets of the crypto boys were on the constant rise, the physical house was on a constant decline: the appliances and the dark blue carpet which matched the front door hadn't been replaced since the 70s. This was mirrored in the declining city as well. Homelessness was at an all time high, but so was wealth. And they coexisted on the same block, Empty Modes of Transportation: Airports, planes, stations, and trains were some of the more empty experiences I had while traveling throughout the pandemic. Economy seats all of a sudden felt like first-class upgrades since no one was within a six foot radius. Full rows to yourself became full beds. The bored flight attendants handed out extra glasses of wine to the passengers. Airports and stations no longer acted as hotels for travelers with a long overnight airport. They all closed early and kicked everyone to the curb. I would travel to farms and spend nights in nature, completely in denial that a pandemic was happening. Once I started moving again, I was harshly reminded. Workaway Homes/Kitchen Tables: To avoid the difficulties of pandemic travel, I spent about 2.5 months at different homes around the world, volunteering in the gardens, as a nanny, building compostable toilets, picking mangoes, and a variety of other activities. The homes were all unique but had one major thing in common: they had housed at least 50 volunteers from around the world. The kitchen tables in these homes were always the most telling about the environment and what kind of open or closed family the hosts were. New York City: New York City had always been the city that I compared every other city to. To me, it was the epitome of what a city should be. It was alive, bustling, and inspiring. New York as a setting occurs twice: once right in the middle in January 2021 and once at the end when I decided to move there. New York forced me to grapple with saying no, something I had just spent one year doing the exact opposite of.


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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Reincarnations of Power Amongst the Mongols: From Möngke Tengri to the Śiditü Lama
Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
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To date, the historical Tibeto-Mongolian symbiosis has been analyzed from the perspective of Tibeto-centric or China-centric political histories. In this talk, Dr. Ujeed reexamines the religio-cultural developments of Buddhism and Buddhist identity amongst the Mongols from the Mongol Empire through to the Qing period. As well as revisiting well-known religio-historical works, her main case studies are extracted from newly obtained Mongolian and Tibetan language Buddhist biographies, religious histories, and records of received teachings from the early modern period. Collectively, these case studies will demonstrate how the Mongols engagement with Tibetan Buddhism was fundamental for the dissemination and development of the wider Tibetan Buddhist tradition far beyond the realms on the steppe.
Please register via Zoom here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_c9H911XST7SN5wf76aUMDg
Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received her MSt and DPhil degrees in Oriental Studies from the Department of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Her main research focus is the trans-national, trans-regional, and cross-cultural aspects of Buddhism, lineage, translation, monastic and reincarnation networks, and identity in Tibet and Mongolia in the Early Modern period, with a particular emphasis on the contributions made by ethnically Mongolian monk scholars.
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I published two wee books on health issues in the early 1980's. I included an article about the dangers of antibiotics in these health books. Even then, many of us were concerned about the dangers posed to the immune system by the overuse of antibiotics. And even then, many of us were adamant that we would not use vaccinations or antibiotics for ourselves or for our children, unless it was absolutely necessary.
Antibiotics and Vaccinations, I believe, are still some of the most widely misused and misunderstood drugs of our modern age, despite there being much evidence to support the fact that their use can cause such serious diseases as cancer, and alzheimer's, and autism in children.
There is an alzheimer's epidemic on at the moment, and people die every week in hospital from cancer. Many people, and many DOCTORS, attribute the escalating incidences of these diseases to vaccinations such as the widely used flu vaccine, and other antibiotics. Dr Brian Abelson, Dr Brighthope, and Dr Levy are just three of the many doctors who have written about the adverse effects of antibiotics on the immune system.
Of course, there are other poisons widely used in the environment which also cause cancer, and alzheimer's, autism in children, parkinson's disease, and other conditions: Herbicides and pesticides are two categories of poison which are known to affect the immune system, and to cause many diseases. And plastics are also very deleterious to the health.
But we have a choice as to whether or not we want to be vaccinated, or have our children vaccinated. Personally, I decided NOT to use vaccinations of any kind after my first born suffered adverse effects from having two of the three 'measles mumps and whooping cough' vaccine. I did not even use tetanus shots for my children after that: I found Homeopathic Ledum was a prophylactic for tetanus, and so I used that if ever there was a risk of tetanus. I discovered that Homeopathic Drosera worked more quickly than it took to get to the hospital, if my children had what I thought might be Whooping cough, or Croup.
Antibiotics are often referred to as 'wonder drugs', and many people owe their lives to the use of anti-biotics, and perhaps to the use of Vaccinations. However, there are very bad side effects from using these antibiotic medicines, because they DO weaken the immune system. More evidence is stacking up to support the idea that antibiotics, and vaccinations, may pre-dispose you to many serious conditions later in life.
Vaccinations weaken the immune system just as regular antibiotics do: A Vaccination still is an antibiotic, only that they are given beforehand, hopefully to prevent the illness occurring, though this is not the effect for some people: Some people get the illness for which they were vaccinated pretty soon after getting the shot. This instance, where people GET the infection for which they are vaccinated, frequently happens with the 'flu-shot'. Which leads you to wonder just why there is such a push for vaccinations, including the vaccination of children's illnesses, such as mumps, measles, and chicken pox, and with the flu vaccine for older people. The answer is that the drug companies monopolize the medicine market. They have the money to promote their vaccines on television and in the papers. They also actively discourage any competition, such as in the alternative medicines, Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine, and Vitamin Therapy.
In New Zealand right at this moment, there are some doctors who are pushing to deprive other alternative doctors from using homeopathy in their clinics. They want Homeopathy banned from the doctor's repertoire of available medicines, basically, because it is a threat to their medicine empire. This attempt to discredit Homeopathy, and to get it banned, is not a random happening. This is a drive from the powers that be behind the scenes – the drug companies, who basically control when and where and how mass vaccinations will be done. And all they need to do to get the public to trot along dutifully to the doctor's to get their 'shots', is to put an article in the paper saying that there is a 'scare' that some illness, some strange flu or other, might strike here soon. And the scary epidemic never happens. Why? Not because the vaccines have worked – many of us do not bother and do not believe in vaccines, and many cannot afford to go to the doctor for the vaccine anyway. – No, these strange and frightening epidemics which they have threatened us with probably never even existed. But billions of dollars will have been generated for the drug companies by promoting the scare of an epidemic. And many doctors will also have done good business.
Antibiotics and Vaccinations do have a purpose, but they should only be used as a last resort, when other treatments have failed, or when one's life is at stake. Giving vaccinations for the common childhood infectious diseases, such as Chicken pox, Measles, Mumps, and Whooping Cough is an invasion and an abuse of children, in my opinion, especially when there are safe alternatives available, like Vitamin C therapy, and Homeopathy.
Of course there is a problem right now in promoting these alternatives, because the public does not know how to use these therapies. This is something many of us want changed: Education as to the alternatives in preventative medicine, such as Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Ayurvedic Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Vitamin C, and herbal remedies, should be available to all.
Giving drugs such as vaccinations to children is very irresponsible, and very sad: Children who are immunized are literally bombarded with a virus which will undermine their immune systems, probably for life. Children really should be being protected against being given these antibiotic vaccinations, as it is not known how their bodies will react later on.
Children are generally made stronger by having the common childhood illnesses when they are young, and they can be helped through these illnesses quite comfortably in most cases by the use of the alternative medicines Vitamin C, Herbal Medicine, and Homeopathy.
Foreign germs are introduced to the body via the antibiotic or vaccination. One immediate and proven effect is that they destroy the beneficial bacteria which live in the bowel, and one bad side effect of this is Candida Albicans, an organism which causes many troubles. The beneficial flora in the bowel helps us to digest our food, and to process essential vitamins and enzymes for our good health. Antibiotics upset the natural balance of the flora in the bowel, and this often results in ANOTHER illness occurring, after the course of antibiotics have been taken.
Too often, antibiotics are used for little minor ills which could have been treated by some other more healthful means: Vitamin supplements, fasting, removal of preservatives, colourants, artificial flavourings, and other irritating chemicals from the diet, removing wheat and gluten, removing sugar, removing dairy foods.
Using alternatives such as homeopathic medicine, acupuncture, colour therapy, a new dietary regime, counselling, etc, can very often be more effective than using an antibiotic, because the whole being, and the causes of illness are treated, rather than just the illness and its symptoms.
Homeopathy offers a safe alternative to vaccinations and antibiotics. Vitamin Therapy and Herbal Medicine are other options.


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Years after juvenile detention, adults struggle, study finds
January 16, 2017 By Chronicle of Social Change in Adverse childhood experiences 3 Comments
By Jeremy Loudenback
Children who have been admitted to a juvenile detention center often struggle with a range of issues years after being detained, according to results from a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
The longitudinal study affords a rare look at how youth who experienced juvenile detention fared in terms of eight positive outcomes five and 12 years after detention.
The eight domains included the following: educational attainment, residential independence, gainful activity, desistance from criminal activity, mental health, abstaining from substance abuse, interpersonal functioning, and parenting responsibility.
A team of researchers from Northwestern University tracked more than 1,800 youth who were admitted to the Cook County Detention Center in Chicago from 1995 to 1998. The average of youth of these youth was about 15 years old.
In interviews both five and 12 years after detainment, the study attempted to determine if these youth had attained age-appropriate psychosocial outcomes in the years after detention, and how much these outcomes varied by race and sex.
According to analysis, only 21.9 percent of males and 54.7 percent of females had attained positive outcomes in the eight domains. Of all groups surveyed, African Americans were the least likely to achieve positive outcomes in the years after detention.
Robert Sampson, the Harvard sociologist who has written about both life-long trajectories of delinquent youth and spatial inequality in Chicago, wrote an editorial comment on the study in the same issue of JAMA Pediatrics. The long-term consequences of detention for delinquent youth, or "the juvenile equivalent of re-entry among ex-prisoners," remains a topic of little research, according to Sampson.
"Juvenile detention has operated in the shadow of adult incarceration," Sampson wrote.
In their study, the Northwestern researchers say that longitudinal studies of youth incarcerated in juvenile facilities have generally focused on recidivism, rather than on how youth adjust to life after returning to their communities. They argue that pediatric health care professionals have a role to play in promoting psychosocial health among these youth.
"To improve outcomes, pediatric health care professionals should recognize the importance of psychosocial health, partner with on-site psychosocial services in their practices, and facilitate access to services in the community," the researchers wrote.
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Louise Godbold says:
Excellent article, Jeremy! We should think too about all the young people under 25 who also are still in the process of brain development and the effect of incarceration on them. It upsets me how we destroy a life and a family in the name of justice but even if people don't care about that, what about the cost to our society? Thank you for bringing awareness through your articles – so needed!
lameredith says:
This is interesting to me since I work in the juvenile justice system.
It's important to note that sweeping changes have been made to the juvenile justice system since the date range this report covers. Juveniles definitely need better treatment than ones aimed at adults, not in the shadow of adult incarceration.
Justin R. says:
Correlation does not equal causation, but yes, juvenile detention is not a good solution to the issues that have brought these young people in to contact with the justice system. The poor outcomes more likely reflects the supports (or lack-thereof) these kids were provided… home life, poverty, etc. likely more telling than the simple fact they were in detention.


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Theologian criticizes union's method for organizing hospital workers
SAN FRANCISCO – Kevin Murphy, vice president for theology and ethics at the St. Joseph Health System, dismissed the notion that his organization was anti-union and responded to criticism coming from some Catholic leaders about the system's conflict with United Healthcare Workers West, a unit of the Service Employees International Union.
"This has less to do with social justice teaching and more to do with context and mechanism," he told Catholic San Francisco, newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The hospital system, operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, opposes the union's push for "pre-election agreements" and believes that secret-ballot elections under federal law better respect the dignity of each participant.
If a hospital official signed such an agreement, Mr. Murphy said, that would be unfair to employees who might not want to belong to a union and who would not have been given a chance to vote.
United Healthcare Workers West has been trying since 2004 to establish union representation at five hospitals in the St. Joseph Health System, which has health care facilities in California, New Mexico and Texas.
The union is seeking a systemwide "code of conduct" to govern organizing campaigns. It is proposing language similar to that in agreements it reached with Catholic Healthcare West in 2001 and later with for-profit chains, said John Borsos, a union vice president.
The union maintains that the language protects worker rights in elections to decide union representation.
Accusations of anti-union practices in Santa Rosa were echoed in union campaigns at other sites in the 14-hospital system; the union says it has ample evidence to show that federal law governing such elections is too weak to prevent employers from using their economic power to intimidate workers.
In November 2007, an administrative law judge set aside a union election at St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, upholding two of 15 objections the union had made about the employer's conduct.
Pointing blame at high-ranking company officials, Judge Lana H. Parke found that "certain conduct of the employer interfered with the employees' exercise of a free and reasoned choice."
On Aug. 4, the National Labor Relations Board's regional director in Los Angeles issued a complaint alleging unfair labor practices at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, also a St. Joseph Health System facility; the alleged unfair practices included taking pictures of employees involved in union activity and interrogating employees wearing union pins. The complaint is scheduled to go to a hearing in October.
"We strongly contest the accusations," said Kevin Andrus, the system's vice president for corporate communications.
Mr. Murphy said it is inappropriate to say that opposition to the SEIU's approach means the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange are in conflict with their pro-labor history.
"What I see consistent in the heritage of the sisters is they always look for the voices that aren't being heard," he said. "It's about ensuring employee choice."


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Q: Entity Framework and Membership Provider not working I had an application which used the Asp.net Membership provider. I converted this project to EF4 and trying to use the same authentication.
I am using the old DB for my connection as
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But when I use like this. I can add delete entries from the DB.
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Any thoughts?

A: Looks like you're using a database first approach and an existing database for a project that uses ASP.Net Identity. By default, Identity (V2) works with a code first approach, creating it's required tables in the database. Usually, people end up having a separate connection string for Identity because of this (even though both connection strings point to the same database).
In your case, simply switching the DefaultConnection Identity uses to your connection Entities1 will not help since it is not code first. You can however, keep the DefaultConnection and modify it to point to your db, and keep using it code first. If you do this, you will have two connection strings (Entities1 and DefaultConnection) that both point to the same database and are database first and code first, respectively.
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Bankers are paid too much, says RBS chairman
But Philip Hampton defends the need to sanction such big pay awards because of the deals paid by rivals
Royal Bank of Scotland's chairman Philip Hampton says bankers are paid too much. Photograph: Sandy Young/PA
Fri 30 Apr 2010 02.58 EDT
One of Britain's most senior bankers has admitted that pay in the industry is unduly excessive, hours after the leaders of Britain's three biggest political parties criticised the sector.
Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that "banker's pay continues to be astonishingly high, almost certainly too high".
But he went on to defend the need to sanction such big pay deals because of the deals paid by rivals. "If we don't pay our top people they leave," Hampton said.
RBS held its annual meeting on Wednesday and conceded that it needed to look at changes to a new bonus deal for chief executive Stephen Hester which had partly been based on the share price exceeding 50p – a level breached by the share price before the scheme had even been ratified. It publishes its first quarter profits a week today.
With Britain facing deep cutbacks after the next general election, there is anger that the banking sector is again paying out large bonuses so soon after the financial crisis. HSBC is facing a shareholder revolt over plans to hand chief executive Mike Geoghegan a relocation package worth £800,000 a year in cash and benefits, when he moves to Hong Kong.
Last night, during the leaders' debate, Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg pledged to shake up the sector.
"We need to break up our banking system so that irresponsible bankers can never again put your businesses and your savings at risk," he said.


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City approves first reading of dwelling requirements
By Dean Wright - deanwright@aimmediamidwest.com
GALLIPOLIS — Gallipolis City Commission recently approved a first reading of dwelling structure requirements within municipal limits as well as approved the appointment of an acting city manager to serve as a substitute for the current city manager.
Recently hired city project engineer Ted Lozier, coming from Ohio's Department of Natural Resources, was appointed by a vote of three to two to serve as acting city manager when current City Manager Gene Greene is away representing Gallipolis on business, when he is on medical leave or taking personal time. Commissioners Cody Caldwell, Steven Wallace and Mike Fulks approved the measure while Commissioners Tony Gallagher and Beau Sang voted against.
Commissioners also approved the first reading of a new ordinance aiming to set standards of construction for new buildings intended to be utilized as residences within municipal limits after a trend of discussion over past meetings regarding concerns with tiny houses moving into the area, property value and quality of living areas.
Should a second reading be approved by the commission, dwellings within Gallipolis would need to be constructed on a permanent foundation and structures must be comparable to surrounding adjacent dwellings.
Dwellings would need constructed or assembled on-site. No structure of temporary "character," trailer, mobile home, motor home, basement, tent, shanty, garage, barn, storage shed, outbuilding or similar-type structure may be erected or used for a place of residence.
For a dwelling, single family: the square footage of the first floor, heating living space shall be a minimum of 850 square feet.
Ordinance language also states that, "If a lot of record at the date of effective date of adoption or amendment of this ordinance, notwithstanding limitations imposed by other provisions of the Codified Ordinances of Gallipolis, Ohio, is a size that prevents the construction of a dwelling, single family as described in section (c) with required setbacks, then the square footage of heating living space shall be, at a minimum, equal to or larger than the square footage of the lot's previous dwelling's first floor heated living space. The new structure must adhere to all required setbacks as defined in the Codified Ordinances of Gallipolis, Ohio."
For residences built for two or more family structures, the ordinance proposes the square footage of the first floor of heating living space be a minimum of 480 square feet per dwelling unit and a total square footage of heating living space for each dwelling unit shall be a minimum of 850 square feet.
Housing structure proposals that aren't described in the proposed ordinance would need brought before the Gallipolis Planning Commission.
Structures already existing in Gallipolis before the potential passage of the ordinance would not be affected by the new ordinance as it is geared to target new construction.
Dean Wright can be reached at 740-446-2342.
By Dean Wright
deanwright@aimmediamidwest.com
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Whats your flavour? A gooey cheese platter with marinated olives, a loaf of sourdough and a glass of wine? Or a cheesy gourmet sausage loaded with sauerkraut, mustard and nice cold beer? Well, between the 20th to 22nd of October you can indulge in both, as South Australia presents it's very first, Ferment the Festival!
The three-day event, held in Adelaide's Rymill Park will focus on the promotion, education and development of South Australia's endless list of quality fermented food and beverage producers.
A collection of world class chefs, winemakers, brewers, bakers and farmers will share their experience, knowledge and passions for the industry through a series of cooking demonstrations, masterclasses, wine tasting and exclusive food and wine degustations.
You can join some of Australia's leading chefs in the Fermentation Lab where you will learn how to ferment your own veggies at home while gaining an understanding of the ancient method. There will also be a series of Masterclasses in liquid fermentation. Aka, beer, wine and spirits! Enjoy the flavours and insight to brewing beer, producing wine and the development of flavour in your favourite spirits.
Whether you want to come to the event and learn hands on, listen to the passionate producers about their fermentation experiences or just indulge in all the fabulous produce on offer, you won't leave unsatisfied. With 43 food producers, 120 local businesses, 25 cheese makers and 3 bars, there will be something amazing to take away from this event and you certainly won't leave hungry!


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Michelle Browne, Avril Corroon, Ella de Búrca, Lisamarie Johnson, Laugh a Defiance My Brilliant Friend
01 July — 03 September 2016
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Thursday 30 June, 6pm - 8pm
How We Spend Our Days by TBG+S Writer 2016 Claire-Louise Bennett
It is July 2016. Over the last year Ireland has experienced a number of political milestones, including a landmark referendum, a hung Dáil and a strident growth in social campaigning and protest. While our economy grows, there are ongoing crises in health and housing. Squatters and families are evicted as the housing market recovers. Commentators say we are politically complacent.
Keeping this context at the forefront of their minds, five artists were invited to consider female solidarity, work, economy, protest and how to negotiate life in Dublin as an artist and a woman in 2016. The art works that result come from a context of crisis, injustice, disappointment, and yet they show humour, warmth, solidarity, generosity. They are diverse but share common interests. These artists are concerned with the things that structure our lives, housing and home, partnerships, conventions, politics, and our sense of ourselves. The exhibition features a number of performances and meetings, inviting audiences to return and gather at these events.
My Brilliant Friend was conceived as a kind of psychogeography, charting particular experiences of a place at a given moment. The title is taken from the first in a series of four novels by Elena Ferrante. In this series, two friends grow up together in post war Naples. Every aspect of their lives is detailed; where they live, their relationships, their education and above all how they relate to each other and how they make art under difficult circumstances. While the artists in this exhibition were not asked to directly respond to Ferrante's novel, it served as a form of roadmap for thinking about female solidarity, friendship and creativity.
Thinking about women's role in public life in the run up to 2016's general election, Michelle Browne researched why women go into politics, what are their motivations and who are their role models. Her work, Mná na hÉireann, looks at women's engagement with public political life in Ireland. Made during the time of the introduction of gender quotas for selection of political candidates in Ireland, Browne interviewed a variety of women who are or have been candidates or public representatives in Ireland to gain insight into their motivations for getting involved in politics. Browne looks at the continued existence of article 41.2 in the constitution designating the special place of women in the home, considering the home as a site of political activity by highlighting campaigning or activism undertaken from the home by women. Mná na hÉireann is a non-partisan look at women's engagement in politics, to celebrate the many women who have contributed to the political life of this nation.
Avril Corroon's video work Fresh Paint on the Walls, is a satirical take on the private rental market, gentrification, and the increasing difficulty of living in the neoliberal city. The voice-over narration theorises on the motives behind the capitalist and patriarchal landlord's widespread use of magnolia coloured paint in rental accommodation. By revising the current rental market through the landlord's absurd habits, Fresh Paint on the Walls estranges the reality of the situation where housing is seen as a commodity over social need.
Ella De Búrca's work Saying is Believing is a double screen video installation examining the questions every female artist must pose to herself regarding the relationship between her gender, her past and her practice. In this piece the artist struggles with the future into which her work will travel, here represented by a 16 year old actor, experimenting with ratios of sound and silence to make her own reality felt, rather than merely understood.
"A level of deafness is the prerequisite of definition; though the past can be carried to us through text, it is not cognition so much as empathy that is required by the interpreter to ground this second hand experience in reality (I always used to roll my eyes when my Dad started speaking of the old country)."
Ella De Búrca will re-perform, with aerialist Elaine McCague, her work 'The Pull' in the Atrium at 8pm on the opening night of the exhibition.
Considering ritual, tradition and the sacred, performance artist and poet, Lisamarie Johnson has made a new performance work for the exhibition. The piece, entitled Soulcall, looks at spectacle and ceremony, and the changes in women's roles and lives. Taking matrimony as a starting point and using dance moves based on the heart chakra and traditional song, the work merges the everyday rituals of social consumption and places the gallery on the peripheries of a marriage contract. Soulcall will take place at Fatima on the Luas Red Line at 5pm and in the gallery at 7pm on the opening night of the exhibition.
Laugh a Defiance is project by Vaari Claffey and Mason Leaver Yap which emerged from the program of NO MORE FUN AND GAMES, Feminist Parasite Institution by Jesse Jones. It is a performative and amorphous collaborative project that seeks to explore the power of laughter as a feminist action. Laughter is both euphoric and absurd and has the possibility to mobilize embodied subjective experience, to activate agency through collective howls, to disrupt with the everyday with the ecstatic.
Laugh a Defiance Episode 2 will be staged in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios on 2nd September 2016, and will star Mason Leaver Yap and Vaari Claffey on vocals, Miriam O'Connor and Jesse Jones on scenography and Sarah Grimes on Drums.
Ella de Búrca
Ella de Búrca's installations are conceived for specific occasions, disappearing after they are exhibited. She plays with performance and the object to comb through hegemonic masculinity in Irish literature and culture. Her work is sparked from the feminist perspective, expressing prose and poetry not through the patriarchally dominated medium of the written word, but through a new visual language. Recent selected exhibitions include IMMA Rising, June 2015, 'Otherwise,' WYSPA Gdansk, July 2014, and 'The Emergency Pavilion' at The 53rd Venice Biennale, 2013. Awards include 16X16 Next Generation Award, Irish Arts Council 2015, The Evelyn Wood Scholarship for The Banff Centre, 2011, Fingal County Council Bursary 2015 and Culture Ireland 2013. Residencies include The Banff Centre, 2011, AIR Antwerpen 2012. She is a candidate laureate of The HISK, Belgium, 2016 to 2017.
Michelle Browne
Michelle Browne is an artist and curator based in Dublin. Her work encompasses a diverse range of media, including live performance, public intervention, video, sculpture and collaboration. Browne has performed and exhibited both nationally and internationally recently taking part in Future Histories at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin; Kathleen Lynn: Insider on the Outsider, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo; Border Crossings, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, Australia. Browne has curated a number of exhibitions including Tulca Season of Visual Art Galway 2010, and These Immovable Walls: Performing Power at Dublin Castle 2014. Browne is currently lecturer in sculpture and expanded practice at NCAD.
Avril Corroon
Avril Corroon works with video and performative interventions. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art Media from NCAD in 2014 and has been awarded the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios' Graduate Award for 2016. Recent endeavors include Fool's Bells Fall a group residency and exhibition in Hotel Maria Kapel (NE), Knowledge and other myths at Platform Arts Belfast (2016), Aligned at NCAD Gallery (2015) and a solo presentation, JUST DO IT at Ormond Studios (2014). Her work has been screened at the University of Santa Barbara, California and PLASTIK Festival of Artists' Moving Image at the Irish Film Institute (2015) where it was shortlisted for the inaugural emerging moving image artist award (2015). Corroon has been awarded residencies at Hotel Maria Kapel (NE), the 2015 Fire Station Artist Studios Digital Media Award with Renèe Helèna Browne, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Ormond Studios
Lisa Marie Johnson
where nails found their way out of wood and all the forests of the world could not keep you from me
undercover love the serpent sighed
Athena Fawina star
there is breath
when you wore the knight of cups and spilled all, she refilled it with the sun the moon and the world he accepted, rested and stung
and then all our souls were ready for love
Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones is a Dublin based Irish artist. Her practice crosses the media of film, performance and installation. Often working through collaborative structures, she explores how historical instances of communal culture may hold resonance in our current social and political experiences. Her recent project and exhibition NO MORE FUN AND GAMES at Dublin City Municipal Gallery, the Hugh Lane, established a "parasite" institutional structure within the museum space. This work explored how the politics of exclusion operates in relation to the role of women in the history and production of the artistic canon. She is interested in how political movements and ideas might be expanded to institutional performative gestures. Jones questions how we may look, not only through the lens of vast historical movements, but also through the incremental shifts in how we inhabit our everyday lives and experiences. Previous exhibitions include, the Istanbul Biennale 2009 as well as Solo exhibitions at Artsonje Centre Seoul and RedCat Los Angeles. Jones will represent Ireland's pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017
Mason Leaver-Yap
Mason Leaver-Yap works with artists to produce texts, exhibitions, and events. Their recent projects include work with Lizzie Borden, Uri Aran, Leslie Thornton, Lucy McKenzie and Atelier EB, Hanne Darboven, Andrea Büttner, Shahryar Nashat, Ellen Cantor, Moyra Davey, Jesse Jones and Vaari Claffey, Sharon Hayes, Dexter Sinister, Park McArthur, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.
Miriam O'Connor
Miriam O'Connor is a Cork based Irish artist. In her practice she draws inspiration from the language, sights and sounds of the everyday. She is especially interested in the role photography plays within this context and how photography itself acts out everyday life. She is concerned with the subtleties of looking and seeing, the relationship between camera and viewer, and the special ambiguity of still images. Rather than providing answers, O' Connor work often poses questions, while her images are playful and curious in approach. Recent exhibitions and publications include, Phototropism, The Library Project, Dublin, Folding Landscapes, G126, Galway, NO MORE FUN AND GAMES – Act 2, (Publication) The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, The Image Collection, (Publication) Galleri Image, Denmark and Greetings from Ireland, Dublin/Hamburg/Sweden. In conjunction with Galleri Image, Denmark, she is currently producing new work for FRESH EYES - International artists rethink Aarhus which will be exhibited during Aarhus Capital of Culture, 2017. She has published two photo books, Attention Seekers, (2012) and The Legacy Project, 2013.
Michele Horrigan, Catriona Leahy, Laurie Robins, Libita Sibungu Agitation Co-op
01 March — 24 April 2021
Sean Edwards
23 September — 06 November 2021
Tamsin Snow
16 December 2021 — 26 February 2022