In the last 20 years, demography has re-emerged as a key research area within archaeology. This research has refined archaeological demographic methods and examined the relationships between demographic, cultural and environmental change. Here, I discuss how the results of the growing corpus of archaeological demographic studies can contribute to gender archaeology, aiding the incorporation of women into narratives of the past. By considering the important role of women in the demographic regimes of small-scale societies, I explain how archaeological demography can provide insights into the behaviour and lives of women, without relying on the often problematic identification of gendered artefacts, activities and/or places. Archaeological demography as a tool for gender archaeology also permits a move away from the female empiricism of simply adding women into archaeological narratives, to provide an alternative framework for the analysis of gender roles and practices. I demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of this approach using an example from the Upper Palaeolithic of southwestern France.


Old Jerusalem is divided into four quarters: Jewish, Arab, Christian & Armenian. It is such a stark contrast to the young and liberal Tel Aviv. Due to it's history and ties to the Bible Jerusalem is a place that everyone wants a piece of and you can feel the tension in the air while wandering the cobbled streets of the Old City. Our first stop was at the Western Wall (segregated by men & women) where one can place their hands on the wall and say a prayer.
Villa Maria, the route Jesus walked bearing the cross, as well as the tomb of Jesus can be found in the Christian Quarter.
I experienced some of the strange division in Israel, when asking where to find the Jewish quarter and people claiming they didn't know where it was, as though it doesn't exist!
Even as an atheist, without much religious knowledge, The Old City was fascinating.


Normal pancreas showing the expression of glucagon (GCG) in the islets of Langerhans.
Glucagon is a peptide hormone specifically produced by the alpha cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. Glucagon has the opposite effect of insulin, and is secreted when blood glucose levels become too low. Secretion of glucagon stimulates the liver to convert glycogen into glucose and release it to the blood stream. Glucagon is derived from a pre-protein that is cleaved into four distinct and biologically active peptides, out of which glucagon is one.
Show GCG in the protein atlas.


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Terrorism at Naval Weapons Station?**UPDATE**
UPDATE Michelle Malkin reports that the two suspects arrested with explosives near Charleston, SC, last night are Muslims. See MichelleMalkin.com for updated details. (Maybe they were on their way home from YearlyKos.) From the Charleston ABC News affiliate's website:
The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office believes that among materials in the car's trunk were a bomb and bomb making materials that include chemicals, fuses, and igniters. The men 21-year-old Yousef Megahed and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed were pulled over Saturday evening during a routine traffic stop near Myers Road and Highway 176.
How did I miss this? Michelle Malkin reported a possible terrorism attempt a Naval Weapons Station, Charleston–just outside Charleston, SC.
I lived on Lafayette Street in the Weapons Station for 2 years, and my submarines were stationed there for refit several time between 1985 and 1992.
As of 9:35 a.m. today, the facts are:
* Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Police stopped a 4-door sedan on highway 176 in Goose Creek, SC
* Saturday, 6:10 p.m. to midnight, fire departments, bomb squads, and FBI converged on the scene
* Sunday after midnight the FBI used a robot to extract materials from the vehicle
* Sunday, 9:35 a.m., [Charleston Post-Courier's](https://www.charleston.net/news/2007/aug/05/possible_bomb_scare_shuts_down_goose_creek_highway/) latest update, but no conclusions
I have a lot of friends who retired to the Goose Creek area. Hope all is well.
The Naval Weapons Station was one of the most secure places in the nuclear submarine world. Check out the comments to the Post-Courier story.
UPDATE: New Wars blog says a witness reports that police detonated the explosive device. Same story on Yahoo News

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Thai Union and IUCN launch Community-based Tourism Project in Phang Nga
Throughout 2017, the Thai Union-IUCN Partnership Project supported various community based initiatives in Koh Yao Yai, Phang Nga. The projects focused on the participatory management of marine and coastal resources and increasing livelihood resilience in the...
Journalist trip to hydropower plant in Hoa Thuan, Cao Bang province Photo: © Hoang Chien/PanNature
From grassroots to policies: Communicating issues from the ground for improved governance of natural resources in Viet Nam
60 year-old Sau Dung is a fisherman who lives by the Hau River, a tributary of the Mekong in Viet Nam's Hau Giang Province. His family relies on his catch, and with his skill and hard work, he can earn VND 6 million (US$ 265) every month. But there are not...
Sewing and candle-making: Empowering the women of Keti Bandar
In the coastal town of Keti Bandar in Sindh Province, Pakistan, locals once cultivated red rice on mudflats which received abundant freshwater from the Indus River Delta, the fifth largest delta in the world. Red rice cultivation was a source of livelihood...
Safeguarding the Mesopotamian Marshlands for local communities
Following years of degradation, Iraq's world-renowned Mesopotamian Marshlands in the south of the country are still an important feeding area for migratory birds and home to many threatened species. The region also contains some of the richest oil reserves.
Photo: Sirachai Arunrugstichai 2018
Collaborative Mooring Buoy Installation at Marriott Merlin Beach
On the 15th and 18th of January 2018, IUCN, in collaboration with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR), Phuket Marriott Resort and Spa, Merlin Beach, Sea Bees Diving and the Prince of Songkla University, installed four mooring buoys in the...
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IUCN welcomes first-of-kind World Rowing pledge to avoid impacts on natural World Heritage
The World Rowing Federation FISA today became the first sporting body to announce its commitment to ensuring that activities under its control will not damage natural World Heritage sites, which IUCN monitors as the official advisory body on nature to the...
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Innovative and collaborative: The future of plastic waste management in Sri Lanka
Plastic has become an essential part of life nearly everywhere in the world. Its durability, malleability, light weight and low production cost makes it one of the most widely-used material on the planet, which, in turn, has led to equally-widespread...
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Waste management in the Maldives
As a child, Firushan would often go to the beach to play. Back then, the beach used to be covered in leaves that were swept there from the streets.
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Youths unite for sustainable tourism in Sri Lanka
Nishanthan Sobana and her husband are a young couple from Sri Lanka's Mannar District who finished school in the crippled economy of the war-torn Northern Province. Even with her Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Nishanthan initially found it...


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U2 CAN BE BRAINWASHED by Mr Biffo
I went to see U2 in concert last night. I'm not a massive fan of the band, Bono irritates me profoundly, and I haven't loved anything they've done since The Joshua Tree.
But... a mate had a spare ticket, and there are potentially worse ways to spend a Monday night.
It had its moments, though I can't say I really engaged with the show. I didn't buy what they were selling - and selling is exactly why U2 were doing.
What stood out most for me - whether it comes from the band as individuals, or as an organisation - is how brilliant U2 are at branding. The games industry could learn a lot from them.
Watching last night's show, it struck me that U2 might be the most corporate band of all time.
It's little wonder that they've worked so closely with Apple in the past, because they're every bit the music world's equivalent of Apple; a massive organisation that talks about personal experience and connecting the world, while actually being an aloof, untouchable, tax-dodging, money-making monolith. U2 is a business more than a rock band.
The current U2 tour adopts a loose theme around the band's origins, footage of Bono's parents playing out on an enormous, transparent, screen - which Bono then climbs inside, as he walks along stylised footage of the street he grew up on. At other points, the entire band play from within the screen, overlaid with giant, graphical versions of themselves.
It was impressive, but for a show that supposedly touches on some very personal themes for Bono, I found it remarkably unmoving. It strives for intimacy, but was too impersonal, too calculated - as if everything, from the between-song banter to The Edge's stupid hat, had been thought through, analysed, dissected as to how it was serving the U2 brand. U2 - the U2 that the world sees - are portrayed as icons, not as people.
They clearly learned a lot from Steve Jobs, and the applause and singing along from the crowd seemed to me - sober and unmoved as I was - to come from the same font of corporate brainwashing as those who line up outside Apple Stores for a week before the launch of a new iPhone.
Yet, as with the marketing campaigns of Apple, it succeeded in what it set out to do, and I don't doubt most of the audience went home thinking they'd had the night of their lives. We'd been successfully sold the idea of the rock band U2 giving us a big Saturday night on a Monday evening. Even Noel Gallagher showed up on stage for one of the encores.
Where am I going with this? I'll tell you where I was going with this...
You may have read that Assassin's Creed Syndicate debuted in the all-formats games charts at number one this week, but that sales were down significantly on the previous instalment or two of the franchise. People seem tired of what has become the tradition of an annual Assassin's Creed game.
Plus, Halo 5 is out today for the Xbox One, and the sense I'm getting is that there isn't the same level of hype and excitement as there might've been in the past for a new Halo. I might be wrong - let's face it, it's not like a new Xbox One exclusive comes along that often. But still... I know I don't feel particularly excited about the game... I'm just going through the motions.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the feeling spreads through all of the major releases this Christmas. The disappointing sales of Syndicate suggests that this tradition of releasing annual instalments of familiar franchises might be backfiring, that the games aren't sufficiently different from one another. Fatigue might finally be settling in. People might want something familiar... but they also want something new.
STRUCK WHO?
It just struck me at last night's concert that while I may have issues with U2's corporate approach to rock n' roll, the band successfully rebrands itself with every concert, while still being distinctly U2. Mullet Bono, Wild West Pioneer Bono, MacPhisto Bono, Fly Glasses Bono, and now Weird Blonde Quiff Bono... Innocence & Experience is the name of the new tour, and they've made it feel like an event. As they have with all their previous tours.
Musically, U2 appear these days to strive to sound like U2, but they tweak the visual language, and the soundbites - "Oh, with this one we learned to become a band again" etc. etc. - around that, so it feels like they're moving forwards.
These identikit video game sequels no longer feel like an event. They get the familiar bit right, the iconography - the Assassin's Creed peaked hood, Master Chief's golden faceplate, Lara Croft's pout - without giving us anything new. Syndicate's London looks too much like Unity's Paris. Halo 5 looks like all the other Halo games. Call of Duty Black Ops 3 looks like Call of Duty Advanced Warfare.
It's all becoming interchangeable to a degree that I've never before seen in the games industry. I know this is a drum I keep banging, but I'm finding it a massive issue. I want video games to excite me like they once did - with the sense of possibility, and new experiences - not elicit a sigh, and a shrug. I've never been more bored by a Christmas release schedule.
So anyway. Yeah. What I appear to be saying - looking back over all that - is that I want my video games to pay lip service to the notion of new ideas, while repackaging and rebranding the same old stuff.
Which isn't entirely the case, but if you are going to repurpose gameplay and characters, making it at least feel new - finding ways to make the branding of your games, the iconography, feel fresh - is a step up from making everything feel exactly the same as before.
There's a real fear that pervades the industry right now, a reticence to take risks, to break out of comfort zones. Maybe in Halo 6 they could have a moment where Master Chief pauses to talk about his dead mother, whips off his helmet to reveal a new hairstyle, before a number of ambiguous, pseudo-compassionate slogans flash up on the screen: "SAVE EVERYONE!", "THE WORLD IS A PLACE FOR PEOPLE", "IMMIGRATION IS A THING!".
YOUTUBE RED ALERT by Mr Biffo
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Steve McEdge
Agreed. AAA gaming has got stuck in a moment it can't get out of.
Mr Biffo
I'm off to see Liturgy in Manchester tonight, which is about as far from a world-trampling behemoth of a tour as you can get. You should come, Biffo - I'd like to see what games you'd compare it to...
Yo mama.
Bananasthemonkey
Oooooo. I like Liturgy. Enjoy!
Turpington
I think a big problem is the lack of mid budget games. The 7-8 out of 10 rascals that would be quirky, and a lot of fun. Stuff like Darksiders, or Deadly Premonition. They could do things a bit different, as there wasn't as much pressure to make back massive amounts of cash.
I'm intrigued as to why video games don't licence out their open worlds to third party designers after a given amount of time. I've got no intention of buying Assassins Creed, but it seems a waste of a beautifully designed world that the only story/game played within it is Assassins Creed. Imagine if an imaginative studio could create something small and interesting within that world?
Reversible Sedgewick
It sounds like the kind of thing which Nintendo used to have in spades. Mechanically your Zelda 64 and your Wind Waker are pretty much identical, but show them to someone who wasn't interested in games and they might not guess that it was part of the same franchise. It's hard to think of a franchise in a different medium that would embrace such diverse aesthetics... Maybe that tedious animated Star Wars film that got a cinema release is the closest high-profile example.
Nintendo also tackled the other end of the pipe, historically. Mario looks the same, but now he's driving a car... it's a bigger genre swap than moving from Alien to Aliens, right?
But even they've lost the knack for meaninglful reinvention these days... I haven't played any Chibi Robo releases but as I understand it, they've stripped something quirky back into a side scrolling platformer... to sit alongside Mario, the latest Donkey Kong, the latest Yoshi...
Nintendo might essentially release modified versions of the same game, but since they don't do it annually, it still feels like an event when it comes out. We'd likely all be sick of Mario Kart if they started releasing slapdash sequels every Christmas.
RichT
At the rate that Assassin's Creed is advancing, in the 2017 installment you may actually receive missions from Bono.
"BEGORRAH! Oi've left me ruddy-bluddy hat at the top of the Oiffel Tower ag'in. Climb to the top an' oi'll give you a sack of iPods, pre-loaded with me new album. TER, TER-TER TER-TER!!
"Free Nelson Mandela. Love and peace."
Excellent criticism as always, Mr Biffo. I wonder if the games industry is now out-pacing its own customer refresh-rate? I felt that during the previous console generation there was a deliberate moment of choice where, faced with the option to either evolve or simply repackage familiar gaming tropes to an emerging audience, they chose the latter. It was an objectively sensible business decision to target a larger, younger customer base with more disposable time and money.
But what happens now when that generation of gamers is bored with the offer? And when the teens that are the incoming "new" customers have already played this stuff for the past seven years or more?
Games are very confusing at the moment - confusing insomuch that they're dull. The excitement that you should get from playing a new title just isn't there for me.
The combination of re-hashed ideas, re-hashed worlds to play in, the lack of artiatic diversity in visual approach (I'm still finding Borderlands 2 interesting, after a couple of weeks, as the "look" makes it feel different, despite it being pretty, well, derivative).... Phhffffff. Bored!
Definitely stuck in a rut. A Hollywood-aping money-making samey rut.
Col. Asdasd
Great article. What concerns me even more than than this trend (which is predictable, with development costs sky-rocketing and technological advances beginning to calcify) is that this is the only place I'm reading such things. Other sites are dutifully cranking up the hype cycle with every major, stagnant, samey release.
It is starting to worry me too, actually... Particularly the unanimous euphoria which has greeted Halo 5.
Kelvin Green link
I hope the boredom doesn't drive you away from games again, Biffo; we need people like you saying things like this.
At least digital distribution and crowdfunding have led to an undercurrent of innovation while the AAA industry -- and how I loathe that term, almost more than "hardcore gamer" back in the Wii days -- stomps around doing the same, safe things over and over. You do get a bit of trash along with the innovation, but at least you get some new ideas.
No no no - I'm going nowhere anytime soon. It was never boredom that drove me away!
Kumma-summa
The one thing I think that may separate games from Hollywood's current predicament (at least temporarily) is that there is still a lot more scope for invention in games than there currently is in film.
Of course money dictates that the same things are recycled to try and repeat profits but at least the potential for invention remains greater in games- the technology is still evolving and so the ways and means of storytelling are too.
I suspect we'll see independent developers to exploiting this and then bigger companies buying the rights and remaking the game into a saccharin, over polished honk-up starring your mum.
That story telling but is an interesting one. I want to be drawn into the story in games but on reflection, or maybe just that it's been pointed out by some on this site, I don't end up giving a fig about the story, most of the time. Give me some Mario head crushing whilst flying, in 3D, then on different planets. Give me that over and above the story.
Perhaps the way in which the stories are being told is where the technological advances need to be made. Or is this just cocking things up? Stories have been around for a while, haven't they.... ?


The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) and the Honduras Accompaniment Project (PROAH) would like to express our concern at the death threats received by members of PROAH, an international organization that provides accompaniment for human rights defenders at risk in Honduras.
On the 26th of April in the afternoon, a member of the PROAH team received a text message on her mobile phone from a telephone company website with the following message: "cam > YOU SHITS. UNTIL WE STICK A BULLET IN YOUR HEAD YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP QUIET".
On the 22nd of April at 4.14pm, another member of the PROAH team had received a message, also from a phone company website to her mobile phone, referring to members of an organisation that PROAH accompanies: "From: CAM 14/88> who do we begin with. pedro, elena or alan, …in the end, the result will be the same**". Members of this organization also received the two threats.
COFADEH and PROAH consider the death threats targeted at members of PROAH to be directly related to their work in defense of human rights, and have been issued in a context of intensified intimidation and attacks against human rights defenders in Honduras over the past few months.
On the 24th of April COFADEH held a press conference to report on the marked increase in threats, harassment and even physical attacks directed towards their staff and family members.
The threats from CAM directed towards international accompaniers are in addition to others sent to human rights defenders in Honduras over the past few weeks. These human rights defenders are at high risk because of their work and therefore urgently require international accompaniment.
– Take the necessary measures to stop the harassment and threats directed at all members of PROAH in particular, and against the community of human rights defenders in general.
– Immediately conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into these threats, and request that the results of the investigation are made public and that those responsible for these threats are brought to justice.
– Take urgent and concrete measures to implement the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1998.
– Ensure the implementation of the provisions of this Declaration, in particular with regards to the protection of the right of everyone "…individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels".
 CAM is the acronym for the Álvarez Martínez commando group, a paramilitary group that has threatened, harrassed and intimidated human rights defenders since the 2009 coup d'état. The name refers to General Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, who was head of the Honduran armed forces and is considered to be responsible for serious human rights violations under the National Security Doctrine of the 1980s.
 The names have been changed in order to protect the identity of the people concerned.
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May and Corbyn will neglect services sector at our peril
by David Hannay | 07.05.2019
David Hannay is a member of the House of Lords and former UK ambassador to the EU and UN.
Following the negotiations between the government and the Labour party over Brexit is like watching paint dry. Such indications as have emerged from the negotiations relate more to expectation management than to reality, while some are simply ranging shots in the blame game we can expect to ensue if and when the process ends in failure.
Somewhere in that cloud of obfuscation lie the future prospects for that jewel in the Brexiters' crown: an independent trade policy for post-Brexit Britain. Clearly any kind of customs union with the EU, whether temporary or permanent, precludes the UK conducting an independent trade policy – that is what a customs union means.
But could there be a customs union limited to trade in goods alone, while the UK retained the right to negotiate on its own over trade in services? In theory that is a possibility. But would it in practice make sense and would it be beneficial to this country? There are more question marks than answers.
For one thing, the UK currently runs a substantial surplus in its trade in services with the rest of the world. That means that in almost every non-EU "third" country with whom we would be aiming to negotiate better access for our service industries we already have a surplus, often a massive one. Is it really likely that such countries would cut a deal with us when we could not offer them what they really want: better access to our market for goods, and in particular for agricultural products? Also bear in mind that the UK's market for services is already one of the most open in the world.
Just pose that question in the case of the US, the largest third country economy with whom the government aspires to negotiate an agreement, and one with which we do indeed run a surplus in trade in services. Is a mercantilist US administration, led by a president who thinks that bilateral trade deficits must be reversed come hell or high water, likely to give us what we want in circumstances when we cannot give him what he wants?
And then there is our trade in services with the EU, also in surplus and shamefully neglected in the Political Declaration the government agreed last November – the document which outlines of our future trade relationship with our largest market. How will those negotiations be affected if we start negotiating preferential deals on services with some of their main competitors? Negatively, no doubt.
All this assumes – and it is a pretty bold assumption – that it will be simple and straightforward to differentiate between trade in goods and trade in services. In this era of complex international supply chains, in which elements of trade in services are inextricably linked to trade in goods, that will not be the case. More likely having quite different trade policy regimes for the two categories will simply lead to more friction in trade in both, instead of the frictionless trade we currently have with the rest of the EU.
These service industries represent 80% of our economy, a proportion more likely to rise in the future than to fall. So they do matter. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that service sector leaders have not done a very good job of impressing this on the government; and that the government has done an even worse job so far in supporting services in our post-Brexit priorities.
It was a sobering experience to listen to a panel of representatives of the tech, financial, broadcasting and legal services at the Institute for Government on Thursday admitting that no alternative future arrangements in their sectors would be as good as, let alone better than, what they have already as members of the EU. That simple fact suggests the simple solution of staying put.
Tags: cross-party talks, Customs Union, services Categories: Economy
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Key features of Mudon
Developed by Dubai Properties, Mudon is an upcoming community that offers a unique collection of residential luxury homes. Divided into several sub-communities: Rahat, Naseem, Arabella, Al Salam, the community features modern townhouses, high-end villas and apartments. The community boasts close proximity to the main roads of Dubai such as Mohammed Bin Zayed Road and Al Khail Road, so residents of Mudon can easily reach other areas of Dubai. Mudon also provides its residents with a wide range of facilities that ensure a comfortable life and safe stay. Featuring a serene environment and premium amenities, Mudon is ideal for families and those leading a measured and healthy lifestyle.
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The architecture of the community comprises elegant townhouses, villas and residential buildings. The latest architecture trends were followed while designing the community. Due to the modern exteriors and high-quality fittings, residential units in Mudon attract many. Beautiful landscapes and gardens provide a tranquil environment for the residents.
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Mudon is a gated community that provides its residents with a comfortable stay. Most of the basic amenities and facilities are located within the community. Since Mudon offers a family-friendly environment, families will find this community perfect. Featuring an expansive park with lush greenery, the community will also suit those preferring a healthy and active lifestyle close to nature.
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The infrastructure of the community is well-developed. Supermarkets, schools, dining options, hospitals, clinics and entertainment spots are within walking distance, so residents are guaranteed a comfortable stay. The supermarkets in Mudon where residents can buy day-to-day essentials and fresh groceries include Carrefour and Choithrams. As for schools, Mudon is home to Jebel Ali School which is one of the top-rated schools in Dubai. Apart from that, there are South View School, Jumeirah English Speaking School, Blossom Nursery. Such hospitals and clinics as Aster Medical Centre, Saudi German Hospital, MediClinic Parkview Hospital will provide a high standard of medical care.
The most convenient mode of transportation is a private vehicle. For car owners, the community provides two allocated parking slots to each townhouse and villa. Since the community is located close to the arterial roads of Dubai, it is easy to travel by car. As regards visitors, they can use ample parking in the street. For those who rely on public transportation, there are two available bus stops within the community.
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Somewhere to call home – the Battle for Princes Park.
In 1878, the Carlton Football Club was given assent by the Council for the "permissive occupation" of 6 acres of the Princes Park which expanded to 13 acres in the football season (passed by two votes) They were apparently also granted granted permission to erect temporary "hurdles" or fences in a part of the Princes Park where it had until that point been a cow paddock.
The Argus reported on August 20, 1878 that some Councillors had asked that this permission be rescinded, but that in lieu a portion of the land in the Park should be leveled and fenced off to prevent intrusion by cows, and "allow the playing of athletic games". The motion was eventually granted, and the permission was removed.
In 1879, The Australian Town and Country Journal referred to the new ground as Princes Park and stated that attendance at the new ground was rather large.
In 1883, Carlton declared its intent to build a clubroom at Princes Park "in order to bring the players together for regular practice and training". This was apparently meant to be a portable building, which along with the fences would be taken down at the end of each season. The fences further had to be removed at the end of each days play. This agreement lasted until 1889.
In 1887, the Argus noted that staff at the Cemetery had locked the gates leading into Princes Park due to the noisy football crowds that tramped through it to the Princes Oval. This would reportedly inconvenience 5,000 – 6,000 attendees at matches.
In September 1890, the Council was again called up to vote on the matter of creating a Public Recreation Ground at Princes Park with one Councillor pointing out that various attempts had been made to establish such for over 20 years.
With permissive occupancy being eventually granted by the minister of lands, the Clubs began to construct infrastructure – namely permanent fencing. However the Council attempted to prevent this, and when it failed, elected to take court action.
The Council objected to the fencing in of the Ground on the basis that "the council considers such a concession would be a limitation and restriction of the use of the park by the public, for whose benefit it has been reserved". Advising the Minister in writing on several occasions that the Council could not approve of the new arrangement.
On September 4th, 1890, The Argus reported that the council had taken the Board of Lands and Works to the Supreme Court stating that the Board were joint trustees and unable to make unilateral decisions regarding the park. The Minster of Lands would not withdraw the permission at the time. When the case came to court, the Board of Lands withdrew from the case after its advisors said it had no case.
In March 1891, The Argus opined that the Councils fears concerning the public access to the park were well founded in light of the fact that "9/10 permissive tenancies" had resulted in defacto ownership of the premises. This included the Melbourne, Richmond and East Melbourne clubs as well as Scotch College. Noting that an attempt to secure Fawkner Park the same way had been recently foiled, the Argus hoped that the council would see Princes Park done properly to prevent the "wholesale robbery of the public estate".
In September 1895, the question came before Council again, with it being pointed out that where some clubs had been able to enclose the ground, they had considerably bettered it. (The Melbourne Bowling club was held as an example). The Council at this time favoured the "alienation" of the ground whereby the clubs would pay an annual rent, but would at no stage receive ownership.
The Leader wrote that the new site was "practically a wilderness. In fact it had long been a rubbish tip…in one corner there was a water hole in which the local dogs were trained in aquatic exercises".
Management of the ground was eventually handed to the Carlton Recreation Ground Committee, consisting of 3 board members from each of the Football and Cricket clubs, and a rotating chairman. The Chairman would eventually be made independent after the falling out in 1908.
By July, 1897 the Launceston Examiner reported "that the long fought for Princes Park has been granted to the Carlton football and cricket clubs". The Examiner stated that Princes Park "will be a fine place when suitable buildings are erected, but at present football is played there under difficulties".
In 1907, Council debated a move to have a railway platform built at the back of the Carlton Oval reopening the East Brunswick line for football and cricket fans.
The First match at the new Carlton Recreation Ground was held on the 22nd of June 1907, Queen Victoria Jubilee Day, featuring Carlton and Collingwood.
The Argus reported in 1907 that the Carlton Recreation Ground had been the scene of many famous football matches but had no spectator accommodations stating that "the old pavillion is much behind the times and teams using it have often complained about the lack of comfort". The Argus said that for some years proposals had come and gone to build a new grandstand, but had been hampered by financial problems. However, the Argus also reported that the Carlton president had recieved an offer to underwrite the cost of a new stand, estimated to seat about 800 people and cost about 2000 pounds.
However despite this offer, infighting between the Carlton Football and Cricket clubs was at least partially responsible for the delay of the structure being built. (In fact it got so bad that it required a special conference with a government mediator) However, by December 1908, The Argus reported that the Committee was agreed that a new grandstand was required. Construction of the 3,800 pound grandstand would commence in March 1909, with the aim of seating around 2,000 people.
The Gardiner stand would take 3 months to build, consisting primarily of wrought iron. It was formally opened before a match against Essendon on June 21, 1909.
In 1910, The Argus reported that some in the council were concerned that the Carlton clubs were only paying 1 pound a year in rent, while not contributing anything to the maintenance of Princes Park. It was proposed that the rent be raised to 150 pounds in 1911. It was also proposed to raise Richmonds rent to 75 pounds.
In 1918, the Leader reported that the Carlton ground was larger than even the MCC enclosure (the Melbourne Cricket Ground) and had greater potential. The Gardiner stand was referred to as "lofty, graceful and capable of indefinite expansion". The Ground apparently also had a large embankment with a capacity for 50,000 people.
In 1923, the Argus reported that the erection of another brick retaining wall will assist in the construction of the graded embankment bringing the grounds capacity to 100,000 spectators at the Recreation Ground.
In November 1929, the Argus reported that proposals were being considered for the construction of another Grandstand at the Carlton Recreation Ground. This would eventually result in the construction of the Robert Heatley Stand on May 7th, 1932.
In September 1944, an audit of the ground found that the official capacity of the Carlton recreation ground sat at 62,300 including members reserves of 22,620 (in comparison St Kilda's ground held 58,744).
Princes Park was used for the VFL finals in 1945, while the MCG was occupied by the military. The Grand Final crowd was reported at 62,986.
In 1952, The Argus reported that the VFL was concerned over the size of crowds that the MCG could hold, as it anticipated crowds of up to 120,000 which were not then possible at the MCG due to health department. It was then under consideration that not only could finals be moved to the Princes Park but so could the leagues administration offices.
As reported in the West Australian, This coincided with announcements of a world wide competition for stadium designs for an Olympic stadium expected to be built at the Carlton ground for the 1956 Olympic games. The stadium was anticipated to hold 125,000, with 50,000 seated and another 30,000 undercover. Astonishingly, the competition was only given 3 weeks to run. The Olympic stadium was later built at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
In 1954, Carlton attempted to persuade the VFL to hold the finals again at Princes Park, pointing out that the ground could accommodate more paying customers. The VFL refused saying that the next 3 finals series were bound to the MCG by contract.
The 1970s saw the construction of the Hawthorn, now Pratt Stand, and the 1980s the construction of the Elliot, now Heroes Stand.These served to remove standing room and move towards the goal of encircling the whole ground with stands.
Right from the outset, any ground improvements raised the ire of residents being most concerned about the plans for underground parking and floodlights, to the point that it was being called Albert Park Mark II by the Princes Park Protection Association. The planned expansion from 32,000 to 45,000 was abandoned, instead settling at 35,000.
The Legends Stand opened in 1997, but even before it was completed the future of Princes Park as an AFL venue was under threat from a new menace, the Docklands precinct. Not only would Princes Park have to compete with the MCG, its much anticipated position as number 2 was under threat from a new corner.
Carlton blamed the AFL for the negative connotations involved with Princes Park at this time, and the media eventually resorted to playing this off John Elliot v Sandra Hart (the Save Princes Park leader). Polls of the time showed that Princes Park was not though of fondly.
In 2007, The Australian reported that Graham Smorgon had proposed a massive redevelopment of the Carlton Recreation Ground. The upgrades were estimated to cost $67 million and involved demolishing all grand stands bar the Heroes Stand and making them into Plazas. The whole plan was condemned when Smorgon lost his election to Richard Pratt in 2007.
The Harris and Heatley Stands were torn down in 2007-2008 to make way for new facilities at Princes Park in an $18 million redevelopment funded by the State (4.3million), City of Melbourne (2million) and the AFL (3.45 million). Visy naming rights worth $5 million over 3 years were also contributed. Amongst the facilities were included a new gymnasium, altitude room, and hydro facilities.
The AFL has on several occasions talked about using Princes Park as a third stadium for minor matches, even though most believe that its a ploy to use against the MCG and Docklands to get better deals.
The possibility of a return emerged in 2009 when the The Age reported that AFL was negotiating for better deals with its major stadiums and the AFL confirmed it was going ahead with a feasibility study.
The AFL was reported by the Age in March 2013 to have started running assessments on the Parks viability for AFL matches just 18 months ago. However while the stadium can back favourable in cost terms, it didnt have a lot to go for it when it came to transport.
In march 2017, The Age reported that Carlton and AFL officials are discussing a proposal that will help Carlton make significant changes to Ikon Park, including installing new change rooms and re-laying the surface.
The Carlton football clubs 2015 Annual Report stated that the Board had initiated a review of Ikon Park and in 2016 the club would be releasing an exciting master plan that will ensure its future. "The Princes Park precinct will forever be in our DNA".
In February 2016, The Age reported that the primary focus of Carlton's master plan for Princes Park wasn't restoring it as a home-and-away venue, rather it's what the precinct as a whole would look like. The article said that while the Blues were open to the ground hosting AFL matches, it was more likely that the ground would be an elite training facility for its womens side, amongst others – AFL Victoria, AFL umpires and the AFL Victoria women's academy are already based at Ikon Park.
Carlton CEO Steven Trigg is remaining realistic, saying there are some key hurdles the Blues would need to overcome.
On March 30, 2016, AFL.com.au reported that Carlton hoped that Princes Park would become the new home of the fledgling AFLW competition. Carlton CEO Stephen Trigg said the ground at Ikon Park would not need much of an upgrade to host women's games, with any redevelopment to focus on the venue's grandstands and changerooms.
In terms of it again being a fully fledged AFL venue, the message from the Blues was "never say never". Trigg said the Blues were "open" to reactivating the ground but he would not speculate on what an upgrade would cost. Industry speculation was that it would cost more than $100 million.
Asked whether Carlton would consider championing Ikon Park as an alternative AFL venue, Trigg said the Blues were "not absolutely bashing the door down for that to happen" given the AFL had given no indication it would fixture games there.
On February 5, 2017, the Heraldsun reported that Carlton will "never say never" about returning home games to Ikon Park because of the ground's phenomenal pulling power, but the Blues said the AFL had made it known its priority was to revamp Etihad Stadium rather than invest in a boutique stadium. Carlton chief executive Steven Trigg said the retention of the venue's stands and sense of history was one of his priorities.
Trigg said Carlton fans had to realise it was the AFL that made the scheduling decisions on venues.
On February 27th, 2017, The Age reported that the "overwhelming success" of AFLW at the ground had caused the AFL to consider fast tracking plans to upgrade parts of Princes Park into a more modern facility capable of hosting AFLW matches, AFL preseason matches, and even possible AFL season matches. The Age reported that the AFL and State Government were likely to chip in for the proposal which would be likely to include new change rooms, resurfacing and permanent lighting.
In October 2017, The Age reported that the State Government was still considering proposals, and that the Blues had held talks on the development at State and Federal levels. A decision was expected by the end of the year.
"That [AFLW] is also a matter for the AFL. Ikon Park is pretty good but that's up for discussion. There are some various ideas about where all that should be. Maybe it's a couple of grounds that will accommodate [AFLW]," Sports Minister John Eren said.
the Pratt Stand would be knocked down.
The 109-year-old Gardiner Stand would be preserved given its heritage listing and historical significance.
Ikon Park would house facilities for the AFLW and VFLW teams and allied health facilities.
The 21-year-old Legends Stand would remain to ensure the ground was ideal for AFLW and JLT games.
Carlton chief executive Cain Liddle told the Herald Sun that the Blues had ambitious plans.
On April 12, 2018 the State Government announced $20m in funding for Princes Park to develop womens facilities. The Blues revealed that as part of the Masterplan, the Club intends to demolish facilities in the south-west corner of Ikon Park to make way for additional elite facilities, including an education hub and administration area to cater for the expansion and growth of female football and the broader Carlton Football Club.
Since 1921, more than 21 million people have attended games at Princes Park with 1066 games played there at an average of 20,500. It has hosted 496,000 people during 13 finals matches at an average of more than 38,000.
The last AFL match was played at the stadium in 2005, although the league still uses it for preseason games, and the VFL (state league competition) Northern Blues still use it competitively.
In 1994, Carlton became the first AFL club to sell out the naming rights to its home ground. It wouldnt be the last.
The Western Bulldogs and South Melbourne both had very short stints at Princes Park due to the second world war. Fitzroy played home matches at Princes Park from 1957 to 1969. In 1974, Hawthorn began playing home matches at Princes Park. This would last until 1991 when Hawthorn would move to Waverly Park. Fitzroy returned in 1987, and lasted un 1993 before moving to the Western Oval.
It was the home of the Carlton Soccer Club during its short lived stint in the National Soccer League, as well as being a temporary home to the Melbourne Storm NRL Club. It is currently home to the Melbourne Rebels Super 14 team.


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As a native Houstonian, Terry holds two licensures in the state of Texas: one in chemical dependency counseling, the other in massage therapy. In 2004, she trained to be a volunteer for Houston Hospice, a life-changing training session she believes would benefit all. -"Hospice, contrary to popular belief, is not about dying but about helping people live until they die."
Her intent is to deliver stories with wisdom, warmth, and a medley of emotions and always a touch of humor, which she often finds to be the elixir of life. "When I write, I pull from what I know—real people, real life and all the obstacles in between."
Terry is proof it is never too late to reinvent yourself or pursue a dream. Her first novel, Saving Gracie, was published in 2012, the year she turned sixty years old, her second, Partly Sunny in September 2013, and Time Trials hit the shelves the end of November, 2015.
"I've always said I'm a late bloomer…"
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Time Trials by Terry Lee follows the lives of eight friends - the Bad-Ass Girls - from when they first met in college through the next forty years of their lives. The story covers their friendship, their personal journeys, and the changes that came along the way from their teenage years through to the fifties. With each of the girls yearning for something more in life, going to college was, in a way, a promise of a new beginning; a chance to live life on their own terms. Terry Lee flawlessly narrates their journeys and experiences as they try to hold onto the friendship, eventually settling into their separate lives until a tragic event brings them back together. Follow the journeys and shenanigans of the Bad-Ass Girls as they move from strangers to best friends and back again, helping each other navigate through life's ups and downs.
Time Trials by Terry Lee is the tale of a vibrant friendship as it is tested by time. The most amazing part of the story is how such a diverse set of characters came together to form a dynamic friendship that would span decades. Each of the girls had a different story to tell and each brought something special to the group. There is real depth to each of these characters and their stories; each as memorable as the other but in a completely different way. The character growth across the decades was phenomenal as portrayed by the way each of them adapted to the changing times and circumstances, yet at the core they all remained the same people they were when they first met. I also enjoyed how the story began with the characters on the road to college, which felt like such a powerful symbolic indication of the new journey they were embarking on. Time Trials by Terry Lee is the tale of a true and fierce friendship. I especially liked that the friendship was not painted too rosily, which would have come off as corny and, by avoiding this, it felt genuine and relatable.
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I felt the same way about the characters...the book really dug deep and with each book you write Teery your skills as a writer blossom ❤
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The minute I turned to the first page of Terry Lee's novel, Time Trials, I felt right at home. Like the Bad Ass women in her story, I have had a long-term group relationship with seven other women, from 1961 to the present. Terry's characters are clearly drawn. Their experiences are universal, but unique, in a plot that is fascinating and draws a reader in. Throughout the story, the history of each era is told in detail, showing Terry's careful research. I found myself going back to times in my own life as I read about those times in the lives of Terry's Characters. I'm glad I own a copy of Time Trials so that I can return to this wonderful story again and again.


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Undercover Season 2 Story
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I read much of Jeannie Vanasco's The Glass Eye in short bursts, one chapter a day for about a week until I couldn't resist any longer. Then I read the rest of the book in one sitting. This heartbreaking memoir is so smart, so tightly constructed, and so moving that it broke me—both formally and emotionally. During that one long sitting in which I read the second half of the memoir, I needed to stop at least a dozen times and place my advanced reading copy splayed open on my chest while I sobbed into my own hands, which I dried off on my t-shirt before picking the book up again.
MICHAEL KIMBALL: So before we get into any of my questions, I want to mention that we're friends, and that I've heard about the various stages of this book for the last few years. Let's start with the structure you created for The Glass Eye. There are two parts and 21 chapters. Then within each chapter there are lots of brief entries organized under four possible headings: Dad, Mom, Jeanne, and Mental Illness. This might seem a little complicated the way I'm describing it, but the structure is intuitive and brilliant and allows you to move through time, back and forth, with great ease. It also allows the narrative to accumulate with immaculate pacing and it allows you to control the many reveals of information that happen along the way. Could you talk about the major decision points that led you to that structure?
JEANNIE VANASCO: I'm relieved the structure seems intuitive and brilliant—because it took a few years to figure out. When first drafting the memoir, I focused almost entirely on my grief for my dad. But the more I wrote, the more I realized that his grief for his daughter Jeanne, my namesake, influenced how I grieved for him. That's when I embraced a sort of sonic logic: eye, i, I. My dad's glass eye, the letter "i" that my dad added to my name, and the first-person "I." I began seeing the structure as an equation of loss: eye + i = I. So I pieced together a bunch of scenes based on that equation: a woman painting my dad's eye, me seeing a photo of my dead half-sister, Jeanne, for the first time, me hallucinating that my eyes had fallen out, and so on. The manuscript became impressionistic—scene after scene after scene—but tonally cold. There was no "why" holding the scenes together. Also, I hadn't included enough of my mom, and I felt very bad about that—because she lost him, too.
One scene I couldn't get out of my head: my mom throwing herself over my dad's coffin. I knew that the book also needed to be about her grief. So then I started organizing the scenes into binders and adding sections that reflected on those scenes. I must have spent a hundred dollars on the Martha Stewart product line at Staples: binders, dividers, folders, labels, pens, highlighters, and paper—all in different colors. I labeled each binder: Dad, Mom, Jeanne, and Mental Illness. The scene of the woman painting my dad's eye, that obviously went in the Dad binder. My mom throwing herself over his coffin, that went in the Mom binder. Me seeing Jeanne's photo, the Jeanne binder. Scenes of my hallucinations, those went in the Mental Illness binder. I didn't see myself outside of my mental illness, which was a problem—emotionally and on a craft level. Otherwise, though, the binders were great—because I could physically move scenes around, finding artful juxtapositions and new meanings.
The binder system worked well until I visited Jeanne's grave for the first time. That happened the same month as the ten-year anniversary of my dad's death. I came back from that visit and started shuffling around my written scenes, color-coding my memories, seeing too many connections between descriptions of my dad, Jeanne, and my psychotic episodes. Suddenly I didn't know which memory to put in which binder. When you see connections everywhere, you see connections nowhere. Pretty soon I ended up in the hospital. Try telling a doctor in the psych ward that you've been categorizing your hallucinations and that you can't find your narrative present. Doesn't pan out too well.
It wasn't until after Masie Cochran at Tin House read my book proposal, three years later, that the story's shape emerged. On our first call, Masie said: "What if the binders were the structure?" In my sample pages, I'd described the binders, how and why I used them, but they appeared within the narrative—as opposed to organizing the narrative. I knew at that point that Masie was "the one." After we hung up, I asked my agent to pull the manuscript from everyone else.
MK: I love that you found an editor who understood what you were doing with this amazing book. That's rare in my experience, though I certainly had that with Kathryn Belden who edited Big Ray. And I want to come back to your point about this being a book for your dad, but first I want to follow up on the figure of the glass eye, which becomes a touchstone in different ways throughout The Glass Eye. You note in the memoir that the glass eye has been a figure for you since you started thinking about this book when you were 18 years old. Could you talk about the various versions of memoir that had the same title, as well as the poems, essays, short stories, and a novel that also carried that title?
JV: The short answer: almost all those attempts—particularly the poetry and fiction—acknowledge the struggle to eulogize through art.
MK: I feel as if your answer is the beginning of a separate essay about the many written forms that an idea can take. So tell me about the early prose versions of the glass eye material?
JV: As for fiction, I also worked on a novella in undergrad. It was about a teenager and her mom who live in a "dead man," a trailer hitched to a hunk of concrete six feet below ground. The teenager wants to be an artist, but she struggles to sketch and paint her dead dad. His glass eye poses the biggest problem: the eye is already art. To paint it feels impossible and inauthentic. She attempts a series of paintings about different parts of her dad: one painting is of his right arm, another his right leg. She doesn't ever paint the left of him. I can't remember if she ever paints the eye. Most of the story is her driving around town with her neighbor Lee Slivers, a man who collects Jesus pictures, the sort that plug in and light up.
And then, after graduation, I tried to write a mafia novel set in the 1930s and told in the point of view of a boy loosely based on my dad. My dad loved books about mobsters. That's why I thought: mafia novel. The boy works in his grandfather's barbershop, sweeping hair mostly. His grandfather tells him: "Don't ever go into the back room." Mobsters use the back room. The boy becomes obsessed with one of them. This mobster has a glass eye and—the boy soon learns—a dead daughter. The boy's own father recently died, and he doesn't know how to grieve. So he basically takes notes on how the mobster with the glass eye behaves. I then tried to break the book into a series of linked stories set in the barbershop. My dad's father owned a barbershop, and my dad worked there as a boy. I wanted to imagine my dad as a boy. I wanted to imagine him without me. It seemed like a way to keep my grief from turning the prose sentimental.
Later, I tried to write another novel, this one about a twenty-two-year-old's decision to move to New York because New York is where her dad was from and she wants to write a book about him. Jeanne appears in one sentence: "My dad named me after his dead daughter from his first marriage and a soap opera star he liked." It was a throwaway line meant to be amusing. It was exploitive.
MK: One of the remarkable things about your memoir is that it never gets sentimental, though it is so moving in so many ways, which I think was best suited to nonfiction for this particular material. Tell me about the early nonfiction attempts about the glass eye?
JV: I had a different version of the memoir mostly set in the psych ward. The flashbacks were my childhood memories of my dad. But by opening in the hospital, the book would set the wrong tone. I didn't want my diagnosis to be the story of the book. I didn't want my character to be a walking DSM entry. Off and on, I tried to write essays, but I couldn't make them work. They felt too much like sketches. It wasn't until I was twenty-eight that I decided: I'm going to try to make this a memoir.
MK: One of the things that comes up throughout the memoir is the deathbed promise you made to your dad. Is The Glass Eye that book you promised to write for him?
JV: When the book existed only inside my head, it was the book I promised him. The moment I started writing the first sentence, the promise was broken. The problem is, I can't articulate why The Glass Eye isn't the book I promised him. I just know that it's not—maybe because I feel that it's not. I understand that you can't force your book into a direction that it doesn't want to go. But memoir, I naively believed, could be different from poetry and fiction. With memoir, I thought I could control the process. That's because I hadn't considered the most important part of memoir: the guiding intelligence.
MK: I love that phrase, guiding intelligence. Could you talk about how it was so important to The Glass Eye?
JV: It sounds sort of textbook-y, but this is what I tell my memoir students: the guiding intelligence is both the narrator and the narrator's shifting and developing interpretation of the memories. Memories alone don't make a memoir. The guiding intelligence fits the memories together. For me, the guiding intelligence—or developing narrator—is the real plot of memoir. The narrator, as a concept, often gets overlooked when discussing memoir from a craft perspective.
The reason I felt stuck for so long: I didn't yet have my narrator, which seems like a silly thing to say. I was writing memoir after all. The narrator should be pretty obvious. But the reason I couldn't figure out my narrator: I couldn't figure out my "narrative present." The "I, now," "I, then" that Virginia Woolf talks about in her unfinished memoir, A Sketch of the Past. I didn't know my "I, now." When does the "I, now" turn into the "I, then"? I'd been working on my memoir for so long, and throughout that time my sense of self changed a lot. As a result, I worried the tone would be uneven. That's why I made early drafts of the memoir all scene, no telling. I was waiting for stability. But what's so wrong with having an uneven tone? That's the experience of being human.
So after years and years of waiting for stability, I realized that the lack of stability is part of the ongoing story. And the fact of the ongoing story is another part of the story.
MK: Speaking of telling, there's an element of the memoir that I found fascinating, the entries where you write about writing the memoir. At what point did you decide to incorporate that material and, I guess more to the point, why did you decide to include that material within the memoir?
JV: For a long time I internalized some rule that writing should seem effortless. Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse" really messed me up in undergrad: "A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught." Yeats is saying, in a very artful way, that art is hard. But back then I completely missed the tension between artifice and authenticity in the poem.
MK: Honesty and vulnerability, that brings to mind the idea of bravery, which comes up in various ways in The Glass Eye, which is itself a brave book. Could you talk about the bravery of your father, your own bravery, and how bravery can be a way to become a better version of yourself?
JV: I was five years old when doctors removed my dad's left eye. I'll never forget the drive home from the hospital. He praised me for being brave through it all. He was the one who had an eye removed. I just sat in the waiting room with my mom and my coloring books.
But I wrote The Glass Eye not out of bravery but out of fear of letting go. Writing about him was my way of following him into some sort of after-life. It felt as necessary as breathing. I never questioned not writing the book. I questioned my ability. So maybe writing the book was sort of brave—in that I was afraid of failing. My dad once told me: "It's ok to be afraid. It's what you do with your fear that matters." Following that advice, I think, one can become a better person.
MK: Toward the end of The Glass Eye, you write about writing the book as a way to continue to spend time with your father. I feel as if I had a chance to spend some time with him too. How does it feel to have ability to create that time with him?
JV: I'm happy I finished the book. And I'm happy to hear that I captured his character in some way. But writing the book—shaping narrative out of experience—wasn't cathartic. My dad is gone, and I'll never stop missing him. I'll keep writing about him, and for him, in some way or another. Before he died, I wanted to write fiction. I may try it next. I'd like to create a world where he's still alive.
Jeannie Vanasco is the author of The Glass Eye. Her writing has appeared in the Believer, the Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and teaches at Towson University.


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If you're blessed enough to find yourself waking up next to the same love over and over and over again, please don't think of it as blandness. Choose blessedness. Choose blessedness. If you find yourself getting too used to the monotony of your daily existence or if the routine is becoming too obscene, change something.


Six Danish composers and sound artists have come together to form the orchestra DCMC, which basically deals with presenting live music encoded for extinct computers.
Sandra Boss: Sound artist, composer.
Jonas Olesen: Sound artist, composer.
Søren Lyngsø Knudsen: Sound artist, composer.
Mikkel Moir Pihl: Sound artist, composer.
Jonas R. Kirkegaard: Sound artist, composer.
Morten Riis: Sound artist, composer.
The choice of these obsolete computers should not be understood only as a nostalgic look back to the composer's childhood as they all grew up with this type of technology, but as a staging and study of the forgotten and neglected potentials inherent in these first home computers. The old and forgotten technological voices, which today has been removed from our consciousness, is brought to life again and tells us about a time when it was still possible to create remarkable and relevant computer music.


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Don't just boycott, donate
Dylan Grosser
Filed under Columns, Opinion
As of Wednesday, April 3, gay sex is punishable by death in the small Asian country of Brunei. The cruel new law has been condemned by the international community, and by some prominent LGBT activists such as Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres. Many have called for boycotts of Brunei's luxury hotels, airline companies and oil. However, realistically, none of these efforts will result in much, if any, change.
Instead, there should be broader support of LGBT charities and organization that help those persecuted under similar draconian laws worldwide.
Today, homosexuality is illegal in 72 countries, with punishment ranging from imprisonment to death. Some may believe the world is growing more tolerant of people from all different backgrounds, identities and so forth. Yet this is hardly the case, as atrocities committed against minorities happen all across the world every day.
In 2017, it was reported that a brutal crackdown against gay men and women had occurred in Chechnya, with hundreds imprisoned, tortured and killed purely because of their sexuality. Amnesty International claims the crisis is ongoing.
The same year, 300 people were arrested in the Indonesian province of Aceh, another part of the world where homosexuality is illegal. Culturally, LGBT people in all of Indonesia constantly face discrimination and animosity for their identity.
Of course many countries around the world have denounced policies that target minorities with inhumane acts. However this does little to prevent these human rights abuses from happening.
The most effective way to help those being persecuted is to donate money to causes that help LGBT people flee these countries and seek asylum in more welcoming countries.
Unfortunately, there isn't much the average person can do to stop oppression in countries thousands of miles away from us. But by supporting LGBT charities, you can help make a difference by allowing someone to live where their human rights are not infringed upon.
A lesser-known charity I frequently donate to is Rainbow Railroad. With its name inspired by the famous network of secret routes that helped slaves escape to freedom – the Underground Railroad – this Canadian based charity focuses on helping LGBT people escape violence and detainment in their home countries. They provide resources, financial support, and airfare to LGBT refugees to deliver them to safety. According to their website, every person they've helped has been able to claim asylum in a safe country.
Some may think supporting LGBT people goes as far as not eating at Chick-Fil-A. Unfortunately, that couldn't be further from the truth. While well intended, boycotting or denouncing a homophobic company or government doesn't go far enough. If you're truly dedicated to helping LGBT people worldwide, then donate to one of the many human rights organizations that have an agenda of protecting LGBT people from repressive powers.
While inconvenient and seemingly pointless, showing your support by donating goes a long way in protecting human rights. Oppression is unfortunately an evil that has existed for much of human history, however now that we have progressed into the information age, we now have the ability to help people on the other side of the world who face dangers we have the luxury of not having. In order to be a part of something bigger than yourself and help save the life of an LGBT person, I encourage you to donate.
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China quake survivor: It seems we'll be forgotten soon
It's been more than four days since the 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Yunnan, China, and many families are still waiting for rescue teams to arrive.
In Yinchangpo, a town of 90 households, residents raised a pole with a flag tied at the end, hoping to attract rescue helicopters that could drop supplies, to no avail, the Yunnan Metropolis Times reported.
On a hillside, a 14-year-old boy made an "SOS" sign using pieces of stone.
Landslides or rough terrain blocked off roads, making it even more difficult for help to reach the desperate villagers.
Residents had been surviving on potatoes and pears they scrounged up from farmland, they said. Someone braved the treacherous paths and travelled to a nearby town to buy some instant noodles.
A Yinping village resident, known only as Lin, called the Beijing Morning News for help on Wednesday afternoon. He said they were in urgent need of food, tents and quilts.
Mr Lin said that one villager had been pulled from the wreckage of a house, but had died because there was no medical aid. Their earthen houses had collapsed and they had to sleep on thin cloth.
"I can't imagine what to do if it rains in the evening," he said, adding that the area was rocked by aftershocks.
Some rescue workers managed to enter Yinping by helicopter, but vehicles needed to take long detours to reach the site, stretching the journey to at least seven hours, the report said.
"It seems like we will be forgotten soon. The road is blocked, the rescue force is too weak, and the village was hit too hard by the quake," Mr Lin was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, residents in another hamlet near Yinping resorted to begging from nearby villages and temporary shelters. But they received only cold medicine.
China raised the death toll to 615, Wall Street Journal reported.
Chinese authorities said that blocked roads and disrupted communications made it difficult to access certain areas, contributing to a slow count.
An additional 2,400 were injured, authorities said, and 229,700 had been relocated.
China called for civilian volunteers to stay away from the disaster zone as traffic blocked supply routes and "substandard" relief goods flooded into the area.
More than 18,000 professional rescuers have headed to the disaster zone, state media said, most of them military and police.
This article was published on Aug 8 in The New Paper.


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Q: No se registran los datos en mi base de datos

<?php

$X = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","");//or die("
NO se encuentra el servidor
");
//mysqli_select_db("abogados",$X) or die("
error conexion
");
if(!$X){
   die("
NO se encuentra el servidor
");
}
else {
    $nombre=$_POST['first_name'];
 $password=$_POST['passwd'];
 $repass=$_POST['repass'];
 $appaterno=$_POST['last_name'];
 $apmaterno=$_POST['last_name2'];
 $email=$_POST['email'];
 $direccion=$_POST['addres'];
 $fec_nac=$_POST['date'];
 $nickname=$_POST['nick'];
 $celular=$_POST['movil'];

}

if($password!=$repass){
 die("
contraseñas diferentes
");
 }
//$r= "INSERT INTO persona values ('$nombre','$appaterno','$apmaterno','$email','$fec_nac','$direccion','$celular','$nickname')";
// echo $r;

 mysqli_query($X,"INSERT INTO persona (nombre,appaterno,apmaterno,email,fec_nac,direccion,celular,nickname) VALUES('$nombre','$appaterno','$apmaterno','$email','$fec_nac','$direccion','$celular','$nickname')"); // or die("
error de envio</h2");

 mysqli_query($X,"INSERT INTO usuario (nicknaname,email,password) VALUES ('$nickname','$$email','$password')"); // or die("
error de envio</h2");

 mysqli_close($X);
      echo'se a registrado';

</style>

     <fieldset>
        <form action="file:///C|/xampp/htdocs/alta.php" method="POST">
                <legend>Registro</legend>

                    <input type="text" name="first_name" placeholder="Nombres(s)" required/>

                    <input type="text" name="last_name" placeholder="Apellido Paterno" required/>

                    <input type="text" name="last_name2" placeholder="Apellido Materno" required/>

                    <input type="password" name="passwd" placeholder="Contrasenia" required/>

                    <input type="password" name="repass" placeholder="Confirma contrasenia" required/>

                    <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email" required/>

                    <input type="text" name="addres" placeholder="Direccion" required/>

                    <input type="date" name="date" placeholder="Fecha de  nacimiento" required/>

                    <input type="text" name="nick" placeholder="Nombre de usuario" required/>

                    <input type="varchar" name="movil" placeholder="Celular" required/>

                <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Enviar"/>
        </form>
  </fieldset>

A: Tres cosas. La primera en el formulario, como te ha apuntado el compañero en los comentarios. En el action estás llamado a un script php. Deberías llamarlo por http (si usas la ruta absoluta), o por ruta relativa. Algo así:
<form action="http://localhost.com/alta.php" method="post">

o bien
<form action="alta.php" method="post">

Esta última opción sólo si el formulario y el script están en la misma ruta. Si no, deberás poner la ruta relativa desde el formulario al script. En todo caso, un PHP no se puede llamar por file://.
Corregido esto, vamos a lo siguiente, que tb te han puesto en el comentario: en el script pon un var_dump($_POST);, sólo para asegurarte de que las variables estén pasando. Se que suena a tontería, pero está bien asegurarse.
Por último, el testigo clásico cuando una consulta debe funcionar, y no lo hace. Debajo de la línea en la que usas mysqli_query(...) pon lo siguiente:
echo mysqli_errno($X)." **** ".mysqli_error($X)."
";

Ni te imaginas los cientos de veces que esa línea me ha dicho exactamente donde estaba cometiendo un error (un nombre de campo mal puesto, una coma de más o de menos en la consulta,...). Esa línea te ayudará en muchos scripts.
Como consejo final, si puedes ve dejando a un lado mysqli y decántate por PDO.
Espero haberte ayudado.


Tennis Server - Turbo Tennis - Why Do You Play Or Want To Play Tennis?
primarily at indoor facilities. You may find yourself playing doubles more often than is usually the case, and you may have joined a league to add a regimen to your game. You are, hopefully, cross training. Taking a break from the rigors of tournament or competitive training and allowing your mind and body to rest a bit (a luxury that is not enjoyed by the pros on the tour).
Those of you who live south of the equator are in the middle of your outdoor season. You probably are playing as often as time will permit, and you, hopefully, have discovered that there are areas in your game in which you are making progress.
In either case, it seems appropriate to ask a question that I first encountered in reading W. Tim Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis. To my knowledge, this was the first major work to address the mental and spiritual sides of the game of tennis. In one of its latter chapters, Inner Tennis, describes some of the reasons that people play tennis. When I first read this book, I was struck by the fact that I, like many players, simply did not really have a clear lock on why I was out there training so hard, and competing so fiercely. For me, the posing of this question was an epiphany about my inner motives.
Before we actually begin the process of teaching you to play tennis or improving your existing game, it is critical for you to understand why you play tennis or want to play tennis. Simply put, what do you expect from playing the game of tennis and why?
It is seemingly appropriate that as we begin 2003 that we take some time to understand ourselves in light of these questions. Given your answers, you can devise a set of "New Year Resolutions" that can hopefully organize and focus your efforts in the next 12 months.
There is no "right" answer(s) to the above questions. However, problems do occur when we aren't clear about our motives and goals. Often times, these expectations and objectives change over time. This is completely normal.
Still, we need to know what we are trying to achieve and why.
I am looking to get in shape and tennis may be a way to achieve this goal.
Tennis always looked like a fun game, and I have always wanted to learn to play the game. Some of my friends play the game.
I just am looking for a fun way to socialize and exercise with others. I think playing in a club or USTA league would be fun.
I just want to have fun playing tennis during the warmer months. In the winter weather, I have other interests that keep me active and in shape.
I am looking to become a better player simply because I like to do things as well as I possibly can. I look at tennis as another way to advance myself and to achieve. I love to compete.
I want to beat that player at the club who always seems to win no matter how well I play. I want the satisfaction and recognition that would come from beating her/him. I realize that to achieve this goal, I will have to train move diligently and vigorously than I have in the past. I may need to seek professional instruction to help me improve my game.
or, I am returning to tennis after a hiatus, and want to win this title again.
I am a junior player who shows promise. I want to make the high school team and I would hope to play in college interscholastically. I am probably playing the number 2 or 3 singles position, but believe that I can perform better.
I am a high school player who is looking to receive financial support for college by playing tennis on an athletic scholarship. I am probably playing the number 1 or 2 singles position, and have achieved rankings as a junior.
this can be a junior, NTRP, Adult Age Category or even Open ranking.
I want to move up in my USTA, NTRP rating. I realize that facing more skilled players will ultimately improve my game.
I want to improve my skills and ultimately become a tennis teacher or coach. I like helping others to learn tennis or to improve their games.
Tennis is an international game, and I would love to travel the world playing tennis as an amateur competitor. I know that this requires time and finances, but I believe that I can manage both.
Someday, I see myself playing on the professional tour and I am willing to make the commitment necessary to achieve this goal. I know the odds are not in my favor, but it is a burning desire within me, and I am willing to dedicate myself to achieving this task.
I am the parent of a junior and I want to help improve her/his tennis skills and strategies.
There are certainly many other reasons that a person may want to play the game of tennis. But for once, take a moment and really give some thought to why you play or want to play tennis.
so you may want to make keep a record of this description. As things change in your life, game or motivation, revise the written description.
What are my goals with respect to tennis?
What pleasure do I derive from playing tennis?
How important is tennis in my life?
Where do I want to be with respect to tennis a year from now?
How can I best achieve this given the obstacles in my path and the realistic avenues available to me?
I am in ___good___fair___poor physical shape/condition.
I perceive myself as being an ___advanced___intermediate___beginning tennis player.
I perceive myself as being ___highly competitive___competitive___non-competitive.
When I compete, I am ___confident___less than confident___my confidence changes from time to time.
I try to win in games because___I love to win___I hate to lose___both.
I perceive myself as being self-disciplined___Yes___No.
When I fail or lose___I forgive myself quickly and try to learn from the experience___I fret over the loss and often times become very angry with myself. I brood over my losses longer than I should.
I perceive myself as being a ___patient or___impatient person.
I perceive myself as being a very determined individual___yes or___no.
How many hours/days per week can you dedicate to learning/improving your game?____hours for ____days per week.
Again, you may want to revisit these questions from time to time and see if some of your answers have changed. Some are probably not likely to experience much if any change because they are integral parts of your basic personality makeup. However, some of these (e.g., your conditioning or amount of time spent practicing) are much more likely to vary.
You may want to review my past article on Type "A" or Type "B" Players. Knowing in which of these two directions you lean can be very helpful in understanding how you play the game.
hitting partners, coaches, and teachers or by charting your matches. You can find a convenient form for charting your matches if you go to the Turbo Tennis Archives and look for the article entitled: Your Game Can Be "Off The Charts".
With all of this data at hand, you should have a much better understanding of why you play the game, how you approach competition and training, where you excel, and where you need improvement. In tennis, knowledge truly is power.
With these in mind, you should be able to fashion a game plan for improvement or self-fulfillment that includes the mental, spiritual, physical, skill and strategic aspects of the game. When all of these are in place, you are playing what I term "integrated tennis."
Over the next few months, I am going to build upon last year's "Turbo Strokes" series. My hope is to provide the subtle refinements and "tips" that will take your strokes to a higher level. A key to a better game is better form. One can develop better form when each stroke is what I call "integrated." More about this integration concept in articles to come.
I wish you all the best in the New Year!!! I know that if you take the time to really understand the reasons why and how you play the game of tennis, you will be a much closer to becoming a tennis overdog!!!


The Baldwin County Singing Convention was held at City Hall in Bay Minette, Alabama on the fourth Sunday and Saturday before in January. Chairman William Green opened the convention leading song on page 70t. The opening prayer was led by Lonnie Rogers. Vice Chairman J. A. Mosley led song on page 31b, and Alice Mosley, Secretary, led 45. Leaders: Bill Hogan 159, 572; Rachel Lee 392, 276; Elvin Guthrie 218, 311; Shelbie Sheppard 110, 385t; David Lee 364, 368t; Thurman Nall 285t, 38; Kathy Lee 32t, 411; William Green 437; Christine Gandy 145, 143; Emma Mosley 550b; Velton Chafin 114b, 225t; Buddy Tindal 36b, 535t; Cecil Sanders 73t; Ozella Blackmon 559; Brenda Merritt 497, 450; Keterina Sanders 572; Willie Mosley 77; Marie Guthrie 224, 192; Lonnie Rogers 186, 101; Leola Smith 217, 189; Becky Lombard 358, 40; Bud Oliver 47, 440b; Jeff Sheppard 388, 507b; Edith Tate 507t; Cindy Franklin 191, 505.
Jeff Sheppard and William Green led song on page 407. Leaders: Flarce Creel 384, 306; Cassie Franklin 39, 540; Harrison Creel 381, 355; Horace Batchelor 279, 289; John Merritt 264b, 539; Doug Wood 72, 283; A. C. Carter 104, 199; Murray Carter 491, 46; Jerry Schreiber 196, 137; Rachel Lee 336t; Elvin Guthrie 399; Shelbie Sheppard 54; David Lee 511b; Kathy Lee 410; Emma Mosley 84; Velton Chafin 175; Brenda Merritt 478; Marie Guthrie 434; Lonnie Rogers 377; Leola Smith 472; Bud Oliver 270; Doug Wood 145t; Harrison Creel 395b; Horace Batchelor 271b; David Lee 488. The class was dismissed with prayer by John Merritt.
Chairman William Green opened this session leading song on page 30. Mr. Lonnie Rogers led our opening prayer. William Green led song on page 442t. J. A. Mosley, Vice Chairman, led 72, and Alice Mosley, Secretary, led 282. Leaders: Flarce Creel 559; Bud Oliver 563; Agnes Farris 410, 418; Cindy Franklin 174, 564; Bill Farris 401, 537; Vickie Aplin 411; Margaret Spurlock 268; Jeff Shepard 497, 522; Thurman Nall 550; John Etheridge 524; Harrison Creel 511b; Bill Aplin 225, 285; Velton Chafin 336b; Ozella Blackmon 282; J. A. Mosley, William Green, and two people from Montgomery Press led song on page 348. William Green announced that it was time for our Memorial Service. The committee was Cindy Franklin, Edith Tate, and Ginny Whitworth, with Cindy Franklin being the chairman. Cindy Franklin paid tribute and spoke of this service as a "Celebration Service" to our deceased singers, and for those who are sick and shut-in. Cindy's service gave great meaning for all of our loved singers that were not with us. Edith Tate and Ginny Whitworth both led a song in memory of our deceased singers and our sick and shut-ins. Leaders: Shelbie Shepard 290, 404; John Merritt 358, 38t; Tommie Spurlock 98, 183; Jerry Schreiber 506, 112; J. A. Mosley 387; Buddy Tindal 182, 73t; Lonnie Rogers 395, 222.
J. A. Mosley opened the afternoon session leading song on page 570. Leaders: Willie Mosley 81; Brenda Merritt 203,196; Cassie Franklin 573, 393; Elvin Guthrie 94, 78; Emma Mosley and Crystal Menes 558, 571; Marie Guthrie 229, 280; Leola Smith 148, 185; Edith Tate 155, 371; Kate Merritt 198, 447t; Dana Merritt 392, 384; Jerry Schrieber 274; Bill Hogan 85, 58b; Alice Mosley 388, 343; Bill Farris 111t; Vickie Aplin 507t; Bill Aplin 67; Buddy Tindal 186; Thurman Nall led a print-out of "Sweet Hour of Prayer"; John Merritt 492; Tommy Spurlock 553b; Elvin Guthrie 455b; John Etheridge 482; Kate Merritt 48t; Dana Merritt 497; Bill Hogan 96; Willie Mosley 159. The closing song on page 62 was led by William Green, J. A. Mosley, and Alice Mosley. John Merritt led the closing prayer.