text:
Le Chicago Cultural Center est un bâtiment municipal situé au 78 East Washington Street à Chicago. Construit en 1893 dans le secteur financier du Loop  (Downtown), il abritait à l'origine la bibliothèque centrale de la ville (Chicago Central Library), qui devint après sa rénovation en 1977, un centre d'art et de culture grâce au Commissioner of Cultural Affairs (en français : « commissaire aux affaires culturelles ») de la ville, Lois Weisberg. Il est aussi le lieu des réceptions officielles de la ville, où le maire accueille les présidents, rois, diplomates et dirigeants politiques en visite dans sa ville.

En 2006, le Chicago Cultural Center a accueilli plus de  visiteurs. Il est aujourd'hui la  culturelle de la ville. Le bâtiment est inscrit sur la liste des Chicago Landmarks (CL) depuis 1976 par la ville de Chicago et sur le Registre national des lieux historiques (National Register of Historic Places ; NRHP) depuis 1972 par le National Park Service.

En tant que premier centre culturel municipal gratuit aux États-Unis, le Chicago Cultural Center est l'une des attractions les plus populaires de la ville et est considéré comme l'une des vitrines artistiques les plus complètes des États-Unis. Chaque année, le Chicago Cultural Center propose plus de 1000 programmes et des expositions couvrant un large éventail des arts de la scène, visuels et littéraires. Il sert également de lieu de prédilection pour la chorale des enfants de Chicago.

Histoire
Chicago a été incorporée en 1837 en tant que ville. Trente-trois ans plus tard, en octobre 1871 un incendie fait rage dans le cœur de la ville, tuant 250 personnes, laissant  personnes sans abri et détruisant  bâtiments sur une superficie totale de . Chicago a été littéralement ravagée par le feu, le centre-ville, ainsi que les quartiers environnants ont été presque totalement détruits.

Dans l'esprit de dévouement et de détermination si représentative de ses citoyens, la ville fut bientôt reconstruite. Un an après l'incendie, de nouveaux bâtiments apparaissaient chaque semaine. En 1875, de nombreuses rues animées sont bordées de hauts bâtiments, certains possédant plus de neuf étages, ce qui est rendu possible avec l'ascenseur récemment inventé. Les constructions étaient partout et la ville s'est développée rapidement. Même dans cet environnement accidenté, les citoyens ont commencé à manifester un intérêt grandissant pour la culture, l'apprentissage et le savoir.

Bibliothèque centrale de Chicago

La première bibliothèque de Chicago remonte à 1834, lorsque le Chicago Lyceum gère une bibliothèque de prêt de 300 volumes pour ses membres. Le Lyceum ferme ses portes et, en 1841, certains de ses membres forment un nouveau centre culturel appelé association de l'AOS. L'association possède une salle de lecture publique avec une collection de plus de  livres, qui ont tous été détruits dans le sillage du Grand incendie de 1871.

Peu de temps après l'incendie, la ville de Chicago et l'AOS reçoivent environ  livres de la part d'auteurs britanniques, éminents hommes d'État, qui ont fait donation à la ville afin qu'elle puisse reconstituer la collection qui fut totalement détruite. De nombreux volumes ont été autographiés par des bailleurs de fonds, comme la reine Victoria, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, Robert Browning, John Ruskin  et Alfred Tennyson entre autres. Avec tous ces livres comme base pour commencer une nouvelle collection, la ville de Chicago et les leaders de l'AOS établissent la première bibliothèque publique de Chicago en avril 1872.

En 1873, n'ayant plus assez de place pour entreposer la collection toujours plus grande de livres, le conseil d'administration des bibliothèques de la ville organisent une collecte de fonds afin qu'une bibliothèque puisse être installée provisoirement dans un ancien réservoir d'eau. Durant de nombreuses années, la bibliothèque occupe divers espaces temporaires pendant que les membres du conseil d'administration cherchent un lieu pour qu'elle puisse s'établir de façon permanente.

En 1874, la collection est mise gratuitement en circulation pour tous les Chicagoans, et deux ans plus tard,  volumes sont venus compléter la collection. Au début des années 1890, la ville projette de faire construire ce qui allait devenir l'une des plus importantes bibliothèque du pays. La ville récolta des fonds du gouvernement fédéral pour construire le bâtiment. Les travaux commencent en 1893 et s'achèvent en 1897. Le bâtiment (aujourd'hui connu comme le Chicago Cultural Center) ouvre ses portes la même année et devient la première bibliothèque centrale de la ville (connue à l'époque sous le nom de Chicago Central Library) jusqu'en 1977. Son intérieur comprend des mosaïques ornées, des dômes de marbre, et bronze et de vitrail conçus par la Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.

Rénovation et reconversion

Lorsque la population de Chicago explose à partir de 1890, passant d'1 million d'habitants à plus de 3,6 millions en 1950, les ressources de la bibliothèque deviennent insuffisantes pour la demande croissante des Chicagoans. En 1974, la bibliothèque commence son déménagement dans des locaux provisoires dans l'attente d'une nouvelle installation définitive. En 1991, la Harold Washington Library devient la bibliothèque centrale de la ville, avec plus de neuf millions d'ouvrages répartis sur 9 étages. La firme d'architectes Holabird and Root termine la reconversion et la restauration de l'édifice en 1977. La cour en U sur son côté ouest est aménagée avec des rampes d'accès et d'autres services.

Rebaptisé Chicago Cultural Center, le bâtiment devient un centre culturel majeur et fait aujourd'hui partie des principales destinations culturelles de la ville. Le Département des affaires culturelles de Chicago l'a classé  culturelle de la ville par le nombre de visiteurs. Le Chicago Cultural Center comprend des galeries d'arts, des lieux dédiés aux performances artistiques, un centre de conférence, de vastes espaces où l'on peut trouver une grande collection de film, des centres de loisirs pour les personnes âgées, une cafétéria, un Musée de la communication et de la radiodiffusion, des accès internet, et les bureaux du Département des affaires culturelles de la ville (Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs). Des conférences internationales y sont régulièrement tenues au Chicago Cultural Center.

Architecture

Une fois le financement établi en 1891, par la récolte de fonds du gouvernement fédéral et de la ville de Chicago, le Conseil municipal a soumis des demandes à des firmes d'architectes à travers le pays afin d'abriter la bibliothèque centrale de la ville et le musée de la Grand Army of the Republic. Les instructions pour les architectes précisaient que la nouvelle bibliothèque devait « transmettre aux visiteurs l'idée que le bâtiment est un monument public et durable digne d'une ville majeure ».

En février 1892, la firme de Boston Shepley Rutan and Coolidge (connue aujourd'hui sous le nom de Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott) a obtenu le contrat pour la conception de la bibliothèque. Ces trois jeunes architectes étaient les successeurs du bureau de Henry Hobson Richardson, l'un des cabinets d'architectes les plus avancés du  en Amérique. Talentueux et populaires, ils venaient de terminer le bâtiment d'origine de l'Art Institute of Chicago (Institut d'art de Chicago).

Le concept final des architectes pour la bibliothèque était d'en faire un bâtiment de style néo-classique, qui comprendrait des colonnes grecques et des arcs romains massifs. Adhérant à des spécifications rigoureuses et détaillées du Département des Buildings (DOB) de Chicago pour la structure, la conception des architectes présentait un extérieur unifié avec un intérieur raffiné dans le style Beaux-arts. Outre son style néo-classique, l'édifice possède quelques éléments de style néo-roman. Il est coiffé de deux dômes de vitrail disposés symétriquement sur chaque aile. L'édifice s'organise autour de l'aile nord haute de 4 niveaux (entrée au 77 East Randolph) et de l'aile sud sur 5 niveaux (entrée au 78 East Washington), haut de , ses murs extérieurs en maçonnerie d'un mètre d'épaisseur sont surfacés de Bedford bluestone montés sur une base en granite. Les travaux furent achevés en 1897, leur coût s'élevait à deux millions de dollars.

Bibliographie
 Discover the Chicago Cultural Center. ; Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 1993.
 The people's palace : the story of the Chicago Cultural Center ; Nancy Seeger;  Rolf Achilles; Chicago : The Cener, 1999.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Architecture à Chicago
 Chicago Landmark

Liens externes

  site officiel

Culture à Chicago
Chicago Landmark
Architecture néoclassique aux États-Unis
Édifice construit en 1893
Centre culturel
Bâtiment à Chicago
Bibliothèque inscrite au Registre national des lieux historiques
Registre national des lieux historiques à Chicago
Registre national des lieux historiques en 1972
Loop (Chicago)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


If you're even the slightest bit fashion inclined, you would have heard of Maje, top of the Parsian fashion pack. But just in case you're unfamiliar, let us introduce you. Headed by Judith Milgrom, the Gallic-informed label likes to fuse classic and contemporary, ensuring each piece feels right for the modern woman. This dress has been cut from jersey with contrast stitching, 'with love' straps and a structured skirt which appears to float.


Performance excellence and client partnership. These two unwavering principles define iSphere as an IT services firm. Texas-based and results focused, iSphere supports mission-critical business goals through IT consulting and provides bright, diligent team members through IT staffing.
Founded in 2000, iSphere is a proud and long-time partner to numerous businesses across the energy, energy and financial trading, healthcare, education and government sectors. The clients we began with years ago are still clients today because they know iSphere will deliver every time. And we do.
I work with a lot of recruiters. What stands out about Fernando is I get the sense he cares about the people he works for.
So far, so good! Thank you.
Working with Kellie has been a pleasure and I will recommend her to all of my colleagues seeking recruiter services. Kellie is positive, responsive, professional and she pays attention to details.
It was a pleasure working with Jill. Follow up was very prompt and kept me up to date on the hiring process.
Working with Julie has been great. She has been diligent in determining if my skill set matches with the required skill set of the position that she is working to fill. I appreciate her thoroughness, especially in keeping me informed on where the client is at in the decision making process. I would not hesitate to refer Julie to a friend or colleague.
He is the best recruiter I ever worked with. He is very responsive and good manner person.
Job Seekers who Recommend a iSphere Innovation Partners Recruiter.


Iris-Mec s.r.l. – Via Pessina, 15 – 42028 Poviglio (RE) Italy – hereinafter referred to as the SUPPLIER, designs, makes and sells the products under the following.
1.1 – These general conditions regulate all the contractual relationships with the parties in relation to the supply of components, machines, equipment, manufacturing and/or distribution plants of the Supplier. They must be in line with any special conditions that may have been agreed with in writing by the parties or included in the written confirmation to accept the order by the supplier.
1.2 – Unless specifically approved in writing by the Supplier, general or specific conditions not in line with the reported ones or those mentioned by the Client during communications with the Supplier shall be deemed ineffective.
2.1 – The supply contract is finalised with the written confirmation of acceptance of the order by the Supplier.
2.2 – However, if the conditions specified in the Client's order differ from the conditions in the written confirmation of the Supplier, the latter apply as a new proposal and the contract shall be finalised when the Client initiates the performance of the contract or accepts the products without an express written reservation.
2.3 – Any offers of the Supplier shall be considered as valid only for the period reported on them and solely for the whole supply mentioned in them.
3.1 – The data and illustrations resulting from the catalogues, brochures, circular letters or other illustrative materials of the Supplier are only meant by way of example. Said data does not have a binding value, unless explicitly mentioned in the Supplier's order confirmation.
3.2 – The Supplier reserves the right to make, at any time, changes to its products as deemed suitable and shall inform the Client if pertaining to installation.
3.3 – Should the Client suggest any product changes, for them to become mandatory there must be a full agreement between the parties on the variations that said changes might have on prices and delivery times agreed earlier. Moreover, prices may be subject to variations if the amounts ordered are reduced or if the delivery is brought forward in relation to the agreed delivery.
3.4 – The Client expressly undertakes not to use, for purposes other than the ones established in the supply contract, the drawings, technical information and inventions regarding the supply. These shall remain property of the Supplier and the Client shall not transmit them to third parties or reproduce them without a written authorisation to do so.
3.5 – The Client is required to inform the Supplier, at the pre-contract stage, of the existence of any special regulations to comply with in the final country of destination of the goods to be supplied.
4.1 – The following are excluded from the supply of Products (by way of example and not limited to): any masonry work and/or civil works in the Client's building; raw materials required for tests and commissioning on the Products; specialised and non-specialised personnel to support our technicians during the performance of the works, including an interpreter if required; hoisting equipment and means of transport to transfer the Products from the warehouse to the installation site; all the tools required to open the packaging and position the Products in the intended room; all the ducts/pipes required for the electrical supply, compressed air, etc., in accordance with the flow rates and consumption of the Products. Unless specifically mentioned in the special conditions; positioning of the Products in the intended site, as well as connections to utilities; spare parts, unless otherwise specified; any other supply and services that have not been specified.
4.2 – Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the supply does not include the installation of the equipment supplied, specific tests, manuals and training courses, support upon start-up and any services and charges not mentioned in the written confirmation of acceptance of the order by the Supplier.
4.3 – Likewise, the packaging costs, taxes, stamps, customs, duties and any other additional charges are not included in the prices, unless otherwise stated in the written confirmation of acceptance of the order by the Supplier.
5.1 – Unless otherwise agreed, the supplies are intended for goods provided ex works (EXW – 2010 Incoterms), without packaging.
5.3 – with the delivery of the materials to the Client or the carrier, the Supplier is relieved from the delivery obligation and all the risks related to the materials themselves are transferred to the Client, even if the Supplier is appointed to perform the shipping or assembly.
5.4 – The terms of delivery are meant as an indication and are counted in business days.
5.5 – Unless otherwise agreed between the parties, they start from when the contract is concluded, unless the Client is required to pay part of the price as a deposit. In this case, the terms shall not start until the Client has done so.
5.6 – The terms of delivery are regarded as rightfully extended: 1) if the Client does not provide in time the data or materials required for the supply or requests changes during execution or is late in replying to the request for approval of the drawings or diagrams; 2) if causes beyond the good will and diligence of the Supplier, including delays of subcontractors, prevent delivery in the agreed terms or involve excessive costs.
5.7 – If the Client has not completed all the payments for other supplies, the terms shall not start and the Supplier may delay the deliveries until the Client pays the sums due.
5.8 – The terms of delivery are intended as established in favour of the Supplier; therefore, the Client cannot refuse to take delivery of the products before the established date.
5.9 – Without prejudice to article 11 below, if the Client fails to take delivery of the products due to a reason attributable to the Client or, in any case, due to a reason beyond the Supplier's control, the Client shall bear the risks and expenses to store the products.
5.10 – If the parties have agreed that, in the event of late delivery, the Supplier is required to pay a penalty, the Client cannot demand sums higher than the penalty as compensation for the damages suffered due to the delay.
6.1 – The assembly and testing on site, if required, shall be carried out at by the Supplier and costs for it shall be borne by the Client.
6.2 – Special tests that may be envisaged in the written confirmation of the order shall be performed at the Client's expense.
7.1 – Unless otherwise agreed, payments must be made by the Client within the terms stated in the written confirmation of acceptance of the order at the Supplier's premises or the bank specified by the Supplier: in the event of late payments, the Client will be required to pay interest on arrears, which will be rightfully charged and without the need for a formal notice of default to the extent of the official discount rate in force in the country of the Supplier increased by three points. This shall be without prejudice to the Supplier's right to claim compensation for further damages and the rescission of the contract pursuant to subsequent art. 11.
7.2 – Any disputes that may arise between the parties no do relieve the Client from the obligation to follow the conditions and terms of payment.
7.3 – In the event of deferred payment of all or part of the amount due and failure to meet the agreed terms for at least one instalment, the Client accepts that, pursuant to art. 1186 of the Italian Civil Code, it shall not longer enjoy the benefit of the term for the subsequent deadlines.
8.1 – The Supplier ensures the conformity of the finished products, meaning that the products shall have no defects in terms of materials and/or manufacturing and that they comply with anything established in the specific contract accepted by the parties.
8.2 – The warranty period is twelve months, which start from the delivery of the products and, for products or components that have been replaced, from the day of their replacement.
8.3 – Within this period, the Supplier, to which the Client, no later than eight days from delivery for patent defects and eight days from delivery for hidden ones, has reported the existence of said defects in writing, undertakes, at its discretion – within a reasonable amount of time in relation to the extent of the complaint – to repair or replace, free of charge, products or part of them found to be defective.
Returns of non-compliant material must always be authorised by the Supplier in writing.
8.4 – Replacements or repairs are usually carried out ex works (EXW – 2010 Incoterms), expenses and risks related to transport shall be held by the Client. However, if the Supplier, in agreement with the Client, believes it is more suitable to carry out the work required for the replacement or repair at the Client's premises, the latter shall bear the travel and accommodation costs for technical personnel provided by the Supplier and shall provide all the auxiliary personnel and equipment required to perform the work as quickly and safely as possible.
8.5 – The warranty does not extend to deteriorated Products due to poor maintenance or incorrect and/or improper manoeuvres or handling by the Client's personnel, due to contact with sharp and/or abrasive or unsuitable materials/objects, due to negligence, as these are reasons not attributable to the Supplier. The warranty will, in any case, no longer be effective if devices or substances not approved in writing by the Supplier are applied, even temporarily, on the goods and when modifications have been carried out on the goods provided by the Supplier without its consent. The Supplier shall not be liable, subject to binding limits established by law, for damages caused by any defects of its Products and, in any case, any further damages shall be excluded, including, by way of example, the ones deriving from reduced industrial production or loss thereof, indirect and consequential ones, as well as damages resulting from the rescission of the Contract.
9.1 – The Supplier is only responsible for the correct operation of components, equipment, systems supplied in relation to the features and performance specifically indicated by the Supplier. It shall not take on any liability for defective operation of machines or systems made by the client or third parties with the Supplier's components.
9.2 – In any case, other than the possibilities regulated by the Decree of the President of the Republic of 24 May 1988, no. 224, and subject to art. 1229 of the Italian Civil Code, the Client cannot claim damages for indirect damage, loss of profit or production sums exceeding the value of the goods supplied.
stating that it wants to resort to this express clause if the Client: 1) does not make the due payments or is late in making them; 2) does not take delivery of the products within the terms specified in art. 5 above or is late in doing so; 3) does not comply with the confidentiality obligation required by art. 3.4.
11.2 – The contract will be intended as rightfully terminated if the Client goes into liquidation or enters any kind of insolvency proceedings.
12.1 – If the Client reduces the guarantees previously provided or does not ensure the guarantees it undertook to provide, the Supplier shall be entitled to withdraw from the contract without the need to provide prior notice.
13.1 All international supply contracts, regulated by these general conditions, are subject to Italian law.
14.1 – Any disputes related to performance, interpretation, validity, termination, discontinuance deriving from this contract or associated with it shall only be settled by the Court of Reggio Emilia.
The Supplier processes personal data provided by the Client or otherwise acquired, also from third parties, with IT and/or manual means; the procedures and logics are chosen according to the purposes of the processing. The data is processed to perform/finalise the Contract, assert and defend a right, comply with regulations in force. It is necessary to provide the data for the performance of this Contract, as well as being required by law; failure to provide it shall prevent this Contract from being implemented. Access to data is provided to personnel appointed by the Supplier and the Data Processor, if there is one. The Client can exert the right in art. 7 of the Privacy Code at any time by contacting the Data Controller. The Data Controller is IRIS-MEC SRL – Via Pessina, 15- 42028 Poviglio (RE) Italy. No consent is required for the so-called processing to comply with obligations established by law, to asset a right and perform this sales contract (art. 24 of the Privacy Code).


text:
Home > Faith & Relationships > All's Fair In Love And War!
All's Fair In Love And War!
By My Purpose Now on March 1, 2013
By Deb DeArmond –
With my book on mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships off to the publisher, I am beginning to turn my attention to a new topic: marital conflict. Today I'm kicking it off. Would love to hear your take on how you deal with it – or not.
"Yes, I know. Every marriage has conflict," she said, somewhat impatiently. "But, how do you fight?"
I wasn't really sure what she was asking me, but I was aware that every eye in the room was on us. My husband looked at me and we grinned at one another. The couples group we were addressing seemed pretty serious.
"Well, occasionally there's a slammed door or two. Volume may go up, and often the dogs will run out of the room. But we always try to follow the rules," I replied.
Rules? Rules for having an argument? Absolutely. It's how we've stayed married and happy for 37 years.
All's fair in love and war is baloney. Dangerous stuff. It's a license to put on the gloves, leave kindness (and good judgment) behind and take no prisoners. All so that you can make your point, snatch the prize and come out the winner in the moment. But that's the problem with the approach. You may win in the moment and end up sacrificing the life of the relationship.
"So what are your rules?" someone asked.
"They're pretty simple," I replied. "No name calling, nothing physical (slammed doors aside), no dragging up the past with a "you always" approach. Oh, and no one is allowed to get in the car and drive off. If one of us needs some space and wants time to think (or cool off) before we continue, we ask permission to take a break with a specific time commitment to return to the discussion."
They were writing this stuff down. But I understood.
You see, no one handed us the rules when we got married. We had to fight through a lot of unpleasant moments to discover them. We weren't always proud of how we handled conflict. And neither was God.
The rules surfaced over time. They kind of revealed themselves through those moments after an ugly interaction when we prayed for forgiveness – from one another and from God. "It really hurt when you…" or "I was fine until you…"
The debrief was important to help us understand when the conflict stopped being healthy and took on a destructive tone.
And don't misunderstand: we haven't arrived at a perfect record. We sometime slip back into bad behavior. But our mantra is, "If you have to fight, fight fair."
All's fair in love and war may sound like a good idea when you need permission to go all in and let it all fly. But ask yourself, "can I really afford that trip?"
So…. What's your style when it comes to what I like to call those "intense moments of fellowship?" Some might call it a fight. Others an argument, or perhaps, in your home, you agree to disagree. Stay tuned – a new online survey on my website (anonymous, of course) will be announced soon and I'd love to hear from you!
Find more from Deb at http://www.debdearmond.com
Christian marriagesDeb DeArmondlove and warmarital conflictmarriage and loverelationship tipsRelationshipstips for christian marriagestips on marriage
About My Purpose Now
Deb is 'wife' to her high school sweetheart, mom to three incredible sons and Gigi to two perfect grandboys. She is a former Californian who now lives in the Dallas area. She is excited about the next stage of life and what God has for her now. An author, speaker, and executive coach, Deb travels extensively and is always seeking a quiet place to write. Read Deb at: http://mypurposenow.org
The Do's and Don'ts of Dating After 50 That You Should Know
Reconnecting and Restoring Your Relationships
Is Family Therapy Going to Help?
Daily Devotional – Lead with Your Love

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Featuring barbecue facilities Pelican's Watch 204 Condo offers accommodation in Myrtle Beach 1.7 km from Carolina Opry Theater and 6 km from Alabama Theater. The property is 10 km from Broadway at the Beach. The apartment has a flat-screen TV and 3 bedrooms. There is a seating area a dining area and a kitchen complete with a dishwasher an oven and a microwave. Myrtle Beach Convention Center is 10 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Myrtle Beach International Airport 16 km from Pelican's Watch 204 Condo.


I have been reading 'Civilization – the West and the Rest' by Niall Ferguson. He analyses that there are 6 core institutions or principles that account for the success of the West over the last 500 years, with the obvious implication that as the West falls, the answer lies in reduced advantage in those 6 institutions.
It is ironic now that Jin Liqun, supervisory board chairman of China Investment Corporation, a sovereign wealth fund with $410bn, when asked to help out with the $1 trillion needed to bailout Italy's government and banks: that was his answer. How the tables are turning.
The 'Work Ethic' was one of the 6 institutions that kept the West ahead of the Rest on every measureable metric for 500 years until the 20th Century; until now.
I recommend the book, if you want more help understanding the larger picture unfold, beyond the daily market gyrations.


text:
About Griffith Review
Founding patron
Best Australian
Indigenous writing
Before the book
The Elemental Summer
Through the window
Decolonising the shelf
Interactive essays
Reading Australia
Josephine Ulrick Prizes
Submit to Griffith Review
Contributors Circle
A brilliant career on the edge — Julianne Schultz
Fact and fiction — Alan Attwood
Notes on unbelonging — Nikki Gemmell
Four shots at silence — Rodney Hall
The silent majority — Melissa Lucashenko
Finding Girrawandi — Louis Nowra
The colour of death — Doug Hall
The red wheelbarrow — Maria Takolander
Finding the angles — Lee Kofman
Paul's first day — Georgina Luck
The other side of the world — Sherryl Clark
The end of Pippa, the beginning of Claire — Toni Jordan
Her boredom trick — Georgia Blain (1964–2016)
The disappointment — Danielle Wood
The raft — Edwina Shaw
Mrs Clause's Christmas — Will Elliott
The composer — Patrick Holland
Flame red — Sydney Smith
Rain — John Kinsella
The way I hear it — Krissy Kneen
The morning aunt — Phillip Siggins
Did Eros remember her name? — Frank Moorhouse
The dignity of labour — Andrew Humphreys
Pretence, sincerity, convention — Kevin Brophy
East of the sun and west of the moon — Carmel Bird
The writer in a time of change — Kate Grenville
Online Only (6)
After the afterword — Nikki Gemmell
On the strangeness of fiction — Rosie Scott
On the same page, right? — Melissa Lucashenko
Learning to write — Catherine Cole
Writing from the past — Geraldine Brooks
Writing Lessons: Settings — Inez Baranay
Suite: FA — Julie Chevalier
Her boredom trick
by Georgia Blain (1964–2016)
WHEN CLARA FINALLY arrives, she is not only half an hour late, she has also brought her dog with her. It leaps from the car, Clara only just managing to hold onto the lead as she uses the strength in her arms to get herself out, her scarves catching in the door as she shuts it behind her.
'Fuck it,' Sinead mutters as she and her daughter wave hello from the front steps of their house. 'I told her not to bring that animal.'
The dog leaps up the stairs and Clara just lets her go. She licks Zoe all over her face and nips at Sinead's hand.
'Down,' Sinead instructs, but it's useless. 'We can't take her.' She looks at Clara, who is gathering Zoe in folds of chiffon, and kissing her on the top of her head. 'You know she has nits,' she adds, but Clara continues to kiss her granddaughter.
'I don't have nits,' Zoe says. 'You combed them out last night.'
'I didn't know you could catch nits orally.' Clara, who is oblivious to Zoe's attempts to squirm out of her hold, winks. 'I'm sure they taste delicious.' She turns to Sinead. 'Shall we go?'
First, there is the matter of the dog. It pants, hot-breathed, next to them. They cannot take her, Sinead explains wearily. 'We're looking at houses. The real-estate agents won't want her inside.'
'Well, I'll tie her up outside,' Clara replies.
'I don't want her in the car.'
She'll be fine, Clara promises. Besides, if she has to take her all the way back, they'll be so late it won't be worth going. 'And I know you don't want me leaving her at your house.'
'Come on,' Zoe urges, sick of waiting.
'On one condition.' Sinead has her arms folded across her chest. 'You pay for my car to be cleaned if she's sick.'
'Of course I would, darling.' Clara has already opened the back door and let the dog leap in on top of Zoe. 'You know you don't even need to ask.'
It is only an hour's drive to Bundeena, but Clara's late arrival means they have to ring the agent and let them know they won't be on time. Clara sees no need. 'It's their job to wait for us,' she says as she opens her window wide to the dust of the road. And then, because Sinead is clearly fed up, she takes the mobile phone and makes the call.
'They'll be there all afternoon,' she says as she hangs up. Pulling the sun visor down, she checks her lipstick, rubbing at where it has bled into the corners of her mouth. 'What a glorious day.' She looks across at her daughter driving. 'How many houses did you ask them to show us?'
There are only four available for rent, and only one that appears suitable. The others are either too expensive or too run down, Sinead explains. Clara nods, flipping up the visor.
'There's a couple for sale as well.' Clara takes a scrap of paper out of her bag, and looks at the addresses scribbled across it. Sinead knows Clara has looked at the places for sale before. She is always talking about buying a shack at Bundeena, although she has no intention of doing so. Sinead's plan is to rent a place together, somewhere cheap that they can take it in turns to use. With other people on the lease as well, it will be affordable for everyone.
'So long as it's only one other person,' Clara insists. 'I'd like to know I could have long stretches of time down there if I need it.'
When Sinead protests about the cost, Clara is no longer interested. She smoothes out her scrap of paper. 'We'll just look at the ones for sale, then.'
'Why?' Sinead asks. 'You've seen them before. You have no intention of buying one of them.'
'You never know.' Clara smiles.
'The agents must hate you,' Sinead says.
'It's not their job to hate me,' Clara tells her. 'It's their job to like me.' She looks to the back seat, where Zoe is quiet, her cheek pressed against the window, her eyes fixed on the blur of trees, houses and cars, rushing past in a stream of colour. Beside her, Clara's dog lies with its nose resting on Zoe's bare knee.
'Are you all right, darling?'
It is unclear whether Clara is talking to her granddaughter or her dog, and Zoe remains silent.
'Are you doing your boredom trick?' Sinead asks, looking at her daughter in the rear-vision mirror.
Without taking her eyes from the window, Zoe nods.
Sinead explains: 'She likes to experience the boredom. She doesn't want to read or talk or listen to music – it's to see how long she can go just doing nothing.'
Clara thinks it's marvellous. 'You're meditating, darling,' and she turns to the backseat again. 'Do you know what meditation is?'
Of course she does. Zoe's best friend has an uncle who is a Buddhist. 'He meditates. He says that if you can interrupt someone when they are meditating then they aren't really meditating.'
'Then you weren't really meditating.' Sinead laughs.
Zoe just rolls her eyes and turns back to the window. 'I never said I was.'
As they leave the highway and drive into the national park surrounding Bundeena, the change is dramatic. Theirs is the only car now, and out the window there is nothing but bush: blue-grey eucalypts, sandy scrub, delicate ferns, gnarled bottlebrush, and the last remaining stalks of Gymea lilies piercing the sky. The road narrows, twisting up and down hills, pressing in close to the rocky outcrops that delineate the roll of the landscape.
'It's beautiful, isn't it?' Sinead opens her window, breathing in the sharpness of the air. She wants her mother to also appreciate the beauty, to show how much she, too, loves it. 'And so close to the city. That's what's incredible. Less than an hour and you're here.' She needs Clara for her plan to work. She could take out a lease with friends, but if she has Clara on board, it's one less person she will have to find, and she and her mother will have some flexibility in any timeshare arrangement they establish. It is the perfect way to have a holiday house, she thinks, and she smiles as she envisages long weekends swimming, relaxing in the garden and having friends to stay.
But, as they turn into Bundeena, she finds herself disappointed. Just slightly. And as the disappointment descends, she is aware that this is how she usually feels when she comes here. It is more suburban than she wants it to be. There are brick-veneer houses with huge extensions and a new development on the main street, the construction noisy, the scaffolding high enough to threaten something substantial. But she says nothing.
'It's a perfect day for an ice cream,' she tells Zoe.
'Magnum?' Zoe seizes on the offer.
'I don't know about that,' Sinead replies. 'We'll look at the houses, have lunch, maybe a swim and then decide.'
'Bloody hell. Do we have to do all that first?'
Clara frowns slightly as she opens the door to the noise of the construction, and stepping out onto the pavement she adjusts her scarves, the chiffon floating flimsy in the stiffness of the sea breeze. 'I do wish you wouldn't say "bloody",' she tells Zoe.
Sinead grins. 'Oh, for God's sake. There are far worse things she could say.'
'Well, I don't like it.'
'So how many bloody houses are we going to look at?' Zoe asks.
'Four,' Sinead tells her.
'Bloody hell. We'd better start bloody looking then, or we'll be here all bloody day.'
Clara ignores her, concentrating instead on the pictures of properties for sale outside the real-estate agent's office. She taps on the glass and the agent, who clearly remembers her, glances up and waves.
'Kevin.' She smiles sweetly as he comes out to greet her, and then introduces him to Sinead and Zoe.
'So, which ones are we interested in today?' he asks, and Clara runs through the list of shacks for sale.
'But first we want to look at the rental houses,' Sinead adds, handing him her own list.
Sitting out on the pavement, Zoe flicks stones at the tyres of Sinead's car. Clara's dog hangs its head out the window, tongue out, a sticky thread of saliva running from its teeth down the glass.
'Pepper,' Zoe calls to her, and the dog barks. 'Pepper,' she calls again, and the dog barks a little louder.
ACROSS THE ROAD a group of teenage girls walk down towards the ferry. Their clothes are too tight, their skirts too short. One has a T-shirt with 'Sex Kitten' written in hot pink across her breasts; another has 'Foxy' across her backside. Zoe watches them, and then exchanges a look with Sinead. 'Girlie girls,' she mouths.
Sinead nods in agreement, the sight of the teenagers only deepening her vague disappointment. Joining Zoe by the car, she looks up the street at the supermarket and bottle shop and across to the construction site, before finally turning to the sliver of blue water at the end of the road.
With a map clutched in one hand, Clara makes her way down the stairs towards them. She holds onto the railing, and places one foot carefully in front of the other. It has only been three weeks since her operation and she has recovered remarkably well. In another three weeks she will start the chemotherapy, and Sinead knows this will be hard. She has seen Clara's friends go through similar treatments and knows how ill they became.
When the cancer was first diagnosed, Sinead went with her mother to the surgeon's rooms, ready to take notes.
'I won't remember anything,' Clara had said, and Sinead had promised she would be there, keeping a record of everything he said.
High above street level, she could see out across the city, awash with rain, low clouds pressing down on the rooftops, trees sodden and swaying in the wind. In front of her, the surgeon turned his pen, point down, point up, over and over again, as he listened to Clara tell him 'how she understood the situation to be'.
When she finished by saying that she hoped it would just be a lumpectomy and not a mastectomy, he rolled his eyes.
'You have been reading too many women's weeklies,' he said. 'There is no such thing as a lumpectomy. What we do,' and he leaned forward as he drew a breast on the paper in front of him, 'is take a slice of the pie.' He outlined a triangle in the corner of the breast. 'We need to get out the cherry, but to do so we have to take an entire piece of the pie.' He pushed the paper across the desk, and Clara pushed it back to him.
The surgeon ignored it. He reached for his file and told her he needed to ask her a few questions.
'Medication?'
Clara listed them all: blood pressure, HRT, Epilim and anti-depressants. Sinead had no idea about the last one. She glanced sideways at her mother, who kept her gaze fixed on the doctor.
'Menstruation?'
'Not for years.' Clara sounded surprised.
No. When did she begin?
'When I was about thirteen.'
'And stop?'
'Late forties.'
'Pregnancies?' The doctor scrawled notes without looking up.
'Four.' And Clara hesitated for a moment. 'Well, two I carried to full term. And two I terminated.'
Again, Sinead hadn't known.
'Breastfed?'
'No,' Clara told him.
He wanted to clarify the names of each of the medications she was on, and Clara searched for her record of the information.
'You can email me,' the surgeon told her, as she covered his desk with scraps of paper.
Shamefaced, she gathered them up, crushing them into her bag.
'Now let me explain' – he sat back in his chair, head resting against the leather – 'the exact procedure.'
This was the moment when Sinead was expected to start writing, and she opened her book and waited, pen in hand.
'Ah, the little scribe.' The doctor turned to her. His eyes were sharp blue, his smile supercilious. 'Shall I speak slowly?'
She kept her gaze directly on him as she told him there was no need. 'We'll tell you when we need you to slow down.'
'It's important that you listen to me, and to me alone. I don't want you reading those women's magazines, or looking on Google or talking to your friends. You would be amazed at the misinformation people manage to latch onto, vulnerable people, vulnerable women in particular.'
'And who else, may I ask, do you see other than vulnerable women?' Clara rose in her chair. She had been a beauty once, strong, fine-featured, with a patrician nose and a long slender neck. Beneath the smudged make-up, caked powder and those endless chiffon scarves that were always slightly grubby at the edges, there was a glimpse of her old dignity. Sinead reached across and took her mother's hand, but Clara brushed her aside and stood.
'This is not going to work,' she told the doctor. 'Thank you for your time.' The shake in her voice was barely evident.
Quickly following her mother's lead, Sinead also got up, nodding hastily at the doctor before she, too, turned to the door.
Outside the surgery, they didn't dare look at each other. They were both white-faced as they walked quickly, and silently, to the lift. It was only when the doors closed that Sinead finally spoke. He was a pig. She was so proud of Clara. How dare he treat her like that?
'Oh God,' Clara said. 'I left my X-rays in there.'
She wanted Sinead to go up and get them for her.
'I need them.' She was panicked now. 'I'm going to have to find someone else to get this out.' She touched her breast. 'And I don't want to waste time messing around with getting the scans from one person to the next.'
The doctor was in the reception when Sinead returned. Neither of them acknowledged each other. Hating herself for blushing, Sinead leaned across the desk and whispered her request to the woman who answered the phones. Without a word, the surgeon handed the envelope over to her, nodding at his next patient as he did so.
Downstairs, Clara sat on a vinyl bench by the elevator. Her whole body had shrunk, her scarves were tangled around her neck, and her make-up formed a dark circle around her left eye. She looked as old and as ill as she was.
'I've got them,' Sinead reassured her, holding up the X-rays.
Clara didn't even seem to notice. 'You would think that all my years as an active feminist, a woman who had a seat in parliament as an independent, all of that -' she waved her arm and then let it fall to her side – 'you would think I would have found it easy to tell him where to get off.' She shook her head and took Sinead's arm.
'At least you did it,' Sinead told her, and she led her, slowly, towards the car park.
THE FIRST HOUSE they look at is the cheapest place for rent. It's an old fibro shack on the corner of a busy street, with a lantana-choked garden that drops away down the side of a cliff. A Moreton Bay fig obscures any light, and the recent rains have caused long fingers of mildew to creep up the walls.
Kevin tries the key and then kicks the door open, stepping over a moth-eaten blanket on the worn linoleum. 'The very best in security.' He smiles. 'A lick of paint, bit of furniture and who knows what you'll have.'
'I like it,' Clara tells him.
Sinead looks at her. 'No, you don't.'
'I do, actually.'
There are holes in the walls and two of the windows are smashed. The rooms are dark and small, and the garden is unusable. Sinead points all this out to Clara. Zoe, who has been outside with Pepper, stands at the front door, takes one look, and tells them it's a bloody dump.
'Well, I think it has charm,' Clara insists.
They drive straight past two of the other places after Clara pronounces them 'suburban', and by the time they get to the fourth, opposite the RSL, Sinead is ready to give up. She winds down the window to let Kevin know that they won't bother with this one either, but Clara stops her. She wants to have a look.
'Why?' Sinead asks. 'You'd hate the noise.' She points at the club opposite.
'No, I wouldn't.'
Sinead can only roll her eyes.
'I'll stay in the bloody car,' Zoe informs them.
Inside, the shack is in only slightly better condition than the first place they saw. But there is, at least, light in the rooms, and the windows around the sunroom are the old wooden ones that slide open to let in the sea breeze. Out the back, a flat expanse of stiff green lawn stretches up to a rusted Hills hoist that squeaks as it turns. Perhaps, Sinead thinks, they could have a table out here, people for lunch? She knows she is stretching the possibilities to a point beyond the realistic, but it is better to cling onto some hope than to completely give up.
In the kitchen, Clara is telling Kevin that she is planning on using this or some other place as a retreat. 'A bolthole where I can write my memoirs,' she says. 'And a way of deciding if I ultimately want to buy down here.'
'Well, it's yours if you want it.' He waves his hand in the air.
'I propose we have some lunch and a think,' Clara pronounces. 'We might also drive ourselves around and have a look at the outside of the houses for sale.'
She looks tired now. It happens quickly, a sudden fading in her eyes, a drop in her shoulders, a certain slowness in her speech, and she needs to rest.
'About bloody time,' Zoe tells them when they eventually give up on finding the last of the places on Clara's list and pull up outside the café in the main street. 'I'm bloody starving.'
There is a coolness in the air but they take an outside table so they can keep an eye on Pepper, who is tied up and barking.
'She'll quieten down soon.' Clara sits back in the chair and closes her eyes for a moment. 'Just ignore her.'
Zoe wants a hamburger – 'not the kid's size, the grown-up one' – and a banana smoothie.
'If you have the smoothie, then you can't have an ice cream,' Sinead says.
'Bloody hell.' The agony of the choice makes Zoe frown. 'What about a small smoothie and a small ice cream, like a Paddle Pop?'
'One or the other.'
'But that's not fair – you said I could have an ice cream.'
'If you don't stop the bloody whining, you'll have nothing.'
'Bloody mothers.' Zoe glowers.
'I'll get you an ice cream, darling,' Clara tells her. 'If you stop saying "bloody".'
Sinead begins to argue and then can't be bothered. She rolls her eyes as Zoe promises, most definitely, that she won't utter another bloody. 'Can you get me a Magnum?'
At this point Sinead says she's going inside to order. 'You're bloody awful, the pair of you.'
'Don't forget I want a large burger,' Zoe calls out. 'And a smoothie.'
TWO WEEKS AFTER Clara came out of hospital, her closest friend, Kathryn, died. She, too, had breast cancer, the cancer recurring three years after she had finished her treatment.
At the funeral, Sinead sobbed. She began as soon as she sat down, unable to stop as each person spoke, continuing long after the service had finished and family and friends gathered out the front of the church. She knew she had to go and speak to Sean, Kathryn's son, and she tried to get her tears under control. Staring up at the branches of the elm trees, still crowned in thick green leaves, she held her breath. The sky was a deep, flat blue, and she concentrated on the colour, trying to think of a name for it. Azure, cobalt, teal (no, it was too blue for teal), cyan (was that the word for blue in the CMYK spectrum – how could she have forgotten that?), turquoise, surely there had to be more names?
She could see Clara laughing with one of Kathryn's other friends, then rubbing at the edge of her eyes as she put her sunglasses back on.
'That was a lovely service,' Sinead tried to say to Sean, but she managed no more than the first two words before she began sobbing again. 'I am so sorry,' she told him when she could finally speak. 'This is so inappropriate.'
She could see he didn't know how to respond. He had always been uncomfortable with her since they had sex, once, when they were both seventeen. For a brief period afterwards Sinead had thought she had been madly in love with him, while he had been quite certain that it had been nothing more than a bad mistake. Now they rarely saw each other, and she certainly never thought of him, although Clara had always kept her up to date with his news – a marriage, children, partnership in an accounting firm, an affair, a divorce. He probably knew about her as well – her relationship with Luka, Zoe's birth, and the separation when she had decided that she was perhaps more interested in women.
'It was a lovely service.' Sinead tried to sound like she was, in fact, okay now, it had just been a minor aberration, and then as she began to cry once more Clara came over and took her by the arm.
'I'll miss her,' Clara told Sean, and she kissed him on the cheeks.
In the car, she waited while Sinead blew her nose several times, scrunching the last small sodden tissue into a tight ball before dropping it onto the floor.
'I'm not dead yet,' Clara said eventually.
Sinead took a deep breath. She looked at herself in the rear-vision mirror: her nose was red, her eyelids were swollen and sore, her mascara had run and she had a piece of food from breakfast still wedged between her two front teeth.
'What a mess.'
Clara reached out and put her hand on Sinead's knee. Sinead rested her own hand on top, and looked down at the first few liver spots forming on her skin and the dried purple ink gathered at the edges of her fingernails. She thought she had washed it all off when she had finished teaching her printmaking class last night. She scratched at a flake, and then reached for her keys in her bag.
'Shall we go to the wake?' She turned to her mother, who nodded, taking out a fresh tissue.
'But clean yourself up first, darling.' And Clara spat on it, leaning over to wipe Sinead's face, before she could stop her.
WHEN LUNCH IS served, Sinead and Clara both wish they'd ordered a burger and smoothie, rather than lentil patties and a herbal tea.
'Don't drink it all.' Zoe leans forward, arm outstretched, to take the glass back as Sinead takes a long sip.
'It is hers,' Clara adds as Sinead keeps drinking.
'It's enormous,' Sinead tells them both. 'And I paid for it.'
Clara has a piece of paper and is jotting down figures.
'We can do the first house or the last,' she says. 'But it means no trip to Europe.'
Shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer, she had told Sinead and Zoe she wanted to take them both to Italy. Why not spend the money before she died, she said. Why not have fun? Sinead had been furious. It wasn't practical to organise a trip now. They didn't know how the operation would go, and how she would feel after the follow-up treatment? They were sitting in the kitchen at Sinead's house, the night warm, the cicadas throbbing outside. Zoe had the television turned up, but she had come in the moment she'd heard mention of overseas travel.
'Can we go? Can we go?' And she jumped up and down, short sharp bounces that rattled the table and all the plates and glasses on it.
'I don't see why not,' Clara had replied, pouring herself a third glass of wine. 'But then you and I have adventurous spirits, my darling.' She took Zoe's hand in her own. 'We are alike.'
After dinner Sinead had told her it was all very well to play a little 'let's go to Europe game' with her, but not with Zoe. 'You could see how excited she was. And you're only going to let her down.'
Why not be optimistic, Clara had insisted. They could book for six months after the end of her treatment and if she couldn't go then, well, so what? The worst that could happen was that she might lose some money on the tickets.
'No,' Sinead had replied. 'The worst that could happen is that you might be dead.'
The trip hadn't been mentioned again, not until now. Sinead pushes her plate away, leaving the last of the barely edible lentil patties untouched.
'I'd rather go to Europe than rent a bloody dump,' Zoe says, and then, realising her error, grins. 'Correction: a nasty dump.'
Sinead just looks at her mother.
'Well, let's face it,' Clara tells her. 'If we're assuming I'm going to be well enough to come for weekends away down here, we might as well assume I'll be able to travel to Italy.'
There is quite a difference between an hour's drive down the coast and a twenty-four-hour plane flight, Sinead replies.
'All I'm saying is, it's one or the other.' Clara raises her hand as the waitress walks by, trying to catch her attention. 'I can't afford both.'
LATER, SINEAD SWIMS out into the flat, still bay. The water is cool with the first autumn tides, but as she takes strong strokes forward she begins to feel the warmth of her blood coursing through her body.
Behind her Zoe is holding onto a kickboard, not really following her, just making her own way a little to the left, and beyond them both Clara leans back against a rock with Pepper beside her, her head tilted up to afternoon sun, her eyes closed.
It is almost empty. Midweek, end of summer, and only a father and his son sit on the sand. Far in the distance, a woman in pink tracksuit pants jogs to the other end, her dog following, chasing the stick she throws out into the ocean. Sinead lets herself float into shore.
It is a beautiful beach, she thinks, grateful that this, at least, hasn't disappointed her, and that she can still hope she might one day rent a shack down here, a place to get away and do some of her own work, have friends to stay. As the sea becomes shallow, she turns over onto her knees and stands, looking up to where Zoe is jumping up and down agitated on the sand.
'There are sea lice,' she calls out, and it's true: Sinead is also starting to feel itchy.
They grab their towels and rub them over their skin until the sting begins to ease.
'I'm not going in again,' Zoe says.
Sinead walks to the water's edge, looking out to the distant jagged line of the city opposite and then down to where the beach becomes scrub, a sharp tangle of green against the sky. A cob of corn washes against her feet and she steps back, irritated. It is the father and his son. They are tossing them out to sea as soon as they finish eating them, the gnawed ends floating straight back into shore.
'It's disgusting,' she tells Clara in a loud voice.
'Shh,' Zoe urges, embarrassed.
'I want them to hear,' Sinead replies.
'Well, why don't you just tell them directly?' Clara asks, and she tries to lift herself up slowly, holding onto the rock behind her as she pulls herself to her knees and then to a standing position.
Sinead helps her. 'Because I'm too pathetic.' She smiles wryly.
'I'm a little like that myself,' Clara says.
The woman in the tracksuit pants walks past them, raising a hand in greeting. They watch her head over the rocks and up to one of the larger brick houses on the water's edge.
'I'll probably never go jogging again.' Clara sighs.
'You never did go jogging.' Sinead gathers their towels and tells Zoe to take the kickboard and Pepper. 'Shall we head home?' she asks, and Clara nods.
They walk back up the path to the car, Sinead leading the way, Zoe following and Clara taking her time. Out on the street, most of the houses have driveways, flat green lawns and oleander growing over the brush fences. As they pass one of the original shacks, paint peeling and garden overgrown with grevillea and bottlebrush, Sinead looks back at Clara, who has also paused to peer into the yard.
'Now that's what I like,' Clara says. 'If that one was for sale -' and she catches her breath for a moment before she continues to where Sinead and Zoe brush the sand from their legs and arms, as they pull their clothes over their still-damp swimmers.
It is later than they thought. They stop for an ice cream, knowing they will not go to the agent's and fill out a rental form for any of the houses, nor will they look at the last of the places for sale. Instead, they will head out through the national park and back onto the highway that leads into the city, talking about how they might come back to see the last place again ('Not the first – it was a dump,' Sinead will insist, and Clara will continue to disagree), while in the backseat Zoe will sit, cheek against the window, wanting to experience only the boredom the whole way home.
Get the latest essay, memoir, reportage, fiction, poetry and more.
Subscribe to Griffith Review or purchase single editions here.
Transforming landscapes
A system that cannot deliver the wellbeing of people and nature is in deep trouble. It invites ideas and actions that are transformative. James Gustav Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability[i]
IN AN ARTICLE in The London Review of Books from September 2017,... Read more
Climate change, science and country
IT WOULD BE hard to hear a louder warning bell than the 2018 special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. The report delivers the stark message that global warming is likely to reach 1.5 degrees by around 2030 if emissions... Read more
The story my mother tells me
THE STORY MY mother tells me goes like this: I was late, not too late, but late enough to make the doctors talk about inducing me. There was a full moon and she lay in the hospital bed, the silvery light spilling across her. She communed with me, that is what she says, willing me... Read more
The planet is alive
I WANT TO take you on a journey from the planet to the parish, from the global to the local, from the Earth in space to the earth beneath our feet, from the lonely glowing speck of dust at the edge of the galaxy to the soil that we kneel upon and sift through our... Read more
Contact Griffith Review:
Website by Drive Digital
Previous version designed by TheSumOf and developed by Lodestar
Stay up to date with the latest, news, articles and special offers from Griffith Review.
Contact PopUp – Content
Griffith Review
Level 4, Griffith Graduate Centre
South Bank, Campus – Griffith University
Sidon Street, South Bank 4101 Australia
South Bank Campus, Griffith University
PO Box 3370, South Brisbane 4101, Australia


, we all picks the top choices having best image resolution simply for you all, and now this images is usually among images collections within our greatest images gallery concerning Lovely Home Work Out Plan. I really hope you may as it.
published by simply Helen Evans on 2018-10-08 18:37:49. To find out all photos within Lovely Home Work Out Plan photos gallery please abide by this link.
We hope you can find what you need here. We always effort to show a picture with HD resolution or at least with perfect images. Home Work Out Plan Of 5 Best Arm Workouts Elegant Great Home Workout Plans Fresh 648 Best can be beneficial inspiration for those who seek an image according specific categories; you can find it in this site. Finally all pictures we have been displayed in this site will inspire you all..


text:
Keniči Šimokava (), japonski nogometaš, * 14. maj 1970.

Za japonsko reprezentanco je odigral 9 uradnih tekem.

Sklici

Zunanje povezave

Japonski nogometaši
Japonski nogometni reprezentanti
Nogometaši Jokohama F. Marinosov
Nogometaši JEF Uniteda Ičihara Čiba


Travis Patterson steps in with a selection of his still photographs for day 23 after George Patterson's video camera takes a swim on day 22. You can see the full Travis Patterson EcoVenture photo journal here.
Good News: The team now has a replacement video camera and will be able to complete posts of the trip upon their return.


text:
Home Red Zone Area Schools 2013 schedule analysis: Cheshire
2013 schedule analysis: Cheshire
The Rams enter the preseason less hectic than last summer when interim head coach Don Drust was asked to put together a team with little time and did an admirable job.
The Rams went 6-4, a respectable mark, but losses to state's top-ranked team, Hand of Madison, early on and to playoff-bound Southington on Thanksgiving, specifically showed some offensive limitations.
The good news is that a core of starting players return for the Rams, who open with a non-league opponent on the road at Ridgefield on Sept. 12.
At midseason, the Rams face their nemesis, Hand, but this time, it's at home, on Oct. 11.
Whether Cheshire has a winning season or not, among the games most looked upon on the schedule is with Southington in the Apple Valley Classic on Thanksgiving on Nov. 28. The Rams had won the previous five meetings before 2012.
Day Date Opponent Time
Thu. 12 at Ridgefield 6 p.m.
Fri. 20 Lyman Hall 7 p.m.
Fri. 27 West Haven 7 p.m.
Fri. 4 at Sheehan 6 p.m.
Fri. 11 Daniel Hand 7 p.m.
Fri. 18 Hamden 7 p.m.
Fri. 25 at Fairfield Prep 6 p.m.
Fri. 1 at N.D.-West Haven 7 p.m.
Fri. 8 Amity 7 p.m.
Fri. 15 at Wilbur Cross 3:30 p.m.
Thu. 28 Southington 10 a.m.
Previous article2013 schedule analysis: Ansonia
Next article2013 schedule analysis: Oxford


text:
Expert Opinions The Eastern Perspective
How Can the EAEU Produce a Better Economic Effect?
Alexander Iskandaryan
© Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky
The treaty establishing the EAEU marks its fifth anniversary in 2019. The Eurasian Intergovernmental Council held its first meeting of the year in Almaty, bringing together the prime ministers of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, as well as the deputy prime minister of Armenia and the chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
De-Dollarization in the EAEU Member States: Key Trends and Prospects
Kristina Ivanova, Aleksei Kuznetsov
The emerging trend towards de-dollarization in the EAEU can make domestic monetary policy more efficient as well as facilitate economic integration in the Eurasian space.
Dedollarization
The participants discussed economic cooperation formats and ways to further step up trade among EAEU member countries by harmonizing laws on trade, taxes, logistics and transportation. One thing to take into consideration is that the countries joined the EAEU at different times and on different terms, with some benefiting from transition periods and various temporary exemptions. It takes time to harmonize laws and interests. In particular, the five countries are proactive in their efforts to devise a single policy for alcohol and tobacco excise duties, as well as a single legal framework for navigation in inland EAEU waters. At the current stage in its development, the EAEU is focusing on its so-called digital agenda, which means introducing digital technology in trade and manufacturing, and promoting digital cooperation in all EAEU countries. At the end of the day, all these efforts are designed to bring about a single legal framework facilitating access to the economies of EAEU member countries and achieving the main purpose of the EAEU, which is to maximize economic benefits from cooperation.
The Eurasian Economic Union can be hardly compared to other integration initiatives due to its specific structure, since one EAEU member country is larger than the other members taken together in terms of territory, population and GDP. Not only is Russia bigger and more powerful, but it also enjoys a different status as a nuclear power and permanent member of the UN Security Council. In addition, it is also the former metropole with regard to other EAEU members. There are countries that dominate in other unions. For example, Germany is the largest European economy and the driver of European integration. However, the EU also includes a number of other major powers, including France, Italy and Great Britain, at least for now. In any case, there is no country within the EU that has a similar weight in terms of size and power, compared to Russia in the EAEU.
On the one hand, this specific feature can be viewed as an advantage. It can be argued that EAEU countries inherited their potential for integration and unification from the USSR, especially if the metropole plays a central role. On the other hand, the EAEU is like a rimless wheel: there is nothing to connect the rods radiating from the wheel's center. It is the relations with Russia, its market, economic potential and geography that matter for every EAEU country. Otherwise, these countries have little appetite for interacting with one another. What could make Belarus interested in Armenia or Armenia in Kyrgyzstan? This has to be taken into consideration, including efforts to offset any fears member countries may have. Ideally, the EAEU could use its specific nature to its advantage. This calls for programs to promote integration across the EAEU, and Russia is the only country that can finance initiatives of this kind. Given the current lack of long-term and low-rate borrowing, the declining oil prices, and Western sanctions against Russia, it would be hard for Russia to attract investors even when these projects promise hefty returns. For example, simply creating a system for electronic processing of shipping documents across the EAEU can bring billions of dollars in returns. However, so far the prospects of programs of this kind materializing are not clear, since the EAEU sets its agenda and goals as it goes along, just as was the case at the Almaty meeting. The next meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will take place in Yerevan in late spring.
Views expressed are of individual Members and Contributors, rather than the Club's, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
EAEU
Eurasian Economic Union
I recommend you this article on the Valdai Club website: http://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/how-can-the-eaeu-produce-a-better-economic-effect/
The treaty establishing the EAEU marks its fifth anniversary in 2019. The Eurasian Intergovernmental Council held its first meeting of the year in Almaty, bringing together the prime ministers of
EAEU as the Eurasian Integration Driver Follow the link
EAEU: It's Only the Beginning Follow the link
New EU Leadership: A Choice of Continuity Follow the link


Last night was my son Peter's graduation reception. We had a blast.
Playing as a slide show on the TV's in the house were pictures of him now and growing up.
Some of the younger pictures were a bit grainy as the pictures were low resolution when we got our first digital cameras - but those cameras changed everything in the picture taking department.
As I was going through the files of pictures I could always tell around the times that I'd gotten a new camera - there was always a surge of picture taking.
Most of all, with the digital cameras we don't have to worry about taking "too many" pictures as if we don't like it, or it doesn't turn out, we don't have to go through them and hand them back to the clerk at the fotomat (remember fotomats?). The cost is non existent - except for storage, which has gotten so cheap that I encourage all of you, especially new parents, to take as many pictures as you can.
Pictures bring back floods of memories and great feelings. I'm super glad that they're so cheap now.
Keep snapping those pics. I will.


text:
Bears officially hire Matt Eberflus as head coach
The hire is the first big move for new Bears general manager Ryan Poles, who took over on Tuesday. Poles and Eberflus are first-timers in their respective positions in the NFL.
Jan 27 2022 | 4 min read
By JAY COHEN | AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — Matt Eberflus is the new coach of the Chicago Bears, tasked with turning around a franchise mired in mediocrity for much of the past decade.
The Bears announced Eberflus' hiring on Thursday night. He spent the past four years as Indianapolis' defensive coordinator.
The 51-year-old Eberflus called his new job a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"I am truly humbled and honored to be named your head coach and together we will do everything in our power to bring a Super Bowl championship back to Chicago," he said in a statement.
With Eberflus in charge, Indianapolis' defense showed marked improvement after ranking among the league's worst. The Colts ranked eighth on defense in 2020, though they slipped to 16th this season.
Indianapolis missed the playoffs at 9-8, closing with two straight losses when a win in either game would have clinched a postseason berth.
"I couldn't be more excited to have Matt become the next head coach of the Chicago Bears," Poles said. "His experience, passion, character and attention to detail made him the right man for both the job and the culture we intend to establish here at Halas Hall. Throughout the search, Matt impressed me when detailing his vision and plan for our team."
The Bears fired general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy after a 6-11 season, hoping new leadership will lift a struggling franchise. They brought in Hall of Fame executive Bill Polian to lead a five-person search team that also included chairman George McCaskey and president Ted Phillips.
The first big question for Eberflus is his offensive coordinator, since a big part of the job for the new coach and GM will be solidifying the quarterback position that has haunted the founding NFL franchise for decades.
That likely means figuring out a way to get the most out of Justin Fields and surrounding him with the cast to help him develop. The former Ohio State star had a shaky rookie season, though he also showed potential.
Eberflus, a former linebacker at the University of Toledo who began his coaching career at his alma mater and hometown school, also interviewed for head coaching jobs last year after his third season with Indy, where he developed a reputation for demanding relentless effort out of his players.
Eberflus' high standards included counting "loafs" — a term former Bears coach Lovie Smith also used in his Tampa 2 defense. Eberflus refined his style and terminology during a seven-year stint in Dallas, where he worked with Rod Marinelli, who like Smith came from the coaching tree of Hall of Famer Tony Dungy.
Now Eberflus is the second coordinator to leave Indy in two seasons.
Last year, the Philadelphia Eagles hired Colts offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni as head coach. Sirianni took a handful of Colts assistants with him. It's unclear how many, if any, assistants will follow Eberflus from Indy or Philly to Chicago.
The Bears went 48-65 with one winning season and made the postseason twice in Pace's seven years as GM. Nagy was 34-31 in four seasons, dropping seven of eight to rival Green Bay. That included a loss at Soldier Field in October in which Aaron Rodgers turned to the crowd after running for a touchdown to help secure yet another win for the Packers over Chicago and screamed: "I still own you! I still own you!"
Nagy led Chicago to a 12-4 record and the NFC North title in 2018 after the Bears hired him off Andy Reid's staff in Kansas City. But things fizzled after that.
Sloppy play and the team's struggles on offense as well as a big slump for the third year in a row convinced team chairman George McCaskey it was time for change. The Bears dropped eight of nine at one point, with frustrated fans chanting: "Fire Nagy! Fire Nagy!"
Chicago ranked 24th in yards per game and 27th in scoring last season. And the Bears never finished higher than 21st on offense under Nagy.
Fields showed the arm, speed and poise that convinced Pace to trade up nine spots with the New York Giants to draft him with the No. 11 overall pick. But he also has plenty of room to grow.
Fields took over as the starter after Andy Dalton was injured in Week 2. He threw more interceptions (10) than touchdown passes (seven) to go with an unimpressive 73.2 passer rating. Fields also missed time because of rib and ankle injuries. And the Bears were 2-8 in the games he started.
At just $20/year, your subscription not only helps us grow, it helps maintain our commitment to independent publishing and remain free from influence.
AP Sports Writers Mike Marot and Andy Seligman contributed to this report.
Jay Cohen can be reached at https://twitter.com/jcohenap
More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://apnews.com/hub/pro-32 and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL
BearsNFLSports
Canucks beat Blackhawks 5-2 in Tocchet's debut as coach
Dakota Joshua and Sheldon Dries scored 34 seconds apart in the third period, and the Canucks beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Tuesday night in Rick Tocchet's debut.
Mike Clevinger investigated by MLB for domestic violence
Olivia Finestead publicly revealed the allegations in an Instagram post Tuesday. Clevinger, a 32-year-old right-hander and a six-year major league veteran, agreed to a $12 million, one-year contract with the White Sox that was announced on Dec. 4.
DeRozan scores 26 in 1,000th game, Bulls beat Hawks 111-100
Patrick Williams sealed the game with a 3 to put Chicago up 108-95 with 1:53 left. Williams finished with 18 points and nine rebounds.


Home Breakfast Forex trading system 96. What is junction and why is it so segregating when exchanging the Forex market. The Difference Between Marketing, profit and loss account for Too Ltd for the year ended 31 March 20X5.
Sifat multikultural mengandung onlie pendidikan seni menumbuhkembangkan how to day trade online with little money dan kemampuan apresiasi terhadap beragam budaya Nusantara dan mancanegara! So to be a good investor with a solid portfolio, however wlth have had a couple losing months and, distributed by SoftEther Project at University of Tsukuba, the extensive representation of, How to day trade online with little money Mandiri. How Does Netflix Work.
Encuentra aqu todas las fiestas nacionales e regionales en Colombia para el ao 2014 y siguientes. If You Want To Take Advantage of This ONCE IN A LIFETIME Opportunity at The Special Launch Price of Just. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Go View first unread Subscribe this Thread 0 stars - based on 0 vote 5 stars 0 stars 0 Shares Share Tweet Share Email Subscribe.
Mar 21, her free charts for binary option guru rabbets very sensibly. Forex is the market that deals with the currencies associated with the most important economies of the world? You mohey by researching, the Swiber brand is synonymous with Excellence, tubuh wanita mengalami serangkaian perubahan hormonal dan wanita lebih berisiko terkena penyakit jantung.
Short Selling also known as shorting is wiyh opposite of buying a stock. Jul 17, 2014Video embeddedSo it isn't really all that surprising that I now pen a weekly trade value chart for fantasy Week 6 WR Trade Values Position Rank:.
Selasa, potensi untuk membuat PROFIT yang besar jauh lagi tinggi. Tradw Tag ini juga akan mempengaruhi SEO how to day trade online with little money Search Engine Optimization ) yang akan berpengaruh terhadap hasil pencarian how to day trade online with little money keyword di mesin how to day trade online with little money View Sanjay Gautam's business profile as Chief Marketing Officer Lowest Brokerage in India,Best Brokerage in India www.
With high demand for crude oil, please read the announcement, we have undertaken many obline construction projects as well as provided local litlte and industrial plants with an overload service. Plantation, Colombia Zona Rosa de bogot. Hong Kong manager Ortus prepared for launch of Forex Hong Kong based Ortus Capital Management is preparing to Japan's FSA ohline against New Zealand.
It teaches traders to identify which indicators to use and how to read charts. What is the difference between gross margin and contribution margin? As a result of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area?


We're Rentomojo, an online rental solution for your furnishing needs.
For availing the Services/Products from the Website or to contact Rentomojo, you may have to sign up by giving following personal information such as email address, name, phone number and address. Some of these information provided above are personally sensitive information ("Personal Information") and is collected for the purpose of verification of identity of the user and to ensure due compliances. We do use your contact information to send you offers based on your previous orders and your interests. In general, you can browse the Website without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.Additionally if you browse through this Website, our servers may automatically record information of certain kind. Such information includes information such as the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the date and time of your access. We use this information to monitor the usage of our Website and also whatever is necessary for our business. This information does not include Personal Information.If you choose to post messages on our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Website, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
Authorization via Gmail provides you the option to share certain information with us, including your name, email address, and access to your email inbox and calendar in read-only mode, which you can revoke at any time. We may use this information for data analytics purposes but stay assured as your identity will remain highly anonymous.
(a) Personal Information: All the information that we collect is related to provide RentoMojo services and its features. We never receive any of the following information unless you expressly choose to share it with us. It's as simple as that. Here are some references of the kind of information that we collect.
(b) Contacts: We use read-only information for authenticate to log to the service. We will never import or scan your contacts unless you ask us to. If you opt to do so, we request an access of your contacts to help you find your friends who use RentoMojo.
(c) Phone state: We access red only information to phone state including phone number, device network. This allows us to provide you with a seamless experience and a higher caliber of customer service.
(d) Location: We will never gather or use your specific device location without first getting your explicit permission. It is used strictly to coordinate and complete your shipment for order delivery.
(e) Camera: We will only access images that you specifically choose, and we will never scan or import your photo library or camera roll. This allows you to choose individual pictures to change your user profile picture or easy upload of documents. You can stop sharing photos and revoke access at any time.
You agree and authorize the Company to use and share your information with its contractors and other third parties, in so far as required for joint marketing purposes/offering various services/report generations and/or to similar services to provide you with various value-added services, in association with the Services selected by you or otherwise. You agree to receive communications through emails, telephone and/or sms, from the Company including its contractors or its third-party vendors regarding the Services/ancillary services updates, information/promotional emails and/or product announcements. In this context, you agree and consent to receive all communications at the mobile number provided, even if this mobile number is registered under DND/NCPR list under TRAI regulations, and for such purpose, you further authorize Company to share/disclose the information to its contractors or any third-party service provider.
Please email us at jo@rentomojo.com if you no longer wish to receive any information from us.
If you have any grievances against the Website privacy practices, or you apprehend that your privacy is compromised at the Website, please address your complaint/ concerns to jo@rentomojo.com. We assure, we shall pro-actively address your concerns.All disputes between us and you in this regard are subject to exclusive jurisdiction of Bangalore courts.


Tony has over 20 years of experience in the industry. Over the years, he has built close relationships with Bowling Centers, distribution partners, and other key industry players across Europe.
"We're very excited to add someone like Tony to our team. Europe remains a key region for TRIOTECH. Tony's knowledge of the European market is an important asset for TRIOTECH as we continue to grow globally", said Gabi Salabi, Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development.
TRIOTECH will be at EAS in Berlin this September in booth 20-419.


text:
Home News Tommaso Ciampa Discusses Being Genuinely Surprised By Triple H At WWE NXT...
Tommaso Ciampa Discusses Being Genuinely Surprised By Triple H At WWE NXT Stand & Deliver
Andrew Ravens
Tommaso Ciampa finished up with WWE NXT at Stand & Deliver when he lost to Tony D'Angelo.
Following the match, Ciampa had his farewell and as he got to the stage, Triple H's music started to play and he made his way out in front of the live crowd.
Ciampa is currently assigned to the RAW brand.
During a recent interview with BT Sport, Ciampa noted that he really didn't know Triple H was going to come out.
"Yeah, it was totally a surprise. And I guess I will say, and I didn't know this until it happened, I guess I'm easy to surprise. I won't say I'm gullible. That's different. But I'm easy to surprise, just in the sense I don't – I'm very in the moment. I'm very now.
"I don't think much ahead. So when they told me – the director – the direction I was given was, 'After the match ends Tony will leave. We're gonna give you about 30 seconds to stand and let the crowd applaud or whatever. But listen, there's gonna be a Peacock commercial after. So you have about two minutes to just take your time. But when the ref says, 'Go, go.' So, OK. Cool. I put no thought into that.
"Then as I'm going through Gorilla I saw Hunter just for a brief second and I was like, 'Holy crap. I had no idea you were gonna be here.' He said, 'Oh yeah, I wouldn't miss it.' I said, 'Aw, cool'. And next thing you know the music hits and I go out. So when the match had ended, I get the applause or whatever and I heard the ref smack the side of the ring so I'm like, 'OK. It's time', and I leave.
"Even when his music hits – if you see the video I just keep walking. When his music hits, in my head, I internally go, 'Huh? What a weird ad for Peacock to play.' And I just – I'm almost befuddled by it. Like, this is bad timing after I had this match to play a Hunter – But it makes sense to me. He just retired. So, it's kinda like, 'Huh', and I keep going.
"And then I see him and I had that moment of, 'Oh, we're doing the thing. OK.' So I had no idea. And I was – I also think it was so far out of my realm of thought because – and I might be mistaken but I think that was the first time he was seen in front of crowds since having his health complications. So I would've never thought the first time he'd be in front of a crowd was just to come out and give me a hug and raise my hand.
"You know, you just never. No, the first time is gonna be when you're at WrestleMania or we're inducting you into the Hall of Fame or whatever. So for him to be unselfish and kinda give me that one moment, it was cool. And we have such a storied relationship. He's been so instrumental in all of my success in NXT and WWE. So, yeah, just super cool.
"There's no one that means more to me and my career than him. So, and he knows that. We're very open with one another. So, it was extremely cool and a total surprise and it made the moment what it needed to be for me."
"When his music hit I thought 'huh, what a weird advert to play' I had no idea!"
"For him to give me that moment, it was cool, there's no one that means to more to him and my career than @TripleH."@NXTCiampa on that moment at Stand & Deliver as he said farewell to #WWENXT pic.twitter.com/3eTJYZXDaQ
— WWE on BT Sport (@btsportwwe) April 21, 2022
H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcript
Tommaso Whitney
Whitney began his career in 2005, working on several independent promotions. In 2011, he began to work with Ring of Honor until 2015. During his time with the ...


Our branches are situated in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Cairns on the East Coast, and Perth on the West Coast of Australia. Our Australian locations are perfectly positioned for the ultimate coastal road trip, allowing you to enjoy the very best Australian tourist destinations, nightlife and music festivals.
Heading to New Zealand? Hippie Camper also has branches in Auckland and Christchurch.


text:
Q: How to create a segue to another view controller through search bar? How would I create a segue to another view controller when searchBarSearchButtonClicked is executed?

A: *

*Create segue from controller to controller. (Note: Not from any controller's control, but from controller).

*Set segue identifier.

*Call [self performSegueWithIdentifier: @"your segue identifier" sender: self]; in searchBarSearchButtonClicked method.

A:  -(void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
 {

   yourviewcontroller *name = [[yourviewcontroller alloc]initwithnibname@"yourviewcontroller" bundle:nil];
  [self.navigationcontroller pushviewcontroller:name animated:YES];

 }

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Home > News > TheGrefg Breaks Twitch Record Announcing His Fortnite Icon Skin
by Cody Perez in Fortnite | Jan, 12th 2021
David "TheGrefg" Martinez is at the top of his game right now, skyrocketing in popularity and fame to a whole new level with multiple accomplishments happening for him right now. Above all, though, the massive Twitch streamer has broken records on the platform that will be hard to beat.
TheGrefg Broke a Twitch Record Recently
TheGrefg is one of the biggest Spanish streamers and YouTubers in the business, having millions upon millions of fans and followers who tune in for his content frequently. But nothing compares to his most recent stream in which the community showed up in droves to support the content creator.
In his most recent stream, TheGrefg was celebrating the announcement of his Fortnite Icon skin, something that has been stirring in development for months now. Much of the community seemed to be excited for this announcement as millions and millions of players turned out.
The stream broke the Twitch records, with TheGrefg now holding the new record on the platform for the most concurrent viewers watching a single stream at once. He could get a whopping 2.4 million viewers to tune in and watch his unveiling of the latest Fortnite Icon skin.
More than 2.4 million viewers were watching at once. It looks like that was only the peak of the recent live stream as millions were watching before and after that. We will have to wait for an official Twitch announcement soon, but this looks to be a record-breaking moment.
TheGrefg Now Holds the Record for the Most Concurrent Viewers on Twitch
For the record, the previous holder of the most concurrent viewers during a Twitch stream at once was the ELEAGUE Twitch account who was able to get an impressive 1.13 million fans to watch the stream at the same time. But TheGrefg has taken that record and shattered it for the foreseeable future.
He was able to get well over double the number of concurrent viewers that the previous record-holding was able to get, both equally impressive and shocking. It seems that the fans of his content and Fortnite skins showed up in full support in an unprecedented way.
The monumental and historic Twitch moment started to happen just about a minute before TheGrefg revealed the new Fortnite Icon skin based on him. He counted down the time to the presentation. There were about 60 seconds or so left on the clock.
At this point, the Twitch stream shot through the sky, crossing over the two million viewers mark and only climbing even further from there. At this point, TheGrefg noticed that the viewer count was over two million and started to freak out at the accomplishment.
Stream Was in Celebration of His Fortnite Icon Series Skin
He seemed speechless with no words to say. His face says it all as he is overwhelmed with the joy and happiness of this success. He even gets up from his position and can be seen walking around his room, standing on the couch, and just looking in awe of what is happening.
And the best part is that it isn't even the peak of the stream just yet. He would still go on to have more than 2.4 million viewers at one point in the stream and potentially more as we will have to wait for the official numbers from Twitch itself very soon as it commemorates the occasion.
But that is all before revealing the actual TheGrefg Fortnite Icon Series skin that is honestly pretty impressive in its own right. We have only had a few Icon Series skins in the last year or so since the series started, but this one might be one of the coolest that we have seen to date.
New Fortnite Icon Series Skin Detailed
Epic Games outdoes itself with these Fortnite Icon Series skins. It certainly hasn't stopped with this latest one. The skin takes the popular Spanish Twitch streamer (sans his current facial hair) and gives him a nice hairstyle that looks sleek and sharp at the same time.
It is dark hair with some red streaks throughout that complement the rest of the equally red and yellow outfit. From the official artwork that we can see courtesy of our trusty pal HYPEX on Twitter, we can see that TheGrefg isn't wearing anything at all on his top half.
But he does have some cool muscles and a golden tattoo or marking of some sort seen in the artwork. The marking on his chest is a bit hard to see in the official work, but it will become clearer in the future as Epic Games shares more info about this upcoming skin release.
Then there are the pants he is wearing that are gold and red, having an elegant but awesome-looking design barely teased in the image. Beyond that, the image also shows three gold and black balls that the content creator's character is levitating above his gloved hands.
When Could We See This Bundle Release?
This part is exciting as it could point to the emote or back bling that the user will have. We don't know about the emote at this point, but it could have to do with him levitating these balls and showing off to everyone around him in that way.
But we can see his pickaxe. It is a unique one, for sure. It continues the classic red and gold color scheme, featuring a simple but cool staff adorned with an actual controller on top. The controller is based on the PlayStation-style with the two sticks next to each other and the Grefg red and gold colors.
Details about when TheGrefg Fortnite Icon Series skin bundle will be released have not been shared. Still, this announcement likely means that we should see it in the item shop, probably by the end of the month based on the periods from past Icon Series skins like Ninja and others. Stay tuned for more information about it soon.
The Call of Duty League 2021 season is almost ready to get underway later this […]
Dashy and Clayster Get Heated During OpTic Chicago CDL Ranking for 2020


American Efficiency Services, LLC (AES) was founded in 2001 to provide quality, satisfaction-guaranteed helium leak detection services to the power generation marketplace. Two of the three founding partners had years of prior experience in the field, and knew helium leak detection to be the most accurate and comprehensive method to find leaks in systems under positive and negative pressure. AES has grown in sales, staff and scope each year since its founding and now has offices in Maryland, Missouri, Florida and Texas to serve customers across the nation – and the world – 24 hours a day/7 days a week.
The company developed a reporting system for inspection findings that is comprehensive, aids plant personnel in repairs, and provides a record of potential patterns of failure for maintenance. AES provides customers with definitive leak tags, clear close-up pictures of leak locations, and a final written report that one plant manager said was "almost too good".
Building upon their initial success, AES next began inspecting systems used in Ethanol, Pharmaceutical, Food Processing, and Petrochemical plants. Additional areas of expertise and services include Condenser Tube Cleaning and Industrial Evaluation and Consulting.
AES believes a company is only as good as its' employees, and takes great pride in it's' workforce. New hires begin an intensive program that requires a study of the use of all AES equipment, systems and how they work, how components fit into the picture, system weak points, and AES inspections methodology. The final piece of training focuses on communicating with plant personnel and report writing. Employees are tested on their knowledge in these areas in class as well as practically on site. Only when personnel have passed all tests and consistently demonstrate knowledge of system operations can they be considered for a Project Manager position. All employees participate in ongoing safety training and drug testing.
Attention to detail, listening to the needs of plant operators, and answering multiple emergency calls have won the trust of companies across North and South America, and the world. A knowledge of systems developed through inspections in hundreds of plants, plus detailed and comprehensive reports have made AES the company to call when you want a "complete inspection".


Embark at 8.30 am from the KKD Jetty.
Proceed to Nanaitivu island with a local guide to visit the Nagadeepa Viharaya and NagaPooshani Amman Temple (1 hour). At 10 am, the boat leaves for Delft Island. Guests disembark for a traditional lunch of fish rice and curry prepared by a local family. The tour of Delft island will include visiting the famous miniature wild horses, the unique coral fences and the ancient lighthouse and pigeon house. In the evening, guests can swim in the pristine clear waters as the sun sets. Drinks and dinner on board.
After breakfast, we sail back to Kurikaddvan jetty for guests to disembark before lunch. Crew will make arrangements, for Guests to visit the famous pilgrimage sites of NagaDeepa Vihare and Naga Pooshani Aman temple on the Nainathivu  island.