Sir Romesh Chunder Dutt was born in Calcutta on August 13, 1848 into a family already famous for its academic and literary attainments. He had his early education in Bengali schools in Calcutta and in the districts.
He passed the First Arts examination of the University of Calcutta from the Presidency College in 1866, standing second in order of merit and winning a scholarship. While still a student in the B.A. class, he left for England in 1868 and qualified for the Indian Civil Service.
Dutt began in 1871 an outstanding career in the Indian Civil Service and in Indian public life. He retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1897 at the relatively young age of 49 while serving as the Commissioner of Orissa.
His work as a civil servant evoked praise from all quarters, including Lieutenant Governors and Governor - Generals. A more fruitful part of his career began after his retirement, when he became free to devote his time fully to public activities and writing.
Even when he was in the Civil Service, he earned a reputation as a first-rate orator and as a man who was not afraid to express independent views. His views on the causes of poverty in India or on the problems of administration, including those relating to the controversial Ilbert Bill, were not always in line with official thinking.
He became President of the Indian National Congress in 1899 and was regarded by the growing politically - conscious educated public as one of their most effective spokespersons. Dutt was appointed a lecturer in Indian History in the University of London shortly after his retirement from the Civil Service.
He, however, returned to India in 1904 to serve the State of Baroda as Revenue Minister for three years; and he came back to India again in 1908 as a member of the Decentralisation Commission.
His first book on the economic problems of the cultivators was 'Peasantry of Bengal', written in 1875; the ideas developed in this book were expanded fully in 'Famines in India,' published in 1900, containing his strongly-argued thesis about the over-assessment of land revenue and containing a plea for the extension of the Permanent Settlement to the Ryotwari area and also for a permanent fixation of rents payable by the Ryots to the intermediaries.
His greatest works in the, field followed soon after, with the publication, of 'India under Early British Rule, 1757 - 1837' in 1901, and the 'Economic History of India in the Victorian Age' in 1902. The thesis on land revenue was reiterated in the famous 'Open Letters', to which Lord Curzon's Government gave an official reply in the Resolution of 1902.
He died at the age of 61 in 1909, when a further period of fruitful work seemed to lie ahead. As a civil servant, as a spokesman of the new generation of educated Indians, as a political leader of the liberal school, as a perceptive student of economic issues, as a scholarly historian and as a creative writer, Romesh Dutt was all that the rising Indian intelligentsia aspired to be.
"There are two sides to every question, and it is absolutely necessary for the purposes of good government and of just administration that not only the official view, but the people's view on every question should be represented and heard.
There are local bodies in different parts of India which give expression to the people's views on local questions; but this National Congress is the only body in India which seeks to represent the views and aspirations of the people of India as a whole in the large and important, and if I may use the word, Imperial questions of administration.


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October STAR Students
Libby Elementary would like to recognize September's Star Students! The students were chosen using the following criteria: attitude (the student tries to contribute to a positive atmosphere), accomplishments (the student is dedicated to achieving a personal goal), commitment (the student always tries his or her best to succeed), character (the student always presents himself/herself as a positive role model), effort (the student shares in the responsibility for making school a positive place), enthusiasm (the student is always supportive of others striving for success) and excellence (the student accepts no less).
October's Star students include:
Mason Cader, who is a second-grader and the son of Cortney Gorham and Chance Gorham. Mason's favorite school subject is math. He enjoys gaming, riding bikes, skateboarding, swimming, playing basketball and soccer, and playing with his little brother and baby sister.
Kinsley Dunn, who is a second-grader and the daughter of Kortlyn Dunn and JT Dunn. Kinsley's favorite school subject is math. She enjoys tumble and All-star cheer, twirling, playing basketball, and art.
Levi Harris, who is a second-grader and the son of Shaun and Kerrie Harris. Levi's favorite school subject is math. He enjoys playing outside, hunting and fishing, and helping his brother and sister show pigs.
Muskan Ladiwala, who is a second-grader and the daughter of Tanveer and Bindira Ladiwala. Muskan's favorite school subject is english. She enjoys puzzles, coloring, playing outside, building blocks, playing with her iPad.
Kynlie Powers, who is a second-grader and the daughter of Michael and Shelby Powers. Kynlie's favorite school subject is math. She enjoys playing catcher/left fielder for Panola Sox Softball, tumbling, camping, and playing with her puppy, Yankee.
Anastasia Washington, who is a second-grader and the daughter of Ann-Marie Charles and Tobias Washington. Anastasia's favorite school subject is math. She enjoys coloring and drawing, playing outside, watching TV, and sleeping. She also enjoys crafting and putting things together.
Ubaldo Escobedo, who is a third-grader and the son of Ubaldo and Maria Escobedo. Ubaldo's favorite school subject is math. He enjoys playing outside.
Marissa Farias, who is a third-grader and the daughter of Reynaldo Farias and Denice Farias. Marissa's favorite school subject is science. She enjoys coloring, reading, and playing volleyball.
Zoey Jones, who is a third-grader and the daughter of Alice Brightwell. Zoey's favorite school subject is reading. He enjoys hover boarding, bicycle riding, painting, swimming, and watching TV.
Maddox Sparks, who is a third-grader and the son of Matt and Abby Sparks. Demi's favorite school subject is math. He loves all sports - football, baseball, basketball, and soccer! He also enjoys spending time with his family and friends and going to the movies.
Janiya Wiliams, who is a third-grader and the daughter of Shenicka Payne and Jerry Williams. Janiya's favorite school subject is math. She enjoys doing gymnastics and dancing.
Congratulations to all of these students!
Back Row (Left to Right): Janiya Williams, Anastasia Washington,
Kinsley Dunn, Kynlie Powers, Muskan Ladiwala, Zoey Jones,
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Front Row (Left to Right): Mason Cader, Maddox Sparks, Levi Harris,
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Guns as peace artwork
By Rhoda Grace Saron on March 9, 2020
A city councilor said those destroyed firearms seized from rebel groups will be transformed into a peace artwork.
"This will be wonderful," said Councilor Mabel Acosta. "Firearms that were used in war before will be made as artwork that symbolizes peace for the people of Davao in particular and in the Philippines in general."
Acosta, the City Council committee chair on Peace and Public Safety, said she has communicated with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Police Regional Office for the proposal.
She said local artist Kublai Millan could make an artwork out of the destroyed firearms.
"I have texted Kublai and he is okay with that," Acosta said.
Kublai, an artist known for giant sculptures, is behind the giant durian monument at the Davao International Airport, and the giant eagle and the Bagobo children at the People's Park.
Acosta said Kublai is currently doing a peace artwork at the Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo, the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Quezon City.
"(Kublai) is looking forward for having one here in Davao," Acosta said. "Hopefully, we can (also) have here in Davao region."
Last week, the Police Regional Command destroyed 17 firearms that authorities seized from communist rebels.


High-scoring guards battle: Will Mason or Edwards put up 30-plus?
FIRST GUARD TO 30 WINS? — Gophers guard Nate Mason's 33 points in Wednesday's Senior Night 86-82 win against Iowa gave him 1,701 for his career, four points away from surpassing U legend Kevin McHale for sixth place on the program's all-time scoring list. It was the fourth 30-point game of his career (tied Archie Clark for fourth most in school history). The first was Mason's 31 points and 11 assists helping to lead the Gophers to a 91-82 win last year at Purdue. Purdue sophomore Carsen Edwards topped Mason's mark this week with a career-best 40 points in a win Thursday over Illinois. The 6-foot, 200-pound Edwards had the most points for a Purdue player since Glenn "Big Dog" Robinson had 44 in 1994 and most for a Purdue guard since Rick Mount's 61 in 1970. Edwards is averaging 20 points in his last 13 games. Mason had only eight points on 2-for-10 shootout in the last meeting with Purdue in an 81-47 loss on Jan. 13. Edwards had 14 points on 5-for-13 shooting, seven assists and zero turnovers.
RETURN OF VINCE EDWARDS — Why would Vincent Edwards want to miss Senior Day? The 6-8 forward had been out with an ankle injury the previous two games. But Edwards was cleared and practiced the last two days. Good news for Boilermakers fans who can see him play one last time in Mackey Arena. Bad news for the Gophers, who couldn't stop him in his 27-point outing in January. The Ohio native is averaging 14.9 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists this season. Edwards is the third active Big Ten player with at least 1,500 career points (1,544). Nate Mason and Northwestern's Bryant McIntosh (1,674) are the others.
REBOUND TITLE IN BAG — Jordan Murphy has the school single-season double-double record of 23, surpassing Mychal Thompson's 21 in 1976. With one regular season game left, the 6-7 junior forward is certain to become the first Gopher player to lead the Big Ten in rebounding since Trevor Mbakwe in 2013 (Mbakwe also did it in 2011). Murphy's 11.4 rebounds per game are the highest in the program since Thompson's 12.5 rebounds per game in 1976. Murphy has also been a thief on defense lately. In the first half of Wednesday's win against Iowa, he already had four of his career-high five steals. The San Antonio native is using his length (7-foot wingspan) and improved defensive instincts to make it tough for opponents to throw the ball into the post. Look for Murphy to continue jumping into passing lanes Sunday against a bigger Purdue team. He has 11 steals combined in his last three games. He had 14 total in 14 Big Ten games before that.
Reserves– Isaiah Washington, G, 6-1, Fr., 8.2 ppg; Jamir Harris, G, 6-2, Fr., 4.1 ppg; Davonte Fitzgerald, F, 6-8, Jr., 3.7 ppg; Gaston Diedhiou, F/C, 6-10, Sr., 1.8 ppg.
Notable: The Gophers are shooting 40.5 percent (342-for-844) from the field and 34.8 percent from three-point range (100-for-287) in the 14 games without center Reggie Lynch, who is no longer on the team after dropping his appeal and being expelled after a suspension for an alleged sexual assault. ... Junior Dupree McBrayer returned this week after missing two games and five total with a lower leg injury. He had scored just 21 points combined on 7-for-32 shooting from the field and 4-for-16 from the three-point line in his previous four games before a 16-point game on 8-for-13 free shooting in Wednesday's win over Iowa.
Key reserves– Ryan Cline, G, 6-6, Jr., 4.2 ppg; Matt Haarms, C, 7-3, Fr., 5.2 ppg; Nojel Eastern, F, 6-6, Fr., 2.8 ppg; Grady Eifert, F, 6-6, Jr., 1.6 ppg; Jacquil Taylor, F, 6-10, Jr., 1.7 ppg.
Notable: The Boilermakers have won two straight games since a three-game losing streak, including Thursday's 93-86 win at Illinois. They still have a shot at sharing the Big Ten title with Michigan State if they beat Minnesota and the Spartans lose to Wisconsin on Sunday … Starters Vince Edwards, Isaac Haas, Dakota Mathias and P.J. Thompson will all be playing their final home game at Mackey Arena on Sunday afternoon. This senior class needs one more victory to get to 100 for their career together at Purdue, which would make them the fourth class ever to reach the century mark. The winningest senior class in history is within their reach. The 2011 class had 107 wins from 2007-11.
Fuller's prediction (23-7 picks record): Purdue 88, Gophers 69. The Gophers will be the 11th seed in the Big Ten tournament and play the 14th seed at 8 p.m. Wednesday whether they beat Purdue on Sunday or not. So they should be able to play with a nothing-to-lose mentality. All the pressure is on Purdue since it's Senior Day and the Boilermakers need a victory to earn a share of the Big Ten title. But regardless of what both teams are playing for the matchup is still as one-sided as any game Minnesota has played all season. Richard Pitino's team is an 18.5-point underdog, which seems fair considering the Gophers suffered their largest margin of defeat in Williams Arena history they last time these teams met in a 34-point affair Jan. 13. This is the second straight season when Minnesota had to play one of the winningest senior classes on the road in the regular-season finale. Last season, Minnesota had a chance to finish second in the Big Ten with a win at Wisconsin, but it lost by 17 points to seniors Nigel Hayes, Bronson Koenig and Vitto Brown. Haas, Edwards, Mathias and Thompson might go out in similar fashion Sunday against the shorthanded Gophers. Don't worry U fans there's still a chance for at least one more victory against Rutgers, Illinois or Iowa in the Big Ten tourney.


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Surrealist ceramist Annabeth Rosen continues to break the mold in a new museum retrospective.
Tori Masucci Cummins
A retrospective of Annabeth Rosen's work is currently on display at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Photo by Gary Zvonkovic
Clusters of bulging, cartoonish bulbs and bouquets of dangling, snaky tubes, all covered in loony stripes, squiggles and polka dots. Ceramist Annabeth Rosen's clay sculptures suggest organic forms, yet are not quite of this world. Humorous, beautiful, and a wee bit disturbing, they resemble what might ensue from an autopsy of Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat. The New York Times has praised Rosen's work for its "weighty, slightly menacing muscularity" and Art in America critic Nancy Princenthal has called it "volcanic, beastly, catastrophic and unnervingly funny." The former Guggenheim Fellow—who holds the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at UC Davis and has taught at the school since 1997—continues the groundbreaking artist's tradition, doing for ceramics what Dale Chihuly did for glass. Her first major retrospective, Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, which is on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco through Jan. 19, is a must-see—especially for fans of fun that is funny, as Dr. Seuss would say.
Contemporary Jewish Museum. $16. Fri.-Tues. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thurs. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. 736 Mission St. San Francisco. 415-655-7800. thecjm.org
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Description: Scanned silver gelatin prints showing the material interactions of Exxon Motor oil, toner, water, and salt mixing taken under a photographic enlarger.
Each print is a unique photogram showing the material interactions of water, Exxon motor oil, salt, and toner under a photographic enlarger.
The works in this exhibition explore the idea of contamination; water as both a susceptible element and as an instrument of invasion and ruin.
When present-day news media discuss water-related issues, the lack of proximity to these events and the loose overview of the immensely large-scale problem that faces humankind can often displace people from the conversation or event at hand.
The works here aim to bring viewers back to water as a material, to see the black-and-white nature of these hard-pressed issues. By understanding the activity and function of water with various contaminants, we are able to glimpse the battle that water is constantly fighting, and we find ourselves finally grappling at the omnipresent uncertainty of its existence. I am interested in this position of water as an essential substance that is so impressionable by all our human actions and factors, and yet controls our fate.


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POLICY: Our Ultra-Modern Events Arena is Ready For Commissioning – State Govt
Our Ultra-Modern Events Arena is Ready For Commissioning – Kogi Govt
The Kogi State Government has said a state-of-the-art events arena built by the government is 100% ready for commissioning.
This was disclosed Monday, by the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, saying the arena is more equipped than the Eagle Square in Abuja.
His words: "I am happy to inform you that the Kogi State Government just completed an ultra modern events arena in Lokoja, the state capital.
"The arena can take thousands at once and sit tens of thousands comfortably and it is equipped with security and communications facilities and gadgets for the safety and comfort of users.
"With our muti-faceted electronic billboards stationed outside, crowd control is made easy as people can watch the giant screens to follow what is happening in the arena".
Fanwo said the State Ministry of Works and Housing deserves commendation for using local contractors for the magnificent project.
"There is a policy in the state to patronize local contractors as a way of growing our economy. The project was handled and delivered by a Kogi contractor. Our people were given different kinds of jobs and opportunities there which is quite commendable.
"The Ministry of Works and Housing has carefully and committedly followed the policy of the GYB administration to empower local contractors which is in tandem with our CitizensEmpowerment Initiative. This is instructive and remarkable" .
Also speaking, the State Commissioner for Works and Housing, Engr. Abubakar Sadiku Ohere said the Ministry is ensuring all projects are delivered ahead of the 'Festival of Projects Commissioning' by Mr President later this year.
"We are working very hard to ensure all our projects are completed ahead of the Festival of Projects Commissioning which will be done by the President in the next few months.
"These projects cut across roads, schools, hospitals and others, such as the Events Arena which will be properly named at Commissioning.
"Some of the projects have been completed while others are at various degrees of completion. We are working day and night to complete all of them in the shortest possible time so that all will be ready for Mr President to commission", he said.
The State Government is building hospitals and model schools across the state as well as a number of road projects. The President may also visit the Kogi State Rice Mill at Ejiba in the Kogi West Senatorial District of the state which is said to be the second largest in Northern Nigeria. The Mill produces Confluence Rice.
The Executive Chairman of Yagba West Local Government Area, Hon. Pius Kolawole commended Governor Yahaya Bello for siting such a big project in his Local Government Area.
According to him, the Rice Mill and the Fishery Facilities put in place by the Government around Omi Dam are really helping to empower a lot of young people.
"The Government of Alh. Yahaya Bello has paid a lot of attention to the rural areas. The Rice Project cost the Government over 4 billion naira and they brought it to a rural area.
"This is a way of encouraging rural dwellers to be economically viable and independent. We have to take the full advantage of this benefit", he said, insisting that young people will disconnect from crime if governments across Nigeria can copy the "Yahaya Bello Rural Development Model".
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This Friday night, Jews around the world will gather with family and friends at their Passover Seders and sing, Dayeinu. The word Dayeinu means "enough," and the song represents a playful way to celebrate the God's gifts of freedom, Torah and Shabbat. For generations, Dayeinu has allowed us to collectively articulate that we do not and will not take these gifts for granted.
This year, the Jews of Houston will sing Dayeinu with greater intensity than ever before. This week's flooding on top of last year's flooding has caused our community to suffer devastating losses. These traumas have lasting emotional effects as every time it rains, we panic.
While we may not be able to control the forces of nature with our songs and prayers, we can certainly allow these rituals to inspire us to help those in our community who are suffering in the aftermath of the floods. As the waters ebb and the needs of the community become clear, may the words of Dayeinu inspire all of us to act as God's partners in helping those who will need us.


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Obituary: Eugene Umali Demata, 51, celebrated Filipino creative
The chief creative officer of Grey Manila was the first to win the Philippines a Cannes Grand Prix Lion.
Eugenio Umali Demata, a loving son, brother, friend and colleague and known as one of the influential voices in the creative industry, sadly passed away on Tuesday, June 9th at the age of 51. He died from complications resulting from a stroke he suffered on Sunday.
Born on January 8, 1969, Eugene, or Euge as he was fondly known, received his degree in fine arts from the prestigious University of the Philippines. From the get-go, Demata showed great flair and passion for conceptualizing and bringing ideas to life. In 1991 he joined Saatchi & Saatchi where he would serve as creative director for the next 14 years before moving on to ECD positions with DM9JaymeSyfu and Tribal Worldwide.
He won awards at major local and international advertising festivals that included Cannes, Clio, NYF, LIA, D&AD, One Show, WEBBY, The Andy, Spikes, ADFEST, Philippine Ad Congress and KIDLAT, to name a few, placing him amongst one of Asia's and Philippines' most successful creatives.
Demata was the first creative to win the Philippines a Cannes Grand Prix Lion and the first D&AD Yellow Pencil for the 'Smart TXTBKS' campaign as well as the first Cannes Media Lion for the Gabriela 'Duct Tape' campaign while at DM9 JaymeSyfu.
In 2011, Demata was inducted into the Creative Guild of the Philippines Hall of Fame for his outstanding contribution and creative achievements in the advertising industry. In 2014, he was ranked the number one executive creative director by the Big Won creative rankings.
At the time of his passing, Demata was the chief creative officer of Grey Manila.
"It's a sad day for us all here at Grey," said John Lucas, CEO of Grey Manila. "We lost a dear brother, a wonderful mentor and a talented creative today. Eugene will be greatly missed by all those that knew him, Please remember him in your thoughts and prayers."
He is survived by his father Justino, mother Marta, and siblings Elenita and Gloria.
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We are sad to hear of the passing of Sir John Whitmore, BTCC champion back in 1961 when racing a 848 cc BMC Morris Mini-Minor which he had bought for just £400.
Underlining his talent as one of the greatest saloon car exponents of his era, John finished second in the overall classification the following season just two points behind the late Jack Sears. Further touring cars successes followed in a Lotus Cortina – notably when dominating the European Touring Car Championship in 1965 – as well as in sportscars.
John retired from the sport at the end of 1966 but, in recent times, had returned to driving at selected historic events.
The BTCC extends its sincerest condolences to John's family and many friends.


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The Climate Reality Project Trains More Than 700 New Climate Reality Leaders
More than 700 community leaders, entrepreneurs, activists and business innovators became Climate Reality Leaders this week at a three-day training held by The Climate Reality Project in Johannesburg, South Africa. The organisations also announced the launch of The Climate Reality Project Africa, a new branch that will further mobilise individuals and communities across the continent in the fight against climate change.
The Climate Reality Project's I AM PRO SNOW Campaign Teams Up with Olympic Gold Medalist Ted Ligety
Today, The Climate Reality Project's I AM PRO SNOW campaign released a humorous video featuring two time Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety talking to a snowflake about climate change. The video is designed to raise awareness about how the changing climate is hurting snow sports and to educate viewers about what the snow sports community can do to fight it.
Over 120,000 Stand Up for a Social Cost of Carbon
Today, The Climate Reality Project along with partners Environmental Defense Fund, Organizing for Action and Sierra Club announced the delivery of more than 120,000 citizen comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in support of a strong Social Cost of Carbon (SCC).
The Climate Reality Project's I AM PRO SNOW Campaign Partners with Winter Sports Enthusiasts to Combat Climate Change
Boulder, Colorado (January 22, 2014) – The Climate Reality Project's I AM PRO SNOW campaign – now in its third year – is proud to partner with key stakeholders to expand the conversation around climate change to the members of the winter sports community.
A Statement from The Climate Reality Project
"Five years ago, Maggie Fox joined The Climate Reality Project (then the Alliance for Climate Protection) to guide it through one of the defining legislative fights of the current environmental movement. Though the effort succeeded in the U.S. House of Representatives, it was blocked in the U.S. Senate -- which proved to us that more had to be done to combat the climate denial cottage-industry and to foster a true social movement for climate action."
The Climate Reality Project Launches 24th Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training in Johannesburg
Today, The Climate Reality Project announced that applications are open for the 24th Climate Reality Leadership Corps training program, which will take place March 12-14, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Millions Join World's Largest Carbon Conversation with The Climate Reality Project's 24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon
The Climate Reality Project's 24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon officially broke its viewership record for the second year in a row with more than 20 million views worldwide and supported by more than 130 events hosted in 14 countries.
Statement from Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO of The Climate Reality Project on the National Day of Action
On Tuesday, October 29th, The Climate Reality Project is holding more than 20 events across the country as part of a National Day of Action organized by Organizing for Action and several other climate groups.
24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon will call on Super-Polluters to Pay
Cultural Leaders Will Highlight Personal, Social, and Economic Costs of Climate Change
Largest Ever Conversation on Carbon Pollution Kicks off with Google+ Hangout
In advance of the third annual 24 Hours of Reality, the Climate Reality Project will kick off the largest ever conversation on the cost of carbon pollution with a Google+ Hangout on October 21st at 9:30 am Pacific/12:30 Eastern Time featuring the Chairman of the Climate Reality Project, Vice President Al Gore, Stacy Martinet, Chief Marketing Officer of Mashable, and Naomi Hirabayashi, Chief Marketing Officer of DoSomething.org.
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Travis Alan Camp, Anamosa, pleaded not guilty to 3rd degree burglary. A jury trial is set for Feb. 12.
Valerie Leeann Keppel, Cedar Rapids, was charged with OWI 1st offense. A preliminary hearing is set for Jan. 11.
Samantha Ann Peck, Anamosa, was charged with assault on persons in certain occupations. A preliminary hearing is set for Jan. 14.
Joshua Allen Hinrichsen, Monticello, pleaded not guilty to OWI 1st offense. A jury trial is set for March 5.
Jason Franklin Curby, Anamosa, pleaded guilty to no insurance. He was fined $500 plus court costs.
Rebecca Lynn Wren, Monticello, pleaded guilty to no insurance. She was fined $250 plus court costs.
Kevin Patrick King, Jr., Marion, pleaded guilty to driving while license denied/suspended/canceled/revoked. He was fined $250 plus court costs.
Mason Matthew Morris, Center Point, was charged with public intoxication. A bench trial is set for Jan. 30.
1:17 a.m. – Police responded to an alarm in the 500 block of E. Oak St.
7:44 a.m. – Police responded to a theft at a business in the 400 block of Farley St.
8:34 a.m. – Police responded to a motor vehicle accident in the 700 block of John Dr.
A two-vehicle accident took place on Dec. 19 at 2:13 p.m. on Highway 151 near 228th Street in Anamosa. Angele Rose Stewart, 33, of Cedar Rapids was driving a 2012 Dodge Journey SE northbound in the left lane. Terry Paul Hopper, 61, of East Dubuque, Ill., was driving a 2009 Chevy Impala, also northbound, but in the right lane. Hopper passed Stewart on the right side and then attempted to get over in the left lane without checking his blind spot, and hit the front passenger side of Stewart's vehicle. No injuries were reported for either driver.
Jamaica Brooke Ralston, Monmouth, pleaded guilty to three counts of child endangerment. She was sentenced to two years in prison, with all but 11 days suspended. She was fined a total of $1,875 plus court costs, and placed on probation for two years.
James Alan Loehr, Anamosa, pleaded not guilty to driving while barred. A jury trial is set for March 12.
Dylian Hunter, Anamosa, was charged with child endangerment. A preliminary hearing is set for Jan. 4.
Chad Daniel Cozart, Cedar Rapids, was found guilty of violations of conditions of restricted license, no insurance, two counts of driving while license denied/canceled/suspended/revoked, and two counts of operating non-registered vehicle. He was fined a total of $900 plus court costs.
Jacob Allen, Marion, pleaded guilty to employee-supplying alcohol to person under legal age. He was fined $500 plus court costs.
8:12 a.m. – Police provided a welfare check on the 800 block of Southhaven Dr.
10:10 a.m. – Police provided a welfare check on the 800 block of Timberline Dr.
12:45 p.m. – Police provided a public assist on the 400 block of Northhaven Dr.
3:20 p.m. – Police responded to a motor vehicle accident on S. Maple St.
A car versus deer accident took place on Dec. 16 at 4:45 p.m. on County Home Road E-23. Tiffany Christine Adams, 24, of Stanwood was driving a 2013 Chevy Traverse LT when she encountered a deer in the roadway. No injuries were reported. Adams' vehicle sustained an estimated $3,000 in damages.
A car versus deer accident took place on Dec. 17 at 5:07 p.m. on Highway 38. Alissa Sue Fairbanks, 23, of Anamosa was driving a 2017 Chevy Equinox when she encountered a deer in the roadway. No injuries were reported. Fairbanks' vehicle sustained an estimated $10,000 in damages.


The 2006 CHINS collected information on the status of housing, infrastructure, education, health and other services available in discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Australia. The 2006 CHINS also collected selected information on Indigenous organisations that provide rental housing to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The information collected from these organisations, referred to as Indigenous Housing Organisations (IHOs), included details of the housing stock, dwelling management and selected income and expenditure arrangements.
For further details, refer to Statistical Geography Volume 1: Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC), 2006 (cat. no. 1216.0).
The 2006 CHINS collected information from 496 IHOs which managed a total of 21,854 permanent dwellings. The total number of IHOs decreased by 120 from 616 IHOs in the 2001 survey. The decrease is largely attributed to changes to the management arrangements for IHOs in recent years. While the total number of IHOs declined between 2001 and 2006, the number of permanent dwellings managed by these organisations increased by 567 to 21,854 over that period. Of these, the majority 12,407 (57%) were in very remote areas, followed by 7,006 (32%) in non-remote areas and 2,441 (11%) in remote areas.
Each IHO managed an average of 44 permanent dwellings in 2006, compared to an average of 35 permanent dwellings in 2001.
Of the permanent dwellings managed by IHOs, 69 per cent required minor or no repairs. In 2006, 30 per cent of permanent dwellings required major repairs or replacement, an increase from the 27 per cent reported in 2001.
Permanent dwellings managed by IHOs in remote areas were more in need of major repairs and replacement (36%) than dwellings managed by IHOs in very remote (30%) and non-remote (29%) areas.
The total reported maintenance expenditure for the financial year 2004-05 was $37.4 million and accounted for 29 per cent of total IHO expenditure.
Average maintenance expenditure per IHO managed permanent dwelling was $2,060, which was 10 per cent more than reported in 2001.
The total reported rental income collected for the financial year 2004-05 was $47.5 million, an increase from the $42.1 million reported in 2001.
Average weekly rent received per IHO managed permanent dwelling was $48, an increase from the $38 reported in 2001.
A total of 1,447 (7%) of IHO managed permanent dwellings were unoccupied, the majority of which were located in very remote localities. Uninhabitable dwellings or dwellings being repaired accounted for almost half the unoccupied dwellings.
Permanent dwelling acquisitions exceeded dwelling disposals. The total of 670 acquisitions, of which 516 (77%) were newly built dwellings and 154 (23%) purchased dwellings, was partly offset by 490 permanent dwellings being disposed of, with 95 per cent of these written-off or demolished.
The following chart provides information about the number of IHOs and the dwellings they manage by remoteness area.
For the purpose of CHINS, a discrete Indigenous community is defined as a geographic location, bounded by physical or cadastral boundaries, and inhabited predominantly by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For more details, refer to Discrete Indigenous Community in the Glossary.
The following discrete Indigenous communities were classified in the 2001 Urban Centre Localities Classification as Urban Centres based on the census populations being 1,000 people or more: Palm Island, Yarrabah, Doomadgee and Cherbourg in Queensland, Wadeye, Maningrida, Nguiu and Galiwinku in the Northern Territory. All of these places are towns that could be expected to have a similar level of services to equivalent sized non-Indigenous communities.
In the 2006 CHINS, information was collected for 1,187 discrete Indigenous communities, down 29 from 1,216 in 2001. The decline is largely due to a number of small discrete communities being abandoned and not expected to be reoccupied in the future. In total, 17,177 permanent dwellings were reported in discrete Indigenous communities, of which 15,655 were IHO managed.
The total reported usual population of all discrete Indigenous communities in 2006 was 92,960, down 15,125 from the reported 108,085 in 2001. Population counts from the 2001 CHINS were higher than recorded in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing, and were believed to be overstated. The change in the 2006 counts can be attributed to improvements in data quality through the use of computer assisted interviewing and additional field edit checks. For more details on data quality, refer to paragraphs 17 to 36 of the Explanatory Notes in this publication and, for more information on population counts, refer to Appendix 2: Population Measures.
A total of 865 communities (73%) reported a usual population of less than 50, down from 889 in 2001.
Of the 92,960 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people reported as living in discrete Indigenous communities, a total of 4,039 people (4%) were reported as living in temporary dwellings. This compares with 5,602 people (5% of the total population of 108,085 in discrete Indigenous communities) in 2001.
Bore water continues to be the main source of drinking water for Indigenous communities being used by 58% of communities, compared to 64% in 2001. More communities obtained their drinking water from adjacent town water systems in 2006, 18% compared to 15% in 2001. The number of communities with no organised water supply has dropped from 21 in 2001 to 9 in 2006.
There were 274 communities connected to state grid as the main source of electricity in 2006, an increase of 5 per cent since 2001. The most common main source of electricity was community generators reported in 32% of communities, followed by state grid (23%), solar and solar hybrid (18%), and domestic generators (15%).
A total of 630 communities (53%) reported public access to a telephone within the community, compared with 597 (49%) in 2001.
A total of 136 discrete Indigenous communities (11%) had public access to the Internet.
A total of 245 discrete Indigenous communities (21%) reported a primary school located within the community, 49 communities (4%) reported a secondary school up to year 10, and 40 communities (3%) a secondary school to year 12. While there was a decrease of 18 (27%) in the number of communities with a secondary school up to year 10, 14 of these communities are now reporting a secondary school up to Year 12 located in the community. The number of discrete Indigenous communities that had a secondary school up to year 12 increased, up 23 (135%) from 17 discrete Indigenous communities in 2001 to 40 communities in 2006.
The following chart provides information about the number of discrete Indigenous communities, their reported populations and the permanent dwellings they contain. It also classifies them by remoteness area.


Thank you to GEB reader Adino for letting us know that Albania and Montenegro have recently received Street View.
Street View changes between October 3rd, 2016 and November 11th, 2016. Red: new Street View, Blue: previously existing Street View.
Our 'changes' map above also picks out some other interesting features. Google has added land to the northern coast of Greenland. This may be due to the availability of better satellite imagery or it may have to do with melting ice making the coast line more visible. Also, Google Maps has recently started showing more of the blue circles for user submitted photos even when zoomed out.
Indonesia and the Philippines have also seen significant additions to their Street View coverage.
Google has also added an 'expand' button to the overview map in the Google Maps version of Street View which allows a split-screen mode. This makes exploring Street View much easier.
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Vernon Harris est un scénariste et acteur britannique né le  à Folkestone (Royaume-Uni), et mort en février 1999 à Somerset (Royaume-Uni).

Biographie

Filmographie

comme scénariste

 1935 : Joy Ride de John Dahl
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 1936 :  de
 1940 :  de Marcel Varnel
 1952 :  de Lewis Gilbert
 1952 :  de Lewis Gilbert
 1953 :  (Albert R.N.) de Lewis Gilbert
 1954 :  () de Lewis Gilbert
 1954 :  de Lewis Gilbert
 1956 : Trois hommes dans un bateau (Three Men in a Boat) de Ken Annakin
 1957 :  (The Admirable Crichton) de Lewis Gilbert
 1958 : Agent secret S.Z. (Carve Her Name with Pride) de Lewis Gilbert
 1958 :  de Lewis Gilbert
 1959 : Visa pour Hong Kong (Ferry to Hong Kong) de Lewis Gilbert
 1960 :  de Lewis Gilbert
 1962 : Presque des anges (Almost Angels) de
 1968 : Oliver ! de Carol Reed
 1971 : Deux enfants qui s'aiment (Friends) de Lewis Gilbert
 1974 : Paul et Michelle (Paul and Michelle) de Lewis Gilbert

comme acteur

 1935 : Joy Ride de  :  Wilkins
 1936 :  de  : Martindale
 1936 : Show Flat de Bernard Mainwaring : Tom Vernon
 1937 :  de Tim Whelan : Harry
 1938 : The Last Barricade d'Alex Bryce : Captain Lee
 1938 :  de
 1938 :  de : Rhodes

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Naissance à Folkestone
Scénariste britannique de cinéma
Acteur anglais
Naissance en février 1905
Décès en février 1999
Décès dans le Somerset


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In her latest engagement with the classical tradition, a self-proclaimed radical rewriting of the story behind the Homeric epics, Natalie Haynes is openly outraged and angry. Indignant and righteous, she is a strong, vocal, almost virago-like warrior with a declaredly urgent, even vital cause: to resurrect and reinstate the ancient women in the attic, to summon with one barbaric yawp, a mighty battle cry, the angels and demons in the house – and much further beyond.
A Thousand Ships makes a feisty pitch to redress a long-denied feminine presence that Haynes maintains applies to her chosen heroines as well. Her novel is especially, specifically and proudly all about the female voices that, in Haynes' argument, have been stifled for millennia, by Homer, by the tragedians, by contemporary or later historians, by a very long line of past-hunters – classicists, ethnologists and archaeologists – all part of a decidedly male conspiracy to suppress female agency, trauma, primacy.
In fact, A Thousand Ships could well have started with an invocation, always to that much taxed, displaced, equally irate and exhausted epic muse, to "sing of the rage, oh goddess, the rage of all those women, of the ire welling up for their suffering and predicament"; or, again, it could start (it almost does start) with a resolute and highly ambiguous Virgilian 'I': "I sing of war and the women", of the women crushed, erased and driven to extinction by all those pesky men.
Haynes sets out to put all these wrongs to right. She has carefully chosen her dramatis personae, and with lush relish proceeds to conjure up vignette after vignette of female life and existence under Trojan and Greek male domination. Holding the thread tautly together is her Calliope, a creature that seems to have sprung out of a Norse saga, bartering and moaning, crouching, ever ready to pounce, like a tiny, highly venomous spider in the corner, plotting and pouting. Alternating shorter or longer chapters that are first or third person narratives of her silenced heroines, Haynes opts for what seems to be a stream-of-consciousness strategy. This usefully allows her to ignore the need for plot continuity, transitions or a commitment to a linear development of argument and purpose. It also clears the ground for a syncretic and idiosyncratic selection of elements from the epic cycle, the exegetical tradition and the various strands of scholarship that have evolved in the not so negligible span of time since Homer sang his poems or since Peisistratus commissioned their official copying and recording, thus creating a canonical text that would give birth to the most uncanonical and maverick engagement by generations of poets and readers to come. This looser, more improvisational, tactically spontaneous authorial trope also gives Haynes the freedom to blur fact and fiction, evidence and figment, argument and what seems at times as demagogic rhetoric.
It is a pity that in an age when we seem to be so enthralled by the classics and especially by Homer's heroes and their stories, we also seem so very reluctant to be honest about what they actually mean."
The basis for wanting to confront the Homeric story is a particular take on the hermeneutics of the poems' tradition, reception, or intentionality: "Homer's Iliad is (rightly) regarded as one of the great foundational texts on war and warriors, men and masculinity," Haynes purports, without offering any supporting evidence other than her own claim. The analyses of Dale Sinos, Seth Bernadette, Robert Lamberton or Andrew Ford might have offered her much more radical, cogent insight. It is a pity that in an age when we seem to be so enthralled by the classics and especially by Homer's heroes and their stories (the British Museum is preparing a major exhibition on Troy, an impressive number of publishers have launched several series of volumes on how the ancient authors or the experiences of antiquity can change or illuminate your life, politicians of greater or lesser credibility choose to make their bids for popular admiration through classically inspired flourishes and homages), we also seem so very reluctant to be honest about what they actually mean. We speak a great deal about the classics, referencing what we think are familiar topoi, but do we actually read the words themselves? Do we go back to the original stories to test them for their own real value? Or do we rather project upon an unresisting past our own fallible egos, moral and sociocultural failings and fixations?
Helen of Troy by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863. Kunsthalle Hamburg/Wikimedia Commons
More often than not, our familiarity with the classical tradition is second-hand, hearsay, or several times removed, and it seems that Haynes has sadly not been able to resist the temptation of rehashing stereotypes recycled almost beyond recognition. She has the best part of academia against her, as well as fellow writers such as Joyce, Walcott, Yourcenar, Cavafy, Shakespeare, Christa Wolf, Giraudoux, Toni Harrison – the list is rather reassuringly long – who have seen Homer's epics in particular as an incisive anatomy of human nature (both male and female), a scathing analysis of the futility, brutality, insanity of war, the despair and devastation of all who are embroiled in it, a staggering first paradigm of the need to address war-related PTSD syndromes and their effects on society and the human psyche.
Homer's epics are not only among the finest, most vital and gripping examples of poetry humankind has ever produced, they are also treatises on political, social, cultural and ethical education, and they were invariably and crucially seen as such by both their detractors and admirers. More than a blind singer, an entertainer for hire by kings and their court, or a minstrel charming the hearts of the simple folk in the marketplace, Homer is explicitly engaged not only in the politics of his age, but in political theory as a way of forging a human, civic society. Through the discursive analysis of the ethics and cultural requirements of both war and peace, Homer emerges as a legislator in a pre-textual, pre-constitutional world, and as an interpreter of the world of mankind, as well as of the divine cosmos of the gods. He is shrewd, methodical, conscious of the power of the orally transmitted word to create a tradition of humanity. The famous contests with Hesiod were not simply competitions in poetic prowess and virtuosity. They were monumental junctures of human judgement as to the course that society and individuals should choose, as to the types of relationship with the human and the divine, the friend and the foe, with men and women, the material and the natural world, the life of the mind and the life of action – essentially the I and the Thou – that were most desirable and conducive to a sustainable and sustaining state of civilisation. Homer is explicit in his judgement of tyrants, hubristic heroes, flippant gods or goddesses, cheating husbands or philandering wives. The famous shield of Achilles is, arguably, comparable in philosophic poignancy to more analytical essays such as Plato's Republic or Augustine's City of God, Dante's De Monarchia or Machiavelli's The Prince.
Achilles is wrong, humanly flawed throughout, even if his reasons are right. And this is precisely Homer's point. That one cannot fight the aggression against one's own humanity from within the ethical paradigm of war."
Homer is sharp-eyed about the fine line between justified human outrage and blind, unjustifiable, savage fury. Achilles' anger is a flawed reaction to Agamemnon's bullying and abuse of power; the killing and despoiling of Hector is a hubristic, excessive demonstration of pain at the loss of a friend; Hector's own killing of Patroclus was an act of brutal one-upmanship; Achilles is wrong, humanly flawed throughout, even if his reasons are right. And this is precisely Homer's point. That one cannot fight the aggression against one's own humanity from within the ethical paradigm of war. One can fight, like Hector or Odysseus, because one cannot do otherwise, yet war for Homer is without exception wrong, an aberration, a deviation and a crime. This is the cameo that Hephaestus places at the very heart of the extraordinary design of the shield Thetis begs him to forge for her son. Achilles dies not for glory, but because he cannot ignore his duty to a friend. The last conversation with Thetis, the words of Briseis and her dreams of a home in Greece, his definition of her as "that small part of life allotted to me that I love", expose the tragedy, not the vainglory of Achilles, just as Astyanax cringing away from his father still wearing his helmet exposes the tragedy of Hector.
The Iliad's tremendous force comes precisely from Homer's genius in creating a tableau of desperate humanity – through his harrowing descriptions of duels on the battlefield, his choice of damning epithets when it comes to ruthless force, his superbly chosen portraits of rare humanity, fragility and pain. He is the poet not of the Greeks, not of the Trojans, but of a misguided, expiring mankind, insanely set upon its own destruction. The Greeks and the Trojans, in fact, are mirror images to one another, cultures so similar that the very idea of a conflict to death between them only accentuates the utter sense of loss, futility, catastrophe and despair. The war at Troy is not a war between East and West. It is an auto-da-fé, a self-inflicted wound, a motif that runs throughout the poem both symbolically and narratively. The Odyssey is Homer's process of healing. Any of the other warlords who made it home swiftly, directly, unreflectingly, does not fare very happily. From the trance-like aura at Menelaus' house, the mouldy limbo of Nestor's palace or the bloody quagmire of ire and revenge permeating Agamemnon's kingdom, Homer is the first to diagnose the post-war condition of warriors as the symptom of a mental and social disease. Odysseus' peregrinations, for all that they make a very fine, ripping yarn, are in fact stages of humanisation, chambers of decompression and rehabilitation. This is why the place that is everything Odysseus could have wished for, the kingdom of the Phaeacians, will not do; only ragged, beloved, old and insignificant Ithaca will suffice.
Helen of Troy by Frederick Sandys, 1867. Walker Art Gallery/Wikimedia Commons
Homer is particularly keen to showcase what is best in the human psyche in the simplest, most accessible, most vital terms: a caring mother who must watch her son going to his death, friends torn apart by the sense of duty and the feeling of crippling injustice, a fully enfranchised loyal wife who is her husband's equal (and both Greek and Trojan characters fit such descriptions in the two epics), the eradication of separatist, segregationist, polarising differences, as in the meetings between Achilles and Priam, Odysseus and Eumaeus, Athena's intervention that stops the cycle of retribution in favour of dike, reconstruction, rehumanisation (a theme picked up later by the Oresteia). For Homer, the only criterion for belonging to the human category is nobility of the soul, and this is the kleos that ultimately emerges as the truest, most perfect glory.
In her effort to create a Troy narrative for the Everywoman of the 21st century, Haynes misses a tremendous opportunity of fleshing out everything that is already part of Homer's story or of the plays that make up the tragic and epic corpus. Keen to weave together the terrible with the beautiful, in fact and in language, to be a radical, controversial, antipatriarchal female voice, Haynes sadly compromises her integrity as a reader and as a student of the classical tradition as it really was. Perhaps we do need a new history, a new historian of the Trojan cycle, a new epic tradition and literary or cultural lineage. Yet in order for that to be truly original and inspirational, it inevitably has to go back to the origins of narrative and time. Haynes evinces the same shortcomings as Barry Strauss, whose revisionist the Trojan War: A New History (2007) seems to be subtly woven into the backbone of her own story: she settles for a popular angle, tailored and resized to fit extraneous agendas, for rhetorical glamour rather than real, traumatised, devastated voices.
Her female voices, in their effort to be groundbreakers, Boudicas avant la lettre, often sound condescendingly housewifey: Trojan wives mutter, all women are compliant, regurgitating what the 'wiser' males proclaim as the dominant narratives. Their voices reference more village-shop gossip than embody an emerging female conscience, a female soul finally finding the words to say it. In the effort to foreground the women, every sense of broader landscape, perspective, narrative or psychological context almost invariably disappears. Haynes' Greeks are Virgilian: ignoble, primitive, perfidious, and the Trojans are equally anticlimactic: they evince the pettiness of a small-minded, insular, heavily nationalistic bourgeoisie. Descriptions are laboured, florid, intensely rigged towards sensationalism and rather questionable sensuality (one example is the portrayal of Penthesilea, stretching "long limbs" as she wakes up, tying sandal straps "around her finely muscled calves", feeling a tingle of jouissance as the paws of the leopard skin she sports "stroked the front of her thighs as she moved"). A Thousand Ships in this context is part romance, part manifesto – and Haynes lacks Virgil's poetic skill or Ovid's daringly bawdy audacity to endow either with an aesthetic vision or at least with a sense of engaged transcendence – or even transgression.
The end of the Iliad is a dirge for all heroes, against the ravages of war, and the name of the poem is revealing. Not a Greek hero's poem, but a Greek poem about a Trojan city [and] a terrible war."
Homer closed the Iliad with the glorious funeral, not of a Greek hero, but of a Trojan. Achilles does not die in the Iliad, yet he is destroyed. He has lost his best friend, his humanity, the hope of ever returning home with Briseis or even of staying alive. The poem does not even end with a victory for the Greeks or the destruction of Troy. It ends with the starkest, most arresting illustration and dramatisation of the human cost of war, and more importantly for both battling sides. The end of the Iliad is an ode to Hector and the Trojans, a lament for Achilles' lost humanity, a funeral for three heroes, in fact, each the mirror of the others: Patroclus, Hector and Achilles. The end of the Iliad is a dirge for all heroes, against the ravages of war, and the name of the poem is revealing. Not a Greek hero's poem, but a Greek poem about a Trojan city, or, better still, about the topos of a terrible war.
Haynes decides this is a weak, inadequate ending to things. It does not have enough oomph, tit for tat, a meaty settling of scores. Her rewriting resonates with sentiments of resentment, retribution, adversarialism, a feeling of 'long enough' – a familiar topos for classicists, since this is an exact translation of the words iam satis running through Virgil's work – and the Roman precept of bellum iustum. It is this feeling that makes her heroines so unsettling, so problematic both psychologically and contextually. Hecuba is supercilious, antagonistic, dismissive, not only of Helen, but also of Cassandra and Andromache. Penelope is given pride of place as a foil character to Haynes' rather unsavoury Odysseus, a particularly rancorous, bitter wife, a scheming epistolographer, bent upon naming and shaming her husband throughout his long journey of return. The emphasis is always on a wounded ego, a petulant, combative or sulking female caricature, rather than on a devastated human being, and this, again, is a regrettable failing.
It is not a pleasing task to write a critical review, especially when the thematic opportunity, the literary potential might have been so great. Haynes has the ambition to stand as a new voice for the classical world, especially the female world of antiquity. If she can find the discipline, the clarity and the distance to write with true originality, she certainly has the momentum to produce a future work worth much good attention as well as readerly and critical appreciation.
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster and the author of The Children of Jocasta, The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015 she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. A Thousand Ships is published in hardback and audiobook by Mantle.
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Mika Provata-Carlone is an independent scholar, translator, editor and illustrator, and a contributing editor to Bookanista. She has a doctorate from Princeton University and lives and works in London.
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Many plays are mediocre because they use local references as a substitute for a story, but Alan Plater's Close the Coalhouse Door is a shining example of how a "local" play can be done.
If you're wondering why it's taken me so long to review Close the Coalhouse Door, it's because the three-week run at Northern Stage had already sold out when I tried to get a ticket, leaving me to have to wait for its stop at Durham's Gala Theatre on the following tour. Luckily I was early enough this time, because this too sold out. Mass popularity, one can assume, is a surefire sign that the play's going to be good. Or is it? "Local" plays are an easy way of getting bums on seats. I know from painful experience that provided a play includes mentions the Angel of the North, getting cut off by the tide on Holy Island, and the Jarrow march (as opposed to a plot, characterisation or believability), it will probably be a box office smash. Could it be one of those?
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Last week I did something I very rarely do – I submitted a script to another theatre. On a whim, I decided to enter New Writing North's People's Play competition (which is why I was late doing the Brighton Fringe roundup – I was working flat-out polishing up the script I wanted to send). Note my use of the words "rarely" and "on a whim": I usually don't bother with playwriting competitions at all. Same goes for most script calls and theatre reading departments. My reasons are many and varied, which you can read here, but the main one is that unless you are lucky enough to be picked – and let's face it, the maths says it probably won't be you – it's a waste of time. If they don't want your play, it gets binned without any explanation why.
Since I'm already biting the hand that might feed me, I will say this in defence of the People's Theatre: they've got a good reputation for what they produce (and with me active in a fellow Little Theatre Guild venue I could do with building links), they don't try to take ownership of your script, and they don't charge submission fees. It's the last one that I have big problems with, because I am very much opposed on principle to the idea of theatres making money from writers. A "reading fee" of around £30 is not uncommon for playwriting competitions, which, for all I know, could be little more than a glance of page one (and if you win the costs can be even more extortionate, but that's another story). But even with a free competition with no strings attached, it takes time and money to get the play ready, print it, write the covering letter and post it. So usually I'm better off doing it myself.
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This entry was posted on 1 August 2011, in Theatre Reviews and tagged Becky's New Car, Charlie and Benita Staadecker, Circle Theatre, Clare Floyd DeVries, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, robin armstrong, steven dietz, zachary scott theatre. Bookmark the permalink.	Leave a comment
Guest review by Lance Lusk of D Magazine
There's an old saying that goes: "When a woman wants new shoes, she wants a new career. When she wants a new house, she wants a new husband. And when she wants a new car, she wants a new life." Ft. Worth's Circle Theatre spins the new car metaphor about as far as it can chug along in their fits-and-starts production of Steven Dietz's 2008 play Becky's New Car. Director Robin Armstrong makes the most out of this flawed play by eliciting some nifty acting performances, particularly from her leads, and infusing some fine attention to dramatic detail.
The story, more like a sitcom soap opera with a muddled message than a conventional play, follows the first world problems of Becky (Lisa Fairchild, terrific in WaterTower Theatre's recent The Traveling Lady). Married for 28 years with a "content life" and working at a Lexus dealership, she's mother to Chris, a schlumpy, basement-dwelling grad student, and wife to a lovable bear of a blue-collar husband, Joe. She gets the wanderlust itch when she happens upon a wealthy widower, who meanders into the dealership to "buy some cars" as gifts. He fixes his own listless nature upon her as a potential match, under the misapprehension that she has also lost a spouse. Becky expends little energy trying to correct this misconception, and then goes on to embrace her deceitful double life with gusto.
The play's redeeming qualities are its observational, poetic even, head-nodding, familiar truths, and adroit turns of phrase and situation. Where it runs out of gas and encounters problems lies in its 4th wall gimmicks, selfish characters, and the droning schmaltziness of its second half. The audience interaction and participation is sort of cute at first. Then the floodgates of annoying call and response from the crowd open wide, even when inappropriate and not welcome. Offer a beer or soda here, bring folks on stage, give them menial tasks; soon enough you have rampant talking and distracting rustling.
It's a testament to the charms of pixie, Sandy Duncan-esque Lisa Fairchild, who almost creates a sympathetic character out of a woman who hurts and deceives her loved ones out of some unexplained, formless middle class ennui. She does not deserve the attention of her sweet, wisecracking husband, whom she treats as a fool. Mark Fickert summons his inner Roseanne's Dan Connor for this regular Joe six-pack and nearly saves the play with his giant-sized affability. Curtis Raymond Shideler as the "eternal freeloader" of a son, constantly engaging in psychobabble university-speak to diagnosis everything, provides even more comic relief. John S. Davies' sad-eyed Walter the wealthy widower is a little lost from the loss of his wife; yet he is redolent of success and beguiles with a six-figure bolstered calm.
Lisa Fairchild, John S. Davies. Photo by Sharon Ellman
Set design by Clare Floyd DeVries is lovely in a utilitarian way. Sharon Standard's wardrobe, designed by Robin Armstrong, is character perfect and fitted well. There are some satisfying highs and great character work here; however, that little bit of new car smell cannot cover what amounts to a lemon in the end.
Editor's musings: Austin resident Steven Dietz writes of his play in the program to the production he directed at Austin's ZACH Theatre in 2010, "The road to your mind and your funny bone [is] much more treacherous and unpredictable than the road to your sympathetic emotions." A plea for mud and snow tires?
The genesis and subsequent road trip of this play are possibly more intriguing than the work, itself. A Seattle businessman commissioned Steven Dietz to write Becky's New Car as a birthday present for his wife in 2008, requesting only that it "not be too dark." Among those attending Circle Theatre's regional premiere of the play will be that couple, the Staadeckers, Charlie and Benita, who have visited all seventeen of the theaters presenting their commissioned birthday play.
"We've kind of become groupies. We come and see the production and, if asked, we'll speak about the process of commissioning," Benita says. "It [commissioning new works] has expanded our lives," says Charlie. "It's the best return on investment I've ever made." What a keen idea and unusual form of advocacy. Any readers of criticalrant.com got a special date or anniversary coming up that deserves commemoration with an original play? I know some outstanding regional playwrights who would be delighted to oblige….
(Quotes excerpted from Punch Shaw's 7/29/2011 star-telegram.com feature about the Circle Theatre production)
The cast of Becky's New Car also includes Stan Graner, Fritz Ketchum, and Meg Shideler.
Circle Theatre's production runs through August 27th
Tickets: 817.877.3040 www.CircleTheatre.com
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