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Source: Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
WOM/1728
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Fifty-third Session
16th & 17th Meetings (AM & PM)
WOMEN'S COMMISSION ENDS SESSION, CALLS FOR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY FOR CAREGIVING
BETWEEN MEN, WOMEN IN CONTEXT OF HIV/AIDS, REDUCING CARE BURDEN ON HOUSEHOLDS
Approves Several Texts, Including on Working Group on Communications,
Assistance to Palestinian Women, Commission Themes for 2010-2014 Period
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In other action, the Commission recommended that the Economic and Social Council adopt various resolutions, one of which focused on Palestinian women. Approved by a recorded vote of 30 in favour to 3 against (Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States), with 8 abstentions (Germany, Belgium, Cameroon, Croatia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden), the text urged the international community to give special attention to the human rights of Palestinian women and girls, and intensify work to improve their conditions. It called for the urgent provision assistance to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis. (For details of the vote, please see annex).
Speaking in general statement before the vote, the representative of Israel said the draft conveniently omitted all references to "Hamas" and "terrorists". Without incorporating the reality of Palestinian terrorism, the draft was inadequate and misleading, and only prolonged women's suffering on all sides. The resolution had no place in the Commission, and she called on members to reject "this annual ritual".
Speaking after the vote, the representative of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine said the text was relevant to the principles of the Commission, and it was the right of any delegation to bring issues to the body. Palestinian women had lived under occupation for nearly four decades, and they merited the Commission's consideration. She looked forward to the day when such resolutions did not have to be put forward. Until that time, her delegation would continue to look to the United Nations as the protector of those most in need.
Some other delegates objected to the resolution, saying that country-specific matters should not be taken up by the Commission, as they fell outside its purview.
The Commission on the Status of Women met today to conclude its fifty-third session on the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century".
Introduction of Draft Resolutions
Introducing a draft resolution, also to be recommended to the Economic and Social Council, entitled Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (document E/CN.6/2009/L.2/Rev.1), he said the continuing difficulties faced by Palestinian women and the need to provide them with assistance was central to the draft. The text expressed concern about Palestinian women and reaffirmed that Israeli occupation remained an obstacle to their development.
Action on Drafts
The Commission deferred action on the draft resolution entitled Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (document E/CN.6/2009/L.2/Rev.1) until this afternoon to allow for further consultations among delegations.
The Commission then began its consideration of the resolution on the Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (document E/CN.6/2009/L.2/Rev.1).
Speaking before action on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, the representative of Sudan said he hoped all would vote in favour of the resolution. He also asked who had requested the recorded vote.
The Chairman responded that the United States had requested the vote.
In a general statement, the representative of Israel said the draft should not be under consideration, as it was one-sided. Other forums were more appropriate for the issue. Besides, the draft conveniently omitted all references to "Hamas" and "terrorists". Clearly, the challenges facing Palestinian women were significant, but without incorporating the reality of Palestinian terrorism, the draft was inadequate and misleading, and only prolonged women's suffering on all sides. The reality was that Palestinian civilians continued to be used as pawns by Hamas. If it was the wish of the Commission to examine reality in the region, the text should recognize challenges faced by Israeli women and the impact on them of Palestinian terrorism. The resolution had no place in the Commission, and she called on members to reject "this annual ritual".
Speaking in explanation of position, the representative of the United States said her delegation had come to the meeting with a message of change. Sadly, on this resolution, instead of change, the Commission had been presented with an "unbalanced" statement. The United States was deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and would continue to provide assistance to the Palestinians, including through budget support for the Palestinian Authority. The United States was the largest bilateral donor to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and contributed a significant amount to other organizations serving Palestinian women.
Vigorous American engagement could support the parties as they took the necessary risks to create peace, she said. The United States supported a two-State solution. The Quartet was the most effective instrument for affecting the international community's engagement to bring lasting peace to the Middle East. She sought actions that contributed to progress, rather than politicizing resolutions. The resolution sought to politicize the Commission and was inconsistent with the universal principles of the Commission. The United States would vote against it.
The Commission then approved the resolution on assistance to Palestinian women by a recorded vote of 30 in favour to 3 against (Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States), with 8 abstentions (Germany, Belgium, Cameroon, Croatia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden). (For details of the vote, see Annex)
Speaking in explanation of vote after the vote, the representative of the United Kingdom said it was forced to vote against the resolution. For some years, the United Kingdom had voiced its concern about several aspects of the resolution and the fact that it was being tabled by Commission. It should be taken up by the General Assembly. The resolution was too overtly political in its treatment of the issue. The United Kingdom's vote should not be interpreted as showing disregard for the plight of Palestinian women; it was deeply concerned by the scale and duration of suffering of Palestinian women exacerbated by the Palestinian conflict. During the 2007 Paris Donor Conference, the United Kingdom had pledged 243 million pounds over the next three years for the Palestinian Authority, and it had pledged millions more for the Palestinians in the wake of the Gaza conflict. Other women in the region, including Israeli women, also suffered while the Middle East conflict persisted.
Spain's representative said resolutions of the Security Council attributed a greater role for Palestinian women in decision-making during times of conflicts, in order to ensure they were on the same legal footing as men. Spain had abstained from the vote, because, while the general aspect of Palestinian women in terms of their legal situation should be discussed by the Commission, matters of a political nature should be handled by the Assembly's Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization).
The Netherlands' representative said he had voted against the text because he believed country-specific resolutions did not belong in the Commission. Last year, the Netherlands had abstained during voting on the resolution, but it had voted against it this year to make its point clear.
Japan's representative expressed hope that the international community would improve the situation of Palestinian women. But the resolution could have been modified to be more balanced and acceptable to a wider range of States. That was why Japan had abstained during the vote. Japan was committed to helping the Palestinian people. It had pledged $200 million during the Gaza Conference in Egypt on 2 March, in addition to its regular funding for the Palestinians.
The representative of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine thanked all delegations that had voted in favour of the resolution. As in the past, deliberations were aimed at securing the broadest support, and she deeply regretted that some delegations had not voted positively. The text was relevant to the principles of the Commission, and it was the right of any delegation to bring issues to the body. Palestinian women had lived under occupation for nearly four decades and they merited the Commission's consideration. Throughout the discussions, her delegation had displayed flexibility, while others had failed to look into the substance or merit of the resolution at hand.
She said the adoption of the text came at a time when Palestinians continued to suffer throughout the entire Occupied Palestinian Territory. The situation was particularly serious in the Gaza Strip, where, in just 22 days, more than 1,300 Palestinians had been killed by Israel. It was "shocking and tragic" that more than one third of those people had been children. It was preposterous that a Stateless people who were looking to the international community for support were criticized for doing so by Member States. One State had tried to encourage others to adopt its illegal positions. She looked forward to the day that Palestinians would not have to put forward such resolutions. Until that time, her delegation would continue to look to the United Nations as the protector of those most in need.
Vote on Assistance to Palestinian Women
The draft resolution on Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (document E/CN.6/09/L.2/Rev.1) was approved by a recorded vote of 30 in favour to 3 against, with 8 abstentions, as follows:
In favour: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eritrea, Gabon, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Russian Federation, Senegal, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia.
Against: Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.
Abstain: Belgium, Cameroon, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden.
Absent: Belize, Cambodia, Mali, Togo.
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Preserved British Steam Locomotives
Andrew Barclay Works No 2369 NCB No8 0-4-0ST
This was the last 16in 0-4-0ST saddle tank built by the Kilmarnock firm of Andrew Barclay & Sons Ltd. It was built in 1955 and delivered to the Scottish Region of the National Coal Board (NCB) as the last steam locomotive they bought.
It was purchased privately for preservation from the NCB in 1982.
It returned to steam on the Derwent Valley Light Railway (DVLR) in 2005 and ran there for the following three years. Because of concerns over the wear on the motions of the locomotive it was withdrawn from service in 2008.
In September 2017, after 26 years at the DVLR, the locomotive was moved to Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society who operate within British Steel's Scunthorpe Steelworks
The locomotive is now being overhauled.
2369 at the Derwent Valley Railway – July 2001
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Following the release of Everything Is Wonderfall in July, supergroup Gone Is Gone have unveiled another new track, Sometimes I Feel.
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"What started with phone tag, turned into the creation of sounds using samples of voicemail bits, which turned into a visceral collaboration for all of us to subconsciously express our psyche under lockdown," they continue. "It's an odd turn for us as a band that reflects an odd turn for us as a society."
"You're in a blissful dream filled with love and light," adds Troy Van Leeuwen. "You search for the words to express this feeling, but everything comes out jumbled and upside down. But that doesn't matter. The feeling you're experiencing is real enough to believe. You hear a voice repeating the word 'happiness'. This voice is joined by a chorus of angels and every time they repeat it, the sound becomes more intense into deafening screams. As you slowly awake you realise these screams are your own. The veil of this dream unravels and dissipates to reveal the awful world that is the 'now' as it's crumbling around your bed."
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Terry Rosen, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Arcus Biosciences
Terry has been leading successful drug discovery and development organizations in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries for over 30 years. In 2015, he co-founded Arcus Biosciences, a drug discovery company focused on the treatment of cancer by blocking tumor-induced immunosuppression. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Flexus Biosciences, a company created to develop small-molecule drugs to reverse tumor immunosuppression, which was acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb early in 2015 for $1.25 billion. Prior to Flexus, Terry served as Vice President, Therapeutic Discovery (TD) at Amgen and as the site head for Amgen South San Francisco, having joined Amgen with the acquisition of Tularik in 2004. He was named Amgen Washington site head in 2006, transitioned to a leadership role heading Chemistry Research and Discovery in 2007 and became the head of Protein Sciences in 2011. He and his leadership team were responsible for the creation of the TD organization, a group of 550+ staff responsible for all of Amgen's large and small molecule drug discovery efforts.
Prior to joining Amgen, Terry held several executive positions at Tularik, including Executive Vice President, Operations, Vice President, Research Operations, and Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry. He has also held scientific and management positions at Pfizer and Abbott Laboratories. Terry serves on the Salk Institute Board of Trustees, the leadership committees of the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program and Life Sciences Institute, the Berkeley Chemistry Advisory Board, the Caltech Biology & Bioengineering Chair's Council and the Board of the California Life Sciences Association.


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When Trip started out, he walked into a local Mom and Pop shop off the street and asked if he could build them a website. They said they couldn't pay him, but that didn't matter. "I just needed something that gave me some parameters to work within and give me a solid project," Trip said.
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Trip left school and immediately picked up work in North Jersey. It took him 3 years to realize he really didn't need to physically be in the office to do his work, but more importantly that he didn't want to live in one place.
"There was a huge textuary and not a lot of people could do what I was doing — code, design, build databases. So I told the owner very nicely, 'I'm not going to be physically dependent on this location anymore," Trip admitted.
The day Trip got a higher paying programming job he bought a plane ticket to Spain.
"First thing I did after getting there was pirate Rosetta Stone Spanish," Trip chuckled.
Trip completely immersed himself in the culture, refusing to talk to anyone from America so he could learn the language faster. 3-months went by and although he was an illegal alien for the first time he had a solid group of friends and stayed for another 7-months before sneaking out of the country.
"After Spain, it all escalated pretty quickly. I just kept going. Around every 2-months I traveled somewhere new and that's been going for about 7 years now.
Jamaica, Amsterdam, Dubai, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, India, England, South Africa, Ibiza, Costa Rica, Nicaragua to name a few.
Trip has adapted and evolved his workflow as the years went by, taking time for some of the more important things in life.
Now Trip tries to work no more than 4 hours a day.
Everyone knows that one person who gave up playing the guitar or their favorite hobby as they got older because of 'xyz' reason, which is never a really good reason. Maybe you are that person.
Trip finds that he is able to continue those hobbies and get to know himself better through the free time he has.
Real enchantment takes a couple hours of really finding something fulfilling.
"If you really spend that time and find that enchantment, you aren't lifted by that 10-second video because you have something so much more powerful in your pocket.
Trip practices Ashtanga Yoga, translates Sanskrit and Hindi texts, and tries to disappear for 4 weeks out of the year.
No matter what your spiritual outlet is, at the end of the day, it's just another sense or extension of ourselves.
Where Does a Nomad Call Home?
As Asbury has emerged as a hub for technology and startup culture, the city's character still hasn't changed much. Trip embraces that and works with a lot of local entrepreneurs and coders. For all of you food truck fans out there, Trip designed the Cinnamon Snail truck wrap.
This vim and experimental mindset carries the New Jersey tech ecosystem far.
Trip acknowledged that always having authentic relationships, keeping his work and the people he works with authentic is a way to know that everything's alright.
While Trip has a treasure trove of stories that he could share, he focused on some highlights and what he has in mind for his next adventure.
Sometimes, traveling to remote areas of the globe can be troublesome to find a decent internet connection. Trip elaborated on such a time he was in India.
Luckily, Trip had some great teammates that always had his back because a few of the calls did cut out.
"A buddy of mine would always cover for me and say, 'yeah, Trip's really dealing with some tough WiFi down in Jersey," Trip laughed.
Trip was an illegal alien twice, once in Spain and again in England. "There's always ways in and out of a country," Trip proclaimed.
Trip didn't have any advice on sneaking in and out of countries, but his advice for aspiring coders out there is to get into a book or two, it'll bring you really far.
As for next steps, Trip wants to have a sweet little hotel in Costa Rica or Nicaragua and run coding retreats. "I'll bring you from zero to hero," Trip said.
Trip's next destination is Costa Rica, then he'll be settling down in Barcelona for 3 months with his fiance. After that, well, we'll have to wait and see.


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Q: Powershell does not create a folder when I run a script. What's wrong? I'm trying to have powershell create a folder for me and it works fine when I type it into the console. However, when I run the same command as a script, no folder is created and no error messages are supplied.
This is the line of code I am using.
new-item - path c:\test\ -name testfolder -itemtype directory

edit: I am on Windows 7

A: This should be a comment, but I cannot comment. There is definitely nothing wrong with that line of code. It runs on my machine, either from the terminal window or as a script. Because the code works for you at the terminal window but not when executing as a script my first guess is that your system may be configured to disallow powershell scripts. This is the default setting, and it will prevent a script file from executing but will not prevent commands typed at the prompt from working. Open a powershell session and type get-executionpolicy. If it returns "restricted" then you have found the culprit. This setting can be changed by opening an elevated powershell session (run as admin) and typing set-executionpolicy -executionpolicy RemoteSigned. Of course you should read about what those settings mean before changing them to determine what is best for your situation. For example the remotesigned option means that scripts originating from your machine will execute without a trusted signature, but external scripts will require a signature.

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May 31, 2015 beerwinnipeg 6 Comments
I got the opportunity to meet with Matt Wolff, the head brewmaster of Fort Garry Brewing Co. I had a conversation with him about brewing in Manitoba and the future of craft beer. I've been curious about Fort Garry's take on the direction our province is going. As the largest brewery in Manitoba I wanted to see what plans they have and how these changes have impacted their brewing.
History of the Brewery
Fort Garry is Manitoba's oldest Microbrewery and really does have a storied history. Established in 1930 by B.W. Hoeschen it produced two brands of beer to start; Frontier Beer and Frontier stout. These beers gained recognition when they won best in class in England against other commonwealth breweries.
In the 1960s Fort Garry was sold to Molson and was brewed under the label Molson's Fort Garry Brewery Co. This company ran for 30 years until 1990 when Molson merged with Carling-Okeefe and closed the facility that was Fort Garry Brewing.
Bringing it back into the family, Richard Hoeschen, the great-great grandson of the original owner, who Matt Wolff describes as "a true visionary", and John Hoeschen Sr. resurrected the brewery under the original Fort Garry name. As well original beers like "Frontier Pilsner" they also introduced a family of full flavor beers to the market. At this time really starting to crave something besides the status quo. To keep up with demand they built a state of the art facility at 130 Lowson Cresent in 1998 taking up a full 25,000 square feet. This facility was unique as it was built to be a brewery rather than a warehouse space renovated to fit the bill.
In 2001 Richard Hoescehn passed away. Under his leadership Fort Garry had become a household name. Matt told me that there were some struggles at this point within the brewery but people wouldn't stay quiet long about their desire for something different. In 2006 the President of Russell Brewing in BC sampled some of Fort Garry Dark and fell in love with the beer. He was sol captivated by the quality of the beer and the love Manitobans had for their local brew that in 2008 Fort Garry Brewing amalgamated with Russell Brewing Company with a goal to build on the legacy of the Hoeschen Family.
Matt Wolff is an interesting character and brings a long history with Fort Garry to his role as Brew Master. When he was just 18 and a new graduate from high school, his brother's future father in law started the Two Rivers brewery. Being essentially a dream job for an 18 year old he started working their part-time. Starting with remedial tasks he worked his way up to doing the packaging and filtration.
When Two River amalgamated with Fort Garry in 2003 he continued to work there part time while doing a degree in air craft maintenance at Red River College. When he graduated he took a job at the St. Andrews air field for a couple of years but found that job wasn't for him. He came back to work at Fort Garry full-time, this time in the brew house. Matt uses his skills as an aircraft technician to solve mechanical issues on the fly, "We don't have to always wait for someone to come fix it, I can usually either do it myself or I have a connection."
When the brew master and president retired Matt was given the opportunity to take over as Fort Garry's brewmaster. This also was when we started seeing the craft beer movements from the east and west starting to make inroads into Manitoba.
Still, it wasn't until after the amalgamation with Russel Brewing Co. that Fort Garry started coming out with their first new beers. Fort Garry saw great success originally with its Munich Eisbock which then expanded into the brewmaster series.
With this success and the introduction of the growler bars there was more of a demand for fresh and new beers. This year Fort Garry is putting out 2 new beer every 6 weeks. A huge step forward in drawing in the demand for new beers. This isn't easy, Matt told me that "On top of maintaining our flagship beers, finding time to sit down with the guys and hammer out a recipes is one of the hardest parts of brewing."
As I had mentioned, in 1998 the location still used today by Fort Garry was built. This doesn't mean they've stayed stagnant. The brewery itself is completely automated running on a computer system that monitors the process at every stage of production. Today they don't even need to clean the tanks by hand as the computer system will measure out the proper cleaning solution and do an over the top job in cleaning every aspect of the brewing process. Matt said that "when we are inspected they say we clean as well as Dairy Farms, which is a pretty high standard".
The brewery even has a lab so that they can do tests on the beer at various stages and make sure that there are no hiccups along the way. Spot tests are done on the tanks at different stages to be certain that the cleaning was done well and the beer is brewed to the highest possible standards of quality.
With a 4 vessel system and a 100 hectolitre kettle they can brew 10,000 litres of wort which translates into about 8,000 litres of beer for fermentation. They have two different fermentation tanks, 15,000 litres and the other at 8,000. This allows for some versatility in batch sizes. The smallest batch the tanks can brew is 1,500 litres. This limits their ability to do some niche small batch brews which plays a role in the recipe choices by Matt and his team. "We can't do something like a Triple IPA, so instead we make a really good IPA". During peak production time in the summer Fort Garry employs 22 staff incl uding part-time and temp staff. On the brewing side there is Matt and 3 others.
At any given time they have all of their core brands brewing in various stages with seasonals and new beers entering into the mix as needed. They have a cellar comprised of 21 tanks hold beers in various stages of the brewing process. The total capacity of this cellar is 2000 HL which means they have a lot of space and gives them the ability to have some in the hopper ready to go.
This is still one of the main reasons I wanted to meet with Matt as well. The growler bars as we saw from my previous interview with David Rudge have had a huge impact on the ability for brewers to be creative. Given that Fort Garry is larger and run a bit differently, I wanted to see what the translation was.
One of the hardest things about brewing for Matt is recipe development on top of maintaining a presence with the core beers. Because they can't brew batches under 1,500 litres they really need to consider not only creativity of the beer but also accessibility. They don't want to produce a beer and then just have it sit on the shelves. As a company it is a combination of being creative but also being able to sell beer.
It has been really important for Matt and his team to get new beers out. They want to keep the taps moving and the ability to produce beer without having to worry about packaging and labeling has made this a much easier process.
Wanting to supply the growler station every 6 weeks has really opened up the creativity of the brewing team and has pushed them to be innovative. The process at Fort Garry starts with brain storming. The team tastes a lot of other beers from around Canada to find good examples of styles. They take notes on what they like and what they feel they could improve on. Matt said that "the ideas often start simple like let's make a wit, then become more complex like with our Sassy Saskatoon".
Matt said they "don't want to make just another beer they want it to be big and bold while at the same time accessible to a large group of people."
Their first test is done in their small 20 gallon pilot system and this is sometimes a big flop which means going back to the drawing board. Once they have something they think it at the level it needs to be they present it to the General Manager, some of their reps and even bring it to the Winnipeg Brew Bombers or River City of Manitoba Brewers for some feedback. This isn't a yay/nay process that would impede the creativity, rather so long as they do the best they can do, that's the goal. I asked Matt about expansion plans and he said it's always something they need to look at. Maybe with the next expansion we will see a small brewing unit for those specialty beers!
Still, with the need to be putting out so many new beers in short times, the growler bars have given them the opportunity to brew new beers but also gauge the success and decide which could be put out in cans as well. Matt told me that the next two new brews coming down the pipe, Maple Cream and Sassy Saskatoon, will be released in cans and growlers. Growlers are a lot of beer and "being able to pick up a couple of cans after you've tried it out makes the beer more accessible". It also allows for you to try multiple different beers at a given time.
This has been really important for Fort Garry in peaking interest in their beers. Matt said that "when you see the same thing on the shelf over and over it's easy to want to try something new." Fort Garry needs to keep fresh and trying new things otherwise those people seeking new tastes and new beers will grab something else.
At the same time, growler bars have certainly helped to increase sales for Fort Garry and bring people back to them. I think Manitobans crave good local craft beer and with Fort Garry working hard to deliver I understand why they are seeing an uptick in sales.
They will be tasting there new beers at Flatlanders on June 4th and 5th, and I know I'll be there with bells on. I got to see the mock up for the Maple Cream Ale can, and it looks and sounds tasty!
I've talked a bit about the new initiatives coming from the province. With the ability for breweries to open tasting rooms and the confirmation I received from the MLCC that growler bars are here to stay, this opens the doors for more craft breweries to enter the market here in Manitoba without the immediate concern for packing and shipping.
Matt believes that there is still room to grow here in Manitoba and is excited about the breweries that could be opening. He said that "if we look west and we look east we see how many breweries they are able to support." This growth is putting pressure on big breweries to let go of franchise places and allow for craft breweries to move in. Matt doesn't believe this is competition but rather "more good beer on tap".
I think we will also see the breweries will feed off one another and as Matt said he hopes the "complacency will be gone." New beers also means we might see more collaboration. Matt and I talked about the "Brews Brothers" mixer pack from Parallel 49 and how it'd be really cool to do something like that here in Manitoba.
Matt is also a really strong supporter of new breweries in general. He told me that he "wished I knew who all the players were. I'd love to talk to them and help them out." This is really the kind of guy Matt seems to be. He wants to help people brew beer, something he is obviously passionate about. He provides space for the Winnipeg Brew Bombers and the River City of Manitoba Brewers, two home brew groups in the city, offers courses and even orders malts and hops from distributors that will only deal with brewers. So when Matt says he just wants "more good beer on tap", I believe him.
With Peg City Brewing being officially announced by Nicole Barry and the possibility of a couple of more down the road, Matt says he "wouldn't be surprised that if in one year there might be 10 breweries". That would be a sight to see.
I think that a lot of this boom we are seeing has to do with the loosing of laws and the fact that a brewery can now be entirely profitable without sending a single bottle or can out the door. Things still have some movement, but Manitoba is getting with the times in respect to liquor laws.
Overall, meeting with Matt was fantastic. He was a down to earth and really friendly guy. Given all he knows and all his work he still finds time to help out the local home brew clubs. As the biggest brewery in Manitoba Fort Garry still has a passion for quality Manitoban beer and with Matt at the helm of the brewing side they've started producing some unique and tasty beers. I hope that this trend continues and that we see more of what this brewery has to offer. I for one will be doing my part to support local craft beer here in Manitoba, I hope you'll do the same.
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6 thoughts on "Interview With Fort Garry's Brewmaster Matt Wolff"
harbeywallbanger says:
With everything going so great, did Matt mention his reasons for leaving Fort Garry to start Torque Brewing?
beerwinnipeg says:
That's a great question and something I wasn't aware of. Thanks for that tidbit. I'm going to look into that.
newbybrewer says:
Where did you hear that Matt was leaving Fort Garry? Interesting?
Well, spoke with Matt. He is not leaving Fort Garry.
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Founded in 1987 in Melbourne, Australia - Disbanded in 1998 - Reformed in 2004
Before listening the music of the Australian band ARAGON, I took my time reading all the info available, and the information provided is not very good, comments go from they suck (specially directed towards John Poloyannis in the guitars) but being that I'm part of the Neo Prog Team and having to make a new bio for this band I tried their music.
The truth is that they were always pretty good, but their orientation was hardly Prog until their surprisingly strong last album, I believe they were in the borderline that divides Neo Prog from Prog Related, with clear MARILLION influence and RUSH luike vocals, but of course oriented towards the softer and more commercial side, also you can get some Yes sounds similar to the 90125 era and three men Genesis touch.
So my conclusion is that they were always good but not too Prog oriented, but most of the people who talk about them, haven't heard their last album, which is a pity, because they are loosing the opportunity to listen very good Prog.
ARAGON could be called a subsidiary of the United Nations because Scottish-born Les Dougan (Vocals), Italian-born Tony Italia (Drums), German-born Tom Behrsing (keyboards) and Greek-born John Poloyannis (guitar), joined forces in Melbourne Australia to form ARAGON on 1987, the four guys with the help of Ron Bacon in the bass, release their debut album "Don't Bring the Rain" in 1990, mainly inspired in MARILLION and 80's GENESIS but very mainstream oriented.
Until 1998 they manage to release 5 albums and keep the same lineup withourt radical musical changes, but after the release of "Mister Angel" they seem to vanish in the air as many bands who never found their own identity.
The surprise is that in the year 2004 the band reappears as a trio formed by John Poloyannis (guitar, bass, keyboards, percussion) Les Dougan (vocals, drums, percussion) and Tom Behrsing (keyboards), this time with a stronger sound and definitely more oriented towards Prog, seems the Sabbatical made good effect on them, because sounds almost as a different band with many similarities to early MARILLION but a unique touch.
According to their website, we must expect more of them and if the new stuff is like the latest album, we can only wait with great hope, because they have reached maturity and an own unique sound.
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A Marillion-inspired band of multi-nationals that formed and recorded in Australia that shows tremendous potential--greatly due to the wonderfully passionate vocal performances of lead singer Les Dougan.
1. "For Your Eyes" (4:44) opens with harpsichord-sounding guitar picking before a pulsing bass-and-drum structure is established for the singing to join in. The vocalist is dramatic, theatric, but not very impressive or winning--kind of like a weak GEDDY LEE trying to sing with the power and emotion of AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson. The music during the choruses is too standard rock, it's the down time subtleties that are interesting and engaging. (8.25/10)
2. "Company Of Wolves" (9:22) (16.5/20)
- a) Under the Hunters' Moon (3:30) babeling brook water sounds are soon joined by keys and percussives giving the soundscape a very fairy-like feeling. Barking and then heavy bass tom play enter providing quite a contrast to the delicate fairy sounds. (8/10)
- b) In the Company of Wolves (5:51) more background sounds from the fairy world before a cheap keyboard begins adding a pattern of chords. At 1:25 heavy, pounding drums re-enter before singer Les Dougan enters with a FISH- or OZZIE OSBORN-like vocal performance. The vocal dominates despite the tinny music's attempt to thicken and become more complex. Fairly impressive vocal performance. (8.5/10)
3. "The Cradle" (5:32) gentle prog start with pretty late-80s heavily chorused guitar strums over which the odd voice and stylings of Les Dougan sings. He gives it quite an impassioned try and it almost works. The background "harmony" vocals are pitiful. (8.25/10)
4. "Solstice" (3:40) opens with a fairly flagrant attempt to recreate a classic GENESIS. The metal voicings of Les Dougan soon arrive and not long thereafter the lead guitar (sounding more like BABYLON's David Boyko or MIREK GIL than Steve Hackett). Decent BABYLON-like song. (8.25/10)
5. "Cry Out" (5:33) An interesting m'lange of sound as each and every musician here seems to be drawing from different eras and styles of GENESIS or classic rock sounds, riffs, and styles. Les Dougan's singing gives it its own unique stamp (though there he uses a very familiar "St. Elmo's Fire" melody). (7.75/10)
6. "Gabrielle" (3:30) pure FISH theatrics in this vocal over acoustic guitar finger picking. Easily the best song on the album. (10/10)
7. "The Crucifixion" (15:39) (27.5/30)
- a) Part 1 (7:38) synth strings and pregnant New Wave-like bass line with straight time drum beat provide the sole backdrop for the first four minutes of Les's impassioned vocal. It works. Then there is a major softening--with only guitar and Les's whispering voice--before a burst forth into a speedy swinging pseudo-Rocky Horror-like section. At 5:50 there occurs another stop and slow down, this time for a low keyboard bass note over which spacey flanged synth strings slowly twist and snake their way to the end of this Part. (13/15)
- b) Part 2 (8:11) again the FISH and MARILLION comparisons are unavoidable. Les opens with singing over synth washes--which continue for a few minutes while eventually being joined by simple electric guitar "solo" arpeggi, bass, and drums. Les rejoins in the fourth minute to deliver an amazingly passionate "I'm still waiting" vocal before the band rises up to the album's first truly proggy instrumental passage, complete with multiple keyboard sounds and searing electric guitar soloing all at the same time. Impressive! Why they didn't do more like this I don't know. (14.5/15)
8. "For Your Eyes (Reprise)" (1:14) interesting outro. (4.5/5)
Odd that there are so few instrumental solos, that the songs are so reliant on a single theme and singer Les Dougan's impassioned vocals. The instrumentalists here are competent and do an admirable job of creating cohesive song constructs but their proficiency on their respective instruments seems to be under-confident and, perhaps, "under progress." Still, thanks to the stellar second half, this is an album that introduces to the world a band with tremendous potential.
B/four stars; an excellent debut for this multi-national Neo Prog band.
Posted Wednesday, January 22, 2020 | Review this album | Report (Review #2308529)
Review by groon
In my (very) humble opinion, this masterpiece is really worth to include in hypothetic "Neo-Prog Hall of Fame" (along with selected releases of MARILLION, PENDRAGON, IQ, ARENA, etc.). These guys managed to create an atmosphere of old prog-rock, that refers to bands like GENESIS, YES, CAMEL. The sound is overall dark. The band features the dense and at the same time floating sound, leaving the keyboards dominating. The opening, title and longest track in the album is simply brilliant, leaving an impression of a real rocking horse with the use of sampling keyboards. Sadly, this album (along with the others from the band) is not easy to find. Otherwise a great job, 5 of 5.
Posted Sunday, January 4, 2015 | Review this album | Report (Review #1340111)
Review by apps79
Aragon had been working on a monster concept/autobiographical album since the start of the 90's, which was actually a slow work in progress, which ''Rocking horse...'' surpassed through the sands of time.Actually the 92' mini-album ''The meeting'' was the fifth act of this long work, which the band managed to finish by mid-90's.With respect to the fans, who had already purchased the fifth act a few years back, the album ''The mouse'' was released in 1995 without the pieces of ''The meeting''.Three years later the full work was re-released by LaBraD'or Records in a double-CD edition.
This is a collection of thirty tracks, flowing in a tight cohesion and passing through tons of different moods, all of them connected to the already familiar style of Aragon.No epics or even mid-length pieces, ''The mouse'' is a story unfolding via very short tunes in the vein of PENDRAGON and CLEPSYDRA, fronted by the trademark fast paces of the band, the use of many dreamy instrumentals and the aggressive vocals of Les Dougan.Of course the somewhat synthetic keyboard sound and the overall plastic production, which comes along with all Aragon releases, is not among the advantages of the album, it seems at moments that the sound quality has been stuck sometime in the mid-80's.Otherwise this is another decent effort by the group, not always sealing its extended length, but containing good enough material with theatrical singing, rockin' grooves and even symphonic backdrops in a MARILLION/mid-70's GENESIS vein.Maybe they should have used a larger number of longer pieces, because some of these arrangements are fascinating, for example ''Cold in a warm place'' gives plenty of room for variations between CAMEL, GENESIS and PINK FLOYD overtones and a very poetic vocal performance by Dougan, ''The sheer joy of creation'' reminds of the greatest days of old ABEL GANZ with its playful guitar, sweet keyboards and emphatic vocals, ''Brave new world''features a a slow development from background echoes to more bombastic music with sentimental solos, while ''The cross'' is a fantastic, old-styled MARILLION-like tune with another Dougan monumental vocal performance and the use of semi-symphonic synths next to discreet New Wave samplers.The good thing about ''The mouse'' is that the are no weak pieces or dead holes in the process, everything seems to be in the right place next to the mass of memorable tunes and pompous instrumental sections.Lack of trully fascinating moments, but the band passed a really hard test on producing a long and consistent album.
For fans of MARILLION, PALLAS, PENDRAGON, ABEL GANZ and IQ, this is strong Neo Prog with efficient melodies and a decent flow among all pieces.Recommended.
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Aragon seemed to work fine even with the trio of Behrsing, Poloyannis and Dougan and after ''The meeting'' they decided to go on with this reduced line-up.In 1993 a third, now full-length, album of the band came out on the Dutch SI label.Entitled ''Rocking Horse and Other Short Stories From the Past'', this work contains 6 tracks of reworked material that predates even the first album of Aragon.
''Rocking horse'' is actually the track that dominates the album, clocking at exactly 20 minutes, and featuring some very interesting work by the band.Its first part is dedicated to a very lyrical Neo Progressive Rock with limited instrumental parts but a great performance by Dougan on vocals with both sensitive and more aggresive singing.The second part though is exclusively instrumental with floating keyboards, powerful grooves and some more dreamy passages, a bit too long but still decent.The ''Other Short Stories From the Past'' of the title refers to the next sum of tracks, written in mid-80's, and offering catchy and lyrical Neo Prog with good breaks, incredible theatrical vocals, decent keyboard work and an overall nice performance by Aragon.A couple of these though suffer from flexibility with long hypnotic keyboard parts close to Electronic Music and distorted vocals, not what one would expect by the Aussies.
Despite its flaws this album is another pleasant listening experience by Aragon, mainly because of Les Dougan's superb vocals and the deep atmospheres the band could create with ease.Recommended.
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #839212)
I guess the point of this album was to return to the band's progressive routes, after the rather commercial direction they took in Don't Bring the Rain. Unfortunately, this double-CD concept album fails to convince. Once again, the keyboard sound is decent and the vocals by Les Dougan are alright, but the band rather lacks for strong compositions, with what few good ideas the band have being diluted to the point of irrelevance in order to fill out the narrative. The album ends up being all filler and no killer, the concept is incoherent, and on the whole the brilliant potential shown on the Rocking Horse release is pretty much completely squandered by this point.
Posted Saturday, February 18, 2012 | Review this album | Report (Review #635675)
Aragon's debut album is a rather forgettable affair compared to the earlier material collected on their classic Rocking Horse album; that showcased an interesting, spooky, electronic- influenced take on the whole neo-prog deal, whereas this time around they cleave much more closely to the late-1980s Marillion/Pendragon playbook. Poppy opener For Your Eyes and the embarrassing Christmas song Solstice represent the album at its worst, whilst songs such as The Cradle and The Crucifixion don't accomplish very much except giving me a craving to listen to some early Marillion, or perhaps Pendragon's The Jewel. It's a real shame the band didn't feel daring enough to include more material along the lines of Rocking Horse on here; as it is, the debut has to be seen as a wasted opportunity.
I have to agree with SouthSideoftheSky here in saying that the pre-Don't Bring the Rain demos collected on Rocking Horse are truly excellent, and I'm also baffled that fantastic songs such as Rocking Horse or Ghosts weren't included on the band's debut album. Had these pieces been released in the latter half of the 1980s, when they were originally recorded, the entire history of the band might have been very different and they might have been held in much greater esteem than that they enjoy today.
Combining a Marillion-inspired theatrical neo-prog approach - singer Les Dougan rivals Fish when it comes to emotionally expressive vocals in the neo mould - with more prominent and varied keyboard work, at points drawing more on the progressive electronic genre than on the symphonic prog keyboardists most neo-proggers found inspiration in, the band come up with a truly original and haunting sound which is express perfectly in the songs collected here. It's rare that I feel inclined to give what is essentially an odds-and-sods collection a high mark, but in this case I feel compelled to. The band's decision to hold back this material - only releasing it after the neo-prog high water mark had come and gone - must surely go down as one of the greatest strategic blunders on the part of any neo-prog band.
After the quite good ''Don't Bring the Rain'',Aussie neo-progstersAragon return after four years of silence surprisingly with a very short album (only 27 minutes),but maintaining the succesful style of their debut.
While the ingredients are all OK (a great vocalist,a cool production,good drum programming despite the absence of a drummer),something went wrong in the total mix.The guitar work is strong and melodic,the keyboards create superb atmospheres and the voice of Les Dougan really shines,but the whole blending doesnt always work succesful.Some nice passages are followed by monotonous choruses and while you find yourself thrilled,the next time something spoils the listening.Good thing is the album is too short,so it flaws generally nice and easy...and for me Aragon succeeded to become a very personal and recognizable band already for their early years.
''The Meeting'' isnt an essential listening but it is a good album.It wont be everybody's cup of tea so anyone into Neo Prog will love it,the rest should give a couple of listenings before moving on a buy...This goes for exactly 3 stars in my books.
Posted Saturday, June 4, 2011 | Review this album | Report (Review #456754)
A mature band
It is sadly not an easy task to find the albums by Aragon, and indeed their previous, fifth, album, Mr. Angel, still eludes me. This sixth, and to date latest, release of the band took some effort to track down, but it was well worth that effort. After having reviewed the whole discography of Aragon (minus Mr. Angel), I feel that The Angel's Tear is the album that best brings together the respective strengths of all their previous releases while at the same time avoiding most of their flaws and also at the same time introducing something brand new into the band's sound. All this helps them to sound more confident and also more original than they did on their early releases. The vocals of Les Dougan have never sounded as passionate and powerful as they do here and the same must be said of the guitars of John Poloyannis that get a more prominent place in the sound than ever in the past. The lyrics are thoughtful and often existential in nature.
The "mechanical" rhythm section of songs like the opening track, Growing Up In Cuckoo Land, and the midi-like keyboards of the short Discovery might trouble some people, but both tracks grew on me significantly after repeated listens. Indeed, all of the eight songs featured on The Angel's Tear are very strong. Favourite tracks for me include the nine minute In The Name Of God and the almost folky album closer The Silent Field with its Celtic-sounding drums. The album's longest track is the 13 minute title track while the shortest track, the aforementioned Discovery, is just under two minutes. The latter does indeed end rather abruptly and might perhaps have been extended somewhat. Another very short track is the weirdly titled Copper Bob And The Pirates At The Gates Of Dawn. This is actually quite weird musically too and features some notably theatrical "pirate" vocals and an almost Metal-like beat!
There is a nice flow and a good balance throughout the album between acoustic and electrically based songs and between upbeat passages and more serene ones. This makes for a very appealing variation that keeps the album interesting from start to finish and invites recurrent listens. Thankfully, Aragon have also avoided the common pitfall to put too much music on the same album just because the space available on a compact disc allows for it. A running time of just over 40 minutes is often optimal.
If you want to check out Aragon, The Angel's Tear is a great place to start. Let us hope that the band will return with another album in a not too far distant future and that they will also tour and perhaps record a live album/video that brings together songs from throughout their whole career.
Excellent addition!
Posted Tuesday, March 1, 2011 | Review this album | Report (Review #409830)
Many years in the making, Aragon's Mouse finally appeared in 1995. This lengthy conceptual album in eight 'acts' had already been discussed by the band as early as straight after the release of their debut album in the late 80's. Due to pressure from fans and record companies, they decided to release act five of Mouse separately in 1992 as The Meeting even though the whole was far from finished. The original 1995 version of Mouse did not include the previously released act five, but a re-mastered re-release appeared in 1999 that contains all eight acts (as well as new art work, the story of Mouse and an audio interview with the band about the making of the album). As I have rated The Meeting tracks already (with three stars), I will concentrate on the rest of Mouse here.
My first impression of this album was that it was fragmentary and disjointed. Many of the tracks are very short and intended to function as link pieces. The problem is that there is not much for them to link to! Many passages feel like transportation and this reviewer's opinion is that there is just too much of that. Excluding the (very good and) previously released The Meeting tracks, there are not that many 'full-fledged' songs on Mouse. Having that said there are some good moments here also, but generally they are too few and too far between. Maybe there was a conflict between two very different objectives; that of telling the story, on the one hand, and that of making good music, on the other. Both the story and the music seem to have suffered as a result. There is certainly a shortage of memorable melodies.
Some spoken word passages seem out of place and distract from the flow of the album, rather than enhance it. As I mentioned above, the booklet (of the 1999 double CD version that I have) features the story of Mouse, but to be honest I have not managed to get through it. In the bonus interview on disc two, it is mentioned that the story is a layered one about (1) life in general, (2) about a character called Mouse and (3) about the history of the band! Maybe they just bit off more than they could chew?
Musically, Mouse is clearly inspired by Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. There is even a track called The Waiting Room (but there is no further connection between the two tracks as this one is just a short piece of pointless dialogue). Aragon do have their own approach but I think that it came to its right much better on both some earlier and some later releases of theirs. While the 1999 re-release of Mouse is now (I suppose) the best and easiest way to get hold of The Meeting (act five), which is well worth hearing, I cannot give Mouse as a whole more than two stars. If you have The Meeting already as a standalone release, this overblown concept album is recommended for you only if you are a fan or collector.
As a side note, I can mention that the artwork (which is different from the one displayed here on PA, which I suppose is the original 1995 artwork) reflects the band's Australian origin. It features a photograph that (I suppose) was taken somewhere in the red Australian dessert.
Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2011 | Review this album | Report (Review #405162)
Thanks to Ivan_Melgar_M for the artist addition. and to Quinino for the last updates


The magnificent villa is located in Valdinievole, just a few kilometres from the famous thermal town of Montecatini Terme.
Like many other Tuscan towns, over the centuries Montecatini was the object of struggles and claims involving the Medicis and the families that ruled the other towns of the region. The Ghibelline army conquered Montecatini in 1315, but just a few years later it passed again under the rule of Florence. In the second half of the 16th century, the Florentine army almost laid waste the town.
Nowadays Montecatini Terme is a celebrated thermal town and one of most important Italian tourist destinations. Many famous Italian and foreing politicians, writers and poets, fashion designers and artists have spent their holidays in Montecatini Terme.
The existing thermal baths were built in the 17th century, after the area was completely drained by order of Grand Duke Leopold, but the first thermal facilites date from 1530.
The luxury 19th-century villa stands in panoramic position in Valdinievole. The windows and the garden overlook the woods that cover the surrounding hills.
Montecatini Terme thermal baths are within a short driving distance.
The wide garden that surrounds the villa is exclusively reserved to guests and is furnished for having meals in the open air. In the garden is also the barbecue equipment.
A few dozen metres from the building lies the private swimming pool (15x5 m; depth: 1.10-1.40 m), which, like the garden, is exclusively reserved to guests. An external shower is next to the swimming pool.
Close to the villa stands also a small private chapel.
The villa has been recently renovated and furnished with elegant luxury items.
The elegant three-storey building can accommodate 10+2 guests in 1 twin bedroom, 4 double bedrooms and 1 double sofa bed; the villa has 5 bathrooms.
The ground floor composes of the entry hall with double sofa bed and fireplace, and the laundry room.
On the first floor are the kitchen with a dining area, the living room with a dining area, a double bedroom and a bathroom with shower.
The second floor composes of a twin bedroom with ensuite bathroom with shower and three double bedrooms with ensuite bathroom with shower.
The villa comes with swimming pool, barbecue equipment, satellite TV, Internet connection, fireplace, freezer, microwave oven, oven, dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer and private car parking place.
Food shops are in Massa (2 km).
Other shops and services of any kind are in Montecatini Terme (8 km).


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'use strict';
const symbol = require('../utilities/symbol');

let experiments = {
  BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION: symbol('build-instrumentation'),
  INSTRUMENTATION: symbol('instrumentation'),
  ADDON_TREE_CACHING: symbol('addon-tree-caching'),
};

Object.freeze(experiments);

module.exports = experiments;


In this episode I would like to explain how we call GET method of SAP S/4HANA Cloud API from SAP API Business Hub.
For complete utilization of information present in this blog, it is recommended to go through my earlier blogs as part of this series if not done already.
In our example here, we will fetch a list of top 10 Purchase Orders from SAP S/4HANA Cloud system by putting a filter criteria using GET method. Lets have a look at the steps to achieve this.
Note: Every API might be having multiple entities in it. Hence based on our requirement we have to select a relevant entity.
Note: We can even leave all parameters blank, in case we want to retrieve all values.
This will fetch details of a given Purchase Order as result.
We are now successful in reading the details of 'Purchase Orders' from SAP S/4HANA Cloud using API via SAP API Business hub.
In my next blog I would explain the steps to create a Purchase Order in SAP S/4HANA Cloud using API, triggered from SAP API Business Hub.
Disclaimer: This blog is based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1711 release.


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N1 Center
Property Sales/Management
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Home loans and other credit services are provided by Credit Representatives of N1 Loans Pty Ltd ABN 36 142 259 854, Australian Credit License Number 473016. Fund management services are provided by N1 Venture Pty Ltd ABN 83 602 937 851, Australian Financial Services Licence Number 477879.
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Board of Directors & Company Secretary
Ren Hor Wong
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr Wong is the founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for N1 Holdings Ltd. Mr. Wong is a published author and regular speaker at a series of events. Mr Wong has been responsible for developing N1's business strategy and expanding the business into Asia Pacific.
Prior to establishing N1, Mr Wong had applied his entrepreneurial and management skills in industries ranging from courier, printing and to real estate over the span of 6 years. He has previously founded and successfully exited various businesses including Copiko Printing, Sydneymove.com.au and Packers Unpackers.
Ren is a licensed mortgage broker and fluent in both oral and written communication forms of Mandarin and Cantonese dialects derived from China.
Mr Wong conducts regular seminar and provides topical discussions across Asia reg.arding Australia property investments and financing. Recently, Ren Wong has focused on helping SMEs establish footprints overseas with cross-border investment and business setups, and helping startups with various kind of business services, from financing/funding, company setup to HR and recruitments.
Mr Wong holds a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from University of New South Wales. Mr. Wong is contactable via
renwong@n1holdings.com.au
Jia Penny He
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director
Ms He is a Certified Practising Accountant and a licenced financial adviser. She has over 10 years combined industry experience in accounting, financial planning and mortgage broking.
Ms He joined N1 Group in May 2014 as the Accounting and Tax Adviser and Principal Financial Planner. Ms He was subsequently appointed as N1's Chief Financial Officer. Her current role within N1 Loans includes all financial management, tax and reporting functions of the business.
Prior to N1, Ms He served as an executive for Cabot Square Chartered Accountants from July 2006 to May 2014.
Ms He holds a Master of Accounting degree from Macquarie University and is also an ATO registered tax agent holding Public Practice Certificate. Ms He is contactable via
pennyhe@n1holdings.com.au
Mr Holmes has over 30 years' experience in the financial services industry having held senior roles in the UK and Australia.
He was Head of Mortgage Credit for Citibank UK before becoming COO at Preferred Mortgages, one of the first non-conforming lenders in the UK. In August 2000 David moved to Australia and was one of the founding Executives at Pepper Money.
While at Pepper Money he served as COO and Global Head of Credit with responsibility for the establishment and maintenance of credit polices throughout Australia, Ireland and South Korea. David was instrumental in Pepper Money gaining warehouse funding facilities from three of the major banks in Australia.
Paul Jensen
Mr Jensen is an experienced Director with over 30 years of commercial, corporate, governance and finance experience. Paul worked for the Lloyds Bank Group in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom prior to holding several senior executive roles in the funds management sector.
Mr Jensen is now a professional non executive director. He holds a commerce degree in Accounting and Commercial Law and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Anand Sundaraj
Mr Sundaraj is a principal of Whittens, a commercial law firm based in Sydney. Prior to joining Whittens, Mr Sundaraj worked at international law firms Allen & Overy, King & Wood Mallesons and Herbert Smith Freehills, as well as for global investment bank Credit Suisse.
Mr Sundaraj specialises in providing legal advice on mergers & acquisitions and capital raisings for both publicly listed and privately held entities. He also advises on funds management and general securities law matters including ASX Listing Rules compliance. Mr Sundaraj has advised on a range of capital raising transactions including the IPOs of Veda Group, QR National (now Aurizon), Aston Resources (subsequently acquired by Whitehaven), Myer Holdings and Telstra 3, and secondary issues by Westfield, Woodside, BlueScope Steel, Goodman Fielder and GrainCorp.
Mr Sundaraj holds a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) and a Bachelor of Science from Monash University and is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and Victoria. Mr Sundaraj is the author of "Listed Companies: ASX Listing Rules" in Australian Corporation Practice, published by LexisNexis Butterworths.


A credit union is a group of people with a permit to do business with each other. A business of saving their money in a common fund, and of making loans to the members from that fund. While big bank chains often cater to their customers that are most profitable, the credit union philosophy has always been one of equality and personal service.
A Credit Union is a group of people who have joined forces and cooperated to manage their own money. It is a cooperative!
Its basic objectives are to teach and encourage thrift among members and, through their combined savings, extend to members low cost credit for any worthwhile purpose.


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Maire receives 2017 National Blue Ribbon School Award
Students gathered outside to form a giant "M" to celebrate Maire's Blue Ribbon Award.
Photo by: Michelle Kramer
Elizabeth Flower '20, Staff Writer
Filed under Featured Content, News
Maire elementary school earned the 2017 National Blue Ribbon School Award on Sept. 28, one of only 13 schools in Michigan to receive this honor.
This award can honor any type of school at any level; public and private elementary, middle and high schools are all eligible to be bestowed the National Blue Ribbon Award. Overall, 342 schools received this award throughout the country.
Dr. Gary Niehaus, superintendent of the Grosse Pointe Public School System, is proud of all the work Maire's faculty has done to make learning a better experience for their students.
"It is an honor and privilege to have Maire Elementary School as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2017," Niehaus stated.
According to Sonja Franchett, principal of Maire, the school had been asked in January if they would like to go through the application process. This meant the school had to put in a lot of effort within the application in order to achieve the award. Therefore, Franchett officially found out they had won in September, but wasn't that surprised.
"Only 13 schools in the state every year are nominated, so we're taking it as a very great honor." Franchett said.
Michelle Hunwick, first grade teacher at Maire, said the school received this award because of the strong relationships between staff and students.
"I really believe what sets our staff apart is our efforts to reach each student's individual needs; behaviorally, academically and socially," Hunwick said. "The type of relationship we have with our kids is key."
Franchett said since Maire was granted this honor, she's received a lot of praise on behalf of the school from many people in the community, especially parents.
"We've gotten a lot of feedback from parents..they're thrilled, especially those parents of the new students," Franchett said. "It was very affirming from our parent population."
Since they have won this award, Franchett and another staff member from Maire got the chance to attend the award ceremonies with the other winning schools in Washington D.C., which occurred on Nov. 6-7.
"I'm super excited to get to know some of the other people who were awarded this year," Franchett said before leaving for D.C.
Maire has been doing and planning various events to celebrate achieving this award, according to Franchett.
"We had some discussions in an assembly, and we talked about being leaders when you're a blue ribbon school," Franchett said. "Then we all have worn blue and made a big giant M on the playground and had our picture taken."
Franchett believes Maire being a community-oriented school contributed to them receiving the award.
"Having the high peer participation, the high teacher collaboration and that common vision of making sure every child succeeds and learns everyday is probably one of the main reasons we got that award." Franchett said.
Hunwick has taught at Maire for 22 years and is very proud to be a part of the Maire community.
"We're just a wonderful community to work in," Hunwick said. "I feel like that's a special thing, we have a diverse school that values family backgrounds and the cultural traditions in each and every student, and we work to reach every single student."
Tags: education, Grosse Pointe Public Schools, school
One Response to "Maire receives 2017 National Blue Ribbon School Award"
Molly Susaala on November 10th, 2017 11:52 am
I am not surprised the best staff I have had the privilege to work with I have learned so much from These amazing men and women Thxs Harry and Stuart fellow Maire bears are who they are today because You!


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Freedom in Nisemonogatari (Karen Bee)
February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwritesLeave a comment
Karen Bee is Nadeko Snake's longer and more bearable cousin. The arc is of an overall higher quality than Nadeko Snake, but that quality is stretched across an absurdly indulgent seven episodes. By the time the arc finishes, you'll have trouble remembering which moments were part of it and–more importantly–which even mattered. Most of the arc is a collection of decent (or even great) standalone scenes mashed together with a bit too much narrative freedom.
Although there's no way to prove a claim like this, and though proving it would accomplish nothing, I feel that Nisio Isin wrote many of Karen Bee's scenes without any intention of ever making a single story out of them. The narrative structure of the arc reflects this with its unmotivated flashbacks and checklist of fanservice cameos. The arc opens on a scene of a bound Araragi, rolls the opening theme, then flashes back to the day before without any trigger. Nonlinear storytelling is useful as a narrative hook–we do wind up wondering how/why Araragi was captured by Senjougahara–but feels cheap when most of what we see in the flashback is irrelevant to the story.Read More »
Love in Bakemonogatari (Tsubasa Cat)
September 16, 2017 February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwrites2 Comments
So far, I've spent a lot of time talking about overarching and sometimes abstract concepts of style and narratology. That's all important and interesting, but I don't think we can fully appreciate Monogatari without digging our nails into some specific scenes and conversations. The series isn't just a bunch of a random moments arranged according to some grand scheme, after all. The tiny details are designed for their own purposes.
Like any Monogatari fan, I adore Episode 12's starry sky scene. All it represents about the Gahararagi couple's journey so far, and all its beauty in retrospect, make it a timeless scene. However, what I'll be focusing on today is the build-up to that scene. Perhaps the less important sequence thematically—yet the more interesting one in some ways—is Senjougahara's verbal assault on Araragi in her father's car. While we can write this off as her pushing Araragi's buttons as usual, there's actually a subtext of Senjougahara explaining to her father why she loves Araragi and why they're a good match.Read More »
Failure in Bakemonogatari (Nadeko Snake)
June 24, 2017 February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwrites2 Comments
Nadeko Snake is Bakemonogatari's lowest point and perhaps the lowest point of the Monogatari series as a whole. I don't dislike it for any banal reason like the amount of fanservice, but simply the failures in the narrative. Nadeko Snake has the misfortune of following three diverse and top-notch arcs and the burden of scaffolding numerous future developments in the series, but I don't think either of these are excuses for its failures. Rather, I don't think we should need to make excuses for a story in the first place.
However, this provides an opportunity to learn something vital about larger narrative structures. Monogatari's arc-by-arc format tells numerous small stories that act as stepping stones in a larger narrative path. Nisio Isin finds brilliant uses of this structure (which I hope to discuss soon in another essay), but Nadeko Snake is a bit of a failed experiment. Isin overexerts the arc or demands too much of it. The arc isn't filled with too much, nor is it taking too long of a narrative step. The failure isn't an active one, but a passive one. Nadeko Snake bets too many chips on the intrigue of a single arc's capsule story.Read More »
Style in Bakemonogatari (Suruga Monkey)
Suruga Monkey sets itself apart from the rest of Bakemonogatari by its execution. Where Hitagi Crab is slim and slick, and Mayoi Snail is careful and cryptic, Suruga Monkey is simply bombastic. The arc expands Monogatari's stylistic palette, while managing not to take any sharp tonal turns or compromise on the artistic cohesiveness of the series. This allows for Kanbaru's character and the events of the arc to flourish in their own unique way without seeming out of place. Suruga Monkey feels like a natural extension of the series, yet also different from anything we've experienced so far.
I would argue Mayoi Snail deviates in a similar manner, though not to such an obvious degree. Hitagi Crab is characterized by a darker, almost urban fantasy feel, full of religious artifacts and sobriety. Mayoi Snail jumps beyond that, presenting the viewer with a brighter and more satirical world (generally speaking). For this essay, I'll just focus on the specifics of Suruga Monkey, rather than make a mess out of talking about everything. However, Mayoi Snail does exemplify the first major factor in this stylistic shift: the arc-specific opening themes.Read More »
Lies in Bakemonogatari (Mayoi Mai Mai)
May 24, 2017 February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwritesLeave a comment
Just in time for Mother's Day, I started working on this Mayoi Mai Mai post. And now it's here. Late.
Mayoi Mai Mai is perhaps most interesting for its relation to the overarching story of Bakemonogatari, and thus what it reveals about Nisio Isin's storytelling (and storytelling as a whole). The first thing that comes to mind when I think of this arc is the twist that Araragi is in fact the character who encounters an apparition. We can say that the mystery of the arc relies almost entirely on one "lie": that Hachikuji is alive. Of course, this brings about a bunch of secondary lies like Senjougahara pretending she can see Hachikuji, but the story pivots on that one main lie.
Every arc in Bakemonogatari is set up this way. There is a "lie" in the timeline of Senjougahara's childhood, a lie in the conditions of Araragi's fight with Kanbaru, a lie in the number of snakes affecting Nadeko, and even a lie about Oshino's actions in the Tsubasa Cat arc. These lies make each mystery unsolvable until they're discovered—at least from Araragi's/the audience's perspective. And this is the arc where Araragi's perspective really starts to take over. He colors both our expectations and our moods. When he reflects that the park is empty and he feels like the only person on the planet, that gives us a great sense of his current headspace, as well as a subtle motivation for his attachment to Hachikuji. Or, actually, "evidence" may be a more accurate term than "motivation".Read More »
Thoughts on Bakemonogatari (Hitagi Crab)
May 14, 2017 February 7, 2018 scottlarouxwrites1 Comment
With the second season of Owarimonogatari on its way, I'll be rewatching the Monogatari series so far and giving my thoughts arc by arc. I've wanted to talk about the series (outside my posts on Owari) for a while now, but was never sure what I wanted to say. I didn't have a concrete idea for an essay. These posts will be a good opportunity to just let the thoughts flow freely and see where I wind up. That being said, let's take a look at the Hitagi Crab arc, and our introduction to the wonderful world of Monogatari.
Incidentally, our introduction is one somewhat lacking in orienting detail. I've always found it an interesting choice to start Bakemonogatari after the events of Kizu- and to not ever make those events clear to the audience. The anime staff must have thought so as well, for they included a montage of said events—something the novel lacks entirely. Although we do miss out on an easy focalization with Araragi as a result, I don't think the story suffers for it. We don't need to become acquainted with the aberrations of this world by experiencing them through the eyes of an equally ignorant character. The paranormal in this world tends to build off of traditional folklore or else flip it on its head in some way. As such, a big part of the series involves explaining why aberrations are the way they are.Read More »