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Here's What Happens When You Mix Weed & Coffee
When you need to wake up, but also chill out.
by Marissa Higgins, Jay Polish and JR Thorpe
Originally Published: Feb. 18, 2016
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It's a laid-back Saturday, and you want something extra to go with your coffee and 5th rewatch of Shadow & Bone. If you're lucky enough to live in one of the 16 states (plus Washington, D.C.) that have legalized recreational cannabis, you may want to add a bit of a relaxing vibe to your morning buzz. But before you unearth that edible from the back of the cabinet, you might be wondering if it's even safe to combine weed and coffee.
"THC and caffeine are two of the most widely used psychotropic chemicals in the world, and they also both have a very long history of use by humans," says Rubin Torf, co-founder and president of Scientia Labs, a CBD producer, and Canapa, Scientia's lifestyle brand. "Caffeine in the brain results in reduced drowsiness or fatigue and improves reaction time," he tells Bustle. "THC results in a range of physiological changes and psychoactivity."
Everyone's body reacts differently to substances, of course, but in general, there are some norms to expect. "Caffeine use tends to energize most people," says Dr. Gary Starr, M.D., medical director of FOCUS, an international non-profit working toward developing cannabis quality management standards. "The effects of marijuana can vary, but many people use it to feel more relaxed."
Some of those varying effects from pot include short-term memory loss, while caffeine is associated with the opposite (sharpening your brain in the moment). Even though those effects seem to combat each other, Torf tells Bustle that the chemicals don't necessarily cancel each other out. Taken together, he says, "you're still going to have short-term memory problems from THC, and still feel awake from caffeine."
If having pot and coffee at the same time doesn't bring you to a limbo space between hyper-alert and hyper-chill, then what does the combo do? The next time you want to spend an afternoon kicking back with a joint in one hand and a cup of joe in the other, there are a few things you should know about how caffeine and weed do interact.
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Caffeine May Increase Weed-Linked Memory Loss
It might seem logical to try and mix pot with caffeine to counteract THC effects like memory loss, since you know coffee can make you more alert. However, "a combination of caffeine and THC may adversely affect memory," Dr. Starr tells Bustle. "Some research shows that caffeine and low doses of THC seemed to impair working memory more than THC would on its own."
Some of this research was published in 2012 in the British Journal of Pharmacology. The study found that combining coffee and weed can worsen memory problems. Though researchers focused on brain chemistry in rats, they speculated that the memory loss associated with pot might be especially dangerous when young people (whose brains are still forming) drink coffee and light up at the same time.
Low Levels Of Caffeine Might Prolong Your High
In a 2011 study conducted on monkeys and published in the journal Addiction Biology, scientists gave subjects a small amount (just 1 mg) of caffeine. Then, they gave them unlimited access to weed. Yes, in the name of scientific discovery, small monkeys were self-administering cannabis at will (via a lever, because they're monkeys). When the critters were given the low amount of caffeine, though, they were less likely go for the weed.
This may well result from the fact that just a little bit of coffee can make a small amount of pot go a longer way. "Low levels of caffeine may enhance the high and result in the need to use less marijuana to achieve the same result," Dr. Starr tells Bustle.
Lots Of Caffeine Can Block Weed's Effects
"Consuming the two substances together may produce different results than when each substance is consumed individually," Dr. Seema Sarin M.D., head of lifestyle medicine at EHE Health, tells Bustle. A 2014 study in squirrel monkeys published in the Journal of Neuroscience, she says, shows that combining coffee and weed can actually bring down your high.
The monkeys were given THC, then a hit of a substance that works a lot like caffeine. When they got low doses of the caffeine substitute, the monkeys reached for less weed — but with high doses, they wanted more THC. While a small amount of caffeine may increase your high, a bunch of cold brew might blunt it (pun intended) and make it less effective.
This could happen in humans, too. In a 2018 study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, researchers at Northwestern Medicine found that when you drink a lot of coffee (we're talking four to eight cups a day), the level of neurotransmitters in your endocannabinoid system decreases — meaning, more coffee makes your brain do the opposite of what it does when you're high. However, study participants were only drinking coffee (as opposed to having caffeine and weed together), so everything that happens chemically to human brains when the two interact has yet to be studied in detail.
Weed & Coffee Both Give Us Euphoria
A 2017 study published in the journal Annals of Neuroscience found that both caffeine and cannabis increase levels of dopamine (the happiness hormone) in the brain. On their own, both weed and coffee give you this euphoric boost, but the study concluded that the effects magnify when you combine the drink and the plant. "Since both chemicals increase dopamine levels, but through different mechanisms, the combined effect is an increased sense of euphoria," Torf tells Bustle.
Cannabis Might Reduce Caffeine Jitters
There's some evidence in animal studies that cannabidiol, or CBD, an active compound in cannabis, might help with jittery feelings after a large iced coffee. Caffeine in high doses can produce what's called locomotor sensitivity, or a high level of movement and alertness. A study published in Neurotoxicity Reports in 2020 found that when mice were given a combination of caffeine and cocaine (which also makes people jittery), their locomotor sensitivity spiked — but when a few rats were then given a dose of CBD, they calmed down and moved more slowly.
Both Pot & Coffee Can Increase Your Heart Rate
Before you leap into the dopamine-induced euphoria that can you can get from a coffee pot, make sure you've talked to your doctor about your heart health. "Both marijuana and caffeine are known to cause tachycardia — or an increased heart rate. In people with underlying heart disease or problems with heart arrhythmias, consuming marijuana and caffeine — together or separately — could potentially put them at risk for heart complications," Dr. Starr tells Bustle.
As with anything cannabis-related, there needs to be more research about how weed and caffeine interact, so be cautious. "It's important to create your own dosing plan which works for your unique body and lifestyle," says Valerie Sakota, co-founder of cannabis startup Babari. "If you're new to testing out THC and caffeine, we recommend taking it for a spin on a morning when you've got a productivity goal but no meetings or deadlines. Start with a small dose — a few puffs of a joint or pipe, or a 2.5 mg of a tincture or edible with your morning joe." Then, take the next few hours to be extra mindful of how you feel.
Readers should note that laws governing cannabis, hemp and CBD are evolving, as is information about the efficacy and safety of those substances. As such, the information contained in this post should not be construed as legal or medical advice. Always consult your physician prior to trying any substance or supplement.
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Justinová, Z., Redhi, G. H., Goldberg, S. R., & Ferré, S. (2014). Differential effects of presynaptic versus postsynaptic adenosine A2A receptor blockade on Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) self-administration in squirrel monkeys. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 34(19), 6480–6484. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5073-13.2014
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Prieto, J.P., López Hill, X., Urbanavicius, J. et al. Cannabidiol Prevents the Expression of the Locomotor Sensitization and the Metabolic Changes in the Nucleus Accumbens and Prefrontal Cortex Elicited by the Combined Administration of Cocaine and Caffeine in Rats. Neurotox Res38, 478–486 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12640-020-00218-9
Ren, M., Tang, Z., Wu, X., Spengler, R., Jiang, H., Yang, Y., & Boivin, N. (2019). The origins of cannabis smoking: Chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs. Science advances, 5(6), eaaw1391. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw1391
Rubin Torf, co-founder and president of Scientia Labs and Canapa
Dr. Seema Sarin M.D., head of lifestyle medicine, EHE Health
Dr. Gary Starr, MD, medical director of FOCUS
Valerie Sakota, co-founder of Babari
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Now that Thanksgiving is over and the holidays are in full swing, let's continue exploring Holiday Time at the Disneyland Resort by taking 187 steps across the esplanade over to Disney California Adventure (yes I have actually counted). You can see my first article about all the holiday fun over at Disneyland park here: Christmas at Disneyland. Although Disneyland park is my first love, I have made room in my heart for Disney California Adventure, especially during the holiday season. Most of the holiday events at Disneyland will last through January 6, 2016 and here are some of my favorite, not to be missed holiday extras at Disney California Adventure park.
While strolling along Beuna Vista Street, if you hear ringing in your ears, don't worry, follow the sounds and they will lead you to the Buena Vista Street Community Bell Ringers. Throughout the day they perform holiday favorites accompanied only by their hand bells.
Every evening, the citizens of Buena Vista Street gather together to celebrate the season with the lighting of their towering Christmas tree. The new California Adventure winter tradition creates a heartfelt tribute by nightly ringing in the season surrounded by all sights and sounds of the holiday.
The Man in Red likes to "travel" between the two parks this holiday season. This means that not only can you visit him in Critter Country at Disneyland, you can find out if you are on the nice list by visiting him at Elias and Co. on Buena Vista Street. The setting is reminiscent of classic department store Santas; think Miracle on 34th Street. The elves are happy and bouncy and add even more magic to the experience. Santa likes to really visit with each guest, so the line can get long, make sure to wear your wear your holiday best and see him early in the day.
Starting after Thanksgiving California Adventure sells very special handmade candy canes. They are only available on certain days and they make a limited amount. You will need a wrist band that you can collect at Trolley Treats in order to purchase the candy canes later on in the day when they are ready.
Although the entire Disneyland resort is decked out in its holiday best, nothing compares to the holiday decorations in Cars Land. All of the decorations are automotive themed: Christmas trees made from oil cans, garlands made with air filters and snowflakes made out of wrenches to name just a few. The daily Lighting of Cars Land when the town's neon is showcased is made extra magical with all the added holiday lights. Even if you bypass the rides in Cars Land, take a detour and cruse Route 66 in Radiator Springs.
In the tradition of the recently closed Big Thunder Ranch Holiday Jamboree, California Adventure celebrates the holidays with ¡Viva Navidad! a Latin themed holiday event with crafts, a street parade, musicians and a special character meet and greet.
The ¡Viva Navidad! Street Party is hosted by the Three Cabiaros. The trio is joined by Mexican and Brazilian musicians and dancers wearing traditional costumes of their representative countries. Mickey and Minnine make a special appearance and 15ft tall mojiganga dolls, these giant paper mache dolls wiz around and through the party. The street party occurs hourly throughout the day and is located in front of Pardise Gardens. The best place to watch the party is in front of the Jumping JellyFish ride.
¡Viva Navidad! character meet and greet rotates between Mickey and Minnie, Goofy, and the Three Cabiaros. All of the characters are dressed in their Navidad best. If you are lucky and patient enough to keep getting back in line, it is possible to get pictures with all of them.
¡Viva Navidad! also provides an area where guests of all ages can create a holiday craft. This year the project is a hanging paper lantern that can be decorated and taken home as a free holiday souvenir.
Holiday treats and menu items are everywhere in the restaurants and shops of California Adventure, but the most exciting holiday edibles are over at the Paradise Garden Grill. During Holiday Time the regular Mediterranean menu is replaced by Latino holiday favorites. The ¡Viva Navidad! menu includes Mexican Hot Chocolate with masa, dessert tamales and chicken mole. While you enjoy your holiday edibles you can listen to live music at the Paradise Gardens Bandstand.
During Holiday Time in California Adventure, Disney offers a special winter version of World of Color. The night time spectacular water and light show features the spirit of the season with different beloved Disney characters; old and new. There is a special appearance by the warm hug loving snowman Olaf and Elsa creates some winter magic by conjuring snow in Southern California. If you were looking forward to seeing the Diamond Celebration World of Color, "Celebrate! The Wonderful World of Disney", fear not. Both versions are presented nightly with Winter Dreams first on the program and Celebrate! as the last attraction of the evening.
As soon as you step inside the lobby of the Grand Californian Hotel, you are surrounded by the holiday spirit. In the center of the lobby stands the majestic Christmas tree that looks like it nearly reaches the top of the rafters. The piano player "twinkles" the ivories with traditional holiday tunes. But, the most impressive sight is the life-size gingerbread house which you can watch being assembled by the talented culinary artists of the Grand Californian. When finished, it will have over 500 lbs of ginger bread and 60 gallons of frosting and look good enough to eat!
If you suddenly get a craving for gingerbread, don't try to sneak a snack from the sweet structure. There is a stand just a few feet away that sells holiday refreshments such as cider, hot chocolate and even shingles of gingerbread. Even if you are not staying at the stately hotel, stop in for a drink, a snack and bask in the holiday.
I cannot wait to get back to California Adventure with my family in tow next week to enjoy all the added special holiday fun that Disney has provided. Hope to see you all there, I will be the one with the gingerbread shingle in one hand and Mexican hot chocolate in the other!
Heather grew up with Disneyland in her backyard. Throughout her childhood, it was her happy place. Even after she moved away from Southern California twenty years ago she, has returned to visit Disneyland over 75 times. Her love of Disneyland encouraged her to finally visit Disney World with her children and she fell in love all over again. Disney World led to a Disney Cruise and Heather has never looked back. Let Heather help you plan your magical Disney Vacation and she can help make your Disney dreams come true.


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There's no such thing as a bad backcountry sunset, but when the soft light turns the rock an otherworldly shade of burnt sienna, that's the best kind. Hikers—especially those with a penchant for photography—will find that at 12-acre Priord, where a wall of sheer, striated peaks ring its milky-green water on one end, and the other end looks downcanyon to the High Uintas. If you're more interested in climbing mountains than snapping photos of them, then you'll have your work cut out for you, as most of the surrounding peaks—Priord, Lamotte, and Yard—are accessible only by faint sheep trails and off-trail scrambling. For the most adventurous side trip, Nick Woolley, founder of Backcountrypost.com, recommends the 4-mile boulder-hop to Allsop Lake. "It requires advanced nav skills, but the difficulty is part of the reward," he says. Take the rough, 10-mile Priord Trail to get to Priord. If the weather turns, find more sheltered sites at nearby Norice Lake, below treeline.


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Battle At Sea
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From Man-of-War to Submarine
In Battle at Sea, Sir John Keegan applies to maritime warfare the technique that he put to such brilliant effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. He concentrates on four key conflicts: Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He takes us into the very heart of the fighting while providing a remarkable panoramic view of naval warfare through the centuries.
"Rich in unexpected facts and insights...Keegan's historical command is dazzling"
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"A masterly study"
"Among Britain's distinguished group of military historians... John Keegan is outstanding"
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Warpaths
The Face Of Battle
The First World War
The Price Of Admiralty
The Battle For History
The Frank Family That Survived
Gordon F Sander
Intelligence In War
A History Of Warfare
Six Armies In Normandy
The Mask of Command
H Jones VC
John Wilsey
War And Our World
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.

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es una miniserie en formato OVA de 1998 creada por Ouji Hiroi (de Sakura Wars) y Yasuhiro Imagawa, producida por AIC y Beam Entertainment. Un videojuego a modo de secuela fue lanzado para la consola PlayStation en 1999.

Argumento
En Japón, una serie de chicas poseen un poder especial conocido como poder virginal. Las jóvenes que pudieron obtener buen control del mismo han sido vistas exhibiendo habilidades telekinéticas muy poderosas que destruyeron grandes objetos y ganaron una guerra. 15 años después del cese de fuego, ha aparecido un nuevo brote de la misma. Sin desperdiciarlo, se enlista a todas las chicas en una academia naval especial que forme parte de la élite Virgin Fleet. Como requisito indispensable, las mismas deben ser vírgenes.

La trama se centra en Shiozake Umino, quien se debate entre el amor a su novio o su fidelidad al Virgin Fleet.

Personajes

Voces: Sumi Shimamoto - Mónica Villaseñor (Doblaje México)

Voces: Kousuke Okano - Emmanuel Rivas (Doblaje México)

Voces: Satsuki Yukino - Gaby Beltrán (Doblaje México)

Voces: Chinami Nishimura - Isabel Martiñón (Doblaje México)

Voces: Gara Takashima - Teresa Ibarrola (Doblaje México)

Voces: Tatsuyuki Jinnai - Ismael Castro (Doblaje México)

Voces: Norio Wakamoto - Paco Mauri (Doblaje México)

Voces: Mami Koyama - Maru Guerrero (Doblaje México)

Voces: Kazue Komiya - Anabel Méndez (Doblaje México)

Voces: Mari Yokoo - Alejandra de la Rosa (Doblaje México)

Voces: Mariko Kouda - Love Santini (Doblaje México)

Voces: Ai Satō - María Fernanda Morales (Doblaje México)

Voces: Kappei Yamaguchi - Carlos Hernández (Doblaje México)

Anime
Los OVAs consistieron en tres episodios lanzados del 25 de abril al 25 de octubre de 1998, y fueron puestos en venta en VHS, Laserdisc y DVD por Beam Entertainment. En América Latina fueron estrenados por las pantallas del canal Locomotion en el año 2000, con doblaje al español hecho en México.

Música
Opening:
 Aitsu por Sumi Shimamoto.

Ending:
 Virgin Fleet Go! Go! por Sumi Shimamoto, Satsuki Yukino, Chinami Nishimura.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Wikidoblaje
 animenewsnetwork

Anime de 1996
OVA
Anime y manga de ciencia ficción
Anime con guion original
Ucronía en los videojuegos

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A former photo assistant and friend of mine, now on her own, just asked me to help her devise a strategy for her to incorporate stock photography in to her new and growing business. I know she is quite adept at the technical end of photography, has good ideas, thinks conceptually, and knows how to use Photoshop.
My advice to her is to shoot for her book (in the world of professional photography your "book" is your portfolio). When I first started out around thirty years ago my mentor at that time told me "always keep shooting for your book". That advice is as sound today as it was then. You can push your own work further than you can when you are constrained by the limits of an assignment (OK, that may not be true on some rare assignments…but for the most part it is true). You can shoot the kind of work you want to get, the kind of work that speaks to your passion. The work you shoot for your self can be a much more accurate expression of who you are as an artist, and where you want to go.
As I said, my advice to her is to shoot for her book, and make each shot a masterpiece for stock as well. Particularly when shooting for RM nothing is out of bounds. I remember long ago shooting an image for my own book, back when I actually did assignment work. I photographed a man with a shaved head, turned him blue and had flames coming from his head. I sat on that image for quite some time before sending it to a stock agency. "Who the heck could use that for what?" was my reasoning. But eventually I did send the image to Getty, who promptly rejected it. So I sent it, dubiously, to an agency then known as The Stock Market (later bought by Corbis). They ran the image as the cover of their primary catalog. The first sale that image made was for $17,000.00, and it has sold many times since then. That was a lesson for me, and can be one for you too. Shoot for your book, and make the image available as stock, whether through an agency or through your own site. I can think of no down side to making great images available for stock.
When you are shooting for yourself you are quite likely to come up with a much stronger image than when you start trying to create something that will sell. If you succeed in making a truly arresting photograph, then the creativity of the art directors, art buyers, or editors that see the image will allow them to find ways to use that photo in the service of their client's products and services. You will get more exposure and possibly a nice chunk of change too.


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Texas Standard for November 25, 2021
Amid an ongoing pandemic, partisan divides and more, what's there to be thankful for? Quite a lot, actually. In the run-up to this national holiday we asked our producers to reflect on some of the stories we've shared with you that they're thankful for. From a telehealth program tackling opioid addiction to wildlife along the coastal plains, a Texas musical treasure, and life after prison and the redemptive power of family love, there's much to be thankful for this year, and we're grateful you can join us for this special edition of the Texas Standard:
By Texas StandardNovember 25, 2021 10:00 amTexas Standard Original, Whole Shows
Illustration by Wells Dunbar and David Fried/Texas Standard
Telehealth program tackling opioid addiction
After years of reductions in opioid overdose deaths, numbers are back up again. Particularly hard hit are poor and rural areas that have seen hospital closures and dwindling healthcare access. But an initiative from Texas A&M University aims to better equip doctors and mental health providers to deal with opioid use in their communities. The Standard's Alexandra Hart has the story.
Sisters in Fire
Keeping wildfires at bay is an important and demanding job. But it's a field mostly made up of men. The Texas Standard's Jill Ament joined a group of teenage girls at a weekend program aimed at changing that.
Attwater's prairie chickens and whooping cranes
Texas Standard reporter Michael Marks takes us to the coastal plains of Southeast Texas to celebrate a milestone in the recovery of some endangered birds.
Brother and sister on life after prison
Jennifer and Marshall Byers share their story about life after prison and the redemptive power of family love.
'Truly Texas Mexican' documentary
Mexican food from Texas is a staple of the state's cuisine — but it's not "Tex-Mex". In fact, a documentary looks to trace back the food and the community through the people fighting to keep traditions of their ancestors. It's called "Truly Texas Mexican" and it's based on the book by chef Adán Medrano. He spoke with Texas Standard host David Brown.
Transgender bills in Texas Legislature
As we looked back upon a year of journalism, one thing we were decidedly thankful for was the opportunity to share listener stories. A Central Texas mom contacted us as the Texas legislature considered a bill that defined gender-affirming treatments for transgender kids as child abuse. The bill did not pass. But another – defining which public school sports teams transgender youth can play on – did pass. Back in May, we spoke to Miriam and her teenage daughter "D" about their experiences.
Nanci Griffith remembrance
The death of singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith is not something we welcomed back in August. But we were grateful to remember her music. As the Standard's Shelly Brisbin reports, Griffith combined a delicate, winsome stage presence with a fierce dedication to songwriting..
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Cliona Christle and David Widger lead the team at A&L Goodbody; clients range from hospitals and clinicians to large listed corporations and emergent biopharmaceutical companies. Christle leads the healthcare side of the practice; she is acting for Baxter in a product liability claim relating to the swine flu vaccination. In the life sciences sector, Widger, Ronan Lyons and New York-based Alan Casey were active in M&A transactions and corporate restructurings, advising Prothena Corporation on an innovative collaboration agreement with Celgene and Nabriva Therapeutics on its redomiciliation from Austria to Ireland.
The team at Byrne Wallace is noted for 'its superior level of knowledge, appreciation and understanding of the pharmaceutical industry'. Colin Sainsbury, who is able to 'sort through the complexities of cross-border transactions and to navigate the nuances of Irish corporate law', leads the life sciences side of the practice; he recently advised Amryt Pharma on an in-licence agreement for novel gene therapy treatment from University College Dublin. Newly promoted partner Brendan Gavin and 'stand-out' senior associate Catherine Dowling are also noted. On the healthcare side, Sinead Kearney ('a true innovator and very effective advocate'); Olive Doyle ('a thoughtful, expert practitioner'); and Marie Kinsella are key contacts.
Mason Hayes & Curran's team is 'direct, knowledgeable, flexible and can always be relied on'. On the healthcare side, Kevin Power handles high-profile clinical negligence litigation; he also represented Allergan in product liability litigation. Martin Kelleher leads the life sciences practice; his recent highlights include advising Sam McCauley Chemists on the sale of the company and its 32 subsidiaries. The 'responsive and helpful' David Mangan, who acted for KCK in Mainstay Medical's 2018 placing, and senior associate Conall Geraghty ('excellent at handling difficult negotiations') are also noted.
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Tacitus suggests that even Nero knows deep down that the people don't believe he chose to stay in Rome for patriotic reasons, and feels the need to win the people's belief in his claims (fidem adquireret). The claim is made implausible, not just by his need to prove it but by the exaggerated nature of it. Nero's use of public places for his own private purposes is ominous and foreshadows the fact that eventually, after the Great Fire, Nero will build himself an enormous mansion in the centre of the city, the so-called Domus Aurea ('Golden House'). The emphatic position of publicis, and the arresting hyperbole of tota urbe (the whole city) being used like a private home (quasi domo) underline Nero's abuse of Rome's communal areas. The domus is the essence of private life, so domo is set in stark contrast to publicis locis to further stress the emperor's usurpation of Rome for his own personal uses. Tacitus' narrative then takes a subtle turn, gliding from a banquet staged with a specific rationale to a more general description of how Nero and his entourage carried on. He picks out the most notorious banquet (organized by Tigellinus, a freedman and Nero's Praetorian Prefect) as an illustrative example of the public debauchery rampant in Nero's Rome. Throughout the passage, Tacitus uses rare or unusual words or phrases to enhance the sense of exotic extravagance: see prodigentia (37.1), superpositum (37.2), tractu (37.2), abusque (37.2), crepidinibus (37.3), lupanaria (37.3), obsceni (37.3), and tenebrae incedebant (37.3). Cassius Dio, too, has a detailed description of the event (62.15):
To such lengths did Nero's licence go that he actually drove chariots in public. And on one occasion after exhibiting a wild-beast hunt he immediately piped water into the theatre and produced a sea-fight; then he let the water out again and arranged a gladiatorial combat. Last of all, he flooded the place once more and gave a costly public banquet. 2 Tigellinus had been appointed director of the banquet and everything had been provided on a lavish scale. The arrangements made were as follows. In the centre of the lake there had first been lowered the great wooden casks used for holding wine, and on top of these, planks had been fastened, 3 while round about this platform taverns and booths had been erected. Thus Nero and Tigellinus and their fellow-banqueters occupied the centre, where they held their feast on purple rugs and soft cushions, while all the rest made merry in the taverns. 4 They would also enter the brothels and without let or hindrance have intercourse with any of the women who were seated there, among whom were the most beautiful and distinguished in the city, both slaves and free, courtesans and virgins and married women; and these were not merely of the common people but also of the very noblest families, both girls and grown women. 5 Every man had the privilege of enjoying whichever one he wished, as the women were not allowed to refuse anyone. Consequently, indiscriminate rabble as the throng was, they not only drank greedily but also wantoned riotously; and now a slave would debauch his mistress in the presence of his master, and now a gladiator would debauch a girl of noble family before the eyes of her father. 6 The pushing and fighting and general uproar that took place, both on the part of those who were actually going in and on the part of those who were standing around outside, were disgraceful. Many men met their death in these encounters, and many women, too, some of the latter being suffocated and some being seized and carried off.
What makes Tacitus' handling of this incident special, however, is the way in which he links the orgy Nero celebrates at Rome to his abandoned plan to tour Egypt and the East. As Tony Woodman has shown in his seminal article 'Nero's Alien Capital: Tacitus as Paradoxographer (Annals 15. 36–7)', Tacitus suggests throughout this paragraph that Nero has managed to turn Rome into Alexandria, a cesspool of vice and sexual license.1 By suggestively juxtaposing his report of Nero's desire to go East and the account of an 'eastern' orgy celebrated by the emperor in Rome, Tacitus subliminally turns Nero into a foreign pervert, who subverts Roman standards of civilization. Put differently, 'he others the emperor', drawing on the prejudices about oriental cultures (and in particular Egypt) that circulated in Rome. The centre that ought to hold the empire together thus emerges as alien and rotten at its core. (The practice of suggestive juxtaposition continues in the following paragraph, where Tacitus begins his account of the great fire of Rome; in other words, he goes from moral to physical chaos, from the metaphorical to the literal ruin of the capital under Nero. The sequence strongly suggests a 'post hoc ergo propter hoc', i.e. that the fire not only followed after Nero's debauchery but somehow resulted from it.)
With ipse, Tacitus introduces a shift in focus. So far, he has adopted a panoramic survey approach towards recording what happened at the party; now he zooms in on the emperor. After conveying a general sense of the proceedings, we get a detailed, close-up look at what Nero himself got up to. Apparently, the emperor indulged his depraved appetites without inhibition at the party, a factoid that Tacitus uses as a foil for something even more obscene, an account of his mock-marriage to Pythagoras. Nero's erotic license also attracted the attention of other writers. Suetonius, for instance, devotes two full chapters of his biography to the sexual transgressions of the emperor (28–29), including the tid-bit that Nero, when his aptly named freedman Doryphorus (Greek for the 'Spear-bearer' – Suetonius' equivalent to Tacitus' Pythagoras), 'finished him off' on his 'wedding night' went so far as 'to imitate the cries and lamentations of a maiden being deflowered.' Tacitus' reticence contrasts (favourably?) with the sensationalist gusto of the biographer who lovingly dwells on each unsavoury detail. Whereas Nero (and his biographers) glory in letting it all hang out, Tacitus abides by the principle, enshrined in his own name [Tacitus ~ tacitus = the perfect passive participle of taceo, 'I make no utterance, am silent, say nothing'], that some stuff is best shrouded in the veils of narrative obscurity. Put differently, Suetonius strips, Tacitus teases.2


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Acclaimed writer Joyce Branagh pens this year's pantomime
Acclaimed writer Joyce Branagh has lovingly crafted the original script for this year's South Hill Park pantomime Dick Whittington and His Cat (Fri 30 Nov 2018 – Sat 5 Jan 2019).
Sister of South Hill Park's patron, Kenneth Branagh, Joyce can trace back South Hill Park's impact on her to the start of her career:
"I directed one of my first ever productions in South Hill Park's Studio Theatre – Lettice and Lovage, over 20 years ago – so I've got a soft spot for South Hill Park. I'm so excited to be writing the pantomime – I'm from Reading and it feels like I'm writing for 'home' and my friends and family can come and see it."
Joyce explains why she can't wait to get started on this project:
"I really love pantomime. I've directed ten pantos, performed in two, and written three, as well as co-writing a book about pantomime. It's not quite an obsession… but I really enjoy the daftness, the jokes, the glitter, the songs, the outrageous costumes and the interaction with the audience. I love the fact that if you get it right, it really is a proper family show – everyone from kids to grannies get to let their hair down and be silly. There's nothing better than seeing a whole theatre full of people belly laugh, or hear them shouting out 'he's behind you' at the top of their lungs. It's hard to explain to people who've never been, but the whole thing becomes infectious, and you somehow find yourself joining in when you had absolutely no intention of doing so. It's just a great big shiny escape from the real world for a couple of hours, and we all need that sometimes, don't we?"
Dick Whittington And His Cat will your warm heart with laughter and whisk you away to a magical world, filled with songs, dancing and storytelling like no other.
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Joyce is a Writer, Director, and Actor. As a writer, her work includes the plays: Sheepish, Peggy and the Spaceman, and Shame The Devil (24:7 Theatre Festival, Manchester); For The Record (Forest Forge Theatre Co); Dick Whittington and his Cat and Jack and the Beanstalk, (Watford Palace Theatre); and Boomtown Gals (Oldham Coliseum & tour). She has co-written a book with Keith Orton: 'Creating Pantomime'. This Christmas she will be directing Aladdin for the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield. For more information about Joyce, please visit her website www.joycebranagh.co.uk.
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It is amazing for me to see grassroots community institutions like the Washington Peace Center not only survive – but thrive for 50 years! WPC holds a special place in my heart. I served as a coordinator there from 1987-1994 when I left to join the labor movement. I learned so much here about building organization, coalitions and movement building as we worked to build an anti-racist, multi-cultural organization in the Nation's Capitol. I am so proud of the Washington Peace Center and it's terrific staff including Sonia Silbert and Dany Sigwalt! It was wonderful to see so many old friends and new singing, eating, sharing stories and dancing the night away. Here are links to photos and the new WPC 50th Anniversary Video just released!


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Government-authorized agents from the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, which investigates technology-related disputes or crime, in April used the warrant to enter and search the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen after the technology website published stories about a yet-to-be-released iPhone model, which was purchased without Apple's knowledge from another individual. The government was reportedly considering whether to file criminal charges in connection with the site's purchase of a lost iPhone and there was some dispute as to whether the phone had been stolen or lost by an Apple employee.
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So, what's happening in Vis and Croatia?
It goes without saying that we simply love our little island of Vis and Croatia, so every time something cool, new, interesting or special happens we're glued to the screen, reading all about it!
2017 was pretty great and 2018 seem to be starting just as awesome, so we've put together a short info-guide of the most talked happenings and events in Vis and the area!
September and October were beyond exciting on the island of Vis. Why do you ask? Because it served as a set of the Mamma Mia 2 movie. Yes, the tourists and locals were curiously following the production, the movie stars and everything related, but being relaxed and chill place Vis was just perfect for all the A-listers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried and more) without too much fuss, hassle or attention. Well, maybe just Pierce Brosnan had to pose for a few photos, but he totally enjoyed his time strolling in the town, exploring the nature, beaches, and the food!
Mamma Mia 2 filmed on the island of Vis for 24 days, with more than 270 Croatian film professionals and extras engaged.
The Mammia Mia 2 trailer was released not long after the production wrapped and here's a trailer for yall's pleasure!
Some more great news for Vis came this December – Vis archipelago was nominated for UNESCO Geopark Status! In our humble opinion, it deserves this honor and we're keeping the fingers crossed.
The area of the Vis archipelago covers the islands of Jabuka, Brusnik, Biševo, and Palagruža as the geologically oldest island of the Adriatic, which (just as Brusnik) is constantly growing under the influence of tectonic activity.
The archipelago also has great biodiversity and landscape diversity, rich cultural and historical heritage, and valuable geological and geomorphological heritage.
We will need to wait until spring 2019 to find out whether the UNESCO Geopark status will be granted for our beautiful island!
Some of our team members are crazy sports fans (we're looking at you, Mario), but so are majority Croatians and all of them are putting a lot of attention and hope for the National Handball team in the 2018 EURO Handball championship held in Croatia this January.
The matches are hosted in the cities of Zagreb, Split, Varaždin, and Poreč.
Make sure you follow Croatia's attempt to reach or even top the 2016 championship's bronze medals! We surely will.
Recently Croatia had the most exposure for being a shooting place of the cult TV series "Game of Thrones". Guess what, the production of the final 8th season is coming back to Dubrovnik in 2018 – the team and some of the cast will be in Dubrovnik in February to shoot the last scenes. For those who are not following the show (why? why?) It has been a location for King's Landing since season 2.
It is announced that 244,415 tourists visited Dubrovnik between 2012 and 2015 due to Game of Thrones and have spent 126 million euros.
If only we didn't have to wait until 2019 to see how the amazing show ends…Sniff..
Dubrovnik has become a beloved film location ever since, serving as a setting for such movies as Star Wars: the last Jedi, the upcoming Robin Hood and James Bond movies.


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Francuska akademija (fra.: Académie française) je znanstvena ustanova u Francuskoj koju je 1635. osnovao kardinal Richelieu, sa zadatkom promicanja i njegovanja francuske literature i francuskog jezika, a on sam je djelovao kao mecena.

Kralj Luj XIV. je postao zaštitnik akademije 1672. poslije čega je akademijom sve više upravljao kralj. U svezi s francuskom revolucijom 1793. ukinuta je kraljevska akademija, ali nekoliko godina poslije dolazi do osnivanja
Institut de France s kojim Francuska akademija nastavlja svoju djelatnost.

U glavne zadatke Akademije spada izdavanje Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, rječnika francuskog jezika, kao i dodjela nagrada i priznanja. Najznačajnija nagrada je Grand Prix de la francophonie, utemljena 1986., Grand prix de littérature (nagrada za beletristiku), Grand Prix du roman (za romane), Grand Prix de poésie (za poeziju), Grand Prix de philosophie (za doktorske disertacije), i Grand Prix Gobert (za radove o francuskoj povijesti).

Francuska akademija broji 40 članova, a vodi je jedan sekretar koji u principu ima duži mandat. Od 1999. ovu dužnost obnaša Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
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Ptychadena pumilio és una espècie de granota que viu al centre d'Àfrica. La seva extensió geogràfica fa que es consideri una espècie no amenaçada. Habita als boscos, sabanes, coves, estanys i ribes dels rius on s'alimenta de petites aranyes i insectes.

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Springer published the book "Antarctic Peninsula Region of the Southern Ocean"
The Springer publishing house issued the book "Antarctic Peninsula Region of the Southern Ocean" Oceanography and Ecology, the editors of the book are employees of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny G. Morozov, Mikhail…
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The 60th expedition (2nd stage) of the RV Akademik Ioffe
The 2nd stage of the 60th voyage of the RV Akademik Ioffe to the tropical Atlantic continues. The scientific program of the expedition includes conducting geological, geophysical, hydrophysical and hydrochemical studies of deep and near-bottom circulation and its impact on…
New Year's issue of Nature Geoscience published an article "Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates"
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An exhibition "Outpost of Russian Oceanology. To the 75th anniversary of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences" will be held in the RAS Archive at st. Novocheremushkinskaya, 34 from December 15, 2021 to January 15, 2022.
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The 48th scientific cruise of the RV Akademik Boris Petrov was carried out from October 29 to November 12, 2021 (15 days) in the territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone of the Russian Federation in the southeastern part of…
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Here's a way to ruin your afternoon: Think back to your childhood. Pick your favourite beloved cartoon. Look it up on YouTube. Weep.
It's just the way of the world that things aren't as good as we remember - especially when you originally became a fan before you had the experience, awareness, critical abilities or guts to decide if a Thing was good in the first place.
Duck Tales is a good example. Though before descending into a nostalgia-shredding Bonfire Of The Childhood Vanities, let's first say that there is the core of a decent game here.
The game is essentially a platform adventure of the old school, filled with unpredictable and mobile enemies, varied backdrops and settings and a brutal difficulty level. Scrooge McDuck is on a journey across the globe - and up to the Moon - to find buried treasure, with the help of some ker-azy characters and his walking stick, on which he can pogo and attack enemies.
And if you loved the original game, it's hard to see how you could find fault with it. The HD graphics aren't really reminiscent of the original so much as a total redraw, but they're fluid and charming. The levels are brimming with detail and parallax elements, while the chance to swim in McDuck's vault of gold to the backing of a genuinely sad main menu theme is quite haunting.
The problem is just that the game itself isn't - and was never - all that great. It's hard, repetitive, slow and often quite annoying. The addition of some easier game modes and more saves/restart points is helpful, but we found it difficult to struggle through each of the five worlds without throwing our Gamepad at the TV.
That said, if the original NES game is one of your favourites - and we're reliably informed it was more popular in the US than in Europe - you should definitely consider it. You'll enjoy the trip down memory lane, if nothing else. But for us, 'Duck Tales Remastered' is a slick-looking remake which - while not without its charm - ultimately fails to justify itself as more than a curiosity.
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The jolly folks over at White Rabbit Brewery invite you to follow Alice's example and dive down the rabbit hole. But unlike Alice you won't find a world of shrinking potions and talking cats. What awaits you is a five-course degustation dinner featuring delicious seasonal produce from South Melbourne pub O'Connell's and matching White Rabbit brews.
O'Connell's head chef Tom Brockbank is known for his sophisticated pub fare, so you can expect a meal that goes above and beyond on flavour. He's worked closely with the team at White Rabbit to create a meal that matches closely with five of the crew's best beers.
On the night, White Rabbit's head brewer will be in attendance to run guests through the story of the brewery and how the selected brews have been created. And like anything inspired by Alice in Wonderland, you can expect a few surprises on the night.


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Q: Can computers survive bubble nucleations? According to string landscape theory, our vacua with a cosmological constant of $10^{-123}$ is a metastable vacua which can decay to a supersymmetric vacua with either a zero or negative cosmological constant. However, such a decay is destined to happen sooner or later, but if we wait for it, it will happen at an unpredictable random location and time. Suppose we have some computer memories and computations that we wish to preserve through a bubble nucleation. Is it possible to engineer a controlled bubble nucleation to a supersymmetric vacua with an exactly zero cosmological constant, and construct computers with data storage such that the memories contained therein can survive the bubble transition to an entirely new law of physics unscathed, and the computers can also continue their computations?

A: No-one knows, but see Louis Clavelli on "Susyria".

A: OK, once again from wikipedia

The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated.
  Sidney Coleman & F. de Luccia

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The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has been considered. If a bubble of lower energy vacuum were nucleated, it would approach at nearly the speed of light and destroy the Earth instantaneously, without any forewarning. Thus, this vacuum metastability event is a theoretical doomsday event. This was used in a science-fiction story in 1988 by Geoffrey A. Landis,2 in 2000 by Stephen Baxter,[3] and in 2002 by Greg Egan.[4]

In a nutshell, no you cannot build an Ark to carry a computer because the whole structure and order of physical constructs as we know them will be destroyed, and computers and the structure carrying them are made out of matter as we know it.

A: I bring you good news! There is hope! The Coleman-de luccia analysis assumes a vacuum state for the original and final vacua. This is a very good approximation for the inflationary epoch, but not for our current phase with its extremely small cosmological constant. Remember it's the difference in pressure which pushes the domain wall outward at close the speed of light in the Coleman-de Luccia analysis, but with such a tiny cosmological constant, even the cosmic microwave background or intergalactic gas is sufficient to counteract the difference in pressure. Ordinary matter and photons in our phase will bounce off the domain wall instead of passing through it, unless they have enormous kinetic energies. A future civilization will only need to create a very high grade vacuum with pressure less than the cosmological constant sealed in a box and create the new vacuum in it. This vacuum will expand until the domain wall hugs the walls of the box, and then, it will stop expanding. With a suitable choice of bombardment of ultra high energy particles to penetrate the domain wall, a computer can be reconstructed on the other side. Computations require a steady supply of free energy, and this requires the bubble to expand slowly. But the outside universe is safe. The bubble can't expand to reach galactic clusters because even dilute intergalactic gas has enough pressure to resist it. The bubble can only expand in the void between galactic clusters in the far future when the cosmic microwave background pressure has gone really down.

A: Have you actually computed the size of the bubble needed for nucleation to happen? If curvature effects are negligible, the minimum radius of the bubble ought to go as $\sim \frac{T}{\Lambda}$ where $T$ is the surface tension of the domain wall. Any smaller, and the surface tension and extrinsic curvature will cause the bubble to contract. If $T$ goes as $M_{Pl}^3$, this radius is supercosmological in the sense that it vastly exceeds the de Sitter accelerating universe radius $\sim \frac{M_{Pl}}{\sqrt{\Lambda}}$. Even if it's only $M_{GUT}^3$, it still vastly exceeds it. If you hope for the LHC to save you with a surface tension of $M_{TeV}^3$, you're still out of luck. Of course, at such scales, we do have to take curvature effects into account. In that case, a bubble the size of the cosmological horizon is sufficient. Do you seriously expect an advanced civilization can arrange for a simultaneous phase transition over the entire cosmological horizon? Dream on. If you're hoping for a Poincare recurrence to make that happen, that would take doubly exponential time, and by then all memory of our civilization would have vanished beyond any hope of recall. You want immortality? Here's news for you. All things are transient and impermanent and will pass away. From dust we come, and to dust we return. Remember we are born to die. We will be forgotten.

A: This will be a very practical application to string theory in the future. String theorists can put that in their grant applications in the future. There are a couple of technical problems to solve first. We need to know which N=2 supersymmetric compactifications with a zero cosmological constant can support the possibility of open ended computation. Most likely, it requires the existence of a solid phase of matter. I don't see how else one can have a stable storage of information. This probably requires an excess of matter over antimatter to prevent a mass annihilation into radiation, the existence of fermionic particles as a crucial building block component to get the Pauli exclusion principle to prevent an overall condensation, and other factors which are probably physics dependent. It is up to future generations to find such a compactification.
Then, we need to find a way of engineering such a phase transition. Once again, this requires string theorists to find out the precise compactification of our phase, and also a mechanism to create exactly the new phase we want and not any other. Then, they need to find a way of seeding the new bubble with von Neumann replicators to take over, and finally, transmit a stream of information from our phase to the replicators in the new phase.
This will be a sign string theory has come into maturity. Who says string theory has no practical applications? This is why we need to encourage more research into string theory.

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I, like many Scouters, read several Scouting related blogs. One of them, Scoutmaster, found at http://scoutmaster.typepad.com/my_weblog/ , recently posted a survey featuring questions about the Scout program in this electronic age. How does your troop use computers, cell phones, and mp3 players? It caught my attention so I took the survey.
Our troop has a policy that asks the boys to leave their mp3 players and cell phones at home when we have a troop activity, like a camping trip. The adults will usually have one cel phone along in case of an emergency, but we ask that they do not use it and set a good example for the boys. If our trip is a long distance from home, we do allow the boys to bring their mp3 players along, but we store them in the car once we arrive at camp. I have talked to several local Scouters who have a troop policy similar to this.
I am curious as to what the results of Clark's survey will be. I bet he will be sharing them on his blog and his podcast. You can take the survey at Scouting in the Electronic Age.


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June 26, 1996—20 years ago this year—August Wilson ascended the stage at the national conference of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for professional theatres, to deliver the keynote lecture. Wilson had long been one of the nation's most eminent playwrights, and the audience of theatre community members from across America were looking forward to his address. But instead of a congratulatory speech or a discourse on theatre's power, Wilson dropped a verbal bomb, condemning the condition of professional black theatre in America and addressing hot-button issues of race, culture, identity, politics, and funding. I believe that race matters, he declared. Wilson went on to dismiss "color blind" casting, where black actors play characters originally written as white; to criticize funders for not giving adequate support to black theatres; and to assert the importance of working toward a more inclusive American theatre.
"That speech blew the conference up," said Benny Sato Ambush, a director and artistic director who has worked at both black and white theatres around the country, and who is currently Senior Distinguished Producer in Residence at Emerson College and 2016 Artist in Residence at New York University. "I remember quite distinctly that after it was over, people were scurrying about, moving fast, and chattering loudly almost immediately. It was a burst in that auditorium."
Ambush did not agree with all of the points Wilson had made, but he recognized immediately that people needed to engage in a dialogue about them. Clusters of like-minded people were talking amongst themselves, but not with people of different perspectives. Ambush organized an open forum the next day to do just that. "We had a session underneath a tent," he said. "And man was it crowded. And we talked for at least three hours. Nonstop." A second three-hour session followed.
In a theatre magazine later that year, Ambush wrote:
Juggling disparate viewpoints, we managed to achieve—if only for a little while—a non-judgmental atmosphere of communal revelation, an empowering act for many of us. Results and answers meant less than the process of stumbling toward honest engagement across racial, cultural, class, geographic, gender, and generational divides…Although we are far from solving the problems of race and inclusion in theatre, we took important steps toward a free dialogue working toward possible solutions.
Ambush believes that Wilson's speech continued to reverberate through the theatre world well after the conference ended. "I have to believe it had a ripple effect," he said. "Anybody who was there in that auditorium during that address was affected by it in one way or the other. It was that kind of catalyzing address."
The address also earned Wilson pushback, most notably from Robert Brustein, a theatre critic and the founding director of Yale Repertory and American Repertory theatres. Brustein and Wilson sparred in the press before facing off at a sold-out event in New York City moderated by actress Anna Deavere Smith. Brustein's main point of contention was that Wilson's perspective—and his desire to make theatre political—undermined "the basic function of dramatic art."
Writing about the debate shortly after, Ambush noted that it offered the theatre community another opportunity for self-assessment:
Over issues of who should speak for whom, who should have authority and custodianship of whose art, who gets to define whom, and who gets to play what parts on stage, the two men's beliefs represent diametrically opposed viewpoints that can serve as guideposts for the rest of us to gauge where we stand.
So where, exactly, does American theatre stand today when it comes to the questions of race and culture that Wilson grappled with two decades ago? We haven't solved all the problems Wilson presented, said Ambush. But we have made progress. "The inclusion of our different culturally specific racial and ethnic points of view is better than it was," said Ambush, noting that the proof is in the wide range of plays being produced at regional theatres around the country today. However, "funding is [still] disproportionately low and unequal" for black and ethnically specific theatres.
"We have to be vigilant because this is America, and racism abounds, and there's a blindness there in many people," said Ambush—an observation that the #BlackLivesMatter and #OscarsSoWhite campaigns, and the events that preceded them, carry out. But American theatre—and global theatre—is almost certainly better for August Wilson and the issues he brought to light, said Ambush.
"I suppose like any of us, all artists, he was not without his contradictions, but he spoke clearly about where he stood, unapologetically," said Ambush. "I appreciate him for that, applaud him for that, and if nothing else, he got us talking about things. I don't know if he intended to blow up that conference, but it got us somewhere else than where we were before he gave that address."
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When pianist Johannes fell in love with punk girl Olga, people predicted it wouldn't last. But the contrary was true: they married and started a band: Trip To Dover.
Combining elements of new wave, synth pop and DJ style electronics the duo creates its own blend of epic alternative dance. Or, as they like to summarize in one sentence: 'Dave Grohl's twin sister meets a Chemical Brother at a The Naked And Famous concert'.
Fade Into Gold, the title track of their latest album, is Trip To Dover's new single!