New York, NY (Top40 Charts) EstrellaTV, the fastest growing Spanish-language broadcasting network in the U.S., announced today that Regional Mexican recording sensation, Gerardo Ortiz, will return to the judging panel of its hit talent search show, "Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento's" twentieth season.
Premiering on March 25, 2019, "Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento" will be celebrating its ten year anniversary and its twentieth season of uninterrupted on-air success in Spanish-language television in the United States. Returning as the fourth judge on the show's celebrity panel is Grammy-recording artist and Regional Mexican sensation, Gerardo Ortiz. The show airs Monday through Friday 8PM/7PM Central on the EstrellaTV Network.
"It's good to be back in what I consider to be, a distinguished talent search competition in Spanish-language television in the United States. Being part of this twentieth season milestone of Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento is an honor and I am very excited to be back with the EstrellaTV family," stated Ortiz.
"As EstrellaTV approaches its ten year anniversary, we are delighted to also celebrate the continued success and groundbreaking feat of Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento's twentieth uninterrupted season on the air. This show has been the heart and soul of our network and has proven to have struck a chord with Latino audiences living in the United States," stated Lenard Liberman, CEO, LBI Media, parent company to the EstrellaTV Network.
"Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento" holds auditions for thousands of contestants across the country in search of America's next big Hispanic superstar. The judges and millions of viewers make one talented person's dreams come true with a $100,000 grand prize, along with the career-launching support of EstrellaTV. To date, "Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento" continues to be the longest running talent competition program in Spanish-language television in the U.S.


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Well, as both a high school student and an indie app developer, this still applies, but in a different way. What are weekdays to the real world are my "weekends" – days not needing to do app maintenance, and which I've not a lot of time to respond to support emails. It's school hours for almost the whole day after all, and I don't want to mess up in the middle of the day, bad things will happen. Conversely, weekends in the real world are my "weekdays" – days which I can easily do software maintenance and reply to support emails, even as little as 10 minutes if I'm already on the computer. This means that I'm effectively busy for almost 24/7, mostly studying during the weekdays and maintaining and acting as customer support for my apps during the weekends.
From late October till late November, I have a large number of examinations to sit for (they're not directly related thus different dates), having breaks for about a week every now and then. Personal Diary version 2.5.1 was scheduled to be released on the 7th of November, with about 5 builds being released for beta testing in total beforehand. That's already a lot for me to handle, considering I also need to go to school. Bonus fact, the scheduled release is one day immediately after an examination I have, reason being that having it after an exam paper means I can probably cope with the possibility that I messed up the update. The app was submitted, reviewed and approved by Apple for release on the 3rd of November – a Sunday. It was effectively a "Friday" for me, as I've to attend school lessons the next day. And by the topic of this blog post, you can probably see where this is going.
7 November rolls along, and the automated scheduled release is doing its job starting at 8 AM. Of course, I didn't bother about it since the 3rd of November, as I've done a lot of beta testing for this particular release. The day goes on. First email of the day came in: it's an empty one, but with automatically attached diagnostics information. I didn't bother to check at the time, as empty support emails tend to be received as some users think sending an empty email can somehow allow me to know what issue they're facing. No, I'm not going to go through the log history to figure out what has happened. Next email is where the first warning strikes: "The app keeps crashing, I've tried restarted the phone and the app and that didn't help! Please fix it now, thank you!" – a user requesting a fix asap, paraphrased. While the user didn't explicitly state when the app crashes, the attached diagnostics logs indicate that the crash occurs whenever creating a new entry, or viewing an entry in the past from the Timeline view. Next up, an hour later, Crashlytics sent an email to me regarding a drop of crash-free users – 94.5% overall, down from about 99.8%.
What could possibly go wrong? My app works just fine on all of my devices, and Apple didn't reject my app for a buggy release (if you didn't know, they actually do reject apps for crashing on launch, or not being able to perform the task it claims to be able to do, whether due to a bug or intentionally). Since there are about 1.5K unique active Personal Diary users daily (according to Firebase at least), an approximately 5% drop within less than 5 hours of a release is very serious, especially when I'm just an individual behind the app, not a fully-fledged company capable of easily handling the situation. Note that most people have auto-updates turned on, so many wouldn't even know an update has occurred.
As soon as I discovered the email (coincidentally school ended and it was lunch time), I quickly fired up a browser on my phone to analyse the crash report on Firebase. Speaking of that, Firebase doesn't actually work well on a mobile phone, so I needed to request desktop site in order to use the site in the first place. A quick glance at the most frequent crash reports reveals the error.
"Could not instantiate class named _UITextLayoutView because no class named _UITextLayoutView was found; the class needs to be defined in source code or linked in from a library (ensure the class is part of the correct target)"
Well that's weird isn't it? _UITextLayoutView looks like an internal class, presumably it's part of UITextView, which is indeed used in the page for writing your diary entries. I mean, that's the most suitable built-in text view for this scenario anyway. If that is causing an error, it's going to be significantly harder to debug. Oh well, I'll deal with this after lunch.
As I reach for my computer in my room (I didn't think of taking that to school at the time), I fired up the exact Firebase crash summary link on my computer by handing off from my phone, and analysed the stack trace a little and also what user interactions have led to this tragedy to occur. After identifying that the issue was indeed caused by something regarding any part of the app that loads an embedded UITextView and not knowing what to do next, I copied the error message like any sane programmer would, pasted it in a search engine with quotes in the hopes that a web search can reveal some exact matches of the error message.
Surprisingly, there are results, and are relatively recent ones too. The title of the first result wasn't about the text view though, even though it contains the error message. It mentions "After upgrading from Xcode 11.1 to Xcode 11.2, the app crashes due to _UITextLayoutView". Curious, I opened up the StackOverflow link, and indeed confirmed that the issue was not due to my code, but caused by Xcode. Not only that, this issue only occurs on devices running below iOS 13.2, i.e. the app's flawless if ran on a newer iOS version.
This explains everything – I didn't experience any issues as I've fully updated most of my personal and test devices on hand (which is not a lot) to said iOS version. Furthermore, it appears that I just so happened to have updated to Xcode 11.2 and built my originally fully-functional-app with it, without even realising that it doesn't work on older devices. With my low number of active beta testers, I believe most of them are also on iOS 13.2 or even iOS 13.3 beta, as they're likely always on the bleeding edge of things. At least it'll be an easy fix!
While I'm at this moment of realisation that the issue isn't my code, I looked at Firebase stats and noticed that less than a quarter of my users are on iOS 13.2 or later. That's a problem – it means eventually most users will start encountering the issue when trying to write their entry in Personal Diary. Emails trickle in at a fast pace, even with only a handful of users active in any given time, I receive a large influx of emails – overwhelming my capacity to deal with them. I – a one man team – can't deal with customer support for such a large number of users, I'm likely to burnout. Internet connection is intermittent that day, and I was only able to download the Xcode 11.2.1 GM seed (which supposedly fixes the issue based on the StackOverflow post) after a long 5 hours. All I did was recompiled the app and uploaded it to the App Store, plus a minor bug fix along the way.
While we're at that, a large banner notice has been put up on my site, and the App Store description regarding the incompatibility with iOS version older than iOS 13.2. I mean, it worked for some people – at least 2 out of the hundreds of emails that came in noticed the message and updated iOS on their own. I'm still amazed that people paid attention, I was expecting it to be entirely ignored.
Version 2.5.2 was submitted for review on 8 PM – within 12 hours of the previous release. It was eventually accepted by Apple in a few hours and pushed to the public via Automatic Updates. You don't usually see app updates in less than a day, do you? However, I soon realised that this mechanism for auto-updating apps that Apple has isn't really live – the previous build is still being served to users. If anything, they're still being updated to the older version 2.5.1 from version 2.5, while the bug fix in 2.5.2 is already available for manual download. This is a problem, as over the course of the first day, almost 100+ emails have been received (and promptly responded to), and the second day sees no slow downs, but in fact an increase in support tickets. I was flabbergasted. I need to deal with so many emails, I just gave up and sent copies of the same message. They're slightly personalised to the receiving user by mentioning and greeting them with their name though. While I'm busy sending replies to the hundreds of users that sent in reports, new ones still arrive. I could barely handle that, especially when things don't seem to be slowing down.
This went on for about three whole days before everything cooled down. Not just the crashes, the emails as well. It's even more infuriating to think about when the latest update has already resolved the issue in less than 24 hours, but you still have to deal with it for such a long time.
Even though majority of users never responded to my email, for those who did, they are happy for the swift response. Some are confused about why they had "just updated this morning" but there's a new update again, but either way, they're pleased. If anything, you'd be able to see on the App Store right now that Personal Diary Version 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 are effectively released on the same day. My Personal Diary downloads however was somewhat affected, presumably due to ratings and ranking drops. It has left a scar in my nearly perfect crash-free users stats. I'm lucky that I didn't get a lot of negative reviews as I've an automated prompt after an app crash to contact me for help. Well, except for this one person, who was not only mad, they were also mad that Safe Mode (a functionality within the app to attempt to automatically log and fix issues) didn't work. Well, Safe Mode isn't magic anyway, it can't fix everything.
The only thing that I'm not really comfortable with is the above comment about whether I'm ensuring the app is stable before release. Well, for one, the app is indeed stable, it's just that I didn't expect a compiler update to completely break support for older OS versions… that doesn't happen out of nowhere unless it's explicitly stated in the changelog. It is definitely partly my fault for not testing it on older versions, but what about Apple – how did they release a copy of Xcode which causes apps compiled with it to be crippled on older devices? You see, not a lot of people want to beta test apps. Probably neither does Apple have lots of beta testers for minor releases like that. Furthermore, beta testers often are more careful and tend to be more technologically literate, and that the beta testers generally are up to date in their software. Maybe that's why the bug slipped all the way onto users of my app. This is something that's generally overlooked, including by me.
I've responded to the review via the App Store, and in typical "end-user fashion", they don't respond back when something is working as intended. I guess that's how life is – no one will praise when things in life are great for them, but they'll complain like it's the end of the world when something doesn't go as planned.
Regardless, this was an interesting and somewhat traumatising experience, and of course I'm never going to be doing that again. I now take precautions such as using the Phased Release feature of App Store Connect to slowly release an update over a 7 day period via automatic updates, rather than an instant "push". Hey, at least a lot of people were satisfied that at least I responded to their emails, so that's something positive I can take away. Hopefully, a similar fault won't occur again within the lifetime of Personal Diary, or any app I made or will ever make in general.
Like what I usually say, I don't recommend anyone to develop apps like I do unless you're able to commit to maintaining them.

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Author Interview with Catherine Ryan Howard
Catherine Ryan Howard by City Headshots Dublin
Date: 22 Feb 2019Author: jcladyluv 0 Comments
Author Catherine Ryan Howard published her debut novel, Distress Signals, in 2016. It was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and was shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger. With her second novel, The Liar's Girl, Catherine became only the second Irish woman ever to be nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, an accolade founded in 1954 by the Mystery Writers of America and previously bestowed upon writing greats such as Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin and Stephen King. Catherine's novels have been translated into a total of nine languages and Distress Signals is being developed for television as a mini-series. She has previously taught workshops for the Irish Writers Centre and Faber Academy, among others, and in 2018 she facilitated the Cork City Libraries Creative Writing Summer School.
1) First, I want to thank you Catherine for taking time out of your busy schedule to do this interview with me, it's truly an honor! I am such a huge fan and have been following your blog for years, since your books Self-Printed, Moursetrapped, and Backpacked so I can not tell you how excited I am to do this. When was it that you knew writing was what you were meant to do with your life? What is it about being a writer that you love the most?
I've always known I wanted to be a writer – ever since I realized that people actually sat down and pulled the books I loved to read out of their imaginations. If that was a job, I wanted to have it. I'm very lucky now to be able to say that I do. My favorite thing to do is to lose a few hours to a great read, whether it's on the couch or on a plane on lying on the beach, and I love it when readers tell me that they've done that with books of mine.
2) Can you tell our readers a little about you and your books and where they can find them? What inspires you to write the stories that you tell and create the characters that you've created? Do you think that your various travels are a part of what inspires you?
I started off self-publishing but my goal was always to write in the genre I love the most, crime fiction, and to get published. My first thriller, Distress Signals, came out in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA's John Creasey New Blood Dagger, and it's being developed for television. My second, The Liar's Girl, came out in 2018 and it's currently nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel – I'm looking forward to attending to the ceremony in New York towards the end of April. Both novels are published on both sides of the Atlantic and they've been translated into (I think!) nine other languages now as well. I've definitely used my own life and experiences in my work – Distress Signals is partly set in France and I used my experience of working housekeeping in a Walt Disney World hotel to inform the scenes set in the housekeeping on a cruise ship.
3) What's your writing routine look like? Do you have a schedule for when you write that helps you stay on track and stay productive? Do you outline your novels and do character sketches? How long does it generally take you to complete a novel? What projects are you currently working on?
I don't have a routine, I'm not disciplined at all! Same for a schedule. I just know when my deadline is and then I hope for the best. I outline quite extensively; I like to plot out my books in advance. How long it takes varies from project to project. I've just finished the copyedits on my third thriller, Rewind, which will be out in September 2019 and I'm about to start outlining my fourth.
4) What's the first book you ever read that really touched you emotionally and moved you? Who is your favorite author? What book are you currently reading?
I don't remember but I know that when I read Jurassic Park, I was completely floored that such an adventure had come from nothing, from someone's imagination. I don't really have one favorite author, but I have read everything Michael Connelly has written and I've been reading him religiously since 1998. I'm currently reading a proof copy of On My Life by Angela Clarke, which is out later this year.
5) What has been your most significant achievement as a writer thus far? Where do you see yourself within your career in the next five years?
I think the Edgar nomination is the biggest thing that's happened to me so far – I'm still trying to get over the shock of being nominated for an award previously won by the likes of Michael Crichton, Raymond Chandler and Stephen King. I hope in five years' time I'm still writing books.
6) Have you had to deal with rejection so far in your writing career and if so how did you deal with it? What are your thoughts about how the publishing industry is changing in terms of traditional publishing and self-publishing? Since you have experience in both avenues which do you prefer?
I did deal with rejection but I totally understood it was par for the course. Everything about this business is so subjective. And I absolutely prefer traditional publishing. I knew I would before I signed my first deal, but I truly didn't realize all the stuff that happens when you're with a publisher that can't or won't when you self-publish. I prefer working with a team of people who know a lot more about publishing than me, and getting paid advances means I get write full-time. I enjoyed self-publishing and it was the ideal option for the titles I self-published, but for me it always just a means to an end.
7) Do you believe that there is ever a point in life where it's too late for an aspiring writer to become successful in this industry? Do you feel a late start would hinder their chances?
Absolutely not. The only thing anyone really cares about is a great book. If you have that, you don't need to worry about anything else.
8) So many writers say that they hate reading their own work? Do you ever find comfort in reading back your novels like you would read any other book?
No, definitely not. I don't even like doing readings from them at events but you immediately see things you'd like to change. The editing never stops. It's better never to look at them again.
9) What advice would you give to writers who are struggling with their road to getting published?
Don't give up. You never know what's around the corner.
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Q: Build git on embedded system I want to build git on our embedded system and I got git's source code from here.
I run ./configure tool with following arguments:
./configure --build=arm-eabi --host=`uname -p`-`uname -s`-`uname -o`

Configure tool runs, and returns an error says:
checking whether system succeeds to read fopen'ed directory...configure: error: in`/home/git-1.8.0.2`.

I set necessary environment variables like CC and CXX to our tool chain already, so ./configure complains nothing about compilers.
But I have no idea about that error message. It looks like some permission problem, but I have full permission of /home/git-1.8.0.2 for sure.
Any idea ?

A: If you look in the configure script, you will find that it tries to perform a check that requires executing a test program. But because you are cross compiling, configure knows that it can't get reliable results that way so it does not even try but bails out.
configure can handle cached values from previous runs and does that with the help of environment variables. You can use that same mechanism to tell configure what to assume for the tests it can't perform (for the currently failing test, that would be ac_cv_fread_reads_directories=no).

As a side note, you have the --build and --host parameters the wrong way around. --build should indicate the machine on which the build is being performed, while --host should indicate the machine on which the final software will run.
The name provided for --host is also assumed to be the prefix of the cross-compilation toolchain, so there is no need to explicitly set CC and CXX

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Avicii Died of Apparent Suicide - Rolling Stone
Tim Bergling, the Swedish DJ-producer who performed as Avicii, died of an apparent suicide. Bergling's family shared a statement about the musician's death, saying, "He really struggled with thoughts about meaning, life, happiness. He could not go on any longer. He wanted to find peace." "Our beloved Tim was a seeker, a fragile artistic soul searching for answers to existential questions," Bergling's family said. "An over-achieving perfectionist who traveled and worked hard at a pace that led to extreme stress."
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How did Avicii die? Death reported as suicide after family say: "He could not go on any longer"
Swedish EDM DJ passed away on April 20 at the age of 28 Details continue to emerge after Swedish DJ and producer Avicii passed away suddenly in Oman last month (April 20). Real name Tim Bergling, the Grammy-nominated EDM star was 28. The official cause of death is not currently known, but reports claim the star took his own life. His family has said: "He could not go on any longer".
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Avicii's death is not an excuse to ignore ethical guidelines on suicide reporting - Vox
"Avicii reportedly committed suicide with broken glass bottle" was Page Six's headline. "Avicii's suicide caused by self-inflicted cuts from glass," reported TMZ. "In Avicii's death, suicide details emerge," the Los Angeles Times said. Sensational headlines like these continue to crop up following the death of 28-year-old DJ and artist Tim Bergling, better known as Avicii, who died by suicide last month. The news of Avicii's death is deeply painful and confusing for many. It's shocking that someone with so much could be so sad: He was young, beautiful, talented, wealthy, and widely loved. But shock is not a good excuse to throw ethics out the window when it comes to reporting his death.
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Avicii's family arrives in Oman as new details emerge on his death - CNN
Authorities are ruling out "criminal suspicion" in the death of superstar DJ Avicii, who died last week while vacationing in Oman. Avicii, whose real name was Tim Bergling, was found dead Friday in the Omani capital of Muscat. A cause of death has not been released. "Two postmortems were carried out ... and we can confirm that there is no criminal suspicion in the death," Royal Oman Police told CNN. Avicii's parents, two sisters and one brother are in the nation to repatriate his body this week, according to police in Oman, a popular vacation destination on the Arabian Peninsula. His family is "completely devastated," police said.
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International financing
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Green power for Zaatari
An article by: Christoph Albrecht-Heider
Solar power plant for Zaatari
Other projects through which KfW supports the inhabitants of Zaatari
Great importance
Why electricity is essential for the refugees in the camp
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A solar power plant in the size of 33 football fields is securing the electricity supply of a refugee camp in the Jordan desert. This not only gives the Syrian families a feeling of normality, but also creates busy city life.
Green source of energy
Solar power plant for a refugee camp (KfW Group/Thomas Schuch).
One of the biggest cities in Jordan is called Zaatari. It has grown extremely fast. Seven years ago, it did not even exist; seven years ago, there were only sand and boulders here. Then a few families came and lived in tents. Today, around 80,000 people live in Zaatari, Syrians, not Jordanians. Zaatari, a few kilometres south of the Syrian border, has only appeared on the map because the civil war forced millions of Syrians to leave their country.
Zaatari is still a refugee camp, but also a city. It has a main street, called the "Champs-Elysées" by its residents, lined with shops, restaurants and businesses, 3,000 in all. The people live in containers and tents. Zaatari has about as many inhabitants as the German city of Constance, for example, but they live together on only one tenth of the area of Constance.
The people living in the refugee city try to build themselves a normal life. Hardly anyone knows how long he is going to stay.
In November 2017, living conditions in Zaatari, one of the world's largest refugee camps, improved significantly. A photovoltaic system was put into operation, the largest one in a refugee camp run by UNHCR, the United Nations refugee aid organisation, and it is the second such system ever used in a UNHCR camp. The first one, which is smaller, has been running since spring 2017 in the Azraq refugee camp, also in Jordan.
In just six months, Jordanian and Syrian workers built the solar power plant on the outskirts of Zaatari. The plant was mainly financed by KfW Development Bank with funds from the German Federal Government, which provided EUR 15 million for the project. According to Cornelia Dinter, who is responsible for the Palestinian Territories and Jordan at KfW Development Bank, this is the first time KfW has financed a solar power plant in a refugee camp in this region.
30,000 solar panels cover an area the size of 33 football fields.
On behalf of the German Federal Government, KfW supports other projects in Zaatari that improve living conditions in the camp. For example, it is involved in supporting the drinking water supply and wastewater disposal, but also in education. According to UNHCR, more than 21,000 girls and boys attend school in the camp city.
One Syrian woman, Ilham, mother of three children, is happy about the improved power supply in the camp: "Now I can wash clothes during the day, they don't dry well at night". And: "My children don't have to play outside after dark but can watch television or do their homework."
Electricity that is produced when the sun is shining but not used in the camp is fed into the Jordanian grid.
UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly T. Clements explains why electricity is so important for the refugees in the camp: "Lighting means more safety on the street, and children are able to do their homework in the evening." It is also extremely important for refugees to be able to continuously recharge their mobile phones, as the devices are the only connection to their relatives and friends who still live in embattled areas in Syria or who have fled to another country. Above all, she said, electricity allows the camp's inhabitants to "lead more dignified lives".
The photovoltaic system in Zaatari consists of 30,000 solar modules. They are set up in rows on the edge of the refugee city on an area the size of 33 football fields. The 12.9 MW power plant delivers electricity for up to 14 hours a day - not yet sufficient to provide total coverage, says Ms. Dinter, but almost twice as long as before.
The inner city
About 3,000 shops, restaurants and businesses are aligned along the main street of the refugee city.
The power plant has other advantages. Electricity is expensive in Jordan. It is mainly produced from fossil-based raw materials, which have to be imported. Until the end of last year, the electricity purchased for Zaatari had cost the warehouse operator UNHCR as much as USD 800,000 per month. With the use of renewable energy, the refugee relief organisation now saves around USD 5.5 million per year in electricity expenditures and can use these funds for other aid.
And ultimately, Jordanian society also benefits from the solar power plant in the refugee camp The Kingdom of Jordan's Ministry of Energy contributed financially to the construction and operates the plant. Electricity that is produced when the sun is shining but not used in the camp is fed into the Jordanian grid. Because Zaatari now needs less electricity from fossil fuels, Jordan's carbon emissions are reduced by 15,000 tonnes per year. This "gain" brings the country closer to its environmental goals. Jordan intends to meet ten per cent of its electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2020 and 20 per cent by 2025.
KfW Development Bank supports its partner countries in developing and converting their energy systems in a sustainable manner.
A good example sets a precedent. In another project in Jordan, KfW Development Bank is combining refugee aid and sustainable power generation. On behalf of the German Federal Government, it is financing a photovoltaic system which is intended to benefit communities in northern Jordan. A particularly high number of refugees live there. However, the supported measures benefit the local population in the same way.
Published on KfW Stories: Thursday, 12 April 2018
The described project contributes to the following United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all - There is no life without water! We need it for drinking, but also for producing food in agriculture. The United Nations thus recognised access to clean drinking water as a human right in 2008. However, 748 million people still live without clean drinking water. According to estimates, this causes the deaths of 5,000 children around the world each day. 2.5 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services.
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy - Close to 80 per cent of the energy produced worldwide still comes from fossil fuel sources. Burning fossil fuels also generates costs for the health system due to air pollution and costs for climate-related damages that harm the general public, not just those burning the fuel.
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts - Water shortages, droughts, hurricanes and floods are just a few of the many consequences of global climate change and causes of migration. Around 20 million people are currently being forced to leave their homes as a result of climate-induced events. Climate change does not stop at national borders and its effects are not limited to individual policy areas, economic sectors or social groups. International efforts to contain climate change must also take into account the many interactions between these domains.
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
There is no life without water! We need it for drinking, but also for producing food in agriculture. The United Nations thus recognised access to clean drinking water as a human right in 2008. However, 748 million people still live without clean drinking water. According to estimates, this causes the deaths of 5,000 children around the world each day. 2.5 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services.
All United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Agenda in 2015. At its heart is a list of 17 goals for sustainable development, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our world should become a place where people are able to live in peace with each other in ways that are ecologically compatible, socially just, and economically effective.
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By Clara Nwachukwu
The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, the regulator of oil and gas industry operations has reiterated the importance of safe activities, as this will bring about excellent economic performance; Environmental protection; and Well-being of the society.
It said that none of these issues can be stand in isolated, as outstanding performance in any cannot compensate for underperformance in another
The industry regulator also said that in tackling operational challenges, operators must be sensitive to the environment, the people, global best practices as well as the nature of the economy, which is strictly dependent on oil, and the dearth of scientific information on the operating environment.
Speaking recently at the 2011 SPE Annual Oloibiri Lecture and Energy Forum in Lagos, the Director, DPR, Mr. Andrew Obaje, argued that there was the need to create a balance along these matrix.
He decried the practice where some operators compromised safety procedures to increase productivity; non-adherence to procedure guide and permit-to-work; restriction of safety management system to only staff at the expense of third party contractors, thereby leading to increase in operational incidents, as well as the non-implementation of operational safety case
Obaje, who delivered a lecture on: Balancing the Oil Industry Productivity with the Safety and the Environment, defended that the DPR has strived to create a balance among these issues as part of its statutory duties
According to him, the industry regulator has over the years introduced a variety of programmes to balance oil industry productivity with safety of the environment, and has achieved significant successes in this regard through its carrot-and-stick approach.
Waivers predicated on scientific investigation are being issued. We have begun to have some useful information of our environment especially on the physical effects of environmental discharges
Obaje further said that the DPR has been able to create the balance through a number of ways, such as withholding of permits/approvals, while also promising to "invoke sanctions for unauthorized activities and also charge waiver processing fees to discourage business-as-usual and have funds for environmental research and management," soon.
This will cover activities relating to Offshore Safety Permit; Oil Spill Control and Management; Remediation of Polluted sites; Waste Management; and Environmental Assessment.
He identified the following among a host of others, as contributing to successful industry regulation:
* Establishment of an evolved regulatory regime
* Enforcement of WM hierarchy for O&G wastes
* Establishment of a three-tier oil spill contingency plans (OSCP) and annual activation exercise
* Establishment and optimization of Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA process
* Establishment of continuous monitoring programs
* Pipeline/oil handling facility integrity inspection and maintenance programs
* Establishment of the offshore safety permit
* Implementation of operational safety case, and;
* The biennial conference for the spread of the message of good environmental performance in oil activity.
Furthermore, the DPR boss said the agency is currently mulling additional programmes such as:
• Search and Rescue and Medevac
• Aerial surveillance of oil spills for early spill detection in the offshore region
• Revised EGASPIN to be issued soon
• Issuance of SAGASPIN
• Issuance of minimum requirements for Health Protection and Promotion Programmes


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PSD parents, staff review elementary-school reading literacy curriculum options
Kelly Lyell
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Lisa Case wanted to know what type of support families would have for helping their kids learn to read at home.
Amany Elkhwagy wanted to make sure instructional materials would be culturally appropriate for the Islamic community.
Anna Lebedda was concerned about how students with dyslexia would be taught reading.
All three women expressed appreciation Monday night for the opportunity to learn more about the three reading literacy programs under consideration for Poudre School District's elementary schools during an informational session at Rocky Mountain High School.
About three dozen people, mostly teachers and administrators at PSD elementary schools, attended the informational session, the second of three offered by the district. There were about 50 participants in the first session Thursday night at Fossil Ridge High School, said John Passantino, PSD's director of curriculum.
The final session was scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, at Eyestone Elementary School, 4000 Wilson Ave., in Wellington.
The three finalists — EL from Imagine Learning, HMH's Into Reading and Amplify's CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts) — were selected by a committee of 31 teachers, two elementary-school administrators, four parents, seven members of PSD's central-office staff and representatives from the district's English Language Development, Multi-tiered System of Support, Information Technology and Integrated Services departments.
They started with eight curricula and dropped two early in the five-day process; they were not on the Colorado Department of Education's approved list of core instructional programs, Passantino told the PSD Board of Education at a meeting Jan. 10. The previous reading literacy curriculum PSD adopted for grades K-5 in 2018 was not on the state education department's list.
The six that remained went through a thorough review process by the review team, and the three selected as finalists clearly stood out above the others, Passantino said. Those same three also scored the highest in separate evaluations of reading literacy curricula for elementary-school students conducted by the Colorado Department of Education and EdReports, an independent, nonprofit organization that publishes online reviews of K-12 instructional materials.
There were no obvious favorites among the nine people who identified themselves as parents or community members at the event at Rocky Mountain High School. PSD teachers and staff were placed in the other groups. Each group attended 30-minute sessions with the vendors of each of the three programs in separate rooms.
More:Poudre School District's high school graduation rates reach 17-year high
They were given presentations of each of the three programs — all identified as structured literacy with an emphasis on learning phonics patterns and the "code" to reading, rather than balanced literacy that focuses more on memorization, Passantino said — and a chance to ask questions of the vendors and review samples of reading and study materials.
"I feel, overall, very included and appreciative of being offered the chance to review the materials," said Case, the mother of a PSD first-grader and twins who will start kindergarten in fall 2024. "I think the three companies have a lot of things that seem really great and similar, but they're also three distinct offerings that they have."
She was leaning toward the HMH Into Reading program following that presentation.
"But then I heard some of the things that Amplify was saying about their materials being more simple, visually simple, and I was like, 'Oh, that makes sense.'
"So, I'm between those two."
Lebedda liked what she learned about the Amplify CKLA program, too, believing that kids with dyslexia, like her fourth-grade daughter and as many as 20% of her classmates, she said, would receive more focused instruction early on to avoid falling behind than the other two programs seemed to offer.
"Their focus isn't on trying to be everything to everybody," said Lebedda, who also has a first-grader and 3-year-old and has had foster children at various times. "They're making sure that they are teaching kids literacy and then building off of that. Because when you lose these kids in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, every year that they don't find success reading, your mental health takes a dive, your belonging. Another district goal is mental health and belonging. You don't belong when you are illiterate and you're in school every day."
Evaluation sheets were distributed to everyone in attendance that could be filled out and submitted afterward to help guide the district's decision on which reading literacy curriculum is best for PSD's elementary schools.
The EL program from Imagine Learning was adopted last year by Greeley-Evans School District 6, presenter Jennifer Wood said. The HMH Into Reading program has been adopted by the Windsor-Severance and Cherry Creek school districts and some schools in the Jeffco School District and is under consideration by the Boulder Valley School District, said the program's Colorado representative, Brooke Sullivan. Amplify CKLA has been adopted by Denver Public Schools, the Montrose County School District and some schools in the Jeffco School District, said Monty Lammers, a senior account executive for the program.
PSD will continue gathering feedback on the three programs it selected as finalists — additional information on all three can be found online on the vendor's websites, Amplify CKLA, Imagine EL and Into Reading — through the end of January, Passantino said. That feedback and the findings of the district's review team will be shared in consultation with Superintendent Brian Kingsley and his cabinet of top administrators to select a preferred program that the district will begin negotiations with next month with the goal of having a contract for the PSD Board of Education to consider for approval in April.
The district has budgeted nearly $3.1 million for curriculum and instruction this school year and will likely spend that much or more on the new reading literacy curriculum for elementary schools next year alone, Passantino said. New curricula costs substantially more money in the first year of its adoption with the purchase of instructional materials and initial teacher training, he said.
"Obviously, literacy's exceptionally important," Passantino said in his opening remarks Monday night. "We consider it a gateway to learning. And when we talk literacy, we are talking reading, writing and communicating. You have students reading and writing and communicating throughout the curriculum and across disciplines, and that's why it's very important in elementary school that literacy skills are developed successfully."
Reporter Kelly Lyell covers education and other topics of interest for the Coloradoan. Contact him at kellylyell@coloradoan.com, twitter.com/KellyLyell or facebook.com/KellyLyell.news.
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Petter Nilsson & Rikard Warlenius , 29.01.2019
A long time coming
After a new Swedish record of 131 days with only a temporary government, Sweden now finally has a coalition in place. The election took place on the 9th of September last year and on the 21st of January the new ministers were sworn in. The end result is a government of the social democrats (SAP) and the Green party. They amassed the necessary support by entering into a so called "January agreement" with the Centre party and the Liberals. This contract stipulated 73 concrete policies on which the incoming government could reach agreement with the Centre party and the liberals. One of the contentious points on this list was that it explicitly stated that the Left party was to be kept out of all political influence in the coming four years.
This turned out to be problematic statements since the coalition still depended on the Left party letting it pass by abstaining to vote against it. After some initial posturing, where Left party leader Jonas Sjöstedt said that he will not accept this, talks with SAP ensued and Sjöstedt now says that he has been given sufficient guarantees of future influence to be able to let the government pass. Albeit this support comes with the impendent threat of V calling for a censure if some of the 73 points on the list are made in to actual policy.
The Left party's decision was motivated in large part by their analysis that the alternative to this government was a government made up of the conservative block; the Moderates, the Christian Democrats and some version of support from the extreme right Sweden Democrats. This was however not very likely, since it would have required the support of the two liberal parties that have promised not to give the Sweden democrats any influence over a future government.
A government with someone else's politics
After endless negotiations and a lot of grandstanding in the media as to which party is most intransigent, there is a general sense of relief that a government has been formed. Still in the end, no one is really pleased or even sure what politics will actually result from this government. There is now a social democratic prime minister and a red-green government, but the list of 73 policy points are more neoliberal than anything the previous centre-right government was able to pass. The two liberal parties used their 14 percent to great effect and explicitly stated that a social democratic prime minister could only be allowed if he signed up to running a neoliberal agenda.
It seems that this is what will happen. Taxes will be lowered for high incomes, there will be no limits on profits by private enterprises in the public sector, the labour market will be deregulated further and rents in public housing will be allowed to rise according to market value. There are some progressive proposals on environmental issues and migration but the general gist of the January agreement is one of a strong neoliberal offensive on all levels of Swedish society. Most of the policies will first have to be prepared and it remains to be seen what will actually happen when they are to be made in to concrete politics. The state apparatus is still run by civil servants under a social democratic government, but the outlook for progressive policy is bleak.
The SAP succeeded in breaking up the alliance of centre-right parties into a liberal and a conservative bloc, and won the support of the liberal bloc by accepting their economic policies. In that sense this is the first government in Sweden that is based on alliances on the so-called Gal-Tan dimension, Green-Alternative-Libertarian vs. Traditional-Authoritarian-Nationalist. The common ground is primarily the wish to keep the xenophobic Sweden democrats outside of political influence.
On the face of it there is a lot of appeal to this strategy. The growing influence of far right parties all over Europe is a frightening echo of darker times. Sweden was one of the countries that held out the longest against a far right party entering parliament. It is of course some comfort to be had in that they are still considered beyond the pale. But in the longer perspective this defensive strategy might prove fertile ground for the further growth of the far right. With an economic policy that will keep increasing class divides and degrading the welfare sector a lot of people will be worse off. With no strong alternative to the left, these people will look for explanations as to why they are worse off. The Sweden democrats will be able to point to a migration policy that is not balanced by budgetary efforts towards those social services that will be strained by immigration.
Where will Sweden be in four years?
A centrist strategy that demobilizes conflict around questions of economic equality tends to instead accentuate political conflicts around identity, something that usually strengthens the conservative block. There is nothing in the new governments policies that seem to point to the situation for progressive forces in general being better off in four years' time. What hope there is for improvement has to be found outside of parliament. Nevertheless, the fact that the SAP is part of this government will make mobilizing harder.
They still have a strong grip on the institutional apparatus of many popular movements in Sweden, including the trade unions and the tenants association. There might be an opening for discontents within the unions and tenants to move closer to the Left party and mobilize a radical critique of the last 30 years of slow decay of the SAP, but this remains to be seen. The first obstacle for the Left party to become the leading political force against austerity is to credibly demonstrate that it is in opposition, even against a government that rules thanks to their votes.
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Zionism: Is Zionism Racism?
In 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution slandering Zionism by equating it with racism. In his spirited response to the resolution, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Chaim Herzog noted the irony of the timing, the vote coming exactly 37 years after Kristallnacht.
Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, which holds that Jews, like any other nation, are entitled to a homeland.
History has demonstrated the need to ensure Jewish security through a national homeland. Zionism recognizes that Jewishness is defined by shared origin, religion, culture and history.
The realization of the Zionist dream is exemplified by more than four million Jews, from more than 100 countries, including dark-skinned Jews from Ethiopia, Yemen and India, who are Israeli citizens. Approximately 1,000,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze, Baha'is, Circassians and other ethnic groups also are represented in Israel's population.
Many Christians have traditionally supported the goals and ideals of Zionism. Israel's open and democratic character and its scrupulous protection of the religious and political rights of Christians and Muslims rebut the charge of exclusivity.
The Arab states define citizenship strictly by native parentage. It is almost impossible to become a naturalized citizen in many Arab states, especially Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Several Arab nations have laws that facilitate the naturalization of foreign Arabs, with the specific exception of Palestinians. Jordan, on the other hand, instituted its own "law of return" in 1954, according citizenship to all former residents of Palestine, except for Jews.
The presence of thousands of black Jews in Israel is the best refutation of the calumny against Zionism. In a series of historic airlifts - labeled Operations Moses (1984), Joshua (1985) and Solomon (1991), Israel rescued almost 42,000 members of the ancient Ethiopian Jewish community.
To single out Jewish self-determination for condemnation is itself a form of racism. "A world that closed its doors to Jews who sought escape from Hitler's ovens lacks the moral standing to complain about Israel's giving preference to Jews," wrote noted civil rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
When approached by a student who attacked Zionism, Martin Luther King responded: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism."
The 1975 UN resolution was part of the Soviet-Arab Cold War anti-Israel campaign. Almost all the former non-Arab supporters of the resolution have apologized and changed their positions. When the General Assembly voted to repeal the resolution in 1991, only some Arab and Muslim states, as well as Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam were opposed.
Below, you can listen to Chaim Herzog's historic speech lambasting the 1975 UN resolution equating Zionism with racism, and US ambassador to the UN Daniel Patrick Moynihan's response to the resolution as well.


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Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.
Washington (CNN) -- Congressional negotiators resolved all differences on an agreement to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while avoiding a fee cut for Medicare doctors for the rest of the year, leaving only technical issues to sort out.
"It's good for the country. It's very good for the country," Montana's Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said early Thursday in announcing the deal.
But resolving those technical issues and getting the necessary signatures required to finalize the conference report was expected to take through at least Thursday.
"We're confident that this can be concluded ... and we're moving forward," Republican Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, the other committee chariman, said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada hailed the deal.
"This bipartisan agreement ensures that middle class families in Nevada and across our nation will not see their taxes go up this year," he said in a statement. "It also guarantees that hard-working Americans looking for a job in this tough economy will not have their safety net ripped out from under them, and ensures that seniors who rely Medicare will continue to be able to see their doctors."
The roughly $100 billion payroll tax cut, a key part of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan, has reduced how much 160 million American workers pay into Social Security on their first $110,100 in wages. Instead of paying in 6.2%, they've been paying 4.2% for the past year and two months. The break is worth about $83 a month for someone making $50,000.
The president said earlier Wednesday he will sign the agreement as soon as Congress sends it to him.
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I will call this Christmas "The Year of the Babies". All of our family gatherings and celebrations featured lots of babies. Crying babies, laughing babies, fussy babies and cuddly babies! We still were able to squeeze in one good game of Pounce, but the adults had to rotate in and out on "baby duty". Deb and I did get to sleep in for the first time in many, many years. In fact, we had to wake up Eric to come and open presents Christmas morning. That was nice. Some of the snow from earlier storms still hung on in the deep shaded areas, so we sort of had a white Christmas. We had all of our children in town and we got to see everybody several times. We very much enjoy our grand kids and look forward to them growing and being a part of our lives for a long time to come. Yesterday we had the Larsen Party at our home. My parents came down and we got together with many of the Larsen Clan. If all of the Clan were to get together, I am not sure our home would be adequate as the wild rumpus last evening was plenty fun and noisy and chaotic. Another wonderful Holiday Season and year!
The nice sunny warm weather around Thanksgiving has been replaced by record breaking cold in Southern Utah. To make matters more dramatic, a couple of snow storms rolled through just prior to the cold spell and left the desert covered in heaps of snow. My usual climbing crags and mountain bike trails have been frozen over. Last night we dropped to Zero degrees and I don't think we came even close to getting above freezing today. So the snow and ice are hanging around for days, just as if we were living in Northern Utah. Yesterday Deb and I braved the cold temperatures in search of powder and traveled up to Brian Head for a day of snow boarding. Nice sunny day, no crowds but the mountain was very cold and frozen. No soft powder for me. We still had a good time. Just had to warm up in the lodge a few times. Today Marty and I ventured over to Chuckawalla for a few hours of rock climbing. There was only one other die-hard couple there climbing when we got there. The rock was remarkably warm in the afternoon sun and we had a good climbing session before Marty had to go take a final exam at the University. Hope to stay warm tonight watching a movie with Deb as the sun goes down early this time of year.


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Readings and presentations for 2018:
April 10-12 The London Book Fair, Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London, W14 8UX
High Table at Pembroke College, Cambridge. UK.
Readings for 2017:
Paris, France; London, UK; Stockholm, Sweden.
Readings for 2015-2016:
Canto General: Song of the Americas
Miami Festival of Books Invited Reading by translator Mariela Griffor
Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century in any language. Now his work can be enjoyed afresh with remarkable new translations for the twenty-first century. Mariela Griffor captures Neruda's most audacious and ambitious epic poem, Canto General, which chronicles an episodic journey through the history of the Americas.
December 13-20, 2016: I will be signing books at the Miami Book Fair 2016
Date: December 11, 2014 - 07:00 pm
Thursday December 11th a poetry and fiction reading featuring Mariela Griffor, Glen Armstrong, Brian Smith, Michael Lauchlan, John Freeman, and Kelly Fordon.
2014 -April
I will be reading with F. Daniel Rzicznek and Brian Smith at The Cruel Garters Reading Series at the Gaelic League on April 13th at 4pm. The Gaelic League is located on 2068 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48216
Readings in California with Kjell Espmark and Monica Lauritzen.
January 4, 2013: Thanks to the following journals where poems from my
third collection of poetry have appeared or are forthcoming:
Press : "Curls"
Passages North: "The Psychiatrist," "Death in
Argentina";
d'art Le Sabord : "Cattys,
"Poetry International: "Death in Argentina,"
Tygerburning Literary Journal: "Sisters,"
Review : "Exiles," "A Mother Thing";
The Bacon Review : "Daphne and the Non-Profits
in the Western Hemisphere," "Andres the Barbarian," "Chiloe Island,"
The Adroit
Journal : "The Middle of this Goodbye",
2River : "Number 7," "The Friends I Loved and
Left Behind" ;
The Cartier Review : "The Tale Of Two Uncles";
The Café Review : "The Friends I Loved and Left
Behind";
the Spine : "On Earth", "Vision"
Parthenon West Review ; Badlands; Extracts:
"Wings";
Acentos Review : "Edge", "Chiloe Island" ;
Hollins Critic : "The Breeze";
Blue Collar Review : "Daphne" "Chiloe Island"
and "Green Bills";
Amoskeag: the
Journal of Southern New Hampshire University : "Crisis."
January 5, 2013: Also many heartfelt thanks to the editors of
Absinthe: New European Writing for accepting two poems, by Kristina Lugn, I
translated from the Swedish into English. The 18th issue of Absinthe is out already. Many thanks to New
Issues Press for including one of my poems, "In Manistee," in their forthcoming
Michigan Anthology. To the editors of the Aldus Journal of Translation thanks
for accepting two poems of Kristina Lugn. Thanks to Eyewear Publishing for
accepting a manuscript to be publish in the Fall 2013 in London. Sincere thanks
to Tupelo Press and its publisher Jeffrey Levine and its editor Jim Schley for
accepting for publication my translation of Canto General by Pablo Neruda into
English, to appear in late Fall of 2013. 2012 was a tough year but not even the
storms of the Midwest could stop the writing! I'm looking forward to sharing
more publications and reading more of the works of fellow writers and to
continuing to write every day and everywhere!
I am pleased to announce that my new translation of the poetry
collection Canto General by Pablo Neruda will appear April 2013 with
Tupelo Press
I am pleased to announce that my poetry collection Exiliana
is among "Popular and Recommended Books for Classes" for 2009 on
SPDBooks website
Release of my collection of poetry House in October 2007 followed the January
release of Exiliana - Right now I share my time between finishing a
third book of poetry and looking for a agent and a publisher for a substantial
memoir on politics and love.
Appointed as of September 23, 2007 the Consul General of Chile in
Michigan. Come see what's happening ... Michigan Consular
Corps.
Recipient of the Wayne County
Council for the Arts, History and Humanties , 'International
Award 2007'! The ceremony will be held on October 4, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Henry Ford Centennial Library, 16301 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI
August 30, 2012: I am one of the panel of readers at Tech Town for the upcoming Marick Press
Reading with Keith Taylor, Mariela Griffor and William Olsen.
August 30,
Tech Town located on 440 Burroughs, Detroit, MI
"Marick Press, a Michigan based literary publisher dedicated to poetry
and creative writing, presents a reading with Poet and publishers Keith Taylor,
Mariela Griffor and William Olsen."
June 15, 2012: I am an invited reader in Paris, FRANCE at the Club
des Poetes on June 15, 2012: Le Club des Poètes accueille
un poète suédois et une poétesse chilienne : Kjell Espmark (poète, romancier et
historien de la littérature, membre de l'Académie suédoise et membre du Comité
Nobel qu'il a présidé de 1988 à 2004), et Mariela Griffor (qui dirige la maison
d'édition Marick Press aux Etats-Unis) dont un recueil va paraître en
traduction française sous le titre : "Ma demeure brûle". Elle est actuellement
Consul du Chili dans le Michigan. Ci-après le poète québécois Guy Jean présente
Mariela Griffor, dont il a traduit les poèmes en Français
June 2, 2012: I will be an invited reader in the Farmington, MI
at the Absinthe
Festival from 7-8 pm, June 2, 2012.
April 7-8, 2011: I will be an invited reader, with Chad Sweeney,
in the Chicago based "Series A" poetry reading at the Hyde Park Art Center from 7-8 pm, April
7-8, 2011.
February 17, 2011: Invited Reader in the 2011 Midwinter Storytelling Festival at the Peter White Public
Library in Marquette, MI at 7 pm, February 17, 2011.
November 11, 2011: I'm happy to announce that I will be part of
the Midnight
Sun Visiting Writers Series on November 11, 2011. For more
information visit the University of Alaska Fairbanks Website
. More information soon. 2010
October 30, 2010: A Day of Poetry - October 2010. Saturday October
30, 2010 , 10:30 to 13:30 at Strindbergrummet, Berns Salonger, Stockholm,
SWEDEN. .
October 11, 2010: Reader at Wellspring Literary Series poetry
reading in Mount Pleasant, MI..
October 6, 2010: 2010 Chicago Calling Arts Festival. Wednesday
October 6, 2010 , 8:00 pm at The Reconstruction Room at the Black Rock Bar,
3614 N. Daman Ave., Chicago, IL 60618. Admission is Free.
2010" is a poetry event that is happening during the Rec Roomers series, as
part of the 2010 Chicago Calling Arts Festival. This event explores the theme
of "translations" in its wide range of permutations and possibilities:
translating matter into energy, time into memories, poetry into prose, the
present into the past, the future into the present, the page into the air,
promises into reality, ideals into facts, pencils into sketches into carvings,
frames into motion, clouds into rain and water into ice, sound into words.
Also, some of this event's participants will present creative re-imaginings of
poetry by Jules LaForgue, the French Symbolist poet who was born 200 years ago.
Participants will include Francesco Levato, Mariela Griffor (via Skype), Dan
Godston, and other TBA individuals. .
October 2, 2010: Reader at Kazoo Books II in Kalamazoo, MI. A poetry
reading with Marick Press writers from far and wide, Robert Fanning, Francesco
Levato, Mariela Griffor—and two of our Kalamazoo poetry stars, Amy Newday and
Scott Bade. .
September 24, 2010: I will be part of the Mayapple Press authors
reading on September 24, 2010. The reading is at 414 Court Street, upstairs -
the Court Street Gallery. 7 p.m. Saginaw, Michigan .
January 21, 2010: Reader at the Scarab Club in Detroit, MI. .
September 25, 2009: Reader at the launch of the The Ambassador Poetry Project to be held at
Grosse Pointe Artists Association .
July 25, 2009: Invited Reader to the Lady Bug Gallery in
the Whitdell Building in Southwest Detroit at 1250 Hubbard, Detroit, MI 48209
in conjunction with the exhibit of art by SWAN members (SouthWest Artists'
Network of Detroit). I will read from forthcoming releases.
June 13, 2009: Reading at the Oak Park Library in Oak Park, MI. Reading
June 6, 2009: Reading at the Midsummer Nights in Midtown's Lit Fest 2009
at the Scarab Club in Detroit, MI. Reading at 5:30 pm.
May 28, 2009: Reading at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association in Grosse
Pointe, MI. Reading at 7pm. I will read from new releases.
May 17, 2009: Invited Reader at The Broadside Press Poets
Theater. It will meet at U of D Mercy on McNichols and Livernois, May 17
3-6 pm in room 238 in the Commerce and Finance Building. If you enter the
university at the McNichols entrance there is visitor parking on the left and
the Commerce and Finance Bldg is across from the lot. I will read from new
translations of Chilean poets: Neruda, Mistral, Bolano and Lihn.
October 12, 2008: Invited Reader at the BookfestWindsor 2008 in Windsor, ON.
Reading at 7pm. I will read from HOUSE and planned releases in English and
Spanish.
November 12, 2008 Shaman & Drum in Ann Arbor 7pm. I will be
reading from HOUSE and forthcoming work.
July 18, 2008, 6:30pm at the the IV lounge reading series in
September 7th Reading at the War Memorial, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
From Noon-5pm
June 28 Reading at the Campus Martius Park, Detroit, Michigan. From
June 20 Reading at The Wharton's home. Aquarious Circle,
Oakland.7pm.
June 2nd Reading at the Brother Rice High School in Birmingham,
Michigan.
Reading on May 21, 2008 at 8pm at the Zeitgeist,Detroit. MI
Reading on May 12, 2008 at 7pm at the Spiritual Center in Bay City,
Register now for workshops at the Marick Press Mini-Literary Festival - May 2-4, 2008
by Peter Conners, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Ilya Kaminsky, Susan
Kelly-DeWitt, G.C. Waldrep and Derick Burleson. This event is supported in part
by Poets & Writers Magazine.
Reading in Homage to Trino Sanchez on April 24, 2008, 6:30
p.m. at the Matrix Theatre on Bagley in Detroit
Presentation Publishing Nuts and Bolts at the Winter Heat Writers Retreat - January 12, 2008 - 2-3
p.m. This event will be held at the Ralph A. MacMullan
Conference Center in Higgins Lake, MI. 2007
Reading at the 2007 Windsor BookFest on November 3, 2007. It
was a 3 day event, magnificent with a closing banquet! Kudos to the Windsor
BoodFest Organizers
October 26, 2007 release of House with Mayapple Press
Saturday 21 and Sunday April 22, 2007 reading at IWWG Big Apple Conference, Scandinavia
House, New York City 58 Park Avenue (at 38th Street) New York City, NY 10016
Monday, February 26, 2007. Lolita & Gilda's Burlesque Poetry Hour. The
Bar Rouge, Washington D.C. More information forthcoming.
POETS FOLLIES April 27th 6:30 p.m.
Sunday March 25th 2pm Reading at the Scarab Club
POETS FOLLIES March 16th 6:30 p.m. Lolita Hernandez, Alex Boyd
POETS FOLLIES February 23rd 6:30 p.m.
January 28th, 2007 Reading at the Book Beat in Royal Oak with Anca Vlasopolos
Friday, January 26, 2007 reading and launch at the GPAA series POETS
FOLLIES at 6:30p.m at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association located on 1005
Maryland Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230 Hannelore Hahn, Mariela Griffor, Peter
Markus, Marsha Carter 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006 reading at Il Piccolo Restaurant, at
7:30p.m. located on 226 Carlton Street, Toronto, Canada.
Quote of the month: "To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act
in accordance with your thinking." Johan Wolfgang von Goethe


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Family Group Sheet for William Thomas ORCHARD / Mary Florence CLINKER (F1879) m. 23 May 1915 : Welcome to the web site dedicated to recording the family history of the Ennevers and Enevers and our related families. You can search for individuals, display family trees, calculate relationships, read family histories and view family photographs and other historical documents. There are currently 12 family branches with more than 30,000 people and 4,000 unique surnames on the site, including over 2,000 Ennevers, Enevers, Enivers, Ennevors and other early variations.
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