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Orestes by Euripides - And what had seemed so right, / as soon as done, became / evil, monstrous, wrong!
I want to invite anyone interested to join me in reading Aristotle's Poetics, the foundation of Western literary criticism, influential to the present day and bizarrely dominant, almost sacred, for centuries. I hope to write about it at the end of the month, having just reread all of the Greek tragedies. Anyone who has been reading along this year will find Poetics easy going. It will raise many curious questions.
This week, the play at hand is Euripides's late masterpiece of despair and nihilism, Orestes (408 BCE). I had forgotten how long it was, likely the longest of the surviving Greek plays. Euripides makes room for the story we know from other plays, with the Furies tormenting Orestes soon after he murders his mother:
And what had seemed so right,
as soon as done, became
evil, monstrous, wrong! (162)
New parts of the story include a major new plotline featuring cowardly Uncle Menelaus and shallow Aunt Helen. I have included a photo from a 2018 Greek production of Orestes that must be the meeting of Electra and Helen.
I want to include some quotes from William Arrowsmith's introduction to the play:
What we get in the Orestes is, in fact, very much like what we get in Troilus and Cressida: tragedy utterly without affirmation, an image of heroic action seen as botched disfigured, and sick, carried along by the machinery and slogans of heroic action in a steady crescendo of biting irony and the rage of exposure. (106)
It is that crescendo that requires the greater length. Like Ravel's Bolero, for the effect to work the thing has to keep going. It takes time, plus the big swerve in the plot when Pylades convinces Orestes and Electra that their lives will be saved if they murder Helen and perhaps her daughter, too, why not, after murdering your mother why not your aunt and cousin. If we have learned anything from the myths of the house of Atreus it is that more murders, "murder displacing murder" (162), is always the answer.
ELECTRA: If then, seeing Helen
lying in a pool of blood, he decides he wants
his daughter's life at least and agrees to spare you,
let the girl go. On the other hand,
if he tries to kill you in a frantic burst of rage,
you slit the girl's throat. (180)
Electra is as nuts as any of them. The characters all start out bad and become so much worse.
Arrowsmith calls Orestes "a kind of negative tragedy of total turbulence" where "nothing but the sense of bitterness and alienation survives the corrosive effect of the action" (106). The deus ex machina that ends the play is similar to yet opposite of the one that ends Sophocles's Philoctetes. The set, the palace, is on fire, the characters doomed; Orestes has his sword to the throat of his cousin, on the verge of murdering her when Apollo drops from the sky and ends the apocalypse. Orestes and Hermione will marry!
I imagine Apollo as one of those articulated artist's dummies, dangling from a rope, or some other kind of bizarre puppet, delivering his lines through a tinny loudspeaker. "Go and honor Peace, / loveliest of goddesses," Apollo says as he escorts Helen to the stars.
ORESTES: And yet, when I hear you speak,
I thought I heard the whispers of some fiend
speaking through your mouth.
But all is well
and I obey. (206)
After the performance of Orestes, Euripides went into voluntary exile in Macedonia, about as far as he could get from Athens while staying in Greece. He only lived for a couple more years. He wrote at least three more plays before his death in 406 BCE. They were directed at the 405 Dionysian festival by his son, or perhaps nephew. Two of them have survived. Next week, the greatest of them all: The Bacchae.
The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis are also, I should note, now that I am paying attention, long plays, although I think not as long as Orestes.
Labels: EURIPIDES, Greek plays
Plato's Symposium - philosophy as realist fiction - pick up something to tickle your nose with, and sneeze
Philosophy makes me nervous, so I will begin my squib about Plato's Symposium (c. 385-370 BCE) with an anxiety-deflating observation: Symposium is fiction, a long story. It is fiction in that at least some of it is invented, but mostly in that it uses the techniques of fiction: frame stories, personalities revealed through action, realistic social detail, things like that, even more than the typical Platonic dialogue. Fiction, that is not so intimidating.
A group of guests deliver impromptu speeches about Love, Eros, at a drinking party celebrating Agathon's first victory at the Dionysian festival. How sad that none of Agathon's plays survived. If impromptu orations sounds a little tame for a victory party, well, this is actually the second night of celebration. The first night was essentially a drinking contest, and everyone is hungover except for Socrates ("no one in the world has ever seen Socrates drunk").
In a sense what I am supposed to be doing is working through the increasingly complex premises of the speeches to the concluding discussion by Socrates, which moves from a simple opposition of good and bad Love to the idea of love as the pursuit of the Beautiful, whatever that might be, to Socrates's shift to Love, sexual or otherwise, as the pursuit of the Good, whatever that might be. But I really wanted to read Symposium now because Aristophanes is one of the guests, so this is our chance to see him from the outside.
Does he ever deliver. First, he loses his place in the contest because of an attack of the hiccups. We get authentic Greek medical advice form a doctor who is a guest (and who delivers a tedious speech about healthy and unhealthy Love):
"And while I am speaking, hold your breath a long time and see if the hiccup will stop; if it won't, gargle water. But if it still goes strong, pick up something to tickle your nose with, and sneeze; do this once or twice, and stop it will, even if it is very strong."
Along with all of the detail about the operation of the drinking party – the seating arrangement, the flute girl – the hiccups are the clearest move towards what we call "realism" in fiction. They would have been easy enough to omit.
For his performance, Aristophanes commits to an origin myth in which humans had three genders, male-male, male-female, and female-female, until they were all split in two by Zeus:
"Next, the shape of man was quite round, back and ribs passing about it in a circle; and he had four arms and an equal number of legs, and two faces on a round neck, exactly alike; there was one head with these two opposite faces, and four ears, and two privy members, and the rest as you might imagine from this."
The sex drive, the impulse to love, is our desperate attempt to reform our original eight-legged, two-faced ball form. I love how Aristophanes, a true comedian, totally commits to the bit. How enjoyable to find this imaginative nonsense in a work of philosophy.
The other highlight, for me, is when a drunken Alcibiades crashes the party and delivers his extraordinary encomium to Socrates, from the thematic view a demonstration of Platonic love but in practice a great character portrait:
"But when [the words of Socrates] are opened out, and you get inside them, you will find his words first full of sense, as no others are; next, most divine and containing the finest images of virtue, and reaching farthest, in fact reaching to everything which it profits a man to study who is to become noble and good."
I have been thinking about reading more Greek philosophy, including more Plato, next year, and Symposium is a good introduction to why the dialogues are of high literary interest.
I read the H. D. Rouse translation in Great Dialogues of Plato (1956) because it was handy. I know nothing about the translation of Plato.
Next month I plan to read Aristotle's Poetics and remind myself why the received idea of Greek tragedy is so, as we have seen with our own eyes, wrong. Anyone who has been reading along with the tragedies will be perfectly comfortable with Aristotle's essay or lecture or whatever it is (not a story, not fiction).
Labels: philosophy, PLATO
Philoctetes by Sophocles - Let me suffer what I must suffer
Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), performed when the author was 87, which is perhaps why he is in a mood of reconciliation and healing.
Literal healing. Philoctetes possesses the bow of Hercules. Either the bow, or Philoctetes himself, or both – prophecies are ambiguous – are necessary parts of the conquest of Troy by the Greeks. But Philoctetes has spent the war abandoned on an island nursing his poisoned foot, injured when he was bit by a snake in a sacred grove. You can see his bandaged foot on the far right in the beautiful painting of Philoctetes, contemporary with the play, on an oil flask on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The injury is so severe – so disgusting, so bad-smelling – that Philoctetes's fellow soldiers abandoned him on the island. But now there is a new prophecy, and they need him back, even if by treachery or force. I was not surprised to learn that in the 21st century the play has been performed for American soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. The relevance is direct. The wound and its effects are described in detail with the greatest seriousness. Neoptolemus has just taken Philoctetes's hand when an attack of pain comes:
PHILOCTETES: Now – take me away from here –
NEOPTOLEMUS: What do you mean?
PHILOCTETES: Up, up.
NEOPTOLEMUS: What madness is upon you? Why do you look
on the sky above us?
PHILOCTETES: Let me go, let me go.
NEOPTOLEMUS: Where?
PHILOCTETES: Oh, let me go.
NEOPTOLEMUS: Not I.
PHILOCTETES: You will kill me if you touch me.
NEOPTOLEMUS: Now I shall let you go, now you are calmer.
PHILOCTETES: Earth, take my body, dying as I am.
The pain no longer lets me stand. (p. 227, tr. David Grene)
There had been other plays on the story of Philoctetes, by Aeschylus and Euripides, among others. I'll bet they did not include a scene so, to use a word that makes me nervous, realistic. Sophocles himself was an adept in the cult of Asclepius, the great hero-doctor of Greek mythology.
Odysseus tricked Philoctetes onto the island, and now plans to trick him off of it. His tool is Neoptolemus, the honest, patriotic son of the recently killed Achilles, So this is a three-character play, Scheming, righteous Odysseus versus bitter, suffering Philoctetes with Neoptolemus in the middle, like the audience full of sympathy for Philoctetes and his suffering. He makes his decision in the end, and in a way that greatly resembles Existentialism – Philoctetes often feels quite modern – Philoctetes makes his ("Let me suffer what I must suffer," 251) before the deus drops from the machina, or flies over on the crane, or whatever the stage business is, and ruins the play, or shades it with significant irony, by declaring that villainous Odysseus was right all along, and none of you have any choice, really, which makes Philoctetes and his great refusal of the premise even more of an Existentialist, right?
A wonderful play, far from whatever idea I might have about what a Greek tragedy is supposed to be. It will be useful to look at Aristotle's Poetics and see where that "supposed to be" comes from. Which reminds me, I plan to write about Plato's Symposium next week, so I had better get reading.
Next we have three Euripides plays in a row, the end of Euripides: Orestes (408) and The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis (both performed, posthumously, in 405). Euripides, in his old age, was not in a mood of reconciliation and healing. Great masterpieces, all of them. Next week, let's say farewell to Orestes.
Labels: Greek plays, SOPHOCLES
The Cyclops by Euripides - the only satyr play - the greatest god of all, / this belly of mine!
It's The Cyclops by Euripides, the only surviving satyr play and the greatest mistake in my chronology of the Greek plays. No one really knows the date on this one, so I arbitrarily placed it late, and reading it again I am convinced it likely is a late Euripides play, but still I should have scheduled it much earlier just so we could all read a satyr play.
Every set of three tragedies was followed by a short comedy starring a chorus of hybrid man-horses with prominent phalluses. The most Dionysian part of the Festival of Dionysus, some plot of the action would be about wine and drunkenness.
CYCLOPS: Whoosh! I can scarcely swim out of this flood.
Pure pleasure! Ohhh. Earth and sky whirling around,
all jumbled up together! Look: I can see
the throne of Zeus and the holy glory
of the gods. (The satyrs dance around him suggestively.) (p. 34, tr. Arrowsmith)
Aeschylus and Sophocles wrote such things. The Oresteia and Oedipus the King were followed by such creatures. Three playwrights per festival, so three satyr plays per year for how long? No one knows, but there have to have been hundreds of satyr plays.
Or, given that Euripides's tragicomedy Alcestis was performed in the position of the satyr play, perhaps not. Maybe only half the plays that capped the tragedies were satyr plays, and half were something else. Who knows. There would still be at least a couple hundred satyr plays. It sounds like such a narrow genre.
Yet The Cyclops is clearly a Euripides play, hitting some of his usual themes from a different direction. Adapting the Cyclops episode form The Odyssey, and arbitrarily adding Silenus and the satyrs and a bottomless wine flask, Euripides pits the barbaric savagery of the Cyclops against the civilized savagery of Odysseus, as much of a Machiavellian here as in his villainous roles in other Euripides plays (we have one more ahead of us in Iphigenia in Aulis).
Odysseus tries to save himself and his men with a terrific, disingenuous, speech extolling the virtues of Greece and their defense of peace – the recent war was of course entirely the fault of the Trojans – virtue and the gods; Cyclops is all appetite and does not care:
And as for sacrifices, I make mine,
not to the gods, but the greatest god of all,
this belly of mine! (25)
But both turn to violence in the end. The Cyclops has a lot of murder and gore for a comedy. It is a different kind of comedy, anyway, than that of Aristophanes.
The British Museum has a beautiful bowl depicting the moment before the blinding of the Cyclops. Please note the two Euripidean horse-satyrs on the right. The bowl is a likely a close contemporary of the play.
Next week: Odysseus returns in Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 BCE), a calming relief from the hysterics and turbulence of Aristophanes and Euripides. Philoctetes, too, was likely followed by a play about dancing, singing, drunken, horny horse-men.
The Phoenician Women by Euripides - Oedipus, Antigone, et. al. - It would be no grace I would do the gods
Now I see why I did not remember The Phoenician Women (c. 410 BCE) by Euripides too well, or at all. It is not one of his messes, but is rather too relentlessly efficient, condensing several plays into one, marching through the entire Theban cycle of stories with special emphasis on a rewrite of Aeschylus's Seven against Thebes and Sophocles's Antigone, with bits of other plays thrown in. An anti-climatic Antigone in ten pages, for example.
I'm fascinated by the late revisionary project of Euripides, but this time I do not understand the point of his revisions. The text of the play is, it seems, a disaster, with entire episodes added by later writers. It seems likely that Euripides already overstuffed play was further stuffed by later pedagogues, perhaps in order to have the Theban story complete in one handy play. There is even a theory that the whole thing is a later imitation of Euripides, which I do not believe, but it is not crazy.
The body of surviving Greek plays was for some reason greatly compressed during a short period circa 250 CE; The Phoenician Women is the kind of play that convinces me that at least part of the narrowing was pedagogical. We lost the plays that were not taught, and this one was useful for teaching.
The Phoenician Women does have the late-Euripides features. An utterly pointless human sacrifice is part of the plot – "and bloody was the god / who brought these things about" (p. 113 , vol. V of the Chicago edition, tr. Elizabeth Wyckoff). Antigone, at the end, imagines returning to her role as a priestess of Bacchus: "It would be no grace I would do the gods" (p. 140). She has become disillusioned.
Now this is new. Jocasta (alive, in this version, after the events of Oedipus the King) interrogates her son Polyneices about a curious subject: what it is like to be an exile.
So now I ask what first I wish to know.
What is it to lose your country – a great suffering? (85)
Yes, says Polyneices, it is, in a number of ways. The curious thing about this is that in 408 BCE, finally disgusted with Athens, Euripides will go into voluntary exile, at the age of seventy, in Macedonia, as far from his home as he can get. We will soon see an expression of this disgust in Orestes. Here, several years earlier, he is thinking about it.
I went looking for a performance again, and found a good-looking 2008 staging in Athens. Here's the chorus of Phoenician women, just passing through. "[O]nly rarely performed," says the press material. A current performance would likely turn the chorus into Syrian refugees, fleeing one war only to be trapped by another.
The Phoenician Women is our last Euripides dud, if that is not too strong. How lucky we are that enough Euripides plays survived that some of them are not so good.
Next week's play is The Cyclops by Euripides, dated who knows when, the only surviving satyr play, worth reading for that fact alone. It is quite short, less than half the length of The Phoenician Women, for example.
And a reminder: Plato's Symposium at the end of the month.
The Poet and the Women by Aristophanes - What it is to have an intellectual in the family. - Plus: Let's read Plato's Symposium
Our first Geek play readalong supplement: I would like to invite anyone interested to join me in reading Plato's Symposium (c. 380 BCE) in September. The piece depicts a banquet attended by a number of prominent Athenians, including Socrates and most importantly for our purposes Aristophanes, where the guests all deliver monologues about love. It is in a sense a "dialogue," but also has more resemblance to a play than any other work of Plato's. For someone, like me, intimidated by the label "philosophy," Symposium is as friendly as it gets. It is a literary work. It is only 70 or 80 pages long. I plan to write something about it at the end of the month.
Today we have Thesmophoriazusae (411 BCE), or Women at the Thesmophoria Festival, or as my Penguin Classics translation by David Barrett sensibly calls it, The Poet and the Women. The poet is Euripides. This is the second of the three Aristophanes plays featuring Euripides onstage. We will see the triumphant conclusion of the theme, The Frogs, seven weeks from now.
It is also the second "battle of the sexes" play Aristophanes wrote in 411, along with Lysistrata. Where the latter is deep and sincere, The Poet and the Women is harmless fun. Euripides gets off pretty well, too. Sometimes Aristophanes wants to outrage his audience, but here everyone is supposed to have a good time.
Euripides is concerned that the women at the Thesmophoria Womyn's Festival are planning to attack him for making women look bad in his plays. Have they not seen how he makes men look? Anyway, Euripides sends a relative in drag to infiltrate the festival, and the play quickly turns into a farce, with Euripides trying to rescue his partner the only way he knows how – by reenacting scenes from Euripides plays.
Very kind of you to explain, I must say. What it is to have an intellectual in the family. (100, tr. Barrett)
The specific plays that get the most attention, although there are references to a number of others, are Helen and Andromeda, both performed at the Dionysian festival the previous year, so fresh in mind. We just read Helen – sadly, Andromeda is lost – so it is fresh in our minds. The Poet and the Women is a reward for persistence reading Aristophanes and Euripides. If this were one's first Greek play, it would be baffling. But we are savvy readers now, able to enjoy even this minor play. "I got that reference" is a genuine source of pleasure, however shallow.
I borrowed a still from a recent performance of The Poet and the Women at the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama held in Cyprus every July and August. That would be a heck of a way to spend a vacation.
Next week's play is The Phoenician Women by Euripides, which whatever the title might suggest is a radical rewrite of Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, Euripides again in his late "revisionary" mode. I wish I remembered what he did with the story, but I don't.
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equities|18 March, 2018
Depa rings market bell with Nasdaq Dubai to celebrate start of share trading in UAE Dirhams
Start of trading of Depa's shares in UAE Dirhams.
Image for illustrative purposes. Nasdaq Tower in New York welcomes Menacorp's No. 1 spot on Nasdaq Dubai's futures market.
Nasdaq Dubai/Handout via Thomson Reuters Zawya
By Staff Writer, WAM (Emirates News Agency)
DUBAI- Hamed Ali, Chief Executive of Nasdaq Dubai, and Hamish Tyrwhitt, Group Chief Executive Officer of Depa Limited, rang the market opening bell today to celebrate the start of trading of Depa's shares in UAE Dirhams.
Depa has converted its listing currency to Dirhams from US dollars, which had been the company's listing currency since its initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq Dubai in 2008. The conversion to Dirhams aims to strengthen Depa's links to regional institutional and individual investors and support efficient pricing.
Depa is the first company to make use of Nasdaq Dubai's flexible currency framework for equities, which allows companies to choose from a range of currencies when they list, and convert to a different one post-listing if they wish.
All the exchange's other equity listings are in US dollars. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Executive of Nasdaq Dubai said, "Our versatile infrastructure enables Nasdaq Dubai to work effectively with our listed companies to create solutions that meet their evolving needs and support their growth journey. We are delighted to be hosting trading in Dirhams for Depa following its change of listing currency on behalf of investors, and we are committed to continuing to support the company's liquidity and investor engagement as well as supplying efficient post-trade and clearing services."
The Group Chief Executive of Depa Limited said, "This conversion of Depa's listing currency to UAE Dirhams is part of our strategy to deliver long-term sustainable shareholder value. It is one of several initiatives we are undertaking to increase the attractiveness of our shares to regional and international institutional investors, improve liquidity and ensure a more efficient pricing of Depa's shares." The trading symbol for Depa (DEPA:DU) has remained unchanged as a result of the conversion to Dirhams, which took place effective from today.
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At The Wilds, home to 26 endangered species of wildlife from around the world, the thrills are up close and personal. The animals are free to roam around open range habitats while the visitors ride through the hills and savanna in an open-air vehicle that resembles a bus with the upper half cut off. To shade the riders from the summer sun and possible rain, the vehicle is topped by a sturdy canvas awning.
The Wilds is located on 14 square miles of reclaimed surface-mined land whose coal was extracted in the '40s, '50s and '60s by a subsidiary of the American Electric Power Company. The land was reclaimed starting in the 1970s but, by the look of it now, you'd never believe that it once was pockmarked by craters and lifeless ravines, looking much like the surface of the moon.
Today, more than 200 endangered animals plus hundreds of indigenous species roam freely through the large open ranges, fenced off to keep out unwanted animal intruders. On my safari, the guide told us that the entire habitat is enclosed by a whopping 20 miles of fencing.
Visitors begin their wildlife adventures at the Johnson Visitor Center, perched on the crest of a hill overlooking the conservation park. Before or after the safari, visitors can stroll through the Wilds Butterfly Habitat or stock up on salads, sandwiches and desserts in the Overlook Café.
I actually began my visit with a Zipline Safari Tour that took me along 10 zip-line observation platforms and over the grasslands, grazing animals, lakes and ponds. The 21/2-hour-long zip-line experience is led by experienced guides who point out animals like Pere David's deer — some of which I saw swimming in the lake — Eld's deer, red-crowned cranes and herds of Sichuan takins grazing in the grasses.
The zip-line experience finishes with a rappel down from atop a high observation platform to the ground below. Shorter zip-line tours over 5 observation stations and Sunset Zip-line Safari options are also available.
As exciting as the zip-line tours can be, the fun really began for me once I boarded the open-air tram for a 2 1/2-hour-long drive around the grounds. From the safety of my seat, I managed up close looks at animals I'd never before heard of, like Przewalski's horses — which are native to Mongolia but extinct in the wild — Persian onagers and scimitar-horned oryx.
Most awesome was a mother rhino and her baby sauntering along the road in front of us along with others of her species. But the animal that got the most attention was a curious ostrich that came right up to within touching distance to our vehicle. A word of caution here: Don't even try to pet the animals. They are wild, and there's no predicting what they might do.
The cute factor came from a herd of giraffes and a 3-week-old baby that already stood seven feet tall but was dwarfed by its 18-foot tall mother.
One of the stops about halfway through the safari let us out at Spillman Lake, named after the original farm family who once owned the property. We got out and fed pellets of grain we bought to some of the huge catfish that languorously plied through the water. Before reboarding the vehicle, we walked through a small enclosed aviary, home to 130 to 140 Australian budgerigars, green parakeets that like to land on the wrists of those who purchase $1 grain sticks just outside the entrance door.
A second stop at the Carnivore Center gave us a look at cheetahs, capable of running at speeds close to 70 miles per hour; a dhole, which is an Asian wild dog; and a sleeping pack of African painted dogs.
"Guess which is the most dangerous," asked our guide. As we thought about the answer, he blurted out the truth: the painted dogs.
"They work as a team and are highly successful predators," he said.
Visitors get to see the carnivores from the safety of raised wooden walkways that rise high over the animal habitat. Sadly, we also learned some of the ominous ecological facts about two of the carnivore species. According to our guide, there were about 100,000 cheetahs in some 44 countries worldwide in the 1900s. Today, only about 10,000 remain in the wild.
The African painted dog is having similar issues. Of the nearly 400,000 that lived in the 1900s, only about 3,000 to 5,000 remain today.
In addition to the regular daily tours, The Wilds also offers Sunset Safari Tours, horseback safaris and catch-and-release fishing safaris from the shore of one of the lakes or by boat.
Dave Zuchowski has been writing about travel for 26 years, and his articles have made the pages of many newspapers and magazines across the country, including AAA Pathfinders, West Virginia Magazine, Southsider, and Westsylvania. He writes for the Herald-Standard Newspaper, based in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.


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Kedurus is een bestuurslaag in het regentschap Soerabaja van de provincie Oost-Java, Indonesië. Kedurus telt 25.549 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).

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2017 Giving Voice National Gathering - Until We All Meet Again from Giving Voice on Vimeo.
To view the article Finding Life & Love in Many Places, a reflection on the Natioanl Gathering, click here.
To view the article At Giving Voice, Younger Sisters Bridge From Fear to Love, click here.
To view video We Come Your Feast from the liturgy, click here.
To view other vidoes from the gathering please access our Vinmeo page here.
To view pictures from the gathering please access our Facebook page here.
More items will be added over the course of the next couple weeks as harvesting from the National Gathering continues.
The following poem was written and shared by Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA, at this year's gathering.
seeking a way to be Christ today.
because together we are creating and living its future.
be God's love, mercy, justice, hands, feet, ears, and voice.
practice and become the emerging future of religious life.
Spirit, you guide us to love.


Replaced 70 down lights and several switches.
Ryan returned calls and went to some effort to slot work in. Ryan sourced the correct fittings, completed job ahead of schedule and cleared up afterwards. Very pleased with work and will use again. Far better than any other electrician I have used.
Moving of ceiling lights to different location and addition of wall sockets.
Ryan arrived on time told me exactly what he would be doing explained the options available and simply got on with the job. He did exactly what we agreed to an excellent standard and hoovered everything up after.
Fitting new LED down lights to our en suite.
I would recommend him, on time, cleaned up after, completely and professional job.
Finding source of non functioning bathroom lights.
Ryan responded promptly and solved the problem.
Installed lighting system in loft.
Good service, prompt, clean. I would recommend.
Fitted two appliances and also checked the entire installation to ensure all wiring to the latest specification.
This was the first time we have used Ryan, and I can wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone. He is charming, courteous and punctual, and of course extremely knowledgeable. It was a joy to find such a wonderful electrician and we already have follow up work planned for Ryan, along with using him on a regular basis on various other properties.
2x ceiling light fittings, 2x power covers, 2x switch fixing.
Extremely good service and good price for the job. Would definitely use again.
Ryan was willing to come late in the evening not just to look at the problem, but stayed to fix it as well. He was very friendly and did an excellent job. I would have no problem recommending him.


Mount Calvary, one of the most unique enclaves in the municipality, is located in the west-end of Sant Joan d'Alacant. This high promontory on the coastal depression constitutes an extraordinary lookout from which the Camp d'Alacant can be seen. From its 101 meters above the sea level you can see some of the most important geographical landmarks of the province.The park is equipped as a recreational area. There are picnic spots to enjoy the place and the views. The vegetation of the park consists of shrubs and a pinewood in the south end.
The safeguard of the landscape entails the protection of the natural and cultural heritage of the territory, which helps to preserves the identity manifestations of a population. The tree is undoubtedly a cultural and union symbol between man and nature, being frequent in the municipalities centenarians trees of high significance for their great historical, cultural and social value. In order to raise awareness among the population of Sant Joan d'Alacant, the Catalogue of Singular Trees and Shrubs has been created with the aim to reduce the aggressions that this living heritage may suffer.
This wonderful park is located in the vereda de Sant Joan (Sant Joan's path), in the section belonging to calle Hernán Cortés. Originally, the gardens were part of the fincas La Concepción and Manzaneta, two beautiful constructions of the eighteenth century that were conceived as typical houses of the Horta d'Alacant, and that in the nineteenth century were transformed into bourgeois dwellings. It is the most picturesque enclave of Sant Joan d'Alacant, thanks to the spectacular monumental arboreal specimens, along with the charm of the buildings.
The City Council of Sant Joan d'Alacant strives for the survival of common birds through environmental awareness, with special attention to the house martin – Delichon urbicum, as these birds consume up to 1000 insects daily, reporting a very interesting benefit to agriculture such as pests control in crops. In addition to the protectionist practice of endangered species, we seek for the maintenance of the biological units present in our area because the life quality of the population, where the coexistence of these species with society is a reality, depends on biodiversity.


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Music Explosion Autumn Special 2020
Hospital Records Takeover
Industry chat, Q&As and networking
Wednesday 25th November 2020, 6pm to 8.45pm
Book Tickets at Eventbrite
ENTRY ages 16+
£5 (single speaker), £10 (multiple speakers) + booking fee
CICAS® and CAPs members: £5 + booking fee for all speakers. Email admin@themidimusiccompany.co.uk for promo code.
To attend, tickets must be booked by 12 noon GMT, Tuesday 24th November 2020.
The Midi Music Company celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new online schedule of its long-standing evening of industry insights.
Hospital Records takeover the night, bringing top music business chat, advice, Q&As and networking opportunities. Hospital Records is a multi-award-winning independent record label based in south London. Now in its 24th year it has grown to become one of the most well-known labels within UK dance music. Under its extensive umbrella is the global events and festival brand Hospitality, publishing house Songs In The Key Of Knife and booking agency, Clinic Talent.
Whether you are a new or developing artist, a band, producer, or creatively inspired, Music Explosion is an essential evening that will inspire your practise and inform your next steps.
6pm: Nikki Ellis
HEAD of LABEL
Nikki joined the Hospital Records team in 2014; following several years as Head of Promotions she now manages the day-to-day operations as Head of Label. As senior management, Nikki oversees release schedule strategy, artist development, digital and physical distribution, and promotion, as well as being part of A&R teams for several artists.
As Head of Promotions Nikki managed marketing campaigns for twenty-five artists, two festivals and club nights all over the world. After developing their in-house press department, Nikki managed all radio plugging in-house for a diverse selection of drum & bass releases. With the Hospital team, Nikki launched Hospital Records' Women In Drum & Bass initiative, hosting London workshops for womxn to network and develop their skills in production, DJing and music business.
7pm: Tilo Hall
A&R MANAGER // HEAD of PUBLISHING
Tilo cut his teeth in the industry as part of the Big People Music collective/label, producing and DJing garage, grime and funky. After a period interning at Young Turks, he began working at Hospital Records' publishing arm Songs In The Key Of Knife in 2019.
Nowadays Tilo splits his time between running the publishing operation and managing the A&R team at Hospital. Songs In The Key Of Knife has grown considerably in recent years, signing a wide range of writers from across electronic music and beyond, expanding into emerging territories and administrating a select group of smaller publishers' catalogues. Label-side, Tilo is responsible for overseeing A&R projects across the roster and shaping the musical output of the label.
8pm: Megan Bean
HEAD of SYNC // LEGAL and BUSINESS AFFAIRS
Megan joined the Hospital Records team in 2014, following a number of years at UK indie label Cooking Vinyl and Essential Music & Marketing. Megan oversees the legal and business affairs department at Hospital Records as well as heading up the synchronisation department; pitching the Hospital and publishing arm Songs In The Key Of Knife catalogue to procure placements in adverts, games, film and TV. Megan is also involved with A&R for a number of the Hospital Records roster.
If you can't make it on the night, but want to support us, please donate here or text 25DONATE to 70085. Thank you.
Music Explosion Spring Special 2020
Programmed by Red Bull
Wednesday 25 March 2020, 5pm to 8.30pm
Unfortunately, we have postponed this event until further notice, in order to safeguard against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Your welfare and that of our visitors, supporter and volunteers is most important to us.
The details below are for information only:
ENTRY AGES 18+ ONLY
The Midi Music Company celebrates its 25th anniversary with a fresh schedule of its long-standing evening of industry insights.
Programmed by Red Bull the night features music business chat, advice, Q&As and dedicated space for networking opportunities.
Nell Jordan-Gent
COACH • PROGRAMMER • CONSULTANT
A connector and supporter of ideas, Nell Jordan-Gent is a coach and mentor to those in the creative sector, as well as a programmer and consultant for special projects and live events. With a background in journalism, mentoring, music and sound engineering and seven years at the BBC, Nell was the Community Event Producer for Hackney Weekend and the Radio 1/1Xtra Youth Academy (the BBC's most ambitious free event to date). Nell has most recently worked with BCE Creative, BPI, Levis, Nike, Trippin, Red Bull, Apple, BBC Creative and the h Club.
DJ • TV & RADIO PRESENTER
Ellie Prohan's career as a DJ and presenter has grown at an astounding rate. Just five years ago, inspired by a DJ whilst at a house party, Ellie decided to have a career change and the rest, as they say, is history... Spinning records in clubs and at festivals and brand events in the UK and further afield, Ellie is passionate about celebrating and providing platforms for female and LGBTQI+ talent, manifesting this passion through work such as her regular Happy Hour week day show on Foundation FM, Ellie & Friends' showcases and GLo club nights.
Frankie Wells
CO-FOUNDER & STATION MANAGER, FOUNDATION FM
Frankie Wells is Co-Founder and Station Manager of Foundation FM, an independent radio station with a mission to showcase the hottest emerging talent in the underground music scene led by a diverse group of women, LGTBQI+ person's and talented creatives.
If you can't make it, your donations are welcome here or please text 25DONATE to 70085. Thank you.
Music Explosion Autumn Sessions
Music Managers Forum Takeover
Industry Talks + Q&As
Wednesday 27 November 2019, 4.15pm - 8pm
RSVP for FREE ENTRY
MMC is excited to present a special Music Managers Forum (MMF) takeover this Autumn of its long-standing, free evening of industry chat with Q&A discussions & networking opportunities.
Join us for this special line up of the music managers, for essential insights into music business, to inspire and inform developing artists, creatives and entrepreneurs.
Koyejo Oloko
DJ, RADIO HOST, CONSULTANT
Former creative strategist at agency The Brooklyn Brothers and A&R scout at the record label Young Turks, Koyejo works with some of the most exciting budding artists, spanning avant-garde experimental music to Pop, Rap/R&B in London and the USA. Notably including the multi award-winning Jazz virtuoso & CICAS® artist, Moses Boyd.
www.linkedin.com/in/koyejo-oloko-40757457
Glen Rowe
Manager, Tour Director
Glen's passion has always been about the live side of the industry. His first proper job in the live business was selling t-shirts for the Manic Street Preachers in 1994. From there, he went on to become the Manics' drum tech, before graduating to tour manager for them and a host of other bands – The Thrills, Ronnie Wood, Ginger Baker, Hard-Fi, The Kooks, The Magic Numbers, Amy MacDonald, Gareth Gates, and so many more that have been lost in time. He's even production managed the Pope's only UK show!
Having worked with the act MUSE since 2001, Glen has toured the world countless times and worked with the band headlining festivals, arenas, TV shows, radio shows & super massive one-off events. Glen started CATO Music (London's busiest rehearsal studio complexes), and is founder of the NEKO trust and KYOTO management company.
"Live is where the most fun is, Live is where the money is, & Live is where you feel ALIVE!"
www.kyotomusic.co.uk
www.linkedin.com/company/kyotomusic
David Yeboah
David Prince Yeboah is an artist manager and consultant with more than 13 years' experience in the music industry as a runner, tour manager, A&R scout and artist manager of his independent management and consulting company, GS Entertainment Management.
Clients include the likes of Doctor (Sigma-RudeBoy, Chase & Status-Tek Ya Time, Flux Pavillion), Rachel Adedeji (X-FActor) and chart topping, Grammy award-winning producer, Killbeatz (Fuse ODG, Wizkid, Ed Sheehan).
www.linkedin.com/in/david-prince-yeboah-b4218329
Music Explosion Special at Camberwell Library
Label Services & DIY Releasing
Wednesday 10th July 2019, 6pm - 8pm
FREE ENTRY - Sold Out!
Join us for an unprecedented second panel workshop, hosted by Odd Motion's Shahlaa Tahira. Featuring advice from artists and industry professionals, this Music Explosion Special offers unrivalled insight label services and DIY releasing. With Q&As and networking opportunities, it is perfect for emerging artists, independent producers & aspiring music business entrepreneurs seeking insights in how best to develop a lasting career.
Featured panelists
Singer-songwriter, saxophonist and producer
Laura Misch is gradually defining her sound through the synthesis of her two main voices - saxophone and vocals. Knitting together these isometric components by means of explorative productions which nod ever further to the hallmarks of electronic music; Laura's fusion of jazz textures, beats and searching soundscapes have placed her peacefully landlocked between many bubbling scenes within the south London locale.
Laura released her first self-produced LP Playground in May 2017, from which the support gained saw her appear live on BBC 6 in session with Gilles Peterson, with further radio plays on BBC Radio 1 and Jazz FM.
This was followed up by the deep and enveloping single 'Lagoon' in February 2018 premiered on Toronto based music knowledge hub Music is My Sanctuary; seeing her supporters grow with plays from the likes of Phil Taggart and Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 1 & 2 alike.
After a successful first UK headline tour in February 2018, Laura took her one-woman show across Europe supporting Tom Misch, before stunning a sold-out Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall in April. The past summer has seen Laura's name featured in many festival line-ups including End of The Road, Visions, All Points East, Meadows in The Mountains & Oslo Jazz festival. She then capped this off supporting Texan three-piece Khruangbin in their European tour in October 2018.
2019 saw her play successful shows at SXSW and The Great Escape Festival, as well as supporting Alfa Mist on his UK tour.
Having recently released latest mini album 'Lonely City', she says about the work: "I made sound worlds which honestly reflect the city and the times. At times confrontational - there's an underwater bomb sample I collaged repeatedly, which to me sounds like collective fear, and at times monotonous - which you'll find in Elevator, which was a direct response to elevator music. In contrast this all the singing came from a centred place and was recorded in my bedroom."
"Another new generation jazz influenced artist... she not only plays saxophone and sings, but she arranges and plays keyboard and does the whole thing. She's an amazing talent." - Gilles Peterson.
Oviri Clarke
Trainee Solicitor, Business Affairs, Kobalt Music Group
Oviri is a strong legal professional who has worked in the music legal profession for nearly three years. She has had experience at top entertainment and media law firms and at Warner Music Group and she is currently undertaking her training contract at Kobalt Music Group.
Kobalt provides artists, songwriters, musicians, labels or publishers with industry-leading technology and creative services.
MSo Easy
A&R at CruzCTRL Records, Artist Management & Vocal Engineer
Music Explosion Summer Sessions
Industry Talks + Q&A
Wednesday 26th June 2019, 4.15pm - 8pm
This Summer MMC returns with Music Explosion, its long-standing evening of free music industry chats, advice and Q&As with the UK's top movers and shakers. Designed to support new and developing artists, bands, producers, or those creatively inspired, Music Explosion will help you to navigate all areas of the industry.
Join us for an evening of insights where speakers focus on a different aspects of music business to inspire, inform and fire up your creativity.
Chris Tams
Director of Membership and International & MEGS, BPI
Chris Tams is the Director of Membership and International at the BPI – the Trade Association for Record Labels in the UK. BPI champions the UK's recorded music industry, safeguarding the rights of its members and of the artists, performers and label members of collecting body PPL. BPI's membership consists of over 400 independent labels and the UK's three 'majors', which account for 85 per cent of legitimate domestic music consumption.
BPI promotes British music overseas through its trade missions and the Music Export Growth Scheme. It provides insights, training and networking with its free masterclasses, Innovation Hub, Insight Sessions, and reports. The BPI administers the Certified Awards, co-owns the Official Charts, organises The BRIT Awards and is also home to the Mercury Prize.
Chris is responsible for running the BPI's Membership activities which cover the entire spectrum of events and training to help Independent Labels.
He also runs BPI's Trade Missions which recently have expanded from the more traditional markets such as the USA and Europe into the exciting fast growing overseas music markets such as China, India and South Korea. He also is responsible for running the Department for International Trade's Music Export Growth Scheme which helps UK based Acts with International touring.
Director, May Music Publishing
Laura May founded independent music publishing company May Music in 2017 after many years working in different roles around the industry. Beginning her career at Eaton Music after being chosen from the MPA job seekers list, Laura moved into auditing, forensic royalty tracking and royalty accounting at an accountancy firm five years later. After a break due to illness Laura returned to work part time as a finance manager at Rewind Festival while simultaneously starting her own business providing royalty analysis services for auditors and royalty accounting for producers, small labels and publishers including Turnfirst Artists. Laura joined Turnfirst Artists full time in 2015 to work in the finance team, also joining new venture First Access Entertainment when it launched at the end of that year.
As well as continuing to expand the May Music roster and look after a growing number of royalty clients, Laura is currently consulting for The Music Royalty Co, running the finances and co-ordinating royalties for the Cooking Vinyl group
Nixon Rosembert
Musical Director, Studio Owner, Freelance Musician
Nixon has a wealth of experienced as a musician, tutor, composer, technician, and mentor. He is the tour manager, musical director and bassist for The Drifters, partner in Cool Moon Music Production Studio, a member of the Musicians' Union London Regional Committee, previous Vice Chairman of the Equalities Committee and an associate here at The Midi Music Company.
Nixon has played bass for US artists Josh Milan, Dawn Tallman and Angela Johnson, as well as Billy Paul, Ronnie Laws, The Foundations, Cleveland Watkiss, Graeae Theatre Company, plus many more. Nixon will share his experience of how he became a successful freelance musician, continually developing his skills to sustain a long-lasting career.
Social Media & Growing Your Brand
Wednesday 19th June 2019, 6pm - 8pm
We're back with a special edition of panel workshops, hosted by Odd Motion's Shahlaa Tahira. Featuring advice from industry professionals, this Music Explosion Special offers unrivalled insight using social media to develop your brand. With Q&As and networking opportunities, it is perfect for emerging artists, independent producers & aspiring music business entrepreneurs seeking insights in how best to develop a lasting career.
Shocka
Growing up in Tottenham, Shocka has witnessed the good, bad and the ugly, but throughout all that he is trying to shine a positive light on the area that has seen so much negativity. He has experienced different cultures, while staying humble and grateful. His journey started in 2008, when he released Beast on the Loose which led to joining a group called Marvell made up of himself, Vertex and Double S. In late 2014 Shocka decided it was time to branch out as an independent artist.
Lisa Roolant
Mixcloud - Head of Communications
Mixcloud is an audio streaming platform connecting a global community through audio culture. Listeners can access a unique collection of over 15 million radio shows, DJ mixes and podcasts produced and uploaded by over 1.3 million passionate tastemakers and curators around the globe.
They aim to build a fair and sustainable ecosystem for audio culture. As a critical part of the global music and cultural landscape, Mixcloud empowers DJs, radio hosts, podcasters and tastemakers to build and inspire fan bases. Lisa is a self confessed writer (of sorts), music junkie, sustainable geek, optimistic fwd thinker & third culture kid.
Rob Fitzpatrick
Spotify - Senior Producer
Rob joined Spotify as their Music Consultant in 2012 after more than a decade spent writing about music, television, books and films for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, NME, Mixmag and, just the once, Private Eye. He has held Pharrell's gold chains while he had a fight, been called on his mobile by Usher's mum while in a pub in Camberwell, spent an interview talking about night feeds while bouncing Beck's new baby on his knee, given his last two cigarettes to Elliott Smith and stroked Barry Gibbs' knee while in a recording studio in Miami. He lives in Surrey with his wife and two kids and according to the internet he invented the expression "mashup".
Rob makes fantastic audio original shows like AM/PM: and SecretGenius.
Andrew Scrase
Facebook - Digital Marketing, Head of Planning & Strategy
Global Business Marketing team working across Europe, Middle East and Africa. My role is to work with the regional leads, country marketing leads and all vertical leads with all aspects oftheir digital marketing, focused around the media planning and strategy for social. Working closely with the creative team to ensure our stakeholders are getting the best results possible. Andrew works across Facebook, Instagram and messenger. He is also a former Twitter analyst and life-long Gooner.
Music Explosion Special
An Audience With... Skin!
Wednesday 12th June 2019, 7pm-9pm
MMC is thrilled to present an evening in conversation with iconic female rock artist, Skin.
Lead singer and guitarist with Skunk Anansie, Skin is also well known as a fashion icon, DJ, charity activist and an inspiring role model for generations of fans.
We welcome a diverse audience of fans, creatives and music lovers to this unique music industry seminar. The night is your opportunity ask Skin questions on the music business and gain insight into her life, from an emerging artist to a pivotal force in music - from rock singer, to cultural icon.
Music Explosion Spring Sessions 2019
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 4.15pm - 8pm
MMC is thrilled to return this Spring with it long-standing, free evening of industry talks with Q&A discussions and networking opportunities.
Join us this March for a special line up of the UK's top movers and shakers, shining insights into all corners of the music business. Each panelist will focus on a different aspect of the music business, to inspire developing artists, creatives and entrepreneurs.
Panelist Schedule
Lorna Greenwood
Manager, Music Publishers Association (MPA)
Music publishers play a vital role in the development of new music and in taking care of the business side, allowing music makers to concentrate on their creative work.
Lorna's route into music, from her Natural Sciences degree through international travel in various live music festivals, has led to her current role managing the MPA's extensive membership. Lorna will give an overview of the MPA, what they do and the role of publishing in industry.
mpaonline.org.uk
Shingai
Artist, Fashion Icon
CICAS® alumni and MMC patron Shingai Shoniwa is a singer-songwriter best known as the legendary front woman and bassist of genre-bending duo The Noisettes. With a persona that's larger than life, her iconic looks have seen her regularly grace the fashion pages. Shingai's been no stranger to collaboration having worked with artists including Paul McCartney, will.i.am, Annie Lennox and RZA.
Shingai will share her journey into the industry from Noisettes to now, as she prepares to launch her solo career, as an independent artist and everything else in between. She will talk about touring, the importance of staying true to your brand and tips for emerging artists. Shingai has been described as "…a living, breathing manifestation of the rock & roll spirit, with a voice that is equal parts Iggy Pop and Billie Holiday." Rolling Stone Magazine
shing.ai|instagram.com/shingai
Paul Pacifico
CEO, Association of Independent Music (AIM)
In the UK, AIM represents independent labels, digital distributers, label services companies and self-releasing artists amongst its 800 members. Previously, Paul Pacifico was CEO of the UK's Featured Artists Coalition ('FAC'), the organisation in the music industry that represents the interests and rights of the Artists. Paul was also the founding President of the International Artist Organisation ('IAO'), which unites artist organisations from different countries to speak with one voice.
Paul continues to perform and record with his band, Pacifico Blues and is a Visiting Professor teaching the 'Artist as a Startup' course at the Berklee College of Music's Masters campus in Valencia, Spain.
So, you have the talent and the determination, but you haven't figured out a way to make it work financially. Come along and meet Paul Pacifico, who will outline AIM's work while offering insights and practical advice on turning your creativity into a career and your band into a business.
www.musicindie.com
Music Explosion Sessions Special: Making it in Music
Summer Special at Camberwell Library
Wednesday 18th July 2018 6pm - 8pm
Remel London
TV and Radio Presenter, DJ, Content Creator and general Influencer in London
Remel currently presents on Capital Xtra and What's Up TV (Sky One). Remel has created original content and collaborated with multiple major brands including Iluvlive, Link Up TV, Mobo's, Channel AKA and more.
Niccy Logan
Radio Station Manager, DJ, Content Creator, Event Organiser & Activist
Niccy manages Transmission Roundhouse, a Radio station for young people that features radical talk, experimental underground content, opinions, politics and entertainment - based in the Roundhouse in Camden. When Niccy has some downtime shes either raising awareness with her brand Foundation, organising an event, spinning some tunes or creating some magic.
Artist Manager, Presenter, Content Creator and Brand Manager
Nina manages R&B Trio Black Roses alongside managing Creatives Connect Universal a creative talent agency, Events and Artist Management company. Nina has also Presented for multiple music platforms and creates content on her Youtube channel including 'Chit Chat with Nina Rose'.
Artist based in South East London
Koder has grown a strong fan base in London and New Zealand. His lyrical flow has been recognised on platforms like Complex, Lord of The Mics, Rinse FM and more! With collaborations with Grime OG's like Skepta and Novelist under his belt, Koder is one to watch rising up in London.
An Audience with... Goldie
Women in Music Special
Thursday 21st June 2pm - 4pm
This is an amazing opportunity to gain insight from one of the world's most infamous artist/producers, Goldie (MBE).
We are excited to invite an audience of female creatives aged 16+ to this unique master class seminar with the musical alchemist; whether artists, singers, songwriters, composers, producers, engineers or DJs. This is your chance to hear about Goldie's amazing journey in the music industry, as a graffiti artist, creative industries and education, over twenty-five years.
"In my music and art," says Goldie, "is everything I've learned, everyone I've met, everything I've experienced."
Among his many accolades came an invitation in 2011, to give a TED talk at London's Kings Place and a year later, Goldie was selected as one of the BBC's 'New Elizabethans', 60 people – ranging from David Hockney to Roald Dahl, David Bowie and Tim Berners-Lee – who have helped shape British culture during the reign of Elizabeth II. In January 2016, he was awarded the MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours.
An Audience With Goldie is part of the Mayor of London's 'Sounds Like London' series, taking place throughout June 2018 and will take place on Making Music Day UK in The Midi Music Company's creative hub at the heart of Deptford, South-East London.
Music Explosion Industry Talk + Q&A
Summer Sessions 2018
Wednesday 27 June 4.15pm - 8pm
We host free evenings of seminars with Q&A and networking three times a year at The Midi Music Company. Leading music industry professionals and artists share insights into how best to navigate your career. For our Summer Session we have joined the Mayor of London's month-long celebration of women in music. Follow the conversation at #SoundsLikeLondon.
Women in Music Special Schedule
Shahlaa
DJ, Presenter & Events Management, Shahlaa Discovers, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Shahlaa has a high level of knowledge of working in radio and new media, with previous experience of presenting and producing at Reprezent Radio, Rinse FM and CapitalXtra. She is currently working at the Global Academy as an Audio Teacher. This session will focus on her journey from Apprentice to employee and her tips on working in the music industry.
Harriet Moss
London Director, She Said So & Creative Director, Cognitive Shift Recordings, 5.45pm - 6.45pm
Harriet has a background in PR, sync and brand-building for contemporary classical , alternative and electronic labels and artists. This session is an introduction to the leading voluntary international Women in Music organisation and network, shesaid.so. The network provides mentorship and regular events for its 2500+ global members, including recent collaborations with Boiler Room, Spotify, Live Nation and Bestival, as well as a unique insight into her experiences in the business.
Danielle Wade
Creative Director, Decca Publishing,7pm - 8pm
Danielle has a range of experiences within the music business and was previously the former Creative Manager at BMG UK, particularly managing the creative output of the Synchronisation department. This session will provide participants with a deeper understanding of the publishing world and the relationship between Decca and the Universal Music Group.


Expecting field workers to use paper based records is fraught with potential disaster and inefficiency. Paper based systems often required duplication of work, with data having to be re-entered into back office systems.
Deploy mobile applications in the field so that employees only have to record information once while in the field. This improves accuracy of data and frees up more time to carry out more jobs per day. Mobile communication can also reduce inefficient back office administration tasks, or be used to record the information needed for audits.
Use a workflow driven series of checklists and fields on the mobile device to make sure individual workers follow a standard process. This will ensure continuity of good practice across a region.
Mobile devices are far more secure than paper. If they are lost data can be locked down through encryption, or Mobile Device Management systems.
Efficiently appointing who visits which site is simplified using dynamic scheduling rather than manual scheduling. Staff availability vs skills vs customer/site availability is difficult enough to balance, add to that factors like service levels, job location, cancellations, even traffic on the road and efficient scheduling is almost impossible.
Scheduling software can be tuned to deploy personnel based upon pre-set 'rules'. Work with your technology vendor to utilise this feature so that services can be optimised; like prioritising workers that have visited the site or customer before, or restricting distances to be travelled by employees, or scheduling according to customer needs.
Busy staff are often overwhelmed with the amount of departments or agencies they have to collaborate with and the number of systems that they have to provide information to.
By failing to integrate these systems, workers spend many more hours than need be, rekeying data into multiple back-office systems – duplicating effort and creating the potential for mistakes and errors.
Choose a mobile solution that can integrate and 'communicate' with any system. If implemented correctly this will mean that staff will only need to enter information into their mobile devices once, whereby the data then populates all relevant back-office systems automatically.
Integrating mobile applications with scheduling systems is particularly powerful. The mobile software can updates the schedule with the emerging day information; allowing visits to be automatically redistributed between staff where visits over-run, customers are unavailable, appointments are cancelled etc.
By failing to have visibility of operations in the field, organisations fail to respond to challenges as they happen and lose the opportunity to resolve them at minimum cost and disruption to the customer.
Providing mobile devices enables you to track all the factors which impact field performance like: routing of employees, time spent onsite, incomplete jobs, missed appointments, lateness etc. This data can be used to analyse operations, fine tune the scheduling engine or to demonstrate ongoing improvements in efficiency.
Arriving at the customer's location without complete historical notes puts the service provider at a disadvantage when providing its services and is disappointing for customers who expect their service provider to have comprehensive knowledge of their relationship.
By using mobile technology the appropriate notes can be delivered to the workers' mobile devices when they are needed. This means a professional can provide a service with the continuity the customer would expect. It also reduces the risk of them not being able to deliver that service on their first visit.
Organisations can allow historical records to be sent to field workers for that customer, allowing them to see full details of historic work completed with any certificates, photos, contracts that are relevant. They can also see future planned work future work. This minimises the risk of duplicating work that has already been done or will be done during the course of a contract.


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Yesterday I shared a card I made by simply "fussy cutting" a piece of cardstock with an interesting design, inking the edges and adding a sentiment stamp. I was thinking about the card and I realized that the designs on the pages of a cardstock stack could serve as templates or sketches for creating additional cards. I decided to make a Cricut version of yesterday's card and this is what I came up with. It is not a direct copy but it was certainly "inspired by..." the DCWV cardstock that I used for the first card.
I remembered that there were a couple of birds on the Home Decor cartridge that were not exactly like the printed birds but had a similar "look." The bird with the taller tail is located at this keypad button. I sized it at 3 1/2 inches. (There is a bird on the "Create a Critter" cartridge that is very similar to the bird on the cardstock but I do not have that cartridge yet).
There is a second, shorter bird located on the shift of this button. I cut this at 1 1/2 inches. Home Decor is a Solutions cartridge with fewer creative features than a full cartridge. There is only a shadow and a shadow blackout option for each bird. In planning the layers, I realized that I would need an extra layer to get the colors to work out as I envisioned them. I needed to flip both birds to have them looking in the correct direction. If you have the personal Cricut, there is no "flip" button but you can simply turn the paper over so the right side is facing the mat to flip your cuts. If you have Design Studio, you can flip any cut by using the software.
Once again, I used Design Studio to plan out my cuts. The guideline rectangle makes it easy to determine the sizes that will work for the card front. I looked around on my cartridges for a sentiment that I liked and that would suit the space available.
I chose the "i like you" on the Wild Card cartridge. Wild Card also has a "you are so special" phrase cut which would have been closer to the stamped sentiment on yesterday's card. I used the Core'dinations gemstone cardstock in pink for the sentiment. I like the soft shine the gemstone cardstock has and it cuts well in the Cricut.
I cut each bird four times - the shadow, two shadow blackout cuts and the top image. This photos show you all of my cuts. I used Core'dinations cardstock and the details cut neatly. The thin legs are challenging but there were no cutting issues.
I used some small and very sharp scissors to snip off the legs on the two top layers and the beak on the center layer so the birds would have yellow legs and beaks. The photo above show the pieces after the "amputation" was performed. When the four layers are glued together, they produce a bird that feels like a thin chipboard embellishment.
When you cut the shadows for the birds, the width of the shadow piece increase as the size of the cuts gets larger. The difference in the thickness of the shadow for a 1 1/2 inch bird and a 3 1/2 inch bird is significant. You can see this in the photo above.
I hope that Design Studio may eventually be updated with an option to create a shadow in whatever width you choose. This would be a particularly great addition if you could shadow (or more accurately, outline) any item on a Cricut cartridge by clicking a command in Design Studio. The ability to create a shadow of the width you want with one click would be a very exciting option to have.
I used some of the cardstock left from my original 12 x 12 sheet as the background. I wanted a patterned pink paper (say that three times fast!) for the rectangle on the right side of the card. I found this sheet of cardstock in the DCWV "Sweet" stack. I trimmed a four inch strip on the side with the cake (another good potential card topper) and cut a piece at 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Then I rounded the corners and inked the edges.
This photo shows my inspiration card and the Cricut version side by side. I had fun trying this experiment and I will probably do another simple card and Cricut card combination soon. I have lots of stacks to look through!
I like both Sat & Sundays cards. especially the colors on Sat. cards. i am using those birds for a friend for game pieces.
Great idea to "tweak" a great idea! Whether the bird has long legs or long tail, I still like this design.
Great card! I never thought to look at my cartridges and make something similar to paper I've seen and loved. What a great idea!
Great cards and another great idea for using the cricut to mimic something you've seen. Love the bright colours!
"Fussy cutting" is a term I first heard used in quilting.
Rather than just measuring the size for a piece and cutting from an edge, you carefully choose the section of the fabric (or paper) that you want to use. In this way you can center a design and choose exactly the part you want to show in the finished quilt (or paper project).
So cute Diane. I like the idea of using a card for insipiration. What a fun challenge that would be--post a card image and see what a group could come up with using the Cricut. I'm sure it's been done. Great work as usual, thanks!
Thanks Diane, I'll have to go look at my HD cart more carefully, you inspired me today!
They are both so beautiful. The Core'dNations paper sure does make the birds pop.
what are the odds of this happening? i just posted on the message board my 'hello friend' card with these two birds. check it out.
Love this card and I wanted to let you know I had not used the Core'dinations gem ston paper until I saw some of your things you had made, and I had to make a purchase! Thanks for all your wonderful explanations as to how you do each of your cards.
That is really funny - great minds think alike and all that! I popped over to look at your card - it is very cute! Hmmm - I wonder if we will use the same cuts again this week!
Marjorie - I am glad you like the Core'dinations paper - I think it works really well and the colors are so pretty!
Pam - that is a great idea for a challenge - watch this space!
Thanks everyone - it makes me happy to think I inspired you!


Trek's Checkpoint is a gravel road bike designed with high-quality parts that will that hold up for long, rugged miles on pavement, dirt, and even the most treacherous gravel roads.
Geometry is comfortable for the long haul and rough roads, but aggressive enough to provide the speed and ride-feel most gravel riders are looking for. Compared to Trek's Boone cyclocross race bike, Checkpoint features a nearly identical reach, slightly taller stack, and lower bottom bracket height. Chainstay length and wheelbase are the same. The lower bottom bracket provides the additional stability at speed, while maintaining a tight wheelbase, long reach, and relatively low stack height keeps Checkpoint fast and manoeuvrable.
Stranglehold dropouts allow the rider to adjust the bike's geometry and gearing based on the requirements of the day's ride. For example, the longest setting makes the bike more stable for longer rides and bikepacking. The dropouts also allow for quick & easy conversion to singlespeed.
The stock 35mm tyres hit the sweet-spot for a lot of riders, but running other widths quickly changes Checkpoint's identity. The rider hitting crushed limestone trails to link pavement will love firm and fast-rolling 28mm slicks, while the dedicated dirt road explorer can go up to 45mm to tackle the ruttiest, rockiest routes.
Checkpoint is covered in mounts. Mounts on the seattube and downtube allow riders to fit three bottles in the main triangle, or position two bottles low while leaving room for a frame bag. There's also room for one more bottle under the down tube. Lowrider fork mounts will take a rack & bags. Rear rack mounts give more room for cargo, and hidden fender mounts keep the ride clean in even the worst weather.
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The Image-Based Keyer (IBK) is a plug-in for The Foundry's Nuke, a high-end compositing software. The IBK's processing of chroma key footage is rather unconventional, and essentially the inverse of how the vast majority of keying applications work: rather than selecting the actual keying color to be removed, the method involves extracting and replacing the matte with matching chroma. In other words, the goal of the IBK is to achieve a purely green and foreground-vacant matte as an input. As such, the process of removal involves observing a fine-tuned disappearance of one's talent and foreground set in one viewer, and its arrival into a second viewer with the correct background. Once the sufficient amount of color information has passed from one plate to the next, the final step is called "patching black," or the suppression of transparent areas within the innermost part of the core matte.
Compositing software is capable of easier removal with each release update. By exposing the IBK's process, the ethical concerns around and possible abuses of removal in high resolution footage become more apparent.


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Major hospital systems are investing in glycemic optimization programs. However, clinical inertia in most hospitals often fails to initiate or intensify therapy when it is clinically indicated in the inpatient management and at the time of hospital discharge. Major organizations are trying to encourage better practices.
The Joint Commission has established an Advanced Disease-Specific Care certification program that ensures better inpatient diabetes care (website), but most hospitals don't yet feel pressure to comply.
CMS is issuing Quality Metrics for Diabetes Care that may force better inpatient care. In particular, they are testing two diabetes inpatient quality measures to be implemented — one for low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and one is for high blood sugar (hyperglycemia).
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Use Basal-Bolus-Correction Therapy primarily on general med-surgical wards — with Insulin administered using validated written or computerized protocols that allow for predefined adjustments in the insulin dosage based on glycemic fluctuations.
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1. The Lord has been gracious to the ministry of His Nesting Place over the years and has provided us with the financial resources to do the tasks that are most needed. Nevertheless, He gives and sometimes takes away. If He ever closes the door to this work, we will accept His leading and yield the outcome to Him. Until then, we will devote every ounce of energy and all resources to the tasks at hand – helping women in crisis pregnancy and saving the lives of their unborn children.
2. One of the ways we can discern the Lord's will regarding the direction of our work is through the support He sends (or doesn't send) from His people. Therefore, during lean times we will make our needs known to our friends. We will never resort to disrespectful or dishonorable methods of fund raising. When those lean times come, we will make every effort to be sure that we "live within our means" with the firm knowledge that this is the will of God for His Nesting Place.
3. We will not spend money we do not have. We firmly believe that the Lord is capable of meeting all the financial needs of this ministry. When we make a purchase, we will pay the invoice within 30 days with funds currently available, not relying on future anticipated contributions.
4. We will not ask people to support the ministry of His Nesting Place or any other Christian endeavor until their obligation to their local church has been met. We believe giving to the local church should be a priority for every believer.
5. We consider the contributions that we receive for this ministry to have been sent from loving people who have sacrificed to make their gifts possible. Our obligation, therefore, is to spend that money conservatively and as wisely as possible. Every dollar is stretched as far as possible to serve the needs of God's ministry at His Nesting Place. We are stewards of the trust of God and His people. We take on that task with the full knowledge that we are and will be accountable for the ways in which we handle the financial resources that God has so graciously provided.
6. We will receipt all monetary donations with a letter of thanks for tax purposes. Material donations, such as baby furniture or clothing for women, will be receipted upon request.
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Govt announces proposed plans to ban vaping in bars, restaurants and workplaces
A ban on vaping in bars, restaurants and workplaces is being proposed as part of the Government's plans to regulate the product.
By: Emma Russell
A ban on vaping in bars, restaurants and workplaces is being proposed as part of the Government's plans to regulate the product.
Plans to change the way vaping products were being displayed in retail stores were also in motion in a bid to protect children from taking it up.
Associate Minister of Health Jenny Salesa today announced the Smoke-free Environments Act 1990 (SFEA) would be amended next year.
Salesa said the aim of the proposed regulations was to give smokers more confidence in the quality of vaping and smokeless tobacco products, while also protecting children and young people from the risks associated with them.
Although vaping was significantly less harmful than smoking it was not completely risk free, Salesa said.
"That's why we need to make it as safe as possible and protect young people from taking it up," she said.
Dr Robert Beaglehole – Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) chair and professor in public health at Auckland University – said in general he welcomed this announcement as it indicated the Government was taking the 2025 Smokefree goal more seriously.
"The trade off is encouraging smokers to use them, protecting children and not offending non-smokers."
Beaglehole said he understood why the Government had chosen to ban vaping in places where smoking was already prohibited as people didn't want vaping in their faces.
"But I still think we should be doing everything we can to encourage smokers to switch to vaping and anything that restricts that we need to seriously consider."
Salesa said the new regulations followed findings from the Ministry of Health's public consultation in 2016 which showed overwhelming support for the continued prohibition of sales of vaping products to under 18 year olds.
"The public will have a say on the legislative amendments proposed. That opportunity will come next year when the select committee calls for submissions. The Ministry will also consult on implementation of the changes," Salesa said.
In 2016/17, 13.8 per cent (about 529,000) of adults were daily smokers. That's down from 14.2 per cent of adults in 2015/16 and 18.3 per cent the previous year, Salesa said.
But she said there were still an estimated 5,000 smoking related deaths every year and that was unacceptable.
"The best thing smokers can do for their health and that of their whānau is to quit altogether but sometimes it's tough and I understand how difficult it can be.
"The Government is committed to improving health outcomes and the wellbeing of all New Zealanders. This is another step toward achieving a smoke-free country by 2025," Salesa said.
QJ Stachell, managing director of NZ Vaping Alliance, who has been lobbing the Government to regulate the industry for the last five years, said this announcement was a step in the right direction.
"Now we know there will be a minimum standard suppliers will have to hit and I think that will be good for the industry."
The owner of NZ Vapor and Qwit Ltd said the risk for having no regulation was the potential for cowboys to make the product in the bathroom or garage and be able to sell it anywhere.
Stachell said he got into the industry six years ago after vaping helped him "accidentally quit smoking."
"My brother sent me a first generation vape from the States and unintentionally I ended up substituting it for smoking.
"I thought why isn't this a thing and it turned out it was overseas, so I decided to start my own business here."
His product was made in California and when the customer purchased it, it was shipped directly to the buyer.
"It was hard because it meant the client had to wait a week to get it but it meant we weren't breaking any laws which gave us strength in our argument when lobbing the government for these regulations.
"It's incredibly frustrating when you are running a clean business and there are guys down the road who were able to sell it over the counter.
"We have the opportunity in New Zealand to be world leaders in smoking replacement so if we want to be world players we need to act like world players," Stachell said.
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Domestic Relations & Mediation - Doherty, Dugan, Cannon, Raymond & Weil, P.C.
Understanding our client's situation helps us to craft solutions which meet our client's ultimate goals.
Doherty, Dugan, Cannon, Raymond & Weil, P.C.'s team of family litigators, mediators, and collaborative law attorneys provide options, solutions, direction, and comprehensive services to families in crisis whether that be divorce, child custody, restraining order, guardianship of a minor (grandchild), or modification or enforcement of a prior order. We recognize that each family's situation is unique, and with that our attorneys take the time to understand our clients' goals, needs, and concerns so that we can craft strategies which fit that particular client. As an example, we understand that financial security means different things to each person and understanding our client's definition of financial security helps us to craft solutions which meet our client's ultimate goals.
Our attorneys work with teams of professionals to guide our clients through the often stressful and overwhelming decisions involved in the divorce process and other family-related conflict. It is imperative to have knowledgeable professionals assist clients research available options to ensure that all avenues are considered and the best options utilized in the resulting agreement or judgment. We also understand that in our complex world many times a divorce or a custody issue involves more than just the spouses involved, in that, grandparents are many times directly involved in caring and supporting the clients and/or grandchildren. We have the resources and experience to assist these families through the complex issues ahead of them.
Being client-focused, our support staff is also available to assist clients with questions and work through the many times overwhelming process of gathering the financial documents needed.
The attorneys in our Domestic Relations Practice Group are experienced litigators who can take cases to trial, if warranted, while remaining focused on working on settlement options. Our attorneys are strong advocates for clients guiding them through the legal and other challenges during this process. DDCRW also offers mediation and collaborative law options for our clients as effective alternative dispute resolution methods which can be efficient and effective methods to reach agreements. Our attorneys also have experience as guardian ad litems, parent coordinators, and masters. Probate and Family Court judges have appointed our attorneys to complex cases as masters and guardian ad litems and attorneys representing a child. We are one of the few local law firms that can offer such a broad practice.
In mediations, our attorneys act as a neutral third party to help clients agree upon a practical, long-term agreement which complies with court requirements, Massachusetts law, and the needs of their children and family. We have found that mediated settlements tend to have less disputes, less court interaction later on, and overall work better for the families because, in part, both spouses helped with the solution and found common ground.
In a collaborative case, both sides retain collaboratively trained attorneys who have the goal of reaching a full resolution outside the courts and sign a contract confirming this goal. It's a client-focused process that involves carefully planned meetings in which the clients, attorneys and a coach/facilitator actively participates. It has the added advantages of having financial and child/divorce coaches directly involved in the process. The process is one which emphasizes cooperation, problem solving, and making decisions based on well thought out and researched options. Most clients feel a sense of relief when they remove the pressure of court from the divorce process which opens up both parties to focus on what options will work for them and their children.
Our team can utilize a network of outside professionals like divorce coaches, financial advisors, real-estate experts or therapists if needed.
Both mediation and collaborative law involve practical approaches to very emotional situations which benefits families more than if the case ends up in litigation. It keeps the case out of the overloaded court system, usually resulting in a quicker and more cost-effective resolution. An added benefit is that the process keeps the communication lines open, focuses on the best interests of the children and helps the clients in the transition to the next phase of their life. Most importantly it results in an agreement that is controlled by the family and not the court.
If litigation is needed, our attorneys are ready to be strong advocates for our clients in the court process. Given the contentious nature of divorce or child custody cases, experience and knowledge of the judges in the surrounding counties is essential. An added plus is that many of our attorneys also appear in the district courts on civil matters so we can use this knowledge for return restraining order hearings when needed. Our team has extensive exposure to high-conflict and complex asset cases on both the trial and the appellate level, as well as dealing with family issues such as allegations of domestic violence, physical abuse, alcoholism, sexual abuse, mental illness, and drug abuse. We work with local professionals to ensure that our attorneys have the resources to assist our clients with understanding family members or their own addiction issues.
Whatever the legal situation, the team at Doherty, Dugan, Cannon, Raymond & Weil, P.C. is equipped to help deal with it and get the client through their difficult and many times overwhelming situation. Let us help you take back control of your life by providing you with the tools and information you need to make the difficult decisions.


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More Details Released on Champaign County Crash That Killed a Jacksonville Man on Friday
By Jeremy Coumbes on November 2, 2019 at 8:33pm
A Jacksonville man lost his life in a semi tractor-trailer crash Friday, authorities said.
In a statement Saturday, state police said the crash happened at about 12:04 p.m. on eastbound Interstate 74 near mile marker 186 in Champaign County.
WAND TV is reporting that a preliminary investigation of the crash found that the white Freightliner driven by 38-year-old Kenny W. Hill, drifted into a median, drove across the eastbound lanes and into a ditch.
The truck came to rest on the roadway's south side after striking a tree.
Hill, was transported to Carle Foundation Hospital for treatment, where he was pronounced dead at 1:01 p.m Friday.
Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup performed an autopsy yesterday. No details have been released at this time. A coroner's inquest may happen at a later date.


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Населення — 1187 осіб (2009; 1847 в 1999, 2714 у 1989).

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I know it's uncomfortable, but let's have a quick conversation about bathroom etiquette.
1. If you want to knock, knock.
2. If you want to try the door, try the door.
DO NOT knock, then immediately try the door half a second later.