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Q: Using VBA to sort and delete varying data from varying tabs I am using a macro to pull data from 4 tabs into one tab.  When the data pulls over, there are several hundred rows of zero's that I am trying to delete.  The main issue I am running into and can't figure out is that the number of rows varies virtually every time I pull it, so if I use a row (like 1570:1570 in the second scenario) below I miss some data or delete some date.  If I identify and run (as in the first scenario) the loop takes FOREVER to run.  I have used both codes below, with reasons why I don't like them.  Any help is appreciated (I am a TOTAL newbie to VBA btw).
-This is scenario 1 which takes so long to loop (usually around 8K-10K rows of data)  And scenario 2 as follows: -This is scenario 2 which works quickly, but either deletes valid data or doesn't delete all rows with 0's. As you will be able to tell, this one I did recording the macro as I did it in excel.
Application.CutCopyMode = False

Dim wbkX As Workbook
Dim wksX As Worksheet
Set wbkX = ActiveWorkbook
Set wksX = wbkX.Worksheets("Merge")
    lRow = wksX.UsedRange.Rows.Count
    lCol = wksX.UsedRange.Columns.Count

wksX.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(1, lCol)).AutoFilter Field:=1

For x = 1 To lRow 'Loop's through every row from 1 to Last Row.
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        x = x - 1
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Sub DeleteZeros()

' DeleteZeros Macro
ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$G$27997").AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:="0"
Rows("1571:1571").Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Selection.Delete Shift:=xlUp
Range("A1").Select
ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$G$6277").AutoFilter Field:=1
End Sub

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Imagine this scenario: husband buys life insurance and designates his wife as the beneficiary. A few years later the state adopts a revocation-upon-divorce statute applicable to life insurance beneficiaries which states that upon divorce the designation of a spouse as a life insurance beneficiary is revoked. A few years after that the couple divorces but the husband never changes his life insurance beneficiary. A few years after that the husband dies.
Is the ex-wife still the beneficiary?
In this Ohio v. American Express Ohio has asked the Supreme Court to offer guidance on its "rule of reason" test under antitrust law. The "quick-look" version of this test requires the government to show anticompetitive harms and the defendant to show procompetitive benefits. The party proving greater harms or benefits wins. This case is relevant to states because 11, including Ohio, have sued American Express claiming one of its contract provisions with merchants accepting American Express credit cards violates the Sherman Act (antitrust law).
American Express charges merchants who accept its credit card higher fees than its competitors. American Express's standard contract non-discriminatory provision (NDP) requires merchants to not say or imply that they prefer any payment method over American Express.
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Every Midwestern state requires drivers to have auto liability insurance. The rate that individuals pay for this insurance is based on a host of factors — some connected to their driving habits and history, others unrelated. For example, some states may have higher-than-average litigation or medical care costs; their residents pay higher premiums as a result, the Insurance Information Institute notes.
Within a state, too, premiums can vary considerably from one driver to the next. That is because, in setting rates, auto insurers use a mix of "driving factors" and "non-driving factors." The former includes an individual's driving record, the type of car being insured and the number of miles driven; the latter includes age, gender, marital status, credit history and where the driver lives.
The recent hack of the consumer reporting agency Equifax compromised the security of 143 million Americans' personal information, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers. The incident serves as a stark reminder of the perils of identity theft and its impact on consumer credit reports. As a response to these concerns, certain credit monitoring and control provisions have been granted to consumers through federal and state.


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Ruga: The steps not taken
By Dan Agbese
12 July 2019 | 4:13 am
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I would imagine that two things would have happened by now with the suspension of the Ruga, acronym for Rural Grazing Area, plan by President Buhari. One, the temperature generated over the controversy would dip, although the incendiary rhetoric may not necessarily be toned down. Two, it would afford the federal government an opportunity to re-examine the problem it is trying to solve and find, perhaps, a less controversial approach to it. Approach is the word.
The Ruga scheme is the third in the series of suggestions the federal government had broached since the killings by herdsmen became a national crisis. First was cattle colonies and then cattle ranches. When these two gave way to Ruga in the heat of opposition to them, the government must have thought it had hit the winning formula. As it turned out, not so fast. The fault may not be in the conception but in the failure of the government to take steps that should have been taken to give effect to it in a manner less likely to send it down the crevices of our national fault lines.
We sit on fault lines, cousins to the tinder box. Our national discourse is conducted on the basis of a) yes by one section and a loud no by the other section and b) the expression of extreme views with little room for other less extreme views because local champions spring from the rich ponds of hate, suspicion and misunderstanding. A sensitive leader must learn to walk the middle path by ensuring that he is not a captive to either side. Not the easiest thing to do in a country where the craving for applause quite often trumps hard-headed thinking and the grave demands of leadership. I did not intend this to sound preachy but, well….
From the little I have read about the Ruga settlement plan, not many of us really know what it is all about. Is it a sound national policy designed to primarily make us safe in our country or a cynical response to a problem crying for an urgent solution? We do not quite know because the federal government did not find it necessary to let us know, ask questions to allay our fears and suspicions and satisfy ourselves that it has some merits that should make us embrace it.
In the circumstances, suspicion and speculations have been allowed to becloud reason.. Those who have rejected it out of hand suspect it is part of an alleged plot to give the Fulani preferential treatment at the expense of other groups, ethnic and religious, in the Buhari administration. I would think that a matter this complex and this complicated in a country sitting on fault lines widened each day by suspicions with or without basis, requires massive education and sensitization by the federal government, the sole promoter of this idea, before implementation. Those who accuse the federal government of arrogant stance, as in take-it-or-leave it, have a point.
In failing to properly market its idea, the government gave room to supporters and opponents of the project to amass on both sides of the divide and further increase the divisiveness in our country. Each of them is rattling the sabre. I am not sure the president is entertained by the jarring sound of threats of, if… and counter-threats of, if not…
The federal government has not done much to sell its idea to the public. According to the permanent secretary, federal ministry of agriculture and rural development, Dr Mohammed Bello Umar, the Ruga settlement plan seeks to address and possibly end the herdsmen-farmer clashes that have taken a heavy toll on our human and agricultural resources. These clashes have added a dangerous dimension to our cocktail of security challenges. The Ruga settlement plan would, according to him, end migration by pastoralists in search of green pastures for their animals wherever they may be found in the country and also end the clashes between them and peasant farmers.
Ruga was conceived as a modern pastoral settlement for nomadic herdsmen and other animal breeders. It would have a market, an abattoir and schools and medical facilities for the pastoralists. It is to take off as a pilot scheme in eleven states that have so far shown interest in it and are willing to donate land to it. The fact that some states have already been selected for the pilot scheme points to a failure of leadership in rallying the country to an action plan intended to solve a serious national problem and possibly benefit the country as a whole. It is an expensive scheme.
Two things, it seems to me, happened to make the scheme controversial. One, the way the announcement was made created the impression it would take off simultaneously in the 36 states. Two, the government assumed that because it is intended to respond to the murder and mayhem in the clashes between herdsmen and farmers, it would generate instant applause of welcome. Add to these the obvious assumption on the part of the federal government that the herdsmen themselves would be jumping for joy over the scheme that would resettle them and end their wandering days in search of pasture. I think this assumption is naïve. They too would need to be educated on why resettling them and ending open grazing would be beneficial to them.
A well-grounded policy in a matter of this nature, properly marketed to the public, would not commend itself to a hasty retreat as has happened. The first step is to know what the problem is: its causes, depth and dimension. It is a given that you cannot solve a problem without knowing what it is. The federal and state governments refuse to address themselves to how the Fulani cattle rearers who had a reputation for peaceful co-existence with their host communities suddenly turned into AK-47 carriers and killers even when there is no evidence of a clash between them and the farmers. The federal government settled for a solution that it believes would make finding the cause unnecessary. Human societies do not progress that way.
If the Ruga settlement plan was conceived primarily to end the herdsmen-farmer clashes, then it is a palliative, not a lasting solution that would help to make fundamental changes to our traditional system of animal husbandry. Animal husbandry is an important part of our agriculture. There are some 20 million cattle in this country. This is more than the population of four or five northern states put together. That is huge. This country should have a sound national policy for animal husbandry as part of our national agricultural development. It may or may not require Ruga but it must aim at ending open grazing and be conceptualised and executed as a process that would mature over a given period of time. A kia-kia approach is not advisable and could be self-destructive.
The federal government should have addressed some critical questions as they concern the scheme. For instance, should the Ruga settlement plan be nation-wide or should it be confined to the animal breeding parts of the country? There is a significant number of cattle breeders in most parts of the country but this does not necessarily mean that Ruga should be a national cake to which all states of the federation are entitled.
It is easy for the opponents of the scheme to argue that it is intended to do for the cattle breeders what is not done for other farmers and thus confer on the cattle breeders unfair socio-economic advantages. The cattle breeders and the cassava farmers face different challenges that must be met each in its own way.
Secondly, should Ruga be a sole federal government project or a joint federal-state project? Thirdly, should be it a public/private partnership? Cattle breeding is still a private enterprise. Fourthly, should the land acquired for it be a lease or an outright purchase by the federal or federal/state governments?
These are not idle questions. They and similar questions should have been raised and properly addressed before the scheme was even announced. However, it now seems that Ruga may likely be replaced by a new scheme known as the National Livestock Transformation Plan recently approved by the National Economic Council. We do not yet know enough about this new scheme but if, as the news reports indicated, state governors support it, it should lead to the conclusion that this is perhaps a less exclusive scheme than its cousin, the Ruga plan.
It should be a good sign then that the governors who are opposed to Ruga are not against the Fulani cattle breeders as a group. They just do not think that the federal government should single them out for preferential treatment in the manner the Ruga scheme was conceived. Let's hope, though that the new scheme would fare better in the public space.
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Attack of the Killer Soundtrack: Musical Technobabble
Attack of the Killer Soundtrack #9 - Technobabble Edition
This episode of "Attack of the Killer Soundtrack" features Ben and Dave from "Tower of Technobabble", and a double barrel blast of "The Killer Five" which takes us on quite a musical journey through cinema!
And as we try to unlock the secret of what makes a band, a good band, we also mention… flowery over the top music, violent jazz, old lady singing, essentially you are watching a very slow model backing up at two miles per hour, being all about love and stuff, playing with toys and puppets, watching their hands, that's neither R nor B, galactic nebula, typing with purpose and action, analyzing your feelings, recording your TV with your tape recorder, visceral… that's a good word for it, talking about little puppets drinking beer and goats doin' it, weird Irish guys, the trench on the Death Star, a simple bass line, you got the touch, you've got the power, punctuating the action and that same piece of music gets shoved into two different machines.
"I wanna see her make her deal with the devil… become a pop star known all over the world… that would never happen unless the devil was there."


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Boffins: Earth will be habitable for only 1.75 BEEELLION more years
UK team floats method for picking exoplanets to study in search for the lair of ET
By Rik Myslewski 20 Sep 2013 at 00:22
Unless we meddlesome humans – or our follow-on Earth inhabitants – muck up our planet with a nuclear holocaust, runaway greenhouse emissions, or some other ecological disaster, our 4.54-billion-year-old home should be habitable for at least the next 1.75 billion years.
Well, there's always the possibility of chance encounter with some wandering asteroid or a visit by hungry Kanamits bearing a copy of To Serve Man, but if habitability due to the sun's output and expansion are the only considerations, we've got plenty of time left on terra firma.
"The Earth seems to be habitable for perhaps 6.29 billion years (Gyr), but this is excluding the influence of humans and our pesky habit of pumping extra CO2 into the atmosphere," blogs Andrew Rushby of the University of East Anglia, lead author of a paper (PDF) published on Thursday in the journal Astrobiology entitled "Habitable Zone Lifetimes of Exoplanets around Main Sequence Stars".
Rushby takes pains in his blog post to explain that the true motivation and purpose of his paper was to explore methodologies for determining the habitability of exoplanets that share earthlike characteristics, and not to make "a definitive statement" about our check-out time from our comfortable digs on Hotel Earth.
"We are not" making such a statement, he writes. "Earth is [our] test, our standard, our control. In reality we only validated the model against other more complex models for the Earth, and came to similar conclusion."
The Reg gives a respectful nod to Rushby's intent – and to his observation that "the press machine is a rapid, yet inefficient beast" – but setting a terrestrial deadline is too attractive a headline to let pass unexploited. So sue us.
But to be fair, Rushby's paper is far richer than mere Earth lifecycle dating. In it, he takes into account a broad range of exoplanetary variables, and concludes that a number of candidates may have habitable lifetimes that far exceed that of Earth. For example, he notes that Gliese 581d "might be clement for 42 Gyr! A huge amount of time."
A planet with such a long habitable period would have plenty of time to evolve advanced life forms, Rushby reasons, "if we make the assumption that evolution by natural selection is a universal constant, operating in a similar way in potential exobiological systems as it does on Earth."
Rushby suggests that future exoplanetary investigations – "or SETI campaigns" – might do well to focus on such planets, since the evolution of intelligent life is likely not a simple, few-billion-year affair. In his paper, however, he rightly cautions that "This tendency to view evolution as a progression toward increasing biological complexity and intelligence likely stems from an anthropocentric bias."
That said, he also reasons that if we want to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, it would be wise to rigorously analyze planets that have been around for awhile for evidence of, for example, organisms that have altered their planet's biosignatures to such an extent that they could be detected across interstellar space, since those life forms would "undoubtedly require some level of complexity beyond that of simple replicating molecules."
So if we're going to study exoplanets in some detail, we could do worse than to use Rushby's habitable-zone lifetime filter. After all, we only have about 1.75 billion years left to finish the job. ®
Astroboffins capture video of Mercury passing across the Sun's surface
Not gonna happen again before 2032
Pack your bags! NASA's latest exoplanet hunter satellite finds its first Earth-sized world in a habitable zone – and it's only 100 light years away
Vid TESS also spots Tatooine-alike
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Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
When one of NASA's sun-studying satellites went down, AI was there to fill in the gaps
Machine learning in spaaaaaace!
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Triathlon - 02. May 2007.
Four months to Hamburg, the count down is on for the BG Triathon World Cup in Hamburg
The countdown is on. Four months from now the planet's best triathletes will gather in Hamburg, Germany, from August 30th to September 2nd, for the 2007 BG Triathlon World Championships, a pivotal qualifying event for the Beijing Olympics.
More than 300,000 spectators are expected to line the streets of downtown Hamburg and millions of households will tune in on live German television and the live internet show to watch 150 of the world's top triathletes battle for the title of World Champion. In addition to the pool of Elite athletes, the world championships will also play host to Junior, Under 23 and Age Group competitions. Organisers anticipate more then 8,000 competitors aged 16 to 86 from over 50 countries taking part in the three-day event. If achieved this would make the Hamburg World Championships the largest triathlon competition ever staged. Also included are categories for Athletes with a Disability (AWAD), making it one of the few sports that allow physically challenged athletes to compete at the World Championships side by side with their able-bodied counterparts.
"Triathlon has never seen anything as big as Hamburg before. It is a new landmark for our sport," said ITU Executive Director, Loreen Barnett. "The BG Triathlon World Championships is our flagship event with thousands of athletes from around the world coming together in the spirit of competition. We are very excited to have such an exceptional group hosting the 19th running of the World Championships and are certain they will exceed all expectations and provide the best possible experience to all participants."
In addition to the distinction of being a World Champion, the Elite athletes will compete for the valuable Olympic qualifying points at stake and the lion's share of US$250,000 prize purse. World Championships offer twice as many points than World Cup events so making the podium in Hamburg could be a huge step closer to Beijing in 2008.
"We wish to give this triathlon World Championship both international and Olympic flair and put the people of Hamburg in the right mood for the event in its very early stages to give the approximately 8,000 athletes taking part and those accompanying them an enthusiastic welcome during the week of the World Championships", said Frank Bertling, the managing director of the organiser, Upsolut Event GmbH.
The city of Hamburg is located in the northern territory of Germany and is home to 1.7 million people. Deemed the 'cultural center' of Germany, Hamburg boasts a number of museums, theatres, music halls, fine cuisine and a central shopping district with many fine shops, restaurants and cafes.


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ENV Accused of Spanking Darwinist Lady
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Faye Flam thinks Evolution News & Views has "spanked" her ("I Get Spanked by Creationists for Accepting Reality and being a 'Darwinist'"). Ms. Flam, if we had in fact spanked you, you would know it. So what's she referring to?
Richard Weikart's article yesterday taking issue with Ms. Flam's previous column on Hitler and Darwinism. Professor Weikart argues — unarguably, we'd say — that a consistent stance of Darwinian materialism leaves no room for positing an objective moral or spiritual order that would give a coherent rationale for condemning evil or viewing life as having objective meaning or purpose. Faye Flam offers no answer to this other than an assertion that "we endow life with meaning and purpose." In other words, life has meaning and some acts are right or wrong because we say so. You might well wonder how an adult could find that convincing.
Beyond that, she complains about the label "Darwinist."
Why is it that to [sic] creationists label everyone who accepts current biology as a "Darwinist"? It's as if scientific knowelged [sic] equates to some kind of political ideology. We don't call physicists "Einsteinists" or astronomers "Hubbleites."
That last sentence is true, Faye Flam, but it is because there's no controversy about Einstein's science (or not until recently) or Hubble's. There is no party of Einsein or Hubble, but the same can't be said of Darwin and his theory. Count on a journalist, like this one who hasn't even mastered the difference between creationism and intelligent design, to be unaware of that fact.
UPDATE: Regarding the Darwinist complaint about being called "Darwinists," see here and here for how often they themselves use just these terms — "Darwinist," "Darwinism" and so on — to describe who they are and what they believe.
Which just makes sense: Only Darwinists put a Darwin fish on their car. No one ever puts an Einstein or Hubble fish on his car. Darwinism is much more like Freudianism, Marxism, or phrenology than it is like Newtonian or Einsteinian physics, or Hubble's evidence of a cosmic expansion.
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The Harri-Parris: The Big Day
A Welsh farmer's daughter brings her English fiancé back to meet her rural West Wales community and family leading to a number of misunderstandings and hilarity ensuing the day before their wedding.
The Harri-Parris are a West Walian farming family. Hilarious and dysfunctional, they love nothing more than having visitors round. And that's you! Anni, the farm's only daughter, is getting married and so the Harri-Parris want to celebrate the big day with you. Well, not the actual big day, they're not made of money. How about the night before? The night they're going to meet Anni's new English, vegetarian, indie musician fiancé for the first time. What could possibly for [sic] wrong? Dust off your posh hats and join the Harri-Parris for a thoroughly entertaining evening of songs, stories and cake. Lots of cake.
Mai oh Mai productions and Little Wander in partnership with Chapter and the Torch Theatre presents: The Harri-Parris: The Big Day
Script and songs by Llinos Mai
Directed by Owen Lewis
Llinos Mai – Anni: The only daughter of the Harri-Parri family. Actor, writer, director and farmer's daughter. Wrote this play and the first outing of the Harri-Parris entitled The Harri-Parris: The Leaving Do.
Rhian Morgan – Mrs Harri-Parri: Widowed, overbearing, matriarch of the family and proud member of the 'Not the Welsh W.I.' (Played Anne Jenkins in Tir, Susan in Stella and Sian Blathwaite in August, Anthony Hopkin's adaption of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya back in 1996 which I saw when I was very little in the New Theatre, Cardiff).
Dan Rochford – Ifan: Anni's terse brother who runs the farm day to day. (He played the role of Dean in Hinterland / Y Gwyll for two episodes). [My personal favourite character of the show but each one has their qualities contributing the the ensemble piece].
Rhys Ap Trefor – Deiniol: The camp cousin to the Harri-Parri siblings acting as the wedding planner (Huw in the Torchwood episode 'Countrycide') [The role was played by Rhydian Jones in The Leaving Do and he features in the promotional video for The Big Day though for whatever reason has been replaced and it may only have been temporarily as far as I am aware though Ap Trefor does an excellent job so you would never think he was replacing someone else in the role].
Oliver Wood – Ben: Anni's English fiancé (Who you may recognise as Charlie Jenkins from Boyd Clack's comedy series High Hopes).
For those expecting to see Gareth Wyn Griffiths who played Branek, a Slovakian seasonal farm worker in 'The Leaving Do', he does not return to reprise his role but that is understandable as the character was a seasonal worker who would have moved on and perhaps, as a foil to the previous play's events, would not have added anything to the proceedings of this play and was replaced in the four person ensemble with the character of Mrs Harri-Parri.
The light hearted narrative is a simple to follow one of a farm daughter bringing her finance to her home for the first time and the dissonance which arises from the perceptions everyone has based on the lies Anni has told and the realities when they finally meet. The Harri-Parris meet him in traditional national dress with a song, playing an accordion, before laying out a lavish buffet, "Go on have a bit… have a bit more… bit more? Go on!", but Anni and Ben have already eaten at the service station before arriving (and everyone in the community knows they have as Mrs Harri-Parri relates who spotted them where and when… There and no secrets in the close knit community of Llanlai). Anni has told her family that her fiancé, Ben, is a sky diving, charity working, man-amongst-men when in reality he is a vegetarian indie musician. This of course riles the farming, animal slaughtering, family who soon drive him to fainting during a musical number where they place him on the table and ritualistically gut him as if he were a chicken. Other issues include Ifan slaughters a pig in the downstairs toilet ruining Anni's wedding dress, Ben's mother had made a wedding cake that, safe to say, is not to Mrs Harri-Parri's expectations and inevitably there is a fall out.
The stage layout is very tight perhaps due to Chapter's small stage area but there is no sense it is overly compacted but rather lends itself to a realistic dimension for the kitchen area of a farmhouse. To the rear on either side are doors: on the left it leads out into the farm's courtyard and on the right further into the house. On the rear wall are the rosettes the family have won at farming contests, probably the Royal Welsh Show, while a drum kit, electric guitar and bass sit beneath them.
On the left is the cooking stove filled with a turkey and all the food. In front of this is the telephone say on a small podium which Mrs Harii-Parri goes to throughout the play to gossip, in Welsh (although its Pobl-Y-Cwm Welsh so there is nothing lost as you will easily pick up what she is saying even if you've no knowledge of the Welsh language as its about what has just occurred on stage). Just off centre of the stage is the kitchen table and a few chairs.
On the right is the Welsh dresser sideboard (display cabinet for anyone not familiar with this piece of furniture) in which the ruined wedding dress is hidden unsuccessfully, a piano used during most musical pieces and the chair in which Ifan often sits reading a tractor magazine when not involved in immediate events.
There is a little bit of audience interaction once or twice during the performance early on in terms of the cast pretending people are members of the local community. The pretence is that we, the audience, have been invited en masse to come celebrate the event and are all members of the local Llanlai community. As long as you are not in the front two or so rows there is nothing to be concerned about if you do not like this sort of thing. Most of the humour here is of the 'no you didn't invite that person did you!' variety with some being the gossipy women of the community who Mrs Harri-Parri doesn't like, Anni's past boyfriends (some whom Ifan invited as they are his friends though he clearly gets some mocking pleasure from inviting them) and one lady who gets the pleasure of being Ifan's girl that he is seeing (and will proceed to gesture at during one or two moments later). During this point the house lights will be up but they are few and far between and a natural continuation of the previous Leaving Do play where they actually handed chocolate cake out apparently (they do not hand out cake during The Big Day) but it helps the 'world building' of the setting. Of course it may be that the people selected were ones the production knew I cannot hazard a guess. Personally I don't like audience interaction but as it was restrained to the front few rows it was fine and something to be expected if you chose to sit there.
Before going in you are handed a Llanlai newsletter which aids in the world building and serves as a one page list of the people involved in the production in one column. It's free so that was a nice, unexpected, bonus of Welsh humour to get you in the mood.
The approximately 90 minute performance, with no interval, has a few bits of dialogue in Welsh but these are for the most part supplemental and all the key dialogue is done in English with a few Wenglish-isms. As mentioned Mrs Harri-Parri speaks on the phone in Welsh but these are easily followed and concern the immediately preceding events of the play.
There are musical sequences involving agriculturally lyrical R&B, indie guitar anthems, wistful balladry, rap and even one song involving Bollywood styled bhangra choreography.
The seating in Chapter was 'first come first served' with no seating allocation so if you go to anything there best make sure your are on the door early ready to go in and get your choice of seat. The stage is less than a metre in front of the front row so preferably gets seats about 3 rows back if you want to have seats similar to the front rows of other, more traditional, theatre venues. I didn't notice any issue with leg room unlike other venues and only now, when writing this, realise it wasn't an issue unlike other locations I have been. I have to assume the misspelling in the promotional blurb (highlighted in blod above) was intentional…
The play is quite straightforward in its humour and music but it is one of the first ones Llinos Mai has written and I think given time she will develop a more distinct voice and can be considered to be testing the waters as this play is more theatrical compared to the more musical based The Leaving Do. Certainly the BBC is willing to invest in her as soon there will be 3 episodes of The Harri-Parris Radio Show on BBC Radio Wales soon. In a comparison Boyd Clack started in a very similar vein with Satellite City which began as a radio show on BBC Radio Wales so if all goes well this may be the start of some big things and Llinos Mai becoming a big name in Welsh comedy!
It was a very enjoyable evening and Chapter is a good venue for new, inventive, shows. The big question is would I go see this again? Yes without question but more importantly it makes me want to see more from not just Llinos Mai but also everyone else involved in the production and I can think of no greater compliment to pay them than that. I am really looking forward to hearing more from the Harri-Parris on BBC Radio Wales and will be keeping an eye out for the nativity based third entry in the series when it comes around.
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A delay to the promised A View From The Bridge as the last performance of The Big Day is tonight and from the sounds of it has been sold out every night which is good to hear!
I wonder if there is a recording of The Leaving Do somewhere online. I tend to see things being recorded but never know where these recordings go afterwards. To some archives somewhere but it seems a shame to do that in this day and age even if you had to charge a small fee to view the recording.
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Baylor Heads Into Conference Play Looking Like a National Championship Contender
Posted On September 15, 2014 By Ryan Daugherty In Sports, Sports Takes
The best offense in college football has opened up the season with a light non-conference schedule, but they have shown that they are just as good as last year's team in almost every measure of the game.
The Bears opened up the first week of the season hosting SMU for the first annual game in McLane Stadium. The Bears opening performance was just as beautiful as the stadium on the Brazos as they dominated the Mustangs, winning 45-0. While the offense wasn't as explosive as it wanted to be, the defense had their first shutout against a BCS team in 19 years.
The victory came with many negatives however. Heisman candidate Bryce Petty was limping in the first quarter and although he finished the first half, it was revealed he had broken two bones in his lower back. The Bears also had a few injuries to their wide receiving corps. Antwan Goodley played 2 series before he was ruled out of the game. Levi Norwood also broke his hand which required surgery and up to a month of recovery. Corey Coleman and Clay Fuller were already out for the game and will remain out until Baylor's first conference game against Iowa State in 14 days.
Through the injuries, Baylor still managed to find stars in their fifth and sixth receivers on the depth chart. KD Cannon and Davion Hall, both freshman, proved that they are the real deal, particularly Cannon. Cannon finished with only 2 catches for 59 yards, but one of those was a 46 yard TD, his first ever collegiate reception. Davion Hall finished with 7 catches for 86 yards including many impressive short catches.
True freshmen KD Cannon & Davion Hall
The Bears next played Northwestern State without Petty, Goodley, Norwood, Coleman, Fuller, and backup runningback Devin Chafin. It didn't matter. Baylor dominated, winning 70-6 and racking up 720 total yards of offense. Backup quarterback Seth Russell looked like a Heisman candidate as he threw for 438 yards and 5 touchdowns IN THE FIRST HALF. The majority of those yards went to KD Cannon, as the freshman reeled in 6 catches for 223 yards and 3 touchdowns. The scary thing is all of those scores came in the first quarter as Cannon scored on plays of 50, 81, and 42 yards.
Defensively through two games, the Bears had not given up a single touchdown, and also led the nation in rushing defense and sacks per game. Granted the competition was pretty easy, but not too many teams can shut down teams like the Bears did through the first two weeks.
The final non-conference game for Baylor was on the road against the Buffalo Bulls, a team which Baylor destroyed 63-21 last year. The Bears only returned one of their injured players, but it was Bryce Petty who didn't miss a beat throwing for 416 yards and 4 touchdowns in 3 quarters of play. The Bears scored on their first drive with a Shock Linwood touchdown, but it was yet again KD Cannon who stole the show. On their second drive, the Bears were on their own 11 when Petty launched the ball for an 89 yard TD to Cannon.
Through three games, KD Cannon leads the nation in receiving with 471 yards. He has gained that yardage on 14 catches with 5 touchdowns (tied for the league lead) on a 33.6 YPC average. Simply put, KD Cannon is the real deal.
KD Cannon scores a touchdown vs NWSU
Baylor played an almost perfect first half on both sides of the ball, leading 35-0 at halftime. The 3rd quarter was a a different story. It was the first time all year that Baylor looked vulnerable defensively. The Bulls gashed the Bears defense and scored on a 41 yard rushing TD that should have been stopped for a loss.
The offense had no problems as they continued to march down the field with ease, but the defense continued to give up big plays, especially on the ground. The defense gave up another 41 yard rushing TD that should have been a loss of yards, and a passing TD where cornerback Terrence Singleton simply just fell down. The Bears ended up winning 63-21, and while that is an accomplishment that many teams would celebrate, Art Briles and defensive coordinator Phil Bennett didn't look happy at all throughout the game.
The Bears sit at 3-0 and are currently #7 in the nation. They have outscored their opponents 178-27. It has been a relatively easy schedule so far, but the Bears have shown us exactly what they showed us through their first 3 games last season: they are arguably the best offense in the nation and their defense can potentially be SCARY GOOD. The defensive line is as good as ever as 6'9 280 lb Shawn Oakman leads the way. The rest of the starting defensive line (Jamal Palmer, Andrew Billings, and Beau Blackshear) have been just as impressive as they have allowed virtually no rushing yards through these three games.
The concern for the Bears defense is their extremely young secondary. Xavien Howard has looked like a superstar cornerback through these games and Orion Stewart looks poised to have a great year, but the rest of the secondary still has much to prove. Overall, the defense looks like it can be elite, but of course they will have to prove it in conference play.
The Bears have a bye week next week, so their next game will be in Ames, Iowa as they face Iowa State on September 27th. The extra time will prove to be highly beneficial as they look to return the majority if not all of their injured players for the Iowa State game.
The Bears are clearly one of the two best teams in the Big 12, but they will have some road challenges in the upcoming schedule. Away games at Texas, West Virginia, and of course Oklahoma could be more challenging than they expect. Of course the Big 12 title runs through Oklahoma. The Bears have never beaten Oklahoma in Norman, and no matter how good they are this season, it is a very good possibility that that streak stays alive. I will not be surprised if Baylor runs through Oklahoma and picks up a double digit victory, most likely securing the Big 12 title AND a trip to the playoff. On the other hand, I would not be surprised to see Oklahoma absolutely trample them.
Nonetheless, if the Bears want to be Big 12 champions in back to back years including a legit shot at the playoff, they know that they will have to play their greatest game in program history on November 8th in Norman,
Congratulations Baylor on the fast start. Now go out there and show America you are here to stay at the top.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS
1. Bryce Petty is one of the three best quarterbacks in the nation, hands down.
2. KD Cannon is the best freshman in the nation and has an outside argument as best WR in the nation.
3. The Baylor defensive line is one of the ten best defensive lines in the nation.
4. Baylor is in trouble with their kicking game (kicker is 1-5 so far).
5. The running game has not been all that impressive so far and could be a cause for concern later in the season.
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Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. He received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London .
Investigation into the rise of US aggression in Syria
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Corruption and Illegal activities targeting minorities in the NYPD
Steve Maing is an Emmy-nominated documentary film director and visual journalist in New York City. hie first film, "High Tech, Low Life" chronicled two of China's first dissident citizen journalists reporting on censored news throughout mainland China and was part of PBS' award winning series P.O.V. Steve has directed films for the New York Times, Times Magazine, The Nation, and others. He is a fellow of the Sundance institute's Documentary Film Program and an adjunct teacher at Massachusetts College of Art. His most recent feature -- "Crime And Punishment," now showing at the IFC Theater, at 6th Avenue and 3rd Street through Thursday, tells the gripping story of a landmark class action lawsuit spearheaded by a brave group of Black and Latino cops turned whistle blower to expose an NYPD's illegal quota practices and targeting of minorities. The film's website is CrimeAndPunishmentDoc.com
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Rangers Score With Youth
Posted by Webster Washington on 10/25/2016 3:09:43 AM
The New York Rangers are one of the NHL teams to power up with youth this season, and Jimmy Vesey is the face of that movement in Ranger land. In August we were wondering how much of a difference Vesey and the young ones might affect the Rangers in NHL betting. Well, after a few outings, the returns are beginning to trickle in - and things look pretty good.
The Youth Movement
We centered a lot of talk on Vesey over the summer, because he was the free agent who won the Hobey Baker Award last season as the best player in college hockey. He was team captain his senior season, when he had 46 points (24 goals, 22 assists) in 33 games at Harvard. Of course, that was college. But Vesey still drew attention, and a lot of teams courted him before the Rangers reeled him in. Since then we've discovered a penchant for more than just awards and attention with Vesey. He's displayed a strong work ethic, gained respect of his teammates and shown savvy on the ice. Playing on the left wing, along with center Derek Stepan and right winger Mats Zuccarello, he's registered one of three goals that line produced in the first four games. And he's just part of the youth story for this Rangers team. Rookie Pavel Buchnevich, young Mika Zibanejad, and second-year man Kevin Hayes are also among the 23-and-under crowd with the Rangers. All have been contributing. Just those three names accounted for four goals in the Rangers' first four games.
NHL Betting on The Rangers
The Rangers are among several teams who loaded up this year on young, heady stars with scoring potential. That kind of energy I think bodes well for the over in NHL betting. It's still uncertain how the young guns will affect the Rangers win percentage. But the team has unloaded against the Islanders (5 goals) and San Jose (7 goals) already this year in hitting the over during their 2-2-0 start. Keep an eye on them for upcoming games against Arizona, Carolina and Edmonton, other similarly stocked teams. The over should be good.


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Stir-fry Chilli herbs paste with beef.
We start with the beef. We cut it in small slices.
Next the green beans. First we cut of the ends. And then cut them in half. Next cut them if needed in rough pieces.
The carrot. First peel it. Then cut it in half. And then in small pieces.
The onion. First we clean it. And then we cut it in slices.
The spring onion. We cut this roughly.
The garlic. These we squash first. And then cut it small.
And now the preparations are done. And we will wok.
Next add the Thai chilli herb paste. Stir until everything is properly mixed.
Add a little bit of water. When it is too dry.
Now add the beef. Keep stirring. Until the beef is almost coloured.
Next add the green beans. And the carrot. Stir properly.
When the vegetables become weak. Add the sugar. And the fish sauce. Stir again.
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Gustav Olofsson Done for the Season
March 20, 2016 by Dustin L. Nelson
Minnesota Wild defensive prospect Gustav Olofsson will have his season ended by shoulder surgery for the second straight season, reports Michael Russo of the Star Tribune.
The 21-year-old was injured in his first game with the Iowa Wild of the AHL last season and that derailed his entire 20-year-old season. This year, he made it most of the way, including getting a shot at his NHL debut.
He finished with two NHL games and 52 logged in Iowa, over which he put up two goals and 17 points. Last season was a lost developmental year. This year, the injury — to a different shoulder — isn't ideal, but he's managed to get in a full professional season for the first time. "So at least he got about 80 percent of the season this time," general manager Chuck Fletcher told Russo.
Fletcher says that the team expects Olofsson to be healthy and ready to go by the time training camp comes around in the fall. That may cast some doubt on his availability for development camp, which typically takes place in July, something he may or may not have taken part in in the first place.
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Solidaires est un voilier monocoque de course au large de classe IMOCA mis à l'eau le , conçu par le cabinet d'architectes Joubert-Nivelt et construit par Thierry Dubois et son équipe.

Historique
Thierry Dubois renonce à participer à la Transat Jacques-Vabre 1999 pour cause de désaccord avec le classement de cette course en catégorie 1, c'est-à-dire que des bateaux peuvent y participer sans être dans une configuration tour du monde, au point de vue sécurité.

Pour sa première compétition, Thierry Dubois l'engage dans la Transat anglaise 2000 qu'il termine quatrième en classe IMOCA ( au classement général) avec un retard de 16 h sur la vainqueure Ellen MacArthur. Ce résultat le qualifie pour le prochain Vendée Globe.

Le 9 novembre 2000, après un report de 4 jours dû au mauvais temps, il s'élance des Sables-d'Olonne avec 23 autres concurrents pour cette quatrième édition. Mais le 26 décembre, à cause de problèmes électroniques, il abandonne. Il se rend à Bluff (Nouvelle Zélande) pour réparer. Il repart hors course pour finir son tour du monde.

Le 29 juin 2002, en participant à la Semaine de Kiel, il démâte lors d'une collision avec un vieux gréement. Solidaires est présent à cette manifestation pour la promotion du projet "Droits de l'Homme Autour du Monde". De ce fait, pour pouvoir participer à Around Alone 2002, le bateau est acheminé aux États-Unis par cargo avec son nouveau mat. Il prend part à Around Alone et termine second.

En 2004, il est baptisé par Faustine Merret, médaille d'or aux JO d'Athènes en planche à voile VM Matériaux en vue du Vendée Globe 2004-2005 son skipper est Patrice Carpentier qui abandonne officiellement le 2 janvier  bôme cassée pour la seconde fois.  Il fait route vers la Nouvelle Zélande où il arrive le 8 janvier à Christchurch, après réparations, il repart pour finir son tour du Monde, hors course. Il arrive le 11 mars aux Sables-d'Olonne.

En 2006, le bateau est vendu à Rich Wilson. La traversée La Trinité-sur-Mer-Portland est faite en solitaire et sert de qualification pour le Vendée Globe 2008. Rich Wilson le renomme Great America III. En 2007, il participe à la Transat Jacques-Vabre qu'il termine seizième. Au retour, il participe à la Transat Ecover BtoB entre Salvador de Bahia et Port-la-Forêt. Il termine à la onzième place.

En 2008, il participe au Vendée Globe qu'il termine à la neuvième place (sur 30 concurrents au départ) en 121 j 00 h 40 min à 37 j du vainqueur Michel Desjoyeaux.

Palmarès
 2000 :
  de la Transat anglaise en classe IMOCA barré par Thierry Dubois
 Abandon dans le Vendée Globe barré par Thierry Dubois

 2001 :
  du Grand Prix de Fécamp barré par Thierry Dubois
  du Grand Prix de Quiberon barré par Thierry Dubois
  dde la  Fastnet Race barré par Thierry Dubois

 2002 :
  d'Around Alone 2002 barré par Thierry Dubois

VM Matériaux
 2004 :
 Abandon dans le Vendée Globe barré par Patrice Carpentier

Great America III
 2007 :
  de la Transat Jacques-Vabre barré par Rich Wilson en double avec Mike Birch
  de la Transat Ecover BtoB barré par Rich Wilson

 2008-2009 :
  du Vendée Globe barré par Rich Wilson

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Nom de bateau
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Our mandate was to design the new Baronet Silver showroom as a permanent exhibit at the International Home Furnishings Center in High Point, North Carolina. Baronet Silver is a new sub-brand of Baronet. The exclusive and sophisticated collections were presented in a creative environment, a museum. Each piece of furniture was placed on a pedestal. A comprehensive branding program was also developed to promote this opening: invitations, glasses, coasters and decorative elements.


Children looking to get close-up views of big trucks - including police vehicles and fire trucks - will be able to do just that at the Glen Ellyn Park District's Touch-A-Truck event on Saturday, May 4th from 10am-12pm. This free event will be held in the parking lot at Maryknoll Park (845 Pershing Avenue, Glen Ellyn).
Some of the over 20 trucks available to explore include an ambulance, a UPS package car, CDH's Mobile Stroke Unit, and a heavy-duty wrecker tow truck. A steamroller will be on-site, ready to flatten aluminum cans brought to the event by visitors. This year's event will also feature truck-themed inflatables, prize raffles, and giveaways. The last 30 minutes of the event will be horn-free, meaning no sirens or horns, for little ones with sensitive ears.
Parking is located near building 6 at the Roosevelt Glen Corporate Center, 799 Roosevelt Road, where a free school bus shuttle will pick up and drop off Touch-A-Truck visitors every 15 minutes. There will also be limited parking available at Maryknoll Park.
Touch-A-Truck 2019 is sponsored in part by O'Hare Towing Service, Razi Orthodontics, Topgolf, Awesome Amusements, and Holes & Knolls Mini Golf. In case of inclement weather, Touch-A-Truck may be cancelled. Updates will be posted under the 'Special Events' section at www.gepark.org/weather.


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Rebound students score at graduation
By Ben Lumpkin Daily Planet staff
Eight months ago, a group of Berkeley High parents, appalled to find 180 freshmen failing two or more classes at Berkeley High, decided to take matters into their own hands.
They demanded, and got, money from the school district and the city to start the Rebound program for 54 failing students.
On Friday morning, parents, teachers and school administrators packed the Berkeley High Parent Resource Center to watch 41 of the original 54 students graduate from the program.
"At your (high school) graduation, I'm going to be looking for you," said an emotional Katrina Scott-George, a favorite math teacher for the Rebound students over the last eight months.
"Katrina, she never let me give up," said Cofi Barrow, a Berkeley High freshman who went from getting almost all F's on her report card last fall to all A's and B's this summer.
From January until last week, the students, almost all of them of African American or Latino heritage, became part of a separate community at Berkeley High. They attended English and math classes that were twice as long and half the size of regular freshman English and math classes. They worked one-on-one with Rebound's five teachers, who were dedicated to helping them not just survive Berkeley High, but graduate with enough credits to be eligible for college.
(In keeping with national trends, most of these minority students had arrived at Berkeley High with reading and math skills well below grade level. In some cases, the students' academic deficiencies were so pronounced that meaningful participation in the school's regular freshman curriculum seemed impossible.)
Not all Rebound students improved their grades as dramatically as Barrow. But most improved at least from failing grades to passing grades during the second semester, and then, over the summer, made up the credits they were missing from the fall semester.
"If it weren't for y'all, I wouldn't be going to the 10th grade to tell you the truth," said one Rebound student Friday, thanking the Parents of Children of African Descent and others who supported the Rebound program.
Nearly all the students were more engaged in the Rebound classes than regular classes, Rebound staff said. They attended class more regularly and made more use of tutoring and counseling services available at the school.
As Scott-George put it, "Learning is a very internal process. We learn because we want to learn; because we have some motivation to learn. I think Rebound was a success in providing these kids a place where they wanted to learn."
A key element in the success of the program, PCAD members said Friday, was the incredible efforts Rebound teachers and program coordinator Leslie Plettner, a Berkeley High teacher who stepped in to help guide the program last winter, made to involve the parents of Rebound students in the program.
More than 30 Rebound parents paid a visit to their children's classrooms at least once during the program, Plettner said. After teachers met with students each Friday to go over their progress (a fairly radical innovation in itself, at a school where large class sizes make such student-teacher relationships difficult to maintain), they called parents to give them an update as well.
Consistent outreach to parents "held the students more accountable because the parents and teachers were on the same page," said Plettner. "I think the (Rebound) community showed what is possible. If all the players are invested in education, then we can work to achieve an equitable outcome."
The Friday ceremony was bittersweet for many, however.
PCAD member Michael Miller said he was concerned that, with Rebound coming to an end, students might have a difficult time readjusting to the regular high school environment.
"These kids have been under some amazing care these last few months," Miller said. "Now they have to take wing and go out on their own. And that's kind of scary."
Still, Miller said the taste of success that Rebound gave to students and parents alike may go a long way to sustaining the students academic momentum.
"If there was any question about whether the kids could do it, that's resolved," Miller said. "I think the parents who have been involved will continue to be involved. They understand what their kids can do."
And the Rebound program will not come screeching to a halt, said Irma Parker, a PCAD member and a parent liaison in Berkeley High's Parent Resource Center. The community formed through the Rebound program will continue to thrive, she said. PCAD has already used the last of the Rebound funds to hire a guidance counselor to work specifically with the Rebound graduates, at least for the first half of the coming school year, to help them stay on track.
Part of the legacy of the Rebound program, said Miller and others, is to demonstrate how the district can begin to address the achievement gap more effectively.
"We have a group of students who come to Berkeley High whose needs cannot be met by the structure of the present school," said Berkeley School Board President Terry Doran after the ceremony Friday. "It takes extraordinary means. So our challenge is, where do we find the means to duplicate this program."
While almost everyone can agree that smaller class size is critical to helping students bridge the gap, Doran said, California school districts simply don't have enough funding to make this a reality.
Even for those students who participated in Rebound – only a fraction of the freshman who failed one or more classes this past year – it may not be enough, said Scott-George. The reasons for the achievement gap, from economic inequality to institutional racism, are "very complex," she said.
"It's much bigger than Berkeley High School. They're still swimming against a tide that's very powerful."
Some said they look to the Rebound students themselves to begin to "change the culture" at Berkeley High, by succeeding against the odds and showing next year's freshman the way.
With new study skills, strong friendships, and a shared vision of success, Rebound students said Friday they were ready to meet the challenge.
"I got her back and she got mine," said Barrow of her best friend, fellow Rebound student Kandis Session.
Said Session, "We're going in there knowing what to do now. We're not going to mess up. We're going to college."


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Blogger Stuart Hall
By sfx 2009-01-01T09:00:00Z Feature
Here are the answers from blogger Stuart Hall
1/ What first got you into SF?
I don't really remember what first sparked my interest. It was certainly at a very young age. I was interested in, and had learned a lot about, astronomy by the age of seven or eight. My earliest memories of SF are watching Doctor Who at the age of three or four (Dalek Invasion of Earth) and Bleep & Booster stories on Blue Peter.
2/ Who was your first geek crush?
I can't really think of anyone. I'm not, generally, that bothered about specific series or movies. Those females that I do find attractive tend to be the ones who are not meant to be the glamorous characters.
3/ If you were a spaceship from a TV show or movie, which would you be (and why)?
Probably the TARDIS. Lacking in sleek, elegant lines but with plenty of hidden wonders. (The computer Orac, from Blake's 7, also comes to mind, though it isn't a spaceship.)
4/ If SFX were to run a convention, which guest would you most like to meet there?
This is quite difficult, but it would have to be a writer. If it were someone I could sit and chat to in the bar then I think I would go for Terry Pratchett. If it were someone giving a formal presentation about their life and work then Ursula Le Guin would be very interesting.
5/ What's the most exciting thing to happen to you (SF wise) in 2009 so far?
I am going to be very predictable here and say having my first blog appear on the SFX site.
6/ What feature would you most like us to add to this website?
A searchable database of reviews.
7/ What SF character has most inspired you in your life?
It would have to be a character of intelligence rather than action, so Hartnell's Doctor or Bernard Quatermass.
8/ What's always your number one book or DVD recommendation to a friend?
I do tend to recommend things based on the tastes of the person. The book that I would recommend generally is H G Wells' The Time Machine.
9/ If you were the boss of SFX magazine for a day, what would be your first command?
Tea, white, one sugar.
10/ Who'd win in a fight, a caveman or an astronaut?
The astronaut, since the monolith would turn the caveman into an astronaut anyway.


Come to McClain Auditorium dressed in your flannel, enjoy some food and live performances by fellow students and mission guests! Find out how one mission guest uses open mics and poetry slams in his ministry.
Donations of non-perishable food items will be collected to support the needs in a local church.


In Warsaw, Poland, a group of engineers have built a railway tunnel too small for trains to pass through and there is hardly any place left to go without a mask. Read on and have a laugh…at their expense!
There have been three major construction fiascos in Poland during the last two years and they are not only embarrassing, they are quite costly. A tunnel built recently to divert lorry traffic in Warsaw turned out to be too low for lorries and last year, Polish road authorities produced plans for two sections of a major highway that had they been approved would have missed each other by five miles and ended in the middle of the Polish countryside!
"During work on the tunnel, tracks were laid down on newly-raised ground which meant the distance between the tracks and roof of the tunnel became shorter".


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Colouring in the city
John L. Walters
Camille Walala
Ed Park
Camille Walala's exuberant, colourful designs for the Splice Post building bring warmth and vitality to London's Old Street
One sunny day in May 2015 Camille Walala arrived with a volunteer crew at a nondescript building on Old Street in London and started painting. Despite its reputation for tech start-ups, underground music venues and hipster coffee shops, the Silicon Roundabout neighbourhood is remarkably dreary, with worn-out buildings, uncharismatic shop-fronts, noise, dirt and intrusive billboards.
Walala's mission was to introduce colour, and her transformation of the five-storey building, currently leased by post-production company Splice, was a gift to both the local community and the growing hordes of visitors drawn to the speculative glamour of London's East End.
She is not the first street artist to leave her distinctive mark on the area. In adjacent streets you can see extensive, entertaining murals by Stik, Phlegm, Otto Schade, Thierry Noir and Eine, and Walala had already decorated several walls around East London. But the Splice building was her first three-dimensional design, the first time she had had to visualise the effects of painting more than one side of a building, and the first project on such a daunting scale.
The seeds of the project, initiated by photographer Jenny Lewis, were sown via social media. Walala and Lewis met and became friends through Instagram and exchanged messages for many months before actually meeting in real life. Lewis recalls that she could see from Walala's Instagram that they liked the same kind of bright colours, lipsticks and clothes. 'Camille's breakfast looks like her work,' she says.
Lewis, who has recently received acclaim for her One Day Young project and book, is married to Duncan Western, creative director and co-founder of Splice. The company had moved to the Old Street building a few months earlier and established a gallery space, for which Lewis became unofficial curator, in its public spaces.
Work in progress at Splice Post in Shoreditch, East London. To access the exterior, Walala made use of ladders, scissor lifts and Marcin, the abseiling windowcleaner. Photograph: Jenny Lewis.
Top: This undistinguished office block, originally black and cream, was painted black all over prior to its transformation. Photograph: Ed Park.
When the idea of painting the building came up, Lewis suggested Walala. Western sold the idea to his colleagues, including partner Damian Dolniak, bought the paint and put a schedule in place. Walala then put out an open call on Instagram, asking for people to help on a 'dream project'. From 60 replies she assembled a team of eight, including two women from Cardiff who took time off to come to London, signwriter Jack Lewis, who painted the letters, and graphic designer Julia Jomaa, who was Walala's main assistant.
The budget was too small to cover the cost of scaffolding, so Walala made do with ladders, an abseiling windowcleaner and a scissor lift. This last item was recommended by someone who assists the street artist Eine – Lewis was impressed by the solidarity of street artists: 'It's the sort of world where you can ask for advice, whereas in other areas of the art world you would have to go through agents, etc.'
When I visited the site in June, Marcin the windowcleaner, whose usual job takes him up and down skyscrapers, was dangling from a rope, painting Walala's 'sprinkles', oblongs whose outlines were defined by a wooden plank he angled against the wall to Walala's yelled directions.
Walala's route to street art was circuitous. Born in France, she studied economics before coming to the UK in the late 1990s, where she took on a variety of jobs and enterprises – waiting in restaurants, cooking, starting a catering business and making and selling her cushions on Broadway Market. She went back to college to study 'printed textiles for fashion' at Brighton University, where her dissertation was about French designer-artist Sonia Delaunay, a clear influence on her design. Another point of reference was Nathalie Du Pasquier of the Italian design group Memphis. Walala traces her interest in colour and form back to the contrasting tastes of her divorced parents: 'I grew up in the 1980s. My mum lived in Provence in the South of France and her house is really colourful with a lot of African patterns. My father is an architect and is really minimal, with a few Memphis pieces in his house in Paris. In my head I shake up the two of them and come up with my own thing!'
Despite its exuberance, the way Walala puts pattern and colour together is systematic and controlled. 'I can't really say "less is more" about my style,' she says, 'but if there's a black line … just to know whether it's 8 or 10cm… and whether the diagonal is 45 degrees or 40, makes a big difference. Little details like that really matter.'
Her introduction to street art came via a boyfriend, a street artist doing work in Melbourne, Australia. At that time Walala was a fashion illustrator. Seeing the way her boyfriend went about making work in public spaces gave her the confidence to transfer what was formerly on paper or fabric to the larger canvas of a wall. Before long, Walala had built up a portfolio of increasingly ambitious street art. The owner of XOYO, a Shoreditch nightclub, asked her to decorate a massive room with a high ceiling. Walala, conscious that she 'didn't have the skills of an interior designer', took a photocopy of her fabric patterns and copied them to the larger surfaces. Later, Melbourne shop Third Drawer Down commissioned her to devise a big window display, and in London, a recently widowed woman named Georgina asked her to paint the back of her terraced house (which Walala calls 'Georgina's Happy House'). The Shutterbug restaurant / bar in Rivington Place, Shoreditch, asked her to paint the wall of their terrace. Her most recent London projects include Queensbridge Primary School in Hackney and Aria in Islington.
Walala is still adjusting to the idea of being some kind of artist. At a Martin Parr exhibition at the Barbican, she was amazed to hear people laugh. At the time she thought: 'If I'm an artist one day, my dream would be to make people laugh like this.'
Other projects include clothing, footwear and smartphone cases as well as commissions, and her first gallery show, alongside Thomas Koenig, at Espace Quark in Geneva, Switzerland, from 15 January – 25 February 2016.
Work often comes via Instagram. For both Walala and Lewis, the app is an invaluable element of their professional lives, a place to show their portfolios; find collaborators; and make contact with art directors and potential clients. 'You end up surrounding yourself with the people you like,' says Lewis.
In the Splice building, Walala has created an example of public art that bypasses most of the usual limitations and compromises. Though its origins lie in social media, the result is robust and memorable. What she calls the 'Walala Dream Come True' building has quickly become an unmissable element of the Shoreditch streetscape.
Designer Camille Walala pictured in front of lettering painted by Jack Lewis. Photo: Jenny Lewis.
John L. Walters, Eye editor, London
First published in Eye no. 91 vol. 23, 2016
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So I am with two, uh… aliens? I am not sure. They say that they are from another land. I know that there is other lands after all that's where the gods live. At any rate, we have arrived at the city of Blethered to visit the island and the library. I have never seen so many Wolfen. Some say that this has some serious Changling problems. Man I hope that's only a rumor. These guys will mix in.
I got a hair cut, can't risk being recognized. They say that its a good cut for where they are from. Man I hope that I do not ever go there. The cut is awful. We are so far from home, I just can't risk for the sake of Osiris being recognized.
Getting back to the city. Man the city is weird, there are so many languages and the attire is as odd as my hair. Ha ha…. I just hope that the ship is ok while we do the research on that dragon. The monks have been really friendly.
Oh I have changed my name but for the sake of security, what am I talking about, I already talked about my hair. I am going by Goose while I have been here. I know that I will change it again.